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OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 20, 1920.
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The Lovers' Gate's Gone
But Romance Flourishes
Lighted Apartment Entrances and Stiff Park Benches
'Fail to Drive Old Fashioned Spooning Principles
Into Discard; The Girls Still Land 'Em.
y;itc, where the old-fashioned boy
would hold the hand of the old
fashioned girl for one brief, blush
ing clasp, and . then say "good-bye"
what has become of it?
It is a thing of the past. The
world is too first for slow romance,
and this particular method of fare
well has gone with the entrance of
the modern apartment house with
its bare, formal, don't-linger-here
entrance,
Cupid's Metamorphosis.
"Cupid's bower" has been
changed, for the modern youth
rides past the modern girl's home,
shoots his car into reverse, and
Sn c!:m hi hralrp. A minute
her hand, runs down and they're off.
But summer's moonlif magic
must be met and the park's the
'place.
Registering Folks Has
Become Second Nature
To Sgt. Frank Rose
What's in a name?
All curious persons and those who
' are not curious, but just merely want
to know are asked to consult Frank
Rose, the Beaii Brummel of Dean
Ringer's law enforcing body.
Several years ago Frank was chief
cierk at the Hotel Rome. He reg
istered men from all parts of tin.
world, from the humblest to the
greatest. He is possibly known to
'every drummer who has made he
OMAHA SHIVERS AS
BIG COLD WAVE
TIGHTENS
GRIP
Thermometer at IS Below Zero
Traffic Impeded By Snow Drifts
Man Freezes to Death.
The storm which swept down
from the northwest yesterday upon
Omaha and covered a wide area
with additional snow and below
zero weather was reported as speed
ing on its way across Ipwa today.
Omaha was visited yesterday with
the coldest weather of the season, 6
below being recorded at S a. m. and
S below at 18 a. m. Somewhat colder
tonight is the official forecast.
Strong winds last night piled the
snow drifts and interfered with
railroad traffic. Three inches of
snow fell in Omaha during the last
24, hours. The street railway com
pany operated 11 snow sweepers all
right and was able to uiaintain a
fair service during the early hours
of the morning.' ,Wtngs attached to
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Benches are placed in the parks,
but a grassy divan, away1 from the
walks and the benches, gets the
crowds. f
Meeting places for the sophisti
cated dreamers are usually the hotel
lobbies, but the corner drug stores
are also popular.
How to Get the Bacon.
' But the business girl, who ha
been cooped in her small apart'
ments all winter, uses different tac
tics. She rents a one-room cottage
near the lakes, and canoes and
swims in the moonlight.
She is at home to frolicking
youth and every night displays het
charm.
It will be safe to bet that the busi
ness girl of the one-room cottage
comes back to the office engaged
and Cupid's arduous' summer in
Omaha is pronounced a success..
Omaha business circuit.
But now. Police Sergeant Frank
Rose is still registering the boys
buT not the old boys of yore. He
has been on the department long
enough to take the monickers of such
great celebrities as "Jimmie" Cos
grove, Dave Gilinsky. Monk T rum
mer. "Tubby" Clark, "Hank McArdle,
Tom McKay, Bervl Kirk, "Big Wai
ly" Martin, Frank Slone. "Rabbit"
Davenport and "Arkansas" and hun
dreds of others..
"These men are just the loveliest
fellows," said Sergeant Rose. "They
are really nice when police-taxied to
Ringer's hostelry. One of the men
struck me on the wrist, being so
happy to see me, while another
kissed me on the cheek."
the sweepers pushed the snow back
from the car tracks.
Snow Stalls Trucks.
Trucks took advantage of the
street Car space and in many cases
when the trucks were turned aside
to let street cars Tass they became
stalled and blocked service. Snow
drifts in the streets are also imped
ing coal deliveries.
Charity associations 'are sending
coal in small quantities to homes of
the poor.
. Man Frozen.
A man was found frozen to death
at Thirteenth and Dodge street,
where he had apparently lost his
way in the blizzard.
Railroad officials reported through
passenger trains delayed at Ne
braska points, while snow plows
were being used. The coldest Ne
braska point on the Union Pacific
was Hillsdale, where the temperature
was 32 ,below zero.
Omaha is now running on a mar
gin of about five days' supply of
coal ahead. Most of the hospitals
are being operated on narrow mar
gins of coal.
The coal conrtnittee today issued
a statement urging people to shut
off heat from halls and vacant
rooms. Uymnasuim and swimming
pool have been closed at Nicholas
BETWEGM T4E MOSaOlTOS
AND THE PARK. QMRQIANS
THE DESECVE SVNfPATHV-
Medic Undergraduate
In Square-Toed Shoes
Stirs Students' Mirth
Pedestrians along 'teenth and
Davenport streets the other day
during a clinic of the Oreighton
Medical Alumni association had
visions of a Mexican bull fight,
gambling house brawls in Tia Juana
and tense moments at the repub
lican national convention, shortly
after the great, prospective surgeon,
Joseph Ephesus Malloy, under
graduate at the therapeutic den, en
tered the place.
Joe's square-toed brogans caused
the rumpus.
Prof. Von Shulte was giving a
lecture on something between osteo
genesis and bradcardia. Hence the
silence until Joe entered.
He copped unaniinpus attention
when his sap-soled (Jogs skidded
over the floor toward a front pew.
In the dust, they left the leviathan
impressions. In the minds of his
classmates and window spectators
they left reminiscences of Honest
Abe, the rail splitter.
But Joe walked, on amid the
scrambling forms of his class-'
mates, each stretching wild eyes to
catch a glimpse of Joe's brogans.'
On his way home Joe stopped at
(he first pawn shop and traded the
knock-out brogans for a harmonica.
ffemore square-toed ones for the
great surgeon.
Curses Fall Upon
Head of Jailer Who
Has Kingdom Own
John Byfne, jailer at the city bas
tile for 'umteen years, has really a
little kingdom of his own which is
separate from that of the police
headquarters. V
At all hours of day or night,
Senn hospital where only four tons
of coal are on handr
Street Cars Cold.
No heat is being used on street
cars. Their frosted windows shut
off the view of passengers from the
street. No fuel will be used to heat
cars during the present shortage.
Wherever possible people are
urged to walk, thuj.. relieving the
strain on the street railway com
pany, permit use of fewer cars and
therefore less power and less coal.
The weather bureau reports no
end of the cold wave in sight. The
lowest temperature recorded jn
Omaha yesterday was 15 below zeco
at 6 in the morning.
The public schools will remain
closed indefinitely and churches will
not be permitted to open until there
is an adequate supply of coal in
sight.
(The above article is quoted
from The Bee of December 17, last,
just six months ago, when the coal
strike was raging and the cold wa3
playing a fitting accompaniment to
it. Some cold, wasn t it! And you
wished thchot weather would come,
didn't you? Said you didn't care
how hot it got, didn't you?
(Well, here IS the hot weather
iNow arc you satisfied ' And does
reading the above article make you
feel cooler or hotter? We hope so.)
such frequent cries as, "Oh, Jailer,
Oh, Mr. Byrne, Pretty Johnnie," are
made by inmates of Byrne's king
dom, who wish to get in touch with
relatives and friends on the outside
of Dean Ringer's castle of stone
and iron located in the heart oi
Omaha's once famous Third ward.
Bvrne has to answer all of these
calls. J
All types of humor are aired on
the poor jailer, according to Byrne
and many is the curse that falls upon
his head because of they imprison
ment of the "hard boiled." Men
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who "room"' with the jailor Byrne
for minor offenses are usually ac
corded the best favors, Byrne says.
But they too, tet out of line once
in a while and nave to be locked up
in separate compartments.
"We don't often have to use force
cn prisoners," said Byrne. A ma
jority of them realize when they get
as far as 'my office, the time to re
sist is past and they wait and be
have until they have a trial or until
their attorney comes.
Byrne has been on the force for
more than 25 vcars.
He's On! A flash of silver
a mighty tug the line sings the
reel runs hot and the battle starts.
Gosh! How they will fight you,
these gamey bass, pike, pickerel yes, and
muskies too. They are all up here in the
forest fringed lakes and streams of this
cool North Country. .
Ten Thousand Cool lakes
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Signin Barber Shop
Says Shave 10 .Cents
But Business Is Bad
"Shaves, 10 cents; haircuts, 15
cents."
There is one place in South
Omaha where the sign still reads
thus.
While in every other barber shop
the price increase has made its mark,
here is one that is untouched by the
uplift. It stands alone, a sturdy bat
tler for the days of old.
The barbers in other shops con
tend that everything has gone up in
price. Haircuts have gone up to 60
cents in New York and in San Fran
cisco the barbers have decided that
75 cents is a fair price.
But the South Omaha shop re
ferred to is untroubled by these
signs of change.
I his shop is on i?outh Twenty
fourth street.-not far from the post
oftice, and the precise address is
Hut what's the use?
The shop is vacant.
Calls Police to Find
Qmaha Minister Who
Is Good at Marriages
"Will you please give me the name
of a good minister who will marry
me Sunday?" was the query which
came over the wire to the telephone
operator at Central police station.
"Rose and Iihave been going; to
gether for almost 10 years, and at
last she has accepted me. Getting
a preacher is a part of the prepara
tion, I guess, and I don't want to
fall down on anything now and lose
her. I'm not well acquainted with
ministers," the voice continued.
The operator gasped. "Aiding
Cupid isn't really one of the tasks
to which law et'forcers are assigned,
but- suppose yon ask the girl," the
operator suggested. "She's - proba
bly thouuht of several while she was
waiting."
No response for a moment. Then,
"Perhaps you're right," and the man
hung up.
No Potato Nor Potato
So Spanish Gent of
Leisure Lies in Jail
Emilio Vasquez of Kansas City
appeared 'in the South Side police
court one day last week chaVged
with vagrancy.
"Do you pTead guilty?" asked
Judge Fitzgerald. "
"No patato," answered Vasquez.
"Did you say something about po
tatoes?" asked Judge Fitzgerald.
"You know we don't dare to speak
of potatoes these days."
Vasquez nodded his head enthus
iastically. He didn't understand the
judge, but liked his smile.
"I'll fine you 50 potatoes," said
the court.
"No patato," said Vasquez. Hav
ing no potatoes to pay his fine, Vas
quez was taken to the county jail,
"here he will serve out his fine at
the rate of three potatoes a day
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Robbed of His Honor By '
Slight-Telephone Ielay
Workmen Find Mummified Form in Secret Compart
ment of Ancient Omaha Hotel Had Been Trying x
To Get Number Since 1849, But Heard Only Busy
Signal Drops Dead on Seeing Flock of Motors.
Last mouth in Omaha a very,
very old hotel building, its construc
tion dating back to the beginnings
of the city, was in the process of
being torn down. Workmen sud
denly came upon a panel in one
of the lofty corridor which yield
ed and gave way to the touch, re
vealing a black space beyond.
Fearing a secret chamber and
whatmight lie beyond the yawn
ing opening, the workmen fled head
long down the hall and could only
be induced to return under the pro
tection of two of Omaha's bravest
policemen.
Thus .shielded, they entered the
dark, damp hole in the wall and
found themselves in the center of
a large room. One of the police
men took his temerity by the throat
and switched oh the electric light.
Spring Back in Horror.
What the light revealed caused
the little group to spring hack with
cries of horror. In a chair'hy an
antique desk sat, or rather lay back,
the figure of a man in the full eve
ning dress of 50 years ago, his body
dried to proportions of a mummy,
and in one of his tightly clenched
hands he held a telephone instru
ment, in the other, the receiver.
Shaking with terror, the nuen
touched the prostrate form, expect
ing it to fall into pieces. Imagine
their surprise when the supposed
corpse, with a deep, hollow groan,
turned to the receiver and in a
hoarse voice said, "Douglas 25000.
and central, please, I'm in a hurry."
Employes Regain Courage.
But the policemen were back in
their own element now. One
brought a pitcher of water from the
faucet in a corner and the other be
gan pouring it down the man's
throat. After a space, when every
one held their breath waiting for
the result of the experiment, the
corpse's eyes opened slowly, turned
its head and said distinctly, "Doug
las 2S000, please."
The men worked rapidly and si
lently over the almost lifeless body
in the attempt at resuscitation. The
only sound in the room was the oft
repeated complaint, "Central, I said
Douglas 25000."
Corpse Finally Recovered.
After more than an hour's work
with stimulants The man, for now it
appeared that it was a man and nit
a corpse, was so revived that he
could sit up and tell his story.
"I was born," he began in a voice
still hollow and fatigued, "in 1827."
"I am an inventor. In 1849, after
many years of heartrending effort,
I perfected an engine that would
make carriages go without, horses.
Rushing frantically.to the telephone,
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W Opposite UP. Headquarters. OMAHA, a
BEEj WANT ADS WILL
I called the muuTer of a large whole
sale establishment to tell them the
good news.
"First I must tell you that I had
this room lniilt so that it could he
entered only by the secret door that
I might not be disturbed at my
priceless experiments. I had many
enemies who sought to steal my
inventions.
Central Finally Answered.
"It was a long time before cen
tral answered and I sat down in
this eliair. Wlien she did answer,
she said that the line was busy and
asked nie to-hoid the wire.
"Several months later she an
swered again and said that the head
of the firm was on the wire and
would speak to me, but the connec
tion was broken before I could say
a word.
"The next year, 1850, I heard a
f;':nt 'number' and called frantically
aain 'Douglas 25000' but got 110
response.
,rc 1otr 18?i; di r .
ported that the line was busy. SHUv i
qui mis at intervals in me penoa
of the ten years.
"Then in 1865, I heard some oe
say 'hello,' but whoever it was left
the line before I could answer.
Stenographer Answered in 1890.
"In 1890, I got the stenographer in
the outer office of the man I was
calling, but -she told me my party
was out at lurch.
"In 1900, Central broke in on the
lin suddenly, 'I'm ringing them,' she
said.
"In '1905, she answered briefly,
'That telephone has been removed
I'll give you information.'
"Since then I have heard nothing
until you gentlemen broke in just
now."
Gently the two policemen helped
the worn out man to stand upright
and led him down the hall to a broad
window where a view up and down
Harney street revealed hundreds of
automobiles dashing to and fro.
With a yell of baffled rage, the
man fell to the floor.
He expired a few minutes later.
For a second just before he lost
cbnsciousness he brightened a bit
and murmured, "Douglas 25000."
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of shantung It is reported that
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A wealthy Hawaiian prince Is a
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When he goes home he will be only
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"What does unionism stand for?"
afcked a glaring headline. Well,
lately It has gotton so finicky It will
hardly stand for anything. Dallas
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