Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 11, 1888, Page 14

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE SUNDAY. NOVEMBER AMONG THE ELECTRICIANS. Past, Present and ‘Futuro of the Dynamo. THE TRANSMISSION OF POWER. Llectric Street Carae--F Barbarisn ctricity at and Its Various Uses in morgad From Sea Peace and War, Paige remarkable erat: Dr, reports a Globe De cott, Mass, of recovery from lightning stroke. The electric current struck the head above the left pussed in front of the car, then descended, by way of the thorax, 10 the legs, passing down both of thes to the toes, whence it left the body. The victim unconscious, motionless, and without » rt sound, and so remained for three-quarters of an hour. But, contr to usual ecns- 1om, there was no_cessation of skillful florts to restore lifo. The patient be- ame cold, but eivculation was encour- aged by hot fomentations, When con- nto return parvalys the whole upper of the body p vented respiration, and the flow of mucus and saliva threatened strangula- tion. But most persistent effort - es, did produce eom- plete restoration. The case isof im mense 1mportance, as showing that 1ths by eleetrie shock need not be b quent s they now e is reported in full in Science. spiration or he seiousness b ssion of Power. 1d: Among the great stions at the meeting of the British associntion are the lectures which are delivered in the evening ench year by some scientific celebrity. At Manchester in IS87 it will be remem- bered, Prof. George Forbes deliver one of his brillinnt and cha sses on electrie lighting, ut Bath the address was delivered of. Ayrton. who chose as his sub- transmission of pow omprehensive on and must have been ve entertainin and instroctive to the lirge aud 1t showed how in ringing a bell or message the smission of powe then went on to deseribe what had been done in the distribution of current to Jamps and tomotors for electric welding. Prof. Ayrton stated that in Americ: there were 6,000 motors driving ma- chinery, while in Great B were hardly 100; and he might have doubled the figures for America. In respect to electric railways he pointed to the work that had been done in this country. and he said that every English led in this country impressed “with the s 1 of their brethren here, A high potential, whether for lighting or for power transmission, a5 exemplified ice, he was compelled it was now what s half a centur unecanny, rather than dangerou: are glad to see that Prof. Ayrton good word to say for telepherage, which he was right in speaking of as a pc fectly trustworthy and most economic method of utilizing distant steam, or water power to transport goods auto- matically, and which might also be used for passenger traflic, giving us the lux- ury of ballooning without its perils. In dealing with more than one branch of this subject, Professor Ayrton rallied his hearers somewhat playfully on the backwardness of England in the various electrical developments; and, even ad- mitting that our practice here is some times a little bit reckless and hap-ha ard, he appeared ready to grant that it was better to have such practice than be content to theovize, sitting still and doing nothing. One is pleasantly accustomed to think of Engiand in th: vanguard of progress, and there seems no good reason why she should not be there to-duy, as she has been in tne past. Electric Street Cars, Electrieal World:—There could be no mistaking the keenness of the interest felt in electric locomotion by the street railway men who assembled in Wash- ington. It is the question of the hour for a very large number of roads, and it is evidently going to be answered in the aftirmative in a great many instan- ces by the adoption of one or the other of the electric systems. The success with the cable, to which attention was drawn by Mr. Holmes, of whose adyoe: acy any interest may well be proud, is at'onee striking and convincing. By that we mean that while it proves much for the cable in good hands, it is not less eloquent for electricity as one more means, and a better, of replacing horses, As we have said before, the competition does not lie between electricity and the horse, but between electricity and the cable. The horse is already out of the running. and of the various substitutes for him the only two commanding at- tention are the'cable and the electric motor., Betwe these two methods no final decision will or can be made for the present. Probably there will be many new cable roads put in wheve cit- jes have a large populution, buteven in those cases there will simply be a post- ponement of the verdict for electricity with its half a dozen handling and propelling o car. No one ean that eleetric propuision came worsted out of the discussion at Washington. Mr, Bracken certainly made a most favorable impression in ros gard to storage battery cars, while Mr, Blackwell on the conduit system, and Sprague and Mv. wsficld on overhead methods of operation, wero listened to with marked approval. Of course there was criticism, and some of it wus pertinent, but at the worst it only meant that a few details weve still defoctive, and not that the principle was o failure in its broad application. ems but a day or two ago thot we told that no electric road had ever run with more than one or two cars, and never could; while now roads of ten, twenty and thirty cars are be coming matters of weekly note. If any body thinks that electrical engincers bhave reached their best results in the work thus far done, and hugs the belief, we can only be sorry for his delusion, and suggest that he study not merely the advance that has been made in electrics, in even the last five yoars, but the history of the improvements in steam and cable locomotion. Perhaps there wns no more signiticant state- ment made, moreover in the convention than that in Quiney, 11, and Cleveland, O,, the consent of the proparty owners 10 the new eclectric rouds to pass be- fore their doors was overwhelming in its unanimity. Emerged £rom Barbarism. “One would hardly think of going into the middle of ke Pacific, toa just emerged from barbarism,” says & correspondent of ihe Electrical Review, ‘‘to find modern electrical de- velopments, but it is questionable if there is any place in the worid so thor- oughly up with the times in this respect as Honolulu, the capital of the Huwai- ian Islands. With a population of ut two thousand, it supports two tel- edhone companies, having allogether a thoueand tes: | man has one in his store residences of foreigners are supplied #0 that it ble to talk to alm any one of your ac subscribers. Every tr nd almost al is pos aintance in wry busi- Mutual over the fown and tran neces ness at the tele s, The Telophone company r reefs to connect in the harbers, and : . pull ashore was ¢ u zhout hello!? long lines extend to the plantations and ranch outside of the town The convenience of the telephone is probably better illu trated here than atany ofher town the world, and isdue to its L use, Wiich in turn Is brought about by low charges, these ranging from $25 to K36 0y It is interesting to note that at these rates the companies state that they m Electric lighting is represented by the Thomson-Houston company. who had a station three miles out of town up the Nuuanu valley., operated by water | power, from which they light the town with about sixty are lights, The light- ing is under control the government and is admirably earried out. It is in- tended to inerease the plant by the in- troduction of alternate current dynamos for incandescentlighting, and while the rannager, Mr. Faulko has gone to the states to procure the apparatus, a 1 reservoir to supply an incrense in watee power is in process of constru tion to admit of future development. At present incandescent lighting is vepre- sented only by a Thomson incandescent plant of two 200 light dynamos which light the Pala and Hotel Honoluluo, Honolulu is wide awake electrieally and has energetic and capable men to ad- vance electric e money. Blectricity at Soa. The naval uses of Imost as numerous as its DUrDOSEs upon land. yme of the HHrrmer, such as the interior lighting of ships, the ringing of call-beils, ete., are purcly peaceful in their character: others, however, are devoted solely to the purpose of | war. One of the latter is firing of guns electr This is uccomplished by cnusing the curvent from a zine-carbon b BY; 3 he is known as an cleetric primer, placed in the vent of the gun. The primer is simply a small tube containing a fine "platinum wire, surrounded with mealed powder. The platinum wire, asis well known offers a high resistance to the pas: of an electrie current, and when con- nected with the elosed circuit of a bat- tery beeomes instantly white-hot, thus igniting the primer and fiving the gun. The firing key, by which the circuit isopened and closed at will, is placed in the pilot house, or at some other place wh t1s direetly unde itrol of the eaptain, and thé civeuit is. of course, kept incomplete until the in- stant of fiving. Obviously such a sy: tem, under some circumstances, as, for example, where it is desivable to con- centrate a whole broadside upon a given point and to fire all the guns together, would have great advantages over the old mcthod of depending upon the simultaneous action of the gunners. On bonrd the English armored turret- ship Colossus, and several other vesscls of the English navy, electricity has been empioyed to render visible the sights of the guns when firing ght. One of the wiresfrom a small 1 anche battery leads to the rear sight of the gun, and is there connected with a fine platinum wire running across the bottom of the sight noteh. The platinum wire interpose just sufficient resistance to cause it to glow with heat while the electric current passes through it—thus enib- ling it to be readily seen at night. I'rom the rear sight the battery wire leads to the front sight wherc it meets the other wire of the current. The ends of the two wires are brought very near each other at the apex of the front sight, so that the electric sparks po ing between them serve to mark its po- sition. Every modern mun-of-war vided ‘'with powerful searvch They are of the are pattern, usually 8,000 t0 30,000 candle-pow 0 arranged with refleetors that their rays can be coneentrated into a single beam and thrown in any red direction. With one of these lights of only 8,000 power, no difticulty is expe in illuminating a target more than two miles distant, rendering firing at night a ¢ and accurate as by day. But, as its name suggests, one of the chief uses of the arch-light is to search for an enemy. In war fimes ves- sels at night in proximity of an enemy would constantly sweep the surround- ing waters with the search-light to de- tect the approach of hostile ships or torpedo boats. “The scarch-light is also emploved in signaling at night, where the distance which n message is o be sent is great. The manner of using it for purpose is somewhat novel, [t i simply flashed against the clouds for long and short periods, aceording to a 1 ged code, the letters of which are ind wious combinations ut duratior sages are suid to have been suc ) sent by this method, between ssels of the English nav nee of thirty Plans b 0 been devised for signaling over shorter distances by means of the ordinary incandescent 04 glow lamps. - A Big Crop of Gall. Detroit Tree Pressi-—*Two years ago,” remarked a prominent business man, “my house was robbed of #00 worth of stuff. Two of the gang w |;:l{l and sent to prison for five year each,” “Well?” *Well, tire other day a man came to me to sign u petition for their pardon.” 0! Prue as Tlive. What do you suppose his avgument was?” ““He couldn’ have had any. gall.” “But he did though. He said the men got into my house by mistake. Tney intended to break into my broth- er's house, but got the localities mixed up, and he thought T ought to overlook a mistake in such a thing as that, *Did you overlook?"” “No, and the fellow went away he hoped I might never kuow was to languish in & dungeon under s unjust sentence.” applications to now pro- lights. It was all B For Nervousness Use Hostord's Acid Phosphate. Dr. W. C. Hanscome, Minneapoli says: *1used it in a case of acute rhe tism, during convalescence: the partic symptoms I wished to relieve were sloenless- ness and nervousness, and the results were il T desired e rs ago when the air braie was tried, it required cighteen seconds to apply it to a texin 2,000 feet long, Four years later the time was uc to four seconds. Recentexperiments with the air brake on freignt tra show that it can be applied to every car in a train of that length running at the rate of forty miles an hour,and that this train can be stopped within 500 feet, or one-fourth of its own length, and all this without seriously jolting. LB Secure a sound mind, which seldom goes without sound aigestion, by using the genuine Angostura Bitlers of Dr. J. G. B, Siegert & Sous. Eighteen ) PEEPED THROUGH THE BARS. Oelebrities who Have Done 80 at the City Jail. DISTINGUISHED OMAHA VISITORS. A Rascally Catalogue—Exploits of Some of the Fraternity—Some who Have Wteached the End of Their Tether. Rogues' Records, There is an asylum located within the corporate limits of Omaha, for indiv ken in thewr 1stice It is Tt isin who have been ov uals crusade upon the aims of known as the police station the basement of a structure styied the Exposition Annex, and the » trar faces North Fourteenth The rear portion of the room is set aside for prisoner: inner structure of chilled steel in sub-dividing the s L] The latter apartments do not poss ss facing or rose-wood finish, On the other hand, huge steel bars in per- form, placed four inches 1 called upon to perform the functions of a ricade. By those who are not miliar with the nature of criminals a question might suggest itself as to the need of such uninviting surroundings. but to those familiar with erime and the na- ture of eriminals no such guestion would ever suggest itsell. Suffice to ay that the circumstances are not fow wheve justice has been cheated by the imprisoned effceting an escape through the instromentality of a saw. chisel or sledge, before discovered in lis attempts to regain liberty In the latter respect. Omaha b been extremely fortunate, and with but few exceptions, every individual who has been incareerated for violating the law, has been safely brought before the tri- bunals of justice and expinted his erime. And to the credit of the authorities may wid that some ef the noted violators of the law have foiled in their attempts to here out theirignoble vocition mong the most noted ing a metaphorical expression of police origin—that have visited Omaha, the names of Gib Yost, the world-renowned safe-blower; “Cabbage’” Ry the noted sneak-thicf and all-around crook “Redd, Mullen, a veteran burglar “Three-fingered Jack.” the highway- man, Poke Wells and Pitts the train robbers and bank burglars, might be mentioned. Their ealls in Omaha were merely of an informul tendeney and were void of sensationalism for the reason of their extended acquaintance in police eireles. But each one of them cume once 0o often.and in consequence was ensconced on suspicion of having perpetrated some outrage upon an un- suspecting community. The police however feel confident that they will come no_mot at least the major portion of them, Gib Yost fell the prey of Bill, ton after having b a in his nefarious undertakings arly a scovo of years, d in the of an aged women he was just entering the doorway of a lowly cottage in the suburbs of Chicago with a market ba ket on his arm,when the offic vooped down upon him and he found himselt in the environs of a medium he had so long kept at bay and scoffed at its ap- proach. Like the youth who fired the Iiphesian dome he felt that his mission on earth A been fulfilled and with the quickness of a catamount he pulled his reyolver, but when his e rested upon a copy of Smith & Wesson's latest in the form of a d45-callibre revolver in the hands of a man who yet never flinched, he for the first time, since he abandoned his parental tutorag pointed his hands heavenward and su cumbed to the inevitable fate of every crook. He was given trial and although large sums of money were placed at his disposal, he was punished with a_ sen- tence of seventeen years of hard labor in the Illinois penitentiary, where he is contined at present. SCabbage” Ryan s still at large and is stated to have reformed, and to be at the pr it time employed as *‘spotter” well-known banking housein Ch He was given the name of “‘Cab- ? for the reason that, in his early his father operated a_ market g hin the suburbs of Chicago, and Young Ryan used to dispose of the pro duce about the city., One of his- chief exploits was the stealing of thirt six head of cattle from a “stock farm 70 and disposing of them on market before detected. For this he w given a term of state’s prison, However, it that he has abandoned his ness, and has returned to a system of gaining a livelinood. Mullen is now an inmate of He operated from New Pacific const, and from the the Gulf. The n en- strect, containg an which into and serves pendicular apart, most been carry rooks ' —us- Pinker- the loc: Sing Sing. York to the British possessions to matter of his escaping arrest is not at- tributed alone to his dexterity, but to his courageous spirit, Several myste ious murders are laid at bis door by tl authorities, but the slightest circum- stantial evidence is all that they have ; suspicions upon. Three ago he was in Omaha, but finding tuntion anything but inviting. he propelled himself eastward, and_ about six months afterward was urrested while attempting to blow a safe in a bank in Brooklyn, N. Y. For this and for other crimes known to have been committed by him, he was furloughed in the peni- tontiary for & combined term of forty ears. Three-fingered Jack is well known heve and in Council Blufr; He was a daring burglar and highwayman, He was here about two ws ago, and du ing his presence s 1l robbe; reported to th plice, but v scarch for the much-desired indi- The de )tion given in each case tallied exactly with that of the noted footpad. He left here and was subsequently captured in Minneapolis Minn., and sent to the penitentia Stillwater for a term of thirteen years and six months at hard labg He was also sentenced to spend the first three contine- of allin this section. on uumerous occasions while in this vi- cinity for felonious crimes, but escaped with light sentences. Daniel Farrell, now connected with the Globe of Council Blutfs, and who at the time was sherifl of Mills county carries three scars from bullets ched from a vevolyver in the hands Wells. But Wells, like the rest his clan, was destined to et outraged justice when prepured to ithstand its sudden approach, He was preyed upon y the n\ll\m ties in every clime he ited, and was finally captured near . Paul, Minn., and at present 1s se ing out & ten-years' term in the state bastile of Minnesota. The manner in which Charley Pitts expiated his crimes is perhaps fresh in the minds of & great many. Heing a powerful man, and posscasing u icariess | | rob a bank " in record, he soon found & position open for him in the rauks of the noted coterie of bandite by the James broth ers, He was with them in their lawless work * period of years, and was to dispatch the life of any person who interfere in their 1 ‘tions, But persevering justice with her mantle of power hovered over his pathway, and while attempting to mid-day at Northfield, was riddled with headed among the Minn.. vears ago. he bullets, and fell prostrate in death, Thus it will be why the huge iron gratings are an indispensible ageney in the formation of a recoptacle for that element of humanity that becn led from the path of rectitude by the wiles of the tempter. R, J. CLANCEY. - A Natio ool of Music. American Magazine: M Thurber knows that a national conservatory ean- not be established at New York the fivst stroke, She has wly outlined her project, but the project must be at- tained bit by bit. [t was mapped out in her mind several yenrs ago, when, trav- eling between louse and Cette. she took part in a conversation on music and on art in general with a choice party of French and Fuglish gentlemen. This conversation led her to sketeh on the f of & Bradshaw's Gaide the plan ional conservato! sociated intimately as she with European feelings and ideals, she was still in- tensely American in her anxiety to t the art progress of her own seen ional conservatory, as she | planued it. though necessarily more re stricted in its scope than she’ wished it {0 be, was finally established; and it represented in hier mind and in the minds of her co-laborers a purely in- dustrial and patriotic enterprise. itwas not. in other: words, o money-making scheme. It likely to be, on the con- trary. o money-losing scheme, bravely philanthropic. - = Thousands of Dollars arc spent every year by the people of this state for worthliss medicines for the cure of throat and lung diseases, when we Know t if they would only invest §1 mnSANTA ABIE the new California discovery for consump. tion and_kindred complainis they would in ly find relicf. 1t is linisters, physicians and pub- e Golden . Sold and Goodman Drug Co. at $la hree for £2.50 stubborn case of catarr eumb to CALIFORY Six months' treatment for lic speak guarantes bottle. The ma o B SR He Went On, Detroit T'ree P A couple of rag- ged dirty boys were playing in a yard on Clifford st yesterday when an ent_for the sale of sham-holde caned over the gate and asked if their mother was hom “Yes, but you ke oldest. “But I want to ask her something. “It won't do any good, and she’ hopping mad.” But can’t [—— o! You’l k her if she isn’t president of a committee on the heathe and if she hadn’t bett put_a little work on herown children, and she’ll lick both of us and jaw father all even- ing. S0 you go on and letus alone. If you have a recent cough, you can break it up immediately with a few doses of Dr. H. MeLean’s Tar Wine Lung Balm, a bottle. b out,” replied the 1 be - - : A Man with Owl's Eyes. New York Su John C. Dooley. one of the best known of the aqueduet in- spectors of New York city, is, strange t0 say, almost blind during daylight. At night, however, his eyesigh: s0 good that he hus been appointed a night in- spector on the masonry work, and, it is said, can deteeta weak spot quicker than anyone engaged in the same work. It is said that he has followed under- ground work so long that the pupils of hi es are more like those of the owl than those of man. 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