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Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19
ArarveIous IntelleetuaIs.


Mr.. Bacon OF Georgia asked Mr.. Root of
New York a question q sentence of nearly
40 words, and the New York senator re-
piled instantly Then the Georgian asked
another question in a trifle over 200 words,
and Mr. Root answered without having
the stenographer read II to him, or even
hesitating a moment. Elihu Roots marvel
GUS intellectual capacity has not been ex-
aggerated.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19

The Outlook, of which Colonel
Roosevelt is contributing editor, says
the recall is desirable for administra-
tive and municipal Offices, but not for
judicial or legislative positions, and it
also excerpts the Office of governor
from its application. The advocates
of unlimited recall for every elective
Office will have to realize the necessity
of modifying their demand to meet
the exigencies of practical government.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19

II has been asked why the president
named John Hays Hammond 10 rep
resent the United States at the corona
ton OF Kins Edward. Probably be-
cause Mr. Hammond not only wanted
Il. but could AFFORD the honor,
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19
A REoonp woRrH wnILn.
Hartman Lines Marked Up on the
Roll Of Honor.
Chicago Record Herald


Chicago Record Herald
The Hartman lines carried 10 per cent
Of the eountry's estimated passenger traf-
fic for 1910. Not a single fatal accident
occurred 70 a passenger anywhere on the
system.
This achievement n described as un-
paralleled IN railroadins and II Is at
tributed 70 the installation Of safety de-
vices-ehiefly. II not wholly
IL small line gets through a year With
out fatal accident the result may Itself
be considered accidental. A vast system
carrying millions OF passengers owes safety
to improvements care and efficiency
What the Hartman lines are doing other
lines can do-are doing Let US have an
other roll OF honor Tor 1911 Let the lines
which have reduced or eliminated accidents
by safety devices and improved discipline
compete Tor honorable mention.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19

Former President Eliot Of Harvard
thinks six OF eight children about
right for the average family Per-
haps so. for the family that lives in
the tropics, where they 80 bare-footed
and need few clothes.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19

The real reciprocity that is desira-
bic between this country aud Canada
Is not based 90 much on dollars and
cents as on mutual advantage and
lasting frlendshlp.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19

2. H. Hartman once described Ed
win Hawiey as the coming railroad
man of the country. 1t appears Mr..
Hawley is coming into big place in
the Hartman triumph over the Gould
crowd.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19

Our congressman and senators Will
have to do some fast work the next
two weeks 70 be able to so home and
look their constituents in the face
after March 4.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19

publios to the south, but it has done
nothing as yet to Justify any Of those
countries in seeking to prejudice our
interests abroad.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19

Subscribers leaving the city tenn
Pornrily SHOULD have The Bee
mailed to them. Address win he
changed ne often as requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19

Discussion Of table manners in
kansas turns on the point whether it
is correct to pick the teeth with your
fork or finger.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19

With Russia preparing to slap Grip
pied China in the face end st. Louis
seeking to wFest the Missouri capital
from afflicted Jefferson City, world
peace would seem to be making slow
Roadway.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19

Texas will stand for anything, A
leading paper In that state says Joe
Bailey may have six terms more In the
senate II he wants them
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19

American millionaires with availa-
BILE daughters are admonished to
watch for King Georges appointments
Of new lords.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19

Rev. BILLY" Sunday would not have
half the trouble TO make the decision
between a big salary and smaller city
that is perplexing the Rev. Mr.. Aked.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19

In the meantime, Governor Aldrich
is doing business at the old stand and
peace and prosperity reign throughout
Nebraska.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19

Mr. Bryan wants it distinctly under
stood he is not for sheehan; also not
against him.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19

Senator Joe" Bailey may be "oil"
right, but still he is no slicker than
his friend across the hall, Champ
Clark.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19

Weather news: 1t became so hot in
Kansas City the other day that the
dog catchers started out.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19

Seattle need not be surprised il 1t is
overrun with suffragettes from abroad
soon.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19

Senator Lorimer's supporters have
a peculiar way Of showing they are
not afraid OF riskiRg vote on the
question" BY continually staying il
-
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19

About the only change in the Iowa
senatorial deadlock is that it is locked
tighter than ever.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19

OF course, Henry James play, 1.-THE
Saloon" will be barred in Omaha
after p. m.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19

II would be all right to charge mag
azines more postage by the weight II
Jack London wrote all their matter.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19

still, If those Seattle women get
into oficial power they should not pad
the pay rolls merely out of habit.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19

It Is often impossible to identify
prediction pledges by post-eleetior
performances.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19

And now Nellie bly, says her hus-
band has run away with her money.
Wonder II he is globe trotter, too.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19

Imagination is a good thing, bat It
gets man into lot Of trouble he
never really has.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19

Senator Brown says the surveyor
ship mire in which he is floundering
is "deplorable. We think 80. too.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19

That yellow streak in the Tammany
tiger is so misleading.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19

The way to do itI Go through
bankruptcy and draw a $5,OOO-a-year
federal appointment as prize.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19

Eyes, Jim's easy. He sent IS TO a New
York concern for their infallible method OF
getting rid Of cpckrOaches and they adj
ftsssSYn mn " HHi "a, SOHn Tue mouse, 80
Sure. He wasn't going to waste the So
Cleveland Plain Dealer,
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19

MY daughter, don't like young Stay
late's shortcomings"
my father. what / object to are his
long goings, baltimore American.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19

so you have to quit laughing at your
wfe's hats?'
Yes" replied Mr.. Growcher "The fun.
nier they seem to me the more convinced
she is that they must be correct in style
Chicago Post
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19
wisdom of silence.

NIIINf11W
Opportunity has been doing some loud
knocking at the door of the early robin.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19

BIobbs-The widow always gets her third,
doesn't she?
slobbs-l believe she has to get her SEQ
ond first-Philadelphia Record.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19

Young man. are you quite sure my
daughter cares enough for you to marry
you?'
I'm not as positive Of that as wish I
were, Mr.. Origins. Sometimes when she
kl sses me good night she does IL I'm such an
absent minded, impersonal way that / don't
think she fully realizes what she is doing
or who i am.h-Chicago Tribune
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19

Are you in favor of granting suffrage
to women
mo, SIR replied the man who was
chewing tobacco. "lf women were allowed
to go to. the polls the election judges
would have TO go outside TO spit" Chicago
Record-Herald.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19
DOMESTIC PLEAsANTR1Es.

Your husband looks very happy this
evening"
81 guess It Is because OF what he Just
said to me-"
And what was that2'
'He said I was driving him to drink"
Houston Post
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29
TELECRAPH'S STORY
FULL OF ROMANCE
Morse Endured PrivatiOnS for
Years Before the "What Has
God Wrought" Message.
FIELD FOUGHT FOR CABLE
Then Bell and His Telephone
Were Ridiculed-Thousands
of Lives Saved from
Sea by Wireless.

or the innumerable inventions that havs
become Indispensable factors in modern
life there Is none whose history and
growth have been so full OF romance. "
early struggle and almost indescribable
hardship and final incompatible triumph
as that Of the telegraph, the telephone. the
cable and. finally. the wireless telegraph.
What IN 1871 was only the dream Of 4
visionary OF science. the possibility ot
flashing a sign message almost on the in
stant to points thousands of miles away.
has become a rather unnteresting part ot
the daily routine OF business Later came
the Atlantic cable Of Cyrus Field, which
was denounced at drst as "a mad freak u
stubborn ignorance" that brought contL-
nents divided by oceans into connection
through messages flashed by electricity.
Later came the telephone, ridiculcd and
treated as a toy OF first, % which The
London Times" Dompously alluded az the
latest American humbug, giving many rea-
sons why speech could not be sent over a
wire And. youngest Of all, but greeted
with joy at its birth. came wireless tcles
raphy. which On the few years II its pra,-
teal workings has saved thousands -
lives by sunmoning timely aid to steam
ships In distress.
Samuel Finley Breese Morse. the Ameri-
can sculptor and inventor, conceived ami
carried out the first practical construction
OF Q telegraph. He had been always fond
OF natural studies. and I'm lS22. after he-
coming Interested in electrical matters he
evolved his telegraph while returning from
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29
How Railway and Steamship
Lines Have Developed Dur
ing Seventy Years.
GR0WTH OF ELECTRIC CAR
Automobile and Flying Machine
Made Possible by Daimler's
Invention Of Explosive Motor,
Using Petroleum Spirit.
~ J. 7. Hume

Al increase OF the railways OF the world
from raw short. scattered lines. five
Thousand miles iu all. TO q mileage Of six
hundred thousand. or enough to reach
around tho globe twenty-five times, is
probably Tho best evidence Of the great
development of transportation during the
last seventy years. Coupled with the de-
,oIorueut of tho steam railway is that
o. the steamship. the vessel of u010 tons
Of 1871 having grown 20 the great liner
OF Ig or 5000 20 5000 tons and 200 to
So feet m length While the steam rail-
way and steamship mark the greatest de-
Ne.oumeut IN transportation since 1871 they
90 not tell the entire story for In addi-
ton TO these must be considered the cleo
.t-c car. the automobile and even the air
srip.
Rv railway and steamship the traveller
may now 90 from the lobby of Il London
hotel to- New York in time for dinner on
trc Gfth day. and thence across the con-
tnent TO san Francisco by the tenth day.
and an the time live as comfortably A. if
fle remained at home. The same Journey
in 'sr would have taken from five to seven
.mouthe and required the traveller 10 put
1D with many discomforts, and even hard
Slips Nowadays nearly every large steam
ship las on board one OF more passengers
who are making the trim around tile world
f0r pleasure, while every few months some
man or woman circles the globe i'm forty
20 fifty days. just TO make record for
last long distance travel I'm 1S4l such jour
news we're not even thought Of
some idea Of the transportation facilities
Cr 1871 as compared with those OF to-day
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29

and Greece built their first railways IN l'oO
and 1863. respectively.
In Africa the Egyptian railway from
Alexandria 10 Cairo was opened in 1870
and the first Cape Colony line was built IN
1850. Africa now has 1850 miles OF rail-
ways.
Tn Asia the first line was built out Oh
Bombay in 1853. Asia now has $500 miles
Of railways, including the Siberian line
across the continent to Vladivostok ana
down into China and to Port Arthur lhlS
Is the longest railroad IN the worlc.
Australia began railway building IN 1928
and now has $500 miles
So to-day there are few populous places
fn the world that cannot be reached by
railroad. and in many places lines are be
ing constructed ahead Of settlement Ike
they we're in the early days in this country.
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29

may be gained from the columns Of The
Tribune Of IsH. The issue Of May u. lAl'
recorded as the only vessels arriving al
this port the day before the packet ship
Mediator from London March q, and eight
hrigs and two schooners. The only adver-
tsements Of steam vessels were Of the Peo-
pies Line, 10 Albany. and the western
Navigation Company which forwarded
passengers and freight by steamboat 10
Albany and By canal boats Of superior
class 20 points along the Erie Canal and
% the West. The advertisements Of vessels
for Europe showed that there were two
Ines Of sailing vessels only. The fare was
fixed a. 800 for each adult and children
half price. without wines or liquors OF any
description" Steamships came 70 New
York IN those days, but they were few ana
fsr between.
AZ for the railroads, the only advertise
inents were OF the Long Island line and
line which aided steamboats, and canal
boats in making the trip to Easton, Penn
IN one day.
First Railways in America.
The history Of railway transportation in
this country. az IN Europe covers about
eighty years. for it was on July T. 1879,
That the first steam railway, q fragment
or what is now the Baltimore & OHIO sys-
TEN. was opened for general use. Three
Years later the Mohawk & Hudson. which
Aas grown into the New York Central,
was built from Albany 20 Schenectady. and
between 1880 and 1885 three lines were built
out Of BOston-to Providence, 20 Lowell
and 20 Worcester. The latter line was eX-
Tended 10 Albany in 1SA, and the next year
came the opening Of an all-raL route from
Boston TO Buffalo.
Meantime the State Of Pennsylvania had
oIilt, IN 1354. d line from Philadelphia 70
Columbia on the Susquehanna River.
winch was the beginning Of the present
pennsylvania system. and the South had
'aEen up railway building with a line from
charleston, s. c., to Hamburg, a distance
VI ~ miles. This line, which was opened
N ia was then the longest railroad in
he world.
lt was not until 1897 that New York City
'eOelFed attention from the railway build
IN that year private companies
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29

feet long. 80 feet wide "a feet deep and Oh
45 900 tons and 5O.OO0 horsepower. The
Olympic was not built FOR great speed, but
makes the voyage across the Atlantic in
about seven days. There are now in course
Of construction steamships that are larger
than the olympic.
The various improvements in steamship
construction consist in the change from
sidewheels 10 the screw propeller IN the
early COS. the perfection OF the COM
pound engine in the late CO.'S the steer
hull i'm the carly SOS the twin scre"
a few years later and the turbine engine
at the beginning Of this century. In addl-
ton to these are the great improvements
for the comfort of the passengers which
have been so perfected that the modern
ocean liner is almost a city ahoat. Some
OF the larger vessels carry as many as lOoJ
cabin passengers, which, with the steerage
passengers and the crew often make a
total Of 900 on board when they leave
port.
The largest steamship company in the
world is the International Mercantile Ma
rine Company. known as the steamship
Trust. which controls the White star Line
thirty-one vessels; the Leyland Line, for
ty-two vessels; the American and Red star
lines-thc only one Of the great lines that
flies the American hag-siXteen vessels; the
Atlantic Transport Line. fourteen vessels
and the Dominion and British and North
Atlantic lines. thirteen vessels. The gross
tonnage Of the ships OF these lines is about
I. 10000. The largest individual steamship
lire is the Hamburg American, with l6e
vessels. with gross tonnage OF LVOO'OoO'
Then follow the North German Lloyd, l'o
vessels 10000 tons; Cunard. nineteen yes
sells. 10000 tons; French twenty-five ves-
sels 70 q767 tons. There are twenty other
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29
Growth Of Steamship Traffic.

After the building OF Robert Fulton
Clernont. I'm 1907. the development OF
steamship transport8 ton was slow until
1893. when the first steamship, the Royal
William. built in Canada, made the run
from Quebec via Nova Scotia and the Isle
of Wight to London. Five years later the
Great Western and three other steamers
made successful voya yes from England 10
Boston and New York. The present Cunard
conrauy was the first 10 establish regu-
lar steamship service across the Atlantic
sending out the first vessel In 1870. The
progress made since then may be shown
by a comparison Of these early vessels with
the great liners Of to-day. The steamships
OF IS4O were Of about LOO tons two hun
drci feet long and OF about 80 horsepower.
They took from two 10 three weeks to cross
the Atlantic The Mauretania, Of the
Ouudrd Line. the fastest steamship in the
world. is of $500 tons-or twenty-eight
times the size Of the first ocean steam
ships-is $50 feet long and her engines are
Of 6S, 600 horsepower. She cost s1,OO0,0OO.
Her record for the western trip, made Sep
tember. 1910, is days. 10 hours and Al
minutes.
The largest steamship I'm the world Is
the Olympic. OF the White Star Line, which
made her first voyage last June. She is $50
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29
Rival of Railway Train.

For speed and long distance travel the
automobile has become the rival of the
railway train. Thousands OF persons tour
America. Europe and other countries in
automobiles: trips from cities far apart are
common. and the hurried business man no
longer thinks Of railway timetable for an
ordinary journey-he calls up his garage by
telephone and makes his own schedule
through his chauffeur.
The aquatic contemporary Of the auto
mobile has also made great strides. Motor
boats are rapidly driving out other small
craft while they are growing in size until
they threaten even the steam yacht With
motor boat races 10 Bermuda and Florida,
Just for the fun Of IL. how long viii 1t be
Until owners Of these vessels will be cross
ing the Atlantic I'm them or even going
around the world?
The dying machine is older as 20 idea
than any other artificial means Of trans
portation except the sailing ship. Il IS even
older than the balloon. for il is recorded
that as early as the time of Edward the
Confessor an English monk, Elmcrs by
name. few from a town in Spain for a
distance Of more than furlong.' and that
other aviators made flights from ST
Marks. in Venice and from NeuremburS.
But these flights were little more than
the glides OF recent years that Immediately
preceded the real flight Of practical fly
ing machine.
The practicable heayier-than-air craft Is
really the outgrowth of an invention of ".
II. Phillips of England made about seventy
years ago. For hundreds OF years men had
been flying from high places-or gliding
with the support Of wings. Phillips put a
small steam engine and screw propellers
together and made a model that would sail
IA the air for a few seconds. Then clock
work ana other devices were used up 20
1Ni3. when Henson combined the aerial
screw propeller with the large supporting
wings and put in a steam engine 10 turn
the propeller Three years later r. II.
Wenhorn improved on this device with a
model which he exhibited in London The
experiments in Europe attracted the atten-
ton OF Professor S. p Langley, OF Wash
ington. and in 1859 he made a model OF a
large flying machine which met with some
success Then followed Lillenthal. OF Ger
many. with his glides on wings.
Orylle Wright made three notable flights
on September .. 1908. at Fort Myer. In the
second OF which he stayed In the air eighty
three minutes. In the third flight he tool,
up a passenger. and travelled four miles in
six minutes. A few days later Wilbur
Wright at lie Mans. France, beat all
previous records by remaining In the air an
hour and a half and covering hfty-s!X
miles. The success OF the Wright brothers
aroused worldwide interest in aviation
Machines OF many makes were soon in the
field, and a year later Bleriot crossed the
English Channel Since then the voyages
OF flying machines have increased in length
Until a hundred mile trip is no longer
wonderful and passenger carrying has be-
come source OF revenue TO the aviator.
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29

being capitalized at the rate Of $4,000 a
mile. while the capital here averages $4,000
a mile This great difference is due 70 the
density of population more than anything
else. for in the eastern part o. this coun-
try some Of the roads have as much money
invested 10 the mile as those in England
England and America were not the only
countries that began to build railroads as
soon as the locomotive was perfected.
France and Austria opened their first rail-
roads i'm lS2S. and Belgium, Germany, Italy
and Holland followed in the next two or
three wears spain's first railway was
builf I'm lsls and Portugars I'm 1894. Turkey
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29

opened a line from New York. or. rather,
Jersey City. TO Baltimore.
BY 1871 the total mileage of railways in
the United States was $500. and by 1859 it
had grown TO 5000. The progress Of rail-
way building during the first twenty years
was slow because capital was scarce and
there was much uncertainty as to the sue
cess of railways as competitors of canals.
The railway construction during these first
twenty years was not so great as in one
single year after 1880
The first period Of rapid railway building
i'm the United States began in 1850. The
New England and Middle Atlantic States
led in mileage, but such rapid progress was
made in the South and Middle West that
before the Civil War the total mileage
was 10000 II was in 1850 also that the
consolidation of lines began. The line from
Albany TO Buffalo was owned by a dozen
independent companies. All these compa-
nies were united by Commodore Cornelius
Vanderbilt I'm 1853 and added 10 the Hud-
son River line. Five years later five other
lines were added to the system. The Penn
sylvania company purchased the original
state line, and I'm 1852 consolidated with it
the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh line. This
company now owns roads that were once
owned by some zoo companies
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29

the future of the country caused railway
promoters 20 build ahead Of settlement
into the prairies OF the West. This eX-
pansiOn of the railways has been kept up
until two-ffths Of the railway mileage OF
the world is now in the United States The
most rapid progress IN railway building out
side of the United States has been in Can
ada and Argentina, South America.
As the figures of the railway stausucians
now stand, the United States has $4,000
miles Of railways. Europe has 200 900 miles.
and the other countries 10000 miles all
but 5000 miles OF which have been built
in seventy wears.
Division Of Railway Groups.
Although nearly 1900 separate companies
own the railways OF the United States,
there are less than 1909 operating com
paufes. and these are IN groups controlled
by still other companies. Among these
latter the New York Central and Penn
sylvanla systems lead with an aggregate
Of 1900 miles They have practically the
control or the territory north OF the Po-
fonac and Ohio Rivers. where three-fourths
Of the freight tonnage Of the country Is
baudIAd and where the passenger traffic IS
heaviest Others Of the large railway
groups are the Morgan lines. Atlantic
Coast and Louisville & Nashville. 2l1o
miles. Gould lines. Missouri Pacific and
Wabash. 1900 miles, Moore lines, Rock
island and Frisco, 1900 miles Hartman
lines Southern Pacific Illinois Central and
Northern Pacific, 1000 miles; Hin lines
Great Northern. a.OCo miles; Santa Fe
lines 5000 miles, and the ST. Paul Hnes'
Z. 40 miles.
Although the first locomotives used III
this country came from England, il was
rot until an American engine was per-
eec,ed that the railways here became prac-
tcable The first practical locomotive IN
tbe yorid-which meant the first practical
st.oro rauroad-Was built IN England by
George stephenson in 1926 for the stock
ton and Darlington Railroad thifty-eisn'
nils long which had just been completed.
stenbenson and other English makers sent
locomotives 10 this country In lS9 ana
ls2o but they soon became useless Inc
6~st hmer,can-built locomotive was made
by west Point Foundry in lA@' iai 'a"'