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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 11, 1910)
THK OMAHA SUNDAY HKK: SnrTKMHKU .11. 1010. Nebraska's Bohemian Festival is First State-Wide Event of Its Kind t V .'4 Y ' JnWT . OP THf. TP.Tl ,1PT) SOKOL (ltl-,'? j ,r in i imiTim.iiii. i n,.,,-"'1 .s.,. After the Parade T UK first state-wido Bohemian festival which focused the In terest oJ Nebraska's 80.) Bohemian citizen upon the Tel Jed Hokol hn!l on Sun Hi Thir teenth Btreet for three day Is . a matter of history ami the large number of Bohemian men and tioraili . who ram to Omaha to Join In th . week-end of mixed fun and seti- 5o$.L.PacLrno3 "President a. TekhvaL Hi 10 1' ou deliberation have left the city days ago. Many of the thin, raid and done at that :-llval will not anon be forgotten, however, nd It la generally felt among Omaha Bo hemian that Its Influence will be great among their people of the itate arkl nation. For decades thene Bohemian-Americans have been struggling toward the organisa tion of some scrt of an association. The nerd which a felt Is not for an organiza tion simply to keep alive the memory of things Bohemian In such a way aa to make Its members one whit poorer Americans; loo much love Is felt by the Bohemians for their adopted country to make any such re ult possible. At the same time they have realized that to the country which gave them birth, now struggling and oppressed by Austrian power, hey owe an Immense ,endeut of lf ubwi una i no prune onjci 01 mny oriRiiiz A' ri vi 3'' v Vs w?v W ,li.Ul 1 ' , " Gov. Dak! man" in On? Parade t Norfolk, Rapve- ln Ik.U .... 1 .1 1 ll OU.HUUIUI ...... .- "" " Father, Petlach of Verdlgree were y A among - the men present who have had a great In fluence upon Neb'aaka and her affairs. ' The Impression Omaha , made with these their kindled who still linger across the Atlantic. . ' ,. The Omaha meeting brought theae people w -,.v orK.mw.uon .nan people la a favorable one. The open-heartad : have ever beer, before. For the festival . hopltallty 0f their fellow. Bohemian., the he. e the Bohen.lai.s of the city dropped the p,ennl(1 .nlertatnment provided by . the rellg ou. feeling which have alway.. to a t.omttee and the eourt.ay whloh thay met considerable extant held them apart and at tn. n4nd, of non-Bohelan Omaha haa workeU shoulder to shoulder for It. auocess.' tl, ctJ. . w,rm p,ac m th,lr h,artB Those who came from a distance fell' which wa reflected when It wa voted to readily Into the spirit which the local Bo- have fuither feativaja of ii armilar nature' hemlans had ahown and a. a result a meet- in Omaha. 7; 1 WW Ing haa ben arranged tor September II at a-TTnwur. or every loage in meetlnif. -what It m..n. t.. th. Rh.min. To fully appreciate the slgairioaiica of this Hot " 1 . : in Jib - (tov iiivf.-: ti Trank BouJtan ScKoqI Children Honariu Picture oiVolui Commenius i A of Bohemia deserting their native land for distribution of Bohemian population as lo America. atatesj It is Impossible to give the exact number Illinois 120.0m) of Bohemian Immigrants to the 'nlied Nebraska HO.tVW St. ..a .1,. K...,. nr,.ll.l New Yolk 60.W many of them aa AuHmni. However, tak- Wisconsin ing Into consideration the Immigrants from Texas ... w..r . present 10 o.scuss me who attended and the remainder of the forming of a at at association. It Is almost go.oou Bohemian, in Nebraska who were not certain that this committee will report able to attend. It Is neoeosary to take a favorably and It doea not require an elab- rropeCtlve view of the hlatory of the orate flight of the Imagination to picture a Bohemian country, with ita many mlafor- natlonal Bohemian association resultlns tur.es and vicissitudes; to Inquire Into the from the efforts of Joseph . Padrnoa and causes for the gieat .yearly Influx of Bohe- the other local Bohemians who worked mians into ,., -j , ,,,,,. night and day to make thla festival a uc- the place the Bohemian, who have Imml- " ce"; grated to this country hold in the carrying Herman waa a man of excellent education A second object of the meeting was the on of our government.' ' and for that reason he was entrusted by furthering of education of the Bohemian Time was, four centuries or more ago, Governor Stuyvesant of New Amsterdam children in the old country and In achlev- when the kings of Bohemia wero the em- with many an Important mission. He was Ing thla object the festival was equally perora of Rome and when these self-same the man who drew the first map of Mary- auccesaful, There was not a alngle session kli gs had beneath thejr sway the greater land, one copy of which Is still preserved where some word was not spoken for educa- portion of Central Europe. The Bohemia lo the British museum and another at tion. Even In the lea. serious events, the of today, exhausted and, struggling -under . Richmond In the archives of the state of octal, the parade, the play and the child- the Germanising influence, la but a shadow Virginia. Herman worked on this map for ran", party, one heard constant reference, of the great empire to which a few hun- t" years and when he presented the fln- to the deplorable educational condition, dreds of years ago the eyes of all the lshed product to Lord Baltimore the latter among the Bohemlana In the old country. ' world wore t timed In envy and. admiration, -was so pleased with the work that he en- So great an impreseton did this all make One who knows the Intense love which dowed him with 20,000 acres of land In Cecil upon the Bohemians present that at the the average Qohemlan holds, for hi. home county, Maryli nd, which estate to thla day aeaaton on ' Sunday a substantial sum of and country yon side the Atlantic, or one 1 known as "The Bohemian Manor." money waa raiaeti to Duua and equip hool who while traveling over the European The second of- theae Bohemian en!- n6m.a every patriotic act was condemned money and then, with purse well nouses In Rnhmli itnH n aKam..Iu& uu , 1 . . ....... ... . - " . . ...v. -u, vuu.n.io i. mrvrien ai wie natural oeau- grants, runups, was uaewiae a man oi Hs treason to Austria. This dl.tresslng con- return lo their own country. V " J . ...w uiuurai wniwn lies or mat pan ot nortnern t.urope which prominence ar.a he. as well as hia descend- dltlon WMch .was only added to by the los. The latest report of the commissioner of. a success, and the very success of the local aaniy neglecting. is Bohemia, ia at loa to understand the ants, played a prominent partjn the de- of Bohemian live, and property in the A".- immigration .how. only 2 per cent of meeting Is apt to have a great deal to do Omaha has been fortunate during the extraordinarily large number of people who velopment of New Amsterdam. He waa the tro-I'russlKn war of 1K66. became so dee- Bohemian immigrants Illiterate, as com- with a final burying of religious dlffei- ummer In being called upon to entertain have emigrated from that -country to the owner of many large estates, one of which, perate as to force many to leave the old pared wltla 4 per cent of Germans, and still ences and the formation of a national Bo- aeveral associations of forelgn-'orn Ameri- Vnlted Statea. .... tm) B0.CaUed Great Highland-," now com- country and It was but natural that they greater number of other nationalities. As hcmlan society. . cana ana as earn body of thm haa come " ' re political, religious prlsea the whole of Putnam oouhty, New nhouA ,url, their faces toward the United to the criminal record, there never has been The action which the local meeting took ana gone in impression has become more ana economical. The religious revolution York. Phllllpa Ilea burled In - Sleepy Hoi- statea, then especially prominent as a land Bohemian executed in thla""country. toward the betjer education for Bohemian firmly rooted that America's adopted child- at the beginning of the seventeenth cen- low" cemetery next to Washington Irving. ot f,ee people. It Is In the farming districts that the children Is not tf novel one to these people. mi are among ner oei ciiixena. As 11 waa iury, surrey iy aoeinnea of Jan Hub, gave It will be interesting to know that George Poverty ia. nowadava. the cauae of the Bohemiana have attained the greatest lie- They have always been a well educated with the German sangerbund, it was birth to several religious sects In Bohemia, Washington was at one time engaged to a greater portion of the Immigration to. this gre of success. It Is there that we can and an' tducatlon-lovlng people, and as a The toUi numt)er f ihcse parochial schools' In the t'nited rttalt? is seventy-five, of which one is located In Omaha. Thesn schools have a total attendance, of about H.000. There i also on Institution of higher learning, St. I'rocopius college Ul Chicago, which is conducted by the Bo hemian Benedictine order. 45,01 K) 46.l"0 40 0 0 . - Moravia and Silesia, the Austrian provinces T;;Wa " .7. .V.V'.V. ' so WW the old country. Many Bohemian .patriots, where the Bohemian language la spoken, the Kansas 'm.iw especially during the stormy year, 184S, total number of Bohemians In the United' The strong antagonism between the two Bought a refuge beyond the sea to avoid States Is estimated at 562,000, of which 232.- camps of Bohemians In this, country, the the consequence, of their patriotic eal. 000 are foreign born. It Is worthy of note catholic and the non-Catholic, who call The courts were showing no mercy to those-that these figures are almost equally dl- themselves free-thinkers, has alway. pre who were charged with political crime, vlded between men and women, which vented the formation of anything approach and when, later, the government of Aus- show, that Bohemian Immigrants have come ing a national organization. The meeting trla pasaed Into .hands unfriendly to Bo- to this country to stay, and not to raise held here last week waa one of the very filled, earliest meetings in which Catholic and, non-Cotliolics factions have united to make 1 'U" "k - ' ' ' -"Y v. C.STENICKA- with the German editors, as It was with and th auppressl.jn of them ater the battle granddaughter of Phillips, but In the tumult country. This poverty Is largely the re- best see the great share they had in build- consequence many Bohemians are proml- ine jvriegemuna, so it waa with Ihesa Bo- or Whit mountain (Blla hoia) In 1020 of the struggle for Independence seems lo ,it of Inattention on the part of the Aus- ing up the United States. Accustomed io nent in the United States today. in the dif- hemlan-Americans. Among the number caused many to einigrate to other countrlea have forgotten her. She later married a trian government to the welfare of certain hard labor, they are ever willing to undergo ferent professions. who gathered In Omaha for tho festival, and several came aa far aa America. Of Colonel Morrison. ' parts of Bohemia, especlall the aouthern the hardships of pioneer life, and there Is Wherever it is possible the Bohemian one aaw hundred, of men and women who Iho latter August Herman to. I'M) and Most or the immlgatlmi to this country and eastern parts. This, coupled with un- a saying that if anyone can wrest a crop Catholics, impelled not only by'love of their are occupying prominent pi; In the af- FrederlcK Phillips td. I'K) are the most of late years may be attributed to the po- bearable taxation, haa been the cause of from the soil, it Is the Bohemian fanner. tongue, but as well by loe of their faith, fair, of the .tale. lr. al, supeiin.- important' from a historical standpoint, lltlcal conditions which have prevailed In many of the best citizens of those portions The following table give, the approximate havo built up schools in charge of nuns. Developments in the Field of Electricity Tralsi lllapatchliia- .Metaetls. NUMBER of electrical engineer X I and railroad tra'n dispatcher. f'L I met recently In the office of ihe 111 Pearl street to watch an ex hlbitlpn of some recent improve ments In telephonic train dispatching under the system known as the Gill select on. This la the vyeteni of dispatching trains by the use of telephones instead of the telegiaph, which is being lapklly adopted by railroads all over the couutiy. The experts present at the demonstration, relates (he New York Sun, were familiar with the wofk In general way, and their Intel en was in some recent improvement; but to the laymen present, among whom were a number of ieiorter. the whole ss tem was like magic. A large office room waa fitted up with the apparatus of u, train dispatcher in one corner and In another corner the apparatus of an opera tor with whom the dispatcher was sup posed lo be communicating. There were also a number ot regulation . railway semaphore signals. I The operator aits at a desk with a telephone receiver al his ear. Before him Is a switchboard on which are a number of small keys and over each key Is printed a signal number as, for Instance, 1-4-4-3. Th operator know, that that ia the signal, which when th key is turned quarter way round will repeat the numbers In the on station or office the operator deatrea to t'ommunicate with and In no other office, of uourse the operator soon become, familiar with the code number and their ori sHJUdlng atations, but to make It absolutely funl-proof the nam of the s ta lon Is primed abov Ita proper key. Hav ing turned Ui key the operator througU the receiver at . his ear knows tnat the signal haa reached the desired station he cause lie hears It by a "come back" elec trical arrangement. The operator lias yet more assurance that lie haa called the right office. , He has assurance that the operator In. the office ha has called knows that be Is being called if he Is anywhere In the neighborhood of his post of duty, for the turning of that key sets a ciangoious bell tinging In tne office galled and the operator rending the signal plainly hears b teleplionV the bell sound, though it may lie loo mile away. The signalling arrangements ina cause tne bell lo ling a limited time or continue t ring until the sending operator by an op eration of the key stops II. This he would do when he had concluded thai the op erator he was calling might be busy selling a ticket, receipting fur an. express package or trolnng in the moonlight with his best '""I- The sending operator has been acting under Instructions from the division train dispatcher and be must signal a train ap proaching the station he has railed, and when hs ha made up hia mind that the operator he wanted io communicate with is not to b reached the sending operator then teaches up to an electric swiicn, moves ll and the semaphore danger signal nearest the si,.tion he has called fails and holda any approaching train. If even by the time the next train approaches and I. held up by the signal the called operator has not responded a tralnhand Jumps to the ground, unlocks a telephone booth near the station, tails up the sending operator and receives his instructions. The explanation so far tells hat ia dona if the called opeiatot does not respond, which, of course, would very rarely be the case. The called operator, hearing the bell ring if he is at any distance from the tele phone, or hearing his station code signal if lie is at his place, proceeds at once without any switching or calling up a central to receive his orders from the sending opera tor. All this is done by any one with In telligence enough to receive and understand uulers from a train dispatcher. Beyond the advantage of not requiring expen telegraphers to carry on the dla patching, the vystem has been found to have many other econo nic advantages. H is the expeitence of dispatchers handling a Morse key and calling up an office by. the signal letters of that office that the opera tor called answers when he gets good and ready and If lie happens to be a little grouchy It takes him some lime to get ready; but tills curious re-ult has been noted wherever the telephone vystem has been intalled: an operator will more promptly answer hia signal . hearing the' alarm bell sounded than If he Is listening uniy to the monotonous ciick of the tele graph instrument. He also receives his Instructions more rapidly because you can talk quicker than you can telrgiap.i, and it Is a mote simple aud natural thing io confirm tne order by vertal repitl.lo.i. Tne division train 'dispatcher on one western railroad has estimated thai the telephone has saved 1 per cent In the time required in the conduct of the train dispatcher's affair over, ilia division. It T rata a by Pbwae. The Delaware. Lacks anna & Western raihoad has entirely dispensed with the telegraph for train dispatching purpose. The telephone haa taken its place. On th alxly-thre miles of line between Scranton. Pa., and Uingiitmlvn, N. Y., In pu ib first trial of the new system was made. Now the company has 271 stations equipped with the telephonic outfit and 2,500 miles oil wire. Though experiment with telephone dis patching were Flailed in the west, the Lackawanna !. the first road to use the system exclusively over all its line. A. great saving of time has resulted from the Innovation. It is easier to summon sta tions along the line and calls are answered more promptly than under the former sys tem. The whereabouts of trains and the condition of the motive power and cars In transit are known at headquarters to an extent not possible when the telegraph was used. In addition to the phones at stations and towers, there are siding phone booth from which train crews may communicate with the dispatcher. Under former conditions a freight train might be held on a siding for hours while waiting for a passenger train tu pats it. Now the conductor calls Uuii the dispatcher and obtains directions, possibly to move on twenty or thirty inileii Ivitiic: before overtaken by the passenger, .tiain. In ca.-e a freight train waa detailed or met with some other mishap, the wreck ing crew always used to Include a telegra pher. The trainmaster had to write out nii-iauin io headquat lets, give them lo the operator and wait upon the slow work ing of the Morse- alphabet. The telegrapher Is no longer i.e.-ded. The trainmaster gives all his Iiu'.ji inalicn by word of mouth and receives Information In return in less than half the time required by lha old process. Wireless r Home I teaslls. In hi Philadelphia home r'. B. Cham bers, a wireless enthusiast, hat. been dem onstrating the possibilities of au-rlal com munication. The rmpular idea that to con verse by wireless emails a larre prelimi nary expenditure for an outfit. is a iiilstaks. Th. man receive, messages fruui hia w.X tnroiigu tiie libs of an umbrella, throiign a common dlshpan, and, according to Popular Mechanics, by means of such ordinary mate-rial as a wire (iulhcsline. The possibilities of using this form of wireless communication taut suue'sl them selves are unlimited. For Instance. It will be easy for boys who are cauipins lo be in touch witn their homes by merely stretch ing wlrea between two trec-a. the wires be i.g a few jarclH of clothesline, which can be purchased by the reel for 33 cents at any hardware store. A tin washbowl ran be found at any lump or summer cottage, and this pro v.cUs a perfectly satisfactory means o." catching t lie wireless words lhal cavort around the atmosphere. If the campers have been so forget fu' as to omit a tin washbowl from their equipment then there are aeveral substi tutes within easy reach. Chambers proved this hy iiH-nding a cot that had a wire support for tne mattress and with this as a receiving Implement the ticking started at once, m.-ssages that were being sent to the I hlladelphla navy yard being plainly hi-aid thiough the receiver clamped to the ears. Of course It is not possible to send mes sages ty litmus of these tliuple devices used In receiving. These conversations must be one-sided. The person cannot talk back through his dishpan or umbrella. "1 have great fun calling my husband at nifcht." saa Mrs. Chambers, won has learned to operate the wireless apparatus ai her home. "1 agree with him when 1.4 is away from home to call hi in at a oeriulu hour and then he .an hear all the news by way of the umbrella aerial or by hitching his rec-lver io an Improvised aerial in the vicinity. "The appliance which makes it possible for til til to leceive wireless messages, but nt to send any, can be tarried in a suit case. It cost him about li to make lb "TUe other iiighl be aa in the aubuiba on business and 1 tiied for a iong time to pick iiitn tip. Ail the wireless Operators around who happened lo be at leisure Joined me In the hunt and the air was warm with such messages as: -Chambers your nlfe wants you.' 'Chambers, you're goins to get it when jou get home,' -Hello, Chambers, hotfoot It to Ninth Btreet,' and so on. "I learned when he came home that he had caught most of the messages, and the following night he amused himself calling up the wireless stations and Jollying the operators who had been kind enough to Join In the wireless hunt for him." Regulation of Automobiles New Yorkers have quite recently had ' brought to their attention the examination of chauffeurs under the new Callan law; and we have all mentally approved, espe cially those of us who have watched the gyrations of green hands on some of the vehicles for hire. But Massachusetts has long had the same provision, and to this fact 'also Governor Or.iper pointed with pride, at the conference of governors. Th examination is practical. The chauffeur must know the law: he must know the raits of the road and the traffic legulations of cities; and he must know the Inwards of an automobile. He must prove his knowledge, first on paper, and then on lh street in a car, and if he falls, like th Macbeth family, he falls. Pennsylvania la clearly behind the limes In having no examination for professional chauffeurs. The aspirant simply has to fill out a form, pay .', swear or affirm thai lie Is a perfectly goou chauffeur, and ilie thing la done, and be is entitled to dl.-pidV the I wu-and-a-half-lm-h badge conspicu ously. Then again, In Pennsylvania, wliili 'lllcy have a graduated (e fur automobiles, the,. highest fee is no more than $lo, ' a. against in Massachusetts and elsewhere. New Jersey follow. Massachusetts in providing that every automobile should have two brakes, "powerful In action and separated from each other," a. against tha "good and sufficient brakes" of the Penn sylvania law; and New Jersey further fol lows the Bay state In providing for tha lighting of lamps a hnlf-hour after sunset. New Jersew examines its would-be chauf feurs, us New York now does, but allows 'any proper person of the age of 16 or over to riiH. a car," v. herea. most stale make the minimum age IH. New Jersey !' equally liberal In the matter of registration fees, having a graded rale of i, ti and 1 10, less than half the rates In most states. Thaj Fpeed limit in New Jersey la twenty-five antf fifteen miles presenting a third va riety within three states. But New Jersey haa an explicit exception, providing that "the foregoing provisions concerning tha speed of motor vehicle, shall not apply to any speedway built and maintained for th. exclusive use of motor vehicle., if the said, spetdway at no point crosses any publlo street, avenue, road, turnpike, driveway or other public thoroughfare, or any railroad; or railway at grade." Charles Johnston, ia Harper's Weekly. Ka.orlte Kletlun. "Come Might Along, Old Chap; My Wife Will Be Delighted to 8ee You." "How Becoming Your New rfat Is, iear.' "I Don t Mind the Ixies of the Money, bul the Papeis the Thief Got Were Very Valuable." 'Trespasser on This Property Will Vm Piosecuted." "My r'ellow Citizens, I 1 Hi Not Consider This Serenade a personal Compliment." "If i Thought Smoking Waa Hurting Me I'd Quit It In a Minute." " 1 'on i fare for an Automobile Myself, but M V Wife Insists on Having (." "1. allies and Gentlemen. Misa P kes. toe i opular r.lot uiioniHl, Will Now l,nler tain You' 'The Meeting Will ' He Called to ' OrdsC at w'clock .Uaru." Chicago Xabuue,