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Show else, bis remark are decidedly interesting. inter-esting. "G ntlernen," he nald, "you have to deal with' tnc most subtle of all nature's na-ture's fluid. No inun know wba: c'ectrlclty , yet It looks as if In n little while It will become one of the common agencies of nature handled by man. A lone time ago it wa paid the wind blowcth where It Mute th, and thou hearesi the pound thereof, but cannot tell whence "it tomoth, and whither It goeth, anil the sanse may be .ald of electricity. "All powerful. It fejortrlclty) is harmless when not too concentrated. You may fill this room with iL Llk- wise It hurls no one. Concentrate i all the beat that Is In this room In a i small spare and It burns even to destruction. de-struction. Electricity Is hartnlc?. according ac-cording to Its mode of feneration. You can pack a honse full of It and not br hurt. A little wire may carry It In deadly Intensity. It Ik for you to be able to work with It that It will be powerful and yet harmless. "Some have thought that as mayor of Chicago I havo not beeu flendly to electricity. This Is not truF. I believe, be-lieve, gentlemen, that you have to deal with that which will be, If It Is not now, the mighty motive power of the future. You certainly have to deal with the mighty light -giving power of the future. Rut as the father of 600,-OOQ 600,-OOQ people, all looking to me for protection, pro-tection, I say we want electricity, but we do not want death dashing like a horrid monster through our street?. We want o to devise .moans by which you cau convey your electricity bormlessdy to the user. "I congratulate this first convention meeting here today to start a work that twenty-five years hence people will wonder that It thought what It was doing was surprising. What today to-day will be a surprlHc probably ten years hence, five years hence, will le but a simple tale to our children." j In the course of the same address Mayor Harrison described a telephone conversation w hich he hail had a short time previously with a man in New York. "I talked kindly, heard his words." said the mayor. 'Is It true, he asked me, 'that Chicago girls, have big feet,' but I heard It very distinctly, distinct-ly, and resented It immediately. What a wonderful thing It is." And a man in the audience Inquired: In-quired: "What? The feet?" . MAYOR HARRISON ON ELECTRICITY NEW YORK, May 20. "As the lather lath-er of over 600,000 people, all looking to me for protection, I say we want electricity, but wo do not want death dashing like a horrid inouster through our stre-ets," declared Carter Harrison, mayor of Chicago twenty-five years ago. when he was addressing the" rirsi convention of the National Electric Light Association. "Probably some of you thiuk I have not been a-s friendly to electricity as I might have been." he remarked! "A gentleman from Baltimore said to me just now: 'Why. this is the darkest town I ever saw. He is an electrician, r.nd wants us to get up arc lights, J suppose." Now, a quarter of a century aftor tho utterance of those statement, hlch sound so strange to the prexent age, the son of the man who mado l hem Is io be asked to address the twenty-fifth annual eonvention of tb same organization before which hU lather appeared. Carter'Harrison, the distinguished fon of a distinguished father, will he Invited to fpeak befor;-the befor;-the National Electric Light Association, Associa-tion, which will have tho biggest cell-bretlon cell-bretlon in lu history at St. Ius, week of May 2.1. Ills father, who was assassinated during the WorJd'c Fair, spoke at tn 3rasl Pacific Hotel. February 25, 1SS5 and in the light of the marvelo.is progress which has been made in the elect ileal world sinee that time. M (h.-city (h.-city eI Chicago, a much as anywhere |
