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TIIE OMAIIA SUNDAY TlEEi DECEMBER HO, 1006.
SEW YEAR'S EVE IN SEW IORR
Bom an Feitir&l Plained to Direr Gatham
MondsT Nipbt
SEATS IN CAFES AND HOTELS ALL TAKEN
Great Roih to Bat, Drink and
Make Merry as th Clock
Toll the Passlna; of
1906 to lOOT.
NEW YORK, Deo. 29. New Year's in
New York will be a Roman festival
such aa tho ancient city by the Tiber
never saw In all Its centuries of
.magnificence. This year the Great White
Way la making preparations for a celebra-
tlon that will be a wonder even to Itself.
fTor two weeks every table In every popular
resort In the lobster belt haa been reserved
for the lnevttlable "supper" at prices rang
' Ins from $2 to $5 a scat, and that tikes no
account of the many dollars that will be
spent In other ways after the game la on.
It Is estimated that BO.dOO people will par
take of the feast In that gilded mile of
Broadway, beside which all the rest of the
world setems tame and uninteresting; on New
Year's eva. Enough food will be eaten or
Wasted to feed an army for a week
Snd the champagne consumed will float a
battleship. The section In which the cele
bration will be most strenuous extends from
Twenty-third street to Forty-eighth street
and reaches its climax at Iyrngacre Square,
Into which, after the theaters are out,
Broadway. Seventh avenue. Forty-second
street and Forty-fourth street pour an army
of revelers and sightseers. Around the
square are ranged the famous restaurants
and hotels where the fun will be most up
roarious. By virtue of Its sire, the Hotel
Astor will accommodate the largest num
berbetween 1,600 and 2.000. Bo great has
been the demand for places that the ca
pacity of the regular dining rooms and
cafes was exceeded long ago, and all ports
of makeshift preparations have been made
to accommodate the overflow In ball rooms
and parlors.
When the savants of a future age un
earth from the debris of some gigantic
cataclysm of nature what Is now going on
at the bottom of New York, and survey the
tremendous engineering feats to which the
Inhabitants were driven to secure refuge
from the ferocious trolley-dactyl, the hlppo
tomoblle, the autohornosaurus and other
savage mechanical beats which Infested the
Island of Manhattan In the eatjly part of
the twentloth centur;'. the speculations
occasioned thereby will make Interesting
eavesdropping for such ghosts as have j
found their way back to earth. An under
rlver passage to Breoklyn, aa well as one to
New Jersey, Is now an accomplished fact.
Under Ninth avenue there Is In process of
construction for the Pennsylvania tunnel,
twenty-flvo feet beneath the curb line, a
massive steel bridge designed to support
not only the street above It, but the ele
vated railroad structure as well. While the
work of building this bridge Is going on,
the rush of traffio at and above the surface
goes on undisturbed. It has been found
necessary to support the street for a dis
tance of 400 feet between Twenty-first and
Thirty-third streets, and for this purpose
fifty-four enormous steel girders, each
sixty-one feet long and weighing ten ton.
were bought for temporary use on this
part of the work. The latest remarkable
scheme Is a double-decked subway under
Lexington avenue, the express tracks be
meath and the local tracks above, where
the street Is too narrow to accommodate
four tracks on the same level. There Is a
project afoot to Install In this tunnel the
new Behr monorail, which affords a possible
speed cf more than 100 miles an hour. In
some places the lower tracks will be nearly
100 feet below the surface of the street.
Altogether the bottom of New York Is
getting to be a good ways from the top.
A record-breaking long distance clock
setting device has recently been discovered
In the dally noontime blasts of a trap
rock quarry on Hook mountain, some thirty
miles up the Hudson river from this city.
A dentist living at Darlen, Conn., twenty
two miles from Hook mountain, will testify
In a suit before the supreme court at
White Plains next month that he sets his
clock dally by the 12 o'clock blast at Hook
mountain, the detonation being not alone
audible at his house, but Is plainly per
ceptible In the shaking of the house when
ever a blast is set off. The Interstate
ffcllsades Park commission and s number
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of Individuals In Oeslelng have been trying 1
for some time to stop the blasting at Hook
mountain in order to preserve that land
mark as a part of the Palisades park. A
suit has been brought by property owners
of Osalnlng to stop the blasting because the
blasts shake down ceilings and cause the
foundations of houses to settle. Witnesses
from practically efery town of Importance
In Westchester county will testify that the
blasts are perceptible aa much as thirty
miles away, and the physicians of Os
alnlng will testify that the blasts are
prejudicial to the well being of patients in
the Osalnlng hospital.
Frequently during the season at elther
one of New York's opera houses there may
be seen behind the rail which marks the
boundary line of "standing room only,"
particularly if the piece be his favorite
"Lucia" or "Rlgoletto." or even "Aida,"
a thickset, middle-aged man of medium
height, with close-cropped hair and short,
black mustache, who occupies, in a some
what more restricted sphere, a position aa
full of danger and dramatic possibility as
that of Russia's celebrated chief of police.
It Is Detective Sergeant Petroslno, a man
who has solved many a mystery as deep
and thrilling as ever engaged the attention
ot Sherlock Holmes. IJke the famous hero
of Baker street, he is a fine musician and
an exoellent performer on the violin, but
his methods contain so little of the spec
tacular that It has taken fame twenty-five
years to find him out. For thirteen years
of that time Petroslno was a humble pa
trolman, for the last eleven he haa been a
"plain clothes" man, known to the police
of the entire continent for his success In
traolng Italian criminals. Now he Is about
to become chief of the new secret service
force of the polioe department, organised
to hunt down the notorious "Black Hand"
crimes perpetrated and attempted by bands
of ex-convlcts and outlaws from the "heel
and toe" of the Italian peninsula, who have
sought refuge from the police of their
native country In the Italian settlements
In and around New York. So secretly has
the new force been organized that no one
but the commissioner and Petroslno will
know who compose It; but Petroslno, long
hated and feared as an individual by the
criminal class among his countrymen, has
now become a many-handed, many-eyed
force against them, to be execrated and
exterminated If possible.
While the prevailing freight car short
age has not had anything like the same
serious effect upon New York's coal sup
ply that It has had farther west, neverthe
less prices have advanced considerably
above their normal level, and In the re
cent cold snaps which have visited the
city many poor people have suffered
keenly. Innsmuch as the problem seems
to be purely one of transportation, many
of the delegates who attended the recent
convention of the national rivers and har
bors congress in Washington and others
who are taking an nctlve Interest In the
matter find In the present situation an
Indisputable argument for larger fixed
appropriations for river and harbor im
provement. It is pointed out that every
dollar of such appropriations, almoBt as
soon as expended, would become effective
In increased transportation facilities which
would tend to prevent a recurrence of pres
ent conditions. That the argument is he.
Ing carefully weighed by the rivers and
harbors committee of congress Is apparent
from a statement made by Representative
Charles B. Law of Brooklyn a few days
ago. Mr. Law said: "I am reliably In
formed that the rivers and harbors com
mittee will recommend an appropriation at
the present session of not less than $.
000,000 for the Improvement of our water
ways. Such a sum may well be invested
by the government In an enterprise that
means so much for the future development
of the country. I shall vote for the ap
propriation of every cent recommended by
me rivers ana harbors committee."
Fate always has In store some nartlcu.
larly hard knock for the man who tries
to get more than his share, else why should
John D. Rockefeller have Indigestion and
Andrew Carnegie find It so difficult to die
poor. One humble but promising imitator
has received the Jolt early In his career,
however, and it ought to serve as a warn
ing. The story Is this: There Is a famous
cafe In Gotham's all-nlght district whose
proprietor, Inspired by the preachings of
a certain distinguished Individual to an
anti-race suicide campaign, a year or two
ago offered a prise of $50 to everyone of
his employes who should marry. Later
on the scheme seemed Incomplete, and a
supplementary prize of $26 each was of
fered for babies. So far It has been ex
pensive, but the proprietor has stuck to
It heroically, animated by a profound in
terest In the welfare of the race and sus
tained by tho advertising value of the
scheme. The cafe has a chef who, by join
ing hands with another employe, about a
year ago succeeded in dragging down
double prlzo money, but this was held to
be strictly legitimate, with a profit left
over for extra advertising value. A little
while ago, however, the chef, figuring that
he would need a little extra money about
this time, thought he saw a chance to
make it on the side. So to the chef of a
rival lobster palace he offered to bet a
substantial sum that it would be a bov.
His friend, after looking up a few sta
tistics, was a little more than willing to
bet even money that It would be a girl.
u isn't; its twins, a boy and a girl. The
chef gets double prise money again, and
his employer promlsea to throw In an
extra 126 for good meaaure. But the bet
13 still undecided. LONG ACRE.
ATHLETICS AND EDUCATION
Professor of A saner t College Says
Athletes Are Deficient In
Scholarship.
SPRINGFIELD, Masa, Dec 29. Two dis
cussions of Importance regarding college
athletics occupied the morning .session of
the American Physical association today
The first arose over a paper by Clark W.
Hetherington of the University of Missouri
on "The Place of Athletics in the Educa
tion of College Men."
He called attention to the evil effects of
foot ball and other contests when carried
on exclusively with the Idea of pleas
ing the spectators, and said that col
lege directors should Insist that athletics be
conducted as a means of education rather
than as a contribution to the "spurting"
life of the country.
Dr. Paul J. Phillips of Amherst pre
sented the results of several years' Investi
gation Into the scholarship of college ath
letes at Amherst. His facts showed that
'varsity athletes st Amherst for the last
eighteen years have averaged 4 per cent
lower in their studies than the rest of the
college. Dr. Phillips held that this was
caused by tho exhaustive efforts required
in competitive athletics.
An address was e'so delivered by Miss
Gertrude Dudley, physical director for
women In the University of Chicago.
The following officers were elected: Pres
ident, Dr. Thomas A. Storey. College of
the City of New York; vice president. Dr.
Joseph H. Raycroft. University of Chicago;
secretary-treasurer. Dr. James A, Babbitt,
Ilaverford.
Clearing sale is announced to begin at
the Lilliputian Store January 2, Wednes
day, o'clock. Nothing reserved. S3
per cent oft on all boys' suits and over
coats and odd trousers; also girls' coats.
15 per cent off all other goods.
COMPANY HAS AMENDMENT
Street lailway Proposes Vtw Trsriiion te
the Transfer Ordinanoe.
COUNCIL MAJORITY ASAINST PLAN
Members Insist on t'nlTersal Trans
fer, as Moat Other Cities Have,
and Fight Is Still
on Tapis.
The railway committee of the city coun
cil. Assistant City Attorney Dunn, Attor
ney John L. Webster, for the Omaha A
Council Bluffs Street Railway company,
and officials of that company are now
wrestling with an amendment to the "uni
versal transfer ordinance" which was
passed December 11 by the council over
Mayor Dahlman's veto. The amendment
which haa been prepared by the city legal
department will not be Introduced In the
council chamber until the railway com
mittee and the street car company officials
have consulted together and agreed on the
amendment. Thursday evening. In the
office of Attorney Webster In the New York
IJfe building, street' car company officials,
railway committee of the council and part
of the city legal department met and talked
over the transfer dilemma.
The amendment, which will be intro
duced In a week or so, stipulates that when
a passenger pays his fare on an Omaha
street car he shall indicate to the conductor
then and there the line and direction of
his ultimate destination, it being required
that the conductor shall inquire of the
passenger whether a transfer Is wanted
and the passenger must then signify hi
ultimate destination. Placards to that
effect must be posted In all cars. The pur
pose of requiring passengers to give ulti
mate destination when fare Is paid Is so
that each transfer the passenger receives
on his trip will Indicate his destination
or last line on which he will have to ride
to reach such destination. This Is the solu
tion offered to enable the street car com
pany to carry out that provision In the
ordinance, already passed, with reference
to precluding round trips for one fare.
Majority Not for It.
Considerable doubt has been expressed
whether the amendment will go through
the council, as a majority of the council
men are as sensitive as an aspen leaf on
tho transfer question. They want a "uni
versal transfer" like most other cities have
and seem disposed to demand it. They
consider this amendment very good for the
street railway.
Reports received from the meeting of
Thursday evening In Attorney Webster's
office are that Vice President Wattles and
Attorney Webster of the street car com
pany advised that It would be timely to
make all possible concessions In the mat
ter of transfers, while General Manager
Smith and Secretary Leussler suggested an
ignorance of the ordinance passed December
11, as they maintained it was unfair.
Councilman Harry B. Zlmman announced
Saturday morning that he would at next
week's council meeting offer another ordi
nance to require the street car company
to sell twenty-five tickets for $1. Mr,
Zlmman's first ordinance of that character
was placed on file.
Councilman Zlmman stoutly denied a ru
mor that he Intended to give up the
fight for twenty-five street car tickets for
$1. "I am firmer than ever in my position
in this matter and Intend to fight it out
believing that the street car company
should make such a concession to the pub,
He," Mr. Zlmman said.
TOPICS FOR A DAY OF REST,
Beginning Sunday morning the services
at the First Methodist Episcopal church
will be held in the main auditorium of the
edifice, which has been undergoing exten
slve repairs and redecoration for the last
few weeks, during which time the serv
ices have, perforce, been held In the Sun
day school rooms. Over $3,000 has been
spent In rehabilitating the interior wood
work of the church and the church now
has one of the finest and most handsomely
decorated auditoriums in the city. The
pastor, Rev. Frank L. Lovoland, D. D.,
with the assistance of the choir and music
committee, has arranged special programs,
to be rendered at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p.
m., when a chorus choir of forty voices,
which has been organized and trained by
the choirmaster, Lee G. Grata, will sing,
The respective programs are as follows:
MORNING.
Organ Prelude Chorus of Shepherds..
Lemmem
Hymn No. 106
Choir and Congregation.
Recitation of the ADOsties' Creed
Prayor
Anthem Sing, O Heavens Tours
Mis Lovelund, Quartet and Chorus of
Forty Voices.
(A Christmas anthem for mixed voices.
wim soprano omigato.)
Responsive Scripture Lesson Psalter,
Md Sunday ,
Gloria
Choir and Congregation.
The Scriptures John 16:9-13
Offertory Blessed Lullaby Nevln
uuartet The Night Bong of Bethle
hem Buck
Mrs. Jennlson, Mrs. Anderson, Mr. Green,
Mr. Krats.
Hymn No. 107
Choir and Congregation.
The Sermon The Paradox of Love
By the Pastor.
Anthem Child Jesus Comes Manney
Mrs. jennlson and Mr. Charles Havltcek
(A Christmas carol for chorus of mixed
voices, with soprano solo, and obllgato for
VIOIlll.)
Hymn No. 171
Choir and Congregation.
Reception of members by pastor and
Officiary
Doxology and annstollo benedltlon
Postlude Christmas March Merkel
EVENING.
Organ Prelude Christmas Offering... Tours
Hymn ino. bi
Choir and Congregation.
Prayer
Anthem O Holy Night Adam
t mi tnui cn yuartet.
(A quartet for mixed voices, with so
rrano aoio.i
Responsive Scripture Psalter, page 79..
Oftertory Player and Cradle Song
Gullmant
Solo O Night of Nights Vandewater
Mrs. J. II. Jennlson.
(Solo for soprano voice, with organ ac
companiment.)
Hyinn No. 115
Choir and Congregation.
The Sermon A Closing Year Medita
tion on "Memory"
By the Pastor.
Anthem And There Were Shepherds....
.......... ; Marks
Mrs. jennlson, air. Krats, quartet and
Chorus.
(A Christmas anthem for quartet and
chorus, wim soios tor soprano and bari
tone.)
Hymn No. 60
Choir and Congregation.
Reception of members and baptismal
Bervlee
Doxology and benediction
Postlude Hallelujah Chorus Handel
With Christmas services In nearly every
church In Omaha last Sunday, special ex
e roues on Christmas day and evening and
Christmas tree exercises for the children
of the churches either Christmas eve or
within a few days following, it has been
what might be termed a basy week for the
pastors and the laity ot the. city, whll
even the members of the various choirs are
thinking serlouBly of taking the rest cure.
; It has been without doubt one of the m st
successful Chrlstmases ever experienced by
the churches and all are starting in th
new year on a sound financial basis, the
effect of the Torrey mission doing much
to aid la that resist on account of tlie la-
creased activity and membership noted
among the churches.
While the older members of the churches
were edified by a wealth of special Christ
mas muslo the younger members of the
congregations were visited by the dispen
sations of Santa Claus as never before and
several meritorious Christmas programs and
cantatas were admirably rendered by the
little folk. To enumerate any particular
programs would be superfluous, as nearly
every church was the scene of special serv
ices for the children, as well as the
grownups."
In many of the churches the special mu-
Ical programs arranged for Christmas day
will be repeated tomorrow, and watch-night
services will also be held Monday night for
many congregations. At most of the
watch-night services the pastors will
preach special and fitting sermons, begin
ning usually at 10 p. m.. while elaborate
musical programs are scheduled at soma
of the churches that nrnke a special fea
ture of the watch-night service.
North Side Christian church, Twenty-
econd and Locust,, Rev. H. J. Klrschitoln,
pastor. Morning, "A Long March with
Light Baggage;" evening, "There Is Noth
ing Common ct Itself." Muslo at the
church Is as follows:
MORNING.
Processional Come. Let Vb Anew.. Lucas
Hymn We're Borne Along the Waves
of Time v Gabriel
Communion Hymn When I Survey the
wondrous c ross mason
Invitation Hymn Love for All. .Schnyder
EVENING.
Processional It Came upon the Mld-
n sht Clear Willis
Hymn O, Come AH Ye Faithful
fortogauo
Hymn What Shall I Wish Thee. . Palmer
Duet Listening Angels Stalner
Ladles two-part chorus.
Offertory Sentence All Things Come
of Thee, O Lord Danks
Invitation Hymn Must Jesus Bear the
Cnoss Alone Alien
Recessional Savior, Again to Thy
Hear Name We Raise Hopk.ns
Mrs. J. H. Klrschsteln, organist and di
rector.
A ten days' revival will be inaugurated
next Sunday evening, January 6, at the
First Methodist Episcopal church. In
which the Trinity, Hanscom Park and
McCabe Methodist churches will unite.
Dan McGurk, the famous pastor of the
Grand Avenue Methodist church at Kan
sas City, will assist at the services and
preach each evening. Revival services
also will be held for ten days In a num
ber of other Methodist Episcopal churches,
the churches of the city being segregated
into groups of a few each and the pastors
and members of the congregations will
continue the work started by Dr. Torrey
and his assistants, although the coming
revival services are entirely distinct in
every way from the work laid out by Dr.
Torrey.
Music at First Baptist church, under
the direction of Miss Margaret Boulter,
organist:
MORNING AT 10:30.
Prelude Lemmons
Anthem Holy, Holy Lord God Al-
roignty uounod
Quartet.
Organ Offertory Spinneys
tiplo Charity Faure
Mrs. L. T. Sunderland.
Postlude Sodermann
EVENING AT 7:80.
Prelude Lemnlgre
Anthem Lord, When My Raptured
Thought Beethoven
Quartet.
Organ Offertory Brewer
iniet aventiae Nevln
Miss Alice Fawcett and G. W. Manchester.
l'oatludo Salome
The Hanscom Park Methodist church will
observe "Watch night," according to Its an
nual custom. The service will begin at 8
o'clock with a social feature closing at
9:30. From that hour until 10:80 there will
be given a very fine musical program. From
10:30 to 11:30 refreshments, talks, experi
ences and songs will be the features of the
program. The last half hour until midnight
will be observed as a consecration hour.
Tickets of admission and for souvenir pur
poses have been Issued and are in much
demand.
Elaborate memorial services will be held
Sunday at S p. m. at the McCabe Methodist
Episcopal church, Fortieth and Farnam
streets, in honor of the late Bishop Mc
Cabe, who died about a week ago in New
York City. The principal address and
eulogy will be delivered by Rev. J. Ran
dolph Smith, pastor of the Trinity Meth
odist church, although a number of other
prominent divines of Omaha and from other
cities will "deliver short addresses. A large
gathering of prominent churchmen as well
as laymen are expected to be present.
Special significance is attached to the
ceremonies In that the McCabe Methodslt
Episcopal church was the first church
named In I Dnor of the late bishop and was
dedicated by him about three years ago.
Music at the First Congregational church.
Nineteenth and Davenport streets:
MORNING.
Prelude In Paradlsum Dubois
Anthem Te Deuin (B flat minor). ...Foots
Offertory Pastoral Symphony, from
"Messiah ' Handel
Solo
Miss Ed th Folev.
Postlude In C Salome
EVENING.
Prelude Cantilena Pastorale Dethrier
Anthem Beholdl The Lamb of God. .Handel
Offertory Berceuse. Ureyschock
Quartet Christ, Our Passovei Uoss
Wltn solo by Miss Folev.
Communion Hymn Peace. Perfect Peace
Caldbeck
Postlude Communion In O Gullmont
Martin W. Bush, organist; Ira B. Penni
man, director.
The following musical number will be
rendered Sunday evening at the Hanscom
Park Methodist church, corner Woolworth
avenue and Twenty-ninth street:
Anthem Sing, O, Sing Gilchrist
Te Deurn in B flat Baker
The Chorus.
Christmas Carol Selected
vt umen s inorus.
Nativity Harry Rowe Shelley
The Chorus.
Solo Ring Out, Wild Bells Gounod
A. Lansing.
V. W. C. A. Notes.
The various classes of the association will
resume their regular work Thursday, Jan
uary 3.
Invitations are being Issued for a gym
nasium party, to bo given Monday even
ing, January 7. A delightful time is prom
ised to all who attend.
Friday evening the "In His Name circle."
the devotional and Bible study committees
took supper together. Afterward, the com
mittees met and laid plans for tho religious
work of the association.
The New Year's gospel service will b
held Sunday afternoon at 4:30. Mrs. limnia
F. Byers, the general secretary, Wil speak.
Her subject is, "Uod's Responsibility in
Our Lives.'' Those present are asked to
come priured to give their New Year'j
texts. Miss Elisabeth Hambllng will sing
"I Know Whom 1 Have Believed ' ana
"My Savior's Love." Refreshments will be
served at 6: J. All women are Invited.
The New Year's reception will be giver,
from 5 to 9 o'clock on Tut-sday. All friends
of the association are cordially Invited to
be present. The following program will
be given at 6 p. m. :
The Serenade Parks
Young Women's Christian association
quartit.
Vocal Solo
G. W. Manchester.
Reading
Miss Grace Conkltn.
Good Bye Old Year Parks
Young Women's Christian association
quartet.
Vocal Solo
O. W. Manchester.
Reading
Miss Grace Conklin.
The Shadduck Juvenil orchestra will dis
pense music during the evening.
Mrs. Sakurul of Japan, will exhibit a
wonderful display of Japanese curios la
the gymnasium. Reception and refresh
ments la the dining room from t to 9.
Miscellaneous Aauonarements.
Calvary Baptist Branch. Thirty-Fourth
and Sewnrd Sunday, at 1.30 p. nr. Bible
school; Friday, at 8 p. m., gospel service.
Church of the Uvlng God, College Hall.
Nineteenth and Farnam Discourse st 3 p.
m. ; millennial dawn Bible study at 7:3)
p. m.
Bethany Branch, First Baptist Church,
S'3 Ieavenworth Sunday srr.ool at 3 p.
m.; gospel meeting on Thursday evening
at 7:4ft.
Saratoga Congregational, Chap'.nln Dlf
fenbacher, Pastor 4 ubteet for the evening
service at 7:30, "Anointing with the OH
of Gladness."
Free Methodist, 1737 South Eleventh
street. Rev. Amspoker, I'nstor Services:
Sunday school, 10 a. m. ; preaching, 11 a. m.
and 7:45 p. m.
Parkvale Congregational. Thirty-First
and Gold, Herbert L. Mills. Pastor Sunday
school at 8 p. m., preaching at 4 p. m.,
Christian Endeavor at 5 p. m.
People's Church, Chnrles W. Sivlrtge,
Pastor Morning. "A Winning Triplet;"
evening, "Looking Backward." Prof.
Mertes has charge of the music.
First Church of Christ, Scientist. Twenty-Fifth
and Farnam Sunday school at 9:45
a. m., Sunday services at 11 a. m. and 8 p.
m. ; subject of lesson sermon, "God."
Unity, Seventeenth and Cass. Rev. New
ton Mann. Minister Hour, 10:3o; lecture,
"Features Which Christianity Has In Com
mon with Religion in Babylon;" Sunday
school at noon.
Hillside Congregatlonnl, Thirtieth and
Ohln liov llfrii.rt f. Mlllfl Pimlnr Mim
ing worship at 10:30, Bunday school at j
noon, young people's meeting at 8:30 p. m., !
evening preaching at 7:30.
Church of the Covenant. Twenty-seventh
and Pratt, Rev. R. T. Bell, Pastor Ser
vices at 10:30 and 7:30; Snbbath school at
noon; Junior Endeavor at 8:30 p. m. ; Chris
tian Endeavor at 6:30 p. m.
Westminster Presbyterian, Twenty-ninth
and Mason Prof. Calder, the dean of
Bellevue college, will preach at 10:30 a. m.
and 7:80 p. m.; Sunday school at noon;
Young People's meeting at :30.
St. Paul's Episcopal, Thirty-second and
California, Rev. E. G. B. Browne, Priest
In Charge Holy eucharlst, 8 a. m.; Sunday
school, 9:45 a. m. ; holy eucharlst and ser
mon, 11 a. m.; evensong, 8 p. m.
Clifton Hill Presbyterian. Forty-fifth and
Grant, B. L. Purdy, Pastor Services at
10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m.; Sunday school
at noon; Christian Endeavor at :S0 p. m. ;
prayer meeting Wednesday at 8 p. m.
First Christian, Nineteenth and Farnam,
Rev. S. D. Dutcher, Pastor Bible school
at 9:46; preaching at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p.
m., subjects, "How to Make the New Year
a Happy One" and "The Great Salvation."
Third Presbyterian, Twentieth and
Ieavenworth, Rev. J. E. Spencer, Pastor
Preaching by the pastor at 10:30 a. m. and
7:30 p. m.; men's prayer meeting at 10:10
a. m.; Sabbath school at 8 p. m. ; seats
free.
Kountie Memorial Lutheran, Rev. John
E. Hummon, Pastor Services morning and
evening at 10:30 and 7:30: sermon sublet,
"Joy of Service;" Instillation of Sunday
school officers; evening, Christmas music
repeated.
St. Mark's English Lutheran, Twenty
First and Burdette, Rev. L. Groh, Pastor
Services at 10:4fi, subject, "Old Year Past,"
at 7:30 p. m., "In Christ Face the Future
Hopefully;" Sunday school at noon, young
people at 6:46.
Lowe Avenue Presbyterian, Fortieth and
Nicholas, Rev. A. 8. C. Clarke, D. D., Pas
torMorning service at 10:30; subject, "Re
deeming the Time;" Sunday school at 12;
evening service at 8; subject, "Jesus, the
Sinner's Friend."
First Baptist, Twenty-ninth Avenue and
Harney Street, Rev. J. W. Conley, D. D.,
Pastor Services at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p.
m.; morning sermon, "A Victorious Life;"
evening, "A Call to Decision;" Sunday
school at noon; young people's meeting at
6:30 p. m.
First Presbyterian, Seventeenth and
Dodge, Rev. Edwin Hart Jenks, D. D.,
Pastor Morning service at 10:30, "The
Chance of a Lifetime;" evening service at
7:30, "Retrospect and Prospect;" Sunday
school at noon, young people's meeting at
6:15 p. m.
Immanuel Baptist, Twentv-fourth and
Binney, Rev. Phlletus H. McDowell, Pas
torAt 10:30 a. ni., "How to Make the
New Year a New Year;" at 7:30 p. m.,
"Resolution, Reformation, Transformation,
Which?" Bible school at noon; Baptist
Young People's union at 6:30 p. m. :
Wednesday evening prayer meeting at 7:45.
Walnut Hill Methodist Episcopal, Forty
First and Charles, Rev. E E. Hoetnan.
Pastor 10:30 a. m., sermon by the pastor,
theme, "The Two Looks;" Sunday school at
noon; 6:15 p. m., Epworth league; 7:30 p.
n-., sermon by the pastor, theme, "Tho
Two Ways."
Second Presbyterian, Twenty-fourth and
Nicholas, Rev. Newman Hall Burdlck, Pas
torPreaching by the pasto- at 10:30 a. m.
and 7:30 p. m.; morning subject, "Uncon
scious Loss of Power."
First United Evangelical. Frnnklln, near
Twenty-fourth Rev. Q. A. Deck, lastor
Sunday school at 10 a. m.; worship at U
a. m.; theme, "Remarkable Answer to
Prayer;" Christian Endeavor at 6:30 p. m.;
worship at 7:30 p. m.; theme, "The Power
of Habit."
Hanscom Park Methodist Episcopal,
Twenty-Ninth and Woolworth, Rev. Clyde
Clay Clssell, D. P., Pastor Morning ser
mon at 10:30, subject, "The Lesson of the
Hurrying Years;" evening sermon at 7:30,
subject, "A Wrong Resolve;" special music
at the evening service.
First Memorial Methodist Episcopal,
Thirty-fourth and Larlmore, Rev. William
Bsplln, Pastor Class meeting at 10 a. m.;
preaching at 10:46 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. ;
Sunday school at noon; Junior league at
3 p. m. ; league at 6:30 p. m.; prayer meet
ing Wednesday evening.
First Congregational, Nineteenth aiyl
Davenport, Rev. Hubert C. Herring, D. 1).
Pastor Services at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p.
m.; Sunday school at 12; Christian En
deavor at 6:30 p. m.; strangers especially
invited; communion and reception of mem
bers at the evening service.
Dundee Presbyterian, Fiftieth and Under
wood, Rev. Thomas K. Hunter, Pastor
Morning worship and sermon to children
at 10:30; evening service at 7:30; Sabbath
school at noon; Junior Endeavor at 8:46
p. m.; Senior Endeavor at 6:30 p. m. ;
prayer meeting Wednesday at 8 p. m.
Trinity Methodist Episcopal, Twenty
First and Binney, Rev. J. Randolph Smith,
Pastor Morning service, with seimon bv
the pastor, at 10:30. In the evening at 7.J)
Itev. wuiara uooaen ot tne Huston school
of Theology will give "Report and Esti
mate" of the Gypsy Smith revival at Bos
ton. Trinity Cathedral, Capitol Avenue and
Eighteenth Street. the Very Rev,
George A. Beecher, Dean Holy communion
at s a. m., hospital service at :15 a. m..
Sunday school and Bible class at 9:45 a. m ,
morning prayer and sermon at 11 o'ch.ck,
confirmation Instruction at 8 p. m., evening
prayer and sermon at 7:30 o clock.
Castellar Street Presbyterian, Sixteenth
and Castellar, Rev. Walter H. Reynolds.
Pastor Preaching services at 10:30 and 7:30;
Sunday school, with orchestra, at noon
Endeavor society at 6:S0. Ontario and Park
Forest chapel schools of the church at 3
p. m. Watch night service Monday, de
votlonal service beginning at 10 p. m.
Grace Lutheran, Twenty-sixth and Pop.
nleton. Rev. M. L Mellck. Pastor Services
at 10:45 a. m. and 7:30 p. in.; the subjects of
both Bermons will De appropriate to the
closing of the old and the opening of the
new year; Sunday school at 12:15; Luther
league ut 6:30 p. m.; prayer meeting on
Wednesday night and class of catechism
on Friday at 4 p. m.
St. Mary's Avenue Congregational. St.
Mary's Avenue and Twenty-Seventh Street
Morning worship at 10:30 o'clock, sermon
by the pastor. Rev. L. O. R&lrd, subject,
"The Battle ot Timer' Sunday school at
noon, choral vespers at 4:30 o'clock, sub
ject, "The Old Clothes of lttott;" Young Peo
ple s society or unnguan .rcnaeavor at 6
o'clock p. m. Next week vespers, "The
New Clothes of 1907."
Calvary Baptist. Twenty-Fifth and Ham
ilton, Rev. E. R. Curry, Rector Services at
10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m., conducted by the
pastor; baptism at evening service: Bible
school at noon, Baraca class for men at
noon, young people's meeting at 6:30 p. m.;
Monday, Watch night service; Tuesday,
evening, New Year's reception to the con
gregation, by the officers of the church:
Wednesday, at 7.46 p. m mid-week prayer
and praise service.
Central I'nited Presbyterian, Twentv.
fourth and Dodge, Rev. R. B. A. Mcllride,
D. D., Pastor Session meeting for the re
ception of new members at 10; praver meet
ing, under the direction of the men's
league, at 10; morning worship at 1U30;
sermon by the pastor, "New Year's Resolu
tion;" evening worship at 7:30, sermon sub
ject, "Why the Dreamer Was Hated;"
Sabbath school at noon; young people's
prayer meeting ut 6:30 p. m. ; strangers In
Tited. Seward Street Methodist, Rev. J. F.
Pouche, pastor Preaching ut 1:30 a. m..
subjet "Introspection and Heaolut'on ;"
Sunday hool at 12; preaching In the even
ing by the pastor at 7:3i; special mux!--.
On Mimd' night, beginning at s o'clock,
a watch nlsht service will be held. A
musical program, under the direction of
V. P. Daniels and rendered by tho members
of the choir and musical talent of the cliy,
will be followed by a business meeting of
the church. A socisj hour will be observed
and a religious service, with a sernmn by
I'-ev. J. Randolph Smith, psstor of te
Trinity Methodist church, will occupy th
closing hour of the year.
Boys' and girls' highest grade clothiug at
per teat off at the great clearing sale.
Benson Si Thorne, 115 lXiugUs. Ulrls'
dresses, 'S ptr cent off.
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If you are looking for a high grade piano at a price ordinarily
paid for a low grade instrument, do not fall to call at our warcrooms
tomorrow, for such bargains were never before offered In tho history
of piano selling In Omaha. All the leading makes to select from
STKIXWAY, NTKGKH, KMKUSON, HAKOMAX, A. 11. CHASE, Mo
I'HAIL, Kl'KTZMAX and scores of others.
Next Wednesday we will commence to take Inventory, and It Is
our Intention to sacrifice every Instrument In our warcrooms prior to
that day.
BEAUTIFUL NEW SAMPLE PIANOS.
Latest styles the kind sold elsewhere for 22B, $275, $350 and $400
are now offered at
$148.00. 5172.00, $215.00 and $255.00
USED UPRIGHTS RECEIVED IN EXCHANGE.
Storey & Camp Cottage Upright
Boston Upright, ebony case J)0
Golden Oak Kimball
Small Checkering Upright, rosewood case ij
Hallet & Davis, fancy walnut case $108
Stelnway & Sons Upright, ebony case .....Hid SXA1
USED SQUARE PIANOS.
Including Stelnway, Checkering, Knabe, Emerson and others
$23.00, 940.00, $30.00 and np
USED AND NEW ORGANS.
Including Mason & Hamlin, Kimball, Farrand & Votey, Story & Clark
and others VN.OO, $12.00, $22.00 and up
$5.00 to $10.00 Cash and $3.00 to $5.00 Monthly
Will bring a fine piano to your home. We ship everywhere and guar
antee satisfaction or money refunded. Write today for free illustrated
catalogue and Bargain List. We rent, tune, move and repair pianos
lowest rates.
Schmoller & Mueller Piano Co.
Manufacturers of High Grade Pianofortes.
Established 1830. Tel. Douglas 1625.
1311 and 1313 Farnam Street.
N. B. Song Recital at our Auditorium Thursday evening, January
3d, at 8:30, by Esther Mullen Palmqulst of Chicago, assisted by Miss
May Lovely. Admission, 60 cents.
il ALLOWS OLD BILL
Board Pays Qeorga Hunro Aooonnt Whioh
Buns for Four Tears,
QUESTION ARISES AS TO LEGALITY
Open Aeeonnts Outlawed After Fonr
Years, bat Tlallng; Is Made Not
to Apply to Written
Records.
After a lapse of almost four years the
county board has decided to allow the
bill for supplies presented by George P.
Mtinro company. Tho claim was for $81,
but the board lopped off $3.76, allowing
$77.25. The reduction represented a differ,
enco In the contract price of the supplies
and the price charged on the bill presented
by Mr. Munro.
The question came up whether or not the
bill was not outlawed by the statute of
limitations. According to the Interpreta
tion mode by the county clerk's olllce,
the claim against the county outlaws
in the same manner as a bill against
a private Individual. An- open ac
count cannot be collected after a lapse of
four years, while an account on a written
contract Is good for five years. The last
Item on the bill was dated February 2,
1903, and, according to the commissioners,
the bill was subject to the regular written
contract with Mr. Munro. Consequently
It was decided it would not become out
lawed until next February if it was an or
dinary book account or until a year from
February if H was held to be on the con-,
tract.
Mr. Munro presented written orders,
signed by Commissioners Ostrom, Connolly,
O'Keeffe or Harte, for all the Items on
the bill but three. To prove these three
Items he presented his counter book, show
ing they had been charged on the dates
named In the bill.
Monro Korgrot Abont It.
He says be forgot the bill and only dug
It up a few weeks ago when he sold his
store and was cleaning up his files. At the
time he had had a controversy with the
commissioners because he had charged a
higher price for some of the Items than the
contract colled for. He contended the con
tract did not govern because the contract
was for furnishing goods to the county
hospital, while the goods charged for in
the bill wero furnished to the court house.
The proposal under which the contract was
made was for goods to be furnished to the
coui-t house or the county hospital, while
evidently by an oversight the contract was
only for the county hospital.
The commissioners held the contract price
should govern and when the bill was al
lowed In committee of the whole, County
Auditor Smith was directed to reduce tha
prices In the bill to the contract prices.
This made a reduction of $3.75. The age
of the bill made it necessary to check over
all of the bills allowed Mr. Munro to make
sure there was no duplication.
The commissioners have denied the appli
cation of II. P. Hansen for a license to a
saloon at Fifty-sixth and Center streets at
tho request of Mr. Hansen himself. After
he had applied for the license a protest
was filed on the grounds he had violated the
law in the pust. The hearing was to have
come up Saturday, but Mr. Hansen reported
he had sold the saloon and In order that
the license money might be returned to
him he asks the license be denied him.
STRANGE WHIM OF FATE
Corloas Reuniting- of a Coo pie Sep
arated by the San Francisco
Earthquake.
A husband who believed his wife dead
will be reunited with thu woman who
burled what she thought to be his body and
wore her widow's weeds for months, when
Mrs. Hattle Pollts, who passed through
Milwaukee recently on her way to Stock
ton. Cal., reaches her Journey's end. By
a whim of fate as strange as that which
parted them their mourning has been
ended.
It Is one of the most remarkable of the
stories which grew out cf the San Fran
ciaco earthquake. At that time the Puliti
family father, mother and two children
was living in San Francisco. Mrs. Pollts
and her husband were Injured severely
when the building In which th-y were liv
ing was wrecked by the earthquake, and
were taken to different hospitals.
Mrs. Polltx recovered slowly, and when
she was strong enough to bar bad news
they told her that one p her children had
been killed. The other was with her. Bna
nsked about her' hutiband and would not
rest until she trr.ed of his fate. She wat
told thst bis charred body had been found
in their home.
With her child, the body of the other, and
Great Sacrifice oi
100 New and 50
Slightly Used Pianos
what she believed- was her husband's
corpse, burned so badly that the feature
could not be recognized, Mrs. Pollts started
east for her old home in Bhawano, Wis.
She had the bodies burled In Oshkosh and
took up her lonely life In Bhawano.
Mrs. Pollts has an Interest in a ranch
near Stockton, and some time ago wrote
a ranchman who lived near It to make in
quiries about it. In replying he told her
there was a man living on it who said ha
was her husband, and told his neighbors
that his wife had been killed In the Baa
Francisco earthquake.
The wife made inquiries by telegraph
and telephone, although at first believing
the man was an Imposter. The man on
the ranch responded as cagorly, though In
credulously. At last each became con
vinced that the other was alive, and Mrs.
Pollts started on her Journey to her hus
band and her second honeymoon. Her
husband, she learned, could find no traos
of his family when he was discharged from
the hospital, and after long search, was
forced to believe his wife and children
dead. There is nothing to Indicate whose
body It was that Mrs. Pollts brought east
with her and buried at Oshkosh. Chicago
Record-Herald.
The greatest money saving sale of boys
and girls' fine clothing in the history of
Omaha to begin Wednesday, January 2.
Benson & Thorne, 1615 Douglas. S3H per
cent off boys' clothing and girls coats.
26 per cent off girls' dresses.
Y. M. C. A. Notes.
The boys' basket ball team, which left
on a trip Thursday evening, defeated the
Lincoln Juniors by a score of 42 to 30.
A lengthy report has been received from
Will W. Lckwood of Shanghai. Chin.
which shows very gratifying progress In
the work there during the hist year. The
report will be duplicated and a copy placed
In the hands of each of the foreign work
contributors and any others who are In.
terested.
The men's meeting In the Lvrlo theater
Sunday afternoon will be in the nature of a
New Year's service. rr. J. W. Conley,
pastor of the First Baptist church, will de
liver an address on a seasonable theme.
i ne Nelson brothers quartet will sing.
Tho service will be held at 4 o'clock aniJ
all men are cordially invited to attend.
Clearing sale at the Lilliputian Btors
commences Wednesday, January 2. Shoes,
hats, caps, underwear, baby's wear, neck
wear, 25 per cent off. Nothing reserved, v
Alleged Forcer Arrested.
SPOKANE, Wash., Dec. 2 Isaac Raines,
an alleged forger of International reputa
tion, who has operated as a renreswntutiu
of the Associated Press In Germany, Franc
and throughout the United States, has been
The New Year's
Marvelous Opportunity
FOR PIANO BUYERS
Personally to YOU.
In the great bankrupt piano sale now
going on at 1611 Farnam St., no one can
possibly lose but the dealers. Everyone
buying a piano at this sacrifice sale get
a guarantee from a millionaire piano man
ufacturer; also from local national banks,
if you so desire.
During these two days we will offer at
the Intervals of every other hour In ths
day any upright piano on the floor or la
our factory for Just so much money. This
feature should Invite cash buyers to quits
an extent. No dealers will be supplied,
however much money they offer us for
tin Be pianos. We are bound and deter
mined that these pianos shall go exclu
sively to the homes of the surrounding
territory. A beautiful stool and pla.no
scarf will be given free with each piano,
and will be delivered to your home any
time you may desire before New Year's
day. ,
Former prleea, $250, $275, $300, $328, $360,
$373, $410, $.V)0. Bankrupt sule prices UT
$97. $J18, $13S, $158, $178, $138, Ji'18, etc. '
This sale Is absolutely as represented and
these pianos must be sold regardless of
cost. Omaha piano dealers any it is an
outrage to sell pianos at these prices.
You will never again have the opportunity
to buy high grade plauoa at such, low
prices.
This sale Is In Its last hours and you
mufet certainly make up your mind either
to have a piano laid away for you or b
forever too late to save your share of this
$.v.(0) worth of profits that Is to be given,
to the buying people.
Don't rorct th Numb
1611 FARNAM STREET
Opan All Day and Evanlngt,
Prion Douglas 701,
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