Omaha daily bee., 1910-05-09
Alice M. Owen Center of Attraction
Because Of Typewriter Skill.
SEEK STANDARD APPLIANCES
Uncle Sam After Schemes to Cut Down
Expenses of Operation.
UNIQUE MONUMENT Is PLANNED
Memorial TO the Quaint, old southern
"MHmmy" south by Suutherners
Who Have RecoIIection-
of Creole Days,
CF-rom a staff Correspondentl y

CF'rom staff CORES spondent)
! WASHINGTON May S.-lSpecisl dur
| ing the last week there has been an erhi.
btion in the Treasury department OF labor
| saving devices FOR office use. which is at
| tracing the attention Of practically all
bureau chiefs, chiefs Of divisions and
heads of departments in the capital. This
| exhibition will Undoubtedly result in the
| Standardization of appliances used for re-
ducing the labor cost of government work
| 1t is remarkable to see as TO what extent
! interest was developed, not only by the
| officials. but by all the clerks of the
| Treasury department The exhibit was
| under the direct supervision OF W. NJ.
Geddes who has been in charge Of the
| government booths in the exhibitions in
| Philadelphia, Omaha. Buffalo, St Louis
and other cities during the last decade.
The exhibit included desks, tables and
| filing devices in steel (Which, by the way,
is being substituted for wood at the rate
of hundreds OF thousands Of dollars worth
year in all the government Departmental,
adding machines, addressing machines.
duplicating devices various and wonder
| fully constructed typewriters and In fact
everything that goes to reduce the cost Of
| office expenses in governmental as well
as commercial business
! one OF the most attractive features OF
| the exhibit was the wonderful work of
young woman from Omaha, who operated
a typewriter without letters on the keys
and without glancing at the machine it,
! self. This young woman Miss Alice NJ.
owen, was graduated from business col
| lege in Omaha two or three years ago and
| for five hours every day operated this
| nonmarked typewriter and produced copy
| at the rate Of 100 to 1ao words a minute
| without a single error This western girl
opened the eyes of the eastern typewriters
and during the hours when the operators
| from the departments were permitted to
visit the exhibit the SMITH Premier which
she operated was watched by hundreds
eager to see this most wonderful perform
| ance
The office appliances exhibit promises TO
| become an annual feature and is a natural
outcome of the purpose Of the government
to standardize appliances used as well as
| the method of purchasing them.
Tribute TO southern "Mammy.''
There is a movement on foot among tho
people Of the south to erect a memorial
to the southern Nanny" Few people
north of the Mason and Dixon line know
anything about this rapidly departing
species of the American negro. But there
lis scarcely a southern man or woman
who has passed the half century mark
who has not a way down IN his or her
heart a feeling of love and veneraton for
the old time nanny who nursed them
through their childhood and who was to
them an affectionate loving mother.
| The abolition of slavery scattered the
negroes from the plantations Of the south
and the relationship which existed between
master and slave exists no longer be-
tween master and servant. The coored
servant Of today seldom STAYS in one place
long and while there are exceptional cases
wherein Aunt Cloe has served nurse
down TO the youngest Of the last gen
Grafton, 1t is more often that one finds q
new one installed at the cradle with the
appearance of each addition to the family,
There was no mora affection ever ex
hibited by one human towards another
than was displayed by old nanny towards
the babies whom she nursed codded and
fused over and as they grew up she pun
shed them for their faults with Just as
much vigor as she spanked her own
youngsters.
1t is because OF this feeling OF veneration
towards this type that is 50 nearly extinct
that It is proposed by the southern women.
backed by the southern men, to testify
TO the affection which existed by the
erection Of some great memorial, which
will probably take the form OF monu-
ment that will not have to be explained
but win he a patent and forceful indication
OF the repeated truth that IN the south
the household negro and especially old
Nanny was venerated ana esteemed b.
IThe master.
I Makes Plea for Ni'hh.
party Of rugged men whose business in.
terest lies IN that faraway territory, and
all winter they are engaged m what has
been, up to date a vain attempt to secure
Legislation looking TO the development OF
the interests OF Alaska. Many Of these
men have schemes for making themselves
and their associates rich, others simply
want congress to create somcN form OF
government for the territory which will
insure stability, extend to the citizens =
measure. at least Of home Ioho, Others
beg for changes in The mining laws, which
will enable thcm to develop their holding
TO better advantage than they can under
existing conditions
But there is one man who makes his APP
pcarauce in Washington every winter Who
has no personal axes to grind. Tie is Ma
ior W p. Richardson. who has the physique
of a Sampson. the fighting qualities OF An
drew Jackson the brain OF Solon aud
the good nature OF 81. Nicholas. Richard
son for years has been stationed in tho far
north building trails and highways under
the authority OF the War department. He
has accomplished more in the matter ot
making travel possible in Alaska in re
last five years than some HIGHWAY com
missioners have succeeded ia doing In hall
! a century.
The highways pf Alaska are not %
course, up to the standard as scy hs Franc
and Belgium The trails are what the
claim 10 be, simply pathways which can
be travelled by hors,,. mules or mon. But
" one could imagine the vastness VI ths