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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 17, 1913)
THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 1013. THE PEOPLE'S WEEKLY PACE OF ELECTRICAL NEWS Published Each Tuesday I " aaa1 i Any Player Roll pF,aryeftiano Tho Hospe collection of player piano rolls is unex celled in the west for choice of pieces. You enn get any paino selection that you want, from tho familiar pieces of olden days to the popular song and cabaret numbers of the present dav. ANY ROLL YOU WANT WHEN YOU WANT IT. WHAT PUZZLING KILOWATT IS Average Citizen Knows About the Water Meter, but Not Watt Meter. DR. WHEELER GIVES DEFINITION Kledtrleltj- I Tablol.t of Enenty" nm! In Only Form thnt Can lie Stored unci Used When Wanted. 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 summer in Fireproof, Ratproof and Dirtproof Vaults The Best Storage in the West. Omaha Van & Storage Company What Is there about a kilowatt-hour thnt so mystifies tho average citizen, or about a kilowatt-hour that mliirAa htm to a state of Incoherence, asks the Klce trlcal News. The gas meter has Ionic been an object of suspicion, but In spite or its innate depravity men assume to understand It and occasionally dispute Its verdict. But a watt meterl How often have you heard one of tho hundreds of thousands of users of electric current casually tell another hnw much each kilowatt-hour Is costing him? He knows In New York that 1,000 cubic feet of gai costs him SO cents. He knows how much a week he pays his maid, but ha doesn't know how much an hour he Is paying that other servant electricity and he doesn't know how he can check up the question, whether he Is Betting what lie pays for. At best he knows that his electrlo light bills aro about so much a month. Electricity hns often been called tho universal servant. It Is more than thnt. It Is the tabloid of energy. It Is tho most refined and condensed form of energy, and, therefore. Is available to be applied to moro different things than any other form of energy. It Is the best disciplined energy be cause 11 moves in nn orderly fashion and with lightning-like rapidity. Dr. Schuyler Bkaats Wheeler haa said that the dlf ference In tho motion of those two first cousins, heat and electricity. Is the dif ference between a panic-stricken mob In a fire and tho fire drill In a public school by means of which a building Is emptied of hundreds of students In less than five minutes. Dr. Wheeler Is responsible, too, for th-i expression, "Electricity Is the tabloid of energy." It Is as easy to handle, he says, as extract of beef. Just add hot water and serve In the first case. Just turn a 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 horse, but you gan keep kilowatts In a storage battery by converting them Into and hold them In a glass Jar for a long penoa 01 nmo with little deterioration. Why Is the nubile, which n.ni. ttwi. 000,000 a year, directly and Indirectly, on eiecinc macninery and a like amount on current, so devastatlngly Ignorant of tho most simple fundamental fact in to it? Vacuum Cleaner Put to Odd Work by Man in Southern Town A contractor in Hlehmond was the other day perplexed as to how to get two wires through a three-elghths Inch gasplpo for a newel post light The pipe had three bends In It and could not be disconnected. , A friend suggested to him that he get a vacuum cleaner on the Job. When tho cleaner was brought the two took a piece of string and made a ball of the string nearly as large as the opening In the pipe. Leaving the balance of the string attached they inserted tho bait In one end of the pipe and put the smallest nozzle on the cleanser hose to the other end and sucked It through. The entire operation took about two minutes, and, otcourso, after they had a string through the pipe thoy were able to draw the wires after It without any further trouble. 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 whole day. Telephone Wire in Quantity So Large it Eeally Astounds There are 7,000,000 telephone stations In this country united by the Hell system, and the amount of wire made use of will total1 at 12,000.000 miles. Some 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 Now York, could be wrapped around the earth 600 times, and that It would make fifty separate lines from tho earth to the moon; but there would not bo half enough wire to reach from the earth to our nearest planetary neighbor. Venus. new fanIoMr in home Unlike Ordinary Cooler in that it Blows Breeze upward. DISH OF FRUIT JUST ABOVE FAN Nickel Place I So Constructed thnt It Holds Securely a DUli at Krnlt or a Tot of Flowers. Hero Is the sort of fan which you may see adorning (the word Is used advisedly) the table 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 Insn- much as It directs Its cooling current to wards the higher parts of tho room In stead of directly at tho people seated around the table. The current of air thus created Is cooling nnd pleasing without being annoying becauso of close range. Tho blades of this fan start the air upwards, while a thin sheet of nlckle above the blades deflectB it outwards towards the room. The .crowning glory of this fan may bo a dish of fruit or a dish or pot of flow- era. The nlckle plate Is so constructed that It holds securely anything on that order entrusted to its care. RlectrnJoken. When one has the tolcphono receiver down. If central turns on the ringing Juice a smart shock may be received. Two-year old "BIIIlo" Harvey was not aware of this painful possibility, although she had been In the habit of going to the desk phone and holding extended con versations with real or Imaginary people. One day she rushed from the room, wild-eyed and screaming at the top of her voice, "Mamma! mammal Central bit me!" The. Worst ISrcr. "Here's an item," observed nivors, who was looking over tho exchanges, "to tho effect that the king of Sweden rateva prize dogs on his farm." "I, suppose he uses them." suggosted Brooks, "to drive his Stockholm!" After which tho rattle of tho type writer broke out afresh with gre.it vlolonco. moblles have adopted electric self-starters. MOORE YAPOUAMP SIMPLE Light ome from Electrical Dis charge Into Tube of Gas. DIFFERENT COLORS COME OUT High Potential of Klectrlo UUchnrKe HrltiRM the Vnrleil Color with f.nse thnt Are Al tered. The Moore vapor lamp Is simple, the light being produced by nn electrical dis charge In a tube containing attenuated gases. Tho lamp Is really an enlnrged Qelsslcr tube, and It wns nn American, Mr. McKarllno Mooro. who first over came tho difficulties of obtaining tho GeJtmler effect on a Inrgo seals suitable for commercial lighting. The feature on which tho operation of tho, lamp depends Is the maintenance of iv constant pres sure of gas In tho tube. Tho best re sults are obtained nt a pressure of about 0.1 mm. of mercury, and since during the life of the lamp gas Is absorbed by tho tube walls It has to be replenished. This is effected by means of an Ingeni ous electrically-controlled valve. When tho pressure, owing to absorption, de creases, ho conductivity of the gas In creases, and tho extra current Is used In a solenoid to raise a core inside the branch tube where tho valve Is located. The bottom of tho euro dips Into mcreniry, and when it Is raised the level of the mercury Is depressed so as to expose the point of a eono-shaped valve of carbon through which n. llttlo iys diffuses Into the tube. The pressure being restored to the normal valve, tho conductivity Is diminished, and tho normal current al lows tho core to fall Into tho mercury again so as to raise tho level above tho top of tho carbon valvo. This automatic admission of gas takes place rugularly about once a minute, and compensates for tho absorption by the glass waits of the lamp tube. The efficiency of the Installation at tho Savoy hotel, London, when measured by Prof. Fleming, was found to be from 1.75 to 1.05 watts per candle. This effi ciency la considerably less than that of tho tungsten lamp, which consumes over one watt per oandte, and still Uss than that of the quarts mercury lamp, which takes only about one-third of a watt per candle; but regard must bo had to the even distribution of light obtained In the case of the Moore lamp, and In order to make a fair comparison the lattor should bo tested against indirect light ing with tungsten or quart mercury lamps. The high potential electrlo dlsohargo gives different colors of light with differ ont gases. Have a Heart! Got hor a MAYTAG ELECTRIC WASHER, or a VACUUM CLEANER, or an ELECTRIC IRON, or an ELECTRIC FAN. Make her labors lighter. The Electric Shop WOLFE ELECTRIC CO. 1810 FARNAM STREET. TYLER 1414 Recovery of 'Phones in Dayton Flood is Made an Easy Task A reminder of the severity of flood, conditions In Dayton Is contained in an advertisement of tho Home Telephone company of that city printed in a local paper not long after tho water had sub sided. "Subscribers of the Homo Tele phono company." says the appeal, "will confer a favor and greatly facilitate the restoration of telephone service by pre serving the telephone Instruments In residences, stores or offices. Wherever telephones have been wrecked and torn from their positions we shall greatly appreciate It If you will be good enough to put them aside; our men, with proper credentials, will cull for them at tho earliest possible moment. Or, If It la convenient for our subscribers or other persons to do so, we shall be very grate ful If they will bring such Instruments to our office.' Flsurlnir Oil It. First Young Man Then you think you may join a school for chauffeurs?" Second Young Man Uncertain. I'm figuring out the chance for eloping with the daughter of a millionaire In that vo cation. 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 gunrnnteo to got your Awnings and Porch Curtains in place when wo say wo will. New stock, full lino of patterns. Prices as low as anybody's. Our prompt service will please you, we know. Gate City Tent & Awning Go. I Phono Douglas G045. 314-16 South 12th Street. A Bell Telephone on Every Desk Then there is no waiting to use tho office tel ephone no delay no wasted energy no lost motion. Adequate telephone facilities givo any up-to-date business organization the basis for the most efficient and thorough work. Are Your Telephone facilitiett ade quate to meet your requirements? NEBRASKA TELEPHONE COMPANY NT Pierre Loti Much Awed by Gotham's Sign Lighting Plan One of the most distinguished writers of the old world, Pierre Lotl, haB Just recorded In the Century, as did Arnold Bennett In Harper's, his night impres sions of New York, and in both Instances it Is upon "sign lighting" that omphasls Is laid. Far, near, and everywhere, sen tences are written over the city in great letters of fire, last for an instant, dis appear, and then' reappear. Figure? gambol and gesticulate, amone which I already have some old acquaintances, as, for example, the goblin who brandishes his colossal tooth brushes. Seen from here, the city looks in finitely large; as far as the eye can reach, electricity traces zlg-iags, palpi tates, winks, dazzles and, finally, toward the horizon, merges In a diffused glow as of the aurora borealls. Never before has New York seemed to me so unmis takably the capital of modernism; viewed at night from a height like this, it fasci nates and frightens." . Vacuum Cleaner in , Use to Shampoo Any Oat Rapidly Vacuum cleaners, already among the most versatile and useful of electrical helps, have shown their adaptability In a new direction. Their success In remov ing, dust and lint from garments of all kinds is well known. It remained for a woman in Brooklyn to employ them in giving dry shampoos to her costly Angora cats. BED BENNETT ELECTRIC CO TOR SAFE AND RELIABLE WIRING it PAYS to PLEASE 801 Omaha Hat. Bank Bldg. D 3816. 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, refreshing breeze through your office or home and give you all the comfort of sea shore breezes. With an Electric 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 givo you results, If you em ploy several persons, you can get back the price 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 Comes at Cleveland Telephone girls employed by the BtU Telephone company In Its Cleveland changes were surprised a few days ago when told that tho company had raised their wage scale. Change was m&do also from payment on a monthly bnU to u day schedule. The announcement wns made by Norman Anderson, superin tendent. Ttwi Increase will affect aJbout ha girls. In many cases It will mean another dollar or a dollar and a bait In th weekly pay envelope. Tho aggregate in creases will amount to about $10,000 a year. Minimum wage paid -girls In the operation school were raised from ti a month to 121 & month. German Hello Girls Do Not Reaoh Up to Plug In Connections In striking contrast to the vertical pan els of the telephone switchboard of th modern American exchange I the hori zontal arrangements use In a large, ex. change In Berlin. The operators sit ai both sides of the keyboard and in front ot each, at the edge of the board, are tho plugs and keys used In opeatlng. While the holzontal boad affords a ready sur face for the accumulation of duet. It li evident that this is not allowed to gather, the two uniformed employ! b lng shown at work with vacuum clean ers fitted with proper tools (or Imping; the board dustiest. Omaha Electrical Work! Electric Elevator Repairs ana Westinghoujo Motors 103-13 V. Htb St rhon "Song. mi.