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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 17, 1913)
THE PEOPLE'S WEEKLY PAGE OF ELECTRICAL NEWS I Published Each Tuesday tool Any Player Roll HXm Tho Hospo collection of player pinno rolls is unex celled in the west for choice of pieces. You enn get any paino selection that you want, from the familiar pieces, of olden days to the popular song and cabarot numbers of the prosent day. ANY ROLL YOU WANT WHEN YOU WANT IT. DOUGLAS STREET. The duck lays an egg without making any noise. The hen makes a lot of racket about the little task. You may admire the duck for its quiet ways, but you buy the eggs the hen lays, for you know that the hen lays eggs the noisy fowl keeps you aware of the fact all the time, and you naturally ask for the goods that you hear of often. So, you see, it pays to advertise, even if you be a hen. The house wired for electricity is the one that gives the tenant entire satisfaction If your house does not have elec tricity let us move you at once into one that does. We give complete satisfaction in our moving, and dis patch work with care to every ar ticle and without damage to the most fragile piece of furniture. Moving, Storing and Packing Modern Equipment Store your goods with us this eummer in Fireproof, Ratproof and Dirtproof Vaults The Best Storage in th& West. Omaha Van & Storage Company WHAT PUZZW KILOWATT IS Average Citizen Knows About the Water Meter, but Not Watt Meter. DK. WHEELER GIVES DEFINITION UlrctrlKlty I Tnblolrt of KnrrffT" nnit In Only Form thnt Can no Stored nnit Ifuril When Vnnrl. What Is there about n kllowntt.linur that so mystifies tho average citizen, ur aooui a wiowau-hour mat reduces him to a State of llieohrrpnci. nski th Klrr. trlcal News. The gas meter has long ueen an oujoct or suspicion, but In spite of Its Innate depravity men assume to understand It and occasionally dispute us vcrnici. mu a wntt meter! How often have you heard one of the hundreds of thousands of users of electrle current casually tell another how much each kilowatt-hour Is costing him? Ho knows In New York that 1,000 cubic feet of gas costs htm SO cents. He knows how much a week he pays hs maid, hut he doesn't Upow how much an hour ha Is pnylnc that other servant electrlctyand he doesn't know how he can check up the question, whether ho Is getting what lie pays for- At best ho knows that his electric llRht bills are about 8q much ft month. Electricity has often been called tho universal servant. It Is more than that H Is the tabloid of energy. It Is the most refined and condensed form of energy, and, therefore, is available to be applied to more different things than any other form pf energy. It la the beat disciplined energy be came It moves In an orderly fashion ami with Ughtnlng-llke rapidity. Dr. Schuyhr Skaats Wheeler has said that the dif ference in the motion of those two first cousins, heat and electricity, Is the dif ference between a panjestrjoken mob (n a fire and tho fire drill in a public school by means of which a building Is emptlej of hundreds of students In less than fve minutes. Dr. Wheeler Is responsible, too, for thi expression. "Electricity is the tabloid of energy." It Is as easy to handle, h pays, as extract of beef. Just add hot water and servo In tho first case. Just turn 4. switch and be served In a second, It Is the only form of energy that can be stored In practical quantity and used when wanted. Heat, for Instance, is rapidly dissipated. You can't get horse-power without starting an engine, or a hrse, but you cap keep kilowatts In a storage battery by converting them Into chemical energy and hqld them In a glass Jar for a lopg period of trne with little, deterioration, Why is the nubile, which mmj. tnnn ' ' --rrr-." ,,vw,r 000,000 a year, directly and Indirectly, on. s"-!! fimiiimipry una 11 line amount on current, so devastatlngly Ignorant of the most simple fundamental facts In regard to 1(7 Vacuum Cleaner Put to Odd Work by Man in Southern Town A contractor In Richmond was the other day perplexed as to how to get two wires through a three-eighths nch gasplpe for a newel Post light. The pipe hod three bends In It and could not be. disconnected. A friend suggested tp him that he get a vacuum Bleftper pn the Job. When the cleaner was brought the two took a piece of string and made a ball of tho Btrng nearly as large as th opening fa in Pipe, leaving mo Balance 0f the Btrlng attached they Inserted tho ball in one end of tho pipe and put the pmallest nozzle on the cleanser hose to the other end and sucked it through. The on tiro operation took about two tpinuteg, andj of course, after they had a string through, the pipe they were ablo fo draw the wlreB after It without any further tiouble. By this method they did In less than five minutes what a man had al ready tried to do by hand for the best part of a who's day. Telephone Wire in Quantity So Large it .Really Astounds There are T,000,000 telephone stations In this country united by the Bell system, and the amount of wire mado use of wilt total at 1J,000,(XV) mllee. Pome Idea of what this total means may be grasped when It Is calculated that this length of wire could bo stretched 7.000 times be tween Omaha and New York, could be wrapped around the earth 600 times, and that It would make fifty ("eparnte lines from he earth to the moon; but there would not be half enough wire to reach from tho earth to our nearest planetary neighbor, Venus. NEW FANlOPULAR IN HOME Unlike Ordinary Cooler in that it Blows Breeze Upward. DISH OF FRUIT JUST ABOVE FAN Nickel l'lnce U So Constructed Hint It llnld flccurelj- n Dish nf Fruit or n Pot of Klnvrrrs. Hero Is the sort of fan which you may see adorning (the word is used advisedly) the tablo of restaurants and of homo din ing rooms this summer The Idea of this fan Is that It Is es pecially useful for a dining tablo Inso much as It directs Its cooling current to ward,S the higher parts of the room In stead of directly at the peoplo seated arnupd the table. Tho current of air thus created is cpollng and pleasing without befag annoy!pg becauso of closo range. The blades of thin fat) start the ulr upwards, while a thn sheet of nlckle abovo the blades deflects It outwards towards tb," room. The frowning glory of this fan may he a dish of fruit or a dish or pot of flow, ere, The ,nlckle plate is so constructed that it holds securely anything on that order entrusted tQ Hf care. Klrctrojokm. When n.B has the fcopliono receiver down, If control turps op the ringing Julpp a smart fihpck may he received. Two-year old "Bllllo" Harvey was p aware of this painful possibility, although She had been. In thB 'libit of going to the desk phone and holding extended con versations with real or Imuglnary people. One day she rushed, frojn the room, Wlldreyed and spreamlpg at the top of her voice, "Mammal mammal Central bit me!" The Worst Ever. ".Here's (in jtem," observed Rivers, who was looking over tho exchanges, "to thu effect that tho king of Sweden ralceu prise dogs on his farm." "I suppose ho uses them," suggested BrooKs, "to drve )s Stockholm!" After wllch tho rattle of tho type writer brake out afresh with great Violence, Nearly 70 per cent of the gasollno auto mobiles have adopted electric self-starters, MOORE VAPOR LAMP SIMPLE Light Comes from EJeotricftl Dis charge Into Tube of Gas. DIFFERENT COLORS COME OUT UlKh I'otrnOnl nf Ulrotrto DUolinritr Ilrlim the Vnrlod Color vrltli llnura thnt Art Al tr roil. The Moore vapor lamp Is simple, the light being produced by an electrical dis charge In n tubo containing attenuated gases. The lamp is really an enlarged delsMcr tube, and It was nn Amorlcnn, Mr. McKarllno Moore, who first over came tho difficulties of obtaining the Qelssler effect on a largo scale suitable for commercial lighting. The feature on which tho operation of tho lamp depends Is the maintenance of a constant pres sure of gas In the tube. The best re sults nre obtained nt a pressure of about O.t mm. of mercury, and since during tho life of the lamp gns Is absorbed by thu tube walls It has to bo replenished. This Is effpetod by means of an ingeni ous eloctrlcnlly-corttrolle(i valve. When tho pressure, owing to absorption, de creases, the conductivity of tho gnu In creases, and tho extra current Is used In a solenoid to ratso a core tpsldn the branch t"hu where the valve Is located. The bottom of tho core dips Into merrory, and when it Is raised the level of the mercury Is depressed so ns to expose the point of ft cone-shaped vtUvo of carbon through which a Ilttlo gas diffuses Into tho tube. Tho pressure being restored to the normal valve, tho conductivity Is diminished, and the normal current Al lows tho core o fall Into tho mercury again so as to raise the levol above the top of tho carbon valvo. This automatic admission of gas takes !acp regularly about onfo a minute, nnd compensates for the absorption by tho glass walls of the lamp tube. Tho efficiency of tho Installation at the flavoy holol, London. When measured by Frof. Fleming, was fpund to he from 1.75 to 1.05 watU per candle. This effi ciency la considerably less than that of the tungsten lamp, which consumes ovor one watt per candle, and still less than that of the quarts meroury lamp, which takcB only about one-third of a watt per candle; but regard must be had to the oven distribution of light obtained in the case of the Moore lamp, and In order to make a fair comparison the latter should be tented against Indirect light ing with tungsten or quarts mercury lamps. Tho high potential clcctrlo discharge gives different colors of light with differ ent gases, Recovery of Thones in Dayton Flood is Made an Easy Tas"k A reminder of the severity of flood conditions In payton Is contained In an advertisement of tho, Ifotne Telephone company of that c)ty printed In a local papor pot long after tho water had sub sided. "Subscribers of the Home Tele phone company," says tho oppeal, "will confer a favor and greatly facilitate tho restoration of telephone service by pre serving tho telephone Instruments fa residences, stores or offices. Wherever telephones have bcon wrecked and torn from their positions wo Bhall greatly appreciate It If you will be good enough to put them aside: our men, with proper credentials, will call for them at thq earliest possible moment. Or, If It Is convenient for our subscribers or other persons to do so, we shall be very grate ful if they wll bring such Instruments to our office.' riRurjiin m it. First Young Man Then vou think you may Jolp a school for chauffeurs?" Second Young Man Uncertain. I'm flmirlnir out the chances for clonlnz with the daughter of a mlllopa(rn In that vocation. Have a Heart! Got hor a MAYTAG ELEOTRIO WASHER, or a VACUUM OLEANER, or an ELEOTRIO IRON, or an ELEOTRIO PAN. Make her labors lighter. The Electric Shop WOLFE ELEOTRIO 00. 1810 FARNAM STREET. TYLER 1414 mm Phone Us at Doug, 6045 and We Will Send a Man With Head of Full of Information on Awnings and Pockets Full of Samples We'll gunranteo to got your Awnings and Porch. Curtains in place when we say. we will. Now stock, full line of patterns. Prices as low as anybody's. Our prompt service will please you, we know. Gate City Tent & Awning Co, Phone Douglas 6045. 314-10 South 12th Street. A Bell Telephone on Every Desk Thpn; there is no waiting to use tho office tel ephono-T-n'o delay-no waited energy-wno Jpst motion. Adequate telephone facilities give any up.to datp business organisation the basis for the most efficient and thorough work. Arc Your Telephone faciliUcs ade quate to tncet your requirementsf NEBRASKA TELEPHONE COMPANY 418 NT Pierre Loti Much Awed by Gotham's Sign Lighting Plan One of the most distinguished writers of "the old world. Pierre Lot!, has Just recorded In the Century, as did Arnold yenpett In Harper's, Ms night Impres sions of New York, nnd In both Instances It Is upon "sign lighting" th.at emphasis in laid. Far, near, and everywhere, sen tenets are written over the city in great letters of fire, last for an Instant, dis appear, and then reappear. Figures gambol and gestlculato, amont which I already have some old acquaintances, as, far example, tho eoblln who brandishes his colossal tooth brushes. Seen from, here, the olty looks In finitely large; as far as the eyo can reach, electricity traces zlg-sags, palPl- tateq, winks, dazzles and, finally, toward the horizon. mergeB in a diffused glow as of the aurora borealls. Never heforn has New York seemed to me eo unmis takably tho papltal of modernism; viewed at' night from a height like this, it fasoW nates and frightens." Vacuum Oleaner m . Use to Shampoo Anv Hat ftanidlv 111 J vww -ry Vacuum cleaners, already among the most versatile and useful of electrical helps, have shown their adaptability In a now dlreotlpn, Their suoaess tn remov ing djst and (Int from garments of all kinds Is well known. It remained for ft woman In nrooklyn to emplPi' em In giving dry shampoos to her costly Angora oats. EEC BENNETT ELECTKIC CO ros SAFE A5fD RELIABLE WIRING it PAYS to PLEASE 01 Omaha Hat. Bank Bldg. S 381& DON'T SWELTER ON THESE SIZZLING HOT DAYS YOU DON'T HAVE TO AN ELECTRIC FAN WILL KEEP YOU COOL It will swing a cool, refreshipg breege through your office or home and give you all the comfort of sea shore breezes. With an EJeotrio Fan in your office you feel like working and you do work. It also makes your employes work. They do not feel the heat and they give you results. If you em. ploy several persons, you can get back the prioe of Electric Fans in a short time in the increased efficiency of your force. FOR SALE BY ALL DEALERS Increase in Salary of Telephone Girls domes at OlevelaaiJ. Telephone girls employed ty he Bell Telephone company In Its Cleveland changes were surprised a few day go when told that tho company h&d rataetf their wage scale. Change was miuto alao from payment on a monthly b?s)s to u day schedule, The anneunsament was made by Norman Anderson, superin tendent. Th Increase will afttqt About JM gjrjs, Ip many cases it wJJJ wW ne4Jer dpllar or a 4olar and a bfit ti Up weekly py nveope. hs affffregaU creases will amount to about Ito.000 a year. Minimum wage paid clrls In the operation school were raised from a mpnth to t?4 a month. German Hello Girls Do Not Reaoli Up to Plug In Connections In striking contract to the vertical cart els of the telephone switchboard of the modern American exchange Is t jnr sontal arrangement" use In large change In Berlin. The operators aft ftl both sides of the keyboard and In front ot each, at the edge ot the board, are tho plug and keya used la opeatlPf. TVWJe the holzontal boad affords ready sup face for the accumulation of du?t( It It evident that tw Is not MovPt to gather, lh two unifrro4 Jnpiyea; . ipg shown at work; with, vwuuj clean era fitted with proper tooli for kftpln the board dustlen. Omaha Eleclrlcal WorJki Electric Elevator Eepairs ana Westingb,out) Motm 108,18 jr. jith at. yQAe pa unt