TI1E ' OMAITA DAILY REE: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1903.
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Hundreds of Elegant Sample Coats at Less Than One-Half the Cost to Make
A purchase of high grade sample coats that marks this sale as a great style event as well as a splendid bargain offering. .No other store in the west could have attempted a sale of such magnitude. Every coat is a sam
pleno two of them alike and every one a model of style elegance. We bought these ultra fashionable garments at prices that two weeks ago no dealer in the country would have thought possible. Just, about one-half the cost to
manufacture that is what these prices mean. ' We place then on sale today at prices that represent less than half their cost. ... s
In Addition to the Great Stock of Sample Coats We Secured the Entire Surplus Stock of Fine Cloaks
From Two of New York's Famous Manufacturers We Bought Cheaply and Offer Them Far Below Their Value
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IIS LONG COATS AT 6 08-Nobby 42-Inch coat in the loose back Z AO
9.98
14.85
24-50
English effects, tucked box coats.
military effects, etc.; would regularly aell at $15, at
$30 LONO CO ITS AT $0.98 -Handsome. I Vlnch jrarments, military
""TT"""-T-T7T""" styles, bnx plaited coat, many beauti
fully trimmed and lifted and worth up to tM, at
$30 LONfl COATS AT H.-Fj11 length loow tnats with capes,
, . ,,, novelty coat., alt with stylish loose
sleeves and silk or satta llnod, worth up to $30, at . ...u .....
NOVELTY COATS AT S34.ti-fltnnnlnr nov.lt, 0Mt in the
. , " charming styles, such as only the
highest g-rale garments on reveal every novelty feature, at
SWELL L0N1 COATS AT $35 Here are the swasrger ooat that f f
woulisellallthewavuptol'W. "e"ivlvJ
Faultlessly designed by style masters, every one an artlstio model
WhIU coats, opsri coat, stuitnln j evening coats from this purohaw at Just half price.
Beautiful and dainty evening gowns from this stock at just half price. .
High Class Furs in These Great Purchases
$.w.oo ARtrncbnn enpps nd i (
Jackets, 22 inches, at. l.DU
S125.0O sonlskln Jackets. 22 , m
Inches, at JQJ
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10 Art TT..J ..
iiuumiu irnj onet coa nenr Ann
aeal collar and cuffs, at... . JpyO
Larjte, double scarfs wlth'elght I no
tails, at .. ,.... .1.70
Brook it Ink and Canadian marten t no
, scarfs, at 4.V5
For scarfs with two large brnsh no
tails, at ' O.VO
Fine sable and Isabella fox
scarfs, at ..,
Electric seal Jackets with brook
mink reveres, at....
Nenr seal Jackets, plain and com
bination, at ,
898
.$19
$35
I Ill II II I 'yy t IW
silk costs at $14.85- Fancy coats of velours and 1 .8S
Bilk, 30 in., worth $27.50, at...'. -
Long nic coats stt $24. so- Extra long velourB and O A hO
at
.12-50
eiik i'aacy coats, worth up to $50
Zlbellne Cap Coats sit SI3.8Q Th6 BWagftOr and
iiU ..nta lr lain nsttraltw etwlACi WSrtfcsSl
VBiy BbVlieiX vaio vuata iu lata uvivm; v.j.w, j;,t...
Military Coat at $6,9H- Splendid little military fS98
coats, handsomely trimmed,, worth up to $15, at
S2ocoat at S9.98-, The newest eflEects in military Q,98
coats, swell style In every one, at -
Nobbysio coat at S4.QR- NewmlUtary effects with A)$
halt fitted backs, worth flO, at ....... J
Your Choice of an assemblage of tine tailored utU, orth $20, at $9.93
Elejjant $35 Suits at...... 14. 85 Splendid 175 Sample Suits at. $35
Coats for Girls Included in This Big Sale
'ssz.zz:... 75c RrriS,: 1.89
'iSS'.r- ....98c 2r5?.t?....79c
Fine Xmas Kid Gloves
$1 and $1.80 Kid atovea at 59c -New
shades for winter wear; every pair a
, spienaia oarjrain; on bargain
square at, pair
59c
High Grade Kid Olovea, in every shade;
made of real kid leather; beauti- CP t
ful and acceptable gifts; pair... ( Zpl
Fine French Real Kid Gloves, Perrin's,
Kinler's, oto. absolutely the bst
gloves made a gift that will delight
any woman; CSfl A tCO
specials at I5U 70 &
Ladies' laoe cape and round collars, doz
en of dltTerent stylea, very f
handsomo, at u"C
Dainty lace turn-over collars, will freshen up any costume,
S..;.... 15c g 25c
Ladles' fancy illkand silk mercerized stock collars 100
styles, worth up VP 11. 0Q eacb,
Fanoy silk chiffon neckwear at,
each '.. ......
...r.r7..v. ........ ......50c
... 25 c
DAINTY HANDKERCHIEFS FOR CHRISTMAS GIFTS
Ladies' and children's fancy
colored silk and embroid
ered gift handkerchiefs,
25c quality, 10 C
Men's silkoline handker
chiefs, with all silk hand
embroidered initials,
large size, 23c lAp
quality, at
Extraordinary holiday offering of genuine St. Gall, Switzerland, sample handkerchiefs, fresh from a New York Importer's stock.
SWISS IMPORTED HANDKERCHIEFS
We bought the entire sample line of imported handkerchiefs from Klauber, Horn & Co., 512 Broadway, N. Y., consisting of finest
x St. Gall, Switzerland, handkerchiefs in the daintiest effects. The low price at which we bought them makes this an extra
ordinary handkerchief event. These bits of needle work are' revered, embroidered, hemstitched with fancy open work,
drawn threads, etc. They are worth regularly as high as 75c each, your choice, . mPIQnCP
at
.10e
39c
'Ladle.' end men', all pur. linen handkerchief., all width, of fine hem
stitching, regular ,25c quality, at.....
ladles' very nn. sheer all linen handkerchiefs, .tnbrotdered and resered,
up to 76o quality, at '
Ladles' all llnon lace trimmed handkerchiefs, great Va- ' ' ; lOc
rlety of atyles, worth up to 26c, at a. ". ' w
Ladies' and man's embroidered initial handkerchiefs, six in a fancy nlJC
J0C
box, at
Children's fancy handkerchiefs, three In a pretty box, at.
per dox
dies' and men's extra fin. quality all pure linen handkerchiefs, hand
' ambroidered initial.,, at,, each ,
Ladles' and men's fancy colored border and! embroidered all .Ilk hand
kerchief., 60c quality, at
Xxtra .pedal lot of plain white and fancy colored border handkerchiefs
hundred, of atylea, worth up to 80o each, at Sftc and
All silk muffler, of best heavy .Ilk, great variety of styles, on bargain
mjunr, wuriu up 10 ...w. ai ....................
Ladies' and men's embroidered Initial h andkerchl.fs. all purs linen. QRn
ha of mlm. at .OOll
25c
29c
5c
98c
Special Sale Children's Cloaks
. A complete stocK ol cnu
dren'B high grade and late
style cloaks, straight from a
a manufacturer's Btock. By
accepting his entire excess
stock we made a remarkable
bargain.
Corduroys, Broadcloths,
Velvets, Cheviots,
Meltons, Etc.
Every one of these jaunty
little coats is made in the
latest and best Juvenile
fashion. in the correct and
and most favored cloths and col- t C5f
ors, regular $3, $4 and $5 cloaks, H
on sale Saturday, your choice .... Jj
OM TWO SHELLS COT BUSY
They Were of tbs 13-Inch Variety and
K ade Things F y on Lena Ii'aod.
TREMENDOUS FORCE OF THE EXPLOSION
What Might Hav Haypeaed bat' Did
' ' HOt More Snrprialas; Than the
' Itavoe Wroatsht at the
Haval Maaraalae.
car, which served as a temporary bridge ' dred and fifty feet to the northward, and
What happened at Iona Island when th.
United State, naval magasln. was recently
partly wrecked by expln.lon. was appal
ling, but what might have -happened and
did not is far more surprising. Two big
building, were reduced to a ahapelea. mas.
' of bricks, mortar and twisted angle Iron,
two others as large and a cottage were
partly wrecked and half a dosen othur
structure, wer. mora or lei. seriously
dhmaged by the heavy concussion and flying
missile.;' but two-third, of all the house,
oonatltutlng the immense plant escaped
injury, except that most of their windows
were broken.
Bis men lost their live. In the catastrophe
and three of them were literally torn to
hred. by the force of the greater explo
. .ion. Not enough in the aggntgat. of the
' bodies of all these three ha. been recov
red to equal in weight a single hand or
foot. The other three bodlea, whll. ter
Mbly mutilated, were recovered .ustan-
, tlally entire.
Two .zploaions. about a minute apart,
Inflicted all the damage. The subsequent
. exploelon. of shells of -Jnch caliber and
smaller during the fire which followed the
second and more destructtv. of the two
terrific blasts destroyed nothing but them
selves. Fragments of one It-Inch shell
have been found, but these in the aggre
gate are less than a sixth of its maia.
Whether or not another of that caliber
burst is not now positively, known and
may never be known. It is regarded as
fairly well established, however, that all
the wreck Was caused by the explosion
of only on. or two alitll. of lS-lnch cali
ber and the belief of tho.e beet qualified
to know is that two, Instead of one, burst
' If that' be true. It seems reasonably cer
. tain that the first to explode had been al-
ready emptied of a half or more of lu
bursting charge of black powder, for all
who heard the detonations sgree that the
Srst was 'not nearly so heavy or so de
structive as the second. Eyewitnesses say
th. first blast sent straight upward a
treat column of black smoke and dust,
wnue tne aecona seemed ail fire. If, as
seems to be the belief of those who saw
both exploalona, they were the bursting
first of a partly emptied M-lnch shell and
a secondary explosion of ona of the same
stse which contained the full bursting
harge, the terrible destructives, of pro
jectiles of that caliber cannot well be
vereatlmated.
Tkeerles,
It is believed, too, and many facts appear
to confirm that Impression, that neither of
. the two exploaioua which wrought the
great damage was within a building. Shell-
(house No. I and shellhouae No. 4. both of
which were demolished, were separated by
a single railway track, with a concrete
platform attached to each building, level
with tbe floor of an ordinary freight ccr.
Ob the lallway track brtw.eu these build
lie, a the eatakruing ihu iw4 a fiat
between the platforms. The six men were
on the platform of shellhouse No. S, emp
tying the 13-inch .hells from which the
fuse, had been previously removed. The
hell, to be emptied were In shellhouse
No. J, and, after they were emptied on the
platform attached to that house, were
taken across the track to shellhouse No. 4
to be stored. Only three shells were taken
out and cmptlod at one time, and the
Workman who was emptying one was shut
oft from the others by a safety screen.
Danlelson, the only on. of this crew to
escape death, had Just "trucked" an emp
tied shell across into shellhouse No. 4
when the first ' shell exploded. He was
blown upward, he say.,- to the roof. Gun
ner Otto Pries, who commands the station,
and a gunner of - the battleship Massa
chusetts, who was at the magaslne on
business; had just entered the front door
of shellhouse No, 4 when the first shell
exploded. Fries was' thrown violently
against the door, but as soon as possible
opened It wide. Danlelson, dased hut not
seriously hurt, ran into the gunner's arms;
then, turning, started back Into the build
ing. Fries turned the man toward th.
power-house and ordered him to sound the
fir. alarm. Danlelson had run a consider
able distance by the time of the second
explosion, which demolished shellhouse.
No. I and and No. 4, and hurled Fries al
most luu feet northward, toward the two
fixed ammunition houses. His scalp was
severely cut by flying wreckage and a
thumb and finger were dislocated, hut he
rallied th marines and laborers who hsd
not run away, and ordered them to man
the hose and fight the flames. For three
hours the battle waged on the floor of
shellhouse No. 4, while fragments of burst
ing 1-pound, 6-pound shrapnel ' and -Inch
and 1-Inch shells wer. whistling
through th. air and falling thick about the
little band. At last the fire was driven to
the rear of the floor, away from the shells,
and, after a final fusillade of Krag-Jor-
gensen rifle cartridges, stored there in
wooden cases, was extinguished.
Fllakt af the Wreckage.
All of th. wreckage of shellhouse Ko. 4
was thrown westward, northward and
southward, while that of vhallhou No.
was thrown northward, eastward, and
southward -one of the proofs that th. des
tructive explosions were between the two
buildings. A small part of the west wall
of shellhouse No. I was not thrown down,
but was canted over to the eastward, al
most to the point of falling. Only a little
of th. wall of shellhouse No. 4 at the
southwest corner was left, and that was
canted over to the westward. The heavy
steel trusses of both houses supporting the
roofs wer. blovln entirely away from the
north one-fourth of their length, and were
scattered In piece, of varying sixes over a
stretch of nearly a thouaand feet. Ons sec
tion weighing about a ' ton was hurled
Into the woods about 600 feet south of the
Sulldlngs, cutting down trees where it fell
and bending nearly double. Heavy blocks
if granite from the copings of the walla
ere carrier nearly 1.0U0 feet. . and
chunks of tKs i-lnch concrete fillings of the
roof, were thrown all ever the 116 acres of
ths reservation, and many fell far beyond
It. boundaries. The west side of the roof,
the ..-on doors and window shutters and a
part of the west wall - of shellhouse
No. 1 ISO feet east, of shell
house No. 1 which w..'dhetly between
No. t and the exploding .hell or shells,
wer. crushed Inward by th. concussion and
flying deb ris. a. were the south end. of th.
rof. of the fixed ammunition house. Noa.
t and t, standing end-oa about a b un
til e upper part of the gable wall of No. 1
was demolished. The cottage of the ma
rines, northwest of shellhouse No. 4,
about lou feet, was badly cruahed,
nearly half the south wall going In. Ihe
concrete of the roof, of magaslne. No..
4 and 6, shellhouse No. 1, and of storehouse
No. X all about UOO feet from the
seen, of the explo.ion, wa. broken by
the concussion and much of it fell in. Th.
west walls of shellhouse No. 1 and store
house No. i were started considerably by
th. concussion, and the slate roofs of ail
the cottages were much broken. Strange to
say, from one-fourth to one-third of ths
window panes In the more distant buildings
were not broken. The steel and slats roof
of the new brick barn, about 600
feet southwest of shellhouse No. 4 was
lifted bodily several Inches by the concus
slon and lacked from five to seven Inches
nf fallinir back into nlace. All the windows
in the West Shore Railway station, outside
the reservation, gate, were broken by the
concussion, but no other damage off ths
reservation has been reported.
traaa-d Feataves.
There 'was no fire except in th. old frame
barn, which was consumed, outside of shell
house No. 4. and, aside from the original
explosions, there was none In any building
except that shellhouse. While ssellhouae
No. t was as completely wrec.tea u ko.
4 no part of the ammunition stored there
blew 'up and nothing was burned. There
were many loaded 13-Inch shells in shell
house No. I with fuses attached and others
containing their full bursting charges with
fuses withdrawn and plugs substituted, to
gether with tons of shrapnel and other am
munition fully lotted and fused, not a piece
of which exploded. The plugs that wer. in
soma of th. shrapnel shells. Instead of time
fuses, were knocked out by the concussion
and the powder ran out on the floor, but
did not ignite. Many of the loaded lt-lnch
shells were within twenty or thirty feet
Of the point where the destructive charges
exploded and ware thrown over and driven
a considerable distance by ths force of ths
blast, but not one blew up. Many as wers
ths marvels of shellhouse No. I, however,
those of shellhouse No. 4 far exceeded them.
On the floor were many stacks of loaded
shells of t to (-Inch caliber, the floor having
burned under them and many of the grum
mets on them having burned oft, and yet
they He there with fuses exposed and unex-
ploded. Of all the fixed ammunition In that
house, wrecked and nearly all the floor re
duced to charcoal, probably not one piece
of every hundred blew up. The 6-Inch pow
der charges for firing separate shells stored
there, .however, nearly all burned. This
powder was in bags In brass tanks with
brass mout heaps. As it consisted of smoke
less powder, with only Ignition charges of
black prismatic powder sewn into the bot
toms of the bags the expansion of the gases
blew off the caps and th. contents burned
like so much straw. Great as Is ths beat of
a smokeless powder Ore, however, some of
these tanks, although bent and dented by
exploding shell and heated th such de
gre that they were roughened and dis
colored, came through the ordeal unscathed.
On. was found In ths center of a heap
which had burned empty, with Its moutheap
gone and one of th. bags protruding, but
unscorched.
objects, but not a shell of the dosen '
ploded. The ashes and charcoal of the
floor of shellhouse No. 4 are .still literally
covered with scattered grains of smokeless
powder and brown prlsmatio powder.
which did not burn, and the ground for
hundreds of feet in every direction was
strewn with such powder. Boms of the
grains of smokeless . powder wers partly
consumed, and were either put out with
water or ceased to burn of their own ac
cord. Such whitened specimens ' may still
be gathered by thousands In ths wreckage.
Ribbon or sheet powder of the smokeless
variety was scattered all over the reserva
tion unbumed.
On. of th. moat surprising of the freaks
of the disaster, howsver, was th. largs
number of bent and dented Krag-Jorgensen
rifle cartridges, which passed through tbe
fir. In the rear part of shellhouse No. 4
without being discharged. Dosens of them
wer. found a week after th. explosion,
mingled with bushels of th. steel jackets
of bullets out of which th. lead had been
melted by th. heat of ths exploding mass
and th. burning boxes In which they were
stored. How ths unsxploded . cartridges
survived th. vloleno. of their exploding
fellow, which, in many cases, almost broks
them In two, and th. flames through which
they passed, is almost aa great a mys
tery as ths oaus. of th. disaster. Soms
of ths wooden boxes wer. reduced to char
coal, and not a cartridge of their content.
blew up.
Another wonder I. the large number of
6-pound and 1-pound shes, called fixed
ammunition, because made Into cartridges,
the brass cases of ths firing charges of
which burst without Igniting the fuses of
th. bursting charge. Fired from a gun,
not on. In fifty of thes. .hell.. It 1. said,
falls to burst. In th. fire In shellhouse
No. 4 there were hundreds which did not
explode, although th. firing charges burned.
Thar, were many other, even the firing
charges of which failed to go off, although
the percussion caps were In. place. Prob.
ably not one of them would miss fire In a
gun sven after passing through the fiery
ordeal from which they emerged unex-
ploded. New Tork Tribune.
lie.
Ons crate of ahrapnell shells fitted with
naval time fuses was blown a distance ef
about forty feet, nearly every brass case
and fuse being bruised or beivt by the con-
euMioa or by aeutavt with fcther flying
car sell them goods that they never
dreamed of buying.
'We tried ths new trick two weeks' ago.
had a sign made to go In our "white'
window. It read: Thanksgiven Linens.'
Well, that algn hsd hardly been In th.
window fifteen minutes before a gray
haired man wearing spectacles stepped In.
The floorwalker at that door caught him.
He was beaming. He had noticed an odd
error In spelling In th. window, and if th.
floorwalker would only step outside he
would show It to him.
'The floorwalker went out, of course, with
the old fellow, who pointed with his cane
at th. carefully misspelled sign. Ths floor
walker thanked him profusely and they
chatted until the old chap got asking ques
tions about the pries of some ef ths hand
kerchiefs in th. window. Then the floor
walker took him Inside ai;d turned htm over
to one of the counter girls.
"After that they came thick and fast
In two hours ths floorwalker sent for me
and said he couldn't stand it. Hs wasn't
engaged as a barker, and somebody'd have
to be put on the job; he was neglecting his
business. Bo ws got a man to do nothing
else but attend to that misspelled' sign.
"It worked well all that week and last
week, too. persons who did not want
'white goods' got Inside In trying to correct
that Thanksgiving error, and saw some
thing else that Interested them, so It wn4
just th. lima
. "But last Friday w. took th. sign down
and spelled Thanksgiving 'in th. good old.
fashioned way. Pretty soon I expect we'll
have to spring another one. There's no
reason why wo should not take all honest
advantage of the frailties of ths human
race." Naw Tork Sun.
FAIR JURORS HARD TO FIND
Idaho prlas-s Dyl aaaltlav Oaaa Drags
Btoasit of Prejudice Prevail
las at Georgetown.
OEOROSTOWN. Colo., D.c 11 Exam
ination of veniremen called In th. Idaho
Spring, dynamiting oase of July 28 Vas
resumed in the district court today.' Bo far
the effort to find jurors acceptable to both
sides has been unsuccessful, aa nearly all
the "man summoned have . confessed
prejudice for or naalnet the ailners' union.
laerBocik
Knows
Gets fioo.ooo a Tear
Because he has a keen, clear brain In
vigorous body. Electric Bitters give both,
and satisfy tor no pay. Try them. toe.
For sals by Kuhn dt Co. ,
MISSPaL THE WINDOW SIGN
A Kew Trick la Advertlsiasj Attracts
Crawl aad Works
Wonaers.
"Ons of ths tricks of ths trads during
the next year," said the window dresser
for a big department store, "Is going to be
the misspelling of words In window signs.
It works wonderfully. Tou know, st one
time, a great trick w to put a picture In
your window upside Ujwii, People would
corns In droves to tell you shout ths inls
tuke' and It gave business a boom f .r a
tlms.
"But the mttspelllng of words beats all
the other old devices. Why? Because it Is
human nature to love to correct other
folks. It's the same spirit that animates
th. man, womaa and child, who go blocks
Out of their wsy to show a stranger where
he wants to go.
"It p'eaaes people to know that they
know something you don't, and after they
have corrected you they go oa their way
inwardly pleased with themselves, or oln.
they are tu brim full of g euiallt that you
what the "Dancing Men" mean.' You will know too, if yen
venture d marvelous solution of this mysterious cryptogram,
which contains al
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mall It oire.i to tiuittar'a, Mew York, and U.
CwrUUttM ttaaaMtf cut ee Sn ailed piss."
I AM tor.n
so the opening chapter of Winston Churchill's
new novel, "The Borderland."
this great Christmas number for 15 cents.
ar price is a quarter, but the publishers have
each of these little men in a circle with
value of 10 cents. Tear one out and
any newsdealer will honor it as
part payment for Christmas
Collier's.