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?! THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 28, 1916. FIFTH NEBRASKA SLEEPSINJHE MOD Our Soldier Boys in Texas Meet 'Deplorable Conditions in . Training Camp. HAVE NO UNDERWEAR New Unitarian Pastor Says that He Notes a Spiritual Awakening Floyd P. Gibbons, staff correspond ent of the Chicago Tribune, who was in Mexico with the Pershing column and afterwards at the Texas training camps where the National Guard was concentrated, is writing a series of uncensored letters to the Tribune about conditions in these camps. In the Tribune on Tuesday ap peared one of these letters which will have much interest in Nebraska be cause it deals with the situation of the Fifth Nebraska. - Sanitary Conditions Wretched. Mr. Gibbons writes: ''Open Cesspools In the ground took thj place of Incinerators for weeks while the regiments waited for mate-- riaf to build this sanitary essential. When it rained -the crude containers, as well as. the latrines, became flood ed and carried oollution all over the camps. When "it was windy, ashes and half-burned oarticles of refuse were spread about, while odors of a crematory prevailed; ;' When bricks were received for the incinerators, :ement-was missing. Other regiments had bricks .and cement, but no.trowv CIS. "Comoanv B of. the First Minne sota did not hive enough blankets to goi around. ' The Second, regiment from the same state was shy shelter halves. The Third regiment reached ihff border with an embarrassing de ficiency of shirts and pants, I was mid:. -I uw Virginia noncommis sioned officers drilling and some of them wore derby nats ana suit straw headgear. Some had leggings and some did not and some woce civilian shirts. Nebraska Boys Without Shoes. 'And Bryan's state Nebraska. A month' and a half after their arrival on the border the Fifth Nebraska in fantry was still In need of shoes for the entire regiment. . "The regiment had not received cot and was sleeping in the mud, as there were no floors. There were two companies without blankets, and the rest of the regiment, betore leay. ion its state camp, had received i carload of gray blankets with pink stripes, and tire officer told me that three experts who-examined the cov erings were unable to find a trace of wool m them The blankets were of cotton. : "Concerning blankets, on Septem ber IS Governor Dunne of Illinois petitioned the War department to grant a furlough of ten days for the entire. First and Second infantry reg iments,, then at Springfield, on the grounds that the men were suffering from the cold and did , not have enough equipment to keep r them warm.: J v. Month Without Underwear, ' "But there were additional discord- forts- suffered by the Nebraska -regi men hich arrived on the border on July .,14. Until August 27 the men were without underwear, with the ex- eeptibn of the single privately owned suit they had worn when they left ! their' omes. On that day- they re- ceueq the first issue of undershirts, oOO q which were sue 4s. Line of ficers ' of the organization told - me that :there were not 100 men in the regiment who could' fir into a gar ment larger than.siae 40 and that the greater number needed 36s. Company B of the Fifth, coming from Bryan's i home. Lincoln, Neb., arrived on the border lacking hats, shoes, pants and leggings to the regulation amount. ''Without cots, without floors.' with out sleeping bags, some of the men without blankets, and some of the blankets without wool, and alt of the men without changes of clothing or shoes, the Fifth Nebraska had: Jo make the best of its pitiful condi lion, in my opinion, it deserves great Credit. -,..- . ;i . M- ' Transportation. Inadequate. ' ''Inadequate transportation only in crsased the difficulties of supplying the men. Three hundred miles- of single track railroad is all that con nects 'the lower Rio Grande valley vtth the rest ot the country, tverv- thjng that reached the valley had to me over the single line ot the St. scouts. Brownsville Mexico. 1 h men had to be fed; consequently rations got precedence over other sue- 'plies ; The food shipments, together with, regular shipping' to and from .i.i ; !.: -1 ... n llic civilian pupuiauuii vi ine vaney, aimosi rcquircu die cuure lacuiiic tit. thfi road. . . . "Major General 6'Ryan, command ing the New York division, told me one dav that his quartermaster de partment had been able to get ahead ot current needs by only four days supplies." 1 .: i-.? ,,; ii ? The new Unitarian- pastor for the First Unitarian church of Omaha, Robert F. Leavens, has arrived in Omaha from Fitchburg, Mass., where e has been in charge of a Unitarian church for some years. Prior to that time he was pastor of one of the large Unitarian churches in Boston. Mr. Leavens will open regular ser- ices Sunday morning in the present quarters of the Unitarians, Turpin's hall. "There are numerous evidences of a spiritual awakening in different sections of the country," said Mr. Leavens on his arrival in Omaha. "All religious bodies are feeling the effects and most of them are contributing their influence. One cause is the European war, which has shocked so ciety to its foundations and forced people to more serious thought. Also the materialism of the last half cen tury has run its length and a reaction has set in upward toward idealism. Man cannot live by bread alone. Billy1 Sunday and the other evangel ists have helped in their way. Another token is the ethical revival noticeable in "business and politics. 'Success' used to be the slogan; now one hears more about 'service.' The unrestrict ed liberty of the individual to plunder and exploit is being checked in the in terest of . public righteousness and common welfare." ' The old Unitarian church in Omaha was sold to the German Singing so ciety in May, 1913. From that time unm January i, iyia, ine unitarians of Omaha had no church. Services were then begun at the parish house, Fortieth and Cass streets. On Janu ary 1, 1916. services were opened at Turpin's hall. A campaign will be made tor funds LIGHT CONTRACT City to Have Many More Lights and to Keep Within the Funds Available. USE ORNAMENTAL POSTS REV. ROBERT F, LEAVENS. to buy ground and build a new Uni tarian church soon after the services begin regularly this fall. Askfi $15,000 When Half Soles Refuse To Keep Contract Rubber half-soles for automobile I tirts proved the undoing of Osee Al len Fulk, formerly a prominent in surance man of Lincoln, according to a voluminous suit filed against the International Rubber company ask-' ing the payment of $15,000 damages. When flocks of dissatisfied customers descended upon him demanding that he replace the half soles, Osee's trou bles began, and they continued jntu he was forced to shut up shop on Farnam auto row, he complains. After contracting with the rubber company to hanttle the half-soles in Douglas county and council Blurts, Fulk asserts that he was assured by the firm that the soles would run 10, 000 to 15.000 miles before wearing out, that they could safely be guar anteed for 3,500 miles, that they were fully protected by patent and that by hard work and careiui dickering ne could knock out a profit of about $100 a day by equipping cars. . ( After disposing ot a series oi ine soles "complaints began to pour in, the- auto owners declaring the soles hot what' they were cracked up to be. They demanded that they be replaced and Fulk did the replacing out of his own pocket.' He took the kicks and replaced until his coffers became ex hausted, he alleges, fence the suit for SI 5.000. On top of it all other patented auto half-soles began to ap pear on the market and competition caused commercial ills. Before en tering the half-sole, business Fulk ...... .. CIIHI n mnn h c .,.. ant agent for an insurance company I at Lincoln. I Redick Loses Out In His Sand Point Bath Beach Suit After battling for two days in dis trict court Oak C. Redick, capitalist, lost his case against Evan Worthing when the jury returned a verdict in favor of the keeper of the Sand Point bathing beach at 3 o'clock Wednes day afternoon. Redick, owner of the property on Carter lake occupied by the resort, suiil for a division of the summer's profits, about $1,400, alleg ing that Worthing had agreed to op erate the place on a 50-50 basis. At torney J. A. C. Kennedy, for Wor thing, followed the line of defense of the landlord persecuting a tenant who had made good in spite of actions of the property owner. E. L. Myers, Former Member of Legislature, is Dead E. L. Myers, member of the Ne braska legislature in 1895 and again in 1911, died Tuesday night at Green Gables, Lincoln, where he had been since February, 1915, due to a nervous breakdown. The funeral will be held in Omaha on Thursday or Friday, i Mr. Myers was 54 years of age. He located in Newport, Neb., thirty-one years ago and was in the lumber bus iness there until 1911, when he asso ciated himself with the Luse -'Land company of St. Paul. The family home in recent years has been at Bassett. , The surviving members of the fam ily are Mrs.. 'Myers, Ruth Huston, a married daughter, and Raymond My ers, 16-year-old son. Colds Ke4 Attention. Tour cold needs ter. Bell'e Plne-Tar-Hon-oy; It outs phlegm, kill! serm.. atop the ooush. Only tie. All drusgtsta. Adv.- The proposed street lighting con tract ordinance which will be dis cussed before the city council com mittee of the whole next Monday morning has been prepared. It is practically the same proposition which was discussed last spring, when the ordinance was placed on file. , The following are the annual rates proposed. Lamps on center sus pensions or hung from mast arms, $31; ornamental iron posts connect ed to underground conduit system, $36 for single lights and $68 for two light posts. Ornamental posts win b used throughout the extent of the conduit system as now established. The new type of 400-candlepower Mazda lamps will be installed throughout the proposed new system. The ordinance orovides that the light company shall place the lamps according to a plan prepared Dy ine city electrician. The proposition is to grant the con tract for a period of five years. Cor Doration Counsel Lambert has ex plained that this contract would not mieriere .wun mc piupuomvn w miinictDal nlant. Another feature of the proposed street lighting contract is that the Hint comoanv oroooses to install nearly 1,200 additional lamps and that the annual expense of the entire sys tem shall not exceed the city's appro priation lor this purpose. Iten Biscuit Company to' . Again Extend Its Plant More extensions are- in sight for the Iten Biscuit company in Omaha, although officials will not yet state when these extensions are to be made. The company has just purchased an other quarter block of ground front ing on. Twelfth and on Davenport streets. This adjoins the half block on whiclithe company's plant is now locatea, giving uic company iuiai of three-quarters ot a block. Postoff ice Safe At Milford Blown Thieves blew open the safe in the Milford postoffice shortly after mid night last night and got 'away with $141 in cash and $112 worth of stamps. They made good their escape by au tomobile and the police have not even a meager description of them. Entrance was gained through the back door. The explosion blew the door four feet from its moorings and shattered many panes of glass. The safe-crackers overlooked stamps to the value of $300 and three registered letters. Kearney Band Will Not Come to Ak-Sar-Ben Show The band of forty-four pieces of the state industrial school at Kear ney will not come to Omaha during Ak-Sar-Ben because of the heavy ex- ?iense required to transport and care or the boys during the carnival Superintendent L. J. Uark ot the institution has returned to Kearney after conferring with Ak-Sar-Ben offi cials. The committee ottered to ap propriate $200 for the band, but this was considered insufficient. 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Moreover, the economy oi natural advantage enabled the directors of the Union Pacific to put back into "tiditint mi kitttr ments" a remarkable proportion of the annual income. It enabled the road to be firtt among western lines with successive refinements of equipment and service. The Union Pacific was the first to double track; tint to start exclusive, expedited mail trains; first to ballast in the modern way; firtt with electric lights in trains and engines; first to semaphore its railroad crossings; first with electric block signals, interlocking plants and composite telephones; first with diners on through trains; first with practically every device which makes for secui'ty and comfort of travelers and for safety and expedition in the passage of freight. In tome of these items the Union Pacific is the tnfy, as well at the fat, western road. It is properly called "The Standard Road of theWett." UNION PACIFIC SYSTEM JHi Etil and Wist with m Boulevard r SUtl L. BEINDORFF, C. P. & T. A, 1324 Farnam St., Omaha, Neb. 'Phone Doug. 4000. 1 Soldiers'Run Guard, Get Drunk and Fight With Carranzistas Washington, Sept 27. A report on the fight between American and Mexican soldiers In a saloon in Kl Valle, near the American expedition ary base, last Friday was made to the War department today by Brigadier General Pershing, with the comment that the Carranza officials regarded the incident merely a drunken brawl. He did not give the name of the American trooper who was killed. The dispatch follows: "Several soldiers from El Valle camp ran guard Friday night, went into El Valle, got drunk and engaged in a row with Carrania soldius. One Carranza officer killed, one Carranza soldier wounded, one American sol dier killed and another slightly wounded. A board of officers has been investigating insofar as to as certain names of any other of the party. The matter is looked upon by Carranza officials as simply a drunk en row." ; Key to the Situation The Bee Want Ads. i Visitors Already Flock to the City Ak-Sar-Ben travel into Omaha yesterday was so heavy that extra coaches were attached on most of the trains. Both the Union and Burling ton passenger stations were regular bee hives, being crowded with strang- Crr-..ai li ritv fnr the carnival- season, say the passenger men of the railroads, starts out well and much heavier than during former . years. Next week however, the jam is ex pected, and it is anticipated that the crowds will be about the largest in the history of Omaha, especially Thursday, the occasion of the visit of President Wilson. Eczema la Conquered Greasy slve and ointments Rhonld net . be applied if good clear akin ia wanted. From any druggist for SSc or tl.OS for extra large site, get a bottle of aemo. 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