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Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-30

"No, Pm not opposed to Mother Hub
bard dresses" said Mayor Smith, oi
Philadelphia, on Tuesday, with smile,
when asked if he proposed to join in the
movement started in the western cities,
particularly Chicago, prohibiting females
from appearing in the streets IN this
msch-abased style of wearing apparel,
"and ! think it would be very inju-
dicious on my part to issue any such
order, especially after considering the
fact that the ladies havs candidate for
the presidency at the present timo. Do
l admire the style? Well, whilst it is
not the most suitable dress for the public
highway, 20 reason exists why 1t should
not be most comfortable and appropriate
for home wear for those of our female
citizens whose tastes ran in this way.
No, will not issue ord dsrs against the
wearing of garments that have become 80
obnoxious to the feelings of the western
people, but regret exceedingly that the
solution of tho difficult question did not
fall to the lot of my predecessor, who is
free from all entanglipg alliances. The
girls, of Philadelphia can wear just What
they desise, either in public or at home,
aid they will not be molssted provided
heir behavior is satisfactory.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-30
ON THEIR TRACK.
How Fast Clerks Are Swallowed al
Disreputhblc RC sorts.

Disrcpul able Resorts.
New York Telegram
The said case Of Charles Carter, who
was book.keeper in Broadway dry goods
house year ago, and who, through his
infatuation for concert saloon singer,
stole his employers money and sank to
the lowest depths Of degradations, is not
an uncommon one. The various temp
tatiyns held forth to young men at the
myriad night resorts are deadly in their
effects in too many instances and this is
so well understood by employers
that they adopt eyesy means at
their command to exercise a GER
tain surveillance over their clerks, even
out of hours of business. Many of the
private detective agencies down town are
particularly employed in keeping large
mercantile houses advised of the noctur.
nal rambles of their employees, and many
young clerk who thinks the friendly
veil of night hides him from all observa.
tion of employers or acquaintances has
his every wild escapade, debauchery,
and extravaganza noted by
some "shadow" from an agency.
why" said the superintendent of a
detective firm on Broadway this morning,
'if some of those lads who frequent the
saloons and dives on Sixth avenue and
the surrounding neighborhood at night
were to know that they are constantly
under the eye of some man from this
Office, and that careful report is ready
to be made to their employers of every
word and action of theirs during their
drunken sprees, they would think twice
before starting out to paint the town
red"
$50 you keep watch over clerks on a
spree. Are you engaged by their EN-.
ployersl" asked Telegram representa-
tive.
''Yes, the very instant a merchant or
other employer suspects that trusted
book-keeper, cashier or clerk is leading a
fast life, and it is easy enough to wake
his suspicion, he notifies this or some
similar office. The employe is shadowed,
and in week we can tell how much
money he has spent, and the character of
the company he keeps. Every word and
action that he thinks hidden from the
world is revealed on the pages of our
memoranda. Consequently, clerk who
is hauled up by his employer some fine
and Informed to his surprise
and dismay that his services are no
longer required, or perhaps is put in
charge of an officer to answer for robbing
the firm little knows that the man he saw
at the adjoining table in some concert
saloon was there especially to watch
him."
"We find it necessary precaution," +"
said merchant in the dry goods district
when questioned on the subject, "to en-
ploy the services of private detectives
when we suspect matters are not going
all right with some of our clerks. 1t is a
check on them and keeps us advised re-
garding the character of men we are
compelled to trust. [ have reports sent
to me from detective agency whenever
any one in my employ appears at disrep
utable resort. Young men engaged in
large houses should re fleet that they are
watched even in the most secluded OF the
dens of vice, and that they are rpining
themselves with their employers as well
as morally.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-30
killcd bN ElcCtIicitY.

John MCGOWAN, moulder, with two
friends. stepped into the electric.light
works last evening and obtained permis-
sion from one of the men in charge to go
through the works. MCGOWAN declared
that he knew considerable about electric
ity and Its workings. They entered the
generator room from the engine house
and going over to the northwest corner
of the room stood before thirty light
dynamo. They stood before the machine
for few minutes, when Nc
Gowan was observed to bend
down and reach out his hands.
Instantly he was drawn close to the gen.
orator and did not utter a sound. He
was dead. In the front part Of, and well
under, the dynamo are two brass rods
about fourteen inches long. To reach
these one has to make special effort, as
other parts of the machine protrude be.
yond them. They are known as the
positive and negative rods, the former
receiving from the generator the electric
current and conducting it to the in
sulated wire which carries it out to
all the lamps in the circuit belonging
to the machine. The negative rod re.
ceives the current from similar wire
that returns it from the light and is
thereby conducted back into the gen.
orator. The circuit Is thus made com
plete. These two rods spring from
cylinder on opposite sides when they are
about four inches apart. Then they ex-
tend downward forming cone and are
nearly two feet apart at the widest point.
McGowan caught hold of the positive
and negative rods and was killed as quick
ly as he did so. Instead of
going out over the circuit,
the electricity took the short
est route, and was passing out of the gen.
orator to the positive rod where Nc
Gowans right hand was, and on through
his body to his LETT arm and into the
and 30 on around. One of Nc
Gowan's friends attempted to seize him.
"For Gods sake, don't do that of
you'll be killed instantly" shouted En-
gineer Wagner as he shut down his en-
CINE and, in his excitement, pulled the |
plug in the switch. board which breaks
the electric current. This last act |
could have bsen OF no bene-
fit to MCGOWAN, even If he were not al
ready dead, as he was at the dynamo and |
had formed complete circuit before the
of point was reached. The
of the muscles of the body
was 30 great that his legs and arms were
drawn out of shape, and his head head
was drawn forward 30 that the chin press
ed tightly against the chest. As soon as
the engines could be stopped and it was
considered safe he was taken away from
The rods. SO firm was the attraction that
pieces of his skin adhered to the rods
Syracuse Herald, October 90.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-30
BEnyA IN THE WHITE HOUSE,
A Cabinet Meeting of the Period
When Women Shall Steer the
Ship OF state.

Washington Republican.
A servant said the president would be
| down as soon as she finished trying on
| her dress. The attorney general took out
her knitting and said 'Well, | might
as well be working No telling how long
I'll have to wait" Eager attention on
the part of the cabinet interrupted by the
servantt announcement:
''Her Excellency, the president of the
United States"
"Good morning, ladies'"
"Good morning, Mrs. President" f"
All In chorus. sob! what lovely
dress"
"Yes, said the president, ~ thought
/ would just wear it down and let you all
see it. 1t is pretty, isn't it, Just look at
the hang of the train"
SITS perfectly magnificent, said the
secretary of war. ''Those fine pleatings
of crepe de chine give it such q lovely
finish. But isn't it just little short in
front2"
"Why of COURSE" said the president,
with some asperity. 81 have them all
made that way 80 as not to have to change
when | ride the tricycle."
81 hope it's all silk, " said the attorney
general, sticking her knitting needle
through her back hair, while she rubbed
piece of the dress between her thumb
and finger. "Did you save me piece
for my crazy quilt}
"Oh, yes, answered the President,
atfably. ''And now let's get to business,
ladies. j haven't much time this morn
ing. l have to sit for my picture at l
O'clock"
'The most important business know
| of, said the Secretary of State, "is to
decide on a Minister to the court of St.
James. You know Lowell has asked to
be recalled"
"Oh, yes; forgot all about that, said
the President. ''Whom shall we send \"
'lf it only had been earlier" said the
assistant Secretary of the Navy, retlec.
lively, al would have gone myself, bus
the season is over by this time, and then
l get 30 horribly seasick."
at will be hard to get any one to 60"
observed the secretary of war. 81 am
told the climate is so damp that your hair
never stays in cuSl at all.
sis that so2" asked the president, ap.
prehensively. 'Well, we must send
some one. And then," the president
went OH, "there's Germany TO provide
for"
"Oh, what's the use of sending any en- @
to Germany, Mrs. Presiden.P asked the
secretary of war.
"Oh, don't you know" said the seGre-
tsry of state, there's Herr Most and
pork and Lasker and Bismarck and all
those things 10 talk abouti"
81 know there was a color called Bis
marck some years ago, said the sscreta.
ry of the treasury, meditatively, as she
sorted her orewels, "but 1t was hideons-
ly unbecominQ."
"But there's new red brown this
fall, said the postmaster general, eager
ly, "that's just perfectly lovely for a
dark complexion, though | think myself
nothing wears as we'll as the old seal
brown
Speaking of sea- brown" said the
assistant secretary of the navy, show
about the commissioner who was to be
sent 10 Alaska to provide lis all with
sealskin dolmansi It's getting pretty
cool, the frost touched my tuheroses last
night"
Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-30
AN INVENTORS HARD LIFE.
Tho Story of DrawbauGb, who Claims
TO Have Originated The Telephone.
New York Herald.

New York Herald
Mr. Daniel Drawbaugh, who claims to
be the original inventor of tho telephone,
was in the court room of the United
States circuit court during the argument
yesterday before Judge Wallace in the
great suit of the American Bell Tele-
phono company against the People g
Telephone company.
Mr.. Drawbaugh is of small statue,
with a bald head, ruddy face, aquiline
nose, wears mustache that is nearly
gray, and has a quick, nervous, restless
manner. He moved about impatiently
as Mr.. Lysander Hill, his counsel, de-
tailed the history of this inventor,
which, like many men of his
class, is story of hardship and
a constant battle for fortune.
In the speech of Mr.. Hill the following
facts in reference to Mr.. Drawbaugh' .
life were brought out He was born in
1927, in the village of Eberley's Mills,
Milltown, Cumberland county, Pa. He
attended school part of five winters,
up to the time he was sixteen years old
When about twelve years of age he made
clock and an automatic machine for
saving felloes, and continued througout
his life to manifest genius for mechani.
cal inventions. During the years 1850
ard 1860 he conceived the idea of trano.
mitting articulate speech electrically
through telegraph wire and he started to
make machine through which it is alleg-
ep, conversation could bs carried on at a
distance of twenty miles. This was done
by what is known as the "carbon tele-
phone, which is constructed on the same
principle as the Blake transmitter. Some
of these Instruments, counsel said, were
made as early as 1866. Prior to the war
Drawbaugh invented a machine that was
largely used for agricultural purposes In
the south, and when the war broke out
he had large amount of money owing to
him that he was not able to collect He
was therefore obliged to go into bank
ruptcy.
From 1869 to 1880 he was in extreme
poverty, with large family, and his only
source of income was payment for doing
odd mechanical work in the houses and
on tho farms of neighbors The latter
said of him that his hobby was electric
ity, and that he was a man Of great in
ventive genius, but it was frequently
very hard work for him to borrow dol
lar from any one of them.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-30
MADE MAD BY WILD BETS.
First Glass Citizens Excited Over The
Election,
A Sugar-CanC millionaire Who Vows
Hen go Broke" " Blaine
should Get Elected.

New York journal.
/" Money talks, ordinarily" remarked
well.known sporting man who sal
nursing his knee in the st. James hotei
| last night.
money screams aloud in this cam.
paign. Two men with different prefer
ences can't meet and talk politics with.
out backing their opinions with anything
from a silk hat TO brown.stone front OF
for any amount from punched half dol
lar to thousands. Boys are stalking their
marbles. The next thing babies will be
laying their rattles on the result"
"Have you heard of many election
bets2" asked Journal reporter.
"Many betsl" exclaimed the sport,
'There are $4,000 in good cash lying in
that safe behind the counter, of which
Captain Conner is the stakeholder. The
other night John l.. Hill, the Philadel-
phis politician, was over here shouting
Blaine from the word go. There was a
quiet. looking New Yorker leaning against
the door over there, and while Hill was
talking he pulled out his roll and skinned
off its wrapper. 1t was $4,000 note.
Then walking over to Hill he offered to
bet him SO, 900 to $4,000 that Cleveland
would carry New York state. Hill weak
ened on the state, but offered to back
Blaine even on the general result for
S., 900 and the moneys now in Conners
hands.
"Any more"
"There's gentleman from New Or
leans living here in the st. Jones, who
has bet between $1,000 and 5000 that
Cleveland will be the next president.
He placed 5000 before the Ohio elec.
tion, and when the first returns came in
he looked sad but he didn't hedge. Then
the ma ajority gradually dwindled to H.
600 and my New Orleans friend started
in again. He's taking anything that of.
fers, and vows he'll go broke if Blaine
should be elected.
"What are the odds on New York
state2" asked the reporter.
"About 500 to $50 on Cleveland.
Even, that Cleveland will carry the state
by 30, 900 ma iority. You can sometimes
Mr.. e, l. Riggs, wall street operator,
yesterday bet 81, 900 with Messrs. Powers
& Stevens, brokers, that Cleveland would
carry the state by 10000 majority. Mr..
John Barclay, friend of mine, at Tenth
street and Sixth daenue, has $1,000 |
placed that Cleveland will carry the state
and wants another $4,000 worth of it.
AL. Smith says he lay 5000 on the
same result, If he wants to bet that
Cleveland will be the next president. /
know that Billy Edwards, of the Hof-
man house, holds thousand for friend
of his who wants to put it on Blaine"
'How is the betting ON the next
mayor"
"Odds on Grant against the field, re-
turned the sport rising to accept an in
vitation to little game of draw. Jerry
Costigan yesterday bet $1,000 to $3.50
that Tammany's man would be
elected"
L. G.. Quinlan & Co.. one of the
largest grain houses in this city, have
issued a statement to the feet that they
have in their possession the sum of
$40, 900, prepared to bet it in whole or
in part thereof that New York would
cast its electoral vote for Grover Cleve-
land for president.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-30
q NJ A II A!
A GROWING CITY

The remarkable growth of Omaha
during the last few years is matter of
great astonishment to those who pay an
occasional visit to this growing city. The
development of the Stock Yards-the
necessity of the Belt Line Road-the
finely paved streets-the hundreds of new
residences and costly business blocks,
with the population of our city more than
doubled in the last five years. All this
is great surprise to visitors and 10 the
admiration of our citizens. This rapid
growth, the business activity, and the
many substantial improvements made
lively demand for Omaha real estate, and
every investor has made handsome
profit.
Since the Wall Street panic last May,
with the subsequent cry of hard times,
there has been less demaud from specula-
tors, but fair demand from investors
seeking homes. This latter class are
taking advantage of low prices In build
ing material and are securing their homes
at much less cost than will be possible q
year hence. Spectators, too can buy
real egts' cheaper now and ought to take
advant present prices for futur
prof
e. few years promises greater
aNe 9pments in Omaha than the past
l years, which have been as good as
we could reasonably deSire. New man
ufacturing establishments and large job
bing houses are added almost weekly, and
all add to the prosperity of Omaha.
There are many in Omaha and through
out the State, who have their money in
the banks drawing nominal rate of n.
terest, which, if judiciously invested in
Omaha real estate, would bring them
much greater returns. We have many
bargains which we are confident will
bring the purchaser large profits in the
near future.
We have for sale the finest resi-
Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-30

ports of prize fights, and note great diff.
| ferences as compared with those OF the
present day when the exhibitions, which
have ceased to be brutal, are CLOSED
over in the most delicate of phrases that
suggest themselves to the careful writer
No more are we told that one of the
| fighters "made the claret flow copiously, +"
that the "home.brewed" was drawn, or
that "the cork was released" Now it is
said that "first blood was claimed. &"
When 100 round fights instead of crush.
ings' tactics and hippodroming for gate
receipts was the fashion, the face was
referred to as the "dial," the eyes as
'ogles" or peppers" the ears as the
''listening pieces, the nose as the
"smeller," the mouth as the "kisser,"
and the stomach as the "bread basket"
When man was knocked down he WAS
'grassed," and when he entered the
ring he threw into the "castor," or, in
other words, his hat.
In the account of forty round fight
in "Pugilistic,r in the early part of the
nineteenth century, is shown the style of
reporting customary when ''strict busi-
ness" was looked for when two men en-.
tered the ring in sporting Clogs" Among
the terms used are 'pop In hit, went
in to mill away" etc. Frequently
throughout the fight the report dis
patches whole rounds with the terse ex-
pressions, "Of no account" thrilling
away time, "Of no interest whatever"
"M- repeated the dose, etc. These
expressions tell better than more lengthy
declarations could what was looked for
and expected in the days when hippo.
droming, ""gate receipts, ""tours, "com.
binations, etc., were unknown and not
wanted, and when a man could not leave
a prize ring without scar on his face,
unless his opponent was of particularly
mean caliber.
"The sportsmanlike spirit seems to
have entirely gone out of pugilism," " said
a well-known authority on athletic sub.
jects to the Star reporter during tho past
week.
SIN what way2' was asked.
")h, it's all blow and no real fighting.
Every since Sullivan adopted and made
customary his rushing tactics it's for moth.
ing but money. OF course one can't
blame the fighters, because we're all after
the rolf but for all that the good old
tlhleb uon appear uhely W De repro
duced. They may say what they like
about the vigilance of the police, but
tell you that if it was really desired a fight
in the old time style could be gotten up
easily in this very city, and the blue coats
never know of it.
"They don't seem to care about doing
that much2"
"No; that's just it. There isn't
enough money In it. They do lot of
blowing, talking about fighting, perhaps
have one or two encounters, and then
get up combination and go touring
about the country, like hear McC ttrey
is about doing. Now they want big gate
receipts, while the old-timers fought with
bare knuckles for many hours for paltry
$3.50 or co. Well, well, it's too bad,
that's all3" and as the reporter left him
to his neditations ON the degeneracy of
the P. r., large tear was noticed to
roll down to the point of the authority's
nose and drop off.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-30
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Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-30

There was fearful commotion in the
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either purpossly or accidentally turned
on the Ere alarm. When this is turned
on it rings gong in each room, and one
osn yeadily imagine tho conste,nation
that would result. People ran up and
down the hs lis in their night olothes
women were screaming, ana sorae were
to Jump from the windows
Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-30
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Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-30
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Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-30
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Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-30
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Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-30

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Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-30

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