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eu 1 HE UMAHA SUNDAY J5EE. 3 PAGES 13 TO 24. ESTABLISHED J UN K 10, 1871. OMAHA, SUNDAY MOltNING, MAHCH 22, 1003. SINGLE COPY FI YE CENTS. si's prmg noils, Fasiii (Sato if She fefl i Iff Ills Ifiii waring Apiasi s i m mm ( 'A ") Exquisite New Spring Killinery Haydcn's efforts directed by ability, strengthened by long experience and aided by the best artists and designers in America produced that much sought individuality and cxclusiveness in our garments, not to be found elsewhere in the west not even surpassed by any other house in the country. The Haydcn NAME stands for much. It represents truthful, honest, square reliable dealing, Every woman in Omaha who has oxaminad our line of Women's Suits, Skirts and Waists tells us there is nothing to equal them in the city. We want you to 11 ...I. I r SOB HlBm WnSiner yOU BUy Or nOt. 200 fine sample suits, made expressly by the best tailors, for exclusive customers no two alike on sale at 125, $00, $75, $60, $45, $30 Olid $25. 400 women'- suits bought by our buyer in New York last wefck; these are the imported spring styles; beautiful creations, in every color, material and style shown in the east; nearly all silk drop, at $150, $18.00, aid $25.00 474 women's s uts with or without cotton drops; a few silk drops; in browns, blues, tans and c?stors; in all the new styles; advertised in this city as bargains by. other houses at $18. Our price Monday only $12.50. 300 suits, taffeta and satin lined jackets; perfect hang and finish; bought to sell for $12.50. Hay rjen's sa e price only $7,50. INTERESTING NEWS FOR SKIRT BUYERS Degginger & Aarons, 237 Market Street, Chicago, sold to us their entire surplus line sk rts, including 700 fine sample skirts (better goods were never made). They go on sale Monday at one-half to one-third price. All told there are 2250 skirts. EXTRAORDINARY UATCHABLE BARGAINS FOR MONDAY MORNING of 400 of these beautiful skirts; none better in America than the D. & A. skirts, worth $10.00, on sale for $4.90. 300 D. & A. skirts made to retail for ?G,00; sale price, $2.95. 300 D. & A. skirts, made to retail for fS.OO, for $1.98 50 fcxtra fine D; & A. sample skirts, made to retail for $15, on sale at $7.50. 200 misses' skirts at $1 .25, $2, $3 each. We have taken ail our $1.00 and $ 1.50 wrappers, amounting (n all to 38 dozen, and put them on sale Monday morning at 25c. j 25 dozen women's flannel waists, that sold as high as $5.00.' Your choice Monday morning for, each, 50c. 10 dozen women's white alpaca waists that have sold for 05.00. Monday morning for $1.90. 200 children's dresses that sold for $6.00, on sale forj$1.50. From 9 until 11 O'CLOCK MONDAY MORNING 20 dozen women's mercerized underskirts, the regular $1.50 quality, on gale for 29c. 25 dozen heavy cotton waists, Just the thing for the present season's wear; a lot of samples sent to us by our New York buyer; they are worth $4.00 to $5.00; Monday morning on sale at, each, 50c. Second floor. 300; women's $G taffeta waists,-made of Givernaud's best silks; on sale Mon day morning at the extra special price of only $2.90. 100 women's silk blouse jackets, for only $5.00. 1 mm slO) o) ,. .3 0-4 Ok Never have your eves feasted upon such a showing or beau tiful, stvlish millinery as llayden lhos. show now. Every hat has an individuality, a distinctive tone and style that will charm women of taste. Superb and elegant creations from London, Berlin, Paris and the eastern fashion centers, as well as exclusive new produc tions from the deft lingers of our own American milliners. The new spring millinery at llayden's has that air of buoy amy and life and beauty that fits the season.. There is a grace and harmony and charm in the new productions that will bring joy to every feminine heart that desires becomingness, beauty and fashion in millinery. llayden llros. are now holding special sales on the advance styles and at a great saving in prices to you. Spring Millinery Opening. will take plAce the latter part of this week and will be an nounced in later issues of this paper. Prepare for it. In the meantime you cannot spend time more pleasantly or advantage ously than in seeing and admiring and pricing the hundreds of handsome hats gathered from the world's fashion centers and now on display. Everything in trimmings and ornaments. "The style is in the millinery not in the prices." The Great Muslin UndarvYoar Salo. Haydcn's big New York spot cash purchase of newest and most stylish muslin underwear will be on sale Monday. The greatest muslin underwear values ever offered. n a 1 11 1 I ffer V kin- Iv 'it I I 111 II IT . i WIJA. i nil f J ci MM LOT No. 1 We will place on solo ladles' flne cambric drawer, extra umbrella ruffles of flne lawn tucked and hem stitched and embroidered trimmed, and ladies' flne cambric corset covers em broidered and lac Insertion and tucked, and ladles kneo skirts, umbrella ruffles. - worth C0c. at NOT No. 2 One lot of ladlea' flne draw u. corset covers, chemise, gowns. Ions and knee skirts, all handsomely trimmed with flno torchon and vnlen- nncs laces nnd Swiss embroidery, hem- ched lawn ruffles, Roods that sold at 11.00 each, at idles' flne downs, chemlso and skirls, elabortcly trimmed In the lalerit styles and niailo of fine cambric and nainsooks, worth $2.00. on salo at We will place on sale ladles' fine flve-pleoe brldnl suits, consisting of a gown, chem ise, corset cover, drawers and sKirt i nese suns bib i mi med with fine Valenciennes '.aces, fine lawn tucked ruffles and flne Insertions, worth $15.00. on sale at 25c 49c 98c , chera- 7.98 UUNICiPAL LIGHTING PLANTS ;'aper bj Viotor Eose water at National Municipal Ownership Contention. NO COMPETITION IN ELECTRIC LIGHTING All Official IavestlaTatlone Ilave Proved Private Fraachlaee More Costly to the People Thss Poblie Service. Part I. The distinguishing feature of advancing civilization Is the increasing power of man over the forces of nature. The rise of the modern municipality haa beea made pos sible only by the aubjugatloa of natural forces, preparing the way tor present coe dltlons of highly developed urbaa life. It any one thing more than aaother dis tinguishes the great oitlea of today from those of ancient and medieval times. It is to be fouud in the services readcred to the Inhabitants generally by their awn co operation through the agency of local gov ernment or by delegation of these functions to quasi-public corporations. In a word, what the oldea city lacked most, aa com pared with the modern city, waa those u tlll'les provided to facilitate social life through a cheap and plentiful aupply of aWr. light, heat, power and the means of rapid trauslt and communication. In the evolution of the modern city the Introduction of gas, and later of electricity, to.- lighting purpoaes. aad particularly tor street Illumination, has played a moat Im portant role. We can with difficulty Imagine what a city like New Tork, for example, would be It It were to have Ita supply of gas and electricity suddenly and permanently cut off. We can hardly reallxe that heme, in its palmiest daya went to sleep with the setting of the sun, and that the tame was true of London even up to the seventeenth century. It Is said that the Inhabitants of Londoa were under an rbligatlon from the year HI to hang out randies at certain boura oa dark nigbia, but they never discharged their duty fully under the statute. The Impetus vice and crime derives from darkness can readily be understood. The wonderful transforma tion wrought by the beginning of atreet lighting Is significantly described by Maeattlay in the first volume ot his famous history, where he says: l-'lrst Street Me-htlasT. la the last year of the reign of Charles the t-ecoiut. It;un a great change In the police of L.or.doii, a change which haa per haps added as much to the happiness nf thu body if the people aa revolutions or inucli greijt.-r fame- An Ingenious pro jecinr nailed P.dwarJ Hemming, obtained 'run iiiit uiiveylng to him. for a term of ytr. the exclusive right of Ughiing up 1 ur-.'o l. He u.iiiertiiok. for a moderate cir:ieratlin, to plare a Hunt before every nignis. I rem expoeltion ot 1878. Its introduction and adoption in thla country tor both private and public Illumination la a matter of the last twenty year. The application ot electricity to lighting and Its perfection for practical usee rame at a peculiar period of our history, so far as concerns the question of municipal own ership. Municipal ownership ot various public services had been tried by American cities with varying results. The experience with municipal planta tor the distribution of water had been eminently successful, while the few experiments with municipal gaa works were atlll the aubject ot lively contention. It waa a period In which our municipalities were busily engaged In nu merous coBtly public Improvements urgently demanded to meet the needs ot rapidly growing populations. The defective condi tion ot legislation and the meager powers repoaed In our municipal corporations con stituted aerloua obstacles to public owner ship aad the cities were, therefore, for the most part, helpless, as well aa unprepared to take on the new functions such aa would have been required by the Installation of an electric -lighting plant. As a result, tor nearly twenty years the discussion of mu nicipal ownership of electric lighting has continued pro and con, and while I believe much headway has been made in the direc tion of arousing popular eentlmeat to the advantages of municipal ownership, It must be admitted that public opinion la as yet by no means firmly orystalllied. Some Settled Points. I believe we eaa all agree that aeveral Important points have been definitely settle! beyond serious dispute. 1. Electric lighting Is a monopolistic In dustry, la the early discussloa et mu nicipal ownership the principal argument en the side ot the lighting corporations waa that all the evils and abusea com plained ot would right themselves under the beneficent operation of the law or com petition. If the people of any city were dissatisfied with the character ot the serv ice rendered, or the price charged, all they had to do waa to charter another electrio lighting company and transfer their patron age to the one that offered the better terms. The history ot electric lighting both here and abroad completely diacredlia this aa sumption. Noahere has competition been effective. Everywhere has combination been manifested. Even where competing companies were originally chartered and enfranchised, they have all been merged Into one organization, or have divided territory, completely excluding competition. It Is aeedless to ge Into further details oa thla point. Both aides will agree that com petition In electric lighting la unnecessary and undesirable, that a duplicate electric lighting aervlce for the same territory con stitutes an economic waste making neces sary higher charges' than would be required tor a single unified plant. A potential com petition vxisla between electricity, gaa, gasoline and other lighting agenclea, but competition aa a regulative force between rival electric lighting concerns la out of i.rth itiuir on muontcs :t 'tvielriiHe to U l) -. and from to 12 ' the Question. of h -' k. Those a ho now see th capital all the ytar round, from dunk to ot Private Bailees. until bl.oliix ullh a spimittor beslrte which ... , .,, . th lllui.ilratltm. of La Hogue r.d lite:.- Electric lighting la a public or aeml h.lm would h ue looked pale, may perhapa , public rather than a private undertaking. sirile thli.lt of Hemming a lanterns, . Tne TerJf na,tvjr, of the business Invests It whleh glimmered feebly before one Iiouh . . ,n,. ,, ..... . in t.-n d ill a email part of on night In i tth Dubllc character. A corporation Ihrrer. Hut ueh was not the fneiing of his cannot be launched to go Into the business t'oiiu mpoiariea. lot supplying electricity tor light and power Loadoa la oa the same plaa that a corporation would for atreet , be formed to embark Into the manufacture Oas was first Introduced In 1SUT, but not generally uaed lighting until after 1817. The electric lamp, cs we all know, Brrt found practical demon aualloa U the exhibit made at the Paris of farm machinery. The plea that tho public has no Interest In the fond It loos under abiwh electric lighting concerns op erate has been abandoned. Their exclusive use of a portion ot the streets, the menace ef their wires to life and property, the Interference of their poles and equipment with fire fighting, all constitute points of contact with public needs outside of the matter of quality of service and price regu lation. The assent of the municipality Is required before an electrio lighting plant may be installed and tho right of the public tiirougn its municipal government to exer cise control even where Its powers are delegated to a private corporation Is fully conceded. Law of Increasing; Iletnrns. S. Electricity Is subject to the law of In creasing returns. In former dlscusslen much was made ot this proposition, namely, that with every additional Investment of capital and labor an established plant bears more than a corresponding return from sales of product. The point sought to be scored was that the very fact ot Increasing returns placed a concern; once entrenched. In position to mouoi-oltxe the Held and to bar out all competitors. But the same, Importance no longer attaches te this thesis because more careful analysis of the In dustrial organism has demonstrated It to be from one point of view a mere truism and from another simply a measure of franchise value. It haa been found that the law of increasing returns does not apply exclu sively to monopoly's, but la to be discerned, though perhapa within lesser limits, la Industries essentially competitive, where it Is traceable more particularly to effective industrial organization. That the mu nicipal monopolies of service are susceptible ot close and systematic organization goes without saylag. booked at from another atandpolnt, the law of Increasing returns so far as It la accentuated In this and allied Selds measures the variations of franchise value. If the area supplied is oceuDled bir a sttadlly growing population, er by people whose demand for the aervlce la increas ing, the increment of profit that flows from expanding business accumulates at a rate la excess of that of Increased expenses. Per contra, should the population for nny reabon fall away, or the demand for the product ahrink, or be satisfied with sub stitutes, the value of the franchlae would suffer a more than proportionate diminu tion. Statistical LlaultatloBs. When we come to the comparative cost statistics we meet with many difficulties. These difficulties I have already dlscussel In another place (American Statistical As sociation Quarterly, March, 1893.) and I will concede that the best figures that have ao far bea at our disposal are not te be Implicitly relied upon for purpose ot close comparison. To undertake to figure out with precision bow much. If any, advantage accrues In dollars and cents from municipal ownership as against contracts with private corporations la quite impossible from thi data at our command. In the first place the comparison of contract prices by themselves la often deceptive because the amount of lighting service varies from place to place. In our city the lamps may burn but a few hours nightly on a moon light achedule, whereas in another they are burned all of every night. Again, the length of the contract period Is Important because In response to an advertisement for lighting bids under contracts for one, two, three, Ave or ten years respectively, It will be found that the proposals for the different terma will differ very materially. The lo ratloa of the wires underground or over headthe location of the lamps in clusters siugly ou yolea their distribution over a wide ared or circumscribed area all enter Into the cost of service and tend to vitiate comparisons ef cost between differ ent cities. In the matter ot municipal lighting plants, we have as yet no uni formity of bookkeeping by which we may be sure similar entries are made up of the same Items. In many cases, moreover, we have a system of Joint production In which an electrio lighting plant Is conducted In conjunction with other monopolies of serv ice (with water works, for example), which almost defies statistical separation of cost elements. The geographical situation also has much to do with determining the cost ot the motive power whether or not water power may be used, or If steam, the quantity and the quality of the fuel. Still another vari ant lies In the percentage of depreciation which must always be more or less arbi trary. What I will admit, with reference to the use of cost statistics, Is that the so called average cost is deceptive, that It Is useless to seek to represent complicated processes by a sin so numerical figure, that cost statistics, while to themselves most valuable, must be employed as a basis of comparison only with the utmost care with the fullest knowledge of special conditions and with due allowance for the many limi tations which affect their accuracy. It must not be assumed, however, that I argue for the descredltiag of cost statistics altogether; for they embody the financial experience of the various undertakings, both private aad municipal, and our course for the future must be guided largely by the experiments and experiences ot the past. It la not my purpose te apread out aa im posing array et figures contrasting publle and private lighting plants. The officials of the census bureau have been collecting data relating to electrio lighting through out the country, but their achedules have not yet been tabulated and are, therefore,, still Inaccessible. When published they will doubtless supply all the materials accessary for a careful study of the con ditions as thty exist today. DepavrtateBt of Labor Inqelry. The meat, comprehensive Inquiry Inte electric lighting plants that has been made with any oflclal authority Is that ef which the results are contained In the fourteenth annual report of the commissioner of labor, being for he year 1898. In this report Coinmlsaloiir Carroll D. Wright and hia assistants iticceeded in gathering data for 952 plants In the I'nited States, of which 320 were njialclpally owned and controlled, while 633 Kere operated under private or corporate twnershlp. Realizing the difficulties ot handling the statistics laud the utter Impossibility of finding a flogle unit to which the product could be (reduced. Commissioner Wright divided tfe plaata into groups according to the total horse-pewer capacity ef their en gines sn classified all his material by cor respond! Ig groups. The total Investment to the etfid of the last prsvlous fiscal year In the to municipal planta operated waa S10.9tJ8.Wl, and that In the (31 private plants Vas f 1 13.917.S16. Hla final con clualon expressed in the summaries bring ing together by groups all the facta which could iroperly be brought into comparison are aa follows; L Arage price per kilowatt hour charged in arnaervice: rasing up me average price ehaned pe-r kllowe.it hour by private plants In e h group, and comparing; It with the averiK price charaed to clival users ur klloy< hour by municipal planls. It is sn I lint In ail of the groups subject to com parfwa e&ceyt tuna, lite average prtue charged by municipal plants Is smaller tluin that charged by private plnnts. t. Average price per slxteen-randle power lamp per year churred In unmetered In candescent service: Taking tip the averuge price charged to private usere, It. U Been that In all of the groups except two, the average price charged by the private planta Is considerably In excens of that chirged by the municipal plants; while, so far as the electricity used for municipal purposes is concerned, it is seen thut, with the ex ception of three groups, the average cost per lamp per year to the municipality of Its own service is very much smaller than the price charged by private plants to tho mu nicipality for a simiUir service, this cost in some cases being lees than hulf the price charged by private plants. 3. Average price of Incandescent service per kilowatt hour to private uters: Taking up the figures it Is seen thut in all of ttie groups the average price charged per kilo watt hour by municipal pl ints Is less than that charged by private plants. 4. Average price of incnudeecent service per lamp hour to private unera: An ex amination of the table shows that thin aver age price Is leas in every group containing municipal plants than the corresponding groups of private plants. 6. Average price of incandescent service Pej ampere hour to private users: The table howa that the average price Is less in the municipal plants than In the private, In all of the groups In which comparison cmiM be made, except one. . . Avra.e price per lamp per year of arc lighting, by hours of service rendered: Taking up the price to prlveUe users. It Is seen that in all of the groups except one, tho average price charged per lamp per year la lunuller in municipal plnnts than in the private one Comparing the columna showing the average price charged by private plants per lump per yeur to the munlo pallty, of lights furnished by mu nicipal plants, It la seen tlfat In. all of the groups except one, the coat per lump per T"r. nf furnlshod by nunlcipal plants I smaller than the price charged per lamp per year by private plants to the mu nicipality for the lights used in municipal aervlce. The work begun in this Inquiry by the Department of Labor has been supple mented since by annual reports upon the statistic ol American cities, confined, however, to cities having a population of over 30,000. and Including statistics, of municipal financial and other activities. (The paper here quotes from the writer's reoent article commenting on the exhibits in the last of these reports sod then pro ceeds to take up the various arguments and assertions on which tho advocates of private ownership rest their case.) Thle paper, written by Victor Rosewater for the national convention on municipal ownership und public franchise held under the auspices of the Keform club vf New York, will be concluded In next bunday's tasue. Tea gled by the Test. Two stories are told In Harper's Maga zine of ministers stumbling on texts of a humorous personal application. One was a very young minister, having charge of hla first church, and preaching a series of sermons on the life end utterances of 8t. Paul. The last one of these was given Just before taking his lesve. and during hla absence he expected to take unto himself a wife, his engagement having beeu an nounced. After turning over tbe leaves of the Bible thoughtfully, he said: "I Invite your attention this evening to these words of the great apostle, 'I am ready now to be offered up.' " The other minister was a widower, who had remarried within a year after bis first wife's death. His friends and congregatloa thought him very expedi tious, and oa the next 8inday, when his text wss announced, the) ivld scarcely control themselves. He rose In his place la hia pulpit and said: "My hel ved breih real Tou will find my text in the seven teenni verae of the fourth chapter of Bee ood Corinthians, 'Our light ataiciion, which la ttqf the moment.' SOUVENIR POSTAL CARDS Utilitariai Notion Dig'.orted Into Bather a Sentimental Aspect. PRETTY MEMENTOS OF FOREIGN TRAVEL Some Local Collectives that Are Highly Prised by Their Onsen and Wbloh Give a Good Idea of the Pad. It was a long, long time ago that Uncle Sam began chopping maulla curdboard Into oblong pieces and printing on one side ot each a likeness of the bead of tbe father ot his country and the admonition, "This side Is for the address only." For a good many years Americans troated the opposite side as a more or less sacred space on which could be written with propriety only the drummer's statement, "Will be with you 27th Inst., aud will be grateful for any orders you can bold until then," or rise Aunt Elizabeth's 2.400-word epistle, which began at the top of the card, ran down its full length, bordered it three times and waa lost In an effort to criss-cross diagonally. That, remember, was years ago. Iater the Yankee found out that his cousin across tbe water were making fancy affair of their cards and went Into the business himself. Now the souvenir postal card is made and used In practically every country under the sun, and with the spread of Its popularity came the notion of collectlug. The notion, however, Is easier than its execution. Indeed, to collect souvenir postal cards one must either travel or en dear one's self to other people who travel. The postal cards are so literally and so es sentially provincial, you see. A curd beur log a Venice view would be at a discount with the recipient if It were mailed from Londou, and vice versa. There are soup) who deal In the cards of all countries, but their business is not nourishing. The de mand always la for the card that typifies tho locality of Its, purchase; "Job lots" are not popular. Some Collection la Omaha. This explains why It Is that bo many persons have a few cards and so few many cards. In Omaha the "collecting" vogue is practically in its Infancy and large col lections are scarce. There are, however at leaBt two really notable ones, the first treasured by Miss Ella Kthel Kree and the second by Mrs. H. A. McWhorter, both of whom in collecting ha I tbe convenience ot extensive travel abroad. In Miss Kree'e collect lou there sre more than MiO cards, yet eucb Is a gem snd the diversity remarkable, though all are the same In size ex'.ept the Uermsn rardi, whirh are a trifle larger than the ordinary I'nited States cards. Pbs confesses to especially treasuring the Russian cards from Moscow and Odessa, but the casual examiner early loses himself In admiration of others from Italy. Bulgaria, Africa, The Netherlands, Australia snd the British isles, and could not expreat a preference if be had to. There is one from Lyons with a girl's head wrought In silk and the head decoralel with a hat on which there is a dainty and resplendent flower. Many a hers In thread, of a In. out equal excellence, sre from Japan. Amoug German carda Is a preponderance of luoae ahoalug statutes of nviables and nobles, and Mlaa Kree has one ot the statute ot William I before tho gate of the royal palace, fbsued at the time ot the unveiling upon thu occoslou of tho hundredth an nivereury ot the old emperor's birth. Many othcra In her collection bear flno portraits of members of tho reigning family In full regalia and others of their palaces and ol blHtoric places about Berlin. Equally expensive and reclous aro cards bearing copies of great paintings and origi nal sketches by famous artists, some in water colors. 81111 others show the oldest wine cellars in Lelpslc, the locale ot a sceno from Goethe's "Faust" and another ot tho cuBtlo figuring In "TauuhauRcr." l'er sonally dear are cards from cafes where she has dined with friends, including some from Mary Munchoff and lasny bannas, written at Everavalde. Like a Tosr et lCurope, Mrs. McWborter's collection, filling two largo albums. Is perhaps, more distinctly scenic, though not entirely so. A Journey through tho albums Is almost a tour of Europe, beginning with crowded Piccadilly Circua, Regent street, Leicester aquare, Victoria station, the law courts in Fleet street, St. James' palace, tbe House of Commons and the ever-congested bridge ol Londou. Oslend haa represeutation to the extent of a picture of tbe entrance to the port, a bathing party, and tbe Grand hotel, tho last mentioned being given life aud color by delicate tlnael ropes woven dexterously about tho contour of tho building, and tu outlines of its multitudinous windows. Tbe Kusslan palaces are given a semblance ot moonlight and lamplight effect by per forating the outer picture card In hun dreds of places and placing under It a glowing yellow card. In the same portion of tho albums are cards showing sledge races and the native Russians In many garbs, together with tbe palaces and the royal cannon at Moscow. The examiner then strays Into Finland for a few pages, to be precipitated next lo sunny France, with Its historic avenues, Its palaces gay with tluHcl and memorable figures ot tbe Napoleon era. The cards most gaily colored are those from Luzerne showing the quaintly garbed peasantry. la contrast are somber one from Liberia. The others are In sinh ll vernlty us to show almost everything from an English hunting scene to the log of the steamship Minneapolis; from the mcmnrsbio points about Dresden and Lelpslc to tbe Kaquliuaux village at the lluflalo exposition, and from Hie city ball and court bouse of Chicago to "Hatan," Colorado's most his toric donkey. Men Vnt aireiaar oa Cards. Very few men own collections, and none own very large ones. Albert Watkins. Jr., haa one that atones for any weakness lu quantity by Its strength In diversity and gaiety. A college chum touring Europe made It a point to send Mr. Watklna ths breeziest card to be obtained at each par Urular point, and in this wsy Mr. Watklin has come into possession of a panorama of frisky bathing parties, poheuilsn lumb ers, eccentric musicians and romantic boat ing excursions The fad. If it be a fad, has reached the children and some of tbem st very early age have made excellent beginnings. Albert Calm, Jr., has quite a number, greatly diversified In design, and Nellie Elgutter has a collection which Includes tbe World's Fair set, Transmisslaslppl exposition set, g particularly fine Italian set, and Individ ual cards showing views la Berlin, Hano ver, Amsterdam and evea the old City ef aWxlvO, I