Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 17, 1889, Page 9

OMAHA, NDAY MORNING, F'EBR[‘ARY )~ TWELVE PAGES. OUR IMMENSE CASH PURGHASE OF 2,000 LADIES’ MUSLIN UNDERYEA HAS ARRIVED AND WILL BE PLACED ON SALE MONDAY, FEB. 17th, AT MAIL ORDERS FROM THIS STOCK, CAN BE FILLED PROMPTLY, AS THERE IS ENOUGH TO LAST ABOUT Our Mr. Brandeis, now in New York, g firm, retiring from active We give you choice of 500 dozen LADIES' CHEMISE, CORSET COVERS, DRAWERS and CHILDRENS' DRAWERS, All made of gocod muslin, well made. and finished with tucks, all at. 15¢, The above may serve to show what we have in store J. L BRA—NDEIS & S0N§ 7 DAYS FOR 25 cts. We offer choice of 1,000 dozen LADIES' NIGHT GOWNS, CHEMISE, DRAWERS, CORSET COVERS, Made of Fruit of the Loom Mus- | lin, trimmed in Edgings, Ruffles, Tucks, full size and wéll made, | allat 25c. J. L BRANDEIS & SONS 510 South 13th St. for economical buye are mai uarantnes thls purchase to be of unusual importance, busmess and is worth not less than Forty-Five Thousand dollars. . We offer you choice of 180 dox MUSLIN CAEMISE, are or pointed yoke of solid tuck ofembroidery MUSLIN DRAWERS, with ruffle of embroidery and 3 i | clusters of tucks. Cambric Corset Covers, low neck embroidered, on neck & sleeves, 39c. s. How nificent and ver; J.L. BRANDEIS & SONS 3t er, we m st asonable in price. We will giveyou a choice of a GREAT VARIETY Of Skirts, Gowns, Corset Covers, Chemises, Drawers, trimmed in Embroidery, Torchon Lace and Everlasting Trimming. fine tucks elegantly made hnd finished all at 50c. It comprises the entlreladles mus ALL OF ODDS AND ENDS, From the manufacturers ’ stock, perfect in every way, comprising Gowns, Skirts, Chemises, Draw- ers, many of them worth up to $1, at 69c not omit to meftion several extra bargains in Ladi Infants’ Long and Shork D THE LOCAL SPORTING FIELD. Omaha's Base Ball Prospects For the Coming Season. M’CORMICK'S RACING STABLES. Bench Show—Annual tate Shoot- ing Tournament—Miscellancous Gossip—Questions and An swers and Casual Notes. The Fine Prosp: cts for '89 ®datters in local base ball circles are par- ticularly quiet just now, but a glance at the situution so far as Owala is concerned, her conditions and prospects, cannot fail to be of interest to the patrons of the game. In the outset, it might be well to state thut Presi- dent McCormick, together with Secretary £, O. Brandt, Treasurer John Doherty, and the bourd of directors, togetber with Mana- ger Selee, are pulling well together, and, judging from the precautions they have already taken, and the excellent policy adopted, they will give the city the best ball the coming season it has ever known. These oficials are, likewise. fully convinced that the team scenred is fully up to the standard of last season’s crack aggregution, and some of them even consider it measurably stronger. One thing is certain, 8o far as bawing + strength goes, the present team is eminently superior to that of 's8, and if they cu equully well, they wiil be able to put upu much safer, surer and better g "The writer is not familiar with the re of the men en 1, only in a casual wity, but knows enougli to know that the are blayers of at least fair capabilitics, or Manager Selee would not have signed them Phe clement that operated aguinst harmony in last season’s work has been wholly eraai- cated, and such a thing as insubordination, carousing or indifferent action will be u Manager & morule of his team, and ¢ s that thero is nota lusuer, a disoranizer or intractable man amon, They are o steady-going, robust, ambitious set of young fellows, and are to develope into @ team of notable promij nenc There will be but few of the old faces seen hore the coming season, but this fact will but lond additional interest to the sport. Everybody will be anxious to see the new men, and if they prove to be anywhere nearly as good as they arc represented the publio will be sutistied. The roster as it now stand i1s about as fol- Jows: Andrews, first; Cauavan, second; Campana, third; ¢ nd, sbort? Struuss, right; Mossitt, left: Leighton, miadle} Nagle, Co and probably Wilson, catch crs; und Clarke, Kennedy and ' Willis, pitctiers. A brilliant galaxy ‘of young blood and no mistake. Dr. Worldy, who is a good judgo of talent, is especiully jubilant over the outlook The schedule committee is now hard at work and is expeeted to report at an early day. When it does, President MeCormic will call a meeting to be held in this city, whre all the meetings of the association will be ‘bereafter held, Manager Hart, of the Des Moines teaw, and a member of the schedule committec, has written here asking Wwhut Omaha desires in the way of dates, and right here Tns Bre base ball man desiros to make a suggestion. Omaha should insist, and vigorously too, thut the season both open and close 1n the southern cities, which includes Omaha, DesMoines, St. Joo and Denver. This should be the case on ac- count of the weather, and other considera tions almost equally potent. Last season was closed in the north, and it will be rememberod that several of the games were played in very cold weather, compelling the men to wear overcoats and eir muffs 10 protect them from the biting winds and flylng snows. At that time we wore gnjoying ~ur Indian summer here, that wost delightiui season of the whole year. President McCormick conveys the infor. mation that Muuager Selee will be bere by March 1, and that all the players will come in between the 20th and April 1. Exhibition _games already been booked with Kansas City, St. Joe and Den- tand @ good chance of seeing id one or two other National American Association team i e if nothin intervenes to spoil arrangements now being made, and altog hances of behold* z some fine preliminary exhibition games and “The fences about the ball park, and all im provements and repairs about the vuildings will be completed this month,and everything gotten in ship-shape for the inauguration of the season. The outfield is to be rolled with a threeton roller, and otier material changes effected about the premiscs. Taking everything into consideration the season of 'S0 is dawning under ausp ices that are exceedingly fatterin A K STRING. Some Talk of a Fall and Spring Rac- ing Meet. It is not very generally known, butis, nevertheless, a fact, that Omaha possesses one of the finest stables of racing stock in the western countr) It is the property of Mr. Charlic McCormick, and is located near the corner of Farnam and Twenty-eight streets. A BEc man visited these stables yesterday afternoon, and took @ look at its excellent string of horses, 1irst on the list comes the famous West- mont, by Almont, dam Annie, by Cotrell's Morgan, record2: 1355 with running mate, 2:015. This is the fastest mile every mad e 1y horse in any kind of harness.” West- niont has wou barrels of money, and proyed a source of considerable rc t owner—winning a race from the great p mare, Minnie R, wno bhas u record of '2:16 single' and 2:03 with whom he beat in xt comes Lorene a beautiful black mare ¥ Colonel West, dam Fancy Downing by Joe Downing. Lorene's record is 230k troiting and 2:1515 pacing. Out of twenty-five ra in which she has started, she has wou eighteen, and her greatest performance was the winuing of thr s on three days in , Retting her record ou the third estmont and Lorcne were the team sold elphia millionaire, for 1l drove ghem in the . Philadel- phia, a full mile to o top-buggy in 2:2214 Little Willie, 0 spotted gelding, is u. half brother of the great pacer, Richbill. He hus proven himself o dead game hovse and has never been beaten. On one occasion he shut out a ficld of seven in the scventh heat, at Concordis, Kuosas, where he got his mark U\om: (7,308) b, 8., registercd, is by Ben MoGrogor, dam Minnle Wilk Young Wilkes. He is a coming three-year old, h never been trackod, but show to warrant his being classed in Thirty-five thousand dollars was refused for Lim Abel, b. g, by Messenger Chief, dam by Stranger, i3 another handsome animal, He wis never started in but one_race, and that was at Lexington, Ky , in 1557, which he won in the fifth heat, 'getting o mark of 2:2114 This horse has shown extraordinary speed, laving trotted quarters in the last year in 4 od mares, Mr. McCormick has Mol- ey, who is bred ou the principle of all of Governor Standford’s fast colts, being by a standara-bred trotter, out of @ thorough- bred running mare. Mazie, by Star of the West, the sire of the greatest living brood mare, Belle ', every one of whose colts has gone in the .30 list. Yesterday Mr. McCormick received two additione to his stables, Lucy McGregor, a ch. f., by Ben MeGiregor, dam Jessie Logan, standard bred by Wineman's Logan, and her dam Jessio Logav, They were purchased at Rock Island, 111, Mr. McCormick has also in his stables Oliyer E., pacer, record 2:293¢,* owned by J. A. Wakefleld; 8. W, Croy's pacer, Dan, who won the gentlemen’s roadster race on the lo cal association’s track last July, pacing three heats better than 40 to road Wagou, Iu addition to those there is & number of less noted animals and colts, aud altogether R S SR VA T itis a stab) that reflects credit upon Oma- ha's appr ition of fine horse flesh. here 1 o syndicate of wealthy Omaha gentlemen considering the _advisability of building a mile track just north of the' fair grounds, and insugurating o regular spring and fall racing session. 'This is somcthing that Omaha should have, but a jockey club should first be organized and all the details carefully looked after to prevent the possi- bility of a failure. Then the course could be secured, a club house built and the enter- prisc given a_prover and healthy send-off. Omubia has many good horsesand any num: ber of liberal minded citizens who are great- ly interested in turf matters and who would ly lend their hearty co-operation to such This same " move was advocated E a year ago and for a time con. . was awakened, but the who should have been most promi- ently identificd with the matter became laggard aud it finally dropped out sight ulto- gether, INGRAM'S BENCH SHOW. A Magnificent Exnibition of Dogs is Already Assured. The outlook for the coming bench show, to be held on the 16th, 17th, 1Sth and 19th of April, simultaneously with the annual state's shooting tournament, is certainly very flat- tering. Mr. Ingram is recciving numerous letters from all parts of the country, and 18 wuch elated over the prospects. Scveral Enghsh mastiffs have alrcady been entered, and prominent kennels throughout the west- ern states are to be represented with thei special breeds. A great deal of interest has been manifested in dogs since the last sho Mr. Ingram says there arc scores of bi dogs in this city fit to show in any_compan and the exhibition in this lne, all breeds, will be a magnificent one. shooters who will attend the state tournament will bring many fine dogs, and the y will be a rare one.” Western people are beginning to evince much interest in bench shows, from the simple fact, probably, that every castern city has its spring and fall show annually. There will be ary 3 thoroughored dogs from while Nebraska and Kansas will fur- nish their full quota. In concluding a littlo talic this morning Manager Ingram observed : “*At my coming show, 1 intend to have ample room for from five to' seven hundred dogs, and 1t will afford any oue two solid hours of beneficial study to attend and inspect them. All entries should be addressed to W. G Ingram or John J. Hardin, Omaha, and tho sooner made the better for all concerned. The State Shoot. J.J. Hardin is rapidly perfecting his ar- rangements for the annual state shooting tournament, to be held on the fair grounds on the 16th, 17th, 15th and 19th of April, on the same duys with Ingram's bench show. Mr, Hurdin received an invoice of 2,000 pigeons yesterday and will receive another large instalment Monday. In adddition to the pigeon and target shooting, an English sparrow match will be a novel feature of the tournament, Mr. Hardin having ordered 3000 of these little pests from Indianapolis, Ind. [here is every likelihood that the tourney will be the largest and _most successful ever held in Nebraska, as all the prominent shots from all varts of the country will be here. Another interesting feature of the sffair will be the maty notable individual matehies that will take place. Preliminary Fractice. It wouldn't be a bad idea to have the en- tire Omaha team report here by A pril 10, in order that they might have an opportunity to g0 into the Y. M. C. A, gymnasium for a couple of weeks' preliminary practice. Gym- nasium practice it has been fully demon; strated to some of the ablest managers in thé country, is as goold preparatory work as a player'can indulge in. The Omahs team will get but little practice at the most before the season opens, and the above suggestion could be acted upon with but little expense to the club. There isn't a player who would not ladly come Lere two weeks earlier to “'con- dition” himself, 1f the management would but pay his board. Two weeks' industrious e v up the work in the gymnasium would limbe s that boys and harden their muscles uld enable them to give a good s cven in the initial exhibition ientlemen, reflcct on this. Amateur Prosp Amateur base ball in and will receive a boom the comin will cast in the shade any vrevious activity in this line of the sport. Al the indications noint this way, notwithstanding the fact that there is much doubt about the re-or tion of the city league. Without this bod. there will be a score or more of amate clubs, and the sport is bound to experict great’ rev This is as it should be cause, of all the sports in the calandar, b ball ranks preeminent above them. It is honest, manly pastime, and _corducive ui- told good to both the young mind and body. Diamond Flashes. “Ducky” Hemp goes to Dallas. Reporting time draws on apace, Trick McSorley is still unsigned. St. Joe will give Catcher Bligh a trial. Omaha has not, as yet, determined upon a uniform, Legg, the Indian catcher, will probably go W ball will be mueh livelier the coming season, Has any one ever heard of Pitcher Cas since he left Omahat Tom Dolan will be Denver's star backstop, Tow’s old, but oh, my! Klusman, Milwaukeo's second baseman, is bolling out at Hot Springs. Omaha will have a hitting out-field in Mes sitt, Strauss and Leighton. They are busy at work already down in St. Joe seliing season ticke Kansas City assocmtion team has signed Frank Ringo to catch Swartzel, Canavan, Cxmpana, Leighton and Cooney evort here early'in March. Joe is vory enthusiastic prospects for the coming seuson. Barston, the old Omaba pitcher, goes to ns the comming season. Billy Traffley has at last attached his cog- jen to & Des Moines contract. Minneapolis bus signed the Cleveland twirler, Mikg Morrison. he salary limiv was all that pre Omaha from securing Dick Conway. Billy Hassamaer has been released from reservation by the Kunsas club, Manager Seclee is endeavoriag to sccure a spring date with the 8t Louis Browns. Sutton, Milwaukee's thira baseman, slowly recovering from p severe illness, The pitching departmgnt is the only possi- ble weak point in tho: Opaba’s make-up, Joe Miller is for aade, fbut if he cannot be disposed of 1n this way,she will be released. Des Moines is claimulg great things for their new first baseman, Sam Smith, the giant, Every base ball devo rejoice to learn that Jael signed, Jack O'Connor, the old St. Joe catcher, vill be a greay favorite in Columbus this jan over their ne atic ex- nted is in the town will Nagle has been re- Burns, the “‘Poet,” has re-signed ansas City. * He s wintering av Quiney, 11l Three Western association player day, Duryca and Earle, cost the C club § Kansas City still Lias four of last scason's team for sale—Sam Barkloy, Euret, Hoffman and Esterday It is quite certain that if the new team can fleld, it will furnish the best ball the Gate City'ever had. Jack Gorman, who played first a few games for Omakia last season, is in St. Louis without an engagement. Herman Bader is suill in St. Louis ua- signed. He would like a position once more in the Western assoeiation. Tho Ouaba wanagoment will brodably uniform every one of its park ewplo; es, (rom gate-keeper down to the mascot, Holli- innati AMONGTHE POOR AND LOWLY. A Visit to the Squatter Residents Along the Tracks. MI.RS. CALEY'S PECULIAR CA SE A Little Religious Difference Brings the Wolfto a Good Won n's Door —Two Striking Cases Adjoining a Public School, Kome South Fnd Sufferers. Tue Bek reporter’s last visits to pov- erty and squalor were made in Tom Murray’s rookeries on Fourteenth and Leavenworth streets. e wasnow within the bounds of the Sccond ward, and his knowledge of the territory led him to pursue his investigations further within that portion of Omuha. Not that the Second ward is remark- ably poverty-stricken, but the lumber yards and lowlands through which the Union P ces its route out of the city afforda favorable place for squatters and cheap shanties for which rather Stifl rents ave demanded monthly. Ou the alley that runs between Leav- enworth and Mason strects and Four- teenth and Fifteenth is a row of frame shuntics. The front doors open out on the bleak and bare walls of the Chicago Lumber company’s warchouse. In one of them r Mys. Brown,the mother of five elldren. She was found wash- ing out somo elothing that she had guthered on the outside during the morni Mrs. side Brown is a confirmed stutterer. That is o physical wilment for which she is not to blame. Mrs. Brown im- » d T BEE man rather favorably in other respects, Mrs. Brown isa grass widow. Sh was mayried in a legal way, and af five little Brows had been brought forth the heartless husband deserted her and offspring to the cold mercies of the world. The reporter asked her if she would live with the husband again should he return. With righteous in- dignation she spurncd the thought, and vowed she would beg tosupport her bai rather than he should darken her door again. Heartless Mr. Brown eloped with a young aud buxom Swede givl,and while he is enjoying his illicit love his wife and babies are cared for by the county. The next house contains a family named Bishop. ave of the pro- fessionul mendicant order. From Hastings they went to Lincoln,and from Lincoln came to Omaha within the last few montns. ‘The most conspicuous “feature” of the room in which they lived was a well-dressed and well-fed man lying on a bed studying an atlas of the world. Questioning reveualed that he was \Ir, Bishop, and that he is simply a *‘fea- ture” of the mnul{—muunug mulm nothing less. The ‘“feature” will en- deavor to warm his lazy shinsat the ex- pense of Douglas county’s tuxpayers this winter. Among the lumbar piles in the Chi . ago yards are two ssquatter’s huts, oc- — NUMBER 247 @ 'MAIL ORDERS WILL BE FILLED FROM THIS SALE AS THE STOCK IS LARGE ENOUGHto LAST AT LEAST ONE WEEK We give you choice nl several very handsome styles of GOWNS, Made of the best Muslin, Yoke of Hamburg Inserting, 4 Clusters of Tucks beiween and ffnished with Cambric Ruffles, all at 75¢c lin underwear stock of a large New York The price and quality of these 355> ds will surprise you. We offer the greatest bargain of all, nothing like it anywhere-= 100 doz. of Find Gowns, trmmea in Plat Val, Torchon, broidery, fine tucks,Mother bard Yokes with Chemise Drawers, and Cors Match, choice at 98c Fine Em- Hub- Skirts, Covers to These are wonderfully cheap. Our Bridal Sets cs, at 29c, 39¢, 50¢ and upwarc L BRANDEIS & SONS | J L BRANDEIS & S0NS | J.L. BRANDEIS & SONS IJ. L. BRANDELS & S0N§ S, 510 South 13th St * .cupied Mrs. Delaney and Mrs. Col lins. Mrs, Delaney is a grass widow, a county dependent, and judeing from the conversation overheard between her and her youthful son as Tne B l'n-|m|l\'l and County Agent Mahoney rearing nson who will for himself in the world lives long enoush—u rather infa- ] has the best of Mrs Collins, her next door neighbor. ias- much as the former’s worthless hushand left her, while the worthless better half elings to he A clinger he is a success. f 3EE man entered he was lazily to the bed, while his faithful wife up in the county hm]vl\n-' see hl The man is a burlesque on cha to dispense a pen- ny’s worth that he“can participate in. He has lived for uwenty years in Omaha, and while his hardworking countrymen have been building fortunes for them- selves his time has been wasted in la; idleness and the saloons. Cut him off from even u mouthful of the limited food furnished by the county, and give him to understand it is work or no bread. They are the parents of two boys, one of wkom is now an inmate of the state reform school. Around Twentieth street and the tracks is a good sized colony of squat- ters on w tract of land ownéd by He man Kountze, Tui Bee man lost his bearings in the midst of them, and v task of counting them af- ter several effort The only call made was on Mrs. Sunderson, who was nur g baby just brought into the world. There must be some aflinity between povert abics —the more conspicu- ous the former the more numerous the lutte Although nearly thirty families re- side in the squatters’ huts that abound, only two of them ave applicants for county aid. Tue BEE reporter asked Mrs. Sanderson what nationality pre- dominated among them *Dere four of us rest vas ltalians,” she The reporter wondered how *‘four of us vas English,” vut kept his peace und went iu search of other cuses, At 1811 Mason streot resides an Eng lish family named Ci They vived in this country lust August, and came to Omaha. ‘T'he hushand is with- out work or money, and the family is in absolute want. Three rosy-fuced and healthy childven toddled around the room. The husband was not ut home, but his wife, a neatly drossed womain, did the honors in her humble abode, After the usual questions had been asked b, ME. Mahon the woman looked at him with her big eyes, and asked “if ‘e Ihmmlu was hany society hin would be good enough to -1. 1).: mouey to trausport them to ndy” the pauper emigrant law u cog and allowed the Caloy to land. But the re here now, aud they cannot stury ow,” sald the county oross the tracks and 'l to & peculiar case.” We drove down Seventeenth street a little beyond Willinms, and went down stairs into the basementof alarge fram house, We were visiting another Mr: Delaney English: iswered, all de sont, *we'll introduce you Cale, T'wo pretty children were at home, two more were at school, and the fifth child, u M« wis at work down town. Mups, aley's husband is a brother of the (¢ y whose home 5 last visited. ‘The rooms. small and seantily furnished, w serupulously neat and the children clewn and tidy. face bore a look of care. She ~.n|| Bor husband was in Memphis, Tenn., the lust she heard of him. The :l-«‘u.ll investigation was made and wa eft, THE BEe reporter hadn’t noticed anys thing peculinr, and was beginning ta think lus reportorial nose had lost its H dJir. Mahoney to xplain the pecutiarity of the case. He explained, and it run about this A few months ago M husband were liviag he Up to within a few months the family were devoted Protestants. Mrs. Caly recently experienced a chunge of relis gious féeling, and determined to become a Catholic, This displeased her hust band greatly, but the wife carried ous her d nd was baptized in the Catholic faith. One night the husband e home in a frenzy. S ored he at what his wifé had done that bused and maltreated her shame- fully, broke what little furniture they had, and then abandoned her and the children, leaving them penniless. The mother has sin had her five children baptized by a Chatholic priest. trange causes bring people into sad plights. Six yeurs ago on the cornor of Thirs teenth'and Jackson streets, on'the spot now oceupied by Deunis Cunninghum’s fine building, stood o number of rickety frame shanties. The march of improve- ment pushed them out of the business center, but i 1 to push them ot of existenc Tn were mounted on wheels and carted down to Sixteenth and Williams and planted alo) the Hurtman school building, Bek reporter ended his day’s visit by alling on a couple of the tenants of & basement of one of the buildings. The Collins family occupy a couple of small rooms on one side. The head of the family was out, but Mrs. Colling, t he buby, childven and omnipresent dog wore at home, The rooms were coldy cheorl | dirty, A kindhearted neight had conuributed a little coal in the morning, but it soon went up in smoke and only guve u taste of comtort n a cold duy, It was snowing and torming outsid wo youngsters gazed hivering at the visitors und in the half-clad mother’s arms un infant baby was folded. A half ton of coal was promised at orce, but before it ¢ many a cold shiver travorsed the of the inmates of the Colling house! o Water would cnuse a commotion among the Collinse: I thing wus ud slovenly, o condition of things annot be exeused by poverty. partition sepurates the Collins fame from the Fotheringells, Mrs, Col- lins might follow her n hibe exnms ple and clean up once in awnile. The Fothe gell family is huddied together inoneroom, A picee of rag carpet was t d_on adoor opening to shut out the cold that came from i rear room that contained the oceasional jag of conl sent down by the county il was the old story—a worthless husband, a big family, a broken down mother who wore herself away in the effort to keep the wolt from the door, & discase fuste ens itself upon her, und when the useds up frame is incapable of doing more the heartless fatner deserts them, frs. Fotheringell is suffering from an abscess that is wearing her away, while a family of helpless children look on in Caly and hen ppily togethior. ignorance of the future before then [t is poverty—pure, unadulterated poverty. S **Miss HBrooks." said ne, * you chestnuts ' “Yes,” she answered then Le fell on bis kuees and told her “old, 0id story, fond of And the