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OMAHA, THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 7, 1901) TWELVE PAGES.
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NEW PRESIDENT
FORJIARYARD
.11 - 11 T- -1 1 .
nitalled at President of Oldest
University in United States.
I i ITH POMP AND CEREMONY
Scholars from All Over the World Are
i0 in Attendance,
rr
BEST COURSE OF STUDY OUTLINED
It Must Include Both Breadth and
Specialism.
ALUMNI ATTENDS IN NUMBERS
Honorary Degrees Are Conferred
Upon Xiinbrr of Distinguished
Scholars Procession of
Great Length.
V
CAMBRIDGE. Mass.. Oct.
6. Abbott
Lawrence Lowell seated himself today In
the president's choir of Harvard univer
sity, from which he proclaimed his policies
unrt distributed the celebrated gifts of the
university to thirty of the men of letters
who came from various parts of the world
to pay him tribute.
The Inauguration scene was laid beneath
tho elms of the college yard for an audi
ence of more than 5,000 persons. Later in
the day the alumni pledged Us fealty to the
new president and gave an Inspiring and
enthusiastic godsend to President Charles
William Eliot, who, as president of the
Alumni association, delivered his valedic
tory. In outlining his policies President Lowell
declared himself In favor of men learning
one thing well and something of every
thing. He placed himself on the side of In
tercollegiate sports as the only striking
occasion for the display of college sol
idarity. He also stated his belief In the
segregation of tho freshmen and the draw
ing together ties among upper classmen.
And, finally, he differed radically from
some of the policies of his Immediate pre
decessor. Yet tho two great leaders the
old and the new marched side by side in
the afternoon to Memorial hall, and there
President Eliot said that the occasion was
one of confident expectation, of exaltation
of the memories of the past and of exalted
hope for the future. He commended Presi
dent Lowell's policy of learning one thine
well and something of everything as the
key to the individualistic doctrine of the
university, and endorsed many of his suc
cessor's statements as a great augury of
the future and the oneness of the cause
of higher education.
Great Parade of Scholars.
Although two men dominated the Inaugu
ral celebration, the grand parade of the
scholars, guests and alumni through the
college yard to the stage in tho morning
and the tmisstne; of -the vurTejrtWl hoods
and gowns on the' stage in Memorial hall
In the afternoon gnve a brilliancy to the
scene which will last long In the annals
of Harvard.
The parade was vastly Impressive, headed
as It was by Ambassador Bryce of Great
llrltaln and several other English scholars
In their scarlet gowns, while behind them
came the scarcely lees Bubdued academic
garbs of the Oerman, French, Austrian,
Danish and Cuban scholars. American uni
versities and colleges also were well repre
sented.
It Is forty years since the yellow charter,
the silver keys and the gold Beal of Har
vard university have been brought out Into
the sunlight. Today they had a special
significance when former Governor John
I. Long, as president of the board of over
seers, handed them one by one to the new
custodian and declared him, in accordance
with the ancient custom, vested with all
the powers and privileges of the new office.
Drgrtri Are Conferred.
The distribution of the gifts of the uni
versity formed an Impressive scene. The
degrees conferred follow:
Doctor of Letters: James Bryce. Bitttsh
a.'('lashador to the United States.
Doctor of Laws: Nicholas Murray But
ler, president Columbia university; Jacob
tiiiulcT Schurman, president of Cornell uni
versity. Doctor of Divinity: Francis Brown, pres
ident of I'nlon Theological seminary.
Other degrees went to delegates from
foreign and American colleges and univer
sities. In the afternoon many alumni meetings
were held in Memorial hall.
President Emeritus Eliot, as the head of
the alumni host. Introduced the speakers
and read telegrams of appreciation and
Jelleltatlon from President William H. Taft,
the Harvard association at the John Har
vard house. Stratford-on-Avon; from the
minister of education of Prussia and from
Adolphus Husch of St. Louis, who an
nounced that he had increased his gift to
the building fund of the Germanic museum
to 1160.000.
Telea-raai from Taft.
The telegram of President Taft was as
follows:
"SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. '.-President A.
Lawrence Lowell: 1 greatly regret my In
ability to convey personally my congratula
tions to you as president of Harvard uni-
verslty. I sincerely hope that you will
enjoy a long and successful administration
In the leadership of the movement of ex
tending and widening the Influence of the
American universities.
"WILLIAM H. TAFT."
President Ixell In his response to Dr.
Kllo'.'s speech and numerous telegrams
it (I he looked upon the Bunch message as
a birth. lay pnsert.
Governor Eben S. Draper, for the com
monwealth of Mhohhi Imsset ib declared his
conviction that under President Lowell,
Harvard would continue to maintain Its
present high stand rd of education.
Pretident Arthur I.. !l;idley of Yale suid
that today all tducatuis were Harvard men
on J thst all oilier American universities
.: children of Harvard.
one of the most emphatic and enthus
l'mie urt.ii of the afternoon was that
of Pre t.lei.t Kdmund James of the Univer
sity if Illinois, who was introduced as one
who tto.id for practical results as attained
by educational Institutions, under state
lontrol.
President James who gave every Indica
tion of being inspired by his work, spoke
of the rapidity of growth of the state uni
versities, the marvelous Increases in the
number of students and predicted that In a
short time these Institutions will rank with
i thtlr older sisters In resource and income.
He said that their growth was due to
economic conditions of the west and south,
whose peopls demanded practical results
and who saw the benefit of higher educa
tion In their dally work and who realised
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Strikers Vote
Not to Accept
Teims Offered
Object to Alleged Amendment to First
Offer Prohibiting Membership
in Union.
A proposition for ie
striking street car if
President O. W. Watf1."
from the Central Labi
- v
at a meeting of thy
Temple Wednesday i
The offer made 1
ported by the romj
p'oyment at once
--tovment of the
.celved from
a committee
,i, was rejected
.era at Labor
ion.
Wattles as re-
.iroposed the em
of the men out,
K seniority In the
at their old wag
order of appllcat'.??g
The offer Indif""
statement to the
rffect that the ilng strikers ' would
be employed fri.n. , to to time as they
could be placed. This proposition, type
written, but unsigned by Mr. Wattles, was
presented at the meeting.
The statement purports to have been
Issued at 4:30 o'clock to the labor commit
tee as an amendment to a verbal statement
made In the morning. It Ic emphatically
declared that the company does not In any
way recede from the proposition made by
the company and signed by the five
mayors. It Is asserted that at the morning
meeting. Mr. Wattles had said that the
company was no longer requiring men to
sign pledges to keep out of the union, but
this Is retracted In the final written state
ment. L. V. Guye headed the committee from the
Central Labor union.
The strikers signed a roll at the meeting
held Wednesday. Two hundred and eight
members of the union were present. It
was announced that these men voted un-
snimously for the rejection of the offer
made to them.
Ben Commons declared that the status
of ' the strike had been unchanged by the
meetings and conferences of the day and
that the men would but assume a more
aggressive position. He declined to make
announcement of any further steps In the
struggle.
The check from the' International union.
covering the strike payroll Is expected to
arrive Thursday.
Strike leaders expressed dissppolntment
at tho amendment of the verbal proposi
tion made by Mr. Wattles. The morning
conference had made them hopeful of a
settlement.
C. O. Pratt, now In attendance at the
International convention at Toronto, wired
Ben Commons that a committee from the
convention had been appointed to consider
the Omaha situation and map out a plan
of action.
Four Men Bitten
by Rabid Horse
Victims of Mad Animal Are ' Rushing
to Pasteur Institute - in -Chicago.
ABINA, O., Oct 6. In a desperate race
for life, five men from Lees Creek, seven
miles from Sablna, left hero tonight for
the Pasteur institute at Chicago to try to
escape death by hydrophobia. Amos Tay
lor, Lou McClure, Russell Duke, Harry
Duke and Boon Snow, in charge of Dr.
Lambrlght, will make the race for their
lives.
Last night a horse belonging to one of the
Dukes became sick and the men endeavored
to treat it. The animal became violent and
bit, struck and lunged at everything in
sight, bruising the above men and covering
them with saliva. A veterinary surgeon de.
clared that the animal had hydrophobia,
and it was shot.
It Is believed that the horse was bitten
by a mad dog which passed through Lees
Creek last week.
POSTMASTERS OF THIRD
AND FOURTH CLASS MEET
W. O. Bock of Iowa Bays Postal Banks
Will Brine Money to
Surface.
SYRACUSE. N. Y., Oct. . The conven
tion of the National League of Postmasters
of the Third and Fourth Class opened here
today with 128 delegates, representing every
state present. W. O. Bock of Iowa spoke
on postal savings banks and parcels-post,
declaring that with postal banks $300,000,000
that Is now hidden away would be put In
these banks and money stringency avoided.
Destroyer Has Good Speed.
ROCKLAND. Maine, Oct. I. A maximum
speed of 34 54 knots was reported by the
builders today, after the first official trials
of the new torpedo boat destroyer, Reld.
Theea figures indicate that the Reld is
nearly a knot faster than her sister de
stroyer, the plusher, the record holder In
her class.
Italians Honor First
Discoverer of Hudson
NEW YORK. Oct. . Contending that In
the discovery of the Hudson river as In the
case of the North pole there is "honor
enough for two" thousands of Italians,
smothered In flags, burling and gay uni
forms paraded down Broadway to the
battery this afternoon, when they unveiled
a statue of Giovanni de Verraiano, whom
historians describe as the first Trans
atlantic voyager to arrive In New York
harbor.
With no Intention to belittle the achieve.
11. ei ts of Henry Hudson. Italians maintain
that Verraaar.o discovered the Hudson Ir.
lfc!4. or eighty-five years before the Half
Mcvm's arrival. But the Florentine navi
gator, evidently regarding the stream afc
an ordinary one, left no detailed report of
his exploration of the river. On this ac
count he has received but little recognition
In the new world for his achievement.
The parade today comprised Italian
societies of New York, New Jersey, Con
necticut and Massachussetts. Nearly JO.OUO
Italian men and women and MO sailors
from the Italian cruisers Etna and Etrurta
were mustered for the demonstration and
as they marched don Broadway they at
tracted great crowds of onlookers In spite
of the fact that the city has had a surfeit
of parades lately.
A gigantic float reproduced Verraxano's
boat in flowers. To some unvursed in
history, the demonstration evidently
seemed out of place and either as Indica
MIX WINS BIG
BALLOON RACE
American Aeronaut Takes James
Gordon Bennett Cup in Inter
national Contest.
HE LANDS NORTH OF WARSAW
Distance Covered by Ohioan is Nearly
Seven Hundred Miles,
FRENCH COMPETITOR SECOND
LeBlanc, Who Landed in Hungary,
Makes About 500 Miles.
MLS IN HANDS OF POLICE
Hear? Rain t a usee Ire to Form on
Clothing- and Descent Is Made
Only Because Ballast la
Exhausted.
ZURICH, Switxerland. Oct. &a-AU Zurich
tonight Is toasting America and Its cham
pion balloonist, Eidgar W. Mix; who. after
a remarkable and dramatic struggle against
wind and rainstorms, has carried off first
honors in the international balloon race for
tho James Gordon Bennett cup by sailing
from Zurich to the heart of the forest
north of Warsaw, In Russian Poland. The
official classification has not yet been an
nounced, but it Is calculated that Mix cov
ered a distance of between 1,045 kilometers
(64X94 miles) and 1,150 kllometcra (838.53
miles).
Alfred Le Blanc, the French pilot, Is
placed second, with a distance of 834 kilo
meters (517.81 miles); Captain Messner, one
of the Swiss pilots, third, with 800 kilo
meters (496.8 miles), and Colonel Schaeck,
another Swiss entry, fourth.
The other thirteen starters are placed at
varying distances far behind the four lead
ers, the lost two being McLean. English,
with 445 kilometers (276.34 miles, and Vlem
lnex. Belgian, with 430 kilometers (2G7.03
miles).
Feat Is Remarkable.
While there Is some disappointment felt
because of the failure of the Swiss pilots
to repeat last year's victory, the general
sentiment Is one of satisfaction that Amer
ica has taken the prise. Experts In aero
nautics are filled with admiration for Mix's
achievement, pointing out that the storms
which drove the more experienced balloon
ists to earth could not conquer the Amer
ican.
Mix furnished the dramatic side of the
contest. His telegram dropped from his
balloon at Jlcln. Upper Bohemia, was
Jumbled In translation and started the
rumor that the America had descended at
Jlcln. Immediately there was a telegraphic
bombardment of Jicln. which showed that
the balloon had made no stop there. As
Mix was the last man to ascend In the start
from Zurich on last Sunday, the greatest
excitement prevailed over bis whereabouts
nitt II the arrival of his message-today , say
ing that he had landed In Russiaa Poland.
rVhy Mix Won.
M. Qugelberg. vice president of the Swiss
Aero club, said that Mix started in to win
at the outset and showed remarkable gen
eralship. "Mix husbanded his ballast," said M.
Gugelberg. "When ascending at Zurich he
moved upward at almost irritating slow
ness, but he was only employing skillful
tactics and keeping his ballast for a critical
moment. That Is how he won. Mix's suc
cessful flight against the driving wind,
rain and fog, even If It does not break any
records, constitutes one of the most re
markable voyages In history."
Lands in Pine Tree.
The first news of Mix's landing was con
veyed In a personal dispatch to the Asso
ciated Press, dated Ostrolenka. The aero
naut said:
"I landed In the midst of a large pine
tree in the forest of Gustova, west of
Ostrolenka and north of Warsaw at S
o'clock Tuesday morning. 1 encountered
a heavy rain. My ballast was exhausted
when I came down. At present I am In the
hands of the police, but all Is going well.
"I had bad weather Sunday night. It
was cloudy and rain fell, and I used half
my ballast before morning. The weather
was so thick that It was Impossible to lo
cate my position, except for one hour
south of Prague and a star observation I
took at latitude 51.46.1 and longitude 10.0. Ds."
Mix made his Journey through fog and
blinding rainstorms which compelled all the
other pilots to descend. After crossing the
Swiss and the Austrian Alps Captain Mess
ner, one of the Swiss pilots, reported tha
his clothes were covered with ice to a
thickness of half an Inch. Messner reached
an altitude of 18,000 feet.
It la Impossible to explain why Mix should
have been molested by the Russian police,
as In anticipation of a landing In Russia
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tive of their disapproval or In a spirit of
rowdyism, a number of cliff dwellers In
Broadway skyscrapers threw down pi per
bags filled with water and other missiles
upon the marchers.
At the unveiling of the monument ad
dresses were delivered by the chairman of
the monument committee, Charles Baisotti,
editor of Progresso, an Italian newspaper
In New York; by Rear Admiral Marnuia
Dl Brochettl. representing King Victor
Emmanuel of Italy and by leaders of the
Italian colony of the city. The monumont
was erected by public subscription taken
up among the Italians here.
The day's festivities were concluded with
a reception given by the local committee at
Madison Square Garden tonight to the of
ficers and men of the cruisers Etruria and
Etna.
Verraxano was a Florentine sailor born
about 14S6. He was sent out on an explor
ing expedition by Francis I of France, and
Is supposed to have sailed up the Jersey
coast Into the New York harbor In 1524.
Verranxo returned to France in 1534 and
died the same year. He rendered an ac
count of his voyage to Francis I.
The monument unveiled today is a heroic
bust five feet In height, resting upon a
pedestal seventeen feet high. The onlv
English Inscription on the monument is an
extract from the his tor la 1 John Klske.
reading: 'There can be no doubt what
ever as to Verramano's entering New York
harbor la 114,"
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From the New Orleans Times-Democrat.
Al GATE OF YOSEMITE PARR
President Will View Wonders
Valley for Three Days.
of
FIRST VISIT TO BIO TREES
John Molr, the Noted Naturalist,
Will Accompany the Party and
Explain Sia-hts to the
President.
EL PORTAL, Cal.. Oct. 6.-President Taft
Is safely tucked away tonight In this re
mote little settlement at the foot of the
Sierras and near the gateway of the Yo
eemiie valley one of the garden spots of
the worlds , ,
Clad In khaki riding breaches, sort shirt,
l-.hakl coat, boots and cap, President Taft
tomorrow will start out of El Portal on a
three-days' trip of sight-seeing. By stage
and on foot he will visit the Giant Se
quoias in the Mariposa big tree grove.
will follow the roads and trails leading Into
the valley and will walk about the floor
of that park to admire Its Imposing scenic
splendor.
The visit to the big trees, said to be
the oldest and largest of living things,
comes first In Mr. Taft's Itinerary. Leav
ing by couch early tomorrow morning he
and his party will be driven to Wawona
at the edge of the grove where real mon
archs of the forest grow to an altitude
of more than 300 feet and more than 100
feet In circumference at the base.
Drive Through Tinsel.
Mr. Taft will be driven through n tun
nel cut through the base of one of the
old trees which Is said to have been stand
ing from 3,000 to 6,000 years. The fore
noon of Friday will be given over to the
big trees, the president spending Thurs
day night at the Hotel In Wawona.
On Friday afternoon the president will
enter the park from one of the highest
points and after a trip to all the show
places of the upper levels will begin a
descent to the floor which Is enclosed by
almost p.rpendlcular cliffs of stone more
than 3.000 feet In height. It will be the
president's first trip into the Yosemlte and
he has been looking forward to It for
months, both as a sight-seeing experience
and as affording three days of rest from
surging crowds and speech-making.
When the park officials heard that the
president was coming they arranged to
have a troop of United states cavalry act
as his escort for the day among the big
trees and the two days In the valley.
Kseort Ulapenaed With.
Mr. Taft was informed of the plans at
San Francisco and he asked at once that
the escort be dispensed with. He is anxious
that the trip through the park shall be
devoid of spectacular features and that
his visit shall be relieved as much as pos
sible of an official aspect. The preuldent
was pretty tired from his strenuous day
In San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley
yesterday and retired early tonight In the
little hotel here.
John Mulr, the noted naturalist and geo
logist who is the recognized authority on
all matters of the Yosemlte, Juii.ed the
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Ak-Sar-Ben vis
itors will find hun
dreds of advertise
ments on the want
ad pages to interest
them.
Some of the advertisers are
big firms some little. These
advertisements tell you a
great deal about where and
what to buy. These are just a
few of the things advertised
today:
Automobiles
Typewriters
Lrugs
Billiard Tables
Lumber
llanos
Safes
Coal
Stoves
Monument
1
t BaBBlanstBW
Wagons
Harness
Horses
Men's Suits
Machinery
Who Will Fill Them?
TBV LkT
r nnnst J iSil&SXsWr
..-i.feXv?
Grain Dealers
Meet in Annual
Convention
Arbitration Committee Reports on
Several Cases President Reyn
olds Appoints Committees,
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 6. That the volume
of business in different cities visited by
him was greater than that of last year,
was the report of Secretary-Treasurer John
F. Courcler of the Grain Dealers' National
association, which opened Its thirteenth an
nual meeting here today. Mr. Courcler
submitted his report this afternoon.' In his
review of the last year Mr. Courcler de
clared he had found that other fields of
business as well as the grain markets were
returning to their normal condition.
Robert McCord of Columbus, O., chairman
of the executive committee, and H. S.
Grimes of Portsmouth, O., chairman of the
arbitration committee, presented their an
nual reports at the session this evening.
Mr. Grimes said the committee had dis
cussed seven Important cases and decided
all but two of them. President A. E. Rey
nolds of the association today appointed
the following committees:
Natural Shrlnkuge L. A. Moren. New
York; K. M. Wayne, Delavan, III., and G.
L. Hampton. St. Louis.
Publication H. S. Grimes, Portsmouth,
O.; C. C. Miles, Peoria. 111.; E. W. RasmJtn,
Koanoke, Va. ; W. C McCray, Kenton, lnd
and A. Gerstenburg, Chicago.
Auditing J. A. A. Geldel. Pittsburg, Pa.;
J. W. McCord, Columbus, O,, and Thomas
Abrama, Tuscola, 111.
Nominations K. M. Wayne, Delevan, III.;
A. K. Kasmuth, Koanoke, Va.; H. W.
Heatty, New York; A. B. Bleldl, Lexington,
Ky.; A. K. I'lerson, Kansas City, Mo.;
Grant McMoran, St. Paris, O., and J. J.
Stream. Chicago.
Resolutions H. S. Grimes. Portsmouth,
O.: Charles S. Knarland. Baltimore; J. C. F.
Merrill, Chicago; S. W. Strong, Pontlac, ill.,
and P. li Uoodrlch, Winchester, ilia.
SIX-FOOT CHANNEL
TO MINNEAPOLIS THE PLAN
Eighth Annual Convention of Upper
Mississippi Rlvrr Improvement
Association.
WINONA. Minn., Oct. 6 The eighth an
nual convention of the Upper Mississippi
River Improvement association opened here
today. Mayor Iawlor of St. Paul made the
address of welcome and President Thomas
Wilkinson of Burlington, la., responded.
President Wilkinson, In his annual ad
dress, declared the future bright for the
desired six-foot channel In the Mississippi
from Minneapolis to St. Louis, and urged
continued work to pass Representative
Tawney'a bill appropriating 120.000.000 over
a period of ten years for a permanent Im
provement of the upper river.
WESTERN MATTERS AT CAPITAL
Rural Carriers Are Named
Number of Nebraska
Houtes.
for
(From a Staff Cot respondent.)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 (Special Tele
gram. ) Rural carriers appointed for Ne
braska routes: Ilenson, route 3. A. Nickels,
carrier; Anthony C. Hell, substitute. Schuy
ler, route 2, Albert A. Welch, carrier; no
substitute.
John J. Casserly has been appointed post
master at Vayland, Hand county, South
Lakota, vice O. O. Srhamber, resigned.
Joint Maneuvers Held at
Too Great Cost to Men
WASHINGTON, D. C, Oct 6-Jolnt
maneuvers of the regular army and the
National guard are a thing of the past;
at least there will be no repetition of the
recent fioston campaign, as long as the
present directing forces in the War de
partment are In control.
Some valuable lessons were learned In
that period of stress and privation, but
the cost in human suffering Is held by
the War department officials to have been
out of all proportion to the benefits de
rived. And. besides they are now convinced
that all of leal utility taugiit to the
militiamen could Just as well have been
imparted through other means and with
out fiiling the hospital cots during the
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ftifcr . :-J
RING HAS GRANT AS GUEST
Ak-Sar-Ben Entertains Distinguished
Son of Distinguished Man.
TELLS OF HIS OWN BIG SHOW
President of California-Panama Ex
position at flan Diego to Celebrate
Opening; of Canal Five Yeara
from Now,
Ak-Sar-Ben la entertaining another dis
tinguished visitor. This Is Ulysses 8. Orant,
son of the general and president, and him
self one of the leading citizens of the Pa
cific coast. Mr. Orant Is here In connec
tion with a law suit In district court.
" "I am lucky 'to-be here at this time,"
said Mr. Orant, whose features show a
likeness to his father's, though not so pro
nouncedly as do Oeneral Fred tlrant'a
"Aside from being entertained by the King
Ak-Sar-Ben festivities as any one ordi
narily would, I have a special reason.
"We are going to have a great exposition
at San Diego In 1915, called the 'California
Panama exposition.' It will celebrate the
opening of the Panama canal. San IHego
went Into the field early and secured Its
franchise for we had neighbors who might
have also wished to have the celebration of
the canal opening. As I am connected with
the exposition, I have a natural Interest In
an affair of thlu kind."
Mr. Orant is president of this exposition,
but he modestly declared that his position
is a nominal one and that D. C. Collier is
the real head.
Pacific Coast Affair.
"The exposition will not be a world-wide
one," he addedl "but will Include the coun
tries borderlngon the Pacific ocean. By
reason of our early start and the Import
ance of the canal, there Is every eason to
believe that San Diego wiil have a highly
ceditable celebration."
Discussing California politics, Mr. Orant
declared that the agitation for a separa
tion into two states will probably come to
nothing.
"Oeneral politics Is rather quiet now, for
it Is an off season. The railroad control
of political matters Is all that It has been
for some time.
"San Diego Is booming. It has Increased
300 per cent since I first went west In 1S76,
and I observe that Omaha lias grown since
then, too. I stopped here a short time on
the way then. San Diego has Just appro
priated $1,125,000 In bonds for boulevard
Improvements. It will enable the city to
build 4L8 miles, all equal to the Point Loma
road."
Of California politics, Mr. Orant knows
something, for he was nearly elected United
States senator a few years ago, only
treachery on the part of supposed friends
beating him. He Is a htwyer by profes
sion, but has not been actively engaged
In practice of recent years, at least, for
be has large financial Interests which take
up his time. He built the U. 8. Orant
hotel in San Diego at a cost of (1,100,000.
Playmate of Reporter's Mother.
By a coincidence the reporter to whom
he talked was the son of a former play
mate of Mr. Orant and his brothers in
Galena, III.
"I remember once," said he, "your
mother crawled through a hole In the
fence between the houses and I saw her
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campaign and without causing the dreary
lists of absentees on company roll call
In the National guard armories since then,
attributable to s)rkness.
It Is true the militiamen got a taste of
conditions as they may exist in actual
warfare, but for the most part they re
turned to their homes a disheartened and
discouraged set of men. That spirit Ij
n t calculated to further the plans of the
army officers, who really desire to add
to the numerical strength of the National
guard and to bring It up to highest pos
sible efficiency. Wherefore it has bee:i
decided that hereafter the partttclpalton
of the militia in an encampment with the
regular soldiers every second year will limit
the Intermingling of these forrea
AK-SAR-BEN XV
CLAIMSH1S OWN
Kin? Triumphantly Enters Imperial
City Amid Tumult of Plaudits
from Exultant Throng.
GREETED BY SEA OF SUBJECTS
Cordially Welcomed by Patriots from
Al Over Quivera.
CITY ABLAZE WITH BRILLIANCE
Regaled with Pomp and Splendor for
Advent of Monarch.
MOST IMPOSING ENTRANCE YET
Paaeant Preceding- the New Rnler la
Maa-nlf Icent and Provokes Great
Volume of Applause Along
the Way.
KHfO'8 HiOHWir rioaxiu.
Howards Wire Walkers 3:30, 4:30,
8:30 and 9:30 (free).
TXI BIO SAYS.
Thursday, Ootober T Military parade,
rrlday, Ootober OoroaaUoa hall,
Saturday, October 9 Japaueaa Tea
Party.
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107.
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S.0B7
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4.37S
T,0
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1909.
9,443
4,104
4,997
Wednesday
Thursday
rrlday . . .
Saturday .
Monday . .
83,100 10,084 14,916
9,483 7,844 7,790
17,941 30,873 18,997
83,994 30,434 83,018
Tuesday . .
Wednesday
HILITABT FUUOB SOUTH TODAY.
Sixteenth and Onmlng, li30 p. m.
South on Sixteenth.
ast on Doug-las.
South on Thirteenth.
West on Farnam.
South on Fourteenth.
West on Harney.
South on Sixteenth.
West on Jackson.
North on Nineteenth.
West on Harney.
North on Twenty-fourth,
East on Farnam,
North on Fifteenth.
West on Douglas.
North on Sixteenth to starting; point,
FORMATION.
Mounted Police.
Klpllnger aad Oreen'a Band.
Board of Governor.
Oeneral Morton and Staff.
Band. Sixteenth Infantry.
Sixteenth Infantry.
Band Thirteenth Infantry.
Thirteenth Infantry.
Band, Saoond Cavalry,
Ssoond Cavalry.
Fifteenth Cavalry.
Fourth Cavalry.
Seventh Cavarly.
Band, Civilian.
Dahlman Rlflea.
Thurston Blfles.
Omaha Ouards.
Sigh School Cadet.
sand, civilian.
Pack Train,
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Here II 1st .
King Ak-Sar-Hen XV, most honored and'
most beloved of all the dynasty of tha
royal house of Quivera, entered the Im
perial city last night and waved his scep
ter over a happy and prosperous people,
over thousands of subjects who raised
their voices In shouts of Joy as the mon
arch signaled his royal pleasure at their
presence.
There was no note of discord as the bril
liantly lighted pageant took Its majestlo
course down flie main thoroughfares of
tho Imperial city,
"Hall to King Ak-Sar-Ben, long live our
beloved monarch," shouted the throng as
the beautiful chariot of the king began Its
course Into tho center of the city.
"Hall, hall," echoed the crowds far down
Into the heart of the city, for they were
anxious to give voice to their approval even
before the regal cavalcade reached them.
"I thought we'd reached the limit last
year," said a merry plebeian, who stood
on the curb stretching his neck to see If
he could glimpse the first lights of the
title float. "But did you see the King's
Highway. Say, durned if I" and he
slapped his lug and winked at his comrade
and spun around three times out of sheer
Joy.
XV Has 'Km All Beat.
"Say, I guess when It comes to real Joy,
old XV has all the rest backed clear Into
the old muddy," quoth his companion
gleefully.
Then they both took up the general
shout of applause as the royal procession
moved up the street.
Truly the subjects of the merry mon
arch trod on eacli other's corns In their
efforts to do homage to their king. The
streets of the capital city filled rapidly
with the prosperous subjects of the realm
who came from far and wide to add their
acclaim to the rejoicings of the people In
the city. Long before the time appointed
for the triumphant entry the sidewalks
were black wtih a happy throng and th
slothful subjects who came late had to
crush their way far out Into the street
in order to find standlna room.
The glaring lights of the cavalcade shone
far up Into the heavens as the first floats
left the assembling plaoe to worm their
way one after the other through the
crowds.
"The World's a Stage," announced the
title float, and one after another the
brightly llghud wagon portrayed the hu
mor, the love, the sorrow and tragrtdy of a
great people. One after another the great
comedies and dramas of the stage were
pictured on tho minds of the king's sub
jects; the grotesque humor of the Isle of
Spice with Its uncouth orientals, the ro
mantic beauty of A "tHjvyWondsrland, the
grim Joy of I'm Touut of Tnte Chrlsto,
the tender l'.e scene liauio ii itomeo and
Juliet, the. tiHsedy of Julius Cavar with
Brutus l'J'Khig In the shadow wl.it drawn
dagger.
Indeed a Mlghtr Moun'rh.
As the mingled emotions of t?.s human
heart plctm-i'l on t lie steire wte laid be
fore the throiif In thq rlorW'J Setting of
thousands of gliitcrlnc li.?andenoent lights,
the people were again convinced that they
Indeed were welcoming a good and mlfhty
munarch to their capital city, a monarch
who ever had the happlnets and prosperity
of his subjects In his heart.
And so as the floats passed through the
crowds cheer after cheer arose to greet the
ears of the king with a gobdly sound, a
sound of hundreds of thourands of brave
men and true voicing their fealty to thilr
monarch.
The lusty shouts were loud and heartily
given while the main huay of the royal
procession passed, but ' whin the high
chariot of the king himself approached,
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