Part Two Pages 9 to 16
The Omaha Daily Bee.
The Bee's Sunday Magazine
Features Out-top Those of
All Competitors.
ESTABLISHED JUNE 19, 1871.
OMAIIA, SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 27,
1905.
SINGLE COPY THREE CENTS
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Dog Pictures in Dog House Frames
600 of the above Dog Pictures on sale Saturday and Monday; beautiful re- Ep
productions of fine dogs In dog house frames
Oreen Trading; Stamps.
Twenty (12.00)
"1118 MASTER'S BREATH" A Great Dor Picture for 4Kc.
Note Big Display Harney Street Window.
Graduating and Wedding Presents of Pictures
(The remembrance that's lasting Is a picture.)
FOR GRADUATES Thousands of the latest novelty framed pictures 2flC
from IR.00 to .VJW
WEDDING- PRESENTS Handsome display of fine photogravures, carbons, RQc
pastels, water colors, etc., very low priced, artistically framed, 110.00 to
Pyrojjraphy Novelties Make Suitable Graduating and Wedding Gifts
Note our big display and popular prices.
Boxes of Paints, In oil and water color, are appropriate gifts to grad- 5(JC
uates; always useful article, $5.00 to
LADIES' NECKWEAR SALE
SATURDAY
500 dozen sample neckwear, in pretty white turnovers,
embroidered collars, lace stock collars, lace trimmed chemi
settes, a big lot of silk and linen turnovers, and stock collars.
A big assortment of fancy stocks, poods worth from 75c C
to 15c each, Saturday, each 25c, 15c, 10c and
LACE SALE
2,000 yards of fine cream, white and linen color laces and ap
pliques, a big lot of fine net top laces, Torchons and Valen
ciennes laces, worth to 50c a yard, at, yard,
15c, 10c, 5c and
BELT SALE 50 dozen fine silk and mercerized belts in
' blacks, whites, browns, greens, blues and reds, nobby C -buckles,
very cheap at 50c, Saturday, each
RIBBON SALE 100 pieces plain changeable and pretty
printed warp, all silk ribbons for girdles and sashes, C
worth 85c a yard, Saturday, yard
White embroidered Waist Tattern sale, 100 new Swiss em
broidered waist patterns; a lot of new pretty pat- Q
terns, worth $1.50 to $2, all go Saturday, at, each jO
LACE GLOVE AND MITT SALE 50 dozen fine silk and
lisle lace gloves and mitts, in blacks and whites, C
worth up to $1.25 a pair, Saturday, pair. . . . J
LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S UNDERWEAR AND
HOSIERY, very cheap for Saturday.
French Lisle Richlieu and drop stitch ribbed white vests, in
ladies' sizes, very cheap at 25c, 1
Saturday, each I-i2l
Ladies' Umbrella Knee Drawers, French band with
Torchon lace trimmings, cheap at 50c, Saturday, pair.& JC
Ladies' and Children's Hosiery in blacks, tans and browns,
lace and ribbed, good 25c hose, ' f C
Saturday, pair UL
FACE VEILING SALE 250 pieces new veilings, in all latest
dots and fancy meshes, all the colors now in stock, includ
ing the new Alice blue and green shades, good C
50c and 60c values, Saturday, yard
Flags for Decoration Day
Complete line of flags, all sites,
up from, dozen c
Boys' and Girls' Skates, wood rollers, 4.o
Twenty ($2.00) Green Trading stamps.
Boy's and Girls' Skates, wood rollers,
with heel support, regular 76c klnd..ofc
Thirty i$3 0i) Green Trading Stamps.
Girls Skates, nan-ciamp, oramnin
rollers, regular $1.50 kind, at $1.26
Forty ($400) Green Trading Stamps.
Hammock, wltn valance ana pmuw
fHnturrinv nnlvi. nn from
Fifty ($o.ou Green Trading Stamps with
Hammocks up to ...$..a0
One hundred ($10.00) Green Trading
Stamps with Hammocks up irom..-.ou
Sporting Goods Section Main Floor.
BENNETT'S DIG GROCERY
ANOTHER BIG IX)T OF MONEY
SAVING SPECIALS IN THE
BEST AND FRESHEST OF GOODS.
Fifty ($5.00) Green Trading Stamps
with three pounds finest Java and
Mocha Coffee $1.00
Thirty $S.uO) Green Trading Stamps
with pound Tea (any kind) Wo
Ten ($1.00) Green Trading Stamps with
can pure ground Black Pepper.. lie
Forty ($.() Green Trading Stamps
with sack Pride of Bennetts
Flour $! 60
Fifty ($5.00) Green Trading Stamps
with live pounds Tapioca 3.o
Ten ($1.00) Green Trading Stamps with
three packages Shredded Codfish 25a
Twenty ($2.00) Green Trading Stamps
with three cans RoCky Mountain
Cream 26c
Twenty ($2.00) Green Trading Stamps
with pound California Sultana
Raisins 15c
Twenty ($2.00) Green Trading Stamps
with can Diamond "S" Fruits 28c
Twenty ($2.00) Green Trading Stamps
with large can Burnham's Clam
Chowder 20c
Twenty ($2.00) Green Trading Stamps
with four-ounce bottle Bennett's
Capitol Extract, all flavors 33o
Ten ($1.00) Green Trading Stamps with
two-ounce bottle Bennett's Capitol
Extract, all flavors ISO
Ten ($1.00) Green Trading Stamps with
two cans Omar Hominy 20o
Ten ($1.00) Green Trading Stamps with
two cans Omar Baked Beans.... lsc
Ten ($1.00) Green Trading Stamps with
three-pound can table Syrup. ...12VaO
LEADERS IN CHEESE.
Ten ($1.00) Green Trading Stamps with
pound full cream Cheese 200
Ten ($1.00) Green Trading Stamps with
pound full cream Brick Cheese 20c
Ten ($1.00) Green Trading Stamps with
jar MacLnren's Cheese 24o
Ten ($1.00) Grocn Trading Stamps with
pint largo Imported Olives 2Jc
Ten ($1.00) Green Trading Stamps with
quart Sour Pickles 10c
Ten ($1.0o) Green Trading Stamps with
can Omar Peaches ISO
Ten $1.00) Green Trading Stamps with
can Omar Pears lxo
Ten ($1.00) Green Trading Stamps with
jar Cottage Pure Fruit Preserves. 15c
Ten ($1.00) Green Trading Stamps with
two Jars Diamond "S German and
Horseradish Mustard 20c
16c
BUTTER HEADQUARTERS
Received direct from the best
dairies.
Bennett's Capitol Creamery, OAr
nound
Fresh Country Butter,
pound
FREE! FREE!
ICE COLD BUTTE KMILiK IN
BUTTER SECTION.
FLOWER AND VEGETABLE
SEEDS All new stock, Or
package
MFM API A I H IV More widelo known as Decoration Day happens Tuesday, May 30th.
rlJLlTlIILL 1 This great store will close for the day at one o'clock.
SATURDAY 'MONO THE MILLINERY.
MEMORIAL DY HFECI.4LS.
Tints specially trimmed for this most worthy of all occasions.
SIIIUT WAIST HATS Special line for Misses' wear. In rough fancy braids,
chiefly in lipht colors, none of them over-trimmed, but Just 4 1
right; a hat you'd wish to wear on Decoration Day. 1 Ai
price , 1st 7
Unusual rallies, line straw braid, lace and hair braid combinations, Mallne
hats, etc.. all daintily and tastefully trimmed for summer f AQ
wear and especially designed for Memorial Day, $5 value ... ... 4s
CLOSING OUT SALE OF TRAMMED HATS THAT FOKM
EHLY SOLD AT $7.00, $0.00 and $5.00 each; Saturday
for
3.49
A VEHY ELABORATE HAT Sensibly and beautifully embellished an ex
clusive "Sinclair" style, chosen from a supreme French model, ef
and enlivened and lightened and made right by the genius of III I
our own artists; $12.50 value, for tsVFVF
CHII.nHUVS HATS. CHILDRF-S'S H AT.
OUR REPUTATION IN THIS LINE 19 EXTENDING. MOTHERS APPRE
CIATE OUR EFFORTS BECAUSE OUR EFFORTS ARE MOTHERLY WITH
OUT BEING GRANDMOTHERLY. AND THIS 18 SAYING MUCH! THEY'RE
GENTEEL, THEY'RE ALERT, THEY'RE RIGHT. THEY'RE JUST THE
IDEAS YOU HAVE IN YOUR MIND THOUGH YOU COULD NOT PERHAPS
GIVE VOICE TO THEM. VALUES RUNNING UP TO QQp
for -rvw
. 9F.COM) FLOOR.
13.00, H.90, $5.00 Saturday-
Double Green Trading Stamps
On All Dirinerwa.re Saturday
..25c
..60c
.50c
.10c
TRES-CUT CRYSTAL SUGARS AND CREAMS a beauty new
shape, pair
Five (50c) Green Trading Stamps.
200 dozen Coupe Plates, best English white porcelain, always $1.00
dozen, Saturday, each, 5c, dozen
Handsomely Decorated Plates, suitable for Fruit Cake, etc., a
regular $1.00 plate for . . . .
Ten ($1.00) Green Trading Stamps.
Special Saturday Sale see window Glass Vases, Trays, Bon Bon
Dishes, 25c values, each ,
PERFUMERY CHARMS
A section that's fall and over ft
the rharmi of the person,
The finest lines of Perfumes an
the whole city.
Regnas Complete Manicure
Stit
Puley Toilet Pumice,
each
Velvet Finish Manicure Stick,
professional size
Orango Wood Manicure Stick,
velvet finish, hoof shape, each
Dr. Pray's Ongaline, per
bottle
Peterman's Ant Food Fatal
little red and black ants,
per can
owing- with everything for aiding-
d Toilet Requisites to be fonnd In
..10c
..10c
15c
. 8c
..48c
to the
25c
Loofah Bath Mitt, per
pair
Peterman's Roach Food Posi
tively kills roaches, per can.
White Hellabore Kills the little green
bug on the rose bush, per AtZc
nrmnri . . CW
Moth Balls, per
nound
Paris Green, per 22c
pound w
Guaranteed full strength and full
weight.
30c
15c
8c
Clothing Section
Summer Comfort
IN MEN'S AND YOUNG
MEN'S OUTING SUITS
$1250 to $5.00
FOR SUMMER OUTDOOR THE
OUTING U1T (coat and trousers)
IS THE IDEAL SUIT cool, light
and comfortable, made of cloths of a
Arm texture, and properly tailored.
Our Outing Suits are made from
firmly woven homespuns, crashes,
flannels and featherweight wor
steds, and so skillfully tailored and
fashioned that they will perma
nently retain their shape. Ad oc
casional brushing and pressing will
make them look well and fit well up
to the last wearing.
The coat may be had single or
double breasted, unlined, quarter
lined or half- lined just as you pre
fer. Trousers finished with sus
pender buttons on inside of waist
band, belt loops on the outsiibe, and
turn tips at bottom.
DUTCHESS TROUSERS.
10c a Button $1.00 a Rip
1.00
2.00
Saturday's Shoe Sale.
PUR-
MONEY SAVERS.
Corn, 3-pound can Bo
Tomatoes,' 3-pound can 7c
Corn Starch, pound package 4o
Rex Lye, can Ec
Pyramid Washing Powder, pkg....2c
Salmon, pound can 10c
Pepper Sauce, bottle 7o
Pickles, assorted, bottle go
Schepp's Cocotinut, package 4c
Diamond "C" Soap, ten bars 25c
Peaches, per can 5o
Early June Peas, fine quality, three
cans 25o
SARATOGA CHIP SPECIAL.
Quarter-pound sack So
Half-pound sack 10c
Pound sack 20c
On Sale Saturday
Chinese and Japanese Matting
Regular 18c and 20c Matting at..!2o
Regular 22c and 25c Matting at. . 18C
All Wool Ingrain Art Squares, from
$9.00 to 4.75
Granite Art Squares from $3.08 to 2.25
30-ln. x 60-ln. Smyrna Rugs, all wool.
at 1.48
7-6x10-6 Smyrna Ruga, at 8.48
0x12 Smyrna Rugs, at. ........ 11.98
6x9 Smyrna Rugs, at 5.98
See our Ingrain, Carpets from 7oo
to ZIO
Drapery Section.
Third Floor
We will sell for Saturday only ano
. Tapestry Table Covers In three sizes
only, 4-4, 6-4 and 8-4. These Ufl-
will sell from $3.98 to OUC
WINDOW SHADES.
6 doien Odd Shades In all colors,
worth up to 75c, will sell for, .
each
DRAPERY SILKS
300 yards of first-class silks for all
kinds of Drapery. These have been
selling for 75c a yard, Batur- OCp
day, per yard KMOK
1,01)0 yards Imported French Curtain
MuBlln In colored stripes, one Qc
yard wide, per yard '-'
BENNETT'S CANDY SECTION
Toasted Marahmallows, fresh and de
licious, four ounces In sack 5c
Per pound 20c
Bon Bon Boxes, each 2o
Five (50c) Green Trading Stamps with
package Lemon Drops 5o
CIGAR SECTION
El Calrud, a genuine Porto Rioo
Paoetelas shape Cigar, nine for... 25c
One hundred for .$2.60
Forty-flve ($4.50) Green Trading Stamps
Black Bess, a good Cigar, 50 for. ..$1.25
Thirty ($3.00) Green Trading Stamps.
Patterson H. O. Cut Plug, 8oe. tins. 24c
Five (50c) Green Trading Stamps.
A genuine French Briar Pipe, straight
or bent stem 25o
Twenty ($2.00) Green Trading Stamps.
We handle the imitation Peterson
Pipes, up from 750
DOUBLE GREEN TRADING STAMrS ON ALL
CIIASES TN SHOE SECTION UNTIL NOON.
WE CAN SHOW YOU MORE NEW STYLES OF LADIES'
OXFORDS TIIAN ANY ONE. Champagne, tan, Russia
calf, chocolate, vici kid, white elk skin, white canvas,
blucherts, buttons, Marlow, Princess, Gibson TCI
and Christie ties, at $2.50, $1.93, $1.69 and ITr
Misses' and children's tans, chocolates, champagne LCI
and canvas slippers and ties, at $1.50, 98c and. .... Uaw
Bennett's Great Meat Section
LOWEST TRICES AND CHOICEST MEATS ON THE MARKET. A FEW
OF OUR SPECIALS FOR SATURDAY:
CHICKENS, rHlCKENS-2,BOO pounds of fresh dressed hens, f f 1
every one guaranteed, on sale, at, pound &I2C
PORK, PORK 2,(lOO pounds of small and Fresh Porlc Loins, on 7
ale at, pound
BEEF, BEEF Choice No. 1 Sirloin Roast of Dative steers, 1
at pound ... Iwv
HAMS, HAMS A fresb lot of 2,000 pounds of Cudahy's best selected hams,
Diamond "U" Brand, every ham guaranteed, average weight of 11
each ham from ten to twelve pounds, on sale, at pound. . VmjC
Thirty ($3.00) Green Trading Stamps with each ham.
LARD, LARD Another lot of fresh kettle rendered Bennett's Capitol Lard;
guaranteed to be the best and purest lard on the market; on PQ
sale In 5-pound pails for , . DOC
Thlrtv ($3.00) Oreen Trading Stamps with each pall.
HERRING, HERRING 1200 kegs of Holland Herring, all AO
milchers, special, per keg . ,.0C
Thirty ($3.00) Green Trading Stamps with each keg.
Cotton and Wool Mixtures
Trousers, $1.75 to
Wool and Worsted
Trousers, $5.00 to
Double Green Trading Stamps in .
above lines.
Shirts with or without n
collar see show window.. 1. UU
Fifty ($5) Green Trading Stamps.
Suspenders, f e
at DUC
Fifty ($5) Oreen Trading Stamps.
Men's 50c blue, tan, pink, black
and salmon colored sum- 9 JJ
mer underwear, at J DC
Twenty ($2) Green Trading Stamps.
Special $1 India Crepe Underwear,
Regular and knee drawers and
sleeveless shirts.
garment. . . . 75c
Black Sateen Shirts, r f
50c kinds JDC
Black Sateen Shirts,
75c kinds
Black Sateen Shirts,
$1 kinds
Black Sateen Shirts.
$1.85 kinds
50c
75c
1.00
M
i
3.49
YOUNG MEN'S SUITS,(16 to 20 years)long trousers (65 suits), here's
your chance small men; sold up to $7.50, to move them quickly
Double Green Trading Stamps.
132 "Little Gents' Suits," 3 to 6 size, sold up to $5.05, your 1 CI C
choice , LmVO
Two Hundred and Fifty ($25) Green Trading Stamps
$15.00
Blue Serge
Suits
$8.50
Saturday we place on sale ten dozen
boys' and men's light crush hats,
worth 75c, for 50c.
Fifty ($5) Green Trading Stamps
with each one.
We wish to again rail your attention
to our $2 Hats. The best in the city.
$18.00
Rain
Coats
$8.88
Stetson Hats
$5 kind for .
$4 kind for ,
The Tate Stiff Hat. ,
4.50
3.50
-3.00
STATIONERY! STATIONERY!
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, bound in cloth, 1281 pages-Saturday
$1.50 Copyright Fiction, beautiful bindings and handsome illustrated
editions, 625 titles Saturday only .....
Twenty ($) worth of Gron Trading Stamps.
Boys' books, Alger, Henty, Uarkaway, bound In cloth,
Saturday only
Ten ($1) worth of Green Trading Stamps.
. . C gj
. . 49c a
DREAM OF EMPIRE CAMETRUE
Leading Spirits in 'the Unbuilding of the
Canadian West
progress CAST IN POLITICAL MOLDS
Bow tha Project for aa CXsean-to-
Ooeaa Railroad Waa Carried
Throaah Opening T m
Vaat Domain.
When Mr. Charles M. Hays had been
lght years In Canada and had lifted the
Grand Trunk railway from a liability to
an asset, he sprung a surprise on the peo
ple of the Dominion In the shape of a
proposition to build another transcontinen
tal line from ocean to ocean.
It looked like a dream a beautiful. Im
possible dream. In the nature of things It
became necessary at the very beginning to
enlist the sympathy, and eventually the
substantial aid, of the Dominion govern
ment. This, of necessity, threw the great
enterprise into the political pot, where It
boiled for more than two years.
To oppose the government the opposition
In Parliament had to oppose the whole
project. As Is usual with men having the
hard side of a case, they went to extremes.
They twisted facts and, Indirectly often
directly maligned the land In which they
lived. They declared the forests of New
Ontario a vast unknown wilderness of
muskeg. They denied the necessity of the
new Una despite the statement of the best
known railway man In Canada Sir Wil
li air Van Home who, speaking of the
Grand Trunk Paclflo and the Canadian
Northwest, said: "There la enough of It
for all of us," and "We must enlarge the
pout." The northwest the granary of
the empire" was the hopper Into which
the farmers were dumping from 60,000,000
to 70.000.0UO busheU of grain annually, and
the Canadian Pacific railway (In no small
sense the creation of Sir Wllll.im) was the
"spout." On would suppose that the
URS. WMSLOW'S
S09TH1HQ SYRUP!
1 Md by MllUoas of Mothers tor their 1
eblWiraa wti TneUilrtg fur ovr rtrij Taua. I
II wM the clitM. imwi tbe iuu all&rst
all pais, euros wma euutfc aua m ue
luwf for dlarrtu.
iwttTr.iiu orxT a anni
chairman of the Canadian Paclflo board
would be the last to acknowledge the need
of. another line, but Sir William has a way
of saying precisely what he thinks.
Finally, when the political Importance of
the project forced Sir Wilfrid Laurier and
his party to the country, the dominant Is
sue In the last Dominion election was the
Grand Trunk Pacific.
Mlajhtr Vole of the West.
Ah the while the west was swelling like
a balloon, not with hot air, but with, home
steaders. American farmers were crossing
the line at the rate of 60,000 per annum, and
these with the natives of the northwest
lifted up their voices and called to the
government to build the line.
In time the cry of the west echoed In the
wilderness of New Ontario and waa heard
as far east as Montreal.
" The opposition became confused. One
man would declare the whole scheme a
wanton waste of public money; another
would say, "It's a shame to give so valu
able a franchise to the Grand Trunk," and
urge the government to build, own and op
erate the entire line. Then some one
friendly to the government would rise and
remark: "Look at the Intercolonial, that
cost the country $70,000,000 and has never
earned operating expenses."
And Sir Wilfrid "went to the country."
"It the people pass upon the matter,"
said he, and they passed.
The minister of railways and administer
of Abbey's salts, resigned the former post
tion as a protest against the government.
He wanted to build the line himself with
government money. He Is said, by his
friends, to be a great railway expert.
Later he was made chairman of the rail
way commission, which corresponds with
our Interstate Commerce commission, at
110.000 a year.
On the eve of the national election the
wily wireworkers of the opposition, with
rosy promises and a flush roll, persuaded
the 110,000 chairman to resign.
That was another protest, but nothing
now could stay the tide of public opinion
that waa running in favor of the new line,
All the while those who had faith in Can
ada and Its resources were busy. The pro
vincial government of Ontario planted 2,000
homesteaders In the "muskeg" country
north of tbe great lakes, and they not only
stayed, but waxed fat and sent for their
friends. They discovered now what the
Hudson's Bay people had known for a hun
dred years that a vast clay belt lies north
of the height of land on the northern slope
that drains Into Hudson bay, upon which
can be grown all the wheat and other
cereals, roots and vegetables that are pro
duced on the wild, wide prairies of the
wonderful west, of which we hear ao much
of late. Unknown forests were found that
would make an empire rich.
This north country, which has almost the
only nickel mines In the world, is rich in
copper, and has vast mountains of Iron ore,
with thousands of square miles of wilder
ness yet unexplored. Lately the govern
ment experts have come to the conclusion
that men will be digging diamonds shortly
along the height of land, and blasting them
out when cutting and filling for the new na
tional highway.
Finally the general elections came on, and
the sane, sober Canadians pranced up to
the polls and gave government ownership
such a body blow that It may be expected
to sleep, so far as Canada la concerned, for
half a century at least.
The next move on the part of the gov
ernment was the passing of the necessary
legislation in aid of the enterprise. The
final agreement provides for the construc
tion of the first 1.800 miles by the Dominion
government, the line to be leased for fifty
years to the Grand Trunk Pacific, which
company undertakes to continue the road
west from Winnipeg, across the great
wheat fields of the northwest, through the
ranching region of northern Alberta, along
the banks of the Athabaska, through Pine
or Peace river pass, and over the coast
range to the Pacific, somewhere In the
vicinity of Port Simpson, In northern Brit
ish Columbia.
What twenty months ago seemed only a
rosy dream Is today a reality. As I write
a thousand men are at work pathflnding
for the Grand Trunk Pacific in Montreal
and Ottawa, in the enchanted land of
Evangeline, in the moss hung forests of
New Ontario, on the broad prairies of the
waking west. In the far-off Rockies, and
along the coast of the north Pacific, where
the Japanese current sweeps the sleeping
shores and creates the warm winds that
blow across Alberta.
Peopling; of the West.
And now, as these dreamers of dreams
build the line, the empire builders are peo
pling the west. At the head of thla latter
class Btands Hon. Clifford Slfton, who, as
minister of the Interior, has written his
name In everlasting letters of gold across
the face of these "far flung fields." Let
him pass, If he wills, from the present gov
ernment; let him fade In God's good time
from the face of the earth; he has lain the
foundation for a new empire in the far
northwest. His work will live.
The Grand Trunk Pacific scheme, that
was ridiculed by thousands of Canadians
when first spread out before an astonished
Parliament, has been Indorsed by "the peo
ple," who In that indorsation gave a gov
ernment a majority that was an actual
hindrance, at least half of which Is as un
necessary aa the second gun on a cowboy.
Later, when the news ot the election,
which as Intimated at the outset was simply
a plebiscite on the Grand Trunk Pacific,
had bee 1 caoled acioH fie Allai lie, wli.'n
the careful British Investor began to read
In the periodicals that the greatest wheat
field in the empire lay beyond the Red
River of the North; that the average crop
for twenty years had been twenty bushels
to the acre, and that the Canadian west
held at least 170.000,000 acres that would
produce wheat; that the shrewd American
financiers were rising like locusts below the
line and dipping down and taking posses
sion of the Imperial plains above, the Brit
ish investor began to Investigate. And
when a few weeks ago the first Issue of
the Grand Trunk Pacific bonds were of.
fered in England they were Immediately
subscribed for, ten times over, and this Is
the beginning of the end of an empire
opener's dream. Cy Warman In Chicago
Inter Ocean.
BARON ROTHSCHILD IS DEAD
The Railroads And The People
A
SERIES of timely articles on the pending railroad problem, written by Edward
Rosewater, editor of The Bee, embodying the facts gathered and conclusions
reached in a third of a century'B study of the question Is now running in The Sun
day Bee. The topics treated are:
1. Railroads Public Hlghwaja
2. OvercanltaHzatlon and Stock Watering
3. Credit MoMller Construction
4. Consolidation and Pooling
8. Rebates and Discriminations
6. Railroad Domination, State and National
7. Railroad Legislation, 5tat and National
8. Railroad Supervision or Ooveromant Ownership
These articles are written in popular form to be readily understood by the or
dinary reader. They give a general survey of the railroad situation from the
standpoint of the people, pointing out abuses and suggesting rational remedies. ;
Every one who wants to be thoroughly informed on this uppermost of current
issues should read each one of these articles. ,
Fourth of Series in The Sunday Dee.
Head of French Branch of Banking House
Passes Away in Paris.
HE WAS MAN OF CHARITABLE NATURE
Among; Gifts (or Benevolent Purposes
Was One of 2,OOOtOOO (or
Erection of Homes lor
Workinamen.'
PARIS, May 20. Baron Alphonse da
Rothschild, head of the French branch of
the banking house bearing the name of
Rothschild and governor of the Bank of
France, died at 4:30 this morning from acute
bronchitis, aggravated by out.
The eminent financier had been sinking
slowly for many days, but there was no
apprehension that his death was Immi
nent, lie first took to Ills bed two weeks
ago. Several rallies gave promise of his
recovery. Two days ago the burun began
to fall rapidly and his condition assumed a
disquieting form. Although he kept up an
animated conversation with members of
his family and the old servants, tbe pa
tient became very weak, and lust night en
tered on a comatose state and passed away
this morning peacefully, surrounded by his
family. The announcement of the baron's
death caused widespread regret, for be
sides his position In the financial World
Baron Alphonse was known for his lavish
charities, one of the latest being the gift
of 12,000,000 for the erection of working
men's homes. ,
The news of the baron's death caused a
deep impression among financiers generally.
It was said that his death would probably
momentarily Influence the extensive Inter
ests In which the house Is concerned, but
that It would not have a lasting effect on
the markets.
The deceased, who was born In 1827, will
be succeeded as head of the Paris banking
house by Baron Lambert de Rothschild of
Brussels, whose business capacity has
earned him a world-wide reputation.
The burial of Baron Alphonse will be
most simple, according to the strict rule
of the Rothschild family, including a plain
coffin without mourning tributes. The
funeral, the date of which hs not yet
been fixed, will be the occasion of a notable
tribute of resxwet.
Interested la America.
A member of the French-American bank
ing house said:
Baron AJphonss was tbs leading spirit of
the Rothschilds In their relation, with
practleally all the governfnentsofEuroe
Besides the collossul task of financing thi
after the Jt ranco-Uerman war of 1870-7L
he actively carried on, relations with othet
governments. In Italy' thee Included both
the government and the Vatican finances
s.,di 1 itt,8 htts iarKe interests in
Spain, largely controls Austria's railroad
development, ami held considerable parti
of all the old Russian loan issues. He.
however, has not exercised a controlling
nfluence in the new Russian loans Th5
large industrial IntereMs of the house in
Rf, 'icUlde tnC Petleum fields o
h fne hous! .nas al8 ha1 consider
able dealings with American securities
tThtoug,hth?, Rlmont. j. p. Morgan and
J?h" W. Oates including Louisville A
Nashville and the Atlantic Coast Llns
tranactlons. and also has extensive Inter
ests In mines In California.
Baron Alphonse was a member of ths
Academy of Fine Arts, a member of ths
French Institute and a commander of too
Legion of Honor. He leaves two children.
Baron Edouard and Baroness Beatrix.
He has two surviving brothers. Baron Gus
tav and Baron Edmond.
The markets showed some hesitation, but
the announcement of the death of Baron
Alphonse de Rothschild produced little ef
fect on values.
fiEHMAV OKFICKR BEIXQ TRIED
Man Charged with Swindling- Said to
Have Kold Military Plana.
THORN, Prussia, May 20. The trial will
begin Monday next of Hellmut Wessel,
formerly a first lieutenant and instructor
In the artillery and engineer school at
Charlottenburg, who Is charged with
swindling. This is the accusation on which
he will be tried, but the former lieutenant
Is also charged with selling plans of Ger
man fortresses to France.
Weasel Is the husband of Matilda Baunv
ler, the "veiled lady" of the second Drey
fus trial. In 18S8 he found an asylum In
France and lived there for some years.
Wessel followed a precarious career In
Italy, where the German authorities caused
his arreet, and after sixteen months' lm
prisonment secured his extradition.
Filipinos Discus Annexation.
MANILA. May 26. The convention of tho
federal party is discussing the question of
changing the plank of 1902 which fuvored
annexation to America to a plank endors
ing the policy of Secretary of War Tsft
In favor of the ultimate Independence of
the Inlands.
taroula Sees No Racers.
QI-EENSTOVVN, May 26.-The Cunard
steamer Camilla, which arrived here this
morning from New York, did not sight
any of the yachts which are racing for
ths cup offered by Emperor William.
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