Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-11
AFFAIRS At SOUTH OMAHA
Armour G. Co. Installing Automatic
Stokers in Power Plant
NO HANDLING OF FUEL BY HAND
Theodore Te Peel Brings Another
injunction suit over the Paving
Contract on East q
street.

Armour g. co. are quietly making an eN
tel sive Improvement in the furnace rooms
" their big South Omaha plant by con-
structing automatic stckers for the battery
Of boilers. a full automatic equipment fer
unloading coal and for conveying the ashes.
This Improvement will be completed about
May 1 II the present plans Of the manage
ment arc carried out.
Armour & Co. have the largest battery
Of boilers Of any plant in the city and the
change means an Improvement of great
Importance. 1t is in line with the efforts
Of all the companies engaged in the pack
ing industry to bring the plants up to
date. The work will be pushed as fast
as the requirements Of the plant will per
nit. The fire will be drawn under a few
Of the boilers while the automatic CRATES
are put in and then the process will be
repeated with others until the whole bat
terry is complete. There are twelve large
boilers, with double feedirg doors, requir-
ing the work Of about fifty or more stok-
ers. With the new improvement this num-
Der will be much reduced. The saving Of
labor is not the least important item, but
the saving in fuel is considerable.
The Omaha Packing company has the
| only OtneT auIOilihiiC SlohNl III At ~
The fact that the smoke from that stack
is always a clear, pale blue. often al
most invisible, has called forth many
by visitors. This is due to
thorough consumption OF coal.
The mechanism for unloading the coal
from the cars direct Is quite as ingenious
as the stoker. When the ashes are
dropped at the rear of the crate the
work of clearing the crate becomes at
once arduous and most important, for If
1t accumulates the CRATES will clog and
burn out quickly. Many men are re-
uuired to take care of the ashes. The
automatic contrivance does the work
completely. At the end the ashes are
dumped in the cars ready to be hauled
away.
Another Paving Injunction.
Theodore TIC Peel has brought q second
injunction against the paving of East q
street, or tina section between Twentieth
and Twenty-fourth This paving con-
tract was let to the National Construc-
ton company nearly q year ago. Dan
Harmon brought the first injunction to
prevent the execution Of the contract on
the ground that the same had not been
awarded properly to the lowest and best
bidder. The district court dissolved this
first injunction when brought to a hear
ing. The case was never heard on It's
merits. Theodore TIE Peel brought his
action Monday and will make a test OF
the suit to see If the council may aware
a contract with discretionary powers.
sunday schoo Normal Glass.
George G. Wallace, president of the Ne
braska Sabbath School association, viii
give an address and conduct a training
class Thursday evening at the YOUNG
1880. s,..,
His remark will be directed to the Soutt
Omaha Graded Union of Sunday Schools
which recently organized in South Omaha
After the address the Sunday school les
son for March IA will be presented enc
taught to the teachers of the elementary
grades by Mrs. George @. Wallace. Sh,
will instruct the beginners classes ant
endeavor to show new methods and way
of rousing interest. Mrs. p. NJ. Pritcl
will instruct the primary grade along tn,
same lines, Miss Lydia McCague will
instruct the juniors. The services o
these women have been secured througl
the kindness of Mrs. F. W. Stoddard
} secretary Of the Douglas County associa
tion. The teachers in all elementar.
grades are urged to be present at thu
: meeting. The teachers will be organize,
into convenient classes for the instruc
ton, which viii be exactly as the lead
; ers would present the subject to tn,
children.
Small Fire at SNvIft's.
A small fire resulting from a minor ex
plosion of chemicals occurred In the chemi
cal department of Swift and Company
packing plant yesterday afternoon. TIL
, blaze lasted only a few minutes. but 70
the time 1t lasted was costly as the chemi
calls and apparatus Of the department 1
valuable. The prompt response of the com
a pany department saved extensive damage
Magic City Gossip.
| Call Glynn Transfer for moving. Tel. So
= The funeral of Mrs. Mahala wier wa
conducted yesterday afternoon. The bod
was sent to Ottumwa, Ia, for burial.
Found pocketbook, South Twenty-eight
I street. Owner call at NJ. Anderson's store
Twentieth and II.
Thomas Barrowitz, 1913 r, reports tn
birth of a son. A daughter was born [
> Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Doake, Twenty-slxt
E and 2 streets.
I c.. F. Runey of the chemical department
2 OF the Cudnhy Packing company has gon
to Kansas City temporarily to establish
. chemical department there.
; The Live Stock Nsticnal bank is a tru
friend OF the farmer, merchant and wag
Garner of this community.