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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 18, 1911)
THK OMAHA SUNDAY BICE: .7T?XE 13, 1911. . ... i .-. r: ,!.''- ' ';' ) WV'", it' -l i - ei.-.. I Mi." ; ic. It ' 3 ' .' Of ;;.t . . .; is. V. i v YOTERS SHOW NO INTEREST Very Few Appear at the Polli to At tend to Registration. TOTAL IS BOUND TO BE SMALL CMr Clerk Ilatler Kara He Thlaka that I. mm Thai li llandrrd Will Rralatrr Itarlac tav Par. Voters of the city evinced little Interest In the revision of the regtutrntion, which hgan Fstuiriay morning at ( o'clock. Throughout the flfty-wven preclncta but few appeared for registration, Indlratlni? that the vote on the nond proposition will h very IlKht. says City Clerk Dan Butler. In the second precinct of the Hleventh "ward but three voters registered during the morning', wMIe at the polling place t Fortieth and Cuming streets, but one registration waa made up till 11 o'clock. Ian Butler) city clerk, waa busy during the day, visiting the various preclnts. In the second precinct of the Eleventh, he had to get his coat off and get busy be- cause two of the registrars failed to re port for duty, lloth were out of town. By noon, Butler had filled the vacancies and was enabled to visit several other precincts, where he found light registrations. "From the Indication I think the total Hat will not run over 600," said Butler. "All of which means that a light vote will be polled cn the bond propositions." One protest was registered, a voter living In the Third precinct of the Eeventh ward Stating that he was unable to register at noon because the officials had gone to din ner. This polling place Is located at 13-"S Park avenue. Figures will not be given out on the reg istration until Monday morning. The polls will remain open until tr give the laborer! a chance to get In line. " Saturday's registration will hold good for the August primaries as well as for the ' special eleetloTie on June 27. The registration Is for voters who have moved out of their old preclncta sine the last registration and for others who have moved Into th city. Omaha Physicians Forget to Inspect Miss Dorsey's Camp One Lone Purveyor of Pills from South Omaha Responds to Inritation. One lone doctor, and he from South Omaha, braved the threatening; elements last night and hied himself out .to the Fresh Air Baby camp at Eighth and Ban croft streets, where Miss Nan Dorsey and a corps of nurses hold forth and minister to the many wanta of eleven Uttle ailing tota. . Lst night waa set for the Inspection of tbe baby camp by the physicians, but without exception Omaha purveyors of pills and medicines denied themselves the pleasure of seeing the innovation working In full tilt. The nurses In Immaculate white dresses, all togged out for tbe oooaalon, waited patiently for the expected guests, but as time slippd by nary a one with the Omaha trade mark knocked at the door. Finally a faint form loomed up in the distance. As It drew near It took on the aspect of a real doctor. With jay tbe nurses flocked to the door to greet him. ' He was Dr. A. A. Frlcke, ' all the way front South Omaha.' After an Inspection, of the camp and a visit with the babes. Dr. frlcke expressed his gratification at the work the nurses are doing. , "It la the fir est thing Imaginable," said he. "The nurses do more good work here In one month I ban would be possible In six months under other conditions." Packing Firm that Pioneered in South Omaha . , . : History of Progressive Omaha Packing Company that Represents the Thrifty Spirit of Nebraska's Meat Center With the organization of the stock yarda at South Omaha in U84 came the establish ment of packing houaoo. The first plants, of course, were of the primitive type, but all' were destined soon to take their places among the greatest in the world. The stock yards company ereoted the first plant, which was small, but which aerved well the purpose for which It waa constructed. The year was 1S$4. The G. H. Hammond oompany leased this establish ment. Later this company bought over the entire plant and greatly enlarged It. Fowler Uros. In 18S6 erected the second plant, which was much larger ' than the HainmondJ owned. This plant was opened by the Anglo-American Provision company In ISSTi. The company was reorganized In ' 1S. when it became the Omaha Packing oompany. This firm took over the Ham mond establishment. Tbe Omaha Packlne company la now the . eldest of 11 the establishments In South One ha and is one of the most prosperous, Yom time to time since the two plants were merged In the late eighties, extensive Vi'provcments kjv been made. The plant i of tho Omaha Packing company now com pares favorably with any of tha moat mod ern establishments In South Omaha and other packing centers of the world. Four years ago the Omaha Packing com- pany expended more than 11,000,000 In re- - modeling the Hammond house and making It over Into a modern plant The equip ment of the establishment Is all modem, and every facility Is regarded as ths best for handling meat produota. For twenty veara . tha oompany operated the old ITowkir plant. In tha new establishment there Is the advantage of being close to the yards and raw material. A feature ef tha new plant which has at tracted great attention la tha new hog house. It Is one of the finest In tha stock yards. Tha old packing plant Is now used entirely for atorage purposes. . Task annual galea f the Omaha. Packing company aggregaU US.OOO.OOO The sum of tl. lot, 000 la expended each yaax on supplies. During tha last two years tha floor of the entire plant has been mad of eonorete. Tbe general sanitation of tha establishment has been bettered through thia Improve ment. ' When tha work of remodeling waa going oa four years ago the government had Just oommeneed Its Inspection activities. Thts situation permitted tha oompany to build the plant along sanitary Unea. Tha com- ! patiy waa the first In South Omaha to Install sanitary dressing and wash roosna for Its employes. Diplomas, Arc Given j to Twelve at School of St. Cecilia's Parish Six Young Men and Six Young Women Given Certificates by Bishop Scannell. The class exercises of St. Cerilla's srhool were held In the school auditorium last night before, a large and Interested crowd of friends. Twelve students, six oumt men end six young women, received their diplomas from Rt. Itev. Hlsliop Bcannell. They were as follows: Oertriide M. C. K ley la James F. IViRtlftle Mary A. Hheehan Rlr hard T liirdale Margaret ('. iMneen W'n n I'. Bettlev 1-oretto V. ltlrtes Michael J. Ilnarty Margaret C. M. iregerKmmett A. Kin Josephine M. Naylon Ueorxe It. tanker ' iThe bishop's address to the graduates came at the end of a rather long, although highly entertaining program. It was short, but contained much high compliment and much good advice for the young students. Two very pretty dramas were tho fea tures of the program. "The Triumph of Justice," a piece of some dramatic pre tension, was the offering of the young men. It told of the triumphant vindication of a poor but honest young man wrongfully charged with murder. The ' scenes . wero enacted upon a temporary stage erected in one end of tho roomy auditorium. Some of the young men .who participated showed evidences of much real talent. Just as worthy of commendation were the yeutig women In their 'presentation of "Anlma." Anlma was a falry-llke creature personifying the. human soul. Tortured by Pride and Beines. In her extremity of pain she calls upon God. Charmed ' with the history of tne Incarnation,; she demands of Faith the vision of the Annunciation. Finally Poverty, Obedience and Purity lead her to the Crib of Bethlehem as the source of all good to mar, with the Seoea chas tened and aubdued The salutatory waa given by Miss Loretto V. Hlrtes, the valedictory by Wren P. Beg ley. "Tbe Revel of the Naiads" was also prettily given by the aenlor girls. A .chorus of ' seventh . and eighth grade pupils sang very, prettily. Wooldridge Goes to Methodist Hospital Physicians Report the Former Police man is Suffering from Concus sion of the Brain. Former Policeman Ilarry L. Wooldridge Ws removed to the MethodlBt Episcopal hospital from the county jail last evening after County Physician McCrann and Dr. Elmer Porter had certified after an ex amination of the prisoner that he was suf fering from concussion of the brain. The concussion la supposed to have been caused by the blow given Wooldridge by a stranger after he had shot William Metx Saturday night. 'Wooldridge had been very much down cast all day over the failure of his friends to procure the $4,000 bail fixed for his re lease by Police Judge Crawford. Late in the afternoon former Police Sergeant Al Bebout waa appointed special deputy sheriff by Sheriff Bralley to guard Wooldridge during his sojourn in the hospital. His In structions are to remain with the accused policeman night and day. YANKTON JUBILEE A SUCCESS Caralval Cloaca with Historic Pa. Kraut and Barbecue. YANKTON, S. D., June 17. (Special Tele gram.) Yankton's golden Jubilee closed to night with a barbecue and historic pageant in which in correct costume the coming of the French voyagers under Venderye, the Louis and Clark meeting with the Yankton Sioux, the coming of emigrants, etc., were faithfully portrayed. r( t i - - r:( - VIEW At all times the Omaha Packing com pany has been a leader In the movement for the Improvement of conditions' In the yards at South Omaha, and always has given Its aid to the betterment of tha sit uation In the city of South Omaha. IU management Is public-spirited and is al ways ready to assist in any move that will bring better results to Scuta Omaha and Its Industries. The Omaha Packing company has kept abreast of all the latest Improvements In tha packing house Industries and has been engaged in bringing these to South Omaha as rapidly aa possible. First on the ground, tbls oompany haa had aa opportunity for CANDIDATES BEGIN TO FILE jTwenty Candidates Registered by Noon Saturday. rOSTZH'S NAME IS IN FIRST Four Ytnnlrf Have the Flare en the I'ollre Court Hrnrk to Siwff J Bryce Crawford, the Pres ent Incumbent. Filing of candidates for the primaries to be held on August 15 began bright and early In the county clerk's office Saturday morning. It telng the first day of the thirty allowed for registration. Charles E. Foster, who Is out for th nomination of police Judge on the repub lican ticket, was the first to file thts year, ait honor much sought for. There Is no number thirteen tl.ls year, Frank Dewey, chief deputy county clerk, flatly refusing to take that onerous responsibility and ceasing to number the applications after the twelfth. Twenty-one In all entered the race Sat urday morning. They are as follows: Charles E. Fonter, rep., police Judge. J. T. Dysart, rep., county Judge. Charles E. Fields, rep., police judge. 11. A.' Schneider, dem., police judge Frank Dewey, rep., county clerk. .-George McHrlde, rep., county surveyor. John lirlggs, rep., sheriff. Henry E. Ostrom, rep., county commis sioner, Fifth district Henry H. Ulvau, rep., police Judge. Jerry Howard, dem., sheriff. ' Nets A. Lundgren, rep., sheriff. William Butts, dem., county commis sioner. Fifth district v Frank C. Best, rep., county commissioner, Fifth district. Emmet O. Solom in, rep., county treas urer. I. L. Diesel, rep., county treasurer. Esau Fleishman, justice of the peace. Christ Stelnert rep., overseer of high ways, Jefferson precinct. Henry Kolbe, dem., overseer of highways, Chicago precinct. Mat Peete, dem., overseer of highways, McArdle prectlnct John Williams, rep., overBeer of high ways, Millard precinct. Pneumonia Takes Hospital Attache Charley Martin, Head Orderly for the last Twenty-Four Yean at St. Joseph's, is Dead. "Charley" Martin, lorn; an employe at St. Joseph's hospital, died in the Institution yesterday after faithfully serving In the position of head orderly for the last twenty-four years. There are few patients who have been cared for In the hospl'al during the last quarter of a century who have Jiot had a good word to ay for Charley. He was almost 70 years old, but seemed to be as husky as a section boss until stricken with pneumonia a few weeks ago. At one stage of the disease he was expected to rally,' but age had made inroads on nls constitution and he succumbed yesterday at noon. "Charley" was a bachelor and Is not known to have any relatives in Omaha. He was said to have traveled extensively in his younger days, but, becamlng tired of roaming, settled down to a quiet Ufa In St. Joseph's before many of the present married folks were born. The body was taken to the undortaking parlors of Heafey & Heafey, but no ar rangements for the funeral will be made until all efforts to locate his friends have been exhausted. Adjourned Until Monday. CHICAGO, June 17. Government attor neys who are Investigating the so-called lumber trust, spent the day rolng over the evidence that they have obtained thus far. The special grand Jury adjourned last night until Monday. - . . - ,... 1 . I .rate 2f - " OF OMAHA PACKING COMPANY'S PLANT. meeting every condition and for going ahead with the other packers In co-operating for a guneral advancement of the stock yards Since the organization of the Omaha Packing company bcuth Omaha has wit nessed many changes In tho packing status and has seen the city of South Omaha grow from a small village of only a few thousand people to tha piesent progressiva center of slock activity. Dvery line of Industry la the city baa prospered during the last few years. The success of tho Omaha Packing com pany In the first years of It Ufa onoour aged other packing concerns to com to BRIEF CITY NEWS Have Boot Print It. Electric rane Bnrgeaa-Grandea, Bay Dundee Home of owner for $2,100, saving commission. D W or 11-5374. Colonists for California K. T. Wright of the Trowbridge Holster company left on the Virion raclfle Friday, having eight people for' the Lutheran colony at Red fluff. Cal. Several more will follow in a few days. Corporation Tax About Baa Notlcea have been sent out by the Internal revenue department to the effect that cor poration taxes are due on or before June 30. If not In by that time a penalty will be placed against tho lax corporations. Howard Tiles for Sheriff Jeremiah Howard Is showing his friends a receipt for )5 showing that he has paid his filing fee and la now a full fledged candidate for the office of sheriff of Douglas county. Ha Is positive in his assertion that he will be the next sheriff. Medical Maa go Weet A special train carrying eastern members of the American Medical association passes through Omaha the afternoon of June 22, over the Burling ton, bound for Imu Angles to the annual convention of the association to be held there next week. Colored Club Organized The colored people of Omaha and Kansfta City have or ganized A club here to be known as the Olympic Circle. It is to be an exclusive organization, membership " to be secured only through invitation. The first Thurs oay of each month has been designated for regular meetings, which will be In the form of parties held at Alamo hall. C. O. Garrett will huve charge of the arrange ments for the meetings. The membership includes, among others. Dr." Lowe, Dr. Jackson, O. W. Ober, General Scott, 'Miss JIattle E. Banks, Miss Mary Belle Bryant, Mrs. Ruth .Stay, Mrs. General Scott and Miss Ethel Terry, Board Beoonsldera Assessment Out Upon a motion made by Peter E. Elsasser In a meeting of the Board of Equalization Saturday morning, the board voted to re consider its action of Friday In cutting down the assessment of the street railway company from $7,000,000 to $ti,o00.000. The reduction waa made upon the assertion of the company that a clerical error had been made In making out the schedule. Orotte Bow aa TJnole Dick Grotte. chief clerk in the building Inspector's of fice, strutted about his bailtwtck Satur day morning as proudly as a peacock. Dick wore a smile that just wouldn't come off, and the more be pondered over the cause of said smile the broader it grew. The cause of Dick's smile was a little baby boy that arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Landauer of Lincoln, 111., Friday afternoon. Mrs. ' Landauer was formerly Miss Blanche Grotte, sister of the jovial Dick. So Its "Uncle Dick" from now on, if you please. Former Member of Board of Governors . of Ak-Sar-BenDead James M. Hendrie Dies Suddenly at His Home from an Attack of Pneumonia.. James M. Hendrie, a resident of Omaha for the last twenty-one years, died sud denly at his home, 620 Park avenue, Thurs day evening of pneumonia. Mr. Hendrie waa well known In Omaha as at on time ba waa a member of the board of gov ernors of Ak-Sar-Ben. For many years ha waa manager of the Fidelity Oil company of this city. Ha was born In Alexandria, Scotland, October . 1864, and cam to Omaha from Philadelphia twenty-one years ago. Ha la survived by his wife and daughter. - the latter being a teacher In the Omaha publlo schools. ::;:si.;? ,!., .- . : 7 -' aJatlha South Omaha and establish their plants. 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