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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 1, 1909)
TIIE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: AUGUST 1, 1909. Scores of New Lots Added Every Day Greatly Increases the Interest Belter Than Ever Bargains for Monday's Scllinj. Come Early. n n RJI n THfc RELIABLE STORE Rug Specials $30.00 Axmister Rugs, in 29 handsome patterns, 9x12 size, Monday at. . .$19.98 $20.00 Velvet Rugs, 9x12 size, 8 patterns for selection, Monday at '.$13.98 $22.00 TfcfK'Btry Ilrusarls Hugs Seamless, 10-wire quality, 9x12 size. Monday, at 315.08 $30.00 Wilton Velvet Hugs, Seam less, 10 patterns for selection Monday, at $22.50 92.50 Axmlnster ling 27x51 elze, fine patterns, on sale at, choice 31.75 60c Ingrain Carpet Half wool very heavy, at, yard. . . -37H 35c Embroideries iSc A handsome line of fine quality Skirt Flouncings and Corset Cover Em broideries; good assort ment of pretty patterns; actual values to 35c yard; all go Monday, at, C yard 1 sVC It's the quality that counts and it's the combination of dependable quality with low prices here that has built up and maintains constantly increasing clientele, the offering and delivering of satis faction that makes Hay den's so popular. nun Tv7ri7rn 111, 10c to 25c Laces 5c Zion City and Elyria "Wash Laces, best ever shown in Omaha, and exact re production of French and Oerman Vals., the great est snap ever in Omaha, at, yard. 1 L ( bvJS THE RELIABLE STORE Special Mill End Sale Items in our High Grade Linen Department for Monday Fure linen, full bleached table cloths, size 8-10 hemmed, ready for use, worth $2.98; mill end sale price, Monday, each $1.75 Snow white mercerized Table Damask German . imported weaves, high class patterns, satin finish, worth 98c yard, mill end sale price at, yard 49? Meadow bleached, heavy linen 'sheeting, round thread, 90 inches wide worth $2.00 yard, mill end sale price, yard $1.00 All linen Barnsley and Steven's Towelings, 18 to 20 Inches wide brown and white, worth 18c yard, mill end sale price, yard 10 Large size Jumbo Bath Towels, pure linen hemmed hucks, mammoth as sortment containing 39c values, mill end sale price, Monday, ea..lf) Oriental Turkish Bath Towels, extra large size, heavy double twisted thread, well warth 50c each, mill end sale price, each SO r Mall orders filled while goods last. Muslin Underwear SPECIAL I'OIt MONDAY Skirts worth to $3 Beauties, big assortment $1.08 $2.03 Gowns, Skirts, Combination Suite, Chemise, on sale from 9 to 10 a ni., values to $2, at.... GO Corset Covers and Drawers, values to $1, choice 40 10 to 11 A. M., Ladies' Knit Vests on sale, at 5 Sample Muslin Underskirts Greatest snaps ever offered 08 High Grade Wash Goods-Goods lo Close Arnold's celebrated 25c Swiss -Applique, to close out Mon- , day 934C A new fall line of French Tissues, on sale at, yard. . . .25c New fall English and Scotch shirt waist material, best mad ras made, at 39c, 25(? and 18c New French Perratlnes for shirts and shirtwaists 18 Anderson's Scotch Zephyrs 15 A large quantity of silks and mercerized goods to close at reduced prices. Bed Spreads, Sheets and Pillow Cases in Our High Grade Linen Department Monday Imported Satin Damask Bed Spreads, knotted fringe, large size, pink and blue, fast colors; $6.00 values, mill end sale, Monday, ea.33.50 Heavy knotted fringed bed spreads, full size, cut corners, well worth $3.00; mill end sale price, Monday, each.. $1.80 Alii sheets 81x90, $1.25 values, each 80 All sheets 81x90, $1.10 values, each 70 All sheets, 81x90, $1.00 values, each . 75f All sheets 81x90, 8fic values, each .' 65 All sheets 81x90, 65c values, each 5l All sheets 72x90, 98c values, each 70 All sherts 72x90, 90c values, each 60 All sheets, 72x90, 85c values, each 65 All sheets 72x90, 79c values, each 50 All sheets 72x90, 60c values, each 30 100 dozen pillow cases, size 42x30 and 45x36, worth 17c each, mill end sale price, Monday, each 10 Mall orders receive careful attention. Read This Special Grocery Sale for Monday, August 2d Lay In Your Month's Supply at These Prices The Highest Patent Flour, made from the finest old wheat, per 48 pound sack $1.65 0 lbs. best Pure Cane Granulated Sugar $1-00 10 bars hrt hrunds Laundry Boau H&c 6 lbs. choice Japan Rice :5c 7 lbs. bent Holled Ureakfast Oatmeal for 25c Tlio best Pearl Sago or Tapioca, per pound 5o The best Domestic Macaroni, per tackage She Tall calm fancy Ahuka Salmon BiouiHUkeloti, Jellycun or Jello, per package 74c V can Life Breakfast Corn. . . . Ithiu Worcester r-auoe, Tomato Catsup or Pickles, assorted kinds, bot tie . . 8 Vic Condensed Milk, per can 7Vic Rex Lye, per can : The beat Hulk Starch, per lb 5c Corn Flukes, all kinds, pkg 7 Vic The best Crisp Pretzel, per lb.... 6c Bntttr and Choose Speolal Bale. The bent fancy No. 1 Creamery But ter, per lb 2!,c The best fancy Country Creamery Butter, per lb 28c The best fancy Dairy Butter, lb.. 23c The beat Foil Cream White or Col ored Cheese, per lb 20c The beat Full Cream Brick or Llm- burger Cheese, per lb 18c Neufehatel Cheese, each 3c Sap Sago Cheese, each 7Vic XjEHOXTB. lemons, umors. Large, Juicy Lemons, regular price everywhere 80c per dozen, our price, per dozen 20c Omaha's Greatest Fresh Yegetabl Market. Sweet Corn, per dozen..., 8 bunches fresh Onions.., 8 bunches fresh Radishes, 4 bunches fresh Carrots.., 4 bunches fresh Beet..., 3 heads fresh Cabbage.... 2 large Summer Squash.. Fresh Cucumbers, each..... 3 bunches fresh Parsley. 2 lbs. fancy Wax or Green Beans ..6c Fancy Cooktng Apples, per peck.. 26c, 3 heads fresh ueat L,eiiuce.... Freeh Peas, per quart... . .6c . .6c . .be . .5c . .5c . .6c ..5c . .lc . . DC . .6c .6c Large Grape Fruit, each 6c Final Clearance of Summer Silks Foulards, worth to $1.25 a Yard Swell range of colors, in large and medium figure effects; genuine shower proof foul ards included; at, choice. 39c and 59c 59c Jap Silks, in black, cream or white, strong, heavy qual ity; on sale Monday, yd. 39c Imported Shantung Pongee $1.00 quality, on sale at 69c Natural Tussah Pongee 27 inches wide, 85c quality, at, yard 49c THREE ELEGANT BLACK SILK BARGAINS MONDAY 75c Taffeta 1!) inches wide, heavy quality 45c $1.00 Taffeta, 27 inches wide, great snap, yard G9c $1.50 Taffeta, 3G inches wide, oil boiledyard 98c Furniture Specials Solid Oak Dresser, with heavy beveled plate mirror, $10.00 value, at $6.98 Heavy Iron Bed Full size, -$8.50 value, great snap for Monday, at $4.98 Sanitary Steel Couch The regular $4.00 kind; on sale Monday, at $2.69 fl.SO Dining Iloom Chairs Solid bottom, heavy bent wood back, arms, at 98? Many other interesting specials for Monday. Come early. Grand Clearance Women's Summer Outer Garments Many thousand dollars worth of to make room for the new fall goods, styles are rapidly clearing them out. SPECIALS FOR MONDAY 100 Beautiful Wash Suits, that sold to $25.00; the season's choicest styles, colors and fabrics choice, at $7.95 Fancy Lingerie Waists Charming styles that sold to $4.00, about fifty dozen in the lot; to close quickly, at . ....... : .'$1.98 Long Crepe Kimonos Satin trim med and with extra fold, $4.00 val ues, choice $1.98 Ladies' House Dresses, in all colors, regular $1.50 values, choice. .95c women's misses' and children's garments must be disposed of The prices we're making on these charming suit and dress Inspect these specials, see window display. Come early. SPECIALS FOR MONDAY Wash Dresses, worth up to $10.00; Lingerie, ginghams, chambrays, etc., newest styles and colors, lace and insertion trimmed; on sale, at $3.95 Stylish Dress Skirts Values up to $7.50; black and colors; on sale Monday, at $4.95 Children's Light Weight Jackets All colors and sizes, that sold up to $5.00; choice Monday $1.98 Heatherbloom Underskirts Values to $3.00; choice $1.25 Visit the Baby Bazar on sec ond floor. Everything for the little ones at lowest prices. Complete line of extra size Skirts for large women and the celebrated Maternity Skirts al ways shown. See our advance showing of the New Fall Styles. They're certainly clever and we know will please. China Department Grand Clearance Sale of All Dinner Sets All $9 to $12 Decorated 100-plece Dinner Sets, both imported and do mestic, Monday . . k $6.05 All $15 and $18 sets Jn one lot choice '. $9.05 All $20 and $25 Bavarian and Aus trian China, 100-plece sets on sale at, choice $14.05 Sample Japanese Vaces, 15 to 24 in. high, big line lor selection, are $5.00 to $12.00 values, while they last choice $1.05 All $25 to $35 French China, decor ated 100-plece Dinner Sets, on sale, t $10.05 Don't Forget Try HAYDEN'S First It Pays High Grade Wool Dress Goods New fall goods now opening up. 36-inch Henrietta, 50 new shades, well worth 50c yard, 29c $2.00 Poplins, extra wide, 40 new fall shades, on sale $1.23 $1.50 new wool Taffeta, fine imported goods, 45 new shades, at 98C 75c strictly all wool Batiste, a very large lien of colors, 57c 120 shades in Read's celebrated Lansdown, at, yard, $1.25 All new novelties for tailor suits now. Mill End Sale Specials on White Goods in Our High Grade Linen Dept. Monday All white walstings in St. Gall, Dotted and Figured Swisses, worth up to $1.00 yard, Monday, yard 50? All St Gall Swisses and Laces; white waistlngs, dots, figured and checks, worth up to 50c yard, Monday, yard S5 60 pieces India Linons, Persian Lawns and all kinds sheer white goods, values up to 40c, In one lot Monday, yard 19? White waistlngs, 40-lnch Lawns, checked nainsooks and striped madras, 25c values, special Monday, yard 12 H; All mall orders filled. Mill End Sale in Our Celebrated Domestic Room Double Fold Percales, 10c, Gs? 12c Percales 7Hi 15c Percales 10? 10,000 yds. of light colored Flan nelettes long mill ends, amos keag goods, worth 10c and 12 Vic yard, at, yard 7? 25c Scotch Suitings, long mill ends on sale 15? 50 pieces of our celebrated French Batiste for kimonos. Dresses, etc. to close, at, yard 5 We will Bell wash goods at. - 3HJ We will sell wash goods, at.. 5 We will sell wash goods, at. 7$ All worth, double and treble these prices. Big Drop in Hardware Heavy Galvanized No. 1 Tubs....35o Folding Ironing Board, with stand tso 14-quart Enameled Dlhspans ISO JOc 4-tle Brooms J 12-quart Galvanized Water Palls. loo Solid Copper Wash Boiler, Bala Hon da Ba"5 The genuine Llek brand, heavy cop per, -woUd handle, one-piece cover Wash Boiler, worth $4.76. only 18.75 The $5.00 Boiler "a " And the No. 9. extra large aire, worth $6.00. Monday '-60 $5 (mi guaranteed Lawn Mower.. S8.S8 $8.00 Hall Bearing Mower $4-Ba $1 25 Mrs. Potts' Bad Irons 690 Heavy Zinc Waah Boards B60 Extra strong, heavy folding Wringer Bench S1.3S $3.00 4-quart Triple Motion Ice Cream Freezer ......91.69 60-foot Hemp Clothes Lines ISo $1.76 Hardwood Screen Doors, 2-10x 6-10, at 13o Galvanized or Painted Chamber palls for flSo $8.00 Rotary Wash Machlnea. . .S4.98 $4.00 No. 8 Western Washer. .. .S3. SB $3.60 No. 2 Western Washer ..98.49 Guaranteed (In writing) Pure Rubber Garden Hose, foot..iOo, 18 Ho, ISO We have Garden Hose for 60, 7Vo, and .90 L Selections from the Story Teller's Pack ANV etores are current In legal ' m 1 circles regarding former Judge jfl I W. T. SVHllace, one of the best- Known jurists in ine nisiurj m San Francisco, but here Is a new one. vouched for bv 'Hilly" Barnes, at one time dlntrlct attorney. Wallace was ernmiring a candidate for admission to the bur. All riuestlnns had been satisfactorily answered and the lawyer to be had passed ao brilliantly that Wal lace decided to put a simple question to terminate the ordeal. Gating benignly at the young man, he asked: "What is the liability of a common car rier?" Although lawyers the- world over and .from tint immemorial have wrested with this problem; though millions of words have been taktn into the record of various cases In which thla unanswerable ques tlon'was Involved, the fledging calmly eyed the Judge and at last solemnly replied: '"Tour honor, I must beg you to with draw the question. I did know the answer, but. unfortunately. 1 have forgotten." For a minute Wallace eyed the young man; then, tinning to the lawyers who were grouped around him, remarked: I 'qenllemen. this is a sad case; In fact . a calamity. Toe only .living man who ever know the liability of a common carrier has forgotten." San Francisco Call. . TIckleeTT&TUhop. When the bishop of London was at Wil liamsburg a couple of years ago he heard a story of one of the of the American episcopate which delighted him greatly. A great celebraUon had been held a short time previously at Jamestown to commem orate the first English settlement In Amer ica. Bishops and clergy of the Protestant Episcopal church were there In hundreds, ami the open air exercises lasted all day. Aa evening fell many of those who hai come by steamer from Norfolk or Rich mond sought to be driven back to Wil liamsburg to aee that historic city. Aa John Johnson, landlord of the tVtl llamsburg hotel, waa taking up a load of passengers Just outside of the rulnjj tower of Jamestown church a portly bishop came hurrying up. "Can you give ma a lift to WUllamsburg. drlverr he called. ."Sorry, air." said Johnson. ''Every seat's taken." The bishop stepped back, and as ha did 9 aameUOiig shining fell tram lha overcoat slung over his arm. Just In front of the rig. Johnson saw It, the passengers saw It. In a flash the dignitary realised what he must do. "Stop, driver," he called; "you've dropped something." Before Johnson could deny It he had picked up a large silver mounted flask and had handed It Into the carriage. John son ruse to tle occasion. ' Thank you. sir. kindly," he said. "I didn't know that I'd missed It. but I'll be very glad of It." He drove on, and then stopped to examine the flask. He found It three-quarters full of very excellent bourbon. The bishop of London smiled as he heard the reminiscence, and then said, reflec tively: "I've met a good many of my American brethren, Mr. Johnson. I wonder if there were any Initials engraved on the flask?" "Wild horses wouldn't drag that Informa tion from me," replied the good hotelkeeper. New York Timea. , He Spoke His Piece. The. Shakespeare club of New Orleans used to give amateur theatrical perform ances that were distinguished for the local prominence of the actors. Once a social celebrity, with a gorgeous costume, as one of the lords in waiting, bad only four words to fay. "The queen has swooned." As he stepped forward, his friends applauded vociferously. Bowing his thanks, he faced the king and said. In a very high-pitched voice, "The swoon has queened." ' There waa a roar of laughter; but he waited patiently, and made another at tempt: 'The aween has cocned." Again the wall trembled and the stage manager aald. In a voice which could be heard all over the house. "Come off, you doggoned fooL" Cat the ambitious amateur refaied to ru rread at. and In a rmsptng falsetto, aa he was assisted off the stage, be areaned: Tha coon has sweened." Sorceas Maga- whom I recognized Immediately. She saw me, too, and I expected her to bow rather cooly and distantly, aa had been her wont back home. I waa considerably astonished, therefore, when she dashed across the street, seized me with both hands and fairly bubbled over In her delight. I was so surprised, In fact, that I commented on it. " 'I'm glad to see you, too,' I said, when I had managed to extricate myself from her exuberant greeting, , . 'but, to tell you the truth, I hadn't expected to see you ao excited over my appearance. You al ways treated me rather a la Iceberg at home, you know; what has caused your change of heart V "(She was nonplussed for only a moment and then explained: Mr. Smith, I've been away from home so long that I'd be glad to see even a dog If he came from Ken tucky!' , "( let It go at that." Louisville Courier Journal. , Qalrk la Wit aa la War. ' A good story coming from across the water' concerns the quick wit of a German attache at the London embaasy who waa asked whether he had yet seen Major du Maurier'a play, "An Englishman's Home." As soon u this drama waa presented, and especially since It has been made ac cessible aa a book, the public haa been keen to know how the . Germane view a aatlre which makes the English volunteer army a laughable failure In the face of a German enemy. "Have you seen 'An Englishman's HomeT " the attache was asked; to which he replied; "I saw sxme military play the other evening; It may have been called 'An Englishman's Home,) but it might Just aa well have been called 'What Every German Knows.' "Harper's. 9 War the Waa Clad. A young Louisville roan, wtio waa out wsat not long ago haa returned, telling a yarn which ha admlu la not at his own axpraae, bat wliloh he declares to be about one of Uia sooat interesting experiences of ran his checkered caraex. "I waa walking aJoug the street In a sal era town." ha said, "when suddenly across Ute wa I aa-er a Jvulsvllle girl rroaf raaltlve. A western newspaper man visited Wash ington recently and told the following story on former Representative Amos J., Cum mings of New Tork. who waa onoa city editor of the Sun. One Saturday night it waa announced that all the saloons were to be cluetd next day. Cumminga called his star reported, Mur ray. "Tofn," ha aald. "go out tomorrow and ftnd out il the saloons are selling liquor." It waa Thursday when Tom again aj peared at the dly desk. "They were," b rartA, Success .M& axlna. With Suffering Babies at Sea (Continued from Page One.) get their share. About noon the boat casts anchor off New Dorp beach, Staten Island, and Jiere a launch meets It from the hea Sid eHocpital to take over the mothers and sick babies on board who have been as signed to hospital. Hospital physicians ex amine the applicants. Probably twenty-five or thirty will be taken Into the launch, which will later appear with the well out put from the hospital to go home on the return trip of the barge. The rocking of the anchored launch evidently tends to bring out all the vocal powers of the in fants, and even as It puffs and chugs away toward the beach a strange and discordant infantile medley Is wafted back. The Sea Side hospital has two wards for mothers and sick children, a ward for well children, a ward for mothers having crlba over the foot of the beds for babies, a ward for very sick children, porches facing out on the ocean, screened In and made Into open air wards, model diet kitchen with pasteurizers, sterilizers, electric range and oven, fully equipped modern laundries and ammonia cooling plant, and a large and efficient corps of physicians and nurses under the supervlKlon of Dr. Charles W. Goodwin. The buildings of the hospital with their long, wide porches, the sandy beach Btretchlng down to the water in front, a beautiful cedar grove in the rear, convalescent children playing about, clean and well cared for, their mothers close at hand all make a spectacle not soon for gotten. And this care and attention and comfort and life saving costs the poor patients not a cent. Out of a season of 1.777 patients only 163 were unimproved, with but 84 deuths. Even when death Is Inevi table at the lime the. little patient Is ex amined, It Is received anywav, an Individual characteristic of this hospital, which Is really the big and vital feature of the rn terpilse maintaining the Floating hospital, although the latter Is more spectacular. A happy cargo Is carried back In the launch to the big barg-. Shortly afterward the tug gets up steam and the young travelers are homeward bound. The bath ing goes merrily forward, snatches of singing are still heard, and the nurses move back and forth, with practised rye and band maintaining order and minister ing to wants, "It's hard to get five little onea ready and down to the pier by I o'clock," said one fragile, dark-eyed mother In brokan English, "but It has saved my babies." "I wish," said little Rachel, who was the star speaker of "pieces" In the show coxn any, "I wish we could always have a sick baby to we could go on the ocean very day. It's grand.- In the Field' of Electrical Experiment T HE recent announcement of plans for the substitution of electric power for steam on the Harrlman lines on some of the California divlsiona is the culmination of two years' ex ploration of water powers In the Sierra mountains. Every stream within 200 miles of the road has been studied by engineers, and the first location has been made on the Rubicon river, near Lake Tahoe, Nevada. It is admitted, saya the San Francisco Chronicle, that the plans of the Southern Pacific company to displace steam on its mountain divisions, and to substitute elec tricity, have been in active preparat on for several months. It is said that orders for $13,000,000 of electric equipment have already been placed In the east. With the reduction of the grade, which will be accomplished by the completion of the Auburn-Truckee cut-off and the in stallation of electric power, the Southern Pacific company will accomplish an enor mous annual saving In Its operating de partment, but one which will necessitate the expenditure of many millions of dollars In the construction of the canals, dami and power station, as well as In the pur chase of electric equipment While the present plans of the company, as represented in the orders which have been placed for the equipment of the new motor trains, contemplate the use of elec tricity on the mountain division only, It Is Bald by officials of the company In California that It la the ultimate Inten tion of the road to use electric power on all Its lines In the northern purt of th a state, and much of the activity In the formation of new water and power com panies is believed to have been Inspired by a close knowledge of the Intention of the railroad, if not by an Intimate con nection between the railroad company ami the incorporators of the new companies. For many years the plan of utilizing the fall of the mountain streams as an offset to the climbing grades of ti.e mountain division has been talked of. and more recently Harrlman has admitted in interviews that it was the intention of the company ultimately to replace steam by electricity. I'nder the present system of operation It has been reckoned that a large percent age of the efficiency of the operating de partment of the road Is taken up In trans porting coal for the consumption of Ita own engines, lies Id e, the big freight loco motives, puffing up the mountain grades, the water power of the mountain streams has been running to waste. That it would some day be harnessed to move the traf fic of the railroad over the mountains has been a prediction that was undenled, but that this would be accomplished In the Immediate future was yesterday an nounced for the first time, although the energy of the company haa been devoted to that end for the last two years. The work of changing the power upon the Sacramento division, which extends over the Sierra Nevada mountains from Reno to Sacramento, Is the most ambi tious ever undertaken in the way of elec trical outfitting. It la necessary for the road to lncreaae Its carrying capacity for freight. The continued use of steam as propulsive power would mean that more tunnels would have to be bored. This would take eight years, and cost about $M,000.000. The electrification of the di vision, experts estimate, will take two years, artd result In an Increase of 75 per cent In the spoed of moving trains, while reducing the nonprofltable tonnage by 20 per cent. This means many more trains over the division, the prevention of con gestion and blpKer dividends. Expansion of the Telephone. Rome significant facts are embodied In the recent annual report of the Ameri can Telephone and Telegraph company, which show to what extent the telephone has become a part of modern life. The report has to do largely with a financial statement of the company's affairs, but Incidentally reference Is made to the ex tent of the service nnd Its efficiency as a means of communication among the peo ple. The following extracts are reprinted from the report: "There was a total of 4.8M.629 telephone stations connected to the Bell system, as against S.SJta.OtK) at the close of the pre vious year, an increase of 5i"i.i;29 stations. (A single Instrument, with Its equipment, is termed a station.) Of the total there were 1.103.144 exchange and toll stations connected to the Hell system by toll or long distance lines, but operated by some 7.700 local, co-operative and rural Inde pendent lompanlis or associations having sublicense or conned Ion contracts. "The total wire mileage of the Uell com panies for toll and exchange service wai .&0wlR, over a million miles being aided during the year. The daily average of calls handled by the Hell companies was lfta.OOO. or at the tale of ahout ,(jnu.000,tO() a year. The plant additions were $1"i,S1'4,0ij for exchanges. A,K12.noo for toll lines, and 42.000,800 for land and buildings, making a total cfc $-.637.1!UO. During the last nine years a grand total of .T?S.472.i00 has been expended In enlarging the Hell properties. "Of the total value of the telephone plants owned by (he American Telephone and Telegraph company and associated companies, real estate constitutes 9 per cent, underground conduits and cables 20 per cent, copper wires and aerial cables on poles 18 per cent, polellnes, not Including wires, 20 per cent $8,000,000. of this repre sents ownership of rights of way over pri vate property Iron wires 4 per cent, and central office equipment 23 per cent. "The associated operating companies show reductions In floating Indebtedness and Increases In cash on hand, a net Im provement of $5,004,000. The Western Elec tric company shows an equal Improvement, so that the current and floating Indebted ness of the associated companies Is well within the limits of current operations. "The Bell business aa a whole, exclud ing duplications and treating It as If operated by a single company, showed , substantial Improvement. The total earn ings showed an Increase over the previous year of $7,009,500, the total expenses an In crease of $3,101,100. The balance of net earnings was $4.974,000, and, after deducting $11,034,500 for Interest and $21.33.1,100 Tor dividend .... there was left $13,601,400 In un divided profits. The combined balance sheet shows total assets of $680,044,200, with a surplus of $:U, 759,(100, and depreciation an.1 other reserves of $40,4SO,300. "There is shown a considerable Increase In the number of shareholders, there being at the end of the year 26,370 shareholders, with an average holding of sixty each. Uy means of the Issue of the balance of the authorized $1.".0U0,000 convertible bonds, the financing of the company and Its as sociated companies is completed for 1909 and 11)10, Including the payment of $31,000,000 notes maturing during those years." TV. Klectrle Flashes. The combined ouiput of the Niagara Falls power companies Is over 60U,0ilu0 know au hours pet yeur. r- Illuminated signs are a feature of some of the subway cars In New Vork. Tha in telis Hit name of the next stop. A new invention entirely dispenses with the telegraph operator In railroad work, h-ach nam as It passes over toe road auto iiiatuaily manes a record on a sheet in ihn train dispatcher's ofrico. Hy means of red and green lamps and a gong the dis patcher can at any time signal direct to ceed er'K " lo "luw uon or pro- The laigest electric transmission line In the Wf rul is that of the Maara-Svracusa-Aumiin line, which iiatismits ),uui horsa power a distance of 1W miles. The Cul ga.e plan,, 1 llba rlver, Cal connects via yaKlaiul and Mission San Jus, to a lint I'Lili11 Thu f'ant has a a j ... kiiuwiui ana t h... t . over 1 substations on Lfii Billaa tf i cult 1.1. . v.. " 1 1 n