Evening Star Newspaper, September 26, 1926, Page 5

THONAS A EDSN REVEALED BY SN Some Popular Impressions of ¢ Dignified Inventor Jolted in Interview. By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, September 25— Thdmas A. Edison and his children wsed: to enjoy the Fourth of July by throwing firecrackers at each other's bare feet as they danced around to| dodge them on the) lawn of their New Jersey home, This and other ~inci dents in the life of the great inventor are told inan inter- view with Charles Edison, his son, which appear in the New Or- leans Daily States tomorrow. inventor's said his is not the fcal “absent- minded’ inventor, MAS N although hé does ' TOMAS A- EDISON. concentrate on problems at times to the extent that for him nothing else exists, “The Fourth of July was the day dad really devoted to us kids,” Charles Edison said. “Just at daybreak on the morning of the Fourth he would come into our bedroom and wake us The firecrackers were ready; we stopped to dress. Barefoot, we dashed madly to the lawn and there in the dawn we had a splendid ing off the day's first fire- Turn About Fair Play. “Father got a lot of amusement out of lighting firecrackers, throwing them at our bare feet and making us dance when they exploded. He had it all his own way one Fourth. After that we ganged him. We made him take off his own shoes and stockings and do his dancing on the lawn while ;\'e threw lighted firecrackers at his eet. “He used to play poker a lot. But since his deafness has become practi- cally total. he cannot hear the cross- fire of talk around the poker table— and he always use to think that was half the fun of poker. So it has de- veioped that the movies in the eve. ning are practically his only amuse- ment. ¢ * ¢ “He gets along with remarkably little sleep. When he 1s on what we call & ‘campaign'—working out some idea that has taken full possession of his mind and that looks as though it could be developed into commercial ;i;b(‘e&s—-lhe clock doesn’t exist for m. Not Opposed to College. *“No, father is not opposed to a collegt educatlon. though this has been said. He never went to college because he didn’t have the price when he was of college age. He taught himself. His advice to every boy is 10 get.a college education if possible, education as a tool—not as an orna- mental cargo to carry around with him. “He isn’t working on anything now that you could exactly call revolu- 200 HOLES CUT IN D. C. STREETS DAILY, OR 60,000 IN LAST YEAR Motorists Get Hard Joits in %/% Driving Over Bad Places ; / in Highways. City’s Older Sections Are Most Frequently Under- going Repairs. O. Henry, in one of his stories, suggested that a gang of laborers with picks and_shovels, but no au- thority whatevet, could go to work and tear up a whole street in New York City without once being ques- tioned or investigated. And in_these days of rapid construction in Wash- ington the same thing might happen. Gangs of workmen, not with picks but with pnuematic drills, the most modern implement for penetrating an asphalt or concrete surface, are tear-| improved. This leaves 25 per cent of ing gaping holes in the slewalks, sl!‘gectgs pangd alleys of Washington at the average rate af 200 a_day. Records in the office of C. B. Hunt, engineer of highways of the District, show that more than 60,000 cuts were made in the last fiscal year ending June 30—not longitudinal cuts through an entire street, if you please, but what the highway ‘engi- neers describe @s transverse cuts. These are the holes that are dug in front of a residence so that con- can be made with the water, or electric mains, which r under the sidewalk or under the surfacing of the street. It's the motorist who jolts over these excavatlons after they are filled and topped off with dirt, grave like, who have something to say, whenever anything is said. Mostly in Older Sections. Approximately 98 per cent of these transverse cuts, according to Mr. Hunt, are made in the streets, side- walks and alleys of the older sections of the city—sections which were bullt before the advent of electricity. Thus whenever a property owner decides ta replace gas lights with the modern medium of illumination, a cut must be made in the sldewalk or street, facing his house to make a connec- tion with the electric main. . The remaining 2 per cent of the cuts are in the newly developed sec- tions, some of which are made in concrete surfaces which have not shown any signs of traffic wear. It is these cuts that the highway de- partment would like to control, but is at a loss to know how to do it. Property owners on the newly sur- faced streets where the cuts are made join the motorist in plaintive howls, but the ground is opened, the con- nections made, and after a long period of time a concrete patch is put on to blemish the smooth surface. As one method of preventing the surfaces on the new streets in com- munities under development from be- ing chopped up for any underground connection, the highway department, by congressional direction, will not 0 % Q0% an inch and turn them out by the ton, You can make enything once, but mass production of anything as delicate as that holds terrific prob- lems that only a scientist can ap- Z %, tienary. “Just now he has finished a 12-nch dise phonograph record that will play 40 minutes of music. He had to r duce the space between the grooves 50 that the record has 450 grooves to the inch instead of the present 90| & grooves to the inch. That was some | ¢,§7,700m8. 36 weekly: 910.00 rooms. 3g: problem—to work in a thousandth of ‘ln room. 50% more. Rooms like Mother il For each $50 or| fractionborrowed you agree to de- posit $1 per week in an Account, the proceeds of which may be used to cancel the mnote when due. Deposits may be made on a weekly, semi- monthly or preciate.” Hotel Inn 604-610 9th St. N.W. .The terms of Morris Plan Loans.are simple and practical and;fair—it is not necessary to have had an account at this Bank to borrow. Loans are pass- { ed within a day ortwo after filing :5 lication— vith few exceps tions. $200 $300 $400 $1,000 MORRIS PLAN notes are usually made for 1 year, though they may be given for any Daily, $1.00, $1.50, $2.00 | R $10.5 i % 7 N 7 $5,000 $10,000 monthly basis as you prefer. MORRIS PLAN BANK $100.00 $200.00 period of from 3 20 12 months. 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Special, KAY'S ahilig, N - Another opular Combination DIAMOND RING and WRIST WATCH This is our regular com- bination offer _that has froved te be a tavor- mong Washington women. $39.75 Pay 50 Cents a Week Wi the street subject to potential cuts after the surface is laid. It is hardly possible to reduce this percentage, the highway engineers point out, due to the fact that often an unimproved piece of property may be subdivided, and if the laterals are extended to the building line before the subdivi- sion takes place, a hole would have to be cut for joining the plumbing, gas and electric mains for the im- provements not projected on the orig- inal plat. Burden of Paying for Cuts. There is some consolation, in Mr. Hunt's opinion, in the fact that nei- ther District nor taxpayers are re- quired to pay for such activities. All expenses are pald by the person or corporation that makes the cut. It be the plumber, the gas company or the electric light company as the case may be. Under the law a longitudinal cut cannot be made in a newly surfaced street for a year. When the highway department decides to resurface a cer- tain street, these corporations are noti- fied, with a view to having them make any additional installation on that street which may be needed at the time or at some future date, so that the surfacing will not have to be torn up unnecessari These companies always take advantage of such advice, pave a street until it 18 75 per cent | Mr. Hunt explained. One of the evils resulting from the cuts is the fact that after the cut is refilled with earth it remains a menace to the unwary motorist for months. The earth must have time to settle before the concrete surface can be re- placed and during this settling process the earth sinks below the surface of the street, providing a sudden and spring-breaking jolt to those who leap it unprepared. e R. H. MASON IS DEAD. ‘Was Telegrapher of Washington Terminal for 84 Years. Robert Hampton Mason, 53 years old, a telegraph operator of the Wash- ington Terminal Co., for the past 34 years, dled Friday in Garfield Hos- pital after a lingering fllness. Mr. Mason was a native of this city, but at_one time resided in Virginia for several years. He was a member of the Southern Society and of Order of Railroad Telegraphers. Funeral services will be conducted in the Cunningham, Kennedy & Wat- | kins funeral parlors at Alegandria, Va., tomorrow afternon at 3 o'clock. et The Colombia government is plan- ning to take up pearl fishing and ex- ploration. ;w'< »e. 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