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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1905)
OctUfcer X, 1908. THE OMAHA ILLUSTRATED llEE. 3 Wonders I awak and prorrts-ftr cities of iito if ai wvbi id rn.il uiuor Is stilt behind the times In tho matter of telephone service. With the example of Lincoln, Hastings and Hloux City, within a radius of 10 miles, equipped with and proud of their automatto telephone service a demonstrated success Omaha, still clings to the old manual system of tflephonlo communication with Its un satisfactory service depending upon tho frailties and suffering from the faults of ininual operators. The reason for this lack of Interest must lie In' the fact that the people of Omaha are not Informed upon the matter of au tomatic telephony and Its advantages to them. It Is the object of this article to enlighten them upon this subject, so that when they are ready to lend their support to the launching of an Independent tele phone company which shall relieve them of the tyranny of a monopoly on one of the most Important of public services, that of communication, they may demand that the best be given them, and that best in tele phony Is automatic service. The last years of the nineteenth century witnessed wonders in the way of hand labor being supplanted by machinery, and with the best results, so far as certainty, uniformity and rapidity of operation are concerned. Perhaps this Is more noticeable In the automatic switchboard than In any other mechanical device. Today this tele phone apparatus is thoroughly standardized and Is one of the greatest triumphs In the field of automatics. No one will deny that the manual system of telephony la prolific of many annoyances and delays due largely to the carelessness or poor articulation either of the switch board operator or the person ashing a con nection. Every thinking man will admit that these Imperfections cannot be reme died In manual practice and that they can only be eliminated by the Introduction of an automatic device which places the call ing and connecting processes entirely In the hands of a machine. This Is Just what the automatic telephone exchange does; it automatically and Instantaneously con nects the subscriber with the person de sired and gives to them a secret or private line over which to talk. In the automatic practice the subscriber himself Instantaneously connects with the person he wishes to rail, and the apparatus Is so constructed that It Is an Impossibility for another subscriber to "cut In" upon or In any way Interfere with the line he Is using. The complaint, "They cut us off," Is never heard where the automatic tele phone is used. The frequent delays and mistakes which the manuat board causes are entirely un known to the users of our automatic tele phones. Our switches never make errors, never gossip, are never tired or sleepy, nre not Interested In the subscriber's af fairs, are never Impudent or saucy. There fore there is a refreshing absence from the central office, such as "What number did you say?" Talk louder." "Put your face rearer the 'phone." "Did you get him?" "Are you through?" etc. It should further be borne in mind that the same number of 'switches are always t work lr. an automatic exchange whether the our be night or day. In the manual pract.es the number of operators Is In creased during the so-called busy hours and decreased when the ntgfU comes on and the volume of business Is supposed to be lax. Oftentimes this decrease of force Is greater than the decrease of business win warrant, some special event or catas trophe sending In a number of hurry calls How San (Copyright. 1908, by Frank O. Carpenter.) kivrii cir rm rrTTTt a . (tent, zx. SI (Special Correspondence of The 1 Bee.) I am standi ns- beside the -monument on San Juan Hill. It Is a beautiful summer evening In this peaceful year of 1906. The sun Is just setting. There is not a sound to be heard, but the singing of birds and the chirping of Insects. Over there on Kettle Hill, up which Colonel Theodore Roosevelt marched with his Rough Riders In the face of shot and shell, a flock of whit goats Is feeding. Down on the slope of San Juan, where our Infantry made one of Its fiercest charges, a doien red cows lie chewing their cud. and further over In the midst of the plain a white horse Is grazing. The grass about him is breast deep. Here on San Juan everything Is covered with green, and, excepting the trenches and tne monument there la no sign that this was one of the great battlegrounds of our history. All signs of war and fighting have long since -. passed away. As I write the white horse neighs, and way off In the direction of El Caney I hear the lowing of a cow. Looking beyond the white horse, I can see the Ban Juan river. It Is still lined with bushes at Bloody Bend, as It was when our soldiers were there under the Are of the Spanish guns. They wene in sight for more than a mile and they crossed that plain and were under fire until they reached the foot of this hill, which Is so steep that the Spanish soldiers who lay In the trenches could not see them. Our men swarmed up the hill, grabbing their enemies as they climbed, and fighting their way to the top. . Marklac the saatlaT Battlefields. Standing her the greater part of the Santiago battlefields are In plain sight. Away off at the left Is EI Caney with Its block house. Below me la the lagoon still filled with water, across which our soldiers marched, and everywhere I look Is upon one of the scenes of that great fight. The battlefields are being carefully sur veyed. They are to be marked and pre served In a great national park which ahall bo kept here forever In memory of our struggle for Cuba Independent. Colonel Webb Hayes has the; matter in charge. I understand that he will start where Gen eral Bates was stationed at the lower end of the battlegrounds, and place divisional and regimental markers along the whole line of the engagement. A road la to be made over the heights around the Kettle Hill and thence across the San Juan Hill and on to the Surrender tree. It will then go down to where El Caney road branches off from that of San Juan hill, and thence along El Caney road to the Block house. The Block house Is to be repaired and a gun will be placed there. This road will be ISO feet wide. It will Include the whole Well Known Correspondent3 Collaborate TJ I few days ago that Martin J. Egan. the Associated Press at Tokio, was married September 11, to Miss Eleanor Franklin, an accomplished writer from New York, who was sent to the Orient some time ago by Leslie's Weekly. Sev eral of her letters apeared In The Sun day Bee. Egan has mads a great reputation in the Orient as a correspondent. He went out originally for the St. Louis Globe Democrat and the Baa Francisco Chron icle during the Boxer troubles, and wrote vivid letters ef his aapertonoe. Us mad Worked by the Automatic Telephone-No r v ' . -.. "-'.V , -- - I- -nil . " " m 1 AUTOMATIC DESK TELETTONH. which the depleted force cannot handle.. This can never happen with the automatic exchange, which always has as many oper ators or switches as callers. In addition to the above the following advantages afforded by the automatic ex change may be noted: First, quick connec tions; second. Instantaneous disconnections; third, prompt answers secured from the called subscriber; fourth, the accuracy and promptness with which the busy signal Is always given where the subscriber Is actually busy. There are few to whom the successful application of the automatic Idea to tele phone practice and the Introduction of a system In which the operator, so long the ruling spirit of the central office, has been altogether banished from Its precincts, does not come as a "consummation devoutly to be wished," not alone because of the more rapid service It offers, but because of the relief It brings from mistakes, delays, In terruptions and other annoyanres that the present manually-operated system is nat urally heir to. The automatic telephone system, styled by the humorists the "cussless. wattless, out-of-orderless, glrlless telephone," In spite of the fact that until recently little was known about It, Is by no means a new and Untried creation. It Is more than twelve years since the first exchange was placed In commission, and the original idea, as conceived by the first patentee, dates back to a time almost contemporaneous' with the Invention of the telephone ItBelf. Its present high state of development rep resents fifteen years of persistent Industry and untiring effort directed toward the elimination of its Imperfections and the overcoming of Its limitations. It stands today a perfectly practicable Institution, demonstrated to be such by tests of the most rigorou character, and one that, on account of the- great advantages It offers and the economy of Its operation, bids fair to revolutionise the telephone Industry. In deed, the transition has already begun In earnest, and today exchanges, varying In size from 25 to 10.000 lines, manu factured by the Automatic Electric company of Chicago, are scattered throughout the states, furnishing service to an aggregate of mora than 100,000 subscribers. The apparatus, which contains within Itself such wonderful possibilities, fur Juan Battlefield Looks to an American Visitor battlefield and will extend along the hills between the trenches and be so marked that any soldier can come here and find just where he lay while fighting. In Joan Monument. While standing an San Juan hill, I had Mr. J. 8. Cox, tho manager of the Spanish-American Iron company who was with me, take a snapshot of myself standing beside the monument. In order to show you its size. I am five feet eight Inches, and a comparison between the top of my Panama hat and the top of the monu ment will give you the height. The monu ment Is a shaft of concrete made on a concrete base, with one grit shell on top and shells about the corners of the foundation. The Inscription upon It reads as follows! "In memory of the officers and m of the United States army, who were kli.ed In the assault and capture of this ridge, July 1, 1898. and In the siege of Santlgo, July 1, to July It, 1S98. War between Spain and the United States." San Juan hill has been lately cleaned of brush. The grass Is growing finely, and even the trenches are covered with green. Crossing the fields, I stopped awhile un der the Surrender Tree, beneath which Gen eral Shafter received from General Torsi the surrender of Santiago. It has now a barbed wire fence around It to keep the vandals from cutting their names in Its bark or chipping It for memories. The tree Is a magnlflclent celba, which rises about forty feet from the ground before Its branches begin. It Is In full leaf and great green orcnlds hang from Its limbs and nestle at their roots against the trunk. It was under this tree that the real end of the war came. lire was the first acknowledgment of Cuban's Independence and of the absolute defeat of Spain. The Surrender Tree, In fact, marks the birth of the Cuban republic. It Is the site of our beginnings as a world power. The United States looked through Its branches and saw that the earth was good and started out to possess It. Since that sur render we have held a different rank among the nations. Our strength has been appre ciated, our flag respected and our trade In creased. It means much to the United States, and It should be guarded In this great national park until the tooth of time rather than the hand of the vandal or traveling relic hunter brings It to lbs ground. "Wood's" Folly." During my stay here I have taken a drive over the road which General Leonard Wood made from Santiago to the tops of the mountains In the rear. The road runs right along the railway, crossing It five times before It .reaches the hills. It then winds up the mountains to an altitude ot warm friends of all army and navy men, and Lieutenant Victor Blue once made a dangerous trip down the Yangtse to carry dispatches for Egan. He was also corespondent in the Philip pines, and later was sent by the Asso ciated Press to Toklo, Just before ths outbreak of the Russo-Japanese war. He made all arrangements for handling news from the Japan side. High Japan govern ment officials gave him first "tips" en news Egan will soon return to this coun try with his wife, and will then go to London, where he will take charge of the Associated Press office, so long held by Walter Near, who died recently. New Device Dishes material f.r a most Interesting study, and though an adequate comprehension of It can only be had by actual Inspection, a general Idea can be secured from an ex planation of its construction and operation. The automatic telephone Is, In the main, like the ordinary Instrument, having the usunl receiver, transmitter, bells, etc., add ing outwardly only the calling dial, a cir cular metal disk about five Inches In diameter, having on Its periphery ten finger holes, numbered from 1 to 0. This dlnl is capable of rotation, being pivoted on an axis at Its renter, and its operation constitutes all that a subscriber is called upon to perform In selecting the number desired. Suppose the number 642 Is to be called. The subscriber first removes the receiver from the hook, places his Index finger In hole No. 5 and turns the dial downward as far as possible that Is, to the stop provided to limit the distance through which it may be revolved. He then releases It and the dial Is restored to normal position by the action of a spring within. This operation Is repeated for 4 and 2. It then remains only to press the black button underneath the dial to ring the bell' on telephone No. 642, the con nection having been established as the re sult of the several operations of the dial. When conversation Is completed, disconnec 9. . j 1,000 feet above the sea. It is as well built as the military road made by the Spaniards across Porto Rico and it cost, in places, as much as 35,000 a mile. There are cement drains every few feet, where It climbs the mountain, and these drains are as smooth as a tiled bath room. They serve to carry the water under the road. They were ex pensive. Still, ,on a twenty years' proposi tion, they may be profitable as a piece of engineering. Every acre and there Is a stone bridge as fine as those of Rock Creek park In Washington, and along the way on both sides are miles of stone walls two feet In height. The road Is looked upon as so extravagant that it has been nick named "Wood's Folly." It was built to give work to the Cubans, and on this ground Its construction may have been warranted. It would seem, however, that the money might have been spent in build ing highways where they were more needed than here. The Santiago Dray. Cuba. wants good roads. Much of ths eastern part of the Island Is a wilderness, the only way of going from place to place being by bridle paths. The government ex pects to remedy this, and roads are be ing constructed In different provinces from here to Plnar del Rio. It Is hoped that there will some day be a great highway from one end of the Island to the other, with branch roads running off to the dif ferent farming centers. Such a network of fVads will be very expensive. The rains are heavy and most of the highways must be macadamized, as dirt roads become beds of mud during the wet season, through which it is almost Impossible for a vehicle to go. 'I r' ' AT AN jrAX HILIj MONUMENT. Insures Absolute Secrecy tion Is accomplished by the hanging up of t lie rert ivi r. which act Instantaneously clears the lino and leaves It open for a second call If one is to be mude. If the line called Is busy a buzzing sound imme diately occurs in the revolver of the calling 'phone to give notice that such Is the case. The keyboard or Internal mechanism of the telephone measures 0x3x2 Inches and consists of an Impulse-sending device, which in response to the movements of the dial sends out across the line to the switch board a succession of Impulses, correspond ing in number to the number of the hole in which the subscriber's finger is placed, thus actuating the switches In such a way as, to properly establish the connection. The apparatus In the central office which thus responds to the operations of the dlut on the subscriber's Instrument offers no resemblance to that which Is so widely In use today. The accompanying illus tration of the switchboard now being op erated by the Lincoln Telephone company, Lincoln, Neb., gives a very good Idea of the appearance of a large working auto matic exchange. The present capacity of this board Is 3,600 lines, but It Is so de signed that It can be increased to 19,000 lines without change In the present equip ment by the mere addition of extra sec s- t - ' ' lr-y.Wi----.'-- AUTOMATIC EXCHANGE LINCOLN TELEPHONE COMPANT, LINCOLN, NEB. Almost all the hauling of this region is done upon heavy carts or drays. The freighting throughout the mountains is on pack mules, the coffee being brought In on such animals The drays are peculiar. They consist of a pair of wheels, with two long poles fastened to the axle. Just In side the wheels. The other ends of the poles form the shafts, being hung to the saddle and collar of the mule, or pony, which serves as the draft animal. Thp bed of the cart Is a network of cords woven from one pole to the other, and upon this are piled loads of a half ton or more. The wheels of the drays are large; they move easily, although much of the load seems to rest on the back of the mule. The streets of Santiago are narrow and the drays are such that they can be turned anywhere. They are very cheap; the best of them ought not to cost more than $15. They are at the same time strong and easily made and repaired. Santiago In 1005. Much has been recently published about the filthy condition of Santiago. I do not find It so. The streets are clean, and, al though here and there rough, they com pare favorably with those of any American city. . The town looks prosperous. Its peo ple are well dressed and Its stores do a big business. Santiago Is beautifully situated. It lies on the bay, rising the hills. The ware houses are located and wholesale dealers have their establishments In the lower part of the city, fronting the water, where there Is also a large park, with a fountain In the center. Beside the fountain stands a thlr-tesn-inch P i saj, lil h was dropped In the 'til -V.: V T f - 4-. 7- tions. The unit In the automatic exchange Is an Instrument about thirteen inches high, four 1m h wide and four and one-half Inches d' op, known as the selector switch. This switch constitutes the necessary equipment in the central office for the operation cf one telephone, and Is con nected with the telephone assigned to It by meuns of a pair of wires, making what Is gencially known us a metallic circuit. It Is extremely simple in construction In view of the character of the work It Is called upon to perform. The upper half consists of a pair of relays and three pair of magnets mounted on a small cast-metal frame. These relays and magrets. together with the necessary springs, armatures, etc., operate the shaft which occupies the central position In the switch, lifting and rotating it until the "wiping fingers" at tached thereto nre brought into connection with the brasu contacts, which, arranged In three semicircular banks, constitute tho lower half of the switch, releasing It when the call Is completed. The upper of these banks referred to Is the "busy bank," and simply serves to Indicate busy lines In the automatio selection of trunks. The lower two are the line or trunk banks to which the line wires connect and over which the conversation Is held. The witches are city from one of the gunboats during the war, and from each end of it extends a long promenade, lined with trees, which with the fresh breeze from the bay, Is de lightful during the evening. Farther back is a central park or plaza, about which the chief hotels are situated and upon which the cathedral faces. More Spanish Than Hztsbs, The buildings of Santiago are even more Spanish than 'those of Havana. They are seldom of more than two stories, but their walls are three or four feet thick, and their great windows and doors are barred with Iron. The walls are painted in all colors of the rainbow and the roofs are of red tiles. Many of the floors are of red brick or mar ble. The buildings run around courtyards or patios. There is usually only one tier of rooms, so that each'room has windows on both sides, affording excellent ventilation and abundant light. There are no chimneys In the town. Charcoal Is used for cooking, and the weather is so warm that any sort of heating arrangement Is unnecessary. There are but few good hotels In Cuba, and they are not to be found In Santiago. I am stopping here at the "Venus." The only lovely thing about the house Is Its name and the park upon which It faces. My room looks out upon the patio, with a prison-like window high up In the wall at the back. The price Is 2 a day, without board. I get my meals In the restaurant of the hotel, where all sorts of Spanish dishes are served a la carte. I am told that the Cuba road intended to build a hotel here, but that Just as soon as it was found that the railroad officials wanted property for the purpose the owners of all available sites put the 4VL Tlt i if! "r- V-V v. - OALLXRT IN IANTIAOO PRISON. More Hello Girls ; v j v . . . V . K i UTOMATIC WALL TELEPHONE MAK INO A CALU mounted on Iron shelves, twenty-five to the shelf, supported by Iron standards. As auxiliaries to the first selector switches there are so-called connector switches, the proportion of the latter being ten to MO of the former. The connectors are In con struction and In method of operation the same as the selectors, and their function, as already suggested, Is that of completing the work Initiated by the selectors. These connector switches are arranged In Inde pendent groups, each group carrying the terminal of lines leading to 100 telephones, and each connector In the group having access to the entire 100 lines. Thrso switches resemble In function the cord in the manual board, since they servers links between the calling and called Instruments. Each group of connectors Is numbered to correspond with the hundred number of the lines It connects with. For Instance, the sixth group has the terminals of lines leading out to lines numbering from MO to 19. Inclusive, and the third group from ICO to 399 Inclusive. The tracing out of a call from Its origin In the telephone of the subscriber calling to Its completion In the telephone of tho subscriber called will not only be of In terest, but will serve to Indicate the func tions of the different mechanisms em ployed and their Inter-relation In practice. The number 642, previously used In demon strating the method of calling, will serve again. When the dial Is pulled to 6, five impulses are communicated to the relay which controls the vertical magnets or the magnets which control the upward move ment of the shaft and lift It five points. Following this an extra Impulse Is sent In, which energizes the relay in control of the rotary movements, and the shaft Is ro tated until the "wiping fingers" attached to it close over and make contact with an Idle trunk, when the rotary movement is arrested. The subscriber's line is now ex tended on from his own selector switch to one of the ten connector switches which constitute the fifth hundred group, and with which all the lines numbering from 600 to 600 are connected. The second move-' ment of the dial calling 4 sends four Im pulses through the selector switch onto the connector and lifts its shaft to the fourth level, not affecting, however, the prices at such a figure that the officials could not afford to buy. Mast Pay for Belnar Americans. Indeed there nre two sets of prices all over Cuba one for natives and the other for Americans. The hotels of Havana double and treble their rates during the winter. In tho height of the season they make Americans pay J5 and upward a day for the same accommodations that Cubans receive, for S3 during the summer. , At such times one can only live on the American plan, and If he would have extras at table he pays through the nose. The Cuban or Spaniard gets his rooms on the European plan, and his payments are moderate. In most of the cities the cab rates are fixed. They are reasonable and the service is good. This Is the case Inside of Santiago, but out side the city the cab drivers put on exhorbl tant rates. In the city the rates are some thing like a dollar an hour. Outside, If the customer is an American, 14 Is often de manded, especially if a bargain has not been made beforehand. The other day a young American was charged an outrageous price for a drive outside Santiago. He re fused to pay It, and one of the city police men, who was probably a friend of the driver, said that the money must be given or the man go to the police station. The young American replied that he would go to the police station, and did so, taking the policeman and cabman with him. The cabman told the chief of police that he had already received 19 that day from one American, $13 from another and $15 from a third for a similar service, whereupon he was fined $10 for overcharging, and upon his objecting another fine of $10 for con tempt of court was made. He was then forced to let the American go free upon his paying 60 cents per hour above the regular city rates. In the Santiasro Prison. Speaking of the police brings me to a Visit that I paid yesterday to the prison of Santiago. I was walking from the har bor to the plaza. About half way between the two I passed a fine building with the Spanish word for Jail above Its front door. There was a policeman In full uniform On the front steps and other policemen inside. I entered, called upon the superintendent, and by presenting my card was grantad permission to go through the establish ment. It Is the most luxurious prison I have ever visited. Its spacious rooms run around a hollow court and, were It not for their crowded condition, they would be quite as Lonely Hearts Get Together lant'OTpn with v- i.i..u v.n.. D fo- girls, "where Adam is not al- J. .... Arbuckle has been working out a plan by which young men ah. and women can be brought together In the hope that they will fall victims to each other's charms, marry and prevent race . extermination. Such is his reasoning. To bring this about, relates the New York Sun, he Is giving fifty couples a two weeks' outing at a reasonable price on Mary and John Arbuckle's farm at New I'latz, N. Y. In explaining the name of the farm, Mr. Arbuckle says, "My wife has better Judg ment and a bigger heart tifan I have, so her name goes first." All kinds of chances are given to pair off and get acquainted. Everybody has frvs access to the golf course and to the lawn tennis courts. To urge on the backward,' racquets, clubs and balls are fairly thrust selector switch. The last movement of the dial causes the shaft to rotate two points and connects the line of the calling sub scriber with the line lending out to th telephone No. 642. The connection Is now completed. The rhiKln Is accom plished, as before Indicated, by the presslnR of the black button, the action of which Is to throw the generator on the Una of the called Insii'Uine.nt and operate Its ringer. When the receiver Is hung up the release magnets In both witches engaged In the call are operated and both shafts are re stored simultaneously. The lines of the calling and called telephones are thus cleared. That Is the order of operation In the case of an exchange of not more than l.OX) lines. In exchange of the 10,iMl tpe an inter mediate switch, known as the second se lector, is employed. Tho call, as before, originates In the selector, or, as It Is known In this case, the first selector, passing then to the second Selector and being completed In the connector. The percentage of second selectors to first selectors Is tho same as that of connectors, viz., ten. In exchanges of larger type, I. e., over 10,000, a third se lector Is added. The function of this ter tiary switch Is the same as that of the sec ond selector, being that of an auxiliary to the first selectors in the process of selection The secondary switches occupy the fifth and sixth shelves of the racks, tho fir' four shelves, as before shown, being a, signed to the selectors. v The advantages of the automatic system are easily apparent and have been partial!), suggested In what has already been said. Rapidity of operation, secrecy and accuracy of service and freedom from the frequent annoying delays and Interruptions so com mon to present practice are the features which figure most prominently In measuring Its value from the viewpoint of tho sub scriber. The automatic telephone system described has been adopted In the following cities he sides Lincoln, Hastings and Sioux City: Chicago, III.; Grand Rapids, Mich.; Colum bus, O. ; Tortland, Me.; Tortland. Ore.; Au burn, N. Y.; Lewlston, Me.; Fall River, Mass.; New Hertford, Mass.; Los Angeles, Cel.; Ban 1'iego, Cal.; Hopklnsvllle, Ky.; Cleburne, Tex.; Columbus, Oa,; South Bend, Ind.; Aberdeen, S. l. ; Miarhtsburg. O. ; Au burn, Me.; Medford, Wis.; Dayton. O.; Bt. Marys. O.; Woodstock, N. P.; Westerly. R. I.; Manchester, la.; Princeton, N. J. ; Albu querque, N. M. : Van Wert, O.; Battle Creek, Mich.; Clayton, Mo.; Tentwator, Mich.; Toronto Junction, Canada; Wilmington, Del.; Riverside, Cal.; Traverse City. Mich.; Wausau. Wis.; El Paso, Tex.; Havana, Cuba; Marlanao, Cuba; Berlin, Germany, and other cities. The United States government has In stalled It In four of Its arsenals, at the r.aval station In New Orleans, La,, and at the Sandy Hook proving grounds, Fort Hancock, N. J. The excellency of the automatic telephone service given In the cities named has made every user an enthusiast. Volumes of letters have been written to the Automatic Electric company by patrons of the service praising it strongly Many of these have been reprinted In pamphlet form and may be had upon application to the company. Now Omaha knows what automatic telo phone service Is. Readers of thfs who are telephone subscribers, If they are Interested In bettering Omaha's telephone service. should proceed to exert their Influence to secure from the city council a franchise for an Independent telephone company and should then make every effort to Induce the Independent company to adopt auto matlc equipment. in 1905 comfortable as those of the Hotel de Venus. Its second floor rooms have galleries or covered porches fifteen feet wide running round them, looking down Into ths court. These form a promenade and loafing place for the prisoners. As I walked ' through them I found scores of convicts seated In cane chairs rocking back and forth In the breeze as they laughed and chatted to gether. Here two were playing checkers, there one was writing at a table and fur ther on others were lying In hammocks and snoozing away. There was a barber's chair on one porch and In it a prisoner was being shaved by a fellow prisoner. Indeed, the Iron bars were the only signs of a prison. Bprlna- Beds for Convicts. As I walked around the gallery with one of the officials I stopped now and then to look In at the wards. All are filled with beds of different kinds. Many of the pris oners have woven wire rots, with com forters spread over them. I asked whether this was not rather luxurious for crim inals; whereupon the jailor told me that the city provided Iron bedsteads and board benches only, but that the convict who wished better accommodations Could get them. Any one who has a dollar or two can buy a cot with wire springs; the sell ing of such cots Js a part of the revenue of the chief of police. Feeding the prlsonors Is another per quisite of the officials. The ordinary pris oner has poor fare, but he who can pay for It may have all the luxuries of the mar ket. In one of the rooms on the second floor I saw a dozen convicts sitting at a table. Several hart bottles of wine before them, which they mixed with Apolllnarls water; others were eating sizzling beef steaks and Lyonnalse potatoes. Some of the prisoners pay 60 cents per day extra for board, and all can alleviate their sentences by a Judicious expenditure of money. I went Into the ward devoted to ths women, where a score or more female con victs. white, black and brown, are herded together. I noticed a laundry tank In one corner of the room In which they had been washing, and there were clotheslines run nlng across from window to window, upon which garments were drying. . I tried to make a photograph here, but the girls furiously objected. One of them, however, had a naked baby in her arms, and she held up the little one that I might photograph It, forgetting that she must come Into ths picture behind. FRANK G. CARPENTER. upon them. For those of the more sedent ary nature fishing boats ure always wait ing. This enables them to try their luck and show their patience on the Wallklll river. Those who prefer solitary drives or tfamps have sixty miles of the finest moun tain scenery in the world. But how can Mr. Arbuc kle or any one else know that the right girl and the right man will bo there together? By this means Mr. Arbuckle can give l'O men and women a delightful two weeks vacation. As men earn more than women, they pay a third more for the privilege of this outing. During their stay at the farm the women are accommoduted in the farmhouse. The men are left to the mercies of the mosquitoes, protected only by can vas walla. The tents, however, sre snug and comfortable, floored and rainproof. Mr. Arbuckle hopes to be able to take cars of sos more before cold weather sou In.