Waste of coal in domestic consumption.
Our domestic consumption is undoubtedly wasteful; and the inventor of an effective improvement in the form of grate in common use will be a real benefactor to his fellow-man. Already we have, in the cooking-stove for yachts, the invention of Mr. Atkey, of Cowes, a highly successful apparatus. A letter from Mr. Vale, Ex-President of the Liverpool Architectural Society, addressed to The Times in August last, describes a cooking stove for a party of nine persons and a crew of thirteen men, which measured only one foot four inches by one foot four inches in area, and one foot nine inches in height, the actual fuel-space being less than one cubic foot. The fuel required in his yacht for one day’s consumption was forty-seven pounds of coke at twenty shillings a ton, and the cost per head per day amounted to less than one farthing.