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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 31, 1922)
Roads Make Many Improvements in Year Just Ended U. P. Spends $12,500,000 for New Equipment — Burling ton Installs New Shops— Many Other Advances. ' Railroads serving Omaha have mada many lmprovmcnta during 1922. The Union Pacific, wh!«h maintains headquarters here for Its entire sys tem, announced in a statement Issued yesterday that it has spent $12,500, 000 for new equipment during the year. These new equipment purchases In clude 4,500 freight cars, 25 baggage cars, 20 coaches, 45 locomotives, 30 cabooses and 100 tank cars. The road spent $49,000 In the con struction of a 600,000-gallon steal tank and $44,000 In track Improve ments In Council Bluffs; $41,000 for oil cellar. $42,000 for track Improve ment, $152,000 on the Tenth etreet viaduct reconstruction, and $40,000 on telegraph line improvements. Branch line Completed. The Union Pacific also states It spent $1,200,000 on 175 miles of rail Improvements, of which 111 miles were In Nebraska and Wyoming. It rebuilt 154 miles of telegraph line in Nebraska at a cost of $230,000, and completed the North Platte branch extension from Ilalg to Cottier at a total cost of $3,600,000, of which $560, 000 was expended during 1922. The Burlington, which maintains general offices in Omaha for Its lines west of the Missouri, reports the In stallation of large new shops at Den ver, now about 20 per cent completed. Involving an expenditure of about $2,500,000. I^irge modern power plants have been Installed at Havelock, Platti mouth, Idncoln, McCook, Alliance and Denver by the Burlington and new modern coaling stations have been or are being Installed at Red Cloud, Fairmont. Benkleman and Bridgeport. New depots have been built at Riverton, Franklin, Mitfchell, Mlnatare, Neb,, Fort Morgan, Colo.; Lodge Crass, and Hardin. Mont., and Thermopolls, Wyo., replacing struc tures that were no longer capable of accommodating the great Increased business. Beet line Constructed. A 12 mile beet line has been con structed north from Hardin, Mont. Thirty-two Mikado heavy fast freight engines and eight new mountain type fast passenger engines were pur chased during the year by the Bur lington and an order for 60 new Mikado engines to be delivered early in the spring has been placed. Among other equipment purchases are 1,500 new box cars of latest type, 1,050 re frigerator cars, 500 single deck stock ears, 2,000 steel coal cars; 500 steel underframe automobile cars, 42 coaches; 22 mall and baggage cars and 10 80-foot dining cars. Tho Burlington has laid In Ne * hraska, Colorado and Wyoming a to tal of 115 miles of new heavy raH and approximately 22 miles of second' hand rail. Its 1923 budget calls for the laying of 150 miles of new rail and 75 miles of second hand rail. In ad dition to many other Improvements. 1922 Breaks All Previous Chicago Building Records Chicago, Dec- 30.—All building rec ords in Chicago were smashed when the building commissioner's office \ closed its books for 1922. A total of 12,596 permits for buildings valued at $229,168,500 were Issued, exceed ing by nearly $100,000,000 the best previous annual record. Permits is sued in December alone totaled 779 for an aggregate expenditure of ap proximately $30,000,000. One of the largest single projects will be the erection of the world’s largest hotel, a 20-story brick and stone structure on South Michigan boulevard, just south of the Black stone hotel, by the Stevens interests, owners of the Hotel LaSalle, for which a permit for expenditure of $8,023,500 was issued today. Brandeis Restaurants to Be Open New Year's Day Brandeis restaurants will not he open for New Year's eve "Inasmuch as New Year’s eve falls on Sunday this year, and owing to the fact that the Brandeis restau rants have never been opened on Sunday 1 decided that it would not he fair to the faithful employes of our restaurants to rsk them to give up their holiday,” explained George Brandeis yesterday. "Our rtstaurants will he open on New Year's day and New Tears night, which we feel will amply take care of our patrons. Everyone likes a rest on Sunday." Records Hrokcn l>y Year in County Clerk’g Office The past year was a record breaker for the office of county clerk accord ing to figures compiled by Frank Dewey. There were 20.099 mortgages amounting to $29,148,S64.86 filed which shows that business again is oij the boom. Tills a third larger than the previous year. There were 7,393 releases amounting to $6,787,580.74. Two hundred and forty-eight firms filed incorporation papers. Three hundred and twelve persons qualified for notary public. Forty-nine physi cians and dentists obtained certifi cates to practice. Sunday New Years I' igurcs 3,466 Civil Suits Filed. According to a report of Robert Smith, clerk of the district court, 3,466 civil cases were filed here during tfle past year, a decided Increase over 1921. The total amount of verdicts re turned in favor of plaintiffs was (516,486.56 while the defendants ver dicts reached $28,711.96. '** The total number of verdicts re turned was 345 while there were 11 disagreements. Clearing House Statement. New Tork, Deo. 30.—The actual condition of clearing houses, banks ■nd trust companies for the week (five days) shows that they hold $24, • 43,1 JO In excess of legal require ment This Is an Increase l6.Cit.060. laar 3PCING r * u vN (XIU/IN6 j?ie sunned? Novy_;f SKU3T3 Agg cort/Nfc qowh - tr scenzF ^ » MgQfZASKA fMA9H fMOTRg. OAhE? — HB.Y! f wnena am1 \YOua trims?; NOvV THAT WCM*Ve> I learned a lesson prod rnev WINTER STREETS, LET'S Be MORE CARER/L. TMff coniNc YEAR gypurriNL ch/wns on when slick! | Ref le cltot^ifir &,Resiotu-t-lor,^S'<> EGOTISM* IOET7ANO flY BIGHT HERE! 1 I WILL STAND IN THIS% l STREET AS LONG AS I PLEASE \ \ I HERESY RESOLVE ,TH ATX ^ THIS YEAR I WILL TAKE NV TIME WHEN CROSSING the street, this IS AS much nv"" PROPERTY AS ANYr' ONE'S f -- Qfjf\ 0ICYCLIN6 IS 1 Cxcet.uKnt etceczose. i h* (Z a ©V «'E saLtfe^ raAvA,u MY- fJL OrrM(5 HKAtTH- Wi put. axerecise V Ar tSAsr ONca » T„ ACAVOUreiNO riiat corn"® , / rtf Are.. I /7 TAN.J.. Waste rzf AFTER, FOUR EmsttNas OF CVCUNG! BACUA/NSI ydBfc* 1 rose RAiC with thccirlat me Q*racA/w coohtek. f/iefce. L/es^* The IZEtlAlNSOF 5 A MAN WHO HADE] (anew v£Ae reesotur/crv t /wo kept rr! . M7. uy»-; Ui L O U(2 MEIP.O Marriages and Divorces Both Show Decrease Only 2,718 Licenses Issued in Douglas County in 1922 Compared with 3,038 in 1921. Although 1,351 petions for divorce were filed in Douglas county the past year, but 941 decrees were granted b^ the nine district Judges, a 25 per cenP decrease over the previous year. Perhaps the poorest business in the court building the past year was in the marriage license department con ducted by Herbert Stubbendorf, known to thousands as "Danny Cupid." During 1922 2,718 licences were is sued, compared with 3,038 In 1921, 3,819 in 1920, 3,320 Jn 1919 and 2,427 in 1918. "I guess mere men are Just getting down to normal," was the only reason advanced by Stubbendorf f®r the de crease. District Judge Sears, who presides over- the court of domestic relations and in whose court most of the mari tal troubles are aired, led In the num ber of divorce decrees granted the past year. He signed 738. Judge Day, who is expected to replace Judge Sears In domestic court, granted 62, the same number as Judge Stauffer, Judge Wakeley signed 40 decrees; Judge Goss 03; Judge Fitzgerald. 21; Judge Troup, 4, and Judges Redick and Day, 2 each. Robert Smith, clerk of the district court, shows In his report that ali mony paid Into his court the past year Increased $16,829.23 over, the previous year. In 1921, $65,526.81 was paid Into his office, compared with $82,356.04 in 1920. The average monthly alimony paid during 1922 was $6,863, an in crease of 10 per cent over the prev ious year. Receipts Record in Office of County Register Broken The past year was a banner one for Harry Pearce, registrar of deeds. Receipts of $34,985.05 were the largest In the history of this office. In 1921 the office receipts were $28,223.30. During the past year there were 9,435 deeds, with consideration of $24,712,708. Farm mortgages num bered 218, while releases were 146. City mortgages were 8,193 and re leases 5,651. County Treasurer Shows Balance of $996,923.19 M. L. Kndres, county treasurer, In bis annual report shows a balance on hand December 1 of $996,923.19. Total automobile collections for the past year are $415,056.24. The city and school funds are en couraging, as Kndres’ figures on De cember 1 show a balance of $5,167, 630.87, The water department has a bal ance of $1,421,6S4.30, while the gas department has $1,049,154.36. More Than 602 Families Aided by Couuty in Year County citizens have been in a better shape financially the past year than in 1920, according to A. C. llarte, superintendent of county charities, who filed his annual report with the county clerk. Sixty-one persons were transported to state institutions at a cost of $514.t6; 152 mothers were given pen sions at cost of $23,399, More than 602 families were given coal, flour and foodstuffs during the year at an approximate coast of $19, 000. __ A gun has been perfected which, it ia claimed, will fire a projectile with a variable trajectory or, in other words, a bullet that can be made to diverge from its straight course and cut a ; corner, dive or etart backward in . midair. Omaha Business in 1922 1922. 1921. 1920. Bank clearings.$1,981,529,345 $1,903,158,685 $3,907,930,964 Rank deposits. £191,749,091 105,701,034 102,888,663 Grain receipts. *76,073,600 *65,348,600 *62,275,600 drain shipments.. *66,173,600 *57,933,000 *54,921,100 Building permits. 11,242,915 11,386,000 11,435,970 .Manufacturing . 345,446,385 326,193,559 433,047,970 Jobbing-..... 434,000,545 345,952,025 458,721,105 Real estate transactions. 24,712,708 26,730,180 37,246,991 Backing house output. 154,924,060 158,040,084 215,509,560 Smelter output. 29,590,610 22,467,150 46,248,750 LIVE STOCK RECEIPTS: Head. Head. Head. Cattle .•. 1,744,251 1,434,576 1,602,799 Hogs . 2,839,382 2,665,276 2,708,482 ghee]. 2,532,787 2,752,952 2,890,748 Horses ,,,,,,,,. 8,8,1 6,,79 18,,51 i * Bushels. £ Includes savings and loan associations, as shown by bank call on Sep tember 15, as well as the Federal Reserve bank. A total deposit figure which includes these same institutions last year was $167,194,442, obtained on December 31, 1921. 1922 Extraordinary Year from Weather Standpoint The year 1922 was extraordinary, Meteorologist Robins of the local weather bureau reports. With a mean temperature of B2.9, it was the warmest year ever recorded here with the exception of 1921 which had a mean temperature of B4.4. On 11 days during the year the tem perature reached tero or lower, the lowest being 5 below on December 17. On four days It was 100 or higher, the highest being on August 24, with 102. Total precipitation was 22.48 Inches which Is 8.20 Inches less than the nor mal. During the crop growing sea son, May, June, August and Septem ber, all showed deficiencies of rainfall. Snowfall amounted to 10.8 which Is less than half the usual amount. Volume of Mail Shows Increase Over Year 1921 Over 156,000,000 Letters Han dled by Omaha Postoffice in 1922—8.935,450 Par cel Post Packages. The Omaha postoffice handled more than 156,000,000 letters during the year 1922. A total of $8,935,450 parcel post packages were received and de livered. Sales of stamps and stamped paper in 1922 aggregated $2,676,834, com pared with $2,429,312 in 1921. Money orders Issued in 1922 to taled 250,170 to the amount of $2,292, 594. In 1921 they totaled 204,163 to the amount of $2,149,675. Money orders paid In 1922 were 667,284, amounting to $6,537,456, compared with 564,578, amounting to $5,662,262, in 1921. In 1922, 826,648 pieces of mall were registered compared with 810,721 in 1921. In 1922, 531,315 pieces of mall were Insured, compared with 417,887 In ! 1921. C. O. D. parcels Increased from 244. 629 In 1921 to 326,930 in 1922. The amount received for permit matter in 1922 was $101,695 In 1922. compared with $87,306 in 1921. Second class matter in 1922 brought, in $304,837 and in 1921 it brought in $268,887. During the six days immediately preceding Christmas in 1922, 320,038 pieces of special delivery matters were received and 12,267 pieces were de livered. $2,385,000 Spent by City Making New Improvements Total cost of Improvements com pleted during 1922, under the su pervision of the public improvements department, was $2,385,000, divided as follows: & Paving and curbing, $1,622,0(®; grading, $85,000; sewers, $076,000; side walks, $102,000. The following statistical information was prepared by Herman Beal, city engineer: 32.3 milies streets paved: 520,500 square yards of paving laid: nearly 60 miles of curbing placed; 17 miles of streets graded; 27 miles of main sewers built; 15 miles of side walks laid by private contracts and 6.5 miles laid by city. Gotham Is Place to Chuck Your Bluff ■Ry O. O. M’INTYRE. New York’s four hundred leaps from the silken coverlets every week or so to learn that another prince has be come a quince. The sauve young cavalier with crested calling cards who made a perfectly dandy fourth at bridge turned out to be an apple polisher— cr something—from Sauk Center, Wia. If you have a blufT aching to be chucked—welcome to our city. This is the place to chuck it. And the sky Is the limit. Go over the trail. And If you think this Is a sophisticated and suspicious city you need careful examination. The grilled doors of mansions have been thrown open to so many hum bugs that you would Imagine some thing would be done about it. But nothing is done. Barnum spake a mouthful. Within my brief memory of New York I recall the ex-factory hand from New Britain, Conn., who posed as the last of the Bourbons, descendant of King Louis XVI, who was the cen tral figure among a season’s debu tanes at Sherry's and Delmonlco's. rounding Kocks Now. Then Stephen Welnburg of Brook lyn. „ lie posed as a lieutenant com mander In the navy and Introduced Princess Fatima to President Harding. Ho is now in Atlanta making little ones out of the larger ones. "Count Bernard Francis Seraph Gregory"—stable boy, servant and jailbird—whose real name was Gruene baurn. He was given a reception by Mrs. John Jacob Astor. "Lord Gray." son of a Glasgow cab driver. He duped the British war office, came to America and married two heiresses. “Duke d’ Estanhaut” seeped over from Tenth avenue, where he was a | cabling house runner and sat In opera boxes with the elite. He had arrived j from Russia a steerage passenger six ! months before. Then there was Prince Zerdecheno i Mohammed Saids, picturesque ori ental potentate from Kurdistan. In 1 reality a Chicago automobile salesman i and the glibbest prattler of the lot. There is truth In the very old song "Ths world is so full of a number of prices, ! ’’A few of ’em royal, and sonje of ’em quinces.” It is real comic opera to sit on the side lines and watch the entrances of the royal four flushers. Few Found Out. They need very littlo scenery—a high hat, frock coat, a Persian rug tie, gold headed cane and most im portant of all, crested calling cards. I Zip! Right kersmack into tho drawing 1 room to tlie fluttering of maidenly j hearts. > , _ . - “It Is the only town I ever found where you ean live without working." Some are found.out—but the majori ty escape detection. These royal four flushers are not skilled in deception. They are recruited from the ranks of the Illiterate, which makes it all the more ludicrous. Hack in 1912, a spurious young nobleman used to accompany a social leader in her coach and four as she trumpeted her way down Fifth ave nue in the late afternoon. He would toss a wink at the uniformed dorrman tn front of a jewelry establishment. The doorman was his father. J'd like to see a pseudo duke put it over the folks back in my home town. They don't go in much for royalty back there. They are getting so they chase lightening rod agents the moment they step on the depot platform. Now Hiid then—perhaps every 20 years—a Wallingford leaves Main street sadder and wiser, but In New York it happens once or twice in 24 hours It isn't ahva\ s "royalty" that crashes the barriers. The profes sional Bringers of Light—the crystal gazers, Omnipotent Ooms and Loving Gurus—find the path to the upper crust strewn with roses. Can’t Keep Shrlni|is Away. All one has to do is to rise up on Ills hind legs, bray a symphonic poem and you can’t keep the shrimps away with a net. Professor Aldysius announces that he will deliver a lecture—only for the sophisticated—on the subject of "Aeschylus against Oedipus.’’ He duns a flowing tie. an undertaker's coat, musses his hair and is greeted by the intelligenzla. He doesn’t know what lie Is talk ing about; neither does Ills audience. And they do not know that he used to sell a corn salve on Slith ave nue. If the town hall announces "Ikons and Gothic Symptoms'’ all the high brow rheumatics in town clamor for the front row. Perhaps the lecturer has found the porfect panacea. I have lived In New York so that all.my small 19^ CaUyon evaporated. They hook me through the gills along with the rest. I am bamboozled into attending fu turist art displays where three pears and a dead trout are symbolic of "Russia In Cataclysm" and I find myself applauding. I'm even a sub scriber to Broom—the highest high brow magazine of the age and $1 a copy. There isn't anything in it I understand but it Is very impressive to have around on the library table. Target for Fakes. New York is the target for more fakes and isms than any other civi lized center in the ^ irld. It doesn't matter if they fizzle and fall flat, there are plenty of people to think up new ones. If you’ve a jimmyplpe, Joysmoke idea lying around loose, varnish it up, take the train for this cultured metropolis and you can cash in. There will be no storm of public de rision If they catch you. Such things are kept very secret. But not so long ago a native New Yorker who is marooned in a midwest city came to town and denounced me scathingly over the telephone for pok ing fun at native New Yorkers. "You are always trying to hold them up to ridicule,” he complained. He doesn’t know the half of it. I'm just getting even. Somebody has got to de fend Main street here. There isn’t a play in town that doesn’t attempt to satirize tho yokel ry. It is always good for a laugh. The truth is that I love New York and I wouldn’t live any place else in the world on a bet. It is the only town I have ever found where you can live without working. It Is the only town I know where one can sleep all morning, and play around all afternoon and evening. Excitement Every Moment. X couldn't do It back on Main street. They’d tind me out in a jiffy and I would have to go to work. Why shouldn't I fove it? It is, too, the most interesting of cities. It is a doer among world capi tals. There is excitement and interest for every moment. What I chiefly resent about the burg is the attitude of sophistication. That unless you happen to be born here you belong to the boobery. The shrewdest confidence men in the world—the Gondori brothers—did not hold forth in the Palace hotel in Jay's Crossing. Tex. Not by a jugful. Tho caught their suckers under the shadow of Maxfleld Parrish’s famous painting in the old Knlckerljocker ho tel bar at the corner of Forty-second street and Broadway, New York. And they are still being caught with startling regularity in the same hard boiled vicinity and don't forget it. (CdfS'lSht. 1»::, l*y The McNaught Syn dlcate, Inc ) I Welfare Board | Handles 2,422 Cases in Year Collection Department Dis poses of 788—392 Domes tic Tangles Go Through “Repair Shop.” During the year the board of public welfare handled 2,422 cases in tho legal, collection, domestic relations and negro work department and In other activities. The collection de partment disposed of 788 cases, which included adjustments of bills and of wages and collection of debts. In the domestic relations depart ment. 392 cases were put through the “repair shop” and In most in stances 'results were obtained. The colored department handled 435 cases among negroes, such as juvenile, do mestic relations and adjustments of accounts. Free legal aid was given to 194 ap plicants. According to the report of Wallace Wilson, superintendent, the miscellaneous cases Included various minor violations of city ordinances in which difficulties were straightened without going Into court. The employment department re ceived 7.422 calls for help, registered 4,124 workers and sent persons to 6,411 places of work. The number of registrations of applicants for work does not represent all of those who called. Forty-six dance hall permits were issued and 4.839 permits given for public dances. During the year the welfare board advanced $10,607 to workers who had pay due hut whose needs for money were urgent. 52,029 Books Loaned by Omaha Library Fifty-two thousand and twenty-nine Omahans borrowed books for home use from the public library during the year of 1922, according to the statisti cal report of the librarian. There are 175,596 books in the li brary system of which 14,731 were purchased lust year, and 11,433 were bound in the library bindery. From the main library. 2S0.6G9 books were borrowed for home use, and 408,298 from the branches and stations. To children under high school ago 255,868 books were loaned, while 80,037 persons visited the read ing and reference rooms during the year. Extension work of the library dur ing the year included the development of the North Side branch, additional hospital libraries, plans for branches at Henson'and Florence and a definite plan for advertising the new book purchases. The main library is open daily from 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. and on Sundays from 2 to 5 p. m. Dividend of Six Per Cent Voted by Loan Association The board of directors of the Omaha Loan Building asociation declared a 6 per cent dividend of $549,182.31 for the six months ending December 31, at the annual meeting last week. This makes a total earning of $1,049,117.56 by this association in 1922. Total dividends since organization of the association lias opened 7,061 new sav ings accounts totaling $2,665,498.28. Total assets now are $24,589,801.60. 20 Per Cent of Profits Paid Yellow Cab E uiployes Employes of the Yellow Cab com pany who have been with the organi zation for six months or more will participate in a distribution of 20 per cent of the net profits of the com pany in 1923, according to announce ment by Sain A. Houser, president. Officers and department heads will not participate In ttie bonus, the an- i uouncement stated. • Total Income of W ater District Is $3,271,180 ■■ w Average of 25,000.000 Gallon* Pumped Per Day—1.389, 193.900 Feet of Gas Sold. Total gross Income of the municipal water, gas and lee plants for 1923 was $3,274,080.55, according to a report hy I!. It. Howell, general manager of the Metropolitan Utlhtles district. Total gross Income for 1921 was' $3,478, 900 88. Net profit In 1922, $332,115.98; 1921, $424.S59.82. Mr. Howell's statement contains this Information: During the year 1922 approximately 9,125,000,000 gallons of water were pumped to consumers. This was s dally average of about 25,000,000 gal Iona, or 125 gallons, which la one-half ton of water, per person a day. In 1921 the total was 8,125,000,000, an average of 22,000,000 gallons a day. or 111 gallons dally per capita. All this water Is pumped twice—first from the river into the eettllng basins, and then Into the big mains supplying the city. A portion of It Is then pumped the third time, from the Walnut Hill or Toppleton avenue pumping eta tlons. 1,389,193,900 Feet of Gas. The total metered sales of gas in 1922 amounted to approximately 1,389, 193,900 ruble feet, or a dally average of 3.805.011 cubic feet. The total sales of gns In 1921 were 1,344,261,000 cubic feet, or a dally average of 3,6S2,907 ; ruble feet. The gas plant has a dally | rapacity of 6,000,000 cubic feet. Sales of lee In 1922 totaled 68,295 .tons, ns compared with 63,701 tons I In 1921, More than 14 miles each of water mains and gas mains, or a total of over 28 miles, were lntd In 1922, as compared with 18 miles In 1921. In January, 1922, the gas depart ment service charge was abolished and free malntenancec of gas appliances authorized. This is estimated as sav ing the gas consumer approximately 1’4 cents per 1,000 cublo feet of gas used. A reduction of 10 cents per 1,000 cubic feet of gas was made early in 1922. This is the third reduction In tho price of gas since the city topk over the plant In 1920. Filter ISclng Rullt. A filter plant at Florence, to cost $6^0,000, and which will have a dally capacity of 50,000,000 gallons, and Insure an adequate supply of clear, pure water for Omaha, was author ized and the work started In 1922. Construction Is progressing favorably and It Is expected to have tha filter plant completed and In service hy fho middle of the coming Bummer. This filter plant Is of the most mod ern construction and when complet ed will be the last world In water filtration. It Is designed so that an additional 50,000,000-gallon unit may be added when necessity requires It. A new 20,000,000-gallon pump, cost ing $40,000 Was Installed at the Pop pleton avenue pumping station, to re place tho old 8,000,000-gallon* pump which had become Inadequate. The new- pump wga put In service Sep tember 14, 1922. Other Improvements in 1922, In addition to miscellaneous repairs, Included the Installation of a 267-horsepower biller and holler house at the gas works, and the re setting of a 200-horsepower holler. In Older that tar, a by-product of the plant, could be burned more economi cally. Governor Stations. Two new pumps, each having a daily capacity of 50,000,000 gallons, one a high service and the other a low service pump, have been author ized for the Florence plant, but have not yet been Installed. "All the additions and Improve ments enumerated have been and will be financed out of the reserves of the district, without the voting or issuance of any bonds whatever," Mr. Howell said. Children Kept Out of Courtis Juvenile Court Records Show Most of Work Rein" Con ducted iu Homes. Figures compiled for tha year by juvenile court show that most of it^ work is done in homes instead oi haloing delinquent children into court. Workers under Esther Johnson, Juvenile court officer, made 15,396 vis. its, while hut 1,594 children were hau. died in court. In 1921, total visitations to hornet were 12*,104, while 1,353 children were brought into court. in 1921, S3 children were placed in private homes; in 1922, 101. Thirty eight boys were sent to Kearney In dustrial school this year, compared with 61 last year. Twenty girls were sent to Geneva, compared with 40 dur ing 1921. •'The past year clearly shows that children arc getting hotter,'' said Miss Johnson and District Judge Scars w ho presides over this court. "We are trying to settle most of the cases In the home Instead of hav ing to bring the children Into court. Our investigations also show that school-attendance is better than Iasi year.” Half Mill ion iu Foreign Goods Cleared in Omaha Charles W. McCune, collector of customs at the port of Omaha, col lected $152,548 in duties in 1922, com pared with $197,838 in 1921. The value of foreign merchandise cleared through tills port in 1922 was $541,920, as against $379,188 in 1921, an increase of $162,732. During 1922 base bullion was im ported from Mexico and afterwards exported. So no duties were collected on it. Tills accounts for tlie larger im ports and smaller duties of 1922, as compared with 1921. Nearly 14.000 foreign parcel post packages were examined during the year. The person doing the most valuable work for the advancement of horticul ture in I'anada during this and suc ceeding years Is to b^ljiwarded ft medal a3 recognition of jC services, *