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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (April 18, 1908)
THE OMAHA DAILY BKE: SATUHPAV, A HUT, 18. 1908. KEWTElECRAPfl NOT IN WEST Scheme Projected by Shrewd Men Gets Ho Support Out Here. OMAHA REAL ESTATE 13 BETTEE t Tkfn; Springs r Wkllt Operators Ar Striking; Rom People 4. Cfcaae to Cola Son Ml , Mnrr. it i While the tftlwaph oprtor of the vountry were striking last fall It was announced by the board of strategy that a new telegraph company was being- formed to -be controlled by union operator! which would, agree to transmit menage for a cent a word. Preparations are still being made 'to oarry out that organization and It la ' announced that the company pro pose to Incorporate under the laws of Maine or New Jersey. Much literature has been spread around the country and It Is snld that considerable stork haa been sold, although the operators of Omaha say they have not ben asked to subscribe. I K. Davis of Chicago took the 'scheme from Chlcag-o to New York and opened up a desk In the office of 1 Kara, DeWolf A Co., bankers and brokers. J j The promoter calls the company the Ameri j I can Union Telegraph company. Mr. Davis says he has sold 1104.000 worth of stock. : j The stock Is being sold to union telegraph ! operators who were dissatisfied with the j 1 outcome of the strike. ree far Incorporation. ! ' Mr. Davis declare he has sent $1,060 to the secretary of stale of Maine to pay or the Incorporation of the American Union yTelegrapi company and expects to have his charter this week. If that Is true the com . fany wni be Incorporated at f 10,000,000, which will consist of 12.000,000 of S per cent ' preferred stock and $8,000,000 of common -tock. each share worth 110. Just now mem ters of the Commercial Telegraphers' union and the Order of Railway Telegraphers jre getting stock In the company f or 6 ! a share. They can pay one-fifth of the money down and the rest In monthly In t utallmenta. Each share of preferred stock ncanies on of common as a bonus. Pro moter Davis had decided to offer to rail ! road engineers, firemen, conductors and braketnen, as well as freight and passen ger employes, 10,000 shares of the S per cent preferred stock at U a share. He even goffers to the general public for thirty day oniy, ju.uw snares or nis prrrerreu biock at the same price the englners and others get It at They can't expect to get In on the ground floor Ilk the operator. Local Mem Prefr-Ral Estate. W. W. U mated, local manager of the i Western Union, says that the operators f In Omaha would prefer to put their money ' : In Omaha real estate and not lose It He i I also say the company has no right to use ! the name of American Telegraph union, I a that name belongs to the Western T j Union. I j Back In the '70s, when the telegraph was , young, the Western Union was owned by : j Wnilam H. Vanderbllt Jay Gould then built , the Mutual Union Telegraph company to compete with It and after a short com ! petition It waa agreed to consolidate under ' the nam of the Western Union. There j'were developments that didn't suit Mr. : ' Could and he broke away and organised the i 'American Union Telegraph company. After j three years more of brisk fighting the j Western Union made peace overtures and .: Mr. Gould financed the purchase of the Western Union, again consolidating and retaining the name. The Western Union ha never parted with its right to the old name. OUT OF ONE BOX. IN ANOTHER Yossg Ftremaa. Aaeaaed of Theft Is Releaeed and Picked Up oa Old Ckarare. William Hyland. the young fireman, who wa charged with stealing a pocketbook containing $180 from the room of J. H. Coleney at 1T0S Chicago street while en gaged In extinguishing a fire there April 2, wa discharged after a preliminary hear ing In police cour Friday morning. Sus picion had fallen upon Hyland only cir cumstantially and after all the evidence wa In Deputy County Attorney Elllck admitted that the case of the state wa not strong enough to warrant binding the de fendant over to the district court. Hyland waa released. However, he wa taken Into custody Immediately again and reminded of the fact, that he wa arrested one day last fall, aentenoed to ten day on the chain gang and made his escape after . serving only four days. Unless the mayor pardon him Hyland will have to serve the remaining six day. ALONG GREENLAND ICY SHORES Saatwier Are ' Pleasant aad Winters Not So nad, a White Women TT rites. Certain white men In the Danish govern ment service live along the southwest coast of Greenland. How do the European women and children thrive In that Arctic land? It Is interesting to hear from one of these women, who has written to the German paper Ausland that on the whole they like Greenland, have many simple pleasures there, their children are happy and robust and the natives are simple, Jolly and in dustrious. The writer says that life Is not Irksome, though the coast Is bleak and the winter snows are deep. Ehe lives In Godthaab, the capital of the colony of South Greenland. The white women spend many of the sum mer hours on the hills or In the gardens. . "My garden," she writes, "from the Greenland point of View, Is a great success. A broad walk divides It Into two parts. On one side beets, radishes, cabbages and some other vegetables grow lustily and mature even In the short summer. "On the other Is a beautiful grass plot, sprinkled with dandelions and daisies, and in a corner Is a little hothouse in which we rising a few European flowers and strawberries to perfection. Near the en trance are garden chairs and a little table, and often. In the afternoon, all the white women In the colony sit here with their needles, enjoying their tea and tho bou quets of roses and gillyflowers which the hothouse provides." I The Danish mothers and their children are often seen on fine summer days cllmb tfig the hills behind the settlement, some with their sewing, others with books, while a teakettle and a banket of fresh baked cake are parried by young Esquimaux. In sunny places, protected from the wind, the picnic party enjoys the glorious view of the blue sea, and the entertainment Is varied by visits from the village goats, Imported from Europe generations ago and thriving In their new home. The single street of Godthaab Is lined with houses and bears the name of Lange Llnle, In memory of the famous promenade of that name In Copenhagen. It la a noisy street In summer, for It Is the center of the happy out-of-door life of the people and the playground of the children, both Greenlanders and European. The little folks recognize no racial dis tinction. They are all playmates to gether, and In fact there is a large Eu ropean admixture In all the Esquimaux, old and young. "Sometimes," the narrative continues, "we hear a Joyous shout 'The post, the poet!' and In an Instant the whole colony is out of doors. "We see a boat coming up the bay pro pelled by the paddle of one of the Esquimaux whose business is to travel from one settlement to another with the mail. The Esquimaux are Just as Inter ested as we are, for all can read and write and are eager for news from their friend In the other colonies. Only a few old women standing In their door or sitting on the flat roof have no part In the general excitement. ' "But stir and bustle are greatest If an oar I fixed upright like a mast In the boat Thl means that the boat I from one of the southern settlements where a vessel from Denmark has arrived, and the Esquimaux postmen are trusted with letters from our dear one in the home land, a the ship 1 unloading a part of it cargo and will not arrive for several day. The governor of the colony opens the post bag, and Its contents are for day the chief topic of conversation." A different aspect Godthaab wear In the winter months. Even in south Green land there Is a long period when the moon and star are the only Illumina tion and there Is Just enough of their light to make the settlement look dimly ghostlike, nearly burled, as it Is, 1n the deep snow. Some of the Esqulmux give all their time to shoveling the snow out of Lange Llnle, so that there may be one place of promenade between the dwellings, the schoolhouse. the kirk, the store and the meat houses where supplies of froien riesn and birds are kept. The path is wide and walled in on euner side by snow plies. But even In thl gloomy season the white women, wrapped in furs, have their walks and picnic. CAFES KEEP THE PRICES UP Haying" Doubled on Coffee They Now Boost the Meat BLAME PACKERS FOR 'lATTER Roast Beef that Formerly Casna for Twenty-Five Cents Now Costa , Thirty Cents at go-Called Fashionables. 1 1 Certain restaurant keepers plead that It Is not their fault that they charge $0 cents for roast beef now where they formerly charged 26 cents; they lay the blame on ths meat rackers, who, they say, have ad vanced prices. But do m?at packers also control the price of coffee? Borne time ego It was possible to get a cup of coffee in most any of the so-called fashionable cafes for a nickel. It Isn't now and has not been for msny moons. The price Is 10 cents. And coffee Is stable on the market, too. But restaurants don't find the subject of coffee as Interesting for con versation as tbey do the subject of meat The excuse Is easier with meat. The constant advance In the price ot meal made by the packers has forced the retailers to make similar advances, and then the restaurants responded to the popular erase to get more coin out of the meat. From the professional man to the prac tlctioner of manual labor; from employer to employe, the advance of 6 cents will bo felt. While It will not seriously cripple the financial standing of the average em ployer, the employe will go without the 8 cent piece of pie or the usual cup oF"f!offea to keep the price of lunches down to the 26 cents, which Is the limit of a large number. No further advances In the price of meats have been made during the week, but the price of beef has maintained the high mark reached two weeks ago and show no sign of let up. Pork Is off 2 or 3 cents, but the decline Is to be only temporary. "Beef and pork are always the first things to change in price on the bill of far In a restaurant." said a steward or one of the down town houses. "Of course cantaloupes and strawberries go down in the spring as the supply increases, but plain roaat beef is about as sure to feel an ad vance by a butcher as anything which Is found on a menu. Such commonplace thing a elngemachtes veal and oyster alongonquln remain steady the year around. but we are simply compelled to advance the price of roast beef and ought to be getting more than wo are." The lower-priced restaurants nave not advanced and "beef on one" will remain the same as at present, the price of rough boll at, the retail market not having fol lowed the rib roast to the top notch. A Frlghtfal Experience with biliousness, malaria and constipation. is quickly overcome by taking Dr. King's New Life Pill. 26c. For sal by Beaton Drue Co. Bnlldlag Permit. Mr. Cattner Slater, Forty-fourth and ( Douglas streets, frame, dwelling, $2,500; J. A. Davis, fill Miami street, frame dwell ing, $2,600; C Meldllngs. 1035 Atlas street. frame dwelling, $1,300; Peter Swanson, Six teenth and Saratoga streets, frame dwell ing, $1,000; C. W. Willis, Fortieth street and Grand avenue, frame cottage, $5i0. BACK TO DEAR ISLAND PARK Promise Gentleman of Gentlemanly Taste Make When Given Ills Release. Ed McCullen, who appeared In police court Friday, evidently is a gentleman of gentlemanly tastes. His garments may not be of the best, but they are the best the present state of his finances afford. From the breast pocket of his shrunken blue coat the corner of a red handkerchief was vial ble In all Its sartorial elegance. Mr. Mc Cullen said his home Is in "Island Park ' which suggests to the mind a large private ground on an Island with pretty launches plying back and forth between it and the mainland, a stately mansion with shooting preserves and all that. Island Park really ! only a sandbar In the Missouri. Mr. Mc Cullen was given his liberty and promised to return at once to Island Park. NEW LAWS F0RNEW CRIMES How Legislative Wisdom Keeps Pace with Modern Condl ? ' ttona. Tf Draco and Solon, the' old-time law makers, should revisit the earth, a tour Of investigation In these United States would make it speedily clear to mem mar. w modern, a well as the ancient, busy ourselves pretty much all the time with the framing of new laws. "I am fined for failure to provide good drinking water on my passenger trains," a Rhode Islander tnlkht say; to which a fel low railroader In South Carllona would add: , "In this state a Jail sentence follows a neglect to provide spittoons for every two seat in our care!" A man In Virginia says: "I killed a par tridge on the second day of February, for which I must serve time in Jail." In Tennessee a man must pay a fine or serve three years' imprisonment for killing fish with dynamite. In Wisconsin a baker must serve three weeks in Jail for sleeping in his bakery. In California nurses are punished by fine or Imprisonment should they fail, in the proper Instance, to notify the physician of certain phases of illness In their patients. To water a bicycle path In the state of Ohio 1 an offense punishable by heavy fine and some times Imprisonment. In most of the states it is a penal offense to tap a telegraph wire or to sell kerosene that is not up to the fire test. If the old lawgivers were to extend their tour of investigation they might learn of men fined or imprisoned for dropping ad vertising matter In letter chutes; for gambling by means of slot machines; and for countless other offenses the very means for committing which were unknown 100 year ago Harper' Weekly.' Ever Try The Bee Want Ad Columns? If not, do so, and get satisfactory results. m$mrfu III (;., crj Docciii Oct ef tin L'IgbBect District c "CLOTHING, COMPANY EBSBESSntSPii THE OLD CL0THIN8 CORNER WHERE LOW PRICES PREVAIL Being out of the HigH Rent District and holding large factory interests enables us to sell cheaper than Btores in the High Rent District.- Great Sale S Easter Qofldnq Several fortunate purchases enables us to offer clothing for men at prices rarely heard of in Omaha. The bargains are very opportune as Saturday will bo the last day to get that new suit before Easter, and certainly you will not hesitate when you see these - 3 t 1 n r wonuenui vaiucs we are onering. y Mtftoutt Men's $18,00 and $20,00 Suits for $10.00 These fine hand tailored suits are made of the finest fifrofJ fannvr mtrma grays, finest black thibets, unfinished worsteds, splendid tweeds, cassimeres and cucviois, not iorgetting tne line salt and pepper effects in fine worsteds . j. peneci nr. guaranteed to all men irom n 34 to 50 inches chest measurement. P Remember $18 and $20 Suifs special for Saturday I Your Choice Tomorrow- Fancy worsteds, fancy browns, cheviots, cassimeres, etc. Handsomely tailored throughout, elegantly trimmed. Every suit in this, lot is a grand value at $12.50. Special for Saturday cts in fine worsteds . (0)00 Satnriay from Men's Soils worth up lo $12.50, for $7.50 750 A NEW EASTER HAT At a Bpeolal Saying In Frio If Bought Bare. Men' stylish Spring Hats,, In blacks, tans, browns, etc., soft or "stiff hats, regular $2 and $2.60 values; Saturday . .91.00 You will be surprised at the elegant values we offer at this price. 01 That raster Hat at ths False. u A 3.50 Bat for I2.SO These Hats have stylish finish nf the beat $3.60 Hats made. They come In all the latest styles and colors so popular i this season. We guarantee every hat to give saiisraciion. A j nu nat at the exclusive hatters at the Palace 93.50 ; V Men's 75c and $1.00 Shirts 49c New Bprlng style equal to any 7 Be and $1.00 shirts sold, our price 40 Men's fine ribbed underwear In Brown, White, Blue and Salmon colors, form fit - ting, french finished 50 Fancy hosiery for Easter Oxfords. The swellest line in the city, 60c, 25c 13 Men's Easter Neckwear, Brown Plaids, brown figures, plain browns 50c and 25 A Shoe and Oxford Special for tomorrow Men's 3.50 and $4.00 Bhoes and oxfords $2.48 They come In velour calLVx gun metal calf and patent y colt skin, also In the new T fashionable, tans and buc kle tan oxfords In all latest toes shown this season. Button blucher and plain lace stylet worth up to 14, your choice ot the lot to morrow, at 82.48 SB Wainpijipii Hi W i Mi nm mi U PELT PLUCKERS FOR OMAHA Large Homes forj Buying Sheepskins to Follow wool Market. MEANS BIG THING FOR THIS CITY Hide Houses Here Probably Will Con tinue to Boy Pelts, but .Will Sell Them to the New Plant. Pointed Paragraphs. Music hath charms but so hath the snake charmer. Some poeple can"t even be craxy without attracting attention. There's lots of pleasure to be derived from deceiving a deceiver. If you would keep your friends don't get Into the habit of using them. The hurt resulting from falling In love is apt to be painful for a short time. Jealousy declines to listen to reason be cause It doesn't believe there Is such a thing. Chicago News. IHJtialUmilHWansV ICE CRE A.IVS SOME ONE SAID "WE HAD stopped making Ice Cream" TDEY ARE MISTAKEN! t We are miking more and better Ice Cream than ever In our history. For 20 years before the pure hod laws were passed, we made Pure Ice Cream, that Is now the national standard. I3ALOUJIPIF, The Confectioner "Pelt pluckera" and large houses for buy ing sheep skin will follow the wool ware houses which are to be built In Omaha, ac cording to Julius Marx of St. Paul, Minn,, who Is In Omaha with a view of opening a pelt house. "The pelt business will amount to consid erable," ald Mr. Marx. "The house which we plan for Omaha will pluck the wool from i,000 pelts dally. That means not only an Immense amount of wool, but thou sands of sheep skins which will be sold in Omaha to the buyers of the east. "The hide houses of Omaha will prob ably continue , to buy pelts, but will sell them to the plucking plant, where the wool will not only be prepared for the market, but the skins put Into condition to sell to those who use sheep skin as a leather." Mr. Marx Is authority for the statement that the houses In Omaha will be large enough to buy every sheep pelt from the packing houses of South Omaha as well as every pelt from the small butchers of the state and the thousands taken from sheep Lwhlch die on the range. The value of sheep pelts and the wool usually on them has come to be such that the pelts of the sheep which are killed Ir. shipping or which die fln the range are not overlooked. Men go over the ranges and remove the pelts. These pelts will come to Omaha with the millions of pounds of wool and when growers do not have sufficient wool to fill a car It may he breught to the minlmuni weight by filling -up with pelts. The supposition that the wool warehouses will not give employment to many men Is fast being reconsidered. The auxiliaries to the warehouse promise to employ several hundred. Already the compressing plant Is assured and according to the St. Paul pelt buyer a plant such as he suggests will employ a large number. At no distant day the wool will all be Inspected and graded at Omaha. Office of the wool commission dealer must have help and the wool must be unloaded and reloaded at the ware houses. The wool market will furnish em ployment for a large number from the Urn the warehouse In opened. pale-faced man then left, declaring he would begin a new life. Philadelphia Kecord. A Flve-Mlnnte Limit. Tt waa at an Informal session, after one of the regular meetings of a religious conven tion, that the New Hampshire minister told some of his best stories. "There Is one man In our church," he said, "who Is as good as gold, but so long-winded that he tires everybody out. "At one time It was suggested by one of the deacons that In order to avoid the ex treme length of tills good man's remarks at prayer meeting, we might mako a five mlnute limit. Th i I inaugurated at tne nrxi meeung and It was cheering to us all to see that hen the lona-wlnded man rose to speak he held his open watch In his left hand. 'When the limit waa all mil reacnea. he said: 'Finding, my dear friends, that I have onlv a few- seconds left in which to speak, and having much to say, 1 will throw the rest of my remarks into the form of a prayer. Bartender Wa Too Hasty. "I'm d-d-d-dvin'. I'm d-d-d-dyin. dyin'." gasped a pale-faced man as he trembling ly entered a saloon near Front and Mas ter atresia yesterday. "Great heavens." shouted tne oanenner. -mm it awiui. As the man grasped the bar to stmtdy himself, the drink mixer ran to a pnune and summoned a physician. Then he helped the man guntly to a table. "Wb-wh-wha-what have you d-doneT" asked the pale man. "I sent for a doctor." said the bartender. "You-yoa were too ?-l-quick; I meant to to t-t-tell y-y-you wa-waa dyin. f-f-for a d-d-d-diink." And ha sot it. When the doctor cam the i "barkeep" had to set them up again. The MAKING THE CITY BEAUTIFUL Borne Points About the Annual Clean up Inaugurated at Spokane. C. Herbert Moore, mayor of Spokane, Washington state, has issued a proclama tion designating Saturday, April 18, as a Joint clean-up day and Arbor day. The plan of beautifying the city will be carried out under the direction of Dr. George T. Penn, chairman of the city beautiful com mittee of the 150.0(0 club. It is expected that between 40,000 and 45, 000 men, women and school children will turn out at the annual cleaning, the army of volunteer workers being under the su pervision of Henry J. Llllenthal, formerly city .engineer, who Is also to be marshal of the day. Five hundred teams of horses and wagons will be provided by the organ ization, business ho u bps and private citizens to haul the refuse to the Incinerators. The combustible debris will be destroyed by bonfires, over which a special squad of city flrenen will have supervision. The "160,000 club" will turn out Its entire mem bership, 3,200 business and professional men, and the club's woman's auxiliary will assist the children In planting trees and shrubs. The city beautiful committee is declared to be one of tho best organized bodli In tho Pacific northwest. It Is planned 'on line similar to those adopted by Tam many, In that. In addition to the chair man, there Is a vice chairman In each ward, a captain In each precinct and a lieutenant in every block within tho incor porated city limita. Then there Is a joint lonunlttce, composed of twenty men, who .nuke up the subcommittee on cleaning day, public buildings, parks, driveways and alleys, street and bridges and tree plant ing. The Joint committea meets twice a month, when plans are presented for improve ments and upon adoption .the work is car ried out In the various wards through the captains and lieutenants. "Spokane's cleaning day campaign la one of the most successful movements ever car ried out In this city," said Mayor Moore, who was chairman of the city beautiful committee In 1907, "and as a result I have received letters from mayors In hundreds of towns and cities In various parts of the United States and Canada asking for de tailed plans. These were tried out In nu merous instances late last spring, and there are reasons to believe that the day Is not far distant when many of the ctles on this continent will devote ono day a year to this work. "The work done last year shows the In terest that can be aroused in this kind of civic improvement In a few weeks. It Is estimated that nearly 40.000 persons took part in the campaign and in addition to raking lawns, pruning trees, clearing al leys and vacant lots and repairing fonci and walks In the suburbs more than 20,0u0 packets of flower seeds and several hun dred pounds of grass seed were sown. Bonfires were lighted In the outskirts of h cltv at lha rinse of the dav's work to consume the debrts not destroyed at the city' incinerating plants." Use Bee Want Ads to booBt your business. Disinterested Professional Advice. "Bring me that beefsteak pot-pie " "Yausnh." said the dining car waiter. listening near by. And bring me some or inose rrencn peas 'Yassah: but, boss, maybe you-all don't know dey's French peas In dat pie." No. I dldn L Thanks, lieorge. And ah-and-ah, then bring me some potatoes." "Yassah, boss; but maybe you-all didn't know dry's tatehs, too. In dat pie." "No, I didn't. Thank srafn, George, It's mighty nice of you to keep m from buying a lot of stuff I wouldn't want." "Yassah, Ah reckon It's mighty nice o" me to do dat, boss. Ah' sevn so many, in-a-n-y people niie aemmens. lak you all waste money fo' vegetables dat might Jus' as well 'a' been handed over to th' walteh. Yassah, Ab aho' has." Judge. Keeping Faith With Hie PbiMc . It's an easy matter, when the Pianos you sell meet the demands of tho purchaser, not only at the time of pur chase but during the many years a good Piano remains in the home. " Our part is to place for your inspection instruments that will meet those requirements. The result is that we do not believe greater value can be had than what this department of our great 6tore affords. On display may be seen CHICKERING & SONS, Boston America's oldest and most renowned Piano, IVERS&POND, EVERETT, STARR, PACKARD, STERLING, EOHLER & CAMPBELL, CHASE, HARVARD, RICHMOND, HUNTINGTON, MENDELSSOHN, KURTZMAN, and Others. Sold on easy payments. The Bennett Company ssssfyTj j j How About Your Easter Clothes T;" : Young Men' Clothes and Tie Shop, ,71577! I , , , 810 South 16th Street. ', ' j 'A ' So many good thlngB here for before Easter buying we hardly know which to talk about most But If you're looking ; for the best clothes In town, regardless of price, you can get them here. If $25 Is enough for you It is surely enough for us, because at the price we can suit the most critical In fit, style, pattern and fa bric. We sell as low as $18 and as high as 140, but we feel that at $25 we have no competition. If you are wise you'll look. You'll not be forced to buy. . Other Fixings for Easter, too. in Hosiery and Neck wear. Jjook us over. A BEE Want Ad Will rent that vacant house, fill those vacant rooms or secur boarders on short notice at a very small cost. Telephone Douglas 238, Bee Office. 17th and Farnam Sts