Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-12-24

/ boundaries, with the exception Of a short
stub line. AS a result OF municipal opera
ton the rates Of fare are said to be the
I lowest Of any street railway system in the
world. Financial results are equally graft
flying. The annual report for the year
ending March 81 last shows total Of
46,84i.59l passengers carried and receipts
OF S9goSS.G The operating expenses were
1921, 64Slo, leaving an operating profit OF
459 l1s.5A After deductlng various sums
Tor leases, income and other taxes and ex-
! tension fund, the net profit was S225 1873,
which was distributed among three funds
! sinking, depreciation and statutory re-
serve. Fare for ride Of limited length at
any time OF the day is cents up to S a.
m. a male passenger may ride the whole
length for cents and purchase a return
ticket for the same amount good at any
hour. This privilege is extended to female
passengers up to 9 a. m. Children under
"a years Of age ride at half fare at all
times. A feature Of striking Importance
detailed in the report is the plan for ex-
tension Of lines The authorities have
mapped comprehensive scheme of de-
Nelopment covering a period OF twenty
years, based on the probable growth Of the
city. The annual extension will approxi-
mate ten miles, and will continue year
after year until the system planned is
completed, giving all sections Of the city
fair and equal transportation, with no one
section favored at any time over the
other Authority for these extensions has
to be secured by act of Parliament. Bel
last is one Of the forty cities in the United
Kingdom demonstrating the success OF
municipal ownership OF street railways
Twenty-Five OF the forty pay over large
sums every year for reduction Of local
taxes, while eighteen absorb profits in
reduced fares. But there are fifty-four
other British cities in which municipal
lines have not been profitable. owing to
poor management and excessive cost Of
purchased power.
defensive movement in France against
the revolutionary policy Of trade unionism
represented by the General Confederation
Is growing apace. The other n ght a great
meeting was held in Paris under the aus
pices of the central committee of defense.
and was attended by 1900 employers OF
commercial, Industrial and agricultural
labor. Twenty-four important business as
sociations sent delegates Speeches were
delivered by NJ. Million, president Of the
Comite dAlimentation Parisienne NJ.
fUnion des Syndioats Patronaux des Indus
tries Textiles de France: NJ. de FontRaI-
laud, president Of the Union du sud-est des
Syndicats Agricoles, and NJ. Raymond Poin-
caire, ex-minister of finance. M Poincaire.
while recognizing the legitimate sphere Of
trade unionism, denounced the Iawlessness
with which it had become identified, and
regretted that the chief creators of the
Of
traders, and the industrialists. had not vet
adequately organized themselves against
the new forces Of disorder and destruction.
Resolutions were adopted in favor of a con-
sideration of Industrial, commercial and
agricultural interests in future legislation.
and demanding securities for the regular
working of the public services, for liberty
Of labor and the sanctity of contracts.
Major EyOub sabri Bey. one of the
heroes of the July revolution, who is
CHIEF guardian Of the deposed sultan of
Turkey, Abdul Hamid, has been inter-
viewed by a correspondent of Paris
paper, and he tells of the wasting away
of the aged autocrat. Abdul suffers from
insomnia and is In an almost constant
state Of melancholia. One of the reasons
for this is the impossbility OF supplying
him with all the artificial light he needs.
At Yildiz he had always been accustomed
to the nightly flare of 1000 gas lamps
and 1900 electric lights. He had, in fact,
a mania for this sort of illumination, so
that now he is reduced to a few score of
electric lights in all he feels his position
keenly He has become morose and tact
turn and prey to some terrible anxieties.
Ia nFN eff tarI,N H.,
fore an open window looking in the direc-
ton Of Constantinople.
Senior Lebroux, the socialist deputy repre-
senting Barcelona, whose impeachment for
completely in the attempt to assasinate ex-
Premier Maura has been demanded at
Madrid, is one Of the most INSCRIPTIONS
and dangerous agitators in Spain On the
day before the strike in Barcelona in July,
last year which led TO the appalling out
break in which converts were burned and
the mob behaved with unbridled brutality,
Senior Lebroux's newspaper, Ell Progresso
published an inflammatory article headed
Remember" recalling the fact that the
day was the anniversary OF the burning
OF many converts by the anti-olerics I'm
1895, and regrettting that the times were
so degenerate that no repetition of such
a thing was likely now.
reason for the unwavering loyalty of
Wales to the policy OF mending the House
of Lords is to be found in the report of the
Welsh Church commission to the British
Parliament. OF 1854 96 people In Wales
above years old the established church
has 193,0Sl communicates and the noncon-
formists 65O,2SO Yet the $50 900, and the
millions more who are OF no church or
loosely connected, are taxed to support the
church Of the 198,OS1 And the lords, in
GLIDING twenty-six archbishops and bish.
ops, fight Welsh disestablshment as they
fought Irish disestablishment.
Boosters Of big navy in Japan have a
more delicate and ins.nuating way OF Turing
the hesitant yen from the populace than
the scare" methods in vogue among occi-
dental navies. II is tactfully put not as a
matter OF rvaling any other power but
simply as a matter OF keeping up with the
naval styles. Last years warships are as
out Of date as last years Paris hat; one
really must be little more In the fashion
Thus whatever a headed IN thu NAV Z,