The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-04

Engineers say this will be an "Ilec- tric Year" Electricity is soon to oper- ate all the railroads in and around New York City. It is sending the trolley car and the telephone to the remotest rural districts. The incandescent and other new styles of electric light is everywhere supplanting the old-fash- toned gas or oil street lamp. And now this mystic current has begun to rev oIutionize conditions of living Tn homes.
 \ The first electric home" has just been comp. d in one of the cities ol upper New York state. This home is equipped with almost every modern electrical device. and 1t is vertapie wonderland of marveis. The owner H. W. aillman, believes the time IS not far distant when homes all over the world will be fully equipped with elec- tricity for lighting, heating and pow CT as commonly as oil and gas are now used The greater cleanliness heaIthfulness, safety and convenience of electricity as compared to gas Will, he contends. result in the universal use of electricity.
 This remarkable dwelling has cleo tric lights in every room. Tn every closet, in every dark corner. Instead of the conventional bell burglar alarm MT. HiIlman has an electric switch next to his bed by pushing which he can instantly turn on every light in the house. This would terrify the thief more than dozen revolvers.
 Housewifery Made Easy.
 In the sewing room. machine run by an eIctric motor saves endless trouble. On table beside the man chine is an electric hatiron ready for use at any time. In this room there is also a teIephone and an electric rad iator for auxiliary heating
 The dining room has an electric chaf- ing dish. a corn pepper. coffee per coIator. and luminous radiator. In the bed rooms there are electric neat ing pads instead of the old fashioneo hot water bottles which are always liable to burst and produce disaster Here, too, are electric curling irons ana flat irons.
 The bath room is an astonishinR place. An electric immersion coil heats inc water when the house furnce is shut down in summer. There Is lit tie boiler to supply water quickly TOT shaving. Here too, is an electro radiator--a device which costs pu SIP. but which Mir. HifIman pronounces a. great comfort when something is needed to take the ecge off the chilli ness of the air. In this room there U also a massage motor which can ps attached to any incandescent iamI socket and be onerated by any one. Troublesome Kitchen Stoves Eiim-
 mated.
 One of the features of the Electri' Home'' is the kitchen where every narticle of food cooked gets it's heal from electricity. There is no kitcn' en stove. and all the devices for COOK ing rest on an ordinary wooden tanie The outfit includes an oven cerea cooker frying pan. vegetable proiler eridiron and meat broiler. The over has regulating switch for securine high. low and medium grades of heat bv turn of the handle. In size It U inc same inside dimensions as the ol' stvle kitchen stove. or later desiRn' oS gas ovens. A novel feature Of thu oven is tive glass windows Tn ln' door. through which meat or oreas nav be seen cooking without openlht the oven, This arrangement IS SC cured by placing an tncanoesceH famp in the back of the oven.
 The electric gridiron is inches ny ii inches in size. It requires but cou nIe of minutes to get 1t not, a,te 1rb,ch inc most delightful brown cake r,av he cooked in most eonVenlen, manner. The meat broiler Is eauali ,,ieasinr to handle. being gulate' hv the switch for two or three meats as may be desired.
 The cereal cooker is four colipiii Ia