THE WINOOSKI WONDER

Evening Star, Issue 19781, 3 February 1928, Page 10

THE WINOOSKI WONDER

THE LATEST' AMERICAN EFFORT

They have a high reputation in U.S.A. for being always able to ‘ go one better,” and certainly the Hood stories in this country (says the ‘ Manchester Guardian ’) have produced nothing like the fully lighted house which came floating down the swollen river in the Winooski Valley:— Down the stream it came in the darkness. a three-storey house, twinkling and bowing in the rush of water, and every window lighted, as if the family were going about their normal occupations. . . - Some said they could distinguish dun figures moving past the windows. They would; and while they were about it they might have paused to explain on wdiat system this floating house was supposed to be illuminated when it was resting on solid earth. It could not have been by gas or electricity, because, if it had been, when the edifice sailed away it would have snapped the cable or the gaspipe. bo it must have been oil or candles—and in that case not one lamp or candlestick was shaken loose or fell oyer when the house was wrenched from its foundations by the flood. Yes with sorrow it must be admitted—our own floods produced nothing to equal the tale of the Winooski illuminated house.