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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1921 Al in One Room! Watch This Page for Story of New Yorker's Remarkable Ingenuity. Your Apartment nnovations for Luxury and Convenience When New York Becomes City Electrical - Music, Light, Heat, Fans, All to Be Supplied Without Dirt, Is Dr. Steinmetz’s Prediction. No Furnaces, No Stoves; Cellar Space Then for Storage of Electric Autos, Bicycles, &c. SETTER ELECTRIFICATION: 1921, ty the Pres Publishing fine New Yor teins Weitre On OW would you like to see New York # real City Electrical? When electricity will be so eup that it will bo universally used? When the Government wil! not allow Bros of any kind within tho city limits, because they are dangerous, dirty and When no fires wil mean no fur- pances in the cellar, no ranges in the ykitchen and no steam power plants, When we will use nothing but elec- trical power for heating, lighting, and sher purposes—the supply to come hrough transmission lines from big ral stations and many millions or horse power. ‘That such an electrical era is not far distant is predicted by Dr. Charles P. Steinmetz, Chief Consulting En- Bineer of the General Electric Com- pany and electrical wizard of world- Dr. Steinmetz’s ac- complishments have been such that anything he predicts about electricity is well worthy of serious considera- tion, no matter how bizarre his ideas %. STEIN MET: ar Wore * build with it a wall, tke the Ch wall, around the United States, a dis. hundreds but of And the coal ar would repre lio receiving duced the next yt chemical energy sufficient to lift th entire wall into space for a height of wide reputation. Suropean capi libraries at methods of utilizing 4] purpose of the In converting it coal are inefficient. into electricity, we 80 per cent, of the chemical energy us = furnace, the coal Mr, Steinmetz says the big central be located wher- lable, such as water falls, coal mines and ofl and eliminate the wasteful process of hauling coal from the mines to the small power houses how scattered all over the country. ‘The loss sustained every year by not utilizing coal to the greatest possible extent is enormous. mption was 857,000,000 tons. of the wonders of the world,” is the great running across China for hundreds of miles, by unsuccessfully tried to pro- its northern border from inva- ing the coal produced in ope r as building material, w THESE BOYS ARE* TWINS BUT YOUW’D NEVER many millions of tons of coal power stations w: use can we mprovements aig Without to come there w There wjll be cheaper electric Tn 1938 the con- Startling will | At present when warm on a cold da: Jars will be riveways going unde and other unsatisfactory and uns: In the summer, w the temperature is above normal, we itary method landscape of fans give some » coal furnace of trouble on cold days apportioned on the time and attention to keep the pportioned on ts » sO much a harged so much jectricity will be so cheap not pay ta have metres adings taken and @ sys- “But when heatt trically,” says Dr. Steinmetz, want 70 degrees in iny home, I shall set the thermostat temperature will not rise above that temperature is all done elec. and no one would t weather outside. This will also hold true,on or 100 degrees driven into your c lt won't make any “Then too there is ventilation which does not exist in the average home charged for the use of 80 many plugs or attachment recepts “But what about the’ which will float over « Steinmetz ws them entirely pend on windows, doorways and elec tric fans to blow the bad air out, with it we lose, in winter, most heat we produced When electricity is developed we will ean apparatus for bringing fresh air into the nd recovering the heat from the warm exhaust air. ‘Cooking by electricity will more satisfs . and a great deal of our food can be cooked on the table automatically regulated. example, we want to cook a cake. We know this should be « ‘actory smoke our furnaces. from the central station woke is being are still bemg us the smoke and inc reclamation of thous rly went up out the chimneys a heat of 230 period of 45 minutes, pat 220-45 and At the expir heat is automatically hing will be gmoke can be 80 we set 1) e comes when cc in bulk on our fire “Entertainm is shovelled on 0 be improved There will be rule, and Lloyd and ventilated hall and distributed Paul, Mint 2). Lis @ubsoribere by wire, jush os Weget spr Without. Zinca and with no auigale electricity 1 only 4o sta tnfancy,’ T-JARR FAMILY Sy Roy L.MSCcARDELL Conyriabt, 1921, by the Pres Publidhing Oo, (ihe New ‘York Deine World.) 66 'HE Baroness Von Glauber is starting a music cla marked Mrs, Jarr, “and Clara Mudridge-Smith tells me only children of the best families will be admitted, 1 think I'l send our little Emma.” “She's too young,” said Mr, Jarr, "Besides, music—I take it you mean plano lessons—will be a lost art, is a lost art, what with everybody having mechanical pianos and phonographs.” “The arts must be cultivated, everybody says so,” replied Mrs. Ja “And as for the child being too young, her Aunt Emma, after whom she is wamed, was a musical prodigy and vould play Chopin and Beethoven when she Was seven.” “Oh, very well then, you know best,” said Mr. Jarr. “I suppose you mean by that ‘Go d and make all the oxpense you can for me, but don't bother me about t, for I am not interested in avy chil dren being inculeated in art or culture?” replied Mrs. Jarr, laying gpecial emphasis on the last words. Me is art in doing anything well,” was Mr, Jarr’s cryptic reply ‘But, res I think’ our littie ma ts young io take musi¢ he is very bright for her age, be les she would meet nice children at the Baroness’s studio. I suppose when Mrs. Rangle hears of it she'll be wanting me to get her little Mary in the class, but I won't do it, ‘The Rangles are well enou n the way, but they are absolutely lacking in refinement.” “Why, come to think of it,” said Mr. Jarr, “Rangle told me the other day Baroness wanted his wife to send her little girl to her piano c for young children and otfered to make her a special rate.” “Ts that so?” asked Mrs, Jarr, who ad been offered a special rate als “Oh, well, ufter all, Mrs. Rang to raise her children nicely. are worse children than litle Mary Rangle, and 1 wouldn't say a word that would prevent the Baroness from admitting the child.” Just then the telephone rang and it was Mrs. Slavinsky, who wanted to know if Mrs, Jarr could recommend the Baroness) Von Glauber as* a music teacher,.as the Baroness had offered to take all the little Slavin- skys at a special rate. “{ hear she's a good teacher, but her classes are very mixed,” ‘Mrs. Jar led over the telephone, he came back to Mr. Jarr and remarked that perhaps he was right, and little Emma was too young t6 start music. for traction labor, there will be no dust or dirt. The aynosphere will be clear, something to be appreciated in those cities to-day where soft is used and the people often find it impossible to see the sky because of he smoke and gases in the alr, With clean, pure air we will be able to muke our yards more raativ: s can improv d beautify the! per Evergreen pin: rees can hb grown near our homes, adding to th he of the conumun These cy ‘OW the citles to-day CAMS of the smoke, dust and gase It is al pretty picture’ this day when everything will be elect ul, But for th fwet that Dr. Steinme foresees such a condition wis though hight be dismissed as an over-enthw eum. However wonderful as achievements we a they will seem insig compared with those of future Aur's “Most persons 1 never stopped to consider just ndent we e on electricity "said D Steininetz, “Living would ulmo: impossible if electricity should on strike for notice “Take for 1 when you may nner the roof gar 16 hotel Hlectrivity ce place is sud thrown te dark ness. You ru ephion i , but the k without elec waiter and tell he bur- on tor find out what telephone doe: tricity; you call him to bring some ries to the elevat the twentieth fic isn’t working. Ie then runs down the long flights to the office, secures candles and returns; the room is poorly lighted, but you can see your way out. You face the same long walk as the waiter down flight after flight of stairs to the main floor. “You leave the hotel and plan tak- ing a trolley car home, but the cars are not running. You call for a tax, but none are able to start, their elec trie batte: on strike. Being long way from home, you decide you will remain at the hotel for the night und return, The best rgom the clerk has to offer is on the sixth floor and you have to walk. Struggling your way through dimly lighted halls and stairways, you are ut last ushered into your room, You just must Wi «drink before retir put when turn the faucet, there is no wate the electric pumps haye stopped. You push the button for the bell boy to bring some water, but t sno re- , the bell doesn’t > you bed and make the best of it until mornin “Upon u yu are anxious to see the morning paper to learr : s happaned, but there is no fF i the typesett! nachines and t ing presses cannot opera 101 electricity, So you let ait t OW PA pe You are news. Bul the newspaper ¢ , { the du Can You Beat It DON'T TALK BACK TOME! y ( ) ee \A TeLy. ( Sap | GET OUT Sts ws inireeiin $50,000 Wagered on Ship That “Gets There First,” Say “Hit-’Er-Up Captains’? — and There You Are! ‘Now York Wreuing World ships of rival lines, the Hawkeyo State und the Gol- State, sailed from Malt Francisco, admitted that “each captain naturally run h make the best time possible with ab- solute safety,” anybody who says it's must say it on his own au If he wants (o argue about it he may cite the press reports fr which say that between ,000 and $50,000 have been wag ered on the result, Tle distance by the route to be covered is 5,215 miles Among their 600, passengers are sey eral millionaires, striotly limited tion” and even that, according to the testimony of hundreds of shippers in hundreds of such “competitions,” is GOING DOW ays something disagree able about you, ask your- of New York City! City Tells Interviewer How Save Us—Thi Head of 4 Mayor Voliva By Maurice Ketten | | WOULDN'T LET A Cook TALK TO ME Uke THAT IMPUDENT CREATURE | (IF YOU HAD ANY) BACK-RONE Nou'D FIRE HER ON THE ITHINK | WILL. LHAVE STo0D , | ENOUGH FROM Too HARD / TO GET pee Now THAT YOu | DON'T BE DUDS AND ARE FREE HOW WOULD You LIKE], FOR} < TO WORK 5,000-Mile Sea Race for $10 a Mile Golden State Sailing From Baltimore to Frisco Say “No BUT the Prom Publishing Ov, terday bound nd while o'dlock ship to no steamships seldom race, S#fety. make their passengers The Hawkeye Officially there 1s seldom anything more than “severe competi. Semmand Uolden State Yardley in sight of & the sume at general type OND: If se ne one is, then Le not, what 1s the COUDTSHID MADDIAGE BY BETTY VINCENT Pitre Now York “Dear Miss Vincent: tell me whether or not it is proper for a young woman, thirty, to invite a young man to call upon her? He is one she haw met through business and, has known a couple of years. D,M.” No. It is the young man's place te! on to call, ‘The only way the strictly conventional maiden cam ask a young man to he bas not asked fhis permission, = for her to invite him to @ card some social affair, rather stepping over the boundary E wanes SS ask permiss home whea Byen that is “Dear Miss Vincent; While follow ing my occupation large private estate in New Jersey, in some manner or form | came ui the spell of my employer's wife, and have received gardener on a since then I every week, which makes barrassing for me as | have a wife e me to do? me “AGRICULTURIST.” | Or in other words guj Sond all her letters back uae ypened by return delivery. considerations of history of Atlantic trafic fact that it no longer 8 to go across son Navigation Compat Miss Vincent: love with a man who is great deal older than |, and alth he acts friendly toward me, more so than to any one else, | would like know if there is any way I could out if he really cares for me. think it would be proper for me to make him a little gift? y “DISTRESSED.” all means do not give this mam, A man who is much olde n you should take this fimst atep. assured that if he cares for known Oldee e not given to bashfulness. Steamship Company hey left at the same porter of those ute 31,167 tons; are 171-2 knots, and phia winning t in the run from E nd to America it right for a kiag a man ‘good night’ if he asiee to do so after he ha her a good time? The young man has ao for a kiss unisss he hus Acclated his love and asked heg But 40 wag polnted ous then that ts passengers |: rider to win,