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    . THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, JULY 18, 19.13.
BRIEF CITY NEWS
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Eltctrio rani tlurgess-GranJen Co.
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JTiatUty Storare fc Van Co. Doug. :S1
The ruttron Omaha's high grade fam
ily hotel. 17th Si St Mary's. Tranatent rma.
When you tax a vacation wave T0UT
silverware, etc., In Omaha Sate Deposit
Co.'a burglar-proof vault ISIS Farnatn St
Coal Bids Lower Bids for 10,000 tons
of coal for the use of the school district
of Omaha next year have been received
and are being tabulated. Secretary W.
T. Bourke of the Aoard of Education
says the bids are lower than they were
laat year.
Ou Company Btcslpts Gross re-,
cetpts of the Omaha Oas company for
the months of April, May and June to
taled J213.363.76, according to the com
pany's report filed with the city com
mission. The receipts were greatest In
the month of May.
Officer Drlscoll Resigns Officer A.
J. Drlscoll. who for seven years has
served on the local pollco force, has
handed lit his leslgnatton. Driscoll's
father died recently and the, officer was
named executor. Drlscoll will go at once
to Iowa to take charge of his father's
estate.
Would Buy dasollue Grader Dean
Noyes will suggest to the city council
through Street Commissioner Kugel trlat
a. gasoline grader be purchased for grad
ing streets. During the hot weather the
horses used In grading work have been all
but useless. Everyday one or more of
the animals drops under the heat.
Ex-Gonvlot Oets Ninety Day John
D. Leemar, ex-cpnvlct who served a
three-year sentence at the Nebraska peni
tentiary, was arrested Wednesday eve
ning by Tom Baughman, foreman of the
pollco garage, after attempting to pick
the pockets of an old gentleman riding on
a Farnam street car near Twenty-fourth
street Leemar, who It Is said, Is slightly
unbalanced, was sentenced to ninety days
In the county Jail.
NEW FEDERATION DIRECTORS
Central Federation of Improvement
Clubs' Prepares to Battle,
FAVORS TORNADO BOND ISSUE
Takes Inane rrlth the Ileal KMntc
Exchnnste on fin Franchise nnd
Other Clnentloiia of Pub
lie Interest.
Figures Show What
New Gas Franchise
Would Save People
A computation has been made based on
occupation tax returns which shows that
If the ordinance extending the franchise
of the Omaha Gas company carries the
people who consume gas will within five
years save J612.937. The proposed reduc
tion of 15 cents ' per thousand feet will
mean to gas customers and the city dur
ing tho next five and .one-thlr years the
above saving, based upon an annual In
crease In gas business of 5 per cent
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1013 262 J 38,453 21.140 $ 15.000 32,359
1914 827 121,350 66,591 50,000 104.759
1915 868 127,417 69,920 50,000 107,497
191 B.v 911 133,788 73,416 65,000 115,371
1917., 1.... 966 140,477 77.087, 65,000 118,390
pjS. 1,000 167,501 80.941 60,000 126.560
WfTotals (TOO.tar J3S3CK5,000 60,337
VSaVing', UUe to l6werprlco,of gas'
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8,000.
' Total 613,937
Fined for Leaving
Horse in Hof Sun
A new executive committee was elected
at a meeting of the Central Federation
of Improvement Clubs held at the rooms
of the Southwest Improvement club at
Twenty-fourth and Icavcnworth streets.
Lrhe directors for the ensuing year con
sist oi r. . f ucn, Herman umme, a.
N. Yost, W. H.'Hatteroth, c. A. Johnson,
Richard Uurnell, H. J. Potter and M. O.
Cunningham.
The federation discussed several of the
proposition!! to be put before the voting
public In the very near future, Including
the gas franchtse, the tornado bonds, the
new city charter and street railway Im
provements. With regard to the gas franchise, ar
rangements were made so that at the op
portune time an organization would be
perfected to work on the ordinance. The
club intends to stand pat on Its constitu
tion and by-laws, which clearly state that
the club shall do everything In Its power
to encourage and promote Improvements
of al) kinds and to bring about the ex
pansion of all public service utilities.
Special attention will be given to the
clauses In the gas franchise that relate to
extensions of mains nnd service. , The
federation decided that they would be
unable to co-opernto with the Heal
Estate exchange In any manner or form,
because the exchange had abandoned Its
original purpose to protect Individual
rights with regard to real estate nnd has
entered Into politics and is working in
conjunction with those whose views on
government are contrary to those held
by members of the club.
The executive committee was authorized
to examine tile proposed city charter and
compile a report illustrating its advan
tages and -disadvantages. This report
will he sent to every club in tho federa
tion and a meeting will be called to de
cide what stand the federation will take.
A commltteo was appointed to make a
formal statement to the street railway
company, demanding that tho company
lay a permanent line from Fflfty-flrst
street to the West Lawn cemetery and a
temporary line from Leavenworth tb
Center on Fifty-first The company, In a
recent letter to F. W. Fitch, president
of the club, stated that It would make the
extensions Immediately after permanent
paving was laid on Fifty-first. As this
is out of the question this year, the feder
ation asks for a temporary line this fall,
as tho residents pf that portion of the
city the line would accomodate would be
wlihdut adequate transportation facilities
The federation went on record as favor
ing tho tornado bonds and made prepar
ations to Inform tho public or the mis
information that Is being published by a
prejudiced source. ""The bond Issue Is a
business proposition, as well as a human'
Itarlan proposition and the citizens of
Omaha should be able to bock up any
boast they have made with regard to' car
ing for Its unfortunate without outside
assistance," asserted Mr. Fitch, and tho
club agreed unanimously that he was
correct
It was decided that one of the 'subjects
for discussion at future meeting was
'hRqu$ttlon pfthe. high school.. Theneed
ol a manual 'training high eohool- Is
seriously considered by most of the
.members of 'the club and a line of - ac
tion will be worked out before fail.
SOUTH OMAHA LIVE STOCK MAN
IS STILL MISSING.
' Lewis Margolls, an Iceman living at
Twenty-fourth and Clark, succeeded. In
establishing himself In a peck of trouble
hy leaving his horse In the hot morning
sun, near Sixteenth and Dodge streets.
Tra'fflo Officer Rlshllng requested that
the animal be removed to the shade and
was told by Margolls to "go to."
Rlshllng started, to move,' the animal,'
and Margolls tried to move' Rlshllng,.
with the ' result that Rlshllng moved
Margolls to the station. In police court
judge Altstadt .moved that Margolls be
-lined 25 and costs for violating traffic
regulations, cruelty to animals 'and re
futing an officer.
HEAVY FINE HANDED OUT
FOR WHIPPING A HORSE
W. L. Doty, proprietor of a livery es
tablishment at 417 South Fourteenth
street, was given one of the severest rep
rimands dealt out in police court for
many a month when he was arrested for
breaking a whip over the back of a
horse and brought before Judge Altstadt
Beside the lecture Doty was treated to a
fine of 5Q and costs with advice that
double the dose and a Jail sentence would
ho his reward for a repetition of the
offense. Judge Altstadt said that It
would be his greatest pleasure to sen
tence the culprit to a year In the peni
tentiary if It was in his power.
UNION PACIFIC CUTS IN
MORE DOUBLE TRACK
DAVID S. PARKHURST.
DECLARES CITY HALL UNSAFE
City Braiding Inspector Recommends
that Tower Be lorn uown.
WOULD REMODEL THE OUTSIDE
Sn- It Would De Economy to Tenr
Down the Dangerous Vartn
llnther Than to Pay Ills
Dnmnne Snlts.
CARES NOT M SICK BABY
Bluffers of Water Board Threaten
to Shut Off Water.
THEY TRY TO SCARE A WOMAN
Water Hoard Insist on Collrctlnar
Illll for Wnter Snpiioneit to Hnve
Item Tnlil For by Former
Owner of Property.
Rodney M. Drown, city building ln
reDorted to tho city com
mission that the city hall is in an unsafe
condition and recommends that the tower
be torn down Immediately and the en
tire exterior of the municipal castle bo
remodeled.
Thn hulldlne lnsoector says the stone
out of which tho city hall Is made has 111
withstood the weather ana tne project
ing designs have lost their original
shapes. Huge pieces of stone, he says,
hav fallen down and barely missed the
heads of passing pedestrians.
Continuing Brown states, tnai wnne
the brick work is good the metal louvers
in the tower are rusty and weak and
that part of the building Is In danger of
collapse.
nrown characterizes the whole struc
ture as a "menace to public safety" and
predicts Injuries which will Involve the
city In litigation If steps are not taken
at once to put the building In safe condi
tion. City commissioners received the report
and placed it on flic. If money can be
secured action will be started Immedi
ately to repair, remodel and rebuild por
tions of the structure.
The Water board has sent Its bluffers
mounted on motorcycles to .1S2S Scwnrd
street to try to eare a woman, busy
caring for a sick baby, Into paying 79
cents which the board claims Is due for
water used by the man that formerly
owned the property. It. O. Ilealr
formerly owned the property.-
When he sold It and Just before mov
ing away to Pes Moines he nskod the
board to send a man to read the meter
and send him his bill that ho might nay
up before leaving. They did so. He paid
his bill and moved to Dea Moines. S. I.
Bostwlck, real estate dealer, sold the
property to the present owner. Long
after the present occupant had lived In
the house this bill for 79 cents for back
water rent appeared. The board was
told to send It to Beaty in Des Moines.
They did so. Beaty returned the bill to
the board saying that he had hsked to
have his meter read before he left, that
it was read and that he paid the bill
rendered him at the time.
Then began the bluffing. From that
time on the board persisted In sending
and resendlng the 79-cent bill to the
present owner, who has no way of
knowing whether Beaty used a pint of
water or a whole Carter lake every day.
Yesterday, one of the bravo bluffer
of the board dashed to the home on his
motorcycle. The woman, weary from
caring for the sick baby, came to the
door.
"I have come to shut off the water."
h announced. She was too weary with
her domestic, cares to argue the matter
with him. '
"If you think it is right to go down
lu the basement and shut off tho water
here when I have a sick baby and when
wo have paid all the bills we have ever
incurred here, Just go ahead. I am
powerless to stop you,"
"I don't care anything about the sick
baby," ho rotorted. 'The Water board
vsants the money.'
After parleying a moment longer he
rode away, giving a parting warning that
he would be back at 3 o'olock in the
afternoon to turn off the water.
The Union Pacific has Just put In six
and one-half miles more of main line
etcond track, recently completed. The
section cut In Is between Bushnell and
Oliver, out In Kimball county, Nebraska.
Telephone Girls
Go .to St. Louis to
Help Break Strike
According- to the officials of the Ne
braska Telephone company, who were re
ported to havo sent a largo -number of
girls to St LbUls to rellnvf. ttm nirlkn
situation there, fewer than a dozen girls
nave gone to the Missouri City. These
girls, so the officials aav. havn crnnA tn
St. Louis during their vacations and have
not in any way made the trip at the
instance of the telephone company.
Fewer than twenty-five telephone girls
are away at any time during tho summer
on vacations, and this la the maximum
number that could possibly go as strike
breakers. However, the officials of the
Nebraska company say, only six girls
have so far gorie. These left Wednesday
night and will return In two "weeks, when
their vacations are pver. The company
gives each girl two weeks' vacation each
summer. i
According to President Yniit nt h -nt
braska company, the strlk.e situation at
Bt. Louis Is not considered serious, and
It Is not likely that any concerted effort
win De maao to get girls from outside
the city.
Another side of the situation is pre
sented by stories emanating among the
local operators in which the version is
that they are not being requested to go,
but are Instead being asked whether they
would not care to go for nn added re
compense than they are at present re
ceiving. The queries, the operators say,
are being made quiety, but nevertheless
being made.
One operator, when openly asked what
she knew about it, said, "I am afraid to
tell."
Persistent Advertising Is the Road to
Big Returns. '
You Get Strengtfe
b every dttydaat brown flake of
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David S.Parkhurst
Still Missing from
Home of Daughter
David S. Parkhurst, SC6 North Twenty
first street, who has been missing from
the homcof Ills daughter, Mrs. John Pol
lard, Mandan, S. D for ten days, has not
yet been located. Until about four years
ago Mr. Pankhurst was president of the
South Omaha Live Stock exchango for
the nine previous years and until about
a month ago was a member of the Farm
ers' Live Stock commission company of
South Omaha. He then retired from ac
tive occupation. Since then his mind be
came flighty and he was obsessed with
a haluclnatlon that he had lost all of his
property and that he needed to work.
His half sister, Mrs. Thoebe Herald,
172Uj South Tenth street, nursed him until
he left for the home of his daughter at
Mandan.
PEACEMAKER FINDS
HIMSELF IN TROUBLE
"Blessed be tho peacemaker" Is not
thought much of by James Hendrlch, liv
ing at the State hotel, who was arrested
Wednesday as a result of his attempt to
avert a duel with hatpins between two
women at Eighth and Douglas streets-
The trio had Just landed from the
steamer Saturn. A dispute between the
women arose and they drew their blades
and began making passes at each other.
Hendrlch started to separate them. Thoy
turned their hatpins on him. He, knocked
one of his assailants down.
Detectives McDonald and Rich, sta
tioned on the boat, arrested Hendrlch.
A Fortunate Texan.
E. W. Goodloe, Dallas, Tex.', found a
sure relief from malaria and biliousness
In Dr. King's New Life Pills. Only Kc
For sale by Beaton Drug Co. Advertisement
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Choice of Any Woman's
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Whether the former price was $25.00, $35.00;
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Seo Friday Evening Papers and 16th Street Windows for Particulars
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BANKERS DISCUSS CURRENCY
Ten Different Cities Are Represented
at Gathering Here.
WOULD GET THE SENTIMENT
Talk Over the aiensnres Now Prnd
Inir Before gonitress Mertlnir
Mar Be Completed This
Afternoon.
Bankers from ten different cities ore In
Omaha to discuss the new currency bill
now pending before congress. Tho meeting-was
oalled by tho bankers of Omaha
and South Omaha for the purpose of
getting tho sentiment nnd opinion of the
money changers through the- Missouri
valley. The meeting started early this
morning and will last until late thin aft
ernoon. Whether or not any conclusions
will be reached or resolutions passed
could not be ascertained by any of those
In attendance. They aro simply here,
they say, to talk tho matter over.
The bankers who are In attendance are:
George B. Hovey, P. W. aoebel, J. F.
Downing, H. Ii. Jarbos, Jr.; C. Q. Hutche-J
son, J. W. Perry nnd Charles 15. Walte
of Kansas City; It. A. Crawford, Arthur
Reynolds, J, Q. Itounds, Simon Cassidy,
Leo Stevens, J. Q. Ilerryhlll and P. W.
Hall of Des Moines; John Mcllugh of
Sioux City; II. T. Forbes, Henry Krug,
Jr., and a rah am II. I-ncy of St. Joseph;
W, 8. McCormlck and Frank Knox of
Bait Lake City; Alva Adams and F. O.
Koof of-Pueblo; p. U Hall. II. 8. Free
man, James A. Cllne, I. D. Howey of
Lincoln; W. It. Fuqua of Anmrillo, Tex.;
John F. Hamilton of Cedar Rapids, la.,
and the following of Omaha and South
Omaha: Victor D. Caldwell, J. C. French.
John F. Flack, Charles T, Kountae, Lu
ther Drake. C. F. McOrew, W. T. Auld,
J. F. Coad, W. H. Bucholx, George B.
Haverstlck, T. L. Davis. William B.
Hughes. W. E, Shepord and J. DeF,
Richards.
Victor B. Caldwell Is acting as chain
man of the meeting.
Woman Robs Little
Children of Money
Mrs. L. F, E parka of Florence com
plained to tho police Wednesday that
wtllo her two girls, aged 11 'and T, were
standing In front of a ten-cent store In
tho afternoon, & woman took ll.CO from
one and 10 cents from the other. This is
the third complaint made to the pollco
of a woman robbing children.
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id Advertisement by the Omaha Gas Company
Quality of Service
CARL EMSLIE DIES AS
RESULT OF HIS INJURIES
Word has been received from Little
Rock, Ark., that Carl Emslle of Omaha
died at a hospital there Sunday, as the
result of the Injuries he received when
struck by an engine on the BL Louis &
Iron Mountain railroad, Juno 26,
His father, B. Emslle, arrived there be
fore he died and is making arrangements
for the funeral.
Interment will likely be In Omaha.
Howell Backs Up on
His Ooatless Order
Superintendent R. Beecher Howell of
the eJItropolltan Water district has re
Bclnded' hi. order forbidding his office
force to work with their cpats off .
"Something Is due -the patrons
etltjuet,"- said the BUDerlnterldent.
this hot weather la nn
beleve th'e men ought, to be allowed to
take their coats off.''"
Following this order there was a sud
den shedding of coats, clerka mliMi ,m
(thelr sleeves , and went to work with a
-wiiicn am noi cnaracterize them be
fore the order was rescinded.
SCALP ITCHED
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Take Plenty of Time to Eat.
There is a saying that "rapid eating is
sjw suicide,' If you Viave formed th
habit of eating too rapidly you are most
likely suffering' from indigestion or con
stipation, which will result 'eventually In
serious illness unlets corrected. Dlges.
tlon begins In the mouth. Food should
be thoroughly masticated and Insalivated.
Then when you havo a fullness of the
stomach or feel dull and stupid after eat
ing, take one of Chamberlain's Tablets.
Many severe cases of stomach troubls
and constipation have been cured by the
use of these tablets. They are easy to
take and most agreeable In effect For
mle by all druggists Advertisement
Scarcely Anv Hair nn HnnH. I AP-
rible Itching. Also Bothered With
nmples and blackheads on Face.
Guticura Soap and Ointment
Lured Both Troubles,
Greenwood, Ind. " first my hair began
to fall; then my scalp Itched and burned
wnen i Decame warm. I had plmpes On my
cup; my nur was ram tig
out gradually until I had
scarcely any hair on my
head. I couldn't keep the
dandruff off at all. My
hair was dry and lifeless
and I lost rest at night from
the terrible Itching sensa
tion. I would pull my hair
off and scratch mv huH
any place I happened to be. .
"For several years I was bothered with
pimples on my face. Some of them were
hard red spots, some were full of matter,
and many blackheads. I was always pick
ing at them and caused them, to be sore.
They made my face look so badly I was
ashamed to be seen.
"I tried washing my head with Outleura
Soap, dried without rinsing, then put the
Cutlcura, Ointment on and rubbed It Into
the scalp. I applied the Cutlcura Soap and
Ointment the same each week until cured.
Three months' use of Outleura Soap and
Ointment has made my face as smooth and
clean as can be." (Signed) O. M. Hamilton,
Sept. 34, 1012.
Cutlcura Soap (25c.) and Cutlcura Oint
ment (60c.) are sold by druggist and dealers
everywhere. Iiboral sample of each mailed
free, with 3T-p. Skin Book. Address post
card "Cutlcura. Dept. T, Boston."
MrMen who shave and shampoo with Cu
tlcura Soap will Had It best for akin and scalp.
To serve tho people WELL has .boon tho con
stant and unswerving ondeuvor of the Omnha Gas
Company.
Qns service in this city for many years has boon
abovo reproach. It has not beori criticised except in
occasional political speeches, nnd never SERI
OUSLY criticised.
The gas which is delivered. to YOUR homo is
better gas in all respects than that supplied in tho
great majority of American cities. It is higher in
quality than that recommended by tho United States
Bureau of Standards.
Good gas service, from tho consumer's stand
point, has three principal requirements, as follows:
1 Uniformity of pressure.
, 2 .Heating value. ,
3 Lighting value.
Uniform gas pressure can bo maintained in a
growing , city the size of Omaha only by unremitting
watchfu'Jness by tho management, followed by fre
quent enlargements and extensions of tho distribut
ing system, and amplified by the equipment of ad
ditionar distributing centers.
The uniform and adequate gas pressure main
tained throughout the city, with its great area and
hilly contour, is.-considered a remarkable achieve
ment by gas engineers. There is practically no in
convenience to our customers from this source.
The quality standards of gas havo not been left
to the determination of the Company, but havo been
fixed by ordinance undor tho regulatory, or police
powers of the City.
Tho requirements concerning lighting values
call for gas of 23 candlepower, WHICH IS HIGHER
THAN ANY OTHER .CITY OF SIMILAR SIZE IN
TILE COUNTRY.
Tho heating value of tho gaa doman'dccl by; tK
city authorities is expressed in heat unitstechnic
ally known as British thermal units. The ordinance
requires tho delivery of 600 NET heat units per
foot In order to givo tho NET value of 600 heat
units, tho gas itself nlust contain at least 650 total
heat units.
Few, if any, other largo cities-demand and re
ceivo gas of as high values, considering BOTH.
LIGHTING AND HEATING, as Omaha.
With tho common uso of tho incandescent gas
burner, tho necessity for high candlepower gas has
-practically disappeared. Tho HEATING VALUE
of tho gas determines tho intensity of light in an,
incandescent burner.
To mako and distribute gas of high quality calls'
for a correspondingly high cost of production., The
richer the gas, tho more coko, oil, time, supervision
andjabor must bo expended. . ,
Low gas rates and poor gas would not be eco
nomical oi1 satisfactory to customors. Fair rates
and excellent gas givo tho best and oheapest re
sults, and this is the theory upon which Omaha has
acted. . " , '
Tho City offipials did not want specific require
ments as to quality of gas provided for in tho pro
posed franchise. They preferred to leave tho way.
open for such additional requirements as the future
might dovolop, or progress in the manufacture of
gas make possible.
THE PRESENT RIGOROUS REQUIRE
MENTS AS TO GAS VALUES AND INSPEC
TION WERE MADE BY ORDINANCENOT
THROUGH THE PREVAILING FRANCHISE.
THE CITY OFFICIALS PREFERRED TO -CONTINUE
THIS POLICY.
OKI AH A GAS COMPANY
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