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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 24, 1907)
THE OMAHA SUNDAY DEE: NOVEMBER 24, 1907. J i HELD CLUB MAY FIGHT LAW jDisppsed to Continue Buffet Regard of Official Dictum. ELKS WILL ABIDE BY THE ORDER Sentiment Prevails that Lealtlmata Clobs Tfeea If License t Mala tU Private Their Sideboards. The action of the Bike- clnb in voting Friday night not to take cut license to 11 liquor may or may not mean that the rlub will be "dry" next year. While there la no difference of opinion aa to the desirability of taking out a licenae If this U necessary, there Is a decided division as to whether or not the courts would sustain the flro and police board In Its demand that clubs dispensing liquor should pay the license fee. The members of the club voted unani mously Friday night that If It la necosaary to take out a license In order to run a side board, then the sideboard shall be abol ished. There Is a disposition on the part of some of the members to test the legal ity of the board's order In the courts, bjt whether any such step will be taken or not haa not been decided. The Omaha club haa already decided to take out a license If the fire and police board enforces Its order against all clubs. Victor B. Caldwell, president of the club, ays the club will not fight the order In court, but will comply with It. The Field club, on the other hand, has practically determined to continue the sale of liquor after January 1, and let the tire and police board or anyone else who cares to go Into court and test the legality of the license ordsr. ' Submitted It to Committee. The Field club, a short time ago, sub mitted the legality of the board's order to a committee consisting of George W, Shields and I. J. Dunn. This committee re turned an opinion exactly the opposite of the Elks' club committee, to the effect that no license could be required. The club has practically decided to stand by the report of the committee and allow the question to lie tested In the oourts In case the board or any other person cares to take the matter up. The Klkn' club committee, consisting of Frank T. Ransom, W. t. McHugh and A. H. Burnett, after considering the matter, reached the conclusion the fire and police board was right and that clubs could be forced to take out licenses. While the meeting of the Klks Friday night woe se fft, It la known that there was considerable difference of, opinion as to the right of the board to require a license, but there was no division on the subject that the club would not take out a license If one Is re quired. License Not Necessary. Lysle I. Abbott, whose address before the Elks' club Friday night Is said to have hypnotized the members and to have car rled the day unanimously for no license. Is himself of the opinion no license can be required. "There Is no question In my mind," he aid, "that the law In this state does not require a bona fide club, organised for social purposes, to take out a license to dls pense liquors to its members. The supreme court decided this In the case of the State against Bothman from Merrick county Bothman was running a club in Chapman, a dry town, and the evidence disclosed he was running It for the purpose of evading the liquor law. The trial Judge charged the ury that If his club was organized for the . purpose of allowing his patrons to get a drink ' whenever they wanted It, he w operating In violation of law. If his club was formed for other legitimate purposes and dispensed drinks aa an Incidental mat ter, then he had a right to keep the liquor on hand. The supreme court sustained this Instruction. I don't know what the su preme would do again, but under this de rision It la certainly th law that a legiti mate club need not take ou a license. If the fire and police board will not recognize the law, they are anarchists." Members and officers of the Elks' club said they did not know when It would be decided whether the sideboard would close January 1 or not. In his study at I o'clock, but we might expect no less of this strenuous and active monarch. The beloved Wllhelmlna, queen of Holland, like her mother, arises at 7 and at the same hour the dowager queen of Bpaln may be seen on her way to mass. The king of Italy leaves his bed at o'clock In the morning, summer and win ter alike. The attendants about the palace think this habit of early rising Is an en tirely unnecessary thing on the part of his majesty. It pulls them out of bed at a time when they would rather sleep. Chi cago Tribune. RIVAL ENGINEERS IN ROW foa-aarloaa Throttle Pullers Fla-ht Duel with Locomotives for Weapons. A select few of the cttlsens that happened at the time to be lounging or engaged In business about the depot In Wreston, Wis., In the middle of the afternoon were treated to the unusual spectacle of two enraged locomotive engineers fighting each other with their respective engines. Freight trains Nos. 38 and 11 were at the depot at the same time, and both out on sidings to permit the afternoon passenger train. No. 6, going south, to pass. Engineer Dempsey of No. 28. with his big engine, K8, and Engineer Culhane of No. 11, with his big engine. 1112, happened. In the course of their switching, to be on the sidetrack furthest west at the same time, Dempsey with one box car and one flat car behind him, and Culhane with three coal cars. The first outsiders knew of the difficulty was when they heard Dempsey shout to Culhane, "Oct off that track, you Irishman! What are you doing there?" "Irishman yourself," Culhane Immediately yelled back In reply. "Get your old kettle out of the way or I'll smash It for you." "Smash nothln', " Dempsey shouted, and In a moment more both engines were started slowly forward and began to approach each other, the engineers leaning out of the windows and yelling defiance at each other, while the firemen, evidently knowing some thing of the tempers of their respective superiors, Jumped to the ground and ran one side. Almost Immediately afterward the huge machines came together with a crash that could be heard a quarter of a mile away, but without Injury to either, and no sooner had they touched noses than both engineers turned on all steam and began a pushing match extraordinary. The gigantic drive wheels of both engines slipped on the track and flew around at a furious rate, while the black smoko and the steam from the ex haust rolled up like clouds. At first there was no motion either way, but soon Culhane's No. 1122 began to give way, and, fighting every Inch, was slowly, but surely, driven back down the side track and across the switch, and titers Dempsey left it and started up the side track again. The moment he started away Culhane shut off steam, and. Jumping to ths ground, uncoupled the cars, and mounting the en gine again, threw the lever forward and dashed recklessly up the sidetrack toward the other engine. Dempsey had not been watching him, but some of the bystanders had, and shouted to Dempsey to look out. Dempsey took one glance at the approach ing engine, and then put on all steam aid sent 898 up the sidetrack with all speed. Culhane pursued him and In a very short time the pace became terrific, and pur suer and pursued vanished In a great cloud of dust out Into the level prairie llBe In the direction of Mercedale. With Dempsey only a short distance ahead they went past the elevator at Croton, two miles up the track, at a speed which the men there said must have exceeded a hundred miles an hour, but Just beyond that point, on a sharp Curve, both of Dempsey's cars left the track and tumbled off down a steep bank, without, however, causing the engine to leave the rails, and this occurence seemed to bring Culhano to his senses, for he shut off steam and then reversed his engine and went back to Wreston, followed at a re spectable distance by 898. The . two ditched cars are complete wrecks, but the company will retain both men In their service, changing Culhane, however, to a local run away out on the western division. They don't care to have any more trials of either strength or speed for the entertainment of favored spectators. Milwaukee Free Press. CHANCE FOR AN ARGUMENT STAY !N BED IF YOU LIKE Aa lajanrtlon llnsed on the Proposi tion that Ton Can Afford the l.nxorr. It Is not necessary to get up before day light to win success. "Early to bed and early to rise" as a success hint has been dlsproven so often that It Is not quoted as much as formerly, and children of this generation are prone to point out the fact that bankers get to business much later than laboring men. It Is not always true that the men who work the longest and hardest get the least pay, but It must be lonfeased that Is the general rula. S. R. Crockett, the English novelist. Is ne of the earliest risers among the emi nent men of this generation, and he sets an example for his literary brothers which few of them show any anxiety to emulate. Mr. Crockett tumbles out of bed. winter and summer alike, at 6 o'clock. Before ( be Is hard at work, and by breakfant time he has turned out three or four thousand words of one of his novels. This Is twice aa much aa Hall Calne will write In a whole day. Mark Twain, on the other -hand, never gets up as long as he can He In bed. and "never goes to bed as long as there Is anybody to sit up with,'" according to his own confession. The great humorist has his breakfast of coffee and rolls In bed about I o'clock, and then dictates to a stenographer for a while, rarely dressing before noon. Tet. Mark Twain Is TO odd. and "healthy and wealthy and wise." If he had to go to bed with the sun and get up with the lark In order to succeed. It Is probable that he would give success the go-by. Perhaps inventors and engineers are the lightest sleepers and the earliest risers pie great men of our time. 8ometlmes Thomas A. Edison does not go to bed at , all. He wilt work for thirty-six hours at a stretch, and on occasion he haa spjrnt a whole week In his clothes, snatching a few minutes' sleep when exhausted nature proved too strong for him. ' It Is not an enforced Industry with Mr. Bdlson. He simply has so much Interest In his work that hs cannot leave It. He will pore over a problem or tinker with a machine all day and all night for the aame -cdsun that another Infatuated man will fit for twenty or thirty hours and play 'poker or bridge whist. Work Is not work for htm. It Is fun, and hs grudges ths hours It Is necessary for him to spend at the dining table or la bed. Many great statesmen have been early tsars. Von Moltke and Bismarck, la ths ' lays of their activity, rose aa early and worked as bard as any peasant In Ger many. There are few earlier risers than the kings and queens cf Europe. There Is nobody to mske them get up and go to work, and therefore the contrariness of luruaa nature, which works In royalty as sains as In the case of common people, lrlvF them out of bed at aa early hour srhen aioat of their subjects prefer to fletS. Ui nnaa emperor U usually at work LOST EYESIGHT RETURNS AGAIN Joyful Experience of a Woman Emrrdnf from Darkness to Light. Miss Monah McKenzle of Chicago knows now the blackness of despair which the blind carry with them through life. She knows also the miracle of sight restored and she believed last night that these Im pressions were the profoundest which she Is ever destined to know. For nine days Miss McKenzle was abso lutely blind. Bho could not tell daylight from darkness. The nerves of the eyes registered not a single Impression. And then, as by a miracle, her sight was re stored, arvt she was able to resume the life which her temporary blindness had Inter rupted. "I never realized before what a beautiful thing Is the mere light of the sun," said Miss McKenzle. "I shall never forget the horror of those nine days. It will rest like a shadow on my spirit always, but it will be mingled with the unrpeakable gladness of my escape." Miss McKenzle's sight left her ten days ago, while she was at work In the plant of Bears, Roebuck & Co. Bince then she has been constantly under the care of oculists. They found her case difficult to diagnose. They were at a loss to explain the reason for her sudden affliction, and only one gave her cause for hope. He told her that her sight might be restored as suddenly as It had been taken. At first, she said, she scarcely realized her position. Bhe had never been troubled with her eyes and the thought of blindness hsd never come to her. As the days went by and no relief came she sank Into a state of depression from which her family found it Impossible to rouse her. Fhe had begun to despair when the shadow of blindness was suddenly brushed aside. When Mrs. McKenzle entered her daugh ter's rooln to raise the blinds the girl com plained of pain In her eyes. Bhe asked to have the curtains lowered. As the mother stood hesitating, her daughter suddenly cried out: "I can see, you, mother! I can see you!" In another moment she had leaped from the bed where she was lying and clasped her mother In her arms. Chicago Record-Herald. Policyholders Say They Send Pay ment and Get No Reply. SECRETARY SAYS NO FEES COME Concent Is Provident Accident Asa elation. Which Insurance Coat mleeloaer Says Became De funct Several Moatha Ago. A complaint has been received from the postmaster at Leavenworth, by Postmaster Palmer of Omaha that certain policy hold ers of the Provident Accident association have been rending their assessment remit tances to that concern In Omaha, but have been unable to secure any receipt or re plies to their letters of Inquiry and they want to know what Is the matter. The letter was referred to the Nebraska deputy commissioner of Insurance and a reply has been received from him, which Indicates that the company Is defunct and has been so for several months Under date of November 22, Deputy In surance Commissioner J. L. Pierce wrote Captain Palmer that the Provident Acci dent association was organized In 1904, was licensed to do business that year but has not since been rellcensed because the com pany failed to comply with the Insurance laws of Nebraska. The affairs of the com pany were shown, upon Investigation, to be In bad shape with over ttiOO Indebtedness and no resources. The letter further says the company had no right to make assess ments and any money the former secre tary of the company, George H. Anglln had received since January 1, 1907, should be returned. Anglln Gives Ilia Version. A reporter for The Bee called upon Mr, Anglln at hla, office at Farnam and Twen tieth streets to get his "erslon of the mat ter. Mr. Anglln, who la president of tlr Anglln-Bancker subscription book concern said: "There must be some mistake about the matter of the company receiving assess ments during the present year. At least I have not received any from Leavenworth or elsewhere since January. The company has closed Its business since that time, There was one claim against It and one only, I believe. What money has been re ceived from policy holders since we quit business haa been returned to them. I was secretary and agent of the company. We did some business the first year or two, but did not renew our license the second year. The concern was not a paying propo sition. We maintained an office here and went to some expense employing a stenog rapher or two at a small salary. With my book business I did not have time to give the matter tho attention It required and It was difficult to secure competent solicitors, so for that reason the company went out of existence. I have not yet heard from the Insurance commissioner In reference to tho matter. I can say positively, however, that we have not received any money from assessments or otherwise since the com pany went cut of business. What little did come In shortly thereafter we promptly re turned to the senders." PUTTING A TAX ON BILLBOARDS Rental of Property for Advertising; Purposes a Damage to the Neighborhood. The Society for Beautifying Buffalo Is preparing to fight for the taxation of bill boards and the large advertising signs which deface the city. In every city there are similar disgraceful defacements, erected by selfish and unpatriotic property owners. who seek to secure an Income from their unimproved property, without regard to the damage that may be done their neigh bors or the city at large. It Is not diffi cult to estimate In dollars ard cents the damage that can be done to a residence or business street, when some vacant corner lot la covered with billboards. On many of the main thoroughfares offensive bill boards still remain, a nuisance to the neighborhood, an offense to the public, and a blot on the Improvement of the entire section of the city. It Is not surprising that the public has little sympathy with the desire of property owners to obtain a slight rental from va cant property at such a heavy expense to the neighborhood In which the nuisance la permitted. But the old idea has long pre vailed that a man could do what he wished with his own property, and that while the offense against public decency was obvious, there was no adequate legal remedy. In recent years the growth of hideous adver tising signs on the tops of buildings, spoil ing the sky lines of beautiful streets, has been rapid. The plan proposed by the Buffalo society Is legal. Moral suasion will not be con tinued as a weapon; the parties who are guilty of offenses against the public of this nature have no morals or civic pride to which an appeal can be taken. It la pro posed to fight the billboards and signs by taxing them out of existence through the city assessor's office. It will be remembered that Assemblyman Hart of t'tlca had a hill In the last legislature, proposing to tax billboards and signs. The bill was not given serious attention, but It started a general discuslon, and the Idea will be util ized by the Buffalo society and other so cieties throughout the state that have been organized for the laudable purpose of sup pressing nuisances of this sort. The State Tax hoard of New Jersey haa sustained the proposed assessment of 11,000 on a sign In one of the suburbs of Jersey City. The rartles maintaining the sign put In the defense that such an assessment was confiscatory, and. If upheld, would compel the removal of the sign. The State com mission took the public spirited ground that while the tax was levied simply as a matter of revenue, If It served to compel the re moval of the sign, a great many people would be benefited, and such benefit wa sufficient to Justify the assessment. Thl decision of the State hoard, while It ha received much commendation, rests upon very doubtful legal foundation. There la no doubt, however, of the right to assess at reasonable rates all billboard' and signs as personal property, baslnz , such assessment on the full proportionate ' amount of the Income received from- such advertising. The suggestion that a uniform scale of aasessment might be adopted, the larger boards paying a greater proportionate tax. I has been made. This would tend to reduce the size of the boards and discourage big 1 signs, without violating letter or spirit of I the law.-Rocheater (N. T.) Herald. UK r ftam For Man and Women Staaiard of tae World ciif of rita Black Iras fur, oh aad even; gUasr and durabU faacy tana baed. Fa in sway way far the Most cnucai Inn pleeaag te tha an particular judge of qaaUry. Price oa thoeo garments begin at . . . 1T5 Otaaraaat from S25. McKibUa jackets rroaa $2S IAuk your dealer. 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