The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-13
 MARVELS SHOWN
 AT THE PALACE
Rail" Kitchen is One of the Features of Myriad
 of Devices.

New York, Oct. 13-If the five and a half billion watts" and more of l electricity which is now generated in the United States in one year were all used for the lighting of one great l lamp, the brightness from 1t would
 be nearly as intense, it sNsaid. as the
 estimated brightness of the sun. This would be a sort of scientific Aladdin's s lamp, which, if rubbed, could do any, thing desired by the one who rub
 bed it. The big lamp for the five and
 a half billion watts is not obtainable
 at the present time, but the watts 1 in their separateness have all the powers which such a lamp would have.
 There is almost nothing they cannot do This is proved at the Electrical Exposition of 1916, which opened last I night in the Grand Central Palace. Electrical power curls hair and toastS bread and opens the locks of a canal and runs the large "Black Marias" 1 of the policemen, which are black no 1 longer, but green now that electricity propels them.
 | A watt is a mysterious and elusive | quantity, unless one knows really about it. It is quite impossible to con- | lecture just, how much electricity a | watt is or how it can be determined,
 or what electricity is anyway, A little boy at the exposition today was mak- ing some such inquiries and the peo- pie who heard him did not laugh. They looked troubled-they had been won
 dering. about 1t themselves.
 r It is safer, in case like this, to go
 into no detailed research of The Thing
 Itself or The Watt. What Is It, but
 to stick closely to the materials facts
 of the case,. and have a look around
 the Grand Central Palace. For here l are the plain evidences of what cleo | tricity does and of how much more it ] has done this last year than in any other year. l Here we have electric cables triplex and centrifugal pumps, electric signs, 1 talking machines, fans, mechanical
 carriers of letters, organ and piano
 player blowers, a telautographll bulfe
 tin service N t5
 l A Fascinating Hospital
 l A hospital is here fitted out in such l distracting and, fascinating electrical detail that healthy persons begins
 to try to feel very i'll, to see if he can
 be experimented on with these odd ap- pliances, free of charge, perhaps. since
 this is an exposition. Nor is this all. Cows are milked, if we can believe our eyes, electrically; l ice is made, chickens matched, stout people made thin (although this is left
 in the realm of pure theory) teeth re-
 moved, warships controlled guns fir | ed, and other large, practical things accomplished. MT. Edison's picture greets the visitor as he comes up the front steps of the Palace. Is the visi- 1 tor mistaken in thinking there is a slightly complacent smile upon MT. Edison,s face?
 I And of the making of ''home de- vices," as they are called, there is no l end. Not only in the suffragists'
 booth are they in evidence, but crop ping up all around the walls and in stray booths here and there. Homes must be numerous, to warrant so many and such varied devices. IL makes one almost wish to have a
 kitchen, although how anyone but an electrician can be allowed in kitchen nowadays is the question.
 A Kitchen Third Rail
 One has visions of the third rail or of touching something which would go off unexpectedly as one peers into | this domain of the New York State Woman's Suffrage Party, which con-
 sists, of kitchen and charming liv- ing room in yellow and blues, with a l friezef of Kewpies around it on pa-
 rade, waving this excelsior" upon
 their banner: "vote for Our Mothers" !"
 The prejudiced might say four moth ers" need no vote if they could get a home like that without it. In this living room are more tea-things than most living rooms need-one, per- haps, to be operated by each member
 of the family.
 | There is a roomy kitchen, where the | devices are on exhibit. There are
 washers and ironers and coasters and percolators and suction sweepers and
 vacuum cleaners and ranges and grills and sterilizers and water kettles and
 chafing- dishes and other things which l up to the time of this Exposition had I been not generally known. This is called the Preparedness in the Home Exhibit
 II Other kinds of preparedness are also
 represented. Much space is given to
 a Recruiting Station of the United
 States Navy, where models of ships
 are seen leading up to the warship of
 today. Among them are the frigate tCumberland, a delicately cut thing of
 1846. with A guns and 48O men. the
 scout-cruiser Salem of 1905, the St.
 Lawrence of 1858, and others.
 | The U. S. Canning Exhibit Shows
 how the canning is done and what it looks like. in nice, old-fashfoned jars l+afterwards. There is a bakery with flour-dfters and automatic dividers and bread-moulders and cake ma. chimes. The model of a lock in the ), New York State Barge Canal is shown
 too, the first one in America and the , largest one anywhere to which the , siphon principle has been applied. And if any one is still unsatisfiet , that the watt is an ingenious and z ! devious thing, let it be said here that
 there are now enough electric lamp. made in the country in one year fo, ,j every man, woman and child inhabi
 tant to have one, namely, over 120.
 100000. This watt is even doing ava,
 with water, for here is shown a wa,
 tof bathing in electricity So far ;
 large sign over booth saying it car
 be- done. is the only evidence of if but the electric bath itself is hopef for before the Exposition is over