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OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 3, 1909.
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YANKEE ACCENTS ARE HEARD
Down Easterners Stop to See What
Omaha it Like.
STREET CAR MEN SHOWN CITY
No Bach Reception in Staid OM Bos
ton If Westerners Mopped There,
Bars the Bostonlan at
Head of Party.
Two special tris of street railway an
Interurban men and their wfraa arrived In
Omaha Saturday morning, but they were
not strike breakers and took no hand In
the Omaha situation. The first train was
from Boston and the second from New
Tork. The Boston folk stopped, but the
New Yorkers went right on through.
"Well, I don't think any club In Boston
would turn out this way if a group of west
erners came through." said James F. Shaw,
president of the American Street and Inter
urban Railway association.
This is the association which holds Us
annual convention next week at Denver
and It is to this convention that all these
special trains are bound.
"It .Xakes the westerners to show hospi
tality. How can all these prominent busi
ness men afford to leave their places of
business, come here to entertain a crowd
of total strangers T I never saw anything
like It in my life and I'm sure the entire
party appreciates the thoughtfulneoe." -
Many such expressions were heard from
the ninety-two people who alighted from
their splendid electric-lighted special train
and found a score or more of automobiles
waiting to drive them around Omaha to
show places of Interest. The Commercial
club had charge of 'he arrangements.
A new scheme was tried In making the
drives and It worked admirably. Instead
of sending the machines around in a long
procession, raising a cloud of dust to 'the
discomfiture of those following, each driver
was Instructed to strike out In any dlrec
tlon hs choose, Just so he Included the
Omaha Field club on his route and arrived
back at the station in time for the con
tinuation of the Journey west.
Life Ravine Station at Clan.
At ths Field club an Informal entertain
merit was prepared. A canopy was set up
on ths lawn and, as the cars drove up. the
occupants were given refreshments and
cigars, with flowers for the women. Many
of the men made enthusiastic at seeing the
long line of Uncle bain's troops march
through the city, had their chauffeurs
drive to Fort Omaha where several regi
ments are In camp.
Some of the most prominent street rail
way and Interurban men "tn the country
were In the Boston party and these capl
IuIIhIs did not mince words In praising
Omaha for Its wonderful material growth.
Some had been here a few years back and
iie4 marveled at the wonderful changes.
Among th oss In the party were J. A.
Arnold, president of the Teuton & Paw
tucket Street Hallway company; Mrs. Ar
nold, Milan A. Ayrea, electr.cal engineer
Boston & YYorchesler Street Railway com
pany. South Farmlngham, Mass.; W. H.
Bacon, Boston; Robert K. Belknap, sains
agent Pennsylvania Steal company; Albert
W. Bliss and Mrs. Biles, Brookllne, Mass.;
John Bums and Mrs. Burns. Puxbury.
Mass.; Charles t. Clark, secretary Massa
chusetts Street Hallway association, and
Mrs. Clark. Boston, Joseph F. Clark. Miss
Arabella B. Clark. Miss Anna N. Clark.
Cambridge, Mass ; Frank E. Coates, Stone
c Webster Engineering corporation, Bos
ton; Gerald Cotthlln, Montreal; Cllflou L.
Juburn. Lynn. Mass.; Edward Dana, Bos
ton; Bradford D. Pavel, J. K. Dosler, Lynn,
M.; Howard F. Eaton, Plymouth;
Charles R. Edwards. J. F. Fletcher, E. C.
Foster, vice president New Oilcans Hall
way and Lighting company, New Orleans;
E. W. Hoist, Boston; E. B. Kldson, Boston;
Richard T. Laffln, Seattle; Clarence E.
Lamed. Boston; Harry L. Llbbey, Mrs. E.
L. Mills, Hooslo Falls, N. T.; F. A. Mc-
Carmlck, agent Boston & Maine; A. L.
McDonald, Brockton"," Mass", f Q. 'C. Morse,
Tauton, Mass.; J. F. McCabe, Springfield,
Mass.; T. N. Carter, Newark, N. J.; J. C.
Melxell, Scranton. Pa.; W. F. Narey, North
Adams, Mass.; O. A. Nash, Boston; Francis
H. Johnson, Nahant; Henry C. Page,
Worcester; C. C. Plerc, Boston; H. E.
Reynolds, Boston; James W. Rollins, Jr.,
James F. Shaw, president American Street
and Interurban Railway association, Bos
ton; Maurlcs P. Splllane, Boston; B. V.
Swenson, New York; J. Brodie Smith, Man
chester, N. H. ; Charles I. Thayer, Brook-
line, Mass.; A. J. Thomley, Providence; J.
R. Wells, Springfield; E. I. Wellington,
Rlndge, N. H.; E. 8. Wilde, New Bed
ford; Paul Windsor, Boston; H. L. Wilson,
treasurer Boston Elevated Railway company.
The Stone & Wsbster Engineering com
pany prepared a handsome pamphlet show
ing the itinerary of the party. Frank R.
Coates, formerly chief engineer of the
Oreat Western, represented the firm on the
trip and Omaha Is given a great sendoff
In the booklet.
Wire Baelc Appreciation.
After the visitors had boarded their spe
cial train and ridden some distance west,
they sent a telegram expressing their ap
preciation of the courtesies shown them
here, and of Omaha. The telegram, which
was complimentary In the highest de
gree, was signed "Massachusetts Street
Railway Association." Many of the vlsttors
stopped at Ihe Union Pacific shops and the
McKeen motor shops and their interest in
the latter in particular was unbounded.
Falls Through
Elevator Shaft
William Steinhauser of Omaha Crock
ery Company Breaks Ann by
Dropping- Three Stories.
The parting of an elevator cable oaused
William Steinhauser, foreman of the Omaha
Crockery company, to fall three floors, ths
accident resulting In a badly broken arm, a
severs scalp wound and the tearing of one
ear almost off his head.
Steinhauser was on a freight elevator on
which one cask had been loaded. A second
was rolled on and Instantly the elevator
fell. It struck the bottom with a terrific
crash and men rushing up found Stein
hauser unconscious from the fall. He was
taken to the office of a physician In the
Paxton block.
Prompt recovery from the Injuries Is expected.
CAMPING FEVER IN ENGLAND
Men and Women Alike Have Taken
to the Road.
FAVORS THIS STYLE VACATION
They Travel in Caravans and on Bi
cycles and Camp at Night in
Fields Or By the
Roadside.
ON TRAIL OF A YOUNG CROOK
Probation Officer Looks for Yonth
Who Trims Bankers for
Small Sams.
Probation Officer Bernstein la on the
trail of a young financier who has been
woiklng Omaha and Council Bluffs bank
ers for small sums of money. The hoy
puts up the plea to '.he bankers that he is
a newsboy out of money and cannot get
his first installment of papers unless he
has 5 to deposit, ills plea la so effective
that he usually lands his victim without
much trouble.
He has been gotnar under the name of
Frank Thomas and has given fictitious
addresses on Vinton street. Three Omaha
bankers and two In Council Bluffs have
fallen before his wiles.
Pon't waste your money ouylng plasters
nhen you can get a bottle of Chamberlain's
Liniment for 25 cents. A piece of flannel
aampeiied with this liniment Is superior to
any plaster tor lame back, pains In ths
side and cheat, and much cheaper. Sold by
aU drugglst-
LONDON, Sept. IB. The famous old
'Pilgrim's Road," which Chaucer pictured
In his "Canterbury Tales" as alive with
travellers on their way to Canterbury, Is
once again peopled with pilgrims pil
grims who are wandering not to any par
ticular city but In search of health.
The friars and knlghta and ladies have
vanished, and nowadays the pilgrims are
men In knickerbockers and sweaters and
women In short tweed skirts and heavy
boots who use caravans and bicycles to con
vey them on their Journeys. Once again at
night all along the road camps are set up
and fields and wooded paths are packed;
this time with tollers from London shops
and offices snatching a week or two of
outdoor life or with more wealthy wander
ers who prefer this sort of vacation to
any other. The explanation of all this
is that England has the camping fever
more virulently than ever before.
The Pilgrim's Road Is the most popular
one with the campers because It winds
through beautiful, fertile Kent, but on al
most any road In England this summer
one could encounter caravan and cycle
campers In great numbers travelling by
easy stages from town to town, the greater
proportion of them being women and glrla.
A caravan drawn by one horse can be.
obtained for something Ilka 15 for two
weeks. Its exterior is painted In vivid
colors. Little curtained windows dot
either side, while the door is at the back.
Its Interior la fitted up with a chair
fastened to' the floor, a tiny stove, a few
kitchen utensils and a bed.
Sometimes four women take one of these
caravans. They bring extra bedding, a
tent and various other necessaries. One
of them drives and looks after the wel
fare of the horse, always a gentle, elderly
beast. One volunteers as cook, a third
wil keep the caravan neat and the fourth
j will forage for food and spots In which to
, camp. If the weather la fine the bed In
the caravan Is in small demand, as sleep-
Ing out of doors Is half the fun of the
. trip.
Many suffragettes have been spending
their holidays In caravans this year. The
chances of winning over converts under
those circumstances Is very great, und
fresh air and sunshine after the winter's
struggle are of benefit. Besides the.-e
campers with a purpose there are hundreds
of other women who take their holidays In
this way and gain health from them.
English farmers were at first somewhat
suspicious of the women caravaners. but
now they chuckle at their ldiosynci a.-ies
and willingly allow them to camp on their
premises. Some farmers charge for the
use of their fields and for the grass the
horse eats, and of course for milk and
fresh eggs, but there are others who will
not take a penny from the campers and
treat them as guests.
The number of women who go cycle
camping Is much smaller than the number
of feminine caravaners, though it is in
creasing yearly. The original cycle camp
Ing club did not Include women in Its
membership list and the first feminine
camper Joined the party by mistake. Her
husband had understood that he could
bring bis wife if he chose to do so, and
he did choose, so she came, to the horror
of other members of the club. But she
proved a valuable acquisition to the party,
and since bar day women have benu in
cluded in the club, which calls itself the
Cycla Campers' club and directs Its mem
bers where to go for the best spots to
camp, provides them with a kit for a
moderate sum and altogether systematizes
cycle camping.
Men cycle campers have been able to
reduce the weight of their kit to a modest
six pounds, but women carry more, as a
rule. The kit provided and sold by the
club contains a tent, a ground sheet of
rubberproofed lawn to keep out the damp,
a ground blanket of a woolen material, a
Bleeping bag of a close woven stuff, an
elder down pillow, a wind screen to prevent
a breeze when cooking, a stove, an alum
inum "cuisine" containing three saucepans,
a mug and plate, also of aluminum; a
condiment box, a waterproof lawn food bag
and a canvas bucket and basin. All this
sounds like a lot, but It takes up very little
space and Interferes little with the cycler's
speed.
It Is not customary to spend mora than
three or four days In one spot, no matter
how amiable the farmer and his wife may
be, and most campers stay only one night.
Year by year this way of spending vaca
tions has Increased In popularity In England
and It means that lodging house keepers In
small resorts who have looked upon sum
mer as their time of profit are losing their
annual means of Income.
Towns in England are close together' and
roads are very fine, so no great fatigue fol
lows a day's Journey. Then to sleep in the
open air, to feel the fresh air In one's face,
to see the moon looking in through the
door of the tent and to experience the ab
solute peace of the country, all this Is bet
ter than to be In stuffy seaside or hillside
lodgings English lodgings are undeniably
stuffy and It is a good thing for the Eng
lishman and the Englishwoman that they
have found It out.
Brooks and streams succeed the tub of
the lodging house. Fresh eggs, rich milk,
vegetables right from the gardens, chick
ens, ducks, geese, fish and fruit form bet
ter menus for warm weather than the lodg
ing house keepers' inevitable roast meat
with boiled puddings or soggy pastry.
The general opinion is that camping has
come to stay fn England and that cyclists
and caravaners are going to continue to In
crease In number all over the country. Said
a camper of three years' experience:
"There are no disadvantages to a camp
ing holiday. You carry your own house
you choose your own pitch and If your
heart should fall you a thing which never
happens to the camper there is always a
railway station within riding distance."
as a manufactured article. Thus California
loses the money which would be paid In
wages for converting the scrap Into fabri
cated articles, and has to pay the freight
for hauling the scrap away and bringing
the Iron and steel back for use. Iron Trade
Review.
An Early Aviator.
A book has been discovered in Vienna
bearing on its title page this legend:
"About the invention of air navigation by
means of balloons and eagles, by Jakob
Kleserer; published at the expense of the
author by Herr Loeschenkohl, Kohlmarkt,
Vienna, 1801." It Is an elaborate treatise
on aviation in which a balloon Is steered
through the air by eagles which have been
"trained and deprived of their talons."
Minute Instructions are given as to how
the birds should be harnessed and sug
gestions are made as to the employment
of double teams and relays. The author
inventor expresses the hope that his Idea
may be employed first to expedite the de
livery of letters and dispatches and that
persons competent as trainers of giant
birds will carry his' "Wonderful idea" lhtu
execution. New York Tribune. '
Chamberlain s Colic. Cholera and Diar
rhoea Remedy Is today th boat known
msdiolne in use for the relief and cur of
bowel complaints. It cures griping, dlar-'.,'
rhoea, dysentery, and should be taken at'
th first unnatural looseness of th bow sis. "
It is equally valuabl for children and '
adults. It always curss. Sold by all druggists.
RECORD HEAPS OF JUNK
Monumental Piles Ilenreil from th
Kefase of the sun Fran
cisco Fire.
The largest scrap heaps the world has
ever known, relics of the great conflagra
tion of April, 1908. are located in Han Fran
cisco. One scrap heap Is forty feet high,
100 feet square and contains JO. 000 tons, all
cut In equal lengths of eighteen Inches, and
piled In one solid mass, with the sides as
smooth and solid as a brick wall. This Is
the only one of four, of equal size and pro
portions, rcma'nlng Intact, In Its original
size and shape, the other three having been
drawn upon as the material was needed.
Many other scrap heaps are piled about the
bay awaiting shipment, soma as big as a
house and others mere hillocks, scattered
over acres of ground.
Since the fir, one company has handled
150,000 tons, which constitutes the major
part f all old material shipped or melted.
It has six large shears in operation to cut
the iron and steel, either that It may be
better handled for shipment or for the
furnace. Besides the four heaps which are
piled fn sh e-shape trim, there are other
pile of uncut scrap, forming heaps, rearing
their tops way above the high fence sur
rounding the scrap yard.
Little of this sciap is used in San Fran
cisco, the bulk of it being shipped to ths
Atlantic coast or to European ports, to b
returned to San Francisco, in part at least.
n
UllLOIULO
Mies
The first consideration in the purchase of a car is dura
bility coupled with reliability. You want a car to go there,
and to go there without breaks. To these requisites you
want power and speed. You not only want a car to go and
come, but it's performance must be quick. It's reserve
force must be adequate for all purposes.
TT&e Midland
TT&e Mason
Ttie Apperson
were constructed along these lines with these ends in
view. They have made records that no other cars have made
As Hill ClimlbeFS
As Sand IPulleis
They Stand Peerless
We are glad to show these cars in our garage this week.
If you are at all interested it will be the most pleasant as
well as the profitable hour of your stay to let us demon
strate to you what a real automobile is.
We can show you quite enough about the Midland, or
the Mason or the Apperson to set you wild for one of
them. They are the pink of perfection in modern auto
mobile construction. Phone us or let us see you.
FBEELAND BROS. & ASHLEY
1102 sPA.sRNA.IVI STREET