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THE OMAHA' SUNDAY ' BEE : JUNE lf, 1010. Goal Men from Many States Meet in Omaha to Indulge in Shop Talk . . - 1 Tkes. cw I a lJrTlnt H I 1 II B LTW I II III II III I I If iiTil hi MlUt ' ' s vi i in i i hi ir 'ii iilj. i ii "a- iiihiw . . . . o MAHA'S welcome arch, spanning Far nun street between the city hall and the Douglas county Music Maaonic quartet, who are initiated will carry awav the same with Its problems that have proven highly America and the successor of that great The general public, perhaps, falls to mission has In the matter of rate adjuV- Address, "Present Business Methods" jtinj 0f a smne that President Taft has satisfactory . to the retailer and to the labor leader, John Mitchell, who will speak realise In what way It is benefited by such ments. By means of such organisations as the performance at -wholesaler. Circular No. 1 which the as- Wednesday morning on "The Mining In- organisations as the Northwestern Retail .jj " ... . ..'.. .....i--. worn ever since ho saw AllUreHS. I M H MIL 1 1 1 HIUKII K a nn n - .. . ........ court house, heuri th ivmhnl.. n.n h v.rri.,mn Moi-rhnniM Traio iiir- tho "en last fall. Following the Ak-Sar- soclation took some three months In work- dustry as a factor In the Progress or the Coal Dealers association, Lx. a ranroaa N. Ji. C. D. A. 'I he coal man will be around tomorrow for a three days' convention. Hence the Gate City, with Its warm west ern hospitality, swings wide its portals to the black diamond merchant and his col league In the' Northwestern Retail Coal Dealers' association. Once there was a inarv so the Joke book ays, who professed to be a diamond mer chant becauso he sold peanuts and pop- nal, Des Moines. Deferred business. livening Session Hotel Rome Assembly Room. Gathering of the Clan "Ko-Koals" Initia tion. Vaudeville lunch. WEDNESDAY. Fourth session, 10 a. m. sharp. Music Masonic quartet. ( Report of committees. , Amendment of articles of association. Address, "The Mining Industry as a Fac tor in the Progress of the United States" Lewis, president united Mine 11 f T corn at the ball lark. But the coal dealer WniWs of' America: has come forth with the self-appropriated. Address, "The Trend of the Times" and perhaps plagiarized, title of the black' SeIln1ator J' P,' Dlllver of lowa' diamond merchant because he claims to UnHnUhed business. have the best ground to substantiate his Adjournment sRie die. Ben entertainment a real "Dutch" lunch lng out, was the result of consultation with United States. president Lewis has long increase its rates on certain points, wnicn. wHl be served. shippers and retailers. It was the first set been In the public eye because of his val- It goes, without saying, must be paid Probably one of the most Important ltms of Printed rules formulated by which lh.e lant services for the miners In the recent by the ultimate consumer for It means of business to be considered by the co:l trade could define' the rights of the dealer litigation with) the operators which Is still simply an Increase In the retail price of dealers will come up for discussion Tuesday a"d the rights of tthe shipper, In a virulent stage In several parts ot the coal, and there Is bound to be an tnvestl- mornlng at IP 30 o'clock It Is tho matter "We think the railroads should be repre- country. He Is the champion of the men gatlon and, if warranted, a complaint to f t thi. tn nn.rai.' h.tWMfi ti. sented on the committee to report at the who work beneath the surface of the earth, the Interstate Commerce commission. Just wholesalers and retailers and has its main Omaha meeting. Certainly the railroad Is the men who face destruction In the mines at the present time the rate question is through years of application In building instigator In Mr. Cuvelller, the "fighting as Interested a party in the transportation while in the performance of their duties paramount with the shippers of all com- up a business will have his Imitators, editor" of the coal dealers. In It May Of coal as either the shipper or the -re- and while fighting for the bread of life to modit.es and the railroads that handle the Some people cannot originate and ate copy number the Coal Dealer had the-following celver. No doubt a leading railroad man sustain themselves and their families. The shipments. Only recently the big western lsts. One penalty of success Is that these oriltnrlRl nn the OLipstion of ethics-' to ' represent ; all. the roads added to -the president's plea is for the tollers In the lines announced an increase In the rates ' people will attain more or' less success the Northwestern Retail Coal Dealers' as sociation a fight haa been waged against discrimination and unfairness. The coal dealers seek only "the square deal" by m ' which they may secure a fair margin .tt profit. ... - . But ' the coal dealer sees a penalty for being successful. It Is true of all lines of endeavor. An Individual that succeeds "The journal has, been highly compli- committee -would be able to Shed much light depths who are seeking better wages, bet- on hv ih .nni..i. tr-rf fnr it, '.' on the relations of the carrier to both the tcr protection from danger in the diggings son freight to become effective In June, by riding on-the crest of the waves 'left mented bv the wholesale trade for Its plo- on. the relations of the earner to botn the -wf ftuwum nom oomeming nappeneu. me snippers nucn. m xne wane oi a sucoessiui career netr work In brlnglrg to the attention of shipper and the receiver'.'.' and a better standard of living. together and by means of a federal lnjunc- The fact Is the average business, man the coal trade a need for a code of rules Besides taking definite action on the mat- .On the business side of the coal trade will tlon prevented the railroads from putting l8 B0 buBy tnat ha wlu not taka tlma to claim. The coal man points to the fact The coal merchants are coming to Omaha as between the shipper and the receiver, ter of the code of ethics the convention will be nearo. sucn men as oen k. varoaman oi me new -win airrerentlate . between the originator and that the veins and seams of the old earth for business, but they are going to have a We take a little credit for having Instigated consider such questions as shrinkage of Des Moines. Ia.. editor- of the Merchants President Taft was called upon to legls- tna lmltator. But the penalties thus paid from which he mines his crystalline lignites good time while they are here. The Omaha the action of the northwestern association coal in transit, refusals, grading of ship- Trade Journal; K. Q. Stone of Minneapolis with the result that the new tariff was for 8Ucce8 are only Incidental and do not Produce more valuable more useful and Commercial club, the local coal dealers and In appointing an Initial committee com- ments, responsibility of wholesalers and and Louis B. Dorr of Chicago, advertising laid aside, the Injunction removed and the detract in any respect from the attain more necessary minerals than all the other the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben are looking posed of representative wholesalers and responsibility of wholesalers. manager for pyrolite coal. On the admlnis- old order of things restored pending the menU of the successful men. Jewel and treasure stores of the earth's after the entertainment features. retailers to report at the annual matins In the business of the convention both trative and legal side of affairs will be passage and operation of the admlnlstra- Tha Bame Is true of .associations. Coat Interior. ' The first number on the fun program will In Omaha a set of rules toTo acted upon sides of the labor situation will be repre- heard Senator J. P. Dolliver of Iowa and tlon railroad bill.- It will be determined associations accomplish much directly and Now come the black diamond merchants be held at the Ak-Sar-Ben den Monday at that convention. sented and also the legal side. On the side Governor A. C. Shallenbergr of Nebraska, whether the Increase of rates Is warranted 'indirectly-'for everyone In the trade for Of seven states to talk over the business night, when the visiting delegates will be "There are certain" lines that have been of - labor will be heard Thomas L. Lewis, Mayor Dahlman of Omaha will welcome tha on the part of the railroads and Just what much of which-they receive no-remunera- ituatlon. to listen to authorities on labor the guests of the knights. Coal dealer? promulgated by the association In dealing president of the United Mine Workers of coat oeaiers to me cny. conditions, to plan legislation that will . ' ' ' ' ' "'' power the Interstate Commerce coin- work to the Best Interests of the trade and of the public and to further promote that plrU of oo-operation and mutual benefit among1 themselves that works to all that Is good In the relations of man to man. '"'the coal men will come to Omaha from all sections -of Nebraska; they will come from the coal fields of Iowa, Kansas and Missouri and from the neighboring states of Minnesota, North Dakota and South Da kota. The convention will be in session three days Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Purlng those days the coal dealers will keep in touch with Omaha, with the con vention Itself and with the members through the medium, of a dally paper, pub lished by the , coal dealers themselves. -ine convention Special" will be Short Bits of Gossip Concerning: Notables from Various Bailiwicks T President's N"w ' Secretary. HE New York Globe man who writes up "People In the Publlo Eye" can't understand why Charles ' Dyer Norton should quit writing insurance at $50,000 a year to become an under strapper at the wrong end of Pennsyl vania it) Washington, where he gets a little lees than enough to pay his auto bills. Not but what Norton can afford this If he wants to, for he was In the insurance business a good many years worked his extra u.aw lhnh A rvi Vi r u 1 -nil nnlit A 1 .1 1 fi t dltlons of the Coal Dealer, the official uuie bills on the side before he was old monthly organ of the Northwestern Retail enough to vote.' and he handled that IM.0U0 his benignity at least, solace was granted. It was altogether most affecting, and, when at the close of the greetings, the holy of soul, touched by . a strange pathos that trie Vatican,' than of awed -reverence for but I looked upon Plus X with no feelings Indulgence for what I know not, "as brought with it the conviction 'that the the Successor of the apostle. There was, of envy in my heart. people of his beloved city of" Venice Indeed, no' lack of 'the latter quality,, but After his holiness had passed us by we among whom as Gulseppe .Sarto,' he had the former was ' from the heart, and I were bidden t rise arid follow in his train, once dwelt, had loved him for reasons am ' glad to feel that that Is truly the which we did; directly in his train. In fact, that were :ood. One lonKed to be able to American of it.. In spite of the splendor, of for' upon the return to the Sala Dell' Con- rlse up aod give him an affectionate and his surroundings and the loftiness of his clstoro it so happened that our position in father raised his hand to bless all present no less reverential salute, than th'e cold for- station, one could . not escape the cbnvlc- the line gave us the position of honor, "according to their need and Intention," mal greeting to the golden signet pre- tlon that the office carries with It not In a remarkabfy short time he had passed I wnt down upon my knees, not because scribed by the etiquette of the ceremony., only responsibilities which are ' onerous before the whole group of visitors. Many the etiquette of tho hour required : it, I pressed his hand with a sincere and . and exacting, but involves as well such of these, as I have already Intimated, had but beeause I wanted to; and when I rose earnest feeling of reverence for his of- sacrifices of life and -liberty as would apparently came merely to satisfy their up and went back'to the noisy city I felt flee and of respect for the man, and was stagger , most men, even, those rigorously 1 curiosity to see the head of the Roman that the blessing asked had been received, surprised -to find, as a little lump manl- trained for a life of sacrifice as the church church, but others were there for purposes for I was happy and the world seemed the ftrt ii.if in mv throat and a susnldnus trams . " Its nriests. I have sometimes affecting the repose of their own souIb, sweeter and brighter for the existence tlon. It is true that the more successful an organization - the more- liable it is to lose. the. support .of certain of. Its mem ship. It Is the penalty of having reduced troubles to . a . minimum. A coal dealer-who now has compara tively no troubles and consequently ha allowed, tha. Interest-to lag In the assoc iation would be the first to urge organlza- holiness passed along : and in every case with a kindly gesture and a glance full of tion.were the present efficient association moisture dimmed mv eyes for the moment, thouaht It , would be pleasant to be the for more than one man and one woman Coal Dealers' association, ami u.ni i. , ihi i had h1cmmi1' nihor Intn an in. vim nf: F.nilind or the emDeror ot Ger- with faces streaming with tears and an sued each morning that the convention Is Norton Is the man who succeeds Fred tensity of sympathy for the prisoner of . many or the president of the United States, anguish of mind Unconcealed. Implored .... unuer me personal direction of Carpenter of Minnesota aa the president's of such a man as Plus X. Banyan's Mlrthplace. allowed to lapse. There ought to be a way discovered by -which such -people could ba singled out. . But It . cannot ie done. Tha benefits of. association work is on a broad basis that, like the rain. It falls upon tha Just and the unjust. . So that it a coal as sociation, succeeds which, in itself may be a menace to Its financial support, It must keep on doing the beneficial work for all. The luck of support from some Is a penalty of being, successful. . . The home of .tha Northwestern coal deal ers is In Minneapolis. There are located tho executive offices of the assaciatlon and there is published . The Coal Dealer, tha Judith, countess of Huntingdon, the niece official organ of the association. This la ItS editor, I. C. Cuvelller Of MlnneaDolla. nrlvil. ..I.n and hl Irllnlm fnr thla Thus the diamond merchants have Intro- Job Isn't any better than Carpenter's was. uced an Innovation Into the convention It Is true that whereas Carpenter thought History of Omaha. The special edition will It a crime to talk at all. Norton can talk come out each morning Just as the morn- a man Into a trance In five minutes, but tog papers are Issued. The work will be that Is when he la talking insurance. The ignt work-linotype operators, proof, question is, does he know what to say to readers, pressmen, the editor himself, will a disappointed and irate congressman or to work nlghta. Just the same as the staffs the newspaper menT ' Of the great morning papers In the big Anyhow, he won t stand In awe of either cities. Each morning the hundreds of dele- congi-ubsmen or cabinet ministers. As for grates to the convention will receive copies newspaper men, they are all strangers to Of tha convention special, giving complete him. V'tlXZl T df nd th" n'Sht b- Norton ,n h" " ye". He Is the son .n? 1 , 0!' ePO''," f ' Congregational minister, and is the cars and committees, business proceedings. dMcendlult uf . ladv uho wa!1 trimA hv minutes, wun society notes in full elvlmr j,, lutia ,.i V. i. giving admiring constituency on the belief that she auuui uiuii present. Then the special will devote columns of y- apace to Omaha, telling of Its attractions. Its amusement features, and the plans of entertainment for the visitors, i Mr. Cuvelller and his staff are already in Omaha and have made complete plans for printing the special dally newspaper. The lara Is an original one with the editor and marks the coal dealers' convention as a tar event in Omaha. During the three days' convention the Xullowlng program will be carried out: MONDAY. First session, :30 p. m. sharp. -I Address of Vv eluo.iie Mayor James C. lAahlman of Omaha. Aespoose H. !'. rolsom, Lincoln, Neb. . Aodi-ess George Oregory. pie.-ideiit North taotern Retail Coal Dealers uoL.aiou. Report H. L. Laird, aecretaa -L.tajuier. Appointment of committees. -Address, "Credits" u. y. Stone, Miiine- Address, . "Trade Bulldlna '-Louis B A rreaeaUlles at the Yatlrss. New business A slight gesture" from the master of ft Du"ngU,the"'evenlng the coal dealers will ceiemonics, writes John Kendrlck Bangs f be guests of Omaha uealers and Knignts In Harper s Weekly, bade us all kneel and of Ak-Sar-Ben, the big iSebraska Uoosiuis' ihe long-awaited figure entered a sad- rganlsatlon. Tne initiation witnessed oy . d arrayed in a simple white robe, five presidents, foreign ministers and tnu I,tea "ti"" big men of the world will be held at la. expressionless of feature but giving a Ak-Sar-Ben 'den. it will be followed by a su lking Impression of sweetness and ln- "Dutch." . ., tensa weariness combined. He walked Pec-.nd session, lo w a. m. sharp. slowly along the line holding out to each Music Masonic quartet. , pilgrim as he passed a listless hand, on Consideration et these subjects; tne fourtn finger of which was the ring U) Code of Kittles oy Committee of , At flrat -i-nc ka aDDarcd Wholesales and Retailers. ' Pe,er- At r'r,t la,,c "a appeared (b) Shrinkage. the embodiment of age and of physical ' tc) Refusals. weakness, and it must be confessed thai 1 ii I ciradina'. .... - . . n u . i,aniw-iniinf k..t a- r ' ' tl Responsibility of Retailers. ' " 1 i it) Responsibility of V liolesalera he came nearer, and one was able to look gf f Address, "btorage of Coal" -Charles mora closely Into his saddened eyes, one f ' Good now. discerned In them not so much of weak- $Lu4 'SXXY M pf1- . 1-v.Una.s.of character. .trant Temier People atEanffieb of Winiam the Conqueror, who founded tho abbey which gave its name to the an up'to-Oale, thoroughly . twentieth cen tury trade Journal of high commercial mmmmmmmmmmaOOOGQ&m was a witch. Charles was born In Oshkosh. is., and began to hustle Insurance when he was It years oid. After he returned from college and had been In business awhile, he was made chairman of the Com mercial club committee which had a com mission to make Chicago-look pretty. He held that Job for tlwee years. He aUo wrote magazine stories for a lime, and they were pretty gi;od stories, too. But all the while he had the Itching for a commission, so, it was not difficult for Secretary MacVeagh to persuade him that he was nueded in the Treasury depart ment. He lias made good there, and It Is predicted that. Inasmuch as lie has a real aflectioii for President Taft, and can Jul niote emotion Into a handsnake than any oilier man In Washington, he may succeed lu bis new Job. hamlet of Elstow gathered about its standing .among the wholesale and( retail gates; Sir Humphrey Radcliffe. into whose traders. It is . Issued in monthly Instal- " i J- "- f f -:' . " 4 ' P Uir . .... It i 1 ' ' '-AS V r ji,! .:' ; 's !j Tfm" iSaiZ7,'i.,,i I.S-VW. Xim. mm.. I. at m. -- . ---w-m-; . lliS" N aei.. ii i i ' " -ocQeyjXj"'.1. -gS- o hands the property passed at the dis solution of the monasteries, and t'.ia Hllles don family, who afterwards built their mansion there, would be but names on a rarely-turned page of hlBtory. the church, with Its separate tower and Its peal of ancient bells, the old guest house on the villlage green, the stump of a cross recall ing the fairs that were held there, would be no goal of pilgrimage but for a later ments running about 100 pages to the Issue, Every phase of the coal trade Is covered within its columns. It la the trade booster for tliO dealers and Is arraigned against discrimination, unfairness and anything that does not work toward the "square deal" -to . all-, . The. Coal Dealer Is the weapon of the retailers In their fight and Us editor Is known as'the fighting editor." The June Issue devoted several pages with name whose rank upon the roll gf fame appropriate cuts to Omaha, This was the sheds back a light of interest upon all the details of its place and circumstances. Elstow gained its patent of nobility In 1628 through the birth of John Bunyan, and the visitor comes to It In the memory of his early years. Ma stands In the door of tho church tower to recall Uunjan as a ringer of the bells, and walks to the green to see an imaginary game of tip-cat ,and enters the old Moot hall to revive. the memory of Bunyan s "uniegeneiate" dan cing. nusklu's MIsfTt Wife. pre-conventlon issue calling attention to tho convention. In the line of publicity the several ' articles were highly compli mentary to the metropolis of Nebraska as the convention city of the west. Besides containing news of general Interest to the tiade The. Coal Dealer makes a special point to report locality news. Special cor respondence is received each month from tha larger cities within the (one of tha Noi thwectern ltt'tkll Coal Dealers' associa tion, including Omaha. Des Moines, Kan sus City, St. Paul, Minneapolis and St. Louis. Correspondents alto report from Winnipeg, Canada, and Columbus, O. Here Is a vivacious glimpse of Ruskln's Everything, In fact, of interest to tha wife from Ada Garland s "Buskin ft-nd Ills Bride." "A young gay wife, fond of dreas, ex citement and social life, was no lie.imeet for him. He went with her tor couit. tak- wholesaler and retailer, Is contained within the columns of the official magazine. Probably one of Its strongest features is Its editorial department. Within its col umns are touched upon the things political lng pride In the compliment:! paid her, but and ethical In the coal business., General society bored him. She often went out market conditions In the northwest, rela- alone. Not a wise thing to do, perhups, but she was very young, and the homo must have been dull her husband ab sorbed In architecture and his spare tlmo claimed by the old people. Materially, young Mrs. Ruskln had all she could de sire; was always well dressed, had splen did Jewels" and all tile advantages of wealth. Hut her husband could do with out her; Mrs. Buskin, sr., would not abdl- tions between the shippers and receivers and the relations with tho railroads are . touched upon as well as legislation affect ing tho trade. Of the coming three-days' convention The Coal Dealer says in its'. June issue:' "Tho Omaha convention of the Northwestern Re tail Coal Dealers' promises to be a hum dinger. We don't want to be asked the meaning of that term. But it means as much or more as when our fir.-t citizen. One of He rundions uriB$ the Omaha Conventionoi' Ur Commercial Collie Teachero1 , cute; the wire's position In the household Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, tells tho for- must, have been thai of a hanuomi figurehead." " 'Bho was conversing with some genlU-n-en 'one of whom ak.ed: , . " -Where Is Mr. Ruskln?' 'Oh, Mr. Ruskln'' she rVplted. 'He Is with his mother he ought to nave married bis mother!' " eigners he la having a 'bully time.' "umuha will pull off the biggest and most successful retail t'ual convention over held. After the business sesnioiiH are over and enloitalnment enjoyed to the full, th"e attending will be able to say it was the mure instructive and productive in results thru any previous convention attended. "On to Omaha June 20, 'IX and it -