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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 19, 1911)
T11F, m;K: UMAHA, IIILKMlAl, .lAM'Alil l'.Ml. JITY COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS F-thtrt Confirm A. J. Weitzel at Plumbing Inspector. i IAS COMPANY CLAIMS REJECTED f 'lans Approved for Kitrntln nf Hart rt Hewer llnnilred Taenia ad ewer flond Antnnrtten'. Police Board Wants4 AFFAIRS AT SOUTH OMAHA Patrolmen to Keep Lookout for Holdups Recall of Officers Will Be Included in New Charter Bill. 1 Tl y a rote tt ten to two. Counclltnen nuatlve, the appointment of Albert J '-VeJUel a rlty plumMnit Inspector was onflrmed lat night at the tiieetln of the rlty council The nomination of Weitzel fotloweil the refusal of the council to confirm the name nf Jimpi 8. KraJIck, a ilemoirat, 'ho named by the mayor a meek bko. tlt rel'a conflrtnatlon was expected H ti helleveii that either of the names of Welt eel, Sam lv.Ilark or James Cameron would be confirmed Mayor Diihlman sent In the name of Weitzel, who If a member of the examining: board of plumbers, and It was confirmed without opposition, j J In the main routine matters occupier the 3 attention of the council. A resolution for I bids for the (Trading of Martha Street to "itont. Thirty-fifth street from Cass to Uavenport and Spring street from Blx-' , teenth to Seventeenth street was referred : j to the committee of the whole. ' ' An ordinance for the chanaine; of the f grade of Forty-second street from Mason f to Poppleton and Pacific from Forty-first ' street to Forty-second was passed, and an i ordinance changing the grade of Tierce i street was passed. It waa also ordered I that I.alrd street be paved from Florence boulevard to Twenty-fourth street, and an ordinance fiir'the settlement of the tax litlautlon between the I'nlon Pacific rail road and the city of Omaha passed. The bill of t lie . health commissioner of 118 as expenses of attending a meeting In Kansas City was referred to the committee of the whole. Plana and specifications for the exten sion of the Burt street sewer from Twenty Ixth street to Thirty-third street were approved and the Issuing of aewer bonds to the amount of tlOO.Onn and Intersection i bonds of a Ilka amount passed. I Claims of the Omaha Qas company of riSB.OOD and $272.noO were rejected. Arc lights were ordered Installed at Twenty-fourth and Spring streets and on South Twentieth street In front of the en gine house fJo. 9. Chief Donahue Sayi Effective Work is Impossible with Small Force on Duty. At a meeting of the fire snd p-'Hce hoard last night the contract n let for 5,f) feet nf two and one-half Inch fire hose. The Kureka Fire Hose company will furnish :.n feet st II. 1". the W. P. Nott company. 2.W0 feet at the same price, and the Bilateral Fire Ho.e company feet at 1 ). There were eighteen bids. Commissioner Hoye moved that the po lice captains be Instructed to have their patrolmen pay more attention to the pro tection of citizens from highway robbery and burglary, and les to the liquor in terests, by raiding places suspected of sell ing liquor. The motion a. adopted. Chief Donahue said effective work was Impos sible with the handicap of his present small force. Patrolman James Kennelly was tried for neglect of duty In falling to find the back door of Fred Kein'a millinery store, luOS Douglas street, had been broken open last Wednesday morning, when the store was robbed. Kennelly hsa been aupended and aa a fine will not araw nis pay tor mat PROVIDES FOR SPECIAL ELECTION This Is One of lot Important Inno vations rro posed hy Hn Islonlsts School Hoard Matters ot Yet Beached. A Guarantee of Business Prosperity . The Persistent and Wise Patronage of av AOV 1 'W AUI MDIIII 1U1UIHIIS a DR. BARNES OF PLATTSMOUTH, EADING VETERINARIAN, DEAD "Well Known Man, Mho Had Lived In V.rlon. Sfbrk. T.wna, ' P atari Away, The "recall" for public officials Is prob ably the riMt Important amendment that wll be Introduced Into ttia .""outh Omaha charter If t lie bill, the draft of which was completed In City Attorney Murphy's of fice la-t nlkl t passeos the legislature. "We have practically Incorporated In our charter." said Attorney Murphy, "the article of the ( allfornia and Oregon con M.tutl'.ns which provides that a number of persons, equal to per cent of the num ber who voted ior any one officer, asking that an election be held In regard to that office, the city cWk and the mayor shall examine tli'ir petition, and If found suffi cient, the mayor is compelled within thirty clays to call such election. The man who Is In office and whose competency, or whose qualifications otherwise are chal lenged, shall be a candidate for re-election inless he notifies the mayor otherwise. Any person can file for the office and II li up to the public whether the official Is period. Owing to the length of his beat recalled or not." the board considered the offense light Thomas A. Fahey of engine house No. 1. was fined 15 and reprimanded for sleeping while on duty. Contracti were let for 500 tons of coal divided between McCaffrey Bros., Punder- land Bros., the I B. McCoun company, and the C. W. Hull company. COMMISSION HEARS THE COMPLAINT OF BEWSHER nallroad Agrees to Farnlab a Speelal Inspection Track for Grain Men. PIATTITMOUTH. Neb.; Jan. li (Spe ,fcSeJ.) Pr. A. P. Barnes, who had beea more or less of an Invalid for the last Rhree years, passed away at his home In KM city at 1 o'clock yesterday. Dr. feu-nes was a native of Michigan and waa ta his 60th year at the time of his death. t came to Nebraska about forty years to, studied veterinary medicine shortly ACter coming to Nebraska and practiced tjm prof ene Ion at Schuyler, Fremont, Elm irood. Auburn and Plattanrrouth. The Nebraska State Railway commission came to Omaha yesterday and heard the complaint against the Missouri Paclfio filed two months ago by II. A. Bewsher of the Bewsher Co. The hearing waa held In the offices of the Omaha drain ex change. The entire commission. Dr. H. J. Wlnnett. chairman; H. T. Clarke. Jr., and W. J. Fursa heard the case, which resulted In an agreement between the Missouri Pacific and the Bewsher Co., whereby a spe cial Inspection track would be afforded the grain company In the Missouri Paclfio yards. Bewsher'a complaint had been against the terminal service of the railroad. He charged that after specimens of grain had been taken from his cars In the railroad's yards for samples on the grain floor, his cara were moved from their original place and caused delays In delivery to buyers because they were difficult to find. Bew sher said he filed the complaint as a pro tectlon for his shippers. "When cara are moved about the yards," he eald, "they are so difficult to find that it sometimes causes a delay of more than twenty-four hours In getting them on the market. In the meantime the market may have gone down several cents, thus causing a big loss to the shipper, which Is entirely unnecessary." - Bigger. Better, Buster That Is what advertising In The Bee will do for your business. Although not many sections In the charter are to be changed, the number of (olios contained In the bill to be submitted to the legislature shows that the city at torney's department has not been Idle dur ing the last two days. Some Important Chances. The following are some of the other points that are dealt with: The change of grade precedure hsa been simplified by eliminating the necessity of a double boaid of appraisers. The city engineer shall be elected and not appointed as at present. The police Judge will be relieved of the necessity of being canhler of his depart ment as the amended charter will make all fines and penalties imposed In the po lice court directly payable to the city treasurer. The city treasurer will have the power to name hla deputy and two clerks and not one clerk as at present. Provision has also been made for the employment of a resident checker brought from outside the state to check the books of all the officers of the city, Including the school district. The park board shall have the handling and disbursing of al funds for park pur poses and the allotting of such funds for whatever improvements they may deem desirable. With regard to the collection of garbage, the amended charter will give the city en larged powers to comply with the views of the present administration as to keeping the city in a sanitary condition. It will enable the executive to put in force more effective and efficient sanitary regulations enabling him to recover from the owner of property who falls to comply with the orders of 'the city government, and have the expense of cleaning charged against the owner of the property. The various funds are increased as fol lows: General, 130,000; police, 127.000; fire, $35,000; lighting. $18,600; water, 116,000; street, $0,000; repair, $7,000, and cleaning, (.000. School Board -Not Decided.. With regard to the Board of Education no amendments have yet been drafted. How 'this matter stands la explained by Cltv Attorney Murphy. "At all the ni"e lrn of the charter revision committee said he. "the Board ot Kilucatlon was In ttd to present amendments to clip effei to the general Ideas of hat as n.'cesai to Improve their sstm of e -rnmmt . lu 1 the hoard has studiously refused t do and now the work of the revision committee Is practically done and we have rvt ha! any definite proposals from them. "This leaves the matter of ttie amend ment of the Board of Kilucatlon laws up to the executive committee, and from the expressions of opinion I hsve heard, the amendmrnts the committee thinks desirable will soon be drafted and Incorporated In the bill." The principal sugaestion msde during the meetings of the charter revision committee was the election of the secretary of the Board of Kducatlon and that the officer so elected should not he a member of the board. Inspection of Meters. One result of vetoing the bill of the water company will be the appointment of a meter Inspector, who shall have power to Inspect when requested by the public, gas. water and electric lighting meteta. This was the announcement made yes- t.TAmv afternoon by Mayor Tralnor. He pointed out that complaints were continu ally being received by the city, "and," said the mayor. "South Omaha should be In the same position as other cities and able to see that its people are protected from charges that are not right. I have heard of Instances where people had been out of their houses for months and had to pay the same as If they were at home and using the water." The mayor held up the water company's bill because ionic hydrants were not ac cessible and others did not yield the requi site amount of pressure. The mayor points out that he cannot find In the contract with the Omaha Water company any fixed teat for pressure. "However," he adds, "the contract la so worded that the water company Is to give us the same pressure as Omaha and I am informed by the chief Of the fire department that the city of Omaha requlree a water pressure of sixty pounds." The pressure from none of the hydrants on the list for deduction from the bill reach fifty poun-s, says the mayor. after a teat by himself and the chief of the fire department. Thomaa-Callana n. Bt. Agnes' church waa this morning the scene of a pretty wedding when Agnes, daughter of Police Judge James F. ana Mrs. Callanan. was married to Norbourne F. Thomas, who Is connected with one of the departments of the Armour Packing House company. The ceremony waa per formed by the Rev. James Aherne In the presence of a large number of guesta. The bride, who waa given away by her father and waa attended by Miss Ollle Brown of Omaha, was tastefully and becomingly gowned In white satin with white silk trimmed with embroidered chiffon and point de Parla lace. She wore a veil and carried a bouquet of bridal rosea. MIsb Brown waa dressed in marquisette trimmed with yellow satin bands and marquisette lace. She carrrled yellow roses. The best man waa Harry Callanan, brother of the bride. During the ceremony appropriate rauslo waa aung by the choir, and aa the happy couple left the church Mrs. Myrtle Hinchey played the wedding march from Lohengrin. A seven-course wedding breakfast was served by Mrs. Fead in the bride's parents' suite in the Scargo block, the rooms being tastefully decorated with ferns, hothouse plants and white roses. There will be a reception In the evening, for which 100 In vitations have been issued. Following lunch there will be muslo and dancing. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas will reside at 523 North Twenty-fourth street. South Omaha. Ilronn President of Country Clnb. . I it I jtoV- -xs.-- Best Corn exhibit ever shown will be at the Omaha Land Show At the Auditorium Jan. 18 to 28, 1911 This exhibit shows the development of corn from the original Indian maize, where each kernel had its separate husk, to the highest type of carefully bred, full big ears. This exhibit of the evolution of com is an exact dupli cate of the collection which was sold to the Russian gov ernment after the 1909 corn show. This is one of the 100 different exhibits, each of which ajone is worth a trip to the Show. The evolution of corn exhibit is on the north side of the second floor. Be sure to to see the exhibits on the second floor. 25 cents admission takes you to every exhibit, show and lecture at the exposition. kilt nuwfi Kit(j(fjjf(uifJtjijJli!ji 1(0)1 ri wii see uk in JL VlVvknaV L sllJLi vlkisy QJJ Out in the Union Pacific country Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon, Washington and California. Grains, grasses, vegetables, flowers fruits and a complete display of the famous BimBAMC PRODUCTS r t- r fc may be seen at the booth of the UNION PACIFIC Standard Road of the West Western Land-Products Exhibit AUorroiREUjiva Omaha, Nebraska, January 18-28, 1911 ft m ft ' ,. I. : fj LUTHER BURBANK, SANTA ROSA, CAL. ..j f 7 ' oEO jO i