Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 8, 1902, Page 26

2 THE ILLUSTRATED BEE. June 8 1002 TueE JLLUSTRATED BEE. to a degree, but not on the day when h's of Colorad nture I nnel chum, the High hool girl, comes to share built nd i \ cee both for rallroad = with him the humdrum hardships of ex ind mining purpo 1 Mt Murrell Published Weekly by The Bee Publshing jstence on the tented field Authority and could ¢ ily be pre 1 f th mpan Company, Bee Bullding, Omaha, Neb liscipline and all th pomp and elreum which onperate t 1wy not prefer t Price, o per copy—per year, $2.00 imee of war ma till be ther but enjoy the princely income it yields her - loesn't stand much show against the shirt rather than take up the burdens of active t .,.1{":;'“:":'.‘.::'“' Postoffice as Second ted molf-skirted brigade who come out Management for th Ie ' of cing ¢ . FFor advertising rates address publisher det are standing can life Falls Ci 1S a library of whict Communications relating to photographs or PANCDIY ea ! th its people may well I proud. 1 th irticles for publicatfon should bhe ad- and t oung manage to overlee f primarily of he 1 Mr Lyd PR “Editor The Illustrated Bee, (hings in a way it might shock the very Bruun Woods, who was a long-time r . roper, but which go as a matter of cour font of Falls City, but who died in Den n the glerions west And anyone who r. In her will Mrs. Woods made a 1 o o doubtg that the boy ind g had qnuest of $10,000 to be devoted to the ere Pen and Picture POINTErs timg on bDecoration day at Camp 1 ticn and equipment of a public library, th necdls only to inspect the pictures in this people of Falls City to maintain it. J. 1 JAMIN B, ODELL, governor number 1o he convineea cf the error of Milcs donated the site upon which th he Empire state, fills considera ueh conclusion buildin tand It is a handso tw ble space in the New York ey Y % ter ructur the 1 floor bein 18t now, for the reascn that an The church of St. Mary Magdalene has h d given over to library | ind the ther tte campaign is not very quite a diversified existence, but has come upper floor used as a council chamber and ind th head of 1t} r iblican out of each initiation bigger and brighter office for h i oft 11 BEarly in M be expected to carr further and hetter In the beginning the zealou the building was formally open d and ded gun in the last city campaign, father who choge a lot in the then outsk'r icated to its The affairs of the ny ti hadl - of Omaha beean t was cheap and his p library are managed by a board composed ple were poor, o wanted to secure a of J. H. Miles, president; Edwin 8. Towls CLIFFORD WILKINS, YORK b MATT THURBER OF TECUMSEH, A place where the German Catho'l could vice president; W \. Gre eer WINNER STATE ORATORICAL YOUNG NEBRASKA INVENTOR hear the gospel expounded in their native tary; Johw W. Holt, J. L J B PRIZE tongue He builded better than he kne Leyda, A. J. Weaver, A. E and & for the church came to be surrcunded by H. Harvey 5 business blocks whe cornices overtopped o ~ i S e S bt s vt e 0 ETEBKS 0f Golor-Blindness then came a fire and magnificent businoss ventor o¢f somewhat remarkable ability. He blcek and humble church were swept away. is a young man, being but 26 years of age hear very little nowadays abou upposed color blint Out of the ruin both rose, each larger and of an inventive frame of mind. Befors color blindnes imong railroad passed a second examination and handsomer than before. Still the church he entered his teens he constructed a crude employes said the railroad not due to any defect in th nestled timidly between the towering pile hand car” on which four boys could rid manager quoted by the New Yor tion, but to the fact that devoted to commerce, and the land on which through the streets of the town by givine Sun becan v very rigid and previously =uffered from lack of ecolor de it stood increased in value. It was needed power to the vehicle very much the same constant system of examination and inspec- velepment. He simply not know. Cele for the extension of business, and finally as the railroad employes do a regulation (jon is maintainel. Some very intirest n: blindness is itself ir bl ! her the church wa 1 Only a little way hand car. At the age of 14 he made a mina experiments are made in these examina ire so many different shad ind 1 that further, and on a piece of ground who ture stationary steam engine which run jons and some 1d inciden oceur very few can pass an exa nation we value would have dumbfounded the pricst with accuracy. Dozens of other construc The color inspector gets in tme to be 'he crdinary colors who bought the first te for the chur:h tion mostly of an electrical character, gomething of an amateur icntist and gar O the congregation of St. Mary Magdalene's fcllowed these during the next few years. ners a considerable stock of knowledge ‘It may sound a little add, | imong will soon have a new home, one of the At the age of 18 young Thurber, who was at [ fearns for ¢ thing: that thost peopie Iakoring: people, especially fn latke cltie handsomest among the many handsome that time thrown upon his own resource whose sense cf color is deficient are blind there is a woeful lack of educatim even in church edifices of Omaha. Last Sunday, was appointed city electrician of Tecumseh, (o red, still other y groen and only a few the simpler color If an afflicted persor amid the display of the church’s power and which position he still holds. During the (4 violet learn early enough in life that he is d magnificence, Bishops Seannell with solemn years that he has been serving the city in A man blind to red cannot d'stingu fective in his color he may be able ritualistic ceremonie laid the eorner stone this capacity he has at the ame time de- potween red and green: neither can 1 to keep the knowlec from other 1 and blesszed | ind all the wiek the walls voted much time to study His latest ac- green-blind. The red-blind man will see learning to apply color designation to ob of the new building have risen higher until complishuents are the perfection and com- g but it looks light green to him. The Jects just as the child learns to name ob the exterior outline of the beautiful struc plcte construction of an X-ray apparatus A green to the green-blind s a light h of dects by the form in which they present ture at Nineteenth and Dodge streets ar year ago and, finally, the making and de¢ red themselves to him now apparent to all. While Father Judge cidedly successful experimenting of wire At first our inspection was confined But when one of these color-blind per is dedicating his beautiful new Church of less telegraphing devie not wholly unlil entirely to the eves of engineers and fire- SONS attempts to deceive the examiners he the Sacred Heart today, Father Glauber is the ones invented by Marconi. Mr. Thur falls down. It might be assumed that be men, but nowadays every man in the opera looking forward to the not far distant day ber's X-ray machine is now being used by a gy, department, whether switchman, S2use we want to find out if the men can when he can dedicate his equally beautiful Beatrice physician in the treatment of can- pokeman or train hand, must pass the distinguish tween red and green lght new Church of St. Mary Magdalen cer ...;.l' his devices for space telegraphy ‘togis prescribed. We find that about 5 per y“l use these lights to make our examina 8 are exhibited at his home here daily. The ¢ . ) . o ik i o iion olifford. Wilkina'lof York {s another of Aret teat of kis machines proved: conclts ooy - oo applicanis hiave a defect ol ota e (1wl He hAmitied, sesms to b t TARY BELL, MURRELL, THE " kind or other and re-examinations are nec- 4 2 Lt i % . those young men who have developed ora sively to him that his experiment was a " g : the fair thing to do, but as trainmen must MADONNA OF THE MINES torical ability of unusual quality while at- gyccess, though he has since greatly im- - oary often because luck or boldness ..., ¢, qistinguish lights in all sorts of pled. During his term as governor Mr, (ending the publlc schools of his home proved his outfit. Messages are success. o wpip ""“"1* -‘]"“"””"”']' """; Onee N weather, on fogey, damp nights as well Odeéll ‘has been most active in the tax pe- tOWH. At the necent meating of the State iy transmitted several blocks through — = © fmanidevelops blindhess later 18 on clear nights, with distances con form campalgn in New York, the ultimate Oratorical association at Grand Island he houses, brick walls, or any other obstruc ’ : b stantly varying |.v can readily be seen that object of the fmovement being to seoure Wou first place among a large number of (jon with no regard to the direction the “When we first began the inspection we these are w»! safe tests for the employing revenue Mclent to carry on the affalr competitor In this competiticn he was wind is in. One of the machines in a cellar “€re constantly surprised at finding that o« u!mn\ Some railroad inspectors use iy veht ATALH . WitHOUE \daROFTIRR it pitted against the tested champions of the three blocks away promptly responds to a some of our most :.nr.m‘I engineers, men skeins of woolen ‘\.un others balls of varn Albadat 4 atian REATA TN T ek hann the other scheels of the state and his victory message sent from the one in the second who had driven engines for years without others screens of various coloy hief feature of his administration, he has 'Derefore well entitles him to the distinc- gi,.y of the young man's home. Two opera- 20 accident that could be traced to mis — tion of champion in this particular line 4 taken signals, were affected It may seem - been active in other ways and has don P ors »~rn-l messages back and forth with cdd that railroads happened to select green The first test system used wa 1 very mat hings of value locally which his Mary Bell Murrell. a native of Tennessee »m factory result everal blocks apart and red for thelr danger signals. the two CUumbersome one. It was invented by a people fully appreciate When he WAS In an Arkansa ahaol teacher. the wife of a Practically the same kind of a 'VHIYI\IPI‘!VI“ colors upon which most cases of blindness Swedish professor, who used a batch of Omaha on his way home from a transcon uecesstul country doctor, now dead, has 18 used as that used by Mr. Marconi, but o5 0 B0 simply because no other APOUt @ Eross of skeins of all gradations incntal excursion he refused to talk poll- hecome one of the really remarkable bus- M. Thurber's method requires no verticat o0 po o0 p 0 5 e 0 haracter of °f the more common color His method v anything pertaining to New York incss women of the country ihe came. Wit In place of these metal plates about o " on' bo coen further or more dis. WAS to take one ekein and then have hi fair 15 he had come west solely for into prominence as long ago as the early 2X12 inches in size are used in transmitting 00 man pick out of the heap a< many skein I nd 1o get away from his oMeial eare a0 by reason of her onnectlon with a and receiving the ele V.ll al vibrations. Mr “Miich of this immunity & due in the 88 he could of the same color, disregarding Fhe picture on the first page of this issue wonderfully sucecssful Woman's Loan and Thurber is the son of the late Dr. 8. W. g0 e to the fact that every old engi- N&ht and dark shades: in short, to find was taken as he came down the steps at Building association in the south. Since Thurber of Tecumseh and he lives with his yoer on o road is familiar with the loca. A1l gradations of that color in the heap the front door of the Omaha club, where then she has devoted her attention to min- Widowed mother there. He was born in o0 of the signal lights. In the second This took too leng, although it still he informally met a number of Omaha bus- g and one of the most stupendous un- Omro, Wis,, but has lived in Tecumseh since p1ace. supposing him to be red-blind, he js Stands as the most complete test. Colered v ind professional men, His appear- dertakings in the whole mining history of infancy quick to discover the difference this kina of S1ass and yarn balls form the usual imple nee readily impresses one with the trait the west was conceived and carried out a lamp presents to him from the ordinary Ments of test nowadays. It practicable e R o el by Chert &hh 0t acalbed? oo Another Rash Break ereen ! with these (0 pick out the defective man. e keen persistency in pursult of anything a tunnel five miles long piercing a moun He sees in the red lamp simply a “Some f them betray their defect in == | iken. This has marked his career tain believed to contain va'uable mineral Baltimore American: “I think th: seven- Jighter shade of green. and if aware of his their extreme caution, others in their con in both business and politics and he has veins Difficulties innumerable appeared teen-year locust is an interesting study,” gefect strives to differentiate between the fusion of colors. The quickest way to b sful in both. Governor Odell fs in the way, but Mrs. Murrell went ahout observes the lady of uncertain age two The danger, of course, lies in the ¢atch them by placing a bright red or il a voung man, being under 50 her work in a most systematic manner. Sh» “It must be” we answered thoughtlessly, fact that the difference is not sufficiently bright green for matching purposes The ®> cleared up the title to the ground she especially to one who has trac'd them marked to him to make it possible all the red-blind man will carefully pick out dark Hixh hool boys who go to camp 28 wanted, went east and enlisted the ecapital down from generation to generation.' time to distinguish it greens and dark browns, while the green lets may find the routine duty of a sol he needed, and I8 now the principal But, of course, it was her own fau't that “Once in a while we have run across blind man picks out greens and browns that 1 fo. monotenous and may te irksome stockhelder in one of the most successful she took it personally cases in which a man once rejected for are lighter than his sampls Two Scenes at the Laying of the Corner Stone of the Church of St. Mary Magdalene. Omaha BISI OP SCANNELL BLESSES THE STONE AS IT IS LOWEI ED TO PLACSH ONE VIEW OF THE THRONG WHICII WITNTZSSED THE CEREMON}