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A friend sent me a booklet that New Jersey's Public Service Gas Company (now Public Service Electric and Gas) published in 1917. This little gem appeared during a time when electricity was sweeping the nation and most owners of new homes had to make a choice between gas lighting and electric lighting. I found the way that the Gas Company went about their business back then fascinating. This is the sort of stuff that came out of a company that had to have seen the handwriting on the wall, but didn't have much choice that year because all they had to sell was gas. And when your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail. Listen:
"Since gas piping is probably the cheapest material that goes into a house, it is certainly worth making provisions for its installation in every room and fireplace when you consider the many comforts gas appliances bring to a home. "Illumination by gas has been so greatly improved recently that more gas light is being used today than ever before because incandescent gaslight has peculiar eye-resting properties, which make it an ideal light for reading and working. "Today, more meals are cooked, more water heated, more rooms heated, more refuse destroyed, and more clothes laundered by gas than ever before. "Successful builders regard the piping of every room in the house for gas for lighting and heating as the highest type of insurance, for, by equipping all rooms with gas lighting and heating outlets, their dwellings can, in this respect at least, compete with buildings that may be erected later.
"Since the satisfactory operation of gas appliances is dependent upon having gas outlets conveniently placed and of proper size, it is desirable that architects, plumbers and builders should consult with the Gas Company on this important matter.
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"There is not a room in your home that would not be more useful and therefore more valuable by having ample gas connections for lighting and heating.
"These builders know from experience that they have been amply repaid for installing gas piping outlets in all rooms and fireplaces through enjoying the patronage of tenants and purchasers who know the value of gas service and insist upon having it.| Dan Holohan - [Intro] | [Email] | [Website] |
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