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SECTION THREE PAGES 1 TO-10 ' ; - ) (v, , ",: ' ; I V'V'''. .. i - ,1.. '', ' f HOW PHONES ARE MADE 4i HK CX3STLY MATERIAL! NEEDED -.r,'- . . . ' ' " Qiuuter of the Globe Wber the ; t-l't Innmunent .Installed To-ljr ac ; toOy Wm Tluree Tear. Ao The Source, of tho Valcaoite, ' Carbon, . , Almminuin ud Bum. Tlie PreMnt , . "j. KjiormoM Output an Index of Ma :'T Uoaal Proaperlty. . - I Correpondno of Tb Obervfcr. N.iTs Tork, Sept '18.- "There', an :r epitome of our pr.Mnt prosperity in r - the croM Motion of .very telephon. '.' receiver or transmitter that coe. out .j engineer the' other day. "It Un't i wonaernn - inu ui ivrii di uwionw all over tht country ar. working over f 'time In the effort to keep np with , their orders, for the currant demand for telephonic apparatus U, I suppose, ,.d fair crtterion." . - -i j, - : : tentlon to recent figure, of the output of Instruments, showing that In ' th. first six months of rltdf th. gross output of Bell telephones was nearly 1,200,000 and th. net output, with the number of returned " Instruments de ' ducted, mora than 800,000. A. tele , phone transmitter and secelver -ar. accounted stparat. ( instruments, the ' statement means that In th. first half of 1800 about 400,000 telephones, as ' the word is ordinarily understood, were added to the ' Bell system much greater number tnan was ever added in the corresponding period of j any other year. The output, further more, even during th. warm months whfn Industrial strenuousnesa rv.rr- ' where lets up a little, has kept right ;on, so that Jong before the current - year closes there must be In Optra tlon considerably more than 1,000,000 stations of the vast Interconnected or- . panlietlon which was first to occupy the telephone field.' : t - -. And a little imagination, based on ;. plnln fact, rt veals a Vemarkable story of the ransacking of four quarters of j the globe In order that every Amerl csn may talk with every other, how- ( ever distant. The separate parts of tha teltiphono that go ,t the sub- ' scrlher to-day were, two ' or thre. yenrs ago to bn found In widely; scat tered locaHtls under th. earth In Montana, liichlgan and 1'snneylvanla; m ' ' 1 ill 1 J 11 1 w u ?:H:?.Wi C 05Ktowhip SOUL so to speaL How wefl the Great House of CHAS. VL STIEFF Sfife succeeded is shown in his Artistic Piano from its first conception to -the present day From the beginning he sold the 5"feTOjw;:of:to the home and when , the commercial piano came into the piano business and each dealer prices in order to increase his '(the dealer's) profit, Mr. Steiff refused to lower the Standard "of his Pianos as others did who expected their name to overcome the deficiency, opened his own warerooms - '- -. . ... ' . Jf and dec This-alone is the reason you can buy the GREAT ARTISTIC STEIFF and SHAW PIANO at the price you would be asked for medium or more likely cheap grades elsewhere. I Y C. H. WILMOTH, Manager. Southern Warerooms, Burwell & Dunn Building, 5 West at th. bottom of th bogs In Sweden; in hot. miaamlo awawpa of South America and Central, Africa; In beds of beauxlte of northeast Georgia; In the spruce forests of the great North west. (The diverse .foments nnatyy com. together in th. New York and Chicago factories of th. Western Electrto Company, the manufacturing auxiliary of th. Bell companies of the United States. . In th. New. York establishment alone, after all th. parts hav. been assembled, (8 p.opl. give their entire tlm. to putting together the finished piece, of th. transmitters, 84 people to the piece, or th. receivers, while 81 .killed artisan, dismantle Instru ments that need repair, often through th. insertion of some minute part which has worn out before the rest of th. apparatus. In the total work of' preparing these and others por tion, of the ' familiar telephone ays tem, mora han 10.0.00 people tn the United Bute, alone are, employed, constituting th. greatest single elec trical company, in- the world on. having at present on its payroll, .In cluding th. establishments In-foreign countries, about 88,880 person.. . . . ,t Look for a moment at th. material, of th. receiver a. It hang, oh it. hook. Th. most apparent part of It consist, of three rubber moulded part. mad. from vulcanite,. material 'which re calls the stery of the endeavors of Charles Goodyear to discover a v pro cess of hardening th. raw rubber which he had been using for" covering overshoes, Goodyear had learned that sulphur powder could be used as a drying agent- and by accident one day, s.m... sulphur-dried rubber fall ing frbm his hands upon a rod-hot stove, hardened thr. instead of melt ing a. he would i have expected. Forthwith the Inventor if ad the Inns; sought for clue, and speedily patented the process of . vulcanising, without which th. telephone industry might hav. been seriously hampered these many-years.' .;. -..v -i., .'; Into the making Of about 4,000 of these- receivers a day, which ar. for warded to Bell subscribers' In .very nook, and crsnny of the .'United States, a goodly quantity of Vulcanite goes as one might learn by weighing the ; material In the recflvr, ami multiplying It by say,1 1.000,000, th. proxltnste number of telephon. sta ve to ui system. ' Th. pr.riouf m;mmmm I exerted every effort to produce a better Piano than his heart in nis work determined to M mm, UO history of th. hard.'-dark substance covering th. delicate apparatus of a given receiver would be difficult to trace. Such I. the .ub-dlvlalon of production in modern Industry that the telephone . manufacturer has no direct concern with the processes of manufacture of vulcanite or th. so urres of the supply of crude rubber, whether It comes from th. Congo Stat., where the negro rubber gather ar, working among long cabls-llk. vines, smears his body with sap, which, drying on. Is pulled off at th tax collection station In thin sheets; or whether-it arrive, her. from th. desolate swamps of th. Amason, haunted by th. silent Guaranls, or from the ague-breeding woodland of Central America, Ail that is requir ed of th. vulcanite, which la purchas ed from th. largest produo.r of th. material In th. United State,-is that it shall conform to 'certain - exacting standards which engineering necessity has imposed. ' Th. saro. truth applies to th. other elments of th. receiver, to th. permanent magnet mad. of a special grade of magnet steel, rolled In Penn sylvania mill, and bought for th. New Tork factor!., in (0-ton lota with sur prising frequency. In each receiver the pol. pieces at th. end . of the permanent magnet represent fin. quality of what is known In th. trad, as Norway Iron though It la actually for th. moat part produced In Sweden. Th. paper insulation of th. spools demands th. finest kind of - bond mad. In th. Berkshire Hills, In th. horn, town of th. Junior Senator from Massachusetts. Many a telephon. subscriber has wondered what Is In th.tcenter of th. receiver. If" he lok.d Insld h. would find there- a plummet weighing about one-third of a pound a small weight In the single Instrument but on. that must reach a total of In th. neighbor hod of . 1.000,000 pounds tied up In th. receivers of th. Bell system. Nearly air this la American lead mined In Illinois, Missouri and other Statos. : Then ! there . Is th. ' ferro typ. diaphragm ' which - convey, vibration to, th. air. . ' It r, la simply a Xrry thin sheet of'Japaned Iron. ' In each of the bl-polar colls are. found .888 feet of magnet wire Insulated with silk. About 178 mile. of this tiny thread la sent out dally, or Mora "than enough' In th receivers of on. year's production to . stretch twice around the globe. This wlr. la Insulated with th. best silk obtainable In the market , The (little brass screws used In th. receiver do credit fb th. clevor workmanship of th. factories, of a Connecticut corpora tion, v :Viv"-V.v A similar tale is t6 be told of th. contents of -the- transmitter, with dif ferences) for these -two Instruments, which-ar. mads for . use of , the com panies of ' th Bell - system.' have, of course,' different characteristics ac cording to their employment ,: Th mouthpieces, , for .sample. of . th. transmitter are no longvr of vulcanite, as they- were some years ago. They ar. fashioned from a composition of the same general characteristics and appearance. but superior -In certain respects for th. purposes of the In strument. ' Then, too, ther Is a dla phra arrant mads of sheet aluminum, a metal the ealstenceif. which was pre dicted by that strange Swiss genius Paracelsus, th. last of th. alchemists. who uttered a striking prophecy when he declared that th well-known min eral allum had a metallic base. Thre. nunarea years later it was duly dis covered,; In th. old Csy. Its coot would have mad., it prohibitive for th. purpose of the telephone manu facturer, for In 1868 a pound of It cost $100. To-day It is down to a point where It Is less than twice as expensive as copper, and where the markets of the telephone are able to get the benefit of Its lightness and its extreme -ductility and malleability. It cornea from Pittsburg. In the button of th transmitter are carbon electrodes, and one also finds particles .of a very fin. -quality of granular carbon which the Western Eleotrlo Company manufactures for Its own uses. This is on. of the ab solutely essential components. For th. rest, there are In the transmitter little rubber cushions and blocks -and rubber bands as well as special springs whloh hold the dia phragm In place. In th. whol. "head," a' the engineer, term it on. finds actually about on. and three-eights pounds of brass,. . Multiply that weight by 4,f00, th. number of trans mitters turned out la a day, and that agsln by th. number of working day. in th. year, and you will get a, form Idable total, on that helps-to explain why .very copper mine In th. United State. . being, worked to Its utmost capacity, and why the bras manu facturers . of th. Nutm g stat. ar. pressing Into service all th. skilled laborerf they can secure. , r ' Th. Outside stand of ThY transmit ter, which-Is not counted In the In strument output Is, at the same tlmt, an Important part-involving th. us. of great quantities of the"' metals which, though not called precious, ar nevertheless coming to be regarded by the electrical Industries as belonging nearly In th. seml-preclous class. Th. very obvious nickel plating recalls the story of th. honesty of a New York chemist who made this metal cheaper than It-formerly as by pointing out Immense deposits of it In Canada. A copper enlne near Sudbury, Ontario, had for years been sending Its ore to New Yott to be smelted. One dsy the account returned from New York siVnsd by a new head of th. assaying department credited a shipment mi or. with several poundsof a substance then acaree, " nickel, t"h. owners of th copper mine had nyer suspected Its existence before, - Investigation r vtolsd th. richest njck.t mln. la tb mmmmmt jSMneasjnBMaMM mm mmmmmm mmmmma mmm Manufacturer of the Artistic Stieff and Shaw Pianos. Charlotte, N. C. Trade St., Storage 20 West Fifth St. s world, and made possible the. clean, sllghty surface of th. desk telephone of to-day. Northerners In the South. The Southern Field. The writer was In the office of a school board in a Virginia town not long ago and found the president and secretary signing the pay . warrants of th. teachers. The two men had opposed each other In the war, th. one having served In a Connecticut regiment and the other under Lee. Both ar. now the warmest of friends, sensible men that they are, and both are busy with projects to make their community more prosperous. And another man in th. aam. town, soma years from New Hampshire, was run- uMng a mill whloh turned out a com modity marketed -, In Boston, and thousands of dollars had come back as a result and became a part of th. wealth of 4h. community. - Th. Northern man goes South to find ohurchea,1 'schools, benevolent and social 'organisations, and a home life of the. highest type. He finds, too, a land favored above any oih.r part of th United States In resources ofsoll. mln. and jforest. Nowher. els. is there a finer .water supply. Nowhere else on the continent of North America can a living be mad. from fewer-acres,, and a batter liv ing, whan th. mere fact of physical comfort la consldcrod. " ' ,i- . - " ' ";: rractlcwl rulltkw. , :f , ffy' ', Ntr- Tork 1un.!i;, ):;.(.',:' K Knlcker Has ' Spollbinder ..a .ood dnllvryf ...l . .-,w'.--:1i; '. , v ,,,,-. Bocker Detter stOlj ' h. delivers th. gOOdS.",-.: .V:' '.-'.'.-.?'--; THK OmaiNAU ..'.-v. - ' Foley -A Co., Clues so. orlRlnated Ifonev mil Tir as a tljoat and lung remedy, snd on amount of the treat merit snd popularity of Foley's , Honey and Tar many leiltatlons sr offered for the genuine. Tlfess worthless imitations hsva slinllsr sounding names. - Heware of tlim. The a-nnlne Foley's Honey and Tar Is In a yellow nackagn. Ask for H and refuse any substitute, It Is the best remedy for eougt and colds, K. U. Jor dan Co, ' , . : ,v ."(a..,., ? : 'VtfV,:--- ;V wmm FIGHTING BOB HAD THE FACTS. A Hitherto Untold Story Shows That. Ho 8pvaks by the Hook. t Harper. Weekly. Th naval review at Oyster Bay, because Jt was commanded by Ad miral Robley D. Evans, perhaps re calls an Incident of the Spanish war which has not before been written about. It may bn that its recital at this time will holp to show how ae purat a man Is this office, who ha. suffered somewhat from a false con ception of his character. Admiral Sampson had determined Ao begin the war by the bombard ment of Havana, and on April 4, 1888, Evans, then captain, wrote a letter to th then editor of Harper Week ly, containing this paragraph: "I ahall have the honor of leading in the Iowa, and when we open, at about 800 yard, with Indiana oloeo astern. If those poor chaps from th Maine don't giggle in their coffins it will be a wonder." , This wus the pregnant part of th Irttcr. Sampson wan forbldd.n from Washington o attack Havana, much to his (ilitupiolntmnt and wrath. To one sitting at a distance, not knowing Rvans, and knowing of tha proposed bombnrdmet only as a rumor, th let ter might have seemed a bit Of blus ter. But after s f w month, chance put the log hook of the New Tork, the flagship, In the way of th. recipient of the letter, and there he read Sntnpson's ordor for the bombardment of Havana, giving the order of th hips and designating th. distance a which the firing ahould begin, pre rlseJy at Kvans had stated them In th. letter. But why go in to within 800 yards of the new forts, which were much more heavily armed Chan the ship, of Sampson's fleet T Months after reading th. log book th. recipient of th. letter attended a dinner given In honor of Admiral Sampson. The Admiral mad. there one of th. few speeches of hie life, and 4n It h told the reason a reason characterise tic of his keen judgment and of hi. boldness for selecting 800 yards. H. had found out that a short time be fore th. Spaniard, had momentarily awakened from their usual torpor and had practised from th. neat work, firing at floating targets.They had floated these target, past , their gun at 8.000 yards. v ' - , , Sampson at one. concluded that they supposed that h. would attack a that distance and quickly deter mined to go In at 800 yards, for, hrf explained, th Spaniard, having onca fixed their sights for a target 8,000 yards away- would not be ablo- to change them, but would Br. over Ms ship until he had - dismounted their heavy piece with til. rapid nr. gun So to 'chain' waa completed, .for had the facta . and the ;, reason for them. . ' '. k'-w v1. v.--". -v t;"1- ''',' i MEN PAST SIXTY 1N-TJAN01CR. -klwca than half of menkdlnd over slaty year of ag miner - from ; kidney, and bladder disorders, . usually ' nlramnt of prostate gland. This Is both painful nil Asnssrotia. and Foley's Kidney Cur should be takes at the first slsn of dnn per,, as It eorrects Irregularltle and bs rure mnny via twn i mis nmwn. car. Rodney Hurnett Kock Port, Mo., writes: "I surfered with enlaraed prostrate and kklnev trouhle for yefire and sfter taking twe Mtiiea -or rnieys hMney king two bottles of Kolsy's Kidney ure i feel better than I have for twenty is r. although I am row 11 years old." , U. Mia Co. :: . ; Cur I years, n. SECTION TI KE 1 PAGES 1 TO , 10 'v t mm -J I-" i'f V Y-'- i CLERKS' Horns IX GERMAXY. . . ' ;r - . t. , Effort to Bo Away With Long Midday1 Heat. ' : ' Berlin Cor. London Standard. ' ' A discussion Is going on In corn-', merclal circles in Germany regarding the respective merits of th. English,', snd German systems of arranging, the hours of work In banks, companyj , offices and big business housea- It has always been customary 'In Germany for clerks and accountants.-, and all workers of this class, to be gin work considerably earlier than Is the case In England, and to terminal work In the evening much later-than , Is usual in London. Work begins. In German offices, as a rule, at 8 o'clock In th morning and Is frequently -not concluded before o'clock in the-, evening. Partial compensation ' for the early beginning and lat termina tion Is obtained by staking .a- two . houra pause at midday, but even with this break th total houra worked tn German Offices eonaiderably exceed -those in English oftlcea, .specially as ' a half holiday on Saturday Is still an exceptional arrangement la Germany. An agitation la now going - on for ' ' the abolition of th long midday In-' i. tcrval and of th. Introduction of the hours of work usual In ; English' offices. Many German business men. -however, resist the. Innovation and persist In maintaining th old-fashioned system. ,, . ' , t Many German stock brokers, com-. , pany directors, directors of banks and! captains of Industrw- adopt a curious arrangement by which they din. at o'clock In th .afternoon and after ward return' to their office, frona f till In th evening.' - . Those Germans who have, had prac tical experience of office work in England ar unanimous In declaring that English clerks do Just as much In six or seven hour, as German clerk In nln or ten hours, and advance thin as a strong argument In favor of th general adoption of th. English houra of work In offices. -' A few of the big banks In Berlin hav already got as far as a working day oT eight hours, from in th.. morning till I In th afternoon, witu two hour lees on Saturday, when th close at 8 o'clock. ' IFor th. Observer. ' , ' pCTOBER,- . ' . , I am not old. Oh, no. I stand Jut vhn Time's river widens In a broad expanse And beart the ocean Of th year. I bear upon my breast full fruitage of ttto . ;i.t . v V.- :, '.- . - Far up between th slowly purpling bus Th. trees gav trlbut,and the broi k i ' 'June :, " ": - 7V 1 :. .r Bor. on til. offering. Back In tha wn. Wher illeno dwtll, "sara tor the n: t ('f birds.' :v . , On 'fall pf ripening nut. I wn ir-rr-Crowned alth th seanom" iik-inir, . - with arms '' Full of rich promLca. Arr in f ' Oleanv white. , whii'? tu.ir i n u- -, barm thiit lioll fteward of honnt toll. (:. v. t 'rests ' I'pon my fruitful H- ! . Oetober In my nnm. 1 - Must glnil of all the , bind . The pint unr the futm I of reuiy and ot hoix-. I Of, har.vett Jy, an.l a l -' h-urt4 And arHcloua doijiU, n 1 i f.r.l Who orowns th yir v i ; . - -with, ptacul
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