The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-05-11
How Thomas A. Edison Works.

14ON ma AA4CVA &NO r
No man living has done as much for
the humon race as Thomas A Edison
and few in all ages combined have
equaled his record. Last week in
/ Concord, N. c., was placed in service
the first street a r in the south to be
operated by a storage battery. The
new car has no trolley and carries its
own power with it. This wonderful
ARRANGEMENT is the result of the labors
sof Thomas A. Edison, the marvel of
his age. The Concord street car has
served to center attention on this
great man and the following sketch
which appeared in the Charlotte News
recently will be of interest to every
body:
j. C. Stubs, bosom friend and first
lieutenant of the late E. H. Hartman
being plethoric in riches and sparse
in digestive observation-disclosures
that the marts of men will know
him no more after May 81 next, the
same being the sixty-fifth university
of the entrance into the world of Mr..
Stubs. 7
Thomas Alva Edison-also pie
thoric in riches and of an age with
Mr.. Stubbs-announces he is just be-
ginning to buckle down to real work.
Says Stubs, of Chicago: az am go
ing to retire because / want to live.
Thinking in bed killed Hartman
He worked all day and thought out
his problems at night.
Men should retire from active bus
ness life at 65, not only for their own
sake, but for the sake of any insti-
tuition they aim to help.
"The age of. retirement in the army
is "a. I'm not sure but what it ought
to be CO."
Says Edison, of Orange:
Il think twice as much and work
twice as long as either Hartman did
or Stubs does. I'll live twice as long
as Stubs.
IF Hartman had lived ne wouldn't
have found it necessary to lie awake
with his troubles at night.
If Stubs retires he'll retire to a
cemetary, OF he'll be back in harness
before the end of two years.
with my system of living /
wouldn't be surprised if / should live
to be one hundred and fifty years old.
my system of living that enables
me to work twice as hard as a Harri-
mar or Stubs and think twice as
long is based on:
Cd Proper eating.
CD Proper sleeping.
(3) Proper clothing"
A reporter for the International
News Service found Edison in the
workshop of his laboratory in Orange
this morning. The time slips in the
Office showed he had already worked
81 hours and 40 minutes during the
week ending to day.
Nightfall this evening made it sew.
enteen hours a day for the inclusive
six days from Monday to Saturday.
And ~forty-eight hours of the worktwas
put in at one stretch!
Think of that Ye-who beat the
clock to the coat closet. Seventeen
hours a day. And it was a week typi-+
cal of scores Of others put in by this
ELECTROMAGNETIC marval. who re-
sembles in his awe inspiring capabiI-
tiles nothing so much as one of the
dynamos over which he fuses so
fondly.
so much silent pride in as thai very
There is nothing the wizard takes
ability for hard and contiualslabor.
Eyes, I reckon Pm working pretty
hard STILL" he. says. "I've got forty
experiments goinI on now and one
hundred and seventy-hve men who are
depending on me for their ideas. But
I don't work as hard as / used TO-" he
continued, a tTife apologeticalIy Then
it was twenty hours OF. an average,
except Sunday. Now / put in about
sixteen hours a day in my workshop.
#.#1-f 4eMEHaF