4 - - ' . ' T7TE BEE: OMATTA. SATURDAY. APTUT; 23, 1911. "
6MATTA. SATTTRDAY. AFIUL
(Our (Sreat
men's Suits at $
ale
None of Them Are Worth Less Than $25 Many Actually Worth S40.
A FliilQdclptila IVlIr. Sold Us All His Samples and Surplus Stock
Just gQO Smart Tailored Suits at the Biggest Reductions Ever Olfcrcd
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This is bcynd all question the most extraordinary sale f womcn'i strictly kigh clasi suits that
has been offered by aajr store in the west this season. Each one of these suits is a clever
new m.del, all the later season's stylet, and is adapted fr late spring and early summer wear.
The materials are those stunning new light shades as well as the staple shades, and there is every new featuro
represented. - .
The variety to choose from will be enormous. There will be no disappointments. Rack after rack of these wonder
ful values. All sizes including misses' sizes in these Buits that are worth $25 up to $40 Saturday in one great lot, at. .
Special Sale of Skirts at S6.98
Your choice of 300 very fine walking and dress skirts in vojles,
serges, panamas, worsteds, mohairs and the popular new white serges.
There are many sample skirts in this lot and they are
actually worth as high as $12.50 Saturday special,
at
Extra Special Lingerie Dresses at $5
Your choice of 400 beautiful embroidered and lace trimmed lingerie
dresses. Many of them are samples and they are the most stunning
and beautifully finished lingerie dresses in the new sum
mery styles. Positively made to sell up to $10,
at
S2
.
WOMEN'S LONG
COATS
These practical coats are made
of satins, shantungs, serges,
and worsteds; very large va
riety, worth up to CIA
16. at vLV
SUMMERY WAISTS
Waists Of colored embroidery,
lace and insertlngs; many
with the new Bailor and Dutch
collars; the season's clever
est models; : special
Saturday, at
,$U0
NEW WASH SILK
WAISTS
New striped and plain Jap silks
that launder beautifully;
many In the new shirt ef
fects. A special
group Saturday, at.
$3.93
MUSLIN
UNDERWEAR
Specials In prettily lace and
embroidery trimmed under
rousllns. Women's Gowns,
worth up to 12, at . ...08
Combination Suits, worth up
to $2, at.. 08
WOMEN'S SUITS,
Worth $15, at $6.98
On Sale in Basement
Here are tailored suits in good,
practical styles that will look
well and give splendid service.
500 Genuine Imported Leghorn Hats
ACTUALLY WORTH UP TO $25, at $10
This Is a great special purchase of fine leghorn hats in the newest early
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-many laced witn Diacn veivei, iruu
med with clusters of flowers with
touches of black and white velvet
'summer shapes, both large and small-
to a.
.T.Tk 1.-4 i.li'UjTrft -V T I i
trimmings: also sash ef
fects. These are genuine
$25 hats, at
$10
NEW LIGHT COLOR HATS
These are the newest of the new sea
son's hats white, champagne and
burnt shades, flower trimmed.
Large hats of chip and Milan
' braid very . stunning, . C C
and worth $10, at ... V
In Our Misses' Millinery Section
New arrivals in Milan, Panamas, Black Satin
and Black Mllana. trimmed with ribbon
bows and ribbon flower wreaths; specials,
at 92.50. $5.00 nd 87.50
'Millinery in the Basement
Tailored and Street Hats in small close
fitting shapes; have sold up to $5.00,
at $1.00 $1.50
Untrlmmed shapes, in basement, at 9S?
Braid for making hats; all colors, at each
piece
25
Cut Flower Sale Saturday
OUR HOME GROWN LONG STEM ROSES, at, dozen. .
Beautiful Blooming Geraniums, 1214c; Dozen, $1.50.
39c
SPECIAL SALE
HAIR GOODS
Second Floor and Pompeian Room.
The wonderful success and continued in
crease In sales in our Beauty Shops, we
attribute to our reliable merchandise.
We do Manicuring, Shampooing and Hair
dressing. Appointments made by phone.
Challenge Sale Saturday
18 and 20 Inch Natural Wavy
Switches $2 values, one 0ITf
to a customer, at CkVVt
Cluster Puffs Speciaf
$2.00 values, at .
Cluster Puffs Special $5.00$ no
values, at lewO
98c
a-tnahtm toar, a os.
Hktaral Wavy Kalr
Switohci ( a values
at i-.SH
Tranaformatlona,
Natural Wavy Hair
$5 values at.S2.B8
Washable Hair Rolls,
75o valuta at.... 360
Ths Carmen Net,
Saturday only... 100
Two Extra Large
Size Nets for ....Bo
&al Hair JTots Ex
tra large a lie, 26o
value at 13o
Newest Styles in Women's Footwear
S3.50-S4.00
Red Cross Shoes, Oriords and Pumps for Women. We are Omaha agents
for these celebrated shoes, known for their comfortable fitting qualities,
as well as their splendid styles. In all leathers, vici kid, patent kid and
gun metal calf. Pumps with or without straps: oxfords in button or
iace style lull range of sizes and widths,
at, pair
White Canvas Shoes Button
style, Goodyear welted soles, in
all sizes, at pair ......$2.40
Tan Calf Oxfords for Women
All sizes and widths with new
high toe last, short vamps and
high heels, at pair
$3.95 $3.48 $2.03 $2.40
Good Shoes at Small Prices Drandeis Basement
Men's $3, $3.50, $4 and $5 Shoes that bear the brands of W. L. Douglas,
Florsheim, etc., shoes of known value. All new, up to date styles. Only
a few pairs of any particular stylo but all sizes m one style A fifl
or another Saturday, at, pair VUVj
Women's Shoes, odds and ends, worth 12.50
to $3.60 a pair, at $1.00
Women's Oxfords and Pumps, odds and
ends but all sizes; all new good styles,
worth $2 a pair, at 08
Boys' Shoes, sizes up to 13V4i at pair, 08t
Velvet House Slippers with serviceable car
pet soles for women and men, at. . . .25
Infants' soft sole Shoes, all colors and new
patterns, worth, 60c to 76c pair, at..25
Women's House Slippers and Juliets, rubber
heels, patent tips or common sense style,
at, pair 98
Children's Shoes, button style, extension
edge soles, solid leather and in all sites,
ftt- Palr 88
WATER POWER IN MEXICO
A Plant Unsurpassed Anywhere Else
in the World.
LIGHT FOB THE CAPITAL CITY
Little Montala Brook DeTelopa Kilty
Toaaand-Horae Power and ta Car
ried Mora Than One II a a
dred Mllea.
Reference waa ma.de In Washington dis
patches recently; to tha vaat acopa of
oma of the engineering; projects In Mexico
and It was atated that In some reepeota
they wera unaurpaasert anywhere else In
the world. One of tha roost stgantlo Is
the power plant at Necaxa which furnlBhea
electricity to the City of Mexico. 119 mllea
away. When the American editorial party
waa In the Mexican capital last September
It waa divided one day, part Klng; to the
ancient city of Cuernavaca. the Jerusalem
of the western continent, where the cli
mate la always June, and the other mak
Inn a trip to Necaxa.
Representative Victor Murdock, the Kan
aaa Insurgent, chose to go to Necaxa, con
fesalna; to a lifelong; ambition to study
water power at close range. The follow-
trlolty. Where does It tome from? From
the mountain. How Is It made? By water
power.
Ilsre In Mexico waa my chance to sea
for myself and diacover Just what there la
In water power, which has made my friend
Oifford Pinehot so anxious to withdraw,
fur the food of all the people, water power
altes in tha United States.
A Brook Turned Into Horses.
Here la what I saw: A little purling
mountain brook , turned Into 50,000 tugging
horaea, all to be stopped by the turn of
one man's finger, and all ta be set going
again instantly by the turn of the same
finger.. Curiously the moat interesting
thing to me was to see the aame little
mountain brook turned loose again, no
bigger than before, after the electricians
were through with It.
Her Is what I learned. I suppose it will
make all the high achool pupils who read
this laugh, but In a way It was new to me.
Height in a column of water la a tre
mendous thing. Tor I found that four
columns of water, two and three-fourths
lnchea In diameter, were hauling 300 forty
passenger street cara around the City of
Mexico. What did It was thia-those little
columns of water were ten time higher
than Niagara they reached up In the air
1,600 feet
...... v - - , ur.ataat rower Scheme In World.
in. Is an excerpt from h. .story of the hlm to
trip written by Mr. Murdock for hie own
paper, the Wichita Eagle. Not only la it
fascinating as a bit of description, but the
story Is useful as Illustrating the Immens
ity of some of the buetnesa propositions
in which foreign capital la invested In
Mexico, their close relation to the comfort
and progress of the people and the Im
measurable injury which might be done
to all through the ants of a mere baker s
dozen of Irresponsible depredator. Presi
dent Dlas has been charged with keeping
moat of the federal troops In and about
the capital to guard himself and hla associ
ates. It may be aafuly assumed that one
uae of those troops haa ben to protect
the thin electric llnei more than 100 miles
long, whose breaking would overwhelm a
Queenly elty of 900,000 souls with darkness.
Street Cars Ten Tears Aeo.
Ten years ago. In Mexico City, writes
Mr. Murdock, the street railway system
consisted of innumerable little cars hauled
about craslly by Innumerable little burroa.
whacked upon, whistled to and jerked at
by barefooted Mexicans who stood two or
three on the front platform and managed
to keep the burros and the car together
nd to get them through the atreeta. Now
there are K streets cars in the Mexican
capital, modern cars; they go with dis
patch everywhere, and while Mexicans
drive them, our friend who used to whack
the burroa wears a blue uniform and can
set a fuae or clean a wire brush as wall
as your beat electrklan.
In the old days, say eight years ago. In
Mexico, night, when it came to a city,
blew out all I it his aave the policeman's
lantern and the strange little square red
lights which are eilll hung out of second
story windows to drive away vll spirit.
The town then waa wrapped In darkness.
Now Mexiuo City la most brilliantly lighted
and ths display on the cathedral and the
palace about the Zocalo during the cen
tennial celebration was the most splendid
yet achieved by the uae of electric ltghta
anywhere In this world.
k.very where there la evidence of e loo-
follow me out Into the mountains to see
what Is said to be tha most modern de
velopment of a water power site In the
world. Taking a narrow gauge train from
the Mexican capital, we moved out across
the Mexican plateau, which is for all the
world like a vast plain, and after 110
miles of leisurely travel came to that plaoe
In a plateau where the drop begins to the
sea, a drop from the capital to the Gulf
of Mexico of 8,000 feet. The fall I un
mistakable, and It la scenically wonderful.
The ordinary locomotive la dropped and
the Shay type, one with all wheela cogged
for safety. Is substituted.
At the bottom of the gorge tumbles a
little mountain stream, precisely the same
as one comes across frequently In Colorado
In a very few minutes the great artificial
lake which the little stream feeds Is
reached. It fills the canon. Through the
surface of Its water appears the occasional
tower of a church or the black walls which
mark the site of a former village. The
outlines or ins company a property are
marked up to the slopes of the mountains
by great white monuments of stone. This
artificial lake which lies up underneath
tha eaves of the Mexican roof was planned
with economy, for the dam. which holds its
waters back was constructed at a narrow
place In the gorge.
Passing this lake, we reach another
canon and another rivulet, which in Its
turn Is feeding another lake. To the right
and left are these artificial ponds each fed
by its brook, and further down than all
of them and connected with each of them
by great steel pipes, Is the key to the
system. Necaxa. a great body of water
confined by a great earthen 4am.
Dam Twelve Hundred Feet Ltsg.
This dam la 1.30 feet long and 150 feet
high. Its toes are of rock and concrete
and Its center of rock and clay put In
hdrsullcall.v, that Is, while wet. A thou
sand Mexican workmen were clambering
abowt over this dam completing It this
week, each group under a foreman, and
all of them under one head boss. The dam
Impresses you with Its tremendous size
even here among the high mountains. Out
from the same on ths down stream side
run three great pipes. It Is well to re
member that these pipes are six and seven
feet In diameter, for we are to see them In
a little while when they are only thirty
inches across and a little later we will
see them when they are but two and three
quarters Inches across. These three pipes
whloh emerge from the dam, like black
snakes, dash through the bottom oT a
bill just in front of you and disappear.
Swinging, Haadreds of Feet In Air.
There Is some talk about being at the
Jump-off Just now. There Is a consulta
tion. The managers of your trip are
doubtful about the better way to present
this thing to you. In a nervous sort of
way you gather that you are going to be
taken down something and there la an air
about It that you don't fancy. You are
conducted out upon an open platform. Tou
doa't have to look over the edge. You
know without looking that you are on the
edge of the Mexican roof, that this is the
place you Jump 'off if you go farther.
Beneath you Is a sheer cliff 4M) feet high,
then there is a shelf, and beyond that
another cliff that measures 750 feet. You
berln to understand how the water In the
pipes haa a fall of 1,800 feet.
But you have lost sight of the pipes be
cause you are decidedly busy with some
thing els. The platform upon which you
stand has swung out over the precipice
and you are In midair. The crowd is
marvellously quiet. They are looking at
a cornfield on a mountain above. It Is
said that the owner of It fell out of his
cornfield one day and broke his neck.
A Pail that Ends In Mist.
There Is a man In charge of this plat
form. He is fat and good-natured. He
comes from Kansas City. Mo., and is In
clined to tell you about what happened
two months ago when the company physi
cian was swung up here In mid-air for
three hours because the windless engine
broke. But no one wants to bear him
Just then. You. find that his name U
Gist and gat him to talking about Mis
souri, while you try to forget that swing
ing cable which is holding you as you go
down, down, down.
It takes eight minutes to reach the
shelf. Here you are led onto a flat car
villi a cable tied to one end, and this
cable pays out and lets you slide slowly
down to the second, Jump-off. If W
feet looka like a thousand, 7U) feet straight
down looks like a mile. This precipice, is
concave and covered with foliage flowers.
Over it spreads a stream of water that
si'ieads into mist before It reaches the
bottom. This waterfall and precipice Is
tii ths most beautiful piece of moun
tain scenery I have ever seen. You sttp
on another platform and again swing Into
mid-air down the trembling steel cable.
There are no spectators. Even th engin
eers above do not watch you and there is
no one at the bottom, although you feel
that you are doing something that uugnt
to call out as much Interest as Wilbur
Wright is accorded. It might be better
If the platform bad rails for guests to
bang to and I suggested to the man from
Missouri that the company ought to taks
a little of the fuo.000.oou gold It is putting
Into the plant and build aouie rails around
these aeroplanes. You reach the bottom
at last. You are 1,600 feet below the sur
face of Necaxa lake.
Where the Iron Pipes Go.
Where are those iron pipes? I said they
disappeared under a hill. They did and
now they reappear down here as thirty
Inch pipes. They have come down through
the mountain. You are told this, but you
don't precisely grasp It until you are taken
back up through the mountain yourself
in the "coffin," a really refined instru
ment of torture. But no one has told you
about the "coffin" just yet and you are
taken Into the great power house. The
water in the thirty-inch pipes Is now sub
divided and put into pipes a little less than
three Inches in diameter. The nozxles on
these pipes are square and the fluid comes
out of these nozzles against little cups In
a turbine wheel. The pressure is 600 pounds
to the square Inch. If a man should taks
an ax and strike this Jet of water, he
would break the handle or his arm. The
edge of the ax would not penetrate the
little stream of water. There are eight
of these great turbine wheels and they
are running like mud. Just outside the
plant, the water, having performed. Its
work, is running back Into a mountain
gorge, and the marvel of it all Is that the
water which sets these massive machines
Into a perfect volcano of noiss and an
earthquake of energy that the water be
comes twenty feet away from the moun
tain plant a little mountain brook again.
It isn't the volume of water that Is doing
the work here. It is the weight of water.
On another floor, Jut above the turbines,
are the converters; great, round steel ma.
chines which are whirling positive and
negative poles In the midst of other posi
tive and negative poles, and so making
that mysterious thing electricity. Once
made the electricity Is scooped off by wire
brushes and tarried Into transformers.
These transformers reduce the volume of
electricity and Increase the pressure. Re
member Mexico City is 110 miles away and
copper wire Is expensive. Here Is now
a supply of electricity representing 60,000-"
horse power. It Is necessary to diminish
its volume and keep its power. It is
former. Then It is put on the wires and
sent to town.
The AlaaU-tan of the Halloas.
At the great switchboard sat a man from
Switzerland. He wore a Van Dyke beard
and looked a young Faust. 'In front of
lilm were tweuty or thirty buttons. Soma
glowed green, some red. The green but
tons Indicated open circuits; the red ones
closed circuits. By flipping up one little
switch this magician of the red and green
buttona couiild Instantly atop every street
car in Mexico City 'and put out every elec
tric light, and atop the publication of every
newspaper there and suspend virtually ev
ery plant uutng power in a federal dis
trict, an area akin to our District of Co
lumbia. '
The power is taken back to Mexico City
in a few copper wires, strung upon steel
towers, much resembling the modern Kan
sas windmill. The only odd tblng In this
arrangement was the insulator used. It is of
pottery, not elat. i large,, and by reason
of Its flare la called, "the petticoat."
Tonne Men linve Uuue This.
The men who have brought this about
i are young men. Home of them are from
Kngland, fcome from the Vnlted States,
some from Germany. It is wonderful how
alike tbeae ouug nica ax In
commercial movement. In thought and In
action. They are the very latest design In
human beings, In education, (n commercial
Instincts, and in ambition, In eaoh of these
carrying tha very latest patents. None ex
cept men such as these oould have ever
seen 60,000-horsepower In tiny Necaxa creek,
and none, save men like these, would have
turned the idea, In four years. Into a
glgantlo actuality. Boston Transcript.
USE FOR DISCARDED WARSHIPS
J3nglnerr Una Paa to Mike Per
manent Coast ' Defenses of
Them.
A battleship, cosUng $10,000,000 to $12,
000,000, Is becoming obsolete after seven to
ten years of service, and after twenty
years of life It la, for deep sea fighting,
practically useless. The deterioration is
chiefly In the speed, and somewhat less In
the armament, the fighting range of the
older guns being less than that of the mod
ern output of ordnance factories. The
armor remains good for all time. The
hull. If properly protected against corro
sion, should be available for a long life of
usefulness. The limitations In speed and
in the. range of guns soon renders a ship
unable to take her place In the first fight
ing line, and before many years have
passed she is unavailable even for the sec
ond line. Then this Investment of from
$;.COO,000 to $12,000,000 Is put up for auction
and goes to the scrap heap.
If aome duty oould be found for the ob
solete battleship, in which a 10.000 to 13,000
yard fighting range for the guns was not
Indispensable, and in which speed waa of
no account whatever, a vast amount of
most valuable fighting material would be
sived for military purposes. Now It has
been suggested that such a sphere of use
fulness can be found for our absolete bat
tleships by emplacing them permanently
upon certain shoal grounds at the entrance
to our waterways, and turning them Into
permanent, fixed coast fortifications.
We can well believe that the up-to-date
naval man, who thinks In terms of 23-knot,
!.000-ton battleships, and l-lnch guns of
12.000 to 14,000 yards effective fighting
range, will look at this presentation with a
smile of amused curiosity. It Is certainly
hybrid; but like many another proposal
of startling originality, It will be found
upon closer ari thoughtful attention that
the suggestion haa a great many valuable
features wiiich should commend it to the
earnest consideration of our army and
navy. - i
Briefly stated, some shoal place could
be selected at tha entrance to a harbor,
or at some other waterway to be de
fended, and, by means of double rows of
piling, a cofferdam would b driven, of
sufficient dimensions to allow the battle
ship to be floated within It. Previous to
its entrance, however, lines of piling
would be driven In ths proper position to
support the ship along Its central and Its
docking keels. The mud or sand would
then be dredged out, the piling cut off at
the proper height, and the ship would be
floated and allowed to settle upon the
bed thus provided. Ths cofferdam would
then be closed, and sand or other suit
able material would be pumped or other
wise filled around the ship to a point
well above the protective deck, or as high
as might be deemed expedient. This 1111 -uig
would be continued aoaward oa the
channel sides for a distance of sixty to 100
feet, finished with an easy slope, and rip
rapped on its face to protect it against
wave action. The cofferdam and tilling
would be extended on the lee side to In
close a rectangular basin, which would
form a harbor of refuge for a fleet of de
stroyers and submarines. It should b
explained that after the filling was com
puted, the whole exterior of the shell of
the ship would be protected by grouting
It up with cement, by the method which
Is used In subaqueous tunnels.
On the channel side, tubes would be
built through the embankment from the
Interior of the ship to the water, with
suitable concrete embrasures located be
low the water; and In these embrasures
would be mounted torpedo discharge
tubes, of the kind now Installed on war
ships. These tubes, of course, would lead
out toward the channel that is to b de
fended. The advantage of this form of defense
may be summarized as follows: A battle
ship fort will have a solid gun plat
form, the battleship resting solidly on
the bottom and being Imbedded, as de
scribed, in earth to tha level of Its upper
deck, ordinarily twelve to fourteen feet
above sea level. With large caliber guns
on solid gun platforms, located at ap
proaches, with a wide base line available
tor ranges, the accuracy of the gun fire
of a battleship fort will be perfect and
much superior to that of an enemy's at
tacking battleship, which must be afloat
with unstable gun platform and limited
range-finding facilities.
The earthwork surrounding a battleship
! fort will render it perfectly seoure from
elded advantage, ao much so that it la
highly Improbable that any battleship
would ever engage a battleship fot. ex
cept Incldently In an effort to run by
and gst into our ports, with least possi
ble exposure to the fire of the fort.
The battleship fort Is therefor ths moat
formidable typ of coaat-defens fortifi
cation; ao much so that the existence of
an adequate number of such defenses,'
located at strateglo points at the ap
proaches, will probably Insure "such a
port Immunity from any attack by a
hostile fleet.
A battleship fort with propelling nvi
chlnery and navigating appliances re
moved will have in Itself ample space for
barracks for a garrison of one or two
companies of coast artillery, quarters for
the officers, toreroom. magaslnes and
shellrooms, and reservoirs for fresh water
In her double-bottom compartments; while
all machinery for operating turrets, am
munition supply, electric light, power ami
heat will be retained In the battleship
when Installed as a battleship fort.
All battleships are provided with a ven
tilating system that supplies fresh air and
exhausts foul atr In all compartments of
the ship; so that the sanitary conditions
are equal and In many respocta superior
to those of any Installed as a fortifica
tion. Scientific American.
Enter The Bee s Booklovers' Contest now.
any torpedo attack, while the tubes run
ning out from the battleship fort will
enable the fort to fire modern high-powered
torpodoes with great accuracy, at any
hostile battleship.
Submarine torpedo boats could also be
available to re-enforce the battleship fort
to render any attack by the enemy's bat
tleship hopeless.
Very little damage oould be lnflioted on
a battleship fort by the gun fire of an
enemy, but the enemy's battleship could
be sunk by gun fire of a battleship fort.
In every respeot of defensive and offens
ive manauver, except pursuit of the ene
my, a battleship fort haa tha moat de-
An Oklahoma Ohltnary.
George Cadue (pronounced Kedge) has
passed to the happy hunting grounds, and
was burled last week on Wie reservation
west of town. George was a real ornery
Indian on general principles. In fact, there
were few on the reservation as mean and
worthless as Georges He was a young
man. but had been married four times, it
Is safe to say that he drank more different
kinds of patent medicine when he couldn't
get booze than any other Indian on the
leservatlon. He was a big. husky fellow,
and a scrapper. He looked like he might
live fifty years yet. but pneumonia grabbed
hltn In the prime of life. When pneumonia
gets hold of an Indian, it's good-bye. Over
seventy years ago a Frenchman named
Cadue married a Klckapoo squaw. Paul
Cadue, father of George, was a son. Paul
Cadue is still living on the reservation,
and has the reputation of being the squar
est and most thrifty Indian of his trine.
George got into the way of the white msn
early In life, and was a dissolute character.
He leaves children by about three different
wives Horton Commercial.
K ar: y
ilippial;M life $