The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1908-04-30
WONDERFUL HOUSE.
All its Appointments by Electric
ity.
THAT HOUSE WITHOUT A CHIMNEY.
No Smoke, No SCOT, No Ashes and No
Smells from Gas.
(Electric News Seryice.)

A house without chimney!
A house with plenty of artificial
light and heat yet without bit of
fire. No coal; no ashes, no SCOT; no
dangerous gases.
Such is the ideal Twentieth-Cen-
tury Home which Mr.. F. NJ. Sinsa-
baugh has just completed for his
comfort at Carro!lton, Illinois. While
this wonderful residence is now the
first Of its kind in the world, it is.
perhaps good example Of what the
average American home will be in
few years from now when both wood
and coal have become too expensive
for common use. Wood is now too
scarce and high in price for common
building material and the time is al
ready here when, for enconomy's
sake, architects and contractors are
figuring to construct all buildings of
steel and concrete. AS the supply of
coal diminishes the cost is advancing
so that everything possible is being
done to husband the supply and see
that none Of the precious stored heat
is wasted. Electricity, generated by
water power, i5 even nov taking the
place OF coal IS source of power
and the time is surely coming when
it will rank first rs source Of heat.
Mr.Sinsabaugh's Model Twentieth
Century Home is 34x30 feet, two
stories high. with attic and basement
and has eight rooms on the two main
floors. While Edison's idea of a con-
crete house to be poured in one big
mould was not carried out, yet the
principal building material was con-
crete. The foundation and walls are
Of concrete blocks. The concrete
was mixed and moulded into the
building blocks as required. There
was no waste Of building material.
The floors are of wood and the in
terror is finished in plaster and oak.
Such house requires very little
wood The style of architecture is
Of the plain, substantial mission type.
rhis idea is carried throughout the
interior as well. The building is
frontcd by a large porch 8x32 feet.
! This concrete and wood finished house
cost less than So 500.
The interior is roomy and comfort
able. On the left Of the entrance
hail IS the parlor, and On the right
the library; back of the latter IS To-
Gated the dining room, connected by
pantry to the kitchen. The house
is illuminated with electric lights.
The chandeliers and lighting fixtures
are Of hard wood and stained glass,
producing a very beautiful effect.
Perhaps the most novel feature
about this wonderful residence is the
fact that it is heated by steam from
q central station. There is no noisy,
!, dusty furnace in the basement de-
handing daily attention and tender
care all the lcng winter months. IN
stead, what usually goes to waste
about small electric light plants is
carried to the house by underground
, 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 radia-
, tors. Of course some special ar
rangement had to be supplied to
furnish hot water for the bath room.
Near the ceiling in the bath room is
: located q water tank which is kept
constantly hot by a number Of small
I pipes through which a continual flow
+ of hot steam is maintained. This
tank supplies hot water for the bath
room and to the wash bowls located
in two CT the upstairs bed rooms.
E The house is also wired for electric
heat in case anything should happen
TO the steam heating system.
When it is remembered that there
arc no fires about this modern dwell
ing the visitor begins to wonder how
{ tie 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 fur
u niture seems to bc an oak sideboard
or something that looks as though
: it might be sideboard. The "side
{ board" is nothing more or less thar
) one of the new General Electric elec
u tric stoves. TIE back Of the wooder
u cabinet is a small switchboard and
all the utensils arranged on the stove
are connected to this switchboard
with suitable wires and plugs. 4