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The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-13
PARISH HOUSE DEDICATED.

HN@-N Zine Old Bigelow Colonial Mansion
 for St. Johns Church, East Hart
 ford.
 Bishop Brewster dedicated the colo nial mansion standing at the south corner of Main street and Burnside avenue, East Hartford, for use as a parrish house by St. Johns parish, at 8 service held at eight o'clock Wednes- day evening, December 5. He was as- sisted in the dedication services by the Rev Professor John J. McCook, rec tor of St. Johns.
 Following the services a reception was given in which the bishop, the rec tor, the afficers of the church and the officers of St. Agnes guild met parish toners and many residents of East Hartford. Light refreshments were served by members of the guild. A table had been daintily arranged in the com- modtous dining-room and Mrs. Farnham poured chocolate and Mrs. Abba Sergeant coffee. In one of the remodeled large rooms Is a picturesque old-time drawing wheel, and on the CO., lonial mantel above it is an olden mir TOT dating back to some unplaced year before 1907. The wheel name from Miss Hannah W. Bryant and the mirror from Mrs. Celestia w Pease. A hand some oil portrait of Bishop Burgess is another gift, from Miss Adele E. Bid well.
 Improvements on the building were started about a year ago. The entire foundation was taken out and a strong substitute was laid. Old clapboards were replaced. Closets were taken out in the first story to enlarge the rooms. Walls were tinted with a beautiful light green and the simple white of the severe colonial mantels--several of white are, however to some extent, or nate-and the white woodwork make harmony in color scheme and treat ment. Woven grass carpets are in keeping with the central conception. Percy S. Bryant, Norman McD, Craw- ford, Dr. Walter G. Murphy, William H. Brainard and Arthur c. Liebert con- sIltuted the committee in charge.
 HISTORY OF THE PROPERTY.
 Miss Hannah Bryant, says the Hart ford Times, has collected a number of faots relating to the early history of the property which are of interest. She has found that Lieutenant Samuel Meakins owned land at the corner be- fore l729. Lieutenant Meakins married Mary, daughter of John Bidwell He died in 17S3, and in 1735 his sister, Re bekah Meakins Hurlbutt, wife of Thomas Hurlbutt, purchased the land. Thomas and Rebekah ceeded the land to their son John. In 1775 John Hurl- butt deeded part to his son Samuel, and in ITS Samuel acquired the re- mainder.
 In 1891 Samuel deeded to Ashahal Olmsted. About five years before Will liam Bigelow had come in from Ash ford. In 1895 he purchased the corner property A few years later he built on the land In 1851 he bequeathed the corner property to his nephew, Ezra E. Smith. In 1871 MT. Smith deeded that property to Eliza S. McCook, wife of the Rev, John J. McCook. August 26, 1905, Mrs McCook deeded the house and the land at the immediate corner to the parish of St. Johns church. The visitors at the reception num-
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Entertat mmemts.
 HYPERInN THE EATRE.

Sam s. and Lee shubert, Inc, Mgrs. Fri. and Sat, Dec. 14-15 Mat Sat. This seasons New York and Chicago dramatic sensation direct from 2 months at New Lincoln Theatre, N. Y.
 1.-THE LOVE ROUrE." By the author of The Prince Chap"
 With ODETTE TYLER,
 and cast of selected players. Prices $1,5O, $1O0, 7bc, soc, 25e. Seats Now Selling.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-13

Don't your conscience sometimes trouble you about things you have to dc in financial deals?" "A little," answer ed MT. Dustin Stax. What do you do in such a case? T send for a lawyer. Washington Star.
 said the man who likes animals.
 Yes" answered young Mrs. Tor kins with sigh, H'but when he gets on the raeetrack he is liable to prove one of those fool friends who make so much trouble. .3-Washington Star. 4
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-27

Tributary to It which cuts enough timber
every year to make board walk two feet
wide clear around the world. and more than
anything else it is important as being the
metropolis of the inland empire, country
which a few years ago was considered COM
paradvely worthless, but which is now one
of the best agricultural regions on this
continent
Take the lands z the Spokane valley.
They were not supposed to be worth any
thing, and quite recently $1,000 acres were
offered to the United States government as
a perpetual military park to be used as a
field for maneuvers. The idea then was to
get Uncle Sam to pay s. or so an acre for
it. Now It is found that this land can be
irrigated and that 1t will raise excellent
wheat. Some of it near Spokane is selling
for S100 and upward an acre, and for
lands which a few years ago could be
bought from so cents to 81 an acre ara now
producing from twenty to thirty bushels of
wheat. Indeed the total wheat crop raised
in this state Of Washington last year was
about 100000 bushels which at a barrel
OF -four to the head IL enough to fur
nish the annual supply OF bread for 100000
souls, or one-tenth Of the population Of
the United States.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-27

lem of wireless telephoning and the result
is so simple that it is likely to create a
sensation in the business world as well
as in scientific circles.
Mr.. Alden, while studying the problem,
constructed an instrument so small that 1t
can be put into a vest pocket, which, at
tached to a wireless battery, such as is
used by the Marconi system, at once be-
gins catching conversations carried along
ordinary telephone wires, the distance de-
pending only upon the energy behind the
telephones that are sending the messages.
1t was one stormy night a rev weeks
ago, when Mr.. Alden had perfected his
little receiver and set It up In his studio on
Marthas Vineyard island. that he sat
smoking his after-dinner pipe and wonder
ing where he had better set up his sending
apparatus, that he was startled by the
sound of a voice in the room, of which he
was the only occupant. Outside the storm
howled along the coast and beat the waves
against the rocks of the island.
Hello! Hello! Is that Mrs. Smith? Yes2
Come over this evening If you can"
"All right. Good-bye!"
Mr.. Alden sat bolt upright. Then he got
up and went to the door. There was no
one thcre. The little instrument on the
table began to buzz again and then came
another voice, a different one this time,
asking the price of eggs and ordering a
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-27

given in London recently by the London
Electrobus company. Limited, II Cockspur
street, s. w. The vehicle is arranged to
carry thirty-four passengers. and weighs
6,4O0 pounds. 1t is propelled by an
electric motor arranged underneath the
drivers footboard, the motion being trans
mitted by chain gearing to a longitudinal
shaft. which in turn operates live axle
through the usual bevel wheels and C'ifer-
entail gear. The motor is said to be capa-
BILE of developing 14-horse power for pro-
longed period and its speed is regulated by
means of a controller. Current is derived
from a battery OF forty-four Oppermann
cells slung underneath the frame OF the
omnibus. which are said to have a capa-
city of 300 ampere-hours, and can be read
lily removed and replaced by fresh set.
The batteries weigh about twenty-three
hundredweight. or rather more than one
third the weight of the vehicle. II worked
to their maximum output, 1t is said that
these cells would provide suff cient energy
TO propel the omnibus about fifty miles;
but the introducers do not intend to run
them more than half this distance on one
charge. AS far we can see no proof IS
given that the company is much in ad-
vance of past methods, and it's financial
prospects, we noticed, are being rather
severely canvassed.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-27
Too Much Funny Business

A we'll known Kentuckian tells OF a mar
riage ceremony that justice of the peace
In the Blue Grass state was hurriedly
called upon one day to perform.
It appears that the bridegroom, a big
mountsineer. very roughly dressed, had
brought his prospective bride with him to
ing to secure his license and have the
ceremony performed at one visit When
his license had been duly granted tho
mountaineer asked II there was a justice
of the peace then in the court house who.
could tie the knot. Upon being advised
by the clerk that he himself was a justice
Of the peace and that he was willing to
Join the two lovers, the bridegroom said:
WAL. then, we're ready; go ahead"
but you'll have to secure two wit
nesses," sGilingly observed the clerk and
justice. before can proceed"
At this the mountaineer demurred, say
ing that he did not care for witnesses.
Nevertheless, he was convinced in mo-
ment that this formality was an indis-
pensable one, and accordingly the neces-
sary Witnesses were procured and the
ceremony began. When the couple had
promised TO love- obey. etc, together with
the rest OF the service the justice Of the
peace quite innocently observed that the
bridegroom should kiss the bride"
Thereupon the mountaipeer exhibited
fresh Impotence at the exactions Of the
Official. Look herew he exclaimed, an
griy, ut seems to me that you're draggin'
in a lot of funny business In this wedding
Why, l kissed her before we came i'm
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-27

sages that might be sent from other
sources and picked up either by the sta
lions at Spitzbergen or Hammerfest. There
will be no difficulty in picking up messages
sent to us. Whether our messages will be
as readily received is another matter. Per-
sonally 1 believe they will. THE reason
the wireless system on the ship is going
to be so much of an experiment is due
to the fact that we shall have to use the
steel frame OF the airship as an artificial
ground We shall be up in the air and we
shall have to work downward. Instead of
having solid mast or anything of that
sort we shall have to drop our wires from
the frame of the ship. Four long wires
will be suspended. each $50 feet long. 1
am taking an alternating generator along
and this will be connected with the fifty
five horsepower motor. the larger of the
two motors on the airship. All of these
appliances 1 shall attach to the frame
OF the ship in Paris and 1t will then be
shipped with the big balloon itself to
Tromsoe Norway, where the entire party
will meet early in June.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-27
MunicipRI Spirit.

MuhANAphA
One thing L like about these western
cities is the enterprise OF the citizens. If
Boston, New York, Philadelphia or Wash
ington had the same municipal push they
would double in size within two decades.
Here everyone is willing to do anything
that will help the town. Everyone thinks
there is no other city equal to his, and the
men of rival cities strive to outvie each
other in boasting about their respective nu-
inequalities There is some little competi-
ton just now between Spokane and Seattle
Seattle is by far the larger and it grows
the faster, but the Spokane man will not
acknowledge that the Seattleite has any
advantage over him. AS an illustration Of
this spirit l have just heard the following
A Seattleite and a Spokaner were talking
of their towns. The Spokaner told of new
banks, new factories and new buildings
Saying: why. man, you have no idea how
we are progressing. We have the best little
city in the United States. Our real estate
has doubled in value within the past ten
years and 100000 worth of 1t changed
hands in 1905. We have the best school
buildings in the west. We have twenty
two in our town of $4,000, and they cost us
altogether more than $l,Oo0OO0. You ought
to see our high school. The building alone
cost s1750OO. Our new Masonic temple cost
100000 and we have an athletic club which
cost $4,000 more than that Spokane is
now building a convention hall, which will
attract people from ali parts of the United
States and make II a greater convention
city than washington. We are raising a
fund of $4,000 to advertise us, and II we
keep on in this way it won't be long before
Seattle will have to take back seat"
YES" said the Seattle man. II have
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-27
un-tn-nnte Went.

Indeed. the most live part Of the United
States today lies west of the Rockies All
the cities out here are growing faster than
thlstles in Canada. Spokane. Seattle, Port
land and Los Angeles have on their seven
league boots, and they are striding ahead
like giants on the road to greater popula-
ton and wealth.
AS far as age is concerned Spokane is a
baby among our American towns 1t was
born just generation ago, but 1t now has
$1,000 population and is doing business,
as represented by the clearing house fig
ures, OF s150,O00O00 a year. 1t has ten
banks with deposits of s14.0OO0oo. and its
business establishments have a capital of
about s15,000,000. Its factories last year
turned out about 100000 worth of goods,
and 1t has a newspaper, the Spokesman-Re
view, which boasts daily circulation of
$1,000 copies Spokane has a greater num-
Der of telephones in proportion to its
population than any other city in the
country. 1t has 5000 1t has FIVE trans
continental railways and enough street
railroads, II they could be stretched out
in one line. to reach from New York to
Albany, and additional suburban lines suffi-
cient to connect New YORK with Wash
Ington city.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-27
Spokane and the President.

This desire to advertise the city was
brought out prominently last year when
the Spokane board of trade sent out its
famous picture of President Roosevelt, en-
titled stop off at Spokane" Roosevelt
had made a speech in which he had sald
II never saw two such cities anywhere as
Spokane and Seattle. II my eldest boy was
large enough to be choosing a place.
would advise him to locate In one or the
other of those cities and 1t is a shake-up
between them" This statement was too
good to be. lost. and the result was the
spectacular advertisement to which the
President objected. He wrote to the secre-
tary of the board of trade here and re-
qured the city to stop using II.
Another advertisement that Spokane has
secured recently at small cost is from a
big liquid washing powder firm The city
factories, as already described, are run by
electricity, and as the most common fuel
here is wood the town Is kept exceedingly
clean. 1t prides itself on it's streets, and it
has acquired quite a reputation for them.
Not long ago the board of trade thought it
might be able to advertise this feature at
the expense of the above mentioned Arm.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-27
In a SPOKANE Restaurant.

Then suppose we eat at a restaurant.
Davenports claims TO be the finest in the
world. and so far I have seen none like IL
in America. Let us drop into the bar as
we go through. 1t is known as the orange
room, because IL is lit by blazing oranges,
inside which are electric jets; and also on
account of the palms and other tropical
plants which stand around the wall pa5s-
ing on we come into the public dining
room, gorgeously decorated. The cashiers
desk is on the top of an aquarium in
which great FISH are swimming, and an
other quaint conceit is the mantelpiece,
upheld by two crystal pillars as big
around as your waist, in which gold fish
dart back and forth. The pillars are
really tubes of glass filled with water,
the only difference, between their APP
pearance and that Of solid crystal, being
that the gold fish are moving.
We sit down to our meal in one of the
cabinets. and enjoy it. All the delicacies
of the east and west come TO Spokane,
and one can live quite as well here as
in New York or Chicago. II you doubt
this take a walk with me through the
basement OF the establishment where we
are eating. 1t Is finished in pure white
marble, and 1t contains cold storage cham
bers so arranged that one can look in
and see the supplies. In one room there
are hundreds of beeves, and in another
mutton, pork and game are hung up. The
beef is brought from Chicago in cold
storageI and the cuts are of the same
shape and size, so that one can give a
dinner for fifty and have each guest
served the same. This can probably be
done in New York or Boston, but doubt
II as well as here in Spokane.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-27
It Works while they sleep.

Have you ever seen Spokane?
II not, you have missed one of the sights
Of this continent. The city lies In valley
on both sides of the rushing Spokane. This
river here plows its way through mighty
gorge, dashing down over fall after fall,
having descent OF 1872 feet in a quarter
of a mile. The waters rage and foam as
they drop from level to level, sending
up spray which the sun turns into dia-
monds. They run partlof the way through
turbines, which have been so connected
with machinery that they are worth more
TO the city than diamonds themselves.
The river, in fact, does the greater part of
the work of the city. 1t labors away day
and night, day in and day out, every night
and every day all the year through. The
falls have minimum capacity of $4,000
horsepower. and OF this 1900 has already
been developed. The river lights the city,
turns its mills and factories, operates it's
street railways and travels oven 100 miles
OF wire to the Occur d'Alene mines, and
carries there the electricity by which they
produce about one-ffth OF all the lead
OF the world.
The energy of the Spokane river is enor-
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-27
Homes of SPOKANE.

There is no doubt, however, but that
Spokane is a good town 1t is growing
like a green bay tree and it will continue
to grow in the future. 1t is remarkably
we'll built and it has some of the prettiest
and most artistic homes in the United
States. All the houses have their own
lawns and gardens. There are trees, flow
ers and green grass everywhere, and am
surprised at the numerous small houses in
which one could live well at moderate cost.
The architecture is of all sorts. There are
Swiss chalets, Spanish mission homes
Queen Ann cottages and many other con-
ceits. Indeed. the suburban and seaside
architects who are planning homes for
the east could learn much at Spokane.
There are also costly houses. One man.
who is said to be worth S3O,0OO,OOO, has a
mansion with a great park about 1t, and
there are other dwellings whose cost must
have run high into the thousands.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-27

nous. In addition to the 81 900 horsepower
which lies IN the heart of Spokane, there
are several million available horsepower in
the river above and below the city. The
Spokane has a big volume and it flows
for a distance OF ninety miles above and
below here, through a gorge Of such a
nature, that factories can be built all along
IT, In this ninety miles the river falls
loo feet, more than twice the height
of the Washington monument; and the fall
is such that it is estimated a horsepower
greater than that of Niagara can be gem
Grated from It, The power is so situated
that turbines can be put in every three
or four miles along the whole ninety-mile
gorge and each set of turbines Gill have
a fall Of forty feet.
The fall of Niagara from Lake Erie to
Lake Ontario is 326 feet, and from Goat
Island to the rapids only 212 feet. The act
ual drop of the water at the American falls
is 1877 feet and the Horseshoe falls have a
vertical height Of 1853 feet. The normal flow
of water pouring over the Niagara cataract
is about 10000 tons minute, large part
Of which has already been used for the
turbines.
The Spokane river power has. as have
said, fall OF 100 feet. and 1t is so sit
uated that it might form the basis of an
enormous Industrial region extending thirty
miles above Spokane and sixty miles be-
low. 1t should be as valuable or more valu-
able than mines Of coal and iron and it
will hold large place in the transporta-
ton of this region in the future. Spokane
has no navigable river connecting it with
the sea, but these water falls will give it
the cheap railroad freight and passenger
rates which ought to develop 1t more surely
than a waterway.
The city today profits directly from the
waterpower. 1t owns it's own water works
and is getting a revenue of $4,000 a year
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-27

heard that you were doing something. We
have clubs and schools, too. and we are
putting up single business blocks which
would hold all your business men and leave
some to spare You ought to see our
Alaska building. 1t is fourteen stories high
and it cost 100000 1 wonder II you have
ever been to Scatter"
Yes" said the somewhat subdued Spo-
kaner Il have been there"
But when, but when" asked the Seattle
lite.
Il was there two weeks ago." was the
reply
Two weeks! Why, man, you ought to
see Seattle now!"
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-27

in eastern Java. That is the biggest
crater of the world and the soil within
is Just like that of the Big Bend plains.
The biologists say this whole country
was once covered with volcanoes and that
the soil is largely made up of volcanic
ash. Java, which has some of the richest
land known to man, is made of such ASH.
1t came about so 1 am told, somewhat
like this: There was first great erup-
ton of lava covering the whole OF this
country. It may have been a molten lake
of lava which rose and fell under the
wind. This hardened and the ashes set
tied upon It, making volcanic deposit
of ashes several feet deep. After this
the waters fell and under them the ashes
hardened and solidihed Then the waters
broke their way out through the noun
tsins In the Columbia river system, leav-
ing this mighty bed Of ashes, from one
to eight feet in thickness, lying on q
stratum OF clay upon bed of lava
For long time the great trouble about
the country was the apparent lack OF
water The land looked thirsty and dry
and both biologists and the farmers said
It would never be good for anything.
Then, as one man expressed to me, some
fool tried to raise wheat on 1t and sue
oeeded. 1t was found to produce at the
rate or thirty bushels and upward per
acre, and II is now considered some of
the best wheat land of the west One
theorist says that the lava bed, upon
which the soil lies, acts like the bottom
of a great pan. The water drops upon
the earth and sinks down to this bed,
and is held there until drawn up by the
plants, whereas in other formations It
sinks farther down and is lost.
However that may be, there Is no doubt
but that the land will raise the very best
wheat, and that II is now growing 1t By
the millions of bushels a year.
FRANK q. CARPENTER.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-27

VSHsEHh has stood out conspicuously In
SkAA-D the soclal chronicles, but by far
the most unique celebration Of this sort was
the party given Saturday afternoon, May ~
by Mr.. Julius Meyer at Metropolitan CLUB IN
celebration of his ffty-hfth birthday. Five
years ago Uncle Julius" as he is known
70 the children OF half the Jewish social
set OF the city, entertained the children at
the club, his guest list being limited 10
''the children of all his friends and these
ranging in age from few months to Is
years. on that occasion he promised
them another party in FIVE years ana the
event was much anticipated. This year.
however. in addition to those not yet out"
Uncle Julius entertained the grandmothers
too. they being the guests Of honor.
Nothing that could contribute to the
entertainment and pleasure OF his guests
was left undone and Notwithstanding the
diversity OF age. this genial host succeeded
In making his birthday party an occasion
never TO be forgotten by those elisibles
who were fortunate enough TO be his guests.
An orchestra Of thirty pieces grand
march, a hoop drill, a grab bag, marvels
I'm the way Of souvenirs and favors and,
last Of all, a banquet in splendid state
served down in the banquet room, were
some of the features he pBoyided for the
entertainment Of his foster nieces and
nephews and the grandmothers. and In
return, at the close Of the party, his health
was sung by the little folks, as a surprise,
and he was presented a diamond studded
charm in token OF their love"
Mr. Meyer has long been identified with
the wesH and was for many years
familiar figure on the frontier. The Indians
knew him. as well as the whites in those
DAYS. and his fund OF "reminiscences is
always drawn on by his nephswS and
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