The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1908-01-03
HOUSE OF THE FUTURE
edison TALKS OF LATEST INVENTION Which
WILL ABOLISH CITY SLUMS

made him famous The dean of American inventors says he has
been dstressng mquoed and mpresened especially
latest invention and this opportunity Success Magazine
cusvey representations of his plans
Edison promises mold with hreestory twofamy
dwellings, everything but the kitchen ranges with the
pound cake is shaped will take only twelve hours pour
such house thousand dollars will cost ST.
month family will pay the profit his invest
This achievement it hoped will sound the death knl of
squad ever-etendng trolley lines the
small will be able live veritabe suburban
mansion at less than the rent of miserable
crowded, noisy city
Henry Phipps, the phanthrop architects builders
employed by him give unbiased opinion
Edisons invention and have pronounced practical Mr.
Phpps intention build colonies Of say 1900 houses each
far from New York and Philadelphia experiment finding
solution of the problem of relieving the congestion great cities
Under the Edison pan building homes will be little
noying complicated than the expressing of wish 1t will be al
of waving magic wand.
The chooses park which he build his houses
for they to be manufactured large numbers duplicates
and then the kind of houses he poured
exhibited The builder has the houses the lot
ing that if he be induced work night Some boiling
together of iron frames ae be removed mixing of
with sand taken from the cellar excavation pouring of
the muddy into the mold and presto the trick done
Astounding this achievement seems the wonderful of
American originators explains it all.
81 have constructed model for Queen Anne cottage and
spring intend to build house of this pattern says Mr.
Edison coatess and hair toued his laboratory Leweyn
Park ~ J. I'm going put her up twelve hours try
don forget that! The expensive part of construction
today the erection of frames that again
With the aid of mod possible any build
house of solid 25 feet wide 45 feet deep three stories high
capable of housing families for $OOO with plenty of
The important feature lies in the molds which OF
for the anybody Wooden framed
built section upon section after section has been
lowed time sod This takes annoying lot of time varying
according the size of the building Concrete the frame
be stripped six days. and the forms erected another lot
By pouring concrete which be hosed the top of the
house and dumped from there until the mixture fills the mold
will be possible complete the in twelve hours Are
you on?
he forms iron $1,000 the entire house
be built This includes heating pipes of starcaes of
CRETE manes of the same roofs of that won't leak plumb
ing wire oondu and bath tubs of concrete he said speak
ing vigorously.
"Such house will forever The houses which with
stood the San Francisco disaster Fire insurance will
be thing of the past with the dwellings Children may play
with but chop much they like they can't njure the
structure There will be need for repairs.
"Bu show you the model-you haven't the
model" the inventor broke off suddenly
THE INVENTOR AND THE MODEL.
Then he hurried of the almost "The Wiz
ard" six-one years Old but you wouldn't think it to him
ascending the steep the floor above The writer young
man who light his steps time
Edison kept his lead and had time take key from
stairs door of the
where guarded kept before the follower arrived
enough there the cottage beauty 1t stood
with background of several crude wooden
phonogaph horns grand piano. batteries dustcovered
piano player and stacks of phonograph record boxes
Mr. Edison smiled and said: isn't she dandy?"
'It surely is, my answer-and my honest opinion ID
worked this with the in mind who gets dollar and
day. continued Mr.. Edison his face still animated In
New York. Chicago any of the other big cities isn't able
get dollars say and that price P
usually pretty disageeabe neigborood Deduct ten
day and that he'd have pay he lived the sub
ubst roughly dollars half I'm going to build
ceapy that will be possible for to be rented
at that price. Isl