COKE AND ITS BY-PRODUCTS.
[To THE ED/TOR OF THE ""SPECTATOR.") SIR,—My first two queries respecting your article of Novem- ber 5th on the above were as to why coalowners should be biased against low-temperature carbonization, as your article suggested, and what evidence there was of the benzol and alcohol alleged to be present in the gas produced? Your corm- sPendents, " Office Boy " and Mr. Paul Dvorkovitz, do not deal with these points. As regards " Office Boy's " championship of the commercial success of low-temperature carbonization, I fear
that fully-illustrated articles and even balance-sheets (based on small plants) do not move me. If a now process means profit nothing will stop it, and I have the greatest admiration for industrial pioneers. Now as to unemployment. Surely, Sir, neither your writer nor your correspondents suggest that the building of low-temperature carbonization plants (a slow pro- cess), to be actuated by a few skilled men, is going to afford the immediate relief wo require.—I am, Sir, &c.,
MANAGING DIRECTOR.
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