Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-01

| lar system Of records was iuaugurated I'm
| order 60 determine standards in public
work Of all kinds. In the seven months
| operated 295 analyses were made by
| Chemist II. Kirschbaum. OF these 200 wcro
| NJ asphalt surface mixtures and binders
eleven Of asphalts and asphalt ccmcnts.
fifteen OF brick and brick block twenty
| two Of cement twenty-one of sand. seven
Of fuxes and oils, five Of rock asphalts
and fifteen miscellaneous
sewer system.
The sewer figures given out are as fol-
| lows
r,-,-. Miles Cost
Prior TO l9o5..............14ss7s s2,o6l 67i6s
l'No .'.....'............... 1904 6}.hlS22
Total .................15963 $50 s2125 2Se. 90
OF this amount for 1905. 1895 miles were
district sewers. costing $4G5l9.4e. and 14s
miles were main sewers. costing $17.O9s73
| Permits were issued for about eleven
miles Of private connections or Iaterals
| meaning new sewer services to at least
40 buildings at an expense Of $4,000
II is estimated that twenty miles Of new
| permanent sidewalks were laid i'm 1906
twelve miles by property owners and eight
miles by the city. OF the amount about
seven miles were cement sidewalks and
the remainder brick. This brings the total
sidewalk mileage of the city up close to 300
Grading improvements
The grading record makes the following
| showing:
PREVIOUS to 1905....... .93l7,565 81, 500 419 Il
1910 OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 1895 IA $50 2S
Totals. .................94S1,5 1O $1,63s OSl 90
The city is lighted by 100 Welsbach
| burner gas lamps, rated at elghty-candle
power, and go lamps with stated
| Illuminating power of 1000 candles each
During 1895 the Western Union and Postal
! Telegraph companies built conduts in the
| downtown district for the purpose of en-
! tirely relieving the streets from overhead
| wires.
| Health Department.
Statistics from the office of the health
! commissioner show that Omaha's mortality
| rate for 1905 was among the lowest Of the
cities of the world, being only .OOSO6, based
on an estimated population of 125,OOO Dur
| ing the year there were but 1,OO7 deaths
and 213 of these were OF infants less than
. years old. In the same period ,924 chill
dren were born-almost twice as many as
died, and the largest number of children
ever born in the city in a single year OF
the deaths 81 were males and 43O females.
and of the births 800 were boys and 925
| girls.
The year passed without serious epidemics
| OF any kind. Frequent analyses of the
water supply showed it to be pure and
| wholesome crusade was inaugurated
! by the Woman's club to insure pure milk
and this resulted in the city contracting
| at 5000 a year with the Creighton Medical
| college for tests of fluids and foodstuffs
as often as desired by the city health de-
| partment-the analyses to be both bacteria
! logical and chemical.
| Police Department
| The police department is composed Of
! eighty-nine men and one police matron
| including Chief of Police j. j. Donahue
| his clerk, two captains, one chief of de-
| tectives, eight sergeants, eleven detectives
| hfty-eight patrolmen, two turkeys, two
! patrol wagon drivers, two patrol conduc-
tors and one hostler. The cost Of main
| tanning the department in 1905 was $lOS COO
| Through the efforts of the force 81, 1853 70
! worth of stolen property was recovered
! of $22,37672 worth of stolen property re-
ported. During the year the department
| made l22 arrests, reported 269 accidents
secured 122 buildings, removed seventy-one
! dead bodies to the morgues. cared for lis
destitute persons, attended 100 fires, cared
| ~ SAAAS ilSdllt ptlSOnSs accommodated
| 1858 dodgers at the police station, returned
hfty-hve lost children to parents, furnished
SS95I meals to Jail inmates. cared for S65
! sick and injured persons and responded TO
1852 calls for the patrol wagon and ninety
two for the ambulance. That the city is
fairly satisfactory place to live is shown
| by the fact that there were only thirteen
| suicides. There were five shooting affrays
and twenty-one stabbing ARRAYS. The de-
| partment is operated from "A single central
station at Eleventh and Dodge streets.
Fire Department
Omaha has q fire department of JIG men
| including Chief Charles 4. Salter and his
| staff There are thirteen fire stations
! equipped with four steam engine compa-
/ MES, four hook and ladder companies and
/ seven hose companies. During 1906 4U6
/ alarms were received and $50 buildings ac-
| tually on fire. out of buildings valued at
/ $2,29i,6i5 holding contents valued at 81 S54 -
/ SJ6, the total loss was on buildings, SlO4 427
and on contents, SHAT, the totals being
J $4.649,Gn exposed. against Sj47447 actually
! destroyed. The loss insured was S53l. ll9
| and not insured Sl6,33S
Two citizens were killed and twelve in
! Jured during the year through fire. Seven
| of these accidents were due to gasoline
| stove explosions, three TO gasoline eXplO-
sions, one to lamp explosion and in the
others by jumping from windows and get
tins in the way of the hose wagon Two
persons were rescued from burning build
/ ings.
I There was one death in the department
/ Fourteen fremen were badly injured and
/ six slightly.
/ The largest fire was the Mercer fire at
| Eleventh and Howard streets. by which
/ buildings to the value Of S96,59O and con-
/ tents to the value OF s3l33C0 We're de-
/ stroyed January =. OF the total loss of
Sii9,S9O the insurance companies bore Si3S-
! 090. The second largest ire was that Of
the Woodman Linseed oil works, $3.50.
! fully covered by insurance. and that Of
/ the Omaha Paper Box company Sl35S9
/ similarly protected.
! Following is a table showing the total
fire loss for the last ten years and the
amount borne by the insurance companies:
Total Loss to Ins.
Loss. Companies.
lSo.'...--. .S0i,, ~ S3l ll9
: 1894 OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 946Sg 81 40
lslS....,.. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 0s9,ItN j6l ,Ol3
lA2...... 1906 lOi,673
Ipl.'. '...-.s....'...'..-.-.. 20b,taA ia. 1913
1870. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. an557 ISS5
lS9 ,.'................,.....- 3.t,5H 342,lo3