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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 4, 1903)
V Bee. UNDAY PAGES 11 TO 20. 8 ESTABLISHED JUNE 19, 1871. OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY' 1, 1903. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. i nn nn m cttj ct3 fo) f? nn nn M p an o) Pill I srf in n L The Closing Days of the Most Tragically Stirring Event in Your City's Trading History Begins Tomorrow at 8 A. M. .1 o) o) GBEAT cewe.t SALE WILL THEw m We are only yielding to the force of circumstances in the MERCILESS PRICE-CUTTING POLICY THAT WILL BE MAINTAINED TO THE END a policy that means a MINT TO YOU though it would appear a painful nettle-rash to our competitors. - Tho ennoft Co Dry oods Departments are running full force. Under the orders of the court, all stocks must be pushed no matter what the loss. Embroideries Most of our spring embroideries come in Saturday we can not hold them until after the meeting of creditor, they must all be aold In ten dHys there Is nearly one hundred thousand yards Intended to be old at from 10c to 35c per yard It will be put on our bargain table t"5" MONDAY MORNINQ at 15c, 12c, 10c and Ow Women's Tailored SuitsThe suits we offered to the trade since the opening of OUR MAMMOTH STORE have been admltedly the best atylea and values ever offered In Omaha now you can select your choice from about two hundred suite and get one-third off our closest prices new Jackets new cloaks new ulsters new capes new furs, Including Alaska seal, mink, beaver, otter, Persian lamb, and ail the lower grades are being aold at one-third off the marked prices. Women's Fleeced Lined Undervests and Pants Splendid fine and firm a large shipment that was late coming In 0-r that should bring 40c each, will be sold at Ov Handkerchiefs for a Penny The last case of our im mense handkerchief purchase to sell at Be and 10c, will be put on sale MONDAY MORNING at 10 o'clock at ONE TENNY EACH. Women's and Children's Jackets, Cloaks and Ulsters We must cut down our enormous stock of these garments Monday morning we will sell them at ONE-HALF OFF THE MARKED PRICES. Listen. $20.00 cloaks at $10.00 $10.00 cloaks at $5.00 $5.00 cloaks at $2.50. NO SUCH REDUCTIONS HAVE EVER BEEN MADE ON NEW. UP-TO-DATE CLOAKS. At the Linen Counter- floz ..19c 37c 18-Inch bleached and cream table damask, heavy quality, none better at this price, worth 35c, at, per yard.......; 10-Inch bleached and silver bleached loom damask table linen, the best 60c linen in the city, at, per yard 60-Inch guaranteed all pure linen cream loom damask, the best wearing tatie linen 1 for restaurant use manufactured, worth A 9c yard, at i VC fli.i.nk A., an A tiaaw wamnteri alt nurn linen table damask. cream color, th best 75o grade, at, per yard ovc 72-Inch extra heavy and fine grass bleached superior satin damask, warranted . all -i pure linen, the best $1.25 grade, Wr at. per yard.. OOC T2-lnch extra fine full grass bleached fine Irish satin damask table linen, will give the beet satisfaction and polish beautifully,, Ck7r worth' $1.60 yard, at, per yard A C gO-lnch loom damask dice pattern table napkins, the best wearing napkins made for restaurant use, worth $1.25 per doxen, ' . O O at per doien C5 C 18-Inch bleached satin damask napkins, guaranteed all pure linen, worth 1.60 doxen, at All our fine satin damask grass bleached table napkins, different sizes, A " worth $2.50 doxen, at I. A O 17-inch extra fine heavy grass bleached Irish linen dinner napkins, beautiful patterns, worth $6.00, at, per dozen 16x32 bleached huck towels, worth 9c, A at, each '. $0x40 all linen huck towels, the best value ever offered In the line for -4 f- for the money, worth 20c, at, each vC 11-4 sheet blankets, the large size. In gray a, worth $1.25, t per pair 11-4 extra heavy sheet blankets. In grays, worth $1.85 pair, Bankrapt S Ml J I V Jl iW- tVV " A Nil Organs aie oi nanos ana Continues Until January 15, 1903 Such goods, such prices and such terms were ?nevcr ercc- Omaha people. before. We have V. no used, rented, repaired or second-hand stock ipf in tnis saie. uniy iiigii graae, up-io- date piatlOS, all sold at less than lactory cost do not be deceived by others, but call and see for yourself these pianos all go; call at once or write and secure a bargain before it is too late this is your opportunity of a lifetime to secure a strictly high grade piano at the price of a cheap one. New Pianos from $120.00 up New Organs from $28.00 up Come in and See Us Before Buying All Sold on Our Easy Payment Plan Shoot Music, Musical Merchandise sold at most any price BE ITT 10TDJ Tremendous Clean Up of Boys' and Children's Clothing at Bankrupt Prices. . . . . . . MAIN FLOOR. ALL MUST GO AND GO QUICKLY The inexorable has happened. The Court says, "Get these goods out," and out they must. Norfolk two-piece emits, Norfolk three-piece suits, Sailo T Blouses, Russian Blouses, Reefer Suits. 1.05 .1.75 3.95 at. Large size bod comforts, covered with fine silkollne and filled with high grade whit, cotton batting, worth $1.35, at each Large and extra heavy bed comforters, best whit, cotton batting filling, worth $2.25. at each Outing flannels in both light and dark colors, check, plaid and stripes, all fast washable colors, worth 10c yard, at , Fringed Denim atand covers, fancy patterns, printed on both sides, worth 35c, at each , 89c 1.38 98c 1.48 5c ..10c AT THE SILK COUNTERS 19-Inch black and silk taffeta, the 65c grade, for this " X'J n , sale only....- '. 1iC 1,500 yard of very One imported fancy and plain corded silk in corded stripes, tinsel waitings,! Irish poplins and embroidered taffetas, goods worth - O up to $1.75 yard, all go in this .ale at, per yard OVC A few hundred yards of very elegant Frenoh silks, plain evening shades, in a pretty fancy weave, a good $1.75 quality, for this sale only X OC 21-inch fine Imported black peau de sole, very elegant quality for dresses, $1.40 qual ity, will be sacrificed in this sale at, OR per yard VOC BLACK DRESS GOODS 40-Inch black English mohair, plain weave, 45c quality, rtQ at, per yard awVC 44- Inch black English serge, guaranteed all wool, A A 65c quality, at ttC 45- Inch black English cheviot, strictly all wool, the Ja 75c quality, at I uUC 46- Inch black twine mistral, fine all wool quality, worth $1.15 yard tJ go at; per yard i OC COLORED DRESS GOODS 50 pieces fine all wool suitings, 38 to 42 Inches wide, almost every desirable shade, both plain and fancy, values to 65c yard, to be closed O out at, per yard OOC French all wool challies, all new styles, the 50c quality, " at OOC 25 pieces 54-Inch broadcloths, Venetians and suitings, worth up to $1.35 OA yard, all go In this sale at, per yard OyC Straw Mattings Straw Mattings THIRD FLOOR SPRING IMPORT OF Japanese and China mailings Fine Japanese Linen Jute Slat- tings, the spring designs and colorings, goods that sell reg ularly at 40c and 4Sr vnrtl. for aaWaaWw 40 yard roll, for ?G.00. Another lot of fine Japanese Mattings, to sell at 30c and 35c, at' this 1Qp anlp ftir IOC ALL THE LATEST NOVELTIES 1.95 2.95 Suits that sold up to $4.95 for Suits that sold up to $8.95 for MAIN FLOOR. GLEAN UP OF Pictures and Picture Frames NEVER BEFORE WERE PICTURES AND PICTURE FRAMES offered at such low prices. We still show a full line of these goods, all are new and up-to-date and first-class. In every particular our line of moulding is the most complete in the city. We will have to dis pose of them either by the length or made up inlo frames to fit your picture at prices regardless of cost' or value. A Crockery Clean-Up $8.00 12-piece Decorated Toilet Sets cut down - A 17 C to $9.00 lS-piece Decorated Toilet fo!.::v.n....6.50 $1.00 Decorated Table Lamps, Zn. 60c $7.00 Decorated Table Lamps, Rochester burner, A ZZ.f for ..4.0U $3.00 Decorated Table Lamps, Rochester burner, $1.50 Decorated Water Sets, it tumblers and OCp pitcher OOC See what you can buy for 10c, 7c and 5c. Our $1 Table is a wiuner you will find $2, $3 and $4 goods on this table Decorated Im ported Cup and i Ct Plate Sets only IOC U u L POtt 11 S Jewelry Department Will Offer for Sale Beginning tomorrow at 8 a. m. all bric-a-brac wan verware STERLING SILVER NOVEL TIES -8-day Parlor and Mantel Clocks, Sil--Wrist and Side Bags, Brooch and Belt Pins, at HALF OFF HALF OFF HALF OFF A li LJ i" La POM TALES TOLD BY LIFE-SAVERS Thrilling Ico!dnti Eecalled by the Stormy Petrels of Ooean Beaches. PATROL DUTY AT SMNNEC0CK STATION Peril. KacoMtrred When th. Billiard User a mm Wheat Iwatr atornis I.aak the Atlaatle to Farr. One of th. lorernment's numerous Ufa (avlDg station on Long Island's wreck strewn south beach is called Shlnn.cock. It Is clghty-flv. miles east from New York a the railroad runs, and that Is about as th. ciows fly. The unpretentious one-story train, station house, capped by a little box Ilk, lookout. Is surrounded by a trio of dwelling, doll bouse In proportions, lo which live as msny families of life savers. The only other evidences of habitat loa on " the desolate sandy stretch sr. two or three unpainted storage sheds and a fla; 'signal pole, vastly overtowrrlog th. squat building within Its shadow. From Shinnecock bay, which separates the beach trout the mainland to th. north, It be whole station Is clearly visible on a lair day across th. four-mile stretch of water; but let one take up his stand on the ocean's edge fifty yarda to the south of tha station and look northward, and he will re naught of human handiwork except the top of the flag pole that and an abruptly rising ridge of sand. This ridge, which it pur. golden and silvery and Iron red by turns, continues almost centrally along th. beach as far as cy. can ae. to east and west, and It baa th. peculiar property of keeping th. noises of the sea from out U. ora of the Shlnnecock lit. saver ex cept on the stormiest of nights when the -gale is blowing great guns from the south. It was on such a winter's night that the two occupants of an ancient cat boat, baffled In their attempts to reach th. mainland across Ehlnnecock bay, ran the boat over the flats until Its bottom grated and held fast on the sand. Then jumping Into the knee deep water, they tugged and pulled the boat after them until it was Dcaccea. After that they made the craft Bate from the storm and. a little while later, aet their facea toward the gale driven rain and breasted their way to the atation house. , They .threw open the door Just aa the llfe savera were sitting down to a meal of salt pork, boiled cabbaaje and hot coffee, served on a table hid under a piece of clean oil cloth. With that open-heartedness and naive simplicity characteristic of the men who work along th. sea coast, the five "beachers," making no excuse for their frugal fare. Invited the visitors to eat. As they did so the heat from the wood fire In the big cooking atove back of them quickly dried their drenched clothing and skins, so that when the last of the mounds of food had disappeared from the platters and plpea lighted and chairs tilted comfortably back against walls, they were in fitting mood to hew Interest in Captain Alanson I'enny'a reminiscent observstion: "Bad night, but clear went hit- alongside j the night when schooner Louij V. I'la-.e I went ashore off the Lone Kill station about four years ago." Ha took a deep puff at his pipe. "Maybe you'd care to hear about it? All right; yea yea." One. more a big volume of amoke hid th. captain's face, and, aa It cleared away, he continued: "The tea waa awful that night. Gen erally I don't notice the awfulnesa or grandeur of the aea, being ao used to It, but that night the ccaibers were the highest I've ever seen, aud they threw spray over the top of the ridge yonder, which is sixty yards from tbo water's edge at ebb and about thirty feet above It. And th. sleet fell In sheets. "It was around about midnight when the Louis V. Place was blown on to the bar. Captain Fam Dnker and his crew were down at the shore In a Jiffy with the beach ap paratus, for they knew that quick work was needed to aave men grounded In auch a sea. They shot out the line and it wouldn't hold. They shot out the line again aud It wouldn't bold, and they shot It out time after time, but It wouldn't bold, for the achooner was rolling so frightfully that none of the sailors dared come out of the rigging to make It frtt. "And they couldn't go out to the schooner in the surf boat. The wind had Jammed the sea between shore and vessel, fOO yards away, with porridge that's Ice parked tight and thick. No boat can live or get through auch Ice, ao there they were Captain Baker and his men helpless as babiea, and sob-' blng like babies, too, with the sailors freez ing to death In the rigging before tkslr eyes. "There wss nothing to do except to wait tor the wind to die down. They waited two daya and nights, beside the beach fires, which lit up the faces of the freezing Bail ors, and as they waited and watched this man and that, froxen beyond further endur ance, let go bis bold and fell Into the sea. On the aecond night thry aaw one man. armed with a rope's end. beat two of the men near him to keep them awake and from freexing. The next day the sea died down, the ice broke and the surf boat was finally worked to the side of the schooner, but not before the man who had whipped' the others to keep them alive bad fallen into the aea. The two survivors were brought ashore and one died shortly after. The other, I'm told, lived, but he waa am putated all to pieces, nearly. "When it waa all over Captain Baker, who waa ball craiy ail th Urn b. was powerless to rescue the sailors, went to pieces and died a few weeks later. He died of a broken heart died becafls. he had not been able to save the eight sailor who froze before his eyes. And these are the last words be said before be died: ' 'God pity the poor boy out yonder In the riggiug.' " Xlpsy, the Do Life Saver. Captain Penny struck a match and, as be relighted bis pipe, be said between short puffs: "Tell them about Nipsy, Carter." Charles A. Carter ia No. 1 at the Shlnne-cc-k station, where he has patrolled the beach for twenty-five yeara. He reached down at bis side and patted a medium alzed black dog on the head. "This Is Nlpsy," he said. "He's a cross between spaniel and bull, and be'a a mighty bright dog. He kcepa me company on my watch In good weather, but whenever he sees me put on my sou-wester he runs and hides behind the stove. But it there's a wreck and ho sees us taking out the beach apparatus, no matter If it'a blowing a gale and the rain cuts like a knife, Nlpsy fol lows and works with me. "Nlpsy has done a good many pretty bright things, but the best thing he ever did was to save a life two years ago last August, when a coal collier, bound for down east from the Delaware cepea, foundered several hundred yards off shore. We launched the surf boat and made for it as soon aa we saw Its distress, but befor. we I reached It and just before It went under a I big wave broke over the ship and washed the crew of tour overboard. "It was stiff work, but somehow we man aged to pull three men from th. aea before they'd shipped enough water to drown 'em. The fourth was nowhere to b. seen and, after looking around for a while, we gave him up for lost snd headed for the shore. "When we landed Nlpsy waa running up aud down th beach, wher he knew we'd come ashore, barking like all poasessed. He jumped all around me, nearly knocking me over, and between Jumpa he'd run eastward on the beach, aa If be wanted me to go with him. Finally, I said to myself, 'Nlpsy's found something and maybe It's the missing sailor, I said, just for something to say. Well, anyway, I humored the dog and fol lowed blm, and he ran about 500 yarda down the beach and stood still and barked. Pretty soon I cam up to bim and what do you think I aaw lying there In the sands? My nephew. "Nipsy took mo to blm Just In time and so we saved his ltf". He waa the missing man from th. collier, and b. bad been tossed ashore by the breakers." I'atrol Daty In a Dllssard. Carter looked at the clock. "Almost o'clock," be said. "Rudd, we'll be on patrol n a few minute and won't be back before midnight, so apeak up before we go." "Yes yes," John W. Rudd, No. 2, drawl Ingly responded In Long Island vernacular, and then continued: "I started out for patrol duty on the first night of the 'S3 blizzard. It Is only a matter of fifty or sixty yarda to the beach from the atation houie, but the snow waa ao blinding and the wind so high that It took me fifteen minutes to reach the beach. Then I beaded for the patrol house about a mile to the westward. My Idea waa to get there and stay there, because that's allow able In auch weather. "I thought I'd never reach that house. I fought against the wind until I waa almost ready to drop, and the only thing that kept me up at the end was the thought that I'd freeze If I didn't hold out. The snow kept me from seeing ahead I couldn't have seen the captain it he'd been walking alongside of me. I feared all the time that I'd go past the box. because, I knew tbo tamp light wouldn't be visible. Ho. when I thought I'd almost reached It, I stuck my arm out in front aa far aa I could and walked that way until they ached ao I thought I couldn't keep them up any longer. And then ker plunk! went a fist against the patrol box. "Guess bow long I'd been covering the mile?" Rudd waa faatenlng bla sou'wester under bis chin. "Just two hours," he said, aa he slung a coston signal over bis shoulder and opened the door. "Yes yes." Tale of an KnalUh Frigate. James O. 8mlth No. 6. to whose lot fell th. replenishing of the wood fire, spoke up as be clattered the stove lid back into place: "Don't know why, but "I'm reminded of a yarn that I beard at a Cape Cod station a f.w years back. "Seems that an English frigate win wrecked off the beach, where the station la, 200 years ago. One day four or five year ago the hull of a vessel all at once stuck Itself above the water In full sight of the atation, and musket and pistol butts, like those used before the revolution, and old atyle woodwork was thrown up on shore. " 'It's the hull of the English frigate thrown up out of the quicksands," the life savera said: and then they sent word to the people In the village. "They came trooping down to the beach and began putting out to tbe wreck. In hopes of securing the treasure that is said to have cone down with the frigate. But before tbe first boat waa fairly uuder way, and Just as suddenly and ailently as it had appeared, the bull sank bark Into the quicksands. And It hasn't been aeen since.' Ilow Mfr-Mxlug t rew W mu Drowned, "Yea yes; snd tbe crew of that same station it' the one closest to Highlaud light lost their Hyb about fifteen yeara go," spoke up Ceorfce J. Caffrey, surfman No. 4. "It happened In thia way: "An Italian bark was blown over one of th bar and on to th. other. The crew shot out the line and flew signals and all that, but tbe Italians, It turned out, didn't know the first thing about our work, and ao they didn't know bow to answer the signals and didn't make taut tbe rope. "When the captain aaw that the Italian didn't know what to do, be and hi men launched the surf boat and pulled out for the bark. Tbey reached her bow and were Just making ready to take off some of tba sailors when the boat got caught In th. terrible undertow that exist around tba bar and was sucked under. Every mother' on of them waa drowned Ilk. rats. And they went under so suddenly tbey didn't have time to make a single shout for help. "Two houra later the storm died down enough to allow all of th. Italians to get ashore with almost dry skins." GAMBLING ON THE INCREASE Hons of I.orda Mijtes Betting; on Horse Knees av gnbjeet of Investigation. LONDON, Jan. I. The rapid Increase in betting on bors. racing In th. United King dom, especially among worklngmen, . and the evils arising therefrom are fully ac knowledged In the report of th. aelect com mittee of th. House of Lords issued today, but the remedies recommended are not far reaching. The commltte. finds th. betting Is greatly facilitated by the newspapers publishing starting prices, but the committee Is not prepared to recommend It prohibition, a it would tend to encourage dishonesty on the part of th. bookmakers. It recommends that all advertisement and circulars of sporting "tipsters" be mde Illegal and favor legislation enabling bookmakers to be Imprisoned for batting on the streets with children.
