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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 22, 1907)
3 Literary Societies Stimulate Study Among Omaha High School Pupils THE OMAIIA SUNDAY BEE: DECEMBER 22. 1907. ill K ALL of It s-ipplemcntary brandies there In none In whirh the Omnha Hiph school feels more pride than It lit erary societies. Of these there are about fifteen at present and conspicuous among thrm are the Latin and German societies. During the last week both three organization 'have riven programs of more thun passing: Interest. The Latin society was organised about four years ago, Miss Busan Paxsnn and Mlsa Ellen Rooney, InHtructors In the Latin department, being: chiefly Instrumental In Its launching. Realizing: that by the aver age boy and girl Latin was looked upon essentially as a root language and that Caesar and Clssero were very much, of the past. Miss Pax son conceived the Idea of putting: Into the atudy a little more of liv ing Interest To present the Latin to the studenat as an everyday language that had been spoken by boys and girls like them selves seemed most desirable and to this end she wrote the little Latin play, "The Latin School?' which deals with Caesar and Cicero as school boys, together with many others of their time. The play waa put on at the high school by the Latin students and so successful did It prove that It nqt only resulted In the organization of a. permanent Latin society but has coma rreatly Into demand by high school Latin atudents In many other cities. Last week tt was "put on for a second time at the Omaha High school and waa one of the cloverest things jelyen this year. The In telligence of Its presents yon proved the Interest and study It had aspired In mem ber of the cost, while the appreciation of A h A k .; it r - im ITA y.iTMm TX't' . SPM 'L :V ' A .A.h" . ;.v m 4 V" r Jr 4 i 'Y f is i - , 9 , I v. .'7 -".."A t J , ( 1 i 4 PARTICIPANTS IN TITB LATIN PLAT AT THE OMAIIA HIGH SCHOOI the audience Indicated the general under standing. The society now Includes about seventy members and meota Wednesdays every other week. Ita programs are made out for a year ahead and Miss Hess Snyder, head of the Latin department, with the other four Instructors bears equal responsibllty In planning tta work. The program consists, largely of papers and discussion of sub jects directly pertaining to the regular class work, but for which recitation hours do not admit because of limited time. This sup plcmentary work has proven most valu able and has been productive o' a number of essays that would have been creditable to students much farther advanced. Mem bership In the society Is limited to members of the three upper classes. "The Roman School" has recently been produced by the Central High school ot Kansas City and - also by the South Omaha High school Latin students, and within the last week requests for Ita loan have come from five other high schools. As presented last week the cast Included: Mnglster Howard Roe Judices ....Merrill Rohr'jough, Stanley Reranek Servl Robert Howe, Allen Tukey Pedagogus Stanley Reranek Crassus, Adulescens Philip McCullough iJiscipull Marcus Tulllus Cicero Arthu Rodgers Quintus Tulllus Cicero. .Ed ward Wirtoafter Lucius Serglus Catlllna raul Wyera Marcus Antonius Philip Mets Caius Julius Caesar William Grudlnsky Applus Claudius Caecus Wilson Heller Lucius Llclnius Lucullus Roy Creeling Cneius Pomplus Doren Smith Publlus Lieinius Pulcher.... Joseph Burger Marcus Junius Brutus. ...James McAlllmer Quintus Hortenslus Hortalus Ed Smith Marcus Claudius Marcellus.. Wallace Troup The German society or Verrln la a much larger and older organisation. It was formed about five years ago at the sugges tion of Miss M. A. Landls, head of the high school Gorman department, for prac tice In the spoken language. It now has a membership ot about lh and Is open to any German sneaking student cf the school whether a member of the German classes or not. The meetings are held weekly and are. devoted to programs and the singing of folk songs alternately. The singing Is counted esiclally valuable, as It not only helps In the reading of German, but gives confidence to the reader, who seldom hesi tates to take bis part In so large a chorus. Then, too, the German songs are espechilly expressive ot the German spirit and this Is slso valuable to students. By this method beginning students come Inte the meetings with the more advanced ones and from them gather much that Is helpful and im possible under other- circumstances. Miss Abba Bowen, with the other Instructors of the German department, work with the society. Last Wednesday the society presented a. Christmas program that was additionally Interesting for Its portrayal of the German emphasis of the Christmas season. Reci tations, songs by the girls' chorus, a violin solo, a violin quartette and a Christmas play contributed t an altogether enjoyable hour. It was all given In German and at the close of the play the children In the cast called upon Santa, Claus, when not one, but twe appeared, each with a pack on his back, from which were produced small stockings filled with candy and popcorn, which were distributed among the audience. Widening Ways Of Applying" Electricity I Tea Party at Which Some Old Ladies Over 65 Were the Guests of Honor Comparing; Locomotives. OST Interesting, if not conclusive, JKfl 1 have been the tests Instituted X V j I by the Pennsylvania Railroad company to determine the efficiency of Its new electrlo locomotives as compared with others driven by steam. In no case did the electrically propelled engine equal the speed displayed by the rival locomotive. In some cases the difference per hour was very marked, which Indicates beyond .a doubt motor such as' the steam driven machine of this enormous weight 40,000 pounds Is can neither eqnal nor surpass. In spite of due to the 5.000 gallons of oil used in each the vast advantage which experience con- rnachlne for coolfiifr and Insulating pur- trlbutes to its construction. " poses. Each giant transformer Is In iho ri- shape of an oval, stands twenty fe&t Kxtrnillna- Electric Zone. above the floor and measures 9 by 18 The New York, New Haven ind Hartford feet. When these machines are working railroad company Is so .veil satisfied with mey electric power on the New York City ter minal that tt will, In the spring, extend the electric sone from Stamford to South Norwalk. The company's experts say that tho superiority of the older type for long tno flrst 8,x months can hardly furnish an runs, where high speed maintained for adequate Idea of the comparative cost, hut hours la considered essential to transit. ' enough Jias been demonstrated to proVe "Severar things must bo remembered to economy win result will each transform 14,000 horse power of electrical energy from, a low voltage to a high voltage at the remarka ble high efficiency of 98. per cent. The, rapid development of the numerous water powers of the country during the last few years was made possible by'lhe wonderful Improvement of the trans former by the General Eelectrlc company a ' , 1 .. , . II'I.L IL. the advantage of the electric locomotive," The first electric trains on the New York " er e.ericn wi;uw1B u. , comments the Brooklyn Eagle. "It Is In- division were run July 23 last. At that old types of electric transmission acvicoa comparably cleaner than its competitor; It tlm0 the equipment was completed as far the current could be carried but a short does not fill the eyes and lungs of passen gers or passers with smoke and soot. It Is therefore much more desirable for sub urban trame, which involves rutis leading through thickly settled neighborhood and through tunnels or partially covered cut tings, which so frequently constitute the approach to terminals. And as to the speed factor Itself, it must as New Rnchelle. Electric trains began uiBianue, wncrtm mm mj uugu uai running to Tort Chester on August 6. and formers of today electricity li transmlt Stamford became the eastern terminus of ted under high pressure for hundreds of the electric system on September V). At miles. present there are sixty-four electric trains per day on the line between Stamford and Electric Lamp. New York-thirty-two each way. Most of Te8ts have becn n,ade ln Nowark- N- J theso are locals, but some are through of a new electric lamp, the Invention of trains. For tha latter, steam locomotives Ra,Pn S00"' a yul,K resident of that city. not be forgotten that the electric 'engine 1. re "hed of the electric motors, The lamp Is designed to light large spaces, .tin ,.... . .!....,!... Stamford. the smallest else being 4,000 candlepower miia. VUIU),iaMTClJ BJJatlllilH, 111 US n- fancj. In the early days of steam rail- roadlng, thirty mllea an hour was thought Ur,t Transformers la the World. to be a terrific and excessive speed. It was Three of the largest transformers ever a long while before this rate of speed was known ln the electrical industry are be generally attained as a regular thing upon lng manufactured for the Great Western all the trunk lines. In other words, a con- Power company of California by the Con siderable period elapsed before the steam eral Electrlo company at Schenectady, locomotive was developed to the point N. Y. The main powar house of this corn and the largest 260,000. A special size Is be ing made by Mr. Scott, who Is only 22 years old, for the Lackawanna terminal ln Hoboken. The Inventor . says this- light will give" 1,600,000 candlepower. The flrst test of a 32,000 candlepower lamp was made on. Monday night at the Inventor's factory in ' Newark. The lamp threw such a brilliant where what la now considered alow gelng pany Is located oaUhe Feather' river, near 1!8ht that the reflection was ''visible for . . ..... . n ... . . . - : , mk. iM ft.A became established as the express standard. OrroviJle, In the county of Butte. Tha Yet, though the electric locomotive Is but'ultlhiate head of water developed will be a few years old. It can reel off seventy 825 feet and 40,000. horse power will be rnlles an boar - with sn ease suggesting transmitted at 100,000 volts to points much greater things hereafter. It Is a re a- along the coast 1SS miles distant..' sonthly sate, guess that the near future will The total weight of each of these mon- wltnees an Improvement in the electric ster transformers will be 128,000 pounds; miles. The largest electric, lamp ln the world will be built this winter by Mr, Scott for theater In New York, - - The principle ofthe new lamp is the gathering of a cluster of carbons In such a manner that they slant downward obliquely from each other, thereby eliminating, the shadow. " ' ' f - v, 1 ' ' ' ' inmi own'' r-r -"- - 4 M': 1 '. GROUP OF OLD LADIES WHO WERE GUESTS RECENTLY' AT A RECEPTION GIVEN BY THE EXET ER WOMAN'S CLUB. Omaha's . " Finest" of a Quarter of a Century Ago r-- : : p- Quaint Features of Life m WENTY-FIVE yeara ago tho police force of Omaha consisted of sixteen men, Including th police Judge and city marshal. It was a sturdy bunch of men, ' too, and they managed to keen the 'city level,, although the west was then of a much more wild and wooly type than in these days and the lot of a policeman was a fcais.rdoua one even In the mildest form. The "force" In 18S2 consisted t Police Judge Gustavo Benecke, City Mar shall I. P. Angel, "A. Black, William Mc Cune, Ed Gorman, Halfdan Jacobsen, John O'Donahoe, William Nightengale, C. A. McClure, F. J. Kaspar, -Maurice Sullivan, William Flynn, Jerry O'Grady, F. KlefTncr, Owen Buckley and Joseph Granacher, Of the old crowd there la now living Wil liam McCune, better known as VBIlly" Mc Cune, the personal friend and advance agent of Colonel W. F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill," who is at present spending the winter ln Omaha, with his headquarters at the Merchants hotel; Halfdan Jacobsen, who Is employed In the office of the city treas urer; John O'Donahoe la farming over ln .Iowa; William Nightengale Is engaged In the painting business In Omaha; Maurice Sullivan Is living a retired life on South Seventeenth street; Frar.k J. Kaspar (Casper) is in the real estate and coal busi ness on South Thirteenth street; William Flynn Is taking things easy at his home ln ' Omaha. All the rest are dead. Judge Benecke died about seven years ago. His widow returned to her old heme In Ger many, where she still lives. City Marshal Dan Angel has been dead these many years, but Is still remembered as one of tho beBt men who ever wielded the macs In the west. Judge Benecke was a character In his way. He was one of the old-timers of Omaha and for a while was the editor snd publisher of one of tho first German papers published ln Nebraska. It was called "The Beobachter" and waa printed In the old Bee building on lower Furnam street. He was subsequently elected Justice of the jeace and, sueceuded Pat O. Ilawes In the otflce of police Judge. He only served- part ot his term, having been granted a vaca tion for a few months, and managed to stay away from Omaha over a year, when the city ecu mil appointed Gustave Ander son (now CntU'd States commissioner) to serve out the term. E. M. Stenberg suc ceeded Judge Anderson. Prior to Judge Penerke's time the police force consisted of but eight men. There waa no police board at the time. The city hall at this time was located ln Pattee's optia hou., a three-story frame building located at the northwest corner of Sixteenth and Farnam streets. Tha building was later known as Redlek's opera hous. having been won by one of the Redicks at a lottery drawing und the name changed to that of the lucky ticket holder. The city Jail was located in a small to ' story brick building In the center ot a big lot across Sixteenth street, where the Pax ton block now stands, tha 'building being surrounded by trees. The rock plU was located across Farnam street on the pres ent site of the Board ot Trade building. That rock' pile was the result of Judge Anderson's activity, and after it waa under full headway a tramp could not be coaxed within fifty miles of Omaha. ' The state courts used to sit In the old city hall building, but the third story was reverently kept (or opera bouse purposes. ' - f -. : v 'h':. : ' 7 " --C'r: Vv T'- v 7 . ,:j7 v7! .--U. ,; :.. 7 7;.;7 70:;.; 7-" 7-x77- tS-r; vri; r;5)'7-:':f. .$m:4 rr-7 i -77 7l4..7;r -7; v-: 77 i ya :..:f 7 ... i J v-ET), -V ;7 :.:7:,': Jr : , -v -; i ! ... ; ; :. :s a :: : .-r-. .nc--- - - rJ, 1 c cSt o I L a,J L S:x . Jr r ' 'i?--milc 7;.77v; - : hmoi. V J;;7Q?) ' f ' 'iHwrmau,- A'afsbsiinv.' " '-L. 7 f ' ? h ' 'fc-to-----Jv - -- . ? -' m VxcJ3jitir-' . TJ - : K ..-a.flUfU.- -'; 7' f-r 7 r : 7-77 '- ' v HfJlitiuijalr.-; ; .... J WA-- ?:'i 7 :AA rrcn ' ; ijir Jv;ii;; fe. Ap- , iam, 7- v - ;:v S: CV-.. Sr: AlAt"' :juaua...:. V - .. ' -.- - . 111 inn) 1 r 1 IAJ i 1 1 l,,,t') ' ' '' " "m" ' iV -1- i-- ' "",'r'Vt - -tf."y.AniKi.atarshou. WmaljaMi'lrluo-. to.iWucrtunuicc.iiln-.- - '- ; ; r- f. j V 'Tivv. -- ov7- 7.- vt V " - f c .0 ',-, "- i J L--r -.SJ L.jYrXIJ ' L, , ,ij . ' ... vr , .. i O'.jvauuiliei- T OMAHA'S POLICE FORCE OF TWENTY-FIVE! YEARS AGO. Prior to the police court days there w.'.s of Mayor Chase. The city clerk tn 1882 was -no police Judge. The trial of municipal of- J. J. L. C. Jewett; Truman Buck was city fenders was held before the mayor ln the treasurer; John V. Howe and W. J. Con "Mayor's Court." The police Judges ot nell, city attorneys; Andrew Rosewater, Omaha served in this order: John Sahler, city engineer; John H. Butler, file wsrden; John R. Porter, E. G. Dudley, R. H. WU- P. 8. Leisenrlng, health officer.' The mem ber, John R.t Porter, Gustave Anderson, bers . of the city council were:' C C Pat O. Hawes, Gustave Beuecke, Gustave Thomas. Fred Behm, D. L. McGuckea Anderson, E. M. Stenberg, Louis Berka, Martin Dunham, Edward Leader and W. L Lee Helaey, 8amuel I. Gordon, Louis Berka Baker. For a couple of years the city and Bryce Crawford. headquarters were remov 1 to near Doug- During the years 1K83 and 18S3, James E. las and Thirteenth streets, but the facilities Boyd and Champion S. Chase were the there were considered Inadequate and were mayols of Omaha, though P. F. Murphy again moved back to Blxteenth and Fij- ws elected to nil out the unexpired Una nam In the Redlck opera house. Along about -this period a strong antl- the saloonmen before election, and after saloon fight was In vogue, similar ln some election putting balls and chains upon them respects, to the one now prevailing. The 'and making tnem work on the rock pile. ziiera wvre no nuiauie crimes aunxig in is period of 1&! and li3, as under Marshal saloonmen were arrested In great nmbers and brought before the police 'court and fined htavjjy. some of them getting jail sentences. Vllliam Altstadt (now Judge Altstadt) started a paper called "The Dutch Flea," and he lambasted the anti-saloon-ists to a finish. The paper was published weekly and went extensively into the car toon business, paying special attention to the police Judges. Judge Anderson was unmercifully cartooned, one special picture representing him as shaking hands with Angel's administration and his efficient force of policemen the riff-raff was kept pretty orderly, and the rock p"e was, such a menace to ordinary offenders and tramps tbt it paid to be good. ' Judge Benecke was a rigorous Judge and during his brief term made life a misery to ordinary malefactors. Personally he was a whole-souled, genial man and extremsly popular "Father, Come Home!" WINS! Come home." If James Garfield Curtis of Onekama, Mich, had seen the abovo notice, which was posted for his especial benefit In Chi cago and If he is the right kind of a man who can forget the little differences which creep Into married life he Is now speeding toward Onekama. Two little girl cherubs await him there, and a forgiving wife, who needs him ln this her greatest hour of trial and of her triumph, relates the Chicago Inter Ocena. The notice is signed, "Your Best Friend." But the friend did not know to what part of the world James Garfield Curtis had flown, and only hoped that la might be Chicago. v "Nellie, be patient and have faith and James will be with us another night," she told the suffering woman. "He could not have gono far away, and when he sees the - notice which I will write him, be will for get everything but you and the babies, and thenSvhen you get well again you can start anew." The Joyous news of the birth of the twins was followed in the few lines that the best friend wrote for James Curtis' eyes to read, with this mersage: "Come home at once, for the sake of your chll drert before it Is too late. Twin baby girls have blessed the home since you left. Things have greatly changed; all will be forgiven. Your wife is very ill and all alone!" If James Curtis were to be welcomed by quads or triplets Instead of only twins, and pretty girl twins at that, he might have cause to put further distance betweon himself and Onekama, Mich., but under the circumstances his Innate gallantry to the gentle sex has probably caused him to throw a few necessaries Into a suit case and take the first train for Michigan. He. Got OS. The doors ot the third-class railway curs In BpaJn are narrow, says a writer In Harper's. I remember at one of the moun tain towns how a fat man kept the train waiting with his efforts to get out. He was huge and round, with a red face full JT wrinkles, and shining shaven head. A Maltese cross shown white upon his brown expanse ot cassock. He got wedged tightly ln the door and could move neither ln nor out. His face grew apoplectic. Peru pi ra tion streamed down his forehead. His hat rolled beneath the train. He dropped his bag upon the platform, and as it fell, it burst open. Glass crashed; cigars were - scattered all about. As the bell sounded - he began to shout. The guard came run ning. The station Idlers crowded up. They tugged at him, pulling at hla hands, his robe, his fat striped legs. Over his shoul der within th'e car you could see men push ing from behind. Suddenly lie came througk with a rush, hla cassock torn and flying, his little eyes wide with fright, I looked back aa the train moved off. He waa lying back panting on a bench, his feet spread wide, the crowd standing sym pathetically about, while a woman was pouring something down his throat. ar-tved a Brakes Ifeck. The pussle of Milwaukee physicians, Michael Quigley, . Is dettd from consump tion. -For the last five years Quigley has lived with his neck broken. He was able to roll hlmsef In a wheel chair and to walk with little or no siipport. Physicians who attended him ray that he might have lived to a ripe old age It he had not fallen prey to consumption. Five years ago Quigley fell from a hay loft ln a barn and strSick with his back on the curb of a manger. Several small bones immediately protecting the spinal cord were broken. The cord of Itself was so compressed at the point of fracture that all circulation was cut off, ' The operation on the man was delayed for three weeka because of his own pro tests. Dr. T. G. Walsh, who then operated, was able to relieve the pressure on the spine so that the man regained partial control of his lower limbs. 1 Two months ago, when his tubercular ailment had reduced him beyond hope ot recovery, he was taken to tho county hos pital, where he died. Illowa Nose and Saves Man. M. J. Meyers, a bookkeeper ln "Lucky" Baldwin's Arcadia In Los Angeles, blew his nose In the district attorney's office and saved George Wilson frorSj state's prison. It was the strangest circumstance In all the romance of crime In southern Cali fornia. Meyers was waylaid, knocked senseless and robbed of $75. Soon afterwnrd Wilson and two Mexicans found him lying In the road and tbok him to the Arcadia hotel. There the dazed man tried to fluht Wilson and succeeded in scratching his face se verely. But Wilson lent him his coat and hat and went home. Meyers complained to the sheriff that a white man and two Mexicans had held him up, describing Wilson accurately. The latter was brought In, and Just as the compiaini was newg sworn 10 aieyers uiew his nose hard, relieving his head of a thick clot of blood. An Instant later he turned to Wilson and cried: "Why, that is not the man, who held me up. Ha helped me. I have his hat and coat on." The accused was immediately discharged. Officers say he would undoubtedly hae been convicted, as he said he was drinking and did not remember what happened. Only Happy"' Whea Hart. ' Robert Ward, a well-to-do farmer of Richmond, Mlch.f though SS years old. Is ss spry as a boy, notwithstanding the fact that he has had more accidents than half a dozen structural iron workers. One ot his legs has been broken at the thigh, akin and ankle. He has also suffered fractures of one arm and nearly all of his ribs. One of his feet was. crushed by a loaded wagon and he Is now suffering from a broken nose from a blow from a spring of a farming Implement he was repairing. The "last time Ward broke his leg his wife was horrified to find him setting It himself. He declared that he could do so better than a doctor and has his way. The leg, unlike an arm set by a physician, Is not crooked. Ward says he does not feel natural unless ha Is nursing a broken bone. He has been a resident of the state more than forty years and has a 260-acre farm which Is tha show place ot the county. There are Ave children, Mrs. Ira L. Love Joy and Mrs. W. L. Rowley of Lenox, Mrs. J. Wakefield of Armada, and Robert and Joseph Ward, who live en tha faro '