The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-04-09


dining room, connected by a pantry
to the kitchen. The chandeliers and
lighting fixtures are OF hard wood
and stained glass, producing very
beautiful effect.
Perhaps the most novel feature
about this wonderful residence is the
fact that it is heated by steam from
a central station. There is no noisy,
dusty furnace i'll the basement de-
manding daily attention and tender
care all the long winter months.
Instead, the steam which usually goes
to waste about small electric light
plants is carried to the house by un-
derground pipes. This steam pipe
enters the house in the basement and
the steam is carried to the rooms just
the same as from an ordinary furnace.
The rooms are heated with steam
radiators OF course some special
arrangement had to be supplied to
furnish hot water for the bath room.
Near the ceiling in the bath room is
located a water tank which is kept
constantly hot by a number of small
pipes through which continual flow
of hot steam is maintained. This
tank supplies hot water for the bath
and to the wash bowls located in two
of the upstairs bed rooms. The
house is also wired for electric heat
in case anything should happen to the
steam heating system.
When it is remembered that there
are no fires about this modern dwell
ling the visitor begins to wonder
how the meals are cooked. No steel
range is visible in the neat and roomy
kitchen. No sooty gas stove glares
black and threatening from the side
walls. The principal article of furni-
ture seems to be an oak sideboard-
or something that looks as though it
might be sideboard This "side-
board" is nothing more or less than
one of the new General Electric
stoves. The back of the wooden cab
met is small switchboard and all the
utensils arranged on the stove are
connected to this switchboard with
suitable wires and plugs. A turn of
switch and the electric tea-kettle is
singing over invisible heat With
the same ease the frying pan, cereal
cooker, griddle, broiler. vegetable
cooker, etc, are made ready to do
their share Of the work Of preparing
meal. Beside the cabinet sits the
electric oven wherein the heat is so
economical and concentrated that the
choicest roast can be prepared in less
time than it usually takes to start a
slow coal fire. The other electrical
kitchen devices, including the electric
fiatiron, are used in the same clean,
simple and economical manner. There
is no sweltering heat in the kitchen,
no SCOT, no ashes, no dirt, no hot fires
for ironing days; no Juggling Of heavy
scuttles of coal from the basement
In fact so easily and conveniently
are the meals cooked that the coffee,
tea and toast are prepared right on
the dining room table. The electric
coffee percolator, at the turn Of a
switch prepares the coffee while
the cereal is being eaten and the toast
is ready with the coffee. The cost of
cooking the meals by electricity in
this home is estimated at less than
$3.50 month for a family of five
persons
By utilizing the waste steam from
the electric light plant the cost of
heating the house in cold weather is
reduced to a minimum. Besides it
saves caring for a dirty furnace and
handling coal and ashes. The room
that furnace and coal bin ordinar-
lily take up can be used for other pur-
poses. With special meter rates for
electric heating the cost of cooking
the various meals is no more than it
would be if coal or gas were used and
the cleanliness, convenience and
healthfulness Of electricity is worth
more than money can buy
The greatest inventor and genius
in the world has predicted that the
house Of the near future will be made
entirely of concrete, cast in a mould
Scientists have predicted that the
home Of the future will have no Chin
ney or flue. These ideas are all incor-
porated in Mr.. Sinsabaugh's Tweni
ieth Century Home