THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 191V. DAYS OF THE HIGH HAT AHFBOSTLE" Ulnstrations in Old Book Re ' call How Our Fathers Looked and What They Did. 30ME VIEWS OF OLD OMAHA By A. R. OROH. Let's look at the quaint pictures in "The Pacific Tourist," an old book, published in 1876 as a guide for tour ists to the Pacific coast. The book was loaned to me by T. J. Fitzmor ris, and is, perhaps, the only copy in existence. i'. The "ladiea" in the "engravings" wear very full skirts and very tight waists. The skirts being very straight in front and very much loaded with "hustle" and pleats and ruffles bC li;,,,! malt th lariit Inn If u thouerh they' were leaning forward at a dan-' gerous angle, louve seen picinrca of them. The "gentlemen" wear tight "panta loons" and frock coats and seem to spend most of their time reading poems and conversing in serious and solemn manner. They all wear beards and high hats. "I know It la a sin For ua to alt and irfti At tbm hara; But tha funny, glib. all, kat. And tna frock ooat and all that. Arm ao quaar." Viewa of Omaha. A page of illustrations of Omaha shows the old postoffice, the old high school, the old Union Pacific bridge, (built before the one that was re cently removed), the old Grand Cen tral hotel and a "general view of Omaha," consisting chiefly of clouds :: and trees. Here is a picture showing a prairie schooner with "Pike's Peak or Bust" painted on the canvas top. The two oxen which drew it are lying dead, pierced with arrows. So are the two emigrants who rode in it. The In dians are riding swiftly away. The picture is entitled "Busted." The "pony express" rider is seen in another "engraving," riding along and waving his cap to the men who are setting the poles for the transconti nental telegraph line... The Pacific express train, flying along at sixteen miles an hour, ap pears in another picture, "a majestic sight," says the author. The engine has one of those enormous, flaring smoke stacks that were stylish in lo comotive circles forty years ago. Some Men Laborers. "Driving the Last Spike in the Trans-Continental Railroad" occupies a full page. Two locomotives are seen, facing each other, and many solemn gentlemen in high hats and frock coats are present. Also some laborers. We know, they are laborers because they don't wear high hats and frock coats.: . Here is "Winnemucca, the Na poleon of the Piutes." The chief is arrayed in a revolutionary war uni form and Indian head dress. His right hand is inserted in the .front of his coat, a la Dan'l Webster. Looks as though they were "kidding" you, Win nemucca. - ' , And just to show that not all men wore high hats and frock coats, here is a picture entitled "Hoodlums." Four men are loafing at the door of a shack which bears the aim, "Sample Room, Wines and Liquors." , They are smoking and looking very disso lute. A fifth man Is joyously engaged in kicking a passing Chinaman. The Chinaman is looking around at the kicker with an expression of surprise and mild reproof. Dear, good folks of. centennial days, we salute you with resDect. We must grin at your clothea, but, doubt less,- you would grin at ours if you could see as. . , Indian Chiefs Going East To See Great White Father . N in teen chief from the Crow In-1 man reservation in Wyoming are en-: route over the Burlington, going to Washington, where they will seek a hearing before Freaident Wilson and the Interior department,: relative to lands that, they have heretofore ceded to the government, claiming that there are some deferred payments that have not been made. They are traveling hi a special aiecper ana will D in umni Saturday. I January Clearance. Sale Profit Now on This Sale of Furniture There are new items constantly being added to this sale, making the selection practically as interesting now -as when the sale started, January-1st. ; i Note the savings on Living Room Furniture: Ratals ( January Priee. "' -. . . i-V ' ' . Sala Price. $35.00 Solid Mahogany Library Table,. . ..... 827.00 $70.00 SoUd Mahogany Settee S47.50 $50.00 Solid Mahogany Console Table and Mirror. . . ; . . . -828.00 $37.00 Jacobean Oak Ladies' Desk ...$25.00 $37.50 Jacobean Oak Settee.... .$25.00 $42.00 Solid Mahogany Library Table .832.50 $15.00 Jacobean Oak Chair or. Rocker -810.00 $22.00 Jacobean Oak Rocker. . . , $16.50 $28.00 Jacobean Oak Rocker....'..;.. ...$17.50 $27.50 Jacobean Oak Rocker..', $18.00 $21.50 Golden Oak Ladies' Desk $16.00 $27.00 Solid Mahogany Side Table $15.00 $17.50 Solid Mahogany Dining Chain, each .$ 7.50 $70.00 Solid Mahogany Easy Chair, with adjustable back. .$40.00 $68.00 Colonial Style Mahogany Desk $40.00 $40.00 Mission Style HaU Clock....... .-$20.00 $72.00 Jacobean Oak Settee .$46.00 $ 9.60 Golden Oak Stand Table $ 5.50 $ 7.50 Golden Oak Stand Table ...$ 4.00 $ 5.50 Golden Oak Stand Table.......... $ 3.50 $ 8.00 Golden Oak Stand Table...... ..$ 6.00 $ 1.00 Golden Oak Stand Table.,.....1 ........$ 3.00 $19.00 Fumed Oak Chair, can back. $11.00 $20.00 Fumed Oak Chair, cant back $12,00 Wealthy Farmer's Daughter Skips From Home, Fearing School Exams Beatrice Knight Takes Trip to South Dakota Police Get Her on the Train. DREW MONEY FROM BANK The mysterious disappearance of Beatrice Knight, beautiful 16-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur D. Knight, wealthy farm folk of Irving ton, has been solved, following a frantic search of classmates, parents and police. She wa found on a train heading for Winner, S. D.. the home of her uncle, Ed Knight. Fear of impending high school examinations which she was sched uled to take on the day of her disappearance is the only motive that her parents and teachers of the Benson High school can ascribe for her sudden departure. Tuesday morning, as usual, she left her home in a buggy for school. Instead of going to school, she placed the horse and buggy in a livery barn in Benson, drew $7 which she had on account from the Benson bank, and that was the last heard of her until she was located on the train. The police learned that a girl Jeff ers Thanks Omaha's Men for Anti-Strike Work W. M. Jeffers, general manager of the Union Pacific, speaking before the Omaha Rotary club at the weekly meeting and luncheon at the Hen- shaw rathskellar at noon, voiced an appreciation of the Overland system for the support of the business men of Omaha and the state during the threatened railroad strike. The Union Pacific official declared that many Omaha business men per sonally went among the employes and counseled them against striking. .Mr. Jeffers explained to the Kota rians the new bonus and insurance plan of the railroad, which was an nounced during the holidays. L. .Beindorff, city passenger and ticket agent, acted as chairman.. W. R. Armstrong, a former member of the Salt Lake City Rotary club, and now engineer of maintenance and ways for the Union Pacific here, was one of the speakers. The Rotarians discussed plan for attending the second annual Rotary conference at Sioux City on January 28 and 29. The Omaha and Bluffs Rotarians will make the trip in a special train. Four states and sev enteen cities will be represented at the district convention. As a greeting to Wilbur L. Bur gess, president of the Omaha Manu facturers' association and a fellow Rotarian, who is ill at his home, the members of the club sent their busi ness cards attached to a bouquet of American Beauty roses. Unmarried Daughters Get Bulk of Mrs. Noonan's Estate The Misses Margaret and Ella Noonan inherited comfortable for tunes because they happened to be the only unmarried children in the family at the time of their mother's death. : The will of the late Mrs. Mary !. .kn ri!,Ul at Mil N atrrrt. South Side, which has just been filed witn tne cieric ot me county court, cuts off nine married children with $1 each and leaves the bulk of the estate to the other two daugnters. Mrs. Noonan owned several thou sand dollars worth of real estate on the South .Side. , - . Tha fnllAuMfiff thr (taurhtera and six sons receive bequests of $1 each by the terms oi me win: Mrs. nun Mn Man, Oiffilh Mr Bridget Gaynor, John Noonan, Wil liam Noonan, Martin Noonan, Patrick Noonan, Thomas Noonan and Michael Noonan. Saatkae Xaar Caask aa OeU. Dr. Ball's Wna-Tar-Honar aooUMi tha raw apata, aaaaa cough, kills aaM ( All araaaiata. MTarannant , ISo answering her description had pur chased a ticket for the west. Follow ing numerous telegrams sent by the police she was located on a train just aa it was leaving Norfolk for Winner. Workmen to Build Temple When Old Building is Sold Stockholders of the Ancient Order of United Workman Temple associa tion are among the lucky holders of paper in Omaha, for the organization owna its building clear, has money in the bank and the paper is rated above par by several dollars. The Workmen are casting about to secure a buyer tor the property at Fourteenth and Capitol avenue, and when they have sold their building, undoubtedly will build a new home on the property they now own at Eighteenth and Capitol, the old armory site. The whole subject was none over at a meeting of stockholders Tuesday night, when the report of Secretary J. S. Innes waa read, and directors were elected as follows: for two ea as iouows: ror two . Innes, T. S. Granville, J. n, G. S. Sutton, Dr. J. S. nd J. H. Bennett Hold- years. J. S, M. Baldwin Follman and over directors are C. A. Sherwood, C. E. Reynolds, F M. .McCullough, G. M. Schofield, M. J. Curran and J. C. Bynum. Officers will be elected at the next meeting, February 9. Money to Be Cheaper in This City After April First At the annual election of the Con servative Savings and Loan associa tion, the directors authorized a redue tion of interest rate to 6 per cent on city loans, effective April L This will apply to loans now in tore. 1 hey state that money is plentiful and cheap. The director re-elected George V, Gilmore president of the association and Paul W. Kuhna will continue to serve as secretary. William Baird, A. W. Bowman and Robert Dempster were re-elected for another term a directors. The officer reported an increase for the year 1916 of $1,469,332. Divi dends for the year 1916 were at the rate of 5J4 per cent, amounting to $572,574.79. bnifging the dividend dis tribution to the stockholders of the Conservative, since . its organization twenty-five years ago, to $3,839,334.16. Aviation Students Begin To Come to Fort Omaha Recruits are constantly arriving Jt Fort Omaha for instruction in the aviation school that is to be put in to operation there during the year. Sixty men have already arrived from the various recruiting stations throughout the country, and gradually the barracks so long abandoned at the fort are beginning to show signs of life. Lights flare from the windows at night, and soldiers hustle around there at all times. Captain Chandler, in command at the fort, says a balloon company will be organized as soon as enough men arrive for aviation service trom tne various recruiting stations. Sample Box Springs Slightly Soiled. Regular January Prica. Sala Prica. $24.00 Box Springs, full ise, metal, blue and white ticking (aa is).... 815.00 $12.00 Box Spring, for full sue metal bed $ 9.00 $ 8.00 Mattress to fit..$ 6.00 A few slightly soiled' sample mattresses at 2& discount y Dining Room Furniture $49.00 Extension Dining table, 64-in. round top, 8-ft. exten sion $36.00 $46.00 Fumed Oak Buf fet to match. .. .$37.00 $22.50 Fumed Oak Serv ing Table $16.50 $39.00 Fumed Oak Chi na Cabinet $29.00 $49.00 Golden Oak Din ing Room Table, 64-inch round top, 8-foot extension.. $36. 00 $37.00 Golden Oak Buf- - fet to match. . . .$27.00 , $22.50 Golden Oak Serv ing Table.. $16.50 CITY OF OMAHA BED IN WARHOSPITAL Franco-Belgian Relief Society Here Wants to Help Human Repair Shop. SURGEONS WORK WONDERS A city of Omaha bed in the Amer ican Ambulance hospital in Paris is the latest ambition of the Omaha Franco-Belgian Relief society. St. Louis has endowed a whole ward of ten beds, then why cannot Omaha do one-tenth as much, reason the women. This hospital is an American institu tion managed by American surgeons, aided by American nurses, working with the support ot American money. The most skilled surgeons devote themselves to the very critical cases without any consideration of the na tionalitv of the patients. Miss Gertrude Young tells of one young Englishman who had had his lower jaw completely torn away by shrapnel. He was taken to the American Ambulance hospital and there the surgeons worked with him, taking a piece of bone from one part of his body, a bit of flesh or skin from another part and furnishing him with a set of teeth, until finally they had completely reconstructed the lost lower jaw. When thev finally re moved the bandages and allowed him to look at himself in a mirror he was so overjoyed that he walked from mirror to mirror, grinning. When the surgeon said that he would have to put the finishing touches to the work by sewing up the mouth a little because it had been left too large, the man refused, for, said he, "I have all my life longed for a large mouth, and this suits me exactly. Such cases as this have ercited the sympathy of generous Americans all over the country and of the members of the Franco-Belgian Relief society in (Jmaha. 1 hat is why they plan to endow a bed in the hospital at an annual expense of $600. To accom modate any other organization or group of individuals eager to show their active sympathy with the cause. tne society lias made arrangements whereby Mr. Ezra Millard at the Omaha National bank will receive any contributions, however small, which Umaha people wish to make to the fund. These contributions will be duly acknowledged and forwarded to the American Ambulance hospital. A brass tablet above the head of the bed gives the names of the donors and the successive occupants of the bed are intensely interested in re ceiving letters trom those people who nave contributed to their relief. Lieutenant Zinovi Pechkoff. who comes to Omaha the last of this week to speak before the Franco-Belgian society, the Omaha club and the Uni versity club about hia experiences in the trenches, on behalf of the Ameri can Ambulance hospital, was himself cared for in that institution. One of the hospital's corps found him almost dying on the battle field with his arm shattered. Gangrene aet in. He was nursed back to health and to show his gratitude in a small way he is giving a month of hia time to travel over America m tfte interest ot the hospital. -' No Hope for Woman Injured When Taxi and Car Collide Mrs. Claudina Henkel, the young woman seriously injured when the taxicab she was riding in yesterday morning collided with a street car at Twenty-fourth and Arbor streets, has not regained conaciousness since the accident and no hope for her recov ery is held out Her injuries are much more serious than was first reported. ' BUSHMAML.cZ BAYNE Great Cupid's Throne is In Fred Veight's Heart and Stomach A true Dhilosooher said that the wav to a man's heart is via his stomach. Fred Veieht. 35 years old, suc cumbed to the enticements of Miss Lena Bereson's cooking and didn't care a whit because his bride-to-be was more than twenty years his senior. Miss Bergson, who owns a res taurant at 703 Leavenworth street, is 58 years old. 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