The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-29
AN ELECTRIC HOUSE.
HAS NO STAIRS, CHIMNEYs NOR
DISH TOWELS.

Fire and Ice Not Nceded-servants,
Ladies' AIi-Tyvo Hours Work
Day-Is Rather Expensive.
From New York Commercial Advertiser.
A house without a match In 1t: house
without a single pair Of stairs: house
without a ccal scuttle, a dish towel or
chimney; a house without ice, without
fire, without smoke-that is the electric
dwelling house which is possible now and
which, the prophets say, is to be the
home of the future. 1t can go even far
ther. The house need not have back
yard or a clothes line though these things
are to be matters of taste.
The description of such homo must
necessarily be a story of "insteads'-in-
siead of this, an electrical that-and when
the matter is reduced to it's simplest form
1t will be found that two small, rubber
covered wires are coal scuttles, dish tow
els and matches AS for the coal, instead
of being brought to the house by noisy
carts and dumped into the cellar, 1t Will
come exactly as a message does to the
telephone receiver, over two small wires,
and will be just as invisible and less
noisy,
fully wrapped in gutta percha or rub
Der, are the all-important factors. They
will be all over the house, from the push
button on the front door 10 the burglar
alarm on the back windows; from the
garnet to the cellar; in the drawing room
and the kitchen; but never seen except IN
their effect They will run through the
pipes of chandeliers, or, rather, electro
Tiers, to the glowing electric bulbs clus-
tered on their brass supports, and will
Turk behind banks of push buttons,
touch on which will light any floor or the
whole house, or leave 1t in darkness IN
an instant. AS for the kitchen range. II
will be full of wires, and almost every
kitchen utensil Will have a copper string
tied to 1t.
THE visitor to such house would go
through an electrical progress before he
could reach its owner in the drawing
room on the second floor He would be
shown the elevator shaft In the hallway.
would press the signal button, and mo-
ment later the car would descend ana
the door would open. The visitor would
enter and look for the elevator boy. To
his surprise he would learn that the sim
pie push on the button had done the Whcie
thing. Then he would press button Ia
belled second floor. The door OF the car
would close, to open moment later at
the second-story landing. Perhaps he
would refuse to descend the same way,
In which event his host would allow him
to use the emergency ladder, which Is at
hand in case of breakage in the machin-
cry Of the lift.
In the parlor, IL it is evening, the visi-
tor will be struck by the glow OF light
from the many electric bulbs on electro
lier or single fixture. He will feel an even,
pleasant temporal ure and breathe air
which, while warm, is fresh and invigor-
atinR. II he looks for the steam radiator
or ugly vent for hot air, he VIII find only
ms ventilating duct discharging fresh air
into the room and drawing Off the foul
air, and in corners or elsewhere small
box-like affairs Of trfiing dimensions, the
ciminutive but powerful electric radiators.
If II is summer he will find In the parlor
The same pleasant breeze he noticed In the
halls and il he follows slight whirring
sound he will locate the electric rams
above his head keeping up constant cir
culation of cool air which probably comes
from a coil OF refrigerating pipes. Here
and there about the parlor and other
rooms he will notice switchboards or push
buttons where lights and heat may be
regulated. the fans set going or the cleo
trio carpet-sweeper, the successor to the
broom and the handpower, be connected
with the feed wires. In the sewing-room,
wires will run from one OF these plugs or
SWltGtGCdruS 10 tile scWhth tAA"Nhthcs
queer affair without treadle, which the
seamstress starts or stops by touching
the right button on the table. In this
case domestic foot-power Is done away
with. and sewing is good fun. The machine
can be trusted to do long hens almost by
itself, without guiding hand.
In the nursery the visitor Will find cleo
tricity rocking the cradle. The baby, or
course, thinks II Is great sport, and papa,
instead of trottlng him around half the
night. waits until the end Of the month
and settles the bill for so many volts and
amperes for rocking the cradle. The two
flexible wires, well covered 10 prevent dam
ger of shock 10 those handling them gun
from the electroiler 10 the cradle. Papa
leans out OF bed and touches a button,
and the cradle rocks itself without the
tree-lop sequel ION; a tai bio nearby Is the
portable stove for cooking nursery f-ods.
This stove, like the heaters throughout the
house Is controlled by turn of q screw
on tho thermostat. by which the temper
ature can be governed exactly. S,s'er's
electric curling iron probably Is hidden
somewhere in the nursery
After all however, the kitchen OF the
electric home Is the most interesting part,
because here there are more electrical I'm.
steals" than elsewhere. II Is a bright
clean room, with rugs on the floor. and an
manner Of queer cooking utensils cleaning
on The shelves Electric bulbs food the
place with light. fans drive away steam
and the odor of cooking, ana all about arc
wires ready for attachment one misfes
here, however, the matchbox, che coal
scutile, the bundle of kindling wood ana
newspaper ana the dish pan and dish
towel For ordinary cooking the cook,