TITE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, JUNE 4, 1003.
CHAUTAUQUA IDEA THRIVES f
ITot&ble. Frogresi of the Camp School
loandei Thirty-Twe Yeart Ago.
OVER TWO HUNDRED ASSEMBLIES AT WORK
Character of 4b Stadle fgrinrd at
the Several Rammer School and
the. Benefits Derived The
Religion Tone.
THE RAILROADS AND THE PEOPLE
In a letter to the Chicago Record-Herald
William E. Curtis gives an instructive ac
count of the development of the Chautau
qua educational movement and Its present
condition. There are now 233 assemblies
scattered over the states and territories, of
which number there are 10 in Nebraska,
43 tn Iowa, I In Kansas, a In Colorado and
5 in Bouth Dakota. Mr. Curtis says, in
part:
"It is the evolution of the carnpmeetlng
the gratification of the desire and demand
of people of limited means residing in rural
communities for an inexpensive vacation
and their craving for knowledge and the
society of congenial people. It is a com
bination of rest, recreation and mental im
provement. It was born in 1ST3 near
Jamestown, N. T., in a grove on the shores
of Lake Chautauqua, in a conversation be
tween Bishop John II. Vincent of the
Methodist church and Lewis Miller, a
banker and manufacturer of Akron, O.
Each of these gentlemen accuses the other
of having first suggested the plan, and
there la reaBon to believe that both are
guilt of this, as well as many other good
works. Wherever the responsibility may
lie, Mr. Miller undertook to make the busi
ness arrangements necessary for calling
together and taking care of as many Bun
day school teachers as possible in connec
tion with the annuul canipmeeting of
1874, and Bishop Vincent agreed to prepare
a program and a series of lessons and to
attend to the advertising, printing and
providing of Instructors. The first summer
school for Sunday school teachers In Au
gust, 1874, was the result. About 600 as
sembled, and, under the direction of Bishop
Vincent, devoted a week to the methodical
study of the book of books. In 1875 the
attendance grew to nearly l.Ouo, who were
taken care of In tents and rudely con
structed barracks, and in the boarding
houses that had been open on the camp
meeting grounds for several years.
The summer school at Lake Chautauqua
grew In fame, usefulness and attendance
until 10,000 and 12,0u0 people would as
semble for a month or more In the beauti
ful groves on tin shore of Luke Chau
tauqua, and engage in the study of almost
every subject that can be Imagined from
Hebrew and Sanskrit to painting on chlnu
and "spatter work."
Two Kind of Chautauquas.
There are two kinds of Chautauquas.
About twenty-five of the assemblies include
summer schools for serious study under
regular faculties, extending from four to
six weeks. The remainder are for enter
tainment and recreation only and continue
a week or ten days. The most prominent
Bummer schools are at Lake Chautauqua,
N. Y., Winona Lake. Ind.; Bay View,
Mich.; Monona Lake, Md. ; Monteagle,
Tenn., and Boulder, Colo. They have reg
ular courses of twenty-five or more de
partments and include in their faculties
some of the most eminent men and women
Instructors In the country. The students
are mostly clergymen, country school
teacherB, college students preparing for ex
aminations and men and women who have
a taste for study and wish to enlarge
their intellectual horizons. Singers from
- country choirs come to study music; vil
lage music teachers Increase their efficiency
by a month's Instruction; ambitious young
artists who cannot afford to attend city
schools have an opportunity to take a few
lessons from competent teachers, and all
sort and conditions of men and women
who are deprived of opportunities for study
at home can combine recreation and rest
and enjoy association with congenial peo
ple for several weeks at small cost. There
are Institutes for both secular and 8unday
school teachers conducted by the, aUV-'st
experts in those lines, and Bible study Is
emphasized everywhere to gratify the
country clergymen. At all of these as
semblies the evenings are given over to
entertainment and diversion concerts, lec
tures, stereoptlcon exhibitions, moving pic
tures, readings, recitations. Impersonations,
juggling and magic and other novelties to
entertain thoso who do not have the privi
lege of seeing such things at home and
crave mentat excitement of that sort.
The Vacation Idea.
The vacation Idea is also emphasized for
the benefit of people of moderate means.
Half-fare rates are arranged for on nearly
all the railroads; hotels and boarding
houses are provided for all comers with
rates from $0 per week upward; a season
' ticket to all entertainments costs only 14,
and the tuition fee Is only $5. Families who
wiBh to keep house can rent furnished cot
tages for $50 a season and upward, or large
. tents for $10 a season and upward, and it Is
becoming the fashion for those who have
the means to build cottages of their own
as simple as they. please, and spend the
whole aummer in them weeks before and
weeks after tho Chautauqua assembly,
Mor than 100 of the 233 organisations own
from ten to 2f0 acres, which have been se
lected with a view to making them summer
resorts. They are provided with sewers,
pure water supplies and other conveniences,
are reached by lines of trolley cars and
railroads, and are rapidly becoming sum
rrwr villages. Cottages cost from I2S0 to
$1,200, and each owner buys his lot or ob
tains his right by the purchase of stock In
the association. The average amount In
vested permanently among the 533 nsaocla
tlons Is about $1!,00". which Is usually paid
by the sale of stock. Money is1 needed to
clear tho grounds and put them In order,
to build a fence, an auditorium and other
necessary buildings.
Most of them give a program of enter
tainments In July and August, running
for ten days or so, which costs from $1,500
to $3.K. and Is paid for by the sale of sea
son tickets. Admission tickets to single
entertainments usually cost 50 cents, and
are quite a source of revenue. The con
stitutions of nearly all the associations pro
hibit dividends and provide that all profits
halt go into a surplus or be expended In
the Improvement of the grounds or the
erection of cottages. Every Chautauqua
that haB been managed for revenue only
has soon expired, and those that are ma
nipulated or controlled by one man or a
partnership, for individual profit, have In
variably failed. The most successful as
semblies are those which are managed by a
committee of honorable citizens for the
benefit of the public and offer a high stand
ard of entertainments. Almost without ex
ceptlon they have succeeded.
Lfftim and Entertainment.
The programs ar made up of a great
variety of entertainments, furnished chiefly
by public men and professional entertain
ers, who fill winter lecture courses and
spend their summers going from on Chan
tauqua to another. They are iaid from $io
to $300 an entertainment. Booker Washing'
ton commands the highest figure, although
he has no manager and seeks no engage
nients. H is always welcome and can get
, a check for $300 for talking an hour and a
half at any of the assemblies whenever he
- likes. William J. Bryan stands secoitd In
popularity, and his fee Is $250 a lecture.
II has thirty-six engagements at that rate
tor. the comluc summer, which in equivalent
The first business of the state is to guard
Its people agnlnst the abuses of Its cor
porate creatures. The power of railway
managers to enrich or Injure particular
patrons, branches of business or sections
of country by discriminations in their
rates of freight is a most dangerous abuse
of power. Freight rates are prac
tically a tax which follows the com
modity from the rroduoer to the con
sumer. An arbitrary and unjust tax Is,
therefore, an arbitrary and unjust tax Im
posed upon the puiillc without lis consent.
The most Iniquitous form of discrimina
tion In railway rates Is secret rebates and
drawback. Rebates had their origin In
silent partnerships between railway man
agers and concerns whose prosperity was
promoted by advantage over business ri
vals in the matter of railway rates. As
side partners, or share holders, In grain
elevators, flouring mills, coal mines, stork
yards, stone quarries, gravel pits, oil re
fineries, smelting works, fast freight lines,
sleeping car lints and express companies,
railway magnates and their traffic man
agers hnve had an incentive to grant re
bates to one class of shippers while exact
ing exorbltnnt rates from another class with
whom their business partners were in com
petition. ' Enrich a Favored Class.
' In playing the part of providence by en
riching a favored class of patrons and In
dustrial concerns and building up favored
localities In which these magnates or man
agers had become owners of town lots or
shareholders in factories, and Impoverishing
a disfavored class of patrons and discrimi
nating against towns In which they had no
Individual Interest, railroad managers laid
the foundation for the most flagrant abuse
from which the American people have suf
fered at the hands of public carriers.
While it is doubtless true that the Stan
dard Oil trust has been the beneficiary
of the unscrupulous exercise of the power
of railroads that grunted it special ad
vantages In the shape of rebates and draw
backs, the Standard Oil octopus was
by no means the originator of that
system which, as already stated, is directly
traceable to the greed of high railway offi
cials who use their power to make arbi
trary and discriminating freight tariffB for
their own aggrandizement.
Railway OfHciuls a Exploiter.
Thus, for example, the officials of the
Union Pacific, from president down, under
the Credit Moblller and Juy Gould regime,
exploited the coal mines of Wyoming and
dispossessed and ruined mine owners who
had acquired coal properties and developed
them by legitimate means. Thus they man
aged to build up extensive sliver smelting
works in Omaha, in which they owned
stock, by exacting discriminating rates
from smelters In Colorado and Montana,
and thus, during a more recent era, rail
way managers of other Nebraska roads
have built up their side partners in the
grain elevator business, while their rivals
were driven to the wall.
The graft of high railway officials, how
ever, has not been confined to rebates and
drawbacks to silent partners, but has ex
tended In almost every field that afforded
them an opportunity for amassing wealth
and at the same time Increasing the capl-
Rebates and Discrimination
Filth of Series of Timely Articles Written by Edward
Rosewater, Editor of The Bee, on Different
Phases of the Pending Railroad Problem
talizatlon of the railroads, which forms the
basis for freight and popsengir schedules.
A forcible illustration of rallwny graft
wus brought to my attention by an ac
quaintance who happened to have the same
name tintf initials as a former general man
ager of one of the great transcontinental
lines. On opening a letter postmarked
1'lttsburg some years ago he was sur
prised to find a check for several hundred
dollars, with this explanation: "Enclosed
please find check for dividends on your
stock in the Wcstlnghouse Manufacturing
company." It is doubtful whether the gen
eral manager ever paid a dollar for his
Wcstlnghouse stock, which manifestly rep
resented a contribution, for which in re
turn he was expected to use his Influence
to bring about the Introduction of Westing
house airbrakes and other Wcstlnghouse
appliances on his line. A similar nest egg
in the shape of Westlnghouse stock was
found among the assets of another high
.official of a transcontinental rallroud when
his estate was Inventoried In our probate
court two or three years ago.
Disastrous Effect of Ilebates.
Looking backward at the disastrous
effects of the rebates voluntarily granted
by or Involuntarily exacted from the rail
roads to the Standard Oil company, upon
Its competitors, una is amazed that such
a conspiracy could have been consum
mated in a country like ours, in which
publicity and Intelligence are so general.
The first authentic proof of the secret
compact entered Into with the railroads
by the Standard Oil company was pro
duced before a congressional investigating
committee. By tins compact the whole
oil Industry, not alone of the oil re
gions, where petroleum wus first found,
but of the district where it was
reilned, the markets where it was bought
and sold, and the ports from which it
was shipped abroad, were subjected to the
control of a ring within the ring, ex
pressly Incorporated to prevent and de
stroy all competition by extortionate rail
road charges on one side and rebates and
drawbacks on the other.
By this contract tho railroads had agreed
to doublo the freight rates on petroleum,
not to charge the Increase- to the Standard
Oil company and to give the increase col
lected from all competitors to that com
pany through go-betweens. The rate for
carrying petroleum to Cleveland to be re
fined was advanced, for Instance, to SO
cents a barrel, but to tho Standard OH
company, through its Inner circle, 40 cents
of the 80 cents were to be refunded.
When paid by anyone else the 40 cents
was not to be merely refunded, but paid
over to his competitor. Tho charge on re
fined oil to Boston was Increased to $3.70,
on which the Standard Oil concern was to
get back a rebate of $1.32 on every barrel
it sent to Boston and on every barrel that
anyone else sent. In the language of
Henry D. Lloyd, In his work of "Wealth
Against Commonwealth:"
Kings of the Hond.
"The railway managers, mnde kings of
the rond by the grant to them of the
sovereign powers of the state, covenanted
In order to make their friends kings of oli,
that they would maintain the business of
their auxiliary against loss or injury by
competition, and pledged themselves to put
the rates of freight up or down, as might
be necessary to overcome such com
petition." It Is positively denied by the Stnndard
oil magnates that any rebates are. paid
or allowed directly or Indirectly by any
railroad at this time to that company, nnd
this is substantially true. The Standard
Oil magnates now own a controlling in
terest In nearly all the railroads nnd the
bulk of their product Is shipped by pipe
line to the sealKinrj. It Is another matter,
however, with scores of other combinations
In restraint of trade, notably with the Big
Four, better known as the "Beef Trust,"
that have obtained the practical monopoly
of tho meat packing industry through the
control of private car lines.
Private Car Line.
According to latest railway statistics,
there are 54.000 refrigerator cars in daily
operation in the t'nited States, In which
the bulk of all the live stock products,
fruits and vegetables are transported at
a very low rute, and very high rate to the
consumers of their products. Following the
example of the Pullman Sleeping Car com
pany, charges for hauling privately owned
freight cars, were inaugurated in the
early SO's by the Stundurd OH company's
union tank line as a convenient disguise for
rebates. The practice was abandoned after
a few months because a bettor system of
rebates was devised.
Between US0 and 1SS3 the Chicago, Mil
waukee & St. Paul railroad built two lines
to Missouri river points Omaha and Kan
sas City. Phil Armour, the packing house
king, was a director of the Milwaukee &
St. Paul and very powerful in Its affairs.
Other packers, including the Hammond
Packing company, Swift nnd Cudahy, had
built great meat packing plants at
Omaha. On the plea of securing part of
the resulting traffic for new lines Mr.
Armour brought about an arrangement
with the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul,
allowing the packers mileage on their re
frigerator cars.
The other roads to Missouri river points
made haste to meet the terms made by the
Milwaukee road and tho mileage system
was llrmly established In the western ter
ritory. In other words, the railroads paid
the packers a mileage rebate for hauling
their product! In their refrigerator cars.
In duo time the same concession was made
to the packers by the Canadian Orand
Trunk railrond. By threatening to divert
all their enormous traffic to one line tho
packers forced one after another every J
railrond In the country to yield to their
demands nnd surrender mileage on re
frigerator cars. This mns fixed eventually
at three-fourths of 1 cent per mile cast of
Chicago, except by way of Montreal, on
which route it wai 1 cent a mile, and, gen
erally speaking, 1 cent a mile on all the
territory west of Chlcr.go.
Make Itallrond Pay Drawbacks.
Not content with this triumph, the pack
ers made the railroads pay the mileage
whether the cars were empty or loaded.
Thus the rnllroads pay $5 to the packers
for hauling an empty refrigerator car from
Chicago to Omaha or Kansas City and $14
for hauling It from New York to Omaha.
They refused to nllow the cars to be
loaded with any but the packers' own
freight; they kept down the minimum load
weight, they forced down the freight rates
on dressed beef and packing house
products and they compelled 'every rail
road to expedite their cars at the expense
of all other shippers.
The railroads, of course, could not very
well maintain a discrimination between re
frigerator cars and the mileage rate
granted to one firm must In the end be
granted to all. Hence all refrigerator cars,
however owned, came to be mileage earn
ers and shared In the loot. As the four big
pncklng houses began to assume over
shadowing Importance the refrigerator cars
became a most potential factor for crush
ing out competition. Rival houses that
had no refrigerator cars found that rebates
made tho four big packers unassailable.
Rival houses that had no refrigerator cars
found that the cars of tho bigger and
mora aggressive packers were favored by
the railroads, handled more rapidly and
sent back with less delay, and they gradu
ally came out on the best terms they
could.
Deny GIvIiik Rebate.
Nearly all railroad managers Insist that
no rebates are being given anywhere to
anybody, directly or Indirectly. In dis
cussing the railway problem with a promi
nent Omaha merchant the other day he
expressed himself as decidedly opposed to
any congressional interference with re
bates. When' pinned down as to whether
he received rebates, he admitted the soft
impeachment by saying: "We don't get
rebates from any railroad at Omaha, W
get them in 'the east from the M. D."
When asked what "M. D." signified, he
responded, "Don't you know? The M. D.
Is the Merchants' Dispatch," and th
"Merchants' Dispatch" is only one of half
a dozen fast freight lines by which the
railroads are able to whip the devil around
the stump.
In a nutshell, the railroads are under
contract to haul the freight shipped by
private car lines at a much lower rate
than the ordinary shipper Is required to
pay, and the private car line, which trans
ports merchandise ostensibly at a high
rate, Is uble to give a drawback to Its
patrons and still make large dividends for
Its stockholders, among whom It counts
railroad magnates and lower rank officials.
EDWARD ROSEWATER.
GOOD YARN TOLD ON OLD RIP
Joe Never Heard it Beoauis Kone Had th
Nerra to Tell Him.
FOOLED THE ACTOR AND SPECTATORS
to $9,000, less his traveling expenses and
hotel bills. Two years ago Mr. Bryan was
not satisfied with his fee and demanded a
share of the gross receipts, but he soon dis
covered that a bird In the hand Is better
than several In the bush, and now accepts
a stated fee, with a share of net receipts
at certain places. Rev. Dr. Frank Gun
saulus of Chicago commands a $300 foe for
as many engagements as he is willing to
make; Governor La Follette of Wisconsin
and Senator Dolllver are also $200 men.
Sam Jones gets $200 for one lecture,
but usually Insists upon a contract for
two and a fee of $300. Lieutenant Hob
son has over thirty dates this season
and gets $175 each; Representative Champ
Clark of Missouri, Representative Grosve-
nor of Ohio, Rev. Dr. Robert S. McArthu
of Calvary Baptist church, New York, Rev.
Dr. Albert Mclntyre of San Francisco,
Gebrge R. Wendllng and George W. Bain of
Kentucky command $150 each, and Senator
Tillman will abuse the negro for $125 wher
ever ho may be Invited. But Tillman Is
practically played out. People went to see
and hoar him as long as he was a novelty,
but as soon aa their curiosity was satisfied
his audiences fell off.
The big features this year are Mark Guy
Pearse of London, the leader of what Is
known as the "Forward Movement" among
the wage earners of that city, and William
Spurgoon, the nephew and successor of tho
great London preacher.
The managers of about forty of the prin
cipal Chautauquas have organized an alli
ance for mutual encouragement and pro
tection; to keep the study feature In the
foreground; to raise the standard of enter
tainments; to prevent frauds and compel
the fulfillment of obligations, and they hold
meetings two or three times a year. Th
president Is Dr. W. L. Davidson of Wash
ington, D. C, who is manager of five assemblies.
RIVER ROAD IMPROVEMENT
Proposition Before County Board and
Euglnerr Will Make Investl.
ration of Conditions,
Residents along and users of the River
rond, south of Pries lake, known as road
74D, have submitted to the county board
a proposition to surface the road with
gravel and cinders If the board will widen
It to the full width of forty feet. It Is
set out that the road Is becoming more
of a thoroughfare Into the city every day
and that It is not only a great conven
ience to gardoners, farmers and others,
but If widened and rut In good shape It
would also be a favorite route for pleas
ure driving by horsemen and automoblllsts.
as It stands now the road is too narrow
to allow of turning out for the passing of
any but ordinary vehicles and Is tn bad
physical shape.
The men signing the petition, which Is
endorsed by the Omaha Driving club, have
set down opposite their names the amounts
they are willing to contribute. There is
one $100 subscription, several of $50 and
numerous promises of $10. The county en
gineer will Investigate and report on the
proposition.
WHAT CIGARETTE LAW DOES
P. E. ILER SUES ROME MILLER
Brian Two Action to Recover
Possession of the Hotel and
Flat BulldluK.
Peter E. Ilur has filed two suits In the
county court against Rome Miller, by
which Mr. Iler seeks to recover possession
of property which he alleges Mr. Miller is
holding "wrongfully, unlawfully and forci
bly" since March 31 last. The first com
plaint relates Ik the Her Grand hotel and
twelve flats on Sixteenth street opposite
the hotel, also a barn at the southwest cor
ner of Sixteenth ar.d Jackson. The second
complaint relate to what is known as the
Garfield building, a four-story structure.
Mr. Iler alleges that he served notice In
writing on Mr. Miller May 7. but that he Is
denied possession of the property In ques
tion, wherefore he pray a that It may b
restored to his control. Th hearing la set
before Judge, Vinsonhaler for Jun H
B Want Ad Produce Besult.
Casebeer Act Prohibit Making or Selling,
but Not Using the Thing.
GOES INTO EFFECT ON FIRST OF. JULY
Conatltntlonality Ha Been Ques
tioned by Jndg "Wilbur F.
Bryant of Lincoln, Who
Wanted It Vetoed.
If, on July 1, a woman of middle age and
plain exterior, accost a mild-mannered man
who is smoking a cigarette, say things that
amount to curses about the cigarette, wave
her arms melodramatically In the direction
of a policeman, and threaten awful things,
the mild-mannered man need not fear. The
woman will be laboring under the Idea that
on and after July 1, it is Incompatibly with
the law to puff cigarettes in Nebraska, but
In this she will be mistaken. Eover since
the anti-cigarette law was passed by tho
legislature and signed by the governor
cigarette smokers have been warned by in
numerable persons that they will have to
quit July 1 or go to Jail. The Impression
seems rooted that tho law forbids the
use of tobacco In cigarette form, as does tho
Indiana law, superinduced because Booth
Tarklngton taught tho rural legislators the
art and their constituents would not stand
for it. Such Is not a fact. If you can
get the "mnkln's" in Nebraska you can
roll a paper tube full of tobacco, or Its
aliases, touch a match, tickle your lungs
to your heart's cont9.it any old time ana
no policeman dare Interfere.
The Casebeer law reads:
That It shall be unlawful on and after
this act shall go Into effect to manufac
ture, sell, give away or willingly allow to
be taken away, any cigarettes or the ma
terial for their composition, known as
cigarette paper, within the state of Ne
braska. Any person, firm, association or corpora
tion In this state violating the provision
of this act shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction
thereof, be fined for each und every of
fense, a sum not less than $5 nor more
than $100, at the discretion of the court,
together with the cost of prosecution.
Any officer, director or manager having
in charge or control, either separately or
Jointly with others, the business of any
corporation, which corporation violates the
provisions of this act. if he have knowl
edge of the same, shall be guilty and sub
ject to the penalty herein provided.
Therefore, It will be seen, that If a per
son can get the cigarettes pr materials, he
can smoke them. The law Is directed at
m i tuf ucturers and dealers ariC concern
their actions only.
May Offend Council Bluff.
Inasmuch, however, as Iowa has the same
kind of a law and neither th paper nor
the "tailor-mades" can be obtained there,
It Is evident that local cigarette smokers
must import their luxuries long distances.
Council Bluffs has long depended upon
Omaha for Its supply of cigarettes,, al
though the law Is fractured there In nearly
every corner grocery, so that prohibition In
the Nebraska metropolis will Instigate a
gnashing of teeth on the other Bide of tho
placid Missouri.
Tobacconists In Omaha have not been
taking .on any more cigarettes since the
law wo approved, expecting that by July
1, when the law becomes effective, their
stocks would be about sold out. Some who
have dealt In the goods heretofore are ex
hausted now, but have taken no pain to
attempt to supply the trade. Just one
month remains available for the entire
comfort and happiness of the cigarette user,
for most of them will find It expensive to
get the "makln's" from Illinois or other
unchaatened states.
It Is said not to be at all improbable that
the new law will b tested In the courts.
No less authority than Judge Wilbur F.
Bryant of Lincoln has expressed doubt of
Its constitutionality, owing to technical de
fects. Wanted tho Bill Vetoed.
In a letter to th governor Judge Bryant
said:
In view of th uncertainty sure to be
created by approval of this bill, I hop it
will be vetoed. It would be the worst blow
possible to the Juvenile court law. We havu
no cigarette clause In that. Wa deemed
I the old law (prulUMtiji' tobacco la any.
form to boys under 15) amply sufficient.
This law before you necessitates an appeal
to the court of last resort. We will not
attempt to forestall the decision, but pend
ing such appeal, the luw remains uncertain
and we may expect diverse and uncertuin
rulings among magistrates. If this law be
fore you were held good the federal control
of interstate commerce would render the
state police regulation Ineffectual.
The cigarette 'habit, for some reason
which I am not scientist enough to explain,
Is the most demoralizing which a boy can
contract. If you feol constrained to sign
the bill, God help the boys of Nebraska.
The governor, however, disagreed. The
old law referred to by Judge Bryant Is not
repealed In the Casebeer bill.
OIL PLANT MAY BE REOPENED
American Linseed Gonpany Only Awaits
Favorable Bailroad Bate.
GREEN DRESS AND RED HAT
Wearing; Apparel of Woman Serve
to Straighten Out Big
Difficulty.
For several hours Friday afternoon the
police force of Omaha was on the look
out for a man reported as having taken a
rig from in front of the Merchants Na
tional bank building at Thirteenth and
Farnam streets.
The identity of the man was not at the
time known, but the cluo on which the
uniformed and plain-clothed minions of the
law worked was that a woman, wearing a
green dress and red hnt, was with the
man, and the Instructions sent out from
police headquarters were to hold the rig
and occupants for investigation. And
thus for several hours Friday afternoon
every woman wearing a green dross and
red hat and riding in a buggy was In the
spotlight. When, about 4 o'clock In tho
afternoon. Officer Reidy scanned the hori
zon on upper Farnam street and observed
a rig wlthf the woman described he Im
mediately took his station In the center of
the street, invoked the majesty of tho law
by moving his right arm to and fro and
brought the supposed fugitive vehicle and
occupants to a standstill. The case finally
resolved Itself into one of mistaken iden
tity, with a happy denouement at the office
of Clarenco H. Walrith, owner of the rig,
which had been taken by W. F. Palmer
of the Equitable Life Assurance company
on tho supposition that it was the rig
he had ordered from the Collins barn.
About 2 o'clock Friday afternoon Mr.
Walrith tied his horse In front of the
Merchants National bank, saying to his
horse as he took an extra hitch in the
strap, "There, Dan; guess that will hold
you for a while." Then Mr. Walrith took
the elevator to his office on the fourth
floor of the building, dictated eight let
ters to his stenographer and took the ele
vator down uguln, to find his horse and
buggy had been taken. After waiting a
few minutes he reported the matter to
police headquarters, telling the authorities
that someone had noticed the green dress
and red hat.
It came to pass that Mr. Palmer had 'or
dered a rig cent to the bank building,
where he has an office. About the time he
thought the rig was due he went down to
the curbing and took It for granted that
the Walrith rig was the one sent from the
barn'. Mr. Palmer and the green dress and
red hat wer soon over the hills and far
away in the Walrith rig, with Walrith and
the police force in the background.
"I have orders to arrest you," announced
Officer Reidy when he stopped the rig at
Twenty-fourth and Farnam streets.
"There surely is some mistake; I am an
Insuranco man and hired this rig from tho
Collins' bam. Here is my card," replied
Mr. Palmer.
"Yes, there surely Is some mistake," said
the green dress and red hat.
"But this rig answers the description I
have, and there's the green dress and red
hat. There's nothing to it; you'll have to
come with me." continued the officer.
And Palmer and the rig were taken to the
bank building, where the Insurance man
and Walrith greeted each other as friends
and compared notes. After this. Palmer
declares, when he orders a rig he will have
It sent right up to his office and thu avoid
any entangling alliances.
OMAHA BEST DISTRIBUTING POINT
City Commends Itself to Managers of
ThI Business and Business
WU1 Start if Railway
Act Bight.
"If we can secure as tavorable rates to
Omaha, as prevail from country point to
Sioux City and Des Moines the Omaha
plant of the American Linseed company
will be reopened. "I will promise that our
elevator will be started again," said J. W.
Hirst, formerly local manager of the Wood
man Lluceed Oil company and present
western manager of all plants of the Amer
ican Linseed company between Chicago and
the coast.
Mr. Hirst, In company with W. B. Hard
castle, auditor of the American Linseed
compuny, with headquarters in New York,
is on a tour of inspection of the western
plants of the company and was la the
city Friday and Saturday.
"Omaha Is our most important distribu
ting point for linseed oil west of Chicago,"
added Mr. Hirst, "and this territory show
a larger Increase In consumption than any
other station west of Chicago. The Wood
man company has been increasing for some
years, but In the last year has shown an
exceptional increase. The local plant ha
not boon crushing much seed since I left
here several years ago, but there Is a
marked increase In the acreage of flax In
northern Nebraska and South Dakota, and
only the more favorable rates to Sioux
City and Des Moines hinder us from again
starting this mill. The muchlnery for
crushing, which has been allowed to run
down to some extent. Is being replaced at
an expense of over $1,203, and this can be
taken as an indication that the mill will re
open as soon as the rates are adjusted."
Great Demand on Continent.
When asked what had been the cause
of the phenomenally high prloes for oil meal
this year Mr. Hirst replied that It was
solely on account of the great demand of
the continent and the United Kingdom for
the meal, which was exported to these
countries In large quantities.
"Oil Is relatively high, the price being 49
cents for raw and 51 cents per gallon for
boiled, and we will not see It any cheaper
before September 1, If we do at that time,
as the reported acreage of flax In the
northwest is not a positive fact as yet, as
the seeding la continued until aa late as
June 16.
"We have had several flattering offers for
this local property from the American
Cereal company, the American Glucose
company and other companies for various
purposes, but we consider this too Im
portant a market to abandon. Our com
pany appreciates the loyalty of Omaha and
Nebraska to home goods, and we will hold
this In the hope that the railroads will
some day give us a deal that will permit
us to reopen the plant."
W. B. Hardcastle was enthusiastic over
Omaha and said that one of the things
which struck him most was the superb
street car system with which the people of
Omaha were blessed. He said th cars
were so' far ahead of many of the cities of
the same size that he meets In his travels,
and he wa especially struck with the good
transfer system.
Faks toilette (Undents Drummed lu
for Advertising Purpose and
Drilled to flnout tor
JeAtrios,
Weaver Strike Another Head.
PHILADELPHIA, June . Rollo M.
Dance, secretary of the civil servloe board,
today, at the request of Mayor Weaver,
tendered his resignation. Dane Is a close
friend of James P. McNIchol, one of th re
publican leader ol Philadelphia.
Mother and Children Needy.
Mrs. Nannie Lewin and her four small
children are being cared for at the ma
tron's department of the police station,
pending ' arrangements for aid to assist
them to reach their destination at Mem
phis, Mo. Mrs. Lewin tells a sad story
of hardships and privation and of ye&rs of
roaming through the western country In a
covered wagon with a thriftless husband.
She is desirous of reaching her mother In
Missouri. Her children rang from 4 to S
year oi age.
If you havo anything to trad, advertise
It tn the For Exchange column of Th Be
want ad page.
"The best story on Joe Jefferson ha
never yet been printed, and the kindly old
gentleman himself went to his reward
without ever having heard It," said the
advance agent, "for ntne of the people
around him ever got up nerve enough to
tell him that he had betn taken In along
with that dear public, whose attention we
heralds of art were emit rtvortng to catch.
"It was year ago in Bultlmore. Jeffer
son opened on a Monday night in 'Uip Van
Winkle,' and although he was always a
prime favorite with theater goers there,
neither the attendance that evening nor
the advance sale of stats for the week
had been over good. The folks In front
of tho house cast their eyes over the ticket
rack and came to the conclusion that un
less something unusual was done the re
ceipts would not be as large as they Fbould
be. Well, when the business end of a show
reaches that point things are liable to be
doing In the good old 'con' lino within a
very limited space of time, and the boys
cn Jefferson's pay roll, If they were not
the aniftlcst at that sort of thing, wer
certainly not the slowest In the profes
sion. We put our heads together and ar
rived at the conclusion that what wa
neded for good, fat press notices was somo
reniHrkable popular manifestation of ap
preciation of genius. I don't mean tho
clapping from the orchestra nor the cut
calls from the gallery, but Something that
would set the town to talking. We thought
long over the various schemes suggested,
but none of them appeared to be Just the
proper one for the purpose. Suddenly the
office boy, who was as retiring as tho usual
run of office boys around a theater, butted
In with, 'Say, why don't you have hl:n
dragged?' i
Putting; Vp the Scheme,
" 'Dragged what's that?' I asked.
" "Why, have him rushed after the mati
nee this afternoon by a howling mob of
admirers; have them unhitch his horsea
and drag him off to his hotel with their
own hands. And say, gee whli, I've got
it! let the bunch tiiat doe It be Johns
Hopkins boys.'
" 'That ain't bad for the kid,' remarked
the assistant treasurer, patronizingly, 'but
where are you going to get your Johns
Hopkins boys? You don't think they're
lying around waiting to turn themselves
Into abovy of Roman chariot chasers, do
you?'
" 'Oh, say, you're dead slow,' replied the
office boy with every indication of disgust.
'Come with me down on Marsh Market
Space and In ten minutes I'll have you the
greatest bunch of students you ever saw.'
"Not knowing the town very well then,
I was puzxled st how Hopkins students
were to be found on Marsh Market Space,
and said so.
" "Why, they ain't students at all," ex
plained the all-knowing office boy. 'They're
bums, the worst lot of can-chasers in the
town, and there are hundreds of them.
For 60 cents a head for the day you can
get all of them you want. Get thirty or
forty, dress them up In store clothes that
you can get at any old costumer's baggy
trousers all turned up at the bottom, short
coats with a southwestern exposure, dinky
hats with colored bands. Jaunty little fried
egg caps and sassy, slap-on-the-wrist sort
of canes and the rest'U bo easy money.'
Fake College Students.
"We began to appreciate the feasibility
of the scheme and soon were converted to
It. I must admit, however, that It was not
with an altogether easy feeling that I
started on our work of metamorphosing a
lot of tramps Into blithesome college lads,
but our task turned out to be not so dif
ficult alter all. The 50 cents was an allur
ing proposition to most of the gentlemen of
leisure whom we found congregated around
the bung holes of the beer barrels most
recently ejected from the dirty barrooms
with which the neighSorhood was Infested.
We got together thirty or forty and
marched them all to an- institution called
the Worklngmen's Residential club, and
had them washed and shaved and put in
apple-ple order, so that some of them
looked almost respectable by the time1 we
got through. One great hulking fellow,
whom we wanted as the leader of this gay
and care-free aggregation, refused abso
lutely for a time to part with his whiskers,
and only consented to the sacrifice when
we told him we were going to pay him $o
to captain the bunch.
Agents Getting Busy.
"Meanwhile our agents had been busy
getting together a suitable wardrobe for
our little company. There was a fitting on
process for the next hour, at the conclu
sion of which It was voted that we had a
crowd of seniors and freshmen thai would
have faded the flower of Yale, Harvurd,
Princeton and Hopkins all rolled into one.
It required no little skill to' make some of
them look youthful enough for their part,
but we managed fairly well for all that.
When we lined the gang up we noticed
that the trousers of a few scarcely reached
to the ankles, and caused one Involuntarily
to think that the tailor had done better to
have turned them down Instead of up,
and here and there a student's toes would
seek to prove at first hand that his shoes
really contained feet. But we consoled our
selves by reflecting that no one would be
so heartless as to be moved to audible re
flection by this Indication of poverty on
the part of a brave young man drinking
deep at the fountain of knowledge. We
further congratulated ourselves, as we ran
our eyes up and down the lino, that the
ensemble was not so bad.
Counterfeit College Boy.
. " 'Now, gentlemen,' said one of our
party, 'remember you are college boys,
careless and light hearted, with Just a
touch of deviltry in you.' You are carried
away with the performance of Joseph Jef
fersonMr. Jefferson is the greatest actor
on the American stage, you know and you
are enthusiastic to do something that will
show your appreciation of his genius. That
is enough for the present, except that
w imie ver yuu uri c ill leu Upon to do, do it
with youthful vim. Throw your hats In tho
air, clap each other on the back, and make
a noise. Mr. Joy here is your leader, and
you are to follow his instructions from this
time on. What, you don't know Mr. Joy
without his whiskers? Well, It Is he, all
right. If you do well, boys, there'll be
a rattling fine dinner waiting for you after
the show, in addition to the 60 cents.'
'The Instructions to Mr. Joy, who was
taken fully Into our confidence and who. In
fact, was quite an Intelligent felkow. were
more explicit. Ho was given the Hopkins
yell and told to have hi mon proficient In
this and some other detail when the time
for action arrived.
Cava College Yell.
"A tho spectator were filing out from
th matinee at 4: o'clock among them
were our garnished friends of the 'Space,'
who had been let In through th stnge en
trance and then passed out Into the audi
torium from behind th prlvata boxes. Out
on th street and before th crowd had
dispersed they were ready for business, be
ginning wltu wkt J suppose wa Intended
ior tn timvemit eU, and which sounded
txumeliilli i IK lule:
" ivah, ran, rah,
Will) ti Mt.' x
Viaie me iit.pKllis Uys, you so.
iUili, lUw, 4UJ,
liear l.i
For u.u uuuvu i.a J. It. V.'
"Of tour puouo a.ieuuu.i wa M enoe
ceiiUTW (iii una iiuwtm mob of ardent
vwihgwu's aim uur leiiow kept thing
uin liut nuiil mt. aienerson emerge
Hum tin. alley at mo siue of tho theater,
llu was iniiitcuiateiy surrounded by the
liupktn ovlonu, uv tried wila Q no
vo ru;
" 'Jefferson, Jefferson,
uiu.nu oid man.
Lei mi in , lhjj s
An yuu tan.
He lite tuu
for inu and VoU,
Hera iuv. tfue.
jruiu . il. u.'
"Well, sir, belore Jefferson had Urn to
recover from hi surprise, they seised and
carried him to the carriage, cut the trace
and turned the horses loom, and shouting
and howling started up the street madly,
with th driver on the box and to actor
inside, followed by a mob of hundred.
They pulled him to his hotel and then a ha
alighted gave him cheer after cheer,
"Mr. Jefferson, of course, absolutely
Ignorant of th true charcter of hi stren
uous admirers, made them a little speech
from the steps of the hotel, In which h
spoke of the drama and art and three or
four other things which his hearers did
not know the meaning of, but which wer
cheered to the echo.
"Naturally, we saw to It that th omnis
cient eye of the press, did not overtook this)
Interesting piece of news of the John Hop
kins university boys honoring th veteran
actor, and If yon will take the trouble to
look up the newspapers of that day you
will see that they gave ample spec to the
performance.
"Our college boy of the hour, with one
or two dishonorable exceptions, who sacri
ficed their dinners aud lucre for the fash
ionable toggeries we had loaned them, re
ceived their due reward nnd then went back
to their accustomed haunts, ready to give
their whiskers free play until another ad
vance man should seduce them with a
tempting offer of gold and food." Wash
ington Star.
BLOODY RECORD OF AUTOS
Horseless Vehicle Crowding (he
Bailroad in the Mortuary
Column, ,'
The automobile Is the cause of many ac
cidents, in all large cities, but nowhere
probably ha it made so bloody a record
aa In and about New York. Since January
1 sixty-two people have been killed by It
there, about an equal number have been
crippled for life and a total of 793 hare
been run down. During the same time only
fourteen Injuries by automobile hav been
reported to the police of Chicago. ThI
does not Include persona hurt In the vloln
lty of the city, and a good many accident
have occurred In the city which have not
been reported to the police. There Is no ,
doubt, however, that the casualty list Of
Chicago arid vicinity Is much shorter than
that of New York and vicinity. This I
partly owing to the fact that th automo
bile is used much more extensively there
than here. It may be also that New York
chauffeurs are exceptionally reckless.
Many automobile accidents are In large
measure due to the fact that this vehicle
Is new and people have not learned auto
matically to gauge the speed at which It
Is coming or become familiar with Its ec
centricities of behavior. The cable car ran
down and in other ways Injured many more
when It was new than It does now. So did
the trolley. People soon learned they must
move more rapidly to escape the cable car
than the horse oar and the trolley than the
cable, car, and doubtless they will noon
learn to elude automobile run at reason
uble speed.
A further prollflo cause of automobile ac
cidents Is Inexpert driver. Perhaps after
a few more thousands have been killed peo
ple will learn it Is not safe for a man or
woman to try to run one of these machines
without knowing something about It.
But the main cause of automobile acci
dents has always been, and still Is, the love
of chauffeurs and owners of going faster
than Is safe or the law permits. Most auto
moblllsts are respectable and generally law
abiding citizens. They don't mean to hurt
anybody. Nobody except the Injured Is
more sorry than they are when they do.
But many would rather break the law and
take the chance of crippling or killing than
forego the pleasure of speeding.
Perhaps when automobiles have ben In
use longer and become more common speed
madness will grow less prevalent. Who
cares now to scorch through a city's streets
on a bicycle? Until the-disease doea natur
ally abate tho only thing to do la to admin
ister Impartially to those who have It the
remedies prescribed by law. If fines will
not cure perhaps Jail sentence may. It Is
as much manslaughter to kill a man with a
$2,600 automobile as with a $2.60 axe, and
there should be no more hesitancy or luke
warmncss tn prosecuting for the one crime
than for the other. Chicago Tribune.
HEMGIOl'S NOTES.
Archbishop Chapelle, the apostolio dele
gate to Cuba and Porto Klco, has gone to
Havana on a mission connected with his
office which will require several weeks to
finish. He expects to return to New Or
leans early in June.
A Gregorian congress has been called!
to meet under the patronage of Pope Plus
X., In Strasburg, Germany, August U-M,
for the purpose of carrying out the re
form movement In church music con
tained in the Pope's "Mortu Proprlo."
Dr. Henry H. Hasmu of th First Meth
odist church of Spokane Is agitating the
proposition of putting a bowling alley In
the basement of the new church about to
be erected by his society. He say It Waal
to "Interest young men and women.".
The American Sunday Bchool union
started during the yvar lis 8,641 saw
union Sunday schools In the destitute od
sparsely settled place on the frontier. The
society Is now In It eighty-first year
and has a splendid record ot work aooout
pits lied.
At the recent meeting of Baptist north
and south in St. Louis among tho watt
attended ware a number of inulan ohlef
who have been converted to Christianity,
including White Arm and Bread, from th
Crow reservation. A'hoy appeared In lU
uniform,
Kt. Iter. Blbort H. Boeynaem,, close
friend ot thu late Kobert Louis Steven
son, aud at present bishop of 16ugia and
vicar apostolio of Hawaii, with headquar
ter at Honolulu, has been visiting Amer
ica and sailed for liom on ttaturdajr. of
last weak.
Kev. Dr. William Howe of Cambridge,
Mass., will be W years old today. He la
the oldest living Clergyman In the Unltsd
State and for more than a half century
he ho labored In lioalou and wa Instru
mental in establishing four Influential
Baptist parlsuuB.
Tho convention of th Dlooese of Penn
sylvania adopted a resolution advising that
treasurers ot church funds skould be re
quired to give satisfactory security for
the funds for which thtty ar responsible.
This, ay the Church standard, "1 a Wise
resolution, not uncalled for by more than
a few painful aud costly moral disasters.
The American Baptist Home Missionary
society reports receipts for th year, 64,
U6J 11 over H,w more than lat year.
Nearly loo new mission fields have been
occupied and eighty churohee organised.
The wholw number of baptisms reported
last year was 1,'Mi. being about IT Mr
cent more than for the preceding year,
F B. Smith, secretary for special re
ligious work of th Young Men' Chris
tian association International oommltt,
has been speaking In Victoria, Queens
land and New South Wale. Bnormou
meetings were held In th Syduey town
hall. Such gathering of men. It Is said,
have probably never come together to lis
ten to speecties on spiritual toplo in Aus
tralia. Five thousand men, many of them
young men, listened to Ui powerful a4
dr of Mr, otuliu.
