! THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MAT 5, 1907. D 1 i ( ( or. T- J ( Developments in the Field of Electricity Molar-leas Trolley Cars. OI9KLKS9 strert rar Wl Is the newest thing promised the rar-sufTrrlng world, through the Incorport tin at retrolt of the Noteelrst Whwl rompnriy. with a capitalisation of ll.ono.om. The fact that the average street rar In panning through a street make rnnuKh nnlse to arouse the dead ha made their prrsenoe one of the banes of city life. To overcome the Jar and hammering; of the monster cars of modern times as their wheels strike the slightest Joint or Impediment to their pro gress over the rails has been one of the dreams of engineers and the people at large. An Inventor brought out the scheme of making a car wheel In two parts. One la to be the center or hub of Iron, and the other a steel rim, to be bolted to the hub. His noise killer Is placed between the two parts and consists of merely a layer of felt or cardboard or some deadening In fluence that receives the Jar and noise be fore It reaches the axle of the car. Experiments have been made with this invention, and It is claimed that Its ef ficiency Is astonishing traction men. On suburban lines, where most of the tents have been made, the Improvement has been o great that a car may pass without no tice by people In the vicinity. The wheel possesses economies also In that a flat wheel can be cured with less xpense by merely placing a new tie on It and milling the old one true again In hort order. Other features of the wheel are attractive also to traction men. The possibility of the growth of steel street cara la making the new wheel more desirable because It la likely that the steel car would be subject to greater vibratory weakness than the wooden car, and by the use of the noiseless wheel all of that difficulty can be overcome. The matter Is arousing much Interest In all large cities where the noise of the street cars has been Increasing with their increase In Dumber, and Is giving some concern to physicians and others, who realise the III effects on humanity In general. Klertrlrltr "npplnnta Steam. The opening of the new electric road on the Rochester division of the Brie railroad recently marked another achievement of American Ingenuity In electrical railway service. For the first time, reports the New York Tunes, a steam railway Is using a single-phase alternating motor for mov ing trains, with, power from Niagara falls, seventy miles away. The new aystem has been installed on the main Una of the Erie between Rochester and Avon, and on a branch running- from Avon to Mt Morris. It covers thirty-four miles of single track and is Intended fur passenger service only. Until the trolley cars were put Into oper ation the equipment was largely in the oatur of an experiment. The preliminary teat Justified the confidence of the engi neers, and this promise has been borne out by the operation of the road since it was opened to the publio several weeks ago. Indeed, the departure la considered so suc cessful that plans are under way to extend the trolley system to other divisions of the Sri lines. The arstem has been developed In the' laat three years by the Weatlnghouae In tareeta Its novelty la found In the use of the alternating current Instead of the direct current that haa been generally em ployed by steam railroads. This change has been made possible by the single-phase motor. It is an adaptation of the older contrivance used on street cara . Although th aingle-phase motor la not unlike the direct current motor In its opera tion, there la an Important difference In the use of the alternating current. It is unnecessary to supply a direct current on any part of the electric line. Therefore there is no need for the rotary converter substations, which have heretofore been Installed at intervals along the electrlo lines. , The substation at Avon Is nineteen miles from Rochester and fifteen miles from Mt. Morrla or about midway between the terminals of the new road. The power Is drawn from the lines of the Niagara, Lock port tt Ontario Power company running to the new station of the Ontario Power com pany at Niagara falls. In the substation building are three 750 kllowatt transformers of the oll-lnsulated. water-cooled type, which transform the W,0tX)-volt three-phase current from Nlag--' ara to an lLOOO-volt aingle-phase current This la fed directly to the trolley wires of the Erie railroad. The overhead construc tion is of the ao-called "catenary" type, the trolley wire being suspended from a messenger cable at Intervals of ten feet, the whole being supported on poles with brackets. The support given by the mes senger cable la a precaution required by the high el c trio tension, the relative large power supplied to the cars, the high speed at which they are run and the necessity for absolute certainty of coutacu The transformers on the cars receive the power at U.000 volla and lower it to a point be tween 110 and Ito volta the average being 2M volts. the fact that none of the heat Is wasted all of it is employed In cooking the food! or heating the liquids. The very best esti mates show that fully seven-tenths of the heat from an ordinary range is wasted. Three-tenths are used to cook the food and the rest goes up the chimney or makes the kitchen untenantable. Rut cooking Is only one of the many conveniences of everyday electricity. There are sixty-seven different kinds of heating devices manufactured by the Oeneral Elec tric company, Including cigar lighters, milk warmers, corn poppers, shaving miia;, heating pads, radiators, fist Irons, broilers, cookers, coffee and tea percolators, chafing dlehes, etc. Electricity Is no made to do moat of the work In the home. Small . motors are used to run the tewing ma chines, floor sweepers and polishers, wash ing machines, buffers and grinders, bread mixers, ash sifters, meat choppers, fans, etc. Electricity Is the new household ser vant. It responds Instantly to call and performs willingly all the heavy work about the house. It never asks for half a day off and has no relatives to get mar ried, sick or die. Sometimes the timid housewife Is afraid of getting a shock. There Is not the slight est danger. The appliances are as simple end safn as an electric light. The wires are perfectly Insulated and may be handled with Impunity. Electric utensils are far easier to operate than a coal stove, and ten times as safe as a gasoline stove or alcohol chafing dish. They can nclthar catrh fire nor explode. No one thinks of disputing the fact that electricity will be an everyday necessity in a few years. Electricity la the Oldest City, , Hidden away in the consular trade re ports received at Washington Is the an nouncement that electricity has at last been Introduced Into Damascus, the oldest surviving city in the world, and probably the most typical oriental one. On Febru ary 7 that city celebrated tho opening of a new electric street railway and an elec tric street lighting service. It was an event of more than passing Interest in the old city. Representatives of the Ottoman gov ernment came from Constantinople to at tend the celebration The consul general at Beirut writes the State department that It was a red letter day In the annals of Ottoman Asia. T'ntll about one year ago there existed a ban on electricity In Tur key. The consjl general at Beirut relates that It was American Influence that raised the ban. Now that the government permits the Introduction of electricity It Is pre dicted by the consul general that a morning of great awakening Is at hand In the near east. He writes that the natives ara in fatuated with the electric light and are already preparing to Introduce It In their shops and residences. Blnce Turkey raised the ban against electricity coneeselona for electric light and street railway under takings huve been granted corporations In Damascus. Melnit. Aleppo, Smyrna and 8a Innlca. The country la still without the telephone, but It la assimed that It will follow speedily on the heels of the electrical car and the elertric light. Ahead, Vet Behind. The nervous foreigner got up and went back to the conductor of the street car. "I'arding, m'sleur," said he, "but sea ear, he run so slow, and why, It you pleeseT Eees It not so?" "Yep," replied the conductor. ,rW cant help it, though. You see, the car ahead la behind." The foreigner's eyes opened wider. "Would you mind saying him again?" It asked apologetically. "I say," replied the conductor, louder than before, "that the car ahead la be hind. See?" The foreigner returned to hla seat. "Zee car-r-r ahead, he ees behind?" said ha to himself. "Most wonderful, most astonish ing is xis country'.' Judge. Gossip and Stories About Noted People Everyday EJectrlelty. But a few years ago electricity, even for lighting purposes, waa a luxury. Bui there have been giant strides of progress since then la the bui:dlng of electrical machinery and In the, methods of dis tributing current until today the mysteri ous force can be economically employed to perform the drudgery of housework and to add to our greater comfort aa well aa light our buildings and streets, turn the wheels of Industry and carry our mes sages. It Is everyday electricity now. A few utensils, a few pennies' worth of current, and the meal can be prepared by electricity prepared cleanly, quickly, without dirt, odor, or that worst of house bold evils, an overheated kitchen. The secret of electrical cooking lias la Marrlmnn's Corrrapondent. jlDNET Webster, the recipient of E. H. Harrlman's 2-year-old letter, publication of which created such a hullabaloo, was the private secretary of President Franklin Pierce 'way back In the flftlea. Mr. Webster, says the Washington Herald, had studied law under tha great New Hampshire democrat, and when Oeneral Pierce was called to the presidency he brought the young lawyer along to Wash ington as his private secretary. Stuyveeant Fish's father, Hamilton Hah, afterward Grant's secretary of state, was then a senator from New York, and a few years after, when Mr. Webster had opened a law office In New York, where he has ever since resided, he married Hamilton Fish's eldest daughter. Curiously enough, he waa the mentor for both his brotber-ln-law, Btuyvesant Fish, and E. II. Harrlman, and was directly Instrumental in making them members of the board of directors of the Illinois Central railroad, from the presi dency of which Mr. Harrlman recently ousted Mr. Fish. Although still a stanch democrat of the old school, Mr. Webster has taken- no active part In politics for many years. He Is descended directly from the stock that produced the great Daniel. Okies aad the Bible. Jamea H. Bckles, who died suddenly of heart disease at his home In Chicago a few days ago, was one of the moat devoutly religious men of large affairs In the coun try. He scrupulously avoided ostentatious display of his genuine piety, reports the Washington Herald, and only hla most In timate friends knew of hla deep re ligious convictions. Among them was Orover Cleveland, who, while governor of New York, dlsceamed this trait In Mr. Ecklea' character when the latter was a student of the Albany law school. Mr. Ecklea waa not a psalm singer or a leader of prayer meetings, etc. Seldom was his name pullcly .lcinjtel "with church mat ters of religious movements, but It is re called by persons In Washington who knew him well when be lived here as comptroller of tha currency In tha last Cleveland ad ministration, that he gave more liberally of his income to the cause of religion than any man of their acquaintance. It waa his custom to read one or more chapters of the Bible every night before retiring. It made no difference how late the hour, and on his outing trips ha invariably carried, tucked away In hla baggage, a copy of the sacred book. It is related that while always the Jolliest member of every outing party, Mr. Ecklea never failed to read tha Bible In camp under a sputtering light every night as long as the trip lasted. Ha and Mr. Cleveland, the latter the son of a minister, used to have long discissions of the Bible whenever Mr. Ecklea called at the White House at night for a private chat with the president. Moarnlna for a Brla-aad. Corslcans are mourning tha death of tha brigand chief Bellacoacla, of whom they are almoat aa proud aa of Napoleon. Hla real name waa Antonio Bonelli, In conse quence of a vendetta he and hia brother, Jacob, were compelled alxty years ago to seek safety in the mountains. For forty eight years they terrorised tha country, going from province to province, and all efforts of the government to capture them were unavailing. In US2. aged and broken down, Bollacoscla volutarlly delivered him self Into tha hands of Justice. So great waa the national admiration of hla bold ex ploits that tho court of AJaoclo acquitted him, but the police expelled him and he Bought a home in Marseilles. Ha could not endure hla exile more than a few months and secretly returned to end hla days In tha wtkSs of Corsica. . raraell's Eatraae lata) Polities. Justice McCarthy says that aa a youth Charles Btewart Parnell had not the slight est scrap of Interest In politics. Without a drop of Irish blood In his veins, he waa re ceiving the orthodox tuition of an English youth In England. While he was at Cam bridge the Fenian movement broke out In Ireland. Hla mother waa then in hla an cestral borne at Avondale, In the county of Wlcklow. She waa supposed to have soma sympathy with the movement and to have sheltered Fenians In the house. Avondale waa searched by the police and even Mrs. Parnell s bedroom was not sacred from In vestigation. When young Parnell heard of this Indignity offered to hla mother he be came suddenly filled with a passion of hatred for English government In Ireland. From that moment he became the Invet erate enemy of English rule In Ireland. Great Graadeoa of John Haaeork. A member of the engineering force of the new city water works at Greeley. Colo., Is the great grandson of the famous John Hancock, who played such an important part In the early history of this country, was the first signer of the Declaration of Independence and the first governor of Massachusetts. The head of the fourth generation is also named John Hancock and bears a striking resemblance to the portraits of his illustrious ancestor. His father was Ozro Hancock, a Massachusetts manufacturer, and his grandfather. Heze klah Hancock, fought in the revolutionary war. This John Hancock waa born In Boston, Is a graduate of the Institute of Technology and he and his young son are the last of this branch of the family. Many relics, in cluding letters written when governor of Maasachusetts to his wife, were In his possession until recently, when they were turned over to the state bouse collection in Boston. John Hancock of Greeley Is 45 years old. Mark Twala'a Acquaintances. We had recently arrived In Berlin and had beun housekeeping In a furnished apartment, relates Mark Twain In his Autobiography. One morning at breakfast a vast card arrived an invitation. To be precise It waa a command from the em peror of Germany to come to dinner. Dur ing several months I had encountered socially, on the continent, men bearing lofty titles; and all this while Jean waa becoming more and more impressed and awed, and aubdued, by them Imposing eventa, for she had not been abroad be fore, and they were new to her wonders out of dreamland turned into reallttea. The Imperial card waa passed from hand' to hand, around the table, and examined with Interest; when it reached Jean ahe exhibited excitement and emotion, but for a time waa quite apeechlees; then ahe said: "Why, papa, if It keep going on like this pretty soon there won't be anybody left for you to get acquainted with but God." It was not complimentary to think I waa not acquainted In that quart or, but ahe waa young, and the young Jump to con cluslona without reflection. Ontmltted by t'nele Joe. How Speaker Joseph G. Cannon once out witted his schoolmaster and saved a favor ite cap from confiscation Is a story of his younger days told In the Saturday Evening Poet by a former schoolmate, now a pro fessor in a western quaker college. It was at a time when Mr. Cannon's parents lived In a quaker settlement In western Indiana where the district school waa governed by a man thoroughly Imbued with the Ideas of severe simplicity at that time in favor among the Friends. Contrary to all precedents and In viola tion of accepted tenets In matters of dress. young Mr. Cannon appeared at school one day wearing a cap which, like the famous coat of the first Joseph, was of many colora It was bo different from those of the other boys that the master's attention waa at once attracted and he promptly confiscated the offending cap, quietly re moving It frcm its peg. When school was dismissed, being unable to find his cap and divining the cause for Its disappearance, young Cannon, with equal lack of ceremony, removed from its accustomed place the high hat of the teacher, which, although too large, he placed on the back of his head and a few moments later when the teacher glanced through the window he discovered his precious headpiece bobbin? away among the trees on the head of his errant pupil. No words ever passed between them over the Incident, but the following morning both the hat and cap were replaced. General Mar Arthur. Lieutenant General Arthur MacArthur, who Is soon to be relieved of the command of the division of the Pacific and at his own request take station at Milwaukee. Is one of the very few survivors of the civil war now holding commission in the army. General MacArthur fought his way up from the ranks In a Wisconsin regiment THE ST STEP FIR In the Gotzian Shoe .3 one of satisfaction. The Gotzian Shoe does not need to be broken in. "It fits like your footprint," holds its shape and wears longer than other shoes. From the first step to the last the best shoe your dealer can sell you for $3.50 or $4.00. V H 1 11 f .. Made in St. Paul by C. Gotzian & Co. since 1853. and has seen as much hard fighting and other actual service of the soldier as per haps any other living American. By the army he Is generally regarded as one of the most accomplished and scholurly sol diers in the world. He will not retire under the age limit until lSoS. It 1b recalled that when "Tecumseh" Sherman held the highest rank In the army, as la now the case with General MacArthur, he refused to live In Washington because he did not like tha system of the War department and made his residence in St. Louia HOTELS. Curious and Romantfc Capers of Cupid End of a Uag Walt. HE lesson we are taught by tha happy conclusion of the courtship between John B. Bundrec and Miss Rose McGulre. relates the Chicago Inter-Ocean, Is that we should never be discouraged, even in the face of apparently Insurmountable difficulties-. If John B. Bundren, like some men that we can nearly all point out, had become disheartened In the early days of his courtship and given up Miss Rose if be had, as other lovers have, left her with a look of cold disdain In his face; If he had written her a letter telling her that she could never be even a sister to blm tha chances are that the courtship would never have terminated as happily aa It has. John and Rose were boy and girl to gether in Tennessee, away back In the early days of the last century. When ha waa 11 and ahe was 10 they loved each other pas sionately. At the age of 19 she waa carried off to England by her parents. He, broken hearted, migrated to California. Recently he returned to Tennessee and purchased the old homestead. He discovered his old sweetheart s address. A correspondence sprung up between them. He proposed marriage. She accepted him. He la going to Preston, Lancashire, In June to mairy her. She will be 100. He will be 101. $ Elopera Wed la River Skiff, Robert E. Bradcnham and Miss Hannah D. Godden, elopers from New Kent county, Virginia, were married In the middle of the Pamunkey river, near West Point. Va. The Rev. Mr. Waugh..a Baptist minister, and Charles Cabe, a friend, accompanied tha couple, who were fleeing from the par ents of the girl. Mr. and Mrs. James H. Godden. who pursued In another boat. The skiff was being rowed across the river while the marriage service was read. The couple landed at West Point and boarded the Baltimore boat for a trip north. The parents were close enough f 1 7 ViJ I"-'. ? r I . V i - f L&r7Ly -w)u iuj!?h while the marriage service was being pe--formed to see what was going on, but were unable to prevent It. The Cerras Way. Prince Voungchln of Corea Is now old enough to be married and must soon take to himself a wife. He does not have any thing to say about who he shall wed, for a commission of six elders chooses the girl for him. She is sent to the palace and told to marry him and that is all either of them have to say about the matter. It is not so different from the way European royalty la mated, either. 9 Lone Bachelor Cop Trapped. The Patrolmen's Wives' Benevolent as sociation celebrated Its fifth anniversary by a barn dance at Majestic hall, In East One Hundred anB Twenty-fifth street. New York City. Cupid was there and In rare form, reports the New York World. "What a charming laugh!. Who owna It?" Policeman John H. Little of the or chestra waa moved to exclaim as a silvery ripple reached him despite the tooting of the bass hom. "Permit me to present you," said a ma tron who knew Little to be the only single member of the orchestra. Little was de lighted. So waa Miss Margaret Brown, niece of Policeman George Fink of As toria, for Little appeared tall and handsome and he could play the piano. "Now, that's the kind of a girl I would choose for a wife," mused little as he rat tled the lvorlet once more, and his eyes followed tha dainty figure of the owner of that silvery laugh, as she danced. Some how or other, maybe It waa by wireless. Little's musings were communicated to the accommodating matron. The matron, smil ing, hastened to the side of the owner of the silvery laugh. "What do you think of a man like that for a husbandT" she asked, blandly. Mlsa Brown waa ready to admit that the manly figure cf the piano playing police man pleased her greatly. The matron. chuckling at the pose bill tits, hunted up the entertainment committee, the floor commit tee ard the board of directors of the Wives' association. She told them she thought there was a chance of Mlra Brown qualify ing for membership if matters were con ducted with delicacy and despatch. "They are going to pop for you. Jack," whispered or.e of the pianist's friends to Little, by way of warning. "Pop for me nothing," cried the pianist. I'll pop for myself," and he strode forth, followed by the orchestra. It waa not by accldert that before he had gone very far he met Mlsa Brown, fal lowed by a bevy of desiirtilng matrons. Po liceman John It. Little Is a brave num. He has faced death many a time without flinch ing, but It was with a quivering voice that he laid hla heait and hand at the f-et of the young woman. "Yia." said Miss Brown, loud enough for all to hear. There was a shout that Jingled the 'chandeliers. Mrs. Minnie Whitman, president if the ass. elation, was for get ting a parson at once, but the young couple counseled against haste and promised to let everybody help them celebrate their wed ding some time w'thln a month. Killed by Fanny fltorr. Mrs. Mary Elisabeth Bennett, wife of Fred K. H liennett of Trenton. N. J., la Cead as the result of a funny story told by ber hut hand a week ago. 8he laughed so heartily thftt she burst a blood vessel, and death ensued after aeveral days of In tense, suffering. Three y.ara ago Mrs. Bennett's two sons were drowned together while swimming In tho canal. The Bennetts were at dinner when the husband told the fatal Joke, which was about a young man who telephoned to his wife that six or eight of their relatives were coming to dinner and that she had better get a slice of ham for the meal. The wife laughed until she became un conscious. Despite the best medical and surgical skill that could be procured, Mrs. Bennftt suffered great agony before ahe passed away. Bnlldlna- the Morning Fire. The solemnity of a marriage ceremony at Des Moines laat week was broken when the bridegroom suddenly demanded that aa part of the obligations assumed by tha bride she must covenant to build the early morning Are. John H. Harris and Minnie Allen were the contracting parties, and they atood In the official chambers of Judge Cope, upon whom they had called to be made one. "Why, man alive, that is the most as tounding Innovation I ever heard sug gested as part of a marriage contract," said Judge Cope, when he had sufficiently recovered to grasp the significance of tha interruption. Hants started to argue the question. The bride looked abashed. Judge Cope sharply admonished Harris that he was not ambitious to figure in a burlesque per formance and that if he desired to wed to say so, and If not, to leave. "Proceed, Judge," said Harris, and tha knot waa tied. What tha Governors Bald. The aouthernera have a humor of their own. It occasionally has a bite In It, but It is the bite of good "heady" cider made out of sweet apples, not the bite of vinegar. As an Instance of It is the story of what the governor of North Carolina really said to tho governor of South Carolina. It was only about the last governor back not In the historic times "befo' the wall." The two governors had met on some oc casion and the talk turned to education. Suddenly the governor of North Carolina exclaimed, "Thank God fur South Caro lina!" "Look here." said the governor of South Carolina, "what are you thanking God for South Carolina for?" (He auspecied some thing wrong.) "Why. answered North Carolina, "be cause if It weren't for South Carolina North Carolina would be the most Illiterate state in the union!" Husband by Advertisement. A matrimonial advertisement, published six months ago. brought Mrs. Sarah White of Long Beach. N. J., a widow with two children, a husband, who provided for the household. He Is now, however, among the missing. Spence that was the wooer's name In serted the advertisement. He was a wid ower, his wife having died about the same time Mrs. White's .husband did. Mrs. White answered the advertisement, and Spence lost no time in coming to Long Branch. He Joined the Simpson Methodist Episcopal church, and two weeks later mar ried the young widow, whose father is an officer In the church. Monday, April Fool's day, B pence kissed his wife good-bye and left. Mrs. Spence haa moved ber household gooda to tha home of her lathee- 9f "gain the timely Inn,3 sari Shakespeare, and wa think tha Hotel Belmont NEW YORK deserves this title "Timely it is at the very doors of the Gram Central Station with surface and elevated lines right at hand and a private passage to sub way station for both express and local trains. 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