The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-06-18
EDISON STILL SANGUINE.

Having seen it stated that Edison
had given rp inventing and becom,
altogether business mao, | callet
upon him at his Cffice to know what
ne might have to say about it. III,
was ousy, al usual, but obiiging, an(
wiling to give a moment 10 tn,
FREE Press. TIE building Ocou led
oy the Edison Company wa for
merry fashi na,le Fifth avenue
resl1ence, o. the mansion" class
Its parlors, family rooms and Sleep
Ing rooms are now ali gwen up tC
one part or another OF the electric
light business. Mr.. EdIson's Office
ID far enough up stairs to keep PEG.
pie who are short of lung power
from bothering him much. He was
found at his desk. with the same
smooth face. pleasant manner and
comparatively youthful look that
has been described a hundred times.
Knowing that the time OF man
With so much On his hands was not
to be wasted, I came down to bust
ness, 20 to speak, at once, in the
LAohhO4 lulu AO-Wtk
SIT is said, Mr.. Edison, that you
are no longer an inventor, and have
decided to give all your time here
after to making n; ney in business
way / should like to know if it is
true"
swell, it was published that way.
but they did not get il j lst right. 1t
is true that l am attending to busi"
ness exclusively at present. There
is an immense deal of WORK to be
done getting the business OF the
company in proper shape, and ] am
giving all my slime % that. We are
arranging TO supply a number OF
places with the electric light, and
the details OF the undertaking re-
quire a great deal Of close attention,
so that for the present, l have no
time for anythi G else. In fact I am
resting from invention altogether,
and have been t T Dearly year
past, but [ have not given 1t I'D. I
may try again before long"
You consider your light a sue
cess 2"
Certainly. There can be no
doubt about that. We are doing all
that we expec ed to do, but we have
met with some delays on account
of every branch of the business be-
ing new and necessitsting expert
ments. But we are steadily going
ahead and doing we'll"
"Was it not intended that your
lights should be used in MI. Van
derbilt's new honse?"
"Yea, but you see, when Mrs.
Vanderbilt discovered thai 1t would
be necessary tG have boiler in the
house, she objected, ana the matter
was dropped. The boiler was put
in. but that was as far IS we went.
Mrs. Vanderbilt thought it might
blow up some time and send tht m
all to heaven, 60 nothing more was
DONE"
How about the photograph"
81 had to give that up in order to
attend to the light. 1t was while
working on it that l discL vered q
way to sub~djvide the light and to
follow up the discovery I Was OBJ
liged to drop the other matter. l
believe the principle is good, and
that it can be utilized for practical
purposes. | think the phonograph
might be made very useful for die
tatlon, and it probably will be turned
to account that way in the course Of
time"
"And your electrical rail way? ?"
"Oh, that is all right. 1 built
railway two and a half miles long
and ran trains on it without the
least trouble. But l was too busy to
follow it up. so turned it over to a
company that had another contriv-
ance of the anne kind on hand. One
of the company, a cousin of Cyrus
w. Field, is an electric inventor
himself, who has made. discoveries
similar 10 mine, and the two plans
are to be combined. 1t is attended,
l believe, TO use them on elevated
railroads. '-FCasper" in Detroit
Free Press.