Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 20, 1916, Page 28

FARM AND RANCH LANDS| Nebraska Lands. | THE RENTER LOOK. EIGHTY ACRES IMPROVED POSSESSION GIVEN MARCH 1 1917 t At ance 0d Weha hetn hog s ha Thare s Two Thousand (62000 00y [ Tars dus veurs and one halt (Alg) par cent. and for the balance of purchase pr yew haif (1 cash and halance t A term of years At sy e and 1w . roevpens AN INC YME-PRODUCING RANCH FOR A INVESTOR R buve & 31.000.acre Righly ved N\ebraska ranch, with an assursd net incoma of §9,000 per year ‘There is & fortune in the future advance THE AUTOMOBILES FOR SALE AUTOMOBILES FOR SALE We Can’t Use the Street for a Show Room MUST BE USED We are not All our floor space arriving. going to quote any prices on the following list of used We took them in on trades and are going to stand our loss like “little men' and sell them. for new cars now I'S. PICK OUT YOUR CAR and we will sell it to you—UNDERSTAND? Chevrolet Roadster. Hudson *30" Speedster. Two Maxwells (used) One Indian Motorcycle. Crow Elkhart Touring Car. Detroiter Touring Car. Metz Speedster Cadillac Touring Car. C. W. FRANCIS AUTO CO. OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: AUGUST TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY PAYNE & SLATER COMP “OMAHA'S RENTAL M APARTMENTS The Lafayette, 17th avenus and Jackson 81, 4-r. Apt 31, eust exposurs If you want an apartment close In, the thing. No car fare.. . THE CARLYSLK, 626 8 18th St large airy rooms, fine front porch, fare THE MASON, 31st and Mason, room apartment, convenfently arranged pleasing surroundings, very reasonable $40 summer and winter. L] RTLAND ANNEN. 30th and Leaven worth Sts Rrund new six-room apart menta, sleaping porches. on car line, easy walking distance. Only laft Don't be ton late $55.00 THE PORTLAND, 30th and Leaven worth 8t A.r apt, conveniently arranged and very reasonabla at $42 60 summer and wintar here's just 33350 four r nice one THE ST GEORGE, 3tst Ave, and Dodge St K-r, apt. b south exposure, tine front and rear porches. garage ac commaodations 347 50 PAYNF, & SLATER COMPANY, 16 Omuha National Bank Bidg PAYNE & SLATER COMPANY, “OMAHA'S RENTAL MEN." HOUSES AND COTTAGES. Partly modern 6.r, 210 B 2%th, dandy cottage, tn, reduced to B HOUSES AND COTTAGES Modarn except heat. closa $12.60 B-r., 26256 Franklin St newly decor- ated .. .$30.00 7-r. 865 8 19th At, very closs in $25.00 HOUSES AND COTTAGES. All modern o0 tha JIans fvalos S B garticdee o W. N. HELLEN, Sales Nlanager, B-r. 4027 Charles St, nics place..$20.00 L)l 6-r. 3061 Poppleton Ave, good loca- o R T vee.. 926,00 J. H DUMONT & CO. 2216-18 Farnam S 8-r, 3508 Hamilton St, 4 bedrooms, TR T O et | €2 arnam Street. Douglas 853.( _ = st ; Hamition oms. T ) 9-r, 3883 Farnam 8t :hb 22 . o 7 i s -r. 622 S. 40th, fine yard 60 VERRASKA FARMS Op(‘ll Sunday 1 ntil 2:00 P. M. -r. 3548 Harney St, maid's quarters, T buva an mproved south- southwfront, ana block fo Farnum, car, rn, winter wheat and ilmk - for Srraue s heiih i farm of |M acres, conventent to good DOURLE U"L:‘I"'S (“ TERRACES tow! & bar n for some one, no t l moaern sidered. .\.\vlln owner for ..m.l.‘n e POULTRY AND PET STOCK 4-r. 1017 8. 3iat 8., a snap $20.00 4926, Tea, FRESU aquatic plants for your fish globa, 9.r, 521 8 c:| Ave, good Nu";-": s : e : 2 WL keep fish heslthy MAX rent our furnished rooms 2 LASD NEAROMANA ¥OR BATR SISLER RIRD GO0 . OTHERS, SEE OUR COMPLETE S e e uto Clearing I Ses me for prica and torma 107 Woolworth Ave . > At bl : gt gl 15 Omaha Natlonal Bank Bldg. . A_ABBOTT, ¢ Patterson Hik, City FRENCH poodie dog year old; cheap, Ouse Pho D. 1016 Ff‘n EALE—The northeast quatter of sec Phone South 3626 3 8. 26th 8t A SATLESMAN wanted for dolla and ioya; on e1ght, township thirteen, range saven B it passibitles, owing to shortage: in Merrick county, Nebranka. Price $86 per 3 pusib 3 ! i fer good side line acre. 3 R Collina. Owner,” 3081 Farnam AUTOMOBILES FOR SALE | LARGEST DEALERS IN USED AUTOMO- :,":",,'":|\.T';‘.m“;:."rr:lr-‘;{;rnru:d references t. Omaha, Neb BILES WEST OF CHICAGO. ; Gleivs “hic 0 . Trving Allan, McCormick Bldg. Chicago FOR SALE—240 acres, well Improved Ilum, m ol | L e Cr knittin| o Th o g ey 500 | CROSSTOWN GARAGE | 193¢ ranter mwin e Towrng, s | G001 omey made, a0 Boms” waling ner, 3ty miles Greenwond J. Ross W, sacrifica ; hosiery; machines furnished on time; we < v or sell yo 0ods; easy and constan B-rr, owner. Ses Farmoers Stats bank 1914 Overlund Tourt Huyan, SEllay OUEy B Greenwood, Neb 818 South Mh 8t Douglas 4442, | mm-' SR Sl TR oo | IR anc i WhsalesCoRInell R TR M ad on: FOR SALE—200-acre Tmproved Saunders | For male. Ford Roadster, good con- 1914 Oakland Touring, classy little Chicago ORI taT e Tavo) e et ek nUR s 180 dition 5 = ..4180 car 00 | 325 00—2210 ‘lp,:nlfl; st T e moda::"d r acre; terms. J. S Plekett, Ced eteor Tor v $21:b0-3513 iPopplaton cAve 8 LE, e N ke Y871 Interstate chassis make fine specd: 1918 Meteor Touring. very good $30.00—2405 Capitol Ave, 7 rms., mod 10 AC. w e B8 4150 | S ety - 400) §35.00—3611 Howard St. 9 rms., mod. 80 AC. well \my:\\rd one mile of county 1916 Stutz Touring, run 3,000 mile $40.00—3515 Dodge St., 7 rms, mod seat town, eant Nebraska, $118. Apperson chassls, very fast and sncrificn . 3 $40.00—120 N. 31st St., 7 rms., mod THOS. W. CAMPBELL, powerful At SRS $180] 1914 Cols Touring, fine shape 550 18/ Hawthorne Ave., 8 rme, mod. _Kéoline Hiax T4 Vi ot tine Yirat g 21 Lafayette Ave., 8 rms, mod. FOR BALE weres unimproved (and | Midland speedster, perfect shaps.... 200| uring. tiptop condition.. 476 g50 00568 S, 36th St.. 6 rmas, mod. in Rock Co. Neb, at $5 per w. J. M 1914 Bulck Roadster, b-36... . 425| $50.00—3330 Harney St 9 rms., very good Mansfleld, Jefferson, 8. D, e buy used cars and sell the parts for [ 1014 Chavrolet aix-cylinder tourtn $70.00—366 N. 40th St 9 rms, hot water ORI G T A‘l“prrsnn. Courler, Cartercar, Intarstate, perfect condition B heat; double garage. mile to Tecumseh; muat ba sold, easy [ ' | Natfonal Roadster, very classy GLOVER & SPAIN, to! Stewart, 218 So. 17th - car, and fast. 3 s 30 ACRES of good farm land near Omaha CazefulfespalringEatitbeizixiifrrioe 1014 Datrolter 1m>r1nl run very Douglas 3962. 919-20 City National. Price le right. S. P. Boatwick & Son, 300 — Iittla E e . EResIRIdE 1913 Overland Touring, electrically L N O A O New York Lands. 8 VISIT our used car department. AEMDLUE S 11280 Located just cast of Bemis Park, in NEW YORK FARMS FOR SALE Overland 8ix, 1916, ... " 800 1916 Stearns 'lfl\lr"ll -mu r\nndor, baautiful Montclair addition, on tull sized Here wo go. I am ready. Are you? Overland Four, 1916 2 6h ik bargain front lot; exterfor in white stucco; in- Buyer. sun s se(ting on your chance | Overland, 1815 < 400 1914 Natlonal Twin Six ’Y‘u\lrlnl to terfor In beautiful oak and white enamel to buy cheap land Maxwell,” 1016, .., g o sold at sacrific finish. Oak throughout. There are five 20 cows, 130 acres alfalfa land, butld- [ Knight Roadster. 1916, . 1918 Ford Re 4':.”“ 2 Al batil oralsiinelathiarra IYine ings worth $5,000. Price $36 per mere | Cola Colonial Coupe. 1015 & Rilesiord RoadaterfiEoad tanape 1781 room, beamed celling, fireplace, etc.; They cost less, produce more; hers ls| Popa Hartford Racer. . 600 Chadwick Roadster, slx-cylinder dining room: kitchen with bullt-in cup- your profit Maxwall Kondstor . > 100 Jerfect. condition, ~orlginal cost board; screened-in back porch: two large, IRk coma s aal arcent acal A 1faTil Ianal | 7,300 sacrifice .. ........ alry bedrooms, with tiled bath betwee S:room house. basament. barn, 4§30 per I OUER T 1916, Moty elkht-cylinder Tmmn. satra large closets, eto.: tull coment bass. AN ERLAND, INC, Mg bargaln ... . : ment und . w To ba assured satisfaction and value re-| 2047 Farnam St Doug. 3280 | 5 % : furnace. Houss s to ba fully decorated; celved buy this ORI Tk Disiers aiien | il e ot wheet. at nity Iighting fixtures, screans and other 20 cows, 130 aerea: village €0 rode; | PEFORE Yol By took (heno cara and prices . features, which will make this one of the bulldings’ worth $4,500. Price $48 per | SyT 14 B BAY | 1912 Chaimers Thirty Tnurln( xrmd niftiest bungalows anywhere in Omaha acre. R. R. fare one way | 1 Overlands shapelic 200 Price Is $3,750 and can be handled on very Write for photos. E. Mu Studebaker-6 $40 | 1912 Overland Tnufinl. Just over- easy terms Salina St. Syracuse, N. Y +$180 [t et e 275 JEFF W. BEDFORD & SON, Missouri Lands. 200 1913 Michigan Speadster. fina ahape., 200 | _223_Keellno Building. _Douglas 3382 THEAP FARMS—Any sia 2 o vrolat Roadat 250 HOUSES—APARTMENTS—FLATS tbe beautiful Ozarks of ‘nhl's ke \!xu’:'.m yele, good as new. 175 Suraly vou t help b v, W._ 8 Frank, 301 Neville Biock, Omaha ~ W, FRANCIS AUTO €O 8 € annot help but melect a car| $15.00—5-7, 2616 N. 16th St., modern ex- pe RANC AUTO O out of this list. which comprises cars cept heat. Oregon Lands. RAL0:VA R Ty Douglas 881 which originally ranged in prices from | $1§ 00—5-r., 3816 Florence boulevard, mod- ATV B R e T T FORDS | &0 up to s100. Not all of the cars ern except heat, barn High producing | which appear in this list are on our| $35.00—d-r. apt, “The Harold.” 27th and farm; Fhtke, Chavobriie floors, but we can get them for you Jackson Sts Oregon. WASHED AND POLISHED, within forty-eight —hours’ time We| $35.00—s-r. apt, 1802 Farnam St. P hil;a . would be pleased to have vou come in| $35.00—10.r. 210 S. 30th St. modern. tal nds. $1.00 and get the prices and (nformation on| §35.00—6-r, 3511 Lafayetts Ave, modern HOME > theas cars. r. 4102 Lafayette Ave, modern. 830 more LUAT it e Rt iov: 3 11 California St modern flat. locate you 81 per acre. P. b. Hansen: | A 1 b o o 308 Utah Savings and Trust Bldg., Salt | 2010 Harney Tyler 85§ uto earlng L L e e ke City, Utah mogern. ——AUTO CLEARING HOUSE I l $60.00—s-r, 623 N. 51at St., Dundee, ne ‘Washington Lands. oI S ouse modern. YOR SALE in Douglas County, Washing Ford Roadater ... 3176 GEORGE & COMPANY. ton, 8 miles from Bridgeport, § miles Calo Tourlug . g - Sk from Brewster, 2 miles from Gordon (a Overland Touring ... Caryl H. Strauser Mogy Bernstain. Phone D. 756. 902 City Nat'l. Bank Bldg. boat landing on Columbla River), 160 Bulck B a8 Roadster Managers, T acres of unimproved land. ten dollars |~ = o ($10.00) per acre. Cash, or $12 00 par acre FORD INSURANCE 2200 Farmam St Tel Dous. 3310. Balt cash, with mortgage on land at 7 | NEAR ’4TH AND DEWEY. cont interest, 5 years time, interest Fire and theft {nsurance on new Fords. | Open Sundays. Open evenings. A5 R iR U 770 | Non-resident owner offers a modern S K e R SE Toh, [ four-room apartment, brick flat, annual KILLY, ELLIS & THOMPSON, rentai, $1,212, for $11,500. This is near TPPER WISCONSIN—Beat dairy eral crop state In the union wanted; lands for sale at low prices on easy ters excellent lands for stock ralsing. K for booklet 35 on Wisconsin Central Land Grant: state acres wanted If interested in fruit lands, ask for book- let on Apple Orchards. Address Land Com- missloner Soo Railway, Minneapolis, Minn GET literatura and maps on the cheapest ®00d land in United States. BAKER & TILLOTSON, 16th and Douglas Sts, Omaha. Doug. 1188, Miscellaneous. ARE YOU GOING TO BUY LANDT It so, get a copy of our Journal first. It bas lands. city propeity and stocks of goods advertised from nearly every and gen- Sattlers state. 8o that you can find just what you wish in its columns. Established 19 years. reaching 75,000 readers. Send 380 for one year's subscription, or 31 for #1314 City Nat. Bk Bldg. Doug. 2819, | Must sell all” onr cond-hand automo- ' S5BH Fo e T S bliea within 30 days. We have several Q0D Ford “‘“:'“' car, first $175 takea it. makes and are giving better values than arnam St Douglas 853. Mr. Hellen. RO A RD touring car, excellent condition, Phone South 131 Johnson-Danforth Co., - - T 1520-31-33 N. 16th St Automobiles Wanted. BEE WantAds GAINED 19539 MORE ‘y‘l‘.'ill:uvnm»x»:|.‘._ 70 and 338, must PAID ADS than any other Omaha news. | g Proed HERC: state condition. Address paper gained in first seven months, 1916, | DOX 691 Ida Grove, Ta, = Good results at leas WILL pay cush for Ford touring ca R e e a e s he in best condition. Box 6193, Ree USHD'CAR BARGAINS AT Auto Livery and Garages. MURPHY-O'BRIEN AUTO CO,, DON'T throw away old tires. We maks one l!_ll—lfi 18 Farnam St. new tire &rnn\ b} _nld ones and save you 50 A GENTLEMAN motoring from the east Percent 2in 1 Vulcanizing Co., 1618 Dav- to 'Frisco, has becoma weary of the trip __SAPOrt 8t, Omaha, Neb. Dou 2914, and will sell his new roadster at Ereat "RT auto repalring, “aervice car al- encrifice. Ses it L Ream Hros' gars ways ready ” Omaha Garage, 2010 Harney 209 N. 15th 8t 8t Tyler §55. WE will trade you a new Ford for your old P iyears: one. i Auto Tires and Supplies. FARM AND REAL' ESTATE JOURNAL INDUSTRIAL GARAGE CO., a4 in Sunday's Bea x.l?u‘:. il about TRAER, 10WA. 20th and Harne Doug. 6261, our big tire sale. Duo Tire Co., 1611 Chi- BEND your name today Recelve offers | FOR SALE—Cadillac speedster, just over- CAKO from land owners, agents. evervwhese. United Realty _fig!mjlnh‘s. Jotlet, 111, ACREAGE—X (0 b-A. tracta on car line. 8§11 Brandels Easy terma. C. R. Combs, Doug. 3818, ‘Thea. Bldg. FARM LAND WANTED HAVE cash and desirable property for pro ductive farm land. Describe fully, Box 5301, Bee FARMS WANTED—Have 4.000 buvers. De- 310 Farmers scribe your unsold property Exchange, Denver, Colo. Horses—Live Stock—Vehicles For Sale. ONE bay mare, § years old, welght 800 Ibs ; 7 years old had 2 months training. in 1918; time made, 2:19%. New rubber tired buggy, cost $165: good harness. For quick sale on account of sickness; will take 3500 or will e, 415 h St FOR SALE 59 HEAD OF HORSES AND MULES nearly all n good condition and of de- sirable working age. Also ail wagons and harness. Changing to autos for delivery our reason. DOG CROUTONS—New, complete dok food. makes every dog healthy and strong Convenfent and economical. Sample fres for dealer's name. Dealers wanted. Crou- ton Mtg. Co. 19 Hublflns Cincinnatt, O. FOR SALE—Pedigreed male Boston Bull Terrler. For price and information ad- dress 1413 1st Ave, Nebraska City, Neb. ONE biack hearse, rubber-tired, horsa- drawn, practically new. Address Y-85, Bee. 5 % FOR SALE—Toung registered saddie mare, galted Price reasonable. Call Wal 2680 on umbre! $1.00. Wagner, 801 N. 1 lh — o POULTRY AND PET STOCK BANK CASHIER (INVESTMEN STENOGRAPHER . STENO. dnd BKKPR. (B!(lnnvr) R. R. CLERK b BOOKKEEPER (Be'lnner) . 5 4 THE CANO AGENCY, 600 BEE BLDG BIG money In squabs, our lllus magazine trade for a new Ford taaches business; edited by Frank H. Hol mann; special rates; 15 months $1; sample 10c. American Squab Jourral, hauled and (n fine running cond 0! ey Price 9208 Phone Touxina 23t Hatold __ Auto Repairing and Painting, Schoelkops, 613 Paxton Bik __ $100 veward for m rmmmmu Crosstown Garage. 24th Doug. 444 Colls repaired. Baysdorfer, 210 N. 18th. 12-in. South b lathe, with extra NEBR Auto Radlator Repair Servi equipment, cost § " FOR SALE—Have for sale at prices right. 218 8. 19th 8t. D (\\\v vars d must seil e v ———— at once a ! oRdster, excellent % condition, $700 Teler. 1608 Motorcycles and Bicycles DANDY Hudson sp just overhaul HARLEY DAVIDSON, Mag. $25; Indian, fine condition. first $200 takes it $25; Indian 2% H. P. battery, $10. Farnam St Dourlas 863, Mr Hellen n Motoreycle Repalring, 6613 R. R. FOR SALE—One Mitchell six de lux Ave, Seuth Side. model, $800. One Mitchell six, 1914 HARLEY-DAVIDSON MOTORCYCLES, B $500. Phone 493 gains in used machines. Victor Roos, “The STUDEBAKER touring car, good con Motoreyclo Man Leavenworth, dition. $17500. W. Meyer, 2802 Sahler = e ——— e . BEF Want-Ads GAINED 19509 MORE §5-PAS electric starter and PAID ADS than any other Omaha news- lights in good condition. Phons Webster paper gained in first seven months 1915, 2849 Good results at less UNCLAIMED ANSWERS TO BEE WANT ADS Ans. Ana. Ans. 5001 .1 1 i i i 1 1 2 1 3 3 2 2 4 H he 1 1 8 1 2 1 1 Hundreds of other answers have been called for and delivered during the last week. It is reasonable to suppose that all the above people have | supplied their wants—therefore did not call for the balance of their answers. | Bee Want-Ads Are Sure Getting Results Dept. G. Warrenton, Mo, THOROUGHBRED Belgial® hares for sale. Phone Walnut 1160. propertics that ha ve racently sold st largely advanced prices, and s sure to Increase in value. Come in and we will glve you further particulars. PORTER & SHOTWELL, 202 S. 17th St Doug. 5013 BIG daily profits selling our new housshold articles. Valuable premfums with every sale. Fleld unlimited. Big winners. Chas. Carroll, Dept. 2, 1650 Horton Ave., Grand Rapids, Mich $100 INVESTED In Te Tegitimate office busi- ness anywhera will soon net $20 profit dally. Orolo Co., Loulsville, Ky, SEVERAL ladles to travel, demonstrate our goods and sell dealers; $20 to $40 weekly; we pay rallroad fares. Experience unnec: essary. Duchess Co., Dept. 111, Minneapolis Minn. TS—Free catalog and samples, new s, quick sales, big profits; make $5 to $25 daily, no experience. World's greatest specialties. Cruver Co.,, Jackson & Camp- bell, Chicago, 111 R Freo sampla and particulars bare's naphtha washing tablets. Vash clothes without rubbing. Guaranteed not to injure the finest fabrics. No aclds, lime or caustics. Manufactured and sold by Naphtha Washing Tablet Co., 714 §. Dear- 1l 7 —Our business boosting plan for merchants pa; you over $600 monthly on one sale day; over $300 monthly on threa sales a week. Costs a dealer only $6 week! liveries; no collections W. Lake, Chicago. SRTUNES to Investors should we bring in a great big oil gusher upon our subdivision, Drilling may begin within 60 days. Our location Is practically between two gusher ofl fields. Invest now. Terms $2 monthly, You get deed to land and interest in wells. Write for detafls. Bennett Co-Oper- ative Co., 381 First National Bank Bldg., Houston, Texas WE want a few high class salesmen who are now employed to handle petroleum greases side lina. Best grease ever produced Now belng used by largest concerns. Big {nducement on opening order, and very liberal commission on all repeat orders. Petroleum Grease Mfg. Co., 721 Washing- _ton_Bivd., Chicago Sales Manager, 20 REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Donald H. Brotchis and wife to James Y. Cralg. southwest corner Florence boulsvard and Brown street, irregu lar appr. 51x83 ramin Investment company to Fred cdgar, Eleventh, 250 feet north of Frederick, east wside, 32.6x81, Eleventh, 150 feet north Frederick, east side. BOXS1 . ... Agnes M. Patrick and James Conley, Archer feet west of Thirteenth south slde, 76.4x130 . ia N. Osborne and Pater Jol Twenty-fifth, nerth of * Pinkn west B husband to avenue, 181 street, husband to T feet side, 48 F. Kennady to Tha Jay Burns Baking company, southwest corner Twentisth and Tzard. 60x142 . Blanche F. Owen and husband to Mor- ris Lefkowits, N. §6 feat west of Twenty-second, north side, 44x100 1 2,780 | Anton 8 Rychly and wite to Maurice A Lacy, Camder avenue, 90 fest of Twenty-fifth north side, 45x130° . .. G eonon 7 Paul W. Kuhns and wifa to Charles Penton, southeast corner Thirty- seventh and Lothrop. 81x110 Henry D. Olson and wife to Lillian Rummel et al, Twenty-fifth street, 200 fest south of Poppleton avenus, west side. 502137 4 sevececicnionnas 1 avenue, 2,900 830 1916 Development of Electric Trac- tion Within a Period of Thirty Years. SYSTEM STARTED IN 1887 The wonderful develapment of elec- tricity is best typified by the miracu- lous growth of the street car, which is less than thirty years old, and yet has been installed in nearly every city of importance in the world. In these few years electric traction has heen devel- oped and extended until there are, in this country alone, nearly 2,000 dif- ferent companies in operation with a total capital stock of more than $4.- 000,000,000 Beginning in the larger cities the electric service has been extended from city to city, from vil- lage to village, until it is now possible to make a trip from Boston to St. Louis almost entirely by trolley. Twenty-eight years ago every large city had its horse cars and horse- drawn carry-alls. They are both curiosities now. As late as 1890 there were not more than 1,000 miles of electric railways in the United States. Early attempts to use electricity as a motive power resulted in a few scientific toys before 1882. Thomas Davenport, the Vermont blacksmith who invented the electric motor in 1835, constructed a toy car which ran around a circular track. Three years later a Scotch inventor made a small electric locomotive. A number of such locomotives were built during suc- ceeding years until the Berlin exposi- tion in 1879, when Messrs, Siemens and Halske constructed an electric line of about a third of a mile in length. The first rgular commercial line in the world was at Lichterfelde, near Berlin, operating in 1880, but was not a success. Edison, Field, Van De- poele, Knight and man yothers ex- MARVEL OF THIS AGE C0AST GUARD AMPLE Scarcely a Fort in Belgium but What is Safeguarded by Guns and Sailors. LITTLE DAMAGE BY SHELLS (Correapandencs of The Associated Press ) Rotterdam, Netherlands, July 31 A correspondent who has just been permitted to visit the Belgian coast reports the formidahle that have been raised there. A long line of barbed entanglement stretches along the coast, and an end on defenses wire less series of long slender ships' guns protrude from the coarse grass of the dunes, and behind the dunes crouch the heavy howitzers. Underground dwellings of homh proof concrete form part of the great trench along the eastern coast, he says. No spot is unguarded. FEvery- where the endless line is occupied | sailors, who endeavor to find reli for the monotony of their life in gar- dening and in the care of their pigs, goats, rabbits and birds “Here and there one comes across an enormous unexploded shell, hurled ashore by one of the big British war- ships, and which now forms the or- namental center of a flower garden I saw a big fellow among them, some of thirty-eight-centimeter caliber. “What one sces in the way of de- struction is the work of the fast tor- pedo destroyers, which have on oc- casion hailed smaller shells on the coastal towns with their quick firing guns. The corners of houses are gnawed away; here and there a gable exhibits great holes. But the damage is not very bad, at least not in Ostend and Zeebrugge, much less than one would have supposed. Even on the seaside the towns appear to be little damaged. The big bath hotel at Ost end is untouched, and the great glass Kurhaus shows no breakage, in its innumerable panes. A few big build- perimented in electric traction at this time. The First Success. The first actually successful com- mercial electric railway, i. e, the first electric operation of the complete street railway lines of a city, was es- tablished in 1887 in Richmond, Va. The road began operating in Febru- ary, 1888, and was essentially the overhead trolley system now used, comprised eleven miles of track, had thirty cars operating in July, 1888, and has been in continuous and suc- cessful operation ever since. The phenomenal development and growth of electric railway traction revolutionized not only city, but also suburban and interurban transporta- tion. From 1890 up to the present, the mileage has steadily increased at the average of about 3,000 miles per year. In 1895 electric railway equip- ment reached what might be consid- ered a staple basis of design. Funda- mental features, such as the enclosed motor, carbon brushes, series drum winding, single reduction gearing, magnetic controller and the under- running trolley had then become es- tablished. There were in service at this time approximately 25,000 motor cars equipped with about 500,000 horsepower of motors. A great many of the pioneer car motors were too small for the work, because early de- signers did not appreciate the amount of power required to accelerate a car. In 1895 the average rating of railway car motors was twenty-fifive horse- power. Other forms of street railway propulsion gradually disappeared until about 1900 when electric opera- tion was practically supreme. There then existed some 20,000 miles of city clectric railways. From 1900 to 1910 the electric railways extended rapidly to suburban and interurban transpor- tation. Coincident wtih this develop- ment there was a tremendous increase in the size and weight of cars. The average horsepower of railway motors increased from thirty-five horsepower |” in 1900 to sixty-three horsepower in 1910, and large interurban cars were equipped with four motors, while cify cars generally were equipped with two. Many Improvements. This increase in power brought about great improvements in control- ling apparatus. The multiple unit control for the operation of cars in train on elevated and subway lines, interurban roads and later for regular surface cars was developed. With the simplification of control were also introduced forced motor ventilation, reduction in the weight of motor equipments in commutation and in- troduction of commutating poles, per- fection of air brake apparatus, intro- duction of field control, etc. Since that early morning, 20 years ago, when the first electric car glided over the rails in the streets of Rich- mond, motors have been brought to such a point of perfection that elec- tric cars are rapidly encroaching on the steam engine and threaten to take its place entirely in a few years. The principles which Sprague used in the construction of the first car and power line are about the same as in actual use to-day. He invented the overhead trolley; his motors were geared to the car wheels and his sys- tem of control was nearly the same as in the modern cars. Miraculous, indeed, has been the growth of the street railway systems since 1888. To-day there are nearly 50,000 miles of street and electric rall“zvs in the United States, carry- ing more than 5,000,000,000 people annually. From the tiny cars con- structed according to Sprague’s plans 20 years ago the cars have grown to be models of comfort and conven- ience. Some of the best interurban lines boast of electric cars rivaling the beauties and comforts of the Pull- mans. In the Middle West some of the longest electric lines maintain sleeping, dining and even cold storage, freight, express milk and mail cars.— Electric News. Persistent Advertising Is the Road to Success. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Home Bullders Investmen: company to Clitford E. Day, Camden avenue, 164 feet east of P‘orl)‘~el'h(h street, sorth side, 40x 200 o C. Miller and wife to Lyle F. Stowell, Thirtv-seventh, 110 feet south of D.\enpnn east slde, 127.52130 . 1 Lewis Balcombs Reed to Winsford Eastman, Forty-seventh avenus, 49 feet south of Wirt street, west side, ings by Zeebrugge have been leveled to the ground, but that was the work of the Germans, owing to the fact that these buildings helped to direct the enemy's fire on the occasions when he sought to destroy the most susceptible feature of the harbor, the big lock. Village Not Safe. “The real work of destruction be- gins where the French land guns have been able to have their say. Middel- kerke is a mass of ruins. It is a re- markable fact that 600 people con- tinue to grouch there. The school is even still attended by eighty children. But every house has its underground refuge, such as the soldiers construct in the front lines. Shells still fall in the place almost daily. “Middelkerke is now in such a state that the Germans no lnnger take up quarters there, but prefer to live in dwelling holes, burrowed in the dunes. Some streets always lie open to the French observers and gunners. Long walks can be taken in the southern part of the place, by wind- ing over ways that have becn broken and dug out, half in, half under earth, through garden walls, houses and cel- lars. A deep trench is the only safe communication with the Westende watering place, where no house re- mains standing. In the village of Westende, which is, if possible, even more thomughi\' knmked to pieces than the watering place, I noticed that the enemy’s shells had spared the part of a wall of an inn on w hich was inscribed its name, ‘In den Vrede, (The Peace Tavern).” Babies Very Expensive Luxuries Now in London (Correspondence of The Assoclated Press.) London, Aug. 14.—It 1s estimated that the all-around expenditure on a baby born this year is probably from $100 to $125 higher than in 1914, Food alone adds about $15 to the vear's cost of the war-baby. Milk flas gone up 4 cents a quart and it is said that the average baby con- sumes from 400 to 450 pints a year. Baby foods are up about 10 per cent. Feeding bottles cost a third more, and the methylated spirit for heating the night's fu'd has advanced from 10 cents to 25 cents a pint. Baby garments cost more also. F\er\'(hmg made of wool has risen 33 per cent in price; all the cotton and wool mixture materials and gar- ments are 25 per cent higher, the wholly cotton ones, owing to the rise in raw materials and labor, must be paid for at the rate of about 15 per cent more. Even a baby's bath cost about one- third more; soap is a third dearer, the bath thermometer is up about 23 per cent, toilet powder—chiefly be- cause of the rise in the price of the broic acid it contains—is 100 per cent dearer. Nearly all medicines more. Perambulators are about one-fourth dearer. \What formerly was sold for $15 is now $20 and so on. A cot that could be bought before the war for $5 is now $7.50; the fleecy wool mattress, baby's basket and baby's high chair are all up proportionately Nurse’'s wages have advanced 85 or more and her keep is costing at least one-third more—an increase of $50 or more a year. Holland to Establish Big Colony for Leper Subjects (Correspondence of The Assoclated Press.) Amsterdam, Aug. 14—Holland is to have a leper colon The country is exposed to the leprosy danger owing to the considerable traffic with its East and West Indian colonies, and there are estimated to be roughly be- tween thirty and forty sufferers from the dread disease already within its borders.. Plans are on foot to found such a colony in the Veluwe region, between Epe and Heerde. It will be under the control of officers of the Salvation Army, who have had experi- ence of this work in the Netherlands cost much Elegance Causes Motorboat To be Confiscated by State (Correspondence of The Associated Press.) Berlin, Aug. 14.—One of the most expensive motorboat trips on record is reported from he Jungfernsee, a lake west of Berlin Dr<p\tc the pro- hibition against the use of such craft under a regulation adopted by the Federal Council last August, a party of six essayed a short trip. A police boat noted and overhauled them after a short chase. The motorboat, val- ued at 13,000 marks, was declared for- 40x126 . . 550 Frank Szawick! and wife to Agnes Mieak and husband. Thirtiath, 1161 set wast of Walnut. north side, 19 2-5x110% 650 Samuel J. Rummel and wife to Henry D. Olson et ai. northeast corner Prospect and Clay, Florencs, 130 =133 o . feited to the state, OUR ODD BELIEFS Prevail Among Even Educated People. 13 THROWS A SCARE NO. If an intelligent Chinaman or Hindu who had emjoyed the advantages of a modern education should visit the Umited States and, on returning home, should write down the I results of his observations m this country, he would probably make such statements the following “The Americans are a very supersti- tions people. Nearly all of them be- lieve in a great variety of childish signs and omens One notion par- ticularly common among them is that the number 13 15 unlucky. Travelers will refuse to occupy a bed chamher mbered 13 at a hotel, state room numbered 13 on a steamboat; hence 13 is frequently omitted in num- bering such rooms. Highly educated men and women refuse to sit at a table at which the number of guests is thirteen. Fortune tellers, palmists, phrenologists and astrologers flourish | mn every American city. The wide-/ spread belief in astrology is especig!! rcmarkah!c in a country where astron-~ omy is more assiduously cultivated than anywhere else in the world. My educated countrymen who have heard of the marvelous scientific achieve ments of the Yerkes, Lick and Mount Wilson ohservatories will probably be astonished to learn that many of the leading American newspapers publish a daily ‘horoscope, supposed to be based upon astrological calculations, and frequently devote long articles to particular astrological prophecies re- garding public events. There are also many books published in the United States every year in which astrology is treated quite scriously as a legiti- mate branch of science Literature of Astrology. Alas, too true! Only a month ago a New York publishing house of the highest standing issued a book on astrology, which was advertised in one of our most dignified literary magazines in the following terms: “A book about star influence on hu- man destiny. A powerful and stimu- lating introduction to astrology. Practical information about drawing horoscopes.” In short, this was by no means a book that anatomized the ancient and picturesque superstition of astromancy from the point of view of the twenticth century, as we an- atomize the history of the O3 pian gods or the folklore of the :\u stralian aborigines. Such books have been written, and they are decidedly valuable. In the year 1916 a know- ledge of astrology is a useful accom- plishment—not as a means of divining the future, but as an aid in understand- ing the past. Much history and a great deal of our finest literature are not fully intelligible without such knowledge. Our very language en- shrines a multitude of astrological notions; and we use such words as “consider” and “disaster,” saturnine” and “jovial,” with a finer discrimina- tion for being able to trace them back to the vocabulary of astrology. The book in question was, however, not written from the standpoint of the twentieth century, but from that of the Middle Ages. And it was not published in Peking or Bagdad, or Seringapatam, but in New York City! In Portland, Ore., a “College of As- trology” has flourished for years. Perhaps this explains why so many astrologers are “professors.” The fic- tion that astrology is extinct in civ- ilized countrics is kept up by the en- cyclopedias, which in their articles on this “art” almost invariably refer to the practice of it in the past tense, or a Yet of the scores of “medical” alma- nacs, issued in enormous editions every year in America, there is scarcely one that does not contain the venerable Man of the Signs, or Anal omy of Man’s Body, in which the ¢ a of the zodiac responsible for the wel fare of each part of the human ore ganism is graphically indicated. Only Half Beliefs. true, of course, that a great ridiculous beliefs prevalent among us are only half beliefs. The thirteen superstition, for example, retains its vitality because of the large number of people who find themselves at various stages between the ex- tremes of positive belief and positive disbelief with respect to it. Indeed, there is nothing more difficult than to determine the real attitude of the mind toward prevalent popular delusions. One morning last winter, during the sessions of the Pan-American Scien- tific congress in Washington, a news- paper of that city published, between two columns devoted to the proceed- ings of the congress, a hali-co]umn) article recording the ravings of a soothsayer with regard to the future progress of the European war, Sci- ence and soothsaying bore equally conspicuous headings and were appar- ently looked upon, from the journal- istic angle, as possessing approxi- mately cqual news interest. The juxta- position was striking; but just what interpretation should be placed upon it we are unable to decide.—Scientific American It is many Forest Fires in Greece—Bring Great Grief to Queen Sophia (Correspondence of The Assoclated Press.) Athens, Aug. 14.—The immense forest fires that have swept Greece during the past few weeks have been a source of particular chagrin to Queen Sophie, for the Queen of the Hellenes has been the leading figur: in the conservation movement 1 Greece. The barren mountains that 3,000 years ago were clad with ver- dure have been a text for the queen in her crusade to teach the modern Greeks the need of preservation of the woods and streams. Each year Queen Sophie plants a tree with her own hands as an example to the women of Greece. But this year she had no luck, for during the night following this Arbor day ceremony a wandering shepherd passed with his flock and the newly planted tree was ignobly eaten by the sheep. Swedn Greatly Intersted In Rifle Practice Clubs (Correspondence of Tha Associated Press ) Stockholm, Sweden, Aug. 14.—A big increase in the membership of the Swedish Rifle socicties is shown in the annual report just issued. Th societies have enrolled 211,000 ma-- bers, more than 200,000 of whom aré? active riflemen. The promoters of the societies have asked the govern- ment for $100,000 as a subsidy to di- vide among local 11 sucictiey throughout the country. Wide Variety of Superstitions .-