Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 25, 1910, Page 8

( Print 1a / Weyp Mot Rudotph P, Swohsda—0, P. A Dighting Mixtires Burgess-Granden Co. Atriotly Moue:Made Piee, Ter Grand Cate Diamona, Hincelots~Bdholm, Jewaler. oO—Katlonml Life Zasuraues Os.—i840 Cuarfes . Avy, General Agent, Omeha The Webraska §avings snd Loan Ase'n. 1 pn homea only in Douglas vounty SWrvioh prompt, {erms reasonable, Board of Trade bullding, 1608 Farnum. Filldg Up the West End—A bullding permit has been taken out by Beile 1 Roberts for a frame dwelling at Forty- saventhi and Caliternia, to cost $2,500. This section. of Omeha is Dbelng rapidly _filled up, 35 10 Its vaoant places, with substan- tial homes and scveral property owners are planning new residences thereabout. fost. Publishes a Paper—The Al'"st Wade of ‘the otficlal paper uf the ‘Omahn Sgengerfest is published, with Val| I Petors as editor. It is printed in Ger- man phd # devoted to the one Idea of boostlng Omaha and the Saengerfest, which will b# hald here july 20, 21, 22 and 28. ‘Washington ' and Lineoln Celebration— Garllpld cirele, No. 11, Ladles of the Grand Army,#Will entertain its members and friends. Friday evening with a Washington and Lincoln birthday soclal. Addresses will be magde bY members of the Grand Army on the liycs and characters of Washington and Lificoln. The occasion will also be taken ‘advantage of for a reception 'to Deparfient President Mrs. Clara Lyons, Light refreshments will be sérved during the evening. The affpir will be given in Baright. hall, Date of Conimercial Dlub's Convention.— J. M.-Quild, commissioner of the Com- mercial club, who Wednesday attended a meeting 0f the offloers of the State asso- clation of Commerclal clubs at Columbus, eports that the state meet will be held at ’l ‘olumbus April 87 and 2. The assoéfation has six viee presidents, one for each con greasional district and the task of Inter- Some Things You Want to Know | Growth of the Telephone. | Few branches of business have enjoyed the development that has marked the ac- tivities of volce-transmission. Telephones have multiplied over and over again until ‘mm- are now more than 6,000,000 in use in the United States. Talk over wires has Ifi- | ereased to such an extent that the com- | panies which keep mccount of their mes- sages show a total of 10,000,000,000 conversa- tlons a year, and these constitute only |about half of the total number of mes- sages. | It is sald that the Bell Telephone com- | pany added 2000 instruments a day to its | service during 1009, and that the Independ- ent companies did equally as well, if not | better. New York has 20,000 tetephones and Chicago 180,000. The exchanges of the latter |elty are the busiest in the world. They average twenty-two conversations on each line & day, or about 1,100,000 messages each twenty-four hours. The average conv tion s sald to be 20 words lopg, o that the total number of. words spoken over Chi- eago telephones In a day would fill 1,600 ordinary sized books. The wireless telephone is being perfected &radually, and Inventors confidently pre- dict that the next ten' years will re- markable progress In voloe-transmission | A® the telegraph was the forerunner of the telephone, and the wireless telegraph the harbinger of the wireless telephone, so it is belleved the ploture transmission by wire and wireless will be followed by actual seeing by wire. It Ia predicted that people of this generation may yet behold the per- #0n at the other end of the line when they use a telephone. Tiuln dispatching by telephone Ig. being adopted by many lmportant rafiroads, and in the recent eastern blizzard it proved & last resort In the handling of trains. Be- THE BEE. OMAHA, FRIDAY prevention of fires and the repression of erime. In all cities they transmit messages tree to fire alarm and police stations. In Chicago the call for police i Main 13 and It was used 62,005 times in 1%0. The fire alarm cal. Main 0, was used 5,83 times. American telephone companies could well imitate a Copenhagen company, which in- «talled phonographs in its central office. Whenever an irate subscriber mbused an operator over the wire she simply switched his volce into the phonograph. If he were At fault, he was summoned to the office and asked to lfsten to himself talk. As an abuse-repressor it has proved a great suc- cess. Selling time service as & by-product of the business Is one of the latest wrinkies in telephones. For many years the West- ern Union has sold standard time service, thqueh It never has pushed the idea. Now comes a Missourl man with a master clock in the thlephone office with which elocks in the homes and offices of subseribers are connected. Where the experiment has been tried it has proved satistactory, and it is not improbable that hustling telephons companles everywliere will adopt the idea, | Telephones are now sometimes attached to barbers’ chairs. A New Jersey barber | installed veveral in his shop and his pat- | ronage hae Incredsed because of It. In this way the busy man can keep in touch | with his office, while being shaved or having his bair cut. The Germans have a telephone which | scems to be the aame of perfection. The transmitting and recelving are made into one plece In such a way that when the sub- scriber holds the receiver to his ear, the tranamitter 18 in the correct position before his mouth. Thus one hand s always left free and both transmitter and recelver can be moved as far as the cord will per: BRUARY LIVE STOCK RATES LEVELED Made Same from All Missouri River Cities to Chicage, RAILROADS GIVE UP THE FIGHT Having Raised the Drossed Heof Rates, They Concede Uther Point and Exeoha Agrees to Dismissal of Its Cuse. The railroads having increbeed the rates on dressed beef between Omaha and Chi- cago and Sloux City and Chioago, thus dis- criminating as In favor of Kansas Oity and St. Joseph, have magnanimously agreed to a uniform rate on live stock for all Missouri river cities to Chicago, On this basis therefore the .petition of the South Omaha Live Stock exchange against the several raliroads operating between Omaha 4 Chicago tor an equal rate on live stock shipments from Omaha to Chicago with that of Kansas City, Atchison and St Jo- ph was dismissed by Interstate Commerce Commissioner B. B. Clark Thursday morn- ing. The railroads through their several attorneys, agree to give Omaha the same rate enjoyed by ‘the other cities on April 1. The stipulation were agreed to orally by al} the attorneys for the railroads, each announcing that the rates on live stock from Kanses City, Atchison and 8t Jo. seph should be raised to the Omaha ratf, which is 23% cents on cattle and hogs and % cents on sheep. Withdrawal of Rates. /The agreement involves the withdrawal of the Kansas City, Atchison and St. Joseph rates on live stock and the substitution of the Omaha rate from all Missourl river points, thus giving Omahg an equal chance with these points, Which has hitherto been denied Omaha. Commissioner Clark sald the oase would be dismissed without further hearing with that the new rates 25, 1910 That Postal Deficit The Joint Postal Commission in 1907 reported as follows: othn, who, {n turn, .d“‘&‘mmo( lymlnl can, ostmaster- is aswistants can become reasonably hmllhr omuau of the service they are replaced b; v, bedome auniied oy 29 m their all rail tasks, commateial or |ndunrhl bndn- uld inevitably go into hankrupt and the Pos*-Office beeause the Unitad meet deflciencies. nt has averted Treasury tha fate only has been available to The public accountants’ report said: The work hindered all alo lnothodl nd to pi fikh hhd.nd —ll not ns!nly decisions of 0 under '.ho mfjnly e conservatism of Gi suggest improvements in the ent and its by lhvhh adl mrm h ious might M.hnrwhom m«i nvnnud erent oommg. Goy: admitted fact. Thete is gmdunmant %0 em) servige f¢ h&l. l‘:‘lb officials 'is 8 or the nthnt ll tween Rochester and Syracuse the New the understanding York Central did not have a single telo- graph line In operation. In spite of the fact that the telephone lines were crossed eating all the clubs in the district falls to the vice presidents. Mr. Gulld & vice president for this district. these i ta result in greater efficiency or of adn:?m::&:;: ',h.e‘y' will receive Eah m’;lt' xfi nn the other hand, if new methods are not il Yo Chateud ‘Wi Wt mhcls DTy it. should be published forthwith, to hecome A Philadelphia inyentor has brought out | effective April 1. a fire-hose telephone, It consists of a wire | The Live Stock exehange people are much connection woven through the lengths of | elated over thelr’victory, many of whom Five Fights for Elghry-Flvc Dollars an of Clan of Williamson Recorded in Police Court as Rather Bellicose Tribe, Five fights In two days at the total cost of 885 in police court fines, to say nothing of broken heads and shattered furniture, is the record of the braw. clan of Wil MHamson. garet and Charlotte, rather dishev- elled and uncertain of step, appeared to angwer before Judge Crawford for. itheir duel in a locked room at their home, 1815 Cass street, the day biiore. Ten dollars and costs each was ih. assessment. This waa pald and ther the court took up the atter of Mr. Jamle Willlamson, who got Mto & fuss elsewhere. James paid a fine of $%5 apd costs and they went trooping to their happy home. = Jamio left the house and got into an argument with Elmer Tulbright in which, for the sake of an illustration, he took Tul- bright's hat. In thé effort to recover the hat, Mr. Tulbright underwent extensive modification of his features. Thie, day. erevious, he- Willamsens got into & diaturbance which took the erowd into police court to pay fines amounting to 9. i ILI®EGAL BRAND OF BOOSTER IS NOT POPULAR IN COURT Three Thieves Who Opernte fn Stores nt to Cella-Until Spring by Judge Crawford. The way of the “booster” Is hard. Three members of the light fingered gen- try of. that type known to the police as “boosters,” the shoplifting sneak thleves, #ot sentences that will hold them fer’ about two montha In the county jall when they appeared In police court Thursday morn- ing. Joe. Adams and John Foley, collectors of clothing and laces operating in the Bran- dels stoves, were ocaught with the goods and got senterices of ninety and elghty-five | -l;y- régpectively. Willlam Martin, who had & route of his own, will serve eighty days, The sentences imposed by Judge Craw- ford will secure the release of these men at Iptervals of five days; thus they will not be turned out on the community in a goncentrated bunch. To Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound moomdnla Ohio.—*1I suffered from hudschaa. pains in my back Mand right and was tired all the ftime and pervous. I could .not slee, | md overy month d hardly Ihli thn in. Ly Klml J hla Compoung m- stored me to health nguln and made me sel uko n new wo. L len.lor wm I:eduoe he iemselyes of this valuable mndlcun' '—Mrs. E, Fuowcx. Bloomdale, Ohio. ¥ bo h l symptom of female mkm ran, t. If you kache don?nazlact it. To s: permanent relief you must reach 8 root of the trouble, Nomn( we lnnwotwllldotm safely and surely E. Pinkham lehblo Com- g: Oun the cause of thue dis- U vull nnd strong. a6 PR i’u. 'mt volnm of unsolicited tes- in proves ullve thlt Lyflhfly ' tlhla nkham's b LT T % thow nnd. n‘ women. doubt s Vege= you, In two places and further Jaterfered with by the breakdown of the Niagara Power company's high tenslon transmission line, they were able to perform passable service. The same was irue on the Delaware dlvi- slon of the Pennsylvania raflrond. While the telephone wires .were crossed and broken the operators still were able to talk the entire length of the division. The rafiroad officlals stated afterwards that but for tha telephone nut a wheel could have been moved until the telegraph wires were repaired. President Taft has cne of the biggest telephone booths ever made. Not only Is it roomy enough for him, but his stenographer ean enter it with him. It is finished in & way that makes it a noteble plece of cabi net making. The White House has one ot the best branch telephone systems ever Installed. In addition to the publie systera there is a_private system, which leads to the capltol and the varicus exeeutive de- partments, over which the confidential business of the government is transacted. Uncle Sam is the world's greatest user of the telephone, In the past the government was glven a flat rate for Its business; to- day it Is oharged so much per message, and the government clerk cannot use the telephone for his own private business ex- cept by resorting to pay stations. Fvi | when A subscriber calls up a clork he must leave his number and have. the clerk go/to the pay station and call him. In this way the , Washington. Telaphone - company = gets double pay for many of {ts messages. The automatic teléphone exchange has been on trial for some time and has proved such & success that several concerns In America are now manufacturing such equip- ment. On this exchange each subscriber {18 able to make his own. connection and thers is no chance for back talk. On the subscriber's apparatus there Is a clock-like affair with ten holes in its face, numbered from zero to nine. When a person wishes to_call 9662, for instance, he takes the re- célver from the hook, puts his finger in hole No. § and rotates the disk as far as it will go, then permits It to return auto- matically to its normal position, He re- peats the samc nperation for each of the three other numbers., The connection Is made througli the seléctive principle, used in party line service. When it has been established and the conversation is con- cluded, hanging tHY recelver on the hook disconnects the telephone and the sube_ criber is ready to call up &nother person. {1t 18 so arfranged that no one can ring in on, the conversation, The switchboard is s In service and the subscriber can be suré there has béen no indifference to | his can. Norwegian fishermen are using a new miero-telephone apparatus to detect tho coming of a shoal of fish. The instrument Is enclosed In & water-tight box and sub- merged in the sea. It Is connected with a recelver in the boat and the listener can hear the flsh coiming when they are still some distance away. The telephone companies of the United States are lending thelr ald toward the the hose and a small portable telephone attached to each end of the line of hase. In this way the tiremen may talk with the | chlef and get orders even when the latter | 1s & block or more away from the fire. Whenever_the hose sections aie put tos | gether the wire connection is made auto- | matically. ! Thomas Thorne Baker, In charge of the photo-telegraph department of the Londan Dally Mall, has perfected & new photo- graphio transmitting device calls the telectrograph. It is being used between the London and Manchester offices of the Mall especially for the transmission of plctures trom the London offiee to the Manchester office where they appear simul- taneously with their publication in Lan- don. From four to-five hours are saved over the transmission by mall. It takes | one hour to transmit & plcture. | The jllustration is first photographed | through a screen ruled like & checker- board, with seventy-five lines each way to the inch. By chemical treatment the de- véloped plate is made to contain lttle fish- glue dots, one dot for each mesh In the screen. Aa the needie, corresponding to the needle of a phonograph, passes over the plate these glue dots alternately make and break the eircult, and corresponding im- Puises are sent out over the wire. At the other end of the line a needle acts in the same mauner on paper so un-mugd that the Jittle impulses of, ejcctricity mdke. black mark at each meésh, corresponding in intensity with the degree of the impulses. | onsequently, when the reproducing needle | has followed the sending needie through all of the littls meshes on the sending plate, an exact reproduction of the original | with all its gradations of light and shado 18 the result. A line between London and | Paris is being planned and will soon be in operation. \ The very newest thing in electrical elr- | cles 18 “farming by wirsless.”” At the re- | cent Hobby night of the National Press | olub in Washington, Prof. Willis Moore | stated that the highly electrified nort) west wind is the source of America's re- miarkable energy, and, In koeping with this idea, some English sclentists are making | experimental efforts to transfer the energy of the atmosphere to products of the soll. They rigged up an oll engine and dynamo and covered some twelve acres of land with a series of parallel wire lines not so high as telegraph lines, but still high enough to be ont of the way of farm operations. Through these wires electrical curfents are sent over the growing crops with remark- able results. Anyone walking below the wires can feel the effect on the halr of the fiead as of & cobweb one the face. At dusk, just before the power Is cut off, there is a glow visible wherever a leakagé of current oceurs. The current s turned on several hours each day, and the photographs of erops grown under such stimulation show that by this means production may be in- creased hy one-haif. By PREDERIC J. RASKIN. 'lomono-—”rnvnmr Mine Disegters,” | Burglars Seen Smashing Glass and Run Down —— Two Men Caught in the Act of Rob- bing Pawnshop-Are Tripped by Volunteers, Caught In the act of a deylight burglary, W. F. Murphy and Tom Welch were pur- sued and captured by a crowd in the heart {of the downtown sectiop of the city late Thursday afternoon. Weich and Murphy smashed a window in | Nathan's pawnshop, 200 South Thirteenth | street, making a hurried grab for the watch tray in the window. Welch snatched & watch and together they ran, as a man standing nearby, yelllug loudly, took up the pufsult, “Halt, hait," posse screamed. Sergeant Madsen was strolling along the sireet at just the proper place to come tace to face with the running men at| Twelfth and Douglas streets. He arrested them both and jerked them away to jall In the patrol automobile, Walting for the arrival of the car Murphy the racing. self-organized tried to throw away two watches and Weich attempted to drop unnoticed the one which he took from the pawnshop window, One of the watches has been identified | by the detectives as that stolen from He: man Yelkin of Auburn, Neb., several weeks | ago. The police expect to connect these men with another case under Investigm- | tion, | More people are taking Foley's Kidney Remedy every year. It Is considered the most effective remedy for all kidney and bladder troubles that medical science can devise, Foley's Kidney Remedy corrects irregularities, bullds up the system, and restores lost vitality.—Sold by all druggists. It you have anyt o sell or exchan, advertise It In The Bee Want Ad col- umne —— | PLANS FOR F. B. MEYER PARTY Committes on Hecoption of Big Sus- | day Svhool Workers WIIl | Be Appointed. Sunday sehool workers in Omaha are deeply interested In the coming visit to Omehs of the world's presidents Sunday school party, seheduled for April 10-and 11 The executive committee of the Douglas County Sunday School association met at | the Young Men's Christian association building to dlscuss plans. George G. Wallace, president of the soclation, will appoint a committee to tako charge of thc reception to the world's workers. The party will consist .of Rev, F, | B. Meyer of London, president of th | World's Sunday. School asseclation; Marion Lawrence and B. O. Excall, the song leader. The party will visit eighteen principal oities of the country between March 16 gnd | May 15, Omaha being the farthest point west to bé visited, Railway Rate Battle in the West Is Among The Articles of Live Our- Fout Interest and Value in the SCRIBNER which he |’ been jacked up in an effective matiner, | Dablman Wrings Back Good were present at the.dismissal of the case. This live stock rate sult, sult, has no relation to the matter ‘of the inoreased dressed beef rate, but it may bear a very live relation in another respect. The pack- ers contend that If the dreesed baef rate is allowed to stand, making i» more from Omaha and Sloux City to Chicago, than from Kansas City and St. Joseph, .there'll not much live stock from ‘this territory ba unioaded this side of Chicago. Spencer Confesses, Involving Others Negro Says Two White Youths As- ted Him in Some of His Robberies. A multiplicity of long, unexpiained rob- berles has been confessed by Wiillam Spencer, allas Spencer Williams, negro, who has been held by the police. In al) be and his accomplices have been connected with fitteen robberles committed within the year. Charles H., Tracy and’Charies Filbert, two white youths, were e ted Thurs- day atternoon following' “Wiliams' con- fession to Chief Savhge bf, the detective department. “They are charged with com- | plicity in the robbery of Henry Stone, nightwatchman at the Guarantee laundry, 1468 South Sixteenth street. Stone, it develops, was asleep and un- dressed. Spencer and the young white men met there. They surptised each other on thelr gullty errand and then agreed to share the spofls. The watchthan's clothes were stripped and Spencer, turning traltor to his new found friends, secreted §65, while he gave the boys $1.50 each. : Spenget is°charged al@o with the robbery of Bloomenthal's pawnshop at Twelfth and Douglas streots. William Woods, who was arrested for a share In the taundry rob- bery, was {nnocent of that charge, but gulity of the pawnshop robbery, socord'ng to the police. DR. CONNELL STIRS EM UP ON BOUNCING OF DR. YOUNG g th Commissioner and Min Veter~ inariaa Are Still Clinched in Their Set-To. Mayor Dahlman wes due to send to the last meeting of the eity council & nomina- tion to the office of assistant aity veter- narlan and slaughter house inspector. His absence from the city caused & postpone- mant of the appointment. This office was recently created and the Incumbent will have - the duty of watching the animals brought to the sleughter houses of the Independent packers in South Omaha. Ho will also Inspect and tag the meat after idliing, s0 that no more uninspected meat can be brought ta tHe butcher shops of [Omana for sale. The salary is NZ a month. In this copnection, copsiderabls interest is aroused about the eity hall over the de- mand of Health Commissioner Connell thas the city councll abolish the offico of city veterinarian and dairy Inspeetof, now held by G. R. Young, a veterinarian. Dr, Con- | nell gives ms his reason for wanting the office abollshed that Dr, Young has not been performing the duty of dairy fn- spection as he ought to. It ts understaod | Connell asked Young to regign, but the lat- | ter refused to gomply with the demand, Both men wiil have a chance to give their sides to the councll committee of the whols next Monday afternoon, Dr. Young draws a salary of 160 a month | and besides having the duty of inspecting | dalries looks after the harses of the police | and fire departments. -Ho contends this ' work takes a great deal of his time, but the commussioner rstorts that {napection of dairies hag begn done ovly in'a perfunc tory manner and where bad eonditions have been Tound the offenders have not | MAYOR SAYS BANQUET ROARD IS THE FORUM OF THE FEOPLE Lesson from His Bxperience Down at St. Joscol. — Mayor Dahlmsn has returned from 8t Joseph. He made an addresy In the Mis- sourl city Tuesday evening on Washing. ton and’' on Wednesday spoke at the monthly meeting of the Bt. Joseph Ad club. “1 was given & very /hearty welcome in Missourt,” the mayor. “Mayor Clay- ton Is almost a dead ringer for the late Mayor Moores. He favors him In looks, in size and disposition and In many ways recalls the Omaha leader of other years. He had that municipal banquet properly organised and Jt struck me &% & good thing. When men et thelr legs undpr the table to talk over city affairs and matie of general interest, flow from it. We could very well follow the example here and talk out loud In §90d, old-fashioned English what we often \ benafit is bound to B In view of these offici‘al statements by those whom Congress authorized to in- vestigate the Post-Office, we submit that the Postmaster-General’s attempt to wipe out the deficit in his Departmcnt by raising +the postage on your magazmes, instead of by devoting his encrgles.to securing legislation that will place-the service on a sound, effi- cient and economical basis, is unwise and The nature of his recom- mendations, and the attempt to exempt unbusinesslike. " newspapers frem . any increase, are final- grounds for a divorce of this great business department from' politics. See this _wcék’s number of ' THE SATURDA EVENINC POST Y -~ More than a Million ahd a Half copies sold every week The Curtis Publishing Company Philadelphia, Pennsylvania i ANNUAL AUTONGBILE SHOW) ~Admission S0c Join the Crowd and Enjoy Yourself Music Every Afternoon and Evenirgé feel, but do not aempress. A neighborly, give-and-take spirit s engendered about the banquet board that is found nowhe: eize, and men who ordinarily do not take an active part in civie affairs will on such an “occasion volee opinlons and outline Jdeas that are well worth while." To Dissolve the Union of stomach, liver and kidney tropbles and cure billousness and malaris, take Eleotrio Bitters. = Guaranteed. 600, For sale by Heaton Drug Co. Ne Action on King Case. CINCINNATIL, O, Feb. M.~The N 3 " commission falled to - John l(llnl'l Mflfl l.t nlmm::n'n at av's mesting Engraved Stationery ma-uluamm Visiris 12101312 Howoard St Announcemente Phone D. 1404