| Show pickup One man came directly to the house and started to examine the roof He then came inside and inspected the ceiling and the walls Just why he tapped them so hard we did not know second workman carried roll working it the wire of unrolling it as Soon the he walked from the truck to the house men congregated beside the large pole that had been erected on the street the week before One climbed up the pole with an end of wire in his hand and attached it togreen glass-like fixture on top of the pole They then stretched the wire from the pole to the side of the house and began just to us what into they did attic but We within were an not hour aware they of called and said Itfinished We rushed into the kitchen and there it was wire hung down from the ceiling into the middle of the room and on the end wasbright crystal globe It was the first electric light globe thathad ever seen close up We waited until night and then what an experience Daddy took hold of the globe with his left hand and turnedlittle switch with his right-all at once the kitchen wasblaze of light--every corner of the room lighted up We examined the little curly wires inside the light globe They were white hot How could they stand up under such heat We had heard that Edison had experimented for years to make this possible As we looked at the light we apprcciated more than ever the genius that was Edison Now whatchange In Mt Pleasant during all my life until this time in 1914 our two kerosene lamps had been indispensable They were especially important whenhad school home work to do Sometimesstudied late at night with the lamp on the table near my books More oftendid my work in the early morning before the rest of the family got up Lightinglamp at that time was not an easy job It meant feeling for the matches on the table by the bed and reaching for the lamp Thenhad to strikematch and lift the glass chimey to light the wick 41 |
