Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-09-04
EDISON LAMPS l
50 YEARS OLD
Told of Light Anniversary,
Wizard Chooses New Phon-
ograph as Topic.

M tSOA EHkfs1
of furnishing the news from all oveN
the works to the employees. and after
school hours-he attends the Mont
clair Military Academy-he can be
seen with pad n pencil going from
one department to another in search
of news" The initial copy, a ten
page folder, was published several
days ago and speaks volumes for its
future success. Editorially. young
Teddy m upon the Edison
kinetophone, which he hera1ds as the
greatest Improvement in motion pic
lures. Under impairment Para
graphs" he suggests that when YOU
get real mad at anyone dictate a let
ter to him on the Edison business
monograph tell him exactly what
you him of him-then smash the
record.
The newspaper office may be found
on the second floor of the garage
building, where the editors desk, typo
cases and printing press are side by
side. In order that he might have his
first edition out on time, young Edi-
son worked all night Thursday night.
Boy Editor a Poet.
Under the poetry column the young
editor contributes the following:
MANANA.
My friend. have you heard of the town
of Yawn.
On the banks of the river Slow,
Where blooms the Wait-awhile flower
fair,
And the Some time-or-oth scents the
air,
And the soft Go-easys grow?
1t lies in the valley of What's the use,
In the province OF Let-her-slide;
That old tired feeling" is native there;
It's the home of ~listless I-don't cares,
Where Put-it-offs abide.
An impairment paragraph: Eve
hope that the laboratory will arrfags
in the future to have people of only
one country visit us at a time. Last
Saturday there were three tiags ~
the pole, and If we get any more We
will have to have a longer pole"
Teddy was unearthed during his
rounds 1t the shops yesterday after
noon, but refused to be interviewed.
He said, however, that he has al
ready worked out an improvement
over his first issue and will keep
right on in improving until he has
perfected a model paper. 1t already
has a circulation of several thousand.
History of First Light Plant.
Getting back to the original sub
ject-electric lighting, it was Q
o'clock in the afternoon of Septem-
Der 4, 1882, in an old brick building,
converted warehouse, in lower Pearl
street, New York, that steam vas
turned into a single dynamo and cur
rent was sent through underground
cables into about 400 lamps that a
been distributed through a territory
about a mile square.
The newspaper accounts of the
demonstration read curiously in this
day. While 1t was generally admit
ted tina the exhibition had peer a
success so far as proving that the
incandescent bulbs gave light, there
was a dubious feeling running
through the reports as to whether
the invention could be made com.
mercially successful. Its rapid ad-
vancement is well known to everyone
One of the OLD jumbo dynamos,
designed by Edison himself, which
was used in the original test. has
been preserved until this day, and IL
now treasured as a relic. On the day
OF the test Edison in an interview
said:
u have accomplished all that I
promised. The demand for light will
increase as the years roll by"