The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-28

glass house will enjoy just as much privacy as in any other. They are dramatically sealed when red-hOt. and so are perfectly clean and proof against all disease germs.
 For foundations a material called stone glass should be used. This has three times the resisting power of granite in crushing strains. The roof will be of glass tiles, which can now be obtained in any desired color, and which would add a charming effect of color 10 the completed house.
 Inside tine house practically all fix lures and finishings will be made of glass. All the plumbing, all water pipes, gas pipes, sewer pipes, all fiues | for heating and cOnduits for electric wires will be of glass. And this will insure not only greater cleanliness, but las well greater safety, for such glass pipes are fireproof.
 Besides the pipes, drains, etc, the fixtures to be made of glass will in- clude sinks, washtubs, basins and bath tubs. Of course, the floors and stairs will be of glass. And window shutters and doors could be made of the same material if desired.
 If after seeing the success of his experiment in building a glass house, our owner should wish to do so, he could go further and have many arti- cles of furniture made of this material such as tables, beds, bookcases, shelves of various kinds, cupboards and so on, and all ,crockery could be. of toughened glassware. ''.S T will not deny that the builder of such a glass house would have to be a rich man, for while all or nearly all of the things have enumerated as en- Etering into the construction and fur nishing of such house are now on the market and can be utilized in the way suggested, 1t is true that most of them are a good bit more expensive than similar things made of other material. But believe the tima is at hand when | 1t will not be so very much more ex- pensive to build house of moderate size of glass than to build it of brick or stone. .... @<
 When they were first manufactured I a Few years ago glass bricks were made solid, as they still are for<p <paying-and glass bricks for paving are being used to g. considerable extent in Paris and some other cities in Europe to-day: they have been found to be superior to asphalt or Belgian blocks for such use as they make no dirt whatever and hold less than any other known kind of pavement, being easily washed clean; and, furthermore, they are more durable than either of the substances named But for building purposes solid glass bricks were not a success
 By making them hollow, all difficul ties have now been overcome. There is growing use for them in building greenhouses, for which they are ad
 mirable because of their qualities O
 not conducting heat. Tall chimney'
 have also been constructed of thos,
 bricks, and they have given satfsfac
 ton thus used. A. ....... ''When the builder of the first glas
 house, such as I have been telling vol of. comes to die he can be buried in l; glass coffin-some people have beel buried in them already--he can hay,
 his grave marked with a glass tomb stone or have an elaborate monument O a mausoleum built of glass to mark hi final resting place, and thus even afte death signify his prediction for thl wonderful material. Washing gton Post