Omaha daily bee., 1906-06-11
Mrs or wAsHINcroN LIRE.
MiRor scenes and incidents sketehed
on the spot.

Mtn0r Scenes and incidents sketched |
on the spOt.
Charles p. Nelu and James Bronson Rey-
nolds joint authors OF the report on pacS-
ing house conditions IN Chicago. have
lssped into the limelEht so suddenly that
few people know whence they sprung.
few facts about them will be Of interest.
Mr.. NELL is the United States commits
sioner Of labor. holdius the position for
many years filled by Colonel Carroll u.
Wright at whose instance in considerable
part DR. Nein was selected. He Is Al years
old. was educated at several institutions
including Johns Hopkins from which he
received the degree Of doctor Of philosophy
He served as professor OF political science
at the Catholic university in Washington
for eight years and while thus engaged
was employed as assistant recorder OF the
Anthracite Strike commission and after
ward as recorder OF the arbitration board
which II created. He has been prominent
in the charitable and philanthropic work
OF the national capital. and long identihed
with the Associated Charities. He Is an
independent republican, although his ap-
pointment was in no sense political. He Is
regarded by those who know him as a.
strong and clear-headed investigator.
James Bronson Reynolds his associate,
il a New Yorker. Is years old is gradu-
ate of Yale and the Yale Divinity school
but is chiefly known in connection with his
work on the committee of seventy In the
mayoralty campaign OF 1893 and by his
Craftsmanship OF the executive committee
of the Citizens union In 1897. when an uh-
successful attempt was made to elect seth
Low, whose secretary he eventually be
came on Mayor Lows success in 1901. MT
Reynolds is a university settlement worker
and an expert in sociological lines.
Secretary Wilson disagrees with those
who say that the eleventh commandment
is TO mind your own business The other
day the secretary was out at dinner with
a number Of friends. During the CONVEX
sation he let slip something which proved
TO he mighty embs rrassing to the secretary.
The next day he had occasion to reprimand
a subordinate who had also let go OF some
thing that was to be considered az con-
fidential.
The subordinate wondered what the elev-
enth commandment was. He hadn't even
heard the version that 1t was about mind
ing your own business. So the secretary
wrote II out for him:
Keep your mouth shut"
The house was voting on the motion to
go into committee Of the whole and John
Sharp Williams was continuing his gentle,
summer-day flibuster. There were perhaps
100 members present. about half a quorum
williams demanded a division and the
yeas stood up to be counted. With
| rand sweep Of the gavel around the re-
publican side Uncle Joe went through the
| motion Of counting. "One hundred ana
forty-one in the Affirmative" he declared.
Hes worse than Tom Reed" said a laugh
fling democrat who was looking on. from
! the gallery. reed used 10 count the hats
| IN the cloakroom. but Uncle Joe can
imagine hats to count"
Rubber heels at the expense OF the ianh-
| lords or nat jewellers is the latest innova-
| ton Of renting agents in washington
There II a clause in the more recent leases
~ APARTMENTS that every member OF, the
| family must wear rubber heels on shoes
while IN the apartment. The innovation Is
for the purpose Of securing some manner NJ
ouiet in the crowded apartment houses. In
apartment houses where go-carts are per-
4 mitted it is specified that the wheels must
be equipped with rubber tires.
On moving in tenants are sent to nearby
| shoemaker who has a contract with the
Landlord to equip their shoes with the noise-
less heels. and, consequently, there Is never
any complaint OF 'the racket overhead"
Agents say few tenants make any objection
to the rubber heel clause.
Bandmaster Sousa appeared before the
Joint committee on patents of the senate
the other day and talked strongly for re-
strictions on piratioal talking machine men
who appropriate his compositions without
paying for them.
Every one OF these concerns" said Mr..
Sousa, referring to the manufacture Of
talking machines 'has from twenty to
one hundred OF my compositions in its
catalogues and I have yet to receive the
first cent for their reproduction. I want
this money.
81 was born in this city I am so years
old When was boy here the young
people sat on their steps and porches in
the evening and sang the old songs and
the new ones, II you walk down a Wash
ington street in the evening you will not
hear these young voices. You will hear
these Internal machines-these talking ma
chimes.
Last summer I was in one OF the IA
nous summer resorts, where were eonEre-
gated the SWEETEST yachts OF the country.
I went among them. and in place OF the
usual songs of the water in the evening
what did hear? FL Captain on the talk
ing machine
81 tell you the human vocal cords are
going into decay and the talking machine
is taking their place.
why, these machine managers will pay
Caruso 5000 to sing one song for them as
a record. They will pay one Of my best
cornet players 81 tune for them. That
shows the value OF the human voice. And
yet the composer OF the song or OF the
piece does not get cent for his compost
J ton.
Senator Reed smoot ventured the suE-
! gestiOn that from his observation the peo-
pie were not living as close TO nature as
they used to do and were forgetting to
/ sing.
: "oh, that's not IT," retorted Mr.. souss
= It's the talking machine"
A provision in the new bill advocated by
Mr.. Sousa will meet the complaint he
makes. 1t requires the consent OF tbs
, composer before a record may be mad,
for mechanical production.
? Just after the house had convened tn,
I other day a number OF members were strv
a ing TO catch the speakers eye when Mr.