THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1916.
BAKER TO BE HEAD
BOSS FOR WILSON
Secretary of War Leaves for Si
louis Tonight with Practically
Complete Platform.
FIVE NAMED ASSOCIATE BOSSES
X Washington, June 12. Secretary
of War Baker will be'Prejident Wil
son'i personal representative at the
democratic national convention. He
leaves tonight for St. Louis, carrying
with him a practically complete draft
of a platform. It had been planned to
have the president represented by the
man chosen to succeed William F.
McCombs as chairman of the demo
cratic national committee. This se
lection has been delayed, however.
Mr. Baker has been made fully ac
quainted with the president's idea on
every conceivable situation which may
arise. Associated with him in looking
after the president's interests will be
senators James, Hughes and atone.
Reoresentative Doremus and Freder
ick W. Steckman, publicity manager
of the democratic national committee.
The president completed the tent
tive draft of platform planks in which
he is particularly interested yesterday
following conferences with various
democratic leaders. Cabinet members
already have sent to St. Louis drafts
ot planks relating to matters involv
inn their respective departments.
Emphasis was laid today on the
fact that President Wilson made no
effort to dictate the exact phraseol
ogy of the platform to be considered
by the platform committee headed by
senator stone.
"Strangler" Lewis
Is Walrus in Water
, At the Muny Beach
"He's just like a walrus in the
water," remarked Jack Holt, super
visor at Municipal beach, Sunday aft
ernoon, when Strangler Lewis, the
big wrestler, played in the water like
a big boy. The mat celebrity attracted
considerable attention when his iden
tity became known.
Mr. Lewis is occupying a bungalow
at the Dietz club grounds, near the
beach, and is doing real work along
the lake shore drive ot Carter Lake
park.
1 He told an Inquirer Sunday after'
noon he weighs 238 pounds.
Hughes on His Way
To the White House
Now, Says Murphy
Henry Murohv. republican candi
date for county attorney, back from
the big tj. O. F. convention in Chi
cago, declares nothing can itop
Hughes this fall.
"He's the people's candidate, and
he is as good as in the White House
right now. The way his name was re
ceived on every hand in Chicago,
where men from all over the-country
were gatnereo, was certainly a joy to
Disbrow is Leader
At Prettiest Mile
An elghtfien-hole handicap medal
-play round was staffed bv the Pret.
tiest Mite .Golf club Sunday. The
first eight qualified for the upper
flight and the remainder for the con
solation, bcores were as follow:
, Gran. Hdop. Net,
Disbrow 70 if . Kg
Bennett 81 16' fl6
Hopklru 86 IS f
Moody 81. it 61
Mayer 8S 1 TO
Russell 71 g TO
Thfeuen It TO
JlUrKB ..........,,. 77 , , fl 71
Lam bom aa tt 11 78
Wilson ........... Tt 78
Rundqulat 8 10 T3
Sleeper Tt 6 78
Flynn 88 14 ' T4
A. N. Smith ., 94 Is Tt
R. Taylor 81 81
Johnston 101 18 '88
Northfup 10 18 84
Woodrow i 101 18 86
Pairings, first flight: Disbrow laye
Myer, Bennett plftyfa Russell. Hopkins plays
Thlessen, Moody ply Burke.
Consolation: Lamborn nlava Pivnn. wil
son plays Smith, Rundqulst plays Taylorv
tfoansiont XNortnmp plays
Woodrow.
Western College Men
Tour Through Omaha
Touring cross-country from Berke
ley, Cal,, to points in the east, five
California college men ar. stretching
their legs in Omaha for a few days,
after their long trip. The members of
the party are: M. C. Beust, A. B.
Smith, u. E. Martin, R. H. Young and
R. M. Shirey. -
The westerners were entertained
here by the Omaha alumni chapter of
the Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity. The
men intend to visit the principal col
leges and universities between here
and Cincinnati.
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Baldrige Motors With Wanamaker
by Mistake; They Meet Later on Stage
Howard H. Baldrige, one of the Ne
braska delegates to thi republican
convention at Chicago, was thrown
into the company of John Wanamaker
in the most unusual manner.
One of the announcements from
the convention platform was that
1,000 automobiles were at the serv
ice of delegates to take 'them to the
hotels. Outside the convention hall
delegates were jumping into machines
furnished by the reception commit
tee of the city of Chicago. One drove
in front of Mr. Baldrige and the
chauffeur opined the door. Mr. Bal
drige jumped into the car, which he
supposed was cne of the thousand.
Tresently an elderly gentleman got
in, the door was closed and the car
started away.
Discovers His Mistake.
It was not long before the Oma
han overheard conversation as to the
direction of the car, which explained
that he had entered the private car of
John Wanamaker by mistakt. Before
he had time to make an explanation
Mr. Wanamaker said his chauffeur
would drive MY. Baldrige anywhere
he vished to go, the Philadelphia
merchant prince learning that his self
invited guest-was a delegate and from
Omaha.
Mr. Baldrige thanked Mr. Wana
maker and excused himself for mak
ing the mistake. Mr. Wanamaker
was pleased to entertain a man from
Omaha.
The sequel to the story is that just
twenty-nine years ago Mr. Baldrige
was a reporter on the Philadelphia
Times. The city editor assigned him
to interview Mr. Wanamaker on the
subject of his trade with the Antilles
and South America. Reporter Bal
drige entered the Wanamaker stores
and asked for the boss. He was di
rected upstairs, where he went, find
ing a man with coat off and assiduous
ly arranging some boxes.
Baldrige the Reporter.
"Where may I find Mr. Wanamak
er?" asked Mr. Baldrige, addressing
the man with the boxes.
"Upstairs in his office," replied the
coatless worker. -
"I went up to Mr. Wanamaker's
private office and was met by a liv
eried colored man, who took my card.
After waiting a short while I was
received by the man I had spoken to
on the lower floor, the man who had
been moving boxes. v
Mr. Wanamaker Comments.
Mr. Wanamaker, during the drive,
expressed confidence in the success of
the republicar parry this year, Mr.
Baldrige said.
In the convention hall, aftei the
automobile incident, Mr. Wanamaker
was called to the platform to nomi
nate Fairbanks, following which Mr.
Baldrige was called to nominate Bur
kett of Nebraska.
When the Omaha man icturned to
h' seat Mr. Wanamaker came over
to him, made a joking reference to the
automobile ride and said: "It is a
good thing for the east and the west
to get together once in a while."
MASTER BAKERS
BEGINTO ARRIVE
Over One Hundred Delegates Are Al
ready Here - for Convention,
Which Opens Tuesday.
BREAD LAWS ARE A MISTAKE
HAL M'KINNEY'S WIN TO;
BE CELEBRATED BY A DINNER
A group of friends surrounded Tom
Dennison, and were speaking highly
of Hal McKinney, Dennison's sensa
tional racing stallion.
"Tom, you certainly have got your
self considerable horse," one fellow
exclaimed..
Dennison tried to be indifferent,
even though he did like to hear the
nice things being said about his horse.
"Oh, that's nothing. I've had good
race horses before."
"Yes," cut in another friend.
"You've had horses before, but you've
had a hot old time proving it I"
Dennison will be host at a chicken
dinner Friday evening in celebration
of Hal McKinney's victory.
Bee Want Adsjiroduce results.
I It is a mistake to regulate by law
or ordinance the weight of a loaf of
bread the baker must sell for S cents,"
says Henry Zimmerman of Hannibal,
Mo., treasurer of the Trans-Mississippi
Master Bakers' association,
which association is to open its con
vention formally ats the Auditorium
this morning at 10 o'clock.
"It is a mistake to regulate that, be
cause the cost of material that enters
into the makin; of bread fluctuates
so much.
"No, we have no regulation as to
size and weight of loaves in St. Louis
or in the state of Missouri. If a baker
wants to put thirteen ounces or more
or less into his loaf, that is his own
business. We sell mostly loaves of
thirteen to thirteen and one-half ounc
es down there.
Not Merely the Flour.
"Flour? No, it is not the cost of
flour that has made necessary the
smaller loaf of bread. At least it is
by no means the cost of flour alone.
It is the higher cost of everything
that goes into the making of bread.
It is the shortening and everything
else, even down to the little salt -that
goes into it, that has greatly increased
in cost.
"What is the natural thing to do?
Make the U-af smaller, that is the
only thing, of course, and that is
what has been done.
"The day of the large loaf of bread
is past. I see no hope of its return
ing. "You cannot raise the price of
bread. People are in the habit of
paying 5 cents a loaf for their bread.
If one baker should charge 6 cents
and keep the loaves at the old sire,
what would happen? His customers
would walk out and say they would
trade elesewhere. They would go to
the other fellow who for a time might
sell a little cheaper."
Missourisns Arrive.
- Mr. Zimmerman is one of sixty
delegates from Missouri who came in
on a special car early Monday morn
ing for the convention. Most of the
Missouri delegates are from St.
Louis.
Something over 100 delegates ar
rived early this morning and gathered
at the Auditorium, although the con
vention does not open formally until
Tuesday forenoon.
Among the early arrivals at the Au
ditorium were President P. F. Pe
tersen of Omaha, Secretary T. F.
Naughtin of Omaha, Treasurer Henry
Zimmerman of Hannibal, Mo., A. L.
Larrimer of Winterset, la., C. O.
Schweickhardt of Burlington la., and
M. Hoffman of St. Louis, members of
the executive committee.
An elaborate exhibit of bakers' sup
plies and accessories is being set up
in the Auditorium. All the booth
space is engaged for these displays
and some very cosily exhibits are be
ing installed.
Difference of Opinion,
Many of the bakers are enthusiastic
over the new association of bakers of
four states Iowa, Kansas, Missouri
and Nebraska. Others feel that per
haps after all it is better to have only
the state associations. It is said that
the matter of whether the bakers shall
keep up this Trans-Mississippi asso
ciation or shall again throw their en
ergies entirely into their respective
state organizations is to be discussed
at the sessions in Omaha. The early
attendance, however, and the ready
sale for booth space for the exhibit
already gives signs of a great success
for this convention and it is thought
there will be no trouble in keeping
up the interstate organization.
BELOW FREEZING IN THE
YELLOWSTONE PARK TODAY
No real summer weather is in sight
for Omaha yet, says the weather
bureau. It's cool out west and in
Yellowstone park the mercury was
below freezing Monday morning.
FAMOUS ENGINEER
YISITSJH OMAHA
C. W. Carter, Consulting Engineer
for Government and Ouggenheims,
Returns from Alaska..
ASSOCIATE OF JOHN H. HAMMOND
C. W. Carter, one of the best
known mechanical engineers in the
world and an associate of John Hays
Hammond, the famous mining en
gineer, has been in the city for the
last three days visiting his daughter,
who came here, from the east to meet
him, and several friends in and near
Omaha.
Returning from Alaska, where he
has been for the last five months in
the interests of the Guggenheims, for
whom he has been a consulting en
gineer for thirty-seven years, Mr.
Carter met his daughter, Miss Pauline
M. Carter, here. Miss Carter gradu
ated from a girl's school on the Hud
son river this spring and stopped in
Omaha to visit her father a few days
before going to Vancouver, B. C, for
a visit with relatives.
As a consulting engineer for the
United States government Mr, Car
ter handled the big machinery during
the construction of the Panama canal.
He is world-famous in engineering
circles.
Mr. Carter stated that Alaska is
one of the grandest countries in the
world, averring that the average
American knows but little of the mar
velous development in that rich north
ern land. In mentioning the vast min
ing wealth of Alaska he spoke of the
mountains of copper and coal. He
told of one coat vein eighteen by
twenty-six feet.
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.
Harry BtroMMr. tit? hall carpenter and
Joiner, aaya ha be I levee in crowing with
growing- Omaha. A nine-pound baby girt
was added to hit houithotd Sunday
morning, . .
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Built by Request the Chalmers Special for 191763 h. p.
Seven of us seven large distributers of Chalmers cars
have prevailed on the Chalmers company to build & Chalmers
Special for 1917.
There will be only a very, limited number of them built
because of the condition of the materials market, the fact that the
Chalmers works are at this writing many times overworked and
three times oversold on the 3400 r.'p. m. Chalmers.
It was difficult, indeed, to get even 500 of these Specials and
then when we found that there were to be only 500 of them, the
seven of us began a friendly contest to obtain the most of them.
I feel that I hardly acquired what this territory was enti
tled to, but I have no great complaint to make when I think that
the Specials were divided among only seven territories.
There are over 900 Chalmers dealers who won't even get one
of them. ,
Here's the story back of the whole thing." We all had such
good luck with the 1916 Chalmers 6-40 that we wanted the Chal
mers people to continue this model again for 1917.
Back at the works they didn't want to do it, because they
needed the room, the men, materials for this wonderful 3400 r.
p. m. Chalmers. -
But why, said we, let go of a, car that made such a tremen
dous dent in the public mind on its superior performance?
Well, we won our case up to a certain point only they
didn't agree to make more than 500.
W. L. HUFFMAN AUTOMOBILE COMPANY
, Sioux City Hastings Omaha ' . Lincoln Sioux Falls ; .
, Crosby M. Broadwell, South Omaha. " -
L. H. Bolton, Council Bluffs, la.
We find that many business men do not have capital uninvested right at the' time when they would like to secure an automobile. We want to
tell .you that we have arranged a sales plan that enables us to accept your business without extra charges, bonuses or ot jer penalties on the basis
of a very reasonable first payment. . ...
' We do not consider that we are doing our patrons any special favor in offering them this plan of making their motor car purchases we rather,
believe that we are being favored 'when they offer us their business on this basis.
Everyone wants an automobile this is your opportunity. We make immediate deliveries.
They have taken the 640 Chalmers as a basis and with no
chassis changes to amount to anything since the model was first
introduced, they have raised the horsepower up to 63 at 2500 r.
p. m.
No changes in the bore or stroke just a natural develop
ment of an engine that was there in the beginning.
, The notable changes are those which the eye will see at 'a
glance: the body equipment has decidedly new tendencies; more
sensible; possibly a little more decisive as to colors, and with a
number of little lures that will make the average man and 92
per cent of the women insist on possessing. '
Certainly, if the head of the house won't buy one of the 1917 Specials
then there H be trouble for sbmeone, because the ladies of the. house will
make life hard for some of my contemporaries if they can't duplicate some
of those little things that go to make the charm in this car.
That is just what I mean when I say "charm," and almost as hard
fof me to describe on paper as it would be to point out or analyze the charm
in a woman. .
You 11 have to come in and let us show you. No need to doubt the
car '8 ability. There are $6,000,000 worth of them sailing up and down
American highways today. That's the proof.
One look at them may change your whole mental processes on motor
cars. I have only a few to be exact, 41. - ,
Price, $1,550 Detroit a car well worth $2,000. 1 '
Ask me about Chalmers service inspection coupons, negotiable at
all Chalmers dealers everywhere. This system is a most important con
sideration in buying your-car. t
