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Omaha men Saturday at the two prices named below. Your own best interest demands that you come and SEE these wonderful values whether you buy or not. W
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$18.00 to $22.50 Suits
THE BKK: OMAHA, SATURDAY. MAY 14, 1010.
Shoe Market Basement prices are an attraction
yes a BIG attraction but the STYLES are ah at
traction, too. In fact even at $1.95 and $2.45 we
show styles far FAR in advance of others.
For instance the newest ankle strap pump for la
dies' wear it's decidedly swagger and has been
dubbed the "Short State Street Stub."
The State Street Stub" is made up in gun metal or
patent leather and it's "chic indeed.
You'll enthuse over the "Stub" and you'll en
thuse over a score of OTHER ankle strap pumps shown
here, too at the same low prices.
Just say to yourself: "I WILL carry my shoes
homer I WON'T ask to have them charged!" These
are the only resolves you'll have to make to buy Shoe
Market Basement shoes at a saving.
If you buy ladies' "low cut" shoes anywhere else
you're going to pay considerably MORE for 'em if you
get the same STYLE and the same LEATHER. So
you'd better NOT forsake the Basement.
This lot consists of suits, which if bought under
ordinary conditions, would be everywhere considered
us splendid values at $13.50, $15.00 and $16.50.
Practically all of this season's correct styles are
included in the assortment. The shades range from
the new grays, browns and olives to the darker fabrics
preferred by many.
These suits are well tailored, perfect fitting and
will agreeably surprise you in both wear and looks.
Take your pick of this lot Saturday at
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25c "PARIS" GARTERS
The no metal kind for summer,
Saturday, at
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This lot contains many garments identical in
quality with those now shown outside this store, at
prices ranging from $"J0 to $"J5.
You will find that almost everv one of this sea
son's most popular new shades, such as sand tan, browi
all shades of gray, olive and dark mixtures
included amongst these snlendid lr.nini.nt
They're exceptionally stylish and handsome ami (h
are superbly hand-tailored into perfect -fitting, shape tfl
ii-uiniiii, long wearing suits.
Take your pick .Saturday at--
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BENGALINE SILK TIES
A narrow four-in-harfd, worth 50c
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BRIEF CITY NEWS
Save Boot Print It.
Lighting natures Burress-Qrandea Co.
B.it Dry Cleaning- of garments. Twin
City Dye Works, 407 South Sixteenth.
1850 Rational X.lfe Insuranoe Co 1N
Charles E. Ady, General Agent. Omaha.
tor Tour rine hn in Moth-proof
vaults. Nominal colt. Shukert', 16111 and
blarney.
Mormons to Malt Lake Sixty Mormon
converts passtd through Omaiia Friday,
while enroute from the Atlantic coast to
Salt L.ake City.
Tha Barings Kablt once formed leads to
Independence. One dollar starts an ac
count with Nebraska Savings and Loan
Ass n. K Board of Trade Bldg., Omaha.
Memphis rrofsssor Tlslts Schools
Proretor K. K. Ltterbacn of Mempnls,
Tenn., yesterday visited the Omaha schools.
Professor Utterbach Is supervisor of draw
ing and manual training in the Memphis
chuuls. and is making a short tour of
, some of the principal cities.
X Bitohls lu.s Piano Company Suit is
on in district court bffore judge Kennedy
in which A. S. Kltchle is suing the J. V.
Kteger I'lano company for fJ.000 for at
torney fees alleged to have been earned a
decade ago. Mr. J. V. Steger, head of the
piano house, is here to testify in the case.
Third Trial In Damage Bolt Klmond
Hans, a teamster. Is making a third ef
fort In district court to recover 110,000 from
the American Transfer .company. Hung
lurles have previously resulted. Hans was
A'rlvlng a wagon for the transfer company
nhen the accident happened which was
due. the plaintiff asserts, to a defective
king bolt.
Young Woman Back to School
1,1 anils Jensen, over whose going to school
there has been some contention In Juvenile
coutt and who has been in the Detention
home recently, ran away from that institu
tion and was brought back by her mother.
Inasmuch ns Mrs. Jensen had In time past
been hostile to the Detention school and
nil other schools, so far her daughter is
concerned, her bringing back the chllcTIs
hailed as tho growth of a civic conscience
by J' 'V'" ool"t authorities.
Bull Over Marsh Estate Gurdon W.
Wattles and Victor Caldwell appeured In
district court Friday before Judge Troup
aa witnesses In the suit between the United
States National bank und the estate of
I'hfJXl'-s W. Marsh. The contention Is over
an ?slgnment by Mr. Marsh of his share
in the estate of his father, W. W. Marsh,
to the bank. Included in Mr. Wattles'
testimony was a statement that the bonds
of the Omaha & Council Bluffs Street Kail
way company were worth par January 1
of this year.
Census Being- Tlnishad Vp The enum
erators have practically completed their
rrork and the fag ends of the census are
low being gathered up by the apeclal
igents. The Bee slips continue to be of
tral of them being received dally. The let
rral of them being reeclved dally. The let
ter carriers have been enlisted In the work
A it gathering up the belated schedules, and
" it some Instances, as In South Omaha,
carriers have been delivering sched
ules to parties that have been missed by
the enumerators.
Suits .to BeoOTer Indian Land Bentals
The United States as guardian and trus
tee for Ws-tae-we Reese Harlan, an Omaha
Indian, has brought suit In the circuit
court nf the United States against Thomas
Ij. Sloan to recover $2,4t4 for land rentals of
property "alleged to belong to the plaintiff
since August 4, 1903. The petition alleges
that on or about August 4, 1903, the defend
ant selxed upon the property of the plain
tiff, now in lltfgation, without any right
In law and has since continued in posses
sion of the property and has appropriated
all profits and proceeds from its use to his
use and benefit.
TRUTll ABOUT PANAMA CANAL
The timely use of Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy will prevent pneumonia.
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CONVENIENT LOOPHOLE IN
THE CHILD LABOR CASES
Two Defendants, Admitting Guilt of
Their Concerns, Escape from
the Responsibility.
Loopholes for the escape of two men
charged with violating the child labor law
were sought out and made available for
the dismissal of the defendants in Judge
Crawford's court Friday morning. With
complete admission of the evidence that
their business concerns had employed boys
much under the legal age, Charles R. Sher
man of the Rherman-McConnell Drug
comfSany and F. B. Klrkendall of the
Klrkendall 8 hoe company got expedite ac
quittal. 'Under the same charge, J. '.
llanley, manager of the Omaha Messenger
Express company was given a continuance
to produce witnesses.
Sherman was first to be set free when it
was found that though his concern had
hired one particular boy and evidently
othera under 16 years old, he himself was
not directly responsible for the legal lapse.
Mr. Klrkendall in his own defense argued
that there w'us no way for an employer to
know for a surety the true age of the
boys he employed. "What are you going
to do if the boys lie about their age?" he
asked.
Slate Commissioner of Itbor Maupln and
Ijihor Inspector Uepson, who had filed the
complaints, explained that an employer
should communicate with him or the
school authorities for definite Information
about each boy when doubt existed.
"Well, can't one employ a boy if his
mother gives his age as over 1$ years?"
iridulrcd Mr. Klrkendall.
"They would be taking a risk under the
law." said Mr. Maupln.
"Well, its high time that law was
changed," Vnnounced tho defendant.
At litis point Judge Crawford Intervened.
"1 can t see any way to avoid fining you
$j0 und costs." he said, "except under the
point I raised for Mr. Sherman, that your
corporation is responsible and not you In
dividually." The case was forthwith dismissed.
A Comprehensive Summary of the
Progress of the Work.
FACTS FOR THE LAY READER
Army of Twenty-Five Thousand Men
Panning the Enterprise Townrd
Completion Culebru Cut
nd Untun Dam.
A gratifying -variation from the spirit of
fault-finding manifested by Panama canal
investigators Is presented In "The Truth
About Panama Canal," in the May num
ber of the Columbian Magazine. Gerald
Mygatt, the author, put In three weeks
looking over the great work in March last
and sketches conditions as they are at the
present time. Ills aim is to give the reader
a comprehensive view of the progress of
she national enterprise, free from technical
details.
The salient facta of the article follow:
The Panama canal, to all Intents and
purposes, will not be a canal at all, but a
lake a broad, fresh-water lake, thirty-two
miles long and with an area of 1G4 square
mllus, a lake which will flood the country
six inches below mean water, with a max
imum variation of eighteen Inches. Should
a deeper channel ever become necessary,
however, by reason of a much greater in
crease In the draft of ships than Is now
anticipated, it would be a simple matter to
dredge to any further required depth, and
that without any interruption of canal
traffic. Two breakwaters will be built off
Colon to protect tho canal entrance and to
make passage possible even during the
violent "northers" which sweep in at times
during the winter months.
The Pacific Entrance.
The nine-mile sea level channel at tho
Pacific end has also already been mainly
completed, and In much the same way as
the Atlantic division, by dredging through
the swamps and bogs of the coast lowlands.
On both ends together, however, between
twelve and fourteen dredges are still at
work, some of them old French- machines
and two of the present suction form big
ocean steamers, they look like now in use
in New York harbor. '
A four-mile breakwater is being thrown
out to one of the small off-shore islands,
rot on account of storms, for they seldom
Mow on this roatst, and never with any vio
lence, but to prevent shoaling of the chan
nel from sllt-carrylng cross currents. That
breakwater Is well toward completion.
The moit peculiar thing of all about tho
Pacific end of the canal, as compared with
the Atlantic, is that here trie tide has a
j dally rise and fall of from twenty to twen
In some places far beyond the ten-mile j ty-two feet, eleven feet above and eleven
Heath from Blood Poison
was prevented by G. W. Cloyd. Plunk, Mo.,
who healed his dangerous wound with
llncklen's Arnica Salve. Kc. For sale by
Rtaton Drug Co.
Th reportTmnda to th comptroller
under datu of March 39, 1910. shows
that this bank baa
Time Certificates of
Deposit $2,034,278.61
3 Interest
paid on certificates running (or twelis
months.
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limits of the canal xone, from within seven
miles of the Atlantic to a distance of but
nine from the Pacific side oS the isthmus.
Most persons do not realise that. They
picture the waterway as a big ditch, which
It Is not. For only nine miles through
Culebra cut will the work be very much
like what the average mind seems to have
conceived. And when it is finished, even
that Culebra section will form part of the
lake itself. Provided you're going from
New York to San Francisco by boat five
years from now, this is what will happen
when you get to Panama.
At Colon, on the Caribbean side, you will
run into a broad, deep channel, which has
already been dredged out of the soft, sea
level swamp land for seven miles, In to
Gatun. There you will see- ahead of you
a low gently-sloping hill, stretching for a
full mile and a half from one side of the
valley to the other. That will be the Gatun
dam but It won't look like a dam at all,
because the whole slope will be as easy as
that of a sea beach. At the left is a triple
flight of locks part 6t them is built already
to lift your steamer up to the level of the
lake, eighty-five feet above the sea. You
may pass another boat going down, for the
locks are In pairs o permit of traffic In
both directions at once.
On Oaton Like,
Now you're on Gatun lake, and tho cap
tain gives the full speed Jingle, because It's
a wide, clear channel, with but an easy
turn here and there, and long, clear
straightaways In between, and the ahlp
keeps on thus for twenty miles or more.
Then hills loom up ahead, and the channel
narrows from 1.000 feet to 800, and then
to S00 and then at last you ease
along for the nine-mile passage through
the backbone range of the Ameri
can continent Culebra cut, Jf you
choosewhere the channel gets down to
Its minimum width of 300 feet, enough for
two vessels to pass In comfort and with
lots to spare, but -not enough for a twenty
knot clip.
You are through before you know It, and
Into the Pedro Miguel lock, which lets the
ship down thirty feet Into a little lake or
basin a mile long, at the far end of which
are tha two twin locks of Mlraflorea, com
pleting tha descent to the sea. And then
It's a run of nine miles through a straight,
broad, lowland channel most of that, too,
has already been dredged and you are out
in tha Pacific. That's all. The bulk of the
canal length Ilea In Gatun lake, right
through Culebra cut to the Pedro Mlgel
lock, a distance most of which can be cov
ered at full steaming speed.
The canal work Itself may be divided
into three parts; the sea level entrances,
the cut through the divide of the Cordil
leras at Culbebra, and the dam and lock
construction at Gatun, Pedro Miguel and
Miraflores. Each of these brings In work
of a different character.
On the Atlantic side the canal will con
sist of a sea level channel 500 feet broad
and forty-one feet deep, extending from
deep water In 'he Caribbean to Gatun,
seven miles Inland. Thia portion of the
work has already been practically com
pleted, and la put to dally use by the tugs
and cement barges running Into Gatun.
Although the rest of the canal will have a
minimum depth of forty-five feet, the
Atlantic channel has been given only a
forty-one-foot depth on account of the
tact that the average oscillation of the tide
is only about a foot, six Inches above and
feet below mean water. That means noth
Ing, as far as a lock canal is concerned
except that the 600-foot channel will bt
given a depth four feet greater than that
of the Atlantic entrance, to allow for tha
passage of deeply laden vessels at ebb
tide.
The real ditch digging part of the work
Is at what has come ,to be known as the
Culebra cut, extending for the nine miles
from Has Obispo to Pedro Miguel. Here
the range of the Cordilleras, which is the
connecting link between the Andes and the
Rockies, runs down to only a little more
than 300 feet above sea level. On the
Paclflo side the slope is sudden, on the
Atlantic rather more gentle; but in the
nine-mile thickness of the range there was
In the first place a whole lot of material
to be taken. There is yet but not so
much.
Culebra. Cat.
The proposition of taking a 300-foot hill
and cutting a pie-shaped piece out of it
down to forty feet above the sea the water
sui face Is to be elghty-fove feet, but the
canal will be forty-fivo feet deep and to
have the bottom of that slice a full
300 feet wide, that Is a good deal of a ob.
One hundred million cubic yards of rock
and dirt, to be exact. One can hardly
realize the magnitude of the work without
seeing it with his own eyes.
There is now a rough average of about
forty feet, or slightly over, still to be taken
out of the nine miles of the ditch, from
little or nothing at jthe two ends to about
seventy-five feet at the highest point. Anu
that means that some work has been
done.
Between the cut and the Gaturn dam
there will have to be little excavation
merely the lopping off of a few knolls here
and there near the rise of the continental
elope. For the first eight miles In from
Gatun there will be no digging at all; in
near Has Obispo at the foot of the hills
the French did a good deal of excavating
which will prove most useful. Rut for all
of the twenty-three miles of what will he
open lake the work is to all Interns fin
ished. The hardest digging here was sim
pler even than the work on several canals
which have been built In the eastern states.
There were a couple of reivers to control,
rivers which would rise higher than the
canal excavations, but It was only a mat
ter of two or three feet, and that was
simple.
Locks and Dams.
The key pieces of the whole canal are
the dams and locks the dam and double
flight at Mlraflorea, the twin single-lift
lock at Pedro Miguel, and more than both
of these the great dam and triple flight
of locks at Gatun. The locks throughout
the line of the waterway will be uniform;
the two minor dams are but little out of
the ordinary. And so a general description
of the work and progress at Gatun should
give a fair idea of the whole work.
Gatun Is the Atlantio water gateway of
the Isthmus. Here It Is that two or three
good-slsed rivers the Chagres and the
Gatuncllla and several others pour In to
gether and swirl out between too low-lying
ranges of hills Inio the Caribbean. Rack
of Gatun the country spreads out for miles
of bog and swamp and soggy morass, the
territory which will form the bed of the !
new lake. Nature; r.ould hardly have de
signed a better place for a gigantic dam
and spillway and a flight of locks.
Across the T.bOO feet between those two
low ranges the dam is being thrown a
dam 116 feet high and over a third of a
mile thick at its base nothing more or
less than a big, easy hill squarrty across
the valley. It Is neither the largest nor
the most spectucular dam ever constructed,
but when you stand there and look It over
it seems like a pretty big proposition. That
pile of rock and earth mill have a head of
only eighty-five feet of water against It,
and that for but about 500 feet of its
length, but It will hold a lake, the area
of which will bo over 154 square miles.
Right in the middle of the valley, and,
incidentally, of the dam, rises a small hill
of rock Spillway hill, they call It, because
here a concrete-lined rock cut will take
care of the surplus water which the rivers
pour down during the rainy season. The
spillway is to have a channel 300 feet wide,
desgned for a run-off capacity of '110,000
cubic feet a second. That is about finished;
tao cut has been completed, the concrete
floor Is down and the walls themselves
are well under way.
Gatun Dam.
West of Spillway hill little work on the
actual dam construction has been done
that's because there has got to be some
place for the rivers to run until they can
be turned through the spillway itself. But
on the east side a good deal is going on.
They started out by dumping two parallel
lines of rock, about 1,200 feet apart, from
the lock site at Gatun over to the hill In
the center of the valley. On the outside
of the rock was dumped Indiscriminate
stone and dirt. They got those two lines
pretty well up, like two separate dams,
and then began filling in the space be
tween with impervious material pumped In
by dredges. The rock "toes" of the east
ern half of the dam are about up to their
full height, but the pumping work is still
going on continuous streams of watery
mud pouring In day and night. The water
rains off and the sandy clay settles, dry.
ing slowly and packing Itself so hard by
its own weight that it becomes almost as
solid as concrete.
When they get that finished and It won't
be long they'll level things off and rip
rap the surface where wave action will
come, and then the work will be ready
for business. The dam will stand tn.ri
feet above water. Its top will be 100 feet
wide. At the lake surface it will be 398
feet thick, and down at the bottom over
.000 feet through. The slopes are so gentle
that the water pressure will practically all
be down, not out.
"Why," said one of tho engineers, "that
won't be a dam. It'll be a small moun
tain." Although the dam at Gatun Is no par
ticular record-breaker, except In the one
point of being safer and more heavily built
for the work it will be called upon to do,
than any similar construction ever at
tempted, the locks and they are the same
throughout the canal are the largest ever
designed. The work of these Gatun lifts,
which Is the most complicated on the
whole canal, is well under way. The ex
cavation, most of It rock cut, has prac
tically been completed 80 per cent at the
end of January and 21 per cent of the con
crete work on the upper lock hud also
been put In at that time. That means that
at the present rate the locks should be fin
ished In three and one-half years. And
with their completion ihe whole canal will
be considered done.
Fllicht of l.nclta.
There will be three flights of locks at
Gatun, arranged in pairs, each hav
ing a usable length of 1,000 feet
and a width of 110. They will be built of
concrete throughout, thick, solid concrete,
the water level being regulated by valves
In the heavy side and center walls which
permit tho water to flow In and out of the
chambers through openings In the lock
floors. For safety In operation there will
be double steel gates at each end of each
lock, with a heavy protective chain in addi
tion to arrest the movement of any vessels.
But more than that, no ship or boat will be
allowed to pass through any of the locks
under its own power. Most lock accidents
havo happened from lack of control or
misunderstood signals. Electric towing
locomotives will be used on the Panama
lifts, four to a vessel one at each corner,
so to speak and not a steamer will be al
lowed to turn Its own propellers while
going through. This will mean efficiency,
speed and safety.
The Gatun flight is situated In a bed of
solid rock at the extreme left of the valley
as you approach the dam from the Carib
bean side of the Isthmus. The whole work,
dam and all, Is being built on sojld rock,
or on hard, Impervious material much like
that of the dam Itself, overlying the rock
stratum.
Working: Force In Action.
Picture a long, deep cut with sheer ver
tlcie sides, a cut as broad as two or three
city blocks, stretching from the shade .of
its high, rocky walls at one end fdr a long
three-quarters of a mile toward the sea.
Picture it swarming with negro workers
and white foreman, the lower end filled
with rough-laid tracks and switches.
Steam shovels, locomotives, rock trains, all
working and Jarring and squealing to
gether. At the upper end, by tho dam,
whore the banks rise high, four tower
lifted sets of cables stretch across the
gulf, busy moving cables, with great
buckets sliding out to the center, dumping
masses of wet concrete to the floor far
below, and then snapping back for load
after load. Down in the bottom pigmy
men are working on the giant, collapsible
steel forms into which the concrete falls,
settles down and hardens for the whole
fabric of the locks, floor, walls and what
walls they are culverts, drains and all. Is
being mounded as a child moulds mud
pies. Parts of the sides of the upper lock
are up; huge monoliths hardening In raw,
red casings of steel. The floor of that lock
Is finished. It's all bustle and hurry and
rush, whistles blowing, iron clanking, men
shouting, all In a great, gaping cut out of
the body of tho earth. That's Gatun.
It would be pretty hard for an American
to visit the Isthmus without feeling a little
bit proud. The biggest work of Its kind
ever undertaken going on relentlessly, day
after day, and In some places day and
night. Twenty-five thousand and more men
swarming over the line of the canal, super
vising, organising, drafting, surveying, some
at the throttles of locomotives and steam
shovels, others sweating In the dust of con
crete mixers, still- others blasting rock.
loaaing endless lines of trains, or digging,
digging. And they are working In one of
the most healthful and sanitary commun
ities on earth a place that five years ago
was a reeking mud hole of yellow fever
and Ftestllence.
Seventeen More
Young Doctors
Class Graduates from the Omaha
Medical College Next
Thursday.
Seventeen graduates of the Omaha Medi
cal college, which Is the collego of medicine
of the University of Nebraska, will receive
tneir degree as doctor of medicine from
Chancellor Avery ThursCay evening at the
First Congregational church, Omaha.
Following are the names of the members
of the class: W. N. Anderson, Osceola; F.
1 Barbour, Omaha; George Buol, Ran
dolph; I. S. Cutter, Omaha; II. R. Carson,
Fremont; R. G. Miller, Ord; N. H. New
man, Omaha; R. R. Reed, Randolph; C. K.
Remy, Alnsworth; J. K. Olsson, Lexington;
F. W. Scott, Omaha; M. F. Flnston, Mil
coin; R. J. Stearns, Grand Island; C. R.
Stewart, Nickcrson; 8. A. Swensor Oak
land; Miss Jeaunette Throckmorton, Chari
ton, la.; J. C. Waddell, Pawnee City.
The commencement address will be de
livered by Dr. Woods Rutchlnson, the
noted physician and author of New York.
Dr. Robert 11. Walcott of Lincoln, dean
of the college, will preside, and Dr. Harold
Glfford of Omaha, associate dean, will also
take part in the graduation exercises. The
professors of the college will attend in their
caps and gowns, and each man will wear
the colors of his alma mater.
A reception will follow In the parlors of
the church for the graduates and their
friends.
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