House and Garden 
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the genuine comfort —of having hot water 
whenever you want it, wherever you want 
it, and as much as you want of it, is brought 
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RUUD 
Water Heater 
With this unique appliance, the mere turn of a faucet 
—in kitchen, batlirooni or laundry—brings an inex¬ 
haustible stream of clean, fresh, hot water—without 
waiting, without trouble of any kind—simply a turn of 
the faucet. It does away with the unsightly range boiler. 
Easy to connect in your basement 
to pipes already installed. Uses 
either natural or artificial gas. 
The Ruud Heater is entirely automatic. It governs the 
flow of gas with a precision that is remarkable, and even 
regulates the temperature of the water, thus insuring a max¬ 
imum quantity of hot water with a minimum amount of fuel. 
You almost forget you have it, so faithful, safe and depend¬ 
able is its service—truly a complement to the household; a 
masterpiece of mechanical simplicity and effectiveness. 
Stands in the basement 
out of sight—out of the 
way—needs no attention 
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possibilities, Mr. Edison’s reputation as 
a wizard of invention has silenced con¬ 
demnation, all feeling that in his hands 
all things are possible. Mr. Edison’s 
proposition is that he will build a finished 
house, ready for use and occupancy in 
forty-eight hours of work, the same to 
cost no more than $1,200, including 
plumbing, heating and lighting fixtures. 
The building arranged for two families. 
The building to be two stories high and 
in appearance similar to the design pre¬ 
pared by him, which represents a two- 
story building with a very broken outline 
and covered with a Mansard roof. It is 
far from being an economic form, and 
the same accommodation could be ob¬ 
tained at much less cost by a more econ¬ 
omic outline and the use of a flat roof. 
Some critics consider the design as at¬ 
tractive. On the contrary, it may be 
said that it is a pretentious, overam- 
bitious building, not in keeping with its 
purpose. Mr. Edison’s project is to 
build the house of concrete, and by pour¬ 
ing it into iron molds of the forms de¬ 
sired. The moulds to be made of cast 
iron sheets, put together and connected 
with iron rods in pipe sleeves. The 
inner faces of the mold plates to be 
nickel plated, and where intricate de¬ 
tails are needed brass will be used. 
All pipes for gas, water and all plumb¬ 
ing, and also ducts for electrical wiring, 
to be in place before concrete is poured; 
although these things may be put in after 
the walls are up; at least, steam and 
water pipes may. Chimney flues to be 
made of thin sheet metal and allowed 
to remain. The concrete where needed 
will be reinforced by strips or rods of 
steel, which will be in place before the 
concrete is poured. 
Very elaborate preparations will be 
made to erect and take down the metal 
forms, which it is estimated will weigh 
280,000 pounds. Mechanical mixers 
for the preparation of the concrete and 
the pouring of the same will be provided, 
and so arranged as to discharge the con¬ 
crete into a storage hopper; also, a 
device will be used to maintain a uniform 
consistency in the concrete, which will be 
poured from the top of the house. 
Plungers, power-driven, will be used to 
keep the same agitated, to prevent a 
separation of the materials composing 
the concrete and also to drive out the 
confined air and to force the concrete 
into remote places and horizontal spaces. 
This will prove the most difficult problem 
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