Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-19

Electric Light Company Promises 70 Dsrn
luying Wires.
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Inc tnomaqn-h Houston Electric Ifnht
company eomDleted arrangements yestsr-
qay for extensive improvements at the sub
sistion at 2slf n street. South Omaha.
Local Manager Dee Erion states that tho
large transformers now on the rround aoor
81 the company's buIldlur VIII be moved
20 the basement IN order thai the heavy
lines now crossing ii street miehs be
placed under sroumd. A conduit is to be
constructed for these feed lines and IL Il
expected that cxcavatisa will be com
fnenoea Monday. Arranzements have bonn
made for material and a large force VIII
BE- put to work with q view Of scompieftnr
tbe change within two weeks.
This change In overhead wiring win
make q dinsrence IN the appearances Of N
street. az al wires 81 the vicinity Of the
proposed library building and the Antilles
pptel nov building. will be placed In the
eqndults 20 be laid. Three large rnanhoies
viii have 90 be provided in order 10 efve
access to the conduit Heavier wires r,It
he used. The coat Of these Improvement
will amount to several thousand dollars.
with the placing Of these electric llehs
wires underground the lrst step toward
puEyins All wires IA the business portion
o. the city will have been taken.
nemonskrnncea Fflaa.
Juqt before noon yesterday I'd copsn-
harve nled with City Clerk shrieley re-
nenstFances against the granting Of fran
chises ia two proposed Telephone cam
panies- The nrst remonstrance nled was
against the Magic City Telephone company.
This petition contained the names 81 $50
VOTERS while the petition against the
granting Of a franchise to the Home Inde-
pendent Telephone cempany contained the
names OF so residents and voters. Tho
eity clerk stamped tho remonetrencep ana
Med them with the records % be presented
to ths city council Monday night.
GsFnap-Amersoan Gina.
The derman-American club. which IA
made up Of prominent Germans in south
Omaha. will meet It the club haadouartsra
on Twenty fourth stree, this Afternoon ana
discuss the acts OF Congroaaman Mercer.
A majority OF the club member favor
turning Mercer down for the simpis reason
that he has, 50 Il II asserted. already prom
ised the postmaatership 70 not less than q
dozen people. Members Of the club ray that
Mercer IL not 70 be trusted and II was
noticeable that very few Germans we're
present at The Blackburn-Burkeft Mercer
rally Friday nighf.
One prominent German statsd to a Bee
reporter Hast night that while he had voted
for Mercer for nve consecutive terms he
proposed 70 say "a and vote the other
way this fail.
Teans4ers Meet Neeas.
A special meeting Of tho Teasters unssa
mas been called for 2;3o O'Clock this afsor-
neon in the rooms over fha Packers Ma
tional bank. At this meeting the discus
sion Of = regular scale OF wages win be the
feature. II - expected that employsrs Of
tcemstera will be presented with the scale
na soon ~ . committee, 10 be appointed.
can make is report.
sacrea Concert Tonfsht.
Tonight at st. Bridset'a church. Twenty
sixth and F. streets. a sacred concert win
be given under the direction OF Nd p.
Baker. and Il IS stated that the chorus viii
consist Of forty voices. Among those WHO
will take part ara: Mrs. Frank 5. Mori-
arty. Miss Margaret O'Toeie. Mrs. Charles
Gibson. Fred Lehmer. Or. Charles naeton,
Edgar Brown, Hans Jessen and Miss Jessie
carpentsr.
WIN Urge Pronscufion
At . meeting Of about forty citizens Of
South Omaha iaaf night AZ which Joseph
Carlow presided and the Taxpayer league
was well represented. & was determined to
proceed with the prosecution against the
four embe Of the school board against
whom charges OF bribery have been made.
The four accused men appeared at the
meeting and offered to rosiBn II the charges
were Withdrawn and lac steps at prosocu-
alon abandoned. but their oFe4,vren were
~dlsresarded.
A hind Of $500 was raised at this meeting
with which to aid in the prosecution 81