Nikola Tesla the Electrical Inventor

NEW YORK, April 5. — (Special.) — Since the burning of his laboratory and workshop some weeks ago, Nikola Tesla, the electrical inventor, has been making experiments in Wizard Edison’s factory at Llewellyn Park, New Jersey. Edison’s workshop is a large, four-story brick building, with an unsightly water tank on the roof. There are several smaller buildings near by, and a high and strong fence surrounds the whole place and shuts out everybody who has not been given a pass by Mr. Edison himself, or one of his assistants. Even with a pass the ordinary visitor does not see much of the Edison laboratory. There are many rooms in which delicate and often secret experiments are made, and where visitors would not be welcome; and there they are not admitted. It is only the visitor who goes by Mr. Edison’s special invitation, and who is taken over the whole place, from garret to cellar, and who has everything explained to him, who really sees many of the wonders of the place. The largest room in the whole building is called the stock room. It is as big as two large houses, and it is fitted with thousands of drawers, cabinets, closets and shelves. In these receptacles is kept one of the greatest assortments of chemicals in the world. When Mr. Edison has a new idea he wants everything at hand for making his experiments. If he had to wait to send for any material, the idea might be lost.