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SMOKE
Cost You?
HAMILTON
City" of Pennsylvania stand in the list
of smoke extravagance? The day of
miracles has not passed. Pittsburgh has
lost so much of its smoke that it has outgrown
its sobriquet—a name that made
its smoke famous. Concerning conditions
in this city today Chicago's health
man has made this statement: "I went
to Pittsburgh. The Commissioner of
Health took me to the top of the tallest
building. I looked out over the city.
As far as I could see not a stack was
belching smoke." There is a reason for
this statement. Smoke has been reduced
fully 75 per cent. By its reduction, and
we mention but one of the items, a saving
to citizens in the cutting down of
laundry bills averages $2.00 a year for
every person. This has been possible
by the elimination of smoke from rail-
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rooms. Now there is almost DO perceptible smoke.
The Old Way
Placing the lighted end of a cigar in your mouth and th^ri
blowing produces a cloud of smoke—half burned fuel.
roads. Smoke at its worst cost every
Pittsburgher about $20.00 a year.
Deserving special mention, is the
smokeless operation of locomotives in
and about Pittsburgh. In a yard, storing
from thirty to forty locomotives with
steam up ready for instant service, every
engine fired with soft coal, conditions
are worthy of praise and surely an end
for which other cities, not contemplating
electrification, should strive with success.
Watchdogs of the smoke situation in
Pittsburgh, have named their organization
Bureau of Smoke Regulation—not
prevention. There is a distinction.
Regulation does not seem to imply the
use of the "Big Stick," and so far this
Bureau has not resorted to any prosecutions.
"How is it done?" This question
has come from scores of cities in the
United States and even from England,
and Australia. "There is no one cureall."
is the reply, and we are further informed
that catching smoke after it is
made is wrong in principle and expensive
in practice. Their best scheme, they say,
is to induce the manufacturer to adopt
devices that lead to the complete combustion
of fuel.
Aside from injury to merchandise, the
disfigurement of buildings, discoloration
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