EDISON READY 10 MOLD HOUSES Great Inventor Says $1,200 Will Birld Homes Ordinar ily Costing $30,000 RE USES REINFORCED CONCRETE New York Plumber are Doubtful Wizard of Menlo Park May Have Overlooked Wage Scales In Estlirut Ing on Concrete Structure. New York City. Thomas A. Edison han announced that he has completed his scheme for building a concrete house for $1,200, which. If constructed of stone In the same design, would tost between $U0,0(iO and $30,000. The fact that Kdison includes in his $1,200 estimate the heating and plumbing for the house Is con.slvued by practical men here to nuwi he has fixed his figures without previously having consulted plumbers and steam fit ters and without taking Into con sideration the eight-hour day and the prevailing rate of wages. The price he cites could not prevail If only a single house was to bo built. That he wants to bo understood clear ly. What he means is that If the re inforced concrete houses were built In blocks, by his design and through tbe use of his molds, the cost of each house In a block would not be greater than about $1,200. He also says that figure Is depend ant upon the houses being built on soil which yield sand and gravel from the excavations. Even after making due allowance for those conditions, practical builders here In New York said they felt sure Edison would fled himself in a losing game if he con tracted to put up those blocks of de tached one-family houses for $1,2C0 each, with the plumbing and steam heating apparatus included. Opinion was expressed that a mistake had been made In the estimates, and be fore contracts were entered into for building such houses the estimates would be revised and changed mateit ally. The Edison housebuilding plan calls lor a one-family house, on a lot 40x60 (set The floor plan of the house Is 16x30 feet. The front porch extends sight feet and the back stoop three feet. Each house will contain six rooms and a bath, and the cellar will xtend beneath -the entire house and will contain the boiler, washtubs and eoal hunker. The main living rooms and also the outside of the 'louse will be richly decorated. The Oecoratlons will be cast with the hov o and there fore will come from I' c molds as pait of the structure f.J. not merely bs stuck on. The entire Louse will be of rein forced concrete. That includes the walls, roof, floors, porches, bathtub nd the laundry tubs. The only wood !o the building will be the doors, door denies, windows and window frames. The Inside walls also will be of con--.-rete and there will bo no plaster fin ish. The surface will be smooth and may be tinted or painted, as the owner :nay desire. Edison seems to think That with his plan In working shape it will do much toward relieving the congestion which now exists in cities uid practically enable every working aan to own his home or to be a ten ant in a detached house at an expenso that is, for rent and carfare of not Aiore than ?9 a month. Cast-iron molds will be used In building the houses, and they will rary In design. After the concrete foundation has been laid and has hard ened the molds will be Bet up upon A. The term foundation Is not to bo lonstrued as meaning the cellar walls, ?.ut merely a base of concrete upon ;hich the molds will rest. Edison ee imates that the molds needed to be ifn the work of building such houses i.n wholesale lines will cost $25,000, nd that the necessary plant will cost 15,000 more. At least six sets of lolds must bo used to keep the men . nd the plant busy. Edison says it will take four days - set up the molds. Tlio liquid con rete can be poured Into them In sl:t ours. The molds will bo kept In uso lr four days until the couereto hard--as and then it will rerjulro'four dayn t remove tiicm. That means the ouse will bo finished In a fortnight, ith the six rets of mold, if that -hedulo la adhered to, about 150 ouses can he built in a year. The iltlal cost of the cast iron molds will comparatively great, but they may i used indefinitely, Edison says, and the long run will be much ehoapor . an the wooden moldu now used and hich, because of their destructiblllty, creaBe greatly the expense of coa i ete construction. Edison has George E. Small ami anry J. Harms, Jr., engineers, work ' with him now. They designed th i -Mjse and molds and made the expert ents. Tho first houso will be pour- . I in sections for experimental pm--. es and to discover and remedy do cts. Then bii entlro house will bs olded with one pouring. In other ords, a lot of liquid concrete will be a into the molds and when they ars moved that muddy-looking mixture ill have been turned into a hand ' ime koine where a worklngman can : va and rear- his family cheaply and comfort-that Is, if the Edison est ates are right; Madison, Wis. All persons are pro fited from using profanity in pub 3 by a bill passed by both houses w the Wisconsin Legislature. TRAINED COCKROACH MISSING Alonzo, the Pride of Harvard 8enlore, Disappear from Holworthy Hall Played Baseball. Cambridge, Mass. Alonzo, the trained cockroach, pride of Holworthy Hall, Is missing and there is regret la tbe hearts of fifty Harvard students. Although Alonzo was the common property of the seniors In Holworthy he really belonged to Karl S. Cate, 09, to whom also belongs the credit for the Insects's earlier training. Mr. Cate discovered Alonzo In Lis bedroom at a hotel In Port Antonio, Jamaica, In the winter of 1907-08 and made him a prisoner. When he got back to college Cate made a wire caff for his pet and for a long time the) Insect thrived on patent leather shoes. Then Cate taught Alonzo to respond to his whistle, and rewarded him for prompt responses with moistened sugar. Other seniors taught Alonzo vari ous tricks. One was to stand on Ms hind legs upon the edge of an unllght ad pipe without falling in. Another taught Alonzo how to roll over and die when any one said "Yale" In a loud firm voice. This was accomplish ed only after weeks of the most ardu ous labor. The student would say "Yale" and then he would pin Alonzo down to ths table nfter tripping him up by his hind legs. Then he would reward him with a bit of dried lobster claw. For a long time the approach of the Instructor would make Alonzo nervous and fidgety, but soon he mastered the trick. Capt. Currier of the ball team laid out a small baseball diamond and taught Alonzo several tricks on it. The one which provoked the most com ment was the one in which Alonzo took his stand on the home plate. Cur rier would yell "Slide, Alonzo, slide' Then Alonzo would set out at top speed and circle the bases, and if any one shouted "Yale" Alonzo, instead of falling over in Jiis customary manner, would circle the bases three times. 3O000O0OOOO00000OOO0O00C THE SUFFRAGETTE COCKTAIL. Minneapolis, Minn. The suf fragette cocktail is the newest American drink. Any other kind of a cocktail makes a man want to go home apd beat his wife. Tbe new drink has exactly the opposite tendency. Two or three of the new drinks make a man go home and relinquish his posi tion ss head of the household to his wife and accord her all the privileges he now enjoys as a citizen. That's true, for It has already been tried. A Hennepin avenue bartender invented the new drink. Here's his recipe: - Sloe gin, French vermouth and Italian vermouth In equal parts to make a gill; mix In a cocktail glass, add a dah of orange bitters, twist In two strip of lemon peel and serve. ' One make a man willing to listen to the suffragettes' prop osition. Two convince him that It ha ome merit. Three make him a mission ary, willing to spread the gospel abroad, and four make him go home and wash the dishes. DOOOCOOOCCOC THE HOPE OF FRENCH MONARCHISTS Paris, France. The strike of th public servants in France is hailed with Joy by the Bourbon Royalists who are loudly proclaiming in their subsidized newspapers that the down fall of the Republic is at hand. The Duke of Orleans. The head of the movement to re store the monarchy in all its splendor and extravagance is the Duke of Or leans. He has Immense wealth and Is using It lavishly In a propaganda M place himself on the throne. Farmer Ploughs Up Whale. Seaside, Ore. While John CartUe, a small farmer down by . the water, was building a bulkhead back of his home on the Necanlcum, bis plough! caught in some hard substance. Ths' obstruction proved to be the entire1' skeleton of a large whale. The bones' are so old that parts of them are de cayed, and no attempt was innde tm get them out of tho er.nd, l THE COLUMBIAN, TO FREE BEER 11 YEAR Millionaire Canker, to Spite tho "Drys," Kept a Liberty Hall With the "Lid" Off , AIMED TO SPITE PROHIBITIONISTS Fancied He Could Educate People to a Spirit of Resentment Against Law that Restricted Their Appetites-Found Them Spineless Slaves. Glasgow, Mo. To spite the Prohibi tionists, who voted this county "dry," John Morrison Fuller, a millionaire bank president, opened a Personal Liberty Hall and for twelve months served free beer to all who came and as much of it as they desired to drink at any time except Sundays. No restrictions were placed upon tho consumption' of tho beer. It was as free as the water that flowed in ths Missouri River. A barrel always was on tap, and rich men or poor, working men or Idlers, strangers or natives, were welcome to turn tho faucet and drink little or much. The room had an equipment of easy chairs and settees and a long table with the latest newspapers and maga zines. Two white men and a negro in white uniforms kept the beer mugs clean and tapped a fresh keg when the one In the Icebox ran dry. After a year of this free dispensa tion of beer Fuller closed his Personal Liberty Hall and now the town of Glasgow is parched. "I must admit that my experiment was somewhat of a failure," the mil Uonalre banker said. "I fancied I could educate the people to a spirit of resentment against tho laws that were depriving them of their liberties to eat and drink what they chose. But I found that they did not care. They are spineless slaves. So long as I kept my place open and gave them free beer they would drink their fill, but never a thought would they give to the dangers of a government that says what a man shall eat or drink. And so I closed it and now they call go dry for all I care." The rent of his Personal Libert Hall, Its furnishings, the beer and ths service cost Fuller something like $7, 000 during the year. The beer alona cost him $80 a week. Fuller is a Harvard graduate and Is fifty years old. He is president of his bank and comes of a well known Vir ginia family. His grandfather was William A. Smith, the founder of the Randolph Macon Methodist College ef Virginia. HEN CARRIES EGGS TO MARKET. Makes Daiiy Trips to Nearby Stor and Then Reports Home. Trenton, N. J. New Jersey chick ens, now that the scarce season has passed and the price of eggs has dropped to a reasonable figure, am developing freakish tendencies that may, perhaps, be attributed to a lazy fever. A brown Leghorn hen belong ing to William Strunk, of Broadway, near Washington, carries her own eggs to market. Almost every day the hen goes to the store of J. M. Dalrymplo, across the street from her home, and deposits an egg in a box on the store porch. By vociferously cackling upon her return home she reports the sale of another egg to her master. At Alloway, near Salem, Mrs. The doro Rldgway has a curiosity in tho shape of two chickens with one head. The freak has two distinct bodies and four legs, and uses the rear legs f.S a seat when it desires to rest. Tt.e chicken is a week old and has a dou ble appetite. At May's Landing a hen, Jealous of the activities of an incuba tor which has Just hatched out 100 chicks, kicked over the lamp under neath the machine and caused the de struction by fire of 300 chickens and the poultry farm of General Stlne. The ben escaped with a scorched comb. WESTERN HANDS ARE BIGGEST. Expert Testimony from a Glove Man on Women's Sizes Here and Thero. Jersey City, N. J. H. S. Hall, glove manufacturer of Jersey City, In a suit before Circuit Court Judge Ben jamin Vail to recover ?1,000 on a con tract to supply gloves to J. Llssner a garment dealer of 693 Broad street, Newark, stated that when orders are received from Chicago and St. Louis gloves for women are shipped tw sizes larger than to dealers lu N W York and Newark. "Then the ladies of Chicago and i3t. Louis have larger hands than those of the Eastern cities," said Judge Vr.il. "It would seoin so," suld the wit ness. "We ship them larger sizes." EYES OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. Man Who Couldn't Close Eyelids to Twenty-five Years is Dead. St. Louts, Mo. After keeping his eyes open for more than tenty-llv years, John Anderson died hero front tuberculosis, his eyes remaining ope even after death. This strange afllictlon of the eyelids was contracted while he was working In a limestone quarry, The dust so Irritated his eyelids they became raw and grew to the eyeballs. When he desired sleep it was his custom to place bis hands over his eyes to exclude the light. After he dropped off into unconsciousness tho strongest ' light had no effect on him and he slept un disturbed. : TREATED TOW BLOOMS BUTg, if mm, "eiy ERIE" Doughnuts, Pr.con, Roast Cetf, Fri.d Chicken, Hot Elscults on Aged Mrs. Spr.igue's Menu. C'hlcnco. Mrs. Dinah F. Sprngtia, the oldest living member of the Wo v en's Relief Corps the women's a.'. Junct to the (5. A. R. celebrated hor one hundredth birthday by eating four big meals. Mrs. Sprague is as spry as tho averago woman of fifty, and at tributes her longevity to eating. This Is what she ate: Breakfast. ;' Two cups of strong coffee. Three doughnuts, bacon and eggs. French fried potatoes. Dinner. Hot water, milk. Roast beef, well done. Boiled potatoes, asparagus. A piece of birthday cake. Doughnuts. Supper. Fried chicken. Hot biscuits, baked potatoes. Strawberries, dough n Coffee. Night Lunch. Pot of tea. Piece of cold fried chicken. Brend and butter, preserves. Doughnuts. "Always eat what you want and as often as you want," said Mrs. Sprague, "and you will be healthy. I've done It all my life and never had to call In a doctor but once, and that was In my ninety-first year, when I fell down on the Ice and broke my arm." Mrs. Sprague was born in Nerr York City In 1800. She says dough nuts were considered quite a delicacy in the metropolis in those days, and thut she never has got over her fond ness for them. It was almost a whole chicken that she ate for supper, her niece said. When she took her night lunch she said sho believed that a little "bits" would help her sleep better. , "HECKLING" JEROME New York City. When William Travers Jerome, District Attorney of New York County, appeared before the people of New York at Cooper Union to answer for his stewardship, be passed through an ordeal unique la the city's annals. The announcement that the District Attorney would an swer questions submitted to him drew the greatest crowd the historic forum has seen in many a day. Long before. 8 o'clock tbe police closed the door and turned their attention to fighting a great crowd of men and women who struggled to gain admission. William Travers Jerome. The District Attorney's account of his stewardship was received with varied sentiments on the part of the crowd, which fluctuated re peatedly from hisses to shouts of approval and back again. Tho aisles between the rows of seats went lined with policemen and force was used by them repeatedly to quiet par ticularly insistent interrogators of Mr. Jerome. Hundreds of questions were literal ly hurled at him, and after a turbulent meeting he 2,000 or more persons who packed Cooper Union declined to register a vote of confidence. An at tempt to bring about such a vote was made, but it was hissed down by Mr. Jerome's opponents. What effect this will have on Mr. Jerome's political ambitions is prob lematical. He has been desirous for some time, it is understood, of seeking n renomlnatlon for District Attorney on an independent ticket. I One individual wished to know If . the District Attorney Investigated the I rumor long current that William 0. I Whitney came to his death by being ( shot after a quarrel over a woman. I Mr. Jerome replied that he had traced j this story to its foundation and found . It to be absolutely untrue. TIGER KILLS A HUNTER. Tragic Story Brought In by Party from Mountains of Chihuahua. Monterey, Mexico. Five hunters of a party of six have returned to their homes to tell the tale of the death of Jose Reyes, the sixth man of the party. Two of the hunters live hero and three In Chihuahua. They were hunting for big gams in the mountains close to the border of Chihuahua and Nuevo Leon and Reyes and a companion wounded A tiger. The animal attacked the men. It Is said to have crushed Reyes's head in the first assault and to have dragged his body off into a canon, while his companions fed. The other hunters became lost and wandered for several days In tie mountain jungle before finding tholr way out. , Convicts Want to Play Dice. New Orleans, La. Convicts in the State Penitentiary have made formal application for permission to play die ob Sundays. It Is not likely tbat 11 HttU.be granted. PUT IRE T ORGR , 10 Millionafre Crane, Who Began Life Wilhout Chance to Study, Decries Higher Education THEY DEMORALIZE OUR YOUTH fvake Them Despise Labor "Every One of These Institutions Is a Fraud and Imposition on the Public" Are Positive Curse. :O00DDD000000303O0O0OO00C FOUR YEARS' FLAY6R0UND O eivo CDceincuT urn Cfiu CM 10 iiiloiulhi iiilouui "Men go to college now for association and sentiment. It Is n four years' playground." This Is what President Wood row Wilson, of rrlnceton Uni versity, said to Prlnceto:i alum- nl in Louisville. President Wll- p son spoke of the American col- ft lege under the present system O of education and said that wlth- x In a decade it will have been O determined whether it shall P stand or full. occcccccccccccooo Chicago. Richard T. Crane, multl ntlllonalre, like Robert Louis Steven son, author, believes more men are spoiled than made by college educa tions. The niultl-mllllonalre, who spent his early life chiefly In labor, "having little time for study," feels much more strongly on the subject than the famous graduate of the Uni versity of Kdlnburg, for he favors put ting the torch to the universities sup ported wholly or partly by the various States. The occasion for this latest expres sion of the views of Mr. Crane, who I made his millions in building eleva- ' tors, is that members of the Legisla ture asked his advice on the question of increasing the appropriation for the University of Illinois. The university was organized in 1867. This year's ap propriation was $2,300,000. For fifteen years the appropriations have aver aged $2,000,000. Before that they were not so large. The university, situated at Urbana, has 4,600 students who pay from $50 to $110 a year fo tuition, and has a library of 100,000 volumes. Mr. Crane, in his letter to the legislators, says: "I have given a great deal of thought and study to the subject of higher education, and have conducted several systematic Investigations with regard to this and many other institu tions engaged In advanced lines of education. In fact, as far as I know, I am the only one who has ever taken up. this subject in a businesslike way, and the conclusion I have reached Is that practically every one of these in stitutions is a fraud and an imposition cn the public. "In trying some years ago to find out the utility of an academic educa tion for young men who have to earn their own living. Inquiries were made not only of graduates from the col lege and universities, but also of those who had engaged these graduates in a business way, and the result as shown was anything but creditable to the university. "I am prepnred even to go much further than this, for I maintain that instead of being a benefit, such insti tutions as this are a nosltlve rum and are doing a vast amount of barm I Y..V A Awn n r 1 1. . . , . . . 1LI. country. "Instead of appropriating funds for such institutions it would be a good deal better for the State to Dut a torch to them and burn them down, to go out of the 'higher education' business, and permit the boys to go back to their homes and assist In sup porting their families instead of caus ing them a heavy expense." J Mr. Crane is now seventy-seven years of age. In 1903 he married, as his second wife, Miss Emily Hutchin son, who was then under thirty, and settled 11,000,000 on her In lieu of dower. His company has a profit sharing system under which more than $200,000 is distributed each year among its employees. LAZY MAN IN BED TEN YEARS. Mumcra Not Sick, But Refuses to Get Up Lives at County Farm. j Jerseyvllle, 111. The laziest man In the world lives in this village. His name is John Mupicra, and he has been in bed ten years because he Is unwilling to comply with the rules of the JerEey County Farm, which say that every one living there shall rise at 5 a. m. I Mumcra is not sick. He eats regu larly and is in perfect health. i "I am ready to hold up my hand and swear that he has kept his word," said Superintendent Mourning of the County Farm. "John has been in bed leu years, anj he says he will stay there tho remainder of his life. i "Ho Just lies there and looks at the celling, or rolls over once In a while and takes a nap. When be talks it Is all about how foolish a man Is to get up every morning when he knows he'll have to go back to bed again at night," Coughs Up a Tack. Chardon, Ohio. Elton Parker, t year old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Parker, coughed up a carpet tack tbat had lain imbedded near bis lungs for three years. . UNIVERSITIES INDIAN MOOTS SSCfllfloE Ci t Flesh from Her Body for Enit in Order to Feed Her Starv ing Children. Port Arthur, Ont. William Mo Klrdy, who has returned from an ex. plorlng expedition In tho wilds of ih Hudson Hay region, confirms a thrill, ing story of an Indian woman's devo tion to her children, which lilterH down from the northland a few diyn ago. The womnn and her children were starving, having eaten their last scrap of food several days before the moth, or determined upon her almost un paralleled sacrifice The snares re mained empty and all the traps set fnr wild game were unsprung. Not n 11 v. Ing creature could be seen, although the woman, spurred by the cries of her children for food, hunted until her strength was spent. In this pitiable emergency, unj made desperate by the sufferlnRfi of her little brood, she seized a knll i;nd cut strips of flesh from her bmly which she used to bait hooks to lure fish from their haunts In a nearby lake. In this manner she mamwJ to sustain the lives of her family r.r till help arrived and the famish':! babes were fed. HAL, A MULE, KILLS HIMSELF. Wain Case cf Suicide, Say Police ani Stable "Watchman. New York City. Hal, a mule, klllcl himself by jumping from a wlndo- Of the r.tnblo nt No. 215 West Niii". teenth street Into the basement of tin tenement houFO nt No. 232 Wert Twentieth street. Jits neck was brok en. The police say he committed sui clde on account of grief for a team mate. Mrs. Kate Hyland, who owns tho Stable, also was tho owner of Hal. Thu mule was used for trucking purpose i, and until six months ngo was hitched alongside Daisy. After Daisy dlc.l, Hal never went to sleep, according to James Wilson, the night watchman, who says the mule moaned continual ly, night after night. Wilson went out to get breakfast. Hardly had he left the stable than Hal started to pick at a brick partition, and finally be made a space large enough to get bis body through. Then he went to a large window at the rear of the stable,- and jumped. The distance was only ten feet, but he died almont Instantly. "It was suicide pure and simple,' the lieutenant at the desk of the police station said. "816 TIM" SULLIVAN UNDER FIRE j "BIG TIM" SULLIVAN. He has sailed for a long vacation hi Europe without replying to tho charges In McClure's magazine thut he Is the leader of a band of crook and criminals who control New Yor!( City's affairs. MULT WITH REPUTATION. Has Killed One Man, and Even Tried for Birds in Trees. Owensvllle, Ind. To tho great rs lief of the drivers of a big lumber firm hero, a mule known as Maude, au Inveterate kicker, has been placed cn the idle list until she can either bo sold or given to any person who will take her as a gift. Maude firmly es tablished her reputation as a kicker about a year ago at -Evansville when sho kicked Jame3 Stlnns, killing him Inutantly. Clarence Wltherow, of this city, received a broken arm when ha got tod close to Maude's heels. John Wiseman was the next victim. He tried to get on tho gentle side of Maudo and received a broken rib. Maude has been known to kick at birds singing In the trees, and her disposition to kick without duo notice has placed her on the retired list. Every mule works in this neighbor bood but Maude. TOLD SUICIDE STORY CRUELLY. Woke Wife at Night to Describe Flrtt Wife's Death She Gets Divorce. Cleveland, Ohio. "He used to wake me up In the night to tell me how his first wife committed suicide," said Mrs. John C. Hemmeter testifying .gainst her husband in a divorce ac tion In Common Pleas Court. Mrs. Hemmeter said the storyi was "creepy" snd that at its conclusion her hue land would twirl a revolver about his inger and say: "One wife Is dead, another on her way, but the old gen eral lives." This was not al, Mrs. Hemmeter tJBtifled, nor would she be contradict ed by the cross-examination of Hem meter, who acted as hlB own attorney. "I wanted my parrot and when we separated asked him to send It to rnX He mailed it dead,'- she said. The divorce was granted on ths ground of cruelty. .
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