THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1917.
MISSOURI PACIFIC FREIGHT
OFFICES DESTROYED BY FIRE;
TELEPHONE GIRL IS HEROINE
Miss Bertha Statz, Night Switchboard Operator, Sticks
to Post and Sends in Alarm; Rescued by Clerk
After Being Overcome By Smoke; Loss
on Building is $100,000. .
ors applied in great numbers. Some
of them had their suit cases with them
and were ready to set sail instanter
for "somewhere in France." Great
was their disappointment when they
learned that Lncle Sam did not con
template paying such munificent wa
ges, and that only 35 bricklayers were
to be Selected from the whole
state.
Allan Tukey Tells of
Life in the Trenches
Lieutenant Allan Tukey, son of A.
P. Tukey of Omaha, is now conduct
ing a school for noncommissioned
officers in France and censoring mail
between times.
This is among the information con
tained in his latest letter to the home
folks. He is with the Twenty-sixth
infantry, and attached to a machine
gun section. .He spent one week in
the British trenches and saw some
action there. He tells of going into
the dugouts when the German shell
fire became heavy, and says, "When
one is in the dugouts the explosion
of the shells is not loud, but rather
weird." - '
Few Reg.lirants Appear
When Mercury Goes to Zero
Sub-zero weather put a crimp in
the ambition of registrants Friday.
Usually at 9 o'clock the main floor of
the court house would be overrun by
a small army of registrants waiting
for members of the legal advisory
board to get ready for business, but
many chairs were vacant
"Quite a change," commented
Chairman Foster, "but they will com
mence to straggle in after a while and
within a couple of hours there'll bU
200 here."
The legal luminaries were also lat
in arriving, and many and varied wer
the excuses offered by the different
ones.
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Fire destroyed the Missouri Pacific freight offices at Fif
cnth and Nicholas streets Friday morning with a loss of
00,000.
The blaze threatened the Nicholas street viaduct, the
freight houses, Ford Motor company branch and hundreds of
cirs in the railroad yards.
FLEE FOR LIVES. 1
Three men made their escape in
night garments from a burning way
Mr.
Miss Bertha Statz, night telephone
operator in the freight offices, was
trapped on the third floor of the
doomed building. She stuck to her
post, turned in the alarm and was
rescued by Al Peterson, clerk, after
she had been overcome by smoke.
Peterson carried her through
smoke and flames to safety.
Six cans of gasoline stored in a
freight car exploded and scattered
firebrands to other cars.
Seven freight cars, containing
clothing and machinery consigned to
the government, were destroyed.
After the explosion of the gasoline,
firemen confined their efforts to sav
ing the Nicholas street viaduct and
the jfreight depot and let the office
building burn.
,i- : No Dynamite Cars.
; Employes in the freight house and
switching crews assisted firemen in
saving other property. Freight cars
were switched out of the danger zone
after a report had been circulated
that a large quantity of dynamite
was in the railroad yards.
M. L. Loft is, Missouri Pacific
freight agent,, branded as false a pub
lished story in a newspaper that sev
eral cars of dynamite were in the path
of the flames. He said ithere were no
explosives in the railroad yards.
The first Ore alarm, turned in at 5:45
o'clock by Miss Statz, was followed
by two others. All fire apparatus in
the city and both day and night
shifts of firemen were on the scene
. when the blaze waj at its height.
Street car service and telephone
service in the fire district were de
moralized for some time.
When the fire broke out W. W.
Webster, I. R. Jacoki and E. Baker
were asleep in a way car on a track
100 feet from the office building. They
were awakened by the intense heat.
The men fled in scanty attire, leaving
their clothing and personal effects be
hind. v .
Freight records and all papers in
the office building were lost. Con
fusion in the settlement of claims will
result, railroad officials said.
Mr. Loftis lost $400 worth of per
sonal effects, including a wedding
present, recent gift from Missouri
Pacific employes. ' ' f . !
Harley Has Sold Harley
Hotel to H.J. Plumb
Harley Conant has sold the Harley
hotel, Twentieth and Farnam streets,
to Henry J. Plumb, formerly an Oma
ha hotel man, but more recently s
ranchman. The price was $15,000.
Mr. Plumb will take possession Jan
uary 1. ,
The Harley hotel is a three-story
structure of 100 rooms. The original
building was known as the Bachelors'
hotel, but was later added to and re
modeled by Mr. Conant and renamed
the Harlev about three years ago.
Mr. Plumb, the new owner, opened
and ran the ChatUrri hotel in Omaha
about twelve years ago. He ran this
until about three years ago, when he
went on a large ranch, lie has de
cided to come back to Omaha and en
ga" m the hotM hitv'ness.
FILE COMPLAINTS
FOR VIOLATION
OF DRY LAWS
Four Additional Suits Asking
Injunctions Filed by State and
City Prosecutor, Charging .
Bootlegging.
Four more bootlegging injunction
suits have been filed by Assistant At
torney General Munger and Special
Prosecutor. McGuire against Omaha
resorts where it is alleged intoxicat
ing liquors have been on sale in vio
lation of the prohibition law.
Stella Marquette, alias Mrs. A. L.
Smith, and Julius Trietschke ,are.
named as defendants in the suit
against the Stella Marquette rooming
house, 420-22 North Thirteenth
street. '
, Patrick Manning, a owner of the
Des Moines ' hotel, 501 South Thir
teenth street, Emil Leal, Harry Gas
parri, Sam Nauman and Julhis Triet
schke are named in the second suit
as violators of the law.
The Big Four saloon, Ninth and
Douglas streets, is spotted in the
third petition, and the Vogel Invest
ment company, owners, Carl Grace,'
Tames Ryan and Pat McConnel,
lessees and occupants, are named as
defendants.
The fourth petition designates the
London hotel, 523 North ' Fifteenth
street, and names Abraham 'Rosen
berg as owner, Delia ,Boyd, keeper,
James Bennet and Charles Belangi,
clerk and manager.
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To Curtail Omaha-Chicago
Passenger Train Servtos
Chicago, Dec. 28. Immediate cur
tailment of the luxurious passenger
seryice equipment was among the
first steps taken today by some of the
railroads with headquarters in Chi
cago when the government came into
control of the nation's rail system.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
announced that it would eliminate
both observation and buffet-smoking
cars from its' trains. The change will
be made between Chicago, Milwaukee
and Minneapolis at one. n1 on tbe
lines to Kansas City and Omaha next
week. Officials said, the discontinuance
of this heavy equipment will result
in s considerable saving of fuel.
Many Bricklayers Are
Ready to Cross the Pond
Chairman t C. C. .Redwood of ex
emption division No. 3, did a land of
fice business Thursday afternoon.
Some wag had passed around , the
hews that Uncle Sam would pay $9
a day for bricklayers to go to France.
All bricklayers desirous of serving
their country were directed to Mr.
Redwood and they followed direc
tions .' Mn of d'l flTes. s:zes and col-
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FIRST
PRESENTATIONS
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It is More Than Likely That Saturday Will Usher in the Most Spirited Sblling of Women's
Garments Ever Witnessed Between These Walls. At any Rate There is MATERIAL
Here to Bring About Such a Result. There's a garment here for you--will you be here?
They say that "necessity is the mother of in
vention." Well, then, her&'s a case of "neces
sity" and the "Double Clearance" is the inven
tion. The invention was made necessary be
cause, Orkin Brothers must soon MOVE into
newer quarters in the Wolf-Hiller-Conant Hotel
building now in the course of erection at 16th
and Harney streets. The feminine public of
Omaha would distrust every future move of
Orkin Brothers if a single garment of the present
stock were to be removed to the newer quarters
therefore there will be NO garments moved
over. '
All Skirts Must Go!(
LADIES' SKIRTS, formerly
$5.75 to $7.50, in "Double
Clearance," Q Qg
at SD.i70
LADIES' SKIRTS, formerly
10.00 to 512.50, in "Double
Clearance,"
at
LADIES' SKIRTS, formerly
$8.50 to $9.50, in "Double
fMooTanon " sH mm mm
Clearance,
at
I III WUUIO
$6.95
LADIES' SKIRTS, formerly
sis.Du to zio.uo, in "Double
rienranpn " tfH r mm
Clearance,
at
fafe Snappiest Things in
VsOaiS Cloth, Plush or Velvet
In the "Double Clearance"
WINTER COATS, formerly
?Z5.00, are in "Double Clear
ance Sale,
$13.50
at
WINTER COATS, formerly
$20.50 and $35.00. in "Dou
ble Clearance,
at . . .
$17.50
$27.50
WINTER COATS, formerly
$45.00 and $49.50, in "Dou
ble Clearance,
at
WINTER COATS, formerly
$55.00 and $59.50, in "Dou
ble Clearance," 5Q
WINTER COATS, formerly
$65.00 and $75.00, in "Dou
ble Clearance,"
at
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$38.50
WINTER COATS, formerly
$79.50 and $85.00, in "Dou
ble Clearance,
at
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PLUSH COATS, formerly
$29.50, are in "Double Clear
ance Sale,
at
PLUSH COATS, formerly
$35.00, are in "Double Clear
ance" sale,
ftfc
PLUSH COATS, formerly
$45.00, are in "Double Clear
ance" Sale,
at
PLUSH COATS, formerly
$55.00, are in "Double Clear-
r.".sr!e:...... $32.50
PLUSH AND VELVET
COATS, formerly $65.00, in
"Double Clear
ance," at .
PLUSH AND VELVET
COATS, formerly $75.00, in
"Double Clear
ance," at. . ; . .
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$i9.5o n.-msni
$23.50 Hi I
$28.50 mm I
t.fe&Vl Ii Lt' ....
$35.50 mV3
Be calm now that you are in the season of
garment sales. Take your time. Look around.
Compare carefully. Don't judge a bargain to be
a bargain until you've gone beneath the very
surface of the fabrics, until you have examined
every thread of the workmanship ; until you
have carefully gone over the various priced
garments offered you here and there. Give the
matter so thorough a test and you will end up
by purchasing a HALF DOZEN pieces of attire
at Orkin Brothers' "Double Clearance" Sale.
This is a sale of absolute REALITY.
Suits and Dresses
Priced Irresistibly in This
"Double Clearance,, Sale
LADIES' SUITS, former
ly $25.00 and $29.50, in
"Double C1I7C
Clearance".. pi'M)
LADIES' SUITS,former
ly $32.50 and $35.00, in
"Double
Clearance"
DRESSES Formerly
$19.50 to $25.00, in
"Double
Clearance," at
DRESSES Formerly
$25.00 to $35.00, in
..$16.75 Clearance". . $14.95
DRESSES Formerly
$35.00 to $39.50, in
"Double CIO OC
Clearance".. $ IV. Vd
DRESSES Formerly
$39.50 to $45.00, in
. $24.75 Clearance". . $24.95
LADIES' SUITS.former
ly $39.50 to $45.00, in
"Double
Clearance
..$21.75
LADIES' SUITS, former
ly $45.T0 and $49.50, in
"Double
Clearance"
LADIES' SUITS.former-
ly $55.00 and $59.50, in
"Double
Clearance
..$28.75
It doesn't take you
long to realize that
EVERY garment in the
house is "cut," does it?
$44.50
Women who have put off garment
buying until now, are indeed for
tunate, for Saturday at this store
will bring forth the very greatest
values of the "Double Clearance."
LADIES' BLOUSES Former $3.50 kinds
in "Double Clearance," (M CO
at $1.00
LADIES' BLOUSES Worth $2.50, in
"Double Clearance," sale ' CI QQ
price, at .......... pl.t)0
LADIES' BLOUSES Former $4.50 kinds
m "Double Clearance"
at
Blouses-All Are Included
in the "Double Clearance"
The "Double Clearance" includes all of those tony
things in Georgettes, Crepe de Chines, Satins and
Voiles, many being embroidered, others in beaded
effects. The assortment, too, includes all sizes from
34 to 58.
LADIES' BLOUSES Former $6.50 kinds
in "Double Clearance," d9 QQ
at ipj.00
LADIES' BLOUSES Former $7.50 kinds
in "Double Clearance,"
LADIES BLOUSES Former $10 kinds
in "Double Clearance," CC CQ
at , ipO.OO
All Furs Priced to
Sell Immediately
MUFFS Black Coney, $6.50
kinds, go now at. ... . .$1,95
MUFFS Natural and black
Opossum, kinds, $12.50 values,
now ...$5.05
MUFFS Brook Mink and
Musk Rat, $15.00 kinds, $8.95
MUFFS Raccoon and Fox,
$22.50 kinds, at $11.95
MUFFS Black Fox, Wolf,
Hudson Seal, Beaver and Red
Fox kinds, worth $32.50, j?o
at ........$14.95
MUFFS Black Fox, Linx, Hud
Son Seal and Kolinsky kinds,
$35 and $39.50 values, go
at i $18.95
FUR SCARFS Raccoon, Opos
sum or Silver Fox Scarfs, in
$25.00 grades, at. ...$11.95
FUR SCARFS Red Fox Scarfs
in $25 grades, at $12.95
It's Your "Now or
Never" Fur Chance
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FUR SCARFS Fox and Linx
Scarfs, in black or brown,
$35.00 values, at $18.95
fUR SCARFS Linx or Fox, in
Black, Brown or Taupe, in
$39.50 grades, at. . . .$24.95
FUR SCARFS-r-Fox or Linx, in
Black, Brown orTaupe, in $45
grades, at $31.95
FUR SETS Silver Fox, Gray
Wolf and Raccoon sets, in
$29.50 values, now at. $17.95
FUR SETS Red Fox Sets, in
$39.50 grades, at $24.95
FUR SETS Red Fox and Cross
Fox Sets, in $45.00 values, on
sale $31.95
FUR SETS Black Fox sets,
$50 values, at $34.95
FUR SETS Black, Brown and
Taupe Fox and Linx sets, $65
values, at . .-$44.95
This Is the Sale That Has a Definite Reason to Back It!
ORKIN BROS., 1519 Douglas Street
Please Note That This Firm Is On the South Side of the Street
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