Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-09
WOMAN PREDICTS
WONDERS OF AGE
LOCAL PROPHECIES SHOWS
WONDERFUL FORESIGHT
WROTE IN 1896 OF FUTURE OF
ELECTRICITY
Account Published in Herald Thirteen
Years Ago Reprinted to Show
Value of Look Into
Future

II VIII I4en DuL ISIidlh LOA hitin "
assert his supremacy over the air,
was the statement made by Mrs. S. A.
Kendall of 905 South Alvarado street,
in an article which appeared in Los
Angeles Herald on the morning of Sep
tember 10, 1896. Mrs. Kendall was
treating the subject of electricity in
prophetic vein, as it was at that time
little was known of its wonderful
strength and the scope to which its
lowers could be applied.
Mrs RendalPs many predictions
based as they were on scientific fact,
have since come true, and the follow
ing interesting article is reprinted from
The Herald of September IS, 1895:
The age of steam is drawing to a
close; the world now stands trembling
and expectant on the threshold of the
electric era. Every cascade, every coal
mine, every lumber district will become
a center and manufacturing power from
which cables will radiate, bearing to
all sections of the land. With this cleo
trical power bicycles and tricycles, op-
Grated by batteries, will come into gen.
eral use and bring in their train a
splendid system of public roads.
We shall yet be able to hold COM
munications with persons in any part of
the globe, not only in voice, but see
ceived on board moving trains 1t is
but a step further to hold communica
tion with ships far out at sea. Small
cars contained in mail tubes will be run
at high rate of speed, rendering the
postal service extremely expeditions
and enabling US to peruse the prints of
distant cities while yet wet from the
press.
Electrical stoves shaped in ornament
al panels or forms of art will adorn and
heat our dwellings. Coal will no longer
be required; with it will depart the
annoyances of dust, smoke and SCOT
The housewife will rejoice in electrical
laundry appliances, and in cooking
ranges, furnishing any degree of heat
and requiring little care.
The drama and opera now find in this
subtle fluid a magnificent ally. Scenic
effects are displayed worthy of the sub
limest creations of human genius.
The magnificent panorama of nature,
dawn and sunset, golden moons and
starlight ewes, with changing splendOr
of the seasons, snowy crags and stormy
seas can all be depicted with more
than artistic fidelity. Historic spots
can be accurately reproduced, and the
classic gems of dramatic art be eXhib-
tied in a setting such as they dserve
Electric displays and transparencies
will be an important feature of the po-
litical parades of the future, and by
such means our descendants can COM
memorate independence Day with
pomp and grandeur far surprising our
finest pyrotechnic exhibitions
The men of wealth and refinement of
the twentieth century will find in this
subtle fluid a servant capable of per-
forming the magic work of genii and
rivaling the splendors of Aladdin's
palace From them will come the
kinetoscope on a grand scale; it will
immortalize speech.
By the aid of these instruments the
historic achievements of orators and
the triumphs of the stage may be re-
produced in our parlors. These enter
tainments can be accompanied zby
sweet strains of Aeolian music, auto
matically rendered bv electric organs.
Fountains will toss their sprays amid
lights so ;rranged as to clothe them
in rainbow sTlendor. Grottoes will be-
fitted up. displaying in their recessesI
ally the jeWeled beauties of some hid
Den mine. Scenic effects will be
heightened by color and variously
shaded lights bathing in prismatic
glories lawn and ralks and stat
ues, lighting gardens and terraces on
the curtain of night and be harmoni-
ously changed and blended at will, and
breathe delicious music, like strainsI
from fairyland, and every statue bel
vocal like ancient TnefnnOnS.
Vessels are now being loaded and
unloaded by means of electrical hoists.
Cranes and launches are propelled by
this hidden mystery of energy. It is
used for marine and military signals.
They CLEAN from lighthouses, towers,
on harbor bars, and lessen the dangers
of collisions at sea. Submarine vessels
will be built and voyages made equal
ing that of Verne's. The sandy floors
F, oF ha 1,a
plored by the scientist and its hidden
wonders al.d beauties revealed. Our
inints will reclaim the golden nuggets
and the plate, with jewels of long lost
argosies, lords of the sea and earth.
It will then but remain for man to
assert his supremacy over the air.
1t is again possible that a future in
ventor will be born that will success
fully adapt electricity to some form of
aerial navigation. At present it is be
ing studied and worked upon; great
experiments have been made, but the
Morse of coming time has not so far
developed to establish this electrical
communication to be gained with the
planets. The time is fast approaching
when by means of colossal signals,
read with telescope aid, will be under
stood signals from other planets.
The scientists of following CEN
turies may devise means for using
electric currents so as to conduct away
from unhealthy localities pestilential
miasma which generates disease; and
meteorological conditions may be mas
tered so as to enable the weather bu-
reau electrically to preserve or alter
the equilibrium between soil and at
mosphere, thus directing the fall Of
rain.
The achievements that have been at
tempted in some parts were success
full, but seem incredible to the masses
We must remember that the dreams of
one age are often the facts of the
next, Thanks to the advent of the
mystic power, the lives of our descen-
dants promise to be most rosy and
luxurious ones, their principal toll be-
ing to occasionally push a button, and
permit that universal and unwearied
servitor electricity, to do the rest
We are now learning the languages
of the stars, and that sound, motion,
force and color are combined into mu-
sic The air is of sweetness produced
by electrical force, for the silent for
ces of natures laws are powerful in
their silent workings All life is this
electrical, mystic watching and wait
ing, the cause of effect, this power
Of electricity can be manipulated and
understood
WANT SCHOOL HOUSE BUILT