THE OMAIIA SUNDAY BEE: JULY 9. 1903.
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FEWER HIES THAN EVER
Petti Are Growing Less Numerous in
Omaha, Say the Statistician.
ONLY NINE MILLION THIS YEAS
,ul Imoi at Thla Tim, Areordlas
K to 'the name Aathorlfy, tha
nbrr Exceeded .
teen Million.
There are fewerrfllea In prnaha at present
than at any corresponding time "in fourteen
years. This is the statement made by th
Btatistlclan. The information wi given
voluntarily while the Statistician ate a
piece of pie and glass of milk In a Farnam
piece of pe and drank a glass of milk In
a? Farnam street lunch establishment at
noon Saturday:
The Btatiatlclan la an old man. lie aald
hla hams is Bpratt and that ha has devoted
hi life to the gathering of statistics, lie
ha a white beard, which serve also as a
necktie.
"Trri Is a remarkabl year, young mam"
rm fcrfcnn a he wiped sdmrple crumb
frofrt his mouth And looked solemnly at the
slave of the pencil. -' '
"Tes, It is.' responded tha latter cordially.
Ti "Statistician munohed for a moment
In- alienee and It was plain to the expert
enoeJ eye of the reporter that he waa about
to say something. Tha eye-of tha reporter
waa not mistaken. Th Statistician spoke.
1 ; . Files on ta Wane.
; "Do you know, sir, that these are lea
than half as many file In Omaha on this,
tha lsth .day of .July, 1906, than there have
been on any of the corresponding day in
tha last fourteen years?"
,Tne reporter waa nonplussed. Me paused
with a torktull or pate d fola gras half
way to Ms mouth. '
"Tou don't ay so," ha exclaimed. -
1 not' only say so, but can prove It," s.lld
the Btatlstlclan, evidently pleased at In
aurprlse hi statement had created. Ha
drew out a red-covered note book and
turned tha well-thumbed pagea. The re
porter wa Just taking a bite of lobster
a la NewbOrg when the Statistician found
what he waa looking tor.
"Tou see that lemon pie over there." he
aid. Indicating with hla finger. The re
porter nodded a he took a alp of cham
pagne. "How ''many files are, therein It?" de
manded the Statistician.
The reporter et down his champagne
glass and counted.
''Four," he said.
He Scents Trianvpfc.
The Statistician referred to hi note book
with a look that Indicated comlhg triumph.
"On this day last year at this very hour
there were seven fllea on that pie," ha
old. "At the corresponding hour the year
before, ulna; at this hour in 1900 there were
thirteen flies , on that pie."
VBut the pie," the reporter groped. "It
doesn't look that old."
"Oh, no, of course, I mean tha other pies
that have stood In that place," said the
Statistician. "Same kind of pies, you see."
"Remarkable," exclaimed th reporter as
bo took a liberal helping of peacock'r,
tonaua, one of his favorite dishes.
"I hava other statistics which prove th
same thing." sold the Statistician. "I"
But the reporter waved him aside.
"I accept your proof," he said.
- "There-are' In Omaha today, according
to mjr careful computation, " ,t36,288 files,
compared with 1,KU,978 on this date last
year,", perslrted th Statistician. "I have
lhm classified here number In houses,
tvurober ,ln t0res, number In th open air"
vtef .. . ", .......
'' The reporter assured him that the total
figures were alone essential and, having
finished his tepast, he tossed th Walter a
ii gold piece and hurried away to give
'th figure of the Statistician to an anx
lou world.
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CHIEF OTY NEKS
Have Boot Mat IX.
fcadelph r. Sweboda, Accounting-Auditor.
Bowman, 117 N. It. Douglas Shoe, 11.60,
feoaxke for Quality cigars, til 8. 16th.
aUaehaxt, photographer, 18th Farnam.
James O. Klaslsr for county attor'y. Adv.
' Bqaitabl tdi Policies sight draft at
maturity. It If. Neely, manager, Omaha,
Borgsss-aranden Co., now In new quar
ters, 1611 Howard. Gas. eiectrlo fixture
and wiring.
Do Catohera are Dlsohargad Once mora
the unpopular dog catcher came off victor
ious In police court. Charles Mitchell and
Rdhert Fox, two negro dog Catchers, were
charged with assault by Louis Margolin,
but the' evidence Ihtroduced favored the
dog catchers ar.i il.ey were discharged by
Judge Crawford.
Estate of Mrs. Pritchett The estate of
Mrs. Hrrrlet O. Pritchett Is worth 20S,
iiH.S2, according to the appraisement of
Myron 1 Learned, who .valued It for In
heritance tax purposes. Cne-thlrd of the
projerty will go to Mrs. Rrltchett' hus
band, George.' E. Pritchett and the other
two-thtrda will be divided among the three
children. j
Woman In' Jail for Fighting Mrs. Cora
Johnson was sentenced to fifteen days In
Jail Ira police court for assault upon Mrs.
Llnkln, a neighbor, who attempted to act
tha part of ' peacemaker In a quarrel be
tween Mrs. and Mr. Johnson. Incensed as
What ahe termed Interference, the John
son woman hurled a bottle at Mrs. Llttkln,
striking the latter over, tha head.
City Charter Commute The first meet
ing of the city charter committee will b
held next Wednesday evening, the meet
ing to be at I o'clock In the council cham
ber In the city hall. This committee Is
composed of two members each from the
City council, Commercial club, Eeal Es
tate exchange, Federation of Improvement
clubs and Federation of Labor unions.
o WorlA-Bsrald Kay Intervene To
glv the World-Herald a chance to Inter
vene, the Injunction suit brought by Th
Bee Publishing company against the City
oouncll to prevent the letting of th eofc
tract for publication of official notices to
th World-Herald on its belated bid, the
hearing of the case was . postponed until
July SI. It will be heard In Judge Redlck'a
court.
eal Estate Sals In Upland Trrac
The real estate firm of Jeff W. Bedford
ft Son has Just sold two piece Df property
In their new' Upland Terrace subdivision.
Clayton B. Roberts of the State Traveling
Men's Insurance association has brought
lot eighteen, for C.200, and W. D. Ferclval.
manager of the Trade Exhibit company, Is
the purchaser of lot seventeen, for 11,175
Both will built first class residences on
their new properties.
netting Beady for Camp Arrangement
ere being made by some of the clerical
fore at Department of the Missouri head
quarters for temporary duty at the camp
of Instruction to be established near Fort
D. A. Russell, Wyo., August 1, for a month.
A detail of the clerks will leave next week
for the new camp, to be followed a week
later by General Morton and staff. Gen
eral Morton will be In command of the
camp.
Bids for Boad Paving As a result of
readvertlalng for bids for paving county
roads, 37 bids, representing seven bidders,
wer submitted to county board Saturday
and opened In the presence of the board.
At th first bidding only ,two firms com
peted. . The bids were submitted to the road
committee and the county engineer for
tabulation and will be taken up next week.
The bids covered paving on the Military,
lower Irvlngton, Krug park. Dodge street
to Lane . and from Lane to Elkhorn, the
Glfford and West Q roads.
Bewsboy Can Betaln Street Stand
Newspapers are not merchandise, according
to Judge Sear In a decision Saturday
morning In the case Involving the right to
operate a newspaper fctand on wheels at
Sixteenth and Farnam streets. Judge Sear
held that the sale of newspapers from a
oart was not prohibited by tha ao-calUd
push cart ordinance passed by the city
council. He dismissed Ben Arenson, who
wis' fined $5 and costs In police court for
operating tha cart. The case came befora
Judge Sears on an appeal from the lower
court.''
Tin Bemittsd Whn Man' Baby Sles
Cpon hearing of the death of a twin baby
of B. B. Hill who had Just been fined $10
and cost In police court on the charge of
disturbing the peace, Judg Crawford re
versed himself and discharged Hill. Hll
ha been out of employment for several
month and was unable to provide for the
Infants, they being taken In charge by the
Juvenile authorities. After being fined.
Hill was remanded to the bull pen. At
this Juncture a telephone message was re
ceived .that one of th infants had died
and HJll was discharged. .
Boys, Look Oat for Xdv Wires City
Electrlolan Mlchaelsen warn the small
boy .to keep their hands off the rope used
for hoisting the street art lights. Two
youths" near Forty-second and Farnam
streets untied th knot In th rope holding
the aro light Ira plac and the lamp fall
and was shattered In pieces. Mr. Michael
sen says It Is not so much the damage done
to tha lights that he objects to as tha
great danger In tampering with them. Th
wires are all "alive" and th boya run the
risk Of being electrocuted. "Tell the boys
not. to meddle." says th city electrician.
Bath Hons at SaUna Sea President E.
P, Berryman of the Park board and Super
intendent W. R. Adams of the parks ar
Investigating the feasibility of erecting a
cheap shed on the shores of Sallna Sea to
b used by th boys as a bath house. One
hundrey and fifty-seven boys wer in swim
ming 'In th sea Friday evening and on
Bunday this number is swelled to more
than too. While the board ha not as yet
secured title to the land surrounding the
sea. commonly known as Cut-Off lake. It
la probable that a temporary bath house
will be built for us by the small boy this
summer.
Laboratory Mall Sant Baok The ac
cumulated mail forwarded to Omaha for
tha new government chemical labor
atory officials has been ordered re
turned to Washington, there being
no on In Omaha authorised to
receive It. Th mall Is presumed to con
tain Invoices of property for the estab
lishment of th new plant and has reached
Omaha from various quarters where the
.'material has been purchased. Its return
to Washington does not mean Ike abandon
ment of the plant at Omaha, but has been
ordered returned there for information.
Tli plant will be In working order about
September 1. It Is not known who the
superintendent of the plant will be.
..Expert Troaser Thief A trousor thief
Is loose In the community. Reports are
b'elng received every day by the polio of
th work of aome burglar who gains en
trance 'by cutting out th screening In
windows. Th thief has a mania for men's
trousers With or without money In the
pockets. (Friday night h gained entrance
to th realdenr of Bam Golodnar, 111 North
Eighteenth street and stole two pair of
trousers. In th pockets of on patr wer
several key and It In money. Th thief
also secured a pair of trousers from th
resldenca of H. Rathkap, 170 Webster
street, th pockU of which contained U In
money and a St vent CaoaiUan "sbin-ylualtr.
AFFAIRS AT SUCTll OMAIIA
Police Much Annoyed by Boys Who
Break Seal, on Freight Can.
BOY BITTEN BY HARMLESS SNAKE
Remedy Administered by Frightened
rarents, However, Nearly Prove
Fatal Country Roads Dam
aged by fftorm.
Chief Tlrtggs has been much annoyed by
the perslstance of a gang or two of rough
boy who nightly prowl through the rail
rona yards and break the reals of cars.
The boys especially select cars of fruit. A
water melon car is sure to suffer at tholr
hands. Of late they Uva .become pretty
ooia, and the officers have given chase
Then the young fellows, aged 16 or 17, run
fast enough to keep out of reach and Jeer
the officers In chase. One of the boys was
arrested Inst night by the chief, who got
a little too near before being discovered.
He gave the boy a severe lecture, telling
him that the police department, among
other things, had no time to be chasing
boys who saw only fun in It, and he pro
posed to show them that the police dis
approved of conduct such as kept th
officers away from more serious duties and
the protection of cltlsens.
Remedy Worse Than Bite.
It la reported from Seymour lake that
a boy named Ed Harrington went swim
ming In th lower arm of th lake In
shallow water among the rushes and was
bitten by a water snake on which he
stepped. The doctor In attendance gave It
as his opinion that the snake' bite was
harmless In all probability, but the par
ents In their terror had before h took
the case administered so much Of the old
time remedy for snake bite and had In
duced the boy to swallow so much ammonia
that he had great difficulty In saving his
life Ifom the effect of the remedy. His
parents live near the lak and far from a
doctor, so when the boy cam running
home saying a snake had bitten , him they
darned not take any chances. They rubbed
arnica and ammonia on the bite and gave
him nearly half a glass of ammonia in
water to drink. Then they hustled him
In a rig to the city and on the way ad
ministered whisky and water in equal pro
portions and large quantities. By the time
he arrived the whisky and ammonia com
bined had nearly put the boy beyond hope
of recovery.
Honda Dadly Washed.
P. J. Tralnor and the other county com
missioners were out over the county road
in the direction of Millard yesterday after
noon. The roads of th Elkhorn and
Papplo vaficjs were found to be badly
washed and the approaches to bridges espe
cially had been washed out and had In
many cases caved in. In addition to thib
the attempted travel had cut up the roads
until they were very rough. Tha cost of
restoring these earth roads will be a largo
item this year. It has reached a figure
larger than for ten years, if, in fact, ever
exceeded. The cost of grading In the first
Instance (hould not be Included, but the
Hem of repair will be greater. Tle macad
amised road to Seymour lake and westward
la In fine shape and waa not hurt In the
least.
Bandar Service,
Dr. R. I Wheeler's morning sermon will
be "A Message to the Churches." The
Vening thomo la "Life Among the Lowly."
"Looking Through the Darkened Gloss"
will be Rev. R. W. Liver'. Bunday toplcUtuy h9 raugt be 4 , 'M r 1
Th young people meet In the evening.
"Saved and Kept In a World of Bin" Is
Rev. George Van Winkle's Sunday morn
ing topic. The evening subject Is "Faith
ful in That Which Is Least"
Rev. F. T. Ray of the Christian church
will preach from the theme, "Making Void
the Grace of God." The evening discourse
will concern, "Sin and Its Influence."
Maalo City Gossip.
Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Tralnor attended the
funeral of Mrs. Katherlne Doran of Gretna
Thursday.
A full force of men Is now working on
the grading of West Q and Twenty-ilflh
streets, making reedy for the paving.
Albert L. Johnson, lately In the govern
ment service at Winnipeg, has been trans
ferred to San Antonio, 'J ex. He is visiting
Ills half brother, Fred Fero, this week.
George Dold of Stockvllle and Miss Kath
erme Fischer of South Omaha were married
Wednesday evening by Rev. R. W. Livers.
They will make their home in Frontier
county, where Mr. Dold la the county clerk.
cut-off lake claims victim
Henry Free Drowned When
II Was Sailing la Can.
alaed.
Don
The first case Of drowning at Cut-Off
lake for some time occurred Friday after
noon about o'clouk, tha victim being
Henry Frees, a painter, who is said to
have resided near Sixteenth and Cass
streets.
In company with Oscar Fredricksen of
812 North Sixteenth street. Frees hired a
sailboat at Larson' boathouse earlier In
th afternoon. Th high wind that pre
vailed capsized the boat and the two men
wer' thrown Into the water.' Free could
not swim, and succumbed before Albert
Larsen and Gus Eamuelson, two employe
of the Talbot lee company, could rescue
hiin. Fredericksen could swim enough to
reach th overturned boat, from which be
was taken by Larsen and Samuelson.
Frees' body was recovered after a search
of forty minutes and wa removed to the
coroner' office, where an Inquest probably
will ba held today.
Coming from California several year age,
Frees has worked at his trade here since,
at th time of his death being In the em
ploy of Andrew Hammer, a contractor, liv
ing at Forty-fifth and Farnam streets. H
was of Swedish nationality, 68 years old,
and is survived by seyeral grown children
In Newark, N. J., and Brooklyn, N. Y.
A bruised face, caused by bumping
against the boat, was tha only Injury
Freiericksen received.
WALLACE HIS OWN CANDIDATE
Clay Center Has Insist He la Ran
alng Independently for Hall
war Commissioner.
"I am a candidate for th nomination of
railway commissioner on th republican
ticket," says S. M. Wallace of Clay Center,
who was a guest at the Millard hotel Sat
urday and who made tha same race at
the last election. My candidacy Is purely
independent of any corporation Influence
or suggestion and the fact that I was a
long time ago associated with railroad In
terests does not In any degree give ground
for the assumption that those Interests are
giving me their support. I am making th
race as S. M. Wallace and not a th can
didate or representative of any Interest
save that of th people."
A Bed Ir Cat Viewers.
Many persons have beautiful flower beds
or borders, but they never have any for
the vase, aa t do so would destroy the
symmetry of th bds or borders. Kvary
garden should have a section set alda es
pecially for the growing of cut flower for
the vase. It may be In any out-of-the-way
place, aa It will not look well to th y.
but will. If properly managed, keep the
house vases filled with flowers rrom April
to December. Try It. Th vases ahuulS be
their fullest In August, and th flsatrs tb
most beautiful.
Our Letter Bos
Contribution on timely topic invited.
Write legibly on one eld of th paper
only, with name and address appended.
Unused contributions will not be re
turned. Letters exceeding words will
be subject to being cut down at tha
discretion of the editor. Publication of
views of correspondents does not com
. tnit The Bee to their endorsement.
Taft and the Negroes.
KEARNEY, Neb.. July 17.-To the Editor
of The Bee: Every day in looking over your
Valuable paper, after scanning the current
events on the front page and looking at
the editorials and base ball scores, I turn
hastily over to your letter box. eagerly
hoping to see from th trenchaiif pen of
aome of Omaha's leading colored cltlsens
an Indignant di nlal of the reports Sint
broadcast all over the country that the
colored people ars almost a unit against
Taft because of that ever to be deplored
Browasville affair.
I am not going to presume to Judge o
the fairness or unfairness of tne president
action, because It Is entirely unnecessary
with the great mass of reading and Intelli
gent colored people who keep abreast of
the time and think for thms.vs; who ar
not to be deluded by the too transparent
hypocritical Interest displayed by inter
ested politicians who are now a ever try-
lhg to gather the easily Influenced vote by
bringing one issue prominently to the front,
while hiding some other. For myself, per
sonally, I would for curiosity's sake like
to see th -colored man who would vot
against Taft, Roosevelt' understudy, that
has ever read the Vardaman of Mlsslsslnol
interview in the Denver Post, or Tillman's
denunciation of the colored race, and other
prominent leaders of the democratic party.
now, as l said before, I am presuming
to . speak only for myself, woll believing
that the great majority of our people think
likewise. Against W. J. Bryan, as a man.
I have not a word to say, for In his private
life I bellev him to be a Christian gentle
man, but, alas, in his publlo life there la
as vast a difference between Roosevelt and
Bryan a there was between Richard
Coeur-de-Llon and the Mohammedan Sala
din. Methiliks, reader, that a little sludv
of the characters Just mentioned will show
many traits of Richard in our own Theo-dores-ourag
and bulldog tenacity of
purpose, generous and courteous to those
he deemed his Inferiors, ever ready to da
battle in behalf of th wronged and od-
pressed, and while out twentieth century
civilisation ha eliminated th necessity of
organising a crusade to rescue th Hoiv
Land from th infidels, there ar as -many
wronged and oppressed people needing a
champion, fully armed, and with all tha
attributes of the knightly lion heart, to
fight their battles.
In looking back along the years slnea
this country first threw off tha English
yoke and asserted Independence, reading
th many distinguished names that adorn
our scroll of presidents from Washington
to the present time, tell me, thinking col
ored man, who among them all treated th
race more honestly and generously tuan
President Roosevelt? The one pre-eminent
thing for you and I to consider now, Is, do
you think that a man such a I have Just
described, would indorse a man that was
not fully In accord with him, pledged to
fulfill his policies and pursue his ojursa
toward all men. Irrespective of race or
creed? No, a thousand times no. Ha wonM
not it he could, and he could not if ha
would, and I for one of the 8,00X030 or 9,0oo,-
ww coiorea people in tne united States, am
willing to vote for Taft simply on the
HI PAnaTT n or KnffVA T Inrlnraamddr at .
brainy man to win and hold the esteem of
such a man as everybody's president.
In conclusion, let me say to my colored
fellow cltlsens that the least we can do to
show our appreciation of th man now in
authority at Washington is to work hard
and earnestly, individually and collectively
for W. H. Taft, his., preferred successor.
Sometimes it comes hard for the conquered
to sing the praises of the conqueror, for the
weak to eulogize the strong, but I think
that all thinking colored people wilt be a
unit in their wishes for the long life and
happiness of Theodore Roosevelt, for he,
like Richard, is the best and noblest of his
race. A. F. LEWIS.
' t
' Concrete Construction.
OMAHA, July 17. To the Editorot Tha
Bee: fn regard to the recent discussion
concerning the use of concrete In the new
school building we beg to call - to your
attention and to the attention of the publlo
the following facts:
The recent buildings erected at Annapolis
and West Point by th United States gov
ernment were built entirely of reinforced
concrete. These buildings wer designed
by such architects as McKlm-Mead ft
White, Ernest Flagg and Cram, Goodhue
As Ferguson and represented an expense of
over Ili.fOfl.OOO. .
W ask "you, from a common sne point
of vipw, would the United States govern
ment Indulge In such expensive experi
ment? Would such architects use material
that was only In the experimental state
In such expensive buildings?
To bring the matter nearer homo we need
only call your attention to the fact that
the Kearney Military academy at Karney,
Nob., la of concrete construction, that the
floors in the new mechanical engineering
building at Lincoln are concrete, that th
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this sale will pay you to purchase now if you are contemplating buying a piano within
the near future. INVESTIGATE.
If you have an old piano, organ or square piano to exchange, wo will be very
glad to make you a liberal allowance for your old instrument to go as part pay
ment on one of the bargains. If it is not convenient for you to pay cash for your
piano, we will be pleased to arrange easy payments for you and let you pay for the
piano on your own terms. There is no reason why you should be without a piano,
so do not fail to attend this TWENTIETH ANNUAL MID-SUMMER CLEARING
SALE OF HIGH GRADE STANDARD PIANOS Balow we give a list of a f ew
the bargains:
Lester, mahogany case
Krakauer, walnut ease
Schaff Bros., walnut case
Sohmer & Co., ebony case
Templeton, mahogany case.
Write for catalogues
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hew library and museum building for the
University ot Iowa ar to hava concrete
floors.
Her In Omaha the examples of concrete
construction are very numerous. The ware
house for the Carpenter Paper company,
the new Henshaw hotel, the new Clarkson
hospital and the substation for the street
railway company. The floor In the new
Hamilton and Btrehlow apartment houses
and the floors In the Packer National
bank ar of concrete construction. C'f the
work actually under construction In Omah
the majority Is of reinforced concrete, In
cluding as It does the John Deere war
house, the Immanuel Deaconness hospital,
the Omaha Mitten company's factory, the
library for Bishop Scannell and other
smaller work.
As for the strength of such construction
kindly note the following extract from a
letter which the writer received from
Nichols, Dean & Gregg of St. Paul, Minn.;
We have not had the slightest sign of
failure, although the loads carried In sev
ere! places are way over the maximum for
which the building was designed. The safa
loud which we carry over the basement Is
2.CO0 pounds per square foot and on our
second floor 600 pounds to the square foot,
graduated from this Weight to 2UQ pounds
on the fifth floor.
Isnt It then Just a bit ridiculous to speak
of a type of construction which Is carrying
such loads every day In the year as being
too much of an experiment In a building
where the load can't possibly be over
aeventy-flve pounds to the square foot?
As for the fireproof quality of concrete,
we beg to call to your attention the recent
fire which occurred In th new concrete
building of the Dayton Motor Cur company.
This fire started on the fourth floor and
waa communicated to the brick building,
the latter being practically destroyed. In
regard to the concrete 'building Mr. Stod
dard, the general manager, wrote s fol
lows: "The damage to the concrete build
ing amounts to little or nothing."
The above are facts, not fancies, and In
view of these facts the Board of Education
could hardly be called experimenter or
pioneers. Concrete 1 not only the best or
fireproof materials, but Is at least 30 per
cent cheaper than any other fireproof con
structions. Yours very truly,
LOCIS BANNY.
District Manager Trussed Concrete Steel
Company.
Enatnrer'a Opinion.
OMAHA, July 17,-To th Editor of Th
Boe: "Referring to your article headed
"Mixup Over School Work," which ap
peared on the first page of the evening
edition on July 15, I think .that, in Justice
to the enormous vested Interests In tho
concrete Industry and allied branches, a
few of the facts should be given the same
publlolty. Then publlo judgment will do
the rest.
That "vitrified brick has been proven to
be harder than stone" Is certainly not a
generally accepted fact. Our best and
hardest examples of brickwork are always
laid up In cement mortar.
Concrete has been tried In fire and water,
both experimentally and in actual confla
grations, and as a fir resisting . material
It has always compared favorably wltlt the
most expensive types of flreproofing. 6ee
reports of the Baltimore fire and the San
Francisco earthquake and fire in the En
gineering News filesand hundreds of minor
Instance.
Concrete Is not "madeout of lime."
Limestone Is not "the softest stone In exist
ence." Turn to any authentic, column on
"strength of materials" and .under "atone,
natural and artificial" you will find that
chalk conies first, then brick and finally
limestone next to granite the hardest and
last.
Concrete forms the foundations for most
of our bridges, railroad structures, asms,
and commercial and publlo buildings; and
I think for every "skyscraper" ever built.
Concrete Is used by the engineering pro
fession because of Its relative value and
practicability for the case at hand, aud
there Is no other one building material
so generally used and so essential for Im
portant structures. It usually acquires its
estimated strength In thirty days and con
tinues to grow harder gradually for years.
It Is a matter of record, that there has
been a greater percentage ot building fail
ures of brick ar steel construction than
of concrete, and that there has been no
concrete building failure after the work
had been completed.
ALBERT C. ABEND.
Dor's I.tto laved.
My little boy, 4 years old bad a severs
attack of dvsentvrv. W hn1 inn nuvmi.
clans; both of them gave him up. We
then gave him Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera
Ai.fl lilarrhtieA Km1v. v h 1 . h nP.j
and believe that saved his life. William
11. oiroung, laroon tun, Ala. There is
no doubt but this r mi1v lh. 11 .....
of many children each year. Giv it with
castor on. acooraing 10 me pMin printed
directions and. a cure Is certain. For sale
s an uru sciiis
Advertise in Tha Bee; It gos Into th
homos of the best people.
S130.00
$140.00
S145.00
.S150.00
. . . $125.00
Franklin, mahogany case. . $130.00
Rembrandt, mahogany caso....S100.00
Phipps, artistic grand 180.00
Schirmer, mahosranv case S11rtnn
Bailey, oak case
and full partioulars.
The Y.M. C. A.
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Practical Luxury. Adds two hours per day to
your working force.
CENTRAL LABOR UNION ELECTS
Loots V. Gore la Chosen President
of Hodr to Succeed A. J.
Donahoa.
President Louis V. Guye.
Vice President Ben Keegnn.
'Recording Secretary C. K. Mlchaelsen.
BerKeant-at-Arms Rurt Murray.
Trustees John Kerrigan, Chrls'iielne and
A. F. Hnnson.
The above officers were elected by the
Central Labor union last evening to serve
during the "next SIX months. They were
sworn in Immediately after the counting
of the ballots was completed, and presided
during the latter part of the evening. Mr.
Quye, the new president, Is editor of the
Labor Advocate and succeeds A. J. Dona
hoe, who retired in his favor.
By a majority of 171 votes the proposi
tion to hold primaries prior to tl:e regular
city or county primaries and there endorse
labor candidates for the several offices
was lout. The matter was brought up at
a previous meeting and referred to the
unions to vote on separately. The votes
of .the. various unions were brought to last
night's meeting and tabulated, showing
that the opponents were in the majority.
The aolid vote of the barbers, nearly 2W
strong, defeated the proposition.
The retail clerks, who have recently
organlsod a union, asked for affiliation
with the central body a'nd a committee
was appointed to act with the clerks In .in
effort to get more of the local retail estab
lishments to close at 6 o'clock In the after
noon. The commission plan of- zovcrnmcnt was
discussed briefly, but no further action
was taken.
DENVER FAST FOR THE EAST
Convention City Waa Hospitable, Bays
Fleharty and Showed i:nt
raers a Few Things.
it. B. Fleharty of South Omaha and In
cidentally a candidate for the democratic
nomination for congress has Just returned
from Denver.
"It was the biggest convention ever hell
In the west, and notwithstanding the
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Mount St. Joseph College
and Academy
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Dubuque, Iowa
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road connection; w th omahs T St .'Hul '' ,"" (,',,loRt" r.lrect rall--Plnerle..
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WRITE lr YOU
COAL
USE Oft WANT
ttT Cal Mlalag C.. Pclla. Iowa
125.00
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in i -uMri Ana af
grouches from the east, the ' Denyerlte
treated us all right." said Mr. Fleharty.
"The convention gave the downeaatera a
touch of western hospitality and life that
they never dreamed of. The pace was a
little last for the eastern fellows. They
were astounds d at the way tho westerner
do things and they have got a Job of think
ing on hand that will last them for a
life time. They have come to realise that
this part of the world Is wldo awake and
has got to be reckoned with In the future.
They were good fellows, all right, but had
to be shown."
BIXBY POEM FOR THE DEN
Itoo la at Work on Verses to Fit I.la
coin IS lab t at Ak-Hnr-Uea
ihrln.
A wireless telegram was received from
Lincoln Saturday morning stating that
"Doc" Dlxby was at work on a poem for
Lincoln Night at the Den, and that It wa
to bo unloaded early In the proceedings.
Tho wireless slates that this 'poem will ba
the "chrf co Ouvre" of Dr. Blxby's poetlo
career and that his divine afflatua wa
never In better woiklng shape for a "cor
ker poetic."
The train will leave Lincoln at 6:80 Mon
day evening, reaching Omaha at 7:15. Sir
William Kennedy, who will act as grand
mufti on this occasion, will accompany tha
Lincoln party, which will include most of
tho Lincoln people who can get away. Th
delegation will bo met at the Burlington
station with automobiles and a band or
two, and Will then be autoed out to tha
Den where a sumptuous lunchoon will be
served themfas a starter. The luncheon
will Include all the delicatessens ot tha
season. Tho particular purpose of thla
pre-lnltlatlom feed Is to keep the Llnooln
party In good shape for the subsequent
proceedings and such as survive the pro
ceedings will bo served another luncheon
afterwards. It will be a case of lunch,
before and after taking the oath of alle
giance to King Ak-Sar-Ben.
Secretary of State 11. J. Tenfold, wishes
to again call the attention of the Omaha
merchants to send special invitation to)
their Lincoln patrons to b on hand Mun.
day night.
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