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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 2, 1919)
: THE OMAHA SUNDAY NOVEMBER 2, 1919. 5 A HOTEL MANAGER DISAGREES WITH OWNER'S POLICY Tenants of Blackstone Pro . pose to Call Meeting of ? Protest Against His ' Leaving. F. W. Rothery, whose resignation as manager of the Blackstone hotel was 'announced last week, yester day made an announcement that he and the North American Hotel Co. agreed to - disagree overpolicies which the company wanted to adopt. ; , "When I took charge of the plaee two years ago there was a monthly loss of about $2,000," said Mr. Roth ery, "Every month that I was man ager the balance sheet showed a net increase over the corresponding month of the previous year. The books will show, that In Septem ber of this year the net profit was $7,064.40, which was the best month in the history of the hotel. Tenants Disapprove Action. -' During the first 13 months of the operation of the Blackstone, there were six resident managers in addi tion to a general manager, accord-- , ing to Mr. Rothery. f . Some of the tenants of the Black stone have bien discussing the mat4 ter oC calling a meeting of protest against the removal of Mr. Rathery whose administration met with gen- eral approval. Mr. Rothery was elected vice pres ident for Nebraska at the last an nual meeting of the Northwestern Hotel Men's association at Chicago He is also chairman of the board of governors of the Nebraska-Iowa Ho tel Clerks' association. Hotel Needed Him Badly. He submitted the following let ter, which .was written by E. W. Ex Aey, general manager of the North " American Hotel company, to an ex emption board during the period of the war: ' "Tfte Blackstone hotel, for obvi ous reasons, is a very difficult prop erty'to manage, and for -the first few months we had great trouble in se curing a manager who could operate it successfully. It passed through the hands of half a dozen men on trial. Mr. Rothery is the first man ager who has made a success of it, and who has passed the probation ary period, iax he has now been man ager fowa year and his administra tion meets with popular approval as r well as our own. Were he taken from us it would most seriously crip ple us; indeed, we feel that he could not be replaced. '- " "We have had a large number of - our important employes taken frpm us. It has been a hardship, but both they and we realize it was a patriotic duty and we mades no ef forf'to retain them, but in this case we most earnestly pray the officers of the local board to grant Mr. Rothery's exemption. Notonly is ,he essential, absolutely necessary as a manager and principal executive of that important hotel, but willing as he is-to serve his country wher- ; . . . . i i- t- r iL i i I ever u warns 111111, jic is uie iuib support and comfort of a sorely distressed' and in 1 ' mother and a blind brother. Vc know of few. men 'who" have been as prodigal of care and comfort to an afflicted family as has Mr. Rothery and we submit that his first and most im portant duty is right here itf Omaha. V Mr. Exley could hot be found last night at the xompany's office or his home in the Hamilton apartments, Twenty-Jourth and Farnflm streets. Man; Believed to' Be Demented, Battles lhree roiicemen It took the combined efforts; of three policemen Friday night to take Vito Palumbo, 1107 Douglas street, to jail after he had been locked in a bathroom at St. Joseph's hospital. Police sav he is demented. The county board of 'insanity will take charge of the man, police say. Palumbo had been at the hospital for treatment of an injured hand, Friday he was allowed to leave the hosoital to visit at his home, When he returned to the hospital he is said to have started ' to raise a - disturbance, threatening patients and tearing pictures from the walls. The nurses were unable to overcome the man and he was lock ed m a bathroom until police ar rived. ' -- : V Bandits Rob Discharged Sofdier of $227 and Ticket Three masked men held up Rob ert Tracy, a discharged - overseas soldier, iust east of the Hotel Fon tenelle near Eighteenth and Doug las streets, early yesterday and rob bed him of $227 in cash and & ticket to San Francisco. Tracv left the oolice station to' day and sought the assistance of the Red Cross in continuing bis trip to his home. Tracv's home is in San Francisco. He ws on his way there from Min neapolis and stopped in Omaha for the .night He recently returned from France. He had walked up from the Union station, , eaten 4 meal gat a restaurant and was on his wav to a hotel when he was. robbed. So completely was he stripped of all his valuables thatJie had to sleep at the police station. , Argue Motions to Strike Out Pork and Bean Petition Attotnevs for the Standard Oil company, Loose-Wiles Biscuit eom- Danv. Losran & Bryan and other cor porations yesterday argued motions to strike out the petition 01 Louise Osborne Ferson and Grace Osborne for $120,000,000 against those cor- porations and 44 cither companies and individuals. The two women claim that these defendants stole- a "pork and bean tiscuit"recipe that they had patent ed. .They allege that the defendants used this recipe in vast operations from which they derived great profits. Wife of Prominent Omaha Physician Granted Divorce 1 Mrs. Mary Wearne Dr. Frederick J. Wearne Does Not Appear in Court to Contest Suit Mrs. Wearne Asked For No All 'mony Said Husband Abused Her. Mary Wearne was granted a di vorce from Dr. Frederick J, Wearne by Judge Sears in divorce court yes terday on the ground of cruelty. Dr. Wearne, who is a prominent physi cian and surgeon with offices at 830 City National Bank building, did not appear in court to contest the di vorce. Dr. Wearne is vice president of tile Bankers Realty Investment company and president of Wearne Brothers foundry. Mrs. Wearne filed her suit for di vorce September 18; 1919, alleging that her husband had a vile disposi tion and a violent temper, thai he became abusive and complaining soon after their marriage, Augusf 18, 1908, and - continued so all through their married life. She chargedthat on one occasion he cursed at her in public in the presence of friends. She alleged that his treatment was such that she was compelled to go to California for rest and that she remained there year and a half. She said his angry words and exhibitions of tem per and profane language rendered married life unbearable. - They have no children and Mrs. WearneJisked for no alimony. Judge Sears restored her to her maiden name, Babcock. . J. ; , Dr. Wearne stated yesterday that he and his wife made an agreement outside of court regarding alimony and that he will pay her a lump sum and a certain sum monthly. "I. do not care to state the amount which we agreed on," he said. Dr. Wearne is living at the Black stone hotel with his mother. Mrs Wearne has been living with her parents at 3311 Hamilton street, for some time. Rooseyeit Memorial Drive To Continue Two More Weeks The Roosevelt Memorial associa tion campaign for membership ,will be continued two more weeks in rNe-J braska, it was announced at the Omaha, headquarters yesterday. AI though a large percentage of the state's population has been enrolled in the association, the principal ob ject of which is to teach real Amer icanism, an attempt will be made during the next two weeks to make the membership 1U0 per cent of the population. Special committees will be formed Monday in umaha to clean up in the city. No complete reports on Jhe success, of the drive up to date has been received at the local head' quarters. , gs. Failures J :Don t 1 1 Improve J Age , ' ; ' X SOLDIERS, ATTENTION t We'll dva far oa -. Army Ovarcoata dyed, with new button. 15.00 aM up. . . DRESHER BROS- 1211 to 1211 Famaia St.v Tyltr 34-B. Unless you are "some body" at forty, you're "nobody" at sixty. If all men were equally bright, equally observing and equally ambitious, then, and then only, "would age and experience give the older man an advantage over the younger man. : ' The oldest switch engine" in the yards must give the right of way to the newest express train. , ' The man' who stays Jfi a TOt either aoesn'Cfcnow or doesn't care how big .the world is. ' The physician 6f" "forty years' experience," who fctill looks shabby and barely" makes a living, was a failure from the Start. . The lawyer who has "practiced a lifetime," and still has to practice, knows he "lost his case" when he was young, i . r.- .. ' V v Dentists who were "pulling teeth" when I was play ing marbles (some of whom "practiced" long before the Dental Laws were placed on the Statute books, and there fore were not compelled to pass an examination), have meered at the "moderiMipstarts" and wondered "how it was possible for "mere fledglings" to build up a dental practice employing ten to twenty people, when they could ; not attract' enough people to their offices to keep them busy even after many years' "experience?" Experience is valuable only when one has the ability first to ANALYZE it and then to APPLY it. There you have the secret of the success of this dental - office. 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