Jerory 8, 1905.
TI1E OMAHA ILLUSTRATED BEE.
1SPIIALT REPAIR PLANTS
Detroit'! Iirsitmest a froutabla Oaa for
DETAILS OP THE FIRST YEAR'S WORK
early 00,000 Tarda ( pateklasT aa
Resarfaetss; at a (Ml af T
f eats a Yard A aerea
Plaat Wastes.
The January number of th Municipal
Journal ard Enginer presents a compre
beniava showing of the first year's work
of tba municipal asphalt plant of pptroit
In repairing tha cltr'a streets, compiled by
E. Q. Plpp. The report follows:
With tha books balanced on the first
year's work of Detroit's municipal asphalt
plant, showing' an average of 87 cents a
yard for all work done. Commissioner of
Public Works W. H. Maybury recommends
that a second plant be established so thai
tba city can do ail Its own asphalt paving
hereafter.
The plant was put in operation lata tn
the season, June , and closed down after
a run of twenty-two weeks. Its original
cost WftS tli.OOO. Figuring on a basis of
last year's prices for patching and re
surfacing It has more than paid for Itself
In the part of a season operated, haa stood
the losses Incidental to the "experimental
year." and the officials believe they have
a better grade of work than the city ever
got on contract.
Commissioner Maybury directed Asphalt
Expert C. A. Proctor, a pupil of Prof. A.
W. Dow, the Washington expert, to proceed
with work cautiously and to bend his ef
forts more toward getting good work than
toward making a big record of yardage.
Only patching was done at the beginning,
followed later by resurfacing two streets.
The total yardage laid U M.U1.K, the cost
H8,187.70.
Waea mm Material.
Eight hours constituted a day's work,
under an ordinance passed by the city.
Union labor was recognized In all depart
ments and the following rates were paid:
At the Plant Foreman, $4 a day;, mixer
man, J2.7S; tack man, tZ.t; night tank man,
12.40; hot sand man, i2; drum fireman, JiDO;
engineer, S3; fireman, 12; laborers, five to
eight, at 11.75; clerk, SIM; bookkeeper, $3;
night watch, HSO.
On the Street (straight time paid) Fore
man, 13.6 a day; two roller men, tl; three
rakers, 13; two tampers, 12.50; two smooth
ers, $2.60; five laborers, $1.78; teams, U for
sight hours. Two gangs going part of the
time.
Venesuelan asphalt was used and Califor
nia asphaltio oil. The following Is the total
cost:
Materials Received
.Asphalt. US. 26 tons at I2S.S0 2.82. !
Asphaltlc oil. K1.7X tons at $26 90.... Sv).to
Sand, J.60S.8J cubic yards at i.56.... 2.01. 82
Binder stone, .. 72 tons at tO.Pu.... .2x3.06
Btone dust, 368.1 tons at $3.60 1,253. S3
Coal. J60 64 tons at $2.6 if-H to
Wood, 79.71 cords at $4.86 87.43
Cement, 44.60 bbla at $0.76 83 38
Lubricating oil 131.28
Total $3,752.67
Inventory Material on Hand
Asphalt, $41.87 tons at $26.50 $ 8.717.69
Asphaltlc oil, 10S.M tons at $26.90 ... 2,749.56
Binder stone, $0 tons at 90 cents... 27.00
Btone dust. 10 tons at $3.60 86.00
Credit on old oil barrels sold etc... 833.68
Total cost Of materials used $11,W2.83
Cost of materials less inventory... Z7.889.8S
Labor
At plant, per par rolls $10.73.88
On street, per pay rolls:
Gang No. 1 . S.3S4.M
Gang No. 2 8,936.32
Gang No. 8 254.87
Tout cost of labor.
Total cost of material
labor
.fa.2OT.S5
I
. 48.187.70
Work Performed and Coat of Bams
General patching, city work,
83.994.40 square yards at $0.838.... $28,424.47
Private patching, 10,837.88 square
yards at $0.991 10.241.72
Resurfacing Jefferson avenue,
Baldwin to Iroquois, 6,750 square
.yards at $0.87 I.OIS.T-
Resurfacing Fourth avenue, Mich
Is; An , to Locust, 8,639.87 square
yards at $0.841 6.502.80
Total cost of work $49,187.70
Variatleas la Cost.
Tha higher price shown for private work
was due to the fact that the work con
sisted of repairing breaks along street
railway tracks where no binder could be
used, necessitating the use of the more ex
pensive topping material, and also In re
pairing outs In various sections cf the
city, where much time was consumed In
moving gangs.
On Jefferson avenue the asphalt had to
be hauled over six miles, while on Fourth
It was leas than two.
In tho earlier tests of mixture used, on
patching only, there was sn average of
10.98 per cent bitumen; a maximum of
12.63, and a minimum of 10 55. When it
came to resurfacing the average was 11.93
per cent; maximum. 12.13; minimum, 11.71.
The sand was graduated for compactness,
showing ths following slftinga; Retained
on 20-meeh screen, $ per cent; eft-mesh, 1G
per oent; SO-mesh, 2 per cent; 80-me8h, 23
per cfnt; 100-mesh. 11 per cent; passing
100-mesh, 18 per cent.
On resurfacing. Hi-Inch binder and 2-inch
topping were used; on patching, Mr. Proc
tor figures that it averaged about three
Inches.
No estimate Is made here for guarantee
on the streets resurfaced, aa opinions
differ so much as to what It should be
that It Is deemed best to let each expert
figure It out for himself. It Is claimed
here that the quality or material used is
so much better than ordinarily used that
the expense of making good during time
usually covered by guarantee will not be
as much as usual, and that the amount
charged against the street should be cor
respondingly small; only future years can
tell about that.
14 Da All City Work.
The last Job done convinces the depart
ment that the city can well afford to take
all Its own work In band.
The common council and estimators al
lowed $11,760 for resurfacing part of Fourth
' avenue. The asphalt paving representa
tives aald It was not money enough. Com
missioner Maybury advertised for bids. Ths
Cleveland Trinidad Paving company asked
$12,027.8$ for repavlng with asphalt, puttlDg
In a six-Inch concrete foundation on part.
and building up three and one-ha:f-inch
concrete on the remainder, and resetting
the curb. The Barber company did not bid
at all, although it bid on other work la
the city during the reason atrd has a plant
and office here.
The cotnmisismier rejected the bid. nd
being told it was useless to expect a lower
one than that received, put city gangs to
work. The cost of concrete, etc, was
$2.77783; the cost of asphalt, $5.Sf2.V; total.
28.SO.S3; a saving cf 23.7t7.tt. when com
pared with the bid for the work.
All figures used here are taken from the
books cf the department. To make sure
there was no error In quantity of material
used, the original bills were figured, an In
ventory taken of the amount of material
on hand, and the difference checked up
with the amount recorded as used on the
various streets.
The plant, put up by Hetherington
Berner of Indianapolis, has run through
the season with but one shutdown, and
that of ls than five minutes, an average
lose of time of less than a minute a month.
The Idea of a second plant Is to have
one near the center of the east side of the
city, as the present plant Is near the
center of the west side. The city U about
evenly divided Into two sections by the
main thoroughfare. Woodward avenue. It
has a storage yard for material In each
section.
-I am not entirely satisfied with this
year a showing," said Expert Proctor. -Our
yardage was nowhere near the capacity of
the plant, but of course, we worked safe.
Last year the patching cost $1.12 a yard
and resurfacing averaged about $1.23, an
unusually low contract figure for c retail.
We have saved from 13 cents a yard on the
work done at the beginning of the season,
to 39 cents a yard on the resurfacing done
at the end. but with the experience of this
year, we ought to get a much lower aver
age cost next year by doing a much larger
amount of work."
DISBARMENT 0F A LAWYER
Utrra Coert of Mlaaesota Gives a
(rook re Lawyer a Tear's
Tsoetloa.
Freeman P. Lane, a well known Minne
apolis attorney. Is suspended from practic
ing in all Minnesota courts for the period
of one year In a ruling handed down by the
supreme court.
Charges had been duly filed with the su
preme court by the secretary of the State
Board of Examiners against Mr. Lane,
charging him In substance with having re
ceived employment from Edward Leland, a
state prison convict, to assist In preparing
a petition for pardon to the State Board of
Pardons. It was asserted that after Mr.
Lane had received substantial sums for the
service he was to render he refused to pre
pare the petition, and finally abandoned the
prosecution of the application for pardon.
This petition was filed on December 4,
1903. but the court granted leave a few days
later to Include another accusation. The
evidence in the first was not of sufficient
weight against the denials of the respond
ent to impress the court, and it was on the
last accusation that he was suspended.
The petitioners asserted that Mr. Lane
had aided Ada Hubbell. who was tn the
custody of the sheriff of Washington county
aa a witness In the criminal case against
Edward Leland and John Roberts, to
escape. They charged him with having sent
her money to maintain her concealment
The evidence was not strong, and it was
upon Lane's confession that the court
reached a decision. In the per curiam the
court says:
"The conclusions we have reached In this
respect depend almost wholly upon the evi
dence furnished by the respondent himself.
Ths natural and probable Inference that
follows from his admissions and letters has
necessarily led to the view, which Is estab
lished to a moral certainty, that the re
spondent knew that his client was under
ll rosecution, and that It was to his Interest
to prevent the attendance of the witness
Hubbell. That he was Intending to sand
h-r money and received for that purpose
the money and forwarded It to the place or
concealment of Ada Hubbell, which would
benefit Roberts and Leland." St Paul
Globe,
LABOR AJfD IKDCsTRY.
The chestnut crop is so heavy in some
sections of New Hampshire that the nuts
are selling for 4 cents a quart
The country which sells most to Japan
Is British India, Great Britain coming next,
with China third, the United States fourth
and Germany fifth.
John L. Dame of Springfield, Mass., has
built a model of the largest airship ever
planned, the machine being 360 feet long,
to weigh twenty tons and to cost from
8UU0.OUO to 8500,000 to build.
According to a German authority the
world's silk production in 1903 amounted to
8S.s97,0uQ avoirdupois pounds, not including
what was produced and consumed in the
home markets of China and Japan.
The other day a member of a London
borough council aald be had watched a
man working on one of the borough streets
who dropped his pick into one hole fully
150 times without moving anything.
In this country, which contains the
largest wheat-producing section of the
world. It Is a fact borne out by government
statisticians that less wheat is planted
every year of late. The larmer turns to
more profitable and less hazardous crops.
In tht last five years New South Wales
has rwelved $aus.lll,87S.2S for its wool clip,
or only $2,9ti5,tH6.82 less than during ths
previous five years, though the sheep then
numbered 238,1'C648 in the aggregate,
against only 178,896,044 for the last five
years.
A sidelight on Chinese immigration or
Importation into South Africa is cast by
the following remark In the South African
Frees-Bulletin: "yuarrels and fights with
drawn knives between Kaffirs and Chinese
sre of almost daily occurrence iu Market
square, Johannesburg."
Artificial Indigo Is now manufactured In
Germany in large quantities and the low
prices asked for it have tended to reduce
the production of the natural Indigo in
East India. The latter country exported
only tfc.KUi hundredweight of indigo last
year, against 170.00U hundred eight nve
years ago.
The president of the British Board of
Trade staud. in answer to a question in
the House of Commons, that the average
annual earnings of adult males employed
In the principal Industrial and agricultural
occupations In the I'nlted Kingdom In a
year of average employment might be
estimated approximately at $350 each.
The cultivation of the olive la increasing
constantly, though slowly, in Spain. The
srea devoted to olives increased from
J (TO, 66 acres In lul to J.6S3.&50 acres In
19U2 and 2 Wu.963 acres tn 1944. The oil yield
per acre last year was 32 gallons, or 13 8
gallons more than the yield of 1H02-I9a, 0 3
gallons more then the yield of 19ul-19ut
and 2 gallons mure than the average.
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TIIB ORIGINAL remedy that
The Rabbit and the Guinea Pif
Prof, Itnna, the world's greatest I
rmatolotlst (ask your dooter about I
him) was the first to dlsoover the ml-
ere bis and contagious nature of true I
dandruff His discovery was verified i
by Dr. Babcurand, el Perls, who d- I
aadea s rabbit with human dandruS I
aiso ay l esssr and Bishop.
"kills the Dandrurr Germ."
who took the dandruff eoalee from a
Student who was losing his Lair, and hav
ing made a pomade of them with vaseline
rubbed the same upon a rulnsa pis and
the pig became bald. Newbro's Herplcids
Is the ORIGINAL dandruff germ destroy
or. It kills the mtcroble growth and per
mits the hair to grow as nature Intended.
A weadsrful hair saver. A dellghlfal
dresalLg. Slope itching Instantly.
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APPLICATIONS AT PROMINENT SAKS EH BtHOfS.
DARK SIDE OF TOE PICTURE
Tarnished Glories of the taptura an! De
fense of Pen Arthur.
STRONGHOLD A SECOND SEVASTOPOL
Awfal daerlflre ef Hasans Lives la Be
half ef Katlcaal Greed Why Car
ressoaseats Are Held la
the Rear.
writing in the New Tork Herald a few
days before the fall of Port Arthur that
experienced and reputable correspondent,
Stephen Bonsai, discusses certain phases
of the siege snd its rank among the
famous sieges of the world. In part be
says:
Few Indeed have read Tolstois remin
iscences of the siege of Sebastopol. or
Peres Galdos' hardly less vivid pages de
scribing the vicissitudes which the in
habitants of beleaguered Baragossa suf
fered during the Napoleonic wars without
uttering a fervent thanksgiving that such
butchery and slaughter wers quite impos
sible In the more humane age in which
we live. It has remained for the blockade
by land and sea of Port Arthur In the
last ten months to show that our self
congratulation was without any founda
tlon in fact and that the fighting brute
of today, when his lower Instincts are
aroused, does not rise above the low level
of the last century or, for that matter.
the warlike practices of the middle ages.
What I am about to relate is merely a
detail, but still an important one, and
should not be lost sight of In the midst
of other and more pyrotechnic displays.
In view of the Immense amount of energy
and genius and skilled labor which have
In the last fifteen years been exclusively
engaged in developing the destructive
power of cannon and other engines of
war it was consoling to think, as many
preached, doubtless sincerely, that each
and every one of these Improvements
meant less bloodshed and promised even
the end of warfare, because there were,
we were told, depths of destruction and
of carnage before which all humanity
would blench. What we know of the
Port Arthur siege, however, must rob us
of these comforting illusions on both sides
the engines of war have far surpassed
what was perfection ten years ago and
simply diabolical and hitherto unthought
of devices for the destruction of men have
been put Into operation. The result Is
a bloody harvest, so far as we know with
out a parallel.
Cost la Basaaa Life.
Lifting up the corners of ths curtains
which shield this dismal butchery, and
paying but slight attention to the official
bulletins Issued by the antagonists which
are originally Inspired In a desire to mis
lead and to deceive, we can ascertain be
yond the preadventure of a doubt that
there has never been greater slaughter
In proportion to the numbers engaged
than that of which the gray ashen cliffs
about Port Arthur have been the scene.
We know of battalions that have been
blown to eternity by the electric mines
and proud battleships with a comple
ment of 1.000 men which have disappeared
beneath the waters, with but three or tour
miraculously favored sifrvlvors. We know
that the devoted garrison of the be
leaguered forts has shrunk from about
40,000 to 4,000, and that thousands upon
thousands of maimed Russians, torn,
mangled and tortured out of the sem
blance of human beings, are dying In the
drains and the cellars of the fortress, suf
fering ths tortures of the damned without
ths alleviation of anesthetics. Ws know
that the Japanese army under Nod still
numbers 100,000 men, thanks to ths Japa
nese system of always keeping ths be
sieging force up to that strength, but
the Japanese War office admits 60,000
casualties In the besieging army, and
those in a position to Judge, and with no
apparent reason for concealment or ex
aggeration, place ths losses at a much
higher figure.
Around their shrunken lines and before
'the main defenses, which the Russians
still hold with the courage of desperation
and the Japanese still assail, undaunted
by the slaughter of their fellows, upon the
cannon-racked earth and the mine-quiver-Ing
rocks, there are decomposing the bodies
of thousands upon thousands of gallant
Japanese soldiers whose bravery and servi
tude are not allowed to end with death,
whose duty is not fulfilled when they
breathe out their .last breath In the service
of the mikado.
Ko Tlnve for Trace.
Time and again the Russians have pro
posed a truce to give burial parties an op
portunity to save from the vultures these
gallant bloodstained remains, and time and
again this otter has not been availed of.
Ths decomposing remains of those who
have fallen In ths previous assaults are
left there to serve a hideous purpose.
Rightly or wrongly, It has been surmised
that the want of respect and consideration
for his dead which General Nogi has ap
parently shown Is Inspired by the thought
that the dead may yet add to the overflow
ing measure of their devotion while living.
Perhaps It Is hoped that their decomposing
remains may taint the scant remaining
water sources of the besieged and send
the specter of pestilence stalking through
their already shattered ranks. In the
dally and nightly hand-to-hand struggles
with which the stubbornly contested
trenches are lost and won and then re
gained, as ever In such fighting, quarter is
neither given nor expected. The weapons
are new, they are Instinct with the genius
of our civilization, they Illustrate the scien
tific triumphs of our country, but the spirit
of the fighting men is the same aa that
which Inspired Joshua and the other war
riors of the Old Testament. It Is a hor
rible charge to make and I do not make
it, but it seems to me Incumbent upon the
Japanese War office to explain why the
dead of ten months of war lis still In a
carrion circle around the lines of Port Ar
thur. As Sews, Gatherlagr.
These partial glimpses of the horrible
scenes which are dally enacted before the
mighty stronghold suggest another ex
plana tion why the war correspondent has
bean kept so to the rear since the outbreak
of hostilities, for things are happening
which if they were boldly related would
rob war of Its Imaginary halo and prove
too strong for the stomachs of those who
jet believe that considerations of humanity
and of civilization are powerful factors tn
world politics. It is, of course, quits true
that in these days of all-prevailing teleg
raphy, wireless and otherwise, a corps of
sealous but Inexperienced war correspond
ents come together from all ovsr the world
Is a danger and a menace to that secrecy
which is Indispensable to the success of a
campaign, but at the same time the absence
from the field of those correspondents wbe
would tell the truth as they saw It and
a ho ' would describe the human shambles
ind the depth of human t suffering and
degradation upon which the glory of the
teneral officers is pinnacled is a distinct
pity and a matter of regret to those wbe
believe that the most powerful antidote to
aar is an exact knowledge of what war Is.
To my sanguine and perhaps visionary
mind It seems quite possible that were the
blood curdling Incidents of the great trag
edy on the Lis tons' depicted as they occur
from day to day and from hoar to boor by
the vivid dispassionate pea of aa eyewit
ness the fathers and mothers of those who
are being used so recklessly ss "cannon
fodder" would raise a wail which might be
heard arsund the world which ought at
least to find an echo In every human heart
which might arouse the world and cause
shuddering humanity to Intervene to save
the unburied bodies of these gallant men
from the carrion fate ana to stay the tor
tures of the thousands upon thousands of
wounded Russian soldiers who. mangled
and torn by shot And shell, must suffer am
putation and other surgical operations with
out the alleviation of anaesthetics,
Trwtk Met Tet Tela.
Of course In time this tale of horror will
be told and another chapter added to the
long Indictment which civilization bring
against the barbarous and senseless prac- .
tlces of war. There la It would seem, a ,
divinity which defeats the secrecy, the re- !
serve which wir offices adore, and hence '
we know that in one of these trenches in
the midst of ail this useless slaughter there
stands, with a charmed life because of the
Indispensable message be bears, some young
lieutenant of artillery who will yet relate
to a shuddering world the story of Tort
Arthur as Tolstoi revealed the shame and
the human degradation suffered at cVbasto
poL And perhaps in the noisome and un
sanitary subterranean galleries In which
the wounded are huddled there is a surgeon
who will survive to tell the story of this
shame In all Its shocking details as truth
fully as Smollett painted the story cf the
yellow fever camps at Cartagena, when so
many loyal North Americans died In the
service of the English king. Seeking for a
parallel to the daily tragedy of Port Arthur
the story of Sebastopol suggests Itself, not
Only because It was hitherto the greatest
siege of modern history, nor yet because
here again the Russians were on the defeit.
she and gave a notable exhibition of their
prowess In this line. Indeed it Is not a far
fetched conclusion to say that the siege of
Port Arthur Is a direct consequence of fhe
siege of Sebastopol. for had not the Cri
mean war, of which the siege of Sebastopol
was the most striking Incident, resulted in
the practical bottling up of the Russians In
the Black sea and In cutting them off from
the expansion of their sea power In this
direction, they would not have advanced
with such tremendous leaps and bounds
across the continent of Asia or succeeded In
constructing another temple of war upon
the promontory of the Regent's Sword
peninsula, which Juts out, if not Into the
Sea of Japan, at least Into waters which
the Japanese deem it necessary for their
very national existence that they should
rule supreme,
Marveloas Defeases.
When I was In Port Arthur two years J
ago the development of the fortifications
was In the hands of General Viernanden,
who Is considered the greatest engineering I
officer In the service of the czar. With him
was General Krondachenko, who is the
engineer of the fortress today, and who
planned the elaborate mining operations
on the slopes of Wolf's Hill and the girdles
of electric cables which have caused such
terrible destruction to the attacking col
umns of Japanese. Both of these engi
neer officers shoukt share with Lieutenant
General Stoessel and General Smirnoff, of
ths fortress artillery, the honors of ths
magnificent defense which the Russians
have made.
Today, at the cost of at least 60,000 men,
the Japanese have gained clear under
standing of the wonderful system of works
by which Port Arthur is defended. They
have learned that the forts were built
In groups of five. Intercommunicating and
interdependent. Time and again In the
earlier stages of the siege the Japanese
captured one or even two of these forts,
only to find themselves absolutely at the
mercy of the other forts oomposlng this
particular chain of defenses.
A fortress Is like that giant of the an
cient story around which, of old, the pyg
mies raged, seeking to find some vital spot
ths beel of this Achillea Curing the
days when the Chinese were In possession
and under the later Russian regime more
than BOO Japanese spies captured within
the precincts of the fortress have suffered
lgnomlnous deaths, though their names are
honored and will always be preserved In the
temples of war with which the Island Em
pire Is thronged.
(Willi
1315-17-19 Farnam Street.
CONTINUANCE OF OUR GREAT
JANUARY CLEARING SALE
Monday Starts a Big Cut In Our Rug Department.
$18.75 $13.75 $18
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All dropped patterns in 9x12 Axminster and Wilton Velvet Klips, Mauy of these
worth f 40.00; none less than 25.00, We place them all on sale at $18.73.
THREE HUNDRED PIECES TO SELECT FROM
All Oriental Rugs consigned to us that we do not sell must be returned February l6t. It
is cheaper to return the money than pay freight on the goods, therefore till January 2Sth, we
will sell this stock at ABSOLUTELY THE ACTUAL COST.
Fun
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Four Hundred Odd Pisces of Furniture
These must be sold by February 1st, to make room for our Spring Stock. Many of these
go at the factory cost.
YOU WANT THE GOODS-VE WANT THE MONEY
This stock consists of the best productions of tlie leading manufacturers, and includes all
odd lots in DKESSERS, CHIFFONIERS, DRESSING TARLEtf, in Oak Mahogany and
Bird's-eye Maple, all odd pieces of Tarlor Furniture, CHINA CABINETS, EXTENSION
TABLES, DINING CHAIRS, BUFFETS, SIDEBOARDS, all of our SEWING TABLES,
manv LIBRARY TABLES, PARLOR TABLES, LADIES' DESKS. TABOURETS, ODD
ROCKERS, PEDESTALS, FANCY CHAIRS and COUCHES. Come Early. Do not wait
till the best are taker
Dida't Want m Lawyer.
"I began to practice law in Dakota In
the territorial days," said the lawyer from
Chicago. "Our Judges were sent to us, and
some of them didn't know any more about
the law than they did about the political
beliefs of the mound builders. One of them
I'll call him Jones was so appallingly ig
norant that it was a great relief when, on
the admission of North Dakota to the
Union, be left the bench and began to
practice law. His successor was a man.
wholly without a sense of humor, and the
only good thing he ever said in his life
was wholly accidental. A man was brought
to trial charged with selling liquor to the
Indians. The Judge asked him if he had a
lawyer to defend him.
" 'No,' said the man, 1 don't want a law
yer " 'Well,' said his honor, looking about the
room till his eyes rested on his predeces
sor, I'll appoint Judge Jones to defend
you.' " Washington Post.
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And Dodge Sts-, Omaha, arc authorized
to firm to ererr purchaser of six bottles
of Uricsoi at $6.00, a positive guarantee j
that Uricsoi will cure your Rheumatism.
Uricsoi la the great California remedy
that dissolves the crle add deposits and
removes ths cause of rheumatism and
fotrt
Fricsol will not harm or Injure any
part of your body, on the contrary It will
ton up the stomach, create an appetite,
stimulate the Uver and kidneys, remov
ing tha axcesa of uric acid that causes
so many ailments, chief of which la rheu
matism. Writ for booklet and diet list
The Uricsoi Chemical Co.,
Los Angeles, Cal.
An automobile that will run on a rail
road In place of the hand car or ordinary
steam inspection car is one of the latest
products of the Olds motor works. They
first conceived the Idea of a small car
built to railroad gunge with fiat wheels
Instead of rubber tires to be used as In
spection cars by railroad officials, such
as track inspectors, construction engineers,
bridge men, superintendents, rosdmasters
and others whose duties take them along
the line.
The first Olds railroad Inspection car
was a small runabout after the rerular
Oldsmobile pattern, with a dosadoes seat
to carry four people. It was tested out
for s.OOu miles over the Michigan Central
tracks and created great Interest among
railroad men. It had a four-horse power
motor, but it did marvelous work in piling
up mileage and had no trouble whatever
tn climbing any grade on the road.
The possibility of a gasoline inspection
car proved so far-reaching that the ex
perimental department of the Olds motor
works has been at work developing this
feature for a considerable time. They
have at last produced the car, which Is
shown in this picture, and It is very prac
tical in every way and has been thor
oughly tested on long trips over railroads
by officials of the road. The result of the
experiment is a large Inspection csr with a
long, roomy tonneau, capable of holding
six passengers. This tonneau can be re
moved and the platform umlrrnffitbjis a
?nvenlent place to carry tools, etc.
The uses to which these cars will be put
In vartous places are almost without limit.
One small road in Utah expects to use them
for earning passengers on a short "spur"
line, giving frequent service between points
which provide hardly enough traffic to pay
the coal bills of a locomotive. Yet, this
little car will do the work and show a nice
profit on It. Other roads will purchase
them for the use of division officials and
Inspectors, for both regular duties and
emergencies. Only a railroad man can
fully appreciate the advantages of a car of
this kind, but it may be explulned that the
automobile Is always ready, needs no firing
up; the expense of maintenance and opera
tion is practically nothing, compaied with
the locomotive, and the man who uses It is
his own engineer, fireman, brakemun and
conductor. Moreover, the automobile Is so
arranged that It' may be Uf ed bodily from
the rails, like a hand-car, and carried
around a break or obstruction, where a
locomotive would be hopelessly stalled.
In use on electric roads, the automobile
has a field even wider than on those
operated by steam, and officials of these
corporations are taking much interest in
the matter. It must be remembered that
the gasoline car la independent of over
head wiring, power house and everything
else except its supply of water and gaso
line. Perhaps the greatest argument for
the automobile on trolley lines Is found
in the problem facing every street car com
pany for caring for the light traffic at lata
hours. On certain lines in Detroit. It Is
said, the cost of hauling each pasaenger
after 1 o'clock In the morning is nearly tl
this because of the necessity for operating
tho power plant to supply a very small
number of cars. Being self-contained, the
automobile nnuld, in this case, turn a de
ficit Into a big profit which applies to svery
I large citv in the country as well as to
Detroit.
The efficiency of these railroad autos.
compared to those used over ordinary
roads, is remsrkable. Having a smooth
roadbed, they run with a velvety motion
that astonishes the passenger, and there
are no tire troubles. This smooth motion
led one track Inspector who tested ths
small car to say that It did not suit his
purpose, since he wanted to "feel" every
bad place In the roadbed. "Good fault"
j though easily remedied by adjusting the
spnrgs. In the w ay of repair bills the ma
chines are making an odd demonstration
of the fact that most of the troubles auto
mobiles are subject to arise from rough
roads. Letters from railroads using them
show that repsir bills are almost nothing,
while the expense of operation mile for
mile Is so small It is hardly worth considering
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