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

1t has $500 X. w capacity and no
dangerous currents reach tho switchboard
the heavy leads first running direct to
separate freproof building before they are
distributed
The company spent $500 in extending
its underground district to include the
territory lying between Eighth and Thir-
teenth streets from Howard 10 Leaven-
worth and from Eighth to Eighteenth be-
tween Howard and jackson streets In the
same period S75,0O was expended in over
head limo improvements and extensions
The royalty OF 3 per cent on the gross
business. less city lighting, which the
! company pays to the municipality. guages
its increase Of business. In 1909 this
royalty amounted to s5,6S390 in 1903 to
So 22io5, in 1904 to s7.OSl IS and in 1905 (esti-
! mated 5000
Downtown the old overhead suspension
system Of swinging arc lamps has been
abandoned and ornamental iron corner
poles installed. the number Of lamps being
doubled Outside of the business district
something like 100 new arc lamps have been
placed on the streets. One of the pro-
nounced features in the lighting business
during the last two years is the large in
crease in electric signs. there being scores
Of these signs in operation now where there
was ono before
The officers OF the Omaha Electric Light
and Power company are: President f. A
Nash; vice president, c. Z. Clafin: secre-
tary and treasurer, +. Il. SchweitEer: gem
eral manager. II. A. Holdrese: superintend-
ent, George Keebler; purchasing agent, w.
B. Whitehorn; contracting agent. l. d.
zimman; cashier. c. W. Drew; head book
keeper. IL L. Martin.
Street Railway Company.
The close of 1906 finds the Omaha & Coun-
Gil Bluffs Street Railway company doing at
least Is per cent more business than two
years before, with e1a more miles of track
and forty more cars in service, together
with fine new central power station. two
new car barns and one new central repair
station. The heavy investments repre-
scented indicate the additional reuuirements
OF rapidly growing city. On every i'm
portant line in town the service mas been
increased and special provisions made for
caring for crowds during the rush hours.
For the last three years traffic has in
creased at the rate of S per cent over the
preceding year The rapid accession of
business caused the company to build and
equip what is said to be the most madam
ana improved electric power station in the
west. 1t is located at Fifth and Jones
streets and has a 5000 X w canacitv
BESIDES this, large new brick car barns
were quilt at Twenty-fourth and Vinton I'm
Omaha and at Twenty-eighth street and
Avenue A. Council Bluffs. In 1905 largo new
repair shops were built at Twenty-sixtb
ana Lake streets. where all the repairs and
construction to rolling stock will be made.
Extensions of track includes Florence.
three and one-half miles; from Dominican
e'leet 10 missouri avenue, one and one-half
Ihiles' anording a second route to South
Omaha; from Sixth and Pierce to Sixth and
center streets, one-half mile, and q ona
mile spur from the Florence line to Forest
Lawn cemetery. The out-of-door worl, in
Guided the reconstruction of thirty ro,Ios
or track, the larger part of II being tho
Doose street line, which was not only
given a modern roadbed, but had old and
obsolete cars discarded. Forty miles ~
heaVy copper feed cable wires were str,1ng
and the entire overhead line OF the system
EQUIPPED with lightning arresters
bur1ng the period the company boupht
iorty new open cars of standard TYNE and
eighty new closed cars, half OF these Of
the large double truck variety. For 1906
Ten more open cars are being manufactured.
proposed 1905 track extensions include the
me 70 Fort Crook through Bellevue, six
miles. and the extension Of the Dodge
street line on Thirtieth street from Bristol
to Spaulding streets
The officers of the Omaha g. Council
BLUFFS Street Railway company are: Presi.
dent, Guy C. Barton; vice president n
W. Wattles; second vice president, M. s
Hopkins: secretary r. A. IeussIar. troa,
urer and general manager, w. A smitb
general superintendent, F. A. Tucker
Omaha Water Company.
me year 1906 was the biggest twelve
months In the history of the business ~
the Omaha Water company and that of
1911 next to 1t, despite the fact that nend-
ing appraisement proceedings to municinal-
ize tho plant and litigation ensuing nre-
vented the installation of many hydrants
ana the extension Of many miles of mains
IN l9t5 the number OF patrons of the
company increased about per cent over
the preceding year, when the ratio of gain
had been almost as great. In 1904 about
Lour miles OF new mains were put in in
oilahd ana torty new fire MIGRANTS in
stailed' Al the beginning of last year the
company adopted the policy Of refusing
- f'~ ~ my hIOIe HSuTdntS or mains
unless paid for privately. during the con-
tinuance of the appraisement proceedings
Up to June l. 1906 there were more than
200 unsatisiied demands for new hvdrants
meaning $1,000 feet of new mains and from
loo to 1000 new patrons. At the same
time Loo new patrons were placed on tho
corporations books in 1905 and about a0O
in 1904
AT the present time the water connany
has lsS miles of mains in Omaha, 35 miles
in South Omaha, 9 in Florence. 3 in Dun
zee ana : In East Omaha, total of DO
miles The daily pumping capacity IS fig
ured at 100000 gallons and the total res
ervoir capacity at 100000 gallons. In
Guiding the settling basins at the Florence
pumping station. which have an aggregate
capacity Of 100000 gallons. In Omaha
l537 fire hydrants are installed and ready
for use.
The officers OF the Omaha Water COM
pany are: President. Theodore c. Wood
bury; general manager +. NJ. Fairfield su-
perintendent, A r. Hunt chief engineer.
Henry Rustin; treasurer, Stockton Heth.
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