Popular Science Monthly 



111 



A Community Garage Comprises 

 Fifty Buildings on One Lot 



FIFTY garages, set as closely 

 together as possible, occu- 

 py a vacant lot in New York 

 city. Each one is rented to a 

 car owner living in the neigh- 

 borhood. The fireproof struc- 

 tures are uniform in design, 

 being made out of gal- 

 vanized iron with the 

 framework formed of an- 

 gle steel. 



The doors are of wood, 

 sheathed with metal, and 

 the windows are of wire 

 glass. Each tenant is 

 provided with keys and 

 has access to his garage 

 at any time of the day 

 or night. The build- 

 ings are ten feet by 

 eighteen feet, with 

 cement floors. They are 

 large enough to accom- 

 modate the car and pro- 

 vide additional room for 

 a workbench. Facilities 

 for cleaning are provided 

 in the court yard, and 

 there, too, may be found a supply station 

 for gas, oil, etc. 



The garages may be provided with heat- 

 ing devices if desired. Care service is ren- 

 dered at a moderate charge, though this is 

 optional with the owner. The lot measures 

 x 55 by l 75 f eet an d besides the individual 

 garages, which are placed back to back in 

 the center of the lot, there is ample space 

 provided for driveways. 



The oil passes over the flame and every 

 particle of it becomes vaporized. The burners 

 concentrate the heat where it is wanted 



Making the Kitchen Range One 

 Hundred Per Cent Efficient 



THE oil-burning stove of Gar- 

 ritt Van Daam, a combustion 

 engineer of Buffalo, New York, is 

 a recently invented rival of the 

 modern coal range. 

 The usual kerosene heater is a 

 good little stove, but it 

 is known to smoke and to 

 smell generally. This 

 shows that some per- 

 fectly good oil is being 

 wasted. Van Daam's 

 heater neither smokes 

 nor smells, which 

 means that it is 

 practically one hun- 

 dred per cent effi- 

 cient. The coal 

 stove is seldom bet- 

 ter than fifty per 

 cent efficient. 



The secret of this 

 burner's high effi- 

 ciency is in the heat- 

 ing of the kerosene 

 before it burns. 

 From the supply 

 tank near the stove, 



One city lot accommodates fifty buildings placed back to 

 back, with room for driveways, as a community garage 



the kerosene feeds by gravity through a 

 heating chamber placed directly over an 

 ordinary gas-burner jet. Two minutes 

 after the kerosene has been lit, the chamber 

 will be so hot that all the kerosene that fol- 

 lows will be vaporized. In this state, 

 every bit of the kerosene is combustible 

 and burns fiercely. In the ordinary oil 

 burner this is impossible because all the 

 oil does not get the chance to vaporize. 

 The portion that does not is 

 wasted, because it merely 

 changes into soot. 



With the oil-burner made 

 practical, there will be no 

 more working in an overhot 

 kitchen to accomplish a little 

 cooking in the summer. The 

 burners are placed to direct 

 the heat only where it is 

 wanted. For baking, the 

 oven burner will concentrate 

 the heat in the oven and 

 neither the whole stove nor 

 the room will need to be made 

 hot along with it. Equally as 

 comforting is the _ fact that 

 the stove cools off immediate- 



ly after the oil is turned off. 



