Show BUILDS OWN LIGHTING PLANT st louie man illuminates home and rum household machines st louis in hla leisure hours fred drendel engineer of the commercial building has been constructing and just in ought to completion an electric lighting plant which he has installed in the yard back of his residence on boulevard with his home made electric lighting plant he Is aate to illuminate hl home and that of a tenant and enough power to run a sewing machine and other email household machines do the family ironing run electric fans and proposes in the near future to be able to cook mr brendel s plant is in a power house his friends constructed during the evenings and sundays this fall in the house Is a four horsa power engine and generator with the necessary rheostats and volt and ampere meters the engine Is run by gasoline and Is managed by mrs brendel who has been appointed chief engineer walla mrs louis daniels who occupies the upper part of alg residence Is assistant engineer the plant cost about to con and the cost of lighting tha bouse Is about ten cents a night for 40 lamps the engine has a heavy foundation of concrete under it which mr bren del amused himself by putting in the assistance of his friends |