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Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-30
Recent Progress in the Field of Electricity

coast The United States navy has given
his company contracts for the establish
ment of stations at Pensacola, Key West,
Panama, Porto Rico and Cuba. Several
lines of coastwise steamers have recently
been equipped with his apparatus. Tho
system has been established by the United
States slngal corps between Cape Nome
and st. Michaels in Alaska, where the ice
and topography Of the country render wires
impossible
Less than ten years ago DR.. De Forest
was a freshman at Yale. beginning his
studies in the scientific school in 1896. He
was born at Council Bluffs, Ia. in 1873,
where his father was a pastor. While still
in knickerbockers he began to devote much
OF his time to electrical experiments. His
chief boyhood interest was to arrange bat
teries and with these to run toy motors
and telegraphio instruments. He equipped
hts room with electric lights and bells. To
qualify for the degree of doctor of phil
osophy in his third year In the scientific
school at Yale, he wrote a thesis on Hertz
ian waves. These being the medium of
wireless communication, his attention was
in this way turned to practical telegraphy
without wires, with which Marconi had bo-
gun experimenting. De Forest developed
his system along independent lines.
He is a tireless worker. Enthusiasm
and hard work the secret OF whatever I
have achieved" he has said. mo one reo-
ognizes the inherent limitations OF wireless
telegraphy more than one who has wrestled
with the tremendous difficulties Of it's de-
velopment. The path of experiment has
been devious and filled with stubborn OBJ
stacles. But trust am conservative when
say that there is q great future that at
tends this young art"
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-30
Labor on the PIantntions.

The most of the labor on the sugar es-
tates is done by Cubans and spaniards.
The spaniards make excellent workmen and
a considerable immigration is now coming
in from the Canary islands and the north
ern part of the Spanish peninsula. These
men are thrifty and industrious. and Cuba
is doing all it can to encourage their COM
ing. ft -'t
Wages are good. About Havana they
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-30

Energy wasted in Producing Light.
a course OF lectures
at the British Royal institution on
Flame" Sir James Dewar ex-
It1EfRl hibited a statement showing the
aS$esS small amount Of light, compared
with the energy expended, which the best
human appliances yield, and how utterly
man is beaten by the fre1y. .--
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-30
Thounands of Lamps REQUIRED.

Each float requires from 200 to 600 lamps,
according to the subject. and design of the
float. From miniature to fifty-candle-power
lamps are used and all colors are em-
ployed. Last year about 5000 lamps were
used on the twenty floats, while this years
total is estimated at 10000. Something new
In the way of lamps will be used this year
on the floats. Mr.. RENEE has had designed
expressly for the Ak-Sar-Ben floats a large
number of turnip-shaped lamps with small
retectors inside the globes. This style of
lamp is said to be a decided Improvement
over the ordinary pear-shaped globe and
the reflector feature in each globe will
heighten the effect materially.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-30

number Of partially constructed floats, each
one apparently an incongruous mass of
wood paper mache, wiring. etc. AS the
float is built the lamp sockets and lead
wires are installed in the stationary, re-
volving or mechanical effects. When the
work has progressed to a certain stage the
lamps. are connected up In circuits of about
twenty-five to the circuit each circuit. be-
Ing supplied from the feed wire that runs
along the trolley which connects with the
overhead street car wire. The circuits are
all run Into a ground wire. the current
being grounded through a brake shoe on
one of the wheels of the float. The various
circuits Of each float run, through a cut
out box on the side of, the float to guard
against any mishap. Each float may be
said to contain a little electrical system
OF its own, needing only the connection of
the trolley to set the system working
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-30
Sugar Railroads.

Most Of the sugar estates bring their cane
from the fields to the factories on rail-
roads. In passing through the sugar coun-
try one sees cars loaded with cane standing
at every depot. 1t has been brought In
from the smaller plantations to be shipped
over the trunk line to the mills. The plan
tation railroads bring the cane from the
fields to the mills, from fifteen to thirty
miles OF such roads being often required
for one plantation. The United Fruit COM
pany, for instance, has twenty-nine miles
of such road at Banes, and the Tacajo es-
tate, adjoining It, has twelve miles Of track
which are connected with the lines OF the
United Fruit company. There are in Cuba
altogether more than 500 miles Of railroad
track on the sugar plantations alone. and
this has a value Of more than Sl1.OOO.OOO,
The most OF these roads are equipped with
rolling stock from the United States. They
use Baldwin locomotives largely and some
OF them buy their steel rails of Krupp.
SO far the sugar estates have but few
electric railroads. and Cuba has no electric
railroad system such as is fast gridironing
the United States This would seem to me
one OF the. possibilities of the future. Each
big plantation, with its population of sew
eral thousand. will eventually have its rail-
roads will carry sugar cane to the mills
as well as other freight and passengers
How Sugar Is Grown,
II will surprise many of our American
farmers to know that much of the sugar
cane here is raised without plowing' In
the new plantations, which are set out In
the woods, no plows can be used on ac-
count of the logs and stumps. None is
necessary. however After the wood has
been burned the land is perfectly clean
The men then dig holes at Intervals along
the rows and put in sections Of sugar cane
a few inches long and cover them up, In
a few days the cane begins to sprout al
the knots, and day or so later the blades
which are much like those OF corn oI
grass, come through the ground. young
cane field looks much like a corn field. The
crop grows rapidly. and all that is neces'
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-30

ress IN this line Of electrical work has been
little short OF marvellous, as thousands who
have visited the city in the last few years
have attested. There are so many features
to be considered and worked out in the con-
struction Of one OF the beautiful floats seen
on Omaha's streets every fall that the mat
ter cannot just be reckoned as merely the
placing of so many lamps on the float and
the installation OF so many feet of wire.
The work has resolved itself into a labor
that calls for the highest skill Of both cleo
trician and decorator and the work is Of
such nature that the man in charge OF the
construction of the floats must be a deco
rator and have at least considerable knowl-
edge of electricity.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-30

In the economy OF light the little phos-
phorescent beetle OF the eastern and west
ern archpeagos is easily first. If we
could produce light as efficiently, either
by gas or electricity. millions of tons OF
coal would be saved in Britain every year.
e Gases that produce flame form explosive
mixtures, and Professor Dewar performed
a series Of experiments to show the velocity
OF explosion waves when the gases are
confined In tubes This velocity at its
maximum seems to correspond with the
motions OF the gas molecules. and was
calculated in one case to be 105 miles per
minute, at given high temperature. The
atoms of the air we breathe are probably
moving ordinarily about sixty times as
fast as an express train. The professor
showed that when the pressure of the gas
is much reduced, the explosion sometimes
does not run the whole length of the
tube. A spark sent in at one end of tube
12O feet long did not reappear at the other
end when the pressure was reduced to
about one-third OF the atmospheric pres
sure.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-30
An Automatlc nIoek system.


The automatic electric block system now
used on one of the Austrian railways is
operated by means of an agle-bar about
twenty-five feet long, which is placed along
side OF and touching the running rail. This
angle-iron is on the inside OF the track and
is held in place by four springs. When a
train passes the fiange of the wheel enters
between the rail and the angle-iron, forcing
them apart. and in this way closing two
contacts which are operated by rod pres
sing against the angle-iron The closing OF
this circuit actuates the block apparatus.
This consists OF an electro-magnet, above
which Is suspended an armature. The ar
mature is attached to one arm OF a three
armed lever. The second arm of this serves
for attaching a spring. The third arm is
curved. and bears a pawl which engages in
a ratchet wheel attached to a commutator.
When the armature is drawn down by the
electromagnet the movement OF the lever
throws the commutator around This starts
a one-eighth horsepower series motor
which is mounted on the signal post and
which, in turn, operates the semaphore.
The motor is geared by means OF a sprocket
wheel to a sprocket chain carried by two
arms Of the operating lever.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-30

into the west and the twilight shadows
have passed away, then II is that the beau
ties OF the electrical incandescents appear.
one OF the prettiest pieces OF electrical
work seen here since the Transmississippi
exposition Is the fountain. A high shaft OF
water spouts upward over myriads of elee-
trio globes and the soft white light of the
inner globes is mingled with prismatic col
ors projected from a device at the top OF
the fountain. making the changing effects
pleasing TO the senses.
Another piece Of electrical constructive
work that has been admired by thousands
this season is the illuminauons over the
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-30
EIeetrIc LoeomotIvea Do EngIand.

Electric Locomotives In England.
The first Of ten fifty-ton electric locomo-
tives has just been supplied TO the Metro
politan railway. London, and will shortly
be put in service both on the Harrow and
Inner Circle sections Of the line They will
be used for hauling the main line trains
between Harrow and Baker street, the
steam locomotive that brings them up from
Aylesbury, etc, being taken of at the
former point and put on at the return Jour
ney. The trains used on this portion OF the
line are 12O tons in weight. and the new
locomotives will propel them at a speed OF
thirty-six miles an hour on the level. The
same locomotives will be used on the Net
ropolitan half OF the Inner Circle for goods
trafic and for hauling the steam trains OF
other companies possessed OF running pow
ers over It, The electric locomotive will
pick up the train at Edgware road. being
replaced by a steam locomotive at the point
where the train leaves the Circle. The new
locomotives will be equipped with four mo-
tors OF 800 horse power each; and a feature
OF interest is that. owing to the terminus
facilities being somewhat restricted. Il mas
been necessary TO use motors OF a smaller
size than usual equipped with forced ven
tilation. so as to keep down the length OF
the locomotives 10 convenient limits for
handling at the the termini. This course
OF substituting electrical locomotives for
steam Is the only one possible for running
trains that have been designed for steam
propulsion over electrified lines. and within
a reasonable time the electrical locomotive
viii doubtless become as familiar = sight
as its steam forerunnsE.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-30

II, 1906, by Frank q. Carpenter)
July 27.-Cspeclsl Cor
respondence Of The Bee.)-Come
with me and take a peep into
Uncle Sans sugar bowl. About
half OF all our sugar comes from
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-30
water Power at vancouver.

Water Power at Vancouver.
The great electrical engineering enterprise
undertaken by the British Columbia Elec-
trio Railway company to furnish electric
power is now approaching completion.
About sixteen miles from Vancouver there
is a small lake covering about 300 acres
which lies 400 feet above the high-water
mark. power plant has been established
at the foot OF the mountain, and water is
brought down in large pipes, having a fall
OF 800 feet in 1000 feet. But this lake does
not contain sufficient water TO meet the
demands in the dry season and therefore
It was decided to bring down the water Of
Lake Coquitlam, which lies about thirty
five feet higher than Lake Beautiful, and
has an area of about 2OOO acres. Between
the two lakes there is a range Of mountains
rising to a height of about 1900 feet, and to
bring the water from Lake Coquitlam TO
Lake Beautiful required the construction of
a tunnel almost the entire distance, some
two and a half miles, through solid rock.
Work was begun about two and a half
years ago at both ends, and has continued
until few days since when the two gangs
Of men met in the middle OF the tunnel and
found that their calculations had been
exact, so that the borings met each other
without the variation of an inch. Sufficient
water has thus been secured TO produce all
the electrical power that is likely to be
needed in Vancouver for many years. The
tunnel is regarded as one of the largest and
most successful engineering enterprises yet
undertaken In this province. and the fol-
lowing are facts concerning It: Cost, 1920,
600; total length, 2Ih miles; size. 9x9 feet
with rounded corners; area OF normal cross
section. 7s square feet; number OF men en-
plcyed on construction, 100 to l75; time re-
quired for drilling, 2 years months :
weeks; average rate OF progress per day
between 15 and 16 feet; average rate OF
progress per week, 40 feet; greatest dis
tance driven on either side in one week, 81
feet at the Lake Beautiful end. in week
ending October 30, 1901; explosives required
over 200 tons OF dynamite. gelegnite and
blasting gelatine; fuse used in blasting
10000 feet, or nearly 100 miles; candle
power required TO light the work l75OOO
The consulting engineer was Wynn Mere
dith, an American, who has been employed
upon great works at several points in the
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-30
Leader In wIreies. Telegraphy.

LeaoGE IN NAFeAeSA ANAebEaDhg'
The development Of wireless telegraphy,
says a writer I'm Success. has lifted into
worldwide prominence the name OF DR.. Leo
De Forest. who, at the age OF S2 has taken
rank as Americas leading worker in tho
remarkable art OF transmitting telegraphic
messages without wires. The system in
vented by him, which is distinct IN numer-
Gus ways from that OF Marconi, Is in oper-
alton at wireless stations at New York,
New Haven, Cape Hatteras, Charlestown
ana several other points on the Atlantic
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-30
EIeclrICiys Part in the Paseant Of Kine Aksar.Ben

for the illumination
Of floats in night pageants origi-
mated in Omaha at the Ak-Sar-
Ben den. and since 1896. the year
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-30

J are good. About Havana they
New-York tribune., 1905-03-26
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Ea make the sound ten times loud and ten times
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New-York tribune., 1905-03-26
GRANDPA'S APPLE-TREE
By w. III. Pierce

Now tor sure didn't mean to climb gandpas apTree;
But / looked there | had to,
For the very biggest apple grew o a
was fraid woud fall an bust it, l picked fol him.
An so then al benin hot
thought I'd eat 10 make 'trot;
So took big bite of an bu was
An threw back behind the barn An half
Fore grandpa comm, with the apple in his
An his looked an
There somepn' goin' haprcnl" An grandpa
Il ies wish you'd says
An I'll punish 70 many time
mos strictly have forbidden him aPpetrees climb
he called old o a a
An js then heart thumPin an beatin mighty quick
apple
Hold he
Well that's fact grandpa HIM! thought of that
Sho! "a the
he Tabby rubbed legs
An as a is
wdhousc
An says: Dog gone grandpa / all myself"
Then grandpa he c looked an g" want to KNOW
IN he a a big blow.
'Wen take this apple the house an celebrate he
Your gandmau make a dumFlin an We'll eat an me.
New-York tribune., 1905-03-26
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By Eugen
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New-York tribune., 1905-03-26

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To personal knowledge hundreds of valuable hives
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these diseases reach point where no human
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have never yet a of Brghs Disease Diabetes
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New-York tribune., 1905-03-26
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New-York tribune., 1905-03-26

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New-York tribune., 1905-03-26
Blood Poison Cured

I cure old rank cases.
tions can he quickly an,
by my home treatment.
dangerous drugs or med
Building, ST. Louis, Mo.
New-York tribune., 1905-03-26

Old sores. eczema. hoils, ulcers, erup-
safely cured, and cured to stay cured.
cure blood poison without the use of
cines. DIR. Rupert Wells, 1877 Granite