Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, December 31, 1916, NEWS SECTION, Page 10, Image 10
10 A THE OMAHA SUNDAY BKE : DECEMBER 31. 1916. INTERNAL REVENUE RECEIPTS LARGER Uncle Sam Collects More Cash Here Than Tear Before to . Snn His Government. FXWEE TOBACCO STAMPS An increase of nearly $2,000,000 over J9I5 in the internal revenue re ceipts is shown by the annual report og the internal revenue collector, George L. Loomis. The large gain is attributed to advance of taxable commodities. The increase was made despite the fact that the documentary and pro prietary tax which went into effect December I, 1914 as a special meas ure for more revenue was discon tinued at midnight, September 8, 1916. Corporation taxes, income taxes. penalties, etc., which come under the head of "lists" show one of the largest j increases. In 1915 the collections un- rler this head were $476.51.1.34. while j for the 'year just closed they were. $630,565.90. The tax on beer and unfermcnted i liquors also showed a surprisingly large gain, though much of the terri tory under the jurisdiction of the in-j ternal revenue department here has gone dry since 1915. The total gain was $55,961. I The most marked gain was in the , distilled spirits stamps, which in creased from $1,675.6J7.92 in 1915 to $3,462,434.52 in 1916. The complete figures follow: mi lilt. Lists 471. HI (ID.tlt BpaeM tu 14J.I1J llt.llt TtbM. t.lM MM Oil. 71.M 11.011 DUUIM4 spirits 1.1T1117 1.111.414 CiM iUiin I.14S l.tct Olsamareartna, kattar. i.iii 4,441 Bear .. 1,141 ttMOl MliW flew Kt lot Dm. u rep. .tamps lit, 411 151,411 h iuan 14.IU 11.401 Dptass rr Unto ... til 111 Five Doelger Children to Get $54,166 Each stal 11.110,141 IMIT,4II Lut free working- day. vt Hwemeer not tMtuM. Eight Hundred Are Working In Omaha Federal Building The Omaha postoffice, or federal luilding, occupies a block and cost approximately $2,000,000. Nearly 800 men and women are employed in the building. As custodian the care of the build ing comes under C. W. McCune, and the payroll, including firemen, engi neers, janitors, charwomen, watch men and elevator eonductort, amounts to about $23,000 a year. The bnilding is administered by the tupervising architect of the Treasury department at Washington. Expenditures for the upkeep of the building this year were alightly in excess of the expenditures of 1915. The greatest item waa the painting of the ' corridor at a cost of about $4,000, , The installation of a com pound ateam elevator coat the de partment $2,200. Proposals for the painting and decorating of all 1 the ' rooms in the building have been sub mitted to Washington, bat the con tract has not yet been awarded. . Police Victims Yield Up -, Much Cash, Less Cases Go Up Remarkabl- increases in the amount of fines, costs and bonds for feited in police court for the first eleven and one-half months of 1916 ft I mimm&MuXrt7 A -aMaaa., 'MVJjbMltir- : v These three children and their two brothers will receive $54,166 each as their share in the estate of their grandfather, Ernest G. Woerz, it has been decided by the surrogate's court, New York City. The grand- father who li-ft an estate estimated at $2,500,000, willed them J.i.lKHI each, but their latner, tnanes r. unciKcr, sued tu break the will and the sur rogate has just authorized tile exec utors to settle the action on the basis of $54,166 for each of the children. as compared to 1915 are shown by figures compiled by Court Sergeant Wilson. The increase for all busi ness is $15,770.10, almost as great as the total for 1915. Figures for 1916 also show that 100 less cases were ap pealed from police court to the dis trict court and that fifty more cases were bound over. A comparative ta ble follows: llli. lilt. PtnM 17,141.00 111,110.10 Coals 1,131. SO 1,014.00 Bonds forfeited 1.11111 10,060.11 Total. I1MI0.71 111,010 II Cases appeaM from police court to dis trict court: ISIS, 111; lilt, 111. Cum bound over from police court to district court: lilt, 141: lilt, 111. County Engineer Reports Year of Brisk Activity The following is a partial report of County Engineer Louis E. Adams as to work done during the year 1916 on Douglas county roads and bridges: "New roads opened, one and three fourths miles at a cost for land of $1,742.40. We have done 109,754 cubic yards of deep grading at a cost of $17,993.94, or an average of 17 3-10 cents per cubic yard. Have built un der contract fourteen steel bridges at a cost of $711,209.86, of which three are over the Elkhorn river costing $29,620.81. Have built nine wooden bridges, costing $4,729.46; repairs, $7, 674.31: reinforced concrete culverts, $471.08. Have sixty-seven road drags under contract and have dragged 6,667 miles at 75 cents per mile, totaling $5,000.80. Have side-graded with two twelve-foot and two eight-foot grad ers, 136 miles of road; cost, $8,477.50, or $62.33 per mile. Eleven and one half miles of road thrown with eleva tor grader at a cost of $1,960, or $170.44 per mile." . Annual Meeting of the Rifle Club Next Week The annual meeting of the Greater Omaha Rifle and Revolver club will be held a week from today, Officers will be elected and plans for the 1917 season made. A practice shoot will he held on the club's range in East Omaha today. siiiiaiaiii!a Si FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF THE Omaha Loan and Building Association December 30th, 1916 ASSETS . Loans on First Mortgages ... $ 9,254,221.96 Loans on Association Shares of Stock 98,443.09 Interest due from Members 8,317.06 Real Estate Acquired Through Foreclosure 20,439.18 Foreclosures Pending 6,617.12 Office Furniture and Fixtures 1 ,504.75 Association Building. 195,000.00 Sundry Persons and Accounts 812.80 Cash on Hand and in Banks 345,576.32 Certificates of Deposit 92.027.5S County Warrants 14,318.55 Navy Recruiting Station In Omaha Breaks Record All previous enlistment records were smashed when the navy recruit ing station accepted 211 recruits for the year 1916. The best previous record, in 1915, was 138. Applicants who applied for enlist ment were far above the average, ac cording to Lieutenant W. W, Wad dell, officer in charge. Because of the stringent physical tests only about one applicant in eight is usually ac cepted. Forty-six per cent of the ap plicants applying were accepted at the station here and the three stations, located at Lincoln, Sioux Falls, S. D., and Sioux City, la., which comes un der the jurisdiction of the Omaha of fice. Ten navy men are connected with the Omaha station. 3 uowt?CTsaaoafS?ataasBta City Planning Commission Secures a Good Start The year's work of the City Plan ning commission consisted of Retting a good start. The appropriation of $7,500 was cxpevJed for office salaries and supplies and fees of three ex perts, Messrs. Goodrich, Ford and Kofmison ot Aew ork. In May, ltU, regular others were established n the fourth floor of the city hall, ith B. Kventld in charge. The commission will ask the city council h appropriate $25,000 for 1917. During the year J. E. George succeeded George Brandcis as mcm her uf the commission. The commission co-operated with the city council in working out the helt line track elevation scheme which was adopted by the city and accepted by the Missouri Pacific Railway com pany. Three tentative plans for widen ing Twenty-fourth street, Pacific to fuming streets, have been prepared. This project will be taken up in a serious manner during the new year, i I he commission and its experts held several sessions with the city legal department in connection with proposed legislation for enlarging the powers of the city planners. Secretary Kvenifd prepared a col lection of eighteen data maps, show ing distribution of sewers, street car tracks, pavements, parks, school popu lation and other features of the city. A city planning exhibition was held in the court house. "The commission is now ready to begin constructive work in a compre hensive way," was a statement recent ly made by a member of the commission. educational department which now en rolls 542; the girls' department, in cluding those between 12 and 18 years, which now numbers 596; and the physical department, which has reached its gymnasium capacity. Y. W. C. A. Has Great Record For the Year Just Closed Community work branching out from the extension and industrial de partment of the Young Woman's Christian association, is the field in which lanje things have been done in the last year and more things planned for the coming year, according to Miss Etta L. Pickering, new general secretary, who came recently to suc ceed Miss Lilly M. Strong. One hun dred girls in industrial centers have already! enrolled in association clubs through this department. A club for girls employed in homes has also been formed. Here social intercourse and acquisition of the English lan guage are encouraged. The employment bureau and board and room directory did splendid work during the year. Of 1,282 girls ap plying for work, 919 were placed in rositions. Rooms were secured by ,007 girls. The cafeteria served 220, 000, while the traveler's aid secretary at the Union station assisted 4,0u0 women during the year. While there is a slight decrease In the general membership, as well as the Bible classes, which received a powerful stimulus last year through the "Billy" Sunday campaign, each department has grown steadier and is able to do more for its members than ever before. The present mem bership is 2,658, several hundred less than last year. So, too, the Bible classes number over 300, while there were 500 last year. Special classes for business girls will be formed in 1917 to bolster up this department. There has been good growth in the Thousand More Arrests This Year Than Last Almost 1,000 more arrests were made by the Omaha police depart ment during the first eleven and one half months of 1916 than during the entire year of 1915, according to fig ures just issued by Chief H. W. Dunn. Up to December 23 this year, 17,296 arrests were made, compared to 16, 345 in 1916. Another noticeable in crease is in the number of prisoners sent to the workhouse. In 1915 only 138 prisoners were sent there, while during that part of 1916 covered by the report 2,178 were sentenced to terms in the workhouse. Following is a comparative summary for the two vears: m. mi. Aretdftnti reported T1 5A1 Arrests made 17, ill IS. 216 Aasaulla '1 1' Hurclara frustrated 1 4 Rulldtnirs secured, found open 417 411 Outline; and stabbing 49 41 Unad bdls reported Ill 116 Destitute persons cared tor. ... 21 IS Klrea attended Ill 141 Insane persons rare for 112 111 Lodgers accommodated 2,511 S.4IB Lost children cared for 17 22 Meala furnished prisoners ...31.211 34,111; Murders 14 IS Calls for patrol wacon t.lBS 8,167 falls for emergency autos 6.411 Nulsancea, dead animals 111 111 Prisons taken to county Jail... '2.001 3,162 Prisoners taken to work house 2,178 138 Khootlns affray 47 34 flick and Injured taken home 2)0 :!38 Hick and Injured to hospitals 397 366 Hick and injured to station... 248 117 Htray teams cared for 28 42 Htrsy horses taken up 44 7t 8ulcldea attempted 61 r4 Hucldea reported 40 54 To Juvenile officers 197 371 U. S. Marshal Makes More Arrests Than Ever Before The office of the United Stales mar shal made more arrests and spent more money during the year of 1916 than at any other time in its history, according to the report prepared by United States Marshal T. J. Flynn and Chief Deputy James B. Nicker son. The total number of prisoners handled during 1916 was 460, com pared with only 384 the preceding year. Of this number 444 were com mitted to county jails and sixteen sent to the federal penitentiary at Leaven worth. The amount paid for the care and substinence of the prisoners was $7, 485.40, while the amount disbursed during the year for all purposes was $86,044.76. In 1815, $81,775.33 was the total expended for all purposes. The total amount of expenditures was somewhat swelled in 1916 because of the cost of trying several large cases, among them being the cele brated "Arizona wild horse" case. The increase is also attributed to the extension of the federal taws to cover such crimes as robbing box cars, having "dope" in one's posses sion and the violation of the Mann act. Give your Want Ad a chance to make good. Run it in The Bee. Entering Our Forty-Sixth Year as Leaders in Quality Hardware 7 1 Wright & Wilhelmy Company Jobbers of Best Factory Brands Hardware, Sporting Goods and Harness. 10th and Jackson Sts.. OMAHA. jE fl It Total Assets $10,037,278.41 LIABILITIES Running Stock and Dividends $ 8.753.255.06 Paid-up Stock and Dividends 701 .399.52 Due sundry persons on account of incomplete loans 314.187.99 Reserve Fund 225,000.00 Undivided Earnings 10,435.84 I V 1 Hs sold tha first $10.90 cattla on this taarkst 1 J Total Liabilities $10,037,278.41 Increase in Assets During 1916 $ 1,453,807.98 Dividends Earned for Members During 1916 421,084.42 Dividends Earned for Members Since Organization 2,799,138.96 Reserve Fund and Undivided Earnings 235,435.84 During the past year we have made 1,064 real estate loans, amounting to $2,298,875.00, of which 307 were for tha purpose of erecting homes, and the others to purchase honie3 already built, and for other purposes. The ease and promptness with which loans are secured, coupled with the low rate of interest and the easy monthly payrreiits, makes our plan especially attractive to the average man of mod erate means who is ambitious to become a home owner. Savings Accounts may be opened at any time, in any amount from one dollar up. OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS G. W. LOOMIS, President W. S. WRIGHT, Vice President. W. R. ADAIR, Secretary and Treasurer. J. T. HELGREN, Ant. Seey. A. A. ALL WINE, Am. Sae-r. r Joswph Barker Charles E. Black John II. Butler - B. J. Dinning E. A. Parmelee Millard M. Robertson OFFICE Association Building, Northwest Corner Dodgo and FirMaath Strati. Sooth Omaha Office 4733 South 24th Street J. H. KOPIETZ, Agent. 1 3 c. W. OWEN, Feadsr Bujrar. sssBSBBBBBSBSSBSBsamaBBBSasBBBSSBBSssiamsaaC: THIS BUNCH Wishes all their friends and patrons among the stockmen of the country A Happy and Prosperous New Year Look for the welcome sign in the office of Byers Bros. & Co. vl a, tibviu., tiog Salesman He sold the first lie hogs on tbis market OMAHA m ROY B. GREER, Cow Salesman Complete Organization for Business t . Yt, ittAuibK, nog (Uiisman- iv V Sir ' - o .t, . iwai'iiv'j; RAY C. McCULLOUGH, Sharp Salesman. Satisfactory Service in All Departments u arf ncw4 H. C. KIDDOO, Manal.r r 5 ft.