AN AMERICAN EFFORT.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 80, 14 January 1928, Page 3

AN AMERICAN EFFORT.

THE WINOOSK! WONDER. They have a high reputation in U.S.A. for being always able to "go one better," and certainly the flood 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 a family were going about their normal occupations. . . Some said they could distinguish dim figures moving past the windows." They would:, and while they were about it they might have paused to explain on what 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. So it must have been oil or candles —and in that case, not one lamp or candlestick was shaken loose or fell over 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.