THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 2ft. 1911.
The expressions of delight and approval from every
visitor amply repaid ns for the weeks spent in preparing
these beautiful displays.
Every f-ertion of this popular store expresses plainly the
fact that never before have we been better prepared to out
fit the Infant, Boy and Girl, the Junior and Small Woman.
Again ce invite you to visit this portion of the Stylo
Show, and suggest that you do so before the Ak-Sar-Ben
crowds are here.
Dimick's Orchestra Every Afternoon
from 2 to 5. - - - On the Balcony
m toim
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jj lng smoke In which ni(uny fell uncou
' scioua from suffocation.
Ij Theje were many vessels In the har
j bor at the tlmo Including a number of
warships, which have been maneuvering
i here sine the first of the month. The
J tint explosion brought a quick response
' from the ntarhy men of war and from
the shore. lJuztns of boats put off and
1 picked up survivors and floating bodies.
, There were four explosions in quick
succtMn alter ihc lire had reached the
j magai-lnts. one hundred men saved
( themselves by Jumping and others would
have escaped but lor the discipline which
hrld Ibeui at their poets. At the first ex
l plosion the men below, suddenly awak-
ened, tumbled lrorn their berths and
rushing to the sides of the vessel were
j throwing themselves overboard when an
order calling thtm to their stations rang
out and he.d to their death those who
had not already escaped.
From aw to Z'J) of the crew of the
iLiberte and abjut loO men from the other
jwaishlps which had been sent to help
extinguish the fire disappeared. The
Jbeniocratie lost twenty dead and fifty
injured.
The Liberie was anchored In the road
sted, where it has been since the review
of the fleet by President Fallleres on
''September 4. Particular significance was
attached to the review, the most im
posing In the. history of the. French navy,
,as It was made on the very day that
.France communicated to Germany ttys
-- terms on which the republic offered - a
settlement of the Moroccan dispute with
Germany. '
Following the review the fleet resumed
the autumn maneuvers and gun practice.
On (September 2d, the armored cruiser
Oloire was engaged In target work, when
a port gun exploded as a projectile was
being Inserted In the breech. One gunner
was killed and thirteen others were In
jured. Five Of the latter subsequently
died.
So Warning; of Disaster.
Today's disaster came with little warn
ing. The fire was discovered about 6
o'clock and a signal sounded throughout
the vessel summoning the crew to fire
quarters. Immediately the order was
given to flood the holds, but the ln
rutihiiig water fulled to check the rap
idly spreading flamed.
baiohe pound from the warship and
attracted the attention of the other ships
of the squadron, which hurriedly dis
patched plnnancea with men and fire
apparatus to the aid of their sister ship.
Presently minor explosions began within
the Liberie arid many seamen flung
ihemtelves overboard
Cuts of "bate yuurself; fire near mag
azines! ' could be heard ringing across
fwhy Society Women
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York Times, says: "Boeltty has taken to
home shampooing for only one reason,
and that la io save their natural hair.
Most hair dressers insist on shampooing
with soap jelly, which in time will ruin
any head of hair. Tht alkali In soap
bleaches and dulls the hair, causing it
to split, become brittle and fall out.
"Society ivonieu avoid these condi
tions by washing their own hair with
a tesspoonful of canthrox dissolved In
a cup of hot water. This simple, in
expensive champoo cleanses perfectly,
dries quickly without any 111 effects and
leaves the hair very soft, lustrous and
fluffy. Only a few minutes are re
quired for one of these perfect, delight
ful shampoos." Adv.
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Our Exhibits
for the Style Show
made their debut today before
hundreds of expectant devotees
of fashion.
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ilie water l" the atillness of the clear
morning.
i From every aide scores of sailors
leaped , overboard and &wam frantically
tor safety, but scarcely more than luO
had plunged Into the waiei before the
series of detonations could bo heard In
terrlfio explosion that seemed to tear
out the side of the great steel vessel,
which swayed over to one side and sank.
In a moment dead bodies und debris
were floating about in the disturbed
waters that splashed around the upper
works. In a wide circle around the
spot where the craft had flouted so
proudly a few minutes before the sea
men who escaped death were struggling
desperately and small boats were pick
ing up as many as they could reach. As
the battleship went down several of its
guns discharged a requie;a salute.
The Liberte had a complement of 793
men. Of these 140 were away on shore
leave, so that Clio were aboard when the
lire broke out. Hough estimates place
the number of those who Jumped over
board somewhere between 100 and 200.
The rumble of the explosion was heard
throughout the city and Immense crowds
of the people were soon at the wharf.
LO.Xi SERIES OF DISASTERS
More Than Two Hundred lien Killed
In Similar Accidents.
PARIS, Sept. 26. The news of the ex
plosion of the magaslnes of the battle
ship Liberte came as a stunning blow
to the French public and to naval of
ficials.' It is the climax of a long series
of disasters which have marked the his
tory of the French navy since the blow
ing up of the battleship Iena on March
3, 1307. The accounts of the disaster as
received here during the morning hours
varied widely. The most authentlo dis
patches stated that the sinking came
nearly two hours after the discovery of
fire In the forward hold. Another ac
count said that the ship broke In half
from the force of the explosions and
sank twenty minutes later. According to
this version the battleship afterwards re
appeared at the surface for a time, a
grim carcass of Iron, surrounded by a
tangled mass of wreckage.
Estimates of the number of dead vary
from 350 to 500.
The minister of marine, M. Delcasse,'
received the members of the press this
afternoon and talked to them about the
catastrophe. He was greatly distressed
and spoke with emotion of the event
coming so soon after the splendid naval
review.
The minister had before him many
official telegrams from Toulon, but he
was unablo to estimate accurately the
loss of life. The ship had 717 officers and
men, of whom 140 were aahor'e on leave.
Two hundred and seveuty-four others
have been accounted for, leaving 303
missing besides some losses among the
men of the other ships.
In considering the possible causes of
the explosion, M. Delcasse excluded that
of spontaneous combustion of powder,
since It had been regularly renewed and
the magailnes were kept at a moderate
temperature. He thought that the theory
of a short circuit wire advanced tech
nically at Toulon was the most prob
able. The German ambassador to France,
Herr von Schoen, was the first to call
at the foreign office and convey the con
dolences of himself and his government.
Emperor William was the first ruler to
send a telegram of sympathy to Presi
dent Fallleres. His majesty said:
"Words fall me In endeavoring to find
expression for my profound sympathy for
France In the national misfortune. The
families so terribly grieved may be con
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doled hy the knowledge that the men of
the Liberte have perished In the per
formance of their duty toward their
country."
Many I rurli Lose Men.
Nearly every vessel of the squadron
lost some men of the parties sent to the
burning battleship. The Verite was
moored nearest, being about 225 yards
from the Liberte. F.ight rf the Verites
men were Injured by flying fragments
blown from the Liberte or by pieces of
bursting shells.
The decks tf the Verlt were crowded
with men who were watching the fright
ful spectacle and who were targets for
the falling debris.
The Liberte was broken In two hy the
violence of the final explosion. It sank
In forty feet of water. Accordingly large,
portions of the upper structure remained
above the surface. These were swept hy
the flames and the burning of black
powder caused a dense smoke that ob
scured the wreck.
With the last convulsion of the mighty
sea fighter men and wreckage were
tossed high In the air and a shower of
human limbs, bits of flesh, articles of
colthing, pieces of armir plate and
splinters of wood fell on the decks of
the Verite and on the wldo circle of the
men-of-war and small boats standing by.
'The officers and men of the Verite be
held an awful picture of disaster and
death.
Ship Like the Nebraska. ,
The battleship Liberte was the type of
ship of the so-called Liberte class In the
French navy a boat of 14,900 tons dis
placement and an over-all length of 462
feet. It carried a crew of 793 men and
bore four twelve-Inch guns and ten guns
of the French 7.-lnch type. It also had
twenty-three small guns and four tor
pedo tubes. It was completed in 1907 at a
cost of about 37,000,000.
The Liberte class battleships Include
the Democrate, the Justice, the Verite
and the Liberte, all blghteen-knot vessels
of the most modern type. They corre
spond approximately to the five American
battleships of the New Jersey class. In
cluding the Virginia, Georgia, Nebraska,
Rhode island and New Jersey.
The recent history of the French navy
contains a series of disastrous accidents,
most of them caused by explosions, and
several occurring at Toulon, the scene of
today's catastrophe.
On March 12, 1907, the battleship lena
was almost destroyed by the explosion of
its magazine and lu officers and men
loa their lives. Until today the Iena dis
aster stood as the greatest recent calam
ity suffered by the French navy In times
of peace. Like the Liberte, the lena
was blown up In the harbor of Toulon,
but the loss of life was less, mainly be
cause the Iena remained afioat.
An Investigation of the lena explosion
resulted In an official report that It was
due to spontaneous combustion of powder
in a magazine where the temperature
was too high on account of the proximity
of the dynamo compartment.
The report severely censured the organi
sation of the navy and said:
"The real cause of the disaster was the
absence of accord as well as the divisions
and antagonisms existing In the different
branches of the service. The distressing
weakening of the central power explains
the progressive weakening of our naval
forces. Where will it lead us?"
A Parliamentary committee appointed
In 1907 made a report scathingly condemn
ing the naval administration of the pre
ceding ten years arrd recommending a
reorganisation with special attention to
the elimination of red tape and the dis
tribution of responsibility.
Other notable French naval disasters
of recent years were:
October 16, 1909 Submarine Lutin lost
off Bliertal, thirteen dead.
February I, 1907 Explosion of torpedo
boat No. 339, nine dead.
February li, 1907 Cruiser Jean Bart,
off the northwestern coast of Africa, no
deaths.
August 13, 1908 Gun exploded aboard
school ship Courone, at Toulon, six dead.
September 23, 190ft Gun exploded aboard
cruiser Latoucbe Travtlle at Toulon, thir
teen dead.
May 27, 1910 Submarine remained sub
merged after diving in the harbor of
Calais, twenty-seven dead.
September 1. 1911 Gun exploded aboard
cruiser Glolrs at Toulon, one man killed
and thirteen injured, five fatally.
PLAIN TALK FOF FARMERS
(Continued From First Page).
woodland awaiting the stroke of the
woodman's axe. Through the proper ap
plication of the principle of conservation
this timber can be cleared so a to re
store the growth of blue grass and blue
stem, thus making this region the most
favorable for dairying and the saislns of
live stock that the country affords, and
preserving enough timber to give the
natural commercial advantages to be de
rived therefrom.
"There are 8,500.000 acres of swamp and
overflowed lands to be found In the val
leys of our great rlvera. If thia land
were reclaimed It would produce enough
agricultural wealth each year to feed all
the people of Missouri and leave the bal
ance of our land for the production of
surplus products."
Address hy J a dare Lindsay.
Citing the fact that more than 2,000,000
children are born in this country every
year. Judge LlndBay told the delegates
that 100,000 children annually are brought
Into the courts as dependent and de
linquent, and declared his belief that the
duty of the national legislature was to
enact a bill providing for the establish
ment of a children's bureau In the De
partment of Commerce and Labor.
"The government spends annually mil
lions of dollars investigating the dlseasea
of anlinalh." he said. "If we have a some
what analogous bureau dealing with the
welfare of the child life of the nation it
would be doing no more for them than
we are no doing for cattle and hogs."
The Judge pointed out that the various
activities that have grown out of the
cry of "back to the soil" to promote
the pleasure, advantages and oppor
tunities of farm life have not checked the
onward march to the cities.
Tnless some new and unexpected
change shall come It Is reasonable to as
sume that the next generation will find
more than half the children of thla coun.
try In urban communities," he asserted.
Taft Speaks Tonight.
President Taft as the guest of the
congress will deliver an address tonight.
It has been freely hinted that thla speech
probably will be the most important the
president will deliver during hla pres
ent tour. Thla city Is near the stor
center of republican Insurgency and at
no other place la the president likely to
meet so large a body of nationally repre
sentative men during his present trip.
On Tuesday night Dr. Harvey W. Wiley,
chief of the bureau of chemistry In the
Department of Agricultural will deliver
an address on the subject "The Health
of the People," William Jennings Bryan
ill be the principal speaker at the last
session of the congress on Wednesday.
WHITE CONFERS WITH MINERS
Htad of National Body Visits Com
mittee at Oskaloota.
WLLL DECIDE UPON STRIKE
Definite Anion F.xperted to Be
Taken Today Over Mnety Per
tent of Torn Ont of
Frost Danger.
(From a Staff Correspondent )
DES MOINES. Ia., Sept. 25. (Special
Telegram.! John P. White, president of
the I'nlted Mine Workers of America.
in In Iowa to take a band In the trouble
which now thrratenn a general strike
In all the mines of the state. He has
arrived at Okaloosa and will attend
the meeting of the executive committee
of the miners of the state which will
be held pt Albia tomorrow to take defi
nite steps regarding a strike decision.
Corn Ont of Danger.
More than 90 per cent of Iowa's corn
crop is safe from damaging frosts, ac
cording to Dr. Chappel of the weather
bureau. Dr. Chappel declared that the
warm weather of a few weeks ago pulled
fully 70 per cent of the corn out of the
frost xone and that the remaining 20
per cent has ripened at leisure during
the recent cold weather.
Carroll Wright, for many years Iowa
aiiorney for the Rock Island railroad,
ha bren given a year's absence by the
company, owing to his continued Illness.
He expects to spend the time In the
w-est.
James M. Pierce, president of the Pes
Moines Press club, has made arrange
ments to have Senator La Follette ap
pear before the' club at an early dalt
and deliver an address. The club Is also
planning for a big public meeting at the
same time.
Wrddlns; Announcement from Tabor.
TAFOR, la., Sept. 26. tSpeclal.l
Weddlng cards are out for the marriage
of Robert Smiley VClelland and Miss
Margaret Holman to occur CTtoher 11 at
the Southport Congregational church of
Southport, Conn. The bride-to-be Is a
daughter of the pastor of the church, the
Rev. William Henry Holman, and the
groom Is the only son of President Rob
ert McClelland and wife of Tabor and
has for some years been general manager
of the Tabor and Northern railroad.
The newly wedded pair will be at home
after January 1, at Austin, Colo., where
Mr. McClelland has an alfalfa and fruit
ranch.
Iinnlnrns Man Disappears.
IOWA CITY. Ia., Sept. 25. (Special Tel
tgram.) Jared Mam, a retired business
man. has disappeared here with 32,000 on
his person.
Iowa Xrns Notes.
IOWA FALLS Charges Snofford of this
city has sued the Iowa Telephone com
pany tor jia.iiw damages. In his petition,
which has Just been filed In the dlmrlct
court of Dubuque county, he states that
while employed as a lineman for the
company In this city, he was Injured.
IOWA FALLS The contract hn (nut
been left for what Is claimed to be the long
est drainage nitcn in lowa. the total
length being twenty-seven and one-half
miles. The ditch starts at Ayrshire In
Halo Alto county and extends to a
point four miles southwest of Rolfe In
Pocahontas county. A low price for the
work was secured, a contract being made
of 5H cents per yard for the open work.
BISHOP ASSIGNS
PASTORS' PLACES
(Continued From First Page).
ner, but he was shouted down with
vociferous vehemence.
Resolutions were adopted thanking
Rev. C. W. Abbott of Trinity church and
all the other people who have been en
gaged In entertaining the visitors for
their hospitality. Bishop John L. Neul
sen spoke briefly and declared himself
dissatisfied with the results of the ex
periment In church affairs by which he
has been in the same charge for three
consecutive years Instead of being
changed at the end of the second year.
"I have enjoyed the associations of my
work here," said the bishop, "but I
think two years Is long enough for a man
to work in one district. This experi
ment of three years' straight administra
tion in a conference la not really a suc
cess." Key to the Situation Bee Advertising.
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TAFT CONTINUES
TOUR OF KANSAS
(Continued frem First Page )
m. Every whistle in the city blew a
the train drew Into the station.
Preoldent Taft again challenged William
Jennings Bryan to produce an example
of restraint of trade which would not
come within the purview of the supreme
court's Standard Oil and American To
bacco decisions. In a short address from
the rear platform of his car here today.
The president characterised the com
ments of Mr. Bryan and "other gentle
men" on the two decisions as "glib" and
declared that If they could produce an
Instance of restraint of trade which
would not be Included In the meaning of
those decisions he would yield to the
criticism. The trust problem, the presi
dent said, through this decision Is
"reaching and nearlng a solution." The
supreme court," he added. Is the safe
guard of the nation. "It's a great court."
said the president.
"It's a court that says to one branch
of the government, 'So far shall you go
and no further," and to another branch
of the government, 'So far shalt thou
go and no further." It's the greatest In
strument for the administration of Jus
tice that man ever created and on It
must rest the hope of future government.
In the preservation of the Independence
of all branches and the enforcement of
the law."
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To get its beneficial effects it is
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OMAHA REFUSES
For some obscure reason, which has
never been satisfactorily explained, the
Impression seems to have become gen
era! that the east, in the class of Us
establishments catering to the retail
trade, la vastly superior to the west and
middle west There may be some slight
grounds upon which to base such an Im
pression. In past years the superiority
is marked, but, at the present time. It
Is exceedingly difficult to determine In
what way there can possibly be any su
periority. The shopDlng centers of Omaha par
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hundreds of our patients, both in an i j
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tion are a number of retail establish
ments of which Broadway or Fifth ave
nue might well be proud. Of these, per
haps, none s so well and favorably
known as the (juickserv Cafeteria, in
the basement of the City National Bank
Building at Sixteenth and Harney
streets.
Thla establishment, while hardly more
than a year eld. la known to practically
every Omahan aa a place In which is
served the best foods thst the world
produces. The superior service which
baa been maintained from the start
the delightful cuisine and the original
lines upon which It is conducted have
all contributed toward the Immense pop
ularity of this new enterprise.
When the first announcement of this
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New .sanitary White Enameled
Equipment.
SPECIAL PRICES
Tor a Short Time
U 0(1 and 110 00 Gold Crowns,
at $4.00 and. SAOO
$6 00 and 110 00 Bridge Teeth,
from $3.00 to $4.80
$1.00 Pilver Fillings now.... 60o
115.00 8et of Teeth now. ...$10jOO
I10.no Pet of Teeth now. $7 Mi
18 00 Set of Teeth now ....feJO
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concern ststed that there would be B4
waiters to tip thst one could be servs
tlme th public were Incredulous. They
refused to believe - Used to waiting;
fifteen or twenty minutes for thai
orders, and to taking the "menu chaBoe"
they were slow to realize what im manse
advantage the Quickserv offered.
Nearly fourteen months of "maklns)
good' have proved convincing, however
and today the patronsge of this estate
llHhment is practically up to the ca
pacity. One Is especially Interested ia
noticing that this patronage is composed
of all classes. The excellence of tha
food Interests as does ths low prioe.
It Is directly to your advantage t tt
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