The Corporation handles a considerable portion of its 
business through Pittsburgh Banks, and maintains in Pitts- 
burgh an office of the Pittsburgh Oil & Gas Company, located 
in Farmers Bank Building. The General Offices of the Cor- 
poration are at 41 East 42d Street. New York City. 
THE FREEDOM OIL WORKS COMPANY 
The producing, refining, and distribution of motor and 
factory oils and gasoline for internal combustion engines and 
sther power producing machinery, is one of the nation’s most 
romantic industries. The spectacular increase in the num- 
sers of automobiles, trucks, and other such consuming ma- 
chines during the last few years has required serious thought 
on the part of the industry’s men. Their problem is to furnish 
the enormous amount of fuel and lubricant required—one of 
the largest parts of which problem is to find and to extract 
the crude product from the bowels of the earth in sufficient 
quantities to meet the ever increasing demand. This problem 
can be appreciated when it is remembered that a concern 
must “grope around” in the ground in an endeavor to locate 
the oil pockets where Mother Nature has stored her crude. 
In the main, there are two kinds of crude;—paraffin base 
crude and asphaltum base crude. The former, found in by 
‘ar the smaller quantity, is the crude used in making oils and 
gasoline by The Freedom Oil Works Company, of Freedom, 
Pennsylvania. The wells from which this company draws its 
supply of crude, are located in Pennsylvania. The oil when 
it comes from the ground is pumped into large distributing 
pipes and carried directly to the company’s plant at Freedom, 
where the crude is refined by a process of distillation and 
altration. 
The distillation process is not unlike the boiling of water 
in a tea kettle. When water is boiled in this manner, steam 
rises and escapes out of the spout. If you would attach a hose 
to the spout and by means of it, lead the escaping steam under 
cold water, the steam would be chilled and return back into 
a liquid. This water is pure distilled water, such as you use 
in your battery or for absolutely pure drinking water. Sim- 
ilarly, the crude oil is placed in huge boilers, a fire placed