he Omaha Illustrated Bee NUMBER 293. Kntcred Hocond Clans at Omaba fostoffice Published Weekly by The Bee Publishing Co. Subscription, f 2.50 Per Year. FKtlltlUllY 1905. Stories of Men wi nuic W L. PARK, the new general super intendent of the Union Pacific, finished hi education In a news jP7:S PPr office. He wns bom In " Michigan In 1S69. He Is a son of Colonel J. R. park, who came to Omaha In the fail of IK. Colonel Park waa en gage. at the time in making government surveys. He wa a lieutenant colonel of the Fourth Michigan cavalry, which en Joyed the distinction of capturing Jeff ravla. but Colonel Park had left the refrl ment before thla Incident to enter the en gineering corps. The elder Park edited a paper from 170 until 1R73 and W. L. Park worked In thlr otllre. He began hla rail road Ufa in 1875, filling various poaltlon untll lHto, when he was wan mude super intendent at North Platte. He wan mide superintendent of the Cheyenne division In 10, and on January 81. while returning to Cheyenne fpm Omaha, where he had at tended an entertainment he waa overtaken by a telegram announcing hla promotion to the office of general superintendent and directing him to return to Omaha. Tha clrculai announcing his appointment ih signed by General Superintendent Mohler and approved by Julius Krutschhitt, fourth vice president and director of maintenance fc.nd operation. J. M. Oruber. whotn February 1 became reneral manager of the Chicago, Rurllng ton & Qulncy railroad eaat of the Missouri river, began hl railroad career In 1SS5 when lie entered the employ of the Chicago, Mll waukoe & St. Paul as stenographer In tho general freight offlcea under A. L. Mohler, the head of the department. He waa In the general manager's office from 18S8 until IWffl. and then weht to Atchison, where h entered the president's office as clerk. He worked hla way up to the position of chief clerk to the head of varloua departmenta. nnd In 1894 went to St. Paul with tha Great Northern. Ha waa In the auditor' office for a few months tn 1KW when hla unusual ability attracted tha attention of Superintendent W. V. a Thorne, who marla him aaslatant superintendent of tha eastern Minnesota division. In June of tha same yenr ha was made superintendent, with headquarters at Weat Superior, Minn. July, 18P8, he was appointed general Intendent of the Montana Central, with headquarters at Great Falls. This Una la also a branch In tha J. J. Hill' system. . He was with the road until March, 1897. when he was appointed aaslatant general superintendent of .tha eastern district of .... the Great Northern, with headquarters at fit. Paul. In April, 1903, he was appointed " general superintendent of the western dis trict of the line, with headquarters at To peka, Kan. In February, 1904, he was ap pointed general superintendent of the Union Pacific the position which he has resigned to become general manager of the Burlington. Two Well Known Railroad Men Who Have Just Been Promoted W. I. PARK. NEW GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT OF UNION PACIFIC LINES. l0 v.;-" - . I i ' - I i I ; : . L r ' ( ' " ' I fc ' I : S f - . , j '',. . k ; i III' .-rw-vr VV Electrical Field Progress Fifty Tkniaaad Volts NS Miles. AHHVINO a fJt.OiV-volt current a C distance of eighty-five miles and delivering In the neighborhood of TlrTf liVloo-horse power, as la done In i r the our of the Shawlnlgan Fall J. M. GRUPER, WIXO LEAVKS UNION PACIFIC TO BE GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT OF C. B. & Q. !-. Some Tersely Told Tales Both Grim and Gay Balked, lusu-t, . , . -- Bismarck and Rechberg. the .Austrian premier, decided to fight a duel upon cer tain morrow. "Why not now?" said; Bis- s I I Kaocked Speechless. men and politicians, when Mr. Harlan aald: date for governor of Kansas, one day Jlorstmann of Cleveland had been caused forty rounds, killed at : least ten of the ENATOR DUBOIS of Idaho was "Mr. Secretary, what is the difference be- when a bystander asked Captain Ross who considerable trouble by the Polish Catholic enemy ana had every reason to Deneve United Stater marshal there dur- tween a statesman and a politician?" that one-legged man was. lng the territorial days. A real "tenderfoot" from the east came to Blackfoot with a largo roll of man seeking a position and the boy looking Concordia Kansan. element In his diocese, he visited Phlladel- myself a hero. I had begun to brag a little Quick as a thought came the answer: "Why. don't you know him?" responded phla, his native city, and dined with Arch arter the tiling was over, when the cap ut's the difference between the young the. captain. "That's Oomcr Davles of the bishop Ryan, who was also entertaining an tain of my company showed me that I ecclesiastical visitor from New England, had loaded my musket ten times and not "Wonder how he lost his leg?" asked the The latter Inquired of the bishop of Cleve- fired once and In a. fatherly way observed land regarding the weather In Ohio. to me: "It has not been unusually severe," re- "'Abe, I can forgive you this once for running away and hiding under the bag- "No," said Archbishop Ryan, "Just a few gage wagon, but If you play the trick again the Poles." Philadelphia I shall have to take official notice of ltr " Chicago New marck. "We have eur pistols here." And money to buy a ranch, but fell Into the for a Job." Chicago Record-Herald. tney agreea to a duel there and then. But hands of a well known gambler, who got $ bystander. first Bismarck had to write a dispatch to him Into a poker game. The gambler bet' A Selflah Thourht. , "Oh," Bald the captain, disgustedly, "he his government giving the cause of the 12 on a hand and the tenderfoot raised him Apropos of the suits for damage that are lost It hoppln' from one political party to Piled Bishop Horstmann. uei. inn ne asaea Kechberg to forward HI "I'll Just raise that UtiQ," aaid the continually being brought against railway the other, In case he (Bismarck) fell. Reehberg read gambler, shoving in his money. To the as- companies. President Francis of the St. And Davies thought the Joke good enough breezes from the report and his passion cooled. "What tonlshment of everybody the tenderfoot Louis exposition said: to print la his own paper. Kansas City Press, you say Is quite correct," he remarked, saw the raise. "What on earth have you "Many of these suits, of course, are mere Journal, "but Is It really worth fighting a duel for got, anyway?" asked the surprised gambler, cases of unjust extortion. It Isn't often. such a reason?" "That Is exactly my opln- "A pair of kings." answered the tenderfoot, though, that the victim of an accident ts as Ion," said Bismarck, and the matter ended showing them. "Say, Bill," said the gamb- alert and resourceful as a man of whom I on the spot. That waa Bismarck's triumph, ler, turning to a friend, with a look of tils- heard the other day. but Vlrchow scored when the iron chancel- gust en his face, "tell him they're good I "A man and his wife were riding In a car lor challenged him. "Her are two sau- can't," that was derailed. Crah, bang. It went, sages." aald Vlrchow, "one filled with trl- 4 and then bump, bang, bump, down a steep chinas, the other perfectly wholesome. But Heartfelt Thanks. hill. The man howled with terror, but the they cannot be told apart. Let his excel- Not Ion" ,lnce ,ne cH"1' ,n one ' tns car soon came to a stop. He examined him The Wrong Spirit. Persuasion. Whea Age 1s Wot Rertrtaeel, Some years ago oeeph Choate, now the "Americans are getting so that they Thomas Hunter, the president of the amcn amoaa.aaor to ureal, cruam. waa --"1. " Z a New York Normal college, waa addr.aalng f-ciated in a big case with a young He. WtoKunpen countries" said Clyde urew lawyer, ino jaiwr waa a lime ooudi- - .v... w. iiuviuhu i.i uuhub ful as to what to charge the client, and Private dinner party. "If architects at- Mr. Choate suld: "Oh, never mind sending tmpt anything original they are ridiculed In a bill. I'm going to send in one In a tor their P- If artists follow the bent a band of young women. , "Young women," said Mr. Hunter, "gen erally make excellent teachers. But if you dislike to work, turn to anything else but ...... .i Tin ..... j t , . . of their Awn o-enlna thv ar rnnnHnrrlv lencv rio m. th v,, ... T , fashionable churches of the south rendered ,eif nil over cnf.,n t ,-. v,. teaching. We cannot succeed ever In what " T ' . ' . . . . w rferrH v, ih.i. . .u.i- a " . ,,. v.? w. h... '-u BnU you my own cu rr your " mi me otner. ineauei was not lougnt. - j was quue unnnrmea. men ne tnougnt In .. . Pamoas aad Afflicted. General Edward F. Jones of Blnghamton, them was finished he arose, and to the former lieutenant governor of New York, amusement of both congregation and choir, well remembered In Massachusetts as com- .began his prayer In deeply earnest tones, mander of the Sixth regiment In It memor- saying, "O, Lord, we thank Thee that we frills and furbelows. The good minister the same breath of damages and of his sat patiently through It, but when the an- wife. Are you hurt at all. old girl?" he asked. Bad teachers, when we find them, are persons who dislike their work. They are thank heaven!' the woman an- able march through Baltimore at the out break of the civil war known in the bust- world a "Jones, he pays the freight." ! Jlule manufacturer ts blind at 77 years of I", n mill nis innicuon witn pniloso- are still alive." Upnlncott's Magazine. 'Yes, I'm going to take up teething.' "The - friend looked amased. " 'You?' she exclaimed. 'You a school phy. and has Just mitigated It somewhat by Hartford recently a humorous address on learning to knit A year ago he finished ln r examination papers " 'No, swered " 'Then,' said the man, 'I tell you. what. Let me black your eve. and won't we souk the company hard for damages! It won't tchr? Why, I'd rather marry a widower Wot Far Off. hurt you much. I'll Just give you one good w,th nlne children." Charles D. Hlne. secretary of the State punch." "New York Tribune, " So would I.' said the other; but where Board of Education of Connecticut, made In 'is the widower?" "New York Tribune. How a Politician Imb His Lea. A Oomer Davles was stumping along by the half." In the course of the fortnight this masters. Autnors are schooled and cate- check arrlved-and the lawyer waa amazed chl"e' ln the same way. but when any of . i a it. t j ... . , . IhA thrA Annfnrm tri lti.tiimHrrk. rt like the young girl in the country town " acKnowieugea n prorapiiy. l. ""t. " who said to one of her friends adding as a postscript: "Almost thou per- the,r, critlcs tney are Instantly and un wno saia to one or. ner tnemia. ' ' men irnllv jnH n.n. imii.r. uuuesi me to oe a wnrisiiau. - without a single grain of originality. " "With a similar Jealousy we give a pref- Ht Was Cool. erence to old wine, old books and old "Now and then 1 hear an old soldier friends. In fact, the older anything Is the bragging how cool he was in his first more value It has in our eyes, with on fight," said the one-armed man, "and I exception. always have a dim suspicion that his case "An old Joke Is the only Instance where was like my own. age Is not revered and aoclalmad. Those "I had determined to be cool at every poor old Jokes! They are the shunned out- The Archbishop's Wit. writing novel which two fact exhibit re- Mr- Hln had collected a great mass of "Ide of "Ed" Hooh, the republican candl- On wintry day, shortly after Bishop coat and so far as I could toll I nred awav run nt hnmr v..,i, tj..i source, jsx-uovemor Jones uses type- n"n mi:"hi"i papi-is, mm nuu writer for th blind nd has rigged up a ""I1! trom them a number of amunlng and watch so that he can tell time by the feel fl"""" answers . f It. If any school children In th city "Now ner-" ' Mr- Hln? ln the course need eyeglasses the blind veteran stands of 'ldrp- "hpre l answer contuln- Ing a good deal of unconxclous truth an answer that seems to me to hit the nail on th head. "Th question refers to a famous town. "What,' It runs, Ms this town noted as?' 'The answer Is, Jt Is noted as a watering place.' " 'What Is a watering placer Is the next question. "Answer, 'A place where people go to drink.' 'Cincinnati Enoulrer. ready to give them. Nor has he dropped buslnea. Morning and afternoon he goes to his factory and directs things. Bachered Jay OealdV Loot Houck, a Missouri contractor, la raid to as the only man who ever beat the lata Jay Gould In a trad. Houok waa building a railroad tn southwestern Mis souri. He eontfaotad with Gould for a quantity of. old rails Gould had been using on th Iron Mountain railroad. Th rails war to be delivered at a certain time. Th rails came, but after the eontract time. Houck laid them and when Oould de manded pay refused It, basing his refusal on the breach of contraot by Gould. Suit was brought and Houck won by proving that tha rails were not delivered on time. Gould was told to take his rails, but he de cided it would not be worth while to tear them up and Houck kept thwn. Agreed with Both. Horace Greeley waa th author of a style ln editorial writing which had been often imitated, but probably never equaled. Dur ing his editorship two newspapers, neither of which was friendly to Greeley, became engaged In a violent altercation. The argu ment grew warmer, until each paper openly called the other a liar. It was the oppor tunity Greeley had been waiting for. He announced ln his paper that "be had the Ponors to agree with both of his distin guished contemporaries. " Most Interesting Life Story of a Passing Pioneer s V2&i Trlbate to the Press. Senator Money tells a story of the tribute a Mississippi minister recently paid to the press. The town In which Ills parish was located had turn visited within a short space of time by several catastrophes, all of which, with harrowing dwalls. had been duly exploited In the local pupers. The clergyman waa moved to make the mlsfor tuis of his tnwnwnion a subject of prayer. He knelt In the presence of his congrega tion and began fervently: "O, Ixird, doubt less thou hast learned through the papers of our recent and grave afflictions." Bishop Peek's llrrat Welabt. Bishop Peck of the Methodist church was a large man. weighing over .150 pounds. While on a tour and stopping at the resi dence of a presiding elder, the good bishop turned over In his bed. and the entire fur niture collapsed, dropping him. to the floor with a tremendous thud The presiding elder rushed upstairs, call ing: "What la the matter, b'shop? Is there anything I can do for you?" "Nothing Is the mutter," answered the bishop: "but If I don't answer the call for break fast tell your wife to look for me In OHN NELSON HAYS PATRICK. th son of Colonel John Patrick Matilda Ersklne, was born at Brandenburg, Ky., June 28, A D. 1V7. A few years after his birth his father moved to Louisville, Ky.. whore he engaged ln the building of boats for ths rlvr traffic. When the son was about V crs of age his family moved to Fayette county. Pennsylvania, ln which county they lived until Mr. Patrick movd to Ne braska. Upon reaching a sufficient age to engage In the duties of life alone and as axxlHiant to his father, he taught school in -teviTil places In Kuyctte county, mean V. I Hi- completing his education tuid study ing law. He finally located at Uuiuntown, Pa., where he finished his legal education In the office of General Howell. Upon being admitted to the bar he became the editor of the 1'nlontown Standard, a demo cratic paper, for he was always a staunch and loyal democrat. Afterward he waa elected and served a term us county at torney for Fayette county. llovetl by the necessities of his family an? seeking a largi-r sphere of action, ln ISAfi he made a trip through the weat and; selected Omaha as the site of his future home. He returned to Unlontown ln 1H67 and brought his family to the new terri tory. After he had been a resident of Omahii for a year he wa appointed by President Buchanan register of the land office at Dakota City, and ln the spring of returned to Pltti-hurg and inurrled Kliia Ptxon Wilson. He then built the house now known as IB1N Davenport street, where he res iled until 1871. On the breaking out of the war' Mr. Patrick enlisted In the First Nebraska Volunteer regiment and was elected second lieutenant and quartermaster. Pursuant Of rT Tablet t a IVasedy. Henry Dexter, the millionaire New York publisher. In settling up the estate of hla so. Orrando P. Dexter, who was murdered In the Adlrondacks sixteen mouths ago, baa the cellar." Philadelphia Record. attached an unusual proviso to a memorial gift. Mr. Dexter has given I'jno.OOv from the Pat DeRaltloa. , estate to the New York Historical society, Leslie Montier Shaw, secietury of the to be used In th erection of a new build- treasury, was at luncheon In the Hamilton log. When tha building Is completed he has rlub of Chicago, telling some of the stories nts offlcl-' duties as quai termaater he went stipulated It ntust contain a bronse tablet which have made him famous In political " aahlngtoti, and even In the stress of with this Inscription: "Krected In honor of campaigns stories Impregnated with the the demands made upon the quartertnas- my son, Orrando P. Dexter, who was a-aa.s- wit he brought from Morrlctown. Vt.. te ter( department at the outbreak of the slnuted by a cltlsen of the Adlrondacks. Denlson. la.. ntil of the sort calculated to war succeeded, by his tact and ability. In who waa protected from punishment for hla caune a iuugh In Des Moines, Washington "e tring for the regiment the complete crime by other cltlsens of the Adlrind ka." or the qiinrirenntnl conference of tho Meth- equipment of a regiment of Infantry. Hi Th murdered man was shot to death from odlsi Episcopal church. But his answer to accompanied this regiment to Si. Louis and ambush while riding along a tinely road' a uaery ; John Maynnrd Harlan Illustrates Participated, with the regiment. In th and no clu was ever found to tb assassin.' hla delicious humor. The talk .i of slates- desultory fighting about St. Louis. ' Being -.-;;.-r r' . - JOHN NELSON HAYS PATRICK. Ffvtn a Phuto made In Hume sum years ago, promoted to th rank of first lieutenant he resigned and returned to Nebraska, where he. In conjunction with his brother. Colonel M. T. Patrick, undertook th raising of a regiment of cavalry. They succeeded ln enlisting six companies of men and with them went to St. ' Louis. There this six ooropanles, together with four companies from Iowa and two companies from Mis souri, were consolidated Into the Fifth Iowa cavalry, which regiment Mr. Patrick equipped ln like manner and was with the regiment as quartermaster one year. He then resigned from this regiment and went tq Arkansas, where he acted as army sup ply agent for General Steele, engaging In the difficult task of providing the army with forage, wood and other perishable supplies. While so engaged the quarter master's train, of which he waa In charge, waa captured Just before the battle of Sullne River and Mr. Patrick waa made a prisoner. By means of his geniality and a serlca of coincidence, resulting from kind nets done by him to which he was prompted by his largeness of heart, he waa not sent with the rest of the prisoners to Tylers vllle, Ky., but was mude a guest at the headquarter of General Fugan, and within thirty days was smt hack tn the linns. After tho war Mr. lutrlck abandoned the profeHHlon of the law and engaged ln vari ous buWneeses to sU4rt htnmelf and fam ily. In 171 ho built the first hone- on the present site of Happy Hollow and then went to Salt Luke City and dealt largely In mines, by which he laid the fnunrtiitlons of a considerable fortune. Afterward he be came interested ln the development of an automobile controllable torpedo of which he mude a great success. It having b,cn adopted by both the French and American governments, ln 1KM7 he sold a Urge tract of land which he had acquired In the neigh borhood of Omaha, and with the proceeds of his active business life and the proceeds of the sale of his property he enlarged and completed h's home at Happy Hollow, where ho has since resided. In IMC? he abandoned active business life and died at his horn at Happy Hollow iu too evening bf January 3, lAi.- . , eloctrlc plant in Cunada, Is an engineering achievement of tho first magnitude and Importance In even those days of remark able, electrical undertakings. The Shawlnl gan plant, ln fact, demonstrates perhap a bit more strikingly than most others t allied character what remarkable result ln the development of a certain locality may be reached by a Judicious exploitation of Its power riches, for Shawlnlgan today, a city of rapidly widening limits and grow ing manufacturing Interests, was practi cally nonexlatont four years ago. Tho elec trical part of the enterprlso was carried out by Ralph D. Mershon, as consulting and supervising engineer, and represents the fulfilled promise of excellent work to be done which was given by his earlier attainments In high-tension transmission engineering. The installation, as It stands today. Is one of the best existing examples of what may bo hoped for from hydraulio and electrical engineering skill comblnod tn the face of great difficulties to b overcome. Making aa Klectrlo Balb. T'nsrrew an Incandescent lamp from It socket and glance over It. It appoars to ba of the simplest construction n ordinary 'glass bulb with a fine wire Inside and it seems Incredible that such a trifling little article should have passed through eighty dlff- ront operations before It reaches your hands. No leas than forty tests and ex aminations are made during the process or manufacture, and a list Is shown of 117 possible faults to be found In a lamp, which Is a vivid Indication of the care and atten tion required to produce a good one. Almost all of the bulbs used by the differ ent lamp manufacturers are supplied by one of the best known makers of cut glass, the difficulties attending their manufacture having proved an effectual barrier to nearly all maker. Although there are lamp fac tories which produce from 60,000 to 100.000 complete lamrs a day, there Is not now ln the United States ono factory' which make Its own glass. On firm tried th experi ment several years ago, but gave It up after sinking 150,000. These bulbs com to the lampmaker lit shape quite different from that of th fin ished article, a long piece of tub being left on where the lamp enters th brass socket; and the operation they undergo Is th at tachment of still another short plec of very fine glass tube to the bottom of th bulb, this being for the purpose of exhaust ing the air when all the other operation are complete. . Th Ilttl curled wlr Inside, th hesutlng of whloh by the electric current cause th Incandescence and light, Is called th fila ment, and it waa this tiny thread that gav a most striking Illustration of th splendid determination and perseverance of Thomas Edison in his experimental investigations. After trying several hundreds of different materials without satisfactory result, h sent letters to United States consuls In all ' parts of the world, requesting samples of tiamboos, reeds and other vegetable fibers, and he followed this up by dispatching pe dal explorer to search wild and uncivilised countries, where, aa Frank McGowan (on of th explorers) said: "A United States consul was usually eaten before h had time to open much malL" Between S 000 and 4,000 sample were th result of this systematic search, and of all these only two r three were found to b of any use. At the present tlm most of the filament used Is olean, raw cotton, dissolved ln hot concentrated lnc chloride. At the consist ency of molasses this Is run through glass dies of the shape and slxe of the required filament, dried ln plush-covered roller and then wound on a form of graphite, to give the desired curv and twist. A tiny plati num clip Is fastened on each end of the filament, which then goes through a procee of carbonizing. Copper wires ar next soldered to th platinum clip, and the film is inserted in the bulb, the end of which la then melted by a blow pipe and closed up securely around the wires. The air la then ex hausted throu; th short tub on the lower part of th bulb, which ln 1U turn 1 melted together and th bulb thus hermet ically sealed. Next comes the mounting ln the bruw oap, the attachment of two little brass oontacu and th plaster of pari filling. Incandescent lamp ar mad ln great va riety of shapes and strength. There Is tha tiny bulb uaed by Jewelers for personal deo orailon ecarfpln and hairpins, emitting light no stronger than a vigorous firefly. Lamps of from on a-half oandlo power upl to loo candl power ar mude, and on In genious form co a tains two filaments, on of normal slia, the other very small, so that by turning a switch either sixteen candl power or two cundle power is obtained front the same lamp. . There ha been strong competition among lamp manufacturers, which ha resulted In the invention of most remarkable machines and upplluncea for doing the wurk. On an article requiring eighty different operation and which soils at 11 to 11 cents finished tho slightest saving In cost at any on point means milch to the manufacturer. In the early days of lamp making th amount of platinum wire used cost more than a finished lamp now sells for, and although the demand for platinum has lucrouacd so enormously as to place Its value ubove that of gold the changes In the design of the lumps and methods of making thom have been so great as to rid nee the quimliiy of platinum required to a vuiuu of about 1 rent. First Words la a Phonograph. Thomas A. Kdlnon related a fact of soma historical Interest a few days ago. When he waa at work on his first phonograph many woeks were consumed In experiment. Ii Is saiil that wiion tho talking machine was lit'Ht ill icivcrci U was as much a sur prise to its Invenior hh to the world. Til "wl- i I'd" was working on soino telephone rei eivers uml was I' d to put a piece of tinfoil on u cylinder. It recorded sound, and Kdlsoii was convinced Hint the human voice c'lMild be record "ii and produced. When the time i-auie to make an actual tent Kdlsnii. with Ids mind on me hmd'sl details, atiseiiliiiimlcilly lejiled Ills contrlv. an.e with the. familiar phrase, "Mar had a Hit la lamb." Thcuc w ords formtd the till record tukeu t th ButcU-BK .