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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 7, 1917)
12 A- THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JANUARY 3, 1917. OMAHA INSPECTS NEW FIRST NATIONAL Magnificent Interior Profusely Decorated with Flowers , . Sent by Friends of - the Institution. TO HOVE BANK ON SUNDAY Omaha has teen the interior of the new quarters of the First National bank at Sixteenth and Farnam streels The reception was held Saturday aft ernoon from 2 to 9, and the bank will move the books and records over to,- day and be ready for business at the 'new location Monday morning. : At 2 o'clock the big briss-bstr doors were swung back and the crowds which had been waiting in the out ' side lobby began to poor up the short "marble stairs to view the new quar ters of this old-established bank in its fourteen-story building. From that moment until 9 o'clock at night, when the doors were closed, the (crowds continued to file up the stairs' and stroll through the building. ' An orchestra struck up sweet strains from the rotunda- overhead; pretty g(f ls pinned flowers on the vis itor, and a half doien colored porters in spotless white served punch. .;t. Great baskets of flowers began to . arrive early in tne morning wim mc compliments of various business con cerns and individual friends and asso ciates of the bank from Omaha, Ne braska and other states. Flowers Arrive Early, ; s Among the flowers which arrived thus early in the morning. were those from C. W. Hull, the Jerpe Comrais- sion company, George H. Thujnmel, M. W. Dimery, Hugh E. Wallace, Metz Bros., William T. Bacon and Lucian Teter of Chicago, I. B. Zim man, Frank W. Judson, Hess & Swo boda, Clifford De Fuy of Dea Moines and Byrne-Hammer. After this hour flowers veritably tumbled into the palatial lobby from the other banks m the city and business houses of all kinds. ' . -v. . ' 'i The lobby is worked out in a Ro man colonade effect, with eighteen huge white column surrounding the rectangular enclosure. A wide stair- way leads from the north entrance1 of the building up to the bank's quar ters, which are really ou the second floor.' , " i . ' .' The whole interior, the eighteen columns, the floor, the counters and the balustrades, are of pink Tenrles- . see marDie ana cverywing sdovc is shaded to keep the general tone. This 4alr( nff th irlan nf mire white .marble and gives a soft, handsome and rich effect to the whole spective. . 'j' - Marble of Pink. , '. 1 Around the stairway is a balus trade of Tennessee marble, of excep tional massiveness, containing five great built-in seats heavily cushioned with the finest leather upholstering. A large clock looks down from either 'end -of the lobby, ' controlled which .electrically, controls net.. only these two timepieces, but some ten others in the basement. In the rooms of the FirsttXrust company, and in various offices. ) . A deep arched ceiling' of snowy white and heavily figured swells high Overhead.'" - The quarters of the main officers are at the north end of the' room, where are also several private eon . ference rooms, all furnished in finest , walnut' with mahogany finish. Here will be tire quarters of F. H. Davis, C. T. KounUe, T. L. Davis, I. Allison and Myles Standish. -- if At the west side of the lobby near the south end will be the quarters of . the city officers, Luther Kountze, O. T. Eastman and George Zimmerman. ! 'Vaults in Basement In the basement two huge vaults present such a mass of heavy alter nating brass and polished steel as would make a modern battleship jeal ous. - ;' ' ' .!.,- These vaults have among othei ca- pacities room tor ),rau aaie deposit boxes. The old boxes, which the cus- tomers now have in the "bid quarters at Thirteenth and Farnam streets, . will be moved bodily to the new quar ters, wht.e the. new boxes will be r,eady to receive the contents. Then the customers themselves will come "to the bank and transfer their vslu- ! ables from their old boxes to ,the new. To Move "Live Money." ' i The big brass cash boxes ordered have not yet arrived. This means that the main bulk of the bank's money will have to be left in the old vaults at Thirteenth and Farnam for a few days, perhaps until the new cash boxes arrive. In, the meantime, when tire bank opensfor business at the new location Monday morning:. enough money will have been brought up iu carry on mc necessary ousincss. "The live money," as the bankers say, will be brought' up. This bank soent sixty' vears on lower Farnam street, and now, at last, . to keep pace with the westward prog ress of Omaha, has come to the very hub of the city, the pivot upon which the business life of the metropolis . turns. , ' ' . -, In a litte cottage at Twelfth and Farnam streets this bank began busi ness. In those days the bank was known'as the Kountze bank, founded by Herman and Augustus Kountze In 1866 they built a two-story brick building for their bank at Thirteenth and Farnam. Then in 1888 thev re placed this by i six-story building;, which the bank 'has occupied until - now. . ". ' "If the elder Kountze could only be alive, today to step in here for iust a moment, wouldn't he smile." i was the exclamation of some of the prominent business men who stepped in fo a moment, to look over the. rooms. . ; y. Come for Reception. : Members of , the Kountze family! from various parts of the country are here to fake part in the reception. Pierce Anderson of the architectural firm of Graham-Burnham of Chicago, arcnitects , wno planned tne new building, is here for the reception. Mrs. Meredith Nicholson is here from Indianapolis. August and Her' man Kountze have arrived from New York. Thejr- are elder brothers of C T. and Luther Kountze of the First National. Also Charles Junod, for merly of Omaha and now with the Kountze Brothers in New York, is here, Harold Kountze of the Colo rado National bank, Denver, is here. I LOBBY OrMAIN BANKING ROOM OF THE NEW FIRST NATIONAL BANK -Reception was held here yesterday and today the paper and money of the bank are being moved. ; Tellers' windows along the left side. , ' ; ' ' ', . I'll X- .1 rv'KyP;:l3i - js s ;t : y '''kci Wealthy' Young Chicago. Man s. t Escapades Omaha and an episode Said to have occurred in the .Nebraska metropolis last summer, when Mrs. Florence May Copper of. Chicago alleges her gown was torn, her feelings lacerated and her nose broken, kit promincntlynot pressed here.. , mentioned in s suit the Windy City woman contemplated bringing againsf Mitchell Wall is, jr., son of the mil lionaire president of the J. I. Case Plow company of Racine, Wis. s The facts in the case were revealed when the United States .Department, of Justice started investigating the suit after the ownership of a big tour ing car, wrecked in Lincoln park, Chi cago, two months ago, when it struck telephone pole at I o'clock in the morning, .was established..,,, Th ear proved to be the property, of Mrs. Coppevwho left Chicago shortly aft erward. The-wrecked machine re mains iwt Chicago garkge. - i.. The intended suit unearthed by the federal' authorities in Chicago snos that the damages listed y the plain s' Fuy- , j TrTTTTT AMrm tvt n rTnTTvrvT n tt rrt n tttt t m - il . - . - . y - of ; v ' ' m :: ; ,;OMA I ; announces its removal to the I Mew IB MnWiEi . :y: Sixteenth and Farnam Streets i:Tx'i .:. ' " ' 1 " " a. . ; il, ') ' ' You arc1 cordially Invited to visit . Wm !i the Bank in Its new quarters . StS If ; ana inspect tne building StSL ' ' - : . t '--Hlll9inR9RR!l3ES WTt:fV? I . 'v 1 aBBmmsg Nebraska's Oldest National Bank i ig gfljtM - Into the Limelight tiff include a bill for the wrecked joy wagon) a broken nose and damaged gowns. Some of the items are. those said to haveresulted from the Oma ha incident,' when' Mrs. Copper had her assailant 'arrested... The case was As an aftermath of .the Omaha ad venture. Hinton G., Clabausrh. chief of the bureau of investigation of the Automobile that was struck by a pas Department of Justice in Chicago, fsenger train on the Sarpy crossing. has begun an investigation to - de termine whether the Mann, act was violated by Mrs. Conner in her jour ney from Chicago ta Omaha, accord ing to the Chicago paper printing the story of the affair. v;:( . v- ' . ' i The plow -family sclonis said to have presented Mrs. Copper with, the automobile wrecked in : the, Chicago park. While the total amount of Mrs. Copper's bill against the Wallis youth is not givB out, '1118 safd'ttiltr i ew automobile"' to replace the.wrecked car is numbered among the items. 1 .(. While, the. Qmalja case, was hang ing fir; art Omaha aftorntr 'seturWl a $500 retainer fee from the father of the young man who was in trouble. aeaawsaaaaaawaaaMwaaaaaaMsaeBMg,MBwBK , , sgwaw, immai , n agaaasenBsaaaa i ysacaa aa t Husbands Settle Suits .' ; For Deaths of Their Wives . The . cases . brought' against the Union Pacific by Kenneth V'homp son and Alonzo C. Ash, whose wives were killed in an automobile-train crash at Sarpy crossing, two miles east of Millard, on June 11, 1914, have been settled for srtotal of $3,000. In' the .original petitions filed with, the clerk of the district court each of the plaintiffs asked. $15,000 damages. The wives, Maud Brainerd Thompson and iva Vivian Asn, were riding in au Montana Man Blows Out the ' ;5. Gas; but His Life is S,aved , ''Blowing out the gas almost -ended the' life of Jack Woods, 40 years of age,, of Talking Creek, Mont;, who, with his friend, Newell Bayes, rooms at 1115 Douglas street, Friday night Police surgeons say the only thing that saved Woods' .life, was the fact that" hef pulled Hip 'cldtftel head before he went to sleep, thereby creating an air pocket In which there remainei . sqmewnprijyilresh Bee Want Ads Produce! Results. Boy Thought to Have Been Drowned Tells His Reasons for Running Away Decided the Bridge, Had Been V Moved to Suit Him, So He V ' " Went to Lincoln. INTXEESTED IN BUILDINO" His inherent, bred-in-the-bone in- . terest in structural works' of all kinds was responsible for Carl Mer- ker's sudden disappearance from his . home and consequent hours of arur- iety suffered by hit parents, Mr. and -Mrs. WilliamMerker, 317 North . Twentyfirst street. Carl left home Monday and it was believed that he ' had been drowned in the Missouri river near the Union Pacific bridge, until he was found alive and well at the Detention home in Lincoln. He ' was returned to his home Friday . night and there, in his childish way, ' he told of how he came to run away. "Well, it was always lots of fun for me to go down to the river and watch the work on the big bridge." Carl began, as he toyed with an air gun his father had just i given him, "and I was down there nearly all the time that I couldNget there, and lots of times I had to ditch school to get there. But finally, when they, got it built and engines were running over it all right and it was put in place, I didn't have any place much to go, for there was nothing being built around town that I like like a bridgor - Found the drU'fre AU Right "Well, Monday' I thought I'd go down and look at it anyway, but I didn't see no other kids and was all alone. I watched three or four trains go across the bridge, and after I saw that it- was all right and everything and nobody working on ft, it wasn't so much fun any more and I didn't know what to do to have any fun. "But when-1 was wondering what to' do I thought of a building that was being built in Lincoln-when I was down there one time and was only half finished then, so I thought I'd go. down So see hpw' it' looked when it was all built. So I went to the depot and found out when the train went and when it was ready to go I got on and crawled in .be tween the backs of two seats. No- Dooy saw me, -ana tne conductor j FarmerBreaksL.Toe and Sprains His Back When Girl On Skates Hits Him As a result of . a head-on collision at Hanscom park while skating- Carl M. Johnson is suffering from a broken little toe and sprained back and' is. wishing' that the unwieldy lady who disturbed his equilibrium would be so kind as to .come to his assistance as nurse.-. Carl is a young man of 25 and lives' on a farm about six miles northwest of Florence. " After his chores, were done he drove his horse to the skating pond to cut a few ca oers on the ice. ' - 1 ' - 6vhijilk'fie'Wientertaining a large crowd wrcn nis iancy wock wnen a nneiy dressed young lady alighted from a limousine and when her skates were Oil vnttire! down the southwest bank of the lake. But as she descended she lost all ' control and did not stop ' - T " j CARL MERKER.', y " didn't ask me for any tftket, and I guess I'd of got put off if h . had, be cause I didn't have no ticket nor any money.' One time j purta pear got caught when somebody turned the seat over, but t didn't, and I just laid still till I knew we were in Lincoln. Taken tojail." ' ' V' "Then I got off, Tut i didn't 'get to see the building I wen: to see, for someone saw me around the depot and called a policeman and he tootq me to jail. It was fun there, for there were lots of Dther kids, but, any way, sometimes I got lonesome and wanted to come home, but they wouldn't call up " v ' : "Car-rll Here the lad's story was interrupted by a voice from " the kitchen. " 1 ' "Yes!" answered Hie youngster. ""Set the table." "All right, ma." And the interview was at an end. . . ' - x - Carl's father first intended to send his boy-to some school where he can be given more attention than his parents can give him, but when he learned of the youngster s - bug . on big construction projects he decided to buy him a set of mechanic 1' struc- tural toys. Carl will hve the -set; today. ,, until she had knocked Carl dqwn And besides had sent him sliding on his back. .'In speaking of the encounter Carl says: '"Poor girl, she must haVe hurt herself . badly. If a farmer like me comes' high getting killed a pretty society girljike her must be dead by this time. I never had such ex citing a .time in all my life before. What else could I do but -accept her apology when she asked with si'ch, a pretty smile?" -,.-.. Promoting-' IttmtM. '; .v I - 'Tou iay my husband needs exerolse. but ha won't take any and I don't know how to male him," said a. woman plain, lively. "Is there any way in which we can tffce Mm to exerciser" " iV'Pid you ver try, on windy days, making him wear a hat that will he lura to blow, off ?" asked thsdoctor. Buffalo Express. Trial of. Colcord .AridAssmanisSet- ; V C For January 15 . Fremont, Neb!, Jan. 6. 'Special.) The date for the trial of Tom Col cord and Louis-Assman, in the county jail here on a ojiarge of robbing the Vmslow , state bank a month ago,1 has been sot for January 'J5. The case will be -the first on the docket at th lantiarv . (Mm Nnther k.Ol- corenor Assman have engaged jm attorney, so far as Sheriff Condit knows, and it is not known whether they will ask for separate trial. J Nq trace of the remainder of the money, amounting to $2,200, has been found. Sheriff Condit is of the opinion that the bandits threw- the h,i .nntiininfl th ortlrt anfl Silver .' in the brush as they jan. from Win-, nebago the night they were arrested. Mrs. Assman has visited Assman re cently and declares she will stand oy her husband. " ' ' . . ' -4; Sure Lewis Slayer Thought Unbalanced Philadelphia, Jan. 6.-Police search, for. the slayer of Maiie Colbert, ar- . j , l . - , i lists moaei, wno was niurucrcu in her apartment here last Friday, ended today, and tonight Captain of Detectives Tate announced he was , convinced that Bernard W. Lewis, son of aretired Pittsburgh coal operator, who committed suicide, at Atlantic City last night just as the police werd about to arrest him, was the mur derer, v , The detective department hrfs ac cepted beyond doubt the conclusion that Lewis, a former law student at Yale, who has been separated from his wife in Pittsburgh, felled the model with a blow from'a blunt in strument, and fled after strangling her. with-a silk stocking. The police investigation riow has narrowed down) Ho the motive for the- crime, and while the general belief of the detec tives is that Lewis was temporarily embarrassed financially and may have been driven to strangle the young woman to secure funds, the supposi tion that his mind was temporarily unbalanced is also given credence. Mrs.-Sarah Coker, Aged More Than Four Score Years, Dead Mrs. NSatah Coker, aged 84 years, and for twelve years -a resident of Omaha, died Friday afternoon of pneu- monia. at the home of her daughter, Mrs. "H. E. Stine, 4314 Ames avenue. The "Hate-for the funeral has not been set, but when it is held, it is probable that Hhe. services will be conducted by Bishop Stuntz of .the .Methodist church. .'. ' - . ' - Mrs. Coker is survived by two sons and .two. daughters. Rev. H, J. Coker,, jenver;.. v.,v0Ker, imcago; wrs, H. E. Stine, Omaha, and Mrs. F. L. PSr,.r iatf I at Citv " . ' 1 V. W. Straub Honored. - Avoca, Neb., Jan. 6. (Special.)- , V. W. Straub, the well known breeder of. fancy Galloway cattle in the mid- oie wesi, wno lives tdsi oi rtvuca, nas : betn presented with a "fine walking stick by the Live Stock Breeders' as sociation for professional service ren dered at the last American. Royal Live . Stock show. ,',A- r- L ly . I . ' s J ;