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Tailored Suits $9.75
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Dresses $8.50
Sold from $17.50 to $27.50
Co: as $5.00
Sold from $15.00 to $25.00 Sold from $25.00 to $35.00
These wonderful offers will certainly bring the crowds. Think of it, high
class stylish Coats, Tailored Suits and Dresses. Hundreds to choose from, and
nearly every garment good for spring wear, on sale for less than cost of materials.
THE TAILORED SUITS arc all m; k of all wool materials, with short
and medium length jackets and full skirts.
THE COATS are all made of splendid wool materials in good styles.
THE DRESSES are made of broadcloths, serges, foulards and messalines.
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Correct Dress for Men unci Uoys
Best Dressed Men
in Omaha are Wearing
COATS
Sold at
$15.00, $19.50, $22.50, $25.00
TAILORED SUITS
Sold at
$25.00, $30.00, $32.50, $35.00
DRESSES
Sold at
$17.50, $22.50, $25.00, $27.50
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WATER BOILED BY HOT AIR
Jolly Bacillus Gets Cooked by Steam
in City Hall Talkfest.
CHLORIDE OF LIME TO BE TRIED
1) Inlnfertant Sura;eated at Meeting of
IJImed Klrmrati to Pnrlfr Water
Contaminated by Halley's
tf - Comet and Other Tblags.
",ow the Jolly bacillus colony of the Mis
souri river Is 'to be treated to an experi
mental taste of "bleaching powder." That
announcement was made at an Informal
meeting of the city council, held last night
for the discussion of the typhoid fever situ
ation. The water company Is to take steps
to put the efficacy of chloride of lime to
the .test a once.
didn't Father Rise at Crelghton say that
the aurora borealls or something- or other
Ilk that, put 600 telephones out of com
mission hereT Just suppose that some
. thing like, that got to working- on the
-human system." '
"How about Mr. Halley's cometT" ug
gestcd O'Brien of the water board.
"Buie," replied S. Arlon Lewis.
The little knot of scientist smiled ap
1 rovlnuly. Prof. Crowley of Crelghton uni
versity, city chemist, present as an expert, ,
made a note with the utmost gravity.
Then the center of Interest was shifted
to a little go between Dr. R. W. Connell,
health commissioner, and W. T. Graham,
who represented the Real Estate exchange.
Graham and Conaelt Hook Up.
"The streets and backyards of Omaha
are In a frightful and dangerous con
dition," declared Mi Graham. "I don't
know whoso the responsibility is for these
oondtlons, but when the spring thaws
come the already bad conditions will be
much worse If necessary our ordinance
should be revised. We must clean up at
any expense.
After a writ of an hour, ordinance book
In hand. Dr. Connell got his inning. He
read rapidly an ordinance relating to the
duty of real estato owners and those re
sponsible for properties. He declared that
The Missouri river, the traits of the gentle
and d llgont b&clllus typhoid fever, water
plants, real estate, city ordinances, depart
mental responsibility, the germ theory and
Halley's comet were the subjects of the
discussions of the evening, frequently pyro
technic in tone.
The meeting Included members of the city
council, oftiroM of the health department,
the members of the Water board, repre
sentative of the O.naha Water company,
members of the Real Estate exchange and
-the Douglas County Medical society.
Chloride of I.liue Advocated.
A report from an investigation of coneii
tlons and remedies wus presented by a
committee from the Water hnai-il enmnose.
of Dr.. A. H. lilpplo. D. J. O'Brien and H
13. Howell. Yhls committee recommended
the trial of the chloride of lime process in
the purification of lh city water. This re
port was first presented to the Water board
at u meeting In executive sevsion Wednes
day aftellioull.
iLilmund M. Fairfield, si-nenl mummer
of the water company. Ceclared that the
treatment would be tiled.
"We are willing to co-op vale villi ll.e
city health elepar me:H and the Water board
to un. uujj.ii.e exU'iii," said Mr. Fair
field. '-There are obv.ous reasons why no
extensive woik can b taken up."
Dr. MUiurd l.untfelj, bacteriologist for
the city, declared that the water was not
th Jouico of the typhoid fever in the
city.
"We are net u.-.- that purification of the
water will cut down the typhoid fever,
and if, after the trial of tho chlorine proc
ess, tilt number of cae should be reduced
we would not then be justified in saying
that the real so.irce of disease had been
reached." said Dr. Langfela.
Ua called attention to nnny other possible
source of typhoid fever, naming various
channels of the food Supply,
Dr. Moure Wants Action.
Dr. Richard Moore ioc (o declare war
and proceeded at once into the thick of
a v tubal chargo on everybody in bight.
"Tho waturuorks says nothing can he
done," he exclaimed Impressively, "the
hualtli commissioner's office Is at the end
of Its rope, the water board can do noth
ing. There Is nothing to It but Just talk,
talk, talk. Our only alternative now Is
to appeal to an expert to call on Washing
ton to send us an expert to determine the
trouble once for all."
iuvKcktion a as in substance
lrU nt leal with a resolution passed by the
I ouylm County Medical soolety at a meet-
nli Wednesday declaring the necessity of
iltirg more doctors from down east Into
the v. .a-irl
lr. aIitc took occasion to fly Into Dr.
Ln.rtiJ, charging him with bias and
iiaic.di.y. Tho bacteUologist only mild
and when the a,Ir cleared rose to remark:
"I take on only live ones."
After the meeting he and the elder
physician resumed their argument.
Gun for Responsible Man.
"Why, If a child of mine got this dread
ful disease I'd take a gun to the man
who Is responsible. If I could find him,"
exclaimed Dr. Moore. "There's nothing to
It at all but Just talk; there's nothing done.
"We are doing something," Interrupted
D. J. O'Brien, of the Water board. "To
night it hr.s been decided to try out the
chloride of lime process, which eastern
experience has proven highly successful. "
"Oh, durn the hypo-chloride," exploded
Dr. Moore. "Let's have a government ex
pert." At this Juncture Dr. ' Hippie .read a let
ter from Secretary Wilson recommending
the chloride process.
Halley's Comet Responsible.
"I'm not an expert, but I've had the
fever and I know something about It,"
announced S. Arlon Lewis of the West
Leavenworth Improvement club, getting
Into the discussion eagerly. "I think that
maybe It ain't the water. Why, all these
diseases travel In cycle waves.
"I tell you, gentlemen, there's something
In the atmospheric Influence we don't
understand. Why, only a few weeks ago,
not a real estate man in Omaha had heeded
his numerous requests to clean up and
that city ordinances were Ignored.
"Wo've hod more troublo with Mr. Gra
ham's work within a store's throw of this
city hall than anywhere else in the nity,"
exclaimed Councilman McGovern leap
ing to his 'feet, "why we've had to send
the pollen out to clear the streets on his
account."
"That policeman you speak of carried
only one of those formal notices that he
delivered to all the real estate people and
the contractors," retorted Mr. Graham. "I
fear that my friend has gone out of his
way to make a thrust."
Councilman Berka rose to make a peace
making speech, while half, a dozen men
came to their feet to get Into the row.
Just then somebody declared the meeting
adjourned. The merry gathering had been
at It for four hours.
MM 10 GET CONVENTIONS
Eleven Thousand Dollars in Sight of
the Commercial Club.
SAYS PUBLICITY COMMITTEE
Executive Committee of the Clnb Has
Busy Session and Shows that
Much Real Work Is Belns
Done.
C0LPETZER CANNOT SEE THE
JUSTICE OF LUMBER RATES
Thinks Fact of Omaha's Being- Larg
est Jobbing- Center Ought to
Be In Its Favor.
Frank Colpetser of the Chicago Lumber
oompany was the first witness at the In
terstate Commerce commission hearing In
the matter of the Commercial club of
Omaha against the Andersonville & Sa
line River and other railroads charged
with exacting excessive and unfair rates
on yellow and other pine from southern
producing points to Omaha.
Mr. ColpeUer said Omaha was the largest
lumber wholesaling point on the Missouri
liver except St. Lculs. Eighty per cent of
U19 lumber received here was southern
pine, on which a rate of 2H cents was
now exacted by the railroads, as agalnBt
a cents prior to ls-93, when it was raised to
2S cents and In 1!K)S to 25 cents and is now
2tV cents.
Mr. Colpetzer was unable to see why the
rate should have ben Increased from 22
cents. In the early days of tho lumber
business In the Missouri valley the weight
per car shipment was about 30.000 pounds
or 8,000 feet. Since 18OT this has been In
creased 1U0 per cent, the minimum load now
being about 55.000 pounds or 18,000 feet,
though he had known of some cars being
loaded to 80,000 pounds.
Lumber shipments a.-o constant as a rule
and there is very little claim mada for
damage or delays In shipment against th&
railroad companies hauling tho lumber. On
the basis of the 26-cent rate there is made
an additional cost of 6,'H cents per 1,000 feet
for lumber, or in round numbers about 11
per 100 ftet from southern producing points
to Omaha. The price ot lumber varies
with tha inorease or diminution of freight
rates.
The publicity committee of the Com
mercial club reported $11,000 in sight for
general work and conventions at the meet
ing of the executive committee of the club
yesterday. It reported that all conventions
that had convened in Omaha during Its
term of office had been well taken care
of, and that the calendar for the current
year shows a large number of conventions
secured for 1910. The department called
especial attention to the "tested seed corn"
campaign now In progress.
The Industrial committee was not to be
outdone and showed that on Monday of this
week the Hughes-Purcell Paint company
of Kansas City, Jobbers In all kinds of
paints, had located here; that on Tuesday
tho Nineteen Hundred Washer company of
Binghamton, N. T., and on Wednesday the
Andres Stone and Marble company of Mil
waukee had established branches in Omaha.
Litigation before the Interstate Commerce
commission and a signal victory Just gained
were told of in ths report of the trans
portation oommlttee. The trafflo bureau
Is now engaged In an effort to keep down
creamery, lumber and grain rates affect
ing Omaha.
Cole Prods Committees.
These reports showed that at least three
of the new committees of the executive
committee of the Commercial club were
busy. Chairman David Cole called upon
every committee for a report. He says he
will carry out his determination not to
have any ornamental committees. Several
of the chairmen promised to have reports
ready for the next meeting.
John Latenser, Architect, and Lynn P.
Campbell were elected to active member
ship In the Commercial club. The commit
tee on public affairs has been Instructed to
co-operate with C. L. Saunders, supervisor
of the census, to see that Omaha Is given
a Just representation, especially In the In
dustrial field. Mr. Saunders will address
the executive committee on the subject nes,t
Tuesday.
Report was made on the Indian ware
house situation by the reading of tele
grams from Congressman Hitchcock and
Senator Brown, in which advice was given
that both the house and the senate commit
tees on Indian affairs had voted In favor
of the warehouse appropriation, which In
sures the continuance of the Omaha ware
house. Approves Signal Corps Bill.
The club approved the bill now before
congress for the enlargement of the signal
rorps. This was Introduced by Senatoi
Burkett. This naturally carries with It the
further development of Fort Omaha.
Reports were read that both Senators Bur
kett and Brown had Introduced bills pro
viding for an appropriation of $250,000 to
protect the city water works and other
property In the north part of Omaha from
the encroachments of the Missouri rivet"?
Additional telegrams were sent by the club
urging this appropriation be made lm medi
ately available for the speciflo purpose.
The movement In favor of holding some
aeronautic attractions In Omaha during
1910 was endorsed. The iluh voted to try
to assist the Omaha Sangerfest association
in securing rates for the Sangerfest In
Omaha.
Letters and telegrams will be sent to
Washington urging congress to pass the
Lowden bill now before that body, pro
viding for the purchase and erection ot em
bassy, legation and consular buildings In
foreign countries.
from there again distributed to the sub
station of their delivery In time for the
afternoon carrier delivery from that station
and delivered to the party addressed.
None of -the carriers knew of the tests.
"We are'more than gratified with the re
sult," said Postmaster Thomas, "as It
shows that the carrier delivery system of
Omaha Is about as perfect as It can be
made."
TRAMPS BURN SHACK THAT
SHELTERS THEM FROM STORM
Permitted to ftleep There One Mht
and Take Revenue for Dis
missal. Take the cat out of the fire and he'll
spit at you. Proverb.
Two unidentified tramps are charged
with the burning of a storehouse building
at 1213 Cass street early Friday morning
because the owner had them ordered away
from their sleeping place and locked the
doors.
"Please, mister, can't we get In that old
Junk house out of the wind tonight?"
begged a pair of vagran-.s of John Wright,
who used the building to stoie second-hand
furniture.
Mr. Wright assented and found a few
nights later that the hoboes had decided
to make his warehouse their permanent
dwelling. The policeman on that beat or
dered them away. Then Wright nailed up
the windows and locked the doors.
Thursday night he smiled as he watched
the pair try to enter their forbidden den.
Friday morning at 4:30 he awoke to find
the place In flames. The department was
called, but too late. The building and con
tents were destroyed. The loss Is estimated
at $200. There was no Insurance.
The building was the property of John
Colbert.
YOUNG WOMEN RUSH FROM
FIRE LADENJVITH DRESSES
Talloressen Snatch Hnlf Finished Gar
ment When They See Smoke
In the Bnlldlnar.
Considerable excitement was caused In
the Paxton block Friday noon when smoke
began to pour out of the windows on the
first and second floors, north side. A score
of young women working in the Holland
Ladies Tailoring establishment on the sec
ond floor rushed out with their arms filled
with half finished dresses for customers
as well as with their own wraps.
The fire was soon located In the work
shop of the Huteson Optical company on
the alley side. James Zimmerman, fore
man, and Roy Davis, apprentice, were Just
completing their luncheon when they dis
covered flames lerplng from the corner of
the room. The fire department soon put
out the fire, but the damage to the optical
goods Is considerable. The loss to the
building and shop Is estimated at $f00, with
an additional loss to optical goods. The
less was fully Insured by tha Brcnnan
Love company.
Ser 'Oofbin
They are buying them now at
greatly reduced prices buying
snappy styles and most desirable
patterns and colorings at about a
50 reduction Are you getting
your share of these good things?
There's plenty of weather still
ahead to repay the investment.
Spring is a long way off and there are,
as yet, no authentic or thoroughly correct
spring clothes being shown except in the
staples The real swell creations are two
weeks off and when the time comes
watch This Store show 'em.
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Heavy and Medium Overcoats, in fancy
colorings and black
See Windows,
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Handsome Suits, in fancy and blue and
black
See Windows.
$1
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Men's Extra Trousers stripes, checks,
blue end black that sold up to $7.50; are
now offered at two prices
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and J
Any Boys' Winter Cap in the
store
25c
Men's Winter Caps in two lots at two prices
50c Caps 25c 85c (or Caps worth to $2
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Some Things You Want to Know
Preventing Mine Disasters.
The tragedy of the mine has become such
a grewsome thing that humanity may well
shudder at its awful record. In the lost
ten years 20,0000 coal miners and nearly
figures descloses the fact that years ago
thepe countries nad records as disgraceful
as our own. The reduction In the number
of accidents In this most hazardous uj-
10,000 metal miners have perished while at cupatlon began when these countries took
work. In the year 1907, 8,125 unfortunates up a scientific Investigation of the cause
lost their lives, and the following year of accidents. The decrease in the number
2,450 were lost In the cool mines of the of deaths has continued until today In
United States alone. This terrible tragedy Germany, Great Brltlan, Belgium arfd
of the mines Is fielng enacted nearly every France, the coal mines are killing slightly
day. Only a short tlmo ago more than over one man In every 1.000 employed.
300 men were roasted to death in a coal
mine at Cherry, 111., and since then 200
more have been killed In explosions.
Soventy-nlne were numbered on the death
roll at Prlmero, Colo., and a few days
later thirty-five were killed In Kentucky.
Eleven were hurled Into eternity at Indi
ana, Penn., and after that an explosion In
The year 1MT witnessed four of the most
shocking mine explosions In the history of
the United States. The greatest of these
was at Monogah, W. Va., In which 868
men were killed. A few days later there
followed the explosion In the Parr mine in
Pennsylvania, where 160 wore killed. An
other at the Naomi mine In Pennsylvania
a mine In Mexico wiped out nearly 100 killed thirty-four, and still another at To
more. These disasters are coming so landa, Ala., killtd sixty-one. After tills
thick and fast that there does not seem to the United States Government began a
be time between explosions to bury the series of Investigations into the causes of
dead. Every time the newspapers report disasters In coal mints. The United States
on of these horrors 500.000 feminine hearts Geological Survey, which was Intrusted
falter for a moment, for the wife of the
minor has every reason to live In constant
apprehension.
Today, at Cherry, III., a most grewsome
series of events Is taking place. One hun
dred and eighty bodies are still in the
mine, whose shaft was sealed weeks ago
In the hope of smothering the fire that
with this work, established at Pittsburg a
station patterned after the best scientific
stations in Europe.
It was said before these Investigations
commenced that a miner took his life In
his hands every time he touched off a
charge of powder in the mines, the various
explosives being so variable in strength
was raging. Miners and officials, hoping that no one knew Just what they would
that the rire has been extinguished, are
preparing to bring out the bodies. The
few surviving miners, fearful that an
epidemic of disease will follow the re
moval of the corpses, are cogly and sen
sibly demanding that the bodies of the men
In the mine be destroyed by chemicals.
The women, many of them made widows
by the husbands being lost in this
do. The great fear of the coal miner Is
what is known as the "blow-out" shot.
This means a shot that, Instead of explod
ing and breaking the coal, blows out Into
the mine. This occurs when the powder
has not been perfectly tamped, or when
it Is not strong enough to brisk the coal.
A "blow-out" shot sends a tongue of flams
leaping through the mine, and If there Is
holocaust, are pleading that the bodies be gag nearby or fine coal dust floating In the
TEST SHOWS LETTER CARRIER
SYSTEM IN OMAHA IS FAST
KEEPS AUT0F0R BAD BILL
Chauffeur Puts Ills Employer to
Trouble Over au I nworthy
. Aeeouut.
"You ow me 83," slid the chauffeur.
"I do not," replied his employer.
"Well, you pay me, or I'll keep your old 1
car," declared tho driver with defiance.
What Is more he made good on his crotn- i
Ise.
W. C. Raapke of the Kaapke Wholesale
Grocery company has replovlned his car, a
White Steamer, from the Kemper Auto
company' garage. Tho car had been left
there by Frank Datman, who was Mr.
Haapke's chauffeur.
An attempt to get the car without a re
plevin process failed. According to the
plaintiff in tho action. Datman had an
unworthy claim for mon?y due and eloped
to the garag with the auto when Mr.
Utapke refused to liquidate 1L
Mall Delivered Five
la Dropped
Bom.
Hours After
In the
It
A test of the rapidity with which city
mall may be dispatched to and from
widely remote sections of the rlty has been
made by the postofflee department.
Test letters were dropped In mall boxes
In the far suburban districts away from
the sub-statlor.s at 8 a. m., addressed to
parties either in the business sections or
directly opposite sections of the city from
which the letters were started. There were
eighteen ot these letters, fifteen of which
were delivered to the parties addressed
within five hours from the time they were
placed In the mall boxes.
These letters were gathered up from the
point of deposit by the letters carriers In
their regular morning routes, taken In the
ordinary course to ths sub-ma'lon and there
sJnt to the main office ' downtown, and
DENTAL GOLD ROBBERY
SUSPECT GETS OFF EASILY
I.acW of Proof Auainst Roy Green
Probably Will Win Ouljr
Vagrancy Charge,
Roy Green, held as a suspect In the dental
gold robbery cases, where more than 81,000
worth of loot was taken, cannot bo posi
tively connected with the operations of the
gang supposed to be at work. He will bo
taken Into police court Saturday morning
and there given a (sentence for vagrancy.
Green, when arrested .-by Dttectlves
Maloney and Van Deuueu, made a sensa
tional attempt to escape. Running from
hiB room down over fire escapes and roof
unclad, he hid at la?t In a Btranger'a bed.
He ha served numerous terms for theft.
Captain John Savage of the detective de
partment is Inclined to the opinion that the
preserved for burlaJ. Sentiment means
more to them in their great grief than any
dire consequence that may follow. Mnny
of them feel that they have already lost
all and that nothing worse can happen. A
sad feature of this heart-rending tragedy Is
that seventy-four babies have been born
to these women since that terrible day
seventy-four pitiful little orphans whose
helpless plight calls for the deepest sym
pathy. The very suggestion that their
fathers' lives may huve been lost by care
lessness Is an awful arraignment against
those who ore responsible.
A shot flrer in a coal mine, who was
gettlns $3 a day for his dungerous work,
madn a demand upon the superlntendend of
tho mine for inoro money, "You're gettftig
moro wages row than you are entitled to,"
was the reply of the superintendent.
"Wages." cxclnlmed tha shot flrer, "this
company doesn't pay me wages. It bets
me three dollars a day that I won't come
out of this mine alive. If I do, the com
pany gives ine 13; If I don't, they bury me."
Svcn hundred thousand coal miners and
300.000 metal mli'.ers dally make a bet with
tho owners of the mines that they will
Uromt out nllve. it tnen win, tn:y get ineir
r
robberies were the work of one or two i wagra for tho day; If they lore, the com
men. They are bclloved to have been the
men who robbed the establishments of Den
ver and Des Moines' dentists earlier in tho
year.
MISSOURI PACIFIC IS BLAMED
Railroad Held Xegliffrnt la Case
Death of Georae f'ooni-atork.
of
That the Missouri Peeiflc was negligent
In tha failure to afford proper protection
from moving cars, was the decision of the
coroner's Jury at an lnuet held on tm
death of George Coomstock.
Coomstock was struck and crushed, lo Ing
both his legs, when run down by a switch
rnglns at Fifteenth and Clark streets
while on his way to his home, 2613 North
Thirteenth street. Wednesday evening.
He died In the hospital a few hours later.
A Dlaodjr Affair
is lung hemorrhage. Stop It and cure
weak lungs, roughs and col. Is with Dr.
King's New Dlscovtry. DOo and $1.0. For
ale by Beaton Drr
pany buries them and that l?i abuut all. A
littlo later, tlu widows may get a few
hundred dollars twenty-fivo of thorn set
tled the othrr day at tho rsto of $?50 each.
There Is, hov.-ever. a brighter side to this
dark horror of the minis. The people are
beginning lo realize ths situation nnd to
act accordingly. Tho Investigation stage
has passed and the public is stunned at
what It has learned. Statistics of mine
accidents In this and foreign countries have
been eagerly scanned for Information, and
the results have been In every Instance to
the dlsi-redlt of the United States. The
European figures show In many countries
not more than one man killed In every
l.ono employed In a year's time, and In
other countries less than two. In the United
States, In 1107, nearly five men in every
thousand employed were killed in the coal
mine, and In 19M the rate was nesrly four.
Someone who delves In figures make tho
statement that If the United States had tha
record of thi best European countries, such
as Belgium, 15.000 out of the M.000 mon
Willed In the coal mines of this country In
the past ten years might have been saved.
Further Investigation of the European
air, an explosion follows that kills or
malms everyone near.
The officials of the survey therefore de
termined to standardize explosives and lo
test them In the presence of gas or coal
duBt. The explosives are being tesUd in
a huge steel cylinder, 100 feet long and six
feet In diameter. This cylinder was filled
with natural gas, which corresponds wllh
fire damp, and a "blow-out" shot was re
produced, the explosive being fired by elec
tricity from a cannon In one end of the
cylinder. If an explosion followed, this
powder was not considered proper for use
In mines where there was gas. The cyllndsr
would then be filled with coal dust and
the explosive, discharged in it. If the coal
dust Ignited with a roar, then the explo
sive used was deemed unfit for use In dan
gerous mine. The investigation of explo
sives was continued until a number weru
found that would stand both tests without
igniting the gas or the coal dust. These
explosives were termed "permissible," at.i'
their use urged in n.lnes where there v, a.
gas or coal dust in dangerous ejuanlltlu..
Two lists of "permissible" explosives have
so far boen published and rt-commonded ti
the s'ato mining bureaus.
A queer phase of the situation has been
tha Incredulity of tho miners and op-jrator
alike as to the explosiveness of coal dun..
Whin the government began Its tests,
hardly a coal miner In tha country be
lieved that coal dust would cxpljde. They
vent to the Pittsburg station in spec's;
train. to see It before they would believe
the statements made. In this connection,
tho attention of th miner was called to
the fact that there was a vlulrnt ex
1'losion cf flour dust In a Minneapolis
mill a number of years ago. They were
also to'd to remember that some of the
greatest explosions In the coal mines of
ths United States, that t Monongah In
particular, were caused bv cool dust.
This has opened still another problem
which the officials are working on how
to render harmless the coal dust In the
mine. One experiment wns to iuhIi
to a certain mine after there
has been a sudden drop In tho
temperature and Investigate the rond'
tlon of the air. The officials calculated
the amount of moisture entering the mine
and the amount going out. and found to
their amazement that the mine was tuning afltinuuu.
fifty tons of moisture every twenty-four
hours. It is readily seen that a few
days of such conditions would leave ths
ccal dust In a very dry state, and render
It more liable to explode If It came Into
contact with a flame. This Is the causs
of the great coal dust explosions that
have cost so many hundreds lives. It also
explains why most of these disaster
occur In the winter time.
At the Pittsburg station there Is a room
known as the "rescue room," whore min
ers are taught to use of the oxygen hel
met, an apparatus that permits breathing
artificially In deadly gases. Part of the
"rtcue room" contains an air-tight com
partment, fitted up to resemble the Inter
ior of a mine. This place Is filled with
deadly gases and the experts, clad In their
oxygen helmets, can remain there for two
hours without returning to the fresh air.
These helmets have proved valuable Im
mediately after explosions, permitting res
cuers to enter the mines at once and bring
out men who were slowly being asphyxia
ted. Tho government now has a crew of
trained rescuers who respond to every ac
cident call with a reasonahlc radius of
the station. These heroes, although arriv
ing late at the Cherry disaster, brought
twenty men alive from the burning mine.
This work hits been so successful that
substations have been established In the
coul fields of Tennessee. Oklahoma, Illi
nois and Washington ' and recommenda
tions for six more have been made. To
government's sole purpose In this Is to
teach the miners tho use of the oxygen
helmets so that each mine will be encour
aged to maintain ' Its own rescue corps.
Ten of the big mining companies of the
country have already established such sta
tions. By miDBttlC J. HABKIN.
CLEMENT CHASE AT LAYMEN'S '
MEETINGS IN0THER CITIES
Attends Ills; Gatbrrlnvs at Kiuihoi
City and Toprka for Ideas
r nil Inspiration.
Clement Chase has returned from Kansas
City and Toprka where he wont to attend
the oonventlonn nf the Laymen' Misnlon-
i ary movmont and get Ideas that would be
helpful In conducting the Omaha conven
tion next month of which he Is chairman.
Mr. Chase says he obtained some val
uable pointers ai.e as to Inspiration it came
in great big lumps.
"The dinner In Convention hall at Kansas
City Wednesday evening was a wonderfully
Inspiring sight," said lie. "Thl auditorium
Is larger than ours and there were seated
1,810 men at long tabids running the entire
length and fa tins the speaker's stand,
which was at the side. The galleries were
packed, with the woitjeii, tha men Bang,
cheered and gavo College calls apivss the
big hull. Tbo speakers vfcre HUhop Tuttle,
pn siding bishop of tho Episcopal church;
Governor Hadley of Missouri, . C. Stunt
and J. Campbell White of Ntw York City,
and myself.
"When Blohop Tuttle finished, every man
In the. audi-nre sprang to hi feet and
.iaved his r.apkm in the Chautauqua salute
until tho bishop rose and acknowledged
the ovation. The Ieuding men of Kansas
City have thrown themselves Into thl
movtmunt and, a happened at 8t. Louis,
It 1 expected .that the wealthy men will
begin forming what are ktiown a the Four
Seiuare clubs, In which four men bind them
selves togtthfr to give ta foreign mission
annually In sun. running In four f gurcs.
I suw In the audience Mr. I'rrry, prejldent
of the Natl Jiial Bank of Commerce, Mr.
Neal, president of the SouthWesi National
bank. In fact, official') fi-om every financial
Institution In Kansas City."
Mr. Chasa spoke the next morning In
Topeka at a breakfast for the men of the
Episcopal chuiche slven at the cathedral,
over which Bishop Mlllspaugh pre:d.-d.
The other apeakcr weie Hov. Perry Silver
and A. V. H.iell of Oklahoma City. Lateir
Mr. Chase Beldrcn.ied tho convent rn In the
Toptka auditorium and a rally of the
liaptlst men at a noun luncheon, lie hnd
a lang conference with Campbjil While
and D. II. Ild.ly upon the program for lh
Omaha convention, Mr. Eddy belrg In
charge. Mr. Chase will diserlb the Kan
sas City dinner and show phol.iriaphs of
It at the workers' rally to be held at the
Young Men's Chii&tluu association auneluy
