Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-20
HOUSE IN ONE PIECE
Edison Is Going to Make 1t in
a Single Mold.
ERECTED WHILE YOU WAIT
Will Need Neither Repairs Nor Fire
Insurance.
MARCONI AND THE WIRELESS
New Type of Storage Battery Is
Going to Put the Horse Out
of Business.

Il NEW YORK, October 19.-To build a
three-story house in one solid piece, at a
cost of only 81 900, and to finish the job
in twelve hours-that is the problem which
Thomas A Edison yesterday told the
members of the American Electro Chem
zeal Society he had solved, and he showed
them the model to prove it. Incidentally,
he expressed the opinion that theoretically
the horse will disappear from Manhattan
Island some time next December, when
his new storage battery for automobile
propulsion is placed on the market.
Two carloads of members of the society,
which is holding it's twelfth annual meet
ing in this city, went out to Orange to
look over the Edison works and to meet
the inventor. After a general handshake
he led them off on tour of the plant at
pace that was somewhat faster than a
trot and at times approached a gallop
keeping up a running fire of explanations
and answering questions that were fired at
him in volleys.
All the scientists were interested in the
processes of making photograph records
and showed considerable animation when
he told what he was doing and expected
to do with his storage battery, but when
he led the party up a couple of flights and
showed the model of his ideal "house of
the future and began to explain it they
became enthusiastic.
Casting an Entire House.
According to Mr.. Edison, the house Of
the future will be cast from iron molds in
one solid piece. including stairs and bath
! tub. It will be fireproof and ndestructi-
BILE, and from one set of molds an infinite
number of exactly identical houses can be
made. And for protection against poor
construction he intends to restrict the use
Of his patents to contractors of RESPONSE
| bility who will agree to follow his formula
| for making concrete.
| Some of the best architects in New York
have contributed their IDEAS to the model
| which Mr.. Edison showed yesterday. 1t
| is of house that, in full size, will be
three stories, twenty-five feet frontage
and forty-f1ve feet from front to rear.
The style is a combination of colonial and
Queen Anne, and it does not look at all
| like any concrete house that any one ever
| saw
There is no reason" said Mr.. Edison
| as he stood before his model, why a con-
crete house shouldn't be as pretty as-any
other kind. The house of the future will
be artisticaly attractive we'll prac-
tically a perfect dwelling Now that my
model is completed I am having a set of
molds made for the construction of full
sized house on this plan, and l shall build
the first one from these molds next sum-
mer. One thousand dollars will cover the
entire cost of building this house, which
Will De Dig eHouSH 7lof tHIee OlulHdrS
families"
Fine for the Kids.
after the materials are assembled on
the ground twelve working hours should
be sufficient to build a house." continued
Mr.. Edison. After the cellar is dug the
contractor will bring his sand cement and
crushed stone, together with his concrete
mixing machinery, the molds and der
!, rick to the spot. AS fast as the concrete
\ is made it is poured into the molds which
fit together from cellar bottom to roof
. tree. The workmen keep on pouring in
the concrete until 1t overfiOws at the top.
Then they go away, and six days later
: they go back and take off the molds, piece
: by piece.
Roof and floors will be solid concrete
The only wood necessary will be the doors
and a strip of wood sunk around the edge
. of each floor to tack the carpets to. When
. it is done you will have mouse that is
, freproof verminproof and waterproof
, and you can let the children chop the
. banisters with hatchets all day. if it gives
them any pleasure-it won't hurt the
house
1T was buildings constructed on that
formula that came through the San Fran
cisco fire unscathed. and such building
: will last forever. and get more and more
| solid time goes on.
High Speed Wireless.
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be sending over the Atlantic 1000 words
a minute by wireless and will be receiving
|: at the same rate of speed. The only limit
!: to speed In sending now is caused by the
I absorption of the electric waves by the
|: wire or cable. There is no such absorb
ton in wireless telegraphy.
I New York and London will be in free
communication by wireless telegraphy be-
!. | fore long.
!. There will follow this interesting ques-
. ton: Is the second, third, fourth and
. fifth man to apply wireless between the
!. continents, TO acquire the benefits that
|. Marconi should enjoy for his labor?
. There is no Misunderstanding power for
. the use of the air. but there is a common
: law. and it is now being invoked in the
: suit between the New York New Haven
and Hartford road and the Bell fele-
!. phone Company, over the high induction
. current of the former since it laid its
, electric system.
"The decision will be in favor of the
| man who first used the air earth in
, | commercial achievement. The common
law will see that the founder of a service
, is not hurt by follower.
Does Not Fear Marconi
NEW YORK, October 19.-George G
Ward, general manager of the CONNER
= cial Cable Company, does not believe that
the wireless system will ever prove a Sc
rious rival to the old cable lines. In an
interview he said:
I'VE would not be understood as mini
MIXING Marconi's achievements, but sub
} marine cables being more reliable, We dc
.. not believe that wireless will ever prove a
: serious rival to them. AS proof of our es-
timation of the commercial future of the
wireless I might say we have this minute
completed new direct cable from New
York to Havana. In other words, cable
companies which are free to adopt wire.
less methods if they see fit continued to
= invest in new cables.
Furthermore, while it is expected that
the Marconi system will be improved In
the course of years, we anticipated that
Eany such advances will have the effect OF
stimulating telegraph business generally
History will undoubtedly repeat itself in
this case as it has in many other kindred
Q enterprises.
NEW YORK, October 19.-Mrs. Clara
4 c. Hackett, mother of James X. Hack
. EFT, is seriously Ill at a santarium S e