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Updated: June 7, 2025
Entering the hut after kicking much snow from boots one passed first through the acetylene smelling porch Handy Andy's pride as we called Day's gas plant, then in to the seamen's quarters, where the smell of cooking delighted and the sight of those great, hefty sailors scoffing the midday meal hustled one still more.
"'Well, I said, 'with acetylene lamps, top, baskets, extra tires, French tooter, freight, insurance, spare tools and a leather coat say three thousand. "'I can double that for you, he said. "'I don't want one cent more, I said. That was just my chance to shine and I shined. "He made a note of it in his pocketbook. "'That's settled, he said.
But indeed it must be confessed that few people took seriously the wax and tallow proclamation. Landladies apart, however, the populace pooh-poohed the Gilbertian decree. Some regarded it as a mere precaution against a surprise visit from the Boers. But this was wrong, for the proclamation permitted the use of electric and acetylene lights at all hours.
It was evident, though, that that would not weaken the door appreciably, even if the rivets were all driven through. Still they gave a starting-point for the flame of the high-pressure acetylene torch. It was a brilliant sight. The terrific heat from the first nozzle caused the metal to glow under the torch as if in an open-hearth furnace.
In no cases were the repairs to the propulsive machinery delayed beyond the time necessary to equip these ships as transports. Electric and acetylene welding is not a complicated art in the hands of skilled men; for patching a hole, or filling the cavity of a great crack in a cylinder, say by electric welding, may be compared to a similar operation in dental surgery.
On comparing its spectrum with that of an olefiant-gas "vacuum tube" rendered luminous by electricity, he found the agreement exact. It has since been abundantly confirmed. All the eighteen comets tested by light analysis, between 1868 and 1880, showed the typical hydro-carbon spectrum common to the whole group of those compounds, but probably due immediately to the presence of acetylene.
Andy stopped the flow of acetylene gas, and then his chums turned the rays of the other lamps on the disabled bicycle. "Handle-bars loose and also nuts on the front wheel!" cried Andy, after an examination. "Say, I believe some enemy did this!" "Who?" questioned the young major. "I don't know. Maybe Ritter, or Coulter." "Hurry up and tighten things," cried Pepper. "We don't want to be late."
Ahead of him something heavy flopped from the bank into the road and in the light of his acetylene lamp he saw a soldier. The soldier dodged across the road and scrambled through the hedge on the bank opposite. He was followed by another soldier, and then by a third. The last man halted. "Put out that light," he commanded. "Go to your home and tell no one what you have seen.
A donkey, ambling gently along the road, suddenly made for the opposite side, dragging his fruit-laden cart after him, and smashed our big acetylene lamp into a brass pancake before Mr. Barrymore could stop.
This spectrum, which has been recognized along with that of hydrogen in the light of the tails of comets, indicates a carbide, probably acetylene. By P. CARLES. When tinned iron serves for containing alimentary matters, it is essential that the tin employed should be free from lead.
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