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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 24, 1920)
' , THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: OCTOBER 24, 1920. T.N.T.toBeUsed To Throw River Into Old Course Elkhorn at Flood Stage Cuts Caper West of Omaha That Costs County Money. The river that ran away from a bridre ia going to be put back in its place. Even if it take a ton or two of high explosive to turn the trick! X)ut beyond Elk City, in western Douglas county, a 300-foot steel span that cost county taxpayers $27,000 rears its uprights in discon solate isolation above an expanse of hardpan coated with. sand. Weeds and willows, and mongrel underbrush have found footing for flourishing growth and cover the channel bed where once the Elkhorn river flowed. Water, the steadfast friends of old John- Barleycorn still contend, was made to rumble under bridges. But the Elkhorn . refuses .to abide It has run away, vamoosed. de serted, and the Elk City steel span that once cast,: its shadows in the rippling current below is left ' ! stranded above dry land, j . ' ,', To reunite thettiver ana bridge is the problem that has been turned over to State Engineer George E. Johnson. Working under his direc tion in the project is County Sur , veyor Louis Adams.. To Use T. N. T. Progress already has been made with "coaxing measures," Adams ex plains. Now 'they're ready to use torce. A ton and a half of T. N. T.. cached at Valley, will be used to hasten the "reconciliation." The costliness of a woman's whims is sweet and p'easing economy in comparison with expense attached to the vagrant fancies of the wayward Elkhorn, Douglas county commis sioners opine. V ( Gloomily they gaze upon this rec ord of how the Elkhorn has raided the county treasury within the last X two. years: . v For temporary connecting span when river cut around east end of Elk City bridge in spring of 1919, $1,600. For 500-foot emergency struc ture made necessary when river ran away from bridge and formed new channel 45C feet farther west during flood of April, 1920, $18,000. '.-. "Nearly $20,000 that river his cost us in two years; because it wants a new channel every spring," rumin ates County Commissioner McDon ald. "There's a lot of ways that ' money might have been spent. "Don't know why the contrary river couldn't pick a place farther upstream to do its meandering. Seems to insist on squirming into new channels at the site of this Elk City bridge, where it can do the greatest possible damage." Damage is Slight County commissioners do not stand alone in complaints against the river's wanderings. The Elk City bridge is an important connect ing link on the Military road, the most direct route between Omaha and .Fremont Farmers on both sides of the bridge and both Omaha and Fre mont motorists have suffered in convenience and loss of time and money each xime the Elkhorn's ramblings have forced temporary closing of the road. The first Elkhdrn crossing south of the Elk City span is the Noyes bridge, three miles away,, involving a detour of six miles from the direct Military road. The next span to the south is the Waterloo bridge, on the Lincpln Highway, six miles south of the Elk City bridge. To the north there is no cross ing between the Elk City bridge , and the Arlington bridge, five miles away. Tpe damage; to the Elk City struc - Jure through the Elkhorn's wander ings in 1919 was comparatively slight and the road -was re-opened for traffic within two months. The big sweep to the west the river took last spring caused more serious dam-i age. It was necessary to keep the road closed from April until late in August, while engineers con structed the 500 feet of temporary bridging connecting the old bridge with the new western bank of the river. . Current Deflector. This temporary structure, built on heavy cedar pilings, is serving its purpose in keeping the road open, but it is not constructed to with stand onslaughts of breaking ice and spring floods. County officials see the only so lution in bringing the river back to the deserted steel bridge. Under supervision of Engineer Johnson and Surveyor Adams a cur rent deflector recently has been com pleted across the river's new channel. The "deflector" consists of two rows of pilings, with heavy brush, swung; on cables, filling the space between the pilings. The deflector is slowly swinging the main current of the river east ward, back into its old channel un der the bridge. The process would be hastened materially by heavv rains, bringing down-stream suffi cient quantities of sediment to form a heavy bar upstream from the-de-.. f lector, Surveyor Adams explains. Meanwhile, they're going to help the river find its way back by re moving, a series of snags and heavy piles, of driftwood now impeding eastward progress of the current. . That's where the high explosive ' will come into play. Surveyor Adams believes he now has enough T. N. T, j on hand to "blow the river back into its old channel.' v . The blasting operations will be started within the next two weeks. The current deflector and blastinc; will cost approximately $5,000. Extraordinary sale Monday of beautiful silk dresses,' velour dresses, tricotine - dresses, etc.; values $35 to $49.50; dJOE choice, at 34&D Whether you need a dress or not in justice to yourself see these wonderful values bright and; early Monday. JULIUS ORKIN i 1508-10 Douglas St ! ; i i . . . T . h Tys Above Elk, City steel bridge deserted by runaway Elkhorn river Below (Left) Temporary structure 500jt long, built to bridge DacK into oia cnannei. Giant Air Rocket Will Be Ready forTest Soon Worcester, Mass., Oct. 23. An ac tual test of Professor Robert God dard's rocket, which, it is claimed, can travel vertically 70 miles in the air, will be made here shortly. The time and place have not yet been definitely decided upon. The rocket, it is said, is practically ready to be tried out. It weighs 30 imu Douglas Street (jyjJl.lUl, N All Sizes! for women and misses from '16 to 46! Surely we can fit YOU and help you save from $15 to $40! If you are able to do to, River Moves; Bridge Spans Dry Road , .. v; pounds, 25 of which is highly ex plosive. A sufficiently large rocket would hit the'moon, it is claimed. Professor Goddard started his1 in vention during the war and has been at work on it since. His laboratory at that time was carefully guarded by soldiers, as the . rocket was ex pected to provide the army with a terrible nbiengine of destruction capable of shooting 200 or more miles. ' Hi-fi -nwr Extraordinary ', ' A "' C1 Event Omaha Women Will Lontf RememW T ULIUS ORKIN'S Dress Sales always command wide w attention for invariably these events offer the choicest of, desirable styles at exceptionally great sav ings! Here is just what you have been waiting for a fine Dress at a reasonable price! - 800 N eiv Dresses Made to Sell at$S9.50M5.00and$9.50, Offered Monday, at please come early then we can . l:i wiue uiu.li and left stranded above dry land. Elkhorn's new channel. (Right) ( . Many Are Injured When Bulls Are Released in Village Madrid, Oct. 23. Scores of villag ers at Canet e Real, near Malaga, were injured. 'and. thousands of dol lars' worth of property destroyed when a group- of the villagers mu tinied against the town major and unlocked the corrals containing av eral bulls. The bulls, which had been v held Tl l r-TlT?n 1508-1510 Street, Afternoon and Dinner Dresses TN fact, dresses for every woman and for all occa- sions! Here is an almost limitless variety of the season's newest, most charming models, very spe , cially underpriced, due to an extremely fortunate purcnase. , tricotine dresses crepe meteor dresses v ' charmeuse dresses heavy serge dresses duvet velour Presses wool velour dresses ' satin dresses check velour dresses satin-with-tr1cotine dresses SILK-WI TH-CEORCE T TE DRESSES DRESSES WITH BEADS DRESSES WITH EMBROIDERY . DRESSES WITH BRIGHT BEADS AND BRIGHT EMBROIDERY DRESSES WITH BEAD AND BUTTON TRIMMING; DRESSES WITH LACE TUNICS AND PANELS CHOICE OF BLACK, NAVY, BROWN. TAUPE, FLESH, WHITE, PEKIN, REINDEER, ELECTRIC BLUE, MAIZE better serve you as well as iucr Current deflector aiding in forcing river for" the fights at the local fair, ran rampant through the town, sending women and' children fleeing in all directions, knocking villagers down and goring several. A large amount of property was damaged before the bulls finally made off for the moun tains. Failure of the town major to pro vide a larger number of bulls for the local festival fights is said to have prompted the villagers' action. Douglas Street those who are unable ta Bowlegs Will Be Fashion In Europe In Next Few Years Thousands . of German and Austrian Children Afflicted With Rickets During War. By FRANK E. MASON. . Intrrnallonnl Nw Srrrlee Staff Corrcapondent. Berlin, Oct. 16. Fifteen years hence bowlegs will be the fashion in central Europe Rickety ch;l dren by tbe thousand are growing up with bowed legs. A tour of the workingmen's quarters ol any Gtr- man or Austrian city causes one to wonder how the bowlegued women of the coming generation will .I'sijrn their styles to show their arched l;mbs to the best advantage, or hide them should arches that year be out of fashion. Rickets, a disease resulting from undernourishment, manifests itself by a softening and weakening of the children's bones. It was apparently unknown in Germany before the war, and when it was first met it was dubbed "the English disease " Why it was first called "English disease" nobody seems to know, any more than there is any ryhme or rea son about the name of Spanish f'u. After the medical worll clearly understood that softened bones which quickly curved under the child's weight were caused by lack of food resulting from the British blockade of Germany, they contin ued in a vein of sarcasm to name rickets English disease. Rickets shows itself principally among the children born during the war. ; The number of rickety chil dren in Germany and Austria is dif ficult to estimate. 'The-e are dis tricts where you must look with care if you hope to find a normal child under 5 years of age. 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Can be had in Burl Walnut, Sin Domingo Mahogany or beautiful Quarter-Sawed Oak. - A Very Special Reduction On Emerson Pianos ' j COMPARE OUR PRICE WITH EASTERN PRICES EMERSON STYLE 1 EMERSON STYLE 2 An Extra Fine Marshall & Wendell Piano excellent mechanical condition, Only $135 The only representative in this locality for STEINWAY, Emerson, Hardman, McPhaU, Lindeman and the popular Schmolier & Mueller. SCHMOLLER & MUELLER 11M18 So. letb st. mense work to remedy the condi tions, but their help comes too lute in thousands of cases. The Quakers say their funds enable them to as sist only one-half the children who need help. Class Distinction. "See those bowlegs?" said a b!t ter brooding father to me. "Twenty or 30 years from now we, the work ers, will all have bowlegs U will be the sign that we weren't the pam pered children of profiteers .'.uring the war. It will be the sign of class distinction. When the revolutionary terror comes it will be death to all the young people with stnight legs." Europe's Most Beautiful Princess Enters Convent Modera, Italv, Oct. 23. "Now that I may no longer rule my peo ple, my days are dark and my power has turned to ashes in my mouth." With this public declaration Marie Adelaide,' grand duchess and former ruler of Luxembourg, who abdicated after the armistice, has entered the convent of St. Theresa here. The former ruler of the "buffer state" between France and Germany has taken the full vows. She will never set foot outside the convent in which she has elected to end her days. Born in 1892,. the eldest daughter of the Grand Duke William of Lux embourg and the Grand Duchess Marie Anne of Braganza, and cousin of the queen of Belgium, the Grand Duchess Marie Adelaide was drowned on her majority in 1912. , She is 28 years old and called the most beautiful princess in Europe. 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Chair Caning Is Revived ' v V In New Englund Towns Columbus, O., Oct. 23. "The suits of the war in New England lias been a tremendous revival in the practice of "caning," as making cane seats for chairs is termed. Trices of chairs have risen so tre mendously that the general public has stopped buying and repairing : has been tlje general order. In sev eral parts of Massachusetts and Maine are remnants of the once powerful tribes of Indians who now thrive by doing work in cane, and during the past year they have reaped a harvest. In York, Me., one Indian family boasts the first automobile owned by any member of the tribe and this has been se- -cured through the efforts of the ' family in the caning line.' Indian, 138, Dies of Burns; Pipe Sets Clothes Afire Bakersfield, Cal., Oct. 23. Philip Leflahnd, a Digger Indian, who ' claimed he was 138 years old is dead, but not ,of old age. Sparks from his pipe ignited his clothing and caused burns to which he suc cumbed at his tribal home far up in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Fu neral services were held Thursday. A Dress Evant Monday at JULIUS ORKIN 1508-10 Douglaa Strt Dresses actually worth $35.00 to - $49.60. Special Sal Price $25.00. I I fsr which eefld me I "". -" B. F. D 1 ... . ........ . si.w . . . . t . . . . , . -.-J' State. $650 $675 Sale Tomorrow Steger ft Sons Piano. Beautiful Walnnt case. Tery fine bargain. Only 8295 Phone Doug. 1623. :7 3