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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 18, 1896)
THE O tAITA DAILY 11ET3 : SITNDAY. OCTOBER 18. 1800. Special hi Men's Derbys 1.95 Well Well Well Such a time as we are having Not a cheap Hat O but one that you at our great have to pay the hat ter $3.50 or $4.00 greatMONEY for. MONEY RAISING It continues all this week with even greater o The whole store wide open now for bargain buyers Never in the history of clothing was there such money saving price lowering , cash selling as here and now Winter Men's Suits Overcoats We propose to move the largest stock of fine , seasonable goods \ve have ever owned. We have too o. ro many suits and have cut the prices Tailorin to the core in order to reduce stock J10.00 , $12.00 and $15.00 OFF worsteds at JS.OO , All our imported J7.00. JC.OO Cheviots this season's and Sack Stilts 100 suits cf pure worsted made in fine overcoats at $20 Sack Suits only about one-half are round made corner 3-button sacks the II ! $22 and $25. others straight front the to biggest worsted value wo have sold It's e\cr a reg ular $12.00 cult , our prlco order Our J20.00 Overcoats -j ft Monday will be cost ou JL\J' Sack Suits- - Our JC200 Overcoats jf"f . cost you J.M- * Men's Suits at $9.75 Wo have consolidated three lots of high cost Casslmere and Cheviot Our J2500 Overcoats viet Suits till cut sack style which coat you be sold at ? 9.7E. They are scorchers. The prlco Is $9.75. Your cash Is the only thing that will This offer will not hold buy them at this prlco only good after Tuesday' .Men's Winter Weight Serge Suits say and bear in mind the'se ' ' In i The biggest money's worth of the age Men's Double-Breasted Sacks ut $1075. better prices are made SIngle-Breastod S cs at $10.75. Slnglo- Urcasted Sacks , stouts , at $10.75. Do done cash sure to ask for It , we bavo sold them all spot this season for $10.50. twlbtcd. smooth surface black other serge. For service and color nothing better tailorino- house Men's Black Heaver Overcoats , was e\er made the O serge linings , our f ± fy.-r stout sizes run up to price at this salu * - ftJ 46 breast in this city , than Men's brown beaver , full scree Frocl ; Suits we turn out. llninus.SlQ Is thu fJ r if\ regular price. . . * J'Ji r At $12.75 we consoli date four lot numbers Oxford Mixed Kersey Overcoats , of high grade clay all styles , serge lining suteon worsted Frock Suits OUR Fleevo . > UU sold this season for t linings J1S.OO and J20.00. They are cut In longs , Etouts and regular sizes. We unhesitatingly an/50 Black Elyslnn Overcoats , all claim them to be the best values In Ureas wool and trimmed O Suits ever sold In Omaha perfect fitting and llko a J15 coat. . * - ' tailored second to none in our stock. It's your cash we want. You can have the Suits Cheviot Suits Men's Blnck Kersey Overcoats at J12-75. silk sleeve linings , heavy double warp pateen uody// fid to order linings , at f.JLU.W this week Blue Kersey Overcoats , regular tailor made , raw edges , taped : oo sleeves , elegant 7 O , trimmings , at . . . - * The boy wants his overcoat to Kersey. Meltons ri CASH. Chinchillas , at . . - t . come to his knees not to his feet he wants to play he wants a ' Reefer they're all the style Men's Ulsters. An Underwear . Boys' Men's good Lined Beaver Ulsters , full length. wae collar , cut to. . Reefer 2-Piece Suits. Sensation - ' . Men's Wool Kersey Overcoats , sold everywhere for $10.00 , our price. This Sailor Collar Boys' 2-pIece Blue Cheviot Suits i to Men's Chinchilla , gray color , wool Keefer , 3 to S , Created by the most unparal- 15 years small sizes In reefer style - , llued , cut extra long and lined years braid with handsome with wide collars JL with plaid worsted linings . elled bargains ever offered in 2-pleco pin check cheviot In a ncat j II LAC 1C FltlU'/.U some pearl buttons house in America. gray effect our cut price The greatest bargain ever offered and mohair collar and cuffs just makes the any Drown Cheviot Suits t to 15 rnado r > at any sale Is our all wool , raw boys laugh It's a gem at J3.25. S.75 double seat and knee ' ' edge , black Frieze Coat at . . We will sell Our Underwear again The same goods In Reefer sizes 4 tofj STACKS OF ULSTERS AT $10.00 , Boys * .Monday 8 our cut price * * ' $12.00 AND $14.00. .MondayAnd Dark gray cheviot 2-pleco Suits Mf ) Light Weight Overcoats. sizes * * Reefer And will have of plenty help Fancy Worsted * > Wo haven't many to sell but what nre this time to wait upon you. Suits up to 11 t > . left one are tagged so that you can't help buyIng - Wide sailor collar , mo- Black and blue O balr braid and made t7 f \ . For 3eney ribbed Shirts cheviots at " s.oo 10.00 12.00 from a handsome s Wfj ani * Drawers a. new lot Long PqMts Suits for values unheard of and which are only chinchilla. It's a beau * L * - ' - this week which you ought given when merchants want money. ty a money-saver and you can buy them ' to see the first thing , Pantaloons at $3.EX > on Saturday. Good way for you & . Men's brown derby ribbed Shirts and 4,50 , 5.00 , 5.50 , 6.00 , 6.50 Men's choice casslmere , all wool , hair to make money. Drawers Hoys' Clothing cut to lit made to wear line , up to 42 waist Boys' _ Natural Wool Shirts and Drawers , full 89o and the .price cut deeper than ever. Come 1,95 Keefer- " weight Monday morning you can get better attention ' Men's larrCy Cheviot , absolutely all -wool , Tancy Mottled , Fleece Lined Shirts 59c tion than In the afternoon. regular J3.00 goods < This garment is for and Drawers 2.25 boys S to 15 years , Heavy finished Balbrlgin Shirts and . made from an all wool Drawers the best Imported goods. . Odd Vests- Fancy Worsted Trousers ! blue chinchilla , wool Medium Weight Wool Shirts and - and serge linings ; this is a combination 2.5O 2.75 Drawers Just the weight for now. . . Well , we didn't think so . . 8.5O Ulster $3.95. and Reefer and an eye-opener at Super weight Camel's Hair for early many wanted Odd Vests 25 fall wear we sold & lot of them Scotch Wool , light weight , Shirts and last week perhaps It Brownie Drawers was the odd price that c madtt them so popular Men's Odd Suit rants , all colors , all Medium Half Hose- lengths , all sizes the remnants ' Reefer two for . 200 another big lot Monday from 'our . . ' Heavy weight cotton- And for another bigger lot You Fancy Dress Worsteds , S3.75 In sizes 4 to S. This 19o can full finish . . , . have all the high cost Odd About ya pair of men's Fancy dress wor garment must be seen 00 doien Men's Suspenders , ' steds , cut fn price so that we hardly recog . ' 19o Vests which wo didn't have nize old prices. Some at on your boy to bo ap at nerve enough last week to cut 3.00 preciated. It is a ISoys * Su eaters. In three colors 2So In price Monday for . . , fancy coat without the fancy price. At our at 8,5O and 3.7 & . , cath sale they are yours at $5.00. Boys' Knee Pants 87c Ko 1mvn them for half this prlco but thU la u cut on the tlno go.'xlj. Another Lot Hoys' Pants 45c You can't buy them uuUldo thu Con tinental for uoul'lc. Hoys'Ut ! , ( : is , SI , S1-.nO , $5 It'k a cre' t ttmo to save money ou lluys L'l tars. MENACE OFPOL1TICAI , FAKIRS Blight of Frco Trade Aomtuatod by Free Silver Agitation , DIMINISHED COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY StrlUliiR llliiMrntlon of tlio IJlTrrt- . [ of TnrllT 'rinUfrliiLr 'iil I'litnii- oliit Aullutlou AITtinleil liy tin- Coiulltloii of Cltcltiinl. . | CLEVELAND. O. . 0 t. 11. ( Special Cor respondence ot The Uec. ) The municipal , Industrial and commercial life ot chlllied nat -us has Invariably centered on their great river or Inland water cities. The river cities ot the Loire , the Ilhtme. the Gaionno and the Seine- have for centuries controlled ti destiny and added to the splendor ot Trance. The great nnd powerful towns ot Germany may bo found along the fertile valle > a of the Aller the Elbe , the Rhine , nnd on the nnltlc. of Russia on the Volga , the Danube and the niack sea. while the secret of wealth , power and commercial supremacy of Oreat Krltaln lies on the banks of the Cl > do. the Tyne , the Severn , the Mersey and the Thames. What centers of water ami railway Jl- trlhullon. of Industrial cnetKy. of commcr- I'al ' enterprise , of aggregated wealth , ol po litical poxver nnd of historic Interest the nimcs of these- renowned waterways suggest' They brlni ; bark memories likewise of a mu nicipal life which In Its development has overturned nnclent dynasties and left Its InjprtJi upon nations. Ortat ai nre these walcrwa > s and their magnificent and teeming cites , conspicuous as they have been In tuoJera history. Inflii- ential as they have been In the Industrial and commercial development of Europe , the present century has witnessed the growth of centers of commercial and Industrial life along the shores of our superb Inland lakes These waterwa > s have not their counterpart In nil Europe. Our lake cities give promise to greater futures than any of the prent rules of Europe. They claim tribute from arr s asast In extent as sonic European nation ? . They are destined under safe and conservative government and a Judlrlou * fostering of Industry to become as populous and opulent as the greatest centers of Euro pean population. INDUSTRIES OF CLEVELAND. Cleveland Is one of the most conspicuous of these- lake cities. In a former letter we have scon the effect of free trade and finan- lal dlsturhance upon one of the most pros perous shipping points on the lakes Cleve land as a manufacturing point tells the same story Strengthened by the widening means of disposing of nn Immense product , the varied Industries of Cleveland have made most rapid strides , especially slnco 1SSO. The manufactured product was more thnu doubled In ISM , as compared with the figures of ISvSO. ana this rateof progress continued un'il the close of 1S32. Cleveland leads the United States In thirty Tdustrles. and the world In six : Carbons , wire nails , telescopes , large gears , cable machinery and chewing gum. Cleveland leads the United States In the manufacture of rods , wire , nuts , bolts , car- dons , gas stoves , chemicals , wrenches , wire fall ] telcscopre , large gears , turn buckles , chewing gum. shipbuilding , vapor stoves , trool shoddies , socket ebovcls. large forglngs. heavy stampings , carriage supplies , parafllne candles highway bridges , cable machinery , short buggy bows , malleable castings , hoist ing machinery , light gray Iron castlngo , sew ing machine cabinets. Iron roofs for freight ars. ownership of ship tonnage , bituminous ' oal shipments , common saddlery , cooperage number of packages ) . These are only a few f the Industries nllled to or dependent upon 'ho great furnace and rolling mill Intor- - sts. and they are mentioned simply because he city Is distinctively ahead lu the manu facture of three particular articles. According to the last United States census > nly three or four cities In the country were growing more rapidly In population 'han Cleveland , and ft * showed a greater , iercentao ( of gain In the aggregate value of manufactured pro.lucts and wages paid , ' "nder such circumstances It might naturally ic expected that the Increase during the past few years would be enormous. VANISHED EXPECTATIONS. Were these great expectations realized ? Far from It. In the decade from 1SSO to 1S90 the num ber of workmen employed was Increased from 21.724 to 45,771 , and by 1S92 this num ber had been Increased to over 60.000. It might he expected as a natural sequence hat the number of artisans employed would have Increased by 1SS5 to fully CO.OOO. As a matter ot fact , the statistics for that year not only fall to fulfill this expectation , but actually showed a decrease of about 10 per cent from the aggregate number of persons "aployed in 1S92. During the ten years from 1RSO to 1SOO the total wages paid hr.d Increased from $8,502,933 to J27.69G.40S. but the total wage payments for the year l&as aggregated , according to the carefully pre- parej estimates of leading manufacturers In nil lines of industry , something over 15 per cent less than was expended for the same purpose In 1S92. From 16 to 10 per cent reduction In wages -one-fifth less has been the workman's part ot the free trade burden In Cleveland. Engaged In iron manufacture In Cleveland ire 125 establishments , employing In times nf prosperity upward of 20.000 men and hav ing an annual output valued at Jj 50.000.000. Hardly one of these establishments has been operated full time and with a complete force if operatives for a single month since the accession to power of the democrats In i 91 Take , for instance , the case of the Cleveland Rolling Mill company , a concern capitalized at $1.000.000 and employing In its various departments over 3,000 hands. More over , the stockholders of the company con trol snme of the largest iron mines In the Lake Superior district and own steel vessels - sels on the lakes valued at .V725.000. The close of the year 1 92 saw this company's' plant , the largest In the city , in a more prosperous condition than at any time In its previous history ; lu fact , fmeral depart ments of tho'plant were being remodeled on an extensive scale , a new blooming mill was constructed at a cost of $250,000 and prepa rations were made for the erection of an entire new steel mill , with three ten-ton converters The depression of 1S33 , ho.T- cver , worked a complete change , and such has been the scarcity of orders ( hat at no time since the opening of 1S93 has the plant been operated at Its full capacity , anJ , In fact , some of the mills have not operated fur a single day in over two years past. FACTORIES ON HALF TIME. In the course of a tall ; which I had with William CJ'Isholm. the president of this company , a few days ago , he said : "Tho Iron buatnees could not well be In a more disastrous condition than It Is at present. \Vo are depending on the small orders we receive cacl : week to operate our plant , or , rather , a portion of It. during the week following , and when , ns has occurred ccvcral times recently , wo do not receive a suf ficient number of orders , we are obliged to shut down absolutely. The prlco of Iron products has , of course , gene dawn stead ily over elrco the early nart of 1893. but the diffcrcnrti has been made up in reduced prices of material and cost of transporta tion and we have not reduced the wages of our men to .any appreciable extent. They have , however , had their houro of work cut down , so tnat It amounts to virtually the xame thing. Our men are takinc a wonderful Interest In the present political situation , anil , Mrause as It may seem , they appear to bo paying much lees attention to the financial question then to the principle of protection. " One of the local Institution ! which fur- nl'lics an especially striking cvldcnrc of th" effects of a frvo trade administration Is the OtU steel uorl.s. This plant , which wai sold in 1893 to an Eng.lrii syndicate far about $4000,000 , of whirl ) f 1.000.000 v.a in caeb Is recognized aa the largest , most thoroughly organized nnd MOH profitable plant en : gc > d cxrluslvtly In the manufacture of strrl In this country , but lia not bicn In operation for any length of tlmo klnc * 1S92. The worlzi. which occupy cj proxlmatcly twenty-four acres of ground and have a rapacity or bO.OOO tons of Elect per annum , have been operated "spasmodically , " as the manager s ay a , but the periods of operation have been so short ae to afford llttlo natUfaction to the hundreds of workmen nho have hern out of employment for a majority of the tlmo for the last three years , The same con dltlou of attain * has obtulutd lu thu case of alt n in I'A I ric < oK rlcnl works. shoJdy i .ills . . 'hi' i t'n t uil ot whoie \M'ikn.iii li \p sutli n 1 to u til cater or lt * > * \imt i in.ir frmi ilut t rcilui lions of wapra or the < * iHiv lvtit of cur.AllcHl hour * of work. IUILHOAU INTKKBSTS. A word to railroad employes lu thin con traction. Llk other bu ln s Interests , the rtulwayi have suffered hrlly by reason ot the bu lnes Masmatton from which Cleve land hut hardly recovered , even temporarily. durMMC the enttt * prlo l ot the demecr.ttlo JtnlnUitratlon The plrton railway linn entering the i-Ity bve nn Rgreie te mileage exccrdlnic 6,000 , and even In the f ce of thi' cUslrcsnInK condition of t > ulnc la t > r r the outw nl hlom nta alone awirjMteil up- wanl of S.OC-O.WO toin. so that o c Idea ot vt tip Importance ) of the traffic may be Im agined. A comparison of n few Items of thwe out ward shipments will give nn Idea of the tcr. rlble falling oT ! In the \oliime of expo-t Kor Instance , lhro were dipped from the city In 1SP6 only 4S.OM tons of ecke. as ngalmit about 330.000 Ion * In 1 < $1 or 1S9- , and the export of petroleum , one of the com modities for which Cleveland Is f.traoiM. a.- gre ated fully Cfl.OOO tons lew In 1S95 than In 1S92. The- export of flour also amounted to less than 4X.OOO tons , as K.la t .upward ot 1S3.000 toiw lu 1S91. and during the thre * yearn of democratic administration the ship ments ot merchandise fell fr ni over 550 " 00 tons to .1 little more th n 109.000 tons an nually. Proportionate decreases may he found In almost any of the Items \\hlch pete to make up the lone list ot exports. This means the euiplo.Mt > nLof fewer men in connection with transportation , less work and loss pay. REAL ESTATE VALVES. The real Pilate market , I . of course , ono of the first thlnn * to b affected by Impaired business prosperity. anJ th's ' city has proven no exception to the general rule. Property which has IncnMfrJ steadily In value for & long term of yrnm previous to 1S92. and other property \\MrJi hud made great up ward bounds for the few yearj Just precctl- Ing that date , has remained at practically xtallonary prices for the last three and one- half years. During most of that period It has been n cotnparathely easy task to find any number of.icint houses In almost any part of the city , a thing unheard of In a perlo.I of corresponding length previous 11 to 1 92. and whole blocks of houses erected ] In | the suburbs In the expectation that they would be sold to worklngmcn. have remained vacant. The story of Cleveland slneo 1S92 should convey a useful lesion to n great variety ol wage earners. I have gone thus much Into detail for the purpw > of showing pcoplo engaged In all classes of occupations the deadly effects of free trade and financial dis turbance on the prosperity of our great cen ters of Industrial energy. It Is a sorrowful story , but none the less Important. Wrong and misguided as were the men who brought the conditions upon us. their crime will bo small Indeed with that of those who next Vovcmbcr vote not only to continue the present policy , but fasten upon the nation another experiment , which will be still more I final In lls results. The success of free silver would simply wipe out some of the Industrial cities. I'anlc and bread riots would follow , and the work of a quarter of a century of prosperity would be destroyed. Surely such a possibility Is remote. ROIIEUT I' . WHITER. LAIIOIt AM ) I.MlliVrilV. \ A single Ilrttlsh county yielded 3ISG7,4 tons of coal last year. 71m Painters' National , union headquar ters will eoon bo removed to Cincinnati. The Philadelphia & Reading Hallroad com pany has Instituted a thlrtcen-hour day in Its car shops. Lw Angelc-s brlrkmakrrs have- formed a union and are trying to secure the dis charge of Chinese workmen. Japanese workmen wear on their backs an Inscription stating their buslnftsa and the name of their employer. A farmer near Sacramento rajs his crop of asparagus this season will bring him $12.000. o | which $9.003 will be profit. Ho has tnehe acres of It. llcrr Knipp. the gun manufacturer has dismissed all foreign workmen and officials from bis employ on the ground of the be trayal of secrets to foreign governments. Russia at least concedes that the United Slates leads the world In the matter of mod ern machinery. A complete locomotive fac tory plant , consisting of 3.500 tons of ma chinery , most of which was furnished by Philadelphia manufacturers , has already bc < n shipped from this city , to bo delivered and set up at Nljnl Novgorod. The shipments of apples alone from all American ports this season to date 'foot up the Immense aggregate of 429.530 barrels , whereas the total to same date last > car was 39,309 , showing an Increafe of almost 1,000 per cent. List week 133.000 barrels left tha port of New York , against 17.4GG barrels for the corresponding week latt jcar. The great American pie will EOOU be making Itself felt In Europe. The ninth annual convention of the Na tional Brewery Workers' union , which was held recently In Cincinnati , endorsed tha eight-hour work day ; voted down a plan to establish a death benefit ; elected Ernest Kuizenknobs and Charles F. Bechtold sec retaries at salaries of $1,300 each , In placet of a president and vlco president ; endorsed all the labels endorsed by the American Federation of Labor , and died Boston as the next place of meeting. The Cincinnati Central Labor council has appointed a committee to make arrange ments for the annual convention ot tbo American Federation of Labor , which will bo the held In that city In December. It will be the Ia-gcst and most Important labor convention' ever held In America , and 150 of the delegates will each represent a national organization. Trades unionism has gained 40 per ctnt in the last jear and now ban upwards of 1,000.000 members. New Jersey now has 29.72 miles of rail way to cverj' 100 square miles of territory. This Is a larger percentage of track to area then Is contnliuil In a.i > other elate. Massa chusetts comes next , with 26.35 ; Pennsyl vania next , with 21.C7 ; Ohio , 21.13 ; Connecti cut. 20.S1 , and Rhode Island , 20.37. In the proportion of rallroaJ mileage to Inhabi tants Arizona lends , there being 20S.M nil lea of r&tSuay to every 10,000 of population In that territory. The total mileage of the 1,104 roads In the United Statce , as reported by the Interutate Commerce , commission , June 30. 189G. was 130,925. A now way of constructing a solid founda- tlon for a tall building has been tried with CUCCCBS in Borlln. It waa necessary to find n ODild bnso sufficiently strong to terry a building weighing more than 10.000 tons , The plot of ground upon which the build ing was to ctand WES adjoined on both sides by high buildings , whlih rendered un safe the digging to any de ith for a founda tion. The only way out of the difficulty was the sinking of a cnUson In the center of thii plot , upon the ccmentid top of which a hollow form of cement t.as built. Into this form molten Iron was poured , filling up tbotpace. and upon this cast Iron founda. tlon plate the underetructuro of the buildIng - Ing now reals , while the fcldo walls are tup- ported by a camilovcr structure. The full wtight of the lo&d upon the cast Iron foundation Is estimated at more than 20 , 000 tons. 'umYi/ti'u * Ciiii. Cu rtjl4 J'ci'i.lUbYt < u
