Show THOMAS A LATEST predictions thomas A adison in a recent Inter interview ven aured nilo tit the realm of prophecy willo this is neither now new noi not unusual yet thoro there Is in what ho lie aily bayh enough ot of the element of probability to ren tier dor it worthy 0 of special atUn tion wo we are tire going on tm the verge of another groat great epoch in fix the worlds Ill history story said edison it would not surp surprise riso me mo any tiny morning to wake vake up and und learn that someone bom cono some ome group of tile scientific men who arc are investigating all till orthe clA over tho earth has seized upon tho tile secret of electricity by direct process pro ceis and begun another practical revolution in lit human affairs it can call be done it A will ill be clone done I 1 especto to see 1 it tt before I 1 die the first great change in tho the pro of electricity will abolish carrying coal for that purpose lie said instead of digging gloss material mator lal out of the tile earth loading it on cars and carrying it say 11 t hundred nil miles leq there to put phit it under a boiler bollor and bum buin and und tio got power wo ao shill hot et up plants at tit tho file mouth of mines generate gonerd to power there and it wherever revor it 1 is 13 3 needed by copper wire it is ic preposterous to kee keep I on putting tig coal emi mines on wheels it is too clumsy it 1 is too costly there Is ne no necessity for tor it it Is N to cany molecular vibration by millions of wa wan en a it second than freight cars full of crude matter wo we can an ship horse bonol over the tile who quicker quick erand and ajgie economically than wo me an the equivalent in coal over a at railroad trick track we must eliminate the railroad altogether iron tills this problem i the use uso of it we dont lont want foal coal anyhow it doos does us no good to at it what wo 0 want avant Is the th resultant of the util utmost lot energy that can min bo be produced and 1 no sense in candying around million of tons of raw like coal coa lAvhon when we e can get a it product t to us by wile avile now the truth is that it will cost stati third Ird less to trans transport electrical bior by wire than to carry it tt in the form of coal in railroad raile R cars cari assume e the price of coal thu tile mouth of a it mini mino and assume the freight ia bo loo now wo vo can turn coal into electricity at the tile mino and convey it by wire less loss than halt of th tilt cost of the freightage of coal I 1 frit moaning meaning of this tills to the world Is at tit once app apprent ment things denver news neither scientist q nor Is need needed 0 to tell bujan humanity ity what whit it would mean either I 1 in ll 11 the bu business sinew world or it in human comfort and convenience to lesson by even no greater amount titan that predicted by jia edison the tile cost in the pro production luction of would mean its application to many new uses A cheapening in the cost of this tills motive power powe would rould work ork a revolution in lit many directions there I 1 Is practically no limit now nov to the power sau sa e in fit methods of application and cost and ivery removal in any degree of this limitation Is bound to result in a mud widar extension of its u use ao lei mr edison make good gowl his promise if f a it cheap and e indent efficient storage buttery battery lor next spring and groat great changes will arill result tho the world bus has waited long for him to make good his pro made irom irow time to time in this diorec tion and it still waits in full faith aith f and confidence that lie will yet prove himself equal to tho the only last ieok w aek the dispatches announced that a professor in Colum columbia bit university was mas soon scon to talk by telephone over a continuous wire from now york to san francisco without relay through tho use of a wire one eighth a of an inch in india metor tills this has not yet been done but those sufficiently conversant with the subject aay u that it will bo be when the necessary conditions aio aie complied with tho century was one of groat great eclen progress but t cionco still has lime ir in store tome ahng for the fiffie and in all till human t tho ho discoveries discover lt herein re celled ed to are to be next on the list |