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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 9, 1906)
t of Beliamy; 1 1 :- .m . . A', A Kr-' ; ':v-vf ft '-w.- Dynamophone Perfected Nearly Years IQQl 1 Wffl Bellamy s. mm Jt ;, DltEAMS are coming true very tepidly thess days. Foot It oul running fancy and truth la Ala counting fiction to n extent posi tively bewildering to him whose a rm nnen to the SClentlflS ; ' wonders of ths day. i Just twenty ysars ago Edward Bellamy I wrote "Looking Backward." Few books! evsr published have bn mora widely! read. It waa Interesting than becauee It, a... .n.h m iniiinua1v rlarlne tnurne Into! dreamland. Ballamy "looked back" from the year &00 and described tha transformed civilization as ha found It In Boston after his sleep of 113 years. In 1887 the book was interesting because of the marvellous Inventions tha author dreamed would come Into use In a little mora than century. It Is Interesting to day because ' In less than two deeadoa 'many of these creations of fancy have crystallised Into realltlea, and aoma of them have been developed far beyond tha .Miitoat rushta of Bellamy's Imagination. One of the moat striking Illustrations of thle la tha final perfection of the dyna mophone, a wonderful electrical Invention for producing scientifically perfect muslo and which Is now being Installed In a building not far from the Metropolitan Opera House. In New York. When In stalled, tha great musical Invention-will supply over telephonlo wires all kinds of ' musto, not only to homes, theatres and churches In the city, but lta production will be transmitted to adjacent localitlea wherever high grade music Is desired at a ' nominal cost. rin. nt eh a moat Interesting chapter! In "Looking Backward" waa a description of Just such a dlatrlbutlon of muslo aa this. Whan tha author awakened from hla long leap ha found that resident of Boston no longer left their homos to enjoy tha beat muslo. At any hour of tha day or - nivht one had but to touch a button and tha room was flooded with any sort of ; rausin one desired. But wis musto pro- . ceeded from central music rooms In vart rnii n.rta ef tha city, where trained must- . clans ware constantly employed, the ' strains of their Instruments or voloes being almply transmitted over wire. Hero Is an Instance where tha reality ', of 106 has far eclipsed what Bellamy dreamed would be accomplished In WOO. Dr. Thaddeus CahlU'o dynamophone doaa wot transmit tha muslo of an Instrument or in orchestra, but it creates muslo said to be mora perfect and pleasing than is C stole to produce with voles or musical trumenls and sends It over the wires with undiminished volume and tons qual ity. It la an Instrument which builds up tone from electrical vibrations, requlrlrg hundreds of dynamos to produce the re suits. Dr. CahlU haa been at work on it for many years, and the first Instrument, which is now being Installed in New York. will cost more than 1200,000. It requires several trained musicians to operate it, throuKh the medium of a great keyboard. . and. in the opinion of experta. bids fair to revolutionize the musical world. In the July number of McClure'e Maga in' eleven pages are devoted to a da acriptton of lr. CahlU's Invention. About the same amount .of space waa given In Bellamy's book to substantially tha same creation, but which existed only In his Imagination, twenty years ago. Read aide by aide, the words describing the reality are Ilka an echo of the language of the dream. . ' In "looking Backward" the author employs a thread of romance to carry the etory. He describes himself as awak ing from his century a trance In ths home Dr. Leete. of Boston, after bavins an dlacovered In a cataleptic atata in a subterranean room. By degreea the new conditions of the year MOO were explained to him by members or the Household. Dr. Loots had a very beautiful daughter. Edith, and It waa aha who conducted him to the sausio room, and muoh of ths de scription of the new musical system is given In her words to hint. MeOlure'e Was- ilae. July, IW. tle TlutWe ef Dr. Ce- testes - Mil's " e e j. Ca hlU's now Invention suggests. If It does not promise, a com plete) change In the system by which a ' ootnparatlvely few rich people enjoy the bast mualc to tha ex clusion of all others. Instead of bringing the people to the pa us to the new meth od sends the music to the people. Highly skilled mu sicians located In a quiet room regulate production bi upon say slimier to of the pipe Coonected wltt ths o t r a I plant, cables are tha streets, rhlch .wires run Into your house or mine, or into restaurants, theatres, churchea, schools, or wherever musto Is desired. Upon our table or attached to the wan wo-have an ordinary a receiver funnel at- By openlna 4 U SB J 'U - " 2 c3L : a" 1 l',l c IN ' 1A r I V '''." , - i Opepaling "the. dynamopVione . turn on the mu slo. Of course, t h c samo selections per. formed by , ths mu sicians go over ths wires at the sams time, so that you and I max sit our homes on Easter morning and hear the sams muslo that la being produced In the churches, or In ths evening, dining at the restaurant, we may enjoy the Iden tical selections given In the opera house or theatres. Wo may be awakened by appro priate muslo la ths morning and go to bed at night with lullabies sloop muslo being a de partment la musical composition which Dr. Cahill thinks has been sadly neg lected. It would be difficult to produce more exquisite ef fects than Dr. Ca hill gets in such se tactions as "TVau merel." Aa She machine la developed and as ths player becomes more expert we may en ter upon a new era of music, what may be called. Indeed, ths demooraoy of muslo. We oannot t w h t y f o u r hours." see, Crossing ttie room, so far aa I could see shs merely touched one or two screws and at ones ths room was filled with the muslo of a ' grand organ anthem Ailed not flooded, for by some means ths vol ume of melody had been perfectly grad uated to ths slzs of the apartment. Again, the sound of rtolins filled the room with ths wltohj err of ,. a summer night. . ' "Our people -keep all hours, but If ths muslo were provided from midnight until morning, it 1 1 1 1 would bo for the sleeplessi the sick and ths dying. All our b o d o h ambers havs a telephone at really herald the complete dominance of demooraoy until wo havs good music, great ploturea and ths beat books at the command of every citizen, see . Tile first impres sion ths m u I maltes upon the lis tener la Its singular dliterenos from any mualc sver heard before. In the full- ilk roundness, eompletsnsss of Its tones. .' As a purs soonomlo proposition It will furnish really good music muoh cheaper than the ordinary small orchestras, and there will be llWIs danger of strikes of musicians. After a machine it Installed In a city a dozen or twenty highly skilled per- tachmeot at the formers may aaafl head of the bed by i supply thousands of which any person who may bo sleep less can command muslo at pleasure of the sort suited to ths mood. "Please look at to day's music," shs said, "and tell me what you would pre fer. It la now five o'olock, you will re member." The card bore date "Septem ber 11. 2000." and con tained the longest programme of muslo I had ever aeon, see 'There are on that card for to day, as you will restaurants, schools. churches and homes with music. In the Boston Symphony Orchestra two My men play first violin and twenty second violin. In ths new Instrument the play er has unlimited volume at hla com mand. e e Wo welcome the new with eagerness; It has a great place to All; It may revo lutionise our musi cal art; but In ac cepting the new we shall not glvo up the old. seu," she said,. "pro grammes of four distinct concerts be ing now simultane ously performed arid any ono of the four pieces now going on you may hear by merely pressing the buuoa which will connect your bouse' wire with the ball whers It Is being rendered." e e "It appears to me, Mies Leete." I Said. "thSl In formar times If we could have devised an ar-! rangement for pro.: vidlng everybody1 with music In their, homaa, perfect in 1 quality, unlimited In quantity, suited to' every mood and be-1 rlnnlng and ceasing1 a will, we should! have considered the limit of human fJ Holty already ai?i tatned and ceaeed to! strive for further I Improvements." "Of course," she' said, "ws all slngj nowsdsys, as a mat ter of course la- the training of ths voice,! and some learn to play instrumente for' their private amuse- ment, but the pro.' fesslonal muslo la so much i grander and i more perfect than ; any performance of ours, and so easily! commanded when we wish to hear it,' that we don't think i of calling our alng- lng or playing music i at. all." mi I r- D M i 4 7 - . i " . sF ji 3; yl AT--, i ID 'V A fA Mechanism s ot ihe dynamophone Dr.Thaaaeus kahili.- ELECTRICITY IN SMELTING. THE Canadian government In 1904 sent a commission, headed by Dr. Haanel superintendent of mines, to Europe to Inquire Into the different electro-thor-mla processes for the smelting of Iron ores and the making of steel. Careful In vestigation of ths various processes used at different points was made, and the re sult reported on the return of the com mission was so favorable that the Cana dian government decided to make further experiments and tests with Canadian ores, and selected Bault Bainte Marie as the point where they should be made. Prep arations for making these tests wsrs com menced In November, 1106, under the di rection of Dr. Heroult. of La Pres. France, the Inventor of ths process bear ing his name. Ths experiments were mads under the supervision or Dr. Haansl and Dr. Heroult, and wars oonoluded on March t. Ths result was telegraphed by Dr. Haansl to Ottawa aa follows: ' "flujcessful demonstration of all points stated la my memorandum on efectrie smelting of Canadian iron ores requlree Investigation. Output greater than fiurs adopted by Harbord In report of commis sion. Suoocssful substitution of charcoal, and therefore of seat for coke." Ths sxpsrlmsnts were made with hema tite, magnetite and tltanlo orea taken from various places, some of which Dr. Haansl could not treat commercially by any other known prooesa. The furnaoe used was about JJO horse power and produced from two to three tons per day. Ores containing 4 pr cent of sulphur contained, when treated, 0 063 per cent la ths metal. About 109 tons of ors was trsated, making tt tons Of iron, of mostly car wheel quality. Ths pyrrhotlts referred to by Dr. Haanel waa roasted nlcksllforous or from ths nickel mines near Sudbury. No serious dlftV-ulty was anooun tared In ths making of ths ex perl menu; everything worked smooth and sasy. - . Both Dr. Haanel and Dr. Heroult as sert that ths Vests fully demonstrate tha: ths erooesa Is a commercial suueess. No full detailed statsmeut will be given to the publlo until report Is made to the govern ment, but Dr. Haanel aays that aa soon as hta report Is made out It will be for warded to the Department of commerce and Labor at Washington. The two prin cipal points that have been demonatrated are that ths electrical process Is good so for as the ore is concerned. In that it pro duces a superior quality of Iron; that sul phuric, titanic and other impure iron ores heretofore considered useless can be used. and that it la commercially feasible from an economical point of view. the jlaylng boards tboas organ. laid In from may IFreos Bellamy's lnk. ln B.ekw.M." 18B7. dMerlbla lmElnr) sainlcel iDveailoaa end Jljloae ia the )e-r oould imagine how those among you who depended at ail on mualc managed to endure fh. fashioned system for Piled Edith. "Muslo really worth hearing must bve been, I "ip??"- who11' of the reach of the maasee. and attain able by ths most favored only oc casionally at great trouble, prodigious expense, and then for brief periods, arbitrarily fixed by somebody sise and In connection with ll "n of unde sirable e I r c u m staraea." see ws have simply carried the Idea of w eavuiaT sy oo v.. i mil mto our I mustoal service as , mm every ining else. I mere) are a number - rooms in ts csty perfectly aaaptea acoustic- auy to tne different A Scientific Defence of TobaccoCigarettes Declared the Safest Form of Its Use telephone with a taahed. ths awltch we may By V By Van 2andt Wheeler, OBACOO. If used Judiciously asw Ith a tincture of common sens". whether by man or woman, neither Injurious nor Is it a sign In the letter instance oi nw. depravity. An rwu SUDI1BDW nnA.. ik. v.. of "Tha Woman Who Bmokaa" takes mercilessly the stand con demning ths use of the weed among men iN mhami and wamn in owvwt. Had Its author besa sontsnt to attack the physical slds only of the question the iiki mull have attracted little comment. ezDeolally among non-smokers, as popular. haiwf has It that tobacco la deleterious to, ths last degree and without a single ilaamlnl lealurO. Touching on the moral side, as regards the growth of ths cigarette habit among women, Pk.A,uUr la favor of tobacco, whils as to the dim inution of morality from IU use I shall Drove U the course of this artlols that no suoh thing follows. This statement X make freely and on eminent medical au thority. The two most dangerous of the many oomposrtes contained la tobacco are sra rtm. and alooune. The proportion of the BS t7 B menus an eraeu f Jfir tho addioesd to ths tobacco 'it fa extremely doubtful whether the drug: " - 1 i in Kmw a1 mtjunir wvwr ido sole cause or a aeuiuis cases, from Its afeuu. aJmiab or iu in regard to the taking of tobacco in any ef Its various forms Is entirely relative to the Individual. Some persons are so consti tuted that svsn a single olgar or cigarette will produce a narootlo effect. Individuals so acted upon should not attempt to smoke. A case such as lust cited Is. ho traoted mental aberration." Personally I am inclined to accept Dr. Pattoas views on the subject, as his ex perience slong this particular line has made him, an accepted authority, even among those of his own profession. John V. MioAmuker f D.. LL. D., in his treaties on ths subject says: Tobac- wth of ths cle-arette habit among tooaeooe ewyee. tor ths artlols is too freely censorious, are of the mildest forms known jlr also, there Is much to bs said, oomes hsxt, whUs the pip,, on ihe. while as to the dun- the secretions ef tobacco oil whl . aawever, . . ... eBsJorkty helievaa. The sorts df music. These for this is that the action of heat deoom- a-ra connected poses nicotine, eo rati -wnsa wmuhiw hi by telephone with Lmokeform little If any Is taken to to the all the houses of ths system. MastloaXed or used as snuff ths city whose people I proportion of nicotine becomes sbgntly care to pay the email ' more pronounced, that Is In ths Cuban and fee. The corps of I domestic products. The Turkish variety, musicians Is so large oa account of Its mildness, la almost sn that although no In-itimlv free from this. He worst of poisons. dividual m u a iclanl Tobaooo la aclentlfloally olaaained under has mors than athe aroo-oarootlc list of poveons. which are brief part, each all dpressnts. It posaeases. however, the day's pro gramme' virtue of being a moat powerful and effec- i lasts through Ute live antiseptic. ever, no oriterloa to go by for smokers at'o must perform some Important part in largs. A peoullar belief fixed In the mlndatPh''eTlcl life, or In ths struggle for of most msn and all women of the no- salslenoe, or It i would not be so widely .t-. uik.. h.miol'ia by men who are distinguieneu UJ tobaoco ths cigarette Is by far ths most in jurious. This conviction Is even held by the majority of those addsoted to pipes and cigars. Aa a matter of taot, however, the cigarette is of the three the least harm ful. Why? Simply for the reason that the tobaooos employed for cigarette purposes The cigar account of bich accumu late la the bowt base and atem. Is ao- sounted the most dangerous. . i Smokbt 6i Cub. In substantiation of what has Just been said regarding cigarettes I will quote from an eminent authority. Dr. Fernan dez (Manual ot Vnlveraai Medical atd eooas, US. B. 17). - la sffeet he says Uat "Mleotine amblyopia, or impalrmsnt of vision. Is almost unknown . In Ouha. though ssnoWag there Is so excessive This tact Is aooounted for by ths means of as no pipes and little chawing.'' There Is a very positive statement made in "The woman who amokas." which toai injuries, hut appears to leave un touched the conscience and moral sense." Another fast advanced by doctors who have made a apecial study of the subject Is that any Individual who so far falls under the seductive spell ot, say, the olg rette habit as to earn the eptthet of flend" Is organically rather weak minded. In the absence ot tobacco he would turn to some habit much more dangerous morpnine or cocaine, for lustancs. me be and Ul per oeot of tannto add. Thel,tretched a point since then. It la now daerestlve and nervous syetems suffer m1-'even possible for a woman (it depends on induces aold dyspespslo, with the attendant nHserlee of heartburn, nausea,-falrrtnees, abdominal pains, InsomnU and mental de pression, ia the asireaate, tnereiore, i the woman) to earn a living and yet considered respectable and a lady. Uvcry nrw fad that has come In for many years past has been attended by this sort bows up as teln far nre deleterious to " criuosm. xnose who seek to march ia the biuuan rystwn than any amount e:? vtn mui expect invariably to draw alkaloids absorbed by smokers, Apropos, let us rsturs to ths ethical and writer . i ha woman vise .... . . . . u a, .. -". v we looaooo prooiecn. oe emmur u -v,. , i mj u. .u w the soundn-ea at their ludament and their . .. . uua. ana nm u.t m . - - - suootss In solving the problems or social,, ,0 and polnt 0Jt th- muoh mot9 existence In every other detail, Norman Kirr M n . In eiculoatlod of UaViamia If h. ..11 H n v "rVinfanrrA- Uon of thought, mental satisfaction, pro teotloa from Infeotktn. and domeatlc hap piness. There are soms persons so oon stltutcd that their latollectual powers re quire to be arrested and oonoeatreued be fore any de Unite intellectual effort can be even entered upon. To Such persons to baooo has proved Invaluable, the advanr tages far outweighing ths dlsadvantagss, No other substance. narooUs ot otherwise. Is yet known which will serve this pur noes and yet do so' little damage Were tobasoe not known the Idiosyncrasies of such persons would Interfere with the achievement and excellence of their work. When one Is exposed to severe weather In the trenohso the power of tobaooo to stay thi stomach's crave for food when no food Is to be had Is marvellous. Ths action of to be coo under suoh olroumstances cannot be considered as harmful. Further, its avers that "Innumerable Instances could disinfecting powers ere wail known. Per be cited of insanity which oould be di-isoiially I would not think of going I reotlv traced to nlootlne poisoning." s( art Patios, M. D., ths well known alien, 1st, in his book. "Psychiatry," advances i different alatement. It ht worded thus: "Aitbougn it is frequently statea in text pecity or In any way books that excessive use of tobacco may eujlr.st morality cr to be saved from the dangers of the ciga rette. Why does aha not nut her fertile Imminent menace of teaT Being a house hold commodity, tea Is drunk by nearly every woman In the country. The disas trous effects conseauent on Its uss are; Ths Woman Who mokes" much Incensed because tha British way authorities havs seen flt to add to their system "oars and compartments con svlcuoualy , labelled 'Ladles' nmoklng Cere.' " Shs Is also further outraged be cause "cars so gdvsrtised should bs sought by ths majority of lady travellers." To ths enemy's flre. Eliminating Us "Lady" tr,e "woman" who Indulges In a few c is-arenas a day In appears! J"001 or In her immediate circle sh raU-i!-V?J?llD: ' femininity. It do- " i snouici eay m domestic fs. partleularly where It U often the cause of the hatchet being buried, j 7.hJri?'0r' Ut tht woman who smokes "v h rw'' 1 11 won hur you. and It won't hurt her iih i .v.. . .. mw. ??' Ur8 mJ0,t, of 'f.tor,y as being unladylike and slaves ot a most L"1 J??1 manifestation of moral de- VUi rminer tne early dawn of lib eral sense and thought In Feminine Politics. WARD Heeler-JExeuse me, miss; but 1 thought I'd drop In ea you for a reepeota. I minute and ask how yoa was going Ths women of to-day are Just begin- .,a,7 V . nlng to struggle out of that "Slough of, a-aoy-nsauy. i naven't made sjp Despond" custom. Ths mire of custommv mln et- has adhered to her feet and balked aodf Heeler Well, miss, I wish you'd taka retarded her steps for hundreds of yeais,?ur mn under consideration. He's a good put,, . lawyer that haa been In politics for test Let us otts a fsw parallels. Take this. If" "T1 h" I0.04 bv.h'" Party against for lnstanoe-Only a couple of generations " "" w"n'" ago no man could work tor a living ana M- t--""" of him! tl-s of It. In the momlng they start sff , Pernicious vice. . to work after having bad nothing more Aside from the physical argument In nutritious than a breakfast consisting of! favor of leaving all such habits alons. I bread or crackers and tea. After working' cannot for - my part see the slightest hard for three or four hours they adjourn 'ethical man late (laid down as it Is by for a luncheon of crackers or bread, and society and custom) that should bold worn on occasions possibly even a pteee of in-! an back from doing what shs likes In such digssUbls sake, and the Inevitable tea. PottonM Apprnt. At nlgtot they vary the monotony of the menu by gtvlng the tea the precede nee and puctmg the crackers and bread sec ond. There are to-day In Mew York city and the outlying disuriote thousands) oo thousands of women so employed who do not tnaka ths acquaintance of meat oa an average of more than once a week. And me average) cXmieeilo if I ean credit what numerous friend tell me there appears to he no limit to the amount she drinks, as all her yet at the same time be considered a gin- Heeler Ts. aise, and tie s straight aa a tleman. Good slits society shunned such.'rn- lndlvlduala. Tnay were "In trade," and1 L.-Cnarming! Ia be marrledf consequently not fit for gentlefolk to as-! Heeler You bet he is. lis knows that Ths deleterious oeasttquoauee vulted eu.glve rue to marked meutal d-atujrba&cw, : vlulema. through a yellow fever ward without lialitatfl rjlEM. dear or ClirArett in m v ... . r.n 4a Want A-hoL)llijr durim mmiih." Further on ha ruurki'-i'l L,iin. imiiri. And vat of all th.. hnari-.i.ia with In this tie. however. If a'the first duty of the patriot and good clil. have never seen tobacco destroy moral ea- many realise that they are poisoning man does not work or possess some tangl-ssn Is to get married, and he's got a wlie lead to ofrenees"renieHves; etowiy may be, but none tne ula occupation he, far rrom netng ron-'ano six cniioim. at. i.. u-r er wuo e kue otner oagt- sets of criminal less surely. Aa shewn by snslyaie lei con- aidered a gentlen.un. is :e rmed u hat is The poison has eHeuWd (iU-, tauis iui yt cant of a (wtoaxus a-aa.oiJ comaunljr We havs diualef I 1 i T I J I - i - i . v V,