The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-12-13

sna' laporlng man earning $3.50 a day
van puy ana run. II will be as artistic
anu comfortable as any Fifth avenue man.
a,oh, anu Will be built in half day Come
had any, one else made these statements
dreamer. But when Edison had led Yo" I"
through the balconies of his study Led
with charts diagrams, and models nj his
successful inventions you began 10 believe
MN, Then, when he had reached the ton
ll9of oil the building thrown open the door
OF spacious room fitted with quarter
SIZE model OF the house, and pointed out
Oh the window TO a huge concrete building
~ the Instance, where he was making ma.
ehlnery 10 build not only one but thou.
sands of houses like it, you knew that he
meant business. There il is,n he said
briefly though with bit OF pride bright.
ening his clear gray eyes
Inc model was a three-story, Queen
Anne house, with n high.peaked tiled roof,
and a bay front, The eleven rooms were
high studded and well lighted The walls
within and without were frescoed simply.
GU hardly think we can put that up
| IN halt dayg' the inventor questioned,
in his shrill, high pitched voice. "Well,
| We, can, aud for less than $1,000, too. This
is how Wen do it.
over IN that factory you Just looked
at we are moulding cast.iron forms. The
inside facing of these forms are nickel
plated and are fashioned exactly like the
outside OF the model. When these are
done, we are ready to build any number
of houses.
! AT q in the morning we take the mov-
able steel castings to a vacant lot. These
are clamped together with bolts, and you
have before you house Of iron, with hol.
low walls. Meantime we are mixing our
concrete-one part cement, three parts
sand, and three parts uuarterinCh crushed
stones. The machinery to raise this soft
concrete to the top of this iron frame.
work, big mould, you understand, is
already on the spot.
by o'clock at night there is your
house inside your iron work Everything
except the doors and windows is in place.
In six days the iron frame is unbolted
and removed. In another eight days the
concrete is completely hardened and the
house ready to live in. Fifteen DAYS from
start to finish. THE only wood used is
| the strips around the edge of the floors
on which to tack down carpet and those
around the wall for the picture mouldingss.
| All this is put in place in the ironwori
before the concrete has been poured IN
/ The tiling around the fireplaces and In
| the chimneys the gas and water pipes
are also stuck in the same way In the con
crete walls. The furnaces, the heating
pipes, the bathtubs water closets, are al
cast with the walls.
"There will be no plumbing bills; there
is no plumbing to be done. There vii
! be no insurance. there's nothing to burn
Rome wasn't built in day, they say, but
! NaU York Can he
1--WE done this for the workingmar
who is doing his best to bring up fam
ily. | won't make a cent on 1t. One day
| went through the East Side You know
it. Nothing but a mess OF brick boxes
| got the idea of this house at the time. -,
I'm few years all this will be changed
You will 90 outside of Manhattan and SET
rows of healthful, beautiful concrete
houses, one for each family. The expense
of making them will be less than that O
the dirtiest tenement on Riylngton street
These houses won't be all allKe. an
leaving the patent open to every one
Competing companies VIII spring up eaci
making a different style OF house.
mo. the architecture will not be mo
notonous. In fact, the architects new
er had their chance till now Before
they've had to rush out something cheap
never ANYTHING beautiful. Now the!
wont have to worry about expense IN
most artistic house is as cheap as TN,
crudest. Why! it's going to mean REV.
val in architecture. ,....,
"Of course, | have patented the house
It's necessary. | shall give any one tn
rights for nothing provided he uses w
RIGHT kind of concrete, enforces lts, prop
erlv with twisted iron rods, and makes al
artistic product. The laboring man is go
ing to get a square deal on TINS Improve
ment." 49,. ,.a,,,o +bo,
can't plumb carpenter, lay prlchS' 'n'
the like" Edison was asked. .ho ;nvort
A winning smile crept over the invent
or's face. ~ 10 cold
'erbey are going to live in these houses
I've been working on this two year
That's the way it is with everything do
The idea comes easy enough-doesn tax
one ner cent of my time. But the detall
mean plug. plug, plug. And the WNors
MT If if is when you've done anything
It @'s' never perfect, and never will be. -,
cake my storage batteries. hre
vaars ago | made a battery capaple y
doing 1900 miles before new plales wei
needed, Now | have got one that WI
last 80 900 miles. But that's good way
from what the idea can do IL lieans
however. that the horse is dead. IL al.
"The truck with my battery VIII WE
twice the load of an ordinary t !3 w" -
have twice the speed, ana Wlli WI .a aS nee
half the space So it's eight tiihes az ".
f f,i'i as a horse and wagon. These batterl ter.
VII make trucks so cheap that ienV
avanue butcher can buy one. In niCee,
Years YOU won't see horse IN the pusiiies
's.;on of Now York"