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Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-09

OF the building, the tower. is an interesting
and curious place.
1t contains the largest stone in the build
ing, a block of granite weighing thirty tons.
IL is twelve feet wide, twenty-three feet
long and eighteen inches thick. TIL towers
walls are twenty-five feet thick, and while
they could resist a bombardment, they can
not keep out wireless telegraph messages.
During a recent experiment several wireless
messages penetrated the masonry and were
caught in one OF the tower rooms by an OPP
orator.
The mortar in many parts of the tower
is not yet dry. A year or two ago masons,
in tearing down some old brick work, dis
covered that the mortar was very damp. A
similar condition has been discovered in
many other portions of the building where
alterations have been made.
The second highest elevator in the world
is in the tower. It runs from the seventh
floor, 1873 feet above ground, to the base
OF the Penn statue, an upward course Of 372
feet, 9 inches. The air cushions for this
aerial lift cost $25, 900. One OF the 400 tele-
phones in the building is located in the
lower, at the base of the statue.
Then there is the great clock and the lit
tie clock that governs 1t. Compressed all
is the motive power. The dials of the great
clock are 36l feet above the earth, and thu
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-09

light a city OF $1,000 or 40, 900 inhabitants
could possibly use. Each of it's five dynamos
has power for 1000 lights of sixteen candle
power each. In the buildings are 1O, 1000
such lights and 2S6 arc lights of 1900 can
die power each, and in a circle around the
tower are 16 arc lights of 5000 candle pow
er each. These lights, the most powerful
yet made, were manufactured especially for
the hall. 1t takes two men a full day to
clean and trim them. Five hundred and
forty eight incandescent lamps are used to
light the four faces Of the great clock in
the tower.
The dynamo room is one Of ffty-nine in the
buildings basement, which runs not only
under the hall, but the plaza in the center
as well.
The basement rooms TEEN with surprises.
First, there is a sandbed filter with a daily
capacity of 1000, 900 gallons of water, end
the hall employees and thousands Of strang-
ers who daily tread the corridors manage
practically TO consume this amount. Thou
sands of gallons are carried to their homes
by the employees, for the water furnished the
Philadelphia householder is about the worst
on earth and will be until the city gets its
big filter beds in working order.
Then there are well-ordered and capacious
shops for the eight carpenters, five frescO
and twelve ordinary painters, two gas fit
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-09
Pointed Paragraphs

Chicago News: The best policy is a
paid up one.
What the fisherman gets out of his
seine is net profit.
It's easier to make a tool Of a dull man
than Of a sharp one.
II a man carries a mortgage it is usually
because he can't lift 1t.
A woman's portrait isn't natural unless
it is a speaking likeness.
Many an artist thinks he's in hard luck
If he isn't able to draw a cork.
Any man who has a poor memory for
debts has a good memory for faces.
True happiness consists in the pursuit
of a thing rather than in the catching
thereof.
Boneless Goldfish are common enough, but
what a lcng-suffering public wants is bone
less shad.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-09

we want the draft animals every time.
Enthusiasm is the spur to endeavor, and
at the same time it is the SAVIOR of life.
The country boy whose ambition has taken
him to the town comes filled with enthusi-
asm. Even the little things are novelties
to him, and as he accomplishes this and
that he feels that he is doing something
not only interesting but valuable. His SIM
pie tastes have not been spoiled by a multi
plicity of qualifications, and so he is glad
Of everything good that comes his way.
At 80, II he leads a clean life, he has
more of the boy in him than his city cousin
has left at Is. He does what is before
bin because it is his duty, while the other
is too apt cynically to question the value
of doing anything and ask, What is the
use? p"
OF the men who have achieved great
prominence and high influence in our af-
fairs Of state the country boys are at least
twenty to one over the city lads. Now
adays, indeed, our cynical city lads look
upon men who take an active interest in
public affairs as rather low fellows and
quite beneath their association and notice.
But the country boys are at the top in
other lines of endeavor. In finance they
are ~pre-eminent, and the great bank presi-
dents Of today in the great cities nearly all
learned to read and cipher in country
schools where birch and ferule had not
succumbed to the civilizing influences of
scientific pedagogy. Our great railways
were in the main built by them, and today
the administrators OF these great compa-
MES are in great measure from farms and
country villages, from places where work
began in early infancy, and a sense Of duty
developed while still the lisp OF childhood
fingered.
Some city boys, however, are of such
sturdy stuff and endowed with such natural
gifts that they succeed by reason of their
inherent superiority; others succeed album
dainty because they have used their oppor-
t%unities wisely, and in real life have pur,
sued the same course which enables so
many country boys to win fame and for
June. The more honor to them for having
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-09

OOON DOyS lack OF OppOr-
~ tunity is his best equipment for
% the serious struggle of life,
1871 writes John Gilmer Speed in
- Brandhur Magazine. This sounds
paradoxical, but it is true. 1t is just as true
as the opposite proposition that the great
est hindrances a city boy has to contend
with are the opportunities which beset
him when young and pursue him till he
begins the real business of life-a business
which each individual must carry on for
himself. For the city boy everything is
made as easy as possible. Even pleasure
becomes to him an old story before he is
out of his teens. Brought up in the fever
ish rush of a place where great things
are happening day by day, he sees the
world with a cynic's eyes and despises the
small things which, like the bricks in a
house, go to the upbuilding of characters
and careers. He believes in using large
markers in the game of life; for pennies
and small units of value he has little taste
ah6 scant regard.
The conditions surrounding the country
boy are as differeLt as possible. There is
a deal OF regular work that every country
boy must do and this regularity of en-
ployment, mostly out Of doors, inculcates
industrial habits while 1t contributes to
a physical development which in after
years is just as valuable as any athletic
training that can be had. He cannot
run as fast, perhaps, as those trained by a
system; he may not be able to jump so
high or so far or excel in any of the sports
upon which we bestOw so much time and
from which we get so much of pleasure,
but his development enables him to buckle
down to the hard work in which hours
are consumed and from which very little
or no immediate pleasure is extracted.
His strength may be something like that
? of the cart horse, but the cart horse is to
be preferred where a long and steady pull
is required. The thoroughbred race horse
has a fine flight of speed and canters with
delightful lightness and grace along the
park bride paths, but the heavy work is
the work most in demand and for that
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-09

survived their too great opportunities. But
the country boy, when he comes to town,
reaches out for the high places, though not
all find seats of the mighty, nearly all Of
the exalted stations are filled in the end by
men of country birth and country rearing,
for they usually start out with the sound
theory that what is worth having is worth
striving for.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-09
Carpenters Letter
CONTINUED from Sixth Pagc.D

a common advertisement in France IS that
Of American mint or 'menthe Americaile.
AS a whole, however, st. Etienne docs not
buy much American goods. There are
seine California fruits and Philadelphia
pickles sold in the stores and there is the
usual exhibition of typewriters, cameras
and sewing machines, The Mutual and
Equitable life insurance companies have
offices here, but as to American shoes,
matches and cereals, they are conspicuous
by their absence.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-09
Town and Country Boys Compared

COUNTRY boys lack Of oppor-
tunity is his best equipment for
the serious struggle of life,
writes John Gilmer Speed in
Brandhur Magazine. This sounds
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-09

LONG with the announcement that
after thirty-one years Of con
slant building the largest build
ing in America is nearing com
pletion comes another to the eff
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-22
BROWN COUNTY TAXES
ARE BOOSTED UP HIGH
Assessor and Board of Equalization
Carry Out Promise to Raise
the Assessments.

Some months ago it was announced
that the officials Of Brown county
would do something wonderful in the
way Of assessing real and personal
property in that county this year. Par
ticular stress was laid on the thrd&
that the personal property was to be
assessed at it's cash value. This talk
increased the interest as to what the
returns to the state auditor of the
assessed valuation would show.
The returns, which will be taken up
by the state board Of equalization
next month, reached the state audi
tors Office yesterday. The figures
show that the assessor of Brown
county returned the real property at
$5,317 SOB, and that this was raised
by the county board of equalization to
$6,399,602. The increase on realty was
about SO per cent.
Last year the valuation of unim-
proved acres in the county was 1888
and this year $12.66. Land with inn
provements was assessed last year at
$3.50 per acre and this year at $3.50.
The state board of equalization left
the personal property assessment in
this county at $1,252,00O a year ago
and this year it is returned at $1.278.-
600, an increase over the amount re-
turned Of about 100000.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-22
READERS FINISH WORKIN
RECORD BREAKING TIME
They Examine the Papers of 1000 APP
pIicants for Positions as First and
Second Grade Teachers.

The 125 readers who have been
Wading through the examination pa
pers of 1000 applicants for first and
second grade teachers certificates
practically finished their labors last
night.
The examinations were held in all
the counties of the state ten days ago
and then the papers shipped to Supt.
Olsen at the state capitol. The work
done by the readers has been some
thing in the way of a record breaking
feat. 1t usually takes about ten days
to read and mark the papers, but this
year the work has been done in four
days.
The force consisted of seventy five
women and fifty men, and each will
draw about $14.50. No milage is paid,
the officials of the department of pub
lie instruction having no trouble to
secure readers at the, price paid, so
cents per hour.
The majority Of the readers are from
points outside the Twin Cities and
take advantage Of the appointment and
work to make a visit to friends and
incidentally get railroad fare and a
chance to do some shopping.
About twenty-five of the readers
VIII be retained to make out the GER
tffcates of those who passed a sue
ceSSful examination.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-22

Editor John s. Vandiver, of the st.
Peter Journal, died of heart failure at
1890 yesterday afternoon. Mr.. Van
diver had been i'll for a week, but his
indiSpoSition was not considered ser
ious and his death came without warn
Ing.
Mr.. Vandiver was a native of Mis-
souri,, forty=three years old, the son of
a clergyman, and the brother of Con-
gresham w. D. Vandiver, of Missouri,
who is known in Washington as the
"Bookworm of Congress-" He is sur
vived by the widow and two childreny
a boy and a girl.
He has been a prominent figure in
Minnesota journalism and politics for
twenty years. AS a political writer he
was universally conceded the first
place among Minnesota newspaper
men and politicians who knew him
best. Men in public life throughout
the state will pay tribute to one of the
most fertile" brains and keenest pens
employed in Minnesota journalism.
His political satire, 1.-THE Boss of the
Ward" which made it's appearance in
1895, received a wide circulation and
numerous clever short stories written
by him ELECTED the generous criticisms
they deserved.
Politics was his forte and no man
in Minnesota was better informed in
that peculiar field of journalistic work.
In the last campaign he was the di-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-22
DIES IN SIGHT OF HOME
TRAIN KILLS JOSEPH MEYER
WHILE FAMILY LOOKS ON
Is Struck by An Engine, Thrown I'M
der the Wheels and Ground to Death
While on His Way to Work-Is Deaf
to Warning of Whistle and Bell.

With his childfenis farewells still
lingering in his Tears, Joseph Meyer,
$50 Western avenue,rwaS run down. by
and instantly killed Within sight of his
family, by an Eas tern Minnesota pas
senger train, beneath the Western
avenue bridge, yesterday morning at
Z o'clock. Meyer had a moment previ-
Gus said good bye to his family, who
were gathered about the door step in
full view of the father when he met
his terrible death.
Meyer was crossing the tracks in
front of his home on his way to work
just as west bound train passed by.
Stepping hurriedly to the other track,
he was struck in9the side by the pilot
of the east bound engine. The force
of the blow threw him forward on the
tracks, instead Otto one side as is usu-
ally the case, and the wheels crushed
over his head and feet, MASKING them
to a shapeless mass of flesh and blood.
Engineer Saw Meyer.
Engineer Barry claims he saw Meyer
when a block away and whistled con-
tinuously. William Cummings, night
Waterman, Mason Smith,. night oper-
ator, and William Riley, yard clerk,
were on the depot platform a short
distance from the scene Of the accident
and saw the entire affair." They all
agreed tnaJ- meyer was gwen ample
warning of the approach ofethe train,
both by whistle and bell. They say
that he appeared to take no. notice of
Its coming and acted generally as If
he was deaf.
The family of the dead man rushed
to the spot, as soon as their daZed
faculties told them what had happen
ed. The widow was frantic when she
realized that her husband was dead.
1t was with the greatest difficulty that
she could be madeTt comprehend that
the body must remain on the ground
until the arrival of the coroner. "a ssi.
Scene, a Pitifuf One. s->4
The spectacle of the mother and
seven small children weeping about
the bruised body of the father, who
had left them but moment before in
the best OF health, was pitiful in the
extreme.
/. Coroner Miller, after viewing the re-
mains and securing statements from
the witnesses, decided that Meyers
death was purely accidental and that
there would be no necessity for an
inquest. The remains were removed
to the morgue.
4. Meyer was fifty years old and for
several years past had been employed
as a day laborer by the Great North
ern. Besides the widow there are
eight children, but one being Of a self
supporting age.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-22
THERE IS VERY LITTLE
TYPHOID IN ST. PAUL
Local Water System Responsible for
the Lack of Disease-Epiden1ic in
Other Cities.

Although a majority of the large
cities of the country are suffering
from serious typhoid fever epidemics.
st. Paul is almost free from the dread
ma1ady There have only been eight
cases reported to the health depart
ment since Aug. 1, and none of these
is serious.
Reports received by Dr. Ohage from
other cities indicate that the disease
mas become rampant, and is increasing
IN an alarming manner. Especially is
TINS true of the towns and cities on
the Great Lakes Chicago and MiIwau
kee are suffering from the severest
plague of the malady in their history.
while the disease is also prevalent in
Butfalo, Detroit, Cleveland and Du-
luth.
Our almost perfect water supplv
and sewerage system is responsible
Tor the lack of the disease" said DR..
Ohage yesterday. TN no way is it
easier to contract typhoid than by
drinking impure water. Not in one
OF the eighteen cases reported since
Jan: l have we found the disease due
to drinking lake water.
IF you examine our contagious
disease map you will find that seven of
the eight cases now existing in the
city are in localities where CITY water
is not available. Well water is never
pure, under the most favorable cir
cumstances, and when used by people
VINO are careless and know little of
the laws of hygiene it is bound to be
polluted with impure and foreign sub
stances"
Doctors interviewed on the subject
state positively that st. PauPs good
water supply is responsible for the
lack of typhoid. Said a physician:
Summer vacations cause much of this
disease. People leave comfortable
homes in the city for out-of-the-way
resorts, where the sanitary conditions
are bound to be poor. They are Obliged
to drink impure water from wells.
This is the greatest cause of the mall
ady. A few years ago, just for Curl
osity, | traced the cause Of ten cases
which | was called upon to treat, and
found that eight We're due to summer
vacations spent in the country"
Physicians report that summer
cholera has become epidemic within
the last few weeks. They give the pc
culiar atmospheric conditions as the
cause of the disease.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-22
OAJECT TO RECEIVING
C0MPAEYAIN KITCHEN
This Is One Plant That the Working
Girls Have to gMake-AnnuaI
Meeting hf Union Held.

81 can't say that we have accom-
plished very much in the way of Sc
curing privileges during the year, but
we have managed to raise salaries 50
per month, andi that is something"
said Miss Mays Payer, secretary of
Columbia Lodge No. 2 Working Girls
union.
The organization,f which started a
year ago, held it's annual meeting last
evening. In view of the fact that only
dozen members responded to the
call for the annual meeting 1t was
decided to continue the present Of
ficers until Jan. 1.
What particular privileges does the
union demand?" queried T h e G o b e
reporter.
well, we don't want to be stuck
in kitchen when we have company,
for one thing" replied the secretary
of the lodge, land while we have not
made much headway," she continued,
Sin the matter Of privileges, we have
increased our membership from seven
teen to sixty seven. What we are now
endeavoring to do is to get all the
competent domestics. in the city in our
organization and in this way help
ourselves. The trouble is that incom-
petent and inferior girls come to the
city, and by working for small wages
spoil all the work of our organization.
We are making an effort to arrange
our hours so that-We do not have to
work daily from a. m. to 1890 p. M,
but it is slow work"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-22
AMUSEM ENTS.
m METROPOLITAN
ANNOUNCEMENT.

Managers L. N. SCOTT and AUGUSTUS
PIToU present for the Joint opening of
their season Saturday evening, August
soth, MR.. cHAUNcEY oLcoTT In the
first production on any stage of "OLD
LIMERICK TOWN." To commemorate
the occasion they will present, with their
compliments, two reserved seats for any
performance to the first ticket purchaser
at the Box Office for the opening night,
and two seats each to the nth, 21st, 31st,
41st, 51st, 61st, 71st, s1st s1st, fe1st pur-
chasers. Sale of seats for the first per-
formance opens Monday, August 25th, at
9 a. m. Sale for balance of the oIcott en-
gagement (AII Fair Week. begins
Wednesday, August 9th.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-22
MINNESOTA WILL GET
GOVERNMENT. LANDS
U. S. Surveyors General Warner Files
the Selections With State Auditor
Means Money for Schools.

United States Surveyor General
Warner has filed with the state auditor
swamp land selections in three town.
ships of the state.
When the patents for the land are
granted by the government to Mime
sofa, 3S,516 acres of land in Itasca
county will be credited to the school
fund and state institution fund. That
is, the amount realized from the sale
of the lands will be credited to the
fund. The selection for the state is
made under an act of congress, nassed
in 1850
The swamp lands are in township
81, range q west, and townships 1853
and 154, range % west. The 3,079 acres
in township 81 are near the Big Fork
river, while the 1852 acres in town
ship 153 and the 1924 acres i'll town.
ship 154 are east Of Red lake. The Sc
lection leaves the government but $500
acres in, township 153, and but $500
acres in township 154. 49,
From this 1900 acres which remain
in the control of the United States in
the two townships, the, state gets two
sections in each township for school
lands.
1t will undoubtedly be some time be-
fore the state secures patents to the
lands, for the field notes have to be
sent to Washington and checked over
with the records there.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-22
ADDING TO THE CAPITAL STOCK.
Illinois Central Directors Will Tackle
the Subject Today.

CHICAGO, Aug. 21.-Special meet
Ing of the stockholders of the Illinois
Central will be held tomorrow to con-
slider the proposition to increase the
capital stock by an issue of 1880
new shares of 500 each. This will
bring the total capitalization of the
company up to $s5,O4O,OOO, or $500
shares. The increase is desired for the
purpose Of improving the lines Of the
company.
A portion Of theaamount will be used
in improving the property south of
the Ohio river. The line from Cairo to
Memphis will be double tracked
throughout and the branch from Full
ton, KY, northwest to Paducah at the
mouth of the Tennessee river may also
be given a double track.
President Fish denies the recent ru-
mors that there is in contemplation
an arrangement between the Illinois
Central and the Louisville & Nash
Vile, or Southern, for combining in
terests and sharing the business Of the
South.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-22
Duluth Company Leases Cars.

A lease from F. NJ Pease. of Chi
cago, to the Minnesota Land and Con
structton Company of Duluth was filed
with the secretary of state yesterday
Forty fiat cars are leased to the com
Pany for eighteen months, beginning
July l.. 1902, for $13,S97. OF this
amount 1866 was paid at the time
OF the signing of the lease, and s54S is
TO be paid on the first of each month
for seventeen months.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-22
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

Susan s: Hills to J. V. Roths-
child, 1t IA, blk II, Syndicate add
]. J. Egan Jr. to S. Saiiier, 1t 80, O'
Chute Bros div No. 5.. 49(
E. A. Hemmenway to w. G. Jones.
und Y 1t %, blk 2. Holcombe's add ZIG:
Q. L. Taylor and wife to Sarah E.
Thomas, 1t IA, blk 1, Smith &
= Taylor's add .......... 4, OOC
G.. Wilson and wife to S. A. SAIL
berg, 1t q, blk Q, Lockwood's add 1906
T. Melting to Anna Nadeau, 1t 8,
blk 10, Lewis Sec. add .......... 67E
w. H. Dickerman and wife to L.
T: Kral, 1t IA, blk 10, Schroeders
add ........ ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 15C
Total ........... .........$8 ST.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-22
END of the Week Excurs1ons-LO
Rates.

Tickets on sale every Saturday and
Sunday via Chicago Great Western Rail
lowing Monday. Rates for the round
trip: Red Wing, 1.22: Cannon Falls
SLY; Northfeld. $116; Faribault, $1.5T
Morristown. $1.89; Waterville, $196; Ely
sian, $214; Madison Lake. $2S5. For fur.
Their information inquire of ]. N Storr
City Ticket Agent, corner Fifth and
Robert streets. st. Paul MINI.