Herald of the 13th inst. 9 ate We tak take the following from the Ko The credit of being the first establish ment in the country to adopt Acetylene Gas as an illuminant belongs, we believe, to the enterprising proprietor of the Tan: san Hotel. That well-known _hostelzy is now lighted with Acotylene Gas, Mr, Tnouye, of the Yokohama firm of electrical engineers, having successfully installed the plant last week. The installation has given complete satisfaction, the light being cool, steady, and brilliant, while the cost of production is much less than that of the more generally known illuminants, The machine in which the gus is generated and stored is simple, and Mr. Inouye says there can be no danger whatever so long as the attendant who is entrusted with the task of replenishing the supply of carbide of calcium from time to time obeys instructions, The machine requires very Tittle. care, the gas being produced lipan automatic process, From the machine the gas is carried by means of ordinary pipes to the various burners, There are 20 burners in uso at the Tansan Hotel, each 25¢.p. The light, awe have said, has given the proprietor of the Takaradzuka hostelry full satisfaction, and we expect to hear very soon of others adopting his example. When the apparatus has once been fitted up, the only requisites are carbide of calcium and water. The former is imported from the United States and Great Britain, but Mr. Inouye tells us he expects to see it produced here before long, in which case its cost will be materially reduced. He estimates that it can be manufactured here for 10 sen per Ib. One pound of the carbide will Cay 5 cubic feet of gas; which is equal to 250 c.p. per hour.
The following note is from the Hongkong Daily Press of the 16th inst:—The British ship Andelana, which left Shanghai on the Lith of November last for Port Angeles, where she arrived on the 29th of December—sailing for Tacoma on January Gth—has been lost under strange Circumstances. She capsized off Tacoma on the morning of the 11th ult. and Cai tain Stalling and seventeen men were drowned. The gale which blew her over, says a Tacoma journal, was one of the most severe experienced there in years. Tt blow at the rate of thirty-eight miles an hour, The Andelana was capsized almost instantly and before her officers and crew Knew that they were in peril. A gale sprang up at noon on the 13th and it did not subside until nightfall or the Andelana probably would hare pulled in to a dock. Ks it was, she remained at anchor in the stream, being prevented from tipping over by heavy ing buoys moored on either side of her. All of her ballast had been discharged and she had taken no stiffening aboard. There is no doubt that when the
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