Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1909 — COLONEL ASTOR AN INVENTOR [ARTICLE]

COLONEL ASTOR AN INVENTOR

Will Give to Public Machine to Make Fuel of Peat Deposits. New York, May 21.—Colonel John Jacob Astor has applied for a patent for a mach|ne which it is hoped will make possible the utilization of peat deposits as a fuel for power. He intends to present his invention to the public in the hope that it may be so general use. Colonel Astor is about to try his process at his own place, Rhinecliff-on-the-Hudson. He will erect a 150-horse power plant and attach it to a stone crusher. If the peat gas succeeds in running this, it is believed an interesting engineering advance will have been achieved.