The Omaha Illustrated
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NUMBER 297.
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FEWUrAKY 10, 1903.
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Gossip and Stories
About
Prominent People
Nebraskan Who Has Won Prominence In Connection with Expositions
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fieddes a Snfcui.
IILLIAM M. CEDDES, who In
proud t'j claim Nebraska, as Ms
home, 1ms many friends within
ljQjj-fl its borders. He was for many
" years a resident of Grand
Island and later of Sotth Omaha. For
nine years he was a n.ember of tha city
council of Grand Island, and also Mis
mayor. In ISM he was made chief cleric
of the houso of representatives of the An
telope state, making a creditable record
for hlinHclf and party. But his work In
Nebraska as a newspaper man and politi
cian has been accentuated by his labors
In a wider field, for he has been actively
connected with every government exposi
tion display since 1838. Mr. Qcddes first
became Identified with exposition work In
connection with the Transmisslssippl ex
position at Omaha, having been selected
by the board having charge of the govern
ment exhibit as disbursing officer. -After
settling up the affairs of the Omaha expo
sition to the complete satisfaction of the
Treasury department, he was selected for
a similar capacity at the Pan-American
exposition at Buffalo In 1901. When the
larger appropriations were made for the
government exhibit at the Louisiana Pur
chase exposition at St. Louis, by a unani
mous vote Mr. Geddes was again made the
disbursing officer of the government for
that place, and ha handled, the appropria
tions made for that exhibit In a manner
that has received the official commenda
tion of the president of the board, Hon.
Wallace II. Hills and Hon. William E.
Andrews, auditor of the Treasury depart
ment. At a recent meeting of the govern
ment board of the Lewis and Clark exposi
tion, to be held at Portland, Ore., during
the Bummer of 1903, the esteem of Its co
workers waa made manifest by their action
in combining the office of secretary and
disbursing officer and unanimously select
ing Mr. Geddes for the position, bring
ing, as It does, additional honor and
responsibility. During the years he hus
been connected with government disburse
ments, Mr. Geddes has not had a dollar
held up by the Treasury department. He
was 25 cents shy In his disbursement at
the Omaha exposition, due to his failure
to properly chargo for an oath taken be
fore a notary public, and he had to go
down Into Ms pocket for the amount. At
Buffalo hts accounts came out to the cent,
and at St. Lols, so far as final settlement ,
has gone, his work shows the 'efficient
paymaster, as well as the painstaking offi
cer. A Lone Western Congressman.
Clarence Dunn Van Duzer, democratlo
congressman from Nevada, will have the
distinction of being the only democratlo
member of the next bouse from the states
west of the Missouri, leaving out the state
of Texas. Van Duser says he, expects to
work overtime next year looking after tho
Interests of Ms large constituency, as the
area he must represent extends from the
Missouri and Mississippi rivers on the east
to the Behrlng sea on the' north and the
Bugaboo river In the Philippines on the
west.
The Nevada congressman literally fought
Ms way into the house, relates the Brook
lyn Eagle. He is a miner and lawyer by
profession, and comes from one of the
roughest mining sections In the country
the great Tonopah district. Van Duzor used
to handle a pick and shovel. He eventually
graduated from that kind of work and in
recent years has been interested in some of
the best mining properties of the state. Ho
also has given his attention to running to
earth the swarms of grafters who have
been selling stock In fake gold, silver and
copper mines in Nevada.
Vun Duzer spent nearly an entire year in
breaking up one crowd of promoters of
bogus mining schemes, and tho story of his
experiences with sharps reads like the plot
of a stagey drama. The object of the con
gressman was to redeem Nevada enter
prises from the cloud of suspicion that had
been cast over them by the fraudulent op
erations of eastern boomers of worthless
mining securities.
Van Duier's great popularity with tho
mining element In his state was responsible
for his election. His popularity is attested
by the fact that he was the only democratlo
candidate for a state or federal office to be
elected lu Nevada last November. Roose
velt carried the state by 8.000, yet Van
Duzer had a majority of 219. Only 11.000
votes were cast In the state, and Van Duzer
has figured it out that to have been elected
In Pennsylvania, with the same relative
votes cast, he would have had to rsn more
tha i 400,000 ahead of his ticket.
The Great Tress Maker.
"A favorite maxim of Robert Hoe," says
a writer In Success, "la that it Is better to
get beldnd a thing and push it along than
to put yourself In front and drag It after
you. In other words, .it Is the work, not
the man, that Is Important and deserves at
tention. In his expression of the Innate re
serve of the man we find the explanation
of the fact that Mr. Hoe is never quoted in
the newspapers that he has helped to make
possible, and the further fact that, while
there are thousunds of men who can tell
you about the Hoe presses, there uro very
few who can tell you of tho master crafts
man who directs their production.
"Mr. Hoe is what we designate a silent
man; that is. he speaks little, but very
much to the point. He has an air of ele
gant leisure, but works harder than any of
his employes. Hts action In the hundreds
of matters that claim his attention dally is
deliberate but decisive. Not u detail of his
vast business escapes him, whether it re
lates to the thousands of workmen atid
hundreds of kinds of machines working In
the production of presses in his two big
establishments in New York and London,
or to the probable effect of Improvements
in the manufacture of paper or ink or
plates upon his own particular branch of
the printing bus.Aess. Although of means
and disposition that might naturally Incline
him to rest his oars and take his ease, he
Is to bo found regularly at his office, study
ing, planning and executing. In other
words, he Is the embodiment of his own
cherished maxima of concentration and
thoroughbass."
Russia's Reform Leader.
Maxim Gorky, whose arrest in Riga has
teen announced, may be de-crlbed as leader
of tne Russian reform party. In his boy
hood he was by turns a shoemaker's up
prentice, working inhumanely long hours;
an engraver, a painter of Ikons, a cook's
helper, ile was a boatman on the great
river highways of Russian internal trade,
lie woiksd in quarries, lie became
baker's boy for $1.60 a mouth. He worked
as a sawmill hand and a longshoreman. His
writings uro pitilessly realistic in describ
ing the trials nnd surroundings of the poor
est poor, and though they have hitherto
been passed by the censor as nonpolltlcal. It
Is not likely they will be dealt with so lib
erally in future. PJeschkoff Is the real
name of the author, who Is now 38 years
eld.
Wisconsin's Xew Governor.
James O. Davidson, lieutenant governor
of Wisconsin, who succeeds to the execu
tive chair by the election of Governor
LaFollctto to the United States senate, Is
61 years of age, a native of Norway nnd
an American fur thirty-two years. He Is
now serving his second term as lieutenant
governor. Tho Chicago Record-Herald says
ho Is a more interesting product of Amerl
cuu Institutions than his confrere of the
samo race on the other side of the Missis
sippi, Governor Johnson of Minnesota, Mr.
Davidson is handicapped in only one par
ticular by Governor Johnson, for the latter
may aspire to the presidency of the re
public, having been born In this country
of Scandinavian parentage, Both of these
men have risen from poverty, through
perseverance and tenacity, to the highest
office In an American commonwealth. Of
tho two, the rise to eminence of Mr. David
son of Wisconsin is the more striking.
As a legislator Mr. Davidson was ahead
of his time by several years. He was not
an orator, but he had a likable personality,
and when "Yim" put his hand to any task
tho others, ' both minority and majority,
sat up and took notice. So did the lobby,
which In those days was as powerful In
legislative matters as the Russian bureau
cracy la In the administration of affairs in
the land of the czar.
Twenty years of study and observation
in his adopted home had convinced Mr.
Davidson that the express, sleeping car,
telephone and kindred corporations were
not paying their Just share of the taxes,
and he anticipated the future by introduc
ing bills to reach them. The bills were
defeated, naturally enough, but there were
other sessions coming. Two years later
Mr. Davidson was returned to tho legisla
ture by his constituents, and he reintro
duced his bills and pussed them.
"Yim" Davidson and the late "Jerry"
Rusk, several times governor and in Ma
latter years a national character as one
of the most striking figures in tho cabinet
ofan American president,' both came from
the aame section of southwestern Wiscon
sin. "Uncle Jerry" was a man of the
people, whose career Is no less wonderful
In a measure, in the opinion of many,
than that of the penniless Immigrant boy
who follows him to the governor's chair. '
Mr. Davidson's family consists of a wife
and two daughters, the elder daughter
being a student at tho state university.
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Recent Progress
in the
Field of Electricity
WILLIAM M GEDDES.
Municipal Electric light.
COMMISSION of export engineers
I V I appointed by Mayor McClellan to
I I rrnnrl nn (he cost of municipal
electric lighting in the borough
of Manhattan and the ltronx.
estimates the cost per lamp nt $75.40 per
year. New York City is now paying its
lighting companies a minimum rate of $IW
a year for each arc light of 2.000 candle
power. With 6.O0O of there lamps now
furnished to the city the total cost for
these lights in tho two boroughs alone
Is 7N0,X) a year. If tho city cim provldo
these lumps by the use of Its own plant
at $73.49 the city will save $22S,00i) a year
on this Item alone.
The report of the commission, which is
composed of Carey T. Hutchinson, Prof.
George V. Sever 'Of Columbia university
and Nclfon F. Lewis, chief engineer to the
Board of Estimates and Apportionment,
was submitted to the Board of Estimates
by Mayor McClellan ami was referred to
the controller with Instructions to confer
with members of the commission with ref
erence to the Immediate acquisition of a
site on which to build the proposed plant.
A Mountain Searchlight.
One of the notable features of the Port
land exposition next summer will bo nn
electric seurchllght stationed and operated
on tho snowy crest of Mount Hood. The
plan Is to placo a searchlight with an 80
lnch projector on the crest of Mount Hood,
which Is 11.2:5 feet above tho sea level
and forty-six miles from Portland. This
searchlight, from its commanding position,
will pierce the darkness for 200 miles, and
Its gleam on the nearby peaks will bo
startling. Its flash on Mount Hauler,
which is 100 miles from Mount Hood, could
bo seen from the cities bordering on the
Puget sound, such as Seattle and Tacoma.
From vessels oft the coast 120 miles dis
tant the flashes could be seen plainly on a
clear night, and at Portland and tho ex
position grounds tho gleams would be very
strong.
To place the searchlight on Mount Hood
requires quite a bit of engineering skill
nnd labor which will cost about $30,000.
A short tower of wood and Iron, tho upper
part for tho searchlight nnd tho base for
tho apparatus and operators, will be built
on tho summit. The transmission line has
to be built down the north sldo of the
mountain to Cooper's Spur, nnd from there
to a point In the neighborhood of Cloud
Cap Inn, where a temporary generating
plant will be Installed. Tho construction
of the tower and the delivery of the neces
sary material nnd apparatus nva tho diffi
cult parts of tho construction work. This
will be overcome by tho uso of a steel
hoisting cable and sleds, and all of the
material can bo delivered on the summit
by this means, as the tide of the mountain
towwfa Cloud Cap Inn is favorable to this
Some Curious and Romantic Capers of Cupid
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Cupid Gets a. Frost. ,
HILE driving in a sleigh - from
Danbury, Conn., to Brewster, N.
Y., to be married. Miss Myrtle
B' Pcrklns of Fal1 R'ver. Mass.,
rrT 9 and Elmer E. Hawkins of Brook
lyn, were lost on Joe's hill and almost per
ished in the snowdrifts.
Both were strangers In that part of the
country, and they lost the road when a
short distance out from Danbury. The
drifts became deeper as they went on,
and they soon found they were riding over
ten-foot snow banks. The sleigh and horse
finally sank in a drift.
Miss Perkins was suffering severely from
the cold. The mercury had dropped. below
zero, nndr It began to look as if they might
freeze to death. Hawkins was busy all
night trying to free the horse and sleigh.
He wrapped the blankets about his fiancee
to protect her and his exertions kept him
from freezing.
With tho greatest effort they managed
to travel two miles. It was 6 o'clock in
the morning when Hawkins saw a farm
house. He carried Miss Perkins to the
house and aroused the occupants.
After a good breakfast they hurried to .
the home of the Rev. S. C. Hearn, pastor
of the Methodist . church, and were mar
ried. They started for Now York on an
early train.
Teacher Weill (or Fan.
A mock murrlage that proved to be legal
and binding was annulled In the circuit
court of Kansas City the other day.
Jesse C. Peck, a school teacher in a coun
try district in North Carolina, for amuse
ment, went through the ceremony with a
young woman. A year later when the
woman wished to marry, her brother, who
opposed her marriage, announced that she
was already wedded. And so.it proved.
The man who performed the supposed moclc
marriage was a Justlco of the peace.
When Mr. Peck learned the facts he
came west and Is living In Independence,
Mo. He brought suit to huvo the marriage
annulled.
After hearing the testimony in the case
tho Judge wrote a letter to tho girl in
North Carolina, but received no answer.
He said that If the girl had; objected he
would not have annulled the marriage, but
as she had been notified when the suit
was filed and she entered no objection,
he granted the petition of Mr. Peck.
Mr. Peck is now tho western agent of a
book concern.
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Copld Gets Busy,
In Kentucky Dan Cupid found Virgil
Potts, belle of the little town of Boxville,
and Dan Gibson in love with each other,
but being kept apart because the parents
on both sides were opposed to the wedding.
Ho whutpered In the young people's ears
that it were better to elope at once than
never to be wed at all, and they promptly
acted upon Ms advice. But there were dif
ficulties. ' The parents, suspecting an at
tempt at elopement, were watching the
couple. The girl's mother had hidden her
best clothes and there always was a repre
sentative of one of the families at the
depot to watch the outgoing tralna
But again Cupid whispered and Miss
Potts, arrayed in her everyday glnghum,
walked seven miles down tho country road
to' the next station and found Dan Gibson
waiting there for her. On tho way her
father passed, galloping in search of her,
while she hid In the bushes at the road
aide. Not finding her he returned and the
girl hastened on her way. The young peo
ple hud to go to Covington before they
could get a license to wed, as the father
had telegraphed to each town along the
Una orders uut to issue tuera a license. But
at last they were married and Cupid, bis
work done here, moved on to York state
Here he found nn ally in the policeman
sent to arrest an eloping couplo. It was in
Brooklyn that this romance occurred.
Anna Rlchter nnd Conrad Schmidt were the
offending parties. They ran away from
home together, because Miss Rlchter's
mother was opposed to Schmidt us a matri
monial possibility. A few hours after their
flight the mother discovered their absence.
In a furious state of mind she hastened to
the nearest police station. She told the
captain her 'case nnd demanded the young
people be found and arrested before they
could succeed In being married. It wus
well for the lovers that Policeman Lowe
was at the station house just then. To
Mm the captain gave the assignment of
finding and arresting the young folks. Lowe
knew where to look for them. He went
straight to the marriage license bureau.
But the loving pair had .beat him to it.
They were Just leaving with the desired
license when the policeman arrived,
"I must arrest you," the officer informed
them. "You cajinot be married."
"But we love each other," replied the
girl. In tears at their fate. "We must be
married."
It happened that Lowe has a tender place
In his heart for lovers. Also It happened
that he Is a regularly ordained minister,
and so gifted with the power to make two
loving hearts one. As he looked at the
woebegone pair before him his heart
softened. Ills orders might be to arrest
them, but what were orders against the
will of Cupid? Tho officer relented.
"No," he said, "I won't arrest you. I'll
not only fail to arrest you but I'll marry
you besides." And he did.
Fortune for a Bride.
Dr. William Flower of Pittsburg Is on his
way from Florida to be present at the sign
ing of the papers which will give his wife
$30,000,000, a fifth of the $150,000,000 estate left
by Charles Lockhart, the Standard Oil mag
nate, who practically disinherited Mrs,
Flower because of her elopement with the
dentist In March, 1903.
By the determination of the four heirs of
Charles Lockhart to form a pool of $30,000,
000 for their sister and thus avoid litigation
the vast holdings In Standard Oil and other
stocks will be kept Intact and the integrity
of one of the greatest estates in the world
thus preserved.
Even the men of vast wealth who keep In
touch with the great fortunes of the day
were astounded to learn that the Lockhart
holdings amounted to $150,000,000.
By an equal division each ef the five chil
dren will draw Interest on $30,000,000 In
vested in stocks which pay big dividends.
Thus are the wishes of the dead father .
defeated by hts children, and tho punish
ment determined by him for the daughter
who eloped with the man she loved made
naught
May and December.
According to advices received In Balti
more front Palm Beach, Fla., congratula
tions are pouring In upon Miss Gwendolyn
Whistler and Rev. Dr. Richard I-ewis
Howell, the world's richest clergyman, from
Philadelphia. New York, Pittsburg. Balti
more and Paris as a sequel to the an
nouncement of their approaching marriage
en the 20th of this month.
The bride-to-be Is the grandniece of the
lamented artist whose name she bears, and
Is but 18 years old.
Dr. Howell is 61 years old. and his In
come from New York and Pittsburg realty
operations and holdings Is said to be not
less than $2&0.000 per annum.
Although Wise Whistler, daughter of
Thomas Delano Whistler, and Mrs. Whis
tler call Baltimore their home and maintain
several establishments hero, tfce family has
been abroad so much during the last ten
years that the young daughter is remem
bered enly as a beautiful child. Those who
have seen her recently say that the promiso
of the days of short skirts has been more
than fulfilled. She Is tall, has hazel eyes,
features distinctly American and a mass of
chestnut brown hair encircles her face.
Dr. Howell Is nn exceptionally large and
powerful man. He inherited much of Ms
great wealth from his father, Andrew How
ell of Wheeling, W. Va. His wife also
brought him another fortune; He has been
well known in New York, Pittsburg, Wash
ington and other cities as a real estate
operator for twenty years. A year ago he
purchased three of New York's most
fashlonablo apartment houses for nearly
$5,000,000. He paid $.1,000,000 in cash and the
balance in Pittsburg real estate.
Eloped with a Negro.
Hazel, the lovely 15-year-old daughter of
Clifford Dougherty of Three Rivers, Mich.,
became enamored a week ago of Bert Bur
ton, a negro bootblack doing odd jobs
around barber shops of town. Her hero was
four years her senior, and used to talk
of going to Ann Arbor to study dentistry.
Hazel began skating with him several
days ago because uha wouldn't take a
"dare" from her playmates. She had been
with him moat of the time since. Friday
of last week Burton drove to her parents,
took Hazel Into tho carriage with him, and
the pair started for Kalamazoo. Ever
gust of wind seemed to bear to the girl's
ears the echoes of her father's voice, and
when she arrived at the City hotel she was
very nervous and fatigued.
The little white lady and her dark hero
were aroused at 0 o'clock next mottling by
the local police force, led by Hazel's irate
father. Burton was arrested, and was
token to the county jail at Centrevllle. Tho
girl went home with her father, crestfullen
and sad.
Joy nnd Sorrow at Two Veddlngs.
Joy and sorrow arc closely entwined
around two hospital weddings In New York
City recently. It was happiness enough
for one bride that fifteen minutes before
the end come she could frame the words,
" 'Till death do us part," and feel the
clasp of her beloved's hand when she
passed Into the Valley of the Shadow.
The other bride lies on a cot in Flower
hospital, battling bravely for the life which
she has consecrated to her husband. The
physicians say that her determination to
live for him is proving the main factor In
her chances of recovery.
She In Mrs. Walter C, Janscn, twenty
two years old. Her maiden name was
JOPKVir MAVIJv METCAI.F, VICT! PRESIDENT LTNINGER ft METCALF COM
PANY t UUii TO lAC.-Dlfcl 1XH bAKY t IWu.
Anna Lawson. Her wedding day was set,
but Illness obliged her removal to the hos
pital. Her fiance. Walter C. Janaen of
Richmond Mill, L. I., counselled her to
be courageous and escape the Inevitable,
but never breathed the sad news of her
serious condition, of which the sugeons
had Informed Mm. They feared to tell
her that she must undergo an operation
which might prove fatal.
It was plain to the nurses that she was
growing weaker and weaker day by day.
But they were no less quick to observo
the threatening symptoms than Janaen.
He haunted the hospital lest he miss an
opportunity to comfort the patient when
the physicians would permit him to enter
the sick room. The devotion of the young
couplo brought tears to the eyes of phy
sicians and nurses.
Mr. Jansen came forward with a sug
gestion which had resulted from a whis
pered conference with Ms sweetheart. He
declared that they wished to bo married,
following which the physicians could pursue
the course their best Judgment suggested.
The arrangement was satisfactory and the
wedding ceremony wss performed In the
presence of the physicians and nurses. So
great was the change for the better in the
condition of the bride that the operation
was successfully performed the next day,
and she Is recovering rapidly.
Almost at Ufa same hour that Jansen
and Miss Lawson were mads man and
wife a similar, scene was being enacted
in Bellevue hospital. In ward 35 lay a
sufferer from tuberculosis. She was a girl
of remarkable beuuty, and the physicians
had become deeply Interested since her ar
rival. She knew well that hor strength
could lost but little longer, and she con
fided to the nurses that she had no fear
of the end if her heart's desire could be
attained.
"I want to die Jim's wife," she whis
pered one. night to her nurse. She had
often spoken of the man whom she had
hoped to marry before the fatal aliment
seised, her. Dr. Lancaster knew that the
end was not far off early Frldny lifter
noon, and asked what she wanted done.
"Send for Jim," she said.
Messengers were dispatched to the home
of James Henry, whose address the girl
asked the hospital authorities to guard.
Mr. Henry hurried to the hospital and
was taken ut once to the bedside of tho
dying girl. In a few almost inaudible
words she told him lier wIhIi to dlo his
wife. He consented gladly.
With some of tho attendants for wit
nesses the murrlage wus solemnized. Fif
teen minutes later tho girl drew her hus
band's hand to her lips and a happy smile
lighted her wan face. And so she died.
Cupid Laughs at Jail liars.
Down In Joplin, Mo., Will Morris wad a
prisoner in the county Jail. Will wus sus
pected of having carelessly annexed a
pelghbor's halter whereto there wus
fastened a $100 horse. Bo Will wu.i in Jill.
Lena Stringer was Will's sweetlicurt.
They had loved before he had succeeded
In breaking into Jull and they luvcd dteplte
the fact that wulla and bais sepurutul
them. During Will's cuiifiuement I-ena wus
a constant visitor at tho county basilic,
and their lovo grew stronger each day. One
day Morris prevailed upon the lierlff to
take him to the Methodist paisonugc for u
few minutes. At Us Stringer wus tluru ti
meet them, and tho minister was all
roady to perform bin duty. With the jjlierlff
us a fcurpried witness the cerimoiiy
promptly proceeded and In ten minutes
Morris was back in Ms cell, happy In the
knvwlei'ge that IU Strlugur wui hla'n.
mode of transportation. The sleds will be
run over the trail used yearly by the moun
tain climbers.
The placing of the tower on Mount Hood
may be the beginning of a movement for
the establishment of an astronomical ob
servatory on this majestic rcak of tha
Cuscttdc range. ....
lllah (peril Trolley Lines.
David Mason, American consul at Berlin,
In n lato leport refers to the speed trlalt
on the Iterlln-Zossin electric road. These
tests proved that 011 n straight, level and
well-built railroad a train speed of 120 miles
'111 hour was ptvsFlhle nnd might be safe.
It was also shown, however, that to propel
n single car, with a carrying capacity of
sixty passeiujers, nt the speed of ,110 miles
consumed 1,300 horse power, and that to
Increase the speed to 120 miles consumed
2,(00 horse power. This wns nbout what
theoretical calculations had led tho elec
trical engineers to expect. It was further
shown that to stay on tho track, at these
great speeds cars needed to be built very
heavy, thus increasing tho dead weight in
proportion to carrying capacity and pro
portionately destroying by Impact rails and,
roadbed. A light car, even wh.n as heavy
as one of the best type of those in use,. can-
not be driven faster than eighty miles an
hour without a danger greater than any
one would bo justified in assuming for
scientific purposes.
The Electric Shock.
One of tho new and not uncommon dan
gers of modern life, says Youth's Compan
ion, Is that of getting In the way of a pow
erful current of electricity and receiving
the entlro dlsehnrgo through the body. The
effects of such a discharge vary, of course,
wyth tho strength of the current: there may
be simply a sharp muscular contraction, ac
companied by the familiar, disagreeable
sensation of an electrics shock; these con
tractions may be repeated several times
after tho current has ceased, constituting
true convulsions, or there may be a perais- '
tent continued muscular contraction; there
may be suspended respiration while the
heart continues to bent; both heart and
respiration may cease, In which case death
will speedily follow unless instant medical
relief is at hand; or in still other cases,
death may be Instantaneous.
The first enre Is ,of course, to free tha
porson from contact with the live wire, and
here great caution Is necessary, or the giver
of assistance may shore tho fate of the one
he Is trying to help. He must himself be
insulated before touching the victim' body,
if the latter Is still within the path of the
current, and this Is especially Important if
the accident has happened out-ofdoora on a
wet day. Cnre should be taken also not to
let any part of the body other than 4he
hands, or rather one hand, touch the elec
trified person.
It may not be possible to pull the suf
ferer away from the source of eleotriolty,
and if not it will be necessary to make
a short circuit by dropping a stiff wire or
a metal tool of any kind over tha live ,
wire, or cutting the wire.
Insulation is best obtained by rubber
boots and gloves, but In the absence of
these, standing on a folded coat or a
woman's silk skirt and putting on thick
woolen gloves or wrapping the hands in
several folds of silk, woolen or cotton
cloth, which of course must be dry. A dry
board or several newspapers, or, better
still, both, may serve as an emergency In
sulating stool.
When the victim has been freed from tha
current he should be placed on the back,
with clothing loosened, so that he can
have plenty of fresh air. In severe cases
artificial respiration wll almost always be
needed, Just as It Is In cases of drowning,
and an early resort to It may save a Ufa
that would otherwise inevitably be lost.
There is little else that can be done on
the spot for the sufferer, but he may need
careful treatment subsequently to remove
the remote effects of the terrible shock ha
has received.
Opportunities In Electrical Field.
Looking over some of the successes In
the electrical field and the possibilities of
the future an authority says in tbe Cbl
caso Tribune:
"A few years more will see the develop
ment of a third and better prepared gen
eration of electrical experts, and it is safe
to say that they will be the result of a
combination of practical training, thor
oughly mixed with a theoretical educa
tion." The authority admits tliat much of
the knowledge In tho field today has been
acquired In the school of "hard knocks,"
yet out of 100 men who are at the top of
the electrical engineer's art in Chicago at
this time, he hus prepared a striking list
bearing upon their ages and their salaries.
The average age of these men la 83V4
years, the extremes running from 27 years
to 45 years, and indicating that tha bust
news is In charge of young men. At ST
years old the young man Is worth 12,170
a year,- Increasing until at 38 years old,
the average salary is $4,000. In groups,
five of the 100 men have salaries of mora
than $10,imj0 a year; nine have Incomes be
tween $5,(00 and $10,000, sixty-six have In
comes between $2,400 and $6,000; and twenty
have Incomes under $2,400. To these 100
men selected tho tabulator says that at
least 100 more in Chicago will averaga
quite as high, thus giving 300 men to Chi
cago In electrical engineering with salaries
averaging $3,410 annually,
"An Interesting classification has bean
mndo of tliesa first 100 men, showing their
lines of endeavor.' ' For Instance, It is
shown that seven salesmen in the business
averaged within $1M) a year of the editors
and professors. This table shows:
Average Average
No. of Men. Age. Income.
Salesmen 7 J $2,
Hales managers 11 34 3.4(0
Business men 10 .14 4.S1
Sales engineers 8 . 3n t.lfrl
Elect rlcHl engineers ..1 31
Electrical experts 8 M S.2"0
Operating engineers. .. 3 32 2,250
Operating malingers
mid superintendents. 10 St S.5M
Professors and editors. 8 .''4
Patent attorneys 4 32 4.0IO
Constructing eimln'rs. 31 ,
Consulting engineers.. 0 40 6,400
"In ijeiierul, twenty men out of this 100
are without collere education, and at nn
average ugo of HQ yeurs they are earning
average Incomes of $3,670 a year. Sixteen ,
others are graduates of one of tho great
engineering schools of the country, with
an average iiue of 3ii years and earning an
average of $4, '.Mo a year. Thus, on a basis
of money tiK'ires the advantages of the
college (duration average $1,270 a year.
"The fields of opportunity now opetl to
be electrical expert In their order have
been suggested as electric railway work,
telephony.' transmission. electro-cheiMstry,
power application, lighting develoRiienl,
manufacturing, central statlou works and
consulting engineering."
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