Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 3, 1901, Page 9

AFFAIRS 1N SOUTH OMAHA Rlight Proapeot of Immediate Action & tive to High Echool Building, GOES OVER UNTIL SOME TIME NEXT YEAR Voting of Bonds Appears (o e (he Only Way Out of the Financial In Which the Muniei- ality ¥ Itaelr, There is little prospect of anything b 4006 in the matter of the erectins nt High school building this year. Ace to the books of the treasurer of (b, district there 15 now on depos to warrants drawn by the j secretary the sum of §1 $um there must be deducted 11 for the additional ground for School site. This reduces the total in the treasury to a little over $9,000. With thi amount of money on hand the board can do nothing in regard to bullding a High school or even a ward bullding The entire matter of a High school structure will therefore have to be left over Lo next year when the liquor license appropriation may be available, The re an overlap in the school funds next the same as this and the on of the dilemma is the voting This bond proposition is not a majority of the board as the district s not now bonded at al The school- houses are about the only pleces of public property In Bouth Omaha which a not inortgaged and there scems to be a feel- Ing among the people against placing a mortgage on the school district property which is valued at not less than $230,000 On account of the failure to erect eve & portlon of the proposed High school bullding this year the Board of Education will be called upon to rent a number of outside rooms for the accommodation of puplls. This will be do under the di rection of Superintendent McLean, who will subjec resident and From this $6,500 paid the High way out bonds, desired by select the locations which he deems most | advantageous Bond Propositl That the financial condition of the city of South Omaha s precarious is evident to all who are conversant with municipal affairs. Just now the finance committee is figuring how to get out of the tangle and the voting of bonds seems to be the only solution. There {s an existiog over- lap of about $42,000 in current expenses which must be pald by an issue of general indebtedness bonds. Then there is the amount due on paving, grading and curb- ing districts declared fllcgal by the courts which may run close to $60.000. The pro- posed’ bonds for the socalled stock yards sewer to the river willycost not less than $60,000 and the extensin of the N street sower, as proposed, will not cost less than $10,000. According to the charter the mayor and counell may issue refunding bonds at any time, but new bonds be voted upon by the people. The svggestion has been made that apecial election be held for the purpose of voting on the bonds, other than refucding, but on account of the expense of a speclal election the question will most likely go over until the regular election in Novem- ber. The general bonded debt of the city now amounts to $307,000 and the district debt to $225,000. In addition there is the float- ing debt of nearly $50,000, which must be provided for when an issue is authoried. Christian Assoclation Matters. Since the departure of W. H. Overton, who served as secretary for the local Young Men’s Christian association for a number of years, & ’fécling ‘has sprung up which tends toward the casting aside of the apron strings now borne by the local assocla- tion. only been a branch o the Omaha Young Men's Christian assoclation. Things do not seem to be goldg just as they ought to and the suggestion has been made by Editor Merrill of the Presbyterian that the local assoclation dissolve its relations with the Omaha soclation and incorporate for itselt. Some money pledges given for the support of the assoclation here are not forthcoming at this time and the manage- ment of affairs in Omaha does not appear to be satistactory to the local members. It 1s probable that there will be a dissolu- tlon of the Omaha and South Omaha rela- | tions and that the local assoclation will conduct Its affairs as it sees fit. Magle City ¢ » Mr. and Mrs. K. Rutter of Albright re- ort the birth of a son. PMr. and Mrs. Allen Trapp, 3123 8 street, announce the birth of a son Miss Lorena Johnson Is spending her vacation at Lake Monona, Wis A son_has been born to Mr. and Mra Hugh Kerwin, 284 South Twenty-fourth street. The Third Ward Colored Republican club will_ meet tonight at Kell's hall, Twenty- fourth and N streets ok Vi ctor Jones 18 10oking after a cas: emathiox. 1o the Tord " family At Thirty- clghth and L streets, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Ashe left last night Canada, where they will visit friends a couple of weeks. K. Schafer has gone to Manila, where cepted a position as a bookkeeper avy department. oot ev. Andrew Carrick of Holdrege, Neb., whil occupy e Wheelers pulple at. the Preebyterian church Sunday morning An important meeting of the Southwest Improvement club will be held on Monday evening at the hall, Thirty-elghth and streets. Mr. and Mrs. Miles Welsh are expedted home from the west. They were calle® back from their Colorado trip by the serious ill- ness of their children. George F. Paul of the firm of Paul & Burth has won out in the land drawing at Fort 8ill. He i the second South Omaha resident to win a prize Prof. MeLean, the new superintendent of public Instruction, has many riends among the people it is predicted that he will make & Successful sup The Anti-Saloon league still continues to hold meetings every week or £0. No pros tests were made by the league against the granting of liquor licenses by the cour Colonel J. €. Sharp, secretary of Union Stock . Yards company, and brother, Harry Sharp tved n number of condolence messages yvesterday on the death of their mother intendent 1l the Soldier Pardoned at Fort Meade, FORT MEADE, 8. D, Aug. 2 —The commanding officer of this fort has remitted the unexpired term of sentence in the case of W. F. Thefault, the private who was to be confined one year. He was being taken under guard by a sentry when the sentry was thrown from his horse and rendered lnsensible. The prisoner brought the guard to consclousness and reported the matter to headquarters. The actions of the priscner were so unusual that he has Y-en granted his freedom ditor Appeinted to the Army. STURGIS, 8. D, Aug (Spectal.) 1. Connor, editor of the Sturgis Press, one of the best known newspaper men In the state, has accepted the position of commis eary sergeant of the Thirteenth cavalry which {s being recruited at Fort Meade His wife, assisted by Edward Hanlin, will continue the publication of the paper. Con- nor will be stationed at the fort. He will rocelve $40 & month and rations Injured Engineer May RAWLINS, Wyo, Aug 2.—(Speeial} Englneer August Johnson, who was run over by a train at Wilkins siation near D. Recover Green River several days ago, will probably | recover. At the time of the aceldent it was belioved that Johnson had no chance to recover, but after Iving In a comotose condition for three days he has regained conselousness and the surgeons now say he bas & chance to live. | | | | must | It appears that South Omaha has | his | Iarge pectal.) | OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY AUGUST IN THE FIELD OF ELECTRICITY |2/sbt bis nervous svatem was o upset be | Organized War is Declared n on Tele- phone Rates Chiens Manufacturers’ a of Chi having exhausted all peaceful means a reduction of telephone rates, to try a war in the courts. The The tion 880, secure propos pre thus Iaine the grievance “The Manufacturers' association feels that the prices now charged for telephones » t0o high and that these prices are being violation of law The highes: the te The wrgument of the to the effect tha m heen adopted by it , Justify an extra now that exfsten | charged in price allowed by $125 per annum telephone company proved methods ha foes not, in my Ji t charge, The great volume of bueine lone by the company as compared fone at the beginning of its 1akes necessary improved meth | “Great im nts are constantly | ing made f manufactu machinery 1 talled. With new machinery goo made cheaper and better. A wi arket {s thus ted goods are consumed and prices are thereby lowered, for the greater the volume the smaller the profit necessary on each article be this ore | "The up-to-date business man knows that year | every Improvement is necessary to enab him to keep pace with the increased | pectations of the public. He never | tates to adof it it will I | his output a price to the | wumer. | "“This suit will be carried to the court of | lat resort if necessary and an pt to substitute a poor servics or in an, em | barracs the telephone-using publl ount of such proceedings will mee Ftent 1t deserves blishn of a | ment of which mands of the [ ex 1 ase on h a new A lower th on the de n the es- the may re W would try publie 3 manage to meet the de ectrlc Current in the Home, Not the least of the attractive clectrle )ighting is the facility with which current can be turned on and off In living in the majority of cases 1t .8 about as easy to use keys in the lamp sockets as switches set In the walls, but in cellars and basements it 18 much better to have keyless sockets placed out of reach and to light and tingush the lamps from the head of #talrs. There are two reasons for the em- ployment of keyless sockets In cellars, con- venience and safety, and cither {a sufficient for the exclusion of the regular key socket in laundries, coal bins and furnace rooms featuros rooms ox- one goes down the stairs and have the cellar illuminated than to spend two or three minutes fumbling In the dark for the lamp fixtires There also 1s an advantage in not being obliged extinguish the light before leaving the cellar and thus avolding stumbling up the steps in the darkness. Any one famillar with electrioity will appreclate the second reason. Electricity Is no more dangerous than gas or kerosene | ofl: In fact one seldom hears of accidents in dwellings due to the use of incandescent lamps. Suffocation by gas is very common rence. It is not long ago that the side of a house was blown out. Carelessness, as a rule, 1s the cause of these accidents, but the public continues to burn gas as it there never had been any trouble. Kero- sene also has worked havoe when improp- erly handled. Lamp explosions, however, have not lessened the consumption of ofl. There are few cases of harm to persons using Incandescent lamps, during the period of eighteen years which they have been used. There is practically no probability of high tenslon current getting past the converters into houses. But there Is no rule without its exception and it costs little or nothing to secure protectfon in case the house wiring should be overcharged. It fa not wise to handle electric fixtures, par- ticularly In the dark, while standing on damp concrete or earth. Few cellars have dry wooden floors and the wisdom of con- trolling the current from the head of the stairs, where there is no dampness to in- vite grounding, is manifest, Reports show that persons who used | overloaded wires on the upper floors were | not shocked, while those who were knocked | down stood in the cellar on a damp earth floor. Crossed currents, as stated, are of such rare occurrence that there Is no occa- sion for panic, but, while convenience and safety are enhanced at the same time, it s well to operate cellar lamps in the man- ner described rather than to use keys in the lamp sockets. Photographing Sound. seribes a photographic reproduction of sound. The method s new and of wonder- ful beauty. He photographs upon a con- tinuous moving roll of semsitive film a “‘speaking arc,” or arc contalning a tele- phone transmitter circuit in shunt, and reproduces the sound by projecting light through this film on a selentum cell In cir- cuit with a telephone recelver and a bat- tery. In the tranemitter cireuit and affecting the light emanating fiom the arc fs photo- graphed as alternate shadings and lighten- ings on the film and these light varlations impinging upon tho sensitive selenium cause corresponding fluctuations In fts re- sistance and reproduce the sound in the re- celving telephone with Rreat accuracy. It 16 etated that the reproduction in sensitive- ness and clearness is superior to that ren- dered by the Poulsen telegraphone. An the flm can be made very long without reach- 1ug a considerable welght it possesses great portability and has advantages over efther the wax cylinder or the cross-magnetized steel wire. Another striking advantage is found in the fact that any desired number of reproductions can easily and cheaply be made from the original film, ¥ “Did you ever stand looking at a plece of electrical machinery or a wire you knew | was charged with & heavy current and ex- perien. & strong desire to touch 1t?'" asked & well known electrician of a group of friends. “'Well, that is one of the most peculiar things about electricity, and one 1 bave never heard explained. It s a fact, nevertheless, that almost everyone, on see. Ing some bit of electrical apparatus ex- | Posed to view, wants to put a finegr on it to ‘see If it 1s loaded.’ Time and again I have heard people say they have a desire more or less strong to touch the electric switches in bulldings lighted by electricity. There | they are on the wall, within easy reach, fn. iocent enough to all outward appearances Everyone knows there Is danger in the touch and turns away, but the desire iy there Jjust the same. You would think, however, that men who work with ele tricity und know {ts dangers would train themeelves to overcome this strange at | traction. But 1 have known instances where electricians have had to actuallly turn and run from a machine to prevent glving away to this peculiar fnfluence. Not long ago a man who was em- ployed to sit and wateh the switchboard In one of the big power plants fell & vietim to this Influence. As he felt the desire growing stronger he moved his chair back from the board Instead of getting used to the work he became more afrald of it Each day this desire to walk up and touch oBe of those switches grew stronger. At the end of two weeks this young man re- elgned his place. He could not stand the strain. It required ali his will power 1o restraln him while he was on duty, and at ated by a Dynamo, the | It is infinitely easler to turn a switch as | and gas explosions are of frequent occur- | Tn a German publication Herr Rubmer de- | Of course, every varfation produced | could get no rest. He realized that to touch &ny sw'tch before him meant instant death and his only safety lay ln getting away from the board altogether. 1 have not & | doubt that many deaths from electric shock | are brought about in just this way | In an idle moment a person will cateh | #lght of a switch, & wire or some other | ent of the Manufacturers' aesociation | | vietim I ns of the ordinance | | bet | that he cc | to ne the hard rubber | | | | | | {1amp 18 in most cases gen heavily charged bit of apparatus; this strange desire to touch it will come over him and {n a moment of weakness he gives way and io an instant is dead. We fre- quently read of accidental electrocutions | when there is no apparent reason why the should have touched a live wire, belleve such cases are attributable di- rectly to this influence. Just what it fs | or how it works I do not know, but should | ke to have a satisfact explanation.” | Muste fr Lamp. | A Are time may not be far distant when | itles will be furnished with music at | rner. A curlous discovery, which om much electrical research and ent at the central technical college v and gulids of London fnstitute, °d by W. Duddell. The ot Is the blaze of light which exists veen two sticks of carbon placed end ou and between which the electric current | flo Two different kinds of carbon are employed in the arc lamps. In the | kind the carbon stick s made hollow and fa filled with a powdery materfal, while in the * Kind the carbon Is homogeneous, T er type of carbon is called ‘cored,” solid.” cored carbon arc possesses no | It is deaf to all persuasion, he wolld carbon arc, he finds, is meuthplece of a flute, ready to The note of the flute de- | e length of the pipe. the position of the fingers | the raising of the keys, whereas the given out by the solid carbon are de s on the nature of a bypass or “shunt t acrc carbe ell, having evolved these facts keyboard of two 14 play es. In ing this before the sclentific b arranged four the The our every resul exper of the « I8 r course, Jor are, Now, sical soul arranged a actave nstrat of the the self-induction an. the int" clreuit he played anthem upon the electric light Now, this keyboard " he explaincd, “may | be placed at a distance from the are light, | Just a8 the current itself supplied to an are| 4 by a ma- | Ase d by city in Bational varying chine at a considerable distance. Hence,” eaid the sclentist, “we have this | great possibility—namely, that the ordinary | arc lamps at present used in lighting a hall an be played on not merely by a performer Who is in the hall ftself, but who may be | out side It somewhere ¢ Consequently an audience which is paying no more at- tentlon to the arc lamps hung up abo it than it would to a gasoller may be sud- denly astoenished to hear a tune coming from the space around it." Mr. Duddell has also shown that the electric light arc can be used as a tele- phone receiver. He has already used it for the receiving of telephone currents from a transmitter spoken into fn another part of the bullding Carrent Notes. 1 the use of the telephone has rapldly here there are countries In which telephones are in ‘ar more general use than here. In Stockholm, Bweden, one person in every fourteen has @ telephone, there being more than 20,000 tlephones in a population of 271,00, Every tobacconist’s store is a public call office and the rates are very low. England 18 far behind in the matter of telephones, thers being only 1 to every @ of the population, In little Switzerland there 18 1 to every 112 persons, but far more business 1s done over {he telephone in England than In Switaer- and, Experiment Althos increas in_ Europ covering three years carried on by Prof. Vassellere of La Gironde show that calcium carbide destroys the disease of the "grapevine known as phyiloxera. Carbide s found to be both cheaper and more satiafactory than carbon bisulphide, The materfal employed is siack, waste and dirty carbide—practically the refuse of the works—or else material rich in r)\on horus compounds. The phosphoretted hydrogen liberated when this substance Is in contact with damp soll is the agent that kills phylloxera and mildew. In vincyards the best results have been had by the une of 400 pounds of carbide per acre, handfuls being burfed in holes about eight inches deep. In Herr Plecher's gas battery the electro- motive force 18 produ ced by the combina- tion of hydrogen and oxygen, this belng brought about by ‘using the well known properties of finely divided platinam. The battery consists of a series of chambers made of clay soaked with chloride of plati- num and baked hard. Within and without are wires to conduct the current generated when the hydrogen is admitted to the in- terior. The air outside supplies the oxy- gen. When the gases meet walls of the clay chambers they combine and form water, which is drained away. No electrolyte 1s needed. An induction coll placed in the circult increases the combina- tion of the gases, English gas engineers, like those in other countries, are being mich exercised in ie- ard o the Increased adoption of electricty or light and heat. A speaker at a meeting of gas engineers held In Manchester took | up the subject of the effect which the rup- | ply of electricity has upon the sales of as. In the domain of public street light- | ng, he sald, the gas engineers have noth- ing" whate: to fear from electricty |if | they avail themselves to the utmost of the | possibilities of the Incandescent gas burn- | ers. He stated that in Bradford ail the gas lamps had been converted Into fncan- descents, and now twice the amount of light was given by the same burners at a slightly less total cost. The alteration had | been so satisfactory fo the public that It | had been decided not to erect any addl- tlonal arc lamps at present. BUNCH OF NORTHERN PACIFIC Two Hundred Sh Days to NinetyeFive, with Ten NEW YORK, Aug. 2—Two hundred shares of Northern Pacific common stock s0ld on the Stock exchange today at 95, “seller ten days.” The last previous sale was made at 115 and ocourred on July 17, | the day that J. P. Morgan announced his selection of five new directors for the Northern Pacific. The price previous to this had been 150, the figures.at which many shorts settled with the rivals. The highest panic price for this stock was 700 “regular” and 1,000 “cash.” Today's transaction was done for foreign account and the “scller ten' feature was to enable the delivery of the stock by ship- ment |CHICAGO CENTRAL STATION Twenty-Two R Approve Alderman Elghteen of Iroud Companten Dizon's Plans for It. 2 CHICAGO, Aug. 2.—Plans for a central | | rallroad station bere, estimated to cost | $4.000,000, are being prepared, to be sub- | mitted at a meeting of rallway ofclals to be held August 1. Eighteen of the twenty two railroad companies with Chicago ter- minals have approved the scheme as drawn by rman Dixon and members of the council committee appointed to investi- gate the question of & single terminal belleve the plan can be carrled to a suc- cesstul conclusion. The Illinols Central Northwestern, Pennsylvania and Great Western raflroads are the only ones which have thus far not given their approval No Soutnern Pacific Dividend. NEW YORK, Aug The Associa‘ed Press learns on excellent authority that at the weekly meeting of the executive com- | mittee of the Southern Pacific railway held | yesterday the result of operations for the | Colombla complete fiscal year were consldered and that it was resolved that the needs of the property for repairs and maintenance were such as to make a division of surplus earn- 85 luadyisabl OTHER BATTLES IMMINENT Beuth Amer.can Kevolutio to Olash, SITUATION 1S STRANGELY COMPLICATED | Veneruela and Colombia May Each Mave to Deal in Addl with Invasion, o0 to Domestie Strite. SAN JUAN. Porto Rico, Aug. 2 Mall advices received here from Venezuela and Colombia say the cablegrams which the Venez government allows press correspon to forward from Caracas| are Inaccura President Castro's army, It is added, does not exceed 600 soldiers. General Uribe-Uribe Is reported to be a month's march from Bogota, with less than 3,000 n, Battles are said to be Venezuelan revolutionists tobal &nd the Colombian re &t Cucuta when the “ imminent. The r San Cris- olutionists were mall advices were | torwarded COLON. dated Colombia, Aug. 2.—A decree, Bogota, July S, appoints General Carlos Alban commander-in-chief of the tea and land forces of Col a In the provinces of Magdalena, Panama and Bo- livia in recognition of his patriotic zeal in the defensc of the republic’s Institu- tions, PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad consequence of the resignation Pulidad, minister of war, it is sald that Presid tro of Venezuela has pro- posed to the cabinet to deciare war against withstanding public opluion ch & movement. The president, understood, suggested that passports nister from Colombia. serious complications ent stuation. Aug. 2.—In of & ugainst & it s be handed to the m It is feared the will follow the § ented ASHINGTON fon in the teln and Colo posaibility Connequencen. Aug. 2.—The politieal {ghboring republics of bia, In South America, of war between these two states is attracting considerable atten m in diplomat les. Ehould war ac- tumily result the authorities in each country would t only to deal with their foreign forces, but also with their domestic forces, as cach of the countries has what amounts to a civil war on hand Nelther the Colombian nor the Venezuelan legations here hae much direct connec- tlon and the cable reports are conflicting. The officials at the Colombian legation are at a loss to understand the report of Presi dent Castro's declaration of martlal law on the ground that his country is belng fnvaded by Colombia The revolution beaded by Dr. Galviras, ‘who crossed the Venezuelan border from Colombia, Is said to bo in no sence an Invasicn by Colomblans Dr. Galviras belonged to the party of Andrade, who was overthrown by Castro, and it is stated in diplomatic circles that be is simply heading a rebelllon of Vene- zuelans against the latter's authority. No definite information has been received here regarding the whereabouts of General Uribe, who, in turn, is heading & movement against the present government in Colom- bia, from the Venezuelan side. The last news of his whereabouts was that he was at Maracaibo and had not yet crossed into Colombla, where it was supposed he would attempt to affect a juncture with Narin, & noted guerilla, who is still carrylng on a vestige of the last revolution in the moun- tains of the central range of the Andes. At the Colomblan legation here the move- ment headed by Uribe is not considered at all serious thus far. ‘A report received here on July 26 last gave mews of & projected simultaneous invasion of Colombia from Venezuela, Ecuador afid Nicaragua. Nothing bas been heard of the movement since then. NICARAGUA CONGRESS OPENS Will Read a Mes- snge Advocating the Monroe Doctrine. President Zelaya MANAGUA, Nicaragua—--(Via Galveston, Aug. 2.)—The congress of Nicaragua semblies tonight, when President Zelaya will read a messago advocating the Monroe doctrine, welcoming the assistance of the United States against European colonization in the Americas and setting forth that Nicaragua is anxious for the construction of the Nicaragua canal by the United States. Rich Strike of Asbestos, KEYSTONE. 8. D., Aug. 2.—(Speclal.)—A remarkable discovery of asbestos has been made near this city in the vicinity of the Wealthy mine by Chet Wheelock and Louis Everly of this They unearthed large blocks of asbestos weighing 400 to 500 pounds and the quality is pronounced ex- cellent. The ground has all been located on the ledge. Develo,ment work is in progres and it is considered one of the most im- portant discoveries made in the Black Hill Asbestos has been found in other places in the hills, but not in such large ledges ai An Excellent Combination. 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