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 7G4 1 he Architectural Review and American Builders' Journal. [June, CO p ■S3 H tu <! P3 3 <! Ph "S P^ 5>s <! CO CO O CC s O i— I 1-T o rt 0^ t-i £2 e PP H c-> <! ca H O s Ph H o M o O o Si Ph o o H H P3 ^ § p^ Pi o 2 & s-H <» ^ «l CO %o fc o 1— < § cq <*) PP H CO ARCHITECTS are constantly asked by their clients to procure the most practical generator of gas with the fewest objectionable points. Now it is a painful fact that the great majority of those urged upon them for their pa- tronage have some serious defect, to the architect, of course, unknown until the apparatus has been purchased, set up, and a-going. To the profession, then, the introduction of a well-tried and really good one is a desideratum which we fervently wish to see them possessed of; for, the many portable and other gas machines that have been presented to the public since the abundant supply of petroleum from its fountains in the fertile earth have foreshadowed that a purer, better, safer, as well as cheaper artificial light is to be added to the home comforts of our land. Practical trial has revealed defects causing the abandonment of one after another machine possessing some good points, but on the whole unable to stand the test ; and it is because the one now offered has been put to the proof in able scientific hands and with the most satis- factory results, that we are confident. The process is so simple that it can-