TOE" OMAIIA- DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1906.
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' 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
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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
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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? How could a bald
headed - man spilt . hairs!" Baltimore
American.
"There'a a fellow Who gives himself dead
away every time he starts talking."
"You don't say. What's the trouble?"
"He makes his living by posing aa a deaf
and .dumb beggar." Philadelphia. Ledger.
Dishy Bill I hesitate to ask 'you con
cerning such a matter, but a glance will
how you th state of my trousers at the
knees; and, madam, if you have an old
pair
Angelina Antique (acidly) Mia, If you
please. ,
Dishy BUI Ah, ye; excuse me! an old
prayer rug, which you have discarded, It
would b thankfully received. Puck.
"Now, thy friends," said the orator, tak
ing a bundle of clippings from his pocket,
"let us proceed to analyaa the causes of
the country' wondarful 'prosperity'"
At this point pandemonium broke loose.
It waa an audience of calamity howlers
and they thought ha was In earnest. Chi
cago Tribune.
"Now. I think." said the plodder, "that
every man ahould be satisfied to leave well
enough alone."
"Nothing to It!" replied the hustler. "No
man who feels that way ever reaches
'well enough.' "Philadelphia Press.
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