The Republican journal., 1909-05-20
House Without a Chimney.
A house of concrete!
A house without a chimney!

IlOuSC VilliOul NillInney.
A house of concrete!
A house without chimney!
A house with plenty of artificial light
and heat and yet without bit of fire. No
| coal; no ashes; no SCOT; no dangerous
gases.
Such is the ideal Twentieth Century
Home which Mr.. F. M. Sinsabaugh has
just completed for his comfort at Car
rollton, 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 already here
when, for economy's sake, architects and
contractors are figuring to construct all
buildings of steel and concrete. AS the
supply of coal diminishes the cost is ad-
vancing, 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, is even now taking the place of
coal as source of power and the time is
surely coming when it will rank first as
source of heat.
Mr.. Sinsabaugh's Model Twentieth
Century Home is 34x3O feet, two stories
high, with attic and basement, and has
eight rooms on the two main floors.
While Edison s idea of a concrete house
to be poured in one big mould was not
carried out, yet the principal building
material was concrete. 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 interior is finished
in plaster and oak. Such house requires
very little wood. The style of architecture
is of the plain, substantial, mission type.
This idea is carried throughout the in
terror as we'll. The building is fronted
by large porch Sx32 feet. This concrete
and wood finished house cost less than
So, 500.
The interior is roomy and comfortable.
On the left of the entrance hall is the
parlor, and on the right the library; back
or the latter is located the dining room,
connected by pantry with the kitchen.
The house is illuminated with electric
lights. The chandeliers and lighting fix
lures 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
in the basement demanding daily atten-
ton 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 under
ground pipes. The 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
kept constantly hot by a number Of small
hot steam is maintained. This tank sup
plies hot water for the bath and to the
wash bowls located in two of the upstairs
electric heat in case anything should
happen to the steam heating system.
When it is remembered that there are
visitor begins to wonder how the meals
are COoheu. NO SCeel range Is VISIBLE III
the neat and roomy kitchen. No sooty
from the side walls. The principal article
or something that looks as though it
might be sideboard. This "sideboard"
is nothing more or less than one of the
new General Electric electric stoves. The
back of the wooden cabinet is a small
switchboard and all the utinsils arranged
on the stove are connected to this switch
board with suitable wires and plugs. A
turn of the switch and the electric tea
kettle is singing over invisible heat. With
the same ease the frying pan, cereal
cooker, griddle, broiler, vegetable cook
ers, 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 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 kitch
en-, 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 percola-
tor, at the turn of 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
So. so a month for family of five per-
sons.
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 a furnace and coal bin or
dinarily take up can be used for other
purposes. 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 was used, and the cleanli-
ness, convenience and healthfulness Of
electricity is worth more than money can
buy.
The greatest inventor and geiiius in
the world has predicted that the house Of
the near future will be made entirely Of
concrete, cast in mould. Scientists
have predicted that the home of the
future will have no chimney or fiue.
These ideas are all incorporated in Mr..