The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-06-12
TIMELY TOPICS



Consider now the little fly whose name ia
rhymed with "Baby-byet'
He has his birth in the manure crawls
forth and loijers in the sewer and smeared
with deadly typhoid germs he leaves his
brother maggot- worms, unfurls his dainty
wings of silk and dumps his microbes in the
milk. where their huge numbers mount and
mount increasing the bacterial count until
they reach the food supply some woman feeds
her "Raby- bye"
The fly comes gaily unto U.S. his feet all
gained with poison-pus and singing clear his
song so sweet, alights and clears them on
the meat He gathers scaret-fever spores and
leaves them the walls and floors. he In
not proud, and oft will stoop 10 carry heavy
leads OF Group, and place it where its awful
death may come and go with baby's breath.
Oh. do not call him INDECENT He calls that
summer day misspent in which he's failed to
load the breeze with the live germs of some
disease; and II he finds them not. though hurt,
he'll be content with just plain dirt
Consider we'll the little fly, who buzzes so
round Baby bye."-Farm and Freside
Exit Trolley Cars
Mr.. Thomas A. Edison, who was the guest
of honor one day last week OF the National
Electric Light Association In New York. made
the most interesting prediction that within
the course of a few years the trolley car
would be put out of business by the stor-
age battery car. one of which is being
operated in Concord. North Carolina, To the
! association he stated that he ready with
the inventions OF which he had before spoken
Inc storage battery that VIII
wagon and the motion picture machine with
the words spoken as the action proceeds
The storage battery for a wagon" said
he lis operating butchers wagon in
Orange. 1t costs 25 cents to it II miles
You recharge it at the end of every trip
with ordinary feed wire. The battery Is
fitted under the seat.
The surface car is hein goperated at Con-
cord. n. G., and they are laughing at the
rest of the United States for using trolley
cars. 1t runs very cheaply"
OF the moving picture and talking machine
combination the inventor said he and his
associates were nearly ready to place ii upon
the market.
I'VE have theatre in the Bronx with a
stage bigger than the metropolitan Opera
House. We have about 60 actors going through
rev dramas. They talk into q megaphone
We have about forty dramas. All that IL
to be done is to get the business end straight
ened out and they will be in the moving pic
ture shows
We've not applied II to the Shakespearean
dramas yet but it will get there. Itn be good
for every kind of drama. We've had tests
Of IT and it's all right"
When asked if the trolley ear was going
to he put out OF business" he said:
Certainly. After awhile there won't be any
more trolleys"
Edison said that this the first electric
light convention ne had attended al
though he invented the electric light In 1874
In this connection II IL interesting to note
that there have been rumors atloat that storage
battery cars would be operated the Pied
mont and Northern road. This. however
Ia denied by the officials. who state that
the old time trolley car will be used-Creen-
Vile. 5. t.. Daily Piedmont