Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1907 — DWELLING OF CEMENT [ARTICLE]

DWELLING OF CEMENT

EDISON PROMISES TO BUILD IT IN A DAY. e Shown Model of Straetwi-e Which He Says Will Revolntionise Balldinw —Mem Kill* Sweetheart In Relic* tons Meeting. In greeting the members of the American Electro-Chemical Society and showing them through his laboratories and manufacturing plants at Orange. N. J., Thomas A. Edlsofi showed his visitors a big model of a three-story house. “I bare had New York architects working on the plans of that,” he said, “and am ready to begin on it myself. Tn~f»tt, I already have made the molds for the window casings. Next summer I will build just such a house within twelve hours at an expense of SI,OOO, and the man who labors on it will know that it was built on his basis of wage—sl.so a day. What I am going to inaugurate,” he said, **is this. I am going to fashion cast iron, molds for the entire house. This-outfit will cost $30,000 for a house of this design. AH the builders will have to do Is to putut up and pour in tjje concrete. Then they will allow’ six days for settling and drying and the family may move in. The cast iron mold of that house may be used on countless other buildings. The economic value of this rests, for one Instance, in that the house will never be in need of repair. The roof and floors will be of concrete: the concrete will be made on the site; there will be no fire insur-. •nee; as another instance of its saving value, the man who owns the house can let his children hack at it with hatchets and axes and tose nothing. There will be no wood in it save for a strip upon which carpets may be tacked.” All of the more recent structures in the group of laboratories of Mr. Edison’s plant are of cement made by hinr. ■. - KILLS IN RELIGIOUS QUARREL. a Massnchnset (s Mnn Who Slew Sweetheart Fiends Guilty to Murder. Walter Staek, who killed his sweetheart, Mary Agnes Bates, in a quarrel •bout religious matters in the street railway waiting room at Roxbury Crossing, Mass., on April 30, pleaded guilty to murder in the second degree and was senten oe<l to life imprisonment. Tie had been indicted for first degrejk- murder, which would have meant capital punishment. Roosevelt Kill* Big Bear. News of the killing of a big black bear by President Roosevelt in the canebrakes near Bear Lake, La., reached New Orleans in a telegram’ to John M. Parker, one of the men who invited the President <o hunt in the Stqte and who himsflf was • member of the hunting party until business required his returning to New Orleans. Rnoscvelt Gives Total. “We got three bears, six deer, one wild turkey, twelve squirrels, one duck, one possum and one wildcat. We ate them •Il except the wildcat, and there were times when we almost felt as if we could eat that.” This was President Roosevelt's summing up of the results of his hunt on Bayou Tensas and Bear • Louisiana. Bee Sting Penetrates Brain t Stung on the temple by a common honey bee while he was picking up pota—toes on the farm of Henry Trim) near Canton, S. D., Michael Oakleaf died fifteen minutes afterward tw convulsions. - Physicians gave it as their opinion that the sting penetrated the brain through the knitted part of the skull. Interurban Motornmn Killed. Information has reached Cleveland of a head-on collision between two traction cars on the Cleveland, Akron and Bedford line about thirty miles from that city, in which a motorman was killed and a large number of persons are reported hurt. The accident occurred in the vicinity of Cuyahoga Falls, near the Summit County line.

Brldare Falla I’ncler Alfonso. King Alfonso had a narrow escape from a serious accident near Manresa, Spain. In his automobile the king was going aver a temporary bridge, when the light structure collapsed under the weight of the car, which was precipitated into the ■water. His majesty escaped with a wetting. Twenty Die in Wrecked Boat. The Danish steamer Alfred Erlandsen has been wrecked on the rocks off Castle Point, near St. Abb's head. Scotland. She Went ashore during a gale and twenty of her crew were drowned. Balloon Record Broken. United States signal service balloon No. 10 broke all long distance records for balloons and Aeronauts McCoy and Chandler captured the Lahn cup by covering 50b miles in flight from St. Louis. Favor Waterways System. A vast system of water ways, with the channel from the great lakes to the Gulf as the main artery, will be recommended tn the report of the inland water way commission. Fire Swerpa North Dakota Town. Fire destroyed $150,000 worth of property at Oakes, N. D. Six Killed in Car Wreck. Six persona were killed, ten are in the hospital and more than a score of others were injured in a head-on collision of two Sherman Height street cars on Harrison avenue, Chattanooga, Tenn. » American Arrested la Rasa la. William English Walling of Indianapolia, son of Dr. Willoughby Walling of Chicago, his wife and sister-in-law have been arrested in St. Petersburg because of their associations with the Finnish fparty.