The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-04-30
EvERYBoDY,s SERVANT.
for Lighting and Many Other Pur-
p0Sec

poses.
There was a time when light in a
house was supplied by a flaring torch
supported by bracket on the wall;
when each man carried his own street
light with him; when messages were
carried by men on horse or foot; when
the quickest and most luxurious form
of travel was the stage-coach, and
when nearly all work was done by
hand.
Within the last few years u new ser
want has appeared to do ali this work
and much more not mention ID above.
The name of this new servant is
- electricity 1t lights our houses
with q bright, clean and safe light;
our streets are lined with lamp posts
which max, them as safe at night as
i'll day time If we want to talk to
someone a hundred miles away we
use the telephone or the telegraph.
Street ears, interurbans, even rail
road trains pulled by electricity, carry
MS further in an hour than the stag
could have done in a day. And work.
there is scarcely task which cannot
be done by electricity. not only in the
anu az tdi Ii HOiit,
but in the city and country home as
we'll
A few years oga electricity was the
servant of the few who lived in the cit
les. This was because electric gcner-
ating machinery was not III its pres
ent improved state. and because it was,
and still is for that matter, very cx-
lpensive to transmit electric current
over distances. In other words people
who lived close together i'll the com
| parativclv small area of the city can
| be supplied with current from one cen
/ trail station at Il reasonable cost,
whereas il is enormously expensive to
extend transmission lines five or ten
miles into the country in order to serve
perhaps fifteen or twenty customers
in an area as large as that covered
by the city. And yet the services of
electricity are needed as much. if not
more. on the farm, in the country home
church. schoolhousc and store. as in
the city.
1t is this need. and the practical diff
ficulties i'll the way of supplying it
which turns mans inventive genius
toward q solution of the problem. And
the solution, as III the case of most
great problems, was in itself rather
! simple.-not the building Of new ana
complicated machinery to drive cus
rent further at lower cost, but the
4 application of the known prirci
pies of generating and handling clec
tric current to the development OF
small generating plants of size suit
liable for supplying electricity on thu
farm and in the church or store, ant
at cost easily within the reach o.
, every progressive farmer. Years of cX
perimental work by some of our hes
engineers have produced plants of thi
type which are thoroughly depend
able.
| Now the result of this is that clec
tricity is at last the really universe
servant. In the country home, church
5 school, community house. store. clul
: and camp, as we'll as in the city, elcc
tric lamps ponr out their food of pur
light from handsome modern fixtures
t Not only the farm house itself hu
: every part of all the other building
on the place is lighted safely and con
) ,Veniently.
| And light is only part of the SCI
, vice that electricity is ready to rem
c der, In the home the vacuum sweeper
/ the electric iron, t0aStcr, coffee pen
5 colator, fan and washing machine ar
1 ut the service of the housewife. A
automatic electric pump furnishes no
0 and cold running water to all parts o
t the house at all times. IN the dair
c the milking machine, the cream SCI
!. arator and the chum are electrical
i driven. The tanning mill, the cor
1 grinder, the grindstonc and many othc
Y pieces of light farm machinery ar
! turned by small motors.
! The comfort, the convenience Q
electric service will have the sam
|. feficct in the country home as the
. have had in the city. This service wi
: give people more leisure. MGR, OF
Y portunity to read, TO keep in touc
/ with all that is going on in the worl
c about them. 1t will make their livin
L easier and better And if il can Il
y these things for all of us, it will ii
G deed have proved itself the best c
servants.