Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 5, 1884, Page 7

PBARKER & MAYNE REAL ESTATE "BROKERS Thirteenth and Farnam Streets. " Houses Rented and Rents Collected Promptly, and at Reasonable Rates. Houses and Lots, Business Blocks and Sites, and vacant lots for sale in all parts of the city. _Any one having property to sell for what it is worth, we would be pleased to handle it: Any- ‘one wanting bargains can always find them by calling on us. Lots in our additions are sold lower and on bet- terterms than can be had at any other agency ~ THORNBURG PLAGE. In West Omaha, is a beautiful additon of 96 lots, 34 of which are still unsold. We are offering these lots at $150 to $225 each on small monthly payments. NORWOOD PARK. We platted and put on the market three months ago as an advertwe- went, at the nominal price of $60 per acre lot, out of 160 acre lots we have but 18 left, which we will close out at the same price on monthly " BELLAIR. The prettiest outside addition to Omaha, on West Cuming street; 24 acre lots for $250, monthly pavments. - Barker & Mayne’s Sub-division. On South 13th Sreet, only 4 bilocks from end of street car line; 3225 to 8275 each, monthly payments. We have a few beautiful lots left in Hawe's ad street,which we will close out at $350 each. Lots in Hanscom Place, $550 5 8750 each, easy terms. We have lots in every part of the city for sale at reasonable prices Call and see us before buying. payments. ion, near Saunders and on easy terms. Barker & Mayne. EDHOLM& ERICKSON SOLE AGENTS FOR STEINWAY, WEBER, HAYNES AND HARDMAN P E LA N OS, "AND SMITH. AMERICAN AND PACKARD ORGANS. We have the largest and best stock of Shee Mausic in the city, comprising Ber In, Vienna, Petors’ “Lelpzig” Cheap Edition, Breslau, Mayence editions, Small Goods and General Music Merchandise of all Kinds, e 101 AND 103 15TH STREET, OPPOSITE POSTOFFICE. "EDHOLM & ERICKSON, WHOLESALE AND RETALL JEWELERS Jewelry of a designs made to order. Large stock of ‘Diamonds and Fine Gold Jewelry. AGENTS FOR GORHAM MANUFACT'NG CO'S STERLING SILVERWARE x LARGE STCCK OF oward Waltham, Elgin, Lancaster and Columhus Watches SOLE AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED A SCHNEIDER WATCH, DRESDEN o Cor. 15th and Dodge, opposite Postoffice. THE CHOICEST LINE OF FINE STONES AT | BED ROCK PRICES ! Presentation Gifts a Specialty, Inspection Solicited. COR. DOUGLAS AND 13'h St. How He Protects Railway Corporations, Investigating Cages of Loxs and Dam. age, Injured €tock and Pas sengers, Lost Bage gage, Bto, St. Louis Globe-Democrat The most vexatious position on a rail road is that of claim agent, Heo never has any lelsare; he fa always looking after some disagreeablo claim or other, He ia afraid to sleep, almost, for fear some claimant should get ahoad of him, and he never knows when his work Is done. He is always savinn the ratlroad much money, and gradually turning his hair gray in achieving his aim In life, and yet he receives not nearly as much salary as a general passenger agent who puts cn a heap moro style, and doesn’t do any more work. P There isn'ta day in tho year on any large railtoad that something docen’t happen, calling for the claim agent's at- tention, 1f there is a wrock he is promptly on hand getting information, seoing that the injured are properly cared for, and generally creating as much sym- pathy for the railroad company as for its unfortunate patrons, Perhaps some in- jured passenger waits out in his wrath till the day of grace and compromise i past, and sues the corporation for damages. Thoreupon the claim agent packs his grip and hies him to court. THE CLAIM AGENT IN COURT, He glves his plat of the scene of the wreck to the general attorney and hands him also a list of witneases, which list is again_turned over to the division super- intendent who locates the men needed and instructa the telegraph department to hunt them by wire. Very probably the claim agent has a short hlstory of the plaintiff’s life, out of which the corpora- tion counsel makes much capital on cross examination. It may be an innocent question to ask a plaintill’ witness if she has ever had typhoid fever, but if she has, and the corporation can show by ex port testimony that the injuries alieged to have resultod from tho company's neg- ligence are identical with those prod by typhoid fever, and that plaintifl’ can show no visiblo or tangible physical losion then the chances are at least good for a hung jury or a verdict for defendant, TACT AND CRACKERS, Sometimes the claim agent has to make up by his tact for the want of tact of other people. Once upon a time a railrond car had been robbed, and the plunder—a barrel of crackers—hidden in the brush near the track. The divlsion superinten- dent armed two men with shotguns and set them to watch, By and by a tramp came along and proceeded to regale him- solf on the stolen provender.qw He was met by the two watchers, but started to run, Attempts to halt him failed and tho watchers fired, peppering Mr. Tramp very plentifully in the calves of his legs. It soon turned out that there was no proof that this tramp had done the steal- ing, and he, therefore, had good cause for action against the corporatlon for injuries sustained by the violent assault of its agents, In such a dilemma, thq railroad company hired a doctor to pick the shot out of the tramp’s legs, and then sent for the claim agent, who by fair means or foul soon had the injured man confessing In the presenco of witnesses, that he had himself burglarized the car and caretully segregated the crackers for future use. In this case the balance sheet is struck as follows: Paid Dr, R., picking out shot.... Roard of tramp at hotel. ... . Expenses K, L, M., claim agent Total ook ] Probable verdict by jury, incase of suit, including costs of trial Saved by claim agent’s tact..... HIS PERSUASIVE POWERS, Tt is part of the claim agent’s business to keep himself and his company solid with the sheriffs of the counties through which his railroad runs, He cultivates the sheriff as long as he finds him a square man, and the result shows up in the speedy arrest of railroad depredators. He stands in with the real estate men because he may want to show sometime what is the actual value of a tract of land which has been deluged by backwater from some creek consequent upon the ob- struction of said creek’s channel by the piers or abutments of o rallroad bridge. He is always pleasant, always conciliatory, rlways ready for a compromise. Good claim agents never go to tho place down stairs, They become so successful in compromise that at last nothing can re- sist their powers of persuasion. ,089 50 HE EVEN TACKLES LAWYERS, Mot claim agents are not lawyers, but they are usually ablo to cope with the ordinary promoter of litigation. In states whers no attorney’s lien on a judgment is provided for by law, the claim agent ignores the lawyor and sottles with tho client direct, 1o thus cuts tho lawyer out of his fee, and occaslonally, as has bappened once or twico In Texas, the lawyer hunts up the claim agont and takes his foo in not a strictly professional shape. In states whoso statutes give the attorney a llen on the judgment recover- od, the claim agent settles In such a way as to provent all possibility with the law- yor. Sometlmes the rule is deviated from, as when the rallroad company finds some one particular lawyer very dili- gent in briging suits for damages. In such cases the claim agent takes a back seat and therailroad solicitor como to the fore, and he fights every case right along, and appeals those he' docsn’t win on trial to the court of last resort, all by way of teaching tho aforesnid attorney that he cant make hls living in that way. HE REASONS WITH LEGISLATORS, As much as sny other railroad man, and more ko than most of them, the claim agent has tobe aman of good moral character, Hemust boa man that can be implicitly trosted, He has often to draw sight drafts in sudden emergen- cies and must know that the same will be protected by the road, Once in a while he goes to the legislature, where he meets the lawmaker of the rural district who has & grudge sgainst corporations generally and against the claim agent's road in particular, Somsbimes it is very hard to reason with such men, but the claim agent generally carries his point. Occaslonally he carries his point and gots his road left at the same time. It hap- poued somoe time ago that a cortain log- lslator who'had to be reagoned with wanted a special rate on coal.” He got it, the claim agent thinking that probably two or three cars would last one legisla- tor's family for the wint Hereln he was wistaken. The legislator called his friends around, found out how much coal they wanted, and succeeded in gotting between thirty and forty cars carrled at 4 roduced rate for the benefit of himself snd friends, The result was a particu- The Intevest of | process of construction there and it is S ry been ruined, and the claim agont had_ tc maka some valuable concessions on be half of the company to get a suit of un awfal discrimination out ot the way. KREPS AN EYE ON WOMEN The claim agent has also a koon nose for the fraudulent baggege claims, Hoe knows what can be put into a travelling trunk as well as any woman, for all the sizes botwoen extra small and two.story yand basoment Saratoga. In one case known to the writer, where a lady claimed damages for lost baggage, the clalm agent finally was able to show that sho was riding on the cars without eithor tickot or pass and without having ever tendered hor fare. And in another case the claimant was shown to have lost a trunk similar to the one whoso value was sued for on another road only five weoks previous, and acomparison of the Inven- tories of the contents of the two trunks sliowed so much resomblance botwoeen the two lists that both suits had to be abandoned. In another case the trunk sued for had been hidden by the claim- ant in his house. The claim agent drop- ped around In the capacity of a cow doo- tor and spotted the trunk. 1t took more tham persuasion to prevent the railway company from prosocuting this last party for fraud, —— SEBASTOPOL AS IT 18, A Visit to the Theator of the War of the Allies Against Russia, Thirty years have passed sinco the allied armies of England and France drow their lines around the fortifications of Sebastopol and entered upon their never- to-be-forgotten siege, writes a correspon- dent of the Philadelphia Times. This woek Englishmen are lolding the annual colebrations by which it is thelr wont to perpetuate memorles of Balaklava and the Crimen. A short account, therefore, of tho great changes that are at longth being effected within the ruined city, which the geniua of a Todleben has ren- dered immortal, may not be without in- torest.) By the terms of the treaty which brought the Orimean war to a conclusion Ruesia was forbidden to attempt the re. fortification of Sebastopol, and as a con- sequence of this tho city long romained the mass of crumbling ruins to which it was reduced by the enemy's shot and shell. Upon the outbreak, however, of the Franco-German war, Ilussia saw her opportunity to relegate to a dusty and unvisited shelf the parchment by which she was bound, and from that daya change camo over the scene. At first slow, the rate of progress soon became rapid. The old rulns vanished, the bat- tered tenements were pulled down, and the crumbling walks ropaired. Tho rail- way that runs from Peakop was extond- ed” to Sebastopol. The rising city was? thus put in direct communication with all the Russias, and a new era in its history was inaugurated. | 10 restin we F - eoted, Within tho city that has been olf, over the graves of the four admirals who died in {ts defense, a second memorial pel of the most beautiful design and |costly material stands to betoken the gratitudo Ruasia bears her patriots, Under these ciroumatances, thercfore, it is_hardly concelvable that Englishmen will allow the graves of their fallen braves to fall into r d. == A tlsing commeroial port, & possiblo ar eenal, and an historioal battle-ground, Sobastopol has certainly a future before it. Within tho last ten years its popula tion has increased rapidiy, and the work of robuilding fs in constant progress. In the summor months many tourlsts touch here from Odessa and from remoter reglons. Only a littlo while back there was but one hotel in the place, and that of & moat unprotentious character. There are now three large firat-class hotels and not a few minor hostelries, The *‘Heighta above Sebastopol,” so often reforred to in tho record of 1854 and 1855, are being grown over with trees of a dwarfish nature, and would present a very changed aspoct to the veterans who know them in thoso eventful years. Mount Inker man is olad with the foliage of oak trees, *‘Chapman’s” hill is thick with a verdant growth and the slopes, which once were dotted with British camps, are now green and lawn.like. History, it {s satd, is wont to ropeat itsolf. It may very woll bo doubted, however, whethor in the mattor of the Crimoan war the saying ts likely to bo verified. In any evont, it may safely bo prophesied that Tong before Sebastopol in called upon to sustain & second siege sho will have risen to foremost rank in the commerocial cities of Russia and, perhaps, of Europe. : | — Give sournaltsm a Ohance, Philadelphia Press. After some careful consideration of the Intercats at stake, we have organized Girover Cleveland's cabinet as follows: Secretary of state, Colonel Daniel Manning, of the Albany Argus, Secretary of the treasury, Colonel John R. McLean, of the Cinclunati En- quirer. Secretary of war, Colonel ilenry Wat- terson, of the Loulsville Courier-Journal. Secrotary of the navy, Colenel Henry Grady, of the Atlanta Constitution. Sooretary of tho interior, Colonel R. M. Pulsifer, of the Boston Herald. Postmaster-genoral, Colonel Stilson Hutchlne, of the Washington Post. There, as Captain John Bunsby would have remarked, If occasion had required, thore's a cabinet as is a cabinot. It pos- sessen more grit, brains and high-pressuro patriotism than any similar combination ever placed bofore the American pooplo. Wo aro for it on tho broad prineiplo that journalism must be given a chance. Thus resurrected from the dead, It has eprung rapidly into a position of greatost promise, and every day adds to its growth, Noris the fature likely to be- lie the promise given, Its harbor s ono of tho finest in the world, and, unlike the majority of the Baltic or Black sea ports, its waters do not freeze in winter, This gives it at onco great advantago over Odesss, which is the great port of tha present. For a week or two, more or less, each winter the harbor of the latter is closed. The check to trade is in consequence considerable, and there is thus every probability that with the lapse of time Sebastopol will now oust Odessa and develop into the great center of the Russian export trade. As a commorclal port its prospects are brilliant, but it is further quite within the range of possi- billty that it will bo selected as a govern- ment naval arsenal. The extont and the natural advantages of its harbor have decided the government to en- ter upon experiments in this direction. There are at present two iron clads in reported that if these prove a success others will be given in hagd. Stationed in the harbor there are two of Admiral Popofl’s monitors or gunboats and a small frigato of nix guns, The dry docks,which were destroyed during the seige, aro being restored, whilst the repairs to the Tchernaga aqueduct, by which thev were kopt supplied with water, are already completed. No attempt has been made a8 yet to reconstruct the old fortifications of the city,. What measures the Russian government may adopt for the defonso of tho place thet is so rapidly rising to im- portance it is mot yet known. It is, however, probablo that the future of Sebastopol will be commercfsl; and it is more as a trading point than a strategic point that it will be regarded. Among the most important of the soat- tered ruins which still stand and which have not been removed to give place to the handeome and eubstanital edifices everywhero rislng are the famous * White buildinge,” Todleben’s old barracks. They stand overlooking the harbor, close to the new railway terminus, It was in the open epace before these roofless, blackened walls that the Russians erected thelr statue to Admiral Lagereff, the original of the Black Sea fleet and of the fortifications of Sebastopol. But the point of intereat for the Britlsh visitor is Catheart hill, in the outskirts of the city. During the slege it was to Cathcart hill that ovoryone repaired for a commanding view of the operations within the walls, and it is thither that visltors still repair to overlook the whole scenes of the great wtruggle. over to the Britlsh government to be con- verted by them Into a genoral cemetery for thoso who foll in the Orimean canpatgns, Originally thoro wero no fower than 140 burial places of English soldiers scattered at _irregular intervals between Alma and Balaklava, The number has been too great to allow of propor caro being bestowed upon all and 80 grant has boen made of Cathoart hill, Hither the monuments from other cemeteries have been taken, The old in- closure has been considerably enlarged and surrounded with & low wall, The ground has been consecrated anew, and asmall house built at the cntrancs for the guardian intrusted with its supervi- sion, The bodies, of course, have not been removed from their old resting places, At this lapse of time, that would be an Impossibility, but all records of the fallen have been transferred, and it is intended to erect in the center of the enlarged cemotery, on the crest of the hill, an Imposing monument to the mem- ory of the heroes who lald down their lives in their country’s causo, If the government will not grant the sums necessary for this purpose then private subscriptions will bestarted. The necessity for this Is made the stronger by the honor which the RRussians have pald to thelr deadin these parts, On the north side of the city they have laid out s meagnificent burial ground for those who fell durlng the siege, and an imperlal decree hes been issued granting to all who assisted in the defense of Sebastopol a right to be intgrred within, Oaly the other day the remains of the herolo This spot has now been mado | | "HR0LD RELIABLE [SUCCESSORS TO THE J. M. B, & B. 00.) The moet extousive mouufacturors Biliard & Pool Tables IN THE WORLD. John Hockstrasser Gonoral Agent or Nebrasks Wostern Iowa., 50 B, Tenth Stroct + + + OMANA, NEB Mo Bllllard and Pool Tables and wateris loos n H. 8. ATWOOD, Plattsmouth, - Nevraska ERNADER OF THOKOUGHYRAD AND WIOH GRADR HEREFORD AKD JERSEY GATTLE AND DUROO OR JHRARY RED BWINK £ Young stock for Correspondence sollolt gL t Banho Ten Whih il " Adddross, J L REEVES, 43 Cliatliam St DR. HORME'S ELECTRIC BELT of romuiuro Docay, N i I pattam. 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