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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (June 18, 1923)
Rough-Hewn Dorothy Canfield | (Continued From Yesterday.) But no matter how slowly he ate, he was always through, wriggling un comfortably on his chair and horribly bored, while those tedious grown-up people were still gabbing on. Mother always saw this, took pity, and smiled a permission to him to be off. He slipped from his chair and tiptoed silently Into the kitchen where Katie was dressing the salad. But she ^ stopped long enough to open the paste "*8l*ard ice-cream box from Schlauch ters candy-store and give him a saucer full from the soft part on top. Then he hurried upstairs again to act out with his army the glorious scenes he had been imagining during dinner. Sometimes it was a surprise attack on the march, with cavalry sweeping down on limbered guns, sometimes it was artillery formed in triangles, a muxr.le at each apex, blow ing the advancing cavalry to flinders. Sometimes it was a magnificent parade of triumph through a city gate with Kaiser Wilhelm (Neale) at their head. You can walk south or north on Union Hill for miles beyond a boy's endurance, without finding a single feature to quicken the imagination; but if you go east or west from any where on the hill, you come at once to a Jumping-oft place whers_below you stretches the flat, marshy river of the flats. Neale preferred the western edge, even though it had no steep rocks. He was far from having any conscious love for landscape, but he found a certain satisfaction in looking over the yellow and brown expanse of the marsh-grass and cattails, hazy in the afternoon sun, cut with straight black lines of railroads (he named them over to himself, identiflying every one, the Jersey Central, Penn slyvanla, Erie, Lackawanna, and Jer sey Northern), each with little toy trains, each tiny locomotive sending up little balls of cotton-wool to hang motionless In the still afternoon air. To the southwest a hazy blur that was Newark, and right in^ front, like a doomed mountain, bogged ana sinking into the marsh, the sinister bulk of Snake Hill. Neale used to stand and brood over it, sometimes till t-he sun went down, all red and orange. He did not stir till the cold roused him to think of home and supper. Occasionally Neale thought of New York, an almost mythical spot, though he went there once in a while with mother on tiresome quests for clothes, as well as to matinees; sometimes he thought of the ships and the wharves, and how much he wished he could see more of them. But mostly he forgot the actual world. He was in com mand of the fort. All around him his brave men were working the guns. Bang! Bang! The enemy were march ing along those straight paved streets. Their cannon balls were bursting all around, but the garrison did not (juail. JTheir sharp shooters were starting to climb the rocks. Ah, this was serious! No time for delay. The commander seized the rifle from the hand of a dying soldier. . .how plainly Neale saw that dying soldier there at his feet . . .bang! bang! bang! . .. with, every shot one of the foremost scalers dropped headlong. The engagement was a decisive vlftory. CHAPTER IV. Inevitably Saturdays were all de voted to play. Neither Neale’s par ents nor he himself could have con ceived of any other way of spending Saturdays. What were Saturdays for? It is true that in some of the more prosperous German-Amerlcan families, Saturday was music-lesson day, Just as four o’clock instead of ushering in roller-skating or marbles meant sitting in front of a piano, or stooping over a ’cello. But Neale felt for play mates thus victimized the same slightly contemptuous pity he felt for Jimmy Taylor's lame ness, and the same unsurprised ac ceptance of his own good luck in being free from such limitations. Qndte in a while, too, mother took him’over to New York to a matinee, and that was all right, too, if it didn’t happen too often. Neale liked going out with mother pretty well, and if there was fighting In the play he liked it fine. But all that was having something done to you. a sensation of which school gave Neale more then enough, and which he didn't like half so well— oh, not a quarter as well—oh, really not at all, compared to the sensation of starting something and running it yourself. If It really came right down to a comparison, there wasn't any fun at all in seeing Irving pretend to be a crazy man, compared to the fun of starting out Saturday morning, with no idea what you were going to do, and rustling aiound till .tou got enough fellows together for the game of the season. The real occupation of life was the playing of games. He nourished his soul and grew strong on the emo tional thrills of games. They were the rich, fertile, suhstanial soil out of which he shot up into boyhood from childhood. They wiere his religion, and his business in life, the wide field where, unhampered, free as any naked savage, for all his decent knickerbockers and sweater, he raced to and fro, elastic, exultant, wild with the intoxication of the heady young strength poured Into him by every new day. It was the boys’ world, not only untouched by grown-ups but blessedly even unsuspected by parents. In the autumn, they played football, a sort of association football with no limit to the number on each side, played with a heavy black rubber ball, blown up with a brass^tube. The tube always got lost, and the valve always leaked. Alter a few games It became deflated, with the resiliency of a sogy sponge. But it was kicked to and fro Just the same. When snow came, there was snow balling, with forts of a rich, chocolate color, from the street-dirt mixed with the snow. About these raged feudal chivalry, loyalty and pride of place, one street against another. Some times all the district united against invading Huns from Hoboken or Jer sey City Heights. Only a few boys skated, and Neale was not one of them, but everybody made slides In the slush. With spring came roller-skates, marbles (utilizing the cracks between sidewalks slabs), tops, kites,' cat (a game for two), and ah! baseball in the vacant lots! Neale was neither a star nor a dub at any game, but craving profleienty more than anything else in the world, he learned to do pretty welt at all of them. At baseball, the major sport of the year, he toiled Incessantly, and when he was 10 years old. Tie was pretty sure of his job at second base on the Hancock Avenue Orioles. On ground balls he was erratic, nut so was everybody on tho^» rough, va cant lot diamonds. whiTe the ball ricocheted zigzag from one stone to another. Long practice catching fun goes gave him a deathlike certainty on pop flies. His "wing was poor," as he expressed It: strong enough in the arm, he had never mastered the wrist snap that gives velocity. As a bats man he was temperamental; one day he woulA feel right, and hit every thing, another day his batting eye wouni inexplicably be gone, and he would fan at the widest dew-drops. One Saturday afternoon they were playing the Crescent Juniors, a glori ous swat fest of a game in which Neale had run wild ail the afternoon. It was in the ninth, the score was 17 to 15, with the Crescents ahead. One was down, Neale at the bat, Marty Ryan, the captain, was dancing on the t>ase line, ready to dart in frohi third, Franz Uhler was taking a dangerous lead off second. Neale rapped his bat professionally on the plate and glared at the pitcher. "Hit it out, Crtt, old man!” yelled Fatty Schwartz, with a perfectly un necessary steam-calliope valume of tone, "Hit it out! Save me a lick!” "Much good you'd do with a lick,” thought Neale to himself. 'Tou couldn't hit a basket-ball with a telegraph pole.” Yes, it was up to him, to him alone. It was like a scene from one of his favorite stories about himself, actually happening; and it went on actually happening. A wide one, another wdde. They didn't call balls in .Neale's league. Ife rapped the plate "Aw! put it over If you know how!” he taunted. A foul tip caught, another wide one haughtily ignored a strike. The catehcer pot on his mask and moved up close behind the hat. Neale felt himself nerved to great things. He glued his eyes to the pitcher. By the motion It should be a slow out. It wasn't breaking. Neale subbed at It. sliced It and land ed a Texas leaguer hack of short. (Continued In Th# Mornlns Be#.) Hessian Fly Causes Much Damage to Wheat Reports from several of the east ern Nebraska counties show that there Is considerable damage being done this spring by the Hessian fly. Karly sown wheat, on winter wheat land, is especially likely to be In jured, according to field observations that have been made. Some fields have been so severely damaged that they promise but small returns and are being plowed up. Infested fields appear yellow and sickly. The fly, in the "flaxseed" stage, can be found at the base of the stem under the first leaf. Karly plowing, keeping down volunteer wheat, and later seeding are the methods recommended by the agricultural college to prevent Hes sian fly injury. Where the crop Is so badly injured as to make it advisable to plow it up. the field will ordinarily be put Into corn. Where about all the corn that can he handled Is already planted, It may be necessary to substitute other crops. Where more alfalfa is need ed. and there are few farms that can not profitably grow more alfalfa, this may be seeded. Sudan grass may Ml grown for hay. The price of Sudan graaa seed the last year or two hag made Sudan grass for seed very profitable. Where corn la put In late It may be well to grow an early va riety. such as Minnesota 13, Pride oi the North, Blair White, or University No. 3. _ . Dry Law Amendment Is Predicted by Fall By Cnlversal Service. |[gn, June 17.—Albert B. T*n of New tap, former senator and until recently secretary of the In terior. In an Interview In the Sun* day Times on prohibition, expressed the view that while the old saloon days in the United States will never return, light wines and beer will. He said he believed that some sort of an amendment ultimately would be adopted which would permit wines and beer. He said he believed the American liquor policy was inviting reprisals by European nations. "New York's antiprohibition dec laration shows that the United States desires to amend the Volstead act,” he declared. Bee Want Ads Produce Results. i Omaha Firms Stand Back of . Omaha Goods ;i i r=i ONWARD OMAHA I We Prosper Individually As Our City and Trade Territory Prospers I “Buy in Omaha”—the gateway to an immensely wealthy empire —with ample facilities to Kan* die its trade, to supply its needs. V Ham and Eggs with O A _ Buttered Toast .WvC * s The Gift That Is Different —at— LOWEN’S ART AND GIFT SHOP Pictura*, Lamps, Potteries, Bridge ' Prizes a Specialty 4707 S. 24th St. MA 0259 \ , / , , > Meet Your Friends at The World Billiard Parlor 15th and Douglae Coolest Place in Town - • ** ^maha Tire & Repair Company Oldest Tire House In Omshe Diamond end Goodrich Tires 2201 Fsrnsm St. AT 1532 V. * s——.- > Fontenelle Laundry WA Inul 6277 Everything Sun Dried Finish Hsnd Worh All Work Guaranteed WET WASH ESPECIALLY E. F. MEINIG, Prop. Omaha, Neb. ■* * ' GOOD TEETH and CLEAN MOUTH I meant BUSINESS SOCIALITY and HEALTH McKenney DENTISTS 14th and Farnam JA 2872 - ' [ CARL JOHNSON Contractor Builder of Better Homes “22 Year*’ Experience” HA 1704 3627 California St. I -' y Automatic Printing Co. “Reliable Printer*” Our Price* Save You Money AT 2351 2t*t and Cuming / < BODER SIGN CO. Electric and Commercial SIGNS 1314 Dodge St. JA 1080 -y ' EVERYTHING ELECTRICAL Installation and Ceneral Repairs ! DODSON ENGINEERING CO. Mechanical and Electrical Engineers AT lantic 6432 1602 Harney St. WE bater 5186 1484 Lothrop St. / '* "" High-Clou Decorating Wallpaper—Paint* | rred Parks Paint Store 4706 S. 24th St. MA 0101 AT 7404 BAKER Ice Machine Co. OMAHA S -r / v Special and Expert Detective Service All Bonded Operatives The Hartley National Detective Agency, Inc. Douglas and Sixteenth Sts. AT lantic 8017 Omaha, Neb. V * y ' t Warner Auto Top and Trimming Shop 420 S. 13th St. AT 7114 > m-ee— . ' < Thatcher Piano Co. “Pianos of Quality” Baldwin—Ellington—Hamilton Howard Plenoe Grand, Upright end Player Pianoe 124 N. 15th St. JA 3066 _f Service Welding Company ALL KINDS OF WELDING 1809 Laavenworth AT lantie 8183 Night Telephone JA ckaon 03A9 — 1,1 .a Townsend Sporting Goods Co. GUNS AND AMMUNITION—ATHLETIC SUPPLIES Special Prlcea to Baa. Ball Cluba Golf. Tannla, Touriet Equipment, Kodaka 1309 Parnam Straet JA ckaon 6170 St. Louie Omahe ' If You Want It Done Right, Have Black Do It James Black Masonry and Contracting Company ^ 1 General Contractors and Engineers C. D. Whitmire, Mgr. AT Untie 4B00 Sr———-: Fontenelle Sale to Rome Miller \ Is Invalidated _ * Referee in Bankruptcy Sus tains Motion of Trustee Baylor for Annulment of Purchase. Alleged sale of Hotel Fontenelle to Rome Miller of Omaha last Septem ber for $225,000 was Invalidated and set aside under a decision handed down st Lincoln Saturday by Referee in Bankruptcy McClenahan. The referee's decision sustained the motion of Trustee F. B. Baylor for the annulment of the sale on three counts; First, that F. E. Schaaf, one of the alleged officers of the de funct company who made the sale was not in fact a director of the company; second, that the proximity of bankruptcy and the circumstances surrounding the transaction made the legality of the sale questionable, and third, that Mr. Miller’s "demeanor on the witness stand" indicated that he was fully aware of the circumstances surrounding hia purchase. The Nebraska Hotel company con trolling the Fontenelle and eight other hotels went into the hands of a receiver in January, 1321. Several months later Received W. E. Barkley sold the propreties to E. C. Eppley of Sioux City for $1,000,000. In July, 1922, the Nebraska supreme court held that the receivership was illegal ■and set aside the sale to Mr. Eppley, who continues in possession by virtue of having paid over a considerable part of the purchase price to Receiver Barkley. In September, 1922, a group of lawyers and alleged stockholders headed bf Schaaf executed a secret sale of the Fontenelle to Mr. Miller for $225,000 of which $25,000 was paid In cash. A few days later the Ne braska Hotel company went Into bankruptcy and Trustee Baylor Im mediately started action to annul the Miller sale. The referee’s decision handed down yesterday sustains Mr. Baylor's motion. The decision clears the way for the sale of the Fontenelle and other properties of the defunct company by the trustee In bankruptcy. Two bids, that of Mr. Eppley for $900,000 rash. End another for $$75,000, have been received by the trustee and sale giv ing clear title to the Fontenelle and the other properties Is looked for in the near future. Freight Rates on Wheat Are Ordered Dcereased Lincoln, June 17 —Freight rates on wheat in Nebraska today were order ed cut from 5 to 25 per cent, effec tive July 15, In the territory within 90 miles of Omaha. The reduction, it was announced by the state rail way commission, Is a voluntary act on the part of the railroads and the tariffs are being filed with the state commission. It was explained that the decrease affects only the eastern section of the state for the reason that while the railroads were under government control wheat rates were advanced 6 cents from Nebraska to the Chicago market, and 3 to 6 cents more were added to rates in t'.:e territory af fected by the new order. Printing Company Sponsors Program The program of radio over WOAW Saturday night included vo cal, piano, violin and banjo num bers and was held under the aus pices of the Omaha Printing Com pany. The vocal numbers were rendered by Mrs. Leo A. Hoffman, so prano. and Clinton R. Miller, tenor accompanied by Jean P. Duffield, and Miss Dorothy Minturn, accompanied by Miss Maragaret Shea. Piano numbers were rendered by Miss Eleanor J. Lear, pupil of Au gust M. Borglum and Miss Irene Trumbull, pupil of August M. Borg lum. Violin number* were given by Miss Elsa Reese, pupil of Henry Cox, and Miss Louise Schnauber accom panied by Miss Jean Stirling. Banjo numbers were given by Mr. Tagger, accompanied by Mrs. Mil dred Koch. Instrumental numbers were given by a trio composed of Miss Elsa Reese, violin; Mrs. Mabel Donlon, cello, and Mrs. Frieda Paustlan, piano. I. C. C. Suspends Wabash Class Rate Schedules Washington, June 17.—By an order entered In Investigation and sus pension docket No. 1840, the Inter state Commerce commission sus pended from June 18 until October 16. 1923, the operation of certain schedules contained in Wabash Rail way company’s tariff, I. C. C. No. 5588. The suspended schedules pro pose to increase the present class rates by amounts ranging from 1-2 to 2 12 cents per 100 pounds on traffic moving between points In Iowa and Council Bluffs. Omaha and South Omaha, and to increase the bridge tolls at Missouri river crossings on such traffic from 7 to 8 cents per 100 pounds. Annual Picnic of Welch Kmploycs Next Wednesday Annual picnic of Welch restaurant employes will be held at Krug park Wednesday, June 20. T.ckets for gen eral admission, dance floor and bath ing beach will be given customers at any of the six welch restaurants on preceding days. American Money Sent to Any Part of Russia Money can now be transmitted to Individuals in any part of Russia, ac cording to an Important announce ment received Saturday by Samuel Schaefer, secretary of the Omaha Jewish Welfare board, from the Hehrew Sheltering and Immigration Aid Society of America. The society, In a letter to Mr. Schaefer, states they have established branches In 25 cities throughout Rus sia. Payment of money sent will be made in American dollars. The announcement, according to Mr. Schaefer, is of vital Importance to those suffering from famine and the world war. Of late money sent to Russia has never reached its destina tion for some reason. Any person desiring to send money to a destination In Russia may ob tain further Information from Mr. Schaefer, whose offices are located In the Lyric building. Improved Wheats Used in 40 Per Cent of Acreage Lincoln, June 17.—Approximately 40 per cent of the winter wheat acre age in Nebraska Is seeded to some of the Improved varieties and strains, according to report made public here today by the college of agriculture of the University of Nebraska. "These Improved wheats have over a series of years definitely proven their superiority In yield over the common winter wheat," the statement said. "There are alao Improved spring grains which are proving pop ular. The Nebraska Crop Growers' association puts out annually a seed list which gives the growers of these pure grains. Anyone who can qualify under the rules may grow certified seed." Omaha Firm Carries Tax Suit to Supreme Court Lincoln. June 17.—An attack on the Intangible tax law repeal of which was unsuccessfully sought at the late session of the legislature, was lodged In the supreme court today by the F. M. -Crane contracting firm of Omaha In Its petition the company save the law violates the Inhibitions of the state and federal constitution, which provides that a person may not he deprived of his property without due process of law and that It results In double taxation. The company says it put In a schedule that represented taxable property of I1R.21R, hut the county assessor raised It to 1117,434 The district court of Douglas county sustained the assessor. Think It Over. The more sugar used in a cake, the lower the temperature of the oven. Services Mark End of Historic Lutheran Church Congregation Meets Three Times Sunday in Structure to Be Replaced by New Edifice. Formal farewell service* were held yesterday morning and evening In the old First Lutheran church, Twen tieth and Mason streets. This con- ] gregation will dedicate its new edi fice at Thirty first and Jackson streets July 1. German services were conducted in the morning by Rev. M Adam, pastor of Zion Lutheran church, South side. The afternoon services in English were led by Rev. Titus Lang, who was pastor of First church from 1918 to 1918. Rev. L. Acker is the present pastor. Henry Hamann, who attended the afternoon service, was the builder of this old church when it was erected in 1873 on Jackson street, between Eleventh and Twelfth streets. Peter Hinz assisted Mr. Hamann. A char ter member of the church is A Prinz, who is now a resident of Millard, Neb. The present membership of the church Is 227. The new church cost 350,000. The pastors of First Luther an church since 1873 have been Rev. Fred Kuegie, Rev. J FHlgendorf, Rev. J. Strassen. Rev. E. J. Frese. Rev. Titus Lang. Rev. R. Slebert and Rev. L. Acker. During the afternoon farewell ser mon R»v. Mr. Lang stated that the old church is a landmark of unusuai Interest: that it has been the center of true Christianity and of pure Lu theranism. "It has been a haven of rest for many weary souls," the minister said. "It has been the pride and the delight of the faithful who have worshipped j beneath Its roof. In this church we j have heard the word of God and the word of law to lead us on to better lives. Here we have knelt before the throne of grace. What sacred mem ories cling to these walls "We are living in an ungodly world, the devil is busy. One church after another is discarding the name of God Indifference is rampant in the church; Idolatrous worship is dom inant in many churches Our Luther an ohurrh is not yet affected by this spirit of Indifference and let us pray God that it will never be affected " j_ If you like The Bee, tell your neighbors about it. I' y-- \ Cylinder Reboring We rebore Cylinders for Steam Engines, Air Pumps and Am monia Compressions. P. Melchior* & Son 417 S. 13th St. JA 2550 ✓ ✓ ’ > “Let U» Help You Keep You Clean” Frontier Towel Supply 1(119 California St. AT 6191 Pfeiffer Top and Body Corp. : 2525 Laavanwnrth AT 0701 ----; AT lantic AT lantic 4956 ,/ EACH \ 4956 / NEW HOME \ 3 WE BUILD *, S BRINGS 5 \ ANOTHER ; \ Sunderland 15th and Building ^Oq HOt* Harney __ -' --V Bemis Bros. Bag Co. 11th and Jackson AT lantic 2711 > * 'packing moving shipping storing' Absolute responsibility In hif thing* — a cordial co-operation in handling tha so railed littla thtnga. Gordon Fireproof Warehouse & Van Co. 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