Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 25, 1894, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAI LY BEE: MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1804, THE DOMAIN OF ELECTRICITY | Progressive Strides of the Moderu Power in All Departments, IMPROVING SPEED OF OCEAN CABLES Uthizing Waste Electricity-Cost of Niag- rofitable Fleld for ectric Stables and peomotives Soon after submarine telegraphy be- eame a practical success it was discovered that the wire used for that purpose would not work as well as a land wire. With the best transatlantic cables only from twenty- five to thirty words a minute can be trans- mitted intelligibly; on land the only limit is the skill of the operator ur the speed of an sutomatic machine for transmitting, which Iatter often reaches 200 or 300 words a minute. The dificnity in cabling, long con- sidered insurmountable, is due 1o the fact that an ocean wire has an in:ulating coat of gutta-percha, and this develops on its outer surface a certain amount of negative electricity, by Induction, every time that pesitive electricity is sent into the wire. Now, If there could be devised a way to reduce the “electrostatic capacity” of the cable, says the New York Tribune, less cur- rent would be absorbed and more would be delivered for effective use at the end of the line. Dr. M. I Pupin of Columbia coll who'e original investigations of electrical phenomena for the last two or three years have attracted wide attention, now proposes guch a method. He would introduce into the line, at frequent and regular intervals these very Instruments to which reference has just been made, namely, condensers The current sent into the first of these sec- tions would not pass into the second, since the two sets of plates in the condenser would be insulated from each other. But a sec- ondary current would be Induced in the in- terposed Instrument, snd thi: would traverse the next section. Thus each portion of the Jine would act upon the one beyond it, so that electric sction would still be manifest at the terminus as if there was a con- tinuous conductor. One result of this ar- rangement would be that the electrostatic capacity of the cable as a whole would be I'mited to that of any one of thoe sections, and hence reduced to almost nothing, and that energy-absorbing phenomenon of “line’ induction would be avoided. The signaling servico would be performed through the in- ductive action of the condensers proper, and these would purposely have ample ca- pacity, greatly exceeding that of the wire sections. At cach junction in the line a short side track or shunt would be put in and made to include an_induction coil of enough resist- . anco to refuse to take the main current so long as the condenser was in working order. But if the latter should break down, no other route would be open, and. the current would then flow through the coil into the next sec- fon. Tho condensers for submarine use, says the originator of this system, would not be the lirge boxlike In:truments seen in laboratories, but small cylinders, or rolls of ribbonlike plates, wound about the core. About twenty of them, arranged an inch or two apart aloug the wire like beads, would, ho says, give the required capacity. They need not have a cross section greater than that of an ordinary cable. These groups ought to be introduced at intervals of sev- eral miles for Atlantic ervice, and Dr. Pupin thinks that such a cable might be constructed for only twice the cost of those now in use. On a longer line, say across the Pacific, It would be desirable to put in a proportionately larger number of groups of ribbon condensers. It has been sald, at the beginning of thiz article, that with ma- chines (such as the Wheatstone) 200 or 300 words a minute may be transmitted over land lines by telegraphy. Over a short cir- cuit (of a mile, for instance) such apparatus would transmit 600 words a minute, says J. C. Kurkel, one of the Western Union elec- triclans in New York City. Certain con- ditions incident to a long line make it de- sirable, if not necessary, to reduce the speed. To Chicago 200 words a minute is an a erage rate from New York; to St. Louls, 175; to Boston, perhaps 300 words might be sent. But Dr. Pupin thinks that his sys- tem would make it possible, both by land and sea, to transmit 500 or 600 words a minute. As yet, however, no actual test has been made on long ocean cables. UTILIZING WASTE ELECTRICITY. There are so many trolley cars in Brook- Iyn that it takes an enormous amount of electricity to run them. It necessarily fol- lows that a great deal of the electric fluid s “grounded.” " Consequently every street In which the trolley runs is completely satu- rated with electricity. The grounded cur- Tent doesn’t stay in the track at all. It darts off in every direction, and as a general thing makes for the water and gas pipes that are burled beneath the pavements. The pipes become charged with electricity and of course If they are tapped properly the cur- rent can be utilized. That is just what a number of Bastern district people have done, and that is why they are congratulating themselves that they are able to keep the temperature in their stores 'way down in the 60's all summer long, without any expense save the ofl that they use on the electric air fans. Yes, T am glad we have the trolley,” sald a Broadway merchant to a reporter of the Brooklyn Eagle. “It gives us rapid transit and it saves me a lot of money. Last ear 1 pald out quite a sum to keep cool. 'his season it won't cost me anything. “How s that?" asked the reporter. ““Well,” said the merchant, “I don't know as I ought to tell you newspaper fellows, for if the thing gets into the papers I may lose the ‘cinch’ 1 have now. However, it {8 something every one ought to know, so here goe: “You see that air cooler,” continued the merchant as he pointed to a rapidly revolv- ing electric air fan. “Well, it don't cost me a cent to run that. You might say I steal the electricity, but then you know I wouidn't do that. ~ You see the entire street in front of my store, and, in fact, in front of all the stores where the trolley runs, is sat- orated with electricity. Now I, like several others, have taken advantage of this condi- tion of affairs. One of the wires from that electric fan runs down to the gas pipe in my cellar. The other Is attached to the water pipe, and here I have the negative and positive poles, and, of course, the circuit is formed. You can see for yourself that the current {s sufficient to send the motor ofethe electric fan around at a lively rate. Now, that motor fs a 1-12-horse power, but I am sure the current is strong enough to run a 8 or 4-horse power motor. But, then, that doesn't bother me, for I am not in the man- ufacturing business, and all I want to use the electricity for at present is to keep cool this summer. I may, however, run a sew- ing machine with the current. Yes, the trolley Is a great thing and I am glad the people of Brooklyn have got It The geporter traced the wires from the electric fan to the cellar and found that they were attached, as stated. to the gas and water plpes respectively. The reporter also discovered that the waste electricity is being utilized in a couple of saloons and in a Jewelry store. In every case the wires are simply attached to the gas and water pipes. “If 1 wanted to." sald the man, “I could run machinery that requires 4 or 5-horse pawer. All I would have to do would be to drive a couple of gas pipes right up to within a few inches of the track and I would be able to get all the power I needed. It wouldn't be stealing the electricity, either, you know." S NIAGARA'S WATER POWER. A lively discussion Is golng on among electriclans on the subject of the long dis- tance tran‘mission of Niagara water power. Early In May there appeared in a leading plectrical journal an article In which Prof E. J. Houston and Mr. A, E. Kennelly went elaborately into the question of how far the water power of the falls could be trans- mitted by electricity. The gist of their contention was that the power of Niagara falls can be transmitted to a radius of 200 miles cheaper than it can be produced at any polnt within that range by steam en- gines of the most economical type, with coal at $8 per ton; furthermore, that given a suficlently large output, it might be com- merclally advisable to undersell largo steam powers at - twice this distance with no profit In order to reduce the general ex- upon del'very nearer hom The articlo attracted wide attention, not only among electrical eugineers, but also in lay | | comes circles, and was promptly noticed by news- papers throughout the seuntry, Df, C. B. Emery, an emipent ¢ngineer, replied o '"® article by a serfes of figures and statistics which went to show that Messrs. Hou:ton and Kennelly had overestimated some of the polnts cn which their conclusions were based, and underestimated others. For Instance, the Houston-Kennelly estimate regarding the cost of the hydraulic works |+ $17.60 per horse power, as against Dr. Emery's $140 per horse power. The former quote Prof. Forbes, the electrical enginecr of the Cat aract company, as testifying that “ihere can be little donbt that the edierendy of ou P 2.5 dynatnos maf fCich at T3St 08 per cent, and they commit themselves to 96 per cent Dr. Emery holds that the efficiency of the 5,000 generators will be only 90 per cent He also make: an estimate which puts the cost of operation higher and the efficiency of transmission much lower than those o the first estimate. He does not believe, in fact, that power can be economically trans- mitted to. Buffalo in the present state of electrical engineering. He says: “Mills, paper manufactories, ete., requiring power for twenty-four hours, can be best located directly at Nlagara falls and secure the un- doubted low rat that will obtain there. It §s thought that the first transmission in- stallation, which will naturally be for Buf faio, will cost even more than mated above, as time and some tenfative work will be required before the application be- general. The estimate makes no provision for subways, wnich must be con- structed to all points reached. The cost may rise so high that even the transmis- sion to Buffalo will pay only a small per- entage on the cost, and conditions better n those assumed must be found before there will be much of a market elsewhere." To this Messrs, Houston and Kennelly have replied that their figures are correct from first to last, and they mean to stick to them. In regard to the efficiency of the 5,000-horse power generator, .they say their own figure of 96 per cent is unjustifiably low, and that the efficiency of the Frankfurt-Lauffen plant, where power {8 transmitted over conductors to a distance of 10.9 miles, fs 95.4 per cent, and the dynamo used in that calculation was only about one-twenticth of the ca- pacity of those used at Niagara.s Another combatent has appeared in Dr. Francls B. Crocker of Columbia college, who call: into question the Housfon-Kennelly figures both in the matter of percentage allowed for annual interest, depreciation and repairs, and the cost of generators, motors and transformers, all of which, he' says, are remarkably low. He thinks the estimates are not ‘‘conservative,” as they are claimed to be, and that not enough margin has been allowed all around, and he questions whether *the cause of lon distance power transmission will be helped by assuming the lowest possible costs and expenses and the highest possible efficiencies. It is proverblal that estimates should alway be made with ample margin, and in nine cases out of ten it is absolutely required.” ELECTRICITY LAWYERS, There has long been a marked tendency among lawyers to abandon the wide fleld of general practice and take up with “special- ties,” some devoting themselves to mer- cantile, others to accident, to corporation, to insurance, and to criminal cases. Within a comparatively short time there has sprung up in New York, says the Sun, a class of practitioners known as “electricity lawyers.” These are either young men, who, coming to the bar, find the field of profes: sional employment crowded, or men of mid- dle age, who, retained In cases wherein electricity figures, have become experts on similar_questions. The fleld is comparatively a new one, and there are few precedents to guide the lawyer. Electricity is, indeed, a practically new branch of law business, and as the matters in dispute are generally important, this branch of legal practice is quite lucrative. At the beginning of the present year, It is computed that no less than $1,000,000,000 was_invested in the electrical industry of the United States, This was divided as follows: Electrical light and power companies, $400,000,000; elcctric railroad companies, $200,000,000; tele. graph companies, $150,000,000; electrical sup- ply companies, $150,000,000, and telephone companies, $100,000,000. The General Rlectric company has an authorized capital of $50,000,000, $35,000,000 of which has already been Issued, irrespec- tive of the large bonded debt. The American Bell Telephone company has an authorized stock debt of $20,000,000. The Edison Elec- tric_company has stock to the amount of $6.500,000, and bonds authorized to the ex- tent of $5,000,000. The Westinghouse has $10,000,000 of stock, and the Western Unfon Telegraph company has bonds to the amount of $15,000,000 and stock to the ‘amount ot $100,000,000, exclusive of guarantees. Last year it transmitted 66,000,000 messages, main- taining 21,000 offices. The telephone com- pany paid over $1,500,000 in dividends last year. There are 500 electric railroads, having, as before stated, a capitalization of $200,000,000 and operating nearly 6,000 electric cars, The protection of electric patents, a very large number of them new, is a very Im- portant branch of legal business at present, for large sums are paid for royalties where such patents are held intact, and suits for damages or infringements are many. There has been a great increase in the number of patents applied for in Washington for varioua electrical devices or improvements of late. The relations of the various electrical com- panies, too, have not been friendly, and taxing commissioners in various states and cities have disagreed about the valuation to be put on property in electric concerns. All this makes a large amount of business for lawyers, and has developed a great amount of skill and knowledge among those who have applied themselves to this branch of jurisprudence exclusively. NEW ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE. There is an electric locomotive in course of construction in Boston which promises to meet all the requirements for propelling raflroad trains. It Is an 8-horse power ma- chine and it Is unique. The distinctive feature of the Invention is the substitution of a piston and cylinder in place of the usual rotary motor for the application of power. The cylinder is much longer than for steam purposes, and has in its Interior a serles of magnets. The piston passes entirely through the cylinder, is a series of armatures of peculiar con- struction. On the axle of the driving wheels are commutators whose function is to apply and cut off the electric current, just as the eccentrics control the steam of a steam en- gine. The principle of the machine is the admisslon of the current to the magnets in the cylinder, which are in advance of the piston rod, and by their action on the arma- tures the piston rod is moved forward. As the stroke fs ended the current is cut off from the magnets first charged, and applied to those at the rear of the piston, giving It a reverse motion, thus maintaining a strong, regular motion. There 15 absolutely no back pressure from the electric current, while in a rotary motor this is estimated at 20 per cent of the force applied. 1t is practicable to run the machine at 200 revolutions of the axle per minute, and with a driving wheel elght and a half feet In dlameter and the crank pin three feet from the center there would be a six-foot stroke, under a full head of power. The machine is adapted to receive the electric current either by a trolley wire, a third rall in the track or from a storage battery. e Knocked Out of Time By that able blood depurent, Hostteter's Stomach Bitters, the young glant, rheuma- tism, withdraws, beaten. In maturity it is harder to conquor. Attack it at the start with Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, and save yourself years of agony and constant danger, for this malady is always liable to attack the heart. Potent In malaria, dyspepsia, constipation, nervousness and kidney com- plaint is the Bitter e Switchback and carousal Courtland. B it of Detective Work. Mrs. Yerger—Tommy, 4o you want some nice peach jam? Tommy—Y: ma. “I was golng to give you some to put on your bread, but I've lost the key to the pantry.” You don't need the key, ma. I ean reach down through the dransom and open the door from the inside. “That's what 1 wanted to know. Just wait until our father comes i One word describes it, “perfection.”” We refer to DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve, cures plles. Now, home." R AR Go to Courtland, cool, refreshing. | GROWTH OF AN ONI0 IDEA Phenomenal Brocess of the Famous Chau- tauqua Summer School, THE APT UNION OF PLAY AMD STUDY History of the Originated by D for Cel Educational Movement Vin Preparation & the Twenty-First Anniversary. hra No other educational movement in modern times has compared in originality and in phenomenal success with that which is known as the Chautauqua assembly. It started modestly twenty-one years ago this summer, and for a time had its day of small things. For many years now it has been an Influ- ence of tremendous power in the educational and religlous life of this country. Chautauqua was an Ohlo idea, originating in the fertile brain of Rev. Dr. John H. Vin- cent, who was then the Sunday school secre- tary of the Methodist Episcopal church, and has since become a bishop of that church. Rev. Dr. Vincent had for an Intimate friend Lewls Miller, a leading and wealthy citizen of Akron, O., who was prominent in the Methodist church. Mr. Miller had long been an active Sunday schoel worker and had used his large fortune generously for that cause. Dr. Vincent used to spend much time at Mr. Miller's house, and between them the idea of a place of summer resort of Sunday school workers was evolved. They wanted a sort of vacation place where work and recreation might be combined, and it was Mr. Miller who suggested the utilization of the Method- istic canp meeting ide: THE LOCATION. Looking about for a place in which to start their work, says the New York Advertiser, they found at Fair Point, on the western shore of Lake Chautauqua, in western New York, what seemed to them an ideal location. The Chautauqua region was already noted as a somewhat popular summer resort, and had a few summer hotels and cottages. At Fair Point there was already an old-fashioned Methodist camp meeting ground, and this the promoters of the new enterprise pro- ceeded to utilize. The first meetings, which were nothing more than a Sunday school mp meceting, in which the addresses and services were confined exclusively to Sunday school subjects, were eminently successful; 50 much o that measures were Immediately initiated for the amplification of the idea. The National Sunday School assoclation bought the entire eighty acres at Fair Point, and immediately began to erect buildings and make other improvements. The money of Mr. Miller was liberally given for the cause and other generous and wealthy Meth- odists came forward with contributions. One of the first and most unique features that was put into executiog the second year of the assembly, and that attracted atten- tion to the enterprise the world over, was the model of Palestine, made.in earth and rock. This was practically a reproduction of the topography of the Holy Land, and was supplemented by a large model of Jeru- salem, a model of the Jewish tabernacie, a model of an Oriental house and a sectional model of the great pyramid of Cheops. In connection with these models appeared men and women in Oriental costumes so that the picturesqueness of the biblical country and biblical times were strikingly reproduced in tableaux vivant with lectures, essays and class instruction bearing upon the same sub- jects. This practical kindergarten feature of biblical instruction was such a unique idea that it made the success of the enterprise beyond question. INTEREST EXPANDS. The second year of the assembly saw an average daily attendance of nearly 6,000; on one day when President Grant visited the grounds, 20,000 people were present. New features were established, such as church congress, reform council and scientific con- gress. Before long the assembly was di- vided into several departments, ecclesiasti- cal, philanthropic, scientific, biblical and Sunday school. Representative men of all religious denominations and of many phases of intellectual thought, eminent in the pul- pit, on the platform and In educational work, were engaged year after year to lecture and to teach. From the outset In every depart- ment, and particularly in that of biblical Instruction, specialists—bible students, learned Orfentalists and experienced teachers —were engaged. _ Secular instruction was not neglected, and in nearly all branches pertaining to liberal education instruction was given scarcely inferior to that of the best colleges. In fact Chautauqua very soon became more of a summer university than a mere school or assembly. It was in effect an advanced school of specialties. In less than five vears Chautauqua has grown to be a village of 500 summer cot- tages, scattered over the 100 acres of wooded ground forming the assembly’s property, that is hemmed in on two sides by the waters of the lake. As the years have gone on the cottages have taken on a more and more pretentious character, untit many of them are really imposing buildings, while several hotels have sprung up in the neighborhood. There has grown up a large village, with all the elements of permanenco in it, such as shops, postoffice, electric light, police service, ete. There is also a daily morning newspaper, which gives the news ot the world as well as full reports of all the speclal proceedings of the assembly. In the early days of this flourishing insti- tution the duration of the annual convocation was only two weeks. Now, however, the sessions are held for two months of each year—July and August. The assembly has long since been incorporated and is man- aged by a board of trustees, with president and chancellor. The village has many hand- some public bufldings, a notable museum, and a reference library of considerable size and other characteristics of an advanced town lite. THE EXPENSE ACCOUNT. The way in which the community is man- aged constitutes an Interesting study in so- ciology. The village is open to any one who chooses to visit it, but every visitor, unless he is a noted preacher or lecturer who comes to serve the assembly, must pay for the privilege. Before he can get in he must pur- chase a card of admission, which gives him, as 1t were, “the freedom of the city,” which includes the right not only of enjoying the municipal advantages, but also of profiting by all the free Instruction and entertain- ment. There s a fixed tariff for these tick- ets of admission by the day, by the week and by the month, and it costs more to be- come a Chautauquan in August than in July. The rates for July are: One day, 25 cents one weok, $1; the month, $2.50; for August, one day, 40 cents; one week, $2, and the month, $3. You can get in for the entire season for an even $5 bill. The dally program, to whicli every person who has purchased citizenship is entitled to free admission, includes a score of more lec- tures, concerts, dramatic recitals and other exercises, and speclal entertainment In the shape of unusually famous lecturers or con- cert singers in the amphitheater in the even- ing. Besides all this, there s an extensive course of class instruction, which is divided into six departments. The Chautaugua col- lege, for those who desire to study thor- oughly and persistently during six weeks, offers instruction in ancient and modern languages, lterature, history, natural sclences political economy and philosophy. The School of Sacred Literature provides several courses in bible study, both in the original languages and in English, on the leading biblical specialists. A pedigogical course for public school teachers includes in- struction in psycology, pedigogical principles and their practical application to the teach- ing of arithmetic, geography, sclence, etc. There is a School of Music, teaching the theory and practice of instrumental and vocal music a School of Physical Education for both sexes in all branches of gymnastics, athletic con- tests, rowing, etc., and other classes in art, photography, industrial drawing, china dec- oration, manual training, elocution and short- band. Reasonable charges are made for in- struction in these speclal departments, vary- ing according to the character and the lengih of the courses. REST AND RECREATION. Life o Chautauqua partakes something of an easy, off-hand character, for the place has not yet altogether lost its camp meeting have a very serlous purpose, but the at- mosphere of the place inclines one to ratigpg! l‘"‘“nndl recreation,. combined with the oloss application (6 QeNGT gnd morgl ve- ment. As to v_nr:rw?un lh»e 0 lt‘: t‘){(e, where you can get the best that any one ought to have, excépf wine and liquor, and pay for it -vak what you woyd qr the same things elsewiete. ¥oG can board fif a cot- tage hotel at from ' §5 to $12 4 week. You can hire a furniliea. Sottdge or furnished roomy and fomie of the $dUnf wimen go Into “To-operative housekeeping at a cost of $2.50 or $3 per week. There is pleniy of op- portunity for wholesome indulgence and rec- reation, and tennis, bageball, bicycling, horse- back riding, driving, rowing and even ama- teur theatricals aro iridulged in abundantly. This year sees the assembly in a more prosperous and pFomtising condition than ever before. Sevoralinew features will be seen for the first time, The Ministerial club will be established for the special dis- cussion of minfstétfal work. The college will make a specialty of history, covering that particular fleld with exceptional thor- oughness without neglect to the other courses in the college. The work of the Boys' club, which was organized last year, will be greatly expanded, taking in suc subjects as natural science, camp life, fish ing and other outdoor sports and studie New methods and new courses of study will be adopted in several of the depart- maents, such as the schools of Sacred Liter- ature, the Teacher's Retreat, the American Institution of Christian Sociology, which met for the first time at Chautauqua last year, and the School of Physical Education. But the work of Chautauqua has not been limited by its local habitation and its sum- mer season. As an outcome of this idea there has developed one of the most in- fluential movements that the world has ever known. The Chautauqua managers early realized that their peculiar plan of instruc- tion demanded special text books, lesson papers and other accessories, those com- monly in use at that time being in nowise ted to their needs. As a result the embly soon began to compile a literature of its own, beginning first with text books and lesson papers and perfodicals of a more general literary character. One of the earliest efforts in this direction was the Chautauquan Magazine. The germ of this periodical was the Chautauqua Assembly Herald, which was published daily during the meeting and monthly from Mead- ville, Pa, for tho rest of the year. Fourteen years ago the Chautauqua entered the fleld as a regular monthly magazine and jumped almost at once into an abundant and enduring popularity. It has now become a firmly established periodical with a distin- guished list of contributors, and an individu- ality distinetly its own. The magazine has not alone been built up by the great educa- tional movement whose name it bears, but it has also been a very large and essential factor in promoting that movement. It specially serves the fnterests of the Chaus tauqua assembly and other educational en- terprises connected therewith, and the pur- poses and needs of that particular educa- tional effort are naturally made dominant in the general scheme of the periodical. At the same time, however, the magazine takes high rank among the lesser literary period icals of the day, while in circulation and in. fluence, owing to its speclal character, it is scarcely second to any other. It is said to be a very valuable property, with a circulas tion of very nearly 100,000. To print it there has been established at Meadville, Pa., the Chautauqua Century Press, one of the most complete and modern establishments in this country for the making of books and periodicals. The Chautauqua assembly has become pos- sibly more widely known through the Chau- tauqua Literary and Scientific Circle than through any other:medium. This circle had its origin_nearly forty years ago. When Rev. Dr. Vincent was a pastor in Newark. N. J., he endeavored to establish a course of home study and reading for young ministers who had lacked early educational advantage, but the project never got beyond the stage of preliminary consideration. In 1878 Dr. Vin- cent felt that the time had arrived when it would be possible Tor him to graft this idea upon Chautauqua .dnja more extended scale than he had before contemplated, making it serve the needs of thousands of men and women all over the country. Thus it was that the now famous-C. L. §. C. was organ~ ized. 3 sy A A cooling ride—to Courtland beach. ————— PLAGUE IN HONG KONG. Death Muc Rate Increasing Dally and Alarm Prevalls. VICTORIA, B. C., June 24.—The steamer Sikh, thirteen days from Yokohama, has arrived and was subjected to a long quaran- tine inspection. All the effects of the Orien- tal passengers were fumigated. Advices re- port 577 deaths from the plague in Hong Kong from May 1 to June 7, 230 being under treatment. The total number of cases since the outbreak is about 1,200. The Yokohoma Herald of June 9 says re- garding the steamer Peru: ‘“The following was issued by the Pacific Mall Stcamship company this morning: Owing to the steam- ship Peru being placed in quarantine in Nagasaki her departure is indefinitely post- poned. It is expected that she will leave that place June 14.” The Peru should have sailed from Peru June 12, but owing to a man having died on board enroute from Hong Kong she was de~ tained at Nagasaiki for inspection, but was expected to leave earller. The man was at- tacked at 4 o'clock in the morning and dled during the night, being burisd at sea. On Thursday another death took place and the vessel will now have to undergo a week’s quarantine. Had the Hong Kong officials taken the slightest precautions to prevent the plague from spreading to the colony or to isolate the first few cases which occurred it would have prevented much mortality. The new cases at Hong Kong average thirty per day, with a fearful death rate. The sanitary authorities attribute the outbreak not to bad sewerage, but to filth in the houses, which is piled there in carloads. A British officer and three men are re- ported as attacked by the plague. The au- thorities believe that they have got a grip on the plague. In Canton, though the plague claims fewer victims than for some time, it is causing much loss of life. Ac- cording to a Kobe paper thirty new cases were reported and twenty-five deaths oc- curred on May 29, on the 30th of May thirty- three new cases and twenty-eight deaths, and on June 1 fifty-nine new cases and fifty- four deaths. MORE BODIES REMOVED, Gradually Clearing Up the Dreadful Mine Disaster of Last Weok. CARDIFF, June 24.—The men who have volunteered to search the Alblon colliery at Clifyndt, the scene of the terrible explosion of fire damp last evening, have béen at work all day, but no further rescues have been affected. All hope for those still in the pit has been abandoned. The number of the dead, It is believed, will reach 250. It has been ascertained that 267 men and boys de- scended the shaft, yesterday, and of this number only seventgen have been saved. A large number.of budies are buried be- neath the earth-falls, and it has been found impossible as yet To éxtricate them. Those not killed by thd@e&dlosion or crushed to death by the falling paFth and rock wero un- doubtedly asphyxiuted' by the after damp. The scene of the disaster has been visited today by thousandsof people from the sur- rounding country, __There were recovered last night eighty-siX bodies. Late this evenli fibe rescung partles succeeded in extrigating a large number of bodies. Thus far 142 bodies have been taken from the pit. A telegram from the queen says she was much shocked and expressed deep sympathy with the families of the dead. VIENNA sOd A ToH— Nearly Three Thousund Declare for Univer- sal Suffruge for Anst VIENNA, June 24.—An of socialists was held in it being estimated that fully 2,500 people were present, The object of the meeting was to declare in favor of universal suffrage. which the Austrian workingmen hay been agitating for a long time. The speakers urged that the agitation be continued until the demand was conceded. It was the in- tention of the anarchists to have a procession through the prifcipal stre.ts of the city, but this was prevented by a detachment of mounted and foot police, - Sull g June 4. in the Ellls bave immense meeting the prater today, Doubt. Up to late to forgery trial of made no re- s MASON, Mich., night the jurors Attorney General traits, Most of tae people who g0 there | port. I INDEPENDENT OF THE|TARTFF Wall Street Operations Are Not Based on the Bill's Probable Effect, IDLE CAPITAL MUST SOON BECOME ACTIVE Cannot Much Longer Be Held in Retirement a8 Investments Are Too Alluring— Banks Inclined to Help the Government to Gold. NEW YORK, June 24.—Henry Clews, head of the banking house of Henry Clews & Co., writes of the situation In Wall street and the financial world as follows We are now within a comparatively few days of the final enactment of the new tarit bill. By the 1st of August its pro- visions are likely to be in operation, and the anxious problem of its effects will then wter the process of solution, It can hardly be sald that Wall street shows any deep interest in the approaching event. It is not basing any present operations upon it; it is not discounting it as either a “bull or a “bear” element. It does 3 that it must regards those results as 80 ¢ conditions independent of the they hardly afford material for speculation, much less for careful investment. It is conceded that the new act will remove the ostensible reason for suspense which has 80 long Kept business stagnant. Wall street’s attitude at the moment I8 a walt- ing one, #0 as to see how things will drift when the new conditions take effect. Some things will then have a certainty which they do NOt NOW POsEss. € of all Kinds of products and of labor will be found to be very exceptionally low, and there will be no longer any questions of tariff to throw any doubt upon that condi- tion of cheap being more or less per- manent. A state of exceptionally low v ues 18 always, when it Is supposed to he touched the bottom level, favorable to vestment, It I8 an accommodution to the reduced purchasing ability of consumers; it I8 favorable to the undertaking of new enterprises, to the repair and extension of industrial plant, to the purchase of real estate and the construction of new build- ings; and it affords the best opportunity for undertaking large works of a corporate and public character. With, the enormous amount of capital now held ‘idle and yiel ing almost no return, it is hardly conceiv able that these conditions of extraordinar cheapness can much longer fail to their natural cffect of forcing this unem- ployed wealth into investment. 1ts owners are not putting their means largely into existing stocks or bonds; it is therefore reasonably inferable that they are waiting for the ripe moment for investing in new undertukings created under the prevalence of Iow values. It is simply a question of ripeness of opportunity wlhen values have touched bottom; when the general situation has lost some of its un when the self-curative tendenc depression begin _to exhibit them and the country has :grown = w idleness —then a few bold leaders of = cap ital set an example of confidence to the conscrvatives, and a process of sure and rapid revival sets in. That process lg now before us. How near or how distant it is not easy to judge. Nor is it easy to say how much nearer the end of the tarift confuslon _may bring it; nor how much it might be helped by the Success of the diplo- matic efforts now In progress for introduc- ing Furopean disarmament; nor how much it might be encouraged by 'assurances that congress will Soon give us a_currency sys- tem that will remedy the serious obstacles to investment connected with the present unsound state of our monet arrange- ments, There are plenty of concelvable contingencies that might at any time start up a revival of confidence and of invest- ment, but, at the moment, none are dis tinetly in gight, and we can. therefore, only walt for developments. This may not be a situation immediately “favorable for a buying movement, but ‘it ainly is not one that warrants selling. The favorable probabilities greatly outweigh the unfavor able ones, both in number and importance, and the prospective situation is one that will have no rewards essimism, Wall ¢ ‘hat by sur- prise this week by a meeting of bank presi- dents to consider whether the banks should not help the treasury in meeting the con- tinued extraordinary demand for gold for export. As the treasury has already lost $40,000,000 of the gold it recently borrowed and the export movement may- pe call for another $15,000,00 before it is satisfied, this Is not an inopportune question for the banks to consider; Confidence is still sensi- tive, and the experience of last year under similar conditions is not forgotten; it therefore to prevent uny' further unneces s upon gold reserve, already reduc With §100,000,000 of Specie in their reserves the banks can well afford to show this con- sideration for the treasury, and the more 50 s there Is a reasonible probability that with the opening of the fall months a considerable amount of gold may find nhs way back to this country, thereby re- plenishing the reserves of the banks. We are now verging toward the season when the interior beging to draw money fromi this city for crop moving purpose not improbable that \those withe may prove quite important. This suge a probability of higher local rates of in terest at a later and that would by calculated to bring gold out of the present extraordinary European stocks of that metal. of e T KEEP THEIR SWORDS SHARP. MU, Significant Expression of the German Em- peror to His Marines, KIEL, June 24.—Emperor Willlam today addressed the marines now at this naval station. His majesty dwelt upon the signifi- cance of the eniry of his son, Prince Adel- bert, in the marines in a month so moment- ous in this their fatherland. The battles of Hohenfriedberg and Waterloo, and the death of Frederick the Great, he said, all occurred in the month of June. The emperor con- cluded by saying: “Let this remind you and Waterloo, where the warrior and Great Britain crushed their her v foe. To Frederick, too it was ordained to wield the German sword which laid low our enemy. Let it be your task to keep that sword bright and sharp, so that when T call you, which God forbid, you may stand fast, not only with honor, but with renown.” TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES, Domestic. Five thousand people assembled at Island park, Winfield, Kan., to listen to Henry Wat- terson. E. M. Abbot, a veteran Dubuque printer who had set type thirty-seven years in that city, died Saturday night. R..G. Gulliner, a senior at Willlams col- lege, has committed suicide. He stood high in his class. The cause is unknown Employes of the Hammond, Whiting & \go Electric railwy Saturday night refused to haul Pullman cars. The tie-up lasted only a couple of hours. The allotting agent for the Kickapoo In- dians announces that the allotments have all been made and the balance of the lands can now be opened to settlement. A terrific wind storm passed over Pet burg, Pa., Saturday night. The Presbyterian church was unroofed, the Methodist chureh blown down and one residence was wrtcked Leo M. Brock, who travels for Weiner & Brock, clothiers of Buffalo, N. Y., has been arrested in St. Louis on the charge of ob- taining money from banks over the country on false pretenses. ¥ Forcign. Reports from Peru show the revolution is spreading. Slight _earthquake Greece Saturday, Six Spanish anarchists have been arrested at Rio de Janciro. General Bosche s preparing a revolt in the Argentine republic The government fl harbor of Ri ship Republic pected. The latest news from the effect the gover additional charges esident Ezeta and are confident the United States government will see the justice of delivering him up. The itallan Chamber of Deputies has adopted the first clause of the government's financlal proposals. The Chamber also sus tained the government in the matter of the duration of the contract with the Orleans & Southwestern rallroad - Elegant music tonight Courtiand beach. shocks were felt in et has entered the & the late insurgent The Aquidaban is soon ex- vador 18 to aking San is Hours (Special Tele g Kal o YANK , 8. D., June 21 gram to Th Coplous rain fell all over this sectior South Dakota and northern Nebraska ‘last night, and as result & half crop of wheat and oats n Hee.) of —_— P-e-a-r-1-1-n-e. This is the way we speli it. necessary to mention it some women don't s It's because sem to know. We find so many who say they use Pearline, and then, upon examina- tion, find that what they are using is only some imitation of it. ce There is if your package is marked as above. only one Pearline. things whiter—Dbright thing It makes white brighter—eco- nomical and saves at every point. For wash- ing and cleaning, nothing under any other name can equal it, Sen or *“the same as Pearline honest—send 1t back. it Back CLOSING OUT Gasolino Stoves at less than cost. This is not for shoddy goods, but for first class Gasoline Stoves. Everyone warranted. $6.00 Gasoline Stoves for. . $2 $8.00 Gas $10.00 1.25 Oil Stove 50¢ 3-gallon Wood-) Cans for 65¢ 5-gallon Wood-J cket Peddlers and some unscrupulous grocers will tell you ** this is as good as* IT's and if your grocer sends you something in place of Pearline, he ALSE — Pearline is never peddled, an JAM PYLE. N. Y& BY CARRIAGESALE e e ———————— 150 DIFFERENT STV LES of Baby C: facturers in the United States. one to be sold less than cost. rriages from the best manu- Every- $ 1.90 2.87 larriage for...... rriago for. . $15.00 Carriage for. rrirge for. 00 Carriage for. less than cost. 3.00 4,76 8.65 12.60 14.75 Refrigerator Sale EVERY REFRI = TOR and ce Box to be sulfl}(fii?l‘(%u' Remember, we never e sell anythirg that has price only to com- mend it. Our Refrigerators are wur- ranted to give satisfaction or money re- funded. $ 7.50 Ie2 Box for. 10.00 I¢ce Box for. 3.90 4.85 7.89 17.00 Refrigerator for .. 20.00 Reirigerator for .. 00 Refrigerator for Terms--Cash or Payments, 9.98 12.50 14.50 " Presents to Al Purchasers, while Rain an fmmens. reasonably be exp was sadly crop of corn Is assured. needed in this section for small grain. The storm lasted three hours, and rain fell in torrents during that time, unaccompanied by wind. Summering of 'Teachers. Miss Hutchison, prineipal Eckermann school, and Miss Salmon, principal Windsor school, will go to Asbury Park, N. J., and from there to Washington, D. C. during their summer fon. ations of other teachers Iluckmon, Sheboy obitt, Colorado Spri s" Minni Moridrty, D « Neb.; Miss Jennie L. Redtield, out, Pries’ lake. —_—— PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. C. M. Swan of Sioux City is at the Mil- lard. J. J. DuBois of Denver is stoppping at the Merchants. Judge Hamer of Kearney ls registered at the Dellone. J. B. Burkley, at the Arcade. A. Berkman and wife of Oakland are reg- istered at the Arcade. J. Y. Rich and Joseph Knudson, cattle men, are at the Dellone. a banker of Stromsburg, is Idaho Nebraskans at the Hotels, At the Paxton . Adams, At the Murray—F. A 3 At the Mej M. Sheaff, ton' and wi . Nisbit, Mrs. lerton; A. M. Wiliiams, Monroe; 1. neler, Madiso At th Wright, White and noa. Albion, H, C, Herst, B.'L 0, O, Purvianer, wife R 7 A. D, Don- N. J Watt, A ol itte, Voorhees, Narfolk d; J, D Wright, 13 Albion 1 , A corge Hudlow, A Heaton, 0. Stringer, Grand Evany, Miss Stella 15, C. Howe, Norfolk W. L. Butler, W. F. Con- Boone; 8. 0. Conlcy, T. M. Hoyer and wife, Norfolk; L. H. Vallery, T, Puni Platsmouth; James 1. Rhea, 'Holdre At the Merel 12, 8. Dell, L. H. loy Strong, C. © rien, Cedar Ruplds; B M. Sincluir, Campbell, 1. N. McGee, J. T, Ml v oand wite, C. L Gay and ‘wif Hughes, Fullerton; R, C, . H. Regan, Plitt Center; Brewer, A. A. Mansfield, 0. H . A, Cline, I Croteher, 13 Brader, H. M. Grinds, North Platte: M Gulde R H. Heth A. Mann, Ly R B, Ba Farlcy, oft; C son, Lelgh; Murdock e Hazel Suive cures ulcers Hazel Salve cures piles. Courtland beach tonight. GYMUNANTICN. o the Millard R sland; Mrs. (. ans. Rushville; At the Dellone At S H. D, Regan, g oW, ham, Albion; Louitt, nont; W kamah ; Alb) DeWitt's Witch DeWitt's Witch Slide for life GDELSARTE MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, Lditor The Bee: My en called to an article in paper on *“Del Gymnastics.” My Is generally too much taken up with the public school teachers of our country to notice every artice written nt but as I sincerely belleve Mr PARK, To the has L OAK June tentlon you urte tme ndom, Frrulire WM. LOUDON, Commission Merchant CRAIN AND PROVISIONS. Private wires to Chicago and New York. pusincas orders placed on - Chicago Board ade. Correspondence solicited. Office, room 4, New York Life Dulld Telephone 1305. An of writes with earnestnes: sire {8 the same as min to make stron, men and women out of the children o today, I answer his letter In a broad spirit and “a fraternal way. It was the first time I was aware that anything called “Delsarte’” was _ beln taught ~In the Omaha schools, I hag thought that an American system of gym- nastics—to particularize, the ‘‘Preece #y: tem' of which I stand at the head—was being taught in the Omaha schools. The Pri system I8 not a new one, it belng taught in the schools of fifty-three cities. It §% the system taught in the State un versity of Minneso in the public_schools of ‘Pittsburg, Pa, of 1 is now being intro- I say It |s not new. 0 years old, but the Kood from the sys- as from the ho 1 to the electric car of today. seen good results, that s, prae- from the use of the Turner or Swedish syitem In the public schools of our countrty I should not have had occm- sfon to plan out my work. Having been & public school teacher of twenty-two yeal standing, and seeing t requirements of the narrow alsle and the desk, I formu- lated a system which, 1 am proud to say, of the leading educators of the couns } |i|\ 1l the most practical for the school room In our public schools the child is at least one-half of the time writing at his desk and the other half he is sitting with book in hand studying, It has en my alm to reach these points, and not have exercises mean simply & gofng through of wonderful feats, but to watch the child carefully throughout the day and train the tencher thiat ghe mi train the child to grow up straight and strong. . Mr. Andres is correct when he says there I8 no such thing a# the Delsarte system of physical gymnastics, and 1 consider, as he doex, the person calling his work such, fraud. It would take too much time to enter Into th detall of the philosophical klde of this great question, d the pry- chologleal side of it Is as important as the physiclogical. But, to be brief, the alm of Evmuaatic work: should be, first strongth, rhyt The one point that Delsarte had in gyme- nustic work was the philosophical side, clalming that exerclses N'lu\lll, be stron, and 1hythmical, and the system 15 goo when It _abldes by these ?n\\’!, name It Turner, Preece, Ling, American, German or Swedish. | agree with Mr, Andres that if ot puplls in the Omaha schools are Wimply striking attitudes, the work I8 @ failure, but If the pupils are trylng to sit strafght at their desks, are In o correct position while writing, If they are taking \ts ench day 10 make them stronger stralghter, 1f th teacher 18 being A in front of them, stralght they are d even al- yute 15 n Turner, strong man at the helm in Fitzpatrick, & man admired and looked_up to by the educational world, and both Mr. Andres and myself are for getting ourselves when we attempt to di tate to him any plan of work his schools, LOUIBE PREECE. - Courtland Beachs and that his de- 200 years ago car of Had 1 tical results Boating, bathing, music,