Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 20, 1910, Page 11

THE OMAHA SUNDAY We Want Your Help to make Omaha street car service safe, rapid and satisfactory Have your fare ready when entering the car--20 seconds’ delay for six people entering a car makes a loss of two minutes on the schedule. Ask for your transfer when you enter--This obviates pushing back through the crowds, or holding the car when you get off. Move up to the front of the car during the crowded hours--You can leave by the front door and this exit is the easier way. Don't wait to signal the conductor till you approach your corner--Signal as soon as the car leaves the street nearest yours. When getting off board a car or alight from it. Omaha & Council Bluifs Street Railway Company NEW METALS FOR MAN'S USE Tungsten, that Was Once Cast Aside by the Miners. COMES\ INTO ITS OWN AT LAST Now it Helps te Light the World, Toughens Steel and Has House- Hold Uses — Autos Much to Vanadi Owe DENVER, March 12—Not so long ago such metals as tungsten, molybdenum, vanadium and uranium were so rare that the commercial world knew nothing about them, and a rule only stydents were aware that they had been discovered. Few people ever saw boron, sllicon, titanium and chromium except In museums. Goethe's dying cry for “more light" has been echoed around the world until clties now blaze at night with the glory of the noonday sun, and this has been made possi- ble by some of these rare metals, 8o, 100, aytomoblies owe their present perfection part to the once rare metals that temper ‘« toughen steel. In otner industries also these metals play an important part Until a comparatively these rare metals were short left in tme ago the dump hu Loomis to secure an analysis. | heap at the mines, belng deemed not only | valueless, but actually detrimental to the concentration of the ore which was con- sidered of value. In Boulder county, Colo- rado, the miners used to throw away what they called black jack. Now that they know black jact to be wolframite, an ore of tungsten, they are carefully smelting the dump heaps, as tungsten forms a valua- ble branch of mining. In Cornwall, England, the miners found turgsten ore, but called it mock lead be- cause of its high specific gravity, and the) 100, left it In the dump. Upon learning the are working over recover the valuable value of the stuff they the refuse heaps to In 1842 this ore was found in Lan's mine at Trumbull, Conn., and Kben Smith dix covered it in 1§78 in Colorado, but it is only within the decade that it has become of value commercially. 1n the summer of 194 some prospectors working thelr way wiong through Okanogan county, Washing- ton, with pick, shovel, drill and powder, staked a claim Which abounded In & new ore that they believed to be filled with §old and silver. Much excited, they filled | certainty heir pockets and hastened to an assayer in When neither gold nor silver was found, they gave up their claim. But the assayer noticed unfamiliar crystals in the ore and proceeded to investigate and found it im- pregnated with tungsten acid. When this fact became known there was soon a new industry for the region. Tungsten is now in demand for Incan- descent lamp filaments. In the form of sodium tungstate a fireproofing of value is produced. Tungsten brought joy to the heart of The housewife in that it fixes dyes so that wash goods will wash. Silk merchants rejoiced, for other tungsten salts added weight to silk. Tungsten steel is extremely tough. Pro- jectiles made from it have penetrated through fourteen inches of the best armor plate. Tungsten compass needles are the best on the market. In the form of ferrotungsten it has pro- duced a high-speed tool steel that was never thought possible by mechanics. Even pianos have been benefited, as tungsten gives added strength and quality to the wires. Its high melting point gives it value in the manufacture of the highest &rade crucibles. Tungsten ores have been melted In elec- tric furnaces, but thy problem now is to produce it by direct pig iron blast furnace smelting. The American Smelting and Re- fining company has recently appropriated $16,000 for experimental work on the treat- ment of tungsten ores. Tungsten is now mined In Arizona, Call- fornia, Nevada, Montana, Idaho and Colo- rado, which produces per cent of the output. The tungsten belt in Colorado is three miles long and elght miles wide. The world's production of this ore in 1306 was 3,979 tons, In 1906 4,204 and in 1907 5,791 tons. The production in Colorado in 1907 was vailied at $500,00, and the market for tungsten has become almost as staple as that for copper, zine or lead. A possible rival to tungsten is molybde- num, a metal discovered in 1778, but as yet found in such scant quantities that the un- of the supply makes It commer- second to tungsten. Alloyed with steel it hal the same effects as tungsten, and there s the very great advantage that only half or a third as much is required Its chief use is in the maiifacture of chemical reagents. It is highly valued in the artistle world, for in the manufacture of pottery the salts impart a fine, blue color. An important use is barrels, large cannon, propellor wires and. high-speed tool steel. clally inv ritle shafts, e KIDNEY OR BLADDER MISERY GOES AND YOUR LAME BACK FEELS FINE| Several doses will regulate your out- of-order Kidneys, making Backache vanish, Hund.eds of folks here are needlessly miseralie and worried because of out-of- order kidneys, backache or bladder trouble 1t you will take several doses of Pape's Divpetie all misery from a lame back, rhcumatism, painful stitches, inflamed or swollen eyelids, nervous headache, irrita- biy v, dizziness, wornout, sick feeling and ( ¢ symptoms of overworked or deranged K Waeys will vanish Uncontrollable, smarting, frequent uri- nation (especially at night) and all bladder misery ends. This unusual preparation goes at once to the disordered kidneys, bladder and urinary systém, and distributes its healing, cleansing and vitalising influence directly pon the organs and glands affected, and completes the cure before you reallse it FEn s S il The moment you suspect any kidney or urinary disorder, or feel rheumatism com- nig, begin taking this harmless medicine, with the knowledge that there s no other remedy, at any price, made anywhere else in the world, which will effect so thorough and prompt a cure as a fift ment of Pape's Diuretic, which any drug- sist can supply. Your physician, pharmacist, banker or any mercantile agency will tell you that Pape, Thompson & Pape, of Cincinnati, is large and responsible medicine concern, thoroughly worthy of your confidence. Only curative results can comé from tak- ing Pape's Diuretic, and a few days’ treat- ment means clean, active, healthy kidneys, bladder and urinary organs—and you feel fine. Accept only Pape's Diuretio—fifty-cent treatment—from any drug store—anywhere in the world, a century, it was not commercially useful until Moissan in 108 brought it into the limelight through the electric furnace. It is found in the Black Hills of Dakota and its most important minerals are columbite and tanalite. A small quantity has been kept in this country for experimental work, but the yéarly output, amounting to sev- eral tons, has been shipped to Germany. The most important use fo which tan- talum is put is in the manufacture of fila- ments for Incandescent lamps. They were put on the market in Germany in 195 and in the United States in 196, The tantalum lamp scores on these three points —higTi efficiefiey, ability to withstand high currents and whiteness of light. Tantalum pens give promise of being the pen of the future, as they are not only hard and elastic, but resist chemical action. ( Steel pens are both hard and elastic, but do not resist chemical action. Gold pens resist chemical action, but are soft and pliable. Vandatum in small qualities is distributed in sandstones, limestones and igneous rocks. 1Its greatest value, when alloyed with fron as ferrovanadium, is in the mak- ing of steel. The addition of from one- tenth to one half of 1 per cent of fer- rovanadium enormously Increases the strength, toughness and elastic limit of the resulting steel products. The automobile business has greatly in- creased the market for vanadium. The spurs used In Sir Thomas Lipton's racing vacht Shamrock III were of vanadium steel and so were those on Emperor Wil- ltam's yacht Meteor. In the form of vanadic acid vanadium is used as a mordant in dying; in medicine under the name of vanadin it has a use; waterproof black Ink is made from vana- dates and tannin acid. It is also used in developing photographs in stained glass and in a beautiful fmitation of gold bronze, Uranium, in many respects the most in- teresting of all the rare medals, was recognized as an element In 1782 by the | chemlist Klaproth, who named it after the | planet Uranus. The chief ore of uranum Though Tantalum has been known fu:] “FRENCH ARE POOR LOSERS” This Assertion by Orville Wright Causes Turmoil in Paris, FRENCH TRY TO RETALIATE May Refuse to Send Airships to America to Compete in the In- ternational Events This Yeas PARIS, March 19—(Special to the Pub- lishers Press.)—The French aeronauts aro tiguratively “up in the air’ by reason of the decision of the American courts in favor of the Wrights in the litigation over the aeroplane patents and the statement by Orville Wright that the French are poor losers. The things which have been sald about Mr. Wright have been hot enough to float a dirigible, ‘Whether or not the court proceedings will prevent the entry of French machines in the international cup races to be held this vear In America 18 a question not vet de- cided.” It is feared, however, that it will keep some of the French aviators out who otherwise would have been contestan: M. Esnault-Polterle, president of the As soclation des Industries de Locomotion Aerienne, said in regard to the matter: “I have no hesitation in declaring, with my French colleagues, that the recent judg- ment glven by Judge Hand is iniquitous Such a decision would have been impossible in a Buropean court of justice. Evidently only the American point of view is”con- sidered, and it is not the first time that we have had to register an example of pure selfishness from Americans. We Frenchmen still remember the Seldon af- tair. French Will Retaliate. Krenchmen have contributed more than any other people to the progress and per- fection of aviation, and it is unthinkable that the machines evolved out of thelr brains should be condemned and barred at is uranite, commonly calley pltchblende, and from pitchblende comes radium. Urantum is found in Joachimsthal, Bo- | hemia; In Saxony, Germany; in Cornwall, England, and in Gilpin county, Colorado, where it is sald to have been Aiscovered | by Dr. Garrett in 1878 Its uses are not| many. Two of its oxides produce pure| rare, | black glaze for porcelain and some of its salts are used In photography. It is a steel hardener, but is in no way superfor to In the manufacture of incandescent gas mantles its presence is said to improve the | properties of thorium, cerfum and zirconium salts, applled for the same purpose. The entire world's production at the present | time only amounts to about 300 tons of ore vielding from 3 to 13 per cent of the metal Though rich lodes of pitohblende are in Colorado the ore has been shipped almost | entirely to Germany for treatment. The| chemical products have been imported. Thomas F. Walsh has endowed the research fund for the speclal purpose of promoting interest among the mine opera- tors and prospectors In the search for pitchblende. The fund pays the assayer's bill. As a result of this generosity Colo- rado is belng carefully prospected pitchblende. — | Free Asthma Cure. D. J. Lane, a chemist at 3i3 Lane build- ing, St. Marys, Kan., manufactures a rem- edy for asthma in which he has so much confidence that he sends s $1 bottle by ex- press to anyone who will write for it. His offer 1s that he is to be paid for it if it for to be the judge L \ School of Mines at Golden, Colo., with & the bldding of the two Wrights, 1 intend to bring the matter before the Assoclation des Industries de Locomotion Aerienne, with a view of taking action to protect French avlators and, if necessary, to or- ganize reprisals in view of the hostility to French aeroplanes in America. 1 do not know yet what form such measures will take, but where there's a will there's a way, and you may be sure that in this case the will exists. “In any case, I question whether French aviators will avall themselves of the Wright brothers' kind authorization to compete with them this year on American soll. It s still present in the memory of French aeronauts that, in spite of a similar affirmation that they would receive good treatment on the occasion of the great St Louls race, M. Santos-Dumont's baNoon | was slit open and lacerated with a knife the culprit was never brought to jus- tice. It would teach the Americans a les son it European aviators abstained ‘en bloc' from all participation in the contest for the Coupe Internationale if held in | America. “For myself, after the experience of the Wrights' action and of other disagreeable | Indications of the feeling In America to- | wards forelgn sportsmen, I should not think of taking part in any contest thers or of sending my machines across the At lantic for such a purpos Other leading aviators express views. similar Americans in Paris. Among the Americans in Paris this week cures and the one taking the trestment is | have besn Miss Eva Arthur, Edgar K. Ben- nett pnd George X, Ghrelst of Pittgburg; Mrs. A, H. Boyd and Mrs. John O. Watson of Minneapolls; Mr. and Mrs. E. Clarence Holmes, Nat and Minnie Boas of San Franclsco, L. Lehman of Oxnard, Cal.; A. Lehman of Lampere, Cal, and Miss Eleanor Shotter of Savannah, Ga. New French Dreadnoughts. The six new battleships, plans for which have been accepted, will be among the most powerful atloat. They will have a aisplace- ment of 23,457 tons and will be armed with twelve 305-millimeter guns and twenty-two 18.6-millimeter guns. Their speed is to be between twenty and twenty-one knots, with a steaming capacity of 2,00 miles at twenty Knots and 2,000-horsepower. The heavy guns, which are of the 1906 fifty-caliber |type, firing & #40-kilogram melinite shell, will be disposed in palrs in six turrets. The arrangement of the turrets—four along the center line of the ship and one on each side amidships—will permit ten guns to be fired | broadside and elght ahead or astern. The | fore turrets are to be about eight feet higher than the aft turrets, and the highest placed gun will be nearly thirty-eight feet, while the lowest will be over twenty-one feet above the water line. The radius of fire of the guns in the center turrets will |he 210 degrees and in the side turrets 180 |degrees. The secondary armament will be |arranged in elght Independent batteries, each with a radius of fire of 120 degrees. The armor will consist of an armored belt 710 millimeters thick amidships and 180 millimeters thick at the two ends. The armored decks will be seventy and forty- |elght millimeters thick. The battleships wiil cost $2,650,000 each Plea for Tourists. The matin is worried over the aftermath of the flood. In a recent editorial it says | “Forelgners, believing that Paris has be- | | come, owing to the recent flood, a city of | ruins and desolation, have ceased to vlllly us. Our theaters, hotels and restaurants are empty. Our pessimism has exagger- ated. It s time we Informed the foreign- | ers that Paris is still Parls.” \ 1 Pays to Be Honest, | General Plequart has found that stand- ing for principle sometimes at least brings | its reward in this world. The man who braved ruln for Dreyfus has just been ap- pointed commander of the second army corps at Amiens, one of the most coveted posts in the French army. General Ple- |quart's role In the Dreyfus case will be | remembered. This was followed by his | disgrace, then his reintegration in the| army. Next he was chosen by M. Clemen | ceau as his war minister, and now he fs| further rewarded by being given one of | the most covetea appointments in the | French active army | Her Plan Poor. A peasant woman named Redon at | valle, France, who concealed L5 in a loaf | of bread to prevent the money being stolen while she was at market, had the loaf snatched from her by a dog, which ate It Wild Beasts Rald Farms. Owing to the persistence of the heavy | snowfall a number of wolves and wild Loars have left the woods in the vielnity of Clermont-Ferrand and are roaming around the villages terrorizing the Inhabi tants. No fewer than fifteen wild boars were killed in the canton of Pontgibaud alone recently. In one instance the fam- ished wolves penterated into a farmyard end devoured the watch dog Honor for Police Chief. | Parisians derive great satisfaction from | the fact that the Academy of Mora! and Political Sciences has awarded M. Lepine the prefect of police, its grand prix, valued at £600, in recognition of his splendid work during the days of the great flood, “hon oring in him all those who, placed under | his orders, have co-operated with the same devotion in the rellef work which he hae 50 splendidly directed.™. the car always face the way the car is going--Use care whenever you PRATTLE OF THE YOUNGSTERS. Small Lola was watching her mother working among the flowers. “Mamma,"” she sald, “I know why flowers grow; they want to get out of the dirt. Little Johnny~Why, papa, {s skating -con= tagious? Minister—So you are going to school now, are you, Bobby? Bobby (aged 8)~—Yes, sir, Minister—Spell kitten for me. Small Harold was unable to fathom the| BObbY—Oh, I'm further advanced then mystery of death and asked his mother [ that. Try men on cat. about it. After she had tried to explain it, f he sald: “Oh, now I know. Wh=n a man dies 1t's for all the rest of l:s life.” Three of a Kind. The other night Dr. BAward Goodricw Acheson was given the Perkins medal by the Chemists' club. ‘The Perkins medal is The eye of a little mise was attracted by | an_article of esoteric signiticance be- the sparkle of dew at early morning. |étowed upon a chemist Who has largely b % ‘ e ‘n 1| distinguished himself during the last year. Mamma.” she exclaimed, “It's hotter'n I | G e e I oroaress. & though it was.” late comer entered the club room. 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