Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 15, 1916, Page 8

BLINDED SOLDIERS | SENT T0 SCHOOL| Hertford Villa Converted Into Insti- stitution for Instructing Sight- | less English Soldiers, | PLACE OWNED BY AN AMERICAN (Correspondence of the Associated PPress.) LONDON, March 2 -One of the deep est personal tragedies of the war, A brought home to the British people, s the loow st of young woldiers and saflors who have lost their eyealght. Al | Bt Dunstan's Hostel for blinded woldiers | and sallors there are at present abo.t students, officers and men, reprosenting Canada, Wngland, Australia, New Zen land and Pelgium In addition there are & number of men In annexes Al Brighton and Torquay whose wounds thus far have prevented thelr taking wp work at Bt Lunstan's Wever before in Writiah history have | 80 many young men, who ar Lherwine able-bodied, been brought together in the | belpleas state of blindness, and the prob lem of handling them s entirely differ ent from that presented in a home for poople who have lost thelr sight through dllsense or Vike und new mathods SAND AND CACTUS GREET AMERICAN TROOPERS IN MEXICO-—This picturesque photograph shows Troop F of the Fifth United States cavalry riding through the sand and cactus of Mexico on the way south to reinforce General Per- | shing’s force in its pursuit of Villa. TROGP K ST .CAVALRY IN MEXICO., @ made will be smoothed over, In » must be applied to meet the stuntion, |an boot repairing, where no articlos are = : Bt Dunstan's 1s & piace of beauty and | produced, every offort will be made 1o | Soenic Aerial Tramway Nearly Com- tull of historio interest, Onee the villk | spcure atondy employment pleted at Foot of the Swirl of the third Maratess of Hertford, the | 11w not all work and no play st #i " 4 ing Rapids “Bteyne” of Vanity K'alr, St now the | Hupatan’'s, The men row on the Inke ng R London home o 0 Kahn, Lhe - L play bushball, swim in nearby bath " v oan financier, who has loaned It 10 the | epguge tn other amusements 1o their CABLE BRIDGE AKD CAR blinded wsoldicrs and sallors’ care com: | fiking Fntertainments are provided rog mittes, under the chalrmanship of C lyaely inoluding dances twice n woe An weria “ " " Arthur Peason, n publisher and promt- | sow of the tommiss And Jack ars d4ncs | jome putlt excine AL, 1o dont of the Natlonal Institute for the lyery woll and enjoy (hese occamions i Blind, About the spaciois villn are ff-| g se)y pasRanger ¥ toen acres of well-kept lawna, treos and g aimost completed ut Nisger shrubbery, An arm of Raegent's Park , i A i g Lake runs inte () “« nds, thus a ca Or r(‘c lng‘ Lo p fording facilities for bonting. Al this | - s At the dispossl of (he blind men ant| K W G " w ’k iy ot nalalla they have been murrounded by an atmon- | Iupp uu OrKs sutlaf; % A phers that (s Adistinetly homelike ’ — 4 s t 4 Penrson n Wiind Man, | (Correspondence of the Associnted Pre a5 (agtnln Sn athay Mr. Pearson, & man of magnetic per sonality and the moving spirit of the hostel, lost his sighy a few years ago and the bright philosophy of lite which he has developed for himmelf pervades the place, Mr, Pearson's theory of con ducting Bt Dunstan’s wis expressed by him to n reprosentiative of the Asso cinted Press thus “I'he main endeavor here ia to ket Into the minds of the blinded men the ront principle that they are handicapped, not affileted. The latter word Is used far too fresly In connection with biind folk. Tell n man thet he i afflicted and hin mental outlook on life will bear that stamp, But tell him he Is handicapped and M he o A good fellow at heart his sporting spirit t twelf and he will adopt al) that are shown him to enablo him to eateh up with the fellows to whom circumatances have glven m start.” #ince the school work at Bt Dunstana n thirty-flve men have besn gradu ated, having learned one or more occy pattions, such as boot repalring, massage mat-making, basket-making Joinery poultry farming and market gardening Virtually all of thess men read and write Brajlle and typewrite with the ordinary machine, All are now sald to be earning #00d Incomen. There are seventey-iwo teachers, all hut twelve of them voluntary, and each pupll has Individual intruction. Many of the instructors therselves are blind “The feellng of lielplessness which over whelms a strong, healthy newly-blinded man,” sald Mr, Pearson, "in Incredibly reiloved when he finds that the one why 18 to Instruct him In some profitable em. | ployment 1n suffering from the same handicap aa himuelf. The working day in divided between the class rooms, workshops and trainiog #chools #o that each man acqulres an all round education. All the students learn to read and write Brallle, and some of them are studying music. A number of men have learned the difficult art of reading with the finger tips In two weaks Boventy-three have passed the typewrit Ing teat, which moans that they can write & lotter without mistake at a falr rate af wpeed. When # man passes thls ex amination he receives o prize of a type writer One of the most remarkable features of the school s the progress being mad by some of the men In loarning Hrallle shorthand, They operate on a Iittle ma chine of weven keys which punches the characters on a strip of papsr. These | oharacters later can be read with the finger tips and transcribed on the type writer, Several of the men who were socretaries before jolning the army are lsarning shorthand and typing for the purpose of resuming thelr former work Men Learn Quickly, In the shops men who have never handled tools become adept quickly. A fow weeks practice enables many of them to acquire such skill that the articies they produce are salable. | mats, haskete of every shape and siee, bookoasss, pic ture<trames and many other things aee | turned out n the work ouracy and finish Near the workshops fs the po where those men who desire rooma with u try farm 1hve in the | sountry are taught poultry keeping, and simple market gwrdening. The men | quiekly me proficlent, learning .o Alstinguish the different breeds of fowl 1o tell the welght of » bird manag tnoubators. snd all the with poultry raluing Mr. P Iuerative of pations (aught st B Dunstar ' . Instruet) \ hastel, and » Passed | sane depa tute for 1 AMOng the studenis partmant s Cluthy e Thomas Ma s sloner of Now Bealand ' e le hardiy setepied N wtudying as N N o b Ning ane ol mas roniing . " ameng the slud M Munihe The averags o Dunstan » When e ks e e At Ve aubtabie leoa DA snbeotad can b g g Phasss e 1n & 1 Canrse training st B e monthe wreal * .le work \hay olr train npare Hye Mdepondon o w addition (o what ey #an sarn | . " Ahaut B & week and P WAt baet o ned e M Poarens staied tha » Na N Iatiiute for | i b pecial Bian a e Wa alfter care Wi disrs and Sallern. 14 bs planeed 1o A & e Dallding to b devuind ¢ pally e thin | B Thare oaw material will be gup | . LONDON, Mareh 2,-The sight of birds packing mortar suggested to an English | pay of Biscn man an \dea for Asmolishing the Krupp | fhe Whiripool, next e ¥ works, ‘The idea was this nolt, 1 vost populnr scenie mitra Obtain & floek of cormorants and train ' tion for tourints them by putting thelr food in horlgontal | The destgn of the cablewn anod and vertioal lines against o wall, They | upon Spaniah patents and the enterprise will thus associnte thess lines with thelr | has been financed ontir to0d, Pake the birds to Easen and 1b-| n Spain. The syster arats them. They would then attack the | tion of Tores Que great chimneys at Krupp's work with| who has galned considernble Furopean #uch vigor as to destroy them | tame in neronautics The Inventor sent his plan to the War | The Tores principle s not altogether Inventions board, & member of which | n to construction told the story at the Royal institution meeting this week, "I hope,’ remarked the speaker, "that I shall not get into trouble for revealing important secrets of this A previously engineers in countey, 1t has been ap uin bt in Canada and the United Btates to Kle cablen for not to multiple cables for passenger traf tndostrial purposes use Lo the enemy.” | fle. 1t benrs the dual distinetion of he lin: the only cablaway of its kind In the world, and the only one in America Halancing Welghts, Coming Aown to the aoti and constriction featiures the passenger car \n muspended fr ning gear which travels on six parallel carrying, or track, cables, such of which In tastened securely at Colt's P the other terminus, Th Political Rioting in Irish Cities BERLIN, April W~(Wireless to Hay ville. )~ Advices recelved from 'Amaster. dam by the Over News nagency state that political rioting In Ireland has engineering Honn Point \pmon's extended, and that street fighting has | esch track cable passes over a grooved ocourred at seversl points nlong the *heave and Is fastened to a counter const. The British military authorities | Welkht or streteher, These wix counter welkhta nre boxes 12 feet high by 6 feet 7 inches wide by 11 fect deep, made of riveted Fiach four onnt iron pleces of 1% pounds each and 200 pleces of % pounds ench total of 1878 pounds, which are reported to have taken control at varlous places and to have suppressed more Irish nowspapers nteal hox containg Wanted-Some Want Ads In exchangs for lots of answers. Phone The Rees making a with the POLITICAL ADVERTISING, John L. Kennedy Omaha Candidate for the Republican Nomination for et of the box itaelf ounterw t for en Il makes a ten-ton track cable structed that they in steel guides thrown onto the " cause the hoxes to but the n to mg 1 cable 1s nlways ten tons. ot the ad on the track cahlen; that regardless of the load on ar Awelf, For the sake of If the lond on the car counterwelgnts rise and inorensed, the ch an angle that the of the foroes acting onger istration cables 18 nlway rund its lond ariations of ten i conrse wnrding the vl ) the Ine of the stretchors consist of one-inch rope, mado up of meven A strands, surrounded by mixteen P trands, A these are (oo y hend over the sheaves st Thomp ench one In tastened, by a et ten foet in front of the one-and-one-fourth-4nch o n Monitor plow-steel cable, made up of #ix atrands of nineteen wires each, and thess Intter Are bent over the sheaves and fustened to the counterwaight bhoxen At Colt’s Point each track cable s fas tenad by n wtandard threaded clevis and 10 a twodneh These six rods uro bent around a concrete block welgh Ink 741 tons, which is bullt into the sheer faco of the clift, and are fastened se At the bottom of the pits, which t open to permit of inspeetion at time, of the nuts, washers, ete. One of the most novel features of the whole Instaliation s that each track ca ble ds entirely Independent of the others. This 1a of the greatest importanee, 1t menna that the brenking of any one cable would not be at all serious, as the other I4 mupport all the weight of the ear without any increase in their ten slon. In the event that one of the eables should break the ear would drop severa) foet nuddenly, and, after n few vertical onciliations, would assume s new position of enuiitbrium, ( uently the break Ing of one cable not endanger the Hven of (he passengers, and the breaking of two cables at the same tims would be an improbable as the simultansous enking of two oables helonging to totall separate installations.—Sclentifio Ameriean. nocket rod ire won near by POLITICAL ADVERTISING, United States Senator squivalent to the | @I, T Freight Rates to Panama Increasing i, i s March PANAMA from the Inereasing chants here on cement from $1.20 per bns more than the the factor ot N It fa understood that soclation of ( the rate red the steamuhi FORMER KING OF PORTUGAL ; IN EDICT TO HIS PEOPLE = Ov the left bn (Corrempondence LONDO "t who I now | has 1asued a prociamatior followers in P ists abroad, 1o of government Portugal, rapldly, a ) a barrel #itumtion it Increnses tha n Por IN HESOPOTAMIA Official Report from London Says ¢ Turks Were Driven from Po- - ng ar Semvice of Genoral Townse i " ompelled of ny ¥l-Am regarded nn men three milen gris 1o the Umm-El-Brahm marsh, | of hair water from the N Greater Omaha Population 217,000 (J].SO says the 1916 Omaha City Directory, just issued by the Omaha Directory Co. sitions Near Tigris River On MORE FIGHTING WEAR VERDUN bl t ol LONDON, April 14,—Defeat of th Lodi rkish forces In Mesopot w | . y Hritish was reported officlally. | plete . wd In an engagement on the Tigri the r " Turks were driven back from, one pe nd one-half o three mile In or f wa beginnir f r 1 ol he for ! " rt dusls follows 1 b t noun ed T uth movement was ¢ f fair) of 1mportance ot BTy nruhe # been driven by s northwest | teria P of the enemy’s trenehes | incremse ! “ at. The enemy was heavily - st paf ol o took refuse from the| MKzmeurs ng I Ful o HURAl o we More Vighting Near Verdun o, Baskatchewan and wupport whatever pril 14, "West of the Meuss | west will be furnished b may be esta ” « violent bombardment was deliversd by ' Harley, 1. 7. A., 214 Fifth Germans ngainst the Irench 1ines t0 | yotnes, lowa.—Advertisement ( It is replete with valuable infor- mation for the purpose of mailing, circularizing, etc. € The re-numbered houses on all numerical streets in South Omaha show in the new di- rectory, with a complete street directory, which is a new feature for that territory. particular ( The street directory of the 1916 City Di- rectory of Greater Omaha is an index to the name of the head of each and every house in the city. Move With the Times ‘L You must have the latest information about the people among whom vou do buiness i you would keep U p-to-Date The latest 1 ity Directory gives vou this and the convenience of having it at hand i Copies of the Directory Now on Sa.e Tel. Douglas 5888 far more than its cost. maha Directory Co. Charles X. Thompson, Manager. u were_doome * GERMAN AIRSHIP COMPANY ‘ ago ane CLOSES PROSPEROUS YEAR LONDON BARBERS TO BOOST THE PRICE FOR SH the North adressing Btreet, 1 AVING