The sun., 1916-10-22
EDISON Is NEARLY
MOBBED AT SHOW
Torn From His Wife rs He
Battles Crowd in Grand
Central Palace.
TAKES TEA WITH SUFFS
Wizard Most Impressed by
Burdens Saved Women
Through Electricity.

MOI since Theodore Roosevelt visited
the Flower SHOW last winter has Grand
Central Palace seen n crow like that
which tore down ratings and knocked
over stands yesterday in the effort 20
see Thomas A. Edison and Mrs. Edison
when they came to view the exhibit Of
the wisard's inventions at the Electrical
Exposition. q.
Mr.. Edison had the nice little idea OF
slipping away from the four special OH
GERS detailed to escort him. and making
the ufiobtrusive entrance was q failure.
They elnded the officers all right, but
the u~nogtrusive entrance Was . failure.
A mob Of men. women and children fell
upon them. sweeping them apart, and
when Nj, Edison reached the oma
suffrage .i,ooth upstaivs. where the pair
we're invited % have tea before making
the rounds, he had lost his wife no COM
pletely that tire suffs had TO send an
oficer out with a, search warrant.
DE. John IL. Finley nearly got los, In
the riot. too. Dr. Finley had come down
from Albany to present to Mr.. Edison
the hood that goes along with the LII. ID.
degree which the University Of the State
OF New York conferred upon him Friday
by telephone.
Makes q New Prophecy.
81. can't give YOU mis- by phone. Mr..
Edison" the. state COMMISSIONS OF
Education remarked as he handed over
the hood after he had been rescued anu
brought fuyc TO fa-. with the inventor.
no, hut you'll be able TO by and by.
perhaps Mr.. Edison prophesied.
Once the crowd was suhdu.d tho In
yen,or had IA really good time viewing
the offspring OF his brain in the various
booths. What impressed him most. nc
said vver and. over again. was the things
electricity had done for women.
''It's iifted the burden from their
backs." he rxulted AZ he gaxed at the
model Kitchen. Think what slavery
cooking was once n think how the
vacuum cleaner, has taken the dust out
OF the home -,
what's the future OF electricity
som. one asked him.
.Limtlass. like the SKY" he said with
a gesture upward.
A troop of girls from the domestic
science departments OF the elementary
schools were baking In the model KIT
chen. It's the Board OF Educat!ors
exhibit. Mr.. Edison sampled and praised
their cooking, but what tickled him most
war to see how they tinkered up some
thing about the electric stove that was
out Of order.
site In Electric Chair.
These girls can handle machinery Ms
well as boya" he chuckled. That's
what they are learning In the chook."
A small boy from the Vocational
school for Boys, at Firth avenue and
Thirty-eighth street, Wilson Prock. had
made metal Edison man that 40 a
prize Of SO. Mr.. Edison asked the
privilege OF presenting the coin himself
Another boy pressed forward with an
iron frame he had wrought for MT
Edison's picture and the inventors lace
beamed at the tribute.
Il could play with these things all
day he said as he tried sitting In the
| electric chair-no. not the one sins S!ng
uses bu, a comfortable CONTINUANCE 10
warm Mp chilly people. But I've been
working eighteen hours a day for the
past week and I guess we'll have to be
going"
Up In the woman suffrage booth Mr.,
Edison consumed a substantial meal OF
tea. sandwiches. Ice cream, &C. and
made a little suffrage speech In which
he confded To Mrs. John Blair, Mrs
! charles L. Tiffany. Mrs. Raymond Brown
and the other suffs who received him
that he couldn't understand why his
wife didn't want the vote.
May Convert His wife.
81 am for votes for women. my daush'
ter's for Il. aud my wife ought TO be-
he mourned. But perhaps she'll com,
around. II certainly does make me In.