Omaha daily bee., 1908-05-03

dentally, he is Immediately confronted by
police officer, who has been furnished with
a list Of all who are entitled 10 enter the
banking rooms after hours or on holidays.
Private Watchmen Watched.
More than 100 watchmen in Omaha
wholesale houses, retail stores and factories
ars kept awake every night by the business
like report system. and if anything happens
TO a watchman and he fails to report at the
stations in the building, trouble ensues,
and there will soon be an officer knocking
at the door of the factory or entering with
a pass key and waking the thoughtless
watcher.
All over the big buildings, on each end
Of every floor, there are stations" In
some stores ii is necessary for a watchman
10 ring up at station every fifteen min
utes He must do this in rotation, requiring
that ne 90 from one station 10 another all
night long, and giving notice when he
ceases his rounds for half an hour in the
middle of the night. 10 eat lunch and
drink a cup of coffee. In other houses a
half hour ring Up" is required. Should
burglars enter a store thus protected, il
would be necessary for them TO keep ring
ing up al the stations in all parts Of the
loot" together or they would have the
entire emergency force at the police station
calling TO awake or release ehloroformed
watohman. Buildings patroled by watch
men who report by electricity could not
have very bad fires. Besides the automatic
sprinklers, the watchman must pass the
points in the building so often that fire
could not get much headway.
u mnrh the
same as tie watchman system, every
patrolman ringing in al intervals OF half
an hour. the report going TO the central
office Of the Nebraska Telephone company,
which has The contract for keeping cleo
trical tab on the police. The telephone
company notifies the headquarters if an
officer fails 10 report OF If he reports from
The wrong box" al The wrong time
Telephone as an Alarm Clock.
The telephone company has a system
which threatens the manufacturers OF alarm
clocks IL is obliging TO subscribers, and,
if a pairoh comes home al an early hour
and stin wants 10 get out Of bed in the
morning he may have q telephone girl call
him. Ask information TO put your number
/ in the : o'clock column. where she probably
has a score. Promptly al s o'clock by the
/ regulator over her desk. she connects the
5 O'Clock risers with the switch board and
at the touch Of her finger 10 q button she
starts a score Of patrons 10 saying unholy
things as they feel their whiskers grow
and wish they had never given the order
/ 10 be called 80 early The calling OF pat
rons al O'Clock in the morning is a thank
/ less Job which the telephone company has
undertaken, but which is a great conven-
ieEsce. There iz a record al one central
office where a subscriber was called early
al his request and he thanked the operator
when he answered. All others groWI out a
| We'll"
] Never has the telephone been put TO 50
many uses in the business world as within
| the past three years. Some entire lines OF
railroad are now operated b. telephone, but
perhaps the greatest oonvenienoes is ths
/ house telephone"
Uses of the Telephone.
Arriving in Omaha ana going 10 one OF
the hotels, guest is assigned 70 a room and