TIIE OMAHA SrNDAV HKE: MAT 15. 1910. 4 L1GU1MC KINGS TO MEET Men Who Control the Electric Light Plan Convention. WILL DO HIGH HONOR TO EDISOK Ureal tleuln that Wrought a Well for Mai'i Assistance to' Have Oar lmy h St. l.ooU Gathering. i BT. I"UIS, May 14. To the master gen ius of the electrical world to the, man who Is responsible for from one-half to three quartem of tlie development In that field during the last thirty years, according to the records of the patent office at Wash ington, the electrical Interest of the 5 J THOMAS A. EDISON. Wizard of Electric Invention. Who Has Done Great Things for Humanity. 1'nlted States will pay homage during the week of May 23, when '"Edison flay" will be celebrated ire this city. Representatives of a business which rep reHents over $6,000,009,000 total Investment will be gathered here from all over the country to attend the twenty-fifth annual convention of the National Electric Light association, and one day of the session will be set aside In honor of Thomas A. Edison, foremost of the group of Inventors whose genius created the buslneas. To the laity of the world the old wizard Is a very great man. to the men who have their money Invested in the electrical field and to the members of the electrical pro fession he is little sUort oi a deity. , In connection with the convention here there will be a costly exhibit at the great Coliseum hall, designed to show the ad vance of the last thirty year along lines opened by the Inventors, and this exhibi tion will prove that the greatest propor tion of the work, of progress In the eleo trlcal field la ' directly traceable to the rrarvelous Intellect and hands of Thomas A. Edleon. According to Frank W. Frueauff of New l'ork. ' the young westerner, whose ex traordinary rise In a few short yeara can attracted wide attention In the electrical world and who la president of the National Blectrlc Light association, there are now about 6,000 central electric lighting stations in the United States. Of thla number over 8,000 of the companies engaged in central station work are also in the electrical sup ply business, a business that twenty-five or thirty yeara ago could, have been enu merated In two figures, The central station, companies of the country have an Investment of 11,250,000,000, according to Frueauff. They have a gross income of upward of 1250,000,000 a year, and they develop somewhere between 2,0U0,0U9 horsepower and 2,600,000 horsepower. . There is a track mileage of electric and lnterurban railways of 40,217 miles, using 82.216 cars, and representing capital lia bilities of 4,E6i.O00,0OO. I And this gigantic Investment was made possible by Thomas A, Edison and his fellow-inventors. The history of the electrical Industry Is being written every day, but so rapid is the progress that as seon as one chapter U completed, another becomes necessary to PRANK W. FRl'BAl'FF. llesldenl of the National Electric Light Assoctauou. ' detail the latest Innovation. In point of it Is one of the newest fields of great importance known to civilisation, and v h "A ' . .. -. ! t - v ' : !! p ' even the very oldest and most distinguished mi rubers of the nlwtrical profession comparatively young men. "No man can nay today what will be dxne wltlt eUctrlclty tomorrow," Is a favorite saying which Is constantly being ixt)ipl!fled. "The central west must lie given credit for the first commercial Incandescent light ing distribution system," declares President Frueauff. "Appleton, Wis., is tlH plac. In 18k2 a ornlrai station for Incandescent lighting was put In operation in New York, but about the same time there was a small plant started at Appleton. It was small, and cwuld be easily operated, and fur that reason It is likely that the Appleton plant started brfore the New York plant, which was located on Pearl street. Just south of Fulton street. "Soon after these plants opened for busi ness, there were plants established in Lon don, for exhibition purposes, and in San tiago, Chile and Milan, Italy. "Frank Bprague made the first eerloui effort at electric railway work in this country In 1SPJ, when he started bis electric road at Richmond, Va. That same year the first central station was established In Chicago. Kdlson had built and experi mented with a little electric road at Menlo Park, but Sprague'e line was the first for commercial purposes. Htephen D. Fteld has also done some work In connection with electric railways prior to the Rich mond road. "Elihu Thompson, Mr. Crush of Cleve land, Prof. Houston and a few others were engaged In the scries arc lighting business back in 1SS79, but that was the only electric light service Uiat this country knew any thing about, although in 178 Edison's ex periments with an Incandescent lighting problem were first discussed In the news papers. That talk brought about an ex traordinary fall in the price of gas shares. 'Edison made his fti-et demonstration at Menlo lark of his paper carbon lamp a year later, but not until the summer of 1SS0 did these experimental lamps find .their way outside of Ms laboratory. In l$4l the newspapers were arguing the question us to whether the great Inventor had suc ceeded In subdividing the electric light, or whether he was simply talking. "The alternating system came Into gen eral use about 1886, and prior to that time Edison's three-wire system waa introduced, and the amount of copper necessary for the direct current aystetn was cut down about 60 per cent, lending a great impetus to the electric lighting business. Then es tablishments for the ale of apparatus commenced to appear over the country. "However, thirty years ago the only material In the electrical supply line sold was the telegraph and house bell work. There were three supply houses In New Tork, Ttllotson, Bunnell, acf Charles T. Chester; the Western Electric company of Chicago, Partrlck and Carter ,of Philadel phia, Watts of Baltimore, Buell of Cleve land, and Charles Williams, Jr., of Boston, afterwards taken Into the Western Electric company. E. T. CHUland bad a supply business In Indianapolis. Today the elec W. W FREEMAN. Chairman National Electric Light Associa tion Committee for Improving Wel fare of Employers. trlcal supply business Is of national Im portance. "In 187 the first miniature electric rail way carrying passengers was put In opera tion by Siemens and Halske at the Berlin exposition. It was merely an exhibition pMut, and not until two years later was a commercial road put in operation in Europe a mile and a half affair outside of Ber lin. About the same time of the Berlin exhibition a similar exhibition of u minia ture rulioad was made at Chicago on the lake front In the old Exposition building, of a little circular railroad, but not Jo carry passengers. "Progress cuma rapidly, 'but not until 181 wan there an official designation of (he electrical units and it was at the Paris exposition of lSfcl that the ohm, the volt, ampere and the coulomb were first author itatively defined. "it was'ln this same year that the first box of electrical energy, storage battery of today, was carried from Paris to Glas gow by Sir William Thompson, afterwards Lord Kelvin. It waa one of the first stor age batteries and waa made by Camllle Faure. It was years afterwards before the Faure cell came Into general use. li l&mi Tenia also contributed very ma terially to the development of the alter- ptlng side of the business through his polyphase-current inventions, which form the bases largely of the alternating dynamos and motors of today. "The first electrie power transmission was in lsW, being a system laid out In a small town in Colorado, where It con liected with a mine. The next milestone In the progress of the electric lighting art was at the Chicago World's fair in 1M3. where there was, above everything else, an elec trlcal display. One finds that there they got back to the direct-connected dynamos, using marine types of engines for the pur pose, ana a ooupie or these engines are still In use at the Harrison street station of the Commonwealth Edison company In Chicago. "The X-rays were discovered by Roent gen In la, and lu the same year Marounl -v i 1 , . A s- -J effected communication by wireless teleg raphy In Italy for the first time. Wince then the progress has been marvelous. The first large American steam-turbine unit started In Chicago In 1903. It had met with tndYe or less success In Europe, but the large use, or'rather the use of large units as they are now understood In the central stations; of today, where units running up to as high as 22,000 horsepower are used, dates ai recently as October 2. 1908. when first, unit wss started in the Flsk slreet station of the Commonwealth Edison." The progress of the telephone Is cited by Frueswff as one of the most noteworthy advanoes tn electrical progress of the past thirty yesrs. "Beginning with ths Centennial exposi tion of U76, when Alexander Graham Bell exhtblted tils Instrument which carried the voice over a wire, the advance has been constant and amaslng," he said- "Today there are t.OOO.OOt telephones In use In this country and the amount inverted In ex changes and lines Is around t"JO,000,000. The Investment is growing heavier as Improve ments come In. "Telegraphy has kept pace, too. Thirty years ago It cost $1.15 to telegraph ten words from New fork to Chicago and to for the same number of words sent from Chicago to San Francisco. Compare this with the new nlRht rate of the telegraph companies for fifty words to any part of the United States." Frueauff believes that the exhibit at the Si. Louis convention, showing the various periods of development In the electrical field will be the moat costly ever gathered together in the United StateB. MOTOR VEHICLES IN NEW YORK Ilunilred Thoonand Cars Licensed la the Ruin I re State. The issuance of the one hundred thou sandth automobile license at Albany fur nishes a new standard with which to measure the extraordinary Increase of motor vehicles in New York. According to Secretary of State Koenlg. the dally average, of applications for licenses ex ceeds 260, most of which come from Man hattan! and Brooklyn. On the basis of an average valuation of $1,000 the cars li censed represent a weekly Investment of $1,500,000. The figures merely serve to corroborate the results of every-day observation. The multiplicity of taxlcabs alone, to cite only one phase of the Increase of power vehi cles, has been phenomenal. The statistics serve in particular to show how rapidly the elimination of the horse by the gas engine Is progressing, at least as respects pleasure or passeriger vehicles. How horse traction elsewhere is suffering from the competition of power cars is seen In Lon don, where, according to the statement of Sir Johnl Macdonald before the Royal Au tomobile club, only 110,000 horses survive of the 450.000 quartered in that city in 1900. On the streets of New Tork hansom cabs aro now conspicuous by their rarity. Secretary Koenlg notes a remarkable In crease in the number of "poor men's cars'' registered, and the fact Is suggestive both as an index oi prosperity and, in Its rela tion to the higher scale of living. An in vestment of $1,600,000 a week in automo biles is at the rate of $TS, 000,000 a year. To this first cost must be added the outgo for repairs, running expenses, chauffeurs' wages, automobile haberdashery and the minor accessories of equipment clocks, speedometers, etc., together with the amount disbursed in road-house suppers and other forms of touring hospitality. The grand total cannot be even approxi mately estimated. But that it has Involved the diversion of an Immense aggregate sum from former channels of expenditure Is without question. It Is not assumed that the grocer and butcher have suffered, but there is no doubt that some compen sating economies have been necessitated of which dealers feel the effects. Great IMace to Trade. It's great to trade at the Omaha Rubber company, 1608 Harney street, and practi cally everyone may find something they need there. The; prices are the real attrac tions, , Pure rubber garden hose, shoes and hunting boots, aa well as rainproof coats and clothing of all sorts. Here's where the satisfaction-giving automobile tires are sold. Go there for a. ac J. Hart ford and Morgan & Wright tires. Every Imaginable auto accessory Is carried lu stock. Their handsome and complete cata logues are free. SoniethlMs; of m Parade. The biggest and best automobile parade ever witnessed in Omaha took place Tues day afternoon, vpon tho occasion of the opening of the local base ball season, when something like 125 cars formed in Una and escorted the Topeka and Omaha teams about the city and to the ball park. xne press representatives, as well as the players of both teams, rode In Chalmers cars, as did a large number of Individual owners. Hpi ff m A (T 1 The sensation of the year, brought to Oma- 1 1 LlG VJlCclt SSm w ha by the Sweet-Edwards Automobile Co. .,,.. -. ,,a nuu.. , ! -T ' "L. J 1 nfL " W;. r:-v M..J I I , Jiriii - III X 1 I The IL A. C. is 50 horse power, G cylinder, 133-inch wheel base, GG-ineh wheel, full floating rear axle, 3-point suspension motor, eeleetive transmission. All easily accessible. Trice $2,200 A truly high power, high clasg car, sold at the price usually asked for an ordinary 4-cylinder machine. Only a few of these cars allotted to Nebraska for this year. Get in early. SWEET-ED WARDS AUTOMOBILE CO. 2050 Farnam Street Along Auto Row Baslnssr Was Brisk om ths Bow and the Oatlook la for Ctood Trade All' Bea soa Taotorlss Can Supply Demand. The week Juvt pawrd wa a busy one along auto row. Uoulers are receiving their new cars and they ere able to supply the drmand, which has been all along In adequate. The new manufactures of machines which made tbelr appearance during the last and present month have helped materially to satisfy eater , buyers. Tho outlook 1 promising for. a big bulnes on the row the coming week. Jack Welch drove the Interstate Bulldog into Omaha last week, mud-stained and tired. He had made 8.000 miles of the 23.000 that he expects to make on his tour mound the United States. Tho cur was stopped at Huffman's garage, where It will be Huvrrol flays longer. After Welch returns from Kansas City he will proceed, on his trip to the, coast, and thence into Mexico. He will return through the southern states and up the Atlantic cost to New York. Thin back Into Indiana. Welch declares that he has not touched the car mid that It will be sound us a dollar when it enters the Olld den tnur on tho wind-up of this long Journey. Charles Mers left last week for In dianapolis to drive a National "40" in the great speedway races there this week. There Is a three days' meet and all of the cars are entered. There will be a scramble to sea who will lower the record. Mers has won more than one medal on the In diana speedway. The last time he drove there his car was wrecked and two men were killed. The official record In, the office of the secretary of state shows the sale of cars In Nebraska last month as follows: Bulck, 116; Ford. 102; 'Overland, 9fl; Maxwwell, 86; Reo, 67; E. M. F.. 44; Oakland, 34; Jackson, 31; Cadillac, SO; Velle, 17; Chalmers De troit, 1$; Rambler, 14; Regal, 12; Oldsmo blle. 7. W. L. Huffman received Intelligence Sat vrday" that the Interstate factory lad shipped sixty cars. Its entire allotment for May, and that there would be no short age anywhere along the line, so far as the Interstate Is concerned. The Interstate Torpedo car for Mr. Mar tin of Norrla k Martin arrived last week. The track Interstate car which has con tested at the races all over the country will be brought to Omaha from Kansas City thla week. Jack Welsh, who Is dTlv- Ing the $25,000 car, will drive this car to Indianapolis, where it will be. entered yn the speedway races. 1 Lee Huff and H. E. Seidle are in Kan sas City, rushing a tralnload of Buicks Into their territory. The Nebraska Bulck has received another forty-two-lnch wneel alx-cy Under sixty horse power Olds and Is displaying It now In Us salesroom. ering the last 200 miles of the trip, Mr. Pal Lewis, official scout for the Glldden tour, has much tc say regarding the pluck and enterprise ot Walter (Fum) Smith of Shenandoah, la. This young man is local agent for Chalmers cars at Shenandoah, la., and notwithstanding the fact that be Is barely 21 years of age. has set a mark which any of his older associates In business might well feel proud of. In spite of the frightful condition of the roads, Walter, upon learning that the path finding crew would leave Maryvllle, Mo., Monday morning, immediately proceeded to that place and not only piloted the path- finding car to Shenandoah, but proceeded with It to Omaha. The Kissel Kar company has received the. Warren-Detrolt and will great favorite in Nebraska. make it a Henry Thompson of Chicago, who has been out assisting W. R. Drummond in placing the White Steamers in this terrl- Sterling Blue Tubes are built up of four cross-grained layers of Fine Para Rubber and when completed are covered with an additional heat resisting blue layer. They are never porous and never oxydize, no matter how long you carry them. Initially higher in price ultimately the cheapest tube on earth. Sterlint Rubber Works, Rutherford, N.J. For Sale by I'axton & Gallagher tory, returned to Chicago last night, i Thompson Is pleased with the way In which the White Is received In Nebraska and predicts a heavy business this season. Walter Afkley In the Midland made them know that lie was In Shannndouh the other day. Ashley flew around the track like ' an arrow. i The Midwist Auto company has a great favorite in the Cole .'. It Is one of tliv I prettiest cars In this s.'dion and Is iiiaklnj; j Its way light along. DeWiit Ik Knott are , puirhlng It vigorously. j That tho doctor is last becoming one of the best buyer of the automobile Is th opinion of C. L. Gould, manager of the Ford Automobile company. He says: "Our sales to the doctor who perhaps dis criminate more then anyone as to size and style of a car is very pl-asing to our firm. The Ford reports the sales of Model 7 touring cars to lr.i. F. E. CoulKr and A. E. Mack. tiny Smith said that the Franklin j sales have surprised his expectation InNc- ' braska this season. Smith Is a good clean fellow and has a lot of friends, tfouie who I believe that he wouldn't sell anything but i a good car. I C. F. Louk received the much tallied of Abbott-Detroit lusl week. It la a winner j already. It is pretty and at I LOW will find buycrB everywhere. 'j The Mclatyre Auto company delivered last week two Oaklands, one to H. B. Aus tin and the other to C. F. Coffee. J. E. Rose drove an On k land 40 200 miles last week, using one gallon of gasoline to every nineteen miles. The R. A- C, brought out by Sweet-Edwards Auto company, is attracting atten tion now along auto row. It is a large, roomy car, graceful and powerful, and for $2,200 Is considered one of the best cars in the country. It' has made good east and Ernest Sweet will make It a winner in Ne braska. Ernest Sweet received ' a messuge last night that the R. A. C. had .made Michigan hilt, In South Bend, five In the car, at taining a speed of forty-seven miles an hour at the top. The car started at the foot of the hill. Dick Stewart said the advent of the motor car Into general use on the Pacific coast has been hastened by the encourage ment given to automobile trucks by the city authorities In many western cities, where automobile fire apparatus has proved particularly successful. Although Thomas B. Jeffery & Company are not regular producers of automobile UuckHt the felUures of the Rambler chaa- Is, its advantages of strength, durability and the power of the Rambler engine, re commends It for this purpose. A new Rambler motor chemical truck has recently been delivered to the city of Whlttier, Cal. It Is built on the 45-horse-power Rambler chassis, carries the spare wheel and a great deal of extra equip ment besides that regularly furnished with this car. i The city of Kenosha, where the Rambler la manufactured, wilt have a similar truck, which la to take the place of the horse drawn apparatus now in usa. Henry H. Van Brunt said: "We are delivering cars just as fast as the factor ies can build them and still the orders are coming In. There is no delivery delay,, but we are Just humping to keep pace with the unprecedented demand. The pop ularity of the Overland has literally swept the country like a flood. It j In wonderful what good advertising In newspapers, backed by a merltable article, can do, It has made a monster success of one of the greatest business enterprises In history for the Overland has come to the front and won hands down," The H. B. Fredrlckson Automobile com pany Is Just In receipt of the following ktalerram: "Hudson" driver Maxwell fln- lshes Times-Dispatch, Virginia Endurance run. with only perfeot score in its class, winning cup. Thirty-three entrants. Run laetlng three days over 468 miles, mostly rocks, mud and mountains." Co., 10th btreet Viaduct, Omaha. I We ill Forfeit $100 1 If wo fail to dcl.vor your - Interstate Touring Gar $1,750 Most Wonderful Car On the Market for the Money DEALERS TAKE NOTICE: We are now ready and offer a better proposition than you have ever heard of. Don't wait, come to Omaha and see us. AVe want a representa tive in every town in Nebras ka, Iowa and Soutli Dakota. 17. L. HUFFMAN AUTOMOBILE CO. 2025 Farnam St., Omaha; Neb. DISTRIBUTERS FOR Inter-State $1,750 upmobilo $750 v De Tamblo Car $650 BUYERS ATTENTION: If dealers in your town do to Omaha and get our Buyers these cars are not equaled for P S. The above announcement is made at this time because the manufacturers of lions of capital have found that and obtain an unlimited supply of material while others have been sleeping or handicapped for ready cash. No car at any price is Cadillac continues to pile up records of SB - low cost ) 191 Cadillac "Thirty" users in different sections of the country, drive aggregate of 820,063 miles at a total expense for mechanical repairs of $130.21, averaging 69 cents for the season's running, or less than 16 cents for each thousand miles of travel. When soma weeks ago figures wers pub lished In New York showing that 75 Cadil la "Thirty" users hsd driven their oars an aggregate of 398.884 miles to a total ex pense for niechanioal repairs of 150.21, aver aging 71 cents per car for the season, the record waa ao amaslng that it at ones became one of tha foremost topics of dis cussion in the world of motoring. In a few weeks following that announce ment cams the report of a second and even more remarkable set of figures from the fifty users of the l!Kfl tnodel Cadillac "Thirty" in Davton.' Ohio, who drove their cars an aggregate of 168,581) miles at a total cost of only fa.ll. or an average oi but 12 cents per car for tha season. And now comes a third report, which, while not quite equaling the first two In the low cost of repair expense, is still suf ficiently low to confirm the aoeuracy of those former reports and at the same time it brings the average expense of the three groups of owners below the average of the first group. This third report comes from the 6 users of the liKW Cadillac "Thirty" In Indianap olis territory. They drove their cars an aggregate of Z.2,6tt miles, at a total repair expense to the owners of 871.30, or an average ot $' each for the season. Out of ths entire 6S owners, 53 had no expense whatever. Of the remaining thirteen, the highest expense to any one was 83D.0O on a car that had been driven twenty thousand miles, the others ranging from $8.75 down to 26 cents. ... , t With these Interesting figures at hand from three sections of-the country, a com pilation of all threecombined New York, Dayton and Indianapolis becomes still more interesting. In the three localities there was a total number of users from whom reports were obtained of 11. Their cars traveled an ag gregate of 820,088 miles, or an average of Oakland Welch Licensed I'mler Kelden Patent. This is a line tit carg that must be seen to be appreciated. Tha Oakland baa baen tried out in this section three years and grown more popular every day. Do not buy until you have a demon stration of this car. But the real reputation of the Oakland, the one we are rooBt proud of. is the unlverijar satisfaction and enthusiasm of the army of Oakland owners. Alanson P. Urunh, the designer of the Oakland, la known as onu of the foremost automobile engineers In America, and bl work is one unbroken record of guccesses. The Welch is a high class car embracing the distinctive features of the leading cars built in America today. Also Agents for Staver, Chicago. JVT x A.s4vvia121a afj-t i p SS203 Farnam tatreel car the day promised mm Same Features that the High est Priced Cars Have Obserro the extra long 'wheel base, 1 18 . inches; the graceful lines and the roominess of thpsu big forty-horsepower module. No more highly erficient, motor is In use than that of the Inter State "Forties" 42x5 inches. Tliflse ears have the U. & H. imported high tension mustxno, double ignition system, multiple disc clutch of improved cork in sert design (only found on foreign and higher priced ears), three quarter elliptic rear springs, 34x4 lnch tires and many other high priced features. All models built on the same chassis. not sell our line of cars come proposition. Don't be misled, the money. Inter - State cars with their mil they have been able to corner better than tlhc Inter-State. or upkeep 4,283 lulled per mr. Of the 191 users thf-ra were only 48 who had any expense at uli the remaining 143 having had absolutely i.tt repair cosr whatever. The total repair expense of tjie entlrtt 191 users amounted to 81S0.21, or an aver age of only en cents each for the season's running, less than 10 cents for eai'h thou sand miles. In the matter of gasoline comuiniptloi; the average shows between 18 and llT miles per gulUm, although some drivers averaged twtnay or mora miles to the gullon. The oil consumption averaged .approxi mately 183 inlli-H per quart, In snme casm running as high us 260 to .300 miles. It is quite apparrnt. however, that a number of users in muklng their reports, Inrlurieu all oil used, nt only focr motor lubrica tion, but for ojher parts of the car mm well. With this array of evidence at tiaml. coming as It duel from til lew different sections of the country, ami each cor roborating the other, it is unite reasonable to ussume that a canvaxH of the remain der of the country would make a show ing on an approximate basis. The value of the evldfrnm 1m greatly en hanced from the fact that prior to being asked for their reports, the users had received no Intimation that their eper lenceM were to become mutters of record and they had simply driven their cars when thev pleased, where they tlea.ed. and how thny pleHsed. with no special ef fort at economy beyond what care they would ordinarily exercise lu their own in tfrfltH While It is posnlblo thnt there may be other makes of cars which can show cases of low upkeep cost in occasional Instances, yet It i "afe to nay that the records here cited, taking one type of ear as a whole, have never been even ap prpached in motor csr history. . J Mm l : J i I" V I!