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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1009 j 2ssWC!fcsi3s "MIRE'' M'CRATH TELLS COW MinneioU Man Relate Details Way Swindlers Got Him. of I I Regular $12.5o pJT (TV 9 sr fiL D Regular $8.75 1 a.Q AlF4 rr TF A WFVT ATVT STB Z $4.95 8 1 h, 51 & FARNAM .STREETS, OMAHA. (tkb orx.sa rvmirmrma cabpxt oo. zstesiished in7. Big Sale Ladies1 Sample Suits &aturday we will place on sale a manufacturer's sample line of Ladies' Spring Suits lot consists of this sea son's most approved styles just IG't suits in, this shipment all colors and all' sizes. . Suits are actually worth from $.'50.00 to $35.00. We will place them; on sale tomorrow morning at eight o,Vlock, at the one price Cash or Easy Payments 76 f ik w Special Sale of Men's "Sincerity" Suits for Spring Wear. Consisting of all son's choicest fabrics Men's Suits that should bring at least $L'0.00; we Q 11 "JC offer you tomorrow for only. . . I W WE TRUST THE PEOPLE a i tm r tm Here they . come! the . new Spring styles in Suits and Over coats, $15.00 up to $40.00. Special Saturday only. Come early. Twenty-five Raincoats, sold up to $25.00. Mostly blacks. Regulars and stouts, all sizes at one price VOLLMER'S Expert Clothes Fitters. 107 South 16th Street 17 Year In Business In Omaha For Business Administration C. H. ISARD RttBubliean Candidate COUNCILMAN SIXTH WARD Primary Election, Marsh 30th POST CARDS biil riototairis We are expert photographer nd manufacture our own card. Pictures taken In ml! rsr's of the reuntry. Our protographlo adver tising card are (Irons: business Setters. Telephone or write and our representative will call on you. Drexo Post Card Co. S3-4-S Doae-laa Blook. XL SougUa SIM. TWENTIETH CENTURY FARMER Oae Dollar a Tear. "" ' 11 1 i S f ' ' , .V t' I mm the new models, in this sea- jj DUN'S REVIEW OF TRADE Favorable Crop Conditions and Sea sonable Weather Help Business. PRODUCTION WAITING ON TARIFF Progress la Iroa and Steel Confined Largely to Structural Shapes Dry Goods Keep Close te Immediate Needs. NEW YORK. March 28.-R. Q. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade tomorrow will say: Favorable conditions In crop erowlnr sec tions promise well for the future and the settxonablo weather generally prevailing; Is lelpful to -trade, advloes from the north west being: particularly cheerful. The tariff discussion In congress bears heavily upon mary trades and the end of the debate Is ariously estimated at not before May 15 10 juiy i. Vt hatever progress Is making In Iron and steel la mostly confined to structural lines. Tho recent slight Improvement In this divi sion is being maintained. A better Inquiry Is icceived from the railroads, the tonnage pending aggregating a good volume. Further nporte.1 reductions In prices of material have also hrtwdened the demand for construction work and undertakings that had been deferred are again appear Ing. Blocks of pig Iron continue to ac cumulate In the principal sections of the cointrv and there is still talk of reduction In active capnclty. In the primary dry goods markets de mtr.d at present Is entirely confined to Immediate requirements. locally there is little activity among distributors and al though the volume of business transacted fchows a moderate Increase as compared with the corresponding period In 19UN sales by no means approach normal. Export demand has practically ceased, although, some tentative Inqlrles are still being re ceived. The print cloth situation Is less active, but ginghams continue to be In gocd request and certain lines of bleached gocds are scarce and difficult to secure. In the woolen division Interest centers crlefiy on prompt delivery of sample pieces, travelers preparing to go on the rend earlier than usual. The dcmur.d for ielRt dyes continues to be the most conspicuous feature of the market, while the net result of the season's trade in wool goods ap pears likely to bo unsatisfactory T.-irT prices remain unchanged, with all descrip tions In only moderate request. Trade In all kinds of footwear Is atlll dull, buyers awaiting developments, hut stocks are further depleted. The recent large sales of domestic hides have caused a sharp advance In prlcea, especially In the country markets. The leather trade Is decidedly dull In all line, buyers show ing no disposition to operate at any price, BK A DSTKKKT'S HKVIKW OF TR ADD Weather, Cros aad ladastrlal Re ports Still Irresalar. - NEW YORK. March 28. Bradstreet's tomorrow will say: Weather, crop and Industrial reports are still Irregular, with more than ordinr.ay ?uiet noted In most line. Wholesale trade eels the effect of tariff discussion and uncertainties and, while a fair business la doing tin excess of last year In nearly all lines), disappointment Is expressed at ths total volume of trade In the first quortor. uuying rrom joDDers is conservative and orders are numerous rather than large and of a between seasons character at best. Retail trade has been hampered bv stormy weather, but the approach of Kauter Is reflected In some improvement in demand, largely In women's wear fabrics and materials. Wsstren trade 1.4 relatively better than that of the east In this line, but cool weather arrests ex ........ i .. ih. nminlrii a.. Th i ........... I lines generally operations are oulet i. dull, with the Iron and steel trade, where prlcea are weaker, one of the apparently least favorably situated lines. Wage re ductions are becoming more numerotb, expeclally in the Iron and allied trades. The coal trade Is quiet east and west. Dullness in the bituminous trade Is af fecting coal-carrying roads earnings. Business and industrial conditions and the large supply on hsnd discourage the Idea of a strike by the anthracite miners on April 1. One of the best situated Indus tries In the country Is building, which Is reported active at nearly all points, with some Improvement In demand for lumber and materials. Tariff uncertainty, how ever, afreets lumber as well as other lines. Business falules In the Vnlted States for the week ending with March 25 were lit, against I'll last week, 2i In the like week of 'j0 161 In 1907, 1( n 1SU and 227 In lfti. Canadian failure for the week number -85. which compares wlih 12 last week and 41 last year. Wheat. Including flour, exports from the I'nlted States and Canada for the week ending Mareh 25 aggregate 2.0a,715 bush els, against 1 Ssi.OiJ bushels last week and 2 ;s3,4 bushels this week last year For the thirty-nine weeks ending March ii this year the exports are 1 46 l'j!) 2J7 bushels, against 1.547.053 bushels In the corresponding period last year. . Corn exports for the weeK are 1 131 000 bushels, against a0.1.23 lushels last wee" and 545.121 bushels In og. For tl thirty-nine weeks ending March 25 cVn exports are 21. 740.56 bushels, against 41.5U3.t7T bushels last year. Sturdy oaks from little acorns grow advertising In The Bee will do wonders for your business LOSES TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS Rattred Into Operation on Pretense f Bitlint Deal and he Swal Unrl Rait, Hook and AH. "I never in by life bet a cent on a horse race, prise fight or wrest ling match and T did not bet a cent on this Maybray match," said William H. Medrath of Minnesota, one of the many "Mikes" of the Maybray gang, who recently has come from a Minneapolis hospital, but not with standing this, he "fell" to the extent of flO.OOO. Mr. McQrath was formerly a newspaper man In Minneapolis and gives a good account of how the gang got his money and rays that he, as well as many other victims was enticed to the scene of operations on the pretense of a legiti mate business deal. At the proper moment a sporting proposition, made to fit the Inclination of the Intended victim, would he proposed, and in almost every case the victim tumbled and the swindlers got his money. "I was enticed Into this affair In the first place to Illustrate to a friend of mine that his friends were merely after his money, and that by going to Omaha he would readily find that there would be some fraud sprung on him whereby he would lose his money." said Mr. McQrath. "In brief T was asked to bet money fur nished by my friend and his associates on a wrestling match, against a club of very rich men. I did not approve of the affair and finally another wrestler, than the one previously selected, was substi tuted and the match pulled off on the square. This was agreed to. The betting then began and In a short time 100,000 was In the stakeholder's hands. Moaey la Delayed. "At that point I was approached by my friend, who Insisted that a large sum of money needed to cover a bet made thi day before was dnlayed. but would arrive before the match was pulled off. I was told by him that the whole plan would fall un less the money could be raised. I was sur rounded by my friend's associates, who urged with him that unless I could aid them their united fortunes would be ruined and my friend Insisted that his wife and little girl would starve. I was promised that my interests would be protected In any event by the return of the money before the match was pulled of. "Being In good faith and having confi dence In a friend, I do not see how any average decent fellow could refuse such a request. I could be turned by another friend on the same plea today, tomorrow and hope to keep the same sentiment as long as I live. If drawing some money to apply In such circumstances (were they real) constitutes acting Uke a sucker I am proud of the distinction. "The match was pulled off and one of the wrestlers pretended to die, and that was the end of the game, as the crowd dis persed. I did not seek to regain my money then, as my friend assured me that the stakeholder was all right, and that worthy had himself assured me that he had called all bets off and would return each man his money. Not CrylasT for His Money. "I am not seeking now to get my money back, nor setting up a how), as this hap pened when I was considerably younger than I am now, but I have followed up this gang hoping to save others from disaster. "I am a young man still and well able to recover any losses I have met, but the acts I have ascertained and verified re garding starving widows, wretched house holds, old men once wealthy and now working (or day wages, bank wrecks, county treasurers driven to dishonesty and bank cashiers occupying suicides' graves, show that there la another side tp this picture over which the public dares not smile. "That a crowd of crooks and swindlers may entice the weak, the inexperienced, the credulous or even the man who turns aside for a few hours from the paths of rectitude, and then set up a plea that "the trimmer has been merely trimmed" and get away with It before the American public, does not to me seem possible. That they will try It Is beyond doubt. For they have no other defense." NOISELESS GUN NO TERROR silencing Device Cannot Be Attacked to the HIb Pocket Ar tillery. It must be admitted that the Inventor Maxim did much to rob his noiseless gun of Its terror when he came out frankly and unselfishly and revealed the secret of Its mechanism. It Is ststed that certain government authorities have criticised his action Jn this connection because the si lencer is an Invention that the government might have been ready to purchase and control. That the nature of the attach ment Is not clearly understood by the public Is shown by the reported Statement that the Pittsburg chief of police had said ho would arrest any one possessing a si lencer and promptly lock him tip. Ths chief Is stated to have pointed out that a man wtlh a silenced revolver could easily kill and escape detection. To this Inventor Maxim Is credited with replying that there is no such thing as a silenced revolver, the peculiar construction of the weapon pre venting the use of the silencer. The latur la only designs! for lifies, and murderers do not hunt their victims down with weapons of this kind. The Inventor also points out that It la absolutely Impossible to silence a rif'.a completely, the sound of the bullet as It tears through the air being sufficiently loud to betray the whereabouts of the man who firss It. It is quite evident that the Msxim la vention has been regarded as a highly dangerous mystery. Yet the Inventor ad mils that Its us.) is limited and so is Its success. If Mr. Maxim Is right It Is not an Invention that any prowling assassin would find reason to favor. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Bee Want Ads Are Business Boosters. Trlbate from Mtilcsa Night Owl "There Is a funny old custom In tlie City of Mexico which entitles the Janitor, or porl.ro. of lodging houses to collect a few cents from any tenant who stays out after 10 o'clock st night." said P. H. Dugan. a mining engineer of that capital. "Some of the porieria put out signs, which translated Into English read about this way: 'If you want ne- to open the door you will have to pay me. else I shall keep It closed.' Many a time I've seen young gallant standing in the vestibule of their apartments In the wee sins' hours lurching like a ship In a gale as they fished In their pockets for the needful coin that would cause the heart of the domes tie to relent and let them In." Baltimore Amerl tsn. la Hsssres Vaccloatea. PHILADELPHIA. March 28 Fifteen physlclana left here today for Marcuj Houk. Pa., where they will asalst In vaccinating 30 persons on board the American line steamship Merlon from Liverpool, which Is held at quarantine be cause two passengers In the steerage were round to be sullerlug from suiallpux. H V j Jiy-Ja-Sl JsCTsVsalsvX UTLV M, BMP -SO. w I H Special Values Sa 1 -vw SENATORS' SWELL QUARTERS Gorgeous Office Building; Erected for the Member. MOST LUXURIOUS ON EARTH Ninety-Two Smites tor Miftr-Tw. Members, with Cssrs Halls to Match tnele gam Paid a Pretty Price. Thpre are ninety-two members of the United States senate, when every state Is fully represented. , When In the course of human events It becomes necessary for these ninety-two gentlemen to have busi ness offices at the expense of the nation they erect a building In which 1,000 men would feel lonesome. It covers a space equal to several ordinary blocks of ground. And It looks as much like a prosaio busi ness office building as a lady's boudoir does. The cost of providing; these ninety-two gentlemen with offices for the transaction of business Is M. 672,600 to date to date, observe. There are already rumors of further appropriations to beautify. Improve, complete It round It out. At the present moment, In Its unim proved, uncompleted state. It is such a thing of beauty that the CongTesslona library, accounted the most beautiful thing In Washington bites Its Up with impo tent envy as it looks at Its new neighbor from the other side of the grounds. The office building lies diagonally across from the senate wing of the capltol. In a northeasterly direction. In the days be fore the new building went up there used to be an office building, rented by ths government, known as the Maltble build. lngt-a sober brick structure gloomy and unimpressive, and greatly grieving those who had to oonduct their business there. As a rule these were democratic senators, who had no right. The republicans and all the democrats who could do so had their offices In the capltol. Now this forbidding Maltble building was across from the senate in another direc tion, Just about as far away a the new office building Is. Nevertheless, in those days senatora walked to It from the capltol and back again. Dally you would see such senators as Bailey trudging across the street from the capltol with law books, sometimes, under their arms. Rldlas; to Glory. But the new office building, though no farther away, Is too splendid to walk to. and, besides, the real powers of the senate. men such as Aldrlch, have their offices there. To walk was unthinkable. So a beautiful whlto subway was constructed under the capital, leading across the street and grounds to the office building. It is as handsome a thing In the subway line as ever was constructed. In It are storage battery automobiles for the transfer of senators from one building to the other. Each automobile is capable of seating len person. The machines are open and the seats are arranged somewhat like those In the trolley cars that have lanes down the center. The automobiles, like everything else In connection with the new business building, have been con structed with an eye to having them good to look at, and they are trim and neat as greyhounds. They flash like the wind through the subway, dodging around the pretty curving white corners with such speed that . a dyspeptic Washington correspondent re marked vindictively the other day: "I hope I'll be 'here when two automo biles meet each other coming around curve. The air will be full of smashed senators." When you get Into the office building you enter one of the handsomest electric elevators ever built. There are elevators everywhere, and they are built of the fin est bronie. The backs and sides, as you go In, are great sheets of bronss that are almost llks , mirrors. They usually provoke cries of admiration from the visitors. The entrance to these elevators on the floors above are characterised by the earns beauty and the same recklessness of ex pense. They are In a corner of a building, which you apvroach through great white pillars and columns. Ths carving is exquisite and the doors are of finely carved bronse the only part of this rich corner that Is of any other material than marble. A great courtyard, nearly the sis of a j Extraordinary WAIST SALE All Our Rogular $6. $7.30. $10 and $12.50 ' CtQC Taffeta, Waists. ON SALE SATURDAY, at Promptly Saturday morning at 8 A. M. we offer the great est Silk Waist bargains ever attempted in Omaha. Just think of it! Our entire stock of fine taffeta waists abso lutely none reserved. Values formerly $6.00, $7.50, $10.00 and up to $15.00; all on sale Saturday morning at. .$3.05 tssassssaaassMBaaaasssiaBsisssaaaaasssaMssBSSstssssasssasajs The Newest ii Suits Beautiful Tailored Models at $25 and $35 We have received a couple hundred new suits this week , made up of the finest materials procurable, in the very lat est fashions and shown in grey; green, navy, ashes of roses, taupe, stripes and checks. These suits are special values at $25.00 and $35.00 Tailored Spring Skirts at $6.75, $7.50, $8.75, $10 and $12.50 These are all made after the very newest models, plain tailor made, gored style, some with odd folds, others trim med in new ways making them a bit fancy. Beautiful New Waists An extraordinary showing of embroidered and plain tucked linens, crepes, nets, madras and lingerie materials. city block, lies In the center of the build ing. This great court Is to be filled with flowers and the finest fountains that money can buy. An enormous marble rotunda, a finer thins; In Its way than that in the capltol building Itself, Is the greatest beauty of the building. The most beautiful of the offices Is that which has been set aside for party cau cuses, which la called the "sonference chamber." This room costs 135,000, Just as It stands, without furniture. Until the present time senators have held their cau cuses wherever they could find a place to hang- up their coats, but usually In the senate chamber Itself. A caucus Is not held more than once or twice In a session, as a rule, so that this great marble room will be rather a show place than a real office. The reason it Is called a "conference chamber" Is that senators sre. usually touchy about the word caucus and gener ally refuse to enter one unless it is called a "conference." This Is because a senator regards It as beneath his dignity to enter an assemblage by the decisions of which he would be bound against his will. Really he usually la bound by the decialon of the "conference," but he has saved his face by the use of the other name. The monetary commission has five of fices. Everything In the way of furniture Is of solid mahogany, though that Is true of the other offices as well. The main room of the commission contains six solid mahognay bookcases with elaborate carv- flng. " It is richly carpeted In red, there are beautiful crystal chandeliers and in the walls are set pillars of veined Italian mar bib. This Is the room In which the full commission meets, with Senator Aldrlch at Us head. The other rooms are smaller, but furnished with equal beauty. The floors of all are of marble and the hangings of velvet Instead of water coolers there is Ice water on tap; you turn a faucet in the wall and draw the water. Across the way from the commission In room 313, Senator Aldrlch has his offices. They are among the few that had been made ready for occupancy when the build ing was opened on Monday. In the room which Mr. Aldrlch himself occupies there art great French windows opening on the marble veranda with its marble pillars. The radiators are of black iron. In an adjoining room, at a mahogany desk, sits Arthur B. 8holton, his secretary. Mr. Shol ton was asked if It were permissible to photograph Mr. Aldrtch's room. His an swer was brief and absolutely comprehen sive. He eaid: "No." The dining room is cne of the "show places" of the building. It Is called one of the most beautiful In the country. The furniture has not been moved In yet and the hall itself has not been completed. In the walls are set pillars of veined Italian marble and the walls themselves are of white marble. The appropriation for the sit was IToO.OOO. wirrmmnmammmtm f ,: ... UU 1 1 I. f EN i i i r s ii For Its furniture $300,600 was appropriated. The building to date has cost 13. 499,000, but after July 1, the beginning of the new fis cal year, there Is an additional appropria tion of $123,000 for the completion of the approaches, the front of the building and the court yard. The total, therefore, up to the present time Is $4,872,500. Philadel phia North American. NECK AND NECKF0R HONORS Amaslns; aad Amnslngr Rivalry Be tween Safe Makers aad Safe Crackers. Crime keeps pace with civilization, changes in the habits and customs of man kind lead to new offenses, while some good old standbys have become unpopular. First, some cautious person invented an Iron, burglar-proof safe; Immediately the cracks man Invented himself. This declared a war of wits between the safemaker and the safebreaker. The door to the original safe fitted in straight like any ordinary door. They were so essy to open, by means of a Jimmy, that they did not furnish the burglar with common amusement. . It was unsportsmanlike. The wedge-shaped door was something more difficult, until the cracksman found a way to manage It. Then Mr. Inventor devised a combination lock, and thought he had utterly otuwttted the thief. But the no less Ingenious thief bought him one and mercilessly studied out its weakness. At first he did not at tempt to break the lock, but devoted him self to blowing it open. This was child's play. He puttied up the crack all the way around the door, except a tiny hole at top and bottom. At the bottom hole he set a small shelf of very fine gunpowder. To the. top hole be attached a varum pump. By exhausting the air from the safe he cre ated a strong current at ths lower hole, which sucked In the powder. Then he fired the safe. That was all. The safemaker met this advanced method by corrugating the door to his safe and fitting It was rubber, so as to make it air tight. The cracksman took another twist in his art, used acid, destroyed the rubber, and again blew open the safe. As safe doors were made harder and harder, so did Mr. Cracksman make his drills of finer and finer temper. But all of these methods were accompanied by more or less noise, and the cracksman dislikes notoriety. So he began to experiment with the combination lock and speedily found a means to open It. The cracksman took the little finger on his left hand and kept it bandaged for weeks o as to make It highly sensatlve to the touch. Then he pared his pall down Into the very quick, laying the nerve centers bare. Thus without drills or powder he was able to open a safe by placing the sen sitive end of his finger against the lock, while me slowly turned the' combination. So keen and delicate had his sens of touch become that he could feel when each tum bler dropped Into position. The afe would be opened, rifled and closed again leaving no sign to show how the trick was turned. The cracksman was tickled mightily with mm- mm (MM turday Ull! the mystery and bewilderment h left be hind him. The safemaker Invented new safes, one after another, which could not be broken In the ssme old way; the high grade cracks man bought them, one after another, took them to his quiet workshop, studied every detail of their construction, and found new ways to break them. Neck to neck ran the armor plate of protection and the high power guns of attack. Appleton's Maga slne. HAYING FUNWITH PARSON Stadeatvof His Fellewmea Baas Against Some Vnlojao Specimens. Hv. Charles E. McCormlck, D. D.. psstor of the Farmlngtnn Avenue Methodist church of Hartford, Conn., and on of ths best known Methodist clergymen In the state. Is a student of human nature. He likes to frequent public places In a lay man's garb and study his fellowmen.. One warm day this spring, while on a visit to New York, he was sitting In Madison Square when a neatly dressed stranger accosted him from a bench across the walk. Soon the two were engaged In conversation. "Ar you interested i.' horse-raclngt" asked the stranger. "I like a good horse," was th noncom mittal reply of the clergyman, whose busi ness suit, crush hat and negligee shirt belled his profession. "Bay, I'm a telegrapher and get some dandy tips every day. Maybe you could use some. They're regular 'sure things.' " Needless to say the offer was politely declined, but as ths stranger began to press the matter, Pr. McCormlck, with a twinkle 'In his eye, told the fellow who h was. The stranger's discomfiture was as pitiful as his departure was awkward and ludi crous. A day or two later th parson sat In the same seat, and another stranger, an old gcnUeman with a long gray beard and kindly face, sat down beside him. One remark led to. another until th clergyman In a burst of confidence related his previous experience. It tickled the old man mightily. Chuckling In great glee and slapping th parson on the leg he exclaimed: "He-he-he! That's a corker, old sport! And he believed It!" Success Magastn. Benrflts of Breakiauatlaaj la Bed. Those Indolent persons who have been In the habit of breakfasting In bed can now do so with an easy conscience If they haven't done It before. A German specialist Informs us that the practice Is beneficial to nerves and temper, and that those ener getic persons who pride themselves on ap pearing promptly and virtuously at ths family breakfast table, all groomed and equipped for the day, are only digging their own graves. The recumbent position. It seems Is so favorable to digestion, and to that peace of mind that should accom pany the process thst other specialists ars recommending It for all meals. We ought, they say, to recline on couches at our feasts, as the Greeks and Romans did, but as that Is msnlfestly Impossible In the dining room of th ordinary flat, the best the ordinary mortal can do Is to break fast in bed. Detroit Ftee Press.