Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-12

have been taken aback to learn that de-
sirable rooms and suites are becoming
scarce in this neighborhood and that rents
have increased % per cent and in some
cases 80 per cent
This change in the state OF AFFAIRS has
been brought about solely by the fact that
, the custom house is to be finished within
short time. The opening of the custom
house will necessarily bring large amount
Of business to the neighborhood. Hence,
In accordance with the law of supply and
demand, renting space will soon be at
premium.
Lawrence GlIdersleeve. well known
young man at Huntington. L. l., whose
neck was broken four years ago, has just
been made attendance officer OF the Hunt
ington High school. He entered upon his
duties last week.
GildersieeVe's case is considered one OF
the most remarkable on record That he
lived at all believed to be a marvel.
He is now able to fish and hunt and drive
and enjoy other active sports usually re-
served for the strongest
| While Gildersleeve. with some other
| Huntington young men, on Thanksgiving
day, 1902. was playing foot fall at Mineola.
| fifteen men piled themselves upon him,
| and when they arose he lay limp and
! inert. He was taken to his home to die.
as his friends believed, for a doctor had
| pronounced his injury to be broken
I back
! DR.. William &. Gibson. the family ply
stefan, said the fractured vertebra might
cause death, but that the case would be
| fought to the end and he hoped TO save
the young man, whose physique was splen-
Ibid aftAr vaak the Oatiput Law upon
| a water bed, wasting away. unable to
move his head even the fractional part OF
an inch. Seven times he was believed to
! have succumbed TO what is known as
| false pneumonia.
! After three months of constant battle
! Gildersleeve began to mend. The broken
/ bone was knitting and he WAS gaining
strength Gradually the Improvement pro-
| ceeded. The lack of the active exercise
| to which he had been accustomed pre-
vented the patient from fully recovering
| his former strength but his improvement,
| once begun. was steady. Little by little
he took up his former exercise, and he
| can now safely undertake anything any
I other active young man of q can do. He
no longer has to hold himself with head
erect to avoid all possible strain upon
his neck. which IL now strong.
Street car passengers In New York are
! more patient IN a blockade caused by a
| FIRE than in any other kind of jam, ac-
cording to one conductor. II have seen a
whole carload get mad enough to bite be-
cause they were unable 20 hurry on their
way" he explained, but the minute the
word was passed along the line that
ia fire was holding them back thoy
frightened up wonderfully. Some folks
procession but they are generally the ones
up near the head OF the line. Nobody
seems to like weddings. One day last
week we ran into swell affair Of that
kind There were so many carriages in
front of the church. and 1t took long
| to unload the guests, that we waited for
ten minutes while an offlcer cleared the
way. Most OF my passengers were women
and had expected their tender hearts to
thrill with sympathy; on the contrary,
every last one Of them got hopping mad
because 1 didn't run down the whole
party"
An ingenious New Yorker has invented a
simple little tab forming a part OF the
pasteboard disk for milk bottles which
promises to yield him large fortune.
The simple device IL OF more practical
value than nine-tenths of the larger house
hold patents upon which thousands OF
dollars are annually expended. How many
forks hairpins, icepicks and screwdrivers
were ruined in a month before this tab
was discovered: how much material pa
thence was shattered By the trick the
little slabs of pasteboard developed OF
submerging themselves in the bottles?
Then some one bethinks himself or her
self of cutting out a stopper with a tab
on It, You pull the tab and the stopper
lifts out as good as pie. The inventor is
certainly public benefactor.
BY the amendment to the labor law regu-
Iating the employment of children en-
acted by the last legislature and taking
effect October /, no person under l6 may
be employed in any factory in the state
before s a. m. or after 1 D. M In New
York City the employment Of children
under Is is prohibited after p. m. in
any mercantile establishment business
once, telegraph office, restaurant, hotel
or apartment house. or in the distribution
of merchandise or messages. No child
under & and no woman may work in any
mine or quarry.
New York is to experience a complete
transformation OF its cab service within
the next week. One hundred autovehicles.
equipped with an ingenious device. which
registers automatically and in full view
of the passenger the number of miles
travelled and the amount due for time and
distance, will be placed in operation, and
will be the vanguard OF an army of revo-
luton which is to extend to every city
in the United States Not only will the
patron be protected against imposition
but the cab company itself will have a
registration of every cent collected and
every mile travelled. The "taxmeter' is
the name given TO the device, which is a
German invention.
solution for Two Problems.
J Baltimore American.