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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-14

win be a large school room for classes in
various branches of study. The architect,
j. Davey, states that the building will
probably be ready for occupancy by next
Thanksgiving day
The entire building will be a most pleas
ing and imposing structure. The material
will be of gray brick to harmonic, as far
as possible, with the cathedral stone.
The new Jacobs hall is being built by
Mrs. Lillian NJ Maui in memory of her
son. John G. Jacobs. This gift of MRS
Maui is to constitute that part of the
Gardner Memorial which is to be used for
the Industrial and social work Of the
parish. This Building, together with the
present parish house formerly the
Bishop Clarkson hospitaD, will be Joined
in one symmetrical front elevation. The
main entrance will open into a spacious
hall with steps leading to left and right
to the Gardner and Jacobs halls, respec-
lively.
With the exception of some alterations
in the front part the Gardner hall will
remain practically as il is now. The
basement is already being used by the
young women and girls who are em-
ployed in the downtown stores,a as a
place for eating their luncheons, doing
their sewing, their laundry and having
also a fine bathroom fitted up with hot
and cold water The large west room of
the basement is furnished with piano,
the gift of Mrs. M. Patrick. The floor
is covered with rug and mating and va
rious articles Of furniture given by Mrs.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-14
Tempting Bats.

Tempting Bats.
Each one of the little group was beset
by taunts and temptations. Watson was
offered $4,000 for his one-tenth. interest
and hesitated three days before refusing
1t. Railroad companies offered Vail salary
that was higher and sure, II he would
superintend their mail business. And, as for
Sanders his folly was the talk Of Haver-
hill.
One Haverhnl capitalist. r j. Hale,
stopped him on the street and asked:
Haven't you got good leather business.
Mr. Sandefs7"
Yes replied Sanders.
Well" said Hale. you had better attend
to it and quit playing on wind instru-
ments."
Sanders banker, too, became uneasy on
one occasion and requested him to call at
the bank.
mr.. Sanders" he said, 1T will be obliged
to you IL you will take that telephone stock
out Of the bank and give me in it's place
your note for $4,000 / am expecting the
examiner here in a few days and I don't
want TO get caught with that stuff In the
bank"
Then in the very midnight Of this depres-
sion poor Bell returned from England,
whittier he and his bride had gone on their
honeymoon, and announced that he had no
money. that he had failed to establish a
telephone business in England and that he
must have $1,000 at once to pay his urgent
debts. He was thoroughly discouraged and
sick. As he lay in the Massachusetts, Cen
eral hospital he wrote a cry for help to
the embattled little company that was
making the desperate fight to protect his
patents.
Thousands OF telephones are now in
operation in all parts of the country" he
said. yet I have not yet received cent
from my invention On the contrary, I am
largely out of pocket by my researches, as
the mere value OF the profession that
have sacrificed during my three years work
amounts to $1,000"
Fortunately there came letter in almost
the same mail with Bells letter, one from
a young Bostonian named Francis Blake.
with the good news that he had invented
a transmitter as satisfactory as Edison's
and preferred 70 sell 1t for stock rather
than for cash. II ever a man came as an
angel Of light that man was Francis Blake.
The possession OF his trnsmitter put the
company on an even footing in the matter
OF apparatus with the Western Union. II
encouraged capitalists to come forward.
General business had improved and In
four months the company had 1900 tele
phones IN use and had reorganized inc
the National Bell Telephone company, with
100000 capital and Colonel Forbes as first
president. He was the son OF an East India
merchant son-in-law Of Ralph Waldo
Emerson Bostonan Of the Brahmin
caste. popular and efficient
This reorganization brought the heroic
and experimental period to an end. From
this time on, though Il was attacked by
the western Union and by rival inventors.
half starved by cheap rates ana crippled
by clumsy apparatus, abused and Erum-
bled at by an impatient public, the com
pany nevertheless. by the act OF making
and selling. had at last been built up into
q commercial system.-syst stem Magaxina.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-14

49, one or the funniest and toollsh-
est things 1 ever did.
Half dozen of us were in Spain in
let me see-the summer OF 1900, when our
tussle with that country was still burn
ing question over there. We had courier
who discreetly refrained from translating
when we were called Yankee pigs
1--WE spent a good deal of money, and
that was SO welcome that we were treated
very we'll at most places. We tried to be
nice. too, and 1 think we succeeded all
right, for the spaniards thawed pereeptibly
and often actually tried to Guido US in cour-
tesy. Then we simply laid ourselves out
to show them what a really animaojibh;
to show them what a really lovely animal
Yankee pig could bel
Everything went well until one day when
we had been visiting the tobacco factory
in Madrid, where something like 1000
cigarette girls are employed, We had left
the place just before the noon hour and
one OF our carriages already had driven
off The courier had gone in 1t.
mot all OF us had cared TO visit the
factory, so there were only Molly and 1
I'm the second vehicle. Our driver was
slow in getting started and the first car
riage had clattered off down the street
and turned a corner before he had per-
suaded his horse which was inclined to
be even more dilatory than ne was, to be-
gin a feeble trot.
Just then the stream OF girls began
coming out OF the factory and we were al
most Immediately in the midst Of the gay
colored human current. They were gay in
spirit apparently as well as in color until
they saw US.
Then their dark. plquant faces grew
considerably more dark and considerably
less piquant. Many OF them had seen US
in the factory and the fact of our being
Americans was soon common knowledge.
They gathered around our carriage max
ing sneering remarks. We did not under
stand the words. but there was no mis-
taking the looks which went with them
zone vicious young Carmen twitched in
solently at my sleeve. Really things be-
gan 70 look serious. The driver, l am sure,
had been perfectly willing at first to let
US have a dose Of discourtesy, but he be-
gan 10 realize that he would be responsible
IL anything happened TO us and saw
scared look In his eyes when he turned TO
gesticulate wildly.
las Toy Molly and Newell my head
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-14

n =
the corridor of the third floor
3llk#E of the federal building and
G2f3 turned in at the room of the
clerk of the court. Commissioner Shields.
Just as he did so tall. heavy man started
to come out, and the two bumped. AS they
rebounded they looked at each other and
stopped short wikh surprised EXPLANATIONS.
How are you, Tom?" said the smaller
man.
'Howd'y do. John" said the big man.
Il was glad to hear that you had fol-
lowed my example" returned the first
speaker. "All Of us country lawyers have
to come to New York to set up sooner or
later"
You've got several years the Start OF
me, John" replied the tall man, dolefully.
Tell me how long do you think 1t viii take
a youngster like myself to get started
get discouraged now and then. and several
times I've made up my mind to give up
the game and go back home"
ION, stick it out. Tom" was the reionder,
you'll come out all right when people get
to know you"
The two men who engaged in this banter
were John G. Carlisle of Kentucky and
Thomas b, Reed of Maine. Both former
speakers Of the national house of repre-
sentatiyes and candidates for the pres-
dental nomination at the hands of the
parties TO which they belonged. they had
retired from public life and were practising
law in this city. A few minutes later Mr..
Carlisle, seated in Commissioner Shields
office commented thus on his fellow ex-
speaker:
Tom Reed was one OF our greatest par
Elementary leaders and one OF our great
speakers. We democrats used TO attack
him for his ezar-like actions, but that was
mostly mere partisan necessity. We all
knew from experience that his rulings were
In the main not only right but necessary.
Filibustoring had been carried TO such an
extreme that the whole legislative system
was endangered. Reed and l had many
times talked over together what steps could
be taken 70 put a stop to the practice. We
were in full agreement that something
must be done. When l was speaker l made
him member OF the rules committee, and
we threshed the whole thing ont together.
Il entered the senate when he became
speaker OF / should doubtless have been
on his rules committee, AT the height OF
the discussion about his arbitrary rulings.
when democrats orators were making inn
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-14


in the new Gardner Memorial
- Parish house and Jacobs hall,
when the building Is finished and occupied.
1T will be a wholesome rendezvous for
young people socially" says the dean, and
then proceeds 20 elaborate on the meaning
OF hts terse characterization. And his ex-
PLANTATION takes in the whole gamut OF adj
vanced sociology, as practically applied to
open-faced problems In a human, sensible
way. II will be a visiting place. and
place for the holding OF dances and socials
under good auspices; but Il will be a home,
too. In It's spacious parlors young women
will be allowed. in fact invited and urged,
to meet their men acquaintance at any
reasonable hour; but this is a mere in
cident
AS IN the present parish house. but on
a greatly enlarged scale the new parish
house will have kitchens, dining room.
laundry rest room. gymnasium, baths. all
free for the use OF the young and
women who are TO be its special patrons.
On certain days and during certain hours
the young women will have the exclusive
use of the bath room and gymnasium; and
It may here be said that old women are
not now barred from the benefits OF the
parish house activities, nor will they be
AEoul Aut new lnhNllullDns Inc
older women who come here now at noon
time are enthusiastic over the provisions
modest as they are. made for the comfort
Of our friends" says the dean
Talking OF how he conceived the idea
of the useful and open parish house. to be
devoted especially to boys and girls who
have no homes Of their own, and to that
other element made up OF working women
who desire comfortable place to eat their
luncheons and spend the noon hour, Dean
Beecher said;
When 1 was visiting London I was i'm
pressed with the great work done along
this line at the Red house OF the st. Au-
gustine mission. on the East Side This
place is thronged at noon and In the even
ing by young people who have come to
consider II their own for every legitimate
purpose. Eventually, we hope and expect,
the Gardner Memorial parish house and
Jacobs hall to develop into that charac-
ter OF institution. Not charity, but self
help and self-respect, will he the guiding
principle, and education will not be neg
lected. We will have lectures, readings
and entertainments and a library on a
more extensive scale than at present. The
young folks will be encouraged to organize
parties and soclals after their own plans
and VIII be made to feel, so far as humanity
possible. that we are not attempting to
patronize them or to proselyte them, but
just to help them to make life sweeter
and to elevate virtue. strengthen character
and develop those traits latent in every
being, which will assure usefulness in ma
turity and honor in old age"
When completed the new building, just
above Seventeenth on Dodge, will have
frontage Of ninety feet and will run back
seventy feet The present Gardner parish
house will be one unit OF the finished build
ing and Jacobs hall the other.
Between the two buildings it is the plan
to build swimming pool above which
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-14
strategy Succeeds.

Strategy Succeeds.
Finally he was compelled to resort to
strategy where argument had failed He
had secured an order from Colonel Thomas
Scott, who wanted a wire between his
hcuso and his office. Colonel Scott was
the president of the Pennsylvania railroad
and therefore man Of the highest prestige
in the city
So as soon as Cornish had put this line
in place he kept his men at work stringing
other lines. When the police interfered he
showed them Colonel Scotts signature and
was let alone. In this way he put fifteen
wires up before the trick was discovered,
and soon afterward, with eight subscribers,
founded the first Philadelphia exchange.
AS may be imagined, such battling as
this did not put much money into the
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-14

bill, which was 81, BY s'rr aye coinoiI
dence the magnificent bpildi' the New
York Telephone compsny st Us today ON
the site Of that merchants store.
Month after month the little Bell COM
pany lived from hand to mouth No SAL
aries were paid in full. Often for weeks
they were not paid at all. In Watsons
note book there are such entries during
this period as Lent Bell 80 cents" Lent
Hubbard 20 cents" Bought one bottle beer
too bad can't have beer every day"
More than once Hubbard would have gone
hungry had not Devonshire-the only clerk
shared with him the contents of a dinner
poll.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-14

Maui, dr. and Mrs. Aycrigg, Miss Butter
field. Mr.. and Mrs. W. j. Miller, Mrs.
Paul DUNCAN and Mr.. and Mrs. Leigh
Leslie. A nice library of books with
magazines for the use of the girls is one
of the features of this department of the
work that is now in operation
There is no air of institutional charity
associated with this work. The girls
bring their own lunch, furnish their own
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-14

supplies and, Il is very evident from the
merry music and song that rings forth
from this department during the noon
hour-from II to 2 o'clock each day-thar
the girls most heartily enjoy it.
The chief object aimed at in this de-
partment is to give these young girls in
the stores chance to get out into the
open air during the day and to have
change of scenery and environment even
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-14

string wires. His workmen were arrested.
The printing telegraph men warned him
that he must either quit or be driven out.
When he asked capitalists for money they
replied that he might as well expect to
lease jewsharps as telephones.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-14
The KaIsrr,s prInI.s.

Not only what the German Emperor
drinks, but how he drinks II, is the sub
ject OF an article In the Strassburger
Post. William H." says the Post. lis
no Philistine In his manner OF drinking.
for whether he drains a golden cup on
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-14

though It be for only one hour. Above
all. it is the aim to help each girl as far
as possible to save little more of her
weeks wages and at the same time have
the privileges of social enjoyment and
pleasures under the most wholesome en-
vironment
The Gardner hall will be used for the
diocesan headquarters the deans office
and study, assembly room for the vari-
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-14
Gossip About Noted People

FASHIONED protests daily, we met one day
and walked down from the capitol together,
2" See here, John he said, / don't think
you fellows are treating me just right.
Last year we talked this matter of the
rules over and you and l agreed that
course virtually the same as that have
adopted must be pursued II our whole legis-
lative system wasn't to go to rack and
ruin Now these followers of yours are
making me no end of trouble, and incident
ally giving me the reputation Of being an
arbitrary old tyrant.'
Don't you worry about your reputa-
tion, told him. These friends Of mine
are going to send your name down through
all history as one OF the greatest Of the
speakers And I was right. We really
endorsed his stand a few years later by
virtually adopting the Reed rules when our
man Crisp became speaker"
.
Nickel Novels Cheered Big Men.
1t was the custom of the late Chief
Justice Fuller Of the United States supreme
court TO read himself to sleep nearly every
night relates the Saturday Evening Post.
He took a book, went to bed early and
read until he slept, whether that was 8
o'clock In the evening or in the morning.
Nor was he particular about the books.
Novels. history, criticism, philosophy.
says-all were one with him; but, as much
as anything, he liked detective stories The
late Senator A. II. Plat of Connecticut was
great reader of detective stories, too, as
are other men whose minds are working
actively many hours a day on great prob
lens.
The senator and chief justice met at
dinner one night IL understand" said the
chief justice gravely to Senator Plat, that
you read detective stories"
Il do, replied Senator Plat. with equal
gravity.
Tell me-" continued the chief justice,
which do you prefer, the cent kind or
the 10 cent kind?'
Wen" said the senator. after mature
elaboration. II think l prefer the cent
kind"
80 do l." assented the chief justice;
you get quicker action IN those"
And this point having been settled they
took up a certain phase OF the constitution.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-14
CarIisie's Capacity for work.

Speaking OF the capacity for quick. al
most intuitive, grasp Of subjects, together
with his astonishing capacity for doing
work the mere thought Of which would
make most men sick at heart, Senator
Blackburn once said OF the late John G..
Carlisle:
Carlisle is entitled to mighty little credit
for what he has done in the world; in fact,
he is not entitled to half as much as 1 am.
The little know 1 have worked hard for.
have had TO study dig grub and toll.
Now, there is Carlisle; he knows about four
times as much as l do, and 1t has all come
to him without an effort on his part. He
has all the wisdom Of the ancients and the
moderns. too. rolled together. To say great
things. to say things better than anybody
else could say them, he has but to open his
mouth. That isn't the result Of work. he
was born that way"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-14

the banks of the Rhine, or Roemer in
Bremen cafe, or a Hungarian crystal
beaker at a hunting box, he acquits him
self equally well. and drinks with frankly
boyish enjoyment. But though he is no
apostle Of total abstinence, he is con-
WINGED adept of moderation, who never
cared for much alcohol and has OF late
years taken less and ever less" The Post
ADDS that at the emperor's Potsdam resi-
dence, the new palace, strawberry liquor
and cider are always Altered, and the en-
peror. whose favorite beverages these are,
often urges his visitors to partake of them.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-14

hhAAutMCG OA NnNAEOAmCMNs
Morse had lived for several years at
the Vail homestead in Morristown, and 1t
was here that he had erected his first
telegraph line. three-mlle circle around
the iron works, In 1888. He and Alfred
Vail experimental side by side in the max
ing of the telegraph, and Vail eventually
received fortune for his share of the
Morse patent.
Thus 1t happened that young Theodore
Vail learned the dramatic story OF Morse
at his mothers knee. AS boy he played
+ around the first telegraph line and learned
TO put messages on the wire His favorite
toy was a small telegraph that ne made
for himself AZ % he went west TO try
farming. but soon swung back to teleg-
raphy.
In a few years he found himself in the
government mail service at Washington.
BY 1876 he was at the head OF his depart
ment which he reorganized. BY virtue
OF this position he was the one man in
the country who had a comprehensive view
OF all railways and telegraphs.
He Immediately mapped out a policy,
a system. He swept away all schemes for
selling out. He persuaded some OF his
postoffiee friends to buy stock and in less
than two months organized the first Bell
Telephone company with t45O,OOO capital and
a service OF 1900 telephones.
Wallis first step was naturally TO suffen
up the backbone OF this little company
and to prevent the Western Union from
frightening Il into a surrender. He imme-
diately sent a copy OF Bells patent to
every agent with orders to hold the fort
against all opposition.
ave have the only original telephone pat
ents." ne wrote. we have organized and
introduced the business and we do not pro-
pose TO have II taken from US by any
corporation
To one agent who was showing the white
feather he wrote; You have too great
an idea OF the Western Union. II Il was
an massed In yOur one city YOU might
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-14

He toy that became a billion
dollar business, in other words.
the telephone, was put on a
commercial basis by competition.
The inventor and his hackers,
the men who put up the money
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-14

SEE they're talking again about
raising the Maine" said a
woman who has travelled pretty
industriously for a good many
years. 1T makes me think OF
one of the funniest and foolish
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-14

NE day back in 1901. relates the
New York Post. slender man
of medium height walked along
the corridor of the third floor
of the federal building and
turned In at tho room of the
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-14

cry REV. GEORGE ALLEN
BEECHBR. dean OF Trinity
cathedral. is building great
hopes on the work TO be done
in the new Gardner Memorial
Parish house and Jacobs hall.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-14

to pay Bells room rent and to buy the
tools and supplies he needed, tried in every
way to impress on the business world the
fact that the telephone was a commercial
factor.
Only when the Western Union Telegraph
company found that few hundreds of its
machines had been replaced by telephone
and announced that it was going into the
telephone business did the public appreci-
ate the commercial significance of the new
Invention. The financiers awoke business
brains became interested in the telephone
and In 1879 the man who is today the head
OF the telephone industry came out Of the
government railway service to act as It's
general manager.
The arrival of Theodore N. Vail at the
critical moment emphasized the fact that
Bell was one of the most fortunate OF in
ventors He was not robbed OF his inven-
ton. as might easily have happened One
by one there arrived to help him a number
of able men with all the various abilities
that the changing situation required.
There was not one of these men who
could have done the work of any other
Each was distinctive and Indispensable
Bell invented the telephone; Watson con-
structed II and Vail put It on a business
basis
The new general manager had, of course,
no experience in the telephone business.
Neither had any one else But he. like
Bell came to his task with surprising fit
ness. He was member of the Vail family
Of Morristown, N. j., which had operated
the Speedwell Iron Works for four or five
generations. His granduncle. Stephen. had
built tho engines for the Savannah. the
first American steamship to cross the At
lantic ocean, and his cousin. Alfred. was
the friend and coworker OF Morse, the in
ventor NJ the teleQranh
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1910-03-11
Nez Perez Election

The local option election in Nez
Perez County Wednesday was car
ried by the "drys' by between 800
and 900 majority, but there is some
question in regard to the final out
come as it is claimed that the ballots
were illegal as they were numbered,
both stub and ballot, in such a
manner that the ballot was not
secret. Lewiston went wet by
about 600 but this was overcome in
the country precincts. 1t is proba-
BILE that the whole matter will be
passed up to the courts and the
finish is not yet in sight.