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TOE" OMAIIA- DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1906. S&jUsVI t I JJ r Tim Oniaiia Daily Bee tWNDBD BT EDWARD HOSEWATEIl. VICTOR ROSE WATER, EDITOR. nterad at Omaha Postofflr second ias matter. TERMS OK SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Bee (without Sunday), on year.. 14 00 Daily Htm and BunJny, one year 4 00 Sunday Be, on year . 1W Saturday Bea, ona year l.M DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Dally Bn Including Sunday), per week. .17c Dally Be (without Sunday), per week..l2: Evening Bea (without Sunday), per week c Evening Kee (with Sunday), per week..!".- Sunday Be per ropy c Address complnlnta of IrreRularltle In de livery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha CUv Hull Building. Council BlufTs 10 Pearl Street. Chicago 1640 fn'ty Building. New York-lS Horn Life Ins. Building. Washington IW1 Fourteenth Street. ' " CORRESPONDENCE. Communication relating to news and edi torial matter ahould be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department, k REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal orde payable to The Bee Publishing Company. - Only I-cent stamp received payment of mall account. Personal checka. except on 1 Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANT. "STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Stat of Nebraska.-Douglas County, as: " George B. Tsachurk, treasurer of The Bea Publishing Company, being duly worn, aays that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, ' Morning, Evening and Sunday Be printed during the month of August, 106, was as follows: I. . ....... 31,680 17 l,SOO 3.......... ai.eoo II 3LM0 1 31,680 19..... 30,960 ........... 33,O0 tO.'... 31,140 I ......... . 30,140 II 81.8S0 31,680 21 33,940 7 31,440 II 31,380 I....I..... 31,380 24 30,030 9.., 81,140 ', II 88,860 10 31,790 21.. 30,030 11 '31,940 IT 30,800 12..... 80,080 It 30,610 11 31,400 21 30,830 14. 31,830 ' 10 30.670 II i 31,830 II 33,440 II , .,31,830 Total 978,800 Less unsold copies,. 8,148 Net total sales 994,488 Dally average 31,111 ,, . OEORQB B. TZSCHUCK. Treasurer. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to bafora ma thla list day of August, l0t. (Seel) , . M. B. HUNOATE. Notary Public. WHEK OCT OP TOWH, Sabserlbers leaving the city tem porarily should have The Bee nailed to then. Address will he chanced as oftea as requested. Fusion seems as objectionable to some people la life Insurance elections as It Is In politics. " - Filipinos desiring --self-government should await the result of the experi ment in ' Cuba before taking to the war path. In holding ' preliminary conferences at Havana Secretary Taft is apparently anxious to learn how long the real work will last. " y With J France and, , tfejglura - begin-' King tcjtautsze.MOrocco, the 'sultan may exnoct m aarlr'eturn for favors in the Stensland affair. ' - '' . The disclosure that Insurgent troops are for the most part veterans of the Spanish war shows that some Cubans really got what they ' thought they were fighting for. . If the local telephone company wants to reduce rates and cut out spe cial tolls on conversation between Omaha and South Omaha, we know of nothing to prevent it, With Cato Sells posing as the cham pion of radical democracy In Iowa, It must be admitted that the republicans have no corner on surprises sprung In Iowa pontics. The seizure of an American vessel charged with landing smuggled goods in Canada indicates that American de votion to tariff laws does not extend beyond the frontier. When It comes to prompt and accu rate election returns the people have to reatt The Bee. This fact was never so strikingly enforced as in reporting the result of Tuesday's primary. Inasmuch as the estimate of dead In the Hong Kong typhoon steadily grows larger, the first reports could not have been sent out by the corre spondents who heard "firing at Che Foo." A Kansas federal official who has been in ofAce" twenty-five years has been found short 11,600 in his ac counts.. He evidently required a long time to discover the possibilities of his position. ' TbV statement that government contractor, dislike the elght-hour law, but will respect the statute, Is proba bly the condition of everyone who Is law-abiding' merely for fear of the penalty. lPn reason why the Union Pacific wat'so strenuously opposed to Including- in the rate bill any prohibition upon railroads owning subsidiary coal mines whose product they transport is now' plainly apparent. When tht frleids cf Mr7 Bryan un dertake to ''get the scalps" of south ern 'leaders who oppose his program, the peerless may well claim the own ership of the party; but a repetition of the Illinois "stalemate" Is not likely. Another thing no fellow can find out la the reason why nearly COO voters marked their ballots at the recent Douglas countv primaries for a legis lative candidate who had publicly an nounced that he had withdrawn from the -race and did not want any of his friends to vote for him. It he has polled nearly 400 votes without run ning!, how many votes would he have gotten had he stayed la the racer -Rrnrcwa rationr ha tfs. Attention Is being called to what seems, to be an extraordinary number of applications on the part of the rail roads to the Interstate Commerce comrolneloa for reduction in published freight rates. These applications have been coming In dally for a period of several weeks from nearly all sections of the country, covertag thousands of specific rates and are not counterbal anced to any appreciable extent by ap plications to Increase existing rates. In many cases the proposed reductions relate to staple articles moving be tween Important railroad centers. "The permissions given in response to these applications," Interstate Com merce Commissioner Lane is quoted as saying, "have probably resulted in more freight rate reductions than have ever before taken place In this coun try in any period of equal length." If these rate reductions were real and not merely nominal, the action of the carriers In making them appar ently of their 6wn accord would ap pear in the light of a recognition of the fact that the rates charged at the tfme of the enactment of the new law were excessive. The probabilities are, however, that the new schedules filed, ostensibly reducing the tariffs, are in fact simply correcting them to con form to what was actually exacted from shippers, taking into considera tion the rebates that were formerly paid. The railroads had a habit of pretending to favor particular patrons and put them under obligations for which reciprocity could be demanded in business and in politics, when the ame favors were regularly granted to all their competitors so that each re bate shipper was being simply de ceived Into believing he had a better rate than was granted others. It is fair to assume that when it comes to measuring the returns to the railroads under the newly reduced rates the revenues will be greater or at least no less than they were under the dis placed higher rates. Again, the elab orate expert investigation of tariffs which the Interstate Commerce com mission inaugurated several months ago has disclosed a vast number of other Illegal rates, many of which the railroad companies are now hastening to correct to head off prosecution. These rate reductions, therefore, are not to be regarded either as volun tary or as wholly in the direction of reduced carrying charges, but they are none the less to be welcomed as signs of the efficacy of the amended inter state commerce law. ' TBS KEEP COMMISSION. The Keep commission, of which lit tle has been heard for six months, has ready now a mass of reports and con clusions which are to be the basis of an important series of executive or ders wiping out departmental abuses and red tape, effecting extensive econ omies' and introducing radical" changes in methods of conducting public 'Easi ness. One of the main difficulties en countered by the commission, which was appointed by the president, to overcome the inertia and paltering of departmental officials ., and employes, was not so much to discover necessary changes, but to get them introduced, for it was soon found that an Isolated recommendation at once aroused the aggregate resistance of those involved In the whole system of abuse, whose Influence extended not only Into con gress, but also to all sorts of powerful Interests having dealings with the gov ernment. Accordingly the . commission has preferred to take the bull by the horns and with the backing of the president will force the Issue broadly by wholesale reform, Including a com prehensive system of accounts to put the work of the government ' on a more strictly business basis, purchase of supplies, telegraph and telephone charges, official correspondence, sal aries, promotions and dismissals, con centration of routine processes and a revision pf the methods of , handling freight transportation now paid by the government and amounting annually to $15,000,000. The assertion cer tainly seems credible that by grouping such reforms the magnitude of the benefit will attract public attention and put obstructive interests at dis advantage. The matter of correcting the vast wastes from obsolete methods and departmental remissness has at least been brought to a favorable point which President. Roosevelt, who Is the prime mover in the effort, may be solely trusted to make the most of. triSSTOX CHCHQHILL'S FEAT. The defeat of Winston Churchill la the extraordinary contest for the re publican nomination for governor of New Hampshire was accomplished only under circumstances which really constitute a victory for the cause of railroad control, which he advocated and made the basis of his candidacy. Without much experience in practical politics, without any of the ordinary alliances and methods which are em ployed by aspiring politicians and In spite of the, combined corporation in fluences, he appealed directly to the conscience and interest of the people. While on the decisive ballot he fell short only seventeen votes of the nom inating number, he was yet able to de feat the corporation slate and to force a platform declaring for anti-pass, anti-lobby, ballot and primary and railroad regulation reforms. The notable feature of this accom plishment 1 that it has been reached in a state In which effort ta dislodge or weaken corporation dictation has long seemed hopeless. Ne'v England from the first, haa been tho Gibraltar of those Influences, . which were hos tile originally to regulation and are still today hostile to centre 1 of trans portation corporations by public au thority! 8nd .which. Indeed., have an tagonised most bitterly and effectively all efforts in other sections as well as In congress . to subordinate them to law. 1 Legislation In New Hampshire haa long been notoriously under corpora tion dictation. . The effect of the movement championed by Churchill In the republican convention cannot, therefore, be regarded otherwise than deeply significant of the universal awakening of the people, and It ought to be especially encouraging at thla juncture to all thoee who In other states are striving to overthrow cor poration tyranny and undue Influence. SENATOR BAlLXrS POSITION. Senator Bailey's attitude with re spect to public- Interest in his "corpo ration connections," according to nu merous apparently reliable newspaper interviews, may be Inferred from his flat refusal to offer any explanation whatever except a general affirmation that his relations as a lawyer to af filiated or constituent corporations of the Standard Oil combine have been absolutely legitimate. "Not only do I intend to use my time," says he, "in the legitimate practice of my .profes sion, but I do not intend to humor what seems to be a morbid state of mind which demanda an explanation for everything a man does, no matter how entirely proper It may be." This attitude, however, would seem necessarily to place him in direct an tagonlsm with Mr. Bryan, who in the most deliberate manner has taken the ground that a man "cannot serve the public while he is seeking to promote the, financial interests of the corpora tion with which he is connected," and upon that ground took the sensational step of peremptorily demanding the resignation of Roger Sullivan as Illi nois member of the democratic na tional committee. And the Nebraska statesman, assuming the role of party dictator and censor, has broadened the issue, proclaiming that the party organisation and representation in government must as a test of sincerity be purged of all who stand in such relation to corporations. Mr. Bryan's fundamental position, therefore, is that corporation connec tions are an inherent disqualification for public service. Senator Bailey contemptuously refuses even to humor "a morbid state of mind which de mands an explanation" of corporation connections, to say nothing of sum marily ostracizing all who have them. The circumstance that the Texas leader refers to as "proper" and "legiti mate" connections is altogether Imma terial, because the whole issue - is thereby assumed. That would be to relegate the whole matter, without explanation or publicity, to the deci sion of each individual for himself, as ex-Senator Burton of Kansas and the late Senator Mitchell of Oregon un dertook to, do. and in any event .Mr. Bryan's dispensation,, categorically ex cludes those having such "corpora tion connections." . It remains, of course, to be seen whether Mr. Bryan will meet the Issue Involved in Senator Bailey's position. He cannot maintain consistency in charging full tilt upon Committeeman Roger Sullivan and then pulling rein or turning tall when Senator Joseph W. Bailey stands In the way. OROWIXO ISDKPENDEKCE W VOTINQ. The outcome of the direct primaries just held in Douglas county is sig nificant as indicating the growing inde pendence among voters Irrespective of political affiliations. The tickets nom inated by both republicans and demo crats cannot be found complete on any slate or sample ballot made up or dis tributed at the polls. The voters seem to have exercised a discrimination of their own and have been controlled chiefly by their information about the men seeking their favor and their sup posed qualifications for the positions to which they were aspiring. . If thla same disposition toward in dependence manifested in the primary nominations ia carried to a reasonable degree into the election in November the opposing candidates will have to appeal for support on their own merits aa well as upon their claims as nomi nees of their respective parties. In other words, they are not only run ning as republicans or democrats, but are inviting inspection of their rec ords wherever they have records in public office. . They are furthermore putting themselves under obligation to declare in advance where they stand on all the most important ques tions with which they will have to deal in their official capacities. One of the candidates nominated on the republican legislative ticket gave out a personal platform at the time he filed his name for a place on the pri mary ballot, and while this platform Is in the main good as far aa it goes, there are some points which are yet to be covered by all of the candidates who want to make laws for us at Lin coln. The independent voter both within and without the party can be enlisted behind tha republican local ticket it the candldatea take the right position on the questions at issue, but while Douglas county ia normally republican, the republicans cannot afford to disre gard the Independent voter, who ia sure to exercise a weighty Influence. Omaha business men are doing the right thing in extending a special wel come to General Qreely on hla first visit after taking charge of the mili tary division which includes the De partment of the Missouri. General Greely used to be stationed here in hla early days and has many personal friends dating from that period. More than this, he has always kept a favor able recollection of Omaha and never missed an opportunity to help along any reasonable project ia-which tha city was Interested when be had the power to help. We may be sure that General Greely , niay always be ap pealed to as a friend of Omaha and our people should not be slow In show ing their appreciation. The World-Herald follows up one mistake about Mr. Pettljohn, who has retired as member of the republican state committee, with another mistake. Mr. Pettljohn was not chosen to con duct the campaign this year, but was made a member of the committee a year ago for a term of two years, be ing chosen, therefore, while he was still an officer of the land office in good standing.. In the meantime the World-Herald Is still dumb as an oys ter about the notorious pass distribu ters and corporation cappers who are serving on the democratic state com mittee, all of whom were chosen for the special purpose of conducting this year's campaign. Under the' ruling of the Interstate Commerce commission, that in the fu ture railroads must accept nothing but cash at the publicly announced rates for hauling passengers outside of the specifically excluded list of rail way employes, transactions are not likely to be repeated like that uncov ered in Nebraska a few months ago by which a banker was to receive an annual pass on the Burlington a ex tra commission for discounting the paper of one of the officials of that road. The direct primary nominations in Minnesota seem to have been made on the same dale-as the direct primary nominations here In Omaha and Doug las county. It' is just possible that, in the due course of time, the seventh Tuesday before the regular election in November will be primary election day throughout practically the whole country. The outcome of the contest for the democratic Water board nomination with D. J. O'Brien beating Euclid Mar tin would Indicate that our democratic friends have not yet taken back into the fold all the. gold democrats who remained loyal to Grover Cleveland. Secretary Shaw happened to make his Visit to southwestern Missouri when lead and cine ore was at their highest price for several years, but he would have difficulty in finding any part of the United States not at the height of prosperity this year. The royal advent of King Ak-Sar-Ben XII is scarcely . ten days distant. It behooves Omaha to get its best clothes ready and put on its most pleasing smile to receive the out-of-town guests who are sure to be here. Mostly Hot Air. ClnjctnatL Enquirer. ...That Cuban repl,utlon must have taker) a cue from ltsSquth American cousins. Nobody seems ,to his, vs. been killed as yet in the unnumbered sanguinary encounters. ' "Posh" Falls to Land. Chicago Inter Ocean. A man has been appointed to a good office in Washington because he made no application for the place. Things come to some men In spite of all they can do. Cause aad Effect. Chicago Tribune. Probably there never would have been any talk of the " government going Into the railway business If the railways had not shown a disposition to go into the government business. .--.. Rockefeller Lack. Chicago "Record-Herald. OH and gas have been struck by work men who are excavating for the founda tions of a new ibulldlng which ' John D. Rockefeller intends to erect in Cleveland. If Rockefeller, instead of Moses, had led tha Israelites, that rock would probably have gushed petroleum. General fnostoa to the Fore. . New. York Sun. During the rocking chair period of the war with Spain, when the corridors of the Tampa Bay hotel, were haunted by appli cants for service In any capacity, a little man in civilian dress preferred a claim on the ground that be knew something about Cuba and had been under Are with the rebels. Ha asked for a staff position and would have been content to serve as an Interpreter. He received no great encour agement, and while he waa hoping and de sponding the governor of Kansas mad him a colonel of volunteers. He waa seen no more about the hotel, and when heard of In tha Philippines was leading charges and doing other things worth recording. It would be gratifying to Frederick Funs ton to be ordered to Cvbato assist In mak ing peace in any way that seemed desir able. No doubt he would remember with a lively satisfaction his days of waiting and longing at Tampa. PERSONAL, NOTES. If the Cuban revolutionists want to at tract attention they ahould get down to action before tha real battle begin on tha foot ball fields. The Russian government has offered a re ward of 10,000 rubles for th capture, dead or alive,' of Murad Klsilun, th famous Caucasus brigand. . He is said to have killed ovr JuO Russian soldiers and po licemen. The extreme earneatnese and eagerneaa with which the Nw York World pursues Willie Hearst raises the suspicion that Mr. PuliUer does not wholly - approve of tha New York American's style of yellow Journalism. . ; ' Baron Komura, Japan's new ambassador to Great Britain, la known in Peking, wher he snrved some time aa special envoy, aa th "rat minister," an allusion to th rapidity and subtlety of his movements, both physically and Intellectually. Frederick Heaa of Ban Francisco, proprie tor of th California Demokral, has been celebrating his golden Jubilee as a pub lisher. In September, ISoi, being then It years old, he purchased the paper named and has been running it ever since. Edward Fltiwllllama, poet and author, and on of Boston's well known cltlsena, will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of his marrlag on September M, and haa blred a hall for the purpose to accommo date th many frlenda h desire to invite. Mariner, poet aad alcentlat. Captain C. A. M. Taber of Wakefield. Mass., has for saken tha ocean and settled down to the production of several volume of verse and the publication of a number of , article oa th question of climatic change due to th influence of the eeean currants and winds. IX MKMORIAM. What He Accomplished. Fremont Herald. The Ufa of Edward Rosewater waa a Ufa of struggle against great odda. In the he ginning of hla newspaper career poverty was hla rhtefest foe, but that enemy was vanquished by the Indomitable will of the man. and he lived long enough to garner of the goods of earth far greater store than falls to average hand's. Many years ago he frankly admitted to friends that the supreme ambition of his soul waa to occupy a seat In the nation's senate as th spokes man for the people of his own loved state. In later years that ambition possesred him to the exclusion of the Interest he had hitherto sown In other affairs, and It has been charged that his senatorial ambition caused him to change political position sometimes to the annoyance of his closest frlenda. Perhaps this Is true, but It was only natural. Hla was a laudable ambition. Under his eye always, in large degree un der his leadership and Influence. Nebraska had grown from a sagebrush settlement to one of the grandest among the sisterhood of slates. He knew the part he had played In the transformation, and it was natural that he should aspire to the great dignity and honor of speaking for his state In the senate of the nation. Is Nebraska first among the states In point of education? Then let us pay, as Justly is due, our thanks to Edward Rose water, whose great newspaper has been for a third of a century the consistent and helpful friend of public education. Is Nebraska a state where the Individual dares assert his own rights In the presence of the great combinations of capital? Then rive to Edward Rosewater all the praise, for the record reads that never a political victory was scored by the people against the corporations save only when the people followed him as leader. Is there a spirit of liberality among tho people of Nebraska? Then let lovers of liberty bear offerings to the Rosewater bier today, because through all the years he had preached upon these prairies the good doctrine of liberality, opposing every at tempt at sumptuary laws and every move ment to deny to any man the worship of his God In harmony with the dictates of conscience. Won for the People. Scrfuyler Free Press. In ail his newspaper career he was the foe of the corporations In political affairs and ever stood for the regulation of the railroad companies as to freight and pas senger rates and for equal taxation aa compared with private property. He bat tled ever for the cause and often stood seemingly single-handed and alone In the cause, but he lived to see what he had so long fought for, and which did not seem to make much headway, finally be come a popular subject and before the people In such a way as to foreshadow a victory for the people. It waa Edward Rosewater who stood for control of the railroads by legislation and against railroad domination of political matters; It waa Edward Rosewater who appeared before congressional and legislative com mittees and argued for railroad regula tion and furnished statistics and reasons; It waa Edward Rosewater who persist ently fought for proper railroad assess ment and battled In . season and out of season for the cause. In his death Nebraska loses one of Its greatest cltixena and the common people their grandest defender. He was a great man In his energy. In his Indomitable will, in his mind and Intellect. In his per sonal honor and integrity hs was great In the battles of life he fought for the bettering - of humanity, he wu great In the friends he had and In th enemies he made. Nebraska has suffered a great loss. Servant of Incessant Toll. Ashland Gasette. The great strength of Mr. Rosewater character lay in his capacity for hard work, his Indomitable will and his marvol oualy developed mind. He had nt ready command a fund of information on almost any theme that was astonishing to those who knew him. He had a marvelously re tentive memory and his grasp of men and of things and of facta was such as placed him In the ranks of the world's geniuses. Mr. Rosewater aimed to be Just, although sometimes in his seal he failed to carry out his Ideals. To his family he waa kind, to his employes both Just and generous, and to his state and the city of his home he waa a servant of incessant toll. To pro mote th welfare of all waa his aim, and he never spared himself in order to advance any cause he had espoused. Enemies Mast Clre Him Credit. Beemer Times. In his ' death Nebraska loses one of Us brightest and most noble sons, a man among , men, who, though ha had many enemies, those enemies must) and do give him credit for being honest In hi convic tions. State and Nation Moors Loss. Humphrey Deader. Genuine regret and Borrow la expressed on every hand, state and nation, over the death of Edward Rosewater, the veteran editor, founder and builder of The Omaha Bee. Mr. Roaewater has lived in Omaha for nearly forty year and was the editor of The Bee for thlrty-Ove years. Hun dreds of messages of sympathy and bor row were received by the family. Political .Prayer Teat. Pittsburg Dispatch. Colonel Watterson's devout and earnest prayer that Providence would glv Mr. Bryan wisdom was speedily followed by Bryan's modification of his government ownership Issue. Will anyone ahow caus why this should not be accepted as a prayer tstT TaJte Year Choice. .mw York Tribune. Cuba's politicians ought to realise that they can't keep their cake as well aa eat It. It is a ohoice between Independence with order and order without Independence. A RHYMK OF WAHMSQ. John Kendrick Bangs, In New York Herald. I wish I could meet that fellow who'll meet with a watery fate Because he will rock th row boat and learn when it la too late. I wish h might read this stansa from first to tha final Una, And guide hla act By the well known fact That th trick la aslnln. I would I could only grab him. th fellow that own a gun, That's loaded from stock to mussl. who fires it off for fun. And didn't know it was loaded until, with a deafening roar. It strewed with groans And shattered bones His friends on the parlor floor! i I would I could nab that chappy who's eager to get rich quick; Who puts up his sll on margin, ambitious to turn the trick. I wish h might read the verses and 'scape from the fllmmering flam And ver beware Of th bull and th ear Who have a penchant for Iambi I would I could teach that youngster who yearns for a maid's blue eye. And thinks that an outward beauty be tokens an Inward prise That a bright and beautiful label on the aide of a can of tin I a aur slcn Of a lUMrilnt Virginia ham within I v I O'Donahoe-Redmond-llormile Co. Wish to inform their many friends and customers that they have MOVED into THEIR NEW STORE SIXTEENTH and HOWARD STREETS, and will be ready for BUSl NESS IN A FEW DAYS. :X- See Announcement Later CHICAGO'S HEW COfRT HOl'SB. Some Facts Aboat the Bnlldlngr Rlslaa on the Site of the Old. With ceremonies befitting the event th cornerstone of th fifth court house built by Cook county In Chicago will be laid by Vic President Fairbanks this afternoon. The new building Is rising on the site of the old at Waahlngton and Clark streets. Th claim is msde that it will be "the largest court house In the world and the first one In this country designed aa an office building especially to meet the re quirements of the county government." Hitherto tho city and county government occupied Jointly the building on Clark street erected after the great fire of 1871, and regarded in its day a splendid monu ment to the new Chicago, But It outlived Ita usefulness long ago. Two years ago the county decided on a new modern build ing. The county'a half of the Joint court house was torn down and the new one started, leaving the city's half of th old building to serve as a darkened background for th modern structure. , Instead of trie usual public building with domes and porticos the new court house Is arranged to fit exterior elevation. It la dignified In design, Impressive in propor tions, classlo In composition and will coat with furnishings 15,000,000. The new court house will have a floor area of fourteen acres and one mile of cor ridor space. The floor space of the old building waa five acre. The offices of tho county collector and recorder alone will have 40,000 square feet of floor space, or 20,000 each. There will be Eleven stories, with basements and sub-basements In ad dition. The lowest floor, where the boilers will rest, will be thirty-eight feet below street level, and the highest point of the roof will be 218 feet above ground. The boiler stack will be 7 feet t inches In diameter and 276 feet and 2 Inches long. It will weigh seventy-five tons. 'The general design of the'' building will be on the lines of a glanf letter "E." There will be two large courts to the west. (The, long side of the "E" will be on Clark street and the ends on Randolph and Washington streets. The center part of the steel and granite letter will contain the elevators, stairs, msln foyer and In brief will be tha great artery of Ingress and exit. The cor ridors wilt run north and south In the msln section and east and weat In the wings. The room and halls are to be light and airy. The area of glass Is to be unusually large greater, Indeed, than that in moat of the downtown office buildings. Ths three double doors In trie main en trance will be separated one from the other by piers. At th right and left of the entrance and between the doors are to be four carved, figured panels In high relief, the work of Herman A. MecXell, sculptor, of New York and Bell and Her mant, Chicago sculptors. "Justice" will be depicted In the panel at the right of the entrance, and at the left will be a great panel symbolizing "Law," On a shield between the figures will be carved the seal of Cook county. Two panels are to be over the piers between the doors and one will represent "Labor on Land" and the second "Labor on Sea." The thre main doorways will be twenty feet high and twelve feet six Inches In width. There also are to be entrances on Washington and Randolph streets, but the Clark street approach and lobby will be th most pretentious. The caller, as he goe into the building from Clark street, will find, himself In an Immense vestibul finished in marble and bronse, with mar ble and stone paneled floor and curved cell ing of ornamental glass and bronse. The Browning, Ming & Co ORIGINATORS AMD SOLE MAKERS Of IALP SIZES IN CLOTfllNO. Fifteenth and Douglas Sts. PradMy at Slad Str MEW 1 main' hall and corridor of the first llonr will be finished in Italian marble of a soft buff color. . Entrance from Clark street leads into a a Immense vestibule finished In marble ami bronze, with marble and stone panrlri floor and . a curved celling of ornamental glass and bronse. Beyond this vestibule 1 a great hall, running completely through the building from east to vest. For the present the west end will open Into a small court, In the future it will be connected with the new city hall. If so desired. Ftom each side of this main hall, at Its western end, run two wide corridors, one to Wash ington street and one to Randolph street. The great hall and corridor on the first story will be finished In Italian marble of a soft buff color. The walls, arches, groined and vaulted and moulded celling will be of this marble and the panels filled with rich mosaic in color, of Italian re naissance design, similar to the palace of Mantua. There are to be seven elevators on each side of the main hall and four sets of stair ways, two at either Bids. These are to pierce every floor to the peak of the struc ture. In the upper floors the corridors and halls are to be finished In marble and the several departments are to be handsomely treated, but with marked simplicity. The courtrooms are to be given particular at tention by the architects, who wish them to be airy and well lighted. The Judges' cham bers. Jury and witness rooms will be ad jacent to each courtroom, and also will b pleasant and airy. There are to be five 860-horse-power hollers mechanically stoked and with patent' ash removers and coal feeders. These will distribute 85.000 square feet of direct heat ing and 82,000 of Indirect. The system will be of ths direct vacuum description, the direct heat to be seventy and the Indirect seventy-two. Fresh air will be ' pumpd through the structure's steel arteries In vast currents." The a-ir' first' will W waahe1 by running water and then dried by baffle plates. Ducts, leading to fan houses, will exhaust the foul atmosphere. The plan Is to finish the courthouse Mar 1 next, and the general belief . Is that the contractors can deliver it over to the county on that date. If so a record will be made In building construction. I.I IBS TO A LAI OH. "If I were president, I would never ap point a baldheaded man on a diplomatic mission." "Why not?" ' . "Why not, stupid? 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