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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (July 31, 1904)
TIIE ILLUSTRATED BEE. July 31, 1901, a', . Tim Illustrated Uul f ublfn-d Weekly by The Bee Publishing Company, Be Building, Omnha, Neb. Trice, So Per Copy Per Ttar, $2.00. Entered at the Omaha Pusioffice aa Second Cluss Mull Matter. For Advertising Hates Address Publisher. Communications relating to photogrsrh or articles for publicauuit hhuiu b ad drcwed, "Editor The Illustrated Bee, Omaha." l'cnand Picture Pointers OT tha letst Interesting of tho picnics gf ven eo far this rejuon was tho one undertaken for the benefit it tho Wl MTI hoHpitul of Omaha at Krvg park recently. The trustee of the hospital enlisted tho servk- of a number of weX knows women, and these took bold ta a most vigorous fashion to make the affair a suecees. At tlte park they had full con trol for the day, and looked after every thing In a most vigilant and courteous manner. The result was that all of the hundred who attended were taken car Of In a. way that pleased them mightily, and tho exchiquer of the hospital In better fl by some hundreds of dollars. The spec tacle of wJl known society women hi burses' gowns and aprons waiting on tables and serving; refreshments was a novelty fn Itself, and tho staff photographer of The Hoe thougit It of sufficient Interest to turn hi c'unrra on a group of thee, get ting a fins photograph, of some very weU known faxes. Memories at thirty-odd years ago were revived m Omaha kurt Sunday wlten the voterar of tha German army that overran France In the war of 1871 met for their annual reunion. They had three days of it, and R woeld probably bo unfair to pick out one day and say It was more enjoyable than Cm rest, so Sunduy will bet taken, as typloal of the three. The old boys and a lot of th younger ones, with their wive and tieeetkesrt, Went out to dallup' park, arber they wtre surrounded by th fine old forest In the bottoms of tht Little Puppl, and there they had a plcnlci of the sort trtnt Jusf stilted tbem. No formalities or frMIa, bat Just a place where cart dTd not ( or cema, and where everybody wa In a food humor and willing to help every body else have) a good time. The picture secured by The) Bee's photographer give aa Woo of bow the time was spent during the pieman t hours f a most delightful July afturnoMi. Music and songs, dnnclsg and hooting and stories of the old time flll'Kt In the hour, and when evening fell an I tho Vetera and their friends returned to the city H was with light heart and pi asanC rcolktlos of the annual r 0 ion e4 th Landwehr Veretn. Automobile racing ha not yet broken out I' 1 a vfrutoirt florin in Omaha, but th 1 wners of th scoot wagons cannot refrain t rom now aaj the trying to see which me can drive his tlie fastest. Several of lim have -mude some busty trips over th lountry runds. and others have taken a till' with Phther Time on the race tracks. Dne or two have even gone so far a to ndertnte to dr-idde a difference of pinion In Just the same way na horse owner have, tdoptcd In other days, and with very early tha surra result, thnt neither I la tinned. Out at tke track of the Omaha Driving caih 00 Saturday afternoon a Couple of professional chauffeurs under took to gidrr a decision for the machine of two f the local owners, and the crowd Was treated to some fast going. None of It was 011 the -bullet" order, but the pslr made forty miles an hour look sick for the Bftocn minutes they wero engaged. On result was obtained, and Unit Is tlrut the average man can go fust enough to satisfy blm ore. a trolley car, and doesn't banker to break any records. South Omaha Is. becoming active in the matter of elevated erostiings und the. first Steel vfctdwt l now well under way of construction down there. It will span the Uison Pacific tracks at ut iJ th principal points of business la the city. It will per mit direct eonectton between th business part of town and the parking district with out tli necessity of dodging trm on th network of tntckB that now divide tho two section. Two wooden viuducts now span the tracks, but they are not conveniently located, are InsuOiclent fer tho traltic and are a great expense to the tty for mainte nance. The new bridge la being erected by the Union Pacific compurny under tho oper ation of the dechdon of the Usllcd Bute supreme court in the caatl won by the city ef Onaaha, width requlrts the railroad to provide safe crowtlug for thr.Ir tracks. Another steel bridge, ts belug built In th western part of South Omaiu for tb Bur lington. In time tho packing city wtil bo s well equipped aa OuuUut tn tha way of overhead cro.-vdngs for the rai'road tracks, and Omaha by letter fixed in tkls direction than any other city in the country. Th CTarte crossing' has practically been a baa lv lied here. . TIEN a man has won his spurn. W as you have, there Is no need of his thanking anybody to wear them." Perchance President Roosevelt may have used these words to others of Ms deserving appointees, but he could not refrain from using them When Charles Bd ward Magoon of Nebraska. calhd at the White House- to personally tell the- presi dent how thunkful be was for his npp.ilat ment as general counsel of the Isthmiun Canal commission. Judge Magoon colored like a school boy when he heard the words above quoted fall from Mr. Roosevelt's lips, for It was far praise, indeed, that the peerless and self-reliant Roosevelt vaf Hying to a tan far en tilts) side of tha noonday ef life. It was so hearty and unconven tional that Magoon wns carried "off" Ids feet," although he managed to grow sev eral Inche above hia normal height be fore he left the presence of his chief. And yet President Roosevelt spoka only that which Is heard from Ex-Secretary Root, Secretary Taft, Colonel Kdwards, chief of the insular bureau; Attorney Gen eral Moody and th handreds who bar come in contact officially with tb Ne braskan who ha brought distinguished honor to his state by bis eminent u Witty In a line of work, that until we had Island possessions, wa but vaguely understood Tho place to which Judge klagooo ha been appointed to regarded as on of tb highest Importance nd responsibility, a the general counsel of tb canal commis sion win be constantly confronted altb exceedingly delicate oaestions, both do mestic and foreign, whil grav adminis trative problems of far-reacbinjr inter national influence will bo continually . oo ' currtatf. In addition to problem requir ing the most careful study to solv, Jodgn ' Magoon wilt be called upon to draft legis lation wblcn the commisidon will need to carry out th pnrposo for which it wa appointed. well a to handle th com mission' bustnes kefor tha department and tho court. It ts no tnecur upon which Chart? K. JUtegoon ha entered, for the Intricate question of local and International law which ar bound to demand his attention, growing out of th transfer ef sovereignty of the canal sons, the peenlhur divlaton ot governmental authority which give tb United State absolut Jurisdiction over th middle of the Isthmus yet provide for a divided authority at each terminal, fur nish alone question of th gravest sort. But Magooo we the onfy man aertously eoaeidered for the ptae of genera 1 counsel when President Roosevelt realised that a man of sterling ability, trained la Just aueb Question a will confront him, was needed to help tb isthmian Canal cona mission tn Its building of so mighty pro ject as th Panama canaL Th work which Judge Kagoon ha don a legal officer of th horenu of tnanlajr affair made hha pre-eminently the asaa for the far greater position a general counsel of the Panama com mission. Thht work in the Insular borena of the War department, to which he wa appointed by em-Assistant Secretary George D. Met klejobn. also a Nubraskan, ha tor aoao year attracted widespread attention, elicit ing tha warmest praise from President McKlnley. President Roosevelt, Secretary Root and Secretary Taft. In nearly every Instance where action advised by Judge) Magoon ha been tested by the highest court, particularly hi questions affecting the military occupellon of Cuba aad tha development of American control ot th Philippine, his rccommendatioa) have been sustained. Many of hi reports have been published by order of congress, and ex Becretary Root, before he left the cabinet, ordered all of Judge Magoon' opinions published In book form for the use of the government. Thi volume, entitled The Lw of Civil Government Under Military Occupation," has rnn through three official editions and continues to be In great de mand. When Issued it received high praise throughout the country, even the opposi tion press recognizing the careful study and the pelnrtaklng research put upon tha preparation of the opinions. And it was for the enduring character of the work performed when he was the law - officer of Insular affairs that won him a position which pays 17,609 a year and which bid fair to be continuous, no matter wfct the president may be. Who 1 this man HagoonT lie te esaoatliUIy a prod net of Nebraska, born In Steele county, Minnesota, Decem ber 5, 1861. Hut It was in Ncbro-ska where ba received his education, academic, and legal. . It wan In Nebraska that Its wa admitted to the bar and be still retain kls residence at IJucotn, where By th friend of bU boyhood. 1 asked Judge Magoon the other day Whether his ancestry was Scotch or Irl.-di. lie said, laughingly, "1 suproee 1 am Scotch." and then told this story: The former Chinese minister, Wu Tins Pane used to )ckc me reyeatedly about tny name. lie Insisted thttt it xhould be gpeiuy 'MacQcon,' and then, with a twln- Magoon Has Won His klo In his eye, the witty Chinaman would say: 'Mac means the son of. Goon means a gun; so that your name freely trans lated means son of a gun,' and then ho wouKl nlnioHt burst his sides laughing at tits American joke." Judge Magoon comes of New England ancestry, his mother retoovlng fron Min nesota to Platte county, Nebraska, in 1X73, where she took up a homestead. Magoon wns then 12 years of age, but had had little chance to go to school in Minnesota, ex cept three months rn the winter. In 176, when lie was 15. he entered the preparatory department of the University of Nebraska. After two years in the "prep." he matricu lated aa a freshman, remaining at the uni versity until hfcj sophomore year, when h loft college to enter tho office of Mason & Whcedon of Uticoln 'as a law student. It wns a liberal education to be associated wtth this well known firm of IJncofn law yers. As different in temperament as two men can well be Mason and Wheedon by the very nature of things made a most formidable team when engaged In a law suit. Mason was a student and he and young Magoon would work night after night in their law office in Lincoln pre paring briefs and looking tip authorities, and It was through association with O. P. Mason and C D. Wheedon that Magoon began to unconsciously kiy the foundation for his present high position. During hia connection with tb flnn of Mason Jt Wheedon Mr. Magoon becnm t associated with many of Nebraska's moat famous law case. lie prepared th brief In the case of the United State against Quia Botuman. a. cause celebre. Bohanaa was convicted in the Lancaster county dis trict court of murder In the second degree. Magoon' Arm took a change of venue to Otoe county, where Bohanan wa con victed of murder In the first degree. Mason A Wheedon took an appeal to the state su preme court, which affirmed th verdict of the Otoe court. There being a federal ques tion Involved, the case wa carried up to the supreme court of the Untted States, Counsel for the defendant . were ready to argue the question when Bohanan Bed from th Jail at Nebraska City aad ha neve been heard of sine. After the death of Judge Mason Mr. Wheedon formed a partnership with Ma goon. and as Junior th latter bad lot of bard work to do. Night after sight he labored over th preparation of cases, a kabt be formed with Judge Mason, and th firm of Wheedon St Magoon became as well known a that of Mason ak Whee don. Mr. Wheedon. who I a very re served man, and a very able man, found la Magoon many delightful qualities and there sprang np between the ran men a friendship tike that between Damon and Pythias. - When Magoon decided to accept the position of law officer of Insular af fair, tendered him by Meiklejohn, Mr. Wheedon wired his associate, "boat be a fool." but Magoon had decided, for be saw great opportunities tor specie Using m th direction which ha finally gtren hia position that ranks In Importance with any tn the gtrt of the president. Jodge Magoon is fond of teilfng; bow he passed hut xaminatlon for admission to th Lancaster county bar. The board ot examiner wa composed ef C Ot Whee n. chairman ; W. B. Kelly, now general Simple But Fine Uuderwear ASHIOKABLJS underwear ha not a yet adopted the 189 mode. In spit of tb Yoinminon out side skirt, petticoat, ches nine and drawer ar still a scant and wsU fitted a tn th days or th eel skirt, when a sluale fID or pud cr fuld an nouncing its existence from within would mar an outline that differed little front a union suit save in material and bifurca tion. There la some change, however, for the newest underwear all shows the circular cut. It bs carefully fitted about the waist . and hips, begins to widen at the knees and Bares out Into decided fullness at the feet By the circular eot lingerie meets th esaergency uf the new very f all skirt wittt ut lueina; the graceful euLtiee that has ben so noticeable in underwear for ' sev eral years past. Tls essential thing M trim graceful under wear fa that it shovld be An. If nly little money is spent It shoud go Into the quality of the material rather than the tr learning. And second in itnportanca 1 the design. A certain smartness ot ef fect is studied in modern lingerie. Night gowns are long, half low In the neck with elbow sleeves, the becomlngness a weU as the comfort being carefully studied. Drawers are short, never below the knee, with a pretty fruw-fro of lac or fine eaa brodery instead of heavy ruffles and puffs. And chemises ure low-necked, sleeveless and prettily carving to the figure. The In tention is apparently always genuine com fort, prettily expressed. And then if on Spurs attorney of the Union Pacific system: H C. Butt, N. S. Karwood and A. C. Rrcketta The members of the board did not care to ask Mr. Magoon any questions, knowing of his association with the firm of Mason & Wheedon, but Mr. Wheedon insisted that his pupil should be examined. Some one avked the candidate to define the Juris diction of the circuit court of the United States. Thds Magoon answered. One or two of tbe board thought his reply was not specific enough, when the whole board became Involved In the controversy and so animated was the discussion that tho examination was wholly forgotten. Finally the board stopped argument on the sub ject and the applicant was Informed that they had no more qnstii;ns to aak and he was unanimously recormneitded for admis sion. -0- In the strenuous day following the elec tion of James E. Boyd as governor of Nebraska, Lieutenant Governor Meikle john, then retiring from the office, was at sea as to the organization of the legisla ture and the manner in which the vot should be declared. Judge Magoon was called upon for an opinion and after ex amining the authorities advised Governor Meiklejohn that the speaker ot th house must declare the result of the election be fore the legislature could set, which ad vice prevailed and the position Meiklejohn took tn that celebrated contest Intensified the good opinion the state had for the re tiring lieutenant governor. It was then that Meiklejohn learned of the ability pos sessed by Magoon, whleh was afterward given wider scope when he came to Wash ington aa law officer of the liteular bureau. On feature of Judge Magoou's ccnr.eo tton wtth ;ular affair is not known to the public Acting Secretary of War Mtiktejobn asked Judge Magoon In May, lift, for a private opinion on the question whether K Was proper to charge a tariff on articles going Into Porto Rico. Magcon aid It could not be done. Subsequently the Poraier bill was introduced and Ma goon wa asked whether congress could leghdat and whether each arc act would be constitutional. lie held that congress had tha power to correct legislation look ing to a tariff on commodities going hi to Porto Rktx In the light of events these two opinions sacra Inspired. For later an the up rem coart by a vote of 5 to not only sus tained th constitutionality of th Forsker bill, but sustained Judge Maffoaa's opinion that prerioe to the passage ef th Por aker bin the government had 1 not the right to levy a tariff upon import to Porto Rico. ' It Is to tha credit of Judge Magoon that these questions, which were debated through a presidential campslg And which, had the serlus consideration of tft lead ing lawyer of the country, were raised by a Nebraska lawyer and that his appli cation of the old case of Cross against Hsrrtsan. growing out of tbe tevyingr of a dntf on goods going Into California, to t! Porto Rico case, has the support of tb highest tribunal in the land. Jndge Magoon has a deilghtfal person ality. He i big and brainy- warm in hi friendships and loyal to bia convictions, and he enters upon his work with the isth mian eommfcfcion with an eaepest prayer for his weeees from very asHOcsit in Washington. ' E. Q SNYDER. afford the time r the money for fine needle work tn the way of trim ming, it may be added as an artistic deco ration, but it is not essential. Nightgowns and dressing sacques also have the circular design, and sleeves are cut to- flare and corset covers, too, except that they flare at the top. It not only gives fullness at the right place, but It also saves seams and ugly gathers and Is gen erally a clever notion In the modern making of underwear. A New York slrl who Is very fond of pretty things, but hnsnt as mock money as the rest of her set to replenish lingerie or pay fine laundresses, has found out that the easiest aad simplest way . for a home laundress to mung lr by tnrtng; borax t often the water. Ak white clothes she ha boiled In water In wbleh ther are two tea spoonfuls of borax to a gallon 'of water, nnd If she Is wearing tinted mulls tbey are soaked before) washing la cold witter and borax, a teaspoonful to a pail. Tbey are just rubbed lightly by band, no board tuUUlug at ail. and she saves the wear of her line hngrrte about two-thirds. Co!(ired underwear is dried in the abode. Her underwear ribbons she washv her self in borax water and rolls on a I room stick without ironing. When dry they ar like new. In fat, she does up all sorts of ribbons this way. even those that might easll;- be warranted not to wash and she) turns them out as well renovated as tho) smartest milliner could. Economy, no doabt, Is the mother of fn ventlon.