Today
When Fulton Saw
Napoleon. *
A Job for Ford, et al.
Cheap Garages Wanted.
^ By ARTHUR BRISBANE ^
One hundred and sixteen years
ago, last Friday, Fulton’s steam
boat made its first trip up the
Hudson. It traveled slowly.
Spectators laughed. Serious men
said a steamboat was interesting
but, of course, would never have
any practical commercial value.
A short time before, Napoleon
Bonaparte on his side of the Eng
lish channel was fighting because
contrary winds made it impossible
for him to land an army on Eng
lish soil.
An American wanted to see
him about a new idea. Napoleon
said:
“Tell that American I can give
him two minutes.” The Amer
ican was Fulton, who wanted to
tell Napoleon about a boat run by
steam independent of wind. Napo
leon had no time for “nonsense.”
If ha had listened a little more
than two minutes history might
have been changed.
Keep your mind open for new
Ideas, that’s the hardest thing to
do. After 60 it’s impossible,
usually.
By the way, this nation is
treating the flying machine al
most as foolishly as Napoleon
treated the steamboat. Nobody
in our government seems to realize
that war has moved up into the
air, from the surface of earth and
ocean. France dictates to Europe
and sneers at England, not because
it has 600,000 soldiers under arms,
but because it has the world’s
greatest fighting air fleet and
could destroy London, within six
hours of a declaration of war.
An army of a million would be
worthless against 10,000 flying
men with the right machines.
England knows it, realizes that
its super-dreadnaughts have gone
to join the dodo and the hansom
cab and is trying hard to catch up
with France in the air.
A dispatch by Universal Service
tells of British double-deck flying
.'hips for passenger traffic. Sepa
rate engines are on each deck, “a
luxurious refreshment buffet,
wireless apparatus, private apart
ments for men and women,” are
features.
American genius invented the
flying machine. American capital
leaves it to other nations to de- .
velop it.
It is announced that Ford, get
ting full value out of coal, can
produce gasoline for 6 cents a gal
lon. Probably that is more a hope
than a fact, at this moment.
But Henry Ford and other
makers of autos should combine to
solve the fuel problem. Before
autos came in, newspaper men
bought gasoline to clean ink from
type, and paid 6 cents a gallon
for it, sometimes less. Prices
ranging from 25 to 30 cents in a
majority of the states, are pre
posterous.
Automobile makers ought also
study the problem of cheap ga
rage space in big cities. In New
York or Chicago it costs as much
to store a cheap car, for one year,
as it costs to buy the car. That
is a tax of 100 per ^ent a year,
just for storing an auto. . Garages
should be built with “lockers”
each containing a car, the owner
holding the key. A little car oc
cupying 100 square feet of space
should be stored for $100 a year,
$2 a week. One dollar a square
foot per year is good rental in
cheap buildings on cheap real
estate.
Such garages in the big cities
would increase by millions the
numbers of autos in use, and in
crease 1,000 per cent the happi
ness of big city dwellers.
What Is near interests us. A
hrick falling from a building, be
side you, means more than the
biggest meteor landing on a dis
tant mountain.
A newspaper has in large type
the line, “Car Parns Burn. Loss
$W0,000.” In small type it an
nounces “Great Typhoon Sweep
ing Hong Kong, British Submarine
Sunk, Many Ships and Lives Lost.”
A typhoon at Hong Kong leaves
us cold, as cold as would the de
struction of an entire solar sys
tem, a few ‘‘light years” off in the
“milky way.”
Man Dreams Father Buried
in Cellar; Only a Dream
Chicago, Allg. 26.—August Koloja*
d.iko dreamed the body of his father,
Peter, who had vanished five years,
was hurled In the cellar of hla broth*
er ln-law'* home.
He told police. They helped hlrn dig
I he cellar all day .
Tonight it proved only a dream.
The greatest depth eounded Is In
the North Pacific near the island of
tlutm, which depth is only 66 fret
short of *lx miles.
South Omaha Brevities.
7.r irlfr » on I i .. 1 'i burn DEnu
«HS1 •till It. MA f>OH!.—g«r.
'British Press
j Grows Bitter
Against France
(Premier Baldwin, Departing
for French Holiday Resort,
Uncertain of Seeing
Poincare.
By (Jnivenal Service.
London, Aug. 16.—Prime Minister
Baldwin, leaving for AixLes-Bains,
France, announced that no ar
rangements had been effected for a
personal talk with Premier Poincare,
I but there is little doubt felt here that
he and Lord Curzon, the foreign
minister, will meet the French leader.
He took with him copies of all the
leading weeklies which agree that the
only concessions in Poincare's latest
reply to the British note is an invita
tion for further conversations. The
New Statesman, voicing the consensus
of opinion in its weekly review de
clares:
“The hypocrisy of France is re
vealed in Poincare’s confession: 'We
did not go Into the Ruhr to find j
money to pay reparations, but above
all to create in the German mind the
will to pay, and to take guarantees.’
This complaint that Germany has
not made any attempt to balance its i
budget comes with poor grace from a
country which, by declining to pay its
debts, takes itself lighter than any
other nation among the allies.
"Germany has nothing to gain by
attempting financial readjustment as
long as France is determined to
plunder it by force without regard
to the productive industry of the
country.”
The Spectator says:*,
“In the light of Poincare's note we
feel more strongly than ever that the
British government must not be
drawn into protracted negotiations.
We should earnestly invite France to
agree at once to an international in
quiry into the assets of Germany, and
for a withdrawal from the Ruhr.
“If France refuses we should, in
accordance with the British policy
outlined by Prime Minister Baldwin
and Lord Curzon, go on our way with
out her.”
Wife “Purchaser”
Sued for Divorce
Spouse Alleges Englishman
Paid Her $12,315.26 trt
Marry Him.
I.o* Angeles, Aug. 26.—The price of
a free born American white woman
with a grown, married daughter, was
fixed at $12,316.26 In the as
sertion of Mrs. Florence Newcomb
that this was the sum she accepted
from John James Newcomb In con
slderaUon for her marriage to him
in Manila three years ago.
Such was the startling charge made
by Mrs. Newcomb, with the filing of
a divorce complaint against her "put
chaser.” She also charged In her di
vorce complaint that she and her
husband had fought In many impor
tant cities. *
Newcomb, an Englishman, 63 years
old. Is said to have considerable
means. After his marriage to the
woman he is alleged to have "bought,”
he threw a butcher knife at her sev
eral times and threatened her life
with a revolver, It is charged in the
complaint.
"The money Idea was his own,”
Mrs. Newcomb fald. "However, in
a suit against me he claims the money
was given me to invest. My attor
ney is now preparing an answer to
this suit, wherein It is stated that
the money was given in considera
tion of marriage to him. 1 have a
fasclmile of the draft and it will be
used in court.”
Mrs. Newcomb said she met New
comb while traveling in Manila and
later he Insisted that they be mar
ried, and offered her 25,000 pesos,
equivalent to $12,315.26 in American
money. He gave her the amount,
she said, made out a draft in her
name at that time—Mrs Florence
Vanwormer. That was February 2,
1920, and they were married two days
later.
The. Newcombs came to a final part.
Ing last July, the complaint said.
Woman Seriously Cut
in Brawl on Street
“That man was the cause of it all."
wailed Mrs. Kdna Kosco, 1209 Cass
street, when police found her with n
badly cut arm at Thirteenth and
Cass streets.
“That man" was George Williams,
laborer, living at 1219 Cass street.
Williams, It became known, had
roused the Ire of Mrs. Rosco's Mexi
can husband, who went after him with
a knife. Mrs. Kosco happened to be
between. Tho result was that she
had her forearm cut to the bone, all
the muscles and arteries being severed,
while Williams received only a slight
slash on the stomach and Is held for
investigation. Rosco is still at large.
Green Off to Kurope.
New York, Aug. 2B.—W, H. Green
of Omaha, first v^ce chairman of tlie
federated farmer labor party, has
sailed from New York for a tour of
Fiurope where he will Investigate farm
conditions.
Sioux City Orphanage
Roys' and Girls' Home
Requeathed Rig Sum
Is “Adopted” by Will
Sioux City, In , Aug. 28.—W. It.
Lower, Sioux City business man who
died r tew days ago, and who had no
children of Ills own, Indirectly adopted
an entire orphanage nn one of tho
Anal acta of Ida life. The orphans
at tho Sioux City Boys' and Olrls'
homo are left $330,000 In Mr. Lower's
will.
The will Instructs that the residue
of the estate shall be held In trust
and the Income be used for mainte
nance of the boys' and girls’ home.
The estimated value of the estate Is
$800,000, leaving more than $300,000
for the orphanagw
When a Feller Need* a Friend. By Briggs
Bach firok* the
Summer camp
Up
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Omaha Water Makes Come-Back
With New Filtration Plant in Operation, Flow Is
Clearer Than Ever before—But Boil Until
Further Notice. _
With water clear as crystal flowing
out of the city water works, Omaha
has heaehed the end of its water
famine much sooner than the
most optimistic dared hope last week
during the catastrophe.
The water now issuing from the
pumping station Is clearer than ever
before In the history of the station,
says A. B. Hunt, superintendent of
the metropolitan utilities district.
Mud and filth, however, still lurk In
the mains, and it will require two or
more days for the clean water to
flush the dirt out of them. During
that time faucets on some of the
smaller mains may still run dirty
water. The water will not be safe
to drink anywhere until it has been
boiled.
Well Water Not Safe.
Ths only recipe for safety is to
follow the warning of the health de
partment and boil the water until
notification is received that. It Is
purified everywhere. The utilities dis
trict has chemists taking samples
from all mains, and will give notice
when the water is fit to drink with
out boiling.
One of the greatest dangers to
public health, according to Mr.
Hunt, lies not in the city water,
but In the strain which lias been
put upon old wells and cisterns
during the water famine. Many of
these wells were none too sanitary
in the best of times, and still less
when they are low. Some of tlieiii
have been drained to the dregs by
thirsty mobs during the mild
deluge. Few took the precaution
to boll this water. All who depend
upon wells, springs or cisterns,
says Mr. Hunt, should boll this
water just as inurli as they Mo the
city supply.
The mud deluge was due to an un
likely combination of circumstances
which could hardly take place a sec
ond time. The Missouri Is nearly al
ways low in August. Recognizing
this, the authorities started upon a
series of important improvements
and enlargements calculated greatly
to increase the capacity of the plant.
Remarkable Comeback.
But tho Missouri, Instead of sink
ing to its usual August level, re
malned as swollen as In early sum
mer. Finally, while the water plant
was at the most critical stage of Its
reconstruction, the river ate out a
mud hank and came rampaging by
the plant. At uny other time of year
such actions might he expected of a
Nebraska stream, hut not in August.
Granting tho extent of tile catas
trophe, however, the plant has re
covered Itself better than its own
officials believed It could. The pumps
without a single breakdown stood
the strain of pumping viscid mud
Instead of water. The new pipe lines
are complete and are now In use.
Two additional filter units are in use.
making the water now issuing from
the plant clearer than ever before.
Heavy Dosage of Chlorine.
This water I* being overcharged
with chlorine to kill any bacteria now
In the mains. The city water '»
normally purified by treatment with
Thr Muddy filuc*
Gone am de days when my shirt
was young and gay.
Gone am de starch from my collar
'n cuffs away.
AH covered wid Nebraska mtid I
know,
I heard dat old Missouri roarin’,
Omaha Black Joe!
I’m cornin’. I'm coinin'.
Though my tongne am hangin'
low;
I hear dem water wagons rollin',
Omaha Black Joe!
Hang up «le tool brush an' leav#
it on the wall;
Hang up de ’raier. It ealn't he
used a'tall.
Take up de shubhle. bury me
deep. I know
A yard more dirt will make no
difference to
OinAha Black Joe!
' ■ -—- “ i
a certain amount of chlorine, hut
that amount haa been increased so
that the sediment in the mains wilt
gradually be sterilized. Water is
also coursing through the mains at
the rate of 31,000,000 gallons a day,
an Increase of several million over
normal consumption.
It is hoped that before the end of
the week the new pumps will te
working. Then the completed filtra
tion plnnt can pour out 60,000,000
gallons of clear, pure water a day.
if necessary, and the flushing of the
mains will he completed.
Confidence In llowell.
"I have no doubt that R. R. Howell
haa handled the water plant In th
best way It could possibly he done,"
declared George T. Prince, Well
known Omaha engineer, Saturday
evening. "I have absolutely no sym
pathy with the criticisms being
leveled against him on account of
the recent accident to ttic water sup
ply. I hnvo not Investigated the
causes of the muddy water anil im
ftot prepared to make a statement on
them, rflut 1 had charge of the sedi
ment basins for six years and have
watched Mr. Howell for 30 years, and
1 have absolute confidence that ho
did the best thing for the water plant
under the circumstances which con
fronted him."
Evader's Buried
Gold Is Found
Bergdoll Treasure, Which Led
to His Freedom. Dug I p
by Worker.
Bj V nivenml Sen ire.
Washington, Aug. 26.—Three years
ago War department officials per
mitted Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, un
der sentence as a draft dodger, to
leave the military prison at Gov
ernor's Island to search for $100,000
In gold he said he had buried in the
vicinity of Hagerstown. Md. Berg
doll escaped and department officials
were held up to ridicule for having
believed the story of buried treasure.
Lee Hauser, member of a high
way construction crew working
jUBt outside of Hagerstown, drove
his pick into a tin box from which
soiled a stream of $20 gold pieces.
The tyjx was found to contain $10,000
in all. War department officials to
day expressed the belief that the
gold is part of the treasure Bcrgdcafe
buried.
Bergdoll, in the early days of the
war, spent several weeks under an
assumed name at a hotel in Hagers
town. He took frequent automobile
rides and invariably carried a small,
but apparently heavy, package, which
was missing on his return.
Hauser, who is 28 nnd a bachelor,
has been besieged with offers of mat
rimony since his good fortune.
"The women didn't want me when
I was poor, so I don’t want them
now I've got the money." he declared
today.
Ah far as can be determined at this
time, the money legally belongs to the
finder.
Former Nebraskan Admits*
Slaying Wisconsin Farmer
Baraboo, AVIs, Aug, 26 —Alvin Jen
sen. held by the Sauk county authori
ties with John Galloway oh « charge
of murder in connection with the
death of Robert Jaeger. Black Hawk
recluse, confessed today that he
struck the blows which caused Jaeg
er's death, according to authorities.
Jensen salii he formerly lived in Ne
A young American in l'aris makes
Ills living by selling hotel labels to
tourists on their baggage. A com
plete set of labels is furnished rom
famous hotels front IJsboti to Mos
cow. The price charged Is one franc
per label.
Brief City News |
Father l»ies M. A' Robins met
ereol"glMt ■ ha* been railed to Huron,
S. !>., because of the death of hi*
father.
Nurses Entertained Graduating
rinse of mimes of the Swedish Mission
hospital were guests at a banquet in
the Hrandel* restaurants Saturday.
Mail Airplane?
Prove Success
of Night Flying
Continent Is Spanned Eight
Times in Four Days on a
Definite Schedule in
Relay Flight.
By Associated Frees.
Chicago, Aug. 26.—One of the most
severe aircraft tests In the history of
aviation was completed when mall
planes dropped out of the sky
at New York and San Francisco and
disgorged their burdens of letters.
Since hist Tuesday the airplanes
have roared across continent, span
ning the country eight times in less
than five days, four times from east
to west and four times from west to
east. In testing the feasibility of carry
ing mail between the Atlantic and the
Pacific by continuous air route.
During the time of the transcon
tinental flights eastward and west
ward, the planes operated on a def
inite schedule of a little more than 24
hours without an accident and in re
laying the mail from coast to coast
flew at night over a lighted airway
from Chicago to Cheyenne. Postal
officials said even before the tests were
completed that the practicability of
the project had been proven and an
nounced that a conference will soon
be held to determine the future of
I transcontinental airplane mail serv
I Ice.
Ijind At New York.
The planes that landed today finish
ed the fourth transcontinental journey
started yeRterday morning. The easj
bound plane landed at New York at
11:17 o'clock, having made the trip
from San Francisco in 26 hours and
17 minutes, three, minutes behind the
record for a transcontinental flight
established by the mall plane landfng
in New York yesterday.
The westbound plane landed at San
Francisco at 1:44 p. m. having spanned
the continent in 29 hours and 40
minutes, two more minutes than was
taken by the plane landing at the
Golden Gate on Friday. There was
a lapse of about 40 miles In the first
eastbound flight, the plane having
been held up at Laramie beyo/id its
scheduled time for departure, and its
successor leaving Omaha before the
relay of mail was completed
Aside from breaking the record for
a transcontinental flight, a record
for the longest night flight was broken
in connection with the tests when
Pilot Jack Knight last night flew from
Cheyenne to Buchanan, Mich., nearly
a thousand miles away when he re
ceived a telegram that his father was
not expected to live and received per
mission to use a mail plane to reach
his bedside. The pilot arrived at
Buchanan ^Saturday morning to find
his father, Dr. M. M. Knight, still
alive.
Kecord of flight*.
The record for the eight flights over
the 2,680 mile course across jhe con
tinent follows
butbound.
Tuesday—Left San Franclaco ir.d reach
ed I.aramte. second plane left Omaha
and traveled to New York Laramie to.
Omaha not flown
Wednesilay — I*eft San Francisco at 6 21
a. m . reached New York 12.22 p. m.
Thursday. Time- 27.$«.
Thursday—Left San Franclaco 6 a m .
reached New York 11 14 a. m I»riday.
Time: *6 14
Friday—Left San Franclaco 6 74 a m ;
reached New York. 11:14 a. m. Saturday.'
Time: 2G:17.
Westbound.
Tueaday—Left New York I! ?1 i rr :
reached San Franclaco 6.24 p m Wed
nesday Time; 24 23.
Wednesday—Left New York 11 91 a. rr
reached San Franclaco 145 p m. Thurs
day Time: 2.4 44
Thursday—I/eft New T^rk 16 76 a m :
arrived San Frartciaco 1.54 p. m. Friday
Time 29:311
Friday — Left New York 11:04 a m .
reached San Franciaco 1 44 r. m. Satur
day. Time 2t;40.
Kidnaped Baby Clues
All Prove Futile
New York. Aug. 36.—The day's two
most probable clues to the discovery j
of 3 month-old Lillian McKenzie hav- ,
ing proved ns futile as all the others
the police and detectives have run j
down Since the baby was kidnaped
from her perambulator in front of a
store a week ago, Mrs. l’eter McKen
zie, the districted mother, gave lip
hope. One clue came from Phil
adelphia, where the finding of an
infant In a park was reported. The
infant, however, proved to be a boy.
In this city, the finding of a baby on
the stairs In a subway, raised the
hope of the searchers, hut again they
were disappointed: the baby was not
Lillian.
Bryan-for-l .-S.-Sonator Club
Is Organized in Ibis City
A “Bryan for-United States Sena
tor'1 rlub was organized in Omaha.
Omaha. Of friers are H. I*. Mossman,
president; Deborah McLeod, vice presi
dent; George B. Collins, secretary;
Mrs. T. R. Ward, treasurer.
Similar clul<s will he organized In
the state.
" PAUL J. WURN
Succ**din( th« Latf
B. F. WURN
OPTOMETRIST
Put Your Hard Coal In Now
From now on Pennsylvania Anthracite shipments are likely to be de
layed and diverted. An anthracite strike is threatened. But today the
Updike Lumber and Coal Company has a stock of hard coal to meet
every present need. Why not be secure? Let us fill your bin now. Several
cars on track. Shipped by Carbon Coal and Supply Co.
Updike Lumber Coal Co.
FOUR YARDS TO SERVE YOU
Public Opinion His
Weapon Against Strike
Governor Gifford Pinchot.
Harrisburg, Pa., Aug. 25.—Governor
Gifford Pinchot, of Pennsylvania,
chose tonight the weapons to engage
the anthracite operators and miners
here on Monday. At the same time
he voiced a veiled threat against
them.
"Public opinion” and "opportunity”
will guide the nation's new strike
mediator. Kinding himself in much
the same position as did Theodore
Itoosevelt in 1902, and endowed with
virtually the same weapons. Governor
Pinchot plana to follow in the foot
steps of his hero and wield the "big
stick” should peaceful methods fail. !
Annual Hi-Y Camp
Opens Tuesday
Union Pacific Furnishes Trains
for Omaha High School
Bovb to Columhus.
The annual Omaha Hi-Y training
camp for officers and selected leaders
of the Omaha high school opens Thurs
day at Columbus. Sixty-five boys and
10 leaders will make up the camp
which will last five days.
Special cars will be provided by the
Union Pacific to take the boys to and
from camp. E. E. Micklewright,
boys’ work secretary of the Omaha
Y. will be the director of the camp
and N'. J. Weston, physical director,
will be the camp physical director.
The delegation will be made up of 40
from Central. 10 from Technical and
12 from South high school.
Speakers at the camp will be Dr.
Paul Calhoun. L. C. Oberlies of Lin
coln. J. H. Beveridge. Dr. John F.
Poucher and W. Waldo Shaverm,
state boys’ work secretary.
A meeting will be held Monday
night at the Y for all boys who are
planning on attending the camp, to
gether with the leaders. At this meet
ing. details of the camp will be ex
plained to the boys.
Belgian Reply Appro\ed.
Paris. Aug. 2S.—France approved
the Belgian reply to the British
reparations note of August 12. The
note is expected to be in London Mon-1
day.
Thieves Tunnel
Into Fur Store;
Frightened Off
Alarm Signal Summons Police
After Loot Is Carried
to Adjoining
Building.
A cleverly planned attempt to
steal between $50,000 and $75,000
worth of furs from the storage vaults
of the llallbach & Pennock Fur com
pany, 1712 Howard street, was frus
trated early Sunday. The burg
lars escaped without their plunder.
The bandit gang obtained entrance
to a vacant store building at 1710
Howard street and tunneled their
way to (he vault of th<> fur company.
An accomplice stood guard outside of
the building to aid them in their
work and an automobile with motor
running was parked near by to aid In
their escape if detected and to carry
the loot if their plans worked opt.
Touched Off Alarm.
The tunnel wag completed, just
large enough to permit a man's body
to squeeze through. The furs were
th»n passed out and piled on the floor
of the vacant building. Every nook
in the fur store was searched and
only the best of the furs taken.
The plans were working out accord
ing to schedule, when the man search
ing the store accidentally touched off
the telegraph alarm to the American
District Telegraph offices. Police
were summoned and a large squad of
detectives and partolnren rushed to
the scene in automobiles.
The approach of the officers w s
discovered by the guard and his com
panions notified. They rushed from
the building and the tail lights of
their automobile, speeding from 'he
scene, were the only glimpse of
bandits obtained by police.
Have Motor Number.
A pedestrian passing the building
at the time they escaped noticed the
license plate on the car and word
was flashed to every patrolman in
the city to be on the lookout. Motor
cycle officers and patrolmen in auto
mobiles from the pillbox stations im
mediately started 'enuring the city in
search of the robbers.
Piled on the floor of the vacant
building the police found the furs
tied in bundles ready to be carried
to the automobiles in which the rob
bers escaped. F. J. Hallbach was
summoned and after a brief check
was of the opinion that none of the
furs had been taken.
The furs were mostly owned by
individuals and had been placed in
storage for the summer. Many valu
able pieces and sets were in the
collection!
Not Enough Wheat if
People Have Plenty
There is no surplus of wheat, bv
an underconsumption, due to low
wages and too high prices for bread
Benjamin C. Marsh, managing dire
tor of the farmers' national rounr l
stated here. He continued: “If
the American people consumed a«
much wheat per capita as in 1S19—8.9
bushels—we would have an actia*^
wheat shortage.
Doyou '
Know?
The wholesome between
meals hoe.
LORMA
DOONE
Shortbread
The short cut to short cake.
Easy to digest
if made by the baton of
Uneeda
Biscuit
The National Soda Cracker
NATIONAL atSO/TT COHP>M<Y
Complete the Furnishings
In Your Home!
' Few homes are entirely complete in
every detail.
ft
* You can make yours complete with no
great expenditure.
•
" Watch the "Household Goods” columns
of The Omaha Bee "Want Ads." where
many auction houses as well as indi
viduals are advertising real bargains—
daily.
r The furnishings you lack can be easily
supplied through the “Household
Goods” columns of The Bee "Want
Ads.”
Om&Jta. fW
THE EVENING BEE
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