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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (April 27, 1902)
Tllr. Il.LL'STKA'IKD Un published Weekly by The 11k Pub'.lshing Company, He Building, (Jlnilm, Neb Price, Bn per copy per year, $2.00. Entered at the Omaha PostofTlce an Second Cuts Mall Matter. For advertising rati address publisher. Communications relating to photograph or articles for i i j I ,li-;i 1 1 i n should lie ad dressed, "Editor The Illustrated I'.ee. Omaha." Pen and Picture Pointers w I . . I , I i - . i . r, iniicn an noiii : : fJ I rate of speed th' mind can t.f."ri' vivi., st 1 ..I iiaiuiy grasp. tine sniiiig in a i m i . ' 1 -1 ii pa line nir could gain lit tle notion of the terrific gait of u train traveling at that rate. To the pansi ngi r tlr re would come under the most favniahie of cirrum-lanecs only a singular Hcmatlini that i lie blurring land scapu might afford At night be would have not even this, for the dark nrs shuts out tho sci nery, and the subdued hum of the wheels as they whiil nvi r the rails EUGENE F. 1KWIN, NRWLY ELECTED MAYOH OK LEAD, S. I. tells no tale save that the train Is moving rapidly. Men of experience, whoso lives have liiK ii spent in railway st rvlce, agree that after a rate of forty or fifty mile per hour lias been attained there Is little In the motion of the train that denotes a higher rate of sp. ed. That little tells Its lalo to them, though, ami watches are sought almost Instinctively to catch miles. Time is taken as a known object, such as the signal Unlit on u telegraph station Hashes by, ami when the next one Is rearhi tl the record la known. These men In the nineties tell each other that so many miles have bei u covered In so many minutes, and lin n exchange comment on the lJi.iii.i, Apm ::.-Tn tno Editor ot I Th.- Bee: We nut I an iir.b l In your ia w, ck b is.ii" nu n mis been going the reutnls of the press for the last few weeks, re ferring to certain li sts having liei n made by the United States Treasury department experts. First, with a compound called thermite. Second, with an electrical appliance used on safes and vaults. From thine tests the ileductlin Is an nounced that no safe or vault is burglar proof. In reply to this, will ay that ther mltn ha no effect whatever upon some kinds of steel. Tho reported lists with electricity have connect) d with them the namo of one liars, tike, a being the originator of fusing metals by using an electrical current, and It l stated III the articles referred to that the treasury oflli I lls Investigated Mr. Ilaischke's work. Now, wo will say that Ibis man Haeschke was not the originator in any srn.ie of the word, as the fusing of metals by electricity has been known for mire than fifty years, but the burglar has never bii n able and never will be able to turn It to his use, because the parapher- T Is suld that the one thing of which Christian Dewet, the elusive lloer general, Is really vain Is his descent from De Witt, the great Dutch admiral of the seventeenth century. There Is no doubt if the relation between the two. an.l the man of today seems to be quite worthy of his ancestor. Admiral Blake, the great English sailor, once said that be w, u d rather meet Van Tromp or DeRuyter wl'h sixty sail than DeWItt with half that num ber, for "h In the runuingest rascal of them all." Some yeurs ago Herbert Gladstone, who was married recently, was addressing woman's kutTrage meeting In Leeds one afternoon, and In fie course of his speech he paid- a graceful compliment to the eloquence of the women who had addressed the meeting. He further gallantly re marked on the great pleasure which it gives the otbtr sex to listen to women fart and recount Incidents of other fast rides, or watch for more miles to see If l he nail Is maintained. On the engine a different condition prevails. On one of the monsters nowadays used to haul the heavy passenger trains there Is no chance for f run mini lent ion between engineer and fire man when the train In under headway. Each has his duties to keep him busy. And how busy they are no one not familiar with I be handling of an engine can even guess. Just to watch the track would seem occu pation enough for an ordinary man. To make ninety-nine miles an hour the engine must cover H"i.2 feet a second. How fast ll Vt' r 1 vat: 1.1. - . ,: KVS .' v.- -1! GEORGE LAMB, YOUNG N1MROI) OK ATKINSON, Neb., RETURNING FROM A HICK HUNT. this Is may tie Imag ned by be king at the sen ml hand of a watch and think of living over the rails nearly fifty yards each tl:ne the h ind moves. If the englnci r looks at the steam gauge, h's engine has covered the (llstnnce of n elty block during the glance. If ho pulls out his watch to note the time, h's rnglne covers a quar ter of a mile at least. On a stretch of track where curves are many, this means much, even In daylight, and after nli'htfall It mi ana a great deal more. Steam gauge, air gauge, water gauge, all must he watched by both engineer and fireman, and the one must also watch the track while the other attends to the fur nace. It Is easy to understand that social conversation Is rarely Indulged on a locomotive when making ninety-nine miles mi hour. If the locomotive has driving w heels rf sevt n feet In diameter, they must revolve seven times a second to attain a speed of ninety-nine miles an hour. All the tremendous weight of metal contained in pistons, cross-heads, driving-rods, valves, rocker shafts and eccentric blades, must be started and stopped fourteen times In each S' cond. If the piston has a stroke of twenty-eight Inches which Is about the Safe Burglary by Electricity Not an nulla he would need Is altogether too cum bersome. This matter was brought i ut by the papers something like six or eight years ago, and a like attempt wan made to con demn all safes and vau'ts by a Chicago con cern who have an electrical burglar alarm for sale. In the articles above reiirrid to there are quote. 1 conclusions said to have been reached by experts of the United States Treasury department as follows: "Klrsl That the bet types of safes or vaults are not Invulnerable to the attack of the expert burglar. "Second - That the ordinary or obsolete types of safes or vaults constructed rela tively a few years ago are not invulnerable to the attacks of the amateur burglar. "Third -That should, by any combination of circumstances, sufficient opportunity he affordtd expert rracki-nieii, any safe or vault can he opened. "Fourth That a satisfactory form of electrical protection Is both obtainable and desirable for all vaults and safes where ever applicable and constitutes a form of protection superior to that afforded by the construction of the vaults or safes them selves. " Episodes and Incidents in the Lives of Noted People talking. Pausing for a moment after this olwervatlon, Mr. Gladstone, like his audi ence, was thrown into an unexpected state of merriment by a male voice, which pro ceeded from the hark of the hall, and pro claimed In the broadest Yorkshire dialect: "Kh. lad, thou'rt noan wed yet. I see'stl" Teeck S. Yen. a high-caste young China man, is believed to be the first of his race to be received Into the Masonic order In this country. Yen Is a graduate of Lehigh university and a civil engineer. He re ceived his first degree last week In Cove nant lodge. No. 4.6 ot Philadelphia, his sponsors being Frederick Poole of the Chinese mission und Secretary Bbnd of the Christian league. Plccolomlnl. the composer who died In poverty the other day In London, was once In the French army and later the organist of St. Peter's. Rome. He was grandnephew to Cardinal Plccolomlnl, cousin to the prima donna of that name. TIIK ILLUSTRATED BEE. average of the modern high-speed locomo tives each will travel back and forth thirty-two and two-thirds feet per second, or at a rate of nearly twenty-two and one fourth miles per hour. These are some of the things that go on when the train is running at the rate of ninety-nine miles an hour. Fancy dress balls are the bane of so ( lety people's life, for they must be held about once every so often, and ambition then usually outruns Judgment. Result flood taste is outraged, and persons wh i have gotten themselves up regardless to represent somebody or something merely look like guys, and as the situation slowly dawns th" promised pleasure fades away and the bitterness of disappointment takes its place. Now and then It happens that a sridnl set is found whose members have both taste and originality, and when they give a fancy dress affair It Is worth while looking at. Such a thing happened at Hastings recently the town's first experi ence with parties of the like, but so suc cessful was It that the participants fcl they were Justified In preserving the en semble by means of photography. The picture in this number of The Ilee sup ports this Judgment, All Nebraska boys are not content to dis port themselves In their fathers' hunting equipment, but have paraphernalia of their own. probably not so elaborate, but quite as effective. One of these boys Is George I.amb. 14 years old, of Atkinson. Neb. The picture printed today is made from n photograph taken last October, when George was returning from an ex cursion with his gun. He brought home fourteen ducks, which had fallen as evi dence of his prowess with the fowling piece. Eugene K. Irwin, who has Just assumed the duties or mayor of Lead, S. I., is known as the "wrrklngman's mayor," al though It Is pretty hard to be anything else In a community where thrse who are not workingmen are In such a hopeless mi nority as thev are In Irad. Rut Mayor Iiwin Is a real worker. He Is 37 years old and a printer by trade, although be has not set type for a long time, having gone Into the railroad service, where he was bill cbrk, operator, station agent and train dispatcher, finally leaving the railroad to accept a position with the Homestake Min ing company. He has the confld nee of the miners, as Is shown by hid vote. Lead Is proud of Its position as second rlty In the state, and has planned extensive pub'le improvements for the coming summer, ex tensions of those already existing. H. C. Stoll and Barbara Schelck, both na tives of Germany, were married In New York City April IS, isr.2. The next year they settled In Illlnrls, where they en gaged In the hotel business. Mr. Stoll was nnstmaster at Mokena four years under Buchanan. He engaged In the milling busi ness, and when hla mill burned In I860 h" removed to Missouri, practically penniless. Here when the war broke out he found After reading the articles above referred to we had our representative, Mr. Rod man, call upon Secretary Taylor at Wash ington, D. C, who had a very satisfactory Interview with him in which he learned that these newspaper reports that are going tho rounds have no foundation in fact. In order to get at the bottom of the matter, we addressed the following letter to the secretary of the treasury: "OMAHA, March 2h. H. A. Taylor. Assist ant Secretary United States Treasury De partment, Washington, D. C: Dear Sir Certain art lees have been published in the New York Herald and other papers within the last week or ten days regarding experi ments on metals used In safe and vault con struction, with a compound railed thermite rnd with electricity, by experts of the United States Treasury department, in which articles the announcement Is made that no safes or vaults are burglar proof. "Having had no official no' ideal ion of these tests we request to be Informed as to whether your department or your rxper's have conducted or witnessed any tests with thermite or electricity upon manganese steel or upon safes and vaults constructed of this material, and is and a descendant of the famous Imperial commander In the thirty years' war. He wrote ubout 400 pieces of music and bis "Snowflakes" was sung by Mme. Titjens before many large audiences and before one very small one before Queen Victoria and her household. General Jacob H. Smith, who has been charged by Major Waller with ordering the extermination of all uativrs of Samar over the age of 10 years, for which he Is to be court-martialed, entered the Second Ken tucky Infantry in 1801. and was made a captain In that regiment in 1862. He was mustered out In 1S63 and became a captain of the Veteran Reserve Corps, being mus tered out from that organization In 1S65. He was commissioned a captain In the Thirteenth Infantry In 1867. He was pro moted to major the same year and made Judge advocate. In 1894 he was appointed major In the Secoud Infantry. His promo tion to the rank of lieutenant colonel waa made in 1 S'S. when he waa aseigned to the 0 I MR. AM) MRS. H. C. STOLL OK GAGE COUNTY, NEBRASKA, WHO RECENTLY CELEBRATED THEIR GOLDEN WEDDI Vj. ' i ii i i i I V y J. V. O'Connell, Engineer. CREW OK THE B. & M. ENGINE. WHO RATE OK NINETY-NINE MILES AN himself wor.se than poverty-stricken, owing to his union sentiments. At one time he discovered a rebel plot to ditch a train (f union soldiers. He warned the oncoming train Just In time. For this act he was forced to flee with his wife and children by night to Illinois. In 1S62 the Stolls came to Nebraska, settling In Gage county, where they have prospered. The celebration of the golden wedding was made a notable (ccasinn by their children and friends. One of nature's wise arrangements is Il lustrated In this number of The Bee. In getting the pictures of the animals at the park zoo the artist found that, while he had no aimculty in getting close enough, the Established inc.nganese fteel Included in the above mentioned tests?-' To the above we received the following reply: "TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Washing ton. March 27. 1902. J. J. Derlght & Co . 1119 Farnam St.. Omaha, Neb.: Sirs Re ceipt Is acknowledged of your letter of the 2nth Instant, requesting to be Informed as to whether any teets have been made by this department, or Its representatives, with thermite or electricity upon manga nese steel, or upon safes or vaults con structed of that material, and In reply you are advised that no actual tests have been made upon safes or vaults of any manu facture. Respectfully, "H. A. TAYLOR. "Assistant Secretary." We also find that we were not alone In making inquiry of the Treasury depart ment, but that Mr. S. D. Drury, treasurer of the Northampton Institution for Sav ings, Northampton, Mass , wrote a letter to the Treasury department regarding the electrical experiments reported to have been made for them by this man Haeschke, and received the following reply: "Sir Replying to your letter of the 24th Twelfth Infantry. Ho bicame colonel of the Twelfth infantry In October, ISM. and since then has been on duty In the Philip pines. He was commissioned brigadier gen. eral of volunteers In 1900 and on reorgan ization of the army he was promoted to a brigadier generalship In that service. According to John Wsnamaker, who has Just returned from Europe, during which trip he was received in person by Tope Leo XIII. that venerable prelate intends to live for many years yet. "While I was standing near him," says Mr. Wanamakcr. "a woman of high posl tii n In society approached him and asked respectfully after his health, his hollniss replying that he was v ry well, considering Ms years. " 'And how many may they be?" inquired '.he woman. " 'Ninety-two,' came the answer, with a smile that bespoke no little pride. " 'Is it possible!" exclaimed the oth"r, April 27, 1002. i i Alexander McLean, Fireman. RECENTLY PULLED A TRAIN AT HOUR. animals had not yet changed their winter coats, and so nearly do they harmonize with the gray-brown background of the scenery It was extremely difficult to secure a photo graph that would Bhow. This provision that enables the wild beasts to escape detection and pursuit during the season of the year when there Is not enough gia?s or foliage to screen them is shown thus most forcibly. It Is easy for any of these creatures to as similate with the inanimate objects on the landscape and thus deceive tho pursuer. In their pleasant captivity for If any cap tivity can be pleasant It Is surely that of the animals in the Omaha parks the habits of freedom have not been abandoned by the 1 uiists. Success Instant, Inclosing a clipping from the Springfield Republican of same date in reference to vault and safe protection, etc., you are advised that the department has made no investigation relative to the In vention of Julius E. Haeschke, therein re ferred to, and has no knowledge as to Its merits." Beyond all of this, a short time ago this matter was brought to the attention of the American Bankers' Protective asso ciation, who were requested to make an Investigation. They did so and made two official reports, which are somewhat lengthy, copies of which we have. In which they pronounce the whole matter a fake. It Is plain, then, that whoever Is trying to advertise some form of electrical burglar alarm has seriously overstepped the mark. We have kept a list of over 400 bank rob beries that have occurred In the last Ave years, and not a single Instance was there v.here the safe was robbed with an elec trical current. Trusting that you will give this as prom ineiii t posiiion in your paper as you have the other articles, we are, Yours truly, J. J. DERIGHT & CO. and then she added, 'May you live, sire, 'o be a hundred.' " 'What, madame,' returned the pope, 'would you limit me to that?'" Victor Emmanuel, king of Italy, enjoys nothing more than to Imitate Haroum al Rasrhid and wander ahnut In disguise among the subjects, hearing good and evil rf himself and bib ministers. Anarchists are numerous In Italy, so the police keep a close watch on the sovereign, but hardly a week passei that he does not steal away by himself. Senator Galltnger o? New Hampshire was a practicing physician for many years be fore his election to the senate. In emer gencies he has fsequently been called on to treat patients at the ctpltol and he always responds to surb emergency calls with a keen professional Interest. Senator Deboe of Kentucky has graduated in both medi cine and law. He practiced medicine a short time and then turned to the law.