Nebraska Newspapers

    'THE OMAHA' SUNDAY BEE: NOVEMBER 2 10V,.'
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TIMELY REAL ESTATE TALK
Union Ptcifio Headquarters Annouacemtnt
Comes Ver? Welcome.
TEN STORIES FOR A MILLION DOLLARS
Ur. Mohler ftse-a the Dimensions of
Bntldln and Loral Architects
Clve Estimate of Its
Probable Coat.
Ben Cotton's Residence a Handsome Addition to Omaha's List of Homes
C01 TON'S FIXE NEW I1QCSE
Hindsoma Residince in Which the Tamil
Has Eeen Installed.
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Convenience Seeored aad Comfort
. Afforded. While Taate and Kle
annre Mark the Whole
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Ten stories. Thin li to b the height of
ths Union Pac.Mo headquarters building,
according to an announcement Friday of
Tle President Mohler. The building will
'bo 173 feet on Dodge street and 132 feet on
I Fifteenth street and will contain an office
pace of 150,ooo square feet. A million
dollars tho structure will coat. It will be
a credit to the railroad company and a
. poaseaslon to which the city may point
. with pride.
Mr. Mohler, riven "more to action that to
predicting action, cannot say when the
' work of actual construction Is to betfn.
j It-will bo started as noon as the building
( on the site can be removed, and they cun
j not be remove! until the present leases
i expire. Some of tho leases run several
. months yet. It Is noped construction may
. Atari In the early spring, plans are being
drawn In the office of Chief Engineer Hunt
jley, who la si vine them his personal at
: tentloa.
The estimate of $1,000,000 a the cost of
the building- was not made by Mr. Mohler,
but by architects of the city. They say
nuch a structure would cost at least that
much, and perhaps more, for labor ttnd
matcrlul may bo hlirher next yeur than
this. Kruiwitis; the practloo of the com
)ieny to erect Bond buildings and Mr. Hunt
ley's skill In dcsljrnlns them, tho architects
say the headquarters building la suro to be
from the artlHtic, euhatanttHl and economi
cal points of view. If the snncral idea
adopted In tho construction of the shop
buildings is to be followed, it Is thought
the new structure will be plain, but with
enough ornamentation to make It pleasing
to look at.
To the minds of the Omaha rJoncers the
pausing of the old headquarters recalls a
great deal of history, not only of Omaha I
and Nebraska, but of the entire west, for I
it was at Omaha an the gateway of the '
west that railroad and empire builders'
dithered. Half of the old lioadnuarters
was a hotel, built hy Ir. George 1 Miller,
Lyman W. Richardson and others, the
cornerstone belna; laid In 1RS6 by Ir. Miller, j
and the building completed some time In (
the next year. It. was named the Herndon
tinuse lifter tVptntn V. IL Herndon of the
Vnlted KtJites navy. Joy Morton was born
in this hotel. In 1S77 the Union Paclfto
took charifo of the Ifemdon house and
mado it headquarters. In lWfl a duplicate
of the old pert was built and the railroad's
lutiin wns mado us It is today, except that
shout $.E,(ifW in Improvements lias been
ipcnt on it since that date.
Sales in the vicinity of Fifteenth and
JlodKe streets, resulting from the estab
lishment of the Union' Pacific headquar
ters there, continue to be announced and
rumored. Presumably before tho railroad
deal was announced, L. V. Morse and H.
A. Perry sold to Frank Parsons for about
(10,500 tho Cumberland hotel property at
the southwest corner of Fifteenth street
and I'upitol avenue. LaM Friday deeds
were placed on record showing that Mr.
Parsons had sold the same property to
A. n. McConnell for $18,000. It is now
reported that Mr. McConnell Is negotiat
ing a suit-. Another deal is rumored in
tho same block, on lot 3, the lot on which
the Oackh-y warehouse Is located. Just
east of Sixteenth street on Capitol ave
nue. It is said the owner, Harry McCor
mkk, has sold an option on it to the Mu-
DENTISTRY
PAINLESSNESS,
CLEANLINESS,
RELIABILITY,
MODERATE PRICES,
Are tho Leading Features of My
Practice.
Pilllnga. $1.09 Up.
DR. FICKES, DFNTl'
Phone Douglas 537. 338 Bee Bldg.
A few dollars of your earnings
every week. The man or woman
Kt'king tho safest investment
for his or her funds will find
absolute security and profit
by opening an account with us.
Six per cent paid on pavings
accounts. "Why not begin to ac
quire tho having habit today.
We alno make monthly pay
ment homestead loans. New lo
cation and home, S. E. Cor. lfith
F. nd Dodge Streets.
OMAHA LOAII and
BUILDING ASSOCIATION
G. VV Loomls, Prts. G. M. Nattinger, Stcy.
Bonders of Modern Houses
"Ea it ever so humble
There's no place like home."
Your means must determine tbs
tlx of your Investment Happi
ness and contentment is quit as
often found In a cottsgs at a
palac. Draw a pencil sketch, of
the bouse you would build. ' Wa
tlevelop Ideas and relieve you of
all the details of construction.
SIII.MER & CHASE CO.
Building Sites, Suburtar Acruge, Hsxss
1C09 Farn;m. Cround Floor
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Cague Investment company, the option
being based on a valuation of $30,000.
The Real Estate exchange Is getting
busy again to see what can be done to
secure the extension of water mains to
residence property. J. W. Robhlns, f. tf.
Curtis, K. T. Heyden. E. A. lionaon and
Alex Carlton were appointed a committee
to confer with the Omaha AVator company,
the Water board and citizens, and report
on ways and means of securing such ex
tensions. Among the other subjects taken up at
the last meeting of the exchange wus
the bad condition of the city's streets. It
was agreed that the condition was due
to the opposition paving contractors have
displayed toward tho city's repair plant.
They say the cement era is dawning. It
looks that way, judging from the story
that cement la now being used its a ma
terial for shingles. A late number of
the Cement Era says:
The cement shingles are only slightly
heavier than slate and not much more
expensive than the best wood shingles, and
as they are practically lndestructtole they
are much cheaper In the end than any
other material, including tile and slate..
These shingles are made in a great varletv
of designs and are reinforced with metal
skeletons, which hold the cement together,
and terminate in loops at the edges for
nailing to the roof. They are pmctlcally
everlaxtltig. as moisture, tho cause of
universal decay, is the chemical agent In
the vrocess of hardening cement, and
when properly mixed and tempered the
cement shingles become harder and more
durable the more they are exposed to tho
weather.
Wood, of course, Is abundant in Cali
fornia, and there are almost inexhausti
ble deposits of slate, but for all that,
cement rooflng Is growing In favor. Tlint
material Is cheaper than slate and tiling
and vastly more enduring than wood.
Though very little farm land is chang
ing hands in Nebraska, the sales that are
made show a doubling In valu in the
last eight or ten years, and a steady and
constant Increase at present. For' In
stance, Charles Markham of Hall county,
last week, bought H. N; Converse's 100
acre farm, four miles north of Hastings,
paying $15,250, or a little in excess of $90
an acre. Mr. Converse paid $10,000 for
the land a few years ago, and It was held
much higher then, of course, than it was
eight or ten years ago.
END OF STOREY'S "FOLLY
Remnant of the Tastlo of t'hlenao's
Kauioan KdHor Sold and ,
Demolished.
"Storey's Fully." otherwise known an
"tha unnnlnlii-d catitlr" ot Wilbur F. Storfy,
which occupied a laige portion of a five-ai-re
tract at Grand boulevard and Forty
third Htreot, I'hlcafro, and wlione cellar,
or "catacomb," built deep uiul massive,
withstood tho forces c disintegration for
a ouarter of n century, is ut last belne
obliterated from the sjot on which it lian
been a landmark and a marvel for no many
years. Immense blocks of white marble.
tho lust vestiges of the old ruin, are being
removed from the lot by David Palfrey
man, a landscape gardener and janitor,
who lives at 4321 Vernon avenue, in the
basement of a house built with stone taken
from the walls of the "castle."
The gardener-Janitor has purchased the
last stones, tho.se in the foundations and
the "catacomb," from the Btorey heirs,
the family of Jlrs. Mary Chapin of South
Uend, ind., at a "bargain price.'
The history of tho feat at house building
whereby Wilbur F. Storey, the most spec
tacular editor Chicago ever h:d, proposed
to build for himself the tinest house on the
American continent, is familiar to many
In the neighborhood, and they regret the
utter defacement of the colossal monument
to the "mad editor's" folly.
It was In the lata '70s that Wilbur F.
Btorey, the famous editor of the Chicago
Times, first conceived the Idea of a greot
maUKloii which he wished to stand for all
time as a lasting monument to his fiKht for
"a fireproof Chicago" In the stirring iiy
succeeding the great fire. llo wished tlm
structure to be of beautiful architecture
and to exceed in grandeur anything in
America.
Marble from the quarries of Vermont i
brought to Chicago (it a freight rol thut
was a small fortune In tts-'lf. The base
ment, with the celebrated vault.' was fiu
ished, anJ then Storey, fancying ill Lid fall
ing condition of mind that lie hail been
bunkoed by tho workmen an-l contractors
and had not got "v:iluo fni' hs money."
tore everything ui and had n'.l rebuilt. 1 1
ordered tho architecture i haig-d from
1 Gothic to that of the old KiikI.'s.! churcl.tF.
Five stories were bull I, in skeleton form.
u.nd the con had ( xcicdcd SJ'V, The in
terior was a labyitnth. wl'.li muny rooms
having secret cntrun.es "no entrances"
was what some persons whimpered. His
fimtiLstl ODcration ill houio bulhiina
! caused Storey's sanity to be called In ques
tion. A ronyervutor was srpolni' d, and In
August, !SM. the editor was adjudged In
sane, lie died two months later, leaving
the r'HilVss castle as bis legacy to the cause
of the "city beautiful." It was never In
habited for even a day by any bdy. Clii
cufio Record-Herald.
HOTEL CHANGESHANDS AGAIN
Cumberland nought by Frank H.
Parsons Is Sold to A. B.
Met onaell.
Ti e t unilrf-rland hotel, which went on
iiooni a few data aso as having been
bought by Frank H. Parsons, has been sold
by Mr. Parsons u A. P.. McConnell, tho
i-orslderatlon being nmiwil at $1S,M3. The
hotel is a three-story building at the sauth
west corner of Fifteenth street and Cpp'.tul
avenue and is h)sl!, feet. -x
The sale to the I'rilun Pacific of the Kui
laisi buildlnkT. 'it the noithwest torner of
K-fte- n.i. yiil 1kh?v sTeeis was retold-"!
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CEPTION HALL, VESTIBULE AND MUSIC HOOJI BEYOND.
LIVES LOST IN INDUSTRIES
rYorkihop Accidents .tore Deadly Than
Modem Wars.
MOVE FOR GREATtrt LIFE PROTECTION
Itallroad Csnaltlea Dnt a Small
Proportion of the Mortality
Record of the Indus
trial World.
"Taking the lowest of our three estimates
of Industrial aeelden'.s, the total number
of casualties suffered by our Industrial
army In one year Is equal to tho average
annual casualties of our civil war, plus
those of the Philippine war, plus those
of tho Russian and Japanese war.
"Thing of our cnrrylng on throe such
wars at the same time world without
end:''
This is tho rather startling way in which
Dr. Joflah Strong, president of the Amer
ican Institute o Social Service, emphasizes
the fearful sacrlllce of life to "our indus
trial Juggernaut.'
The comparison between the loss of life
in the Industries and In war falls, of
course, at one point. War Is altogether
destructive, while the industries give some
thing in return for lives taken.
lr. Strong at the outset of his article
In the North American Review calls at
tention to the fact that while the railroad
casualties attract a great deal of atten
tion, they are only a small proportion of
tho casualties thut take pluce In the In-
dustrlal world.
"It Is Important to gain pome Idea of I
the great numbers who are annually ftie
riflced by accidents Inf our American in
dustries," ways Dr. Strong. "As compared
with Kuropcan governments, our stute
legislatures havo generally been strangely
indifferent to tho whole subject. Tho laws
of only eleven of our slates require the
reporting- of accidents in factories; and a
careful examination reveals but a single
state whose laws require the reporting of
accidents In all Industries."
Record of sv Year.
Working, however, from data derived
from widely divergent sources. Dr. Strong
shows the minimum number of Industrial
accidents in this country in a year must
be considerably more than 600,000.
"When In all history." ho asks, "have
two great armies lecn ublo to Inflict on
I each other a total of oOU.OOO casualties In a
slnrle year? Thin is 50 per cent more than
aJl the killed nnd wounded in the late wur
between Japan and Russia.
"There are more casualties on our rail
ways In a single year than there were on
! both sides of the Boer war in three years,
j "I.at year, on our railways, we killed
as many every thirty-seven days and
1 wounded as many every twelve days as
l all our killed und wounded in the 2f6l en
gagements of the rhlllpplno war. Or, in
other words, there were twenty. four times
j us many casualties on our railways in
j one year as our army suffered in the rhll
lpplno war in three years and three
months. ,
'At thut rate we might have continued
the war for seventy-eight years before
' equaling the record of our railways In u
I twelve month. And we must not forget
; that less than or.e-flfth of the losses of
j our Industrial army aTe suffered on our
j railways. That Is to say, we might carry
on a half ducen Philippine wars for tnrec
quarters of a century with no larger num
ber of total casualties than take placo
yearly in our peaceful industries.
"We are waging a perpetual war on hu
manity," says Dr. Strong, "and one which
Is apparently growing bloodier from year
to year."
Europe l.rsds America.
He quotes government statistics to show
Hiat on the railroad?, to a plven number
of jiassengers, then: wore tlce as many
kllhtl In lima ns In 1SK5.
"Kuropo. Ii far In advance of America
i in protecting workmen from needless Oc
cidents both by legislation and by safety
appliances. The Association of French In
dustrialists for the Prevention of Acd-
by :eaon of Its varied and ben- fl-
dents
cent activities, was devlured to In of pub
lic utility' as long ago as 1SS7. There win
o General Exposition or Accident lTeven
tlon In Gennaiiy In Ins?. Immediately after
lis close there was oiganlted in Vienna a
Mtueuin of Security and of Industrial
ilyglcno.
There are now half a diaen such mu-3t-imi.
in Europe, ono Laving been organ-
Ucd In Purls last December, and formally
opened by the president of the republic,
liven backward nus.-la shama us by her
Museum of Security at Moscow. Austria
has hud a score of expositions of suf-tv
appliances for tho education of the people.
"Guv crmm nis and piiblic-:lrlted clU-
reus have, vied wiih eax h othi re In pro-
tiling funds for such Institutions. Here
Hi greatest or all industrial peoples hns not see a native. The island of Luzon ulone
attempted little by legislation and nothing ' Is over 7'J) miles long; most all its popula
by organUcd effort. j tlon live along the seacoast; but were lis
"In view of these facts, it In not strange I wonderful resources developed many times
tiiit Ht tlie same Industries (rvllroadlriv; , Its present population might dmell th.re i-i
and mining), of a given number of men
employed we kill sud Injure from two to
nine times as niutiv as they do tn Furope.
"This Industrial slaughter Is utter, utier
wasti wasted resources, wasted unguis'i,
win led life. And. aithougli the greater part
of this F iriltlce is as needless as it is use
.ss. It goes wearily on year after yeur.
; T'le price of our selfish Indifference Is never
paid,
"It is t!l to nd the barbarities of war.
Is it not tini.- to place some limit -to the
barbarities f peace-
l o tn's era the American Institute
Social Set vl.-e I- to li..M an exposition
..utty il-.'its at the A uu. riven Mu-unt j
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Natural History In New York January 2$
to February !, lfTT."
PHILOSOPHY FOR INSOMNIACS
llotv the Terrors of sleeplessness Muy
He MUUated If Ion Have
the Xerve.
Why make a bugbear out of lnomniu.'.'
Why T'ot use it as a sen-ant Instend of
whining under It as a master? "All we,
like sheep." want to Jump over the same
place in the wall at the same time. We
are all clmntlnir the refrain, 'eight hours'
work, eight hours' piny, eight hours' sleep"
and we are trying pell-mell to realize It
together, r.ut that Is Impossible! industrially
and physically. We cannot time our lnbnr
hours to a simultaneous eight. What n
looking world this would be if we were nil
whlxilng togother In the same eight hours
for recreation. It Is Just ns Impossible and
just ns ridiculous to try to bunch our sleep
Into a common eight. Yet we are storm
ing the skies and making life wean- to
the rest of mankind with our complaints
that we cannot execute the latter feat. To
begin with, nnst people do not need eight
hours' sleep. 1 never had eight hours' con
secutive sleep In my life that was not the
sleep of exhaustion that was not a siirn
that something had been done that could
not he continued without serious Inmnds on
vitality. Seven hours Is all have been
ablo normally to utilize. That amount of
sleep I have rarely had consecutively. I
have had my midnight wake from child
hood. One of the most vivid and abiding
memories of the old homo is the attic win
dow, with Its seven-by-nlne panes, toward
which I turned back my head, year in and
year out, to make sure by Its light that
I was not buried alive. I had tho muiw
room college, for three years. It fronted
wopt overlooking I should say overhear
ingthe Connecticut valley. . I have as
distinct recollection of the midnight train
tolling up that valley as I have of tho 5
o'clock m'onilnsr hell that called to chapel.
I heard it as often. The midnight wake
has been the habit of niy whola life. Since
I have, had sens enough to adapt myself
to it instead of flprhtlng it I havs had some
comfort.
I find the rule with myself is to sleep
when I nm sleepy. This has always called
for an after-dinner nap. When I have had
that for ten to thirty minutes I havo had
a new half day. I pity myself now to think
that back as fa.r as my college days I did
not habitually take that sedative ti nerv
ous exhaustion. I fought sleep then us if
I were fighting- "with beasts at Ephesus."
Now for the midnight wake. I have
found that I enjoy my mind and favor my
Doay Dctter and fall asleep quicker by try
ing to do some good, honest work In
thought rather than to toss about and in
dulge In objurgation because sleep will not
come. I can think myself Into position
for the work of another day, can polish
on essuy, or take a bout with some prob
lem In science, psychology or ethics, and
the first thing I know the bell of the
o'clock train is ringing at the station. In
this way I get rid both of myself and "the
cares that infest the day."
Now, mine may be an Individual case,
but I imagine there are many Individual
cases of this sort among men. I nm as
thankful for the hour of my midnight wake
ns for any other hour of my life.-Charl"i
Caverns in Chicago Advance.
CHARMS THAT PALL QUICKLY
urprl.lnB Diversity of Philippine
Climate and Marvels of
Seenerr.
li seems to me that the leaat appreciated
feature of the Philippines is the diversity
of climate. Though tho Philippines are oil
in tho tropics, y. t frequently within a day's
travel one will come upon strong climatic
contrasts.
Whether you go to the lovely, cool moun
tain plateaus or down to the wanner cities
of tlv- level, you will find that, though
there aro tho changes of the seasons, still
the climate from 'day to day varies little.
liy dressing properly one docs not feel tho
heat so much.
Manila, the hottest in the Philippines, is
often Intensely warm in March, April and
May; yet prostrations never come an thev
j '" New York. In midsummer, and. above
ait, there are cool lUghts everywhere.
Perhaps no country In the world pos-ses-i-s
ro many scenic marvels as the Phll-
i lpptnes; regions which, were they known,
would attract tourists the world over.
There Is the wonderful Taol volcano, rising
from the middle of a lake; there are the
vast Cordilleras, not surpassed In beauty
arid grandeur by any ranges In the world:
there aro the wonderful mountain plateaus
and valleys covered with seas of rich and
' waving gross and bordered by forested hog.
back?, which project Ir.to them as capes
prcject into the ocean.
Here wild deer and boar roam In great
abundance, , hlle occasional herds of wih;
; carabao move clumsily over the ground.
Terliups for deys In these regions one may
great prc.Hrerlty.-Hamllton Wright, In L s
llus Weekly.
CI'T GLAPS-Frenrer, loth and Vxtt
Births aad Daertiis.
The following births ia4 deaths were re-
ported to the Board of Health during the
twenty-four hours ending Saturday noon:
Births Willis Yates. 3 youth Thirty
liit, girl; J. B. Gibson, J)- Urirnnre avs-
Inae. boy; Kdward Crook. :':13 Leavenworth
boy.
Deaths Orvln . Vlckroy, 3K.T1 North Flf-
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ufltentu avenue. ,i; Georse W. Wir.l.im
! Wirt. ; Herman Kounlse. Forest mil.'
Joseph H'jelger. Thirteenth and r..ii!
t)-'; MurtLa Jau Jacvii, Gothenburg, iu.
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COUNTY AUDIT PLAN POPULAR
Proposition to Vake Clerk Fraoticallj
Comptroller Meets No Opposition.
URE'S SCHEME OF BUING SUPPLIES RAPPED
Oome Officials Believe Tims to Kw
power Board Would Be like
niacins a Clnb In
Its Hands.
No opposition lias so far developed to the
plan proposed Thursday afternoon at the
meeting of county officials to make ths
county clerk auditor of county accounts
with practically the same powers and du
ties in county affairs that the city comp
troller has In city affairs. The recom
mendation was made by County Clerk Hav
erly, with an additional recommendation
that the salaries in the office be placed on
the same basis as the help In tho other
offices. Tho some proposal to combine the
two offices was made by Mr. I're when the
Joint meeting of county officials was first
proposed several months ago and it is en
dorsed by County Auditor Smith.
County Clerk Ilavorly declares It is the
clear Intent of the law to make the county
clerk auditor of all bills filed for payment
and his recommendation is merely for leg
islation to carry out and make more spe
cific the evident purpose of the present
law. Those who have examined the stat
utes differ as to whether the county clerk
or the county board is really empowered to
audit bills. The county board has claimed
the power and under the claim has ap
pointed a county auditor to do the work for
it. The law Is said to be rather Indefinite
and a number of county officials would like
to see It changed so as to provide an elec
tive official responsible to the people alone
to go over all bills as they are filed and
the accounts of the various offices In which
money Is collected far the county.
Opposition to One Plan.
Some opposition has been aroused to one
recommendation of Commissioner Vro In
this connection. One of his proposals was
to prohibit tho county clerk from ordering
any supplies or employing any help with
out the consent of the county board. Those
who oppose the plan declare It would give
the county board a club to wield over tho
head of the county clerk If his appoint
ments had to go through the hinds of the
members of the board.
County Auditor Smith has a proposal
which may bo presented at the next meet
ing of the officials. He proposes that all
certified copies of official records bo coun
tersigned by the county treasurer before
they are delivered to applicants for them.
At present there is no way by which the
county can check the number of these rec
ords furnished by the different offices or
the amount of fees that ought to be col
lected for them. If the treasurer were re
quired to countersign them beforo they
were delivered he would have' a check on
the office furnishing tho record.
W. 1. Klerstend's plan for an Insanity
commission, composed of the county cArrk,
county attorney and county physician,
which would save the county about $3,000 a
year In fees pahl to the insanity commis
sion under tho present law, was objected to
In one detail by H. T. Clarke, Jr., at tho
meeting Thursday. Mr. Clarke declared If
he ever had to be examined for insanity
he wanted the examination made by an
expert in mental diseases and not by tho
county physician, who might or might not
be an alienist. Mr. Klerstead says his pleu
might be revised In this one detail and still
effect a great saving to the county.
MOTHER WILL IGNORE ORDER
Mrs. Basaett Determined Not to Sur
render Children on Deeree from
Washington Court.
A decree affecting the custody of the. chil
dren or In T property Interests, which may
be entered by the court at Washington will
not be recognized as being- legally binding
by Mrs. Fuiinie Rice Dassett, who Is de
fendant in u suit at Washington and pluln-
tin In a divorce suit here against Charles
C. Bassett.
Judge I. F. Haxter, who Is Mrs. HhshcU'u
t attorney In Omaha, declares that not hav
! ing secured service on Mrs. Iiassett the
court there can make no order affecting the
children, which are in her custody. In cae
an attempt is made to enforce such an
order the case decided by the supreme court
I last summer, which created samething of
a stir in divorce court circl-s, will be ap
pealed to as a basis for a tight agulnst
the order.
In that suit the supreme court practically
-ald a divorce decree where no actual serv
' tee was had on the defendant was not en
forceable outside the limits of the stute In
which It was granted. No service has been
had on Mrs. Hassett and she Is not uppcar-
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Ing In tho case, consequently pho will not
recognize the decree.
Her case here Is still pending nnd prob
ably will be heard some time next month.
As personal service was had on her hus
band in that cao, It will not come under
the rule luld down by the supreme court.
LEEDER GETS BOOST FOR BILL
Kinds Chicago System Sncressfiil and
Heeelves Support for Double
Shift In Oniaba.
Representative-elect l,eeder has Just re
turned from Chicago, where he went to seo
the operation of the two-platoon or double
fchlft system and is enthusiastic over what
hrf saw.
"I talked wllh Mayor Dunne and he tells
me they will have tho system completely
Installed and in active operation all over
the city by Juu.V Rild Mr. Deeder. "Mayor
Dunne Is heartily co-operating with the
firemen; he hns their Interests Ht heart
and !s going to see that nothing he is able
to do to promote this proposition is left
undone.
"If this system Is good for Chicago, H Is
good for Omaha. And we are going to
have It. This next legislature is going to
give It to us. The fire and pollco board
could have done it long ago, but it chose
not to. It can arrange the hours of tho
policemen, why not of the firemen? They
tell us firemen sit there nil day long with
nothing to do. That's true sometimes, and
sometimes the fireman is the busiest man
all day long In the state. But busy or not
he is constantly subject to the most dan
gerous of duties. His Is the most hazardous
work there Is. almost. Ask the insurance
companies. And It Is desperately hard
work. Aside from the constant danger of
losing his life, the fireman Is deprived of
home pleasures: ho la almost a stranger to
his family. Is this right? What other class
of workmen under the city government of
Omaha hns to suffer this injustice?
Certain men those who went or rent to
the legislature last session und finally ac
complished the defeat of our hill by Just
eleven votes tell y&u 'we taxpayers' can't
afford this additional cost of government.
Who are we taxpayers? Go to tho city
treasurer's ofllce and see how many poor
old firemen in Omaha there are who are
paying taxes on homes they have bought
through their small salaries. Are not they
entitled to say what 'we taxpayers' shall
and shall not do? It seems to mo the tiro
men have a double right In this matter.
"I um meeting with the most encouraging
en-operation in Omaha for my bill, ami I
do not believe the lobby that defeated It
two years ago can defeat it this winter.
The powers that governed me two years ao
would not let me go down to Lincoln and
work "for the bill as others worked against
It, but by the grace of those powers' popu
larity (?) 1 shall go to this legislature, not
as a lobbyist, but as a member."
Mr. Irf-eder Is the veteran fireman who
was discharged by the Board of Fire and
Police Commissioners for projecting him
self as n candidate for the legislature.
EASY TO ELEVATE CHECKS
W. F. Oldham Points Oat Koine Tricks
that Are Difficult to
Detect.
"The tricks and devices by which checks
aro 'raised' are almost numberless," ul
W. F. Oldham, who represents a devlc
for preventing tampering with cheeks
"Bankers and others who have much to d
with checks cannot be too careful In the'
examination of all pHper that comes undo
their hands. Take, for example, a chee'
for tifOO. Notice how easily it Is raised t
1M by merely adding other lines. Th
written word 'two' can be changed to the
written word 'five' by the addition of Jus
two strokes, a dot and one loop. The (irs'
stroke is ucrots the 'T,' the second stroke
Is ndiled to the first part of the W nnd a
dot placed over it making this an 'I;' then
lie second part of the -w' Is a 'v' and b
putting u loop at the top of the 'O' you
lmve nn 'li.'
"Hut c'liei ks are often raised by changing
all except ;he signature. Acids that will
take out Ink und leave the, aper Intact
ate common. When this fort of fraud be
came too common the watermark paper
was Invented. Then when the acid wus
u.)ed to take out the ink it took the water
mark with it and showed plainly that the
cheek hud been tampered wllh. Hut the
clever fellows who were raising checks
met the water murk with another Inven
tion, namely, an a-ld which made the water
murk fixed so that when the aed was put
on to take the ink out tho water mark was
not disturbed.
"Check protecting devices now are mostly
of the kind that cut through the paper
after the check has been written."
Mayor Mchuilts Starts Hume.
NKW YORK. Nov. y. Mayor Kugene
Acliinlis of Han Francisco, ho arrived heie
Friday on the sl-uiner Patricia froiu
Km ope, start-d for San Francisco toilav.
The liandsome new residence of Mr. and
Mrs. Pen Cotton at Thlrty-'eighth and
lewoy avtnue. completed last spring. Is an
iidinlmble specimen of that class ot new
homes tm longer conspicuous In the west
end that, while considerably beyond ths
reach of the malority, are still not to ba
classed with Omaha's more pretentious
residences. Architecturally Its Interior is
one or tho most attractive of this year's
hulldlnas. It was designed by F. A.
Ilennlng-r and cost SlO.noo. it Is a modl
Pontlon of the modern English style, that
conforms the qunint, substantial elegwnca
of n period past to the present day Idea,
-if the aesthetic and convenience. Its de
tails are rich nnd effective, and contribute
a unlonc, feature that adds much to Its
attractiveness.
The living rooms of the first floor era
ptactlrally thrown together by larae squar
columned openings and pedestaled par
thions, the city affording; few other Il
lustrations of this style.
A living room, reception hall, rnusio roo;n
and dining room constltiitn the first floor.
Living apartments and all are visible from
the front entrance, together with the stair
way which Is directly opposite the door.
The front door admits one to a small vesti
bule that Is screened rather than separated
from the reception hall by the half par
titions that are only as high as tint five
foot wainscoting. The door opening'
formed hy square columns and Is about the
width of the average doorway, the column
oceiirlng again at tho corners of the vesti
bule, affording h shelf between that admita
of exceptional decorative possibilities. The
same columned doorways, only much
bronder, and the half wall connect rather
than separate tho rooms and hall. The
music room at the north end of the house
is lighted and extended by three recessed
windows on the north, with the window
scat below, and another window on the
east. Across the hall extendlnr to the
south end of the house Is the living room
twenty-four by seventeen feet, and to the
west of this, conrtectod by a wide doorway,
the dining room.
On the east side of the living room ara
two windows, and on the south on either
side ot the broad mantle a French window
opens onto the broad, inclosed veranda.
Throughout the first floor the woodwork Is
of mahogany, a five-foot paneled wainscot
ing and beamed ceilings being used In all
but the dining room. In the living rmm,
, above tho wainscoting, the walls are eov
' ered with dark green burlap, a slatted ef
' feet being- accomplished by the extension
of tho plain, flat window casing up to the
' moulding. The beams are plain and cross
the celling at Intervals of seven feet one
way nnd five the other. The low partition
between the living room nnd reception hall
is inset with book cases with leaded doors.
The chimney breast at the south end is
of gray brick, crossed by a mahogany shalf
and the fireplace is broad and low. Tho
hall and music room have tho same dark
green burlaped walls. The dining room
has also the paneled wainscoting, but not
the beamed ceiling, and the walls are cov
ered with brown burlap nbove a narrow
shelf that tops the moulding. The south
end Of the room, in occupied by four win
dows, the room being further lighted by
threo high windows on the west. A nar
row moulding is used close to the celling
and the two doors leading to the. hull and
butler's pantry are high and heavy.
The stairway, while not a showy feature.
Is peculiarly harmonious. With a few
steps extending Into the hull, directly, op
posite thev vestibule, and flanked by a
broad, extended seat, the stairway rises
wldo and inclosed to a commodious, well
lighted landing, suggestive of room, light
and airy above. From the landing It crosses
back to ,the floor abovs. The upstairs rooms
fulfill all that the stairway suggests, being
large nnd airy and finished with white
woodwork.
SUIT TO SAVE TRADE MARK
Action Broasht by PllUlinrys to Pro
tect Their A tamp from In
fringement. The Plllsbury-Washburn Flour Mills
company of Minneapolis has brought suit
In the Fiilled States circuit court to re
strain the Galloway Flour Mill and Eleva
tor company of Omaha and WlUlur.i C,
Clyde W. and Arthur T. Galloway from
further Infringement of the trade mark of
the PUIsbury-Washburn company, known
as "Plllsbury's Best" flour nnd asks that
the defendants be perpetually restrained
''nm using tho sacks of the Pillsbury cpm-
ny to put nn Inferior grade of flour 1n
T.tha purpose of sale and "thereby fle-
-'vlng the public."
tn tho petition Ihe rillabury people claim
ey have already been damaged to the
nount of $;.".fl(!0 in the sale of flour and
ive suffered an additional damage of
1 nofl.OOO through the discredit given their
-do mark by the practices of J lie Omaha
impany. '
No damages are ssked In the petition.
bough Ihe Pillshury company claims to
' sreatlv darrared. All the company asks
"i this suit Is that the Galloway company
ay be nerpetusl-y restrained . from cort
"nulng the practice.
RANDEIS BLOCK IS CHOSEN
Will Be Home of Omaha Grata G.
change and Offices of
Dealers. " 1 "
The proposed plan to move the Omaha
Grain exchange ond the offices of the vari
ous grain tli ms to the top floor of too new
P.mrd'-ls bui'dlng u taking definite shape.
It Is raid that ai! :.J grain men In the
Hoard of Trade building but one have
signed nn agreement to remove to tho
Piamlels building, provided the exchange
will move and provided satisfactory tem.s
of rent can be arranged. The exchange
Ik offered quarters free.
It is said the Hrandels firm proposes. In
case the Commercial club does not take
quarters in the new building, to eatablUh
a cafe und smoking and billiard rooms oa
the top floor.
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