The Edison phonograph monthly (Dec 1914-Dec 1915)

EDISON PHONOGRAPH MONTHLY, APRIL, 1915 15 2561 2562 2563 2564 2565 2566 2567 2568 2569 2570 2571 2572 2573 2574 2575 2576 2577 2578 2579 2580 2581 2582 2583 2584 2585 BLUE AMBEROLS FOR APRIL REGULAR LIST 50 cents each in the United States; 70 cents each in Canada On the 5.15, Henry I. Marshall Back to the Carolina You Love, Jean Schwartz Brown October Ale — Rohin Hood, de Koven The Jolly Coppersmith, Peter Pete Murray Owen J. McCormack and Chorus Thomas Chalmers and Chorus New York Military Band That's an Irish Lullaby (Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral) J. R. Shannon If With All Your Hearts — Elijah, Mendelssohn (Recitative and Aria) Italian Fantasia, Frosini (Accordion) His Lullabv, Jacobs-Bond Manuel Romain Reed Miller P. Frosini Mary Jordan Hearts and Flowers, Tobani American Standard Orchestra Those Days of Long Ago — Hop o' My Thumb, Manuel Klein Walter Van Brunt Kakuda One-Step, Felix Arndt (For Dancing) Van Eps Banjo Orchestra Someone, Piantadosi Elizabeth Spencer and Vernon Archibald In the Sweet Bye and Bye, Jos. P. Webster Millicent — Waltz Hesitation, Frank McKee (For Dancing) After the Roses Have Faded Away, Ernest R. Ball Doodle-oodle Dee, Theodore Morse Genius Loci, Thorn Jesus Christ is Risen To-day, Worgan The Day of Resurrection — Easter Hymn, Lausanne Psalter I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier, A I. Piantadosi Tennessee, I Hear You Calling Me, Jeff Godfrey La Russe, Arr. Louis H. Chalif (For Dancing) Armorer's Song — Robin Hood, de Koven Old Folks at Home, S. C. Foster It's Written in the Book of Destinv — Ladv Luxurv, Schroeder Thomas Chalmers and Chorus Jaudas' Society Orchestra Helen Clark and Joseph A. Phillips Arthur Collins and Byron G. Harlan String Quintet Edison Mixed Quartet Edison Mixed Quartet Helen Clark and Chorus Premier Quartet Jaudas' Society Orchestra Frederic Martin Christine Miller and Chorus Helen Clark and Joseph A. Phillips MR. EDISON STARTS A PLANT TO MAKE BENZOL FROM GAS MR. EDISON announced March 13th the opening of his new plant for the manufacture of benzol at Johnstown, Pa., with a capacity of 2000 gallons a day. Another plant with 5000 gallons capacity is now under construction by him at Sydney, Nova Scotia. Germany has been the principal source of supply of benzol. With exhaustion of imported stocks, domestic manufacturers have been besieged by makers of paints, dyes and explosives pleading for benzol at any pricePremiums of 50 to 100 per cent have been offered for limited quantities to tide manufacturers over until a larger domestic supply could be produced. One of the largest demands has arisen from the use of benzol to produce carbolic acid, from which in turn is made picric acid, for which there has been tremendous demand for high explosives. There are several processes for production of benzol by fractional distillation. The Germans have been far ahead of their American competitors in cheapness of manufacture. Air. Edison began experimentation last year, and by January 20 was ready to break ground for a factory at Johnstown. The plant is exceedingly complex, there being miles of piping and much special machinery which had to be built. Work has been pushed day and night. The process which Mr. Edison has perfected to the point of commercial utility converts the gases going to waste from the coking ovens of the Cambria Steel Company at Johnstown. Twenty million gallons of benzol could be manufactured from the gas going to waste each year from coking plants in this country, according to Mr. Edison's estimate. The current price now is thirty-five cents a gallon, in wholesale quantities, with none to be had. Mr. Edison's special pride in his new industry is the record of constructing buildings and machinery of such a complicated character and opening the plant on a commercial basis all in seven weeks. Chemists who had heard only vague rumors that the Mr. Edison was busy on the benzol problem were astonished by the announcement that the plant was in full operation. "It shows," remarked one of them, "what American genius can do when put to it." Carbolic acid, (now made of benzol) is used in the manufacture of Edison disc records.