TTITC OMATIA BATLY FTUDAV. OCTOIITCR 14. 185)8. )
THE FIELD OF ELECTRICITY
Instructive Review of the Progress of Elec
trical Industries ,
NCREASED DEMAND AND REDUCED COST
tnicrcMtn Ir\cloned
lit n Hccnilc Klcctrlc Hnltronil
on Stilt * I'ovirr from Cnr
Axle * .
A good deal of Instructive Information
about the progress of electrical Industries In
this country Is packed away In an artlclo
written by Dr. A. E. Kennelly for the cur-
cnt Casster's. The doctor Is president of the
American Institute of Electrical Engineers ,
and It U a fair presumption that he Is qual-
Ificd to tnlk on the subject. Inasmuch as
the principal development of electrical engli
nccrlng has been confined to the last fifteen
years , and as there Is now something Ilka
11,000,000,000 Invested In electrical applica
tions In this country , tbo topic Is a distinctly
modern ono and of commanding importance.
Beginning with dynamos , Dr. Kennelly
points out that at the time of the Phlladcl-
plila electrical show In 18S4 a machine that
had an output of fifty kilowatts a kilowatt
Is equivalent to about ono and a third horac-
power was a big one. At the present tlmo
a generator having a capacity of 4,000 kil
owatts Is being built. Compared with 18S2 ,
the cost of a dynamo today Is about one-
tenth for the same capacity. In regard lo
"efficiency , " It Is to bo observed that little
Improvement bos been possible for fifteen
years. The machines exhibited In Philadel
phia yielded In the form of electricity 92 per
cent ot the mechanical energy used to drive
them. Such dynamos would be considered
excellent machines at the present tlmo ,
though nn efficiency of 95 per cent Is sometimes -
times attained. Owing , however , to bettor
design , ten watts can bo got out of a dynamo
for every pound of weight today , whereas
In 1884 only six watts were secured.
In calculating the cost of generating elec
tricity , engineers start with the kilowatt for
the period of an hour. Fifteen years ago
the minimum cost was 7.5 cents per kilo-
watt-hour und-er the most favorable circum
stances. Now , for large electric railway
systems , current Is sometimes supplied for
1.5 cents. The power from Niagara Is sold
In Buffalo for from 2 cents to 2-3 ot a cent ,
according to the amount consumed.
i Hrilnreil CoNt.
Incandescent lamps cost about $1 fifteen
years ago , but can now bo had for 18 cents.
The quality of the lamp has been much Im
proved , too , In the meantime. Arc lights
wcro already almost perfect In 188-1 , but the
cost ot the carbons has been reduced to
one-third of what It was then , and the
"Inclosed arc , " by prolonging the life of the
ponUU from eight to ten hours to one hun
dred or ono hundred and fifty still further
promotes economy. Up to the present time
not far from $600,000,000 has been Invested
In electric lighting enterprises In the United
States.
Storage batteries were In use In 1884 to
some extent , but nt that time H was possi
ble to put In a maximum charge of only
3.4 watt-hours to n pound of plates , and
even then only C9 per cent of the charge
could bo drawn off before renewal became
necessary. Now a yield of from D to 6
watt-Lours per pound can bo had and the
efficiency has been Increased to f > 3 per cent.
Less than eleven years have elapsed since
the first successful trolley road was put In
operation and now there are about fourteen
thousand miles of track on which electric
traction la employed. Small motors were
used at first , but now there are electric en
gines of fifteen hundred horse-power. A
few years ago only five watts could bo ex
tracted from a street railway motor per
pound , while at present tno yield is about
fourteen watts. This improvement. It will
bo seen , makes It possible to use less
wclfrht or the power requlrea. it Is duo
largely to the Introduction ot soft cast-steel
In the manufacture of motors. The capital
now locked up In electric roads In America
Is estimated at $1,000,000,000 , and this ono
industry employs one hundred and seventy
thousand men.
Wnlor 1'ower.
Power developed by waterfalls la now
transmitted In the form ot electricity to
distances everywhere from two to elghtv-
flvo miles and the total amount now thus
sent over wires Is about 150,000 kilowatts ,
or 200,000 horsepower. For transmission
purposes the alternating current alone U
used , because It can bo transformed from
a low prrssuro or voltage to a high one
economically and It Is far cheaper to eend I
electricity over wlr'e at high voltages than j
low ones. The apparatus that transforms
nn alternating current will now absorb only
1V4 or 2 per cent of the energy In the
process. This Jors Is not worth considering ,
compared with the enormous saving In the
copper wlro required for long distance trans
mission ,
A few years ago electrical engineers were
nfrald to handle currents of 2,000 or 3,000
volts. Now they have perfected Insula
tion BO that they send currents at 30.000
volta over some of the newest transmission
lines. The Insulating material In a dynamo
.
would not admit of developing a current
ot \oltage above 1,000 fifteen or twenty
.
years ngo. H was customary to generate nt .
a low \oltago and then transform It up at
a certain los , say & per cent. Gcneratois
nro now raado that deliver current at 10-
000 volta.
In telegraphy little Improvement has been
noted for over two decades. beeauno the
'
Morse system , which Is still In vogue , had
been perfected before that time. Dr. Ken-
nelly thinks that about $150,000,000 Is In-
ve't-'d In tel gr .ph lines In this country.
About two-thirds of that amount has been
put Into the telephone business. Every
day , on the average , 3,000.000 connections
nro made and the service employs 17,000
persons and 900,000 miles of wire. It Is pos
sible to talk over 1SOO miles ot wlro by
telephone now.
A number of Industries requiring Intense
heats ( like- the production of calcium car
bide ) or electro-chemical action ( such as
the manufacture of aluminum ) are springing
up at places where electricity can be ob
tained cheaply , as at Niagara. This Is one
ot the great business developments ot the
day ,
> < el niccti-lc Kullrond.
The oft-propospl s'hone oC an electric
nerlal railway , by v hlch the passengers could
bo shot through the air at a hlga rate cf
speed in ft car suspended on an ele/a'eJ
framework , Is at last to bo reall.e'l In a
German road between Elbcrfcld and Har-
men. Of all electric roads yet built or building -
ing this Is certainly the most unique , surpassing -
>
passing the Impractical "amphibious"
line at Brighton and the Doyntoa monorail
system at Longport. Elevate ) electric Hues
' have become quite common , dMtlni ; the last
three years , but the Idea ot suspending the
r car from un overhead framework Instead ol
allowing It ( o run upon It U startling/ ! radi
cal und a construction not calculated to in
spire courage In the hearts of tlinld travel-
era , despite the fact that It Is claim * ) lo be
quite as safe as the ordinary method of run
ning cars on elevated systems.
Were It not for the fact that tUn eastern la
now being constructed by a well known Ger
man firm and that the road Is already well
under way toward completion , ono might
look askance at so revolutionising a method
ot rapid transit , which Is only once removtd
from flying.
Local circumstances are suc'i , however ,
that the only available route for the toad
was over the bed of the River Wuppcr , i
connecting link between Ihe uo towns. Al
flnt It was suggested that Mngle pillars be
erected In the center of the stream ami an
elevated platform bo erected thereon upon
which to lay tracks. This , however , would ,
have resulted In obr/trucilng thu river ohajt
nel and was not feislblc , owing lo tides and
heights of bridges , etc. Finally the sus
pended aerial system shown In the Illustra
tion was adopted.
Two Inclined girders of structural steel ,
placed as shown and supported on specially
prepared foundations , arc located in the riv
er's banks. These are spaced along the banks
sixty to sIxty-fHe feet apart and held In
position by means of a series of beams anil
trusses , to which the rails are attached. This
construction Is followed throughout nearly
the entlro eight miles of the road. The
height Is considerably greater than that of
the ordinary elevated road , as the bottoms of
tbo cars are sixteen feet above the bridges
to bo crossed. Each car scats from fifty to
sixty people , and Is reached by means of
hon stairways lending up to a pfatform.
These cars , as before stated , are hung from
two 1 rails , the axles of the wheels being sup
ported i on mo\able trunnion * , which permits
of < rapid propulsion and jet case In taking
curves. i
The eetcctlon of electricity as the motive
power Is a foregone concision , as no other
form of power Is so well adapted to the per
cullar i requirements Imposed by this very
novel construction , flexibility of operation ,
ease of control and absence ot flying dirt
all being of Importance to the successful
operation of the system. Twenty-five miles
an hour Is the contemplated speed. E\ery
possible precaution has been taken to pro
vide automatic devices so that , should the
the car become disabled , no serious accidents
would follow.
Double tracked throughout Its length , the
coat will run well up Into the millions and
the unfamlllarlty of the work renders prog
ress very slow , so that It win bp some
months before anything definite concerning
the practicability of the scheme Is known.
I'otter from Cnr Axli'H.
i
The Introduction of the axle electric light
system In the service of the Atehlson , To
pcka & Santa I'-e railway running between
Chicago and Los Angeles marks a radical
departure from previous practice , which ne
cessitated a largo electric light plant In the
baggage car.
The power under the new sj'stem Is taken
from the car axle. The leading features of
the apparatus consist of a djnamo operated
from the axle and a storage battery which
supplements the direct work of the dynamo
In operation , as , for example , when the car
Is at rest or moving at a slow speed.
The belt which connects the driving pulley
with the countershaft and dynamo pulleys
Is made of camel hair. It Is eight feet
eleven Inches long and three 'and one-halt
inches wide and Is the only kind of belt that
will stand the vaiylng effects of rain , snow
and Ice , and which will adapt Itself to all
conditions. Though not an endless belt , It
Is made practlcallj so by nn upturned joint
clamped between steel washers In such a
fashion that no metal whatever comes In
contact with the pullejs
Tbo dynamo Is of a high grade of con
struction and the brushes are gocd for 30COt
miles. Conductors and brnkcmcn can oper
ate the switchboard , so that no skilled laborer
or electricians are required on the train.
The low operating expenses are the main
features claimed for this system. While tht
cars are running the light Is taken direct
from the dynamo and when standing still or
going at less than eight miles an hour the
light Is automatically taken from the stor
age batteries. At all times the lamp * ) are
steady and brilliant.
There are four trains In the Santa Fe
limited which run from Chicago to Los An-
gclcs. Each of these trains Is equipped
with an observation compartment car , three
sleeping cars and a dining and library car.
The equipment Includes lights In all the
bertha , making thla the first train In the
world carrying such a large Jupply of light
service exclusively from the car axles.
When the Intention of lighting the loco
motive headlight from the same service Is
carried Into effect the four trains will be
solid axle light trains throughout.
The system mostly In vogue , of lighting
a train from ono large plant In the bag
gage car , has many objectionable features.
If the car carrying the plant meets with
an accident or the plant Itself gets out of
order , the entire light output ot the train
becomes deranged. In the axle light sjs-
tem each car has Its own little plant , com
pact and complete , with Its dynamo and
storage battery. Actual measurements dem
onstrate that after the round trip to Los
Angeles of over 1,600 miles and after sup
plying the cars during six nights with brll-
llant light , the storage Is as full as It was
at the start. If one car oecomes crippled
In any manner It can be lighted from an
adjoining car until a terminal Is reached ,
where the necessary repairs can be mado.
The National Electric company of No\t
York , which has Introduced the light , has
been perfecting Its system for ten years
The first contract In the west was made
with the Santa Fo company and the un
qualified success of the experiment Induced
the Pullman company to Introduce the light
In all of Its cars on this route.
Electric > otc * .
According to President Tuttlel of the Bos
ton and Maine railroad , steam roads must
abandon suburban traffic within n radius ot
six miles from the center of our cities.
Within this radius the trolley lines have
decided advantages. The latter can make
profits on smaller farm because he qc or
nothing privileges the steam roads pay for.
They have no terminal expenses and In vari
ous ways do business at less cost. But
there Is a future for steam roads beyond
the six-mile limit , and lower fares might
perhaps Improve their receipts within that
radius.
Gas logs are made nowadays In various
sizes and with the Imitation hickory logs of
which they ore formed piled In various
shapes. The gas log Is designed as a sightly
and convenient means of gUln ? n * f
There Is an Imitation electric grate ( Ire that
Is Intended for ornamental purposes duly.
This flru Is composed of pieces of ruby and
amber glass. The grate , standing in a fire
place In tbo usual manner , has within It
an Incandescent light , over which Is placed
a wlro cage at such a height In the grate
that the coal , that Is the ruby and atubcr
glass , when spread over It , U brought up to
the height ot an ordinary coal fire. The
cage protects the burner , makes a thin
layer of gloss sufficient and holds the glass
up so that the light from below can shine
through It all and give It the appearance
ot the coal nro It Is made to represent. The
light Is turned on and off and the flro thus
lighted or put out by turning a key In the
usual manner , this key being located con
veniently by the side of the fireplace. The
electric grate Is used usually In rooms where
steam Is used for heating.
I.on mill Short MIMI Double Up.
A double "lone and short" man has gene
Into the highway robbery business. They
made their first appearance as knights of '
the road Wednesday nleht.
R. U Doomer. a stranger In the city , was
held up by the quartet Wednesday at the
south end of the Thirteenth street car line.
They got a watch and J10 from him. The
men. two of whom are described as being
very tall , the others belnsr below the medium
stature , were armed with revolvers and wore
masks. They sprang from behind a clump
of trees and attacked Doomer.
The two tall men. lloomer says , leveled
ZUDB on him. while the short ones dexter
ously searched his oerson. From the re
marks thev let drop Dcomer thinks that
they had cone to the end of the line 'vl'li
the Intention of hoIJlne UD some street car
crew.
,
Duy your exposition tickets down town
In another column see dlrnlav ndvrtlxjruent ,
ot tuu places where tickets rre on sale.
'SAYINC ' ( COODBYE TO OMAHA
President McKlnley Finds it Hard to Start
After His Reception ,
PLEASANT WORDS OF FAREWELL SPOKEN
to Orncrnl Mnmlemoii nnil
Speech ( o llic CriMTil n ( the Depot
Imllcntr the llciith of the
I'rcnldent'H 1'ccllnn.
Tim OMAHA CLt'Il.
Dcnr Oencrnl MntidcrNoiit
Ilcforr t B"i iicrmlt mo < o
tlinnk > oti , Mr > l lt to Omnlin
linn li eon of niicommoii Intercut
nnil iilenNiire. Cuoilli ; e.
WILLIAM M'ICIMiUY.
Oct. is , inns.
The above note was written by President
McKlnlcv under the apprehension that ho
might not meet General Mandcrson pcr-
eonally. Ho afterward gave It to Mr.
Mnnderson , who thought It should belong to
the t public , and will give It to the Omaha
Public ! library , to be placed in the collec
tion of autograph loiters of prominent men.
"I thank you more than words can tell
for your many kindnesses to mo during my
visit to your city and your magnificent ex
position. My visit to Omaha and to the
transmtsslsslppl Is one that I shall long
remember with the kindliest recollections.
What has pleased me more than anything
else on my entlro trip Is to witness the ex
hibitions of patriotism throughout the coun
try. I am glad to see that In Nebraska , as
through the whole land , the people ever love
good government and dearly love the old
flag , It Iseff hard for me to say goodby
lo Omaha , you have all made my trip so de
lightful. Dut I must say goodby now , as the
train Is about to leave Again I thank you. "
With these words Presld nt McKlnley 1 ado
adieu to Omaha yesterday morning at 0 35
o'clock. The brief speech was delivered to
ft crowd of several thousand people who
crowded about the lost car of the presi
dent's special train , who filled every van
tage point about the Burlington station and
who even swarmed about the overhead via
duct to speed the departing guest and pleas
antly complete the long list of popular ova
tions he bos received within the exposition
clly since his arrival here on Tuesday oven-
Ing.
Crimil Cotn Out Kurly.
Long before tno arrival of the president at
the Burlington station the crowd was there
to greet him. It was not entirely composed
of arriving and departing travelers , ns a
goodly number of Omaha citizens had as
sembled there to catch .1 gllmpso of the
great war president. AB his carriage
Irovfl down the rampo to the tilatform
'resident ' McKlnley was cheered anl cheered
and the mounted policemen under Sergeant
Her were ' usy In clearing n way for the
lonored guest. All about the train of sovcn
landsomcly appointed cars set apart for the
use o't the presidential partv thrre were
more people with the same dcalra to see
the president. Ho was very gracious and
acknowledged the salutations of the people
in the same generous manner as he did
throughout President's day at the exposition.
When the crowd called for him ho quickly
went to the rear platform of the last car
and again and again bowed his farewell
greetings to the people. Then some of the
moro enthusiastic spectators pressed for
ward and reached up to shake his hand.
He shook hands with them , but saw that It
was hard work for them to reach up so far.
so he had a trainman open the covered step--
: o tbo car , and going dovn on the bottom
step shook bands with as many as could get
near within the few minutes that there were
: o spare.
But still the crowd was not satisfied , and
called for a speech. He generously re
spondcd in the complimentary words just
given , and each sentence was marked with
sreat applause and vociferous cheering by
those about him , Then the signal to start
was given , and the train pulled out ot the
station with Prealdcnt McKlnley standing on
the last platform boxvlng and waving his
hat In farewell greetings to the crowd at
Omahans and their guests. He appeared to
be In no hurry whatever to enter the cai
and remained In sight until the train had
n eared the approach to the bridge across
the Missouri river. To accentuate his heart
greetings to the crowd he pulled out his
handkerchief Just as ths triln pasrel the en
of the long train shed and waved It to the
crowd while he bowed and bowed , and
seemed to make good his words : "U la
very hard for me to say goodby to Omaha. "
ItcHtoil Well AVciliicmlny MKht.
President McKlnley and his favorite
nephew , Captain James McKlnley , arose and
were about their room nt the Omaha cl
before 8 a. m. yesterday. They ' took
breakfast In the private dining room nnO
were soon out In the parlors and reception
halls of the first Door greeting the other
members of the presidential party as they
came from the breakfast room upstairs
The president said he had had a very goo3
night's rest , and he looked It. He was
dressed in his customary blaok frock suit ,
with n pretty Meteor rose In his buttonhole
Ho showed his fondness for his orphan
nephew , who Is a fine appearing young man
of 20 years , by spending some tlmo with
him. One of the , presidential party re
marked : "The president Just thinks more
of his nephew than of almost any one out
side of his wife and mother. You see nt the
outbreak ot the war JImmIe , who Isn't o
age yet , enlisted In u volunteer regiment s
a private and started off to fight right In
the ranks. That just hit the president right
This Is Jlmmle's first trip of Important
with the president , and he's enjoying I
about as much as anybody. " The young
captain displayed a becoming modesty am
In the Informal reception that followed
rather kept In the background.
A half hour after the president ) and hi
nephew had finished their breakfast a num
her of distinguished citizens arrived to gree
him good morning and bid him farewell
Among those about the club parlora wer
noticed President Charles P. Manderson o
the Omaha club , Vice President ) Edward 1'
Peck , Secretary Charles L. Dcucl , Presldon
Wattles of the exposition directory , Man
agcrs Bruce , Reed , Llndsey , Rosewater
j j Babcock and Klrkendall , Major Ward , Gen
j eral Cow In , Congressman Mercer , W. H. Me
I Cord , Luther Drake , all of Omaha. The en
tire presidential party was on hand except
j rho military officers and the members of the
t diplomatic corps. Among those noticed
chatting with 1ho Omabans were : Secre
tary Bliss , Secretary Gage and Mrs. Gage ,
Postmaster General Smith and Mrs. Smith
and Secretary Wllion , Assistant Secretary of
War Melklejobn and others. Representing
the press were : Messrs. McFarlane ot the
Associated Press , Btnzlnger of the Chicago
Times-Herald and Carroll of the New York
Sun , who accompanied tne president to St.
Louis.
Some IMeniiniit Moment" .
President McKlnley greeted all those about
the club whh a friendly "Good morning , "
and then enjoyed a cigar In the
second parlor , talking with General Man
derson. General Cowln and Mr. Rosewater ,
and Incidentally looking over The Bee's
Peace Jubilee edition , which ho praised.
Among others who were presented to htm
at the club were Detectives Dunn and Dona-
hue , who have watched after the president
wherever he ban gene In the city and about
the exposition grounds. Congressman Mercer
Introduced them , and President McKlnley
'
shook hands with them and sal'd : "I am
I very clad to know you. and want to thank
vou for reeking after mo to welt , though
didn't have the slightest fear of anything
happening to me. I guess I made you
walk pretty lively out at the exposition
grounds yesterday afternoon , didn't I ? I
know some of the soldiers who walked about
with mo were puffing pretty hard when they
rot through. " And the detectives smiled at
his bit of pleasantry , and they said they
would bo glad to walk miles with the prcil-
dent at any time.
Fifteen minutes had passed since the High
school bell sounded 9 o'clock before the
president had bade goodbye to air at ths
club and was ready to leave for the railway
-tatlon. Dut there were a great many school
children about the club house who did not
hear the school bell , or nt least did not
heed It. and a desire to see the president'
made several score of pupils late In answer-
ng to the roll. And their elders to the num
ber of 1,500 or 2,000 ateo took an hour or
10 from their morning duties to greet
he president. Douglas street and Twen-
leth street for n half block from the Omaha
tub wcro crowded with eager spectators ,
, nd when tnc president finally appeared they
cnt up a shout of welcome that made the
ihlcf executive smile and bow very low as
he acknowledged the hearty greetings.
When he had taken his seat In the carriage
.here was renewed cheering , and he bowed
md bowed his compliments. The dozen car-
lages following were quickly filled with the
ither members ot the presidential party , and
.he Omaha hosts , and preceded by the
mounted policemen , the line of carriages
went down Douglas street toward the Uur-
Ington station.
The train was scheduled to leave at 9 30
I'clock , but on account of the Impromptu
reception at the station It was five minutes
ater than that before the train got away.
The train was made up of the same seven
elegant cars that brought the pnsldcnt from
Washington to Omaha. It was drawn by
one of the biggest locomotives of the Bur-
Ington route , No 631 , with Engineer Max
well and Conductor Clark. The train crossed
the river on the Union Pacific bridge , and
from Council Bluffs proceeded directly to
Pacific Junction , and from there through
Iowa and Missouri to St. Louis , which will
be reached some time this evening , the
exact time being dependent upon how many
stops the president desires to make to grout
the crowds reported to be assembled at all
the railway stations along the line.
CROWDS COMING AND GOING
More I'eoiile Heneli Oiunliu Than
lionu Dnrlnc the Ilourn of
( hi ; Mornlnc.
Several thousand exposition vtsl ors left
Omaha yesterday , but so for as the or-
ilvals and departures all the Uurllngton sta
tion and the union depot are concerned the
places ot all the visitors who returned wuic
taken by new arrivals and then there were
iomo visitors besides. The excess of ar
rivals over departures yesterday was not
; rcat , but that It should exist at all was a
surprise to the railroad men themselves.
All of the outgoing morning irulnsero
well tilled und each carried from two to
Ight cars more than ordinarily. There
uero only one or two special tra ns out ot the
Ity and these were balanced bv the heavy
e > gular trains that arrived. From the
Jurllngton station the departures appeared
o bo heavier than the arrivals , though tialn
soI from the west pulled In with ten cars
veil filled. At the union depot the people
arriving on the morning trains far exceeded
hose going home. The icsular trains In
md out were well filled , but there were no
special trains needed In eltlu'r direction.
Railroad men say that there Is a notice-
iblo tendency on the part ) of the great bulk
of the visitors to spend several days nt the
) xposltiou. This is observed through the
enormous deposit of tickets with the joint
Agents and from the fact that full advantage
a being taken of the tlmeollmlt on rhe Peace
Jublleo railroad tickets , which will not cx-
plro until October 17 , Monday next
No Accident * .Noted.
No accidents happened at elthor of the
Tenth street passenger stations during the
moving ot the great crowds , though the
Jopot policemen and their additional aides
, vero required to use extraordinary vigi
lance. Superintendent nignell of the n. &
M. yesterday said he estimated that 10-
X)0 ) people went out on Burlington trains
between noon and midnight on Wednesday ,
and as many more deported from the union
depot.
Only one case of pocketplcklng was re
ported from the two stations yesterday
morning. A. E. Stuart of Bancroft , Nematm
aunty , Kansas , had $25 stolen from his
trousers' pocket while ho was holding bis
little girl up In the air to see President
McKlnley. Ho did not notice his loss until I
after the departure of the president's train ! ,
A hen he started to go up town. The money
was In the form of one $10 note and three
$5 notes and was loose In a pocket that
presented a good opening. The man was
left without enough money to buy tickets
for himself and bis wife and little girl
from hero home , but as ho bad 13.80 left
he said he could make out till ho had time
to get money from home.
Snfc [ Holier * nt Work.
Burglars early Thursday morning entered ,
the offices of the Centervlllo niock Coal
company at 1005 North Sixteenth street bv
means of skeleton kevs for the purpose of ,
"blowing" the rate. They were saved the
trouble of forclne the outer doors of the
safe , as thev had been left onen.
The Inner doors were sublccted to charges
of exnloalvea and blown from their hinges.
Nothlnc of value was secured by the
burglars.
OSCAR A , NELSON'S ' ROMANCE
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I'rcnllnr Clrcuni < nnerp SnrrnuiiilInK
UK * Ucntlt of n You UK Mmi nt
Imnmunel Ilo i > lnl.
Oscar A. Nelson In the name o ( a man
whoso death Tuesday at Immnnucl hospital
Is attended by a peculiar circumstance , In
volving the discovery ot \vheroabouts of
an unknown , named Johnson ,
I
' Tor nine years Oscar Nelson had hcen a
trusted man ot all work on tbo Block farm
of J. H , Parks at Wausa , Nob. Last week
ho was mken sick and Friday , complaining
i of Intense suffering , ho made a request to he
taken to Immanuel hospital. At first his
J request was denied , as itas thought ho
'
! ! could bo better cared for where ho was , butt
I later It was Ecen that his condition was bei
j coming more serious and ho was brought to
j I this city , where physicians pronounced his
Illness to bo due to appendicitis. Ho died
Tuesday afternoon , no operation having bjcn
performed.
Nelson's history Is an unusual one. When
ho first went to work for J , 13. Parks he told
his employer that he had no relatives. Afterward -
ward It was learned that his father had been
killed In an accident In Pennsylvania and his
mother had ( tied during a time tin had run
away from homo when a boy and thai rela
tives of theirs and his 11 % e In Omaha , their
name being Johnson. Beyond this nothing
Is known of .them , as Nelson had nexer men-
I lloncd them excepting to say that ho In
tended to pay them a visit when ho con
valesced and got out of the hospital.
Among Nelson's personal effect's was an
Insurance policy with the Modern Woodmen
of America for $1,000 , made out In fa\or ot
Miss Johnson. Yesterday Coroner Swanson -
son Instituted a search among the many
Miss Johnsons of the city In hopes of findIng -
Ing the person who Is heiress to the Email
legacy , but his hunt ) was unsuccessful and
he has decided to hold the policy until a
claimant appears to prove Identity and re-
celvo the properly , Nelson was of Swedish
descent , 30 years old His body was taken
to Wausa for Interment Wednesday.
A AVOUI ) ritOM WOO.STKII.
Ii * ulNllit < > r from Mcrrlrk County Trie *
to JiiNtlfy Cnuuun Domination ,
SILVER CKCCK , Neb. . Oct. 11. To the
Editor of The tlee With your permission
I should lllto to reply to some statements In
> our editorial in The Dally Dee of Ocittbor
0 , entitled "Reformers Sham and Real "
You say :
nut the reformers have brought the Iron
rule of the caucus to ucrfcctlon. Not only
wcro nil offlces parcelled out br caucus , but
every piece of liglslatl n , whether political
or otherwise had its fate determined by
caucus , with ill thimble-riggers and Irrr
SDonslble secret combines. The reform
caucus docs not ston with legislation but
Includes the division of petty executive ap
polnlmenls. Such reform certainly must
dlsRUst every honest man who revolts
against the abridgement of the Individual
freedom of the sovereign voter. \
I quite agree with you that such reform
should disgust nny bonefat man. nut the
fuel ) Is that so far as the legislature of 1S97
la concerned , and to which I suppose jou
refer , there was no such reform. To the
best of my recollection I was present at
every house caucus of the majority of that
legislature and I assure you that vvllh one
| Hsslblo exception , In the matter of officers
and employes , the things you charge against
our caucuses are wholly and absolutely false.
I will go further and say that during Vhe
entlro session the fusion members of the
house held no caucus at all. Their so-
called caucuses were In reality conferences
and nothing more. Never In any Instance
did these caucuses or conferences attempt to
bind any member , but on the contrary It
was distinctly understood by nil that while
notes were often fatten In the sessions of the
house each member was al perfect llbertj
to vote as ho pleased. As proof of this I
, tall your attenllon to rho fact that In the
Douglas county contest case , where party
1'nes would have been drawn tightly If any
where , several of the fusion members voted
agalnsJ unseating the republican representa
tives from lhat county ,
As to the balloo law , whose enactment you
say wns forced by "tho reform machine , " It
was never discussed In our caucuses at all ,
nor In committee of the whole , for that mat
ter , but for a few minutes , and whether
good or bad , like many other bills , passed
without duo consideration. Such things , I
understand , are ap to happen In any legis
lative assembly. Of course they ought not
to happen and I did all I could to prevent It.
Hut If there was Ill-considered legislation the
blame , as to that session , rests moro with
Omaha than all else combined. Omaha nt-
tempted to force through the house an np-
proprlatlon of $350,000 for the benefit of your
big show , or rather for the benefit of the
pockets of jourself and co-workers In In-
Iqulty , and all legislation was thus held up
week after week. Perhaps It was our fault
In not ) lying down , but some of us did not
propose that Omaha should pcrpotrato such a
gigantic robbery on the taxpayers of No-
braska If wo had to fight all winter.
In atlempllng to show that the "so-called
reform forces" have not kept their pledges
| you say :
I Not onlv has there been no attempt made
to redress the erlevanccs of the farmers
through the exercise of the rower of the
State Railroad commission , but the bogus
reform commission has olnvcd Into the
hands of the railroads and other public car-
rlers at evcrv turn. The JG.OOO a year paid
ns salaries to the secretaries Is an Absolute
waste and the reform forces have novel
taken the first step lo abillsh these ex-
pensive sinecures.
nut , as you well know , the attempt was
Warmth of Color
These two things you desire in every
room of your house these are two
tilings which our carpets will give the
'uxurlous ' designs and the bright yet
tasteful colors will make the room all
the more worth living In from an eco
nomical standpoint our carpets are the
best you can buy because they last
longest and are the most icasonable In
pi ice every tiling we have to offer Is
NEW we haven't any damaged goods
to sell at any price.
Omaha Carpet Co
Jmulm's Exclusive Carpet House ,
1515 Dodge St ,
Your Eyesight-
a preclou til : ican 1 y u should bo
very careful not to Injure the eyes in
any way sometimes you overtax them
and they need lest the same as your
muscles do while In Omaha you should
take the opportunity of having our competent -
petent optician examine them thoroughly
nmj be you don't need glasses the ex
amination Is free so you'll be nothing
outr-lf you do need them he will tell
you and also what It will cost to have
them made wo make them right here
grind our o\\n lenses and know to an
absolute certainty that they are right be
fore we deliver them to you.
TheAloe&PenfoldCo
l.radlnir Optician * .
H6S Far in Sir ML . r\ \ \ iir
w UiU All A
Don't it Make You Weary ?
To hurry down tow.n to look nt some artii-le advertised
I nt $2.75. worth $7.00 , and lind the same old FAKE
your neighbor got caught on. Just think it over for
yourself. Does it look reasonable ? Can you expect to
get § 7.00 worth for $2.75 ? Do you imagine these ad
vertisers are fools ? Hest assured they are only trying to
i make fools of you , and the chancea are that before they
i' j ' lot go of you they will sell you two dollars and twenty
five cents worth for about § 7.00. Jf you have had
enough of that kind of business and want to trade at a
place where such tricks are not practiced , come to us.
Yon don't need to take an > chances hero. Wo don't
offer to give you § 3 worth of goods for 75 cents
Bttl We Do Guarantee
to give you your' money's worth in good , serviceable
goods and if you are not satisfied you can have your
money back. We sell for cash or on easy weekly
or monthly payments , at one price to every
body.
175 „ ( 7500
WAV WE DO BUSINESS *
YOUR MONEY BACK IF YOU WANT IT
*
nado by the passage of bills extendlnR the
powers of the commission and placing under
t the tclecrnph , telephone and express cora-
uinlca. I consldeicd those measures Ill-atl-
Ised and spoke ando el against them , anJ
th'nk ' the sequel hnsihowii that I was
right. Dut still the fart remains that nn
attempt was made to ri-llcNC the grievances
of the farmers notwithstanding Its failure
laving enlarged the powers ot the railroad
commission and the scope of Its vork , It
\ould ha\p been very absurd to turn about
pnd abolish It. Nevertheless , I presume the
commission v\lll be abolished at the next
session of the legislature , as I would have
done at the last session , unless , possibly , the
republicans should be In a majority , In
which case they could not be expected to
ircak their record by throwing away such a
usclous plum. Hut why should > ou think
about a little sinecure of the value of n
: cw thousands , when If a private corpora
tion In the city of Omaha wants a few hun-
Ircds of thousands as a free gift from the
state jou think It should be presented lo
thim on a silver platter ? And why should
u hurl jour anathemas at the reform
forces for not curtailing the powers and
privileges of the corporations when jou
know very well that republican supreme
courts , which are as much the willing tools
of the corpcrations as 1ms always been the
republican party In Nebraska , stand between
these corporations and the people ? During
the last session of the legislature a certain
railroad official of this state said to me tha'
the railroads were not very much Intcrcste
In railroad legislation elnce If obnoxlou
laws were enacted they would appeal to th
courts , adding that the railroads found It
much easier and less expensive to control
courts than to control legislatures. If now
under the circumstances , you will suggest
Borne feasible method of controlling the
corporations without Ilrst renovating , ami
perhaps also fumigating , our higher courts ,
jou will place the reform forces under deep
obligations to jou , and while jou are think
ing It over jou will be at liberty to contlnuo
jour denunciations of them at pleasure.
CIIA11M2SV003TRIl. .
MRS , GEER'S SUDDEN DEATH
Wlfo of G M crnor-nir < - ( of ( ) ri-j ? < iii I3x-
lilrcn from Heart Palliirc
nt the * Darker.
Mrs. Nancy Gcor , wife of T. T. Oeer , gov
ernor-elect of the state of Oregon , died at
tbo Darker hotel In this city shortly after
midnight jcstcrdny from a disease of the
heart. A physician was called when the
attack seized the woman , but she was be
yond his help. The remains wcro sent to
Salem , Ore. , yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. Geer was for some time afflicted with
heart trouble. When she arrived In the
city on Tuesday with her husband she was
very tired , and this probably brought on
the fatal attack , although she was about the
hotel Wednesday. The deceased was 57 years
of age.
UetcutUcs' Worlf.
Two men who represented themselves to
bo detectives looklne for a counterfeiter met
Otto Lnnf. a rural visitor to the cltv. on
Seventeenth street Wednesday and arrested
him on susulclon that ho was the man thev
were looking for. Thev took him Into an
alloy and searched him. securing J50. Tbov
then released him on his own rccognlzanro
and left him after admonishing him to re
port at the pollco station yesterday morning
at 9 o'clock. Lang called at the station as
he was told , only to find ho had been the
victim of confidence men
To Ha > e Diiutom' Mil *
Use "Garland" Stoves and Ilnnges.
Don't ' Misunderstand Us
Just lipcnusc we have been tolling you
this week about n few special bargains
wo have In slightly used organs that wo
haven't new ones and new pianos lor
we have a great big room full-ami we
linvo bargains in them every day In the
year but we want to get these Hcconcl-
Imnrt omnnn out of the way so as to
make room for more of tbe new ones
a special offering today Is a sllglity tihcd
organ that we can recommend only
$ 23.50 you can never get anything from
us but what It will be Just as repre
sented our reliability was established a
long time ago some good bargains 1"
sllgbtly used pianos.
A. HOSPE ,
end An 1513 Douglas
You've ' Seen tha President
Hut have you seen the Jewel stoves
and ranges ? ' ! here nre a great many
people in our More every day but yon
never get Into such a jam as yon did at
the exposition "President's day" you've
a better opportunity to look around and
hoe the many good points about these
Jewel stoves and tills weather ought to
make you think about the stove you
must have for this winter we can roe-
onunond the "Jewel" because we know
they are all right and because over 500
Omaha families tell us they are you had
better come In and let us show them to
you and quote n few of our quick sell
ing prices.
A. C. RAYMER ,
WE DEUVRU YOl'U PUIIUIIAS& .
1514 Fartiam St ,
Good Bye to McKinley
Welcome the uow spring heel shoos
Drex L. Sliooman Is now selling to the
misses spring heel shoes have always
been sold but not tills kind of a misses'
Pining heel shoe at the price of $2 with
the value and style of the much higher-
priced ones-tills tiow shoe Is In viol kid
and light weight calf with the popular
last easy on feet , but heavy extension
sole , lace only In all the new toes a de-
eldediy tasty and stylish ulinc In fact ,
the very Ideal of what a misses' fall and
winter bchool shoe should bo and at a
saving of at least $1 on every pair
for they're enl > $2.
Drexel Shoe Co. ,
Omnliu'i Up-to-dnle Slioo Hnuie.
1410 FAKNAA1 STREET.