Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-05
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DRESSING BY ELECTRICITY.

George Westinghouse .r, is one of the
few American inventors who has had q
handle put to his name by European poten-
tates, more than one monarch having given
him the right to dub hin self ''Sir George
Westinghouse, - by comforting upon him
the honor OF knighthood in reco gnition of
his wonderful invention for railway trains
the Westinghouse air bake. The inven-
tion he suggests will at once commend
itself to every lady. and to every son of
Adam who has ever been made to break
the third commandment by the length of
time he has had to wait for some fair one
deep in the mysteries of the toilet.
MAY we not hope that some inventive
genius of the future will utilize electricity
for personal convenience more directly than
has vet been done9 May it not be that
some such bright spirit will be able to de-
wise system of storage batteries and wires
to be carried on the person and by means of
which one NAV dress and uudress at light
ming speed without labor or fatigue of any
kind2 What convenience it would be if
one could touch an electric button and have
his shoes unbuttoned and removed in the
twirkling of an eye, or touch another andss
like Clown and PAN aloon in the palD-
mime, have his morning costume fly otVHnd
his evening dress fly on! How mucbytimej
saved if the touch Of in
electric button would insfant&n
ously array them for ball or receIkiof ~
even Solomon in all his glory was Ifos-stf-
rayedl | know of no invention that the
future could possibly bring forth that
would be more popular and more profitable
than this. GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE, JR.
CAPT EADs DISCUSSES CABLES.
The late Capt. James 3. Eads, OF Missis-
sippi river jetty fame, was as well known
to most Americans as Edison. and peculiar
interest attaches to his remarks: -
so many inventions suggest themselves
to me as highly desirable that l scarcely
know which to name first, and in VIEW of
what science has already accomplished in
the past. none OF them-no matter how wild
and improbable they may seem at first
thought-are by any means improbable.
Street railway cars drawn by endless
cables, gripped through slot by an attach
ment to the car are already an established
fact. Why may we not some day have all
our private conveyances drawn in that
manner2 Why may not the cars them
selves be entirely dispensed with and
every man. woman and child have a chair
on wheels which they can grip to the cable
and 20 gliding about the city in every direc-
ton on business or pleasure with a degree
of independence and privacy which our
present cars do not afford9
s'The elaborate private carriages of the
wealthy could be drawn in this way The
cables could be laid on every street, alley
ana thoroughfare of every city and town,
and horses could thus De entirely dispensed
with. since there would be no work for them
to perform. The cables could be maintained
at municipal expense supported by taxation
and thus be free to all, or they could be OPP
Grated by corporations to whom those de-
string to use them could pay a reasonable
sum for the privilege
This idea might be carried to an extent
practically without limit. The cRBfes
might be placed upon country roadS for
long distances, and vehicles mighrsbe sol
constructed as TO obviate all necessity for
tracks for their wheels to run upon, thus
superseding the idea so often discussedsbut
never proved practicable, Of steam Carriages
for ordinary dirt roads.
Hotels present wide field for the in
ventor of the future. What a boon it will
be to the gallant men with headlight dia-
monds flashing in their shirt fronts who sast
boldly strike the bell and so fearlessly ~
out front, if some one shall invent MEANS
whereby all hotel rooms shall be Qf the
first floor, near the fire escape, witbsouth-.
ern exposure and fronting on the maiH
street; and what Joy it would 1aspik
in the breast Of every hotel proprietor r.