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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 31, 1919)
' THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE : AUGUST 31. 191 9. .5B RED GROSS WILL HAVE EXHIBIT AT STATE FAIR Canteen to Serve. Free : Lunches and Drinks to Soldiers, Sailors and Marines. The Red Cross is planning on haviirg one of the largest and best exhibits at the Nebraska state fair in Lincoln. All phases of the Red Cross work will be represented. The canteen, will serve free lunches and : v drinks to soldiers, sailors and marines, active or discharged. J"he civilian relief and home service will ',be prepared to take care of all cases which may be brought to them. 'First aid workers will administer to the ill and injured on the grounds. One of the interesting exhibits , ,'will be a display of toys made by the Russian children of the Alex 7 andrifek orphanage at Archangel, ' Russia. The home nursing department will be represented by Mrs. VV. E. Bolin, who is chairman of commit tee on nursing activities for Omaha chapter. Miss Margaret Wharton ' will represent the Lincoln chapter. Practical demonstrations will be ' given of the work being done in this department and also instruction in the organization of classes. Work is Held the Only Economic Unrest Cure Paper in London Discovery of Etuge Wheel and Underground Chamber Brings Back Days of Cable Cars V -''J , " i i mam Nebraska Labor Secretary Tells of Benefit of State Employers' Liability Law Tells of Apalling Ignorance of Workers of Law Which Grants Them Two-Thirds of Their Salary and Physician's Care in Case of Injuries Received While at Work. by Workmen Removing Street Car Tracks and Pavement on Dodge Street Hill Pre paratory to Grading, Make Interesting Find of Relic of Omaha's early History Shift-Wheel House, Uncovered by Workmen, . Was Headquarters of T. J. O'Brien, Now Owner of Henshaw Hotel, at That Time in Service of Cable Company. London, Aug. 17. England has ,5rown lazy and work is the only solution of her difficulties, says the Daily Express in a leading article summarizing conditions. "Every single necessity of life rises weekly and steadily in price and already the shadow of a harsh winter falls across this summer sun shine. We must be fed, clothed and housed, It costs us much more to achieve these essential ambitions We must have warmth and light We are Warned that warmth and light, strictly rationed, will be re tailed, at a much higher cost. And , why are these things so? Largely for one simple reason which we are all naturally reluctant . to face or even to admit. A great part of the distress is due to the uni versal distate of class or trade or character, the end of the war, with the1 lifting of its shadows and bur dens, find most ptople extraordiiv arily lazy. It is a moral and phy sical blight which has fallen on Eu rope. : Psychologists can explain it well enough. We feel its effects in the burdens which lessened produe tion throws on us. "We shall win through this mal ady of body and spirit, and all will come right. But whether a return to normal life comes soon or late- jii nine iu save u irum Heavier mats " or top late to avoid them depends on each one of us. When we all, individually and therefore collective ly, put our backs into work again, f and fight down this deadly inertia, the- legacy or war, much ot tne trouble will begin to disappear." Cleveland is Largest Anchor Manufacturing - City in Entire World Cleveland, O., Aug. 30. Wher ever ships rest at anchor on the seven seas or their tributaries some of them are held by Cleveland made anchors and anchor chains, accord ing to Cleveland vessel men. For Cleveland, an inland part, more chors are fashioned and chains welded than in any other; city in s country, and perhaps in the world. ; Eight carloads of steel anchors, the largest single consignment on record, recently was shipped from Cleveland to the Emergency Fleet Corporation at Hog Island. They will be placed on the fleets of mod em trading ships which America is sending after the trade of the ; world. They are -all modern "national stockless" anchors of the latest ap proved design. iThe old-fashioned "T" bar at the top has been elimi nated bat the rabbit-eared flukes are turned and built to hold to the ocean floor wherever cast. Before, the war, Cleveland anchors were famous in the Great Lakes. Brit it was 6nly when lake ships went,- down to sea that the anchors made inland became world famous. Now they are carried not only under the American flag but under the banners of almost every nation. . ill I aucl well .this No Wiggly Dances Allowed in Dallas Dallas, Tex.. Aug. 30. Miss Ale cia Brown, welfare director, has put her stamp of disapproval on the shimmy, caterpillar wiggle, jelly bean and straphanger dances. She declares they are vulgar and inde cent and has notified dance hall managerj that they will be prose cuted if they permit such "wiggling" on their premises. Miss Brown de clares that the shimmy and other objectionable dances are practiced more in the home of society folks in Dallas than in the dance halls, and says there should be some means to reach these people and stop dances which make the body shake like a bowl of jelly. Needle in Body for Half Century Caused Ills v Elyria.f O., Aug. 30. From mumps to measles and chronic in digestion to neuritis, Robert Myers, 52, had run the gamut of human ill ness. Recently a lump appeared tetween his shoulder blades. It did not heal, and when the family physician was called he hurried the patient to a hospital. There a tar nished needle with 24 inches of : thread attached was removed. Phy sicians believe . Myers swallowed tire needle when a child and that during perhaps half a century it has been wandering through his- body seeking an outlet His various ail ments are charged to the needle's peregrinations. Can you remember the days of the cable street railway in Omaha? Thirty years ago cable tramway cars were in vogue here and the sound of the underground cable was heard from early morning until late at night. A few years' experience convinced the promoters thatlthis type of street railway transporta tion was not a paying investment, and the advent of electrified lines soon displaced the cable. Workmen who are removing the street car tracks and pavement on the Dodge street hill, preparatory to grading, last week unearthed striking evidence of the old Dodge street cable line. A few feet east of the intersection of Twentieth and Dodee streets, on Dodge street, they uncovered what at first ap peared to be the ruins of a brick dwelling. The unexpectedness of the discovery caused some specula tion at first. Some of the men imagined . that they might have found a cache of rare vintages placed there in the days when the cup that cheers was not forbidden. Discover Cast-Iron Wheel. t As the workmen proceeded to un cover the strange underground chamber, they disclosed a large cast-iron wheel, about 12 feet in diameter and resting on a heavy concrete anchorage. Steel beams strengthened the 14-inch brick walls of the room which is 16x16 feet and about eight from the surface. The mystery of the discovery was soon explained when some of the oldtime street car men told that this room housed part of the me chanism which was used by the old cable lines. This wheel, which weighs three tons, carried the cable around the corner and it is known as a "shift-wheel." . When the cable lines were junKea narlv a third of a century ago, tne concrete conduits along which the rahles ran. and the shitt-wnee houses were covered over and the streets repaved. Now Hotel Owner. The shift-wheel house uncovered last week on Dodge street was the headquarters of T. J. O'Brien, now proprietor of the Henshaw hotel, in the days when Mr. O'Brien was in the service of the cable line com- oany. It was Mr. O'Brien's work in the days of long ago to keep the shift wheels greased and to watch the cable as it went along, to ob serve whe ther anv of the strands were breakiner. One of the chief difficulties of the cable line system of street cars was interruption on account of a broken cable, which had to be soliced or otherwise re naire d. Mr. O'Brien entered this underground place through a sur face cover which was flush with the street. In very cold weather he would find warmth in this place, and when everything was running along smoothly, he would beguile the time with a pipeful ot tobacco. Anotner of these underground memories of cable. line days could be excavated at Twentieth and Harney streets, and another at Tenth and Harney streets. Had Hard Life Life as a cable gripman was not all a bed of roses and not to be com pared with the work of a motorman of today. The engineer of the cable car was stationed in the center ot his car where he held a throttle regulating a clutch which gripped the cable. This grip reached the cable through a slot in the center of the track. The gripman had to be on the alert to release his grip of the cable at certain points, otherwise there would be serious trouble. For instance, the two lines Harney and Dodge street both went from Tenth and Pierce streets to Harney on the same track and on the same cables. The Harney street gripman leaving the end of the line at Tenth and Pierce streets would have to re el ' jiiiiiiHii nr i Haul of Juvenile Highwayman Nets a Dime Kansas City, Aug. 30. Rushing home wild-ejred and excited, with beads of sweat standing on his fore head, Lewis Nye, the 11-year-old son of Mrs. J. E. Nye, shouted ex citedly to his mother: "I was held up and barely es caped getting killed." "Did you deliver my parcel to the postoffice?" queried his mother. xes, replied j-cwjs, dui wnne was going there I was held up by a boy about 12 years old, who had a brick in his hand. He took a dime away from me and said he would kill me if I told anybody he held me up." Mrs. Nye telephoned the oolice. They are looking for the 12-year- old highwayman. Buy Paint at HARPER'S East End FUtfc-M Bldg, 17th and Howard; lease his grip when turning the cor ner to enter Harney street, because he used the Dodge line cable on Tenth street as far as Harney street. Similar situations were encountered at other points aiong the line. Break Caused Much Delay. A break in the cable during the day time resulted in a tie-up for hours, as repairing the cable was a job of considerable work. The Harney street line started at Tenth and Pierce streets, extended along Harney to Twentieth street, thence to Dodge street and' west to Thirtieth street. The Dodge line also started at Tenth and Pierce streets, turned the corner at Tenth and Dodge streets, west on Dodge to Twentieth, and then north ou Dodge street to Lake streets. The grip cars were comparatively small and were open during winter and summer. Passengers frequently sat in the grip cars, -with collars turned up over their ears. Trailers were carried and the conductors passed through the cars to collect the fares. First Operated in 1887. The first cable car was operated during December, 1887, and the life of this form of street car service was only a few years. W. A. Smith, now general manager of the street railway company, was gen eral manager when the lines were consolidated and , the cable lines taken over.' F. A. Tucker was gen eral superintendent of the rable lines when they were started. S. R. Johnson was president of the com pany, and D. H. Goodrich was sec retary. Dr. S. D. Mercer, Captain Rustin and L. B. Williams were prominently identified with the project. The power house was at Twentieth and Harney streets, the building being now used as an au tomobile garage and shop. Cable 1 Incliej Thick. Mr. Smith recalls that the cable used in the old days was lyi inches thick and was made of steel strands woven over a hemp core. The work now being done on the Dodge hill in connection with the grading includes tearing out the concrete conduits of the old cable line. ' These conduits were con structed of heavy concrete masonry. An electric crane is being used to take out the 'concrete in four-foot sections, each piece weighing nearly two tons, thus indicating the ex pensiveness of cable line construc tion. The concrete is as solid as rock even after the passing of many years and it is with difficulty that it is being removed. By FRANK A. KENNEDY, Secretary of Labor. One day last week Charles "Bel linger, laborer, of Fairbury, came into the office of the secretary of labor in the state house at Lincoln and inquired whether or not he could get a job. He was directed to go to the downtown office of the state and federal employment bu reau. As he was about to leave the room we noticed the middle finger of his left hand was banadaged. We asked him if he had met with an ac cident. He said: "Yes; about four weeks ago I was working out at Anandale unloading coal fqpthe Farmers' Union Ele vator colnpany and I got my finger mashed." "Let's see it," we said, and he slipped a muslin stall off the ringer and showed us a nasty wound. The er d of the finger looked like it had been crushed in a cog-wheel. "Did you receive compensation for this accident?" we asked him. "Compensation what do you mean by compensation?" he in quired. "How long have you lived in Ne braska?" we asked, and he said he had lived in Fairbury ever since he was a boy. "Don't you know there is a law on the statute books of this state called the compensation or employ ers' liability law, which provides for the payment of two-thirds of the wages, also the doctor and hospital ior injurea workingmen and ...U- 1 i are hurt while at bills women who work?" "I never heard of such a law," said he. "Yes," we said; "employers used to spend millions of dollars each year to protect themselves from damage suits on account of injuries received by their employes. This vast sum of money was paid to lia bility insurance companies and was used to employ lawyers to contest the claims of injured workers when they brought suit for damages in the courts. "Listen, man; approximately 10, 000 employers in Nebraska carry compensation insurance, so that when any of their employes are in jured this insurat.ee will give to that worker two-thirds of his regular weekly wages, as well as take care of the doctor, medical and hospital bills for him, so that when he has recovered he will not be hopelessly in aeot. undoubtedly there are as many more Nebraska emolovers who ought to carry this insurance. and they would hasten to take out policies if their attention could be called to the risk incurred by failing or neglecting to do so." "I never heard of it," said the man. "The elevator man poured some Peroxide cn my finger when I was hurt and let me go. He never gave me no compensating, or doctor, or nothing." Employers Pay Insurance. "Along with the drawback to the administration of the law, . on ac count of your knowing nothing, even as to its existence, there are many, ever so many, employers who pay out good money for this insurance to protect their employers, and then proceed to make it a secret between themselves and the insurance com panies, instead of telling the work ers all about it. No doubt the Farmers' Union Elevator company you were working for,. carries com pensation insurance, but when this accident happened it was a long time after the policy had been received, chucked into the office safe and for gotten. We will wr,ite to the ele vator company today, and in a few days we will have information about your case, together with a copy of the first report of the accident, and maybe a check for your compensa tion. Insead of having a little per oxide poured on your finger by your employer, that finger right now looks like you had about $180 and your doctor bill coming to you. Your employer has probably paid for this for you and then forgotten it, and you are idle with an infected finger, instead of being given prompt medical attention, repaired, and returned to work. No one knowj how many such cases as yours there are in Nebras ka. This is the condition that causes the department, the greatest concern. We cannot wait until all the workers of the state fneet with an accident before they know there is a compensation law. The tpwns out in the state are not the nly ones where workingmen and Wo men are ignorant of the existence of such a law It is the same in Omaha, Lincoln, and the other larje cities. Have State-Wide Campaign. "We will inform the working peo ple of Nebraska concerning the compensation law before the end of the year or 'burst a puckering string.' Already we have the active co-operation 'of the insurance com panies, who are sending to all their policyholders cards furnished by the department, with instructions print ed thereon. These cards are to be hung up in the workshops and in conspicuous places about the estab lishments of employers who carry insurance. ' The secretary of the Ne braska Manufacturers' association was kind enough to send out by mail to all the members of that associa tion a copy of this card. The big corporations carrying their own in surance have made special requests for these cards so that their em ployes might get just the first nib ble of the existence of this law. The first edition of 10,000 cards is nearly exhausted, but we will print 50,000 or 100,000 of these cards if neces sary, in order to get to the workers with the information they should know about the compensation law. Requests for these cards will be promptly filled. "Approximately 1,000 industrial accidents in this state are reported to the department of labor each month. This amazing number of accidents to the workers in Ne braska makes the bureau of com pensation the most important of all, so far as human interest is , con cerned. It is safe to say that for each accident, five people have a direct personal interest in the in jured worker. In a month 5,000 are interested, and in a year 60.00Q." "Compensation what do you mean by compensation?" Oh! You editors of Nebraska, help us teach the working people of tne state that this great law is for their benefit when they need it most! Governor McKelvie's courage in securing the passage of the Code law was the biggest thing that has happened for labor in Nebraska in 30 years because it lifted the De partment of Labor out of the rut it had been in for all those years. Now, the Department of Labor has a place in the governor's cabinet, on the same level with the depart ments of finance, agriculture, trade and commerce, public welfare, and public works, receiving the same salary and carrying the same re sponsibilities just where it belongs. Never will a political party in this state dare to take from laboi what Governor McKelvie's Code ta has given to it. Never again will a -representative of labor be reqmrtd to administer the compensation law of Nebraska at a salary of $4.17 a day less than is paid common libor iu Omaha. , The compensation law deals with the industrial cripples of the, state. It is a sacred law. I know labor wants it administered on the square, so that every injured worker will get what the law provides, when it is due. The department of labor is also entrusted with the enforcement of the child labor law, the female la bor law, factory inspection law, safety in building regulations, em ployment agency laws, etc. all very important to the citizens of Ne braska. But when compared to the administration of the compensation law, with its fascinating, human in terest thrill, and its feeling of satis faction in performing, a really hu manitarian service, these other du ties become but mere routine in the course of a day's work. Washerwomen Plan to Strike for Raise Toledo. O., Aug. 30.-Washer-women, 100 per cent organized here, may strike soon for better wages. Thev will call a walkout for "wash day' soon, they say. Love Costs Five Spot. Chicago, Aug. 25. George Fo1e was in court charged with adminis tering a "love pat" to the fair check of Miss Mamie Stickfort, bis fiancee, Foley told, the court it was only s lover's "pat," but Miss Stickfort saic' it hurt. The "pat" cost Foley $5 and costs. ' Your neighbors are buying Gro ceriet, Fresh Meats, Hardware Paint and Wallpaper at Harper's, East End Flatlron Bldf, 17th and, Howard mmsam. Buy Granite Ware at Harper's, SAVE 60; ON AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE Have you confidence in your State Laws? Illinois Automobile Insurance Exchange District Office, 1115-1116 City National Bank Bldg. A legal reserve reciprocal exchange licensed by the State, Policy holders absolutely Protected. ; PROMPT ADJUSTMENTS, 100 SERVICE. Over 800 Policies written in Omaha in the past six months at a great saving to the public. tunn F! nA Theft. Average Cost tor One Year 91Z.50 $i,000 Fire and Theft . $2,000 Fire and Theft . 20.00 Liability and Property Damage, Average Cost for One Year-- Ford Cars, Chevrolet and Oakland .$14.50 MaxwelfV Buick 4, and Dodge 16 00 Ci..J.L.Lr Ovarium. Naah k 17.00 1 All other cars in proportion to the horse power. Why pay Vld A i- ... . - .i nn knn "T?atTiTA.oV! Inicf ax conn? w line rater? wncu juu vu uj j - o - KM. I PHONE DOUG. 3112. 1 1 in 1 I y 1 V, t I We Are Hef e to Stay. H. H. BELL, District Manager. 800 Satisfied Policy Holders in Omaha. , WATCH US GROW. AuiomobW Insurance Exclusively N Live Wire Agentsted in Every Town in the State. ii A 1 I i ii i I Hi i mt II East End Flatjron Bldf., 17th and Howard. taWiiiBlelifcaJsiBIWfe-aaWi ' " '- Buy Wagons for the Children at Harper's, East End Flatiron Bldg., 17th and Howard. Thousands of People Buy Furniture Here And thousands that would if they fully realized how much we can save them. The reason for that is our inex pensive location and low overhead expense allows us to undersell our competitors. For your own financial gain we request that you visit our store before buying furni ture. It is not necessary for you to buy furniture here, ' but you will if you grant us the opportunity to compare prices. You can be assured that our salesmen will show you every courtesy and explain to your satisfaction the reason for our Extremely Low Prices Let Us Show You Beautiful Bedroom Suites All finishes, that we are selling for 167.50, $97.50 and $130.00. Dining Room Sets In any style ar finish, reduced' to $75.00, $85.00, $95.00, $125.00 and $150.00. W Accept Liberty Bonds at Par Value. That Odd Dining Room Chair to match your set or replace that broken chair, reduced to $7.50, $5.00, $3.50 and $1.98. 1 Ruga, Stoves, or anything in furniture, 20 per cent to 50 per sent less than otfcer stores. We Pay the Freight for Miles. 100 STATE pitHITURE QOMPAHY j 1 Corner 14th and Dodge Streets Opposite U. P. Building, OMAHA ANNOUNCEMENT The Peregoy & Moore Company announce its removal to . 1408-10 HOWARD ST., Omaha, Nebraska We thank the many customers who have helped our business develop during the 51 years we were in Council Bluffs The officers and employes of this firm will be glad to greet you in its new hpme. The Peregoy & Moore Company THE CIGAR MEN Omaha, Nebraska Branches at Sioux Falls, S. D., Des Moines, la., Sioux City, Iowa.