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Omaha daily bee., 1912-04-28


Real Bargains
SEVERAL VACANT LOTS BELONG
ING TO A CORPORATION
which we can now offer at much reduced
prices.
lots in the most choice residence Sec
ton on Slst Ave, north OF Turner Park;
each 50x1s6. for only $500.
California St.. Just west OF 18Th, very
choice. 5000. Webster ST.. 10 It. 'front.'
age. west Of Ssth, at $50 per front foot.
Farnam St. Store
3-story brick store and office building.
within block from new Woodmen Bldg,
Thomas Bremen
E. W. Cannot. Mgr Real Estate Dept
Tel Doug. 1854. sth Fl. City Natl Bldg
DO YOU WANT TO BUILD?
We can furnish plans free and build
your building on monthly payments on
our original plan. Let US talk It over
PAYNE q SLATER COMPANY,
SIC Omaha Natl Bank Bldg
WHAT YOU GET IF WIZ BUILD
1oOh NEW nOhISs
Honest construction. Artistic design
ing Personal supervision. Easy pay
ments. Absolute safety. Satisfaction.
Let us explain our system to you per-
sonally.
PAYNE & SLATER COMPANY.
6l6 Omaha Natl Bank Bldg
HOUSE BUILDING.
A house built by Payne & Slater Com
pany" is the standard Of strength. We
should be glad TO build a house for you
after your own design and furnish all
the money, provided you own your own
lot.
PAYNE & SLATER COMPANY,
Gle Omaha Natl Bank Bldg
Corner lot, l1oxl3O, ~ blocks from car
line and business center Of city, con-
taing store building with full basement;
I living rooms above: 3-room adjoining
building used for dwelling or market;
Groom cottage: l barn. Room for two
more buildings on corner. Rents, $500
per month. Price, $4,000
GEORGE A. CURTIS. Executor,
400 No. 2ist Street.
South Omaha, Neb.
Bell phone South 1914.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-04-28

TRADES! TRADESl TRADEsi
II you have meritorious propositions
want consideration. ]. w. DEAN, 6iF
Bee Bldg. D. lS9a.s
Omaha daily bee., 1912-04-28

FOR SALE or rent, ms summer home
on Dickson's Beach, West okoboji lake;
for price and terms apply to the owner,
u. E c. Lally, Denison, Iowa.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-04-28
FOR EXCHANGE.

$40 acres level. rich land, located n
Weld county. Colorado: 10 acres IN fal
wheat, which Is sure TO have big cropl
40 acres will be in corn and 10 acres II
flax. within two miles of one town and
four miles of another; owner wants u
trade for Omaha property or acreage neal
Omaha. there Is a loan on the land Of
ESQ. which has about four years to rum
deal.
HASTINGS q HEyDEN. 1874 Harvey 81,
Omaha daily bee., 1912-04-28
11a STORY BUNGALOW

Five rooms. all modern, oak finish,
beamed ceiling, paneled walls, full cell
lar, white enamel castings, with oak floors
upstairs. year old, north part. Price.
JEFF W. BEDFORD q SON,
coo Brandeis Theater. Douglas ss7s.s
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-17

to the demand because of the impossi-
bilty of producing more than few
hundred pounds at a melt This discovery
will greatly reduce the cost of high
grade steel tools.
The great center OF electro-chemical &C.
tivfty in the United States is Niagara
Falls. where the water power OF the fails
is utilized in supplying electric energy
Experiments Of all kinds are continually
going on in the various plants located
there. One OF the most recent which has
become successful is the manufacture OF
vanilla by passing an electric current over
cloves An excellent substitute for the
extract OF the vanilla bean has been pro-
duced which it is claimed will not come
under the ban of the pure food law
Economy scores another triumph In the
utilization of the cloves again as spices.
but here a small deception has been prac-
ticed. for the method by which the SUBJ
stance has been taken to produce the va
nilla fiavoring has faded the cloves so
that they are light color. They have,
therefore, to be subjected to dyeing
process before they can be sold again as
natural spices, although it is claimed
they lose little Of their recognized flavor
by being subjected to the vanilla making
process.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-17
BOULEVARD BILL PASSES
ASFOESARE OFF GUARD
Improvement of Spring Road
Is Provided by Senate
Measure.

While the opponents Of the bill were
on guard yesterday afternoon the Senate
passed the bill for the widening and ex-
tension of Spring road and for other high
way changes that will provide hand
some boulevard to connect the grounds
OF soldiers Home with Rock Creek Park,
and that will provide a new and beauti-
ful entrance to the park from 18th street
The legislation is backed by the Dis
trict Commissioners, and was favorably
acted upon by the Senate District COM
m1ttee. But the committee has received
many protests against the BILL
The Commissioners urged this legisla-
ton as the most important street i'm
provement legislation pending before
Congress.
City Heads Back Plan.
In their report, outlining the proposals
of the bill and its aims, the Commits
sioners said to the District committee:
The object Of the bill is to provide for
a slight change in the highway plan in
the vicinity of Spring road between New
Hampshire avenue and Goth street, so as
to permit of the opening of this road
without condemning certain improve
ments. and so as to make it conform
more nearly to the Topography Of that
street; and to provide for the condemna-
ton Of the land necessary to widen 14th
street road, from 18th street to 18th
street: to extend Perry place from its
present western terminus to 10Th street;
to extend Mount Pleasant street and 18th
street to Spring road; and to open Spring
road from New Hampshire avenue to
Rock Creek Park at Goth street.
There Is no part of the District Of
Columbia which is developing more rapid
~ than the section through which it is
proposed to extend the streets as con-
templated in this draft Of bill. The land
necessary for opening Spring road, with
the connecting streets provided for
should undoubtedly be acquired before
the land is developed and buildings
erected within the proposed street lines
If this were done and the grades estab-
lished, the present uncertainty as to the
street development in this section would
be removed and private improvements in
the locality would rapidly follow In
addition. the openings of these highways
will afford a driveway from Soldiers
Home to Rock Creek Park, and when
improved 1t will make one Of the most
beautiful entrances to the park from 1,th
street.
The amount Of land proposed to be
taken under the condemnation proceed
ings would be about, 81 acres, and its
value is estimated at .$57. COO"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-17
LAUREL CANNOT. HAVE
SPRHNGRAcE MEET
Governor of Maryland vetoes
Bill and Stops Curley
Brown.

NEW YORK. April 17.-Although dates
were selected and the Jockey Club
granted sanction for a spring meeting
at Curley Browns new race track at
Laurel. Nd. everything has been declared
on. Gov. Goldsborough OF Maryland has
vetoed the bill legalizing fifteen days In
the spring and fifteen days in. the
fall for racing at Laurel with q memo
randum setting forth that the meas
ure really would have permitted continu-
Gus racing there for eight months in
the year Laurel. however. can hold
a meeting in October under the provisions
Of state law which has been in effect
for some time
In place Of Laurel spring meeting it
is announced that Marlboro will race, Is
the Governor Of Maryland has signed a
bill permitting thirty days racing
there. Marlboro. therefore, will fol-
low P.mlico with more than twenty
days. which will carry the Maryland
campaign well into June. The hurdles
put up for Curley Brown in Maryland
ousy. Laurel is too formidable in equip
ment and location to be rreljshed by the
Pimlico people. who naturally are
laughing in their sleeves at Browns I'M
expected setback AS the Maryland
Laurel. 1T would seem, will have to be
satisfied with an autumn session until
it can secure another law.
Brown had laid plans for big meeting
at Laurel from May 18 to June % He
had arranged a list of attractive stakes
and purses and had received assurances
from leading stables that they would
race. Many improvements In the new
plant had been devised and Brown in
| tended to spend more money in finishing
| the track, opened last year for the first
time. With exceptional railroad facilities,
by which patrons could reach Laurel in
less than thirty minutes either from
Baltimore or Washington, stepping out
| of the trains into the grandstand, the
track owners expected much prosperity.
1t is estimated that Brown built Laurel
| for at least 100000. and that much of
this money was furnished by well known
| residents Of this city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-17
TO HOLD ANNUAL SOCIAL.
South American Club to Celebrate
Saturday Evening.

The South American Club, which rep
resents the foreign interests Of the Young
Woman's Christian Association, has ar
ranged to hold its annual social at the
association rooms, 18th and + streets
northwest, Saturday evening. Supper will
be served from to $50 o'clock. The COM
mittee in charge consists Of Mrs. Her.
man 8. Pinkham. chairman: Mrs. +. g.
Hubbard. Miss Alice Deal and Miss Imo-
gene James
The close of the years work of the
religious work department, under the di-
rect!on OF Miss Alice NJ. Holmes. is be-
ing celebrated by a series of outings at
Vacation Lodge at Chcrrydale. Va. 4 din-
ner party was given at the lodge Mon-
day evening, followed by a musical pro.
gram.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-17
POGGENBURG AT HOME.
American Champion Speaks Of Inter.
national Billiards in Paris.

NEW YORK, April III. Ferdinand
Poggenburg of the Liederkranz Club, the
amateur billiard champion, arrived yes
terday from abroad on the steamer
George Washington, after his unsuccess-
full competition In the recent Paris tour
nament. won by Mortier. who. he asserts.
Is the best amateur billiardist in the
world. Aside from his participation In
the French series Poggenburg carried
instructions from the National Associa-
ton Of Amateur Billiard Players to form
ulate an arrangement for alternate tour
naments to be played In New York and
in Paris.
1t developed that this scheme was not
considered feasible, but 1t has all but
been decided to have a challenge trophy.
which will be held by the champion, to
be played for at time and place selected
by the holder. the games to be Of !, 100
points duration, and continue through
three or four evenings.
This would do away with the long
drawn-out tournaments, such as the last
one in Paris. which scheduled forty-five
games and lasted over two weeks, with
at times four days Intervening before q
contestant would reach one Of his games.
Poggenburg said that the playing con-
ditions were generally better than here.
and that he thought the climatic condi-
tlOIo Va = al 10 NVAO0VASC ~ OCSkSA WINES oS
by an American than our own He adj
mitted that the equipment was not as
good as In America, and that the condi-
tons which governed the tournament in
which he competed were totally at va
rance with those which obtain here,
where the Journeys are played in clubs.
In Paris the international series was
played in q public room. where the play
ers were not well protected from the
criticisms and remarks OF the oniookers.
The system in the French capital called
for q marker, who Tailed each point a.
IL was scored, and referee. who was
seated, and did not therefore. follow the
players around the table. except in cases
when q possible close decision was neces-
Sary.
Poggenburg believes that American
those he played against with the possible
exception OF Nortier. He said that he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-17
The Transfer Bill.


see by the newspapers frequent de-
mands made upon Congress for a uni
versal transfer law and asking for other
reductions Of fare. l have been in the
street railway service for over twenty
years, and In the name of about 1000
other employees of the Washington Rail-
way and Electric Company, and who are
depending on this company to support
our families and who are citizens of this
District, feel 1t would be an unjust bur-
den on the railway companies to make
any further reduction In fare. We, the
employees OF this company, do not see
how labor could be benefited by such a
law. The reports sent to Congress show
the Washington Railway and Electric
Company carried during last year more
than 100000 passengers. but Of this
number about 21,O0OOOO rode on free
transfers. l understand that the street
railway companies have to pay a tax Of
one-sixth of cent on every fare col
lected to the treasury Of the District gov
eminent. which reduces the fare now
charged to 4 cents. and after taking into
consideration the cost OF furnishing free
transportation to 600 people on ac-
count OF free transfers now issued this
reduces the average fare to about cents
straight. The people can get ride OF
from eight to ten miles much cheaper
than In other cities,> and where the orfgi-
nal cost OF construction IL much cheaper
tnan IN washington. Inc people KNOW
that the Washington Railway and Elec-
trio Company has had q hard time to
make both ends meet on account OF hay
Ing bought a lot Of rundown street rail-
way properties that the best equipped
brain in the management could not make
pay before they were sold.
The gentlemen managing the Washing
ton Railway and Electric. Company have
increased the values Of suburban prop
erty along its lines many millions Of
dollars by granting liberal free transfers
on all lines under their control: but with
the most skilled managers In control they
have not been able to make them all pay,
from what ] can understand. The man.
agement OF the Washington Railway and
Electric Company have always played
fair with the men employed by them.
They have steadily advanced the wages
Of motormen and conductors from 16
cents per hour to 2Sh cents per hour
during the eleven years they have been
In control. Physicians are furnished free
to all employees. and they are retired.
when they get 30 they cannot work. on
from 20 per cent to 40 per cent Of what
they are earning at the time Of retire
ment. / think a. m employee OF this
company and AZ citizen of this District
that to pass universal transfer law
without increasing the rate OF fare to
cents straight would be unjust to the
street railways Of this District. and II
would be reducing our chances OF sup
porting our families. which. in my opin-
ioa. would be against labor and not TOT
It. EDWARD G. ELLIOTT.
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GETS $1,000 FOR INJURIES.
Mrs. India Bagby Wins Suit Against
Stilson Hutchins,

A verdict against Stilson Hutchins,
owner OF Convention Hall, for s. 600, was
rendered by jury In Circuit Court No.
late yesterday afternoon. as damages
for injuries received by Mrs. India Basby.
who fell from q platform in the hall dur
ing the food show in November, 1909.
The Retail Grocers' Protective Associa-
ton, holder Of the food show, which was
jointly sued, was exonerated by the jury
from blame in connection with the &C.
cident.
Attorneys Wharton E. Lester and
Michael J. Colbert represented the plain
till. Mr.. Hutchins was represented by
Attorneys Brandenburg & Brandenburg.
and Attorney c. F. Diggs appeared for
the grocers' association.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-17
ASKS FOR RECEIVER.
President Nolan Says Pope Automo
bile Company Is Insolvent.

John H. Nolan, president Of the Pope
Automobile Company. has applied to the
District Dupreme Court for dissolution
Of the corporation and the appointment
Of q receiver. Through attorneys Ellis
& Donaldson, Mr.. Nolan declares the
company hopelessly insolvent. He owns
stock Of the company valued at $14,25O,
more than half the issue. The debts Of
the corporation are estimated at $18,-
SS1.15, and the assets will not exceed
$12,137.35, Mr.. Nolan tells the court
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-17
tstry is electric energy, which may be
supplied by
Common Salt Cheap three classes
pa.. ~ rr..nf..4 Of apparatus.

Base OF Manufacture. nans,p,. a,a.
trolyuc apparatus, electric arcs and cleo
trio furnaces. Tie electrolytic apparatus
utilizes the separating or decomposing
powers Of the electric current. An cleo
trolysis of water has been the base of
several new industries. Water as a raw
material costs nothing. Apply an electric
current to it In the right way and 1t is
resolved into its constituent gases, hydro
gen and oxygen, as cleanly and perfectly
as could be desired. These gases have
many uses and have q commercial value
europe possesses many manufacturing
plants devoted to this industry.
Another natural chemical which is very
cheap as the base Of manufac ture is
common salt. Centuries ago chemists and
alchemists devised processes for trans
forming 1t into other sodium salts, such
as caustic soda or soda I've for soap maxi
Ing, soda ash or bicarbonate for washing
or glass making and several other forms
1t is said that in Great Britain alone
more than 100000 was invested in this
industry. Within the past twenty years
and 1t is not only holding it's own with
the older processes, but 1t is advancing so
rapidly that it Is believed that within
the next twenty years 1t will entirely
supersede them. By this process the salt
Is dissolved, In water and by the action
of the current 1t is converted into caustic
soda at one electrode and into chlorine
gas at the other. BY some device these
are kept separate from each other and
the process is complete. 1t is simplicity
itself as compared with the older chem
zeal methods. The only agent consumed
is electric energy, and the products are
clean and pure.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-17
ELECTRO-CH CHEMISTRY.
By Frederic J. Haskin.

Although comparatively little Is known
to the laymen regarding the doings of the
learned scientists who will be in attend
ance upon the twenty-flrst general meet
ing of the American Electro-Chemical So
ciety. which will begin in Boston tomor-
row, there are few organizations which
contribute in a more practical manner
to the Industrial development OF the
country. There is hardly q trade or an
industry which has not been benefited to
some extent by the discoveries Of the
men who compose the membership of
this organization. It was said recently
that the consumption OF sulphuric acid
measures the degree Of culture and re-
finement Of a country. This Is truly the
golden. bronze and iron age rolled into
one. and the development Of new means
of producing these metals is only one of
the benefits the recent discoveries In cleo
tro-chemistry are giving to the world.
A few years ago each new event of
progress In eiectro-chemistry had an al
most sensational character. The install
lation of new electric furnace often
meant the foundation of a whole new in
dustry, but 1t is quite different now.
Electro-chemical processes are no longer
in the experimental stage The electric
IuTHdCc plants VI I<idSdTd dilS, Tie cicS-
trolytic copper refineries of New York
harbor, the electroiytic caustic and
chlorine plants, the aluminium industry
all are now established industries. work
ing probably each year and showing
safe advance in the conquests Of the
market. Many Of these processes at the
beginning seemed not to be feasible. but
with their successful operation there
came a recognition on the part Of con-
servative business people of the practi-
cal commercial value of the scientific
work of the electro-chemists.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-17
Death Comes Without Warning.

A young colored man named John
Thomas, who resided at 642 L street
southeast. died suddenly last night about
Z o'clock. He was sitting on the front
porch at his home when he was stricken.
Death occurred before a physician could
be summoned. Coroner hewitt gave .
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-17

had played as good as ever in his life,
having made six runs Of over 100 during
the series. He found himself weak on
his cushion carom play becaust of the
cushions on the tables in use there.
In his nursing and close play he did as
well as at any time in his career. The
tournament was the biggest success and
the fastest that had ever been seen
among amateurs. most Of whom at differ
ent times made averages of Is.
Poggenburg announces that he will play
no more billiards until next winter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-17

An oratorical contest held at George
Washington University last evening re-
suited In the following award of prizes:
First. Harold Keats: second. Miss Anna
L. Rose, and third, Herman B. Chubb.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-17

Democrats at Fredericksburg. Va. will
meet at the courthouse Monday next to
elect delegates and aiternates to the state
convention. which meets In
Norfolk May %.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-17

THE lnvestigs tor" tale of love and
politics. by James Hay, IT,, In our next
Sunday Magazine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-17
0xidizing Of Ozone
an Aid to Health,


Ozone is being made from air by the DIS
charge Of h.gh-tension electric current.
Ozone is used extensively for purifying
air and drinking water. 1t makes I'm
pure water'safe to drink and purifies the
air Of assembly halls and sick rooms
According to all appearances. this electro
chemical doubling up OF oxygen into a
more efficient ox.dizing form is develop
ing into simple and highly efficient aid
to healthy living.
Chill saltpeter has secured hundreds
of millions of dollars by supplying the
nitrate acid needed by farmers for ferti-
lizer. 1t has been shipped to I'll parts
of the world, but electro-chemistry has
provided means by which every coun-
try may produce Its own nitrate salts and
thus be Independent of. any foreign sup
ply. The air we breathe contains uncom-
bined nitrogen and oxygen gases, which.
II combined and brought into contact
with water, furnish the exact constituents
of nitric acid. The way to do this has
now been found, using the electro arc
as the instrument. Air Is blown into the
electric arc, where. for an instant, 1t par
takes OF the enormous temperature. and
on leaving the arc 1t is cooled as quickly
Of nitrogen and oxygen is affected to an
extent and the quick cooling Of the mix
ture prevents Its having time to disunite.
The nitrogen oxides thus obtained are
drawn through water and the nitric acid
Is run upon soda to produce sodium nj
trate or upon lime to produce calcium
nitrate. This last product would entirely
replace the South American fertilizer.
This industry has already been highly
developed In Norway, and the product,
known as Norwegian saltpeter." Is now
upon the market.
The electric furnace il accomplishing