Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 30, 1902, Page 19

PREPARED TO SAVE LIVES Omaha Firemen Ready to Fight Death as Well as Flames, CHIEF SALTER TALKS ON THE TOPIC His Men Wen Trained in Use of Modern Appliances and Fairly Well Eqnipped with “§ Apparatus, Whether it s because fires seldom occur in Omaba that make a serious demand upon the efficiency and discipline of the gallant men who make up the regular fire depart- ment, or that fires involving great danger to persons In buildings and to the firemen themselves are still rarer, the public has few opportunities to witness daring work or thrilling rescues, but deserved confide; 1n their capacity has been won by Omaha: fire-fighters in actual battles with flame and is greatly enhanced by the fact that they keep in Iively trailning for meeting and effectively responding to any and all contingencies Involving hazard to lives or property. While all the firemen are given opportunities for practice with 1ite-saving and special fire-fighting apparatus, the only speclal equipment for these purposes is at engine house No. 3, where, also, are facilities enabling the firemen to practice difficult climbing feats, the use of pompler ladders, handling life-saving net and other special exerclses. Omaha Men Well Trained. “Only a very few cities in the United Btates provide their fire departments with every device found to be of a practical character and find it necessary to conduct regularly schools of training, New York, Chicago and possibly Philadelphia, but re- ports of these schools of training and de- scriptions of the kind of apparatus and how it is handled go a long ways toward In- creasing the efficiency of firemen every- where,” sald Chlef Salter yesterday. ‘‘Go ‘where you will, you will not find better in- formed firemen than guard the city of Omaha. At engine house No, 3 we have, besides the usual ladders, four pompler ladders, three of the latter being enough to form what is called a chain. These lad- ders are only used to ascend to otherwise inaccessible points on a bullding, and of course are invaluable when life is endan- &ered by reason of the cutting off of the ordinary means of exit. They are light, but strong, and any of our firemen can, by their use, climb to the roof of the highest bullding in very short order. The man taking the lead carries the end of a rope and this is made fast. The men handling these ladders are provided with a belt, to which is attached a strong hook. Shoula it become necessary to carry a helpless person to the street, the fireman gives two wraps of the rope around the hook, and this acts as a brake and admits of the fire- man devoting himself freely to the work of rescue. Nevertheless, it requires superd nerve oftentimes, but no one has reason to doubt that Omaha's firemen possess that to a high degree. Then, too, these hooks are used in connmection with the pompier scaling ladders, and by attaching the hook to the pole of the ladder the fireman Is enabled to have free use of his arms to either render ald to save life or to co- operate with the other firemen. How the Men Keep Traine “Our men keep in training in the use of these life-saving facllities and all the de- partment’s life-saving apparatus is carried on the wagon to every fire. Another thing of no small importance in these days of im- provements and new methods, our men profit by careful study of the special means employed in the very large citles to save 1ife and property, and, while we do not have an equipment equal to New York, for ex- ample, we profit by studying and discussing new methods. Our men are exceedingly well Informed in this way and supplement the facilities we have on hand with apt knowledge of the exact thing to do in emergencies. After all, that which ren- ders speclal equipment of real value s the intelligence, skill and bravery of the men. We have a substantial equipment and an equipment well fitted in character to fight any fite. Of course, an ideal equipment ‘would mean the duplication in various sec- tions of the city of the speclal facilities we Bave at engine house No. 3. s ] When the Net is Needed. “It sometimes occurs that the pompler Iadders cannot be used,” continued Chief Balter, “on account of flames and smoke bursting from windows. Should life be in Jeopardy we have a spring net into which persons can leap with safety, where other- wise a jump means death. The success of the spring net is due in no emall degree to the coolness of the person in danger. A leap to the net should always be gauged 0 that it will be struck as nearly sible in the center, thus distributing the straln nearly equally on the firemen hold- ing it. Our men are practiced in net hold- ing and should it ever become necessary to bring it into service, skillful hands will hold it. “While Omaha has escaped disastrous fires and has had few fires involving the loss of life, our men have proven in less serious tests their daring, skill and care- fulness of tralning. Among many instances that might be referred to was the exhibi- BAD BABIES Are often only hungry babies, They cry and fret because they are ill-fed. "The healthy mother is sure to have good babies; babies that coo and sleep and Mothers have healthy, happy_ childrén “Favorite Pre- scription” pre- vents mnausea, THE OMAHA DAILY Sheridan of the Boers | BEE Characteristics and Ex ploits of Gen. Delarey The last attempt of the British forces in South Africa to surround and capture General Delarey and his band of burghers Is admitted by General Kitchener to have been fruitless. So, up to the present, the rout of Methuen's force and the capture of Methuen remains unavenged by British arme. A record of the strategy and tactics of J. H. Delarey, the prosperous land owner and leader of the burghers of Lichtenburg for many years of peace, would probably fur- nish the most valuable matter for scientific students of warfare that is to be found on either side in the South African struggle. But apart from a military genlus that re- calls the personality of some of his ances- tral compatriots In the first French repub- lic, there is another side to Delarey as a man, When the Boers struck their first blow in the western campalgn by capturing the British armored train on the Mafeking line and occupylng Vryburg, relates the New York Sun, the Boer operations were directed by Delarey. When Vryburg, which lies out in the flat wholly unsheltered and was an easy capture, found itselt without a con- stituted government, the neutrals began to help themselves freely to the household turniture of the British residents, who had hurried south into Cape colony. Delarey himselt moved south with his Lichtenburg commando, collecting burgh- ers as he went, and held the rallway south of Kimberly. But as soon as he learned that proceedings which were not in accord with his sense of the art of war had fol- lowed the Boer occupation he ordered every stick of property in Vryburg to be returned to its rightful owner and at pnce set up a municipal system which was found working in perfect order eight months afterward, when the overwhelming numbers and wide- spread disposition of Lord Robert's columns moving north necessitated a Boer Fire Insurance Profits | movement back into the middle Transvaal The bank manager at Vryburg told the present writer after the British reoccupa- tion that Delarey’s system had worked like a perfect model, and it does not appear that there is a single outstanding private claim of any kind arising out of his extemporized government. The last to leave Vryburg when the Boers came in were the half dozen officials of the Bechuanaland Survey department. Delarey convoyed them down with their familles, handing them over from commandant to commandant, until they were set free to take the train below Orange river. When they were seen at Capetown mone had any words but those of personal regard to say of him. J. H. Delarey—pronounce his name De La Rey—is a medlum-sized man of slight build. His head and features are large and his complexion looks pale against his full black beard. He is not only a man of extraordinary mentality, but he looks it, a natural math- ematiclan and a man of action. A quiet manner, combined with extraordinarily bright eyes, gives a sense of power at the first sight of the man. A correspondent who occupled the room which had been his quarters before the fall of Bloemfontein was told that often De- larey was bed less than two hours in a night. He was always personally seelng to the carrying out of his plans. It was he who overruled Piet Cronje when the older man insisted on sticking to the old style of fighting, seeking the hillsides and from improvised stone schanzes using the purchase of the higher positions to throw back attackers, as had been success fully done in the Kaffir wars. Delarey said: “No; they will assume that we are on the kopje. Let us go somewhere else.” He had his way at Magersfontein, when he moved the Boer front line forward and to the left iuto the long, low bank of rough- flat, away from the big hill, and thereby trapped the Highlanders. How right he was may be judged by the fact that Lord Methuen poured lyddite all the previous afternoon on the hillside, where it suby quently appeared there was nobody. Again when General French struck round to the east for the rellef of Kimberley, De- larey was against Cronje's plan of falllug back along the Modder, and the Lichten burg man got his commando away north to Boshof, taking with him the big gun that had been turned against Methuen's camp at the Modder for the previous two months. He also got away the Boer siege guns out- side Kimberley and took them all up to his new base without a casualty. His habitually accurate reasoning led to Delarey’s being frequently taken away from bis western Transvaalers to devise positions for other Boer leaders. Since the British occupation of the rall- way line and the strétching out of the block- house system have made personal meetings among Boer leaders more difficult he has remained in the western Transvaal, of which—excepting the towns—he is still practically master. He is a humane, companionable man, not at all cynical, otherwise his release of Me- thuen might have been accompanied by the expression of an earnest wish that they might again meet soon in battle. Before the war Delarey was a leader among the liberal Transvaalers and not on very cordial terms with the Pretoria gov- ernment. He is an older man than Chris- tian Dewet or Louis Botha, is as deeply religious as his Huguenot forbears and has great personal influence among the country Boers, who in the west of the Transvaal include a large proportion of men of his race. Some Further Figures from the Reports of the Companies. Only one reason is givea by the ineur- ance companies for their recently announced advance in rates—‘We want the money." They assert that the business has been un- profitable during the last ten years and that the present advance is absolutely neces- sary in order that they may continue, Fig- ures furnished by the insurance companies themselves do not support this assertion. Examination of their statements to the in- surance auditors of the several states for the year 1901 shows that the companles prospered during last year and without the present advance of 25 per cent, which they are now enforcing on all new business and all business that is renewed. Recently The Bee published some tables compiled trom a tabulation prepared by the Spectator of New York, the leading fire insurance publication of the country, from reports made to the insurance department of New York by 148 fire Insurance companies doing business in the United States for the year 1901. These tables show the following state of facts: Total premium income. Total disbursements. Excess of premiums collected.$ 859,291 These companies collected from premiums alone in 1901 almost $1,000,000 more tham their total disbursements, which covers losses pald, underwriting expenses, divi- dends, everything, in fact, for which an in- surance company pays out money. The premium income shows an increase during 1901 amounting to $18,849,856 over the year 1900, while the losses paid show an increase of but $4,523,965. Total disbursements for the year 1901 show an increase over the year 1900 of but $9,300,852, which is less than half the increase in the amount of premiums collected. The total Income of these 148 comvanies for 1901 was $177,629,135, an in- crease of $19,240,037 over the year 1800. $165,292,375 164,408,084 One hundred and tem American com- panies, whose figures are tabulated in the showing afforded by the Spectator, report dividends pald during the year 1901 amount- Ing to $6,308,762, an increase of $21,936 over the year 1900. These companies had a capital stock of $54,602,875, €0 the dividend rate was 11.57 per cent. This is almost 1 per cent a month on the face value of the stock owned by men who say fire lnsur- ance is unprofitabl Some insurance man will answer this statement by saying that not all of the companies pald a dividend. That is true. Twenty companles out of 110 report no dividend pald for the year 1901, These twenty companies have a capital stock amounting to $6,150,000. By deducting this from the total capital of the 110 companies, we get $48,352,876 as the actual capital on which the dividend was vald. or a rate of a little more than 13 per cent for the year. Why these twenty companies did not pay a dividend does not appear on the surface. It certainly was not because thelr business was unprofitable. Their aggregate premium income for the year 1901 was $5,031,068, and for 1900 it was $4,013,651, an increase for 1901 of $1,017,387. During 1901 these com- panies paid fire losses amounting to $2,- 957,639, and during 1900 they pald $2,884,210, 80 that while the premium income increased by more than & million dollars during the year, their fire losses were only $73,329 greater in 1901 than In 1900. Their total disbursements were but $4,880,- 332, or $150,736 less than the premium income for the year, while their total income was $5,667,951, or $677,- 619 greater than their total disburse- ments. Only four of the these companies make returns showing that their total d bursements exceeded their total income. In the aggregate these four companies report total income of $1,777,327, and total dis- bursements of $1,914,272. By deducting these from the whole it leaves for the six- teen a total income of $3,780,624, and total disbursements of $3,966,060, or a surplus of $814,664, which amounts to a little more than 13 per cent on the capital of the entire twenty. That the net surplus of these companies did not suffer any diminution in the aggregate is shown by the fact that on January 1, 1901, they reported a net sur- plus amounting to $1,030,648, while on January 1, 1902, the figures were $2,318,793, an increase of $388,245. One company, which reports its surplus for 1002 at $230,- 108, did mot report for 1901. Deduct this and there is left an Increase In the net surplus of the nineteen companies amount ing to $1568,137. In order to fully appreciate these figures the business of these twenty companies which did not report dividends paid for 1901, should be compared with the business of the whole list of companies re- portin; The total ets of the 148 companies which reported in New York on their busl- ness for 1901 in the Unjted States grew from $232,345,090 on January 1, 1892, to $322,143,170 on January 1, 1902, an increase of $89,798,080 in ten years. During the same time the net surplus of these com- panies expanded from $54,702,686 in 1892 to $106,012,267 in 1902, an increase of $51,309,- 681, or almost 100 per cent. Premium in- come grew from $124,086,350 to $165,202,375, an increase of §41,206,025. Fire losses paid during this time increased from $78,334,150 to $96,996,932, or but $18,662,773. That is to say, during the decade the tribute ex- acted from the people grew at the average rate of $4,120,602 per year, while the amount returned in payment of loss in- creased at the rate of only $1,866,277, er less than half as fast. For the ten years the ratlo of increase for the ftem of premium income is 33.13 per cent, while the ratio of increase for fire losses is but 23.82 per ceat, the collections exceeding the payment of losses at an enormous and steadily increasing rate. During these same ten years the total disbursements of these 148 companies grew from $128,450,869 to $164,403,084, an increase of $35,962,215, while their total income increased from $133,308,024 to $177,529,135, & growth of $44,- 221,111, or a met increase of income over all disbursements, of $5,268,8%6. As the disbursements include an immense divi- dend, as shown, ranging from $5,474,473 in 1892 to $6,308,762 in 1901, the yearly sum to be carried over seems reasonable enough. It will be noted that while the annval disbursements increased by $35,952,- 215 during the decade; the losses paid only sLow an Increase of $18,662,773, and the amount pald in dividends grew only $834,- 289. This leaves $16,455,153 of the increase in disbursements to be covered by that blanket item, “underwriting expenses. The {ncrease in surplus comes from the excess of income over expenditures. It amounts to almest 100 per cent in ten years. Yet rates have been advanced for 1902 because the business of fire insurance in the United ‘States is not profitable. One of the companies, the Aetna of Hartford, paid a dividend of $700,000 on a capital of $4,000,000, or 17.5 per cent for 1901, and in- creased its surplus by over $300,000 during that time. Another, the National Union of Pittsburg, collected $212,360 in premlums and paid $18,510 in losses during 1901 Its total income was $229,114, and its total disbursements $109,212, leaving am excess of income of $119,902, sufficient to pay 23.98 per cent on its capital stock of $500,000. It reports no dividends paid. tion made at the Transmississippl exposi- tion on September 8, 1898, when the records made by the Omaha boys were eye-openers to the companies from Kansas City, Denver, Lincoln and other places. I hope Omaha will always escape fires which place human life in jeopardy, but should such a fire oc- cur I am confident only a panic on the part of persous in danger, or some extraordinary condition attending the fire, would pre- vent our men from saving all persons with the equipment we have, together with the training In its use our men maintain.” RELIGIOUS, The population of Polynasia at the pres- ent time is said to be about 863,0.0, of whom 323,500 are Christians. This is the result of a century of work. Bishop Potter's many friends of the urch club of New York are contem- plating raising a fund to bulid a_$10.0%0 Tesidence on Cathedral Helghts for his use. Brooks house, at Cambridge, 89 con.ributors, represent: ing not_only the United States but Ens- land, France, Turkey, Japan, China and South Ameri A committee of American Roman Cath missions. project has bees urged especiaily by the Paulist Fathers. Rev. Dr. J. 8. B. Hodgs, rector of St Paul's, Baitimore, tor (hifty-one years, officiated at over 5,0 serv.cés, celebrated the holy eucharist 7,500 time3, baptized 150 rsons, confirmed over 1,20 and performed marriage ceremonies. In Patrick and Hepry countles of Vir- ginia, and in some other sections of the state. there s a large class of ne people known as Ironside Baptists. name {s suggestive of the temper and character of the people. Bishop Nichols (Eplscopal cisco, will go_to Honolulu tive of Dr. Clark, the pres h in Hawall of the Epis- copal church, and organize it as the mis- sionary district of Honolulu. Booker Washington's test of a gentle- ‘man is his treatment of his inferlors, and he tells how he proved Edward Everett Hale by this test. He was a young man and a stranger in a northern city. As walked along the street, heaviy burdened with two heavy bags, he felt .Il{ped under his and tal from him. The man who thus - lieved him he learned to know afterward as Dr. Hale. ““The churches,” says an advertising man quoted in the hu.l.lpm Reeom‘n('-'- more and more inclined to take space in the newspapers. Bpeelal services of various kinds are often auite gencrously ‘adver- a y type. 1 dare say wi live the time when the chnreyl‘..'m have its press agent, just isp! 0 see a8 the theater has, when the religlous gditor will gauge the volume of advance notices by the amount of advertising space taken, and when the church critic will vie he drgmatic critic in dissecting the logic of & sermon and praising or con. demning the eloquence and oratory of il preacher. Walt and see If I am not right. PRATTLE OF THE YOUNGSTERS. “Paw,” sald little Johnny Askit, does the poet mean by ‘flanneled fools “The folks who take their flannels off before the first of May, my son.” ‘'what Tommy (aged 6)—I wonder what makes our cat afrald of mice? Bessie (aged 5)—I guess it's ‘cause she's & lady cat. B Little Ethel has been taught to say grace | at meals. The other evening she looked | disgustedly at the table upon which all her | pet aversicne seemed to be spread. She bowed her head and said scornfully: *“For pity sake! Amen." “Our baby has teeth,” said little Margle, “and yours hasn't.” ‘He don't need any,” replied little Naa. ‘We feed him soup out of a bottle.” Willle—You think your papa can do everything, but I'll bet he can't see with his eyes shut. Harry—I “don’t know about that, but mamma says he talks in his sleep. “Thank you, my little man,” sald Miss Passay to the nice little boy who had given up his seat in the car, “and have you been taught to always give your seat to the ladies? | “No'm, replied the bright boy, “only to old ladies.” Teacher—Johnny, can you tell me who wrote the seven ages of man? Johnny—Shakespeare. Teacher—That's right. seven ages of women? Johnny—No, ma'am. Pa says woman only bas one age. And are there Ten-year-old was playlng with lead soldiers. He had bullt a tiny house and grouped his men about it in various atti- tudes. “What is it all about?” quired, ““They're policemen at the Thirty-fourth street pler, waiting for Prince Henry.” “Why have you placed that one (pointing to & badly battered soldier) in such a prominent position?" “Can’t you see? He's & detective. his father In- He hasn't “any head. Cough Settied on Her Lungs. “My daughter had a terrible cough which settled on her lungs,” says N. Jackson of Danville, Ill. “We tried a great many Foley's Honey and Tar, Refuse substitutes. bich cured ber. remedies without rellef, until we gave lfii EDUCATIONAL NOTES, In eastern Colorado a woman pastor preaches in six or eight of the school The countr; men and their herds. Dr. Augustus F. Nightingale, long a Rigminent figure in the educational life of 'hicago, has been elected president of the board of trustees of the University of Ilii- nols, The Boston School board has appropriated $3,850,487 for the maintenance of the public schools of the city this year, of which amount 32,430,000 is for salaries of in- structors. The board of curators of the Missourl State university adopted at its last meeting a new form of diploma. Hereafter all di- plemas will be printed in English except those conferring honorary degrees, which will be in Latin. Columbia university's budget for the year beginning July 1 next has been made pub- lic. It amounts to $1,099,160, of which $102.246 Eoea for Interest on bonds and other ila- ilities and the remainder for educational and administrative purposes. John Simmons, who died a quarter of a gntury ago, will shortly have his life's dream realized, in the building of a school fo rthe education of working girls in Bos- ton. Henry L. La Favour of Willlams' college has been selected as president of the new institution President Butler of Columbla, President Schurman of Cornell and Dean Vincent of the Junior college of Chicago university will be the leading speakers at the convo- cation of the University of New York, which will be held in the state capitol, Albany, -N. Y., on June % and July 1 Smith college is very much interested in raising the $100,000, which must be on hand by the time of commencement in June, and the Smith college alumnae are devising means to aid in collecting the money. For that purpose wWhist parties are very popular in the east, women and gentlemen attend- ing In ald of the good cause. James Bennett, late of Philadelphia, be- Muhed to the University of Pennsylvania 000, but the largest part of the bequest is in'real estate, the Chestnut Street Opera Bolise being part of it According 1o the will this cannot be sold, but must be man- aged by the university authorities. The s occupled by cattle- | income from the opera house will be about 425,000 annually. ““To promote education within the United States of America, without distinction of race, sex or creed,” is the first clause In the announcement of the policy of the gen- eral educationa! board, an assoclation in York City, which will have as its chief object the promotion of education in the south.” Already more than $1,000.000 has been placed at its disposal for the further- ance of 1ts work, the fund being made up chiefly of voluntary contributions of New York capitalists. One of the public schools of Boston has divided a large vacant lot forming part of its grounds into elghty garden plots, each of which is cultivated by a grammar school boy or girl. The work last year was car- ried on under competent direction and a large amount of onions, radishes, turnips, beets, lettuce and corn was raised. Parents were interested as well as the puplls and many backyards were utilized in Igt‘ same way. Teachers regard the gardens as a tical boratory in which much useful nowled, way be Imrlll?d The active preparations going on for the coming sew Son show that the pupils are sagerly Voted o this new branch of sducation. o are here to t made our st and quality SPRING GOODS be seen in each department. ore popular for value giving. make our values.” Our offerings of spring merchan- dise are well bought, tastefully selected and priced to you in a way that has ".\.Ul prices alone, but prices Lace Curtains— Ruffled Swiss, 1.00 vss stripe, i fish net curtain: pair . Lace Curtains— $7.50 Irieh point, $7.50 and $8.50 Brus- scotch net, $8. 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