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THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1916. 17 3IYES HIS VIEWS OH GOOD ROADS Sity Commissioner Jardine Dis cusses Merits of Various Kinds of Highway Construction. CONSIDERS ANGLE OP AUTO "First and foremost, the matter of good roads has a great many angles to be looked at," declared City Com missioner Jardine. "The advent of the automobile is possibly the first angle to be considered. "Macadam used to be considered, if properly put down, to be one of the best and most practical cheap pavements; but the suction of the automobile coing over a macadam road has proved, in all parts of the country, that it is a class ot nave ment that could not be utilized to the best advantage, owing: to the sue tion caused by the cars being rap idly driven over the road. The small particles of dust that wear on the surface with a horse and wagon were pounded back into the road and made a . I , , I automobile draws it out and leaves the road in a far more dilapidated condition in five months than the wear and tear for five years with horse-drawn equipments, unless oiled or tarred, and then it is not always satisiactory. ineretore, it is neces sary to construct a different kind of a road, namely, a road that is oiled or tarred so as to keep down the suction. "A dirt road, properly construct ed, properly rounded and properly Dound by tar or oil, with properly constructed gutters and drains to gether with Drooer soillwavs. is far better than any cheap macadam that can be put down, as the oil sheds the water; it holds together the dust and dirt so that suction cannot pick it up. and leaves the road in fairly good shape if it is kept properly repaired by this method. "As to the relative cost, I believe it is far cheaper than a macadam road and far superior from a wearing standpoint. Take the ordinary dirt road, pulverized properly, and in low and boggy places drain tile put in so as to take away any surface water, and built up from the ground clear to the top by being pulverized and rolled as the grade is raised, and kept dragged with a King drag, or an in strument of that kind after every rain, which can readily be done in the country by each man having a certain amount of road to handle; frost and climate will not injure this kind of a road with reference to ex pansion and contraction. "Take the road between Council Bluffs and Sioux City. They have a dirt road there that is built along this plan, with the exception of the oil and tar, and after each and every hard rain the roads, in one hour's time, are better than they were be fore the rain, as they dry quickly if the sun comes out and the winds blows, thereby settling the dust. "If you are going to build artificial roads, I believe the best and cheap est road, in the long run, would be a brick pavement with concrete base, properly constructed in such a man ner that water coming off the pave ment could not run over the sides of the road, thereby settling the outside so as to crack the pavement in any place, the center of the road on the grades to be depressed some so as to carry the water and dump it at the lowest point. I believe a pave ment of this kind would last fifty years, if properly put down. "The next best pavement, I believe, would be a concrete pavement made of hard granite laid in such manner that the center of it would be, pos sibly, an inch and a half or two inches lower than the outside, with an expansion joint through the cen ter of it filled with asphaltum so that the pavement in no shape would crack, and that the edges of the con crete would not wear any faster than the asphalt itself, together with an expansion Joint every eighty feet crosswise filled with asphalt. In that way it would eliminate all the cracks that are so injurious to concrete pavements laid in the country, and would maintain the outside walls so that the pavement would always be intact "The construction of roads leading in and out of a community, if good, are the most valuable asset for in creased pioperty values by reducing transportation expenses, making mar kets easy of access, thereby increas ing the prosperity of the markets. If, on the other hand, poor roads lead into a market, they will not be trav eled andt consequently, they are a liability instead of an asset. They are bound to reduce real estate values by keeping trade away from, as poor mad J add to the cost of transporta tion and upkeep by breakage and wear and tear on equipment. All tax payers are vitally interested in good roads, ami should see to it that the best roads should be maintained in the vicinity of their properties that can pottitdy be secured, climate and Conditions ukm into consideration. "Grades and proper drainage are sthcr ni'nl (actors. " Illinois Engineer Lectures on Boilers At the City Hall V, A .''ilnrt. ri'hitin ret-, trprr trntiiif a krnr, lit, t f r i I'l l t rn, . M Iht ity cnun nl hmt.r fH'f'Uy a i-tf t. a jt..n;i ii '!n ait-t lui! '..4 men ' I .-Vf IliHilHI in j ! 4 r 1 'i I f.ir (.(',! i 'i'1 1 i I I t i'.(ins(. i a t ! .:'.! If I ! s 'sH'f t tllj" !... In;- t .. lit -'-I , r I lnt rt i'V ty V'"''''''-" t" I. in I M h I I I ! !' r K'u1) ( !'cf t I , f '! . ;l l-'f !t " -f( 1 1' t' , ' I. I'l Mr ililrt 'S It" k t O I., t i '!!!, I 1 ! ,-! t..! !"' 4 ,.M.lt l '- ! ( t t t 1 1 ' , , i t t a' ! ' t 'v , '. 1 it i 1 ! j i 11 . I I (l 1 , d .1 ' I . ! ! I .'. ' ,'. t ! if I .('.t at - if . . J I $-' t I UMt at I1-. IW'XI (' 111 .. !. 1 f- . a ).-. ( ' ' t ' t ' ' ' I HIK t . - H.li . The Secret ,he Submarine By E. Alexander Powell Author of Tha End of th Tr.U," Tlfbtin in FUnAm," "Th RoJ Oorr," "Vivo - la Fruct," ate First Installment. "Are we submerged yet?" asked Cleo. Her question was answered by Hook, who at that moment en tered from the navigating compart ment. "We have begun to submerge, sir," he reported, saluting. "Very good," said the inventor briefly. "Tell the navigator to keep her at fifty feet until further orders. A moment later the cover of the locker was suddenly thrown up and from the coffinlike space beneath slipped the missing Japanese, Sat suma. It was obvious that this man was no stranger to the higher forms of science and that he understood, in principle at least, what each of the switches, dials and wires composing Burke's apparatus was for. But it was evident that the governing principle for which this complicated mechan ism was but a medium, eluded him. For six hours the submarine had been under water. The air, its oxy gen drained by a dozen pairs of lungs, had gradually become so vitiated that the breathing of all on board had be come labored and difficult. "Isn't it about time to demonstrate your invention, doctor?" asked Hope, who had discarded coat, waistcoat and collar that he might breathe more freely. "It's getting pretty close in here." "Not yet." said Burke, who was seated at the little table in the for ward compartment immersed in an abstruse calculation. "There's no hurry. You haven't said much, lieu tenant, but I know that vou're skep tical. I wish to wait until I can make my demonstration so convincing that you will have no skepticism left." Twenty minutes later Hook en tered. "Don't you think you'd bet ter give us a little air, doctor?" he inquired anxiously. "The boys in the engine room are complaining that they can't breathe." "Not yet," said the inventor, ab sently. "Tell them not to worry." "Look here, Burke," gasped Hope roughly, staggering across the room, "this nonsense has gone quite long enough. Look at your daughter there the poor child is suffocating. If you don't 8et your apparatus to working and give us some air, I'll take command myself, rise to the sur face, and telegraph to Washington that your invention is a fake and that you are a fraud." "Mr. Hope," said the inventor, ris ing, "I'm going to make you retract those words." Within three minutes after Burke had returned to the forward compart ment, a subtle suggestion of, fresh ness stole through the submarine; in five minutes the atmosphere was as fresh and wholesome as though they were in the open air. "I apologize from the bottom of my heart, doctor," said Hope, seiz ing the old inventor's hand, "for what I said a few moments ago. You have am an old man, but I wanted success convinced me absolutely of the ef ficiency of your invention, though you nearly suffocated us at first. It is scarcely necessary for me to say that 1 shall wire to the department to night, strongly urging that it be pur chased by the government." Ihank you, Mr. Hope, said the in ventor, nusKiiy, a suspicious moisture in his eyes. It looks as though my struggles were at an end. I don t care so much for myself, because I Jake Comes from Champaign and He Meets with Bad Luck "Here goes nothing I" Jake Wagner, 25, of Champaign, 111., uttered this exclamation after finishing up the contents of a pint of shotgun whisky, an'd then he laid down squarely across the railroad tracks on Twelfth, between Dodge and Douglas. "That guy s a nut, exclaimed a policeman -who had been watching him for five minutes. "He thinks he's committing suicide. The railroad ain't used them tracks for a year." So Wagner was hauled oft to jail, where the judge tagged a twenty- day sentence on him and he was put in the county jail on a state com plain. That was last Friday. Gov ernor Morehead pardoned him after listening to the plea of his gray haired mother, who came all the way to Omaha to help her boy. Chief Deputy Sheriff Foster recommended the pardon. Wednesday, up in the bull-pen of the county jail, with the effects of the terrible brand of alleged whisky worn off, he told Deputy Sheriff Hogan that a girl started him on the path to misery. she roiled me tor jiu, and l went away and borrowed $W more. I met up with her aKain, but she apologized. Then she stole the $50. It got my goat, being such a boob, It made me ii niad I wanted to kill myself. While in jail he wrote to his mother and she immediately came. Her lf4i moved the ofnciaU in the ilicr id's oltice and thry helped hrr Vt liUMi th pardon Imtu the governor, Mie will tae iitr hv tack to Cham. pKn h her. I liairipaign is an mi ihy Iiimii with no railroad tracks h tempt tH trinpermenul SCENES FROM SHAKESPEARE TO BE GIVEN AT Y. W, C. A. rt in ilh tt.t (jfiirl CMr. ! tint! 'l lh V.ii.f I. rt ritrn4ry ! It: 'HMj( W -11.(11 I hlKlllll H.I: . . 1 t'.f t '.. ii I ir ttl til. ill. t- t if.'v trlK.rnl j.i ..r'i ' I'l '.!' : - lift .tkrlie ft) , ' ) ( n-.!t- ( J.i.;, i I Wit I th Sinn ! K.'.'i I !, in U ViU' V i.mi' J I (Minn ( .i :..) 4 i ; " r li t. I l '. on : t M .'I j A M!fl llfl'l ' l( I' ft ft f l ft! r t. t ' l'H "i " i I iVt l!." ( "U,if t.li.V" " f i.i livm'nim i V ,' I ifH Nn'ii," 'Ji.ii.ift ! ili ' an ' J Jtl'iili ! 1-1 m , i " I tifllKI ft?f h t K''n!-.t.- ft. '"I ( 4s:tij.! ;,-' ! 4 i' l"' ii ' vt Ii. , : '' iaftt'! f-- I t. ! - II I. Iicft tl I, k.4 ( H I I ' ft ,4 i HI I '-' ft I . ft , ft , - . I 4 . ft, ft ,. I. . ,., ft, . ' i i i ' , . . , , .11 "ft ' ' . , .i, 1 I - I I . ! II . ' i , . I . ft ., . I " I ' T i - f ' f - 1 . - -' !!-.' I . . ',!,. I'..,, in r ..nu.i,, in nm xmv.t. iii Copyrlfht, 1914, bf E. Alaundar Powftll. because of what it would mean to Cleo," and he gently stroked the golden head which rested on his shoulder. "Now," he added briskly, "we'll none of us be the worse for something to eat and drink, espe cially as we shall be down for an hour or two longer. I told Hook to see that some sandwiches and beer were put aboard." Entering the rear compartment, he stood transfixed with utter astonish ment. For at the switchboard, his hand on one of the switches which controlled the air-current, stood Sat suma. "What the devil are you doing here, Satsuma?" shouted the inventor wrathfully. "What have you just done to that machine?" As Burke, carried away with anger, advanced menacingly, Sutsuma's hand went toward his hip pocket. Burke, fealiring the significance of the movement, instantly grappled with him. With a sudden twist, Sat suma threw Burke, the old man fall ing heavily. At that moment Hope launched himself against the Japa nese as, in his Annapolis days, he had tackled the West Point quarterback. For a few brief moments the two locked forms swayed madly about the little cabin, overturning the table and chairs and threatening each instant to wreck the mechanism of Burke's invention. Gradually working his right hand free, Satsuma succeeded in reaching his hip-pocket. His fin gers closed about the stock of an automatic. There was a deafening explosion, followed almost instantly by a shower of sparks from the nest of wires about the oxygen-producing apparatus. The stream of bubbles in the tank ceased and the little com partment was filled with acrid fumes. "My God," exclaimed Burke, crouching on the floor where he had been thrown. "He's smashed the transformer!" The bullet which had been intended for Hope had missed him by a hair's breadth and had buried itself amid the mechanism. At the same instant Satsuma, like all Japanese, an adept in the art of wrestling, slipped from the officer's grasp and leaped through the door of the navigating room. A seaman attempted to fell him with a spanner, but the Oriental's pistol cracked sharply and the man, spinning com pletely around, crumbled in a heap. Another man who rushed forward fell with a bullet through his shoul der. Keeping the remainder of the crew covered with his smoking pis tol, Satsuma threw over the handle which controlled the horizontal rud ders and the sudden inclination of the floor showed that the boat had rapidly began to rise. A moment later a ray of sunligftt entered through the conning tower. The submarine was running awash. Jerk ing down the lever which automati cally opened the hatchway, Satsuma sprang up the ladder and dived into the sea. An instant later wave, breaking over the unprotected deck of the sub marine, poured through the hatchway into the compartment below. After it came another. Cleo screamed hys terically. "It's all right, Kfiss Burke!" shout ed Hope. "Don't be frightenedl I'll close the hatch I" Accustomed, as he was. to the tvne of hatch in use in the navy, and, in the excitement of the moment, en tirely forgetting the inventor's au tomatic closing device, Hope sprang up the ladder and frantically en deavored to pull down the hatch coyer and bolt it in place. But solid . column of water, pouring through the aperture with the force of a battering-ram, knocked him from the ladder, bruised and half drowned. Under the weight of the water it had shipped, the submarine was going down! (To Be Continued Tomorrow.) ERUPTIONS DANGER SIGNS OF BAD BLOOD First Sign of Blood Disease. Plmplea, araly Itrhlnf akin, rubra, burn Ins naatloni anil Scrofula danota with un failing cartalnty a dcbllltatail, wknl and Impura itata ot tba blood. Tba troubla may hava btn In your blood from birth, but no matter bow you wara Infactad, you mint traal It through tha blood. It la a blood ill . Tou must uta 8. 8. R, tha tamlard blood Innlo fur (A yaara, If you P-1 rllf. Tor purifying tha mm. nothing la aiual to It. Tha amion of 8. S Ii lo clranaa tha blood. It aoakft through tha ayaom dlrrl to th anal of tha trnubla acting an antldnia to ntutrallia Ilia blund piiUiHia It ravitallioa th rd blond rori'uat Ir. nrru th flow an thai lha bliMiil ran proparly prform Ha phyaiial w irk Th dull, iluggtah fllng lvr you Hi runiililun rlr up, Evn long Uniting ( rpmd pramptlr. II j I tt mual likft SS !rug and ftuttltua wmh I da. Il-I SHU. from your 4ruai( If I "4 rin'l utml advlv rli la iri Miiwino Co, Aiiai.i. (I ami sr.ir t. Psychology Given Boost by Doctor From Iowa Town "If I had to choose between medi cine and psychology in treating dis eases I would give up the medicine," said Dr. G. F. Seavers of Centerville, la., in retort to Dr. F. L. Wiltnoth of Lincoln of the Nebraksa-Iowa Eclectic Medical association, the Lin coln physician having gently doubted many of the alleged benefits accru ing from the employment of psychol ogy as a medical factor. Dr. Seavers had read a paper on this subject, tell ing what he had seen result from the power of suggestion, Among the other papers read were the following: "Ttte Examination of Children," Dr. P. O. Marvel of Gilt ner, Neb.; "Epidemic Spinal Menin gitis," Dr. S. J. Stewart, Nebraska; "Proctology." Dr. H. S. Huckins, Des Moines, la.; "Pneumonia," Dr. E. E. Gadd, Des Moines, la. JOHNSON GOES NORTH ON LONG FISHING TRIP Fish who infest the waters of Shell lake, up in Wisconsin, had better look out. E. L. Johnson of the Gayety started for there last night, with a firm in tention of carrying on the warfare he began last summer. He says he threw back enough bass last summer to stock an ordinary lake, and that they ought to be well worth catching this season. So, barring an emergency call of the most urgent kind, he's go ing to spend the next ten weeks in luring his former victims from the water again. HARRINGTON BROS. GARAGE 1323 Park Ave. AoDoonra that on and aftar Jt'NE lai, Gaaollne, Olla, Arraaaorla and Hapalra will b caan. A M t'8KI EiTS. P A R A p A R Omaha's 'Fun Center Pbona Doug. 1 806. ' TODAY OLIVER MOHOSCO Praaant A o1 GEORGE BEBAII UTba Portrayar af Italian Charac- tara In U N "PASQUALE" !J T 0e ADMISSION 10c BA Vh TONIGHT, 8:30 lf I U Mat. Today, 2:30 EVA ALONG I AMP CAME LANU RUTH Wllh W. T. rARI.ETON, Matlntaa got Mhla, sens and SOa. N.t Waaki All tha Comfort of Hm. Hpeflal Mwt. litromHon iy. Today fNEW Tonlte 2:30 I1RU 8:20 NbrosTH "Lena Rivers" Daily 9 THE MUSE rrTrri- TOD Ay BILI.IE BLHKE "GLORIA'SROMANCE" alao Virginia Fraroon and B. Rankin Drew In "Th Hnntrrl Woman. " TODAY Virginia Pearson -In- "BLAZING LOVE" EMPRESS TODAY TONIGHT LITTLE HIP AND NAPOLION THREE CONWAY GIRLS HAYS oV NEAL COOK St ROTHERT the pretender Next Sunday, May 2A, CHARLIE CHAPLIN In "POLICE" Farnam Theater Houa of Future And Good Mualc. Friday and Haturday Preni Emll I'ollnl la The Little Church Around the Corner' Munilar llarhara Tnaat and llou l'tr In "t'loaml Huada." RUG PARK IZ OPENS TODAY Dancing and Roller Skating Cvtry Ei Pralaman' d Oriaaatra. PlcaU Urevi Olh.r Atlrarllona Base Ball OMAHA vs. TOPEKA May , ir. aa ROURKK PARK Gaa C.llad 1 la. B tt an Sal tlarkaUv ra. IT L M aiiawa th M. lkaantlf.1 Amuaaoat rata 1st lha M l.l.l Ua Hrtt, Will Open Its Gates for the Season 1916, Sunday, May 28th IVfclt lit fwtiuai tiaaUf will l Va aattl Mrlt I'r, IHa ttik tl S Ikrava ai Sm Uy di ike a f IH k. It, K t!na Si f4 to , lh tk U la bt ii tliin Mr l'r II L latNi, tyil r tn I r lha (, Ul tie B utt(.nl. o4 tatftala li la (taf ft ir Sf4ia MANY ATTRACTIONS Some New Ones A liMi!! ! laik W If, m l nX ,av rt .ft mm m aHam" .V 1 '--r " .-ill . '..-.rVfa.-W.".V 3 rJV7i 'V' "Sh wat afraid to fact tha brilliant llghli and thm crowd, bat tha found m noon on tht piamua whtrt tha could pott in at a window and watch tha whirling coup. ' Iht tun tt hat htart to valuing. " By tf icial trrangtmenl with F. ZitgftlJ, Jr. George Kleine's Photo-Drama De Luxe The Star Supreme AMotiotvRcliPeNoY'el lIVlr.&Mr - RUPERT HUGHES VOU thousands of picture- play lovers you who delight in seeing a masterpiece of cinema literature go 6ce this elaborate film novel Gloria's Romance. You'll enjoy its inter esting theme its wonderful scenes at 1'olm Beach, Florida. Here's a photoplay that sets a new standard for quality a picture that stands forth as a $upram accomplishment. The star is beautiful Uillie Hurke; the supporting1 east is headed by Henry Kolker; the authors are Mr. it Mrs. Kupcrt llufilics; the producer is George Kit inc. Go today to see this artistic photo- cJmma. Join thethroncsth.it ore visiting the Mute Thtatra showing this production. And, as you sa tha story rtvtaUd on th scrctn, listen to tha soft strains of music socially nthronlied to tht pitturts. Chapter I 'Lost In The Everglades" Today at THE MUS THEATRE 2105 Fnrnnm Street Read the Story Monday in OMAHA MONDAY BEE 1 : ?