The San Francisco call., 1908-03-15

Is his second choice. and that while he
Will be loyal to Cannon as long as
there seems to be any hope he will
vote for Taft as soon as the delegation
breaks. He will also take a large fol-
lowing into the Taft camp, once the
instructions are abandoned
Neither can the Pennsylvania delega-
tion, which is heart and soul in favor
of the nomination of Knox, be deliv-
cred en- masse to any other candidate
1t will stand by Knox until it abandons
hope, but once it breaks fully half of
the delegates. it is asserted. will vote
for Taft. many having said as much at
the White House and elsewhere within
the last month.
The New York delegation, it is be-
lieved, will be loyal TO Governor
Hughes perhaps longer than that of
any other favorite son.
The Indiana delegation is permeated
with Taft sentiment, so much so that
in one district the delegates could not
be elected until IL was known that
Taft was their second choice.
La Toilette will receive no votes from
outside of his own state, Wisconsin,
and when the time comes that he re-
leases his colleagues, Senator Stephen
son and many others will cast their
votes for Taft. 1t is declared, there
fore. by the political prophets that
there is no nope Oh QeItdtlHS IdII DN
combining the favorite son delegations
on some other man.
There are not a few reputedly shrewd
observers who say that the time will
never come in the next convention
when instructed delegates will have an
opportunity to break TO Taft. If the
secretary of war is not nominated in
the first days balloting they assert
with great positiveness there will be
stampede for Roosevelt. And this is
what Wall street fears.
At last Edisons dream OF a cast
stone house is about to be realized. A
year ago Mr.. Edison, in an interview
with The Calls correspondent, fully
set forth his invention, viz, that of
portable molds by which outer and in
terror walls, floors, stairs, mantels. fire.
places, bathtubs and indeed every part
of a dwelling of small cost, except the
window panes and the plumbing, could
be constructed of cement.
Edward Hett of Staten island, who
received 100000 for his invention of a
printing press that would print several
colors at one time, has turned his at
tention to building concrete homes.
nett has novel method He does not
mold the entire shell of the house at
one pouring" yet the house when
ready for occupancy is said to be sim
liar to a structure erected on the mono
lith plan. 1t is further said that no
part of the construction work of the
Hett house is heavy or clumsy, owing
to the type of molds designed by Hett.
The patents obtained by the inventor
of tins novel method of building con-
crete houses includes mixing ma
chine and an automatic conveyer. The
automatic conveying device takes the
liquid concrete from the mixer and con-
veys 1t directly into the molds. The
flow of the concrete from the mixer to-
the molds is continuous.
According to Hett the entire cost of
the she'll of an eight room house built
on his plan will be little more than
$1,000. IF another $1,000 be added for
plumbing. wiring, piping, doors, win
dows, etc, the total would be only
little over $4,000, as against about
$4,000 for any other kind of a house
now known says the inventor.