Show electricity t r e r Ed Edi IsonA sons views on how it WH will be utilized hereafter its debirt said lu to bo be a stand sta nd still at I diio demand greater than alie supply M N Y walt and express Ex prem hello Il lio how iro anro you ou glad to see you it afu up lucli was thy the cordial greeting extended to a representative ot of the mail and express by thomas A edilou known to tho the public as is prof edison and to his friends as tom L idison idi sou ho ile professed nothing regards himself as a man inah of deeds and not theories and asks no title beyond tho the courtesy of mr his ili 8 grce greeting ting was accompanied by a warm shako shake of tho the baud hand and the afi on his face was lis in keepin 9 tho tile sunshine eun shino which came cam 0 through the tile window panes he ile is the samo same edison that years ago had shops on Law lawreame reace st newark nevark and considered 0 i stovepipe a as s good a conductor of electricity as another in in afi an emergency the picturesque old linen duster and wrecked straw has ba with which he decorated himself in the old shops at N enlo park where ho lie perfected of ili his ark work yero replaced by a black broadcloth c coat oat and a derby hat four sizes too large for an any y other man he is tho the same same genial cordial sunshiny man who used to illumine the menlo willo cottage the tile surroundings have changed from the workshop to the business bu M office but the man is the sa hat on oil the back of his head and the silver plated cuspidor placed on the velvet carpet just where he might or might not hit it at such odd moments as lie might remember its existence T tap office at menlo used to be a little it tip le six by bv ten corner of tho the shop a partitioned partition ca off with 1111 cd pine ho he used then to call it athis bis den deh to days offices fill one oneff the ha st of of the old elaborate fifth avenue doii mansions its eno corinthian columns with their elaborate capitals atals rise twenty feet the sidewalk and the window and roof cornices cornicks cor nices are handsome and costly in their detail mr Edi sons rooms are filled with desks and bu busy men A high table was coverd covered with plans fur for electric lighting scattered loosely about busy officers dictated to stenographers 1 and an open door disclosed a score of clerks and bookkeepers at work upon the walls were many pictures of electric and steam apparatus and in tile window nearest tho the master spirit as if placed there as favorites stood a lithograph of the great buildings of the french works of tho the Sv cSete commer mercille ciale edison seine and bind a beau beautiful ticul photograph 4 or one athe bamboo farm fuki agi mg un in northern japan jaan the scene was a very charming cli armint one over which mr E adson adson became very as he lie showed it the farms are four in in number and cultivated with great care caro by japanese se contractors tho tile ligneous material is used for inah making ing the little carbon loops for ali the 0 little pear shaped exhausted glasses whence the illumination comes conis these baa dibons f anid Baid pIr aar edison E di grow as hio high gh as s fi sixty aty joint and ud oft of these hose we vc perhaps use usi only six six or eight they must bo be cut at a cefail certai neason in that wo we ulay fabres fibres of equalar equal density ns I 1 affy they must also be cured i IT in I 1 a certain way in arderi to secure 1 this result they are then split plit shaved shared packed in tea chests and und sent to to new york you should see their beautiful symmetry the p polish aish and glss and e ach one pa much like another as only a japanese could them then when they arc are carbonize dye ye have lav ean an almost uniform sixteen candle endle power I 1 ower because W wo have cecur secured ed fabres fibres bre se equally dense when wo used in expert men to use tise all jorte sort sometimes loops ortho samo same length fenith bno would give gi e five candle po and another the tile light of forty five bili bandies idles now they arc uniform vc we have four farms in northern J japan in sill all about acre andt the work is all dono done by natives s the tile mail and express wants to get somo of your views on tho the fa future ot electricity its possibilities biliti CS and probabilities abili ties ita its too big an undA undertaking taking am anything thing is possible poK sible with it not much seem snow probable its development seems at a stand standstill till Ele electric effle lighting has and nothing else else is developing experimenting ig going on hoy bot ever ev erini in a hundred directions and a it new diE discovery covery may may be madelny made any day dayn bt it let mo nio tell you first something ab about ont the way bearo developing ve the tile light system by jove that has a future 1 we have our lights now jiow in iii full operation in thirteen cities in the tile united states all thi this imad you within eix months there arc between 75 and 80 plans out fir other cities and companies arc are organizing ve sold the full lull ca capacity acety odthe of the dow downtown station whence you get your light long lonk ago ngo and have applications which wo cannot supply we aro are now putting in in two new mael lines which will give us a capacity y at that point of two sevenths moie more than boever we ever expect el would be demanded then wa we arc are completing arrangements for fo five new lations oat i ions which will avill cover all the he a space pace from eighth to madison avenue the first from twenty fourth to forty fourth street and the second from forty fourth to fifty ninth street they will be alike brick and iron buildings one hundred huri dred feet square five stories high in front and three stories high in the tear rear i are arc you making it pay everywhere where iva waiting ting for us we have quadrupled the tho service with within in a cpr car in ii i this ally 1 atad l electr electricity icily is casica casica to sell than it was once and only a little while ago it Bells 80 rapidly that the demand cannot at once be ie supplied we have lights in ten cotton mills in fall civer and so popular po uler are I 1 they that tho hands in in one ono mill have struck aza install all work by gaslight in a mill where they have roused to put in electris ci city ty what about tho the cost to the m mills ills tho tile cost is almost nothing the power required is small and tho the coal consumed is not felt at re all the have heavy machinery to run and aud shut down on their boilers about 4 0 alck or before the time comes for lighting the lamps the dynamo is i therefore run for the next two hours with just exactly thi banle power that would be used to run the spindles and looms an and d really comes from waste power then both mill owners and employees get more work for I 1 lie rooms are bright from end to end and the atmosphere is clear k while gas after an hour or two causes a misty sensation which ruins the sight Is the electric trie motor going t to bo be a success yes it is a success success abrea already dy and we have one ond which is in demand but wo w cannot ca i biot them since 8 we have not power ver enough to supply ou our lights light 1 shall we ever have a it successful electric engine yes there are successful locomotive co motive engines now but people have no confidence in them and like electric lighting the progress in introducing them will be necess airily slow what berame of your eil engine giue it works entirely satisfactorily and lias has been purchased by a large stock company which is planning its practical al introduction the electric engine of ocono ono sort sorter or anotoli another come into uie anso in the cities ita its cheapness i is s enough to bring that about three pounds of coal will produce as much electrical power from a stationary engine or five pounds of coal on an ail electrical locomotive as pounds of coal will produce I 1 in steam pow power or on your our present engines then your our engines are light your tracks are aie light and the riding is smooth and velvety and not subject to the constant jolts and jars to which trave travelers loro now dow alayo a 0 to submit you must her ber that your railway tracks aio are not built for cars but for locomotives tho the latter weigh three or four times tho the former have to have heavy and costly track tracks which at any considerable rate of speed tl they ey hammer with force and d finally w tar out the tile same sam e thing 1 I ii n true in vi another way of the llevat ei el road roads they ruh rush along tho the causing it to sway from frow side tp side with a force which can call only result in cutting off the bolt heads beads it takes two men a steam locomotive while the tile ri c machine K quires requires only one all these and many other things make the tile ultimate ele electra elec cUic tri elep f on ipolit P r c in the cities ti certain X not on the great roada roads f s 1 I doubt it il that timo may come I 1 buelt A I 1 itis is n not ot in eight sight bit right heio here in new york ou would get rid nf of dust smoke ulise y oil droppings drippings drip pings and gas and ands in you could have light and vent ventilation alft where you are are now stifled with smoke and gas and deafened by the noise the locomotive itself would furnish furni sli all the light for the train but people are stupid and wont experiment they bansee can see and understand der stand a cable and drum and rope and talk of cable roads but they dont understand tho electric i ric locomotive and he hence ilce hayo haven no confidence in it tune time will bain bring g X it all ail the sanie will wilf electric electricity 43 ar hel he to navigate tho tile air ir I 1 yes when we get five or I 1 his times times per lier pound poun dof of weight dian wo ivd now oo 00 get et from ith th best forms of small angi es belec ee rocity has not done tha that yet here is the ta n im fists ta get from coal direct without tho the intervention of ot boiler toiler and engine A A good man many I 1 y p people are at irwon too po I 1 tell you aur you Youn hie renol hot V ah N wont yet yeu J r wont isay hf even that there re js is an any y about it we klont dont aee our bayat aalto all to 1 it auti but I 1 will arel pbs possible sible zinc and other othe r niccy nic Wy can electricity vi at bt t t i A I 1 w 4 the trouble is to todo do do that with coal and carbou carbon if we could we could get 6 borso from on ond d pound of coal coil while with the boiler voiler and steam engine we get only one horae hone power from three thie pounds of coal we ive pant transmit directly the power of carbon if we could the tile ocean steamship could have all of her boiler room and a great part of her coal bunkers for cargo while the motive potter power would pot not oleu occupy py more than half the room at present denoel to the heavy engines enormous bums would be e saved eared on coutt construction ruction and the cost coit of running would be bd greatly freathy reduced cannot canno you ou get enough power by chemical electricity to run elec certainly get all we want and utilize it only only docant wo cant feed our engines wi with th money in fact ite its money we ilal want ll 11 and for that gewant we want the chepow pow cr or z fmc buc is just as much a combus blein alc in th the battery ry or jar as coal ia is in tha theL furnace but coal develops seven ti timea mesa a much power as zinc and zinc zino 35 5 times as 15 in much uch as coal a difference in cost per pound of to 1 or per cent but about the balloon 11 I 1 well having aig lightness fitness with w 1 ith ea we should only need enough 11 allbon for actual lifting power and we could attain a it very vcr high ty you could hold bold a ddn motor ia in your hand liand an and d buce ia in the air with five live pounds of coal could thu consumption be mado made direst the go maywhere aay where ere nobody bod would want lantto xo ascend to great where the airs resistance to the tile pio neller would decrease but II slim im along over the trees trev and houses house s like a bird above the water the rudders rould could allbe all be worked and your dour ballast less balloon could be raised or lowered turned to the right or lef left by the vie motor itself and a boy do all the tile awk such an arrangement would scarce 1 ly do for heavy freight but it could carry passengers and mail matter and express parcels and move readily at 80 to miles an n haur if wo can call solve the tile power question we can do anything 4 d t I 1 |