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c THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: SEPTEMBER 27, 190S. IN THE FIELD OF ELECTRICITY Some of the Possibilities of the Wire lest Telephone Explained. ELECTRIC HEATING IN THE HOMES rroirrm that l Rrlaalaa; the Font 1'ltBla ftaaa;e of Kroaomlcal t'tllltr for Danntl Pirpowii, The report of the progress said to have been mads bjr Valdemar Poulsen In hi de velopment of the wireless telephone, while laklg confirmation, has served to renew Interest In this recently Invented method of communication. Poulsen Is reported as having maintained communication over a distance of 300 miles. If he has actually accomplished that feat, reports the New York Times, he has out dam! anything that has been accomplished on this side of the Atlantic with the wire less Instrument, and those who have been developing It here believe that they have accomplished much. The American record 11 far Is the successful transmission of a message from the laboratory In New York to the steamship Montgomery of the Ward line, outward bound for Cuba. Communica tion was maintained until the vessel wa 15 miles out from port. Although many of a scientific and of a practical turn of mind had been working on this offshoot of wireless telegraphy, very little had been heard of the wire less telephone until the navy adopted the system and Installed It on the sixteen bat tleships which Admiral Evan led to the Pacific. The chief engineer of the com pany made the ocean-to-ocean trip, and In a letter to the general manager says exuberantly: "We, or rather the boys In the fleet, have made some dandy records with the sets. On the morning of May 9, before coming up the bay of San Francisco, the operator on watch on the Connecticut talked to the Pacific fleet, lying at Mare Island, a dis tance of thirty-five miles, with about elKhtcen miles of land Included. Yerba Duena Island also reported healing the Connecticut loud enough to read and un derstand every word spoken. Tills distance Is about fifty miles from where we were laying. "I now have a station Installed at ferry terminal, San Francisco, and have eight navy operators to stand watches, from t a. m, to 9 p. m. every day. These men were detailed by the chief of staff United States Atlantic fleet and approved of by Admiral Thomas. "There are to be some changes made In the fleet, and If the Maine and Alabama arc left behind their telephone seta are to go on whatever ships take their places. And It Is probable that If the torpedo boats lay up In the Mare Island navy yard their sets will be taken off and Installed on ships of the Paclflo fleet, so as to be of use both for practice of the operator and com munication." The Ellsworth company, which Is ener getically pushing the system, promises to be In a position next spring, when an east ern man wishing to communulcate with a friend navigating the Great Iakes, may apply to the nearest long-distance tele phone booth and In a few minutes be In direct communication. The telephone peo ple would at first ascertain the neighbor hood of the vessel, and would then swllcli the connection to the nearest wireless tele phone station, and that station would make connection with the steamer. Negotiations are also under wy looking to the equipping of railroads with the de vice. Mr. daunt, the assistant general manager of the Bante Fe, Is now In San Francisco Investigating the work done by the instruments on the voyage of the fleet from the Atlantic to the Pacific. One feature of the device which does not seem to be generally understood Is that a vessel equipped with a wireless telegraph apparatus may communicate with one which carries only a wireless telephone In strument, and vice versa. Another popular misconception Is that the wireless 'phone can work only over water. Hut recent ex periments have shown that It Is equally adaptable for land. The reason so little has been heard of It by landsmen Is that the land field Is already so fully occupied by the telephone companies whose messages are carried by wire. Meanwhile the wireless telegraph people, particularly the Marconi company, are making constant strides, and day by day Increasing the celerity and certainty of aerial messages. The transmitting apparatus, the sensi tive receiving device, and last but not least the directive arrangements whereby Im pulses are transmitted in a given direction, Invented, worked out and patented by Marconi, are chiefly the means whereby these wonderful results have been obtained Kleetrle R(i Heater. A Jersey City Inventor has produced an electric egg beattr for hotels and restaur ants where eggs are used In large quan tities. Like most electrical devices, It Is a ease of you press the button and the ma chine does the rest. The beater consists of a vertical support, with an arm holding the egg beater shaft Below this Is an adjustable bracket, provided with a bowl, In which the eggs' are placed. By pressing the button the beater la set to revolving swiftly In the bowl, and quickly produces the desired result. Kleetrle Heatlaaj. Although, In Its physical aspect, the utilisation of electrical energy to produce light Is so closely allied to electric heating as to be nearly Identical with It, the prac tical consideration which differentiate these two branches of engineering have led the public to welcome the one and only ten tatively to accept the other. For special conditions, electric heating has, no doubt, been effective, but for general purposes It has made little progress. The difference in the comparative degrees of public favor may be assigned primarily to the relative oosta, but It Is also to be remembered that while, as regards lighting, the majority of users are content with the attainment of the single object, clean, oool, steady, and sufficient Illumination, as regard heating they look for an equipment that for mod erate outlay will cook their food, supply them with hot water, warm the air about them, and ventilate their dwellings. If the question of cost of electrical energy I set aside, the design of apparatus for any one of these specific purposes Is compara tively simple; the real difficulty for the engineer, however. Is to provide apparatus which shall combine the power of a kitchen range with the cleanness, control and capabilities of ventilation, that will be attained when electric heating become as popular as electric lighting. Progress must be looked for along two line that, 1 a measure, converge. Electrical energy must Itself be cheapened, and electrical heating' apparatus must be adopted to the widely varying function required of a heating plant, at moderate outlay for equipment, repair and maintenance. Coal fires and gas have at present so much In their favor that electric heating must for a long time take a secondary position. The general adoption of electric beating, however, would no doubt favorably Increase the load and the power faotor of electricity supply stations. Throughout Germany and Continental Europe, the prevailing method of heating room I by mean of large ornamental tile stove, which reach nearly to the celling, and have a large heating surface at a rather moderate temperature. These, of course, are usually Intended for wood or coal. A system of electric heating adapted to these stoves has, however, recently been brought out In Berlin. An electric radiator Is mounted inside the stove, so that It will rapidly heat the walls by a circulation of the enclosed air. The heat Is given off from the exterior tile surface of the stove, and this is thus tempered so a to avoid the dry high-temperature effect. As the average cost of current In Germany Is about 4 cent per k. w. hour, thl system seem to have pened up a promising field for electric heating in that country. It Is stated that an average-sized room can be heated in one hour, and will then remain warm for a considerable period, a the tiles retain their heat for a long time. If so, why not dodo the room In tile, and do away with the fireplace altogether? Hick Voltage. On the lines of the Muskegon-Grand Rap Ids Power company, which already held the existing record of 72,000 volts, the ten sion has now been raised to 110,000 volts. This is due to the use of the suspension type of insulator whlcli.i render . it easy to deal with pressures , which were pre viously considered to be almost Impossible. The pin Insulator, when constructed of dimensions adequate for very high voltage, become unwieldy and mechanically troublesome, while the use of the suspen sion Insulator actually leads to Improve ment in line construction. It Is pointed out that a the use of more distant powers becomes necessary the employment of ex eremely high voltages will be much more frequent, and that It Is possible that lines may eventually be of such length as to be a material fraction of the natural wave length corresponding to the frequency. This may give rise to a new class of troubles which will render new devices needful. rioaeer of Eleetorlal Selcaec. In one of the locked alcove, of the library of Princeton university Is a manuscript volume of some seventy-six page written by Prof. Joseph Henry the famous elec toral sclertlst, giving an account of his researches while a professor at Princeton. He was called from Albany to the chair of natural philosophy, or physics as It Is now called, at Princeton In 1832 and remained there until IMS during which period he made some of hi most remarkable antici pations of modern electrical science such a for example wireless telegraphy. In 1848 he went to Washington to organise the had Rmlthaonlan Institution of which h been appointed the first secretary. In 187. two year before hi death, he wa asked to write an account of hi work at Princeton. Thl I the document now in the university library. It was across the university campus that he strung the first, telegraph wire ever operated In America. ' A year of two before h left Albany he had been working at his Invent Ion of the electro magnetic telegraph for transmitting signals at a distance whereby dot might be made on paper and bell struck, Indicating letter of the alpha bet. He refused to patent the Invention on the ground that It was incompatible with the dignity of science to confine the prob able benefit to the use of any one In dividual. In hi statement he aaya: "I think the first actual line of telegraph using the earth as a conductor wa made In the beginning of 1838. A wire wa ex tended across the front campus from the upper story of the college library building to the philosophical hall on the other, Through thl wire signals were sent from time to time from my house to my laboratory." Portions of Prof. Henry" electrical apparatus are still In the university museum, among them being -his giant electro magnet nicknamed "Big Ben" by the students for whom he constructed it. ENGLISH LANDMARK WILL GO Stx-Ceatary-Old Ism to Give "Way to Modern Baataes Block. LONDON, Sept. 26. (Special.) If the plan of the present owner of Clifford' Inn hold good London will soon lose an other of It old landmarks. Nowaday the new that thl old gray city ha lost "an other landmark" I so frequently heard that It 1 a wonder there are any link with past centuries left. Changes are not what an American would oall unduly rapid In thl city, but those picturesque old places associated with even so recent a celebrity as Dickens, have now almost wholly given away to the march of the builder. Clifford' Inn Is situated In the heart of Fleet street and In the part of London known as "Johnson's." Within hailing dis tance stood the famous public houses that Boswell's hero used so frequently to visit, and a few pace away stands the "Che shire Cheese," the restaurant which 1 still pointed out to credulous Americans, in particular, as the author' favorite eating place, and where one may even see the spot made on the wall by the greasy head of the writer. Indeed, In Clifford's Inn It self, Lamb, Scott, Coleridge and Southey were frequent visitors, and In one of the rooms lived for a time. Sir Edward Coke, the prosecutor of Essex; Raleigh, and the gunpowder plot conspirators and the great authority on English jurisprudence. But Clifford' Inn dates from a time con siderably before these famous men. As a matter. of fact It Is very nearly 600 years old, having been built In 1310. Thus It I the oldest of the Chancery Inns. In 1344, at the death of the widow of the fifth Baron de Clifford, to whom it was granted by Edward II, it became a residence for law students at an annual rental of about SCO. Up to five years ago, when the Inn was sold at auction to William Wlllett for 1100,000, it still was more or less Intimately connected with the law, but of late years the legal fraternity have given way to journalist and architects. The old buildings have many historical associations. For Instance, It was in the ancient hall that Sir Matthew Hale sat to adjust the boundaries of the city of Lon don after the great fire of 1068. A docu ment still in existence contains a list of the rules "for the honorable government of the new inn, near Chancery lane" and is said to date back to 1479. Some of the rules are very amusing and many of them are still In force. By this list we find that "The steward for the time being shall hut the gate of the Inn at 9 o'clock In general, or at the latest between 9 and 10. "Dinner time during vacation to be 11 of the clock, and in term time, noon. "Any man bringing a strange man Into the butterle or pantry in the time of din ner or supper to drink shall be fined 6 pence for every time of offending. "For every word of ribaldry spoken In the hall during dinner or supper a fine of 1 farthing. . "No member of the Inn shall break Into the butterle or through the gates after they have been shut; or play at or keep dice, cards or any ridiculous amusement or unlawful game; or receive, keep, or bring Into the Inn any dog called a grey hound, grey bitch, spaniel or mastiff; or write, cut or scratch upon the tables in the hall." The property cover about an acre of ground fronting on Fetter lane and Chan cery lane and abutting on the Record of fice. Mr. Wlllett, who has been unsuc cessfully trying to find a purchaser since he acquired the property Intends to erect a modern business block upon It. 3C LUTHER DRAKE, rUSIOENT FRISK T. HAMILTON, VICI-PIESIBINT F. P. HAMILTON. ASSI CaSBIU B. H. MEILE, ISTTCtSUU The erchanfs National of Omaha, ISJeb. UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY Bank Capital and Surplus, Deposits, - - - $800,000 $6,500,000 LUTHER DRAKE FRANK T. IIAMILT0N JOHN F. C0AD GEO. S. ROGERS G. E. PRITCDETT A STRONG, CONSERVATIVE INSTITUTION PARTICULAR ATTENTION PAID TO AIL BANKING BUSINESS ENTRUSTED TO OUR CARL i '- ,aaamaaaaawaaamaaaaaMaaaaaaaaa f J U . -1 FOUNDED 1888. CHARTER NO. SOD. NATIONALIZED 1863. OFFICERS: 0. T. Kountze, President. F. H. Davis, Vice-President. L. L. Kotintze, 2d Vice-President, T. L. Davis, Cashier. Irving Allison, Astft.' Cashier. Capital and Surplus, $1,000,000 DIRECTORS: f !J if It f Jhy E. M. Andreesen J. D. Creighton F. H. Davis T. L. Davis 0. B. Kountze " 0. T. Kountze L. L. Kountze ' W. A. Partem, Jr. W. S. Poppleton. 4, ". The Oldest National Bank in Nebraska The first charter taken out In Nebraska, under the National Banking Act of 1863, was the one obtained by "Kountxe Brothers," who, for nearly seven years previous to the time, had been operating In Omaha as private bankers. The charter number (209) shows that they were among; the first fn the country to realize the wisdom of that act nd avail themselves of It The charter was received on August 26, 1863, and the bank organized with Edward Crelghton, President; Herman Kountze, Vice-President; August Kountze, Cash ier. Sinoe4fcat time the bank has been serving its customers in such a way that each year has shown a steady increase In Its business. This has been accompanied, from time to time, by the necessary In crease In capital, so that the fixed assets of the business might show a proper proportion to the deposits. There have been remarkably few changes among the officers of the business, the newer officers having, without exeption, grown up in the work, with the result that there has been a constant increase in the experience and ability of the management, thus insuring the most intelligent care and attention to the Interests of all customers. It counts as valued customers, not only a large number of firms and individuals In Omaha but also a constantly increasing number of banks and bankers throughout the west, who find It convenient and advantageous to carry large balances here, against which they may make their drafts for their local customers, in ettlement of purchases from Omaha's rapidly growing manufacturing and.Jobbtng trade. The bank has always kept fully abreast of the times in Its facllt. ties for handling each department of its work. This bank was the first in Omaha to establish an exclusive LAIHKS' HKPAUTMKXT. This department Is in charge of ladles, la especially equipped for the accommodation and exclusive use of lady, patrons, and has proven very popular. This bank was the first in the city to put In thoroughly up-to-date SA1KTV DEPOSIT VAClTS, in which are boxes of various sizes for the safe-keeping of papers and other small items; also ator age vaults for tiMnks and other large package. ' , Realizing the Increasing coemopolitian character of the city, this bank, years ago, established A FOREIGN EXCHANGE PEPART MKXT, which is in charge of an expert llnquist so that careful at tention can be given to all customers desiring to make remittances to any country. ' The steady increase In the number of Certificates of Deposit (hearing Interest at 3) shows that people desiring to have their surplus funds employed at a reasonable rate of Interest,' appreciate having such funds in the hands of a bank of the known strength and solidity of the First National Bank of Omaha United States Depository. Thirteenth end Farnam Sts. MISS PECK'S RECORD CLIMB Obstacles on Mount Hnascan Men Could Not Overcome. DANGERS SHE MET ON WAY UP Moantala Moat Speetaealar it Nat - Hla-fcjeat la Andes Attempt to Reach It Summit Made by Hei. The Andes of Peru attain their greatest elevation between eight and ten degree south of the Equator. The loftiest peaks are found In the Cordillera Nevada or White mountains. All these surpassing summit rise to 20,000 feet and the tallest and whitest of the rtately range Is Mount Huaacan. which is' over 22,000 feet high. Thi mountain, with it two peaks, is one of the giants of the Ande. Very few photograph of Huascan are accessible. Some of thein show the two peaks, but other even more impressive picture of the mountain were taken from point where only one of the peaks can be distinguished. It Is this mountain that Miss Annie S. Peck Is said to have recently ascended to its highest point. Mount Huascan has several names. The Indians call it Matara-racu, its popular name In Peru Is Huuscaran, but practically all geographers write the name Huascari as Ralmondl called it when he wrote tho first description of the mountain. On account of the customary clearness of the atmosphere the mountain usually ap pears much nearer to the observer than it really is. On a clear, day it may be seen from far out in the Pacific; and from every good point of view it Is, for several reasons, one of the most Impressive sights in South America. In the first place. It Is bound to attract ttentlon because It Is a half mile higher than any other mountain in that region. Then, It ha the great , advantage over Aconcagua, In Argentina, supposed to be the highest of the Andes, that it is not so environed by other mountains a to lose the effect of great height. Its situation make Huascan appear even higher than It really is. From several points the view of its long steep slope is Interrupted by no intervening mountains. You m.e the granite from lta base near the valley of Huaylas to it top most peak. The upper 8,0u0 feet is per fectly white, and Its gleaming mantle of perpetual snow and ice make it seem like thing of air. Explorer say that it beauty surpasses anything else In the Andes when Its white Is turned Into rose tints by the rising and setting sun. Let us compare this white pyramid with Jungfrau, the grandest mountain of the Bernese Alps. The Jungfrau reaches a height of 12,000 feet, but it rises from a very high base which diminishes the effect of It great elevation. The limit of perpetual snow on the Swiss mountain begins at fc.OtO feet, and its snow and ice covering is therefore 4,OoO feet in vertical extent. If we could wrap the Jung frau in the white mantle of Hauscan it would extend to the foot of the mountain and far down the verdant valleys a far a the hamlet of Lauterbrunn. There are great danger in the ascent of Huascan. The natives living within sight of It have told every mountaineer who ha come to them that It was Impossible to get to the top and that to attempt the as cent waa courting certain death. One of the most formidable danger 1 the rush of avalanche, which la likely to occur at any time. From the valley you may sea a haze er white dusty cloud rising above the peak. and a little later you will hear a dull roar a of distant thunder. It Is an avalanche of snow and Ice rushing down the slope and tumbling over the lofty precipices. Any living thing In It path would certainly be swept to destruction. Part of the dope belew the snowline are vry steep and strewn with bug blocks of granite that make walking terribly fatigu ing. The snow above is often so slippery that climbers slip back at every step. Here and there a man may sink In the biiow to his armpits, and aJl the while he must keep probing for the crevasses in the ice hidden from view by the snow cover. He must circumvent these chasms and the precipices that suddenly loom before him. It was one of these preciploes that stopped Knock In 11(04, at 16,6ili) feet, more than t,000 feet below the top of the north ernmost or higher peak. Anyhow, he had ascended the mountain to a height greater than that of Mount Blanc. Then there Is the soroche, as the Peru vians call the mountain sickness, due to lack of oxygen and the rarefactatlon of the air that 1 likely to attack any person In these high altitudes, and the ascent Is necessarily so slow that provisions must be carried and camps pitched on the slope. Such Impediments give a realizing sense of the tremendous tax upon every physical and mental force which such an under taking Involves. Men who have tried to conquer Huascan have been defeated, but it appears that a woman has succeeded where they failed. dts The New York Herald credits Justice Harlan with this story on W. H. Taft: "Did I ever tell you about tho mar vellous drive my dlstlrguit-hcd friend the Secretary of ' War trade one mornlnpc on these very links of Murray Bay? No? "Well, I was with him at the time and that establishes the veracity of what I am about to declare. Come up near," he ald turning toward a newspaper man who was present. "I want to be suro ycu hear the figures correctly." "Yes," broke In the secretary," he might forget them and have to make them up till over again." "For what I want," continued the jus tice, Ignoring the Interruption, "Is to get onto the golf page of the Sunday papers. To do that I must adhere to the truth strictly the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. "Hut, as I was saying, this roly-poly youngster over here Taft I mean wa Just finishing up a bit behind me, as usual; ahem! three or four behind me, if I re member rightly. It was growing dark, and he was in a hurry to complete the score and yet anxious not to be too far behind. He made a terrific drive for the last hole, one that made the ground ripp!o like the surface of a hike when a bowlder drops Into it. Yo.i all have noticed that often. Then he plunged on, riding the ripple toward the hole and looking for the little white ball. " 'By Jove, I struck a good one that time, he sang out, um he went further and further and no ball In sight. ' believe I made the green.' "And, sure enough, just then the cuddy called out: " 'Hire you are, judge, right in the hole, and, lo and behold! when Taft looked In. and Taft began to turn handsprings for Joy. I confess I thought It was pretty good, too, and I went buck to the last tee, to see If I couldn't do something like that myself. I knew, of ccutse, it was a fluke, a one In a million drive, but I was bound to try. When I got to tho tee I under stood. There was Taft' ball Just where he had set it up. His club hadn't even graced It. The rest of the story the caddie can explain." Waller Who Waited. 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