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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (May 31, 1903)
TITE OMAHA DAILT T.EE: SUNDAY, MAY 1003. O) DAP AIN Special Watch Offer at $5.49 50c Fans at 15c, 5c and 2 l-2c Fans worth up to 60c each go at 2jc, 5c and 15c. A Now York im porter's foreign samples and surplus stock of all kinds of Japan ese Chinese and French eilk fans p EJ- 1Cn worth up to 50c, at 2 Ot and lUt Gent's Elgin or Waltham movements in sil verine cases, screw bezel front and back, for 5.49 10 81. EVENTS MONDAY " ssssMssssssssMssWasssSSml BMBBSlSJBSBJSJBfJBJJSJJSfJSJSJSB I Grand Summer Silk Sale Monday will b a day of tremendous allk selling;. . . Fresh new silks straight from the mills, all coat one ireat sale. ' Many lots of fashionable new ilk in all this season's styles will be displayed in our enlarged silk department and on several bargain squares, main floor and basement. Thee silks include, the new shirt waist silks, the highest grade imported and domestic foulard in many exclusive pat'emstS different styles, plain and fancy pongee silk. Here are some of the extraordinary values for Monday. Omt lot of all kinds of plain and fancy silks la the basement, -4 C at, a yard IOC 29c One lot of novelty silks, satin and twilled foulards, fancy brocades and grenadines, worth up to $1.00, In basement, at, Twilled and satin finished shirtwaist foulards all 1903 pattern, the new rain drop pattern and small geometrical figure, blue and white and black and w hi to, as long as '"57 '. they last, on bargain square, main aisle, a yard ) X 2C Dress Foulards Swell satin broche, French and American make dress foulards worth II. 50 a yard, nothing reserved , Imported Grenadines Skirt lengths, full dress lengths, waist lengths, worth up to $2.60 75c 69c BLACK SILK 5PECIALS M-taeh black wash Bilks, worth 50c, at 27e M-inoh black tuh silks, genuine Lyons dy.. worth fl.ou, at S9e M-lnch black peaii de sole, worth $2, at. ...1, 27 17-Inch black pau de sole, worth 11.39 a yard, at 4 j e 1-Inch black peau de sole, worth 90o a yard, at 59c XI -In oh black, guaranteed to wear, woven In selves., worth tOc, at, yard S9o 17-lnc.b black "Bonnett" silk, worth 11.25, at 7So J7-lDCh black Phoenix mills taffeta, worth H O. at 93c tf-lnch black crepe de chine, worth J2.60, at I.9 M-lnch black spot proof, summer silk, tamped, worth 11.86. at 88c WHITE AND CREAn SILKS 21-lnch white china silk, worth 39c yard, at.... 21c 17-Inch white china silk, worth 65c yard, at.... 39c M-lnch white china silk, worth 76c. at 48c 24-Inch white and crepe de chine, worth $1.00 a yard, at 69c 43-lnch white grenadine, worth Jl.M a yard, at 98c 20-Inch white cream wash taffeta, worth , 76o a yard, at 48c S7-lnch white pongee silk, worth H.00 a . yard, at 50c, 46-Inch white cream silk chiffons and moussellne de sole, worth 78o yard, at 39c 46-lnch cream, Imported all silk crepe de chine, worth 12.60 a yard, at Si. 69 Monday Specials In Dress Goods 50c Mousscline de Sole, new and perfect foods now iu demand; white, lCn black and all ctltrs, yard IOC Creme Mohair, extremely fashionable, washable, regular price 59c, at 39c Black Sicilian, 56 Inch mohair, very silky, regular value $1.50, at 98C Mercerized shirt waist suiting, all cobrs, canvas etam nes, regular value 59c, at 39c Dress Unens, white and all colors, crash, etamine and linen canvas 49 c Graduation Millinery $IO Trimmed Dress Hats at $4.95 On Monday we offer a superb assortment of ladies and miasea' black and white ex quiaitely trimmed dress hats. In the de signing of these bats whioh are reproductions of Paris models, we have paid particular attention to those details wnioa go so isr toward making a jm v mm Paris hat so easily distinguished You have our assurance that these hats cannot be duplicated anywhere under $10 Monday , !4 75c bunches of flowers at 19c Thousands of bunches of all species of flowers, among them being cherries, carna tion wreatns, grapes, DiacK roses, pink: and white roses, silk flowers, etc 75o rallies, bunch , Actual 19c Record Breaking Sale of Shirt Waists The greatest display of up-to-date shirt waists ever held in the west. Immense lot of fresh new thlrt waists in the very daintiest sum mery effects for one-half or lens than one-half their real value. Monday will be a remarkable shirtwaist day All the $2. 50 and t2 white waists, lawn waists. sale. , All the $4 and $5 mercerited damask waists, fine French lawn waists, silk waists, eta, for Monday's sale 12. 50 andf 2 white jf linen waists, linen (LJ) its, etc., for Monday 's J Jr IT M m I I IT I 12S S TWO GREAT EMBROIDERY SPECIALS Two big bargain squares of very fine embroideries and inaertings, in medium and extra wide widths, in Suisse, nainsook JQP 10Vr and Hamburg, worth up to 50c, at IVt'lsW gt 25c Laces lOc and So Big lots of all kinds of laces, galoons, insertions and bands, In all widths, hun dreds of styles, worth -4 -f P up to 25c, at, lLlC-iDC yard Ladles' and Children's Underwear. Ladies', misses', children's and boys' summer underwear, in plain and fancy ribbed balbrig pan, India tfauze, lisle thread and fancy Bilk mercerized lace em f p . m efTects.worth up to f I C 1 1 IP- Tl 60c, goat. each....aVJVrf . 1UL lC Grand Special Sale Linens Monday From an importer hard pressed for cash we bought some extraordinary linpn. bargains, Below we quote a few prices. This gives yon but a small idea of the many exceptional values that we are now offering. Some of the lots that we purchased are too small for newspaper advertising, but are wonderfully cheap. One lot fast color Table Damask, 64 iruhes wide, sell; for 25c, we offer tomorrow at yard . . 10c 64-inch all linen Silver Bleached German Table Damask, a ways sells for 50c, tomorrow, yard, 29c One lot strictly all linen napk ns, as lonf as they last we offer tliem at. doze 25c S oke stitched German Table Damask, imparted t) sell at $1.03 yard, ws offer tm) rrow, yd 50c Strictly all linen Silver Bleached Napkin;, kind that generally sell for $2 dozen, tomorrow, doz 1.00 Round thread 70-inch wide Embossed Table Damask, regular price $1.25 yard, goes tomorrow 75c Fring-ed Table Cloths, 2 yards long-, QQn wnnM ho rhMn at 11. M vard. Koea at One lot of damask knotted frlng-ed and hemstitch ed Towels, always sells at l&c and 36c, Ep All linen hemstitched nankins, larss slse.S Cfi h" t, eech worth 13.00 per doxen, so at ..9KJ- One lot of Bed Spreads, the regular $1.00 fiQp una. in irinKea or aemmeu. ao kl eacn.. v w r hi lnt nf all llnn homatltrhed and drawn kind. In fringed or hemmed, go at, each.. work dresser scarfs, worth 13.60 to $1.B0 each One lot extra heavy Bed Spreads In white and 49c, 39c, 25c, 15c "uTi etr?:.?T!T. 1.59 These must be seen to be appreciated, most of Extra large size good heavy ready to 1Qn them 2 yards long;. use Bed Sheets, at, each Jw One lot of huck towels, regular pries 15e, ffln Extra pillow slips, good heavy muslin 71- go at, each at, each 2W New Hair Dressing and Manicuring Department On ths Third Floor. Full Line of Hair Goods. GREAT VALUES IN NEW WASH SUITS. Shirtwaist Suits Tho surplus stock of a well known eastern manufac turer In all the popular fabrics for summer. All the suits from this purchase worth up to $8, at 3.98 All the suits from this purchase worth up to $4, at 1.98 Handsome Graduation Gowns. Henvtiul and perfectly fashioned white Swiss dresses, specially designed as a gradu ation gown, great values at 17.50. 14.85. 12.50. 9.98, 7.50 Pique and Linen Wash Skirts Very smart and fashionable. 4.98. 3.98 2.98, 1.98, 1.50 NEW SHANTUNG AND PONGEE SUITS. All the now stunning effect in silk shirtwaist suits every lnie noveltv included In this lot 29.00, 22.50, 19.00, 14.85, 9.98 Great Values in Tailor Made Suits. .24.50 pSaf.9: 11.90 .. 19.00 F'.!.8U.i:9: 3.98 $45 sample spring suits, at '39 splendid etamine suits, 4at.. High Grade Carpets Greatly Underpriced Special Bargains for Monday and during- the week In our new enlarged carpet) department on the third floor. 21.50 Smith Axmlnster and Wilton Velvet Rujs All the very latest designs, 9x12 feet, that are worth any where up to $.111.00 special price , Smith Axmlnster and Sanford's Axmlnster Rugs all the rery latest and newest pat terns, size 8 ft. 3 by 10- H r -v 1 .JU ft.6. and worth every cent of $25-' Monday's price.. Fine 9 Wire Sanford's Brussells Rugs and Bromly Smyrna Rugs elepant assort ment of tho nearest stylos and designs, all of them 9 ftxl2 ft and 1 tS O worth up to $20 I KJ your choice for S) v-r Smith and Hartford Wilton Velvet Carpets all the best quality, in new designs and colorings, with or without border Thoy arc sold every where for e $1.25 a yard- VI ClC on sale Monday at v-' All Wool Ingrain Carpets 120 rolls of the Tery best car)'ots--Thes-3 include Lowells, Hart ford und Agra weavos, in fact all the bet ingrains th it are made in this "A country and worth Wkj yd, all J -S in one big lot at. yard 65c Carpets at 45c a yard M0 rolls of the best quality ail wool tilled 2-ply '.r.eralns theo are tho heavlot weight and elegant g(xds for wear, and worth A Cjcayard fcl jfj your choice for, yard 45c Carpets at 29c a yard 75 rolls of extra heavy half wool filled Ingrain carpets, in r.ew bright patterns, the quality usually sold up to 4 "ic a yard "V asnanManday V-J fT fcr, yard We have an immense assortment of made up rugs in all qualities, all sizes and every imaginable color and pattern They are principally Velvets and Brus sels, and as we made them ourselves, to use up our remnants, we will sell them Mtnday at less than the manufacturers can produce the gtods Bring the size of your room and we will fit you ut with a big barg ain. SPECIALS IN THE DRUG DEPARTMENT H. A H. Boap JuT.nlla Boap (.mail) Juvenile Soap llarce) 4711 Boap Packer. Tar Boap Elder -Flower Boap Armour'. Witch Haiel Soap Armour'. Glycerine Soap tLOS Parana for , 8o , So , 10c , 10c 14c 4c ' 4e 4c 82c $1.00 Ayer.' Hair Vljor zoo urorao eeiuer , 25c Ca.curetta for $1.00 Botanlo Blood Balm .... II Paina'a Celery Compound K5c Menthol Pencil 10c William'. Shaving Soap lOo Colgate'. Shaving Boap ., 74o 19c 12 75c 75c c 6c 5c . M UN DAY SPECIALS IN OUR NEW COFFEE AND TEA DEPARTMENT . T.. Zea..&.pei:iats. i poder r: ?. rorln "K" I6c All of our S&c grade of tea go at 3uc l-nounrt x,i.- n i i I k ..in wnr. r. iru ill iJearlAr m.nH Boston Blend Cucuta Blend Fancy Maracaibo Boston Java v"i.' Boeton Java and Mocha, (8 lba. forjl) 25c 28c 30c S5c Our best teas; none better at any price 6oc Extracts 2-ounce, full weight 15c 4-ounce. full weight . 30c l-DOund can Prln' K. C, 25 ounces K. C, 15 ounces K. C, 10 ounces . 42c . 20c 12c . 8c FINE CANDIES AT SPECIAL PiilCES. Four sticks of candy for lc 1-lb. box fine Marslimnllows, legular price 35c. tomorrow 12'4o Baited Peanuts, pound J1"" Champion Mixed, pound vhs Crystal Mixed, pound o'c NebraHka Mixed, pound J11' Cream Mixed, pound J?0 Jelly Beanw, pound '" Pure Lemon Drop., pound wnow Drops, pound , lltirnt Peanut., potnd 'h'col.ite Drop., pcund Dixie Squares, pound Ice Cream Soda In our rPHtnurant, situated In th. ment, we make a specialty of horn, cooking. .. 15e .. XOc .. 20o .. 20c .. 20o .. So CECELIA WILSON'S SONGS t . Omaha ' Orphan Girl Wini 8aooeu on Engliah Conoort Btage. HER EXPERIENCE ON HER FIRST TOUR Dellffhtfal Trip of Slsht.eelna Mlaclcd with Fl-ul.g Worlc with th PI.lc Jabllee Singer, la th United Kingdom, Mia. Cecelia A. Wilson haa returned from th. Brlti.b tales to Omaha, an exemplifi cation of what may b. accomplished by a colored girl If .he but have a voio. attuned to th. melodies of her race and a courage and ambition that will not falter' before th. obstacle of a preconceived prejudice. Graduated from the Omaha High school Just a year ago, and graduated from her teen, scarcely a longer time ago, ah. ha. pent nine month, on the British lales, singing aimpl. folk songs to cultured audiences that accepted her without btaa, applauded warmly when her effort merited It, and later received her Into private homes, freely, courteously and without that patronising ostentation that would have tainted her Joy with humiliation and kept her ever mindful of th. chasm of the pig ments. Moreover, she haa returned with a ward rob, that has an aristocratic rustl. In Its (olds, and with plans to spend th. summer rejuvenating at Hot Springs, 8. D., and after that to spend two years at the Ober lln conservatory. Ohio', famed Institution for higher education In music. In other word., Miss Wilson haa brought back with her a aufflclent accumulation of Engliah shillings and even of English pounds to make possible such a relaxation and then such devotion to study of her chosen theme as she never before ha. known and as many girls who were In circumstances infinitely setter than her own a year ago may never know. ; ' Urr Start. Miss Wilson has been distinctly th. child f Dam. Fortune. Her parents died when h. was but a mite of a pickaninny and her later, Mrs. J. C. Parker of Decatur street, gave her th. only care .he received In her Infant year. For some time she was In th. Omaha Public library and had Intended making a teacher o( herself, but at Christ mas time 1901, ah. sang before the meet ing of a teachers' literary association, held lnKanaa. City, and on. who heard her there wrot. to F. J. Loud!n concerning her remarkable voice. Mr. Loudln is the only surviving member of the Flak Jubilee singer, who went to England thirty years go from the Flak university for colored people at Ka.hvtlle, Trnn., and for the past sis years he has been touring with a successor to his old -organisation, singing before alt th. crowned heads of the old world. ' Manager Loudln opened correspondence with Miss Wilson, with th. result that last August, without a companion and a. Igaorant of th. customs of travel as any school girt could be,' she undertook and aooompllshed a Journey to London. Arriv ing there, ah. studied six weeks under Miss Ira Aldrtdge, once a puplt of Jenny I-tdd. and a very candid teacher, who told Cecelia that her voice was one of quality and of marvelous range, but poorly used. The girl spent her time In remedying th. defect and at the end of six weeks joined the Flsk singers as contralto soloist, mak ing her first appearance with th. company of ten at Harrington, just out of London. October, November and December were pent la touring England, th. concerts being given exclusively In churches an1 usually under the auspices of religious organisations. With the new year a fort night series of concerts was Degun at Synod hall, the largest auditorium In Edinburgh, and after that others were given at Glas gow, Perth. Aberdeen and the other larger cities of Scotland, with one appearance at Wrexham, Wales. Why She Didn't Go to Ra.sla. In Ireland the company sang at Belfast, Dublin and Cork, and then Manager Loudln was stricken 111 and It became apparent that the tour must be brought to a pro mature close and the Invasion of Russia abandoned. He was taken to a hydropathlo institution at Peebles, Scotland, where he still lies, and his company routed Itself for London, stopping In the larger cities to give farewell concerts, tho last of which wis at Newcastle-on-Tyne, May 12. Im mediately afterward MUs Wn.son sailed from Liverpool for New York. In the latter city she stopped two days, then went to Niagara Falls and last Sunday night sang In a Chicago church. She reached Omaha Tuesday morn'ng and will be the guest of Mrs. Newman at 2209 North Twenty-fifth street, Mrs. Oordon at 3X2 North Twenty-first street and of other friends until she goes to Hot Springs, two weeks hence. Tuesday morning she Is to talk to Miss Pfelffer's class In English history at the High school. If she can talk as well to students as she can to Interviewers she will prove very entertaining. She has been a keen observer while abroad and apparently has benefited by th. Impresslonableness of youth. Seme of Her Impression.. "Jonmeys are necessarily short there," sh. said, "and usually we were at our destination before the noon hour. That made It possible for us to spend our after noons In sightseeing, snd, being Americans, w. did so. Most of all, I was Impressed by those grand old cathedrals I don't see how one could help believing In God after feeling the spell they cast about one but w. were at famous bridge, and monu ments and castles and galleries snd statues, too, and at points with a fame that re freshed my half-forgotten lessons In his tory. W. were at Shakespeare's home, and at Burns' home, and at Knox's home and at Ian Maelaren'B (Miss Wilson pronounces It 'Yawn,' with an ey Scotch roll), home, and at the Scottish lakes that have figured In so many novels , "But be.t of all, we wer. entertained In the home, of the respectable living. Taken In on 'a footing that was a nearer approach to one of equality than I had ever known before and shown a consideration that was strange! For this I like the Engliah people very much.. They're rsther conservative, don't you know (Mia. Wilson doe. not say 'dawn't-rher-kneow,' but uses the phrase with a true British swing), but they prove good friends end Isstlng friends The feel ing toward our race neems to be not one of prejudice, but of sympathetic desire to be helpful. There sre 1.000 negroes In Lon don, but I doubt If there be mors than a cor. bf th. distinctly American type. The others are from Africa and India, and practically all of them are there as stu dents In the higher Institutions of learning. Everyone was good to us even th. police men would trouble themselves to make certain that w. found the place, we .ought and did not turn the wrong way at corner.. Miss Helen Adams, one of our compsny. Is engaged to a Scotch minister. There are any number of chances to marry them over there." He 1. Good Eionfh for Her. "Perhaps that accounts In part for your announced determination to return to Ens land after you finish at Oberlln," was sug gested to Miss Wilson. "Indeed, It does not," she responded very promptly. "The American negro is quite good enough for me. There Is al ways th. barrier between my race and the white that we cannot overcome." "But you Intimate that It Is overcome, to large extent. In England and Scotland." "Perhaps so, but dear me, one doesn't wish to live apart from one's own coun try." "Then you don't expect to remain always away from the United States?" "Emphatically I do not," Miss Wilson answered. "This Is my home, the best country In the world, for all Its prejudice against us, and I shouted with Joy when we sighted New York harbor on our return. I was glad to get back to a country where there is something for dinner besides an unvarying succession of roast beef and roast mutton, with vegetables cooked, un seasoned. In plain water. They have ex cellent Innkeepers In England, but their hotel keepers are very different affairs far behind the times In many respects and not Inclined to get abreast with them." English Taste In Music. "How was your music received thereT" was arked. "Very well,. I think, for I know that th. management nvade a great deal of money, even after Mr Loudln was taken 111. At the theaters and music halls they are going wild over the 'coon' songs tbat are now four or five years old In America, and In churches where we sang the audiences were equally receptive of our style of music, which was the old d;irky songs. "8teal Away to Jesus' as originated by those darkys who, years ago, were not permitted to worship at their quarters and had to 'Kteal away' to camps in the woods, was a great favorite, as was also 'Nobody Knows th. Trouble I 8ee, Lord.' Tt.ere seems no tolerance over there of the senti ment 1 song that Is so populsr here at theaters. The English audience, would accept DeKoven's 'For Thl.' and others of that type, but none of the 'Because I Love You' stamp. Their prsference seems to be a song that tells a ctory and has a climax. For myself, 1 seemed to do best with that old, old 'Suwanee River." " "Suppose you sing It now," was propesed, I spd Miss Wilson did. playing her own piano accompaniment. The Engliah burr she ha acquired or, perhaps more properly, "aa slmilated," .inc. sh. uses It unconsciously snd without affectation vanished with the first note snd In Its place was the genuine darky dialect, with It. softened con sonants and slurred vowels. The voice was one of marvelous range and youthful power, mellowing to s tearful platntlvenesa at the lines: "Oh, take me back to my kind old mudder, "IVre let me live and die." It w.a not th. voice of a finished artiste, nor the vole, of on. wrought by th. gods for great things, but it was such a voice as the musically educated and the music ally uneducated both like to hor -and seldom get to, because most of those who possess It are either content to use it in the obscurity of a cabin or else are distort ing it into uncanny shapes in an ambitious effort to make It what It can never be and never was Intended to be. Her Pnrpo.e and Her Help.. Most fortunately, it seems Miss Wilson's desire to develop and make better that which ah. has, rather than to convert it Into something altogether different and never intended by her maker. In her work she will have th. benefit of a splendid physique for she has developed a figure not only tall and full but mounded out firmly along those lines that indicate the whereabouts of the lungs. "I gained two stone and waa getting quite too large for comfort In England." she said, with a laugh, "but have been losing flesh since then and hope to reduce myself still further when I get to climbing about at the Springs this summer. If I don't do It there, I certainly will when I get to Oberlln, for I ahall have to atudy very hard, I realize, and very constantly. "I hope to qualify for the stage the con cert stage only, please understand me, and not for the other. To succeed on the latter and overcome the prejudice which I raallze exists. I should have to be nothing leas than phenomenal. But In concert work I believe I can succeed if I but spend enough time on my work and enough money to get on the lists of the right agents, who are, I as sure you, no inexpensive luxuries. In Eng land you simply have to have a reoutable agent back of you when you are first com ing out, and the agents themselves realize this fact quite as well as does anyone else. Perhaps even better." HIDE AND SEEK GAME ENDS Detectives Follow Cine Fnrnl.hed by Cattle and Itnn Dona Their Men. On March 31 last, R'iy Oreen and Tom Lawless left Omaha over the Northwi surn road for Ulair and arriving there that night broke open n box car and stole therefrom thirty-eight hides. These they burled in that vicinity. Thirty-five of them were burled In a stock corral ur.der some manure, and the three others alongside the track. A day or two afterwards some cattle paw ing about the corral, excited by the smell of Mood from the buried hiJea, unearthed them and the thirty-five hides were recovered. Immediately after secreting the hides Green and Lawless came back to Omaha, and get ting a pal, named Bob McCollum, returned to Blair to get their plunder, but succeeded In recovering only the three hides burled alongside the track.' - These they brought back to Omaha and sold to the Florence tannery. The case waa put In the hand, of Detec tives Prummy, Mitchell snd Dunn, and the thieves were finally located and Identi fied. Oreen had in the meanwhile been arrested for stealing a gun from the Town send company, and sentenced to serve a thirty day term in the county Jail, which he Is now doing. Tom Lawless was cap tured a few days ago, and was .sent to Blair, for the hide deal. Bob McCollum was finally traced to Slating. Minn., where It was learned that he and his brother, Austin, have Just been sentenced to a term la th. penitentiary for horse stealing. PACKERS AGREE WITH MEN Unskilled Employe Get Advance of Cent and Half In Wage Bcale." NO DIVISION AS TO CLASS OF LABOR Confereaco with Skilled Labor Is lader Way, with Prospect for Amicable Settlemeat of All Differences. At a conference between th. packing house managers and representatives of the Amalgamated Association of Packing House Employes, held at South Omaha yesterday, an agreement was enterod Into covering the wages of unskilled em ployes. An Increase In pay of from Yl to 19 cents an hour was granted, and no division of the men as regards claas of labor. This raise affects about 2.200 men. The rate paid unskilled labor Is one-half cent an hour greater than that paid In Chicago. When it was announced that a compromise had been reached be tween the packers and the labor organ- j lsallous regarding the scale of wages to I be paid unskilled labor at the packing houses those most deeply interested ap- peired to be perfectly satisfied. While the Amalgamated association asked for ?0 cents an hour for this claas of labor a rompromife was made and laborers will now receive 19 cents an hour. This Is an Increase of cent, an hour, or IS cents a day. Vice President Vail of the Amalgamated i was well pleased with the result of the conference In this respect, as unskilled lahtir at the Chicago packing houses Is paid at the rate of 1SV4 cents an hour. Thus Routh Omaha laborers secure a benefit over the larger market. Now that this matter of unskilled labor, which nnVctg 2.3HO men here, has been set tled, it Is thought that there will be little difficulty In bringing nbout an amicable agreement as to the balance of the wage scale. Conferences will be held every day until all of the questions now up are dls- j poseil of. The result of yesterday s con ference seemed to put a stop to all talk of a strike. Mr. Vail said the best of feeling prevailed between the packers and the labor representatives and that no doubt I matters would soon be adjusted. Snpport for I nlnn Hen. Central Labor union last night mapped out plans for the financial support of the ! various unions on strike In Omaha. At a ! special meeting the central body arranged : to make a general appeal throughout the I i country for aid, devising systematic means I for establishing a contingent fund such as j was maintained In the case of the Union ' Tactile strikers. The secretary of Central Labor union has been authorised to send ; out a general statement of th. Issues of , the present strike in Omaha to all labor organizations throughout the United States as th basis for an appeal for help to be continued until the struggle Is over. Besides this plans war. set on foot to have the per capita tax which has been contributed by all the unions of Omaha to the Union Pacific strikers diverted Into the treasury of the striker, who have later come Into th. arena. This tag haa been. In most cases, 10 cents per member for the various lodges of the city snd has formed a contingent fund of substantial propor tions. Central Labor union then voted about ISO to L. V. Guye. business agent of the Barbera' union, for hi. continuous ef forts In behalf of the present strikers Mr. Ouy. has acted as chairman of the special arbitration committee appointed some time ago by Central Labor union and otherwise has been active from the first of the trou ble. After a conference of the Joint board of restaurant workers and the bartenders with th. retail liquor dealer. ,lat yesterday afternoon the officials of the Bartenders' union gave out the statement that they would have no trouble with their employers, but that all matters of difference would be amicably adjusted, as many already had been. ' The new wale which I. to tak. effect on June 1 will cause no breach, therefore, and the strike which waa looked for by soma will not materialize. ROYAL ARCANUM MEMORIAL Service In Memory of Departed Brother, to Be Sunday la Konat.e Church. A Royal Arcanum memorial service la to be conducted under the auspices of Union Pacific council No. 1069 In Kountxe Me morial church this afternoon at I:6 o'clock. Following are the exercises'. PART I. Organ Prelude Funeral March Chopin Brother J. . SImms. Opening Ceremonies Regent. Howard ltrunr; secretary, II. B. Morrill; guide, F. W. Robinson. Quartette ltock of Ages Buck Mlsse. Bnrr and l'orterfield and Messrs. Wheeler and llaverstook. Invocation Chaplain T. J. Mackay. Solo One Sweetly Solemn Thought Ambrose Mr C. 8. Haverstock. Eulogy Brother E. M. Bartlett. Solo O Shadow In a Sultrv Land. . .Marstoc MIms I'lirtertleld. PART II. Eulogy Brother A. Hugh Hippie. Bolo The I'ome Lend Hansoom Mr. D. H. Wheeler, jr. Eulogy Chaplain T J. Mackay. Quartet Asleep In Jesus Misses Il'irr and I'ortorfirld mid Messrs. Wheeler and Haverstoek. Benediction Chaplain T. J. Mnrkay. Organ Postlude Andante Maestoso Mendelssohn Brother J. H. Sims. The roll of departed brother, now In cludes William B. Alexander, Marlon L. Andrews, Charles Asplnwall. E. W. Bart lett. E. W. Dent, Harold H. Finn. Charles H. Oardner, L. A. Garner, Pell H. Good rich, W. J. Hughes, W. R. Iarn. A. M. Lyons. Robert E. Pease, William E. Ran som, Stuart P. Shears, Irwin C Rh.-elver, L. A. Sunderland. J 8. Tehbetts N. II. N. Thoebroe, M. A. Upton, William F. Valll. J. F. Vlckers, J. T. Wade, E. A. Walter. Phillip A. Warrack. H. B. Wheeler and K. E. Whltmore. German Presbyterian to Meet. In the German Presbyterian church, North Eighteenth street, between Burt and Cuming, there will he held the annual con vention of the German. Presbyterian minu ter, and elder, of the west, June 4 to 7. It 1. expected that about fifty will le precent, representing churches throughout the e.t. The convention will he opened Thursday at $ p. m., with a .ermon by Kev. E. I. Koell, the general missionary for the German hranoa of U. Pre.tiyt.rian church. COUNTY ROADS IMPASSABLE Hoods in Country Precincts Qiys Work to the Commissioners. aamassaamaaa WILL MAKE INSPECTION TOUR MONDAY Farmer. Complain that Low Plaee. In) Itoada Have Beea Filled Wltaoat Slaking; Proper Provision for Drainage, by) at The county commissioner, held a con ference at th. court house - yesterday to consider action on th. road., which ar. in Impassable condition on account of th. recent rains. These rains have demon .trated the error of the plan adopted the board ten years ago, and .Inc. that tlm. carried out in most Instances of filling low places in the roads without maUmg adequate provisions for th. flow of storm water. In the western part of the country from the northern to the southern bound ary those fills have proved to b. dams ior the storm water and in many cases they have been wsshed out, leaving the road impassable, while In other cases the water has backed up over adjoining farm, and the owner, of the land, have cut dltche. through the road to relieve the conges tion. Report, as to the condition of th. roads In the southern part of th. county wer. received Friday and tho road committee given power to make temporary repair, where abaolutely necessuxy. Yesterday the reports came from tho northern part of the. county, particularly from Valley and Elkhorn preolncls. The road from Valley to the Platte river, Is Impassable, a fill, which was substituted for a bridge which formerly spanned a ravine, having been waMhed out. The commissioners decided to place a culvert In the fill a. soon ss possible. In Kllthorn Preelact. The water Is said to be worse In th. northwestern part of Elkhorn precinct than was ever before known. West of Rawhide creek the water stands to the first rail on the bridge, across the ravines and the Hawhlde itself Is Hpread over the adjoin ing land. It Is snld that because of wash ing out nf approaches the bridge which was recently constructed near Senator Noyes' farm Is absolutely useless, and travel over that, road Is Impossible. A number of farmers were before the hr,;ml making reports of damage of greater i.r less extent In various parts of the coun try nnd received assurance, that th. com nil loners would do all In their power to relieve the condition. In pursuance of this promise the members of the board will Htart on an Inspection trip Monday morn ing. It l probable that two or more parties will be formed to visit different section, of the county, so that work can b. atart.d as soon a possible. Widow I.o.es Her Homo. The nome of Mrs. Kat Connolly on Cali fornia street, between Twelfth and Thir teenth, was destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Connolly had gone serosa th" street to visit nelghlior, leny ln a fire burning In the kitchen stove. The entire content, of the house were destroy t Mis. Connolly wa. badly burned about the face, her hair singed and clothing partly burned In nn effort to v some of her effects. The destruction of her horn, leaves l.er destitute, hhe Is a widow In humble circumstance. The house was a llttl. hack In th. railroad yards.