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Title: Pacific service magazine
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Subjects: Pacific Gas and Electric Company Electric utilities Electrical engineering Public utilities
Publisher: San Francisco : Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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Upper left, Commercial Building, Harrison Street and the Embareadero, San Francisco; right, premises of L. G. Wolfe & Co. and the Baker-Vawter Co., 134 Fremont Street; low er, one of the three floors occupied by L. G. Wolfe & Co. gas stoves and water heaters, which morethan replaced the loss. Then the electricrange and water heater were introducedand gas lost some of its business to thisnew competition. But the conservativegas man, who has proved the value ofhis product as a domestic fuel proposi-tion, wants to hold fast to it because heknows it is good. Another domestic field equally good, and almost every gas meter, we mightsay, is a prospect for the sale of gas asa fuel. Gas is the ideal fuel for heating. It isavailable instantly day or night by turn-ing a valve; paid for after it is used; asure supply at a fixed price. These are big points in favor of gas asfuel. But, think of the advantages of afuel which can be regulated to keep your Pacific Service Magazine 171
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Cliff Dwellers Apartments, 1315 Taylor Street. house scientifically heated in our change-able climate, and save your family theusual winter colds, to say nothing of thebother of ashes, dirt and stoking. Many churches, stores and some resi-dences purchase so little gas that theiraccounts do not return to the gas com-pany the amount of expense incurred toserve them, plus a reasonable profit. Butthey get their service, just the same. Now,the additional gas used for heating willconvert this type of consumer into aprofitable one, as gas heating is installedwithout additional investment in mainsor service. In addition, gas heating willtend to better the load factor, inasmuchas the general use will be during thehours when the present load is lightest. Even gas men are apt to think that nonew methods of gas heating can be intro-duced because coal and wood heating,oil furnaces, air-tight stoves and similarequipment have been standard for somany years. Where gas has been used toany great extent

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