Proceedings of the American Gas Light Association Volume 4

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1881 Excerpt: ... 'be fully investigated by the Association, in order that the different companies might know the real merits of that process, and how far each company might be effected by it; whether all would be affected alike, or whether it would be proper for some to adopt the new process and some to adhere to the regular coal process. During the summer several requests came from different members, expressing the same view, and suggesting that the subject be ventilated at this meeting. I then applied to Mr. Pearson for a paper on that subject, as I thought he was favorably situated to give us some results from practical experience. Mr. Pearson at first asked to be excused, but I pressed him most earnestly that he should prepare and read a paper at this meeting, and he has consented to come here and present the paper at a very considerable inconvenience to himself. Mr. Pearson--I am very much obliged to the Secretary for his kindly introduction. I will state, before reading the paper, that I have been laboring under ill health of late, and have not been able to make my paper as satisfactory in every respect as I could wish it to be. Mr. Pearson then read his paper on the manufacture of gas from water at Toronto, under the Lowe Process. THE LOWE (WATER) GAS PROCESS. At the last meeting of this Association, in reply to some statements made by a member in a paper on water gas, unfavorable to the Lowe Process, I gave an account of what I had seen of its working in several places which I had visited, and expressed my conviction that the chief cause of its failure, where it had failed, was the want of proper purification. I stated, further, that the Consumers' Gas Company of Toronto, of which I am the Secretary, had purchased the patent right for Toronto conditionally, and that...