Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 8, 1895, Page 11

THE FIELD OF ELECTRICITY Formal Inauguration of the Great Niagara " Falls Plant, LONG-DISTANCE TRANSMISSION A SUCCESS Utility of Water Power as n Producer of Electricity Demonstrated in Varidus Places=S$hooting the Mailx 200 Milew nn Hour, After many delays Incident to a work of such megnitude, the Nlagara Falls electric power plant was formally fnaugurated last week and power supplied the adjacent factory of the Pitsburg Reduction company. The harnessing 4 #mail portion of Niagara's lim- Itless power had long since passed the ex- perimental stage. Indeed since the profect took practical form five years ago a number of similar but minor undertakings have been eompleted and successfully operated, so that Intercst in the Niagara plant Is now lmited to the quantity of power likely to be produced and its effect on established local Industries In competition with steam power. The Niagara power company’s plant repre- sents an outlay estimated at $5,000,000. The capacity of the plant, that is unlike any other power-producing agency in the world, Is 60,000 horse power in the form of electr: and 50,000 horse power transformed from the waterfall directly into force to be used iu mills along the bank of the river and in Buf- falo, twenty-two miies aistant. These fig- wres are the limit of the plane as now made, but instead of the ten turbines, magnificent monsters of the depths—for they are placed nearly 200 feet below the surface—there are to be only three at present, and instead of the ten dynamos by and by to do thelr colossal work there, only three are ready for their mighty and majestic work,qund one of the is required to meet present demands. These turbine wheels, placed at the bottom of that mighty pit cut straight down tor 200 feet into the solid rocks, are the monarchs force of the volume of is o of their kind. The water each of the three will receive great that it would sweep away a cons able structure made as strong as man could build it with stone and masonry. Yet these turbines are so cuaningly made and with such tough minglng of the stron metals that they will receive this prodigious blow only to turn with almost inciedible swiftness upon their axles and thus communicate the force to the dynamo placed in josition dir ctly over them aith ug) 20) feet above them. The dynamos are most companionubl mates for these mighty machines at the boitom of the pit, for they are not only sald to be the largest of their kind, but with the swiftness of the lightning's stroke they convert the force created by the water power upon the distant turbines. But now there comes another thing await- ing, not thecretical demonstration, but such proot as makes evidence to the sanses. Can the eluctricity which will be generated at the Falls be delivered over the wires to Buftalo? The scientists, American and Eu:opean, who have made favorable dem onstrations in theory, are sure that it can be done. -But others doubt it. Not greatly 0 as far as Buffalo is concerned, but with something of vehement denial when it is prozosed to bisect New York state from the Lake to the Hudson with the power-carry. ing wires, Nevertheless, these wires are to be put up and before the frost hardens the groun. they will be strung from Niagara to Albany by way of Buffalo, so small a thing as a wire a fraction of an inch in diameter, or a number of them, through which Niagars transtormed to electricity will be carried, and which the capitalists expect will cause the munufactories of central New York to send back to the Falls an echo of its own thunders, and an echo created by itself. TRANSMISSION TESTED ELSEWHERE the necessary head obtained. Here the water drives two Pelton water wheels, which are belted to two 200 horse power three-phase generators, The current.at a voltage of 2,600 In transmitted for a db of rather more than three miles up the mountalns to the Silver Lake mine. The line has been con- structed with very great care, for not only is the countfy very difficult, a chasm 270 feet wide being spanned ‘at once place, but ter- rible thunder storms are very common in that region and must be provided against. To protect the line - from lightning & barbed fron wife extends all along the line from the tops of the poles, and s grounded at frequent intervals On arriving at the mine part of the current Is supplied directly to a 100-horse-power, three- phase induction motor. “The rest of t eur- rent Is transformed down to 220 volts, and Is supplied to two motors underground. The construction of the big flume and the install- ment of the plant cost a great deal, but it was well worth while, since the saving effected, over the old methods of working, amounts to $36,000 a year. DISTRIBUTING POWER. The electrie plant at the Columbia cotton mills, in Columbia, C., ilustrates the value of electricity as a means of distribut- ing power, There is a filne water power close to the mills, which operates 1wo large three-phase generators of B00-kilowatt capacity. The diameter of the armature of one of these machines s ten feet. The cur- rent is carried to the mill, a distance of about 800 feet, by an underground conduit, and supplies seventeen 65-horse-power motors. These are three-phase induction motors and s0 there are no brushes or commutators. 1t the motore- are overloaded they will simply stop till the overload is removed. If at any time an accident happens to any of the machinery it 18 only necessary to switch off the current from the motor running that tien of the mill, This is a great ad- , for where power is distributed by a ated system of shafting it is often ary tc shut down a large portfon of the mill If any accident occurs. BLECTRICAL FAST MAIL. The problem of more speedy ma'l transpor- tation has long engaged the attention of the Postoffice department, which has just en- deavofed to stimulate the fnventive genius of the country to its solution. It has eng ged the attention of many inventors, who have offered devices of more or less merit, but nothing which has as yet met the pra feal demands of the service. It seems to have be:n reterved for a Chicago_resident to successfully grapple with the problem and present a plan, worked out aplete mechanical dotall, with the en- in co dorsement of tha best authorities as to its practical features, and wh'e) gives good pror- ise of revolutlonizing present methods. bert P. Crell of Chicago, says the Tribune, has been working on this prcbem for five years. He has so far reached a solution as to receive the endorsement of leid'ng en- gineers and mechan'cs as to the practical working of the essential features of the plan and in his interviews with ex-Postmaster Gen- eral Bissell and other officers of the Postofficy department has been assured that his plan meets the demands of the service much mo:e completely than any before pre eutel, being really exactly what is needed to handle ex- e, S S The week just past has not been a period which the fature historfan of local theatrical entertainments will distinguish with red let- ters In the calendar. One of the theaters was still closed and preparing for the opening of its regular season, which s announced for to- night; the other would have lost nothing of prestige and little in the way of more sub- stantial recompense by remaining dark like- wise. “A Fatted Calf,” which furnished a seven days' repast at the Creighton, is far from merfting the laudatory ep!gram ascribed to Alan Dale of the New York World. It is not “good;™ it is Mardly “‘meat;" as presented In Omaha it is not even well servel. To criticise seriously a plece and performance of this kind would be to break a butierfly on the wheel, were it not for the much-vaunted commendation of the eminent critic aforesaid, which, being fellc’tously phrased and pre- sumably rightly bestowed, had the effect of alluring many to the earlier representations. One conceives that Alan Dale was witty with- out a knowledgo of the facts, yielding to se- ductions which are often brought to bear upon critics when new plays are about to be pro duced. He would hardly have been brilliant in precisely this way it he had seen or even read “A Fatted Calf,” for, even in the hands of a company capable of displaying such merits as the plece possesses, there would be small results upon which the author coild be congratulated. If there is a bright line in it, earnest and more or less patient research has not availed to unearth it; and {f the sum total amounts to more than an excessively tedious handling of a central idea with which some- thing might be done, it would be interesting to hear of Alan Dale's discovesies. As to the peopla who first made necessary this—may one say?—roast of veal in Omaha, it were charity to leave them covered by the veil which was drawn about them after the in'tial performance. Pauline Hall, who comes to Poyd's tonight opening the regular season at that house with o 5, is one of the most persistently and ively advert'sed women on the stag:. Her beauty, her jewels, her wearing appare!, her personii habits, her appearances before notables abroad, the make of bicycle she rides, the brand of soap she prefers, the un- provoked attacks upon her by ministers of the gospel, all are k2pt before the public by their intrinsic importance or by managerial enterprise. M'ss Hall is a favorite in Omaha, where her yearly visits are looked forward to with pleasure, by reason of the charm of her personality and the high quality of the enter- tainment she Is wont to provide. The velcie of her approaching reappearance at Boyd's is the so-called “operatic comedy,” “Dorcas which made friends for itself and for the star last year, an1 which has been carefully re visad and furnished with new mucic. The pediticusly the heav® mails on the great lines between the principal cities. To test this matter so far as possible in its initiatory stage, a working model has been made and tried to some extent—enough to show that the working parts will operate in conformity with the design—and within a week a public test of this model will be made in Chicago on a track 1,000 f:et long, which has been put up on Steal street. Thi: model car s forty-four inches long, seventeen inches high and twelve inches wide, made of steel, and weights about 1,200 pounds. It is expected that the diminutive motor will develop a speed of fifty miles an hour for the model car. Of course the speed will be much greater in a larger car. The mail car for practical use is designed to be thirty-three feet long, twelve and half feet high and eleven feet wide, to be made of steel throughout and to weigh forty tons. It will be run by electrical power, the motor being separate from the mail car. It will require an elevated road, buiit fou this special service, and this road will re- quire to be supported on steel framework, and the design is to elevate the tracks about It any doubt existed concerning the trans: mission of electric power from the Falls to Buffalo, it has been dissipated by the achieve. ment of Sacramento. Most of the electrical power of California’s capital city comes from Folsom, twenty-four miles away, where the falls of the Amer.can river has been put in harness. The water wheel plant consists of four horizontal turbines, which, under a head of fifty-five feet, develop 1,300 horse power each. Directly connected to the shafis of these machines are the shafts of four enor- mous three-phase alternating-current gen- erators, welghing about forty tons. each. These dynamds are the largest in the world, with the exception of those for the Niagara Falls power plant. The current from these machines is con- veyed to step-up transformers, which raise the voltage of the current to 10,000 This large voltage is us.d to save copper in the line. There are twelys bare copper wires, about a quarter of an inch in diameter, sup- ported on about 2,600 poles. The power lost on the line is aboat 10 per cent. By using more copper this loss might have been re- duced, but on account of the enormous water power it was not thought to bz necessary, to increase the outlay on copper. Arriving at Sacramento the current goes to the step-down transformers in the sub- station. Part of it is used for lighting and manufacturing purposes, while the rem+ ndes operates more large synchronous motors, which drive the §00-volt direct current gen erators supplying the street car service with power. The successful transmission of b horse power over a distance of twenty-four miles, with a total loss of about 20 per cent, will silence those people who are so fond of shaking their heads d'smally when the trans. mission of power by electricity Is mentioned. Already a scheme 1s on foot to put in electrical plant on one branch of the S Joaquin river and transmit power over a dis- tance of forty-three miles to Fresno, In England they are discussing the possi- bility of generating electricity at the coal mines in Yorkshire and transmitting it to Manchester and otlier large towns. LONG AND SHORT OF IT. All the great transmission plants hav grown up in the last few years, for the first plant for this work was Installed in 1878 at Germalze, near Parls, France. The gen- erators were Gramme dynamos, and werce placed In the best sugar factory. 'From there the electricity was conveyed a distance of about 100 yards to a hoist driven by « Gramme machine used as a motor. The hoist transferred beets from the boats to the factory wagons. - In 1879 an expsriment in electrical plough- ing was tried with the Germalze plant. The current from the generators was conveyed to a plot of ground about a quarter of a mile from the factory. At each end of the plot was placed a heivy wagon containing a motor. The motors operated a cable which dragged a plough to and tro between the wagons. When It was necessary to move the wagons the motors would be thrown into gear with the axlea of the wagon wheels. The Ponemah cotton mills at Taftvills, Conn., are run by e.ectricity, transmitted four and a balf miles from the Shetucket river. A dam 525 feet long has beén thrown across the river and gives a head of thirty-two feet on the turbines. There is sufficlent water at all seasons to furnish at least 1,600 horse power. The turbines drive two 250 kilowatt three-phase generatcrs, which supply a cur- rent at 2500 volts. The line is composed of baro copper wires, supported on poles and fnsulat:d with ol insulators. At Taftville, in the basement of the mill, there are two synchronous three-phase motors, which drive shafting supplying power to 1,700 looms. An electrlc locomotive is also used to haul the freight cars from Taftville to the mills. Horses were formerly employed for this work and the cost was about 78 cents a car, while the elcetric locomotive does the same work &t & cost of 8 cents-a car. A COLORADO SAMPLE. The long distance transmission of power by the three-phase system at the Silver Lake near Silverton, Colo., lllustrates in a very marked way the Immense saving that ay be effected in places where coal is very @ear. These mines are at an altitude of about 12,000 feet above sea level, and furnish ore bearing both gold and silver. Before the electric plant was installed the mill was run by steam, and for this purpose coal had to be carried up the mountain by a long and difficult path. By the time the ccal got to the mill it cost $8.75 a ton Above Siiverton flo and R was decided to make use of its waters to develop power to be supplied to the mines. For this a great flume was bullt, nearly two miles long, which carries water at the rate elghteen fest and to support them by cables from towers about 1,000 feet apart. Accord- ing to the estimates of expert engineers, a double-track road on this plan could be con- structed for about §10,000 per mile. A Tha plan of the motor is also originai with Mr. Crell. The electricity is generated in the usual manner and applied from be- neath by a modification of the trolley sys- tem, and eminent electrical authorities con- firm the inventor's claim to a speed of 200 miles per hour. MERIT OF THE INVENTION. But the peculiar merit of the invention rests in the automatic working of the mail car, which Is planned to pick up and deposit mail at way stations without slacking speed and without endangering the safely of the mall matter. The car is provided with a compartment for each station. By the action of a switch in the track the doors to the compartments are opened, remaining open while passing over the magnetizcd section of track, giving time to scoop in the mail for each compart- ment as, deposited by the local postal au- thorities in the corresponding compartment at the stations. At the same time the mail for each station is deposited through a funnel arrangement in the bottom of the car by a similar automatic contrivance. The mail is to be packed in heavy rubber pouches, hay- Ing the necessary elasticity and strength to stand the motion. without injury to the con- tents, The great innovatfon of the plan is that there s to be no person on the train. The mall car does its own work, and the motor is operated from the power houses. Unless the power Is concentrated at som: one point where an immense water power, as at Niagara Falls, furnishes the cheapest means for generating electricity, the power housen will be scattered along the route about 200 miles apart, and each power house would have charge of all the traing on its division. The trains are op:rated with a dial, which 1= marked with all the stations, and divided to show the miles, and always indicates th: exact position of trains, the finger of the dial moving to correspond exactly with the train. If the train stops by accident or otherwise the finger stops. 1f for any reasoi. the operator wishes to stop the train he can do so by means of appliances in connection with it. This dial not only Indicates the movement of the train as it progresses, buu underneath the face it keeps a record of the same for future reference, o that at any time the position of any traiu at any min- ute of any day can be precisely given. To the ordinary mind this reads much like a fable, and many will profer to wait for actual working demonstration before being willing to endorse the possibility of the immense scheme. But It must be re- membered that the steam cars, the teie- graph and quite recently the telephone were Just as wonderful, and it rests with no one 1o say that it is absolutely impossible. TELESCOPING ELECTRICITY. The application of electricity to the tele- scope is beyond doubt the most novel use yet made of the power of the future. The great Yerkes forty-inch telescope, the rivalry of which with the famous Lick spyer of the sky has been S0 much discussed, will be provided with a system of electric motors by which its various motions may bs operated and regulated. - THe driving clock will be wound automatically, also by an eleetric motor, while in keeping with these electrical devices the elevating floor of the observing room—about seventy feet in diameter—will be made movable by means of bydraulic rams. The astronomical observatory of the future will resemble a great machine and dypamo shop. STREET ARC LIGHTING WITHOUT POLES. They have a neat way of hanging arc lamps in Munich. The lamps are suspended in the center of the street at a height of about thirty-three feet above the roadway. The weight of the lamp Is taken by a steel wire attached to the houses at either side. A pulley in the center of this wire.carries the wire by which the lamp is hoisted Into position, and which, after passiug horizontally to the house at one side, is let down to a ratchet wheel on the wall. The lighting effect of the lamp so hung is very pleasing, as there Is no shadow cast on the street. So even and unobtrusive is the light that the method of suspending the lamp is never sus- peoted untll late in the night, when every alternate lamp is extinguished. . Bucklen's Arniea Salve. The best salve in the world for cuts bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever soi tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, corn: al in eruptions, and positively or no pay required. It and ures piles, Is guaranteed to ive perfect saticfaction or money refunded. M 2,350 cuble feet per minute. down to a Nace where water 'nuumlouuuludl.o.. Tice 25 cects per box. For sale by Kuhn supporting company contains many good and well known names, and the first night, asid from its spscial distinction of open'ng the season at Omaha's oldeit playhouse, shoull be a notable occasion, At the Creighton two old Lyceum successe: vill be presented during the week by the me company which gave so pleasant a performance of “The Wife' recently at the same house. Mr, Stapleton’s people, who bear a Frohman guaranty, are for the most part young, intelligent, ambitious and ca- pable. Some of th.m rise even above the iverage of their companions to the level of the great stock companies. If they are as congenially cast in “Americans Abroad” and “The Charity Ball” as they were in “Thc Wife" the entertainment they ofter will be of a gratifylng order of excellence, A letter from Stewart Allen, now in his fourth season as stage manager for Sol Smith Russell, says of his star's appearance in “An Everyday Man," the comedy written for him by Marguerite Merington, the author of “Captain Lettarblair:” “Mr. Ressell scored a success. He plays the part of an casy-going, precise man, who is living in his home in New England, happy with his wite, when the usual relatives induce him"to go to New York to see a little life. To pay them back he goes and while there fefgns drunk- bank has lost. Our company is really ex- cellent this season, embracing Minnie Rad- cliffe, late leading lady for Joe Jefferson; Fanny Addison Pitt, for years with Dan Frobman; George Woodward, George Den- ham, Hudson, Mackay and others; fo you can see we ought to give a good performance of ‘The Rivals,” which we play Thursday.” Mr. Russell’ will appear in Omaha during the season and may be sure of his usual enthusiastic reception by a public which loves to see him in new parts, although it never tires of him in the old. Commencing with a matinee this_after- ncon, the John Stapleton company, under the direction of Gustave Frohman, opens a re- turn engagement of one week at the Crelgh- ton, producing “‘Americans Abroad” for the first part of the engagement and “The Charity Ball” during the latter half of the week. In “Americans Abroad” Sardou tells the story of Miss Florence Winthrop, who was a poor teaeher of music and drawing in New York. No one discovered in her a paragon, either of beauty or genius, but no'sooner had she fallen heir to millions and appeared with her rich uncle and cousin in the gay world of Parls than every fortune hunting scamp and a whole army of other flatterers were at her feet. Disgusted with the hollow- ness and transparent selfishness of . the saclety she had once envied, and with an eye to a certain young American artist, whose acquaintance she had made by chance,, she induces her uncle to invent a yarn of sulden tuin and to live up to it. In the second act, accordingly, the little band of milllon- alrés 1 revealed playing at poverty in a third floor lodging, a situation which s handled by Sardou with delightful dexterity and a constant play of humor. The artist proves true, contributes from Wi scanty in- come to lighten the supposed necessities of the heroine and finally justifies his faith by offering his hand. Here the tale might end, but a third act Is pecessary and it is secured by a thoroughly characteristic dev:ce. By means of a forgd dispatch Florenes is to suppose that her lover Is & mere fortune hunter after all, and this gives rise to aue of the strongest scenes of the play, In which she furiously charges him with deliberate hypocrisy and breaks off the en- gagement. He proves his innocance and when she implores pardon for the injustice he as- sumes the “high horse” kimself and refuses to marry a girl capable of such base sus. picions. * In the end, however, he is brought to his senses by a very plausible trick and the story ends happily. All the tasteful richness of the original productions may be counted upon. “The Derby Winner,” A, H. Spink's suc- cessful racing drama, fs booksd for & four night engagemsent at ie Cre'gaton theator, commencing with a matinee Sunday, Septem. ber 15. This attraction, with jts eliborate scenic effects and seven tho'oighbred horses, including Freeland, * the gr:nde. 1a horse in all the land,” ‘s an approprate e traction for fair week and should meet w.th the success a:corded it cn former vi,its, Tim Murphy s rehears Steer” at Hoyt's theater in in A Texas ew York. Mme. Herrmann is to introduce an e ectrical | dance in support of her husband, Herrmann the Great, Frank Daniéls has been photographed in 100 attitudes. He guarintees to strike each one of them when he appears short'y in the comic opera, “The Wizard of the Nile.” “Excelstor, Ji the latest Baroet bur- lesque, which s to have the distnc.don of opzning the Olympla theater, in course of construction In New York, will bring back to the stsge Fay Templeton as a man about town with an eyeglass and four valets, A most interest'ng theatrical cur'o In the | shape of a sult of mail worn by the late Gustavus Brooke, the famous English trage- dian, as Richard 1IL, has just arrivel on the Etruria. It is now the property of Thomas Keene, and he will wear ft when he appears as Richard at the Harlem Opéra house on Sep. tember 9. Joseph Jefferson has for several years ad- vised Thomas Q. Seibrooke to leave comic opera o favor of comedy, It has been sug- enness and saves some securities which his ! | hard THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY gested that subrooko"r 11 be well cast Calgb Plummer, a favorite part.of Jefferson e The time of Richatd Mansfleid's Garrick theater, New York, has posn filled solid un- til the Easter holldays. “ Following B. M. and Joseph Holland MF. Mangfield will himselt appear _at the theater, and then will come Nllmm Modjeska and a strong foreign attrac tion. o —_— It is many years since J. H. Stoddart hat been seen in melodrama—-not since his tri- umph In the role of the father of the wronged girl in “Lights o knndofl"—el\‘!plln. by the way, his appeararice in “Saints and Sin- ners,” In “The Sporting Duchess,” about to be produced by Charles Frohman in New York, Mr., Stoddart will play the part of a horse trainer, and again he has a wronged daughter. Mrs. Langtry has been compelled by the advice of her physician to abandon her forth- coming tour in this country, which was booked to commence at Mr. A. Hayman's Columbla theater, Chicago, October 21. The sole cause of this decision is the state of her health, her medical ad- visers having Imperatively forbidden her to incur the ° fatigues and discom- forts attendant on a prolonged tour during an American winter. Edward Michael, Mrs. Langtry's agent, who arrived from London on Saturday, brings the news that the lady was compelled to cancel some dates in Eng- land last summer, as she was unequal to the strain of even the comparative ease of traveling through the English provinces. “It is an il wind,” etc., and as a consequence of this breakdown a number of choice dates were thrown on the market and Henry French, who was to be Mrs. Langtry's mana- ger here, of course will have no end of ap- plications to fill them. Where the pretty girls are this season Efffie Shannon with a “City of Pleasure,” Mary Hampton with “Sowing the Wind," Grace Kimball and Marie Shotwell with B. H. Sothern, Katherine Grey with “The Great Diamond Robbery,” Bertha Creighton with the Hollands, Grace Huntington with Thomas Q. Seabrooke, Dorothy Morton with the *“Wiz- ard of the Nile,” Anna Robinson with a “Temperance Town,” Margaret Robinson with “‘Shenandoah,” Isabel Irving with the Lyceum Stock company, Dorothy Sherrod with A Texas Steer,’ Mary Timberman with Thomas W. Keene, Maud Durbin with Otis Skinner, Annie O'Neill with William H Crane, Josephine Hall and Odette Tyler with the “Gay Parisians,” Madeline Bouton with Robert Hilliard, Caroline Miskel with a *“Con- tented Woman,” Minnie Radeliffe with Sol Smith Russell, Minnie Dupree with “Burmah.” E. M. Holland is 47 years old. He began his theatrical career at Mr. John Wood's shows to Omaha has aroused a great deal of ager curiosity. It Ily known that the show has been greatly enlarged since |8 last visit, but, even without this growth, no show would have been so cordially welcomed to Omaha. The mansgement has alwhys kept faith _with the people, and it is a pleasure for The Bee to bear witness to this fact, During the present season the show has had a remarkable tour. The season began with & phenomenal engagement in Chlcago, during which forty-five consecutive performan were given to audlences aggregating nearly a million people. The show was & revela- tion to all who witnessed the performances and the universal verdict was tha nothing to compare with it had ever been seen In that city. The conserva- tive Tribune declared it was the most satls- factory and complete circus ever seen in Chicago, and every other Chicago newspaper indorsed this verdict. In St. Louls twelve performances were given to audiences that crowded the Immense hippodrome pavilion afternoon and night, and the Globe-Democrat of that city voiced the general sentiment when it declared that “no such evolution of the circus had ever before been seen in St. Lout Indianapolis, Detrolt and other large cities followed in rapid succession, and then came an extensive tour of New York and New England, during which every im- portant city in that section of the country was played to the largest audiences ever at- tracted by a circus. Twelve consecutive performances were given In Boston, and the audiences were so large as to excite wonder even in that nota- ble amusement loving city, The success of the show was pronounced. No circus that ever exhibited there ever recelved such an ovation from the public, or such unstinted praise from the newspapers, The Boston Herald commended it editorfally as the greatest of all American amusement institu- tions. The Globe declared that it was “the best circus by all odds that ever visited Boston,” and the Journal called it the “best show in existence.” In every other sect of the country visited by Ringling Bre great circus this year the verdict has be the same, and no such triumph has ever been known in the history of amusements anywhere. It is evident that such a success as this must be founded on merit. None but a really great exhibit'on could £o thoroughly commend itself to the public. The people of this city will have an opoprtunity to judge for themselves to what an extent these en- comiums have been deserved, for the per- formances here will be given In every re- spect the same as during thg memorable Chicago, St. Louis and Boston engagements, and there is every reason to believe that the verdict of this city will be a simple repeti- tion of that pronounced by all other cities, that Ringling Bros.! world's greatest shows now stand at the head of arenic en- terprises in the United States. As already stated in The Bee, the list of performers is a remarkable one. Troubled with Periodical Dysentery. Henry P. Silvera of Lucea, Jamaica, West India Island, says: “Since my recovery from an attack of dysentery some ten years ago, It comes on suddenly at times and makes Olympic theater, New York, in 1863, as call boy. For thirteen years he was at Wallack's theater. In 1880 he appeared in London Returning to America he signed with Daniel Frohman at the Madison Square theater and remained there when A. M. Palmer assumed control. He continued with Mr, Palmer until the close of the season of 1894, He the original Captain Redwood, the detective in “Jim the Penman,” Mr. Gardner in “Captain Swift,” Gregory in “A Pair of Spectacles” and Colonel Carter in *‘Colonel Carter of Cartersville.” His expertness and versatility are indicated by those performances, Joseph Holland 1s 35, and has been on the stage seventeen years. His first appearance was with George Rignold in “Henry V.' His first important part was Antonlo in “The Mercl t of Venice.'} He then played a brief cngagoment at Wallack's in New York. In 1879-80 he supported John T. Raymond; in 1880-81 he was with his brother, George, and the following two seasons with McKee Rankin, He went fo California with Clara Morris and played in the California Theater Stock company. In 1886 he became a mem- ber of Augustin Daly's company, playing thres years with him in this country, Eng- land, ireland and Scotland. In 1891 he was engaged by Charles Frohman to play the leading role in Mr. Frohman's comedy com- pany, with which he' made emphatic suc- cesscs in “Mr. Wilkingon's Widows," “Set- tled Out of Court” and other farcial come. dies, demonstrating remarkable ability as 4 light comedian. “Dorcas,” Miss Hall's latest success, is an operatic comedy by Harry and Edward Paul- ton; authors of “Erminie” and *“Niobe.” It is a comedy of ths type of “Charlie’s Aunt,” “Wilkingon's Widows,” “Too Much John- son,” etc., and is said to be replete with wit, humor and comedy situations. For they presentat'on he e the management is having an entire new production of scen:ry and properties of an elaborate character and for several weeks past the artists and mechanics have been busily engag:d in pre- paring for the production, which will be under the personal direction and manage- ment of Mr. George B. McLellan. Miss Hall will have ample opportunity to display her versatility in the trio of characters that she impersonates in “‘Dor- cas.” She is first seen as a_peddler boy, a happy-go-lucky type of road gallant, nex: as Dorcas, the mischievous, fun-loving wife of the inn-keeper, and last as Lo Grande Dame, Lady Honoria, a leader of fashion. The locality of the comedy is in England, which affords ample opportunity for stage setting and picturesque beautiful costuming. Miso Hall's engagement at the Boyd wili begin this evening and last three nights, which will be the formal opening of the theater. The sale of seats opened yesterday and the demand was large. John Grifith, an ambitious young star, will essay the role of Mephisto in Henry Irving's version of “Faust,” at Boyd's on the last three evenings of this week. “‘Faust,” well played, appeals to the intelligent classes and is one of the best dramatic works upon the stage. Mr. Griffith, judgng from his efforts last season, will give a good produc- tion, both from the dramatic and scenic standpoint. ~ This young star “presents a version of this masterpiece thateclings more closely to the great poet's masterwork than that of any other version now extant. The scenie and electrical eff:cts used in the pre- sentation are new, the resources of the spectacular art being drawn upon to make them perfect; particularly in the weird Brocken scone it is claimed that nothing finer has bean shown in connection with this drama. All in all, the production ought to be an admirable one. A serious’ effort of this kind is heartily to be commended in these times, when things are so do- cidedly run to cheap farce comedy. Ed B. Jack, better known perhaps as “Silence and Fun' Jack, manager of Roland Reed, Is in the city, and is stopping at the Millard hot:l. Mr. Reed, who is one of the most popular comedlans that come to Omaha, will play at Boyd's theater during the whole of fair week, opening his engage. ment on Sunday evening, September 15, in his new pley, “Th: Politician.” “Lend Me Your Wife,” and “Innoesnt as a Lamb” will also be played during the engagement, Pain’s “Vicksburg? continues to be the attractfon at Courtland lake, where it is drawing large crowds each night. The at- tack upon the fort and the blowing up of the gunboats please theipéople, while to the old veterans of the '60'a the nolse of musketry and cannon brings back remembrances of the civil war. The coldred people and scenes in the mimie city remind the spectators of every- day life In the south. e The old show lot ‘af, Twentleth ard Paul streets will precent a busy sccns today Ringling Pros.’ long-expic'ed and much ex- ploited Wcrld's Greatest shows arrivel in the clty at an early houg this morning, #nd te- fore noon all the immense einvas pavilions | will be crected and the barren 1t t ansformed Into a busy c'ty of tept:. A b'g thow 'n Sunday quarters always has & pecliar inte-- est to the public. It Is a pleture of ergan- ized nomadic life such as ean be scen nowhere else. The big tents, with thelr mys- terious contents; the roar of the lions, the elephants, the mass've wagons ard charl ts, and, above all, the glamour that overhangs this world of lite and color, all have a fascination to define, but none the less pctent. During the former visits of this greit show the hippodrome pavilion has been erected on Sunday, in order to give the public an oopor tun'ty to examine its vast dimensicns, and the rule; It is stated. will be followed tcd y. The horse tents will also be cpen to the fub le, 80 that all who desire may go through rnd examine the beautiful stock, for which this show 18 so justly noted. me very weak. A teaspoonful of Chamber- lain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhosa Remedy taken in a little water gives me relief. I could get a dozen testimonials from people here who have been cured by this remedy.” BOGUS €O FEE, Various Counterfeit Com the Market. Coffee exerts marked and important phys- fological effects of a beneficial character on the human system, says the New York Tri- bune, and although many consumers deliber- ately prefer an admixture of chicory with coffee, It §s questionable whether the proper- ties that chicory does possess are not really injurious. It is not too much to state that more than one-half of the beverage which masquerades as coffee and is sold under that name is unworthy of the appellation, and that the majority of the people of this country live and die without knowing the true taste of tha' exhilarating drink. A combination of one part of Mocha, one part of Rio and two parts Java or Maracaibo will yleld a heavy, rich, strong-flavored cof- ntions on FREE PORT OF COPENHAGEN Its Advantages to American Merchants De- tailed by Oharlgs J. Murphy. VIEWS OF THE ''CORN BROD" COURIER Cheap and Quick Service, Expenses and Free Access Goods=Superiority of the Port Redueea to Among the recent arrivals from Europe is Charles J. Murphy, who has been several years abroad as a special representative of | the United States Department of Agriculture. Mr. Murphy has traveled all over the conti- nent, including Russia and the British idl!.‘ investigating agricultural conditions, and open. | ing markets for Americin products, especially Indian corn. He has now retired from the | government service, but holds a commission from the state of lowa to look after that com monwealth's agricultural interests on the other side. He s also repre sentlng Amerlean merchants and manufacturers in Burope. Mr. Murphy has spent the last eighteen months in Copen- hagen in an official capacity and he speaks enthusiastically of the advantages the re- cently opened ftree port there offers to Amerlcans seeking trade in northern and central Europe. “My coun'rymen do not seem to realize what " exceptional facilities for foreign com- merce this port holds out to them,” sald Mr. Murphy to a representative of the New York Nordly: “The new harbor Is thirty feet deep and is at all times of the year night and day ac- cessible to the largest steamers afloat. Copen hagen is the greatest commercial center on the Baltic and its importance as a trading port dates back to the carliest times. The tree port Is especlally intended to aid in the unhampered distribution of goods to the many smaller cities and towns on the Baltic and adjacent waters, “The Baltic is nearly twice as large Lakes Erie, Michigan, Ontario, Huron Superior combined. “Just consider the value of this free port to our merchants, Our products can be placed on the Kuropean markets at a lower rate of expense from Copenhagen than from any other port in the world, charges are less than any other Buropean city and, in fact, by means of this free port Copenhagen be comes in a sense a plece of international ter ritory, into which one can export or im port anything without any interference by customs officers, Hence owners of merchan dise have at all times absolutely free access to their goods, not as in our country, wi they are kept in bonded warehouses.” “Copenbagen thus offers a quick and easy ommunication with the rest of the world. Lines of steamers go to Great Britain, Ger- many, France, Holland, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Egypt, Greece, Turkey and the Russian Black Sea provinces, besides the Thingvalla and Scandia lines have weekly service between this port and Copenhagen. Freights and storage charges are lower than in any other city. Cheap insurance—about % per cent—while rates in San Francisc are between 1 and 1% per cent per year. “The Danish merchants are progressive and prospercus, well disposed towards Americans and in all my relations with them I have fcund them amiable and hospitable to a de- gree. Nowhere in Europe are our country- men received more kindly. “They need our goods and we have them tc spare, hence the two people should get to gether quickly. They consume largely of the cercals they raise, in feeding hogs and cattle, and import those for their own consumption. The Scandinavians manufacture 40,000,000 pounds of margarine and they are so frugal they eat this and export their splendid but- ter; last year Denmark exported $28,000,000 of ‘food products more than it imported. Since my stay in Copenhagen they have as and fee, but not as smooth and pleasing as if the Rio were omitted. When a smooth and delicate-flavored beverage is alesired, use one-third Mocha and two-thirds Java. When it s desired strong and heavy, use Rio and Maracalbo, or temper the former by com- bining it with some of the milder kinds. Re- cent experiments confirm the opinion that coffee, which is an aid to digestion, should be an infusion and not a decoction, for particular reason the after-dinner , especially, should be an infusion, a§ the caffeine of ‘coffee, which is the elemen' most stimulating, is_ best drawn out by keep the coffee at the boiling point, but without boiling, for a few minutes before serving. Prolonged boiling extracts the as- tringent property, tannin. For the ideal cup of coffee take one part genuine Arablan Mocha and two parts finest Java; roast each sep- arately, and blend well together; grind fine, immediately before preparing. Fill an ord] nary teacup two-thirds full of the coffea with one raw egg and the shell. Place the whole in a strainer or percolator, and pour on one quart of briskly boiling water. Let it stand for ten minutes where it will keep hot with out boiling, ard serve with cream and sugar to sult, or, better still, with hot milk. Should a vessel without a strainer, or percolator, be used, let the infusion boil up once, and pour in a cup of cold water, after which let it stand for at least five minutes to settle thoroughly. The beverage will be brown, creamy, rich, fragrant and delicious. In Cuba, where the most delicious coffee obtainable anywhere is found, it is pre- pared by first half-filling a coarse flannel bag with finely pulverized, roasted coffee, and suspendimg it from a hook over the pot or other vessel. Cold water is poured on the bag at intervals until the entire mass is well saturated, then the first drippings, which have fallen from the receptacle, are poured again over the bag, until the liquid becomes almost thick and very black. One teaspoon- ful of this extracted liquid, placed in a cup of boiling milk, will yleld a draught of coffee that 1§ simply delicious—a nectar fit for the gods. In Cuba this flannel bag hangs day and night on the wall, the process of pour- ing on the cold water and allowing it to drip being almost ceasless in its operation. All classes, ages and conditions drink coffee there as freely as we do water, Connolsseurs maintain that the roasting of coffee is best done at home, all risk of adul- teration and staleness being avoided by this method; a suspected sample of ground coffee, however, may be detected by the following simple experiment: (1) If the ground coffee hardens or ‘' when placed between the fingers it is adulterated, probably with chicory. (2) Place a sample of the susp coffee on top of the water in a wine-gla: it it part sinks and part floats it is undoubt. edly adulterated. Again, place a spoonful of the coffee In a white botile of cold water and shake well for a few minutes. If the sample 1s pure it will rise to the top, scarcely color- ing the watéh 1f adulterat:d, it will sink and discolos the fluid for the following rea sons: Pure coffee Is enveloped in an o'ly bstance which prevents the grounds from absorbing the water; the adulterant, being free from oil, quickly becomes saturated The action of coffec as a diet is directed chiefly to the nervous system, producing a warming cordial impression on the stomach, which is quickly followed by a diffused and agreeable n:rvous excitement wich extends itself to the cerebral function, giving rise to increased vigor of the imagination and in- tellect—this, too, without the subsequent action and stupor, such as follow after the use of liquor or other narcotics, -dt contains atial principles of nutrition far exceed- importance its exhilarating properties, and 18 one of the most valuable articles of fiod for sustaining the system in certain protracted and wasting diseases. The mental exhilaration, physical activity and buoyancy which coffee causes explain the fondness displayed for it by some scien- tists, poets, scholars and other men devoted to writing and thinking. Nearly all men of literary habits who exhaust much nerve force use it constantly. It was Voltaire who raplied, on being told by his physician that coffee was a slow polson: “Yes, I know; it has been polsoning me for over seventy sears, T a— Electric Ditters, Electric Bitters is a medicine suited for any season, but perhaps more generally needed in the spring, when the languid exhausted fecl- ing prevalls, when the liver is torpid and sluggish and the need of a tonic and altera- tive is felt. A prompt use of this medicine has often averted long and perhaps fatal billous fevers. No medicine will act more surely in counteracting and freeing the system from the malarial poison. Headache, A West ern Factory ... THE DEMPSTER MILL MFG. CO. of Beatrice, Neb. 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COLLINS’ PAINLESS OPIUM ANTIDOTE begun to use Indian corn for distilling and feeding purposes to a large extent, and they are also learning its value as human food Our native wines and fruits are well received, and it makes an American’s heart beat faster with patriotic pride to see exposed for sale far in the north of Europe, California’s mag- nificent products as well as those from other states. I may say they were almost un known before the Agricultural department tegan its work abroad. “To give another idea of the value of Co- penhagen as & distributing center, it is only necessary to say that the United Steamshin company alone has 108 steamships coming and going from that port to the different parts of Europe. The time to England ie mly twenty-four hours by rail and steam Shippers of California wines, brandies, fruit Indian corn, corn chop feed, cotton seed oil cake, agricultural implements, furniture hardware and other staples, can thus storc their goods there at a very small expense. and as orders come, send them cheaply and easily to any port in Europe. They can gel liberal advances from the banks of Copen- hagen at from 3 to 4 per cent interest. One of the banks, “The National,” has a capital of $30,000,000. The Landmandsbank, and other large banks have a capital of $10,000,- 000 each. “Expert attendants are provided for the storage of wines and brandies and oth-r fa cilities are given for keeping them in proper condition. There s a good demand for wines and liquors there, s the consumption s esti- mated at threc-quarters of a galion per capita per year. “Here are a few statistics to fllustrate the vast volume of imports to Copenhagen. The importation of Indian corn into Denmark alone averages 5,000 000 bushels a year, a quantity which will fill fifty steamers of each 3,000 tons burden. I have seen one steamer from the deep water port of Velasco, Tex. bring in as much as 2,500 tons of cottonsecd oil cake at one t'me. I'have also szen as high as 2,200 sacks of Indian corn grits and corn flakes for brewing come over in one shipment, and that was when they first began to use it. Copenhagen takes 10,000,000 pounds of to: bacco, 17,000,000 pounds of fruit, 54,000,000 pounds of flaxseed, clover, timothy and other seeds in large quantities, “Another fact to be taken into cons'dsraticn is that the population of the countries tribu- tary to Copenhagen, which has of itself nearly 500,000, s 80,000,000 of peopl=—Denmark, Nor- way and Sweden 10,000,000, Finland and the Russlan Baltic provinces 30 000,000, the Ger- man Baltic provinces 15,000,000 and Great Britain 85,000,000, to which last mentioned country Copenhagen exported last year 97,- 000,000 pounds cf butter. ““The point I would strongly urge on our ex- porters is the fact that the free port at Copen- hagen gives a grand opportunity for them to store their goods abroad. so that they cin fill orders without delay. For Instance, an agri- cultural ‘mplement manufacturer informed me that he received an crder by cabe a few days ago and was able to fill it at once by de- livering it from the free port at Copenhagen where he had stored some stock. They have also erected a splendid American elevater. “To show what an undertaking the free port is, it Is sufficient to say that it cost $7,000,000. Fourteen hundred acres mcre are to be adled to it, and the Dines are wondering why the Americans are not alive -to the spleidid chance it ofiers for the development of thair trade, “If the press of the gountry will st'r up our people on this important rubject 1 am sure that our export business would be largely in- creased thereby.” . (ad). Ceniral Roarding & day school for girls 1 Mile. FROMENT, Mis. C. L. MORGAN, Principals, Fall term beging October 1, 180, = Prospeotug, sent on application. Dr.D.G.GOLDING ) SPECIALIST. (s tat mall fres and confidential. Cor promptly answe icine furnished from office. 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