THE OMAHA SUNDAY REK: JUNE 4. 1916.
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MILLIONS FOR THE
CHICAGOTERMINALS
Number of Roads Unite in Building
Two Great Structures for Pas
senger and Freight.
THREE YEARS TO COMPLETE
Chicago, June 3. The sum of $66,
000,000 will have been expended by
several of the railroads operating in
the Chicago district when the new
freight and passenger terminals now
under construction are completed.
The freight terminal will be finished
in about six more months, but it will
take nearly three years to complete
the passenger terminal.
The freight terminal will embrace
laying of trackage on a stretch cover
ing twelve city blocks, from the Chi
cago river south to Twelfth street.
The plans for the terminal were so
arranged as to give a maximum speed
and convenience of handling freight
with a minimum of ground space nec
essary for the buildings involved. Tie
work is bing done by the Pennsyl
vania lines, west, and will cost, for
land required, building material and
labor, approximately $16,000,000 and
the finished work will be one of the
greatest accomplishments of its kind
in the history of modern railroads.
Aim of Builders.
The main aim of the builders was a
terminal that would be so arranged as
to eliminate street congestion in hand
ling traffic and would make speedy
and easy the handling of the enor
mous and steadily growing freight
business of Chicago. This result will
be accomplished by close grouping of
the several parts of the terminal
structure and by placing the railroad
tracks below street level, with the
freight house just above the tracks,
at street level, and with a storage
warehouse above the freight house.
The idea of placing the component
parts of the terminal above one an
other was to save ground space and
to make the handling of incoming and
outgoing freight easy by a system of
powertul, modern-type electric eleva
tors.
Adjoining the freight house, and all
under cover, will be eighteen tracks,
which will accommodate 400 freight
cars. Inclosed driveways will protect
freight and freight handlers in all
sorts of weather.
Thousand Men at Work.
One thousand men have been work
ing for about ten months, some laying
me neavy piling ana concrete founda
tions, and some putting up the struc
tural steel framework of the buildines.
About 25 per cent of the structural
teel work remains to be finished
This will be in about six months and
the total cost of labor, by that time
will, it is estimated, amount to about
fI,5UO,000.
The steel, brick, concrete, piling and
terra cotta that will go into the build
ings will cost about $2,500,000.
The structures will occupy a ground
space 450 by 750 feet between Polk
street on the north, and Taylor street
on the south; between the Chicago
river and what was once Stewart ave
nue. Acquisition of the ground thus
used cost the railroad company $12,-
v Three Years to Finish.
The union passenger terminals, on
Vvhich preparatory work has begun
and which will be comoleted in ahout
three years, will cost about $50,000,000
ana will be the tinest railway pas
senger station in the world, its pro
jectors say. It will be built and oc
cupied by the Chicago, Milwaukee &
St. Paul, the Pennsylvania, and the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy roads,
the Pennsylvania beinar renresentfH
by two branches, the Panhandle and
the Fort Wayne.
The station will be composed yir-
uiaiiy oi two buildings, with common
facilities of egress and ingress. A
main building will be west of Canal
street and a concourse, between two
6ets of tracks, will be east of Canal
Btreet. Each of the two buildings will
be surrounded by four streets, thus
giving eight points of exit and en
trance to passengers and making ac
cess ro trains quick and convenient
Train sheds will extend from Madison
Street, south to Harrison street
The architectural feature of the
Xnain building will be a waiting room
100 by 300 ffet and 120 feet high. The
building will occupy a ground space
of 32s by 350 feet. The train sheds
will be of the latest covered-in type
snd will eliminate columns in the
center of the platform.
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Chicago clasic on Saturday.
BERLIN CITY OF SPENDERS
Higher Priced Cafes Always Filled
and Jewelers and Rag Dealers
So a Big Business.
WAGES GREATLY INCREASED
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Berlin, May 30. "Alles besetzt (all
full), said a gorgeously uniformed in
dividual standing before 'the street
door of the big Friedrichstrasse cafe.
The man to whom he spoke had no in
tention of going in, but he happened
to look toward the door as he passed
and the uniformed one had parroted
forth his one phrase so many times
that the simple glance in his direc
tion sufficed to evoke it again.
The passerby, however, grew curi
ous, and made a trip through the bet
ter parts of the city. This is what
he found:
Three better class cafes with from
ten to thirty persons standing out
side or in the entrance way, waiting
tor a table to become vacant.
All other wine or beer restaurants
visited so full that only in one could
a tree table for two persons be found
Two others where the door keeper
announced in advance: "Alles be
setzt." The observer had for months en
countered difficulty fn finding a
table in a leading restaurant having
more than 500 tables. In one of the
places, Unter den Linden, the head
waiter had been graciously pleased to
let him dine on his promise not to
retain the table longer than an hour.
In another Unter den Linden
restaurant he had found that it was
all but impossible to eat without re
serving a table in advance. And these
two places are the most expensive
ones in all Berlin.
Brings Wealth to Some.
The condition is symptomatic. War,
which brings poverty -and misery to
so many, brings wealth to others.
Many persons who had been strug
gling along with barely more than
the necessaries of life for years, have
grown wealthy almost over night.
And they are spending, spending lav
ishly, spending carelessly. Berlin has
become the city of the spenders.
the crowds that fill the better class
places go there in spite of the fact
that everything costs more than be
fore the war. Beer is dearer. Even
coffee has increased in price. The
still considerable stocks of the high
est grade French champagnes are
finding a bigger sale than ever be
fore, in the face of a price increase
of 4 or 5 marks a bottle. A promi
nent German champagne firm recent
ly declared a dividend thrice great
er than that of the precedign year.
It was only one dividend contributed
by the spenders.
Caviar costs from 18 to 24 marks s
pound in peace times in Berlin. Until
the recent prohibition of the further
import of non-indispensable articles
put an end to the business, vast quan
tities of Astrachan caviar w ere be-1
ing sold tor prices upwards of 42
marks. Similar conditions existed as
to other luxuries.
Rugs High. Too.
Dealers in fine porcelains, Oriental
rugs brnnre, and antiques generally
are doing a flourishing business. I
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mere are auriosi nn reauy tine rugsuir
left among the to ki of the Berlin j
dealers. None ran he secured by j
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per cent dividend against 35 per cent
for 1914, although cut off from its
mines in German South Africa. The
sale at increased prices of its stock
on hand in Germany justifies this,
company officials said.
Are Buying Pianos.
The spenders are buying pianos.
Their children are taking piano les
sons. Fashionable tailors are making
evening clothes for men who never
before felt the need of them or who
could not afford them if they did. A
mild winter has not been able to af
fect seriously the business of the best
furriers.
The Associated Tress representa
tive asked the head of the largest
theater ticket agency in Berlin about
conditions in the theatrical world.
"Absolutely at the top notch," he
said. "Our business is every bit as
good as at any previous rime, if not
better. Indeed, 1 am disposed to
think that it is better. All theaters
are doing well. The people seem to
have plenty of money, and they are
spending it."
This last sentence of the ticket
agent appears to sum up the situation.
In the nature of things, the number
of these spenders, of the people who
are benefiting by the war, must be
small. Wages for day labor have, it
is true, increased greatly, but there
are fewer men laborers left to draw
them. Reclamations from military
service affect chiefly only skilled
craftsmen and leaders of undertak
ings. Hence the day laborers of mil
itary age are mainly with the colors.
One notes the absence of their
custom in the cheaper saloons snd
beer restaurants, many of which are
struggling along only with difficulty
and some of which have had to close
their doors. But as one ascends the
scale one begins to meet the spenders,
and their number increases in direct
ratio with the expensiveness of the
resort visited.
Russ Pope Conducts
Dramatic Easter
Service at Front
(Correnpondence of th Aor.!atf4 Prem.)
At The Front With The Russian
Army, June 1. Under a small tent
dimly lit by candles, a mile from the
firing line a Russian pope conducted
a midnightF.aster service to the ac
companiment of an occasional cannon
shot and the intermittent glare of
Austrian rockets. It rained, and the
solemn-faced soldiers who stood with
bowed heads before the improvised
altar were drenched. The green and
gold robe of the prelate xontrasted
strangely with the dun of the uni
forms and the black and white KOwns
of a half doren Sisters of Mercy who
stood nuunlen in the doorway of an
adjacent cottage.
Around the popes neck was sus
pended a crucifix upon a ribbon of
the Order of St. George, awarded for
service on the battlefield. Now and
then the chanted words of the ser
vice were partially drowned by the
splashing and groaning of guns and
ammunition carts lumbering past
through the heavy mud; but even the
teamsters seemed impressed by the
solemnity of the hour and urged on
their striiijlinsr hest in subdued
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FRENCH AIDED BY VERDUN
Partisan Spirit in Parliament and
Press Hushed During Brave
Defense.
PESSIMISM IS DECREASING
(Corrupondsnra of lh Aaenclatril Pru I
Paris, April 30. The battle of Ver
dun appears to have had a great
moral effect in France. It has turned
attention from irritating discussions
over details of the conduct of the
war, and has cut short an incipient
revival of partisan spirit in Parlia
ment and in the press, which had
been favored by relative stagnation
at the front. Also, it seems to have
diminished the number of pessimists
and hence increased French confi
dence in the final outcome.
"They have shot their bolt," is a
frequent commentary heard in places
where two months ago there were
nervous complaints as to the prolong
ation of hostilities. "They can do
no more than they have done, which
is far from enough ever to shake the
French army."
Shortly before the Germans at
tacked Verdun some radical and so-
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j cialist papers attacked the priests, the
clericals and the "easy" class, charg
I ing them with shirking arduous and
! dangerous missions. No priest or
aristocrat, they said, had ever been
seen in a trench. They also accused
them of aiding and abetting the Ger
mans after having helped to bring
on the war in the hope that a dis
aster to France would overthrow the
republican or parliamentary regime.
They accused them of sending money
to German v to subscribe to the Ger
man war loans. A wineshop keeper
of the Department of Lot, who re
peated these accusations, was prose
cuted and sentenced to three years'
imprisonment and was fined 1,000
francs.
The campaign against the priests
and clericals was even taken up by
such a conspicuous writer as Mon
sieur Paul Adam, who made similar
charges in the leading radical news
paper of the south of France, the De
peche de Toulouse, and drew upon
liimself a storm of protest. The bat
tle of Verdun did far more to stop
the campaign than toe conviction of
the wineshop man of the Lot and the
protests against the articles of Mon
sieur Paul Adam, It has, perhaps,
accomplished even more than the let
ter of the premier, Monsieur Itriaml,
declaring that all such calumnies
should be punished. Today all par
ties, including the socialists, who have
just renewed their declaration in
favor of a war to the bitter end, are
working in harmony.
Apt Reply by Soldier.
About two months ago it was pos
sible to witness such incidents as that
which took place in a little cafe in the
center of Paris. Two soldiers in
stained uniforms, smacking of the
front, were taking their morning
coffee in a retired corner modestly
and inconspicuously, as is the way
with the men who have seen real
service. They were concealed from
two citizens who were discussing the
war. "I've had my fill of it," said
one of the civilians. "It's time it was
brought to s finish. If the generals
in command can't do it, they ought
to be replaced."
One of thesoldiers roset o his feet
and confronted the pessimist. "My
good friend," he said, "you must have
had a hard time of it. When were
you mustered out? Tell us what you
have done in the war, and what the
war's done to you to give you such
a tired feeling.' The civilian gulped
down the rest of his coffee and rush
ed out of fhe cafe without replying.
Today the cafe conversations are
all about some exploit around Ver
dun and what will happen to the Ger
mans, if they persist in their effort
to take the ancient stronghold.
, There is less discussion of the high
cost of living than two months ago,
although there has been no appre
ciable easing of prices. This, too, is
accounted for by the heroic resist
ance of the army.
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NEGRO ATTACKS
SOUTH SIDE WOMAN
Answering Knock at Door, Mrs. M.
Stafonek it Felled With Blow
in the Face.
POLICE IN BIO MAN HUNT
Practically the entire South Side
police force went on' a man hunt yes
terday following the robbery and
assault of Mrs. M. Stafonek, Thirty
second avenue and D street, who was
attacked by a negro when she was
alone in her home at 8:30 o'clock.
Feeling among South Side residents
is high, ainster threats were made as
to what will happen to the negro if
ho is captured.
Police and citizens are scouring the
country around the scene of the at-
tack, automobiles and motorcycles fig- j
uring largely in the chase. The police i
stopped u train on the Union Pacific I
railroad and went through it to see if
the negro was aboard. j
F'orces His Way In.
According to Mrs. Stafonck's story, !
she answered a knock at the door ami i
was confronted by a medium-sized
negro, who inquired if there was any
one home. She closed the door in his
face, but he forced his way into
the house, felling the woman with a
blow in the face.
I She arose and struggled with him
several minutes, finally being over
powered and left lying on the floor.
The negro ransacked the house, steal
ing a watch, jewelry and a purse con
taining Some Mnafl change, lie es
caped before Mrs. Stafonek's cries
for help attracted the neighbors' at
tention. She was severely beaten about the
face and body and is under the care
1 5 a physician.
AMERICAN CONCERN TO PUT
LIGHT PLANT IN MONGOLIA
(Cnrrpnnilenr vt I hi Aneorlatd Treat )
Shanghai, May 10. Anderson,
Meyer & Co., an American concern in
this city, has received an order to sup
ply a complete lighting plant for
Urga, the capital of outer Mongolia
and the home of Ilutukutu of Urga,
the living Nuddha, who has defied
Chinese authority so persistently and
curried favor with the Russian gov
ernment. Like all the Mongolian cities, Urga
is s collection of huts and tents,
which shelter the nomadic herd who
make up the great part of the popula
tion. Urga is 300 miles south of the
trans-Siberian railwsv; and the mi'
chinery for the lighting plant will he
transported there by means of camels.
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AUSTRIAN WOMEN PROTEST
AGAINST MARRIAGE PROHIBS
(CorreBpondenca of the Ansnrtnted Preaa.)
Vienna, June 1. To protest against
the legal prohibition and hindrances
to marriage in Austria the Austrian
Women's union is organizing a series
of demonstrations. In a manifesto
issued to the public the union de
clares that it is surprising that at a
moment when there is a general desire
for an increase of population the state
itself prevents whole categories of
persons, especially women, from mar
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