Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 9, 1909, Page 38

THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: Visit THE UNION PACIFIC EXHIBIT Electrical Show At The Auditorium May 6 to 15 Come and See A full sized Electric Block Signal in Operation; a miniature track and block signals, showing manner in which the block signal system is operated; also other electrical devices. You will go away, feeling that the UNION PACIFIC IS THE SAFE ROAD TO TRAVEL MAY CITY TICKET OFFICE, 1324 Farnam Street OMAHA, NEBRASKA Phones: Bell Doug. 1828 and Ind. A=-3231 RHODE ISLAND T0 CELEBRATE Declaration of Independence Was Made on May 4, 1776. WAS AN ACT OF THE LEGISLATURE State Reecalls Its Gemeral Assembly Aeted Early in Ordering King George's Name Out of Legal Documents. PROVIDENCE, R. L, May 1—The first officlal observance of the anniversary of what is coming to be known as Rhode Is- land's declaration of independence will oc- cur on Tuesday next, May 4 The state celebration will be confined to a salute of 10 guns. Individuals and one or two his- torical associations will celebrate more ex- tensively, and it is likely that within half a dozen years Rhode Island's own inde- pendence day will be as generally observed in the state as is Patrlot's day now in Massachusetts. The Rhode Island declaration of inde- pendence took the form of an act passed May 4, 1776, by the general assembly in the 0ld stats house in Providence, where the Citizens' Historical assoclation will hold mext Tuesday the chief celebration of the day. The act was as follow: “An act repealing an act entitled ‘An act for the mopre effectually securing to his majesty the alleglance of his subjects In this, his colony and dominion of Rhode Island and Providence plantations.’ And altering the fqrms of commissions, of all Arits. ana processes in the courts, and,of the oaths prescribed by law “Whereas, in all states existing by com- pact protection and alleglance are recipro- the latter being only due in conse- quence of the former; and, Severely Arralgned. George the Third, King of Great Britain, forgetting his dignity, re- gardless bf the compact most solemnly entered Into, ratified and confirmed to the inhabitants of this colony by his fllus- trious ancestors, and, til} of late, fully recognized by him, and entirely departing from the duties and character of a good king, ingtead of protecting, is endeavoring to destroy the good people of this colony, by sending fleets and armies to America to confiscate our property, and spread fire, sword and desolation throughout our'coun- try, In order to compel us to submit to the most debasing and detestable tyranny; whereby we are obliged by necessity, and it becomes our highest duty, to use every meshs with which God and nature haye turnished us, In support of our invioable rights and privileges, to oppose that power which is exerted only by our destruction. “Bg It therefore enacted by the general assefubly, and by the authority thereof it is enacted, that an act entitled ‘An aot for the more effectually securing to his majésty the allegiance of his subjects in this, his colony and dominion of Rhode Island and Providence Plantation: the same hereby is repealed. ““And be it further enacted by this general assembly, and by the authority thereof it is enacted, that In all commissions for offices, civil and military, and in all writs and processes in law, whether original, judiclal or executory, civil or oriminal, whereon the name and authority of the said king is made use of, the same shall be omitted, and n the room thereof, the name and authority of the governor and company of this colony shall be substituted in the following words to-wit: The governor and company of the English colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. “That all such commissions, writs and processes shall be otherwise of the same form and terms as they heretofore were; that the courts of law be no longer en- titled nor considered as the king's courts; and that no instrument in writing, of any nature or kind, whether public or private, shall, in the date thereof, mention the year of sald king's reign. “Provided, nevertheless, this act contained shall render vold or vitiate any commission, writ, process or instrument heretofore made or executed, on account of the name and authority of the sald king being therein inserted.” Was Abjuration of Fealty. This act, while not specifically a declara- tion of Independence in the strict definition of the term, constitutes an abjuration of fealty to Great Britain. With a full under- standing that its adoption must be Inter- preted as an act of rebellion, the upper house of the general assembly was unani- mous for it, while In the house of deputles only six membery voted against it Rhode Island had previously committed acts of rebellion against the British au- thorities. In its waters occurred one of the most flagrant of the early attacks upon the ruling power. This was in July, armed sloop Liberty port two Cohnecticut vessels charged with illicit trading. On the evening of July 17 the sloop's captain when on the whart at Newport was forced to order all of his men, with the exception of the first officer, ashore, after which the citizens took charge of the Liberty, ran it on the rocks and scuttled it and burned its small bo The two Connecticut vessels promptly made their escape and Governor Wanton's offer of a reward for the appre- hension of the men who had destroyed the king's property was never clalmed. The Rhode Island merchants, too, en- tered into the same agreement In force in other colonies to abstain from import- ing goods upon which Great Britain had imposed the obnoxious dutles, and there, months after the Boston tea party of December, 1773, the citizens of Providence engaged in a similar diversion. The Providence tea party was free from the secrecy and disgulses which charac- terized that of Boston. On March 1, 1774, the town crier paraded the streets_, of Providence giving voice to this announce- ment be, and that nothing in ., when the British brought into New- Proclaimed Tea Bonfire. “At 5 of the clock this afternoon & quan- tity of Indla tea will be burnt in the mar- RIED OMEN Every woman covets a shape- ly figure, and many of them deplore the ioss of their girl- ish forms after marriage. The bearing of children is often’ destructive to the mother:s shapeliness. All of this can be avoided by the use of Mother's Friend before baby comes, as this liniment prepares the bod‘ for the strain upon it, and preserves the symmetry of her form, Mother’s Friend makes the dsnier of child-birth less, and carries her safely through this critical mriod. Thousands grate- ly tell of the benofit and zlief derived from the use this remedy. Scyd by iregiste iy Alaua e, OTHER'S FRIEND ket place. All true friends of thelr country, lovers of freedom and haters of shackles and handcuffs are hereby invited to tes- tify thelr good disposition by bringing in and casting into the fire & needless herb which for a long time hath been highly detrimental to our liberty, inter- est and health.” At the hour named & fire was started in Market square upon which were cast a tar barrel, a copy of Lord North's speech and other objectionable material, after which men and women fed the flames with contributions from thelr household supplies to the amount of about 30 pounds of tea. The Providence Gazette reported that there was “great cheerfulness in com- mitting to destruction %o pernicious an article,” and continued: “Whilst the tea was burning a spirited son of liberty went along the streets with his brush and lampblack and obliterated or unpainted the word tea on the shop signs.” The battle of Lexington found the Rhode Islanders ready to lend thely active asslst- ance In the patriot cause. When the gen- eral assembly gathered in the old state house at Providence in May, 177, its members were ready for any radical step. The crisis was precipitated by Colonel Jonathan Arnold, a member of the house of deputies from Providence. He was then only 3, yet a man of mark in the colony—a man of family and property, a physiclan, a teacher, clerk of the su- perior court and destined to round out his career as chiet justice of Vermont and member of the governor's council. Became Leader of Revolt. The act was not accepted without de- bate. Before afternoon milking time of May 4, however, it had been adopted, and Rhode Island gained the distinction of leading the colonles in open revolt against the crown. Why Rhode Island has allowed so many years to elapse before claiming all the glory there is in this performance is not clear. It s possible that even this year's officla) tribute of gun powder might not be paid but for James 8. Slater, a citizen of a little village in northern Rhode Island. Mr. Slater s town clerk of North Smith- fleld, and is, like every second native Rhode Islander, an amateur historian. For soveral years he was in the habit of un- furling as large an American flag and as handsome & state flag as he could get to the breeze on May 4, and when wome of his nelghbors asked the reason he would ex- plain that it was Rhode Island independ- ence_day. This custom did not appear to make much of an impression outside of Mr. Slater's immediate nelghborhood until one year when a reporter happened to learn about the celebration and wrote a story about ft. Thet was four years ago. The next year the Rhode Island Citizen's Hi torical assoclation of Providence get busy early on plans for a celebration of its own. It had an orator and the usual fixings and held forth in a church. Two years ago this program was ampli- fled. The governor and the speaker of the house of representatives were present and the “Declaration of Independence” was read. Last year there was a similar cele- bration. Then the general assembly passed an act ordering a salute of 100 guns on every May 4 This is as far as the matter has gone up to date. But It is expected that some of these days the whole of Rhode Island | will observe the state holiday with Mar- athons, bas> ball games, shore dinners and all that sort of thing, and the stores and mills will all be closed. IN HONOR OF WASHINGTON New German Ship Bearing Name to Have a D, A, R, Tablet. The George Washington is the somewhat unexpected name which has been chosen by the North German Lioyd line for its ne steamship now being completed at Bremen. “IL" as the vessel must be called in nautical parlance, io undoubtedly the first German vessel to bear the name of the fathor of American freedom, and the New York State soclety of the Daughters of the Amerlcan revolution is going to express its appreciation of this token of German friendship by placing a tablet in the steamer. The arrangemenis have all been completed, and when the George Washing- ton comés over here, some time between June 20 and July 1, preparatory to making “its” first officlal trip, the tablet will be unvelled with great ceremony. The tablet is to be placed on the main stalrway of the vessel, and the directors of the company in Bremen are so glad to have it there that when a sultable place could not be found for it otherwise they altered the schemo of decoration. They are also golng to add, as a companion plece, a reproduction of the memorial stone which the city of Bremen gave to the Washing- ton monument. The tablet. will be on one side of the stalrcase, and the stone on the other. It 1s proposed that at the top of the tablet there shall be a medallion of Washington, and that on elther side the German ard Americgn cagles shall spread their warlike wings in peace and amity. Next will come the Inscription which Wood- Tow Wilson has been asked to write or select from his own books. Beneath this will be some words to the effect that the tablet was erected by the Daughters of the American revolution of the state of New York on the first German steamship ever named after Washington. The whole will be subscribed by the regent and vice regent of the state soclety, Mrs. Willlam Cumming Story and Mrs. Samuel L. Mun- son, and somewhere In the nelghborhood will be the emblem of the soclety, the spinning wheel. The tablet will be thirteen and one-halt inches high and twenty-olght and three- fourth inches broad. The vessel is 723 feet long and will be the largest of the North German Lloyd flest.—New York Tribune. MAKEUP OF BIG SKYSCRAPERS Have Everything Needed to Start Small Oity on Modern Plan. If one of New York's modern sky- scrapers, such as the Metropolitan Life or the Singer bullding, with thelr cloud- plercing towers, could be picked up bodily and dropped on some prafries, there would be practically everything needed to start a ittle city, including (he population. Take the Singer buflding, for instance. It contains 136 iiles of varlous kinds of metal piping. The telephones, elevators, electric lights, fans and clocks require 3,425 miles of wire, which, if stretched | out, would extend from the top of the Singer bullding to the top of the Riffel tower in Paris, with 800 miles left over. The steel used in the construction of the Singer bullding, If made Into three-quar- ter-inch wire cable, would reach from New York to Buenos Ayres, a distance of 7,100 miles. The terra cot:a floor blocks building. If spread out on g plane, would cover 8.36 acres. Placed enld to end, they would extend ninety-seven miles, or from New York to Philudelphia. It contains 6,033,800 bricks, and these. lald end to end would reach ¢35 miles, from New York to Detroit. They would pave a footpath twulve inches wide from New York to Boston. This modira tons of sheet in the wkyscraper copper, enough 4.64 acres. The copper, combined with the statuary bronze in the buflding, would yielg 46,208,000 cents, or $462,080 If the conbret2 iu the foundatioa of the building were all loaded on two-horse trucks, it would make a continuous line of 10,180 trucks, thirty-eight miles long, or twice the distance from the Binger bullding to Yonkers The steel In the bufiding would make 125 large type mogul locomotives; that is, 4 continuous lines of enginus for & mile and & half. It would make a seventy-four-mile stretch of heavy, mod- ern track, ralls spikes and tie pleces Made into elevator cables, It would ex- tend 7,100 miles, and if the total lengths of all the strands of wire in the cables contaln 101 to cover 9, 1909 % A SUIT without style is like soup without salt—insipid. 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FOR SALE BY ALL LEADING CLOTHIERS Spring and Summer Style Booklet were put together they would cover an area of fifty acros. . There are 13.3 miles of picture molding in the bullding. If all the moldings for the doors, pictures and windows were put in a stralght line they would reuch sixty miles. More than 6,541 tons of mortar were used in the masonary. This would maka a path fourteen inphes wide and one inch thick from New York to Washington, a distance of 240 miles. About 197 tons of paint were used on the various sur- faces. This would cover a board fence six fcet high from New York to Spring- fleld, 126 miles, with one coat There are 23.4 acres of wall arsa in the new skyscraper. It would make & line cf plaster twelve inches wids from New York to Boston. The glass in the bullding, §5,208 square feet, would make a continuous show win- dow six feet high on one side f Broad- way from Liberty to Thivty-fourth street. There are 256,000 square feet of metal lath, or five and nine-tenths acres. To support those laths 49.1 miles of struc- tural anglo irons were required. together with 130 miles of tying wire and 110,000 bolts. There are 8.85 miles of elovator cables in the building, and nine fans capable of blowing 6,820,000 cublc feet of air an hour, which would muke it possible for an ordinary-sized town a'most to gener- ate its own tornado. The lighting system of ths Singer bullding represents a capacity of 278,500 candle powar. The boilers of the bulld- ing, to generate light, heat, power, etc. must yearly generate 150,000,000 pounds of steam. This will take 18,000,000 gal- lons of water and 8,000 tons of %oil. The tower elevator cars travel about 600 feet & miaute. With the building fairly well filled the cars will travel 310 mies dally and make a yearly total of 98,270 miles, or about four times the distance around the earth. The length of the highest elevator shaft is 546 feet. —Industrial World SOUND OLD AGE ON FOOT Contrasts Between Walker Weston and Chair Polishers at Seventy. The average man who has rounded out his three score and ten years makes a spectalty of polishing chalr seats. His chief worry is the east wind and his mainstey sugar-coated liver pills. His cheft expansion varies from an inch to an inch and an elghth, and he cannot “flex” a single muscle on his persou. His pride is apt to be centered in the length of his beard or the size of his bank account, but never in his physical excellence. To him this man Weston is a marvel—a perpetual motion sutomaton in pants. And a marvel he fs, indeed, although it 1s his head that distinguishes him, not his legs. Weston 1s so ever- lastirgly consistent that, haviug found pedestrianism a benefit, he has stuck to it day by day, year in and year out. By keeping in the game, as it might be said among athletes—wlen he could well af- ford to give it up and ride In an auto- mobile—Weston is today a bet‘er man at 70 than the average man at 30, Taken in moderation, any form of exer- cise is beneficial, There I8 nothing bet- ter than walking in the open alr, pro- vided you keep it up. Even a man who belléves he hasn't time t. bother with regulsr exercise—detests routine, any- how—1s getting flabby, short-winded ind stiff in the joints, carries a pillbox In his vest pocket and wears one of Old Dr. Soakum’'s electric belts, can walk back to the pink of condition and his proper senses. A long walk every oth>r Thurs- day, however, and half of the time under protest, does one ne goud. You ‘must got into the game and stay in, for the fun you get out of it. The main thing is to get the habit. When you once becoms A @ood, consistent go-as-you-please walker, with no ambition to hang up a record, you will not need the huzzas of the populace, the blare of uriss bands or a silk shirtwalst to keep you pound- ing ballast. Take a walk.—Recreation. MORE WORK THAN ALL OTHERS American Rallronds Outstrip the Rest of the World in Handling Bunsiness. A recent complilation of raflway statistics of the world Is Interesting. Figures may be twisted to mean almost anything, but there are some bald facts which are worth con- templating. The rallway mileage of the world 1s distributed as follows: United States, 227,000 miles; elsewhere, 253,000 miles But the rallways of British India are in a class by themselves and if they be elimin- ated, this country has more mileage than the rest of the world. The cost of constructing our portion is fixed at a little less than $13,000,000,000, and of the rest of the world almost $26,000,000,000, 80 that the average cost in this country 1s one-half that of the rest of the world. This 1s partly accounted for by better con- struction In Europe, larger cost of right- of-way, terminals, and the like, but it is, nevertheless, claimed that by a just com- parison with results, we get our roads much cheaper according to money spent than the Test of the world. Our éarning power 15 nearly as great as that of the roads of the rest of the world, in spite of the fact that we have about one-fifth of the population of all the other countries, not including India. Our receipts each year are less than $2,600,000,000, and for the rest of the world In excess of $2,800,000,000. Our operating expenses are proportion= ately greater, belng over 61 per cent of re- celpts, compared with less than 6f. We carry about one-sixth as many passengers as the rest of the world, but—and here is the astonishing fact—we carry almost as many tons of frelght as all of the rest of the gvorld put together, while in ton mileage we have far the best of it. We haul a ton of freight an average of 132 miles, while the rest of the world carries a ton but sixty= elght miles. In other words, our rallways are doing much more work than all the rest of the world together, almost twice a8 much in the matter of freight, yet our re- colpts are not so large. The inference s obvious that we charge only about half as much for hauling a ton of frelght & mile as does the rest of the world. Our average charge s just three- quarters of a cent for such service, a cost which is infinitesimal as compared with any otuer means of land transportation. Ten years from now it s evident that we shall be doing much more than half the traffic of the world. As the population increases, and business develops, we shall more strikingly dominate the transportation world. They may do some things better in Europe, but at present we conduct our rallways In a manner such as to admit of contrast rather than comparison.—Philadel- phia Inquirer. o T THE REQUEST of dealers in every sec- tion, we have upon an EXTENSION OF decided ‘“Nemo Week”’ UNTIL Saturday, May 15 ‘“Nemo Week’ is being cele- brated in all good stores from Maine to California. Its phenom- enal success this year, far surpass- ing even that of former years, again proves our statement that it is an educational event of great interest to every maid and matron, Nemos are Hygienic Nemo ‘‘New American Shape’ Corsets are the only corsets that enable every woman stout, medium or ufender, whether to achieve the utmost fashionable reduction with absolute comfort and hygienic safety. Don’t miss *‘Nemo Week!"" KOPS BROS., Mfrs., NEW YORK