Show I HOUSES WITHOUT CHIMNEYS If Santa Claus ClaMS is s as enterprising ag as he Is represented to bo be ho lie is very ery vel busy bus about now no developing a method of 0 filling stockings without climbing down don chimneys because h camle the light lI ht companies electrical engineers manufacturers of electric specialties and other designing persons with elec electric trig axes to grind are doing their hon honest cst est host ost to abolish the familiar flues that lint have l so Ion the tho benevolent lent purposes purpoRts of the good saint Tho The without chimneys has already appeared and ond Its attractions are arc so al alluring alluring luring that it is likely l to bo be o copied extensively j r Where chimneys arp them thero dust dusl and grime and soot and ashes and and coal coni gas and toll toil and trouble and soured tempers and appalling hills bills arc are also Any householder would be e glad glud to get gel rid of these afflictions if he e could retain the teat heat for the sake of which they tho are endured That the tho heat and an almost endless list of other comforts and conveniences can he be had without the chimney chimner or nay any an of Its accompaniments in any house in which h ordinary electric lighting cur CUI current current rent is available has been eon abundantly demonstrated Indeed the electrical experts have passed beyond the stage of showing show in A that electric households appliances 1 will work and are arc now mak making ma maIng ing economy tests to establish their cheapness A citizen of New N York t without waiting for or the Importunities of designing salesmen n built buill a hand lland sone ne residence In which there was no chimney furnace register radiator base hase burner hurner gas fixtures or coook stave stove By Br making inquiries of the coal cOlli dealer the contractor and the local electric light company and then that doing doln a few ow simple sums sume In arith arithmetic he established tho the fact that elec electric heating heRling cooking and lighting lI ap appliances appliances could he be installed as cheaply ch aplas as tho the usual steam dean heating outfit and coal or gas ranges with their necessary necessary sary sar chimneys and that tho cost of operation would bo ho as ng low Jow or Ot at least east that any an small increase would bo ho more than offset offs t by b enhanced com comfort comfort comfort fort and convenience co When this mo model mode model del de electric house was described to the New No York Electric society the fact was developed that it way was by no moans means the only one ono of Its kind hind Other houses at Schenectady and elsewhere have hao been heated success successfully successfully fully by b electricity though some somo of o them been built before the therla dawn n of the electric era pra many have havn left lort over oer chimneys steam radiators and other relics of a less advanced age In fact tireless inventors have ha made I electricity in the tho household as handy as the proverbial pocket In a shirt With an electric outfit housekeeping becomes a n delight From om Running tho the Home Homo by b Electricity El in is June Technical World Magazine |