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ft The Omaha Sunday Bee Want-ad Service NEWS SECTION PART TWO PAGES ONE TO FOUR. Night or Day 1 1 Tyler 1000. - 8 VOL. XLVI NO. 40. OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 25, 1917. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. MILLION-DOLLAR HOTEL FOR OMAHA? Jreat Modern Building Will Rise from Ruins of Conti nental Block, Rumor Says. Rule No. 11: Tenants Must Not Keep Dogs; Janitors Must Not Gossip TEAR WALLS DOWN NOW Building Owners and Managers Adopt Rule to Govern the Conduct of Their Janitors.. Rumors in wake of the Continental block lire arc to the ctfect that own ers of the site will erect a million dollar store and hotel building there soon, to accommodate tormcr store tenants of the building and a hotel tenant. E. P. Marquis and Warren Breyro gel of Kansas City, here as represen tative! of the corporation owning the location, refused to confirm or deny the rumors. "We arc considering what would be best' to do," they said, "and cannot ay what the company will do with the ground until we report and the directors hold a meeting." Mr. Marquis said the building was covered with insurance to about 80 per cent of its value. Workmen have begun to remove the safes from the Berg and Hart man basements, and to prepare to pull down the remaining walls. Open ing of the safes and vaults will not be attempted for ai day or two, as opening them too soon would cause the hot contents to burst into flames upon exposure to the air. Loss Near Million. Total losses of about $800,000, as printed Friday by The Bee, were de clared approximately correct by the persons interested. Total insurance of from 50 to 80 per cent covered the losses, it was said. Leon Hartman of Chicago is on his way here from Tasadena, where he was at the time of the fire, and is expected here Monday. Milton Hart man is coming from Chicago. Move Started to Mark Places Where British Dead Buried (Correspondence of The Associated Press.) London, Feb. 1. The national cemeteries on the battlefields of the American civil war which serve as permanent reminders to the people of the United States of the price paid for freedom, are referred to frequently in this country in connection with the work of perpetuating the graves of the British soldiers in France and Bel gium. Especially was this done when the prince of Wales returned from the western battle front and announced that 150.000 British graves in France and Belgium had been identified and registered in 400 burial grounds. The prince of Wales heads the com mittee for the care of soldiers' glvts which has undertaken the task of looking after the resting places of the dead after they have been marked out by the graves registration unit. The prince announced that more than sixty of the 400 burial grounds have already been laid out and planted under the direction of the director of the Koyat Botanic gardens at Kew on :he Thames near London. "I have seen how beautiful these renietc?ies look when the flowers are out." said the prince, who 'has been an indefatigable worker for the preservation of these lasting monu riciits to the British soldiers- ' The m ince told from his own obser vation, something of what has been r'linc. Last year, he said, the French !.'ovcrmm'iit ' moved many thousand -in rowiiiK hearts in this country to a ilrep emotion by the simple and gracious offer to set apart forever, in special honor, the burial places of British dead in France. Holding Record for Duels, Dorcieres Is Victim of War (Correspondence of The Associated Press. ) Taris, Feb. 15. The only French man who of late years had kept alive on the boulevards of Taris sonic of the traditions of the epoch of d'Arta gnan and Cyrano dc Bergerac, Rouzier-Dorcieres, is one of the war's latest victims. "The Last Musketeer." as he was often called, had partici pated in more duels than any man of his time and perhaps he held the world's record. He fought for his own account more than a score of times and directed as second more than a hundred encounters. Like both d'Artagnan and Cyrano de Bergerac, Dorcieres had the quick blood of the south of France in his veins and was romantic in speech and act. His wide brimmed felt hat, his shining black locks and aggressive bristling moustache and imperial were familiar to every habitue of the boule vard cafes, nearly every one of which had at some time or other resounded with his discourses, controversies or proclamations. He was one of the figures of Paris that were pointed out to visiting provincials. He was not himself a particularly expert man with a sword, but his impetuosity often made tip for lack of skill and over whelmed his adversary at the outset. At the outbreak of the war Dor cieres enlisted as a machine gunner in the aviation corps and contracted in the service the illness from which he died. ' Municipal Finances of Paris Are Going to Show Deficit (Correspondence i'f The Associated Press.) Paris, Jan. .10. Municipal finances of Paris for 1917 will again show a de ficit, according to the forecast of the budget committee. The deficit is es timated at 111,641,470 francs and is due to increased charges and de creased receipts, both resulting from the war. The deficit for 1916, not yet definitely known, was estimated by M. Delannev, prefect of the Seme, at 143,000,000 francs. M. Dausset,' head of the budget committee, puts it at hears 300,000,000. The war cost Paris 134,44948 francs in 1914 and 156,835. 297 trues in 1915, about equally di vided between reduced receipts from citv taxes on food and other products and increased expenditures for war relief. Indemnities to city employes on ac count of the high cost of living add 8,370.000 francs to the budget of 1917. All the deficits since the beginning of the war have been provided for by the sale of one-year municipal bonds, the first issues at 5j per cent KEEP GARBAGE CANS CLEAN "Do not gossip or argue with ten ants. Their affairs are1 not yours, nor ours." This is one of the twenty-eight new rules the Building Owners' and Man agers' association of Omaha has adopted for its janitors. So in the future janitors shall not stand in the halls and gossip with tenants nor argue with them. Dogs will have to make a hasty re treat. Tenants in the apartment nouses may not have dogs to fondle in idle moments, for rule No. 11 com mands the janitor to "report to the orhce if anv tenant has a dog. Agents and peddlers are not to be allowed in the buildings at all and children arc not to be allowed to play and romp in the halls. Garbage must be emptied each morning and during the summer months twice a day if necessary. Also the garbage cans are to be cleaned with hot water every morning and clean paper is to be put in the bot toms of the cans. The rules go on to instruct the janitors how to economize by turning out lights as early as possible in the morning and making other savings here and there. The committee drafting the rules consisted of Catherine Shields of Has tings & Heyden, R. C. Strehlow of the Strehlow apartments and Clare Nelson of Payne & Slater. GERMANS HUNGRY, BDT NOTSTARVING Organization Does Much to Alleviate Suffering, but Lack of Food Exists. ROUMANIA DISAPPOINTS (Correspondence of The Associated Press.) Berlin, Feb. 10. Back last spring, when butter first began to run short and the waiting lines first began to form, two housewives were quarrel ling over their respective rights in line. They quarreled so vociferously that they attracted the attention of a policeman. Laboriously he separated the pair, and, when he had placed them far apart, he addressed them and all the other women in the long "butter line." , "Stop the controversy. Don t tight. You're not going to starve, but you are going to go hungry." His words were more effective in the original German because of the similarity of the two verbs. "Verhung ern werdet ihr nicht, ber hungern wohl." The policeman was no prophet, yet in March of 1916 he almost exactly outlined a situation that now exists. There are no longer butter lines, and a few potato lines that began to form during the last month of the last year have been done away with. Or ganization has done that, though it has failed to supply any more butter than there was on hand in the spring, or any more potatoes than there were in November. On the contrary, there is much less butter than there used to be, a fact which is attested to by the compari son of 50 grams allowed each person per week now, as against 250 in the spring. There are less potatoes, and the visible supply at very best will last until next July when a new harvest will be in. Small Meat Supply. A summary of the German food situation today shows: Very little but ter with little, if any, prospect that there -will be more in the immediate future. An equally small amount of margarine or other substitutes for butter. A supply of meat that does not bid fair to increase, because there is so little feed on which the cattle can be nourished and fattened. A minimum amount pf sugar, since less than the usual supply of sugar beets was raised in 1916, and a part of the supply has to go toward making chemicals. An almost complete failure of the potato crop, so that the bread ration is to be "stretched" with barley instead of potato flour, to the conse quent diminishing ol tuc beer produc tion. An almost negligible supply of coffee and a very slender amount of tea. On the credit side of the ledger stand the vegetables that were raised in great quantitis during the last sum mer, and that with German thought fulness and system have been dried in great quantities and will be available for the winter. Likewise there are great quantities of marmelade, or near-marmelade, which have been stored up as a substitute for butter. The "substitute is very poor, but bet ter than nothing. The average German will insist that Roumania stands on the credit side of the ledger, too, and that it is a big item. But it is extremely probable that the amount of tood found m Ron mania is far smaller than had been an ticipated. Turkey, Bulgaria, Hungary and Austria all also have a claim on whatever there may be. Though Ger many is running the miliary situation in Roumania, Germany is very far away. Its authorities have known for weeks that there was little to ex pect from Roumania, and have tried to break the evil news gently. First came the announcement that the size of the supplies captured was unknown, then the word that what ever might be found would not be used, but kept as a reserve. Big Cities Suffer. It is, of course, the big German cities that arc suffering, and that are going to suffer increasingly as the war continues. Lack ot transporta tion facilities is an increasingly im portant factor. Germany, which before the war had somewhat more than ample freight cars for its own needs, now has to make the number of cars, approxi mately, do tor all of the German em pire, nearly all of Belgium, northern France, all of Poland, and a big piece TIlTlnlm Fearing Spanking, He Runs Away BUSINESS PRODUCED. i or ... . . From Home; Expelled from School of Russia, in addition to Serbia, Mon tcnegro and the biggest half of Rou mania. Only a relatively small num ber of cars captured in Belgium have been added to the German rolling stock. As the war has gone on the condi tion of this rolling stock has de teriorated steadily, and scarcely any of it has been replaced. A shortage of oils has not allowed the proper care of what cars there are; hot boxes on both passenger and freight cars are everyday occurrences. The en gines have to draw such heavy loads that they are going to pieces faster than they used to. Feed and fodder conditions for Ger man live stock improved somewhat through last year's harvests, but only somewhat. The cattle are still thin and scraggly. The milch cows give less than ever and there is little milk that can be spaVed for cheese. The cattle, when slaughtered, give less meat than they used to, and so horse meat has had to be resorted to in a degree that is unprecedented. A German Mistake. The available supply of swine has never recovered from the original German mistake of 1914 and 1915, when millions of pigs were slaugh tered to save the food that they de voured, only thereby reducing the supply of fat to a dangerous point. The Germans have never forgiven themselves for that short-sihtedness. The same iu a measure holds true of sugar. There had been an over- supply in 1914, and solemn warn ings went out not to plant so much land to sugar beets and more to grain. The peasantry followed the advice too literally, and Germany awoke to hnd that it had hardly more than enough sugar for purposes other than tood. So the big cities are in part living! on saccharine now, and there isn't enough of that. the coltee stretching process be gan last spring, and has continued so diligently that real coffee is an al most unattainable rarity, and the aver age "coffee" that is available is so poor as to prove undrinkable for the person used to real coffee. Substitutes such as chicory, herbs, mixtures of all kinds, have taken coffee's place. The most perfect organization and system in the world has stepped in and so regulated the food affairs that every adult in the empire is pretty well assured of half a pound of meat a week. But nearly every ounce of that half pound is lean meat. The fat rarely reaches the purchaser, for it is jealously hoarded by the gov ernment. System likewise has provided that there shall be no butter riots, or bread riots, or meat lines. There is now a so-called "customers' list," whereby eacn resident ot any large city is reg istered with one, dairy store, and one baker, and one butcher. The cus tomer has a number, and on stated days may purchase his or her quota ot tood by number. Government se cret service agents have been busy ferreting out cases ot extortion and overcharging, and heavy fines and im prisonments have been salutary in their effect. Likewise the custom of hoarding, which the Germans call "hamstering," after the animal, "ham ster," or groundhog, has been dis couraged to a great extent by fines ana otner punishments. During the final months of 1916 Germans of the wealthier class helped out tneir scanty larders with butter. eggs, cheese and the like, which they procured from convenient "relatives" whom they discovered in Holland and Denmark. Now that has been done away with. From the first of January on trie tierman government, through its Central Purchasing company, will buy all the food in adioininor foreio-n countries that those counrites will or may sen and will distribute equitably in vjci many. Big Gift for Parochial School. Shenandoah, la., Feb. 27. (Spe cial.) JohW. Shunick has subscribed $12,500 to the proposed new Catholic parochial school in Shenandoah. While it is not definitely assured that the school will be built, a few more liberal contribution anH th k,.,m: will be a reality. It is the plan to cstauiisn a scnooi tnat will attract students not only the counties around, but the entire state. An endowment found of $100,000 is contemplated. . I j II Shoots Paper Airship from; Gallery of Theater at Glee Club Concert. SLEEPS IN STORE LOBBY Fearing that he would get a spank ing if be went home after being ex- j pelted from an undergraduate class i at Creighton, Alphonse Grooger, aged 15. whose mother and seven sisters , live at 4014 Burt street, ran away a i week ago Friday and was found at .1 o'clock esterilay morning asleep in ; the lobby of the lirandeis building by a watchman, lie had been sleeping iu doorways and similar places every I JS.PX.I3A.U3 R. M. Dale, who is associated with the German American Life Insurance rnmiunv nf Omaha in ihr- vear insl I closed produced in personal writing over half a million dollars in busi ness. All upon the twenly-year pay ment plan. Mr. Dale confines bis business exclusively to the state of Nebraska. He lives in Dundee. As an appreciation of the business produced. Mr. Dale was presented with a beautiful loving cup from the president of the company, and as an additional appreciation for the busi ness produced in the last year the German American Life Insurance One Place on Earth Where American Coin Is at Discount (Correspondence of The Associated Press 1 Mexico City, Feb. 15. Mexico is one place where the American dollar is at a discount. This discount ranges from 10 to 40 per cent, according to locality. This lias been caused by the scarcity of Mexican gold and silver coins and the fact that certain taxes and rents and the wages of employes now, according to decree, be paid in Mexican coin. "Hidalgos" or Mexican gold ten peso pieces, in Mexico City now sell for $5.50 anil in some of the remote states the price has reached as high as $7.50, while they used to sell for $4.90. company has given Mr. Dale a pleas ure trip to Havana. Cuba, by way of New Orleans and reluming bv New-York. night and subsisting on food supplied by comrades. ! He told Police Captain Heitfeld he ! was expelled because he made an "air ship" out of a piece of paper as he sat in the gallery of the Braudeis theater a week ago. when the Glee club was giving its concert, and sailed it down into the audience on the lower (lour. heu found he had not eaten for nearly twenty-four hours, so a j collection was taken up among the .station attaches and he was given enough loud lo make up for all he had missed.. Police records tailed to reveal any complaint of his absence from home. He was turned over to Probation Of ficer Miller, who returned the l;ul to his parents. Petrified Human Foot Found Near Fort Dodge Fort Dodge, la.. Feb. 24 (Spe cial.) What is declared to he a pet rified human foot has been discovered ninety feet below the surface of the ground in a mine near Lehigh. It is fifteen and one-half inches in length, is seventeen inches around the ankle and weighs thirty-five pounds. Remembrance of the Cardiff Giant, quarried out of the gypsum quarries near Fort Dodge in the early days, has kept people just a little skeptical concerning' this relic. The owners of the mine declare it to be the real thing, however. A coal miner, so the story goes, neglected to timber the roof in one "room" of the mine and in a cave-in the petrified foot became exposed to view. Miners are looking for the rest of the bodv. iy Eighth Death in ;.ff Fiftv-Five Days-; From Meningit ' Winona Fullerton, 4 year of a; residing at 34U Evans street, ji Friday evening from cerebral spit meningitis, this being the eigl death from this disease since Jt uary I. " V One Mammoth Building -For Uni of Constantino (Correspondence ot The Associated Press . Constantinople, Jan. 30. The ms ister of instruction has decided up the construction of a huge collt; building to house the University j Constantinople. 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