and certain other results 



are obtained by the use 



of water, providing the 



admission of water is as 



carefully proportioned 



as that of fuel. The only 



possible means of securing 



this result is embodied in 



the Secor Carburetor, which is 



covered by the Secor patents. 



KEROSENE FOR FUEL 



Kerosene is the most concentrated fuel obtainable at any 

 price. It is the most universally distributed, for wherever man 

 is \N\th matches, at every country store, kerosene can be had, 

 while gasoline is on sale only at certain points. Kerosene is not 

 dangerous, does not evaporate, and consequently does not involve 

 the risk of explosion that is always present with gasoline. Even 

 the insurance companies recognize this by permitting the use of a 

 Secor kerosene engine in New York City without increase of insur- 

 ance rates in buildings where gasoline 

 engines are absolutely pro- 

 hibited . Kerosene is uniform 

 in quality, while gasoline is 

 subject to great variation. 

 Gallon for gallon kerosene 

 contains about eighteen per 

 cent more heat than gas- 

 oline, while it costs very much 

 less. Three per cent of the crude 

 oil of the world refines into gasoline, and sixty per cent into 

 kerosene and the lower grade oils. In consequence, the price of 

 gasoline is constantly increasing, while that of kerosene tends to 

 decline. At the present time the refineries are working "from 

 hand to mouth" with gasoline, while they hold millions of barrels 

 of kerosene in storage for want of a market. Fifteen years ago 

 gasoline sold at wholesale at two cents per gallon, while kerosene 

 brought twelve cents. Today, in Indiana, the wholesale price of 

 kerosene ranges from five to eight cents, while gasoline sells at twelve 

 and thirteen cents, with a tendency to still further increase in price. 



0//^f£ is not an ordinary internal combustion engine that 

 occasionally can burn a little kerosene when all conditions are par- 

 ticularly favorable. Kerosene and the cheaper fuel oils, which 



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