Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 20, 1915, Page 7

LY OMAHA, TUESDAY ARTHUR THOMASON {Can Hear Messages IS GIVEN RELEASE "o\ Wireloss Ho New Wixfgless Here | MISSING DUNDEE | TREASURER HERE, Homely, Yet Admired and Envied; Her Secret The convention crowd made & path for her, cast admiring side glances, t with longing eves followed her to tl tor, can be done in such & manner as to eom- mand the eonfidence of all the people, “In order to aveld even the appearance of & one-slded investigstion, we bex to ! suggest that sueh an examination of the | electrie light company's hooks and prop erties should be made under some pian in ‘BRIEF CITY NEWS REPORT ON LIGHT Wave Moot Print M—Now Neacon Press | roe s saemseew BY BUSINESS MEN Echroeder, 48 Ware bloek. Red 6446, Foursome s Fostpomed—The four- A : a whioh both parties shal! unite and at the Y - 1 g s T e o o e Commercial ICluh Committee Makes & O tal sxpense of the NEht com. Pop}ular Center Fielder of Rourke| 1, siencr of the Union Pacific ,,.,’Wuurmld Arrives About Eleven|ih Wit it the Foneharirain tn Swrolt ! Omaha Country club has been postponed| Oif€r to City Council to Invess |vany and the ety of Omaba { Nine to Be Superseded by Bobby | announced that a new wireless recelving | Sunday Wight and Leaves for |54 Serom thote foem the wemn. Vons! until & week from Thursday | tigate Rates. o Dflor‘-ll. Plant V':lu- Wells from Cleveland. apparatus fe all ready Lo be set up at the | West Two Hours Later motion? Her complexion, iy, T've Wwe Awtos Stolen—Two automobiles | o such joint action can taken, w Unlon Pacific headquarters and will be | noever behald fta equal, Venturing to pick offer the services o! this committee to COMMISSTONERS CONSIDERING IT |secure o thoroush sxamination and analysis of the books ard properties of completely installed within & week. The new apparatus is very delicate, but is at the same time very powerful, belng cas rmed the seoret belonging to L. L. Tinley, 313 Park ave- nue, and J. Jacobs, 1548 South Twenty. sixth street, were. reported stolen up, nmwnunmml. 1 Jen ‘I've tried to make the most of my ane charm,” she said. ‘I know men abhor make-ups and _artificiality, 1 JAKE KAFORA ALSO IS LET OUT CONSULTS WITH AN ATTORNEY this committes said: “Our committes . The apparatus has heen worked out for | arrived at the Union station at 11 o'clock | ™ ! Mohler Meturms—A. L. Mohler, presi- | 100k this matter up when there was no | (MO™/edge of govemmental experts who |the Omaha ball club use In the work of the road Bunday Bight from the east awd left for| Totlion—davertisament, e o dent of the Unlon Pacific, returned yes- | Apparent prospect of 3 reduction of the |"aV® had long experience In such matters. | The passing of Thomason marks the —_— | the west at 1.6 Monday morning on & torday from Sterling, 11, where hia|rates. There still remains to be ad.| “ThS TePort of this oommittes, With I8 | departure of the last of the oid guard. | Taffeta silk and tailored cloth akiFts. | Unjon Pacitio train scheduled to leave| 7 i mother has just been buried. Mrs. Mohler | Judicated the matter of whether the pro- | {MdInEA would be suhmjtted to the cIty | Tommay jolned the team in 1911, coming [ WOrth up to $12.60, on sale Tueaday, #%5- | Omaha at 1218 g, m H Thi P died At the Methodist hospital in Omaha | Posed new rates are falr. The Commer. | C*™Missioners and to the Omaha Elec- | from Topeka in exchange for Bert King. | 8608 Jullus Orkin, 1510 Douglas St [ "Mr. Westorfield smptofed the intervas, | SBOW n ml‘ b Feofhotnt Clal club wania to perform a Dublie aepy. |Lic T4t and Power company, Notwith- | Mark Hall. Joo Kneaves, Bart Nishofr, acoomding to the Teport to the lexal de- F'd Zook for Merb Naegelielohn W, |'C® In this instance. If the proposed ex- | StARAING Suoh repert would hot he Ollie Pickering, Jim: Kane, BNl Behipke, | THREE JONNS IN THE partment in a conferenwe with & looal Cll Get Fl‘ volved in the litigation of the guestions, 8 b SRS ari; Pittaburgh. He has always looked like a means infraquent. Oity to 8. Loum, and at Kansan City [has mad meatings with both of the Dar- |goriere ;:;'?:u}df“ Kountze paric; K008 catcher, but Krug chose to work e g G X RE 18 soven feet ahove flood stage. No dan- |ties, and both have nssured us that our | porl® el 0 Tl n otk EAlsabeth | KCTURer s regular and Katora nover did o atores, ahae T other gt l‘ &er of flood Is anticipated at any point, |efforts would be welcomed. Hutohinson, Mfler park; B Van Sent|VOT¥ MU ruggiate hers, and o however. Following is & table showing | “The electric light company has an- |joniine Bewmis park, Lillln H. Welse, | Proder was just ssoured the other day | ) of the Hot- Weather a9 con & ot the height of the river at varlous points: |nounced a. reduced schedule of rates to Thirty fourth and Leavenworth play- | from South Rend. Can hb’ b~V d w‘ 3e8 : haw :.'2‘:3 % l‘mch-nn Rainfall [be effective at onee. ground; Mrs, C. M, King, <Fontenelle a s remark: . "flo mm Stations, Feet, :&:,'&“x:;fl'. ;?}::.;: EHELWICIALARME . | AHPRL TOONOVIEL 188 | s G’room Nlohols Of 1o Ay " I"uh“ Sioux Cf X 3 1OUTS: Iratos, this committee offors to continue | These supervisors will be expected to he | b WU "‘“':'31‘ \'a 145 23 |1ts work as originally planned, and to re- {on duty every day, ineluding Sundays, | Madi f J b f It the mother will pee to it that the used E;N&m who are not willing to -8 s 56 | port its findings to this community as to [from 1t a. m, te § p. m. They will begin 801 10r Job o ,bowels are kept regular, much of the or \}/ | The city commissioners will take the Omahs Electric Light and Power Arthur Thomason, one of the most | py of recelving messages from tha| WM. H. Westerfield, missing treas-| metios; there ars two things 1 use to pros “Foday's Complete Movie Program” | under advisement the proposition of |combany, to determine the value of its | popylar ball players who ever wore|high powered German wireless statlons | urer of Dundee, was in Omaha for :'..‘2‘.'..'.‘:‘.“"'v'n‘:.?“,'.‘,'\“,,'.'.‘.;m:.‘,?'w,‘; m:m-:mi.“&:’::’:.: o special committee of the Commer- ::::1 ‘“:“:“:I""“l::"“‘.‘:”"':‘:'h:"‘d_::ln Rourke uniform, has received his|®t Hamburg and at other points in Ge™ | two hours Sunday night and con- a3 :'d’,{;&;:.,"""“ff:«fltmlm o the varlous moving picture thesters otfer, | C/8! €lub, looking toward an Amicable | oqsonable rates to be charged for elec- | [1ve days' notice and will be given his N:"’. Nave recoived messages direct from | SUIted an attorney here, according| cream, wask it n the morning: This Frain Windows Smashed—Fire Yar.|Settlement of the electric Ilight and [trie light And power in this city unconditional release. At the same | Germany & mumber of times in the past,+ | 0 & Teport made to the eity legal de- | fTRdually, fakes off the euter akin: then den Morris states that upon his return| Power rate question, "It we undertake this work we would | tyme Jake Kafora and Outfielder| said Dr. Millener, “but with the new in- | PATtment by a private detective. '"‘_-"1 beautitul, as you ses. Sunday from Wood Lake, Neb., seventy- two winows of the train he was on were amashed by hail. Boock, cashier of the Citizens’ State bank of Gibbon, Minn,, has asked the Omaha volice to look for Herbert Nacmell. who has fallen helr to a considerable estate and who formerly lived at 811 Nort! - O falrl + s ures, whieh is In the mayor's depart- “r'd o brondBoirfpe o Orth Bev-| “uour committes is without prejudice T e Bl ol e caotve oopy | the fleld. Thie year Tommy continued his | mant, fs being reorganised. with John | hall. RO Wy vy ey B I LR for or aginst the light company. There | Shtitied and d | brilifant flelding, but he couldn’t eonnect | pagure of the Routh Side serving as & —————————— that way," declares every excessively TIRGer Cub Off—F. W. Fairfleld, | i) nothing to prevent a fair consideration | Of #eouring them by litigation. at the bat and Wourke decided 10 1ot | naw imapector. John Grant pesk wit re: | CHICAGO SHRINERS PASS thin man or 0. Such & result ix ot Fiftysixth and Hickory atrects, lost the | o "o stuation 84 betweon the people| W6 Would respestfully ask for YOur |pim go. main head of this department and John impossible i st Fallures. PR Index finger of his rieht hand whon tha | 11a e lighe company.” iy (o our wgguetion ai w carly & et e Y ] o et | THROUGH OMAHA THURSDAY | * '"”S”}'""fiu"o\";“m"" riuon, '{'.“ b n & set of electric shears | mpis special commitise proposed that |d8te aa possible g Tommy was always a great favorite |sistant, et “a T e posiede v arth Twenty-seventh atrest. He | i1.q city pay half of the expense of the |3 4 funderland, . M. Myare. [With the fans. In Omaha and in other | Thess three wil oover (ha| LA SPSSIAl WVEIA OF L O e | e R Tvan atlended by Dr. & MeCleneghan and | examination and the light company pay | §. i Mecsue, T, J. Mahoney. | Wentern teasus cities Thomason has hosts |#htire Greater Omaba territory. They | Shriners of Ohicage will arvive in Omaha | 31, RUIETIOR a%e Bormal, instead O 5-‘- aken to the Nicholas Senn hospital, nat. ‘;‘IKW'I:‘F?IL !}'_I ’A Tnnr:::::lr‘-, lof friends. Often times Tommy will be | Nave new standards of welghts and meas- | At Tp mP‘!‘)'.:nd-y 'on:fl: '::y hack m-n":.l:\l eleman s " ll‘n‘fl n : K] Committee Makes Report. Commities for the ‘Gommercial ciub. | coming down the strest when someone |WFes And the wummesiion is made that | from the FAcias sosse Fhe wai comed | MG (o pas from Lis Rody M, 3 issouri River The following 1a the written proposition pr bt ot memis {#tops him and begins to fan. And Tommy housswives wishing their scales tested | in Aoy A *| duce @ heaithy normal wmount 'of fat : ted to the city commissioners by 1 |will stop and talk for half an hour |*Mowld notify tho office. Purchases wua- | over the Northwestern, remaiuing but|the nuteitive ey A Rises F F : | gz Vo Y rromn the Commer. | £ 1Y OUPBIVISOI'S Whether or not he ever saw the fan be. | POOted OF boink under weikht or measure | fiften minutes fn Omahs About 10| lally supplied with the wh our feet in TR A L FO fore, This characteristic has’ always |MAY be officlally iested | #mriners are expectea acoompiiahed by sating & Sarwol tables clal club: bo e —— the Last TW D "I¥ie comimittes appotnted by the Come Must a00r Seven | made him & popular ball player. . s with overy ‘meal. 1 le & welentiria 0 ays mercial club to proffer its good offices ] | Bobby Wells, procured Saturday from nvlu..&twwr known to, to your honorable body and to the Omaha Da,ys s&ys Enghsh | the Cleveland club, will take Thomason's . ° the | Jnedioa) _ prol ohsion. on with, The Missourt river fs within 23 feet of |Kjeotric Light and Power company for ’ |Piace in the outer works. Wella comes are lt asier or n Sustee aad Fihsetas nte ridh. Tive: floed stage at Omaha, as the romilt of a |the purpose of securing lower and far | o o SRR 0L o, [Roralded as u sticker of renown and an e e iy & .%5 Tepia rise of 42 feet during the last | rutes for electric light and power, and [ SHPORRIEREA O T B O e seven | SXcellent flelder. e o o R oo A8 forty-eight hours. The Missouri has been rising all along its course from Sjousx Appearing before the counell committes of the whole Chairman Sunderland of amination of the books of the light com~ pany should be made the report will not be binding, but we hope the report will be reasonably acceptable to the counmell and people. 1t possible to avoid the great expense in- expect to employ competent, disinter- osted auditors and experts, making use, in %o far as possible, of the skill end #ally binding upon efther of the parties, ‘we hope that it would be of such a char- acter as to bring about an agreement between the eity and the eleotric light company, thus seeuring the rates to new supervisors as follows: Broder were given notice that their Dusty Rhodea and others were on that {1911 team. Tommy played good ball dur- {Ing his career hore until this year, keep- |ing his hitting mark above 80 at all {times and showing unusual brillianey in Kafora eame to Omaha last spring from services were no longer wanted by | staliation we will be able to get the mes- | sages without interruption.’ | lawyer. WEIGHT DEPARTMENT | vo chock ot v westrta's voske | Increase in Waight Ten Pounds or Mare The department of weights and meas | Dieted Wednesday, according to officlae | The detective, who declared ha himaelf | iy saw Mr. Wemtariald, said the missing man | ™ Ption “':Y‘“ a h Wr!nk)r never bol p bathe my face an ou f powdered pint till‘thn 'n"u-l It me. At their in n wolution who are making the check at the city ported gains of from ten t pounds in & Baby in Summer A Physiclen’s Advice th am by no 5.1 g ‘s | Whether or not the company's rates for |their duties’ Tuesday morning and will | GO (Nlness to which children are most sus- 36 07 163 |ueht and power are such as the peopls |arrange Pluy schedules acoording to cho| vernor of State| ceeubie during hot westhar can be F'n of Omaha are fairly entitled to, and such | number of children who attend _(h"ll ( ‘n"'n'.‘r E CREW PUMPS WATER as will return o the stockholders of the | respective play centers. James Nichols of Madison, state rep. || A I lxative, admintstered ut FROM LISTER HOSPITALI"'"’“"‘ compapy a falr return of earn- A crew from the fire department pum| pad | fonnd to b les. three feet of water out of the basement A I of Lord Lister hospital on Sunday. The water was up boilers. Damage by water was reported from |Pendent experts as we may Seventeenth and Howaml strests, Thir.|furnish every facllity for making their teenth and Leavenworth streets, Forty-|eximination thorough and complete. second street and Bedford avenue, where seven pellars wn:‘ flsoded; Thirty-fourtn {the entire éxpense of such an examina. and Mason st e * Our women' md misses skirts will be on sale Tuesday at greatly reduced prices. Jultue Orkin, 1510 Douglas St, Inge; and, further, if the rates ure found to be unfair, to suggest such rates as are Light Company Offers Books. ‘“Phe electric light company offers to open its books and ascounts to such tnde- | for select, and to | Plckar to the fives under the “The light company also offers to pay |that Pojcar tion “This committee wishes to be of sem vice ta our citizens and Is willing to un~ dertake the labor connected with such a large undertaking, provided the work “ ASK PART OF PETITION The Omaha Dally News and Joseph Polcar, defondants in a puit for damages oged libel brought by Frank M. former Burns detective, asked the distriet court by a motion to |summer. He has written the olub that iminate from Pickapd's petitio ked Picl quainted with two women and to get August. them drunk and debauch them, if neces- | sary, to secure evidence. The request is | made on the ground that the allegation is puperfluous and not a cause of action against the défendants. '| resentative from Madison county, is to |The year soma subsequent other year. i ols is a republican. Ife has been invited along with J. H, Kemp of Fullerton to | gyrup Pepsin, —— have |8t & banguet to be given some time this | 'tie yet positive harge | he could accept such an invitation the ac- | latter part of July or the latter weeks of demaription, 1t rd to get B Wash Skirt Bargal Spacial values for Tuesday's selling, at $1.9, 2.6 and $3.06. Boores of styles in all siwes. Jullus Orkin, 1510 Douglas St Reduced Electric Rates Effective At Once Irouiar intervals, will Prove an excel- {lent prevent! f summer compl |be groomed for movernor of Nebrasks | inat ‘.,. ‘,',:.: :: g TO BE STRICKEN OQUT |for some time in the future, If not next Inaotive bowels. combination of sbmple laxative Nich- | herbs with pepsin, soM in drug stores junder the name of Dr, CaMwell's is excell for ohlil- speak before the MeKinloy olub in Omaha ’u-, being pleasant to l‘::'m gon- in astion, and froe (from oplate or narcotic drug of any aots naturally with- ‘out griping or other discomfort, and is altogether depandable. The cleansing of the bowels will mont effectively cheek an attack of Glarrhes by expelling matter and polsons that frritate and nflame the tissues, * the forelgn more.—Ad In avery home & bottle of Dr. Caldw well's Syrup Pepsin should be on hand, ready for use when ocomsion re- quires. It costs only fifty cents & bot- tle and is wol@ in drug stores tained by writing to Dr. W. B, Oaldwall, 458 Washington St. Monticelle, i, ' Applicable to All Bills Rendered On and After August 10. 1915. Substantial Benefits Will Be Derived by_ the Small Consumers The assertion by Corporation Connsel Lambert that ‘‘the Company's proposed rates are not fair to the small consumer’’ cannot be supported by facts, No doubt Mr. Lambert is sin- cere in his opinion, but his statement shows an apparent lack of familiarity with the subject. Both small and large consnmers will share in the present rate reductions. A cut of 23.4 per cent in the maximum lighting rate in itself insures benefit to the small consumer, who is in- variably the one to whom the maximum rates mean the most. The new reduced rates are distinetly favorable to the small consumer, and if there has been any appreciable departure from strict equity it is in the small econsumer’s favor. The large consumer, under the new rates, starts from the same base rate, and pays identically the same rate per kilowatt hour as the emall consumer for similar quantities of current used monthly. MR, LAMBERT'S CRITICISM ANALYZED Mr. Lambert says ‘‘most small consumers, however, reach the 6 cent rate after consuming from 15 to 20 kilowatts. Now they must pay 8 cents elear up to the 25 kilowatts before get- ting the 6 cent rate. The result is a very small reduction for them whereas they should get the largest reduction in propor- ‘tion to the big consumer.’’ Although Mr. Lambert's complete remarks as quoted are not at wide variance with the true conditions, an analysis of his example illustrates how far wrong his conclusions are. A customer using 25 kilowatt hours monthly on the old echedule and who was billed for the first 20 kilowatt hours at the maximum rate of 11 cents would pay a bill of $2.50 gross or $2.37 net. Under the new rates he will pay an even $2.00, or 37 cents less. While this saving may appear small to Mr. Lambert, it amounts to a reduction of 15.6 per cent on this class of bills. OMAHA ELECT WHY MINIMUM I8 NECESSARY 1t is a matter of common knowledge to all students of elec- {rical production and supply that a large proportion of resi- dence lighting customers are served at an actual logs, owing to the unavoidable but certain expense entailed by every con- sumer who is connected to the lines, irrespective of whether he uses current in large or small quantities. ) + This expense is cansed by interest, depreciation and taxes npon the physical property inseparable from every eémnection, such as the service wires, meters, transformers, etc., plus the operating expense involved in bockkeeping, meter reading, ser- vice adjustments, etc. 3 Time and again central station organizations have proved these expenses mathematically to courts and sommissions, and we do not know of a single instance in which the justice of this claim has not been recognized and upheld. COSTS MUST BE FAIRLY DISTRIBUTED This expense, generally known as ‘‘consumer cost’’ is the basis for the necessity of a monthly minimum charge in every system of rates intended to be equitable and to distribute the actual cost of service as nearly as posgible so that each class of emstomers will bear its fair proportion of the expense necessary to serve them, H In by far the majority of cases, the courts and commissions have upheld a minimum charge of $1. per month. In our new rates we have made a monthly minimum charge of but 50 cents; our effort being to favor the small consumer to the utmost. Under this monthly minimum of 50 cents a cnstomer who uses in excess of 6 kilowatt hours per month is not affected, in- #0 far as & minimvm payment is concerned. Six kilowatt hours cost him 50 cents; under the old rates the same amount of cur- rent would cost G3 eents net. . PRECEDENT SET BY WATER BOARD All publie utility rates in Omaha were inequitable in re- spect to the absence of a monthly minimum until the water works property was purchased by the City and a monthly min. imum rate established by the Water Board. In order to bring down the cost of water per thousand gal- lons, the Water Board found it necessary to fairly distribute cxpense by means of a minimnm charge, just as we find it necessary to do so now in order to sharply reduce the rate per kilowatt hour, Becauge the eleotrio rates in the past have been faulty and enabled a small proportion of customers to obtain service at less than eost is no good reason why this discrimination should be perpetuated. Scrving one class of customers at a loss simply means the necessity of charging more than is fair to other classes, which as we #ee it is out of ling with all American con- ceptions of fair dealing. The new rates represent a sincere effort not only to malke a existing diseriminations and be as nearly as possible fair and just to all concerned. While we rogret exceedingly to note attacks upon this effort, we feel that an actual trial of the rates by the publie will produce the most. satisfactory reply, and this actual applica- tion of the schedule is all we are asking at this time. Public comments on the new rates have cited a compara- tively few cases in which the reductions will make but slight difference in oustomers’' bills, ignoring the fact that the new schedule will mean substantial reductions to the great majority of our patrons, Obviously such criticisms do not comprehend the full situation. RIC LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY GEORGE H. HARRIES, President Maximum electric lighting rates have been reduced approximately 40% within the last 2 years due to physical improvements and growth of business o R ol Where. A fres trial botte can be ob- | | GRO. HL QO., Laborstories