Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-10

Heroisru worthy Of a medal or a more
useful reward lowered above the common
place in New York the other day, and lie
now enrolled In the eossips OF millinery
dom as a classic OF carnage. mere man
At that He appeared in a Broadway store
with an enormous hat, demanding that the
money paid for Il be refunded His mad
nerve was as conspicuous as an architec-
tural wart on a bungalow. and he didn't
care a continental who saw It. While
waiting for someone in authority 20 nego-
tiate the transaction, he told his tale Of
woe loud enough for everybody to hear
My wife bought tnis hat" he said. She
doesn't need It. She ha9 already bought
three hats this spring She paid ss5 for this
one She has never worn H. 1t Just came
home last night, I can't afford to throw
all that money away and I want you to
take the hat back She wouldn't bring II
down, so 1 undertook the job myself" He
| got the money.
In 1850 surface railways in what is now
New York carried 30 $4,000 passengers; in
1910 they carried 1.4ss .ss2 80. The yearly
number Of rides per capita rose from 100 in
1870 to $50 in 1850, go in 1870. GAG in 1900 and
S12 in 1919.
For these striking ratios of increase, says
the New York World, there are many rea-
sons, all operating with increasing force
It grows even harder to walk from home TO
work as the city expands; faster transit en-
larges the area OF activity; riding for pleas
ure grows much more common; and q nickle
does not look as big as II did when wages
and the price OF commodities were lower
BY 1916. when the first Of the new subways
should be in operation, the population OF
New York will be averaging one carfare
each day. BY 1890 the yearly average of
rides per capita will be nearly 400; the
daily total for the city will be more than
100000 the yearly total some 1900, 900 600
probably much more than that II we then
have a really complete rapid transit system,
for in this matter supply creates demand.
The number of annual rides per capita is
probably not capable Of such rapid in
crease indefinitely. still by 1850 New York
will probably be taking ten billions of rides
annually at a cost II fare conditions do
not change, Of s5Oo,OOo.0Co a year, seven
times as much as at present.
| The question is often debated as to
whether persons who lose their lives in a
fire developing with great rapldity undergo
extreme physical suffering. An authori-
tative opinion is expressed by the New York
Medical Journal. which says:
Unnecessary anguish Of mind has prob
ably been felt by relatives Of the unfortun-
ate workers who were Killed in the re-
cent fire In Washington Place by reflection
on the supposedly asonizing pain caused
by such death. Where a great bulk of
highly inflammable substances is quickly
consumed in closed space, the result is
| fba nroduNffnfn ~ lov. -
monoxide.
This gas. It lie well known, combines
with the haemogobln of the blood TO form
a compound that refuses to combine with
oxygen. The result is a speedy and prob
ably painless asphyxiation before the
flames have had a chance to attack the
bodies of the victims
mo. we do not like women customers"
| said the manager of a large safe deposit
company down in Wall street, quoted by
the Sun. And over half OF our, boxes are
subscribed for by women. In the first
place they come too often and stay too
long and take up too much room when
they are here. They distrust us and think
we have the keys to their boxes. OF course,
we haven't. But the tiiene necessity OF
two keys, one for us and one for the box
holder, and the necessity Of using both
keys at once in order to unlock the vault
creates an impression that we are prying
into womans affairs. Then they are afraid
that somebody will interrupt them in the
booths where scissors for clipping coupons
are kept The scissors must be chained
down after this. Too many are carried
off every day. Then the women are aa-
ways afraid the doors Of the great vault
are going TO close and lock them in. But
the worst of it ali is that those same
women don't keep anything valuable in
their boxes" The manager WHISPERED:
Love letters! That's all, in nine cases
out Of ten. Ridiculous. fsn't itH No, I'm
not married and never have been"
At certain hours Of the day New York's
harbor takes on the appearance of a great
railroad freight yard. During the last
month 1852 cars have been ferried across
the North river from New Jersey TO Man
haitian on an average in day. To trans
port these miles OF cars some $50 great
! car-floats cross the river every twenty
four hours. This does not include the
heavy traf fic hAfuyaSn NSxay uva1ana -