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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-10

exchange those for electric vehicles. They
will next require garage OF their own,
and think it will be but a step after that
TO get them to garage vehicles publicly
But not to take too much time and with
the possibility in mind of saying something
familiar to most OF you here, / will Just
cite the Philadelphia Electric Light com
pany. They have gone into this thing ex-
tensively. They have garages for their own
vehicles of which they have twenty-four,
and they are planning to build two more
shortly, and they are willing to take vehi-
cles from the public.
The New York Edison company of New
York, who, 1 understand, have fifty vehi-
cles, and have contracted for about twenty
five more, are very materially going to
enlarge their garage. Their policy is gen.
orally different from that of the Philadel-
phia company. They wish to retail their
current through Jobbers and to encourage
the dealers to establish electric garages.
In Chicago / believe, the experiment has
been tried both ways and is up now for
consideration.
I'm Pittsburg the Allegheny Electric
Light company has gone into the question
very thoroughly and the probability is that
they will establish a large central garage.
st. Louis is alive to the situation and the
Union Gas and Electric Light company
have built large garage. going into 1t very
extensively And so 1 might cite them all
over the country, some large and some
small, where this movement is very great
Era of Electric Vehicles.
81 believe in my heart that there is abso-
lutely nothing TO stay the era of electric
vehicles and its immediate contamination
except a wave OF public interest. Now. we
go back 20 the gasolene car Of seven years
ago. even ive years ago, and the salesman
will go out and try 20 sell II, and the man
would say; am going 10 wait and try to
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-10
fBRANG!!nl!Eg !SRts

II lifts It from an absolute blank PROPOSE
ton to definite one. Now, think this
is especially the province of an association
of this kind; in fact, l consider that 1t is
one of their great opportunities. think 1t
is a thing which, II this association did not
do anything else, would be important
enough for them to accomplish-the fur
nishing of information to the central light
ing companies as to what the electric
vehicle will be to them as customer.
Just think; IT does not come for a small
amount of current, but for a large one,
considerable amount of current and 1t
comes easily as compared with all the cleo
trio apparatus that they are trying to sell
in a retail way; why It is as a mountain TO
q mole hill. You can see Immediately the
advantage to a salesman. l am speaking
now as though you were all manufacturers
and none Of you were on the road But
what an advantage TO be able to say to
man: Why, yes; we will provide you cur
rent at cents a kilowatt. You can get it
right in your own factory.
Advantages over Gasoline.
"Of course one of the advantages over
gasoline is that they can keep electric vehi-
Giles in their factory without affecting in
surance, and on that account many new
factories and warehouses which are being
built have enclosed shipping platforms, and
they have plugs under these platforms
where the wagons are charged while they
are waiting TO be loaded. Now, trying TO
do anything individually. we are at once
under suspicion; grinding our axe at the
other fellows expense; but this association
can take up the matter as an association
and get a hearing from those central cleo
trio light companies which will be most
gratifying and l could go a step further
and say that a great many Of these electric
companies have horse stall vehicles. Most
of them have, and they can be induced TO
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-10
fBRANl!nll!E 2!SSts

at the present time those electric com
panies have got high lighting peak, a
rising load from the afternoon on, and
they are absolutely ignorant-I say abso-
lutely ignorant, the, majority of them-as
to any market for their night load They
are spending a great deal of money adver-
Using, promoting and disseminating In
formation as to the uses of electric current
in the daytime They are spending thou
sands OF dollars, many of them promoting
the electric heating iron, curling iron, mas
sage iron, so as to sell their current In the
daytime, but from midnight until s o'clock
they have practically dead line, and the
few authorities l have talked with on the
subject have been surprised to know there
was sale for it at all.
Vehicles Afford Market.
Now the reason that electric currents
are so high is because they have got TO
average up on the twenty-four hours, and
when l presented to them the idea that
they could find a market for the current
between midnight and s o'clock for the
charging of electric vehicles. received a
most agreeable welcome. . sue
ceeded in getting them to name in the
place of - cents for light and s and 10
cents for power. price reduced to as low
as 6, and In some cases as low as and 4,
and in one cents, and in getting them to
waive their minimum charge rate and make
a nat rate Of 8 cents for charging electric
vehicles during these hours. Now, that
enables a salesman to go right out, and he
can tell you how TO take care OF your
electric vehicle. II you will charge It be-
tween those hours you can get II at
cents a kilowatt. and We can sit right
Gown and tell you how much it will cost
The other items We all know.
1T makes the proposition very attractive
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-10
POWER FOR ELECTRIC AUTOS
Cost Of Current Nesdlessly High in Many
Large Cities.
HOW TWO CLERKS MADE EASY MONEY
Lighting Companies Do Not Realize
the Possibilities of the Demand
for Their Surplus Product
to Charge Vehicles.
HOW TWO CLERKS MADE EASY MONEY

without any doubt the greatest stumbling
block In the path of the electric vehicle
of the present day-both pleasure and bust
ness types-is either the cost or the diffi-
Guilty of obtaining current with which 10
charge the batteries. Even in localities
where there are electric lighting power
house handy II is very frequently prae-
tically impossible TO secure current gen
orally owing TO the reluctance of the officers
of such companies 20 embark in what they
term "side line"
II the ease with which batteries OF electric
vehicles may be charged were but Inn
pressed upon many OF the officers OF light
ing companies all over the country IL would
not only result I'm an increased use OF these
clean. neat. quiet and serviceable ma
chimes. but Il would have a tendency to
lower the cost OF maintenance OF those
already in operation. This subject was
treated very fully by James Macnaughton
a consulting engineer OF Buffalo, IN a paper
read at a recent meeting Of the Association
OF Electric Vehicle Manufacturers In this
city. His remarks were In part ae follows:
ia u no hardship at all 70 SO out and
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-10

introduce electric vehicles. 1t does not
take long to prove that they are as much
superior TO horsepower wagons as the
tram-cars to the horse cars and the electric
light TO the candle. We can enthuse
man in short order without experimenting
with the idea that it is simple piece of
mechanism and that he needs 1t. But the
problem which he throws at us and the
one which we must grapple with is the
question OF how and at what expense will
his vehicle be maintained.
Battery the Problem.
LAS far as the vehicle alone Is concerned,
IL Is a comparatively simple matter to en-
list first the interest, and then the sym
pathy OF the intended customer by proving
the mechanical simplicity and theoretical
efficiency OF the system, and by compar-
ing It and its working with the working
OF the same service by horse drawn
vehicles. What the practical and inexperi-
enced man wants 10 know is not that, how
ever. but rather how he is to care for the
vehicle once he has got It. Its operation
and its purely mechanical upkeep, is COM
paratively simple. But the charging prob
lem and the battery maintenance problem
are beyond the ken of the average In
dividual Of non-technical pursuits. Most OF
all, the exceedingly high cost Of current
In many localities and the fact that the
producing companies are willing 20 make
no reduction over their regular service
rates for the charging current, increase
the local cost 20 totally disproportionate
figures, In many cases.
I'VE may visit city after city OF i'm
portance and not find an electric garage.
We may suggest various schemes OF an
improvised nature, all OF which are ex-
pensive. but there is in every city ana In
every large town an electric light and
power company, who have a product for
sale. and that product Ii electricity. Now
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-10

men in regard to the requirements OF the
electric vehicle is amusing" said Mr.. Rice.
They do not know the rate OF charge OF
various batteries, they apparently have
never read such thing as the instruction
book OF the battery companies, they do not
know how much current a vehicle takes,
they do not know what to charge for Il
and as a rule, they seem TO think that the
electric carriage user il simply a man to
be borne with because he, perhaps, has
some influence with them from the pur-
chases Of current for other purposes.
but occasionally we md a city where
the central station makes itself known by
waking up to the possibilities of the sale
of current. and / can cite one little case,
that OF the town OF Rockford, ILL.,, where
there are sixty or seventy electric vehicles
there may be hundred now, and none OF
them are charged in a garage. There Is
not garage In the place-at least was MOI
which made a business Of charging st1a
age batteries. But a couple Of young men
In the electric company who had reached
about the limit Of their salaries in that city
for the work they were doing. for they
were ambitious, asked their employer II
they could sell electric vehicles. and they
were given permission to sell vehicles on
the side. and incidentally 10 get customers
for the current
'As understand It, in the sale OF these
vehicles he keeps a card index, and II a car
is not brought TO him In two weeks he
sends postal and requests II 10 be brought
In. Every two weeks is sufficient He
looks at the battery and cleans II II neces-
sary and notifiss the customer when It Is
necessary 20 clean II again, and II II Is
necessary 10 clean II. then the cell is cut
out and the work is done. Now those GUS
toners are getting their current for an
average Of 81 a month; In other words. an
average per year OF s4s and they run their
carriages all they want. too"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-08-08
The Pure Food Roll of Honor

"Good Housekeeping, well
known household national magazine
voluntarily made.a thorough examina-
ton and test of None-Such Mince
Meat, and placed it without reserva-
ton upon its roll of honor.
In the March number Of Good
Housekeeping, in the'sdepartment of
''Pure Food Assurance, we find:
'None-S Such, Mince Meat, Merrill
Soule Co., Syracuse, a semi-moist
condensed compound of beef, apples,
spices, sugar, raisins, currants, boiled
cider. and salt, without other preserv-
atives or adulterants, no artificial
coloring, produced under conditions
as near to sanitary perfection as pos
sib1e.'
This guarantee, which could not be
bought at any price, ought TO satisfy
the most particular housewife. The
sale of one million packages month
seems to prove the statement to BE
true. Your grocer sells None-Such.
Try it, and satisfy yourself. You are
the Que.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-08-08
Ohserved liz Animals.

A zoologist thus writes upon a point
IL which he claims that the lower an
finals set an example to many men,
says Chums:
'It has taken human beings many
hundreds Of years to acquire habits Of
neatness and cleanliness, whereas the
animals have always possessed them.
From the time when they first made
their appearance on earth animals have
washed and combed and brushed them.
selves with tongue, claws and tail.
Many of them grow wretched and lam
guish If deprived of any opportunity
of taking a cold bath. AS for the apes,
they are such sticklers for cleanliness
that they expel any member Of the
tribe who shows a disposition to shirk
his duties in this respect. Even the
insects show a scrupulous regard for
neatness, as anybody who has watched
a fly brushing itself with it's feet, for
instance, will readily admit"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-08-08
Euvino Cooked Food.

In France it is a common thing for
the wife to be out at work as we'll as
the husband. From this circumstance,
10 doubt, have developed the facilities
that country affords for obtaining
ready cooked food outside the home.
Whole meals can be purchased outside,
and they are very good meals too. A
whole fowl or a half one or a smaller
portion can be bought hot or cold from
the rotissier. Soups and salads can be
bought in the same way, and in shops
where eggs are sold there is always a
basket Of red eggs as well as white
ones, the red color being used to indi-
cate that the eggs are cooked. All
these things are sold at prices within
the reach Of ALL" and in many homes
scarcely any attempt is made to do
cooking.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-08-08
HAVE INTERESTING SESSION

Kenosha County Medical Society Holds
Regular Meeting Friday Evening
The Kenosha County Medical So
ciety held its regular monthly meet
ing on Friday night at the Office of
DR.. H. ]. Stalker. A large number of
the members of the association were
present and interesting papers were
read by Doctors Kimbal1 and Saun-
ders. Dr.. G. Windeshe;n conducted
a very interesting clinic.
One of the most interesting cases
ever brought before the doctors was
submitted at this meeting in the ma
ture of patient who had become
stone blind through taking an excess
Of quinine. The man, who was pres
ent at the meeting last night, had
taken total of a hundred and ten
grains of the drug in seven hours
while suffering from acute pneu-
monia. The medicine was given to
save the life of the man and it left
him blind. He is slowly recovering
his health under the care of one of the
Kenosha physicians. The case is re-
garded as one of the most remarka BILE
on record.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-08-08
GIRL TAPPED TILL
Josephine KeWeneg, Eleven Years
Of Age, Arrested by Police
on a Serious Charge
FIND MONEY IN HER STOCKING

One of the most unusual cases in
the annals of the Police Department
was discovered on Thursday after
noon, when Josephine Keweneg, an
II year old girl, was arrested by Po-
lice Officer Bradley on charge Of
robbing the cash drawer of the Nohl-
ing, Hedstrom & Jorgensen shoe store
on Wisconsin street. It is alleged
that the child walked into the store
and asking the proprietor to look for
some work, which was supposed 70 b
IN the repair shop, she opened the
money drawer and took a small
amount of money. On the previous
day the store had been robbed of a
larger amount of money and the same
child had been about the store, and
for this reason she is thought to be
responsible for both Iobberies.
When the little girl was taken into
custody by the police officer she show
ed no emotion but protesting that she
was innocent of any wrong doing she
was taken to the police Office. She
had half dollar in her hand which
she declared had been given to her by
her mother. Later the police dis
covered that the mother had not given
the child any money and she was taken
into the sweat box. For whole hour
she faced the ordeal laid out for her
by the officers and declared that she
had not taken the money. Finally the
police discovered some money in her
stocking and when the child was ask
ed to take off her shoe she broke down
and admitted that she had taken the
money on Thursday but refused to
admit taking money on the former oc-
casion. On account Of the age of the
child she was released and her par
ents will be asked to take care Of her
The child proved study for the police
officers by the way she stood the
strong questioning which usually
breaks down the most hardened
criminal in d half hour.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-08-08
BeIuiun1 Blows It's Horn.

Belgium, like many continental coun-
tries, has its national board of adver-
Using The state. owning, as. it does,
the railways, must do everything in its
power to increase the passenger traffic,
and so England and the adjacent coun-
tries are extensively placarded with
posters showing Belgium's beauty ane
pleasure spots The principal attrae
tons are Ostend and its casino, and the
pictorial records of this resort have
adorned the boardings Of England for
many years past.-London Graphic
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-08-08
GRAVITATlON.
It's Wonderful and Far Reaching Ef-
fects Upon the World.

The effects of grayitation are so IA
mfliar as to demand only the briefest
mention, YET most of US perhaps sci
dom stop to consider how far reaching
these effects are says DR.. Henry
Smith Williams. but for grayitation
the winds would not blow. the waters
would not descend and the mountain
tops would not crumble into the val
leys. Each particle Of pulyerized rock
would remain where it was formed,
and there would be no such thing as
mixed soil.
But as matters are actually arrang-
ed grayitation is perpetually active,
and every particle Of matter is being
eternally tugged at and urged to get
nearer to the earth's center. So no
sooner does a fragment Of rock at
mountain crest become loosened than
gravitation hurls it crashing down into
the valley. SCATTERING it into frag-
ments perhaps or at the least grinding
off some portions of it's surface Is
well as of the surface of the rocks
against which it is dashed.
by such means and with the fur
Their aid Of it's handmaidens, wind and
water, gravitation works it's unceasing
purpose Of leveling the surface Of the
earth. In a few brief geological mo-
ments it rounds the shoulders of the
haughtiest mountain, and, given time
enough, it will bring every particle Of
rock back to the sea bed, whence it
originally sprang. Short Of that, as a
transition stage, it is forever mixing
the different soil constituents on tie
one hand and sorting them out again.
on the other" -Appleton's.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-08-08
The LohstAr,s She'll

Perhaps most boys and girls have
heard of the young housekeeper that
refused to buy some Holsters in the
market because they were not red.
When the dealer told her that they
were just out of the water, she said
that might be true, but it was the red
kind she wanted. 1t should not be
necessary to point out the joke to the
boys and girls, for they know, Of
course, that the red color Of the lobster
Is produced by boiling, but do they
know why it turns red? If they will
notice the shell Of a fresh lobster close
~, they will see that it shows the min
Cling Of two pigments, red and blue.
Now, when the lobster is plunged into
hot water the blue pigment fades out
and the red remains. That is the
whole story.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-08-08
Bradley's Heirs to Get Money.

Cleveland, O., Aug. 2.-After years
OF litigation the estate of Alva Brad
ley, valued at about $5,OO0,OOO, was
divided equally among each of tel
heirs. Alva Bradley, who was a
wealthy vessel and real estate owner
died over twenty years ago and left
his estate in trust for twenty years
before it was to be divided.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-08-08
.FoRBIDs voLIvA TO MOVE TENT
Receiver Says Meetings Under Tent are
Forbidden Within Limits of Zion

Receiver Says Meetings Under Tent are
Forbidden Within Limits of Zion
Receiver John G. Hatley has warned
Voliva that an attempt to move his
tent to site within the city limits of
Zion will be stopped, and that the or
dinance prohibiting the holding of
the tent religious meetings in the
city and the stipulation to that effect
between Voliva and the receiver must
be observed.
Voliva has been holding meetings
just outside the city limits, but has
announced his intention Of moving
his tent to a central location inside
the city.
A new publication called "The Lit
tie White Dove" and edited by III. T..
Burnett in the interest of the ''Dowie
faction" has made it's appearance at
Zion.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-08-08
FINE SPIDER THREADS.
Cultivated Especially For the Use of
Astronomers.

Astronomers.
The cultivation of certain species of
spiders solely for the fine threads
which they weave for scientific uses
has an important bearing upon astron
omy.
No substitute for the spiders thread
has ye been found for bisecting the
screw of the micrometer used for de-
termining the positions and motions Of
the stars. Not only because of the re-
markable fineness of the threads are
they valuable, but because of their
durable qualities.
The threads of certain spiders raised
for astronomical purposes withstand
changes in temperatures, SO that often
in measuring sun spots they are unin-
jured when the heat is SO great that
the lenses of the micrometer eyepiece
are cracked.
These spider lines are only one fifth
to one-seventh of a thousandth of an
inch in diameter, compared with which
the threads Of the silkworm are large
and clumsy.
Each line is made up of several thou
sands of microscopic streams of fluid.
Under the most powerful magnifying
glass they appear true and round.
The work Of placing these lines in
the micrometer requires the delicate
touch of experts, who operate with the
aid Of microscopes which magnify the
line thousand times. The lines are
placed parallel with each other and
two one-thousandths of an inch apart
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