Thousands Enjoyed Hospitality of King Ak in 1924; 1925 Prospects Bright
Ak-Sar-Ben Year
Successful. With
Prospects Bright
Samson Den Show, Races, Fall
Festival Enjoyed by
Thousands in
1924.
In 1084 Ak-Sar-I ion was consptru
nus in Its activities of good fellow
■ship and entertainment in an civil
affairs of Omaha.
The year was successful for Ak-Sar
Hen from many standpoints; the mem
liership reached 3,775, not as manj
as in 1023, hut what was lacking lr
numbers was made up in enthusiasm
Fourteen presentations of the show
‘ Bullfornla," were given at Ak-Sar
Ben den. A total of 7,470 witnesset
these performances as members ant
his majesty had the honor of enter
tatning 0,441 visitors. The Jargesi
attendance was on July 2G, when 1,37;
visitors witnessed the special per
•formanre put on for the international
convention of Lions clubs.
Fall Festival Success.
The fall festival program was per
haps the^ most successful that Ak
Sar-Ben has ever held. Fully 250.000
witnessed the fall street pageant, and
it was judged the most beautiful ever
staged In the history of Ak-Sar-Ben.
A conservative estimate was made
2® that 35,000 drove into Omaha October
1 by automobile.
The coronation ball, the crowning
feature of the festival, was witnessed
by 2,230 men and 2,453 women. From
a financial standpoint the year was
satisfactory, as the receipts were
vithin a few hundred dollars of the
iishursements.
Th6 Ak-Sar-Ben Exposition com
pany, during 1024, held three success
ful race meetings. The spring meet
ing of 21 days was bV far the most
successful running meet ever held in
this part of the country. Nearly 600
horses competed for prizes aggregat
ing $R5,000. The fall festival running
meeting was well attended and satis
factory.
Army Field Meet.
In addition to this, through the
courtesy of the Seventh Corps area
of the United States army, a track
and field meet with army maneuvers
. was held October 2. Fully 12,000 en
joyed this program, no charge being
made for admission. Perhaps the
greatest polo tournament ever held
west of the New England states was
staged here. Ak-Sar-Ben, in conjunc
lion with the United States army
staged the first horse show at Ak-Sar
lien field, which was well attended.
The hoard of governors feel en
rouraged at the prospects for 1925 and
the members are determined to make
it an outstanding year in the long
history of the organization.
Eugenics Law Has
Dealt Heavy Blow
to License Mart
Only 886 Permits to Marry
Issued in Douglas County
in 1924; Iowa
Gains.
The Nebraska eugenics law dealt
“Cupid” Herbert Stubbendorf a
cruel blow.
Once “Cupid” worked busily all
day long and frequently was calle<
from his home at night to issue mar
riage licenses.
Hut now—wedding bells may ring
brides may blush; bridegrooms ma>
mislay their rings, but most of it Is
done in Iowa.
'“That law has taken my battlnp
average down from 3.041 to 886,’
mourned Stubbendorf, as be compiler
his yearly records.
The eugenics law went Into effect
August 1, 1923. The table shows how
marriages In Nebraska have been af
fected:
19:1 192
January . 296 4
February . 111 6'
March . 1*4 3!
April . 177 6:
May . 24 ; *1
June . 336 14'
.1 uly . 266
August . *7
September . 66
October . 3
November . <2
l>tcember .. 61 *'
1.956 8*1
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How Omaha’s New Livestock Exchange Building Will Look
,-,-—-—i
South Omaha will have one of'the
most modern buildings of Its type In
the country when the new Livestock
Exchange building, now under con
struction, Is completed. The cost of
the building will be more than
5-1,000,000.
As the accompanying picture
shows, the building will be JI-shaped.
each wing being 62 feet wide by 133
feet long, with a connecting link
60 by 76 feet.
The exterior of the building will
be along simple lines resembling the
brick architecture of northern Italy.
The main entrances will be trimmed
tn stone. The brick used will he a
dark red. with terra cotto trimming
to match.
V
Tho main floor will be on a level
with the new viaduct, which Is now^
being built. The main entrance wib’
open on a lobby 60 feet square, with
a high ceiling. At each end of the
lobby will be offices for telegraph
and telephone, and elevators. The
north wing o'f the main floor will be
occupied by the Stockyards National
bank and the south wing on this
floor will be arranged for offices.
On the ground floor, below the
main floor, will be housed the rail
road offices, occupying all of the
north wing, and tho cafeteria, kitch
en, bakery and postoffice In the
south wing. The basement will have
shower baths and lorker rooms for
tenants and their i^iployes, as well
as storage space.
'All of the floors from the second to
the seventh, Inclusive, will be occu
pied by offices for commission men.
The Union Stockyards company
will occupy the entire north wing of
the eighth floor and the south wing
will be given over to hotel rooms.
In the no'rth wing of the ninth
floor will be an auditorium with a
seating capacity of 1,000, with stage
and dressing rooms. In the south
wing will be a large dining room,
with kitchen. I’.oth the dining room
and auditorium will he two stories
in height, so that two additional
floors for office can be added later,
if necessary, by abandoning the din
ing room and auditorium.
Value of Year’s
Omaha Products
Is $388,018,541
Total Worth of City’s Manu
factures Is $6,205,385
Higher Than in Previ
ous Year.
Th* value of manufactured products
produced In Omaha in 1924 was
$6,000,000 higher than the tottl for
1923, according to statistics compiled
by the bureau of publicity of the
Chamber of Commerce,
Among the manaufacturers show
ing the greatest gain are the packing
houses, which Increased $10,446,952
and the butter and creamery houses,
which increased $1,156,465.
Following Is the total amount of
products manufactured In Omaha
during 1924:
Alfalfa product, .I !.*«#,«»#
Auto tins and tubes . 2 024.* 15
Autos, truck* and accessories. . 10,007.475
6a|i .
Rank, more, office furnitute 1.
Reverag*** . 770.679
Hoot* and shoes . 1.250,090
Boxes . 1,085,000
Bakery products . 3,002,*51
Brick and cement . .. 2.7'' ,61.
Butter and creamery products 24 ’1 595
f’andy . 1,052,002
Cars and equipments. 3.102.270
Chemicals and drugs . 1 2 1 4 623
Cigars nnd tobacco . 112.000
Cleaning and dyeing ''IT.' '<
Clothing and furnishing goods 1.53R.951
Coffee, tea and spices . 6,995.000
Cooperage . 486.000
Crackers . 6.900.000
Electric light and power .... 3,910,000
Electric goods ... 536,non
Engraving nod electrotyping.. 1.311. ro
Flour and mill products ...... l1.J8n.80H
Foundry nnd metal products . 3.9 ;7.6*J-i
Furnaces nnd sUbtdfea . i.«:'t,.*oo
Furniture nnd bedding ...* 1.39',990
Furs and fur garments "»*•”
j . 2.2:’ '• "00
Harness snd saddles .. 512.000
Hats, can* and gloves . 470.000
Tee making machinery ....... - * 5.515
Ire . 984 1 75
Ice cream . 1
Laundry output . 1,020,806
leather and shoe findings oT.'.noo
Macaroni .. 1.540,000
Machinery and equipment .... 2.278.0*0
Mill work . 7*1 00 o
Millinery . •j ■" """
Miscellaneous • • • ■ 2.737.370
Monuments nnd stone products 1
OU and grease . ] n ,:.i*0(l
Dptlcal goods . 525,000
I’alnt and glass .. 2.* .5 5,000
Packing house products . 19«. .v:1 ‘
Printing and publishing . 9 42 7"».
Shirts . *41.7*0
Signs .. • 829.380
Smelter product* . 43.70H,48.»
Suit p .... 57**, non
Stock food and serum .. 1 -47 >7J
! Structural steel . 2.082,634
Tents and awnings . ^ 312.130
i Women’s garments .. * 272 000
Water service.’.. 1,125.000
Total .1310.018.641
Total 1923 .>381.813.15ft
Increase for 1924 . > ft 205.385
The factories employed 34.420 men
and women In 1924 nnd had a eom
Lined payroll of $54,583,958.
One Thousand Rabbits
Killed in Lodgepolc Hunt
Dodgepole, Dee. 31.—Over 1.000 Jark
rabbit* were killed In thl* vicinity
Sunday amt an many more got away
from the hunter*. The rabbit* have
been hunt? up nnd frozen and will be
shipped to Omaha for distribution
These pest* have practically de
stroyed a number of corn field* which
were not picked before the Know cov
ered the ground.
Pianist Joins Chautauqua.
Beatrice, Doc. 31. — Mins Franc* k
Green, pianist, of this city, loft yes
terday for Valley Falls, Kan., where
she will Join Minn Jane (louder, a
reader. The two will I ravel on the
road for several months in tho Inter
eat of the Kidpath Ilorncr lycoutn
bureau.
John M. Bono, 78. I lies,
Beatrice, Doe. 31 John M Bone.
78, for 40 years n resident of No
Lrnska, died at his home In West
Beatrice after a brief Illness, He
survived by his wife arid a numhn
of children, all grown. Ho had boon
a resident of Bis trice for 10 year
Scully I,and Taxes $15,892.
Beatrice, Dec. 31 -V. it Johnson
agent for the Scully land* In flriRi
county, Nehraikn, and Marshall noun
ty, Kansas, paid Into the treasurer',
office here the sum of $15,392.94 n,
taxes for *h* Scully holding* for the
year 1924.
CORN IS HELD FOR
PAWNEE FEEDERS
Table Rock, Dec. 31.—Pawnee coun
ty seldom raises sufficient .corn to
meet the demands 4nf local feeders,
hut this year the Farmers' union ele
vator of Pawnee City, which already
ha3 6,000 bushels in storage, expects
to fill the building to Its capacity,
10,000 bushels. Tills corn will not he
shipped out, but will tie held in stor
age to supply the demand of Pawnee
county feeders next summer.
This plan also probably will save
the feeders some money by reason of
having no freight charges to pay.
The Farmers’ union elevator is re
ceiving corn dally, and those who sold
last week were ren^nded of the war
time days o' 1017 VSIS. who'll local
buyers paid $1.10 a bushel the latter
part of the week.
Loan Association
Distributes Big
Dividend in City
• i
$1,800,000 to Be Shared by
90.000 Members in Semi
Annual “Melon"’
Slicing.
The semi-annual melon rutting
feast of the aha rrh older* of the
| building, paving.** and loan associa
tions of Omaha is now on. Dividends j
'totaling $1,SCO,000 have been declared i
out of the earnings for the last half
[of 1924. and art- being disbursed ]
among the 90,000 or more members!
in cash or credits.
This 1m the largest distribution made,
by the 12 associations <>f the city fori
any half year. Dividend disburse-!
! rr.ents for the year ugg^gate $.1,500,-1
000.
Normal prosperity was the chief;
characteristic of the ycay’s business
in loans for home building and buy-j
ing. During the first half of the
year demand for home loans fell j
short of the supply of funds. Sev
eral asMorintinns restricted the inflow
"f invi ; unent money and relieved the
stress of idle rao*ney by reducing the
loan rate to f> per cent. The j educ
tion stimulated the demand for build-^
ing and buying during.the last six
months sufficiently to absorb the
surplus of Idle money.
A year ago the resources of the 12
associations totaled $71,613,422. The
new year finds them with resources
aggregating $80,250,648, a gain of
*S,637,226, in 12 months.
Following are tho official figures;
Aasocla tlona. n*B<>urr«*
i Munha Loan A- Tlulldlntr $ in,.1 ?7y
Conservative Savings A* [,«an : J.a27.ft ’s
• 1T|fi»ntal Jlutldlnir A Loan . lfi.OlU'.son
Nebraska Mirvlng* ft Loan . ,1010,F,f..*
< ‘omm*rclnl f**vin«rs f- boas. 7'iMA^
barker* luvlnr* «v Loan-. 1 1 r»J **70
Prudential Savins* A L>>nn.... 1.118 17
Hint# Savinas A f.onn ...
Onion Building A- Lean. r 4 A S ft
Standard Having* A* Lonn . 100 *87
Metropolitan Bu'dd ng *A Loan . 008
m at us I In Ing* A Loss 14
Tot* 1 . t**» $10,641
Thrift Throughout State.
Co-operative associations of the
state continue to grow In resources
and rendering practical benefits to
the communities served Official re
ports as of .Tune 30, 1924, show 82
associations with resources aggregat
ing $123,000,000, fin Increase of $14,
000,000 In 12 months. Deserve fundi*
lequlred by law and undivided earn
ings total $4.1 HI.927, equal to 4 per
cent, of the mortgage loans.
The period of greatest growth of
Nebraska association* I racist by the
records embraces this post-war wars,
UcMottrce* have doubled in that time,
! lining from * .7.000,000 in 1919, to
$123,000,000 in 1924.
During these *dx vents Nebraska
associations made loans foj 14.947
new buildings, mostly homes, or
about 4a per cent of the total busi
ness of that period.
Cojuid,—Mrs A L Davis. 25 > ears
r» resident of this vicinity, is «U#id
Her funeral was held Friday at the
Methodist church.
$
330 Convicted by
Countv Attorney:
298 Guilty Pleas
1921 Report Tops Record for
. Four Years in Douglas
County; 798 Com
plaints.
In 1924 the county attorney's office
secured the greater* number of eon
vi 'inns in district court that have
' l obtained within the last four
years, according to the annual state
inent of County Attorney Henry Beal
Two hundred and ninety eight de
fendants pleaded guilty in 1924: 4 i
were convicted by Juries, and eight
.were b un I guilty after trial by court1,
making the total of convictions, 359.
Tv. :>t dhla-c persons were acquitted
.
In 1923, 23T convictions and 44
nc,initials were recorded on the
dockets: in 1922. 309 conviction* and
52 acquitnis, end in 1921, 303 convec
tions find 29 acquittals.
Tire number of ■ “-s handled by
the county attorney's office in 1921
and 1922 was swelled by indictments
under the blue sky laws and prose
cution following tite courthouse riot
About 100 blue sky law. cases are still
pending.
County Court Slumps.
Fewer rases were hendled in coun
ty court in 1924 by the county attor
ney than in 1923.
Out of 174 r conducted by the
county attorney's office, 70 convic
tions were obtained Twenty-four i*er
sons were acquitted; charges against
lfi dismissed In court anil 31 dis
missed by tlie county attorney. Six
teen persons were bound oyer to the
district court and - nr case was trans
ferred to juvenile court. Thirteen
cases nre pending.
*!)H ( oinplalnts.
Seven hundred and ninety eight
complaints, ranging from joyriding to
first degree murder, were filed by
the county attorney's office during
the year.
The year was s busy one for th»
county coroner also. Records show
that the number of cases handled by
him annually 1ms been steadily in
creasing for the last four years.
Forty-four Inquests were held In
1924 into the deaths of persons by
murder or accident. Two hundred
and sixteen Invest rations were con
ducted by county Investigatnrs.
Additions to Gas.
7
Water System
Total 83.1 Miles
Many Major Improvements at
Utilities Plants Are
Completed in
1924.
The water department of the Metro
politan 1'lilitles district laid 26.3 miles
of six-inch and 2.6 mileH of eight-inch
service mains during 1624, which in
creases the water system to 444 miles.
The gas department laid 24.6 miles
of pipe, ranging in size from four to
16 inches. There are now 361 miles
«f mains in the gas system. In ad
dition, the gas department laid 26.3
miles of service pipes between mains
and property lines.
This makes a total of S3 1 miles of
pipe laid by water and gas depart
ments during'the year.
Gas services Installed numbered
2,032; total now being served. 43,800:
water taps made, 2,830; total water
services, 43,700.
During the year the new filter plant
at Florence was competed at a cost
of $648,764; also 50,000,000-gallon higli
service pump at cost of $166,387, and
50,000,000 gallon low service pump at
cost of $101,079, /
Other major Improvements during
the year were reported as follows:
Building for high eervlce pump. $73.
075; building changes for low service
pump, $10,965, fireproof to'of over
boiler bouse, $33,638: repairs to north
Intake, including traveling screens and
suction line, $63,513: 36-Inch pumping
line from basin B to basin 4. $27,580;
42-inch line from filter plant to pump
station. $16,315: 48 Inch main from
Florence station to Twenty-elgh’h
avenue and Tlant sireet. $223,881; 36
inch main In alley, between Poppleton
avenue and Pierce street. Twentieth to
Twenty fourth streets, $34,622.
\pw Extension Planned.
It Is proposed during 1625 to extend
the new 48-Inch main frorfl Twenty
eighth avenue and Plant street to
Thirtieth and Hamilton streets, a dis
tance of 21,000 feet, at an estimated
cost of $714,000. This new main, when
completed, will give the city additional
protection In time rtf special need or
emergency. During the coming year
the south Intake at the Florence sta
tlon will tie rebuilt at a cost of $35,000.
The gas department Is now complet
ing a 4.000,000-cubie foot gas holder
on a 25 acre site adjoining the gas
plant on South Twentieth street. This
holder will he In service within a few
weeks. The big container, together
with accompanying gas plant additions
and improvements. Involves an ex
pendlture of $900,000.
During the first nine months of 1624
the average dally water consumption
was 26.846,000 gallons compared with
23.426.000 for 1623.
Average daily gas consumption for
first nine months or 1624 was 4.560 noo
cubic feet: during 1623 average daily
was 4.251,500.
Beginning January 1 the gas <Je
partment will begin a new schedule of
rates, which will he a reduction of 5
cents for first thousand feet and 10
cents for each succeeding thousand
feet. The present schedule, for in
stance. carries a charge of $5.70 for
5.000 feet In a month: the new charge
will he $5.25 for 5.000.
During the last year General Man
ager I,risen established a new system
of washing the basins at Florence.
The bnslns are washed Oftener than
under the old system, leaving no
chance for heavy accumulations of
sedimentation. #
GOVERNOR SMALL
HELD TO ACCOUNT
Springfield, 111., Dec. St.—Circuit
Judge Iturtnn today signed the for
mnl decree, holding Governor Small.
Verne Curtis and the estate of Kd
ward Curtis, former state senator, ac
countable for all Interest collected on
notes of Chicago packers to whom
state funds were loaned during the
governor's incumbency as state treas
urer.
The signing of the decree followed
the court decision from the bench yes
tonlay, with the exception that the
decree provides that more evidence
may he taken by the master in chan
cery In determining the amount due
the state.
Motions praying an appeal to the
supreme court were filed hv Attorney
Werner S.hroeder, counsel for the
governor: Verne Curtis and Mrs. Ktha
Curtis, for the Kdward Curtis estate.
The attorney general's office will
oppose the motion of appeal. Olarencn
N. Hoot'd, special assistant attorney
general, announced.
-pi— s
Happy 1925 to You
And Start it With a
New Year Dinner
Main Dining Room
12 to 3 and 6 to 9
$2
Randall's Royal
Fontenelle Orchestra
l\uning During Evening Dinner
=
In the* Indian Grill
A * n* Vc<» Dinner
$1.50
12 to 8;d0 /). m.
HOTEL FONTENELLE
' ■■ . .“
1924 Alimony Bill Here $1&3$8;
Damages Asked Exceed 11 Millions,
Total Granted l^as Only $303,220
Damages amounting to $11,582,706 03
were asked in rases filed in district
court during 1024, but only $303,220.31
in damages were awarded by Juries,
according to a statement issued by
Robert Smith, clerk of the 'district
court.
The total amount of damages asked
in cases where verdicts were returned
in favor of the plaintiffs was $ 1,130,
87,7.72, while the amount returned in
favor of plaintiffs aggregated $301,
973.31, about 30 per cent of the sums
asked.
Defendants in damage suits were
awarded $1,243 during the year.
The Htate of Nebraska won 41 of 62
eases tried by jury. Jurors favored
the defendant In 19 instances and dls
agreed in two.
The plaintiffs warn 114 of 193 civil
cases tried. Verdicts were returned
in favor of 76 defendants, while three
juries disagreed. •
Burglary ami Larceny Head List.
More burglary and largency charges
were filed than any other cases dur
ing 1924. Wife and child abandon
ment and "desertion were the next
highest ranking crimes
Klght hundred twenty-eight crim
inal charges were filed during the
year, as follows:
Burglary, larceny, etc., $150; wife
end child abandonment, desertion,
etc., 123; liquor cases, 97; forgery and
embezzlement, 90; reckless driving,
speeding, etc., 62; drunkenness and
vagrancy, 44; automobile theft, 37;
maintaining a disorderly house, 32;
assault and battery, etc., 31; habeas
corpus, 27; murder, manslaughter,
etc., 18; aiding and abetting the de
linquency of a minor, 15; criminal
attacks on women, 14; miscel
laneous, 8$.
3,3JO Petitions Filed.
Petitions filed In district court dur
ing 1924 totaled 3,340, distributed as
follows:
Appeal and error, 342: contracts,
416: change of name, 11; divorce,
1,160: cancel contracts, receiverships,
accounting, special performance,
equity and miscellaneous, ICS: fore
closures, 376; injunctions. 74; license
for mortgage and sale of real estate,
60; assault, libel, slander, malpractice
and alienation, 61; mandamus, 7;
liquor and personal injury, 310; tres
pass, conversion, torts, fraud, prop
erty Injury. 4'*: partition, 35: eject
ment and quiet title. 104; replevin
and quo warranto, 28; workmens
compensation, 139.
$103,268.11 Alimony.
Judgments paid during 1924 total
$648,401.13, while alimony paid dur
ing the year amounts to $103,268.21.
The dlvorcs rate for 1924 was just
a step below the marriage rate, 853
divorces being granted and 886 li
censes issued in the county.
Judge I„. B. Day awarded 829 di
vorce decrees in hie domestic rela
tions court. Judge Charles Doss cut
the knot In 17 Instances and Judge
James Fitzgerald In 6. Judge Leslie
signed one divorce decree.
Three hundred four Insanity cases
and 92 dipsomaniac cases were filed
In district court during the past year.
Two hundred fifty-two Juvenile cases
were filed.
Fortv ^ ears at Bench
«•
Followed by Operation
Humboldt. Dec. 31.—John Klossner.
pioneer harness maker was taken to
the Falls City hospital Monday,
where he underwent an operation for
double rupture Mr. Klossner is 74
years of age and has been at his
work bench every day. except Sun
day, for more than 40 years, with
few exceptions His son, John W
Klossner, is associated with him at
present.
Omaha’s Schools
Cost Taxpayers
$4,500,000 a Year
Enrollment Is 38,883, ith
7,962 in High Schools;
1,300 Teachers Are
Employed.
Omaha's pDihllc school bill amounts
to nearly *4.500,000 a year. The esti
mated budget for the current fiscal
year, beginning August 1, 1924, was
14,443,735,
The last school district levy was
11.5 mills, which, applied to a valua
tion of *326,002.635. will yield *3,749,
033 In taxes for school purposes. The
remainder of the school budget is ob
tained from miscellaneous sources.
Total enrollment during the last
complete school year was 38,883, of
which 7,962 was in high school. Total
enrollment this school year to date
is 36,873. There are 1,300 members of
the teaching staff.
The principal improvement during
the year was the completion and open
ing of the North High school on West
Ames avenue. This school now has
an enrollment of 774. Jefferson
school, Thirty-eighth and Valley
streets, wa's opened last September.
The school census taken last Junel
shows a total nP 50,231 persons of I
school age: in 1923 the total was 43,
555 and in 1922 there were 46.483.
At the November election the voters
authorized the sale of a *2.500.000 is
sue of school district bonds to provide
for a building program. The commit-1
tee on teachers and course of study]
went on record as in favor of giving
preference to the needs of elementary
schools New schools probably will
be built in the Farnarn, SaratogaJ
Walnut Hill. Sherman and Belviderej
districts and additions made to other!
elementary schools.
On Monday night, January 5. Mrs.;
A. H. Fetters. Leo Beveridge. Mrs. A.
A. Holtman and Mrs. Hazel Punhar'
will take their scats as members of I
tile hoard of education.
Omaha’s Bonded .
Indebtedness'1’
Is $36,606,940
City ’W ill Retire $285,008 in
Obligations, Meet $554,
317 Interest in
1925.
The o: upending bonded indepte
of th£*^Jty of Omaha, inHudir
school dial: if# and water and g
plants, is $JJ,6O6.940, divided a* fol
lows:
Munfrip.it general bond*. $11,9*3
i 4SS: munirf^i! special assessme"
Imnds, $4,29!jj4:.2;’school bonds, *$ -
423,000: wat# bonds, *6,$92,000; g
bond», $5,000Sd0.
The city Ja.s a sinking fund of
$71«.79S,74~fR’h which to meet hoi
maturltiesgwui ing 1923 the city w
retire $2$S5dJ in bonds and will ha ■
bond Io’JJJSS' obligations of $'■* *
317.6$. *•*»
The watoc department of the
Met ropoliti-JC I "tilltles district has
sinking f unji* of $1,320,16$. which
Increasing ,Jfeai I and w hich will i-v
used tu jqdgt the bonds when due.
The gas deps- tn.ent sinking fund
$639,193. tiliich is also a fund to i
Increased out of plant earnings for
the payment of the paint. Wat'
and gas oeww sprrifii ally r.irrv pi
visions t aiur the* shall be retlr- I Jj
from plantJBuniogr
Tbe s hcaj»di.“tr,. t sinking fun*^„^^
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RiiffalcritiiMqut't Flaunt'd.
Beatple*,23’ec. 31.—Dudley S$oott,
president 'Jvti.e I:. k Walton cl b of
this city, >Jf?; I.-,He- a meeting of the
member# fot— ie purpose of holding a
buffalo baiwr1.' t hr i e early in Jan .
ary. i
CHIROPRACTIC
OPE$S GATEWAY
: TO HEALTH
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Acute and chronic diseases re
spond quickly to our methods.
Nd cases taken that I can not j
help. Office adjustments are 12
for $10 or 30 for $25. Office l
hours. 0 to 12:30 p. m . 2 to fi
p. m., 7 to 8 p. m. Lady attend
ant.
DR. FRANK F. BURHORN.
the Chiropractor
Suits 414-420 Securitie* Bide. *
Phone JA ckmon 5347 a ^ *---4
(Tenth year of aucceaaful practice
in Omaha)
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Illinois Central System Says That Railroads j
Strive to Merit Public Confidence I
Nearly five years have elapsed since the railroads began to operate under
the terms of the Transportation Act of 1920. During all of this time the rail
roads have been on trial. The Transportation Act has been on trial. The public
has been waiting to determine whether the new system would work, whether
the railroads under it would he able to improve their facilities and service and
establish themselves for the future.
For the first three years business conditions were unsettled, and the new
SNstvm of regulation could not be said to have had a fair trial under normal
conditions. In the two years that have just ended, conditions generally have
been more nearly stable. Business has increased, prosperity has returned, and
there has been an unprecedented demand for transportation service. These two
! , years—1923 and 1924—constitute a reasonably fair test of private railway op
eration under the Transportation Act.
What have the railroads accomplished in these two years? They have put
their properties in better condition than ever before in their entire history. In
the two years they have raised and spent more than 2 billion 136 million dollars
for improvements anck extensions, in addition to large maintenance expendi
tures. These recent expenditures of more than a billion dollars a year for im- « -
provements and extensions compare with a pre-war average annual expendi- jf I
ture of onlv about half that amount. w
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With their improved facilities, the railroads have handled in the last two
years the greatest volume of traffic ever known, and they have done so in s
most satisfactory manner, with practically no shortage of facilities. By every
test of operating efficiency, the railroads in these two years have improved im
mensely the character of their service to the public.
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The railroads, however, cannot stop where they are. They must continue
to keep.pace with the growth of business. Their capacity is a limitation upon i
the country's prosperity, and they must grow if our greater population of the I
future is to have its full measure of prosperity. This dependence of pros- 1
perity upon adequate transportation makes the question of future railway
growth a matter of the greatest public concern today. f
The railroads have proved their confidence in the continued fairness of the
public by making extensive investments for better service. By the result of the
November election the public has indicated that it has confidence in the rail
roads. The railroads are going to strive to retain that confidence as their most
valuable asset. They are planning now to spend 1 billion 100 million dollars
for improved facilities in 1925, having an abiding faith that the public will j
permit them to realize a fair return upon their increased property investment.
In the improvements scheduled for 1925, the Illinois Central System, as
usual, will be found in the front rank of progressive American railroads.
Constructive criticism and suggestions are invited. ^ _ A
C. H. MARKHAM, *
President, Illinois Central System.
