Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 9, 1889, Page 3

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: - SUNDAY JUNE 0, 1839.~SIXTEEN PAGES. ST. PAUL'S BREATHING PLACES Beautiful Little Parks All Over the Oity. SEATS BENEATH THE SHADE. Where Talking Age and Whispering Lovers Can Rest in Summer Weather—Nature With Her Hair Comb:d. Onsis in the City. 81, Pavy, June 8.—|Special to Tue Bee.] ~—St, Paul had parks here and there, but no park aystem or park commission until Feb- ruary 25, 1887, Since that time Prof. H. W. 8. Cleveland and a board of commissioners have done a great deal toward giving the saintly city an adequate number of breath- ing places. Members of the legislature from the city get thelegislature to pass bills for the issuance of bonds for park purposes, and the citizens are taxed a small amount an- nually to provide for the retirement of these bonds when due, The park board 18 com- posed of eight members, who hold weckly meetings. The largest park in the city, and that to which the board is giving most of its attention, is that at Lake Como. It is lo- catsmabout four miles from the center of the city on three lings of railways. It sur- rounds the lake, and containe over two hundred and fifty-six acres, I'wo vears ago the city was bonded for §35,000 for this park, and about $12,000 of this amount has already been expended. The city workhouse is temporarily locatea on the southwest forty acres of Como park, and the inmates are utilized in beautifying the grounds. During the year they have re- opened the gravel ridges near the wost shore of the lake und have filled and reclaimed about two acres of unsightly low ground that was formerly a part of the lake. By cutting away the ridees a splendid boulevarde driveway has been built along the shore of the beautifui little lake. A carriage con- course, 160 feet in_dinmeter, ou the hIghest point in the paris, and commanding extensive Viows in aliferent directions, was graded and surfaced. The gravel taken from the banks has been found of an excellent quality for surfacing, and large quantities have been used for that purpose. Au iron road roller, weighing 8,000 pounds, about thred feet in length and made of three similar sections or short drums, mounted loosely on a revolving shaft, has been kept continuously at work, compacting first the roadbed and then the gravel surfacing, To make the gravel retain an unbroken surface under carriage travel u finely divided stiff loan was placed beneath the top soil. This also insures freedom from seed. Another course of loam is mixed with the gravel, and this, when rolled, becomes cemented together and forms a smooth, hard roadbed that is alinost impervious to water. Surface water 18 disposed of through French drains made by digging pits ana trenches and filling them with waste cobble stones picked {rom the surfacing gravel. In the vicinity of the principal park entrance, 740 feet of vitri- fied pipe drains and eight catch baisins with “jron gratings and side inlets have been con- structed to receive and convey to the lake the large quantity of surface water that secks an outlet at that point. To relieve the barreness of the borders of the drives, na- tive plants were selected and transpl from the adjoining woods to tire borders to the extent of 2,600 shrubs and 300 trees. Among the shrubbery selected were cherry, dogwood, honeysuckle, roses, plum, thorn, sumack, huzel, alder, white birch. poplar, linden, ete. 1t is the intenuion to allow the woodland borders to run up thick with un- dergrowth, except at a few points where openings will give views to partially cleared ground fifty feet or more away. Of the trees planted in groups i Como park are 100 large evergreens, including white und Nor- way pines, spruce, juniper and arbor vitwe, fifty smaller evorgreens, 400 deciduous trees. chiefly woite maple, but includin elm, ash, butternut, box-elaer an ssugar maple. In tho park nursory there are 560 smail spruce trees and a great. deal of shrubbery of different kinds. The season has proved so propitious that only a very few of the 5,500 trees planted in the park have been lost. . The building of flower beds has not yet been begun to any considerable extent.” A temporary propagating house, 17x40 feet in size, and located as a lean-to against the southeast end of the old white farm house in park, hus been built. Here itis intended to cultivate bedding plants for the summer dis- * play in the park flower beds, vases, etc. The other parks of the ci are still handled by the council committée on parks, but will veturned over to the park commis- sion in a short time. Enumerated they are as follows: Summle Square, containing 0.75 acres, lo- cated at Summit and Nelson avenues, Holcombe Purk, 0.40 acres, at Laural avenue and St. Albun’s street. Crocus Place, 0.05 acres, Crocus Hill, Carpenter Park, 2,04 acces, at the intersec- tion of Summit avenue and Ramsey street. Oakland Park, 1.88 acres, between Pleas- ant avenue and Oakland street. Wobster Park, 1.14 acres, at Pleasant avenue and Nebster street, Irvine park, 8.58 ncres, at the intersection 1 Walout and Franklin streets. Rice park, 1.62 ucres, Fourth and Wash- ington streets. ark place, 0.40 acres, St. Peter street and Summit avenue. Central park, 2.20 acres, Summit avenue opposite Minnesota street. Smith park, 2.03 acres, at Sixth and Sibley strects, Lafayette square, 0.80 acres, Tenth and Grove streets. . Van Slyke place, 0.12 acres, near Maryland street. Sunshine place, 0.12 acres, west of Chats- ‘Worth street. Le Roy place, 0.13 acres, west of Chats- worth street. . Foundry park,0.95 acres, east side of Arun- del street, north of Como avenue, 1Lewis park, 0.85 acres, north of elevator B, Stinson park, 1.23 acres, Park and Mary- Jand avenues. Lyton park, 0.32 acres, Park avenue. Stewart park, 1.30 acres, south of Geran- lum sirect. Lockwood park, 0,3 acres, west of Forest street, Skidmore park, 0.39 ucres, east of Earl strect. Clifton park, 0.45 acres, opposite Mound street, Langford park, 5.66 acres, north of the Northern Pacitic tion, Hampden pavk, 275 acres, south of the Maoitoba railway. Merriam park, 7.71 acres, south of St. Anthony avenue. Hiawatha park, containing acres, on the east bank of the Mississippi, opposite the mouth of Minnehaha creek. ‘I'he general park fund and the bond fund are kept separate. The original general fund awounted to_§200,000, and §197,012 still remains unexpended, During the coming year it is the intention of the board to expend Bt least $100,000 in beautifying the parks of the city. e Prof. N. S. Shaler, of Harvard, delivered an address before students of that college concerning the opportunities of & career for college men in practical geology and mining. He suid he considered the outlook for geolo- g1848 in this country to be very good. State and United States surveys employ about 1,500 men, whose salaries range us high as 5,000 8 year. The first year's pay is about #50 & month and field expen: The salary of & mine lu{)t‘rlnl.undaut. in the eastern states is usually $2,000 Lo £3,000 alyear,and in the Rocky mountains it is often 5, At Harvard the commencement snd their subjects have boen announced, as follows: “Italian umanists,” H. H. Darl- ing, Troy, N. Y.; "“The Key-note of Keats' Poetry,” K. 2. N. Dodge, Brookline; ““Dutics of the Scholar t0 Public' Life,” F. B, Jacobs, West Norwell; “Sir Gawayne and Green anm." H. B. Lathrop, Oukland, Csl: Latin Orator, C. H. Moore, Cambridge; “Washingto,n wnd Lincoln, 'J. H. Ropes, udover; ‘“The Place of Mysticism i odern Life,” P, R. Frothingnaw, Jawmaica i “Law and Puolic Sentiment,” . 1. Bmith, Lincoln; French oration, James Geddis, Brookline. e AL Did you ever figure up how many miles your faithful old Dobbin has traveled? An eastern Maine man has done it, und finds thut in the thirteen years he has driven his horse it has gone 50,000 miles by therecord. In ten ears u pair of eastern Maine stuge orses traveled 70,000, The Homestake' and the Anuconda copper MINKS OF THE BLACK HILLS, Big Steam Stamp Proves a Success. LEAD CiTy, Dak., May 27.—[Special to TiE BEE. ]—A number of interesting occurrences have lately taken place in mining circles in the Hills. Not the least of these is the success of the steam stamp of the This stamp has been in operation about eight months, and until its last run was Homestake company. made was considered a failure, and had the last trinl not been successful it would have undoubtedly been discarded by the company. This ponderous piece of machinery when first erected here was said to have a crushing capacity equal to twenty-five smaller stamps. such as are used in the several mills of the company. It was placed in position by the Homestake company, without prior consideration with the manufac- turers. It had proved very successful in the Lake Superior copper regions, company, which is controlled by the same syndi- cate as the Homestake, had one in suc- cessful operation on its property at Butte, Mont. It was found almost immediately after erecting the steam stamy at this place, however, that the ore would have to be crushed much finer than any ever crushed by similar stamps before, in order to obtain the same assay value as that secure r cent of its by operation of the quartz mills. Such fine crushing, of course, decreased the capacity of the stamp, and from the time it was first placed in operation it has been re- peatedly experimented with until the improvements have made such radical changes n its appearance and operation that the stamps being used at other places cannot be compared with 1t. The first thing found necessary by Superin- tondent Rossberg, who is the man sent to the hills for the purpose of erecting and running the stamp, was the intro- duction of finer screens, which, in turn, necessitated finer crushing. Improve- mentsucceeded experiment, and at last the steam stamp is a thorough success. It now crushes on an averages 192 tons every twenty-four hours, which shows 1ts erushing capacity to be equal to that of forty stamps of the Star mill, The exact cost of maintaning the stamp has not yet been announced, but it will probably be made known by June 15, when the next regular clean-up will take place. But it is already assured beyond a doubt that if the new method of amalgamation now being tried is suc- cessful it will prove a much cheaper, quicker and more satisfactory method of reducing the free milling gold ores of the hills than that now employed. The southern hills are at present the Mecea of the unemployed. Companies are commencing work upon their prop- erties in every direction. The mines operated contain ores of numerous na- tures, principal of which ave those con- taining tin, silver and gold. The Look- out mill is steadily dropping forty stamps, and an addition is shortly to be built to contain sixty more stamps. This is_the main one of the properties owned by M. H. Day, th mer prominent democratic poli and candidate for delegate to congress from this territory in 1886. Mr. Day has left the political field and is now devoting his entire time and at- tention to mining matters. He has some of the best properties located in the Hills, and himself and associates are still making investments. The Harney Peak Tin company now has about one hundred men engaged on its different properties, and the machinery for the three hoisting works, to be erected at Hill City, is on the road there. The recent clean-up made by this company, resulting from the opera- tion of the mill at Etta upon tailings of three years ngo, shows that the tailings produce fully 2 per cent cassilterite. The company is still purchasing claims and securing options almost daily. This company has shipped a large amount of tin ore to Paris for exhibition at the exposition in that city, In the northern hills there are but few mines being operated with the ex- ception of those of the Homeswuke and Caledonia companies. At the silver camp of carbonate the Iron Hill prop- erly, which created such a furore two years ago, is being developed, and it is reported that the smelter of the com- ny will soon be placed in operation. ith the exception of the Spanish R. property, no other mines are being ex- tensively worked at present, butif the smelter of the Iron Hill company is blown in work on a number of proper- ties will speedily follow. Nothing defi- nite has as yet been learned regarding the Keystone chlorination works at Garden City, as only test runs on a few hundred pounds of ore have so far been made. Such have been very successful and thoroughly satisfactory, however, and great results are expected from the process. Ma- chinery is enroute. Rich ore exists in the vicinity in large quantities, and if the works are successful in treating it that section of the Hills will experience a boom. Rumor has it that Thomas Bell, an officer in the Caledonia company has sold his stock in that organization to the Homestuke compauy,and that by the time of the next annual meeting of the Caledonia company the lutter corporation will be in a position to control the election of directors, and will shortly proceed to purchase the propérty. Color is given to this rumor y the fact that the Homestake com- pany has had surveyors engaged in the Caledonia mine several times of late, The Rochester (Greenback) company company, whose claims adjoin those of the Homestake company on the south and west, has placed a Diamond drill on its property for the purpose of thor- oughly prospecting it. Itis expected to strike the ore body of the adjoining mine ot a depth of about six hundred feet. Partics have been returning every day for the past week from the Lime- stone placer district, in which recent discoveries of gold caused a great ex- citement. The gold-hunters have nearly all returned, however, and the district 18 again almost deserted. There is no doubt that rich pockets of placer gold exist in the district, but they are soon exhausted, as was the one which caused the late excitement. Severul rospectors remain in the d hope of discovering good tin locations, ni! which there are favorable indica- tions. e A Singalar Mar:iag>. A nove!l and quite singular marriage has just been brought to light, which was celebrated in New York city April 80, The contracting parties reside in Lewis and Havrison counties. W, Va., respectively, and the disparity of their ages, as well ns the near relationship existing between them, has occasioned no little amusement among friends. The groom is a wealthy old bachelor who has seen not less than seventy-five summers,while the bride is a handsome blonde of twenty-five. The gallant lover is the great unele of his youthful spouse, and his marriage to her makes his wife the aunt of her father, the great aunt of her sisters, and the daughter-in-law of her father’s grana- father. She is her own aunt by mar- riage, the aunt of her mother, and her tirst cousin’s great aunt, GREETING TIE RISING SUY, The Great Army of the Dead Face Bastward. ARELIC OF BY-GONE DAYS WAS HE The Sexton of Fairview Cemetery Talks of an Ancient Onstom— It Was Old Whon the Hills Were Young. Thilosophy of Grave-Digging, A few days ago I was standing in one of the many beautiful spots in that lovely city of the dead, Fairview come- tery, where two generations of Council Bluffs' citizens are sleeping their dreamless slumber. On the dusty, busy stroets it was hot and dry, but on the cool grass flecked by streaks of sun- shine that struggled down through the dense folinge of the trees which spread their protecting boughs over the graves in lovely Fairview, there was a cool and refreshing moisture that cooled the throbbing temples and soothed the rest- less heart. It was not yet late in the day and I had not yet read my Beg. I pulled it from my pocket and began to read the latest reports from that awful Johnstown horror, but before I had gone through cne of the half-dozen columns devoted for the day to the greatest calamity that has occurred in the civilized world, I was interrupted by the appearance of a man carrying a pick, spade and a ten-foot pole. He came almost to the spot where I was re- clining and dsposited his tools. He re- moved his hat to wipe his brow and T saw 1t was the vencrable sexton whose sturdy arms and bright spade have constructéd *‘the chambers in the silont halls of death,” where sleep thousands of the old and the young and middle aged of Council Blufls. Resting for n moment only he drew from his cket a plat of the grounde upon which g?s stood and studied it intently. Then depositing it on the ground he pulled out a tapeline and carried one end of it to the east a few feet where he fastened with astake driven through the ring. Then drawing the line taut he took a small magnetic compass from his pock- et and holding it over the line, moved backward and forward until the ring end of the tape pointed straight east. Then driving astake at the point, he picked up the ten-foot pole and proceed- ed to mark off a regulation sized grave. My curiosity was aroused and I dropped the paper to ask some questions. ““Why do you use a tapeline and com- pass to mark out a grave?" “To get it east and west.” “But why east and west? Why not north and south, or northwest by south- east, or any other direction? Do the dead object to the direction in which they happen to lie unless 1t be the posi- tive east or west, or is it their friends, or is it merely a whim of your own or a superstition of the ‘profession?’ ” “That’s a question I never thought of much and can’t answer. No, I don’t know who can, or that anybody can, but it’s a custon that’s always followed and is old, old—old as the grave itsalf, I guess. There isn’t a grave in this cem- etery that is not duy this way. Ihave laid out or dug every one that has been made here for the last twenty-six years, and there has not been an exception. No, it is not & whim of my own nor very. often a request of those whose friends are to be buried. It’s a kind of anin- stinct, I guess. I think a good, sensi- ble horse would as soon think of eating icicles for green grass as a profes- sional sexton would think of digging a grave any other way than east and west, and I believe I would scream if T saw a coffin lowered with the face of the corpse looking towards the west. Yes,we always lant them with their faces ook~ ing_townrd the enst. What for? I can’t tell that, either, unless it is for the purpose of better enabling them to hear Gabriel when he blows his horn on the last day. Yes, I’ve often thought it would be better if it wasn’t the cus- tom here, for on the west side of the hill there the dead must lie and look forever right into the hill itself, when it would be so much pleasanter if they could turn around and look across the river valley into Omaha.” The old sexton returned to his work, and I began to wonder whence the strange superstition came and how 1t originated. I have looked it up a little and find that it is as old as the earth the old sexton turned up with his bright spade and that it came from that cradle of the day and night, that mis- tress of mysteries and parent of us all, the Last. ~ You can almost trace it right back to the first rising of the first sun on the first pre-historic man, and tne study of the question opens up to a broader view the problem of man himself, and shows us that we have mentally, as well as physically, the same characteristics as had the cave-dweller who girded himself with the skins torn from the bodies of auimals no savager than him- self, which he killed with his knotted club and upon whose uncooked flesh he subsisted, It is alittle bit unpleasant to think that this absolutely savage man whose limbs and vertebra were as strong as those of au ox, and whose brain, protected by a bony structure that would turn a musk®t ball, was not larger than that of a setter dog and had but a few more convolutions than that of a chimpanzee, originated a custom that is religiously observed every time a Christian burial takes place in Fair- view cemetery. Yetit is an assured fact. The human eyes through every age of the world have turned towards the east in hope and anticipation. It has been the direction from which every blessing to the human race has come, and to-day the Bible and the religion of Christ teach us to logk there for the final triumph. Thre naked pre-historic savage learned to look towards the east with the pro- foundest feelings of adoration, of which his nature wus capable. He had no means of preserving fire, and when after days of storm and cloudy weather or nights of chilling cold the sun burst from the east, and its genial rays gave him light and thawed out his stiffened limbs, he naturally worshipped it as the God that gave him his choicest bless- ings and made it possible for him to live. Thus -naturally he became a sun- worshipper, and all his descendants for hundreds of generations were sun- worshippers for the same reason. - nally when the question of death began to excite some interest, and ceremonies were performed over the dead, it was natural that they should be placed in their last resting places, so that they could look towards the spot where the sun-god made his appearance daily for ages. And perhaps at this age dawned the first hope in human breasts of some- thing beyond this life that has blos- somed into the Christian’s assurance of a conscious and happy immortality of the soul. Through the mighty struggles of the the carth itself, when chaos reigned and the waters warred with the moun- tains, the huwan beings whose brains were enlarged by the activity necessury to oyercome the coustautly increasing e difficulty to live ntgl , still poured forth their benisons to th¥ #h and_looked to the east as the sourpe of all their bless- ings, It was thus dowd to the period of traditional history the sun was evideutly accounted the supreme creator and ruler of all, #hd” men vied with each other and natfon’ with nation in building temples to hi¥glory and for his worship. The ruined temples along the Nile, and Baalbecls, that most stupen- dous ruin on the fade of the earth wfl:w mighty hewn stones '@innot be moved by any power we have fo-day, were all erected in his hondr, ajid in their walls the pricsts kept their eyes fixed 1ntently on the east to wateh for His coming and herald His approach to the people. The statue of Memnon may not have been a fable. It is said its face was directed to the east, its eyes intently fixed to catch the first beams of the rising sun, and its voice, mute ali other times, broke forth into sweetest strains, when the god of day appeared, The Sphiux has looked in speechless, solemn serenity for thou- sands of years over the drifting sands towards the east. In our America the Aztecs have built monuments that will stand thousands of years for this same sun-worship with the east, as the cardi- nal point. The same is true with the Peruvian prehistoric civilization in South America. Coming down to bibli- cal times the same strange instinct to look towurds the east is prominent. The patriarchs turned their faces towards the east when they worshipped. Ever; force that has moved and changed nations came from the enst. There are rites connected with freemasonry so old their origin is beyond tradition, that recognizes the east as a cardinal point. Nineteen hundred years ago a star ap- peared in the eastannouncing the birth of a blessed redeemer for mankind. The angels appeared in the eust and sang the glad tidings. The shepherds wawching their flocks to the east of Bethlehem first announced it. The wise men following the star came from the east to see the child. Through all the ups and downs of the church since then the east has held its central place in the worship of men regardless of sects anc isms. The muzzerin turns his face toward the east threo times a day and calls the faithful to prayers over half the surface of the globe. In the crusades the battle cry of the knights was “‘Let me fall with my face to the east; let me be buried with mine eyes toward the holy sepulchre.” And thus it is that a custom observed in Fairview cemetery today by the most enlightened christian people originated so far back in the world’s history that the hills were not .created upon which the old sexton marksout the graves with his tape and compass. e s e IN THE TOWER OF LONDON., A Ceremony That Has Been Enacted Every Night for 800 Years. Your hansom is ‘allowed to drive in after hailing the gate,but you will notice that a soldier marchesin front, partly as a guide and gm‘l’y Beeauso it is a fort- ress into which god ‘Have penectrated, and past 8 o’clock, says a London letter in the New York Tribune. You go at almost a foot’s pace down the hill and then to the left aulong the inner road parellel with thg Thames, between grim granite walls, where the gloom grows darker, through grim gates, be- neath' grim archways, the burden of this mass of masonary* \yiug heavier on your soul at every step, the shadows weighing on you, and the sky on this clear night—for it’is dlear on” the out- sido—seon by gliinpses, looking infi- nitely more remote titan the usual Lon- don heavens, whith' ore for the most part & canopy of sSmoke, as 1t were, just over your head.dt Presemtly out “you come “into the barr¥ck yard and o blessed expanse of air and evening light. Three hours later,as I said good- night, my host stopped me. *‘There is something you would like to see, and it is' just time, Come along.” As we went out'an officer of the guards rushed by ‘in full uniform, sword ringing against the stone steps, huge bear skin helmet and all the rest and cried out to us: ‘‘You will be late if you don’t hur- ry,” and away we went at the double quick across the moonlit parade. It was rather soon after dinner for a con- stitutional, but we followed and found the guard already turned out under the gallery by the Bloody Tower. A mo- men later appeared a little squad of men,one of them in a flowing scarlet. robe with a lighted lantern, coming up the steep slope that leads from Traitors’ Gate. The sentry chxtllonged sharply: **Halt! Who goes there?” “The keys.” “Whose keys?” “Queen Victoria’s keys.” *Pass, Queen Victoria’s keys.” The .warden in the flowing scarlet rob, with the lighted lantern, followed by his little squad, starts off again, but halts again and cries aloud: **GGod save Queen Victoria,” The %unrd comes to the present, the officer brings his sword to the salute, officer and men respond in chorus three times with a kind of cheer: “Amen, Amen, Amen.” Again the warder sets out, passes, turns square to the left, and vanishes, he and his flowing scarlet, and his lan- tern, and his little squad. He is carry, ing the keys of the tower to the gov- ernor of the tower. It was but a min- ute. The squad are dismissed, the offi- cer marches leisurely off. My friend and 1 are left there. Only a minute; yet that selfsame ceremony has been trans- agted on that same spot at that same hour every night for something like ei{zht hundred years. Back through all those crowding centuries of English story you hear nightly that challenge ring out; nightly that blessing invoked on king and queen, with, I suppose, an interval when Oliver Protector got the benelfit of it; nightly the clash of steel which tells the constable of the tower that all is well, and nightly those keys have made their singular journey into the hands of the king’s lieutenant. Mot (i S Brooklyn’s rerjortrs swear by Rev. T, DeWitt Talmage, because he is al- ways ready to nv&oo their ways for them, says the New York Sun. The rev- erend gentleman hawa telephone in his house, and when “the reporters, who know of this, ring him up and ask him questions they inyapjably get courteous and satisfuctory peplies. So it isn’tsafe to malign Brooklyn’s demonstrative pul- pit orator to a Brooklyn newspaper man, ot long since ope of the craft called on the doctor on a matfer of news, and was wformed by the serVant who answered the door that hed master was busy and would see no one. “"“But I must see him,” insisted thé*&porter.and so earn- est was his mannei that finally the re- luctant girl consented to invade the doc- tor’s sanctum with the visitor’s message, As the reporter waited in the hall the dulcet twang of & distant banjo smote upon his ear. He listened well pleased, for the instrument was apparently handled by one to the manner born, A moment, later, however, a door to the richt opened, and Talmage himself ap- peared on the threshold with a banjo under his arm. *Come in, come in,” eried the preach- er heartily, “Of course I'll see you. I was just playing my banjo. Sit down and lot me play you something.” And he took the prn[’xum instrument over his knee and played u show piece for the reporter’s benefit in o way tidt would have made Ruby Brooks himself look to his laurels. a reduction. the men. arduous and the p to the amount of lal A few days go in an interview had with per reporter at Chicago, Chief Arthur declared that he would never sanction another strike, no matter what the grievance. Speaking of th railroad engineer said, “That cooks Arthur's oose and he will never be re-clected. The dea of his Under such a policy, the brotherhood soon become impotent and useles pose us local men should give in here on the Union Pacific where we are so strong? The road never would get through reducing our wages.” This declaration of the chief’s seems to eneral disapprobation of a large number of votes will be cast against him at the wext election by men running into Omaba and the Bluffs. Unskilled Muscle. Inquiries at labor employment agencies and other points of information establishes the fact that the percentage of laboraore w There are but very few men loafing in the city, and many of these could secure work if they really desired it. There is much employment for men in ‘Omaha, and, in addition to this, the demand him by a news) have met with the the men here, an idle 1s very small. territory is very lurge and keeps employment Wages for_unskilled labor range from $1.50 to $2a day, the former ggure being the rule. there is considerable dissatisfaction among the men at these wages, but they have not become suficiently chafed to strike, and no trouble of that kind is anticipated. Don't Believe in Strikeos. “You will find us an anti-striking organ- Jzatign,” said a member of the carpenter's union No. 7l1—the new union—as he laid asidoe his tools at quitting time. opposed to strikes, and that was our princi- pal reason for drawing out of the old union and forming a new one. wouldn't strike for some one's else griev- ance. We refused to do that when the other men were called oft The Bee building by the striking plumbers, and so, us far as we are concerned, all this stuff that has been pub- lished about a general strike of the building If “all the other men in out, you will still find us av_tne bench, unless we have some grievance of our own which we find impossible to settle by No. 71 is not a striking union.’ agencies busy. trades, is incorrect. town arbitration. The new_orga along swi is being increased meeting four new members were enrolled. Railway Unions Consolidate. Tn Chicago, last Thursday, nine delegates representing the Brotherhood of Railway Bralsemen, the Switchmen’s Mutual Aid as- sociation and the Brotherhnod of Locomotive Firemen, met and ratified a constitution which shall hercafter govern organizations now consolidated into one under the United Order of Railway Employes. The zoverning body will be a supreme coun- the following are the officers: P, Sargeant, of the Firemen's vice president, Frank Sweonie. of the Swilchmen’s assoclation; secretary, E. F. O'Shea, of the railway brakemen's association, Members of theso orders here were asked concerning the new organization, and, while cil, of wh president, associatio! OUR HONEST SONS OF TOIL. How They Are Living in the World of Labor. A THR EATENED —— enough.” Unskilled Labor — Consolidation of Railway Laboring Associations —Carpenters Opposed to Strikes—Other Items, A Threatencd Strike. There is a feeling of restlessness among the railroad men, and they are in daily an- ticipation of a reduction in wages—or rather an attempt on the part of the roads to make Partioularly is thisjtrue of the Union Pacific, oficers of that road having hinted that the wages of the engineers would be reduced. An attempt of this kind upon the part of the company, itis judged, would be met immediately by a walkout of The brotherhood is stronger here, probably, than in any other section of the country, and feels that it can win any fight it may have occasion to wage with the com- pany. The men claim that the work here is no more than adequate r given, tiou, it i3 said, 18 getting , and the membership roll right along. ‘Business Men, who desire elegant, commodious and fire-proof many of them claimed to know nothing about 1t, there were others who evidently knew more than they cared to tell. The costitution, IN THE RAILROAD WORLD. "’fi" say, and, in fact, everything connectod :l'lvtulg'}:: new order is secret and can not be The Northwestern Will Not Branch “‘Aren't you fellows fixing for a general strike!” was asked. 1 don't care to say anything about our in- tontions,”” wus the reply. *‘You will see ‘what we organized for if you watch us close Out This Year. UPRISING THE ALTON KICK HAS COME, The Printers’ Convention. Ed Hartley and J. K. Fisher, of Typo} graphical Uunion No. 100, and Matt Reiner, of the Stereotypers’ and Pressmen’s union, left the city Thursday to attend the annual national convention to be held in Denver on the 10th, Tho time between the 7th and the 10th the men wili spend in visiting points of interest as the guests of the Denver union, One of the most important matters to come pefore the convention will be the selection of asite for the printers’ home, to be erected with the money provided for that purpose by the Childs and Drexel fund. The Plumbers S Ont, ‘What change there has been in the plumb- ers’ strike since last week is scarcely worth mentioning. The breach between the master and the journeymen plumbers has widened and all prospects of a settlement of the dif- culties are past. A number of outrages have been committed during the week, assault of non-union men at work and the destruction of property. Naturally the bosses have laid the responsibility of this at the door of the journeymen’s union. The latter, however, disavow all knowledge or connection with any of them. Upon one case where leading men of the union were arrested and tried by jury in the police court for assault upon a non-union man, they were acquitted. On Wednesday John Rowe arrived in the city from New York, accompanied by seven workmen, They were met by members of the local union, and after a conference refused to go to_work, and have declared their intention of returning to the east. The master plumbers have a few scabs av work, but not a sufficient number to do the work. Both sides are still confident of winning. Dissolution of the Famous Gentles men's Agreement Presaged—1he ©Out From Chicago to St. Paul Has Now Become General. No Northwestern Extenslons. Cnicaco, June 8.—[Spocial Telogram te Trr Bk, )—The Northwostern railroad does not contemplate extending its lines in any di- rection this year. These are the exact words of President Hughitt. He said also that the present policy of the company was againsy extension and that he did not know how long it would be before any change was mades Not a single step had been taken toward the extension of the line to Yankton from Hart ington. He seemed to appreciate the importe ance of the extension to eastern Nebruska and southern Dakota interosts, but the poliay of non-extension could nov be broken. The resolution hostile to extension of lines passed by the Illinois Central, has been concurred in by every other western road. Pidus-skotlh The Alton Rebels. Cnioaco, June 8.—[Special Telogram to Tur Bee.)—The tollowing letter speaks vole umes to those who have been keeping traclg of the western railroad situation: Albace F. Walker, chairman Inter-State Commerce Railway association: Dear Sir, Referring to the decision of the executive board, on the lumber question, we beg to say that such decision is not satisfactory to us (the Alton road), and we dosire to give the ten duy’s notice'ns provided in section 8, of the Inter-State Commerce association agreement, that on June 14 we will put into effect a reduced rate on lumber from Chicago to Mssouri river points. Just what that rate will_bo depends on newotiations now pending; but we reserve the right, under this notice, to make the rate as low as 10 ceuts per hundred, C. H. CHAPPELL, General Manager Chicago & Alton Ruilroad. It will be remembered that the executive board of the Interstate Commerce Railway association denied the request of the Alton for the reduced rate on lumber. The above letter shows that the Alton will disregard the decision of the executive bourd and yield 10 the requests ot the Chicago lumbermen to be at least given a fighting chance in the ter= ritory from which they huve been ousted by the low rates made on yellow pine from southern points. Whether or not this action willlead to the withdrawal of the Alton from the famous “'gentlemen’s association’ is still a question. Its demand for a division of the Kansas City live stock trafic is still unde- cided, but, judging by the promptness with which Chairman Walker hus met every other question, it will not long remain 1n abayance, A search with a fine toothed comb would fail 1o find a Chicago railroad man who believed the St. Paul would give up part of the live stock traftic, which, the Alton claims, is & re- sult of manipulated rates, A determined fight will occur on the decision and there are a hundred prophets in the field who claim that at its conclusion the Aiton will be out= side the fold of the Interstate Commeroe Railway association. the other day, a Sup- Labor Notes. Carpenters’ union, No. 58, in place of their regular weekly meeting, gave an ice cream and strawberry festival and a dance at Gate City hall, last Tuesday evening. Nearly all the members of the union and their wives, children and sweethearts were present, and a most enjoyable time was experienced. The union printers declare that they will never strike on account of any grievance other orders may have; and, as_the carpen- ters of union No. 71 have made the same declaration, a general strike in*behalf of the plumbers, it is thought, 18 no longer to be feared. Since the fifteen plasterers returned to work on the Bee building, there have been only about half as many men of that trade idle, but there ure still many plasterers in the city who are out of work and unable to obtain it, simply because there is no work to be done. The single tax movement, it is said, is gaining more favor daily with the working- men, and it now constitutes the chief sub; ject of debate in most of the unions. The secretaries of all the labor unions are requested to send their names and addresses to Tur Bee. A number of lathers have boen forced into idleness on account of the plumbers’ strike, the plumbing in many buildings being so far behind that the lathers could not proceed. The co-operative store has not been pushed very hard during the past two weeks, but the project is still a live one and ultimdtely will be pushed to a successful consummation. Nothing tangible has yet been accom- hed by the carpenters towards the organ- tion of a supreme council. During Mr. Irving’s performance the other evening one of the gallery gods called out: *‘That not in *Macbeth’!” The rally would have upset the house but for the splendor of the acting, says a London letter. It reminds one of that utterance from the same celestial place on the first night of the only dramatic piece that Miss Brandon has ever writ- ten, which did upset the house and spoil the piece. A scene was intro- duced in which a child was kidnapped from its mother and at the end, when all were made happy, the restoration of the child was taken for granted. It was the fault of the novelist and passed unnoticed for a quite a minute after the fall of the curtain. Then a ‘‘god” leaned over from the balcony and sol- emnly inquire “What about that kid?” The piece was swamped in an inextinguishable burst of laughter. This’ is low, and 2276 - - - - “We are We certainly The Chicago-St. Paul Cut. Cnicaco, June 8.—[Special Telegram to Ture Bee.]—The Rock Island and Wisconsim Central both gave notice that they would meet the 28-cent rate, Chicago to St. Paul, made by the Burlington and Northwestern to go into effect on Monday. AlL the roads have now met thie reduced rate. Interested members of the board of trade met, w«mys and decided that the St. Paul roads mus put in a greutly reduced tariff the first o the week, Should this not be done, immedis ate relief will be asked from the inter-stata commission. As before stated, it will be possible ithout a reduction in local ral for New York and seaboard points to sh! first-class freight and pay only 28 cents & hundred, Chicago to St. Paul, while uhmfi merchants must pay 00 cents. 'The discris ination has already cost Chicago merchants over $100,000. At the last the three —_—— Miles of Floating Lumber. Barmyone, June 8.—Captain Kelley, of the British school City of Nassau, reports that about seventy-five miles south of Capa Hatteras, he sighted large roffs of cut lume ber which had the appearance of being in the water but a short time. For miles the Jumber stretched aw: it was difficuls for the vessel to get alon T0- OFFICE SEEKERS. ¢ Palace Offce Building of Omaha THE BEE BUILDING. A Superb Court, Perfect Ventilation, Thoroughly Fire Proof. WELL LIGHTED OFFICES, HARD-WOOD FINISH, TILED CORRIDORS, Fifty-Eight Vaults, Lighted by Electricity, Night##2 Day Elevator Service THE BEE BUILDING. Seventeenth and Farnam, offers attractions for Professional Men, Insurance Companies, Brokers, Real Estate Agents and offices at reasonable terms, For particulars apply at The Omaha Bee, 916 Farnam, up to June 1oth, and thereafter at the New Bee Building, 2,