Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 14, 1889, Page 16

(@ A GREAT PURCHASE OF PARLOR FURNITURE OMAHA’S LEADING PARLOR FURNITURE FACTORY DISPOSES OF THEIR We purchased this week from Omaha’s leading parlor furniture tactory (we are not allowed to mention any names) $16,510 worth of Parlor furniture for $5,756 spot cash--hought at about one-third of its value. These goods are not old shop worn goods as one might supoose by the price vaid for them, but every dollar’s worth is this season’s production, and every leading style is represented. The stock includes Parlor Suits ot every description, fancy Plush Rockers, Easy Chairs, Bed and Single Lounges, Divans, Corner Chairs, Parlor Chairs, &c. Below we quote youa few prices to give you an idea of this Great Sale. No other house dae comvete with these prices this week. A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY! $50.00 Parlor Suits.......... ..now gold at $24.00 $18.00 Easy Chairs now sold at $7.50 $65.00 Parlor Suits........ ..now sold at §30.00 $22.50 Easy Chairs....... T DS S now sold at $10.00 $80.00 Parlor Suits. i ..now sold at $37.50 $20.00 Plush Divans. . now sold at $8.50 , $90.00 Parlor Suits....... ...now gold at §42.50 $25.00 Plush Divans........... ............ .......now sold at $11.50 $100.00 Parlor Suits...... now soid at $50.00 $12.00 Lounges.......... R r P now sold at $5.50 $18.00 Plush Rockers..... now sold at 88.50 $18.00 Lounges now sold at $8.50 $20.00 Plush Rockers.... ....now =zold at $9.50 $18.00 Bed Lounges now sold at $8.50 $22.50 Piush Rockers.. .now sold at $10.50 $24.00 Bed Lounges . now sold at $11.50 $25.00 Plush Rockers.. .now soid at $12.00 $25.00 Corner Chairs. now sold at $10.50 $30.00 Plush Rockers.. ..now sold at $14.00 §$10.00 Farlor Chairs . now sold at $4.50 Peoples’ Mammoth Installment House. i sy SQUARE DEALING TIME PAYMENT HOUSE, 613 and 615 North Sizxteenth Street, Between California and Webster. ? Telephone 727. B. Rosenthal & Co., Prop’s Goods sold and delivered free of charge in Council Bluffs, South Omaha, Fort Omaha and Florence. 5 i A Set of Solid Silver Tea Spoons with: Every Purchase of $10 and Over. 8" i Thousands of dollars’ worth of Furnitare, Car- pets, Stoves and House-' Furnishing Goods . from our Great $70,000 Sale still remain unsold, and DONT FAlL To visit our store this \week, whether you wish to purchase ornot. We sell more Furniture, Garpets, Stoves and House-Furnishing Goods and give better terms than any similar con- a isit to our store this week means dollars) saved for you. P _ b from the ovorhead wire the pussengers will not be loft in darkness. ~This 15 & convenience, 100, which will . be appre- ciated by those who have ridden in a motor car where there was no light pro- vided. A great doul of annoyance, too, the tracks formi cuit. When the troll, vheel is take from the wire, the circuitis broken, extinguishing ail the electric light: heuce the use of the lamps above men- tioned tract the attention of the world and superinduce immigration. They suc- coeded well, It is not likely that any but republi- can and democratie tickets will b seri- ously placed in the field, and the elec- g the return ci BRINGS POWER FROM HEAVEN And the Motor Company Utilizes it figure prominently and successfully in congress from this time forward. With the deyelopment of artesian power and water for irrigation the great north- west will indeed control the cereals, [ delicato red tint at the jolnts. This pino is as smooth and hurd in Huish o chorry, and has as hundsome gmiu'u:? us maliogany. Tho building 1s hand: somer than any I have over seon, and MADE & MODAL CONSTITULION The Men Who Framed South Dako- to Propel its Cars. THE MOTIVE POWER' HOUSE. How it Was Erected, What it Con- tains, the Proposed Car and Row They are to be Operated by Electricity. The Power House. For a number of years past, experi- ments have been making with electri ity as a propelling power in street trum- ways, but until within a comparatively short time, very little success attended, In 1871, a street tramway with elec- tricity as the motive power, was con- structed in Berlin. Although crude, unfinished and of indifferent workman- ship, it excited the attention of scient- ists, and the result has been that electricity as a motive power has reached almost a perfected state. Nearly every large city of the United States has a motor tramway, either overhead, underground wire or storage battery. It is not the purpose of this article to discuss the relative merits of the two systems, but there is now build- ing in Omaha one: of the former which will combine within it every convenience and fa- cility for the rapid and comfortable transit of passengers. The Omaha Motor railway company has nearly eom- pleted and ready for occupancy its hand some powor house on North Twenty- second street. Through the courtesy of Superintendent W. L. Adams, a BEE representative was yesterday shown through the plant. The power house, itself, is a large, handsome structure, with pressed brick front, 120x182 feet upon the ground floor. The first floor is divided into a series of small rooms, the largest of which, used for the storage of cars, is 62x132 feet, the engine and generating room, 68x76 feot, and the boiler room, 50x55 feet. In the rear of the main building, rising to a height of 100 feet, is the smoke-stack, Upon fivst entering the building, one s particularly impressed with the neatness and cleanly uppearance presonted by everything. The walls are painted white and the floor is made of u cemont or concrete, making o very dry as well as substan: tial footing. “The storage room is sup- plied with two tracks running length- wise of the building, upon which the cavs are placed. Between the two rails of ench track the ground has been ex- cavated the full length of the room, to a depth of several feet and the width bhotween the tracks, thus making it very convenient to repuir any break done to the undergearing of the cars. The por- tion of the building containing the storago room is two stories high, while the romainder of the cdifice is but one story in height, The second story will be used for the g:meral offices of the company, which are very couveniently and landsomely appointed, The cars to te used by this company aro boiog consteuctod by the Pullmin company, of Chicago, and are of ele- gont design and workmunship, Each vehicle is finished ir: ash, and 1slighted with five incandescent lights of six- teen-candle power each, The cars ure wlso provided with o lamp at cach end, %0 that when the trolley wheel is lifted e At LA has been experienced by passengers in summer cars because of the manner in which the side curtains have been worked. This annoyance will be obviated in the cars of this company, as the curtains are hung upon .q;riug rollers, with rachets on the side of simple construction, which enables any one to readily raise the curtain to any height desired. Each car will seat fifty people, and as fifty-two cars have heen ordered, one can ocasily imagine the enormous amount ~ of traffic which can be accommodated. The building also contains an immense ele- vator operated by electrie power, capi- ble of carrying o car from the ground floor to the one abov: Probably the most interesting features of the plant, however, to_the ordinary isi the boiler and enginerooms. The boiler room contains six massive boilers of 100-horse power each,furnished by the John Mohr company, of Chicago. In the engine room are two immense engines of the Corliss pattern, manufac- tured by 1. P. Allis, of Milwaukee, one of 200-horse power and the other of 400- horse power. The fly-wheels of each are eighteen feet in diameter, having a speed of sixty revolutions per minute. In the center of the room are the eight generators, or dynamos, constructed by the Thompson-Houston company, of Lynn, Mass. They are of the latest im- proved nattern and finish and are pro- vided with friction clutches, one for each engine 80 that they ma, run singly or to- gether by simply throwing the clutch off or_on, according to the power r quired. Each gencrator is belted to a line of shafting overhead, running the entire length of the building, and by means of the friction clutch above men- tioned may be thrown into service or remain idle at the will of the operator. In the west end of the engine room, stands the very handsome switch board, finished in 'hard wood, beautifully carved. Upon tne outside of the board are the eight current indicators, which with their wires crossing and recross- ing each other, present a very com- licated appearan Of course the heavier the traffic the more current there is needed and in order to furnish this it is only necessary to switch in a new machine, The indicators are worked with levers and upon the same principle as the throttle to a steam locomotive. Each car will bo equipped with two fifteen-horse-power motors, placed be- neath the vehicle, between the wheels, only a small portion of which will be used when at ordinary speed. Should it be desirable to increase the speed upon easy grades or to suddenly start the cars, & large reserve force will be available, Another pleasing thing { about the system is the fact is that should anything happen to the brake when going down hill the wheels can be reversed and the car made totravel in the opposite direction. The current 18 supplied to the cars from an overhead wire about sixteen feet above the track, supported upon either side by heavy D The rails are connected and form the return cir- prmally there is no con- nection between the rails and overhead wires, but when the cars are in seryice the connection is made by a small brass wheel, ealled a trolley, rolling upon the under side of the overhead wire and conuected with the top of the car by weans of a small pole. The connecting wire runs down through the trolling pole, into the inside of the car, con- necting with the motor, and then to the AN ST e PR TRE o S Regarding the danger to be appr hended from touchin, s when the current is on, ndent Adams said: *‘There has existed, and stii with many persous, the belief ti curs in provelling ele street a constunt source of danger, but it is a lacious idea. An electric current has {wo properties 3 and quantity, It is the su and not the quantity which in- jures, To illustrat uppose a la quantity of water was flowing thr oxist, tr man standing ¢ might not, if the stream upon him, sustain any injur reas, the same quanti of water flowing through a small pipe, would, of n sity, have a very high velocit consequently, if dire agair opening. might even fatal. It is sure, entirely, whic and not the given time. od > pre does the dumage, quantity flowing in a The same holds good of electricity. We have in electrics what is known as an electro-motive force, analogons to sure in water. A certain amount of this force is dan- gerous to life, or even fatal,and the electrical engineer can vary the force at will. In street tramway service this electro-motive force is kept below the point of danger, consequently, should anyone by accident receive the full force of the current, the result could not possibly be fatal, although the per- son so receiving would bo shocked. Moreover, the machine: 80 constructed that they cannot create a o 1t in excess of the electro-motive power desired. Again, in order to 1 ceive a shock from au electric bati of any de: ption one must form a con- nection between a positive and negative pole; in other words one’s body must form a part of the electric current, and averson might easily hang suspended from a single wire by both hands and receive mo injury, provided their feet were clear of any connecting object.” The road is expected to be in opera- tion about the 16th of this month. sl IMPLIETIES, Those who crave notoriety seldom hanger after righteousness, A Dblister is not the ouly thing & man has ou the tipof his tongue when he puts the wrong eud of a cigar in his mouth, “Protracted meetings are not always held in church,” remarked a Hrooklyn swain as he left the houso of his best girl at 1 a. m, + The churches of New York city own §80,~ 000,000 worth of property, and yet Satan is not complaining of a lack of recruits from that city, Evangelist—I shall deal to-day with espec- ial reference to the curse of cards. Voice (from & back seat)—Shuftie 'fore yer deals an’ give us er chance ter cat, A rich Englishman who gaye up cricket playing t0 go as a missionary to China hus been teaching his converts his favorite pas- time, aud the devout Chinamen appear to heartily enjoy the wicket game, Over a building in 135th street, New Y ork, is o broad wooden sign covered with crow tracks that are a puzzle to many of the peoplo who seo them. 1t 1s the Lord's Prayer in short-hand that is painted on the signboard. There is an element of pathetic irony in the fact that 2,000 Methodist ministers haye worn themselves out in the service of the church, and are now subsisting upon harity. Furthermore, it enables one to understand and sympatbise with the offorts of thoso more worldly-wise members of the profes- sion who combine with their efiicicncy as soul-savers the art of driving sharp bargains @8 horse traders. ta’s Fundamoaatal Law. POLITICS IN THE TWIN STATES. Third Parties Will Not Cut Much Figur: A Paradise for Farmers —Wonderful Resources of the Country. The Two Dakotas. X TALLS, So. Dak., July 11.— ff Correspondence of THr B rins to look as though the consti- tutions of our new states, with possibly two or three exceptions, are to be cumbered with a vast amount of legis- lation. It is fortunate for the people of North and South Dakota that the con- stitutio conventions now in ion at Bismarck and Sioux Falls have nearly all of their wori laid out before them in such form that they must fol- low the directions. Otherwise, the documents on which statehood is to be based would contain auy quantity of cumbersome legislation. The early constitution builders in this country took as their example the con- stitution of the United States, and fora half century the states had constitu- tions which were simply bills of right. The common and specific laws were left for the legislatures, for various reasons. Iu the first place a state does not know at the outsot just what laws it wants,and it moves slowly. Secondly, it is u very grave mistake to errin a constitution, as it is a difficult thing to amend the constitution. Yet there are many peo- ple,and they have lived for many yeurs, who want all the laws in a constitution that can _possibly be secured, for the reason that the constitution cannot readily be altered, and because consti- tutional is the highest law of a com- monwealth. Gradually during the last forty years or 80 the constitutions of new and old statés have been loaded with what should properly be legslative laws, till 1t came that s lawyer must study the constitution inma state with quite as much care and give itas much atten- tion as the reports of the legislature. Were it not for the fact that Sonth Da- kota has already a cavefully prepared constitution,whieh has been recognized by congress and ratified by the people who are to live smder it,the instrument which the comvention in session here is at work upon would be loaded totho hurricane deck with ordinary legisla- tion. Under the circumstances the constitution as it stands—the constitu- tion which passed the scrutiny of con- gress—will be readopted, The conven- tion which made the original draft of this document was probably the ablest that will ever meet in either section of Dakota. It convened here in Septem- ber, 1883, and was composed of about one hundred and fifty men who volunteored to come from the various districts, pay their own ex- penses and work as best they could, without any assurance that what they did would ever amount to anything. Each community sent its best man and they were all men of big braics, liberal ideas, vigorous, with the up-building of the territory in view. No jobs or per- sonal favors were thought of; the 1dea was to make a constitutiou so full of statesmunship that it alooe would at- en- tion of the former will be by a majority of twenty or thirty thousand. In North Dakota, where the minor parties figure move prominently and ex-Governor Ord- who was s0 intensely unpopular as a chief executive, are trying to run things, the republican ticket may not fare so well. Those who have not visited Dakota " years—the period marking the most earnest of the statehood movement—and are laboring under the impression that the country has not in that time made great strides in development are not keeping up with current information. No period of the apid advancement of Nebraska or Kan- as has shown more development than has Dakota during the past few years. But one thing is needed to malke the country the farmer’s paradise, and that is rain or water for irrigating purposes. The wheat and corn through- out the territory will be an average crop; but in section there has not been enough rain, and there will be a slight shortage. The two Dakotas can pro- duce wheat enough for the world, with suffivient rain or proper irrigation. Congress at its lust sessson made an ap- propriation forsurveysand experiments for and in irrigation, and the work progressing 1n the region of the west- ern boundary of Nebraska. Among the most distinguished onlookers of the convention here is Judge G. C. Moody, of Deadwood, who was 4 member of the original constitutional convention, and who is tobe one of South Dakota's first United States senators. He has a pian which he proposes push ‘before coa- gress, and it contemplates something more than irvigation. He smd of it to me this morning: “An artesian power lies under Cen- tral Dakota, which is sufficient to supply force for the greatest manufacturing districts in the world, and at the same time irrigate the farming lands of the entire territory. Such artesian wells as have been produced in the districts lying below the northern boundary of South Dakota and extending down through the central part of the terri tory as far us Yankton,a distance of probably two hundred and fifty miles, and of & width of over hundred miles, will never be equaled in any other part of America. They have & power amounting to three hundred pounds to the square inch-—a power so great as to require special ma- chnery to utilize 1t. And it only costs on en average $1,000 to bore one of these wells, They can be produced in any part of this rim-rock basin in central Dakota. The rim-rock is at points so near the surface that & powerful arte- gian well can be secured within fifty feet, I know a farmer in Grant county, northeastern South Dakota, who bored an artesian well with a wooden augur. *The development of this artesian power,” continued Judge Moody, “ioomes within the legitimate purview of congress, and the water cun be turned to 1rrigation. With plenty of wells we will have all the free power for manufacturing purposes that & densely -populated country could want, and at” the same time we will have a sure thing of the greatest wheat erops the world ever produced. By artficis irrigation, crude and primitivo as may be, we have secured over a hundred bushels of wheat to the acre in the Black Hills; and irrigation has there made the crop sure.’ The guestion of irrigation is the up- permost one from the Canadian border to Mexico in a breadth of country hun- dreds of miles wide, aud it is sure W0 live stock and political interests of the entire country. If the project fails be- fore congress it will be due to this fact. Just at this time railroad building is ava practical standstill in the Dakotas; but at no period have there been mora extensive preparations making for ruil- road construction than now. I believe Dakota already ranks ¢hird in railroad mileage among the states of the union, Illinois being first and Iowa second. Surveys have been and probably will be run this year for three thousand miles of rond. ~ When this 1s completed, to- with that under course of con- ion, the Dakotas will have more of railroad than any one stato in the union. South Dakoia will have probably two-thirds of the entire mile- age. Eastern railroad men naturally in- quire whether it pays to build this road. A Dakota railroad superintendent made. this remarkable statement to me the other day: ‘I know of one line of road about a hundred miles in leagth in South Da- kota that was paid for out of one year’s earniugs. The wheat, oat, corn and live stock output was, of course, heavy that year.” The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul company alone has now about six thou- sand miles ot rondbed, a very large proportion of which is in South Da- kota. This is, indeed, a model rail- road corporation. It took its growth under S. S. Merrill, the Scotchman who died a few years ago, and who was the marvel and aamiration of all railroad Europe, He believed, as his successors and the present officers believe, that it pays to build everything first class and run it in the samé way. There are no dirty, old and dingy trains on this line. General Passenger Agent Carpenter has put on first cluss trains in the most out-of-the way runs, It is true that the parent company had land subsidies from congress, and the branches of this line built of late years, run through as fine public and private’ us well as corporave domains, open to the settlement of im- migrants, as eyes over rested upon, but the entorprise of the great Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad company is based upon present and future reve- nues and uot land subsidies. Iws pala- il trains are well patronized by pleas- ure tourists who go to the slope. T aking about first-class railroad pro- perty of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, its station houses, roadbeds and magnificent trains, remind me of the gorgeousness of some of the railroad stations in this region, built by the 1llinois Central. Most of th are of the Queon Anno style of architecture. Hore at Sioux Falls it has the hand- somcst station house in the northwest. It is worth a short description. us it will interest every admirer of a beautiful house. The structure is of Sioux Falls granite, which is of & bright red and very light chocolate color, is’ ,shaped in the rough, the white mortar is pointed s0 evenly thut you involun- tarily put out your hand to see if it is veally mortar. The building iies in the form of & Maltese cross, and is thy times as long as its average breadth The ludies’ rooms ut one end communi- cate with the gentlemen’s rooms at tue other end by a corridor between the ticket office ‘and conductors’ room and closets, which are located in the cen or in the poiut of the short cross. The walls are two feet thick, the windows and doors plate glass, and the wood work everywhere is of Mississippi yel- low and white pine, oiled and given u second in convenient arrangement only to the union station at Indianapohs. When the great Sioux Indian reser- vation is opened, giving an eastorn out- let to the Black Hills, there will be a rush in railroad building. That will bo next_spring, and the roads ving with that in view. Throe are alread; the seat of Charles Mix county, on the Mi iver, th s only point accessi- ble for a crossing in that region. This is in the direct line of the outlet to the hills via the Sioux reservation. The whole of South Dakota will be grid- ironed with tne opening of the reserva- tion and the acquirement of state land, Perry S. HEATH. HONEY FOR Fine silky crepalin dainty evening toilets, Tho V-shaped openings. on bodices are so becoming that they appear on some of the most elegant gowns of the season, Full dress toilets are accompanied with a costly lace or pleated tulle parasol furnished with'a lining of white, green, or pale rose silk, Only $100 for a natty French gingham morning costume of the block-patterned cot- ton, made up over a skirt and bodice Lining of soft washing silk. Large pink or lilac orchids trim somo of the broad-brimmed picture hats of black chip or Milan braid worn ay garden partics with toilets of black lace or point d’esprit net, Stylish tailor gowns for cool days at the seaside are made of silver-faced cloth, These are variously decorated with plain gray or ;mlguullu-wh\w arabesques, or in silver gal- oon. Stylish traveling dresses in directoire style arc made of a kind of shot brilliantine in ‘monizing variations of color which shade om reseda to gray, olive to vicux rose, blug to silver, and the like. Lovely borderings in_green, both pale and deep, are scen upon some of the beautiful snow-white nuns’ veilings sent over this sea- son. These fabrics make cal gowns for mid-summer, and are particularly charming for a rosy blonde, Many yachting gowns ure maae with an open-fronted jacket with a cambric shirt be- neath, pleated and starched like a boy’s waist, with three studs down the front, a loathér belt, a turn-down collar of the caia- bric, and a flowing sailor-tie, For the river and beach, and also for ten- nis, aro new very sheer flannels in white, pink, and cream, With a tiny satin stripe of @ deeper shade woven in the fabric. The full skirt and open jacket have the stripe, with collar, cuffs, and shirt waist of plain flannel. Among the ud]uncu of the toilet necessi- tated by the universal popularity of blouse bodices, ure belts, some of which are mnde of silk with silvor clasps, others of fine stock- inette over rubber cords, and still others of finest gray or white kid, with gold or silver clasps. Pretty afternoon dri rose casluner he 1 and the fronts'cu & LADIES, is in great use for ‘o made of 0id acks in princess breadths AL the waist line with au empire or full-gathered vest of China siik finished with o softly pleated sash of the sawe material edged” with silk fringe, and knotted at the left side, Much naturalness is* given to the flower garlauds, arranged both for dress and miili- nery purposes, by the use of real grasscs and foliago prepared in somo way to retain their freshnoss, without destroylng any of their uative charm, Lust full gréen wcorns in thowr tiny cups were gatherad, und also prepared, wnd these now appear upon sowme of thy large directoive bats, surrounded by dark-gro ok leuves, Pretty beach, ga satce stri inexpensive parasols for the on or country ure made of white tou foulurds, snd plaided wnd ch ginghaw, With satin fous lard, Chuna silk, and printed surah costum es the parasol is matched to the dross. For demi-dress toilets, there ure handsome suy les 1 silk with satin bows on the outside and bandle, ud & rich Lund of the sativ 48 & or