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Sign-up    Dan Holohan July 16, 2009 Subscribe to RSS feed  A
friend sent me a booklet that New Jersey's Public Service Gas
Company (now Public Service Electric and Gas) published in 1917.
This little gem appeared during a time when electricity was
sweeping the nation and most owners of new homes had to make a
choice between gas lighting and electric lighting. I found the
way that the Gas Company went about their business back then
fascinating. This is the sort of stuff that came out of a
company that had to have seen the handwriting on the wall, but
didn't have much choice that year because all they had to sell
was gas. And when your only tool is a hammer, everything starts
to look like a nail. Listen:  "There is not a room in your home
that would not be more useful and therefore more valuable by
having ample gas connections for lighting and heating.  "Since
gas piping is probably the cheapest material that goes into a
house, it is certainly wort