Maupas has placed guards over the gasometers.

When the new gasometer, which looks like the skeleton of some vast colosseum, is finished here, an additional balminess will be given to the immediate atmosphere, which may be very good for children in the hooping- cough, but anything except pleasant for those who have passed through that lively ordeal.

On the dreary suburban edge of a very old, very ignorant, very sooty, hardhearted, stony-streeted, meanly grim, little provincial town there stands a gasometer.

On one side of this gasometer begins a region of disappointed fields, which, however, has hardly begun before a railway embankment cuts across, at an angle convenient for its entirely obscuring the few meadows and trees that in this desolate land do duty for a countryside.

The dull workmen's streets that here abruptly present unfinished ends to the universe must console themselves with the gasometer.

For a street boasting the best view, as it runs out its sordid line longer than the rest, is proudly called Gasometer Street.

Some of the streets that are denied the gasometer cluster narrow and dark, hardly built twenty years perhaps, yet long since drearily old,with the unattractive antiquity of old iron and old clothes,round a mouldy little chapel, in what we can only describe as the Wesleyan Methodist style of architecture.

Well, at all events, it is to Gasometer Street and New Zion that you are respectfully invited, and before you decline the invitation with a shrug, I will tell you this about the gasometer.

Well, at all events, it is to Gasometer Street and New Zion that you are respectfully invited, and before you decline the invitation with a shrug, I will tell you this about the gasometer.

The romantic eyes of one of the greatest French poets once looked on that gasometer!

" Yes, and that French poet passed the gasometer on his way to New Zion.

Why, I wouldn't exchange Gasometer Street for the Isles of Greece! CHAPTER II INTRODUCES MORE UNROMANTIC MATERIAL That French poet only concerns us here as, so to say, the highest light in the contrast which it was the happy business of Theophilus Londonderry, Jenny Talbot, and two or three devoted friends to make in the vicinity of Gasometer Street and indeed in little Coalchester at large.

Why, I wouldn't exchange Gasometer Street for the Isles of Greece! CHAPTER II INTRODUCES MORE UNROMANTIC MATERIAL That French poet only concerns us here as, so to say, the highest light in the contrast which it was the happy business of Theophilus Londonderry, Jenny Talbot, and two or three devoted friends to make in the vicinity of Gasometer Street and indeed in little Coalchester at large.

[Footnote 3: Gasometers.]

That is a natural gasometer within the reach of all purses.

A, cylinder; B, gas conduit; C, rubber pockets; D. gasometer; E, purifier; F, scrubber; G, hydraulic main; H, cooling pipe; I steam injector; K, steam boiler and superheater; L, gas generator; M, charger; N, discharge of the motor.]

And then, gas motors are sold at high prices, as are gas generators, and this installation necessarily requires the addition of a large gasometer, scrubbers, etc.

1 represents the apparatus complete, with gasometer and bottling machine.

When thoroughly washed, it flows through the pipe, L, into the gasometer, which is of galvanized iron, and is very carefully balanced.

This sucks up the gas stored in the gasometer and the water contained in the reservoir, and forces them into the sphere.

The conduits, Q and Q', and their valves, K and K', direct the gases toward the purifiers and the gasometer.

This gas on making its exit from the generator through the pipe, M', passes through the chambers, B, and abandons therein the greater part of its heat, and enters the pipe, R, whence it passes through Q into the purifiers, and then into the gasometer.

The gas produced makes its exit from the generator, passes through the pipe, M', and the chambers, T' and B', and the pipe, R, and enters the gasometer through the pipe, Q'.

The position of the valves is then changed again so as to send a current of steam into the apparatus in a direction contrary to that which the air took in the last place, and the water gas obtained again is sent to the gasometer.