Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 2, 1890, Page 12

THE 9 OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, MARCH 2, 1890.~-SIXTEEN PAGE! TIRING e N BUS" $100,000 worth of Dry Goods Still to be Sacrificed. ONLY NINEDAYS'MORE OF THE GREAT SALE Sale Will Positively Close on March 12th, at 6 P. M. Lease and fixtures have been sold to Thom on, Belden & Co BIGGER BARGAINS than ever will be the order of each day?s , who will occupy the store about Monday, March 17th., All House Furnishing goods have been placed on First Floor, at prices that will make it to SILKS. A fow pie former price $1,50. All of those high grade Silk Novelties now We have a few Silk Combinations left at $16 About 15 pieces of Fancy A few dress patterns in Silk Failles at 74 Hosiery Department. &e,—at 98¢; regular price $1.50. Al odd lots of Ladies’ and Child Our whole stock of fine 5-4 accumulated durirg our great closing cost. Hle. Best quality Four Thread Lisle Hose, 1n terns, all $1.00 goods at 50c a pair. $1.00. Children’s fine Gauze Underwear. and short sleeves, sizes 16 to 2: former price 40c. An odd lot of Children’s Underwear, sm: choice for 19¢; worth up to &0c. Ladies’ French Lisle Thread Hose, new shades, at Ladies’ Nutural Wool and Scarlet Medicated Underwear at 57¢; former c; former price 81,25, left of those fine Black and White Stripe Satin Rhadama ; former pri 50; former price $20.00. ummer Silks at 7c per yard; former price $1.25. ) China Silks, 53¢ per yard; formee price $1.00. Ladies, you should not. miss the chance 1o per yard; good value at $1 buy a dress pattern of those out sale wili be sold at pric 29c a pauws red fency stripes and black boot ach. 21 to 84, a all sizes, in natural wool and scar Handkerchief Dept. Do not miss this last opportunity to Hundkerchiefs and Muft xtra Fine Linen Handkerchiefs, hemstitched and embroidered, at of vroduction. Ladies’ 20¢; reduced from 85e. Ladies’' Very Sheer Linen Handkerchiefs, colored, embroidered and scal- . at 69e. loped horders, reduced from $1.27 purchase Handkerchiefs at less than ers almost given away. Ladies’ Embroidered Pongee Silk Mufflers at The; former price $1. Gents’ Striped Mufers, in cream only, Gents’ All borders, at 50c; former price $1.00. JH large sizo, at 4! plain white, THE MILLION OF "ifirmfl Vast Business Transacted By the Commissioner of Pensions. A PIECE OF INSIDE HISTORY. General Grant's Plan for Making This a Great Ship-Building Nation—Story of Conkling's Great Chicago Speech. The World's Biggest Pension Office. Covyright 1690, by Frank . Carpenter. WasniNGTON, Feb. 28.—|Special to Tue Bez|~ A short, broad-shouidered man with o big, half-baid bead and a long beard of biack mixed with gray stood inside of black clothes and buttoned gaiters in the commis- sioner’s room at the pension office yesterday Every surrounding of the man was that of business. A big desk at his back was littered with papers, A stenographer was rapidly Yranscrigung notes in one corner of the room, and in asether-cormer—tho ook of the tyoe writer went morrily on. About the room, seated on the red cushions of chawrs backed against the wall, were a score of noted con- gressyen from every part of the union,’ and talking to the little stout man with the big bald head was Senstor John J. In. galls, who, thin and tall, looked like n great interrogation point as he stood with bis hond at his siie holding a buudle of papers und enforced his argument with a shake of the head. The stout, broad- shouldered man in gaiters listoned patiently and his eyes of nazel blue smiled from under tus high forehead, as he nodded his assent to the Kansas senator's proposition. A mo- ment later and the senutor was gone, and Springer of Ilinois bad taken his place. Ho was disposed of in the same easy manner, sod Inoted that the refusals of the stout man in gaiters were accepted quite as pleas- antly as his promises of help. This stout, broadshouldered, durk-wliskered, hazel- eyed man was General Grume B. Raum, the new commissioner of peasidns over whose signaturo during the next year will be paid nearly 8100,000,000. The appropriations asked of congress o pay the pensions of 1860 swount to §98,000,000. Several senators and balf o dozen representativés have bills pro- POSIDE an 1ncrease of the pension list and e probability is that more than one hun- dred million dollars will be given to our oid soldiers next year, It is an immense sum,and the short, fat fingers of Geveral Raum will hold the pen that signs away every dollar of it. I thought of this as I grasped his hand, What 4 mighty power to rest in oue thumb and two fingers—a power sufficient if bhe could wield it for bis own benefit to make him a Vanderbilt or a Gould—enough to give a dollar aud @ half to every man, woman and child in the United States, or seven dollars and fifty cents to overy family. Before 1 left I looked at the autograpk which would make this immense amount good. It iy a pluin business signature, and it reads with- out a tile “Green B, Raum." The signature is indicative of the man. General Raum 1s MUSINESS FROM THE WOKD GO. He was a practical baby sixty years ago and he is today one of the common sense business statesmeu of Washington city, He had big business interests before he accepted this intment and he brings the same practi- oat buain ways into the office, 1t takes L0600 men and women to form his clerical force aud he koeps every one of these up to the scrateh. fe works by examplo as well a8 by precept. Prowptly at 9 o'clock he is et the office. From 8 t 10 ho dis to his private correspo ing sbout séveuty-five words & minute, is doors are open and the erowd 1s let in. He has about three bundred callers 4 day snd he makes it & point to see every oue, Many applicants have to be re- #used and there are uow and thea stormy times. General Ranm makes ita principle not to lose his temper about business mat- ters and he is a8 diplomatic us possible He promises what he can aud refuses what he must, and disposes of the crowd very rap- idly. His calls continue until 20'clock. He then takes a lunch if he has not had it be- fore, This he has in his office. It consists of a piece of beefsteak and biscuit with o glass or two of milk. He is very careful of his health aud he watches his diet. After 2 p. m. be receives the chiefs of his depart- ment, considers knotty pension cases and remains at work until5 o’clock when he drops his papers and goes bome. General Raum lives here in Washington on Rhode Island avenue near Iowa circle. He Lasa bouse worth at least £25,000 and this is very comfortably fitted. A partof the furniture was bought recently, and his sideboard, which came from Grand Rapids, Mich., took a number of prizes at state fairs before he purchased it. The business of the pension office can bardly be appreciated. The files of 1ts cases would carpet u state if the papers were spread out. The old documents among its records would make a strip as wide as a wagon road and long enough to reach around the whole world. It hes settled millions of claims, and there are now more than FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND CASES in the offfce awaiting settlement. jeral Raum believes that the cases should be made complete by the claimants and that SuCH tasen—shotid—be—first passed Tpon-by- im. He hus given directions that all clains in which the evidence is complete shall bo first acted upon, and at the present rate of progress if the lawyers and claimanis could have all these 400,000 cuses ready for action today he thinks that in seven or eight months his bureau would stand even with the world and everything would be finished up to that date. His mail is immense. The pension com- missioner gets fully three million letters a year and 2,000,000 of these require prompt answers, Thik of 8,000,000 letters! Each one will contain at least a'foot of note paper and if you wuuld&)uslu the sheets together the mail received by this man iua single year would make aribbon six inches wide longer than from New York to Cleveland. Estimating cach letter as costing & two-cent stamp it makes $60,000 for postage, ana when you figure up the labor and brains, the worry and trouble, you have embodied a wumber of lifetimes 1n this one item. Ten thousand letters a day! Sevenly thousand letters & week! More than turee willion letters a vear! This is what the pension office mail amounts to. The most of the letters are, however, managed by clerks, and the pension office postofiice and distributing room i3 as big as that of many a village postofice, Nearly every letter requires vescarch and many of them consume several sheets of note paper. Nevertheless, about ten thousand are au- swered e day. The letters received from congressmen amount to about one thousaud a day, and congressmen's letters must always be auswered. More than two thousan i pension cases are settled every week, aud during the last six days 1,408 invi- lids have received pensious and 545 pensions have been grunted widows, 613 men have been granted an incresse of pensions, and L7530 new olims have been admitted, At present there are nearly balf a million claims peuding in the pension office, and the depart. ment is paying out wore than a million and a half of " dollsrs iy pensions every week. It is the bizgest Dbusiness of the kind in the world, and iv grows big- ger every year. Let we tell you somethiog about the build- ing 1n which this immense busioess is trans- acted. It is the BIGGEST BRICK BUILDING IN THE WORLD, aud its mighty roof covers two acres of ground. It is made of red pressed brick, a mighty three-story structure with a great E“‘" roof rising, tier by tier, over it. The iggest brick structure of the past was the baths of Diocletian, the ruins of which stand by the Nazionale 1 Rome. These baths were a mile in circumference; their mterior was fiuished in marble and Egyptian granite and thoy had 8,000 marble seais for bathers, Wouderful mosaics covered its fioors, hot and cold water coutinuously flowed for the use of the bather, and the dirtiest of ple- belans could have sccess to them for one-elghth of & ceat & tiwe, It may be that General Meigs bad this immense structure in his w! when be modelled this pension builaig, Itis wade Slter tho Rowan palaces of the Bftoenth cea- e $7.00 and $9.00. Iren’s Hosiery and Underwear which have :3 regardless of d from price high neck and tong sleeves, and high neck G A . at 15¢ each; 26 to 34 at 22 Boys’ Brown Balbriggun Shirts and Drawers, sizes i ; former price 75c. 1ic Mufllers, in cream and colored, at'$1.00; former price $1.50. Gents’ China Silk Handkerchiefs, hem-stitched and colored your self interest to buy. Linen Department. Never staple Liner closing out 0 ale. in this department, SECURE SOME OF THE TABLE DAMASKS — fine % 6-inch Turk: 56-inch Creum Damask at inch Fine Cream Damask at 61¢ in the history offered At the ruinous prices quoted inch Turkey Red Damask a 58-iuch Turkey of Omaha or the VW, 1905 reduced from 8c. reduced from 9¢; reduced from 60c. Le; former price H0c. former prive 95c. Red Damask Red Damask at dry goods business were such beautiful and Only nine more ¢ We have made another aeep cut that will most assuredly sall ever PLUNDER. of this great yard inch Iine Bleached Double Damask at 98c: former price $1.50. inch Fine Bieached Double Damask at $1 10; former price $1.75. NAPKINS - TOWELS— Lot I, Lot IL—At TO WELING pat- formerly & .68 formerly 10 pieces 18-inch fine Glass 5 pieces 18- ¢ each; rlet, 86-inch Cheese Cloth at 13{c: formerly 4c. POL CURTAL 44 fine Irish Linen Sheeting at 7 10-4 fine Irish Linen Sheeting ut h fine Stair regular price $1.25. 4C; reular price §1.25. —just the thing for hotets, Napkins at just half the usual price. Our \vnule‘slm'k of Fancy and tmbroidered Towels in two lots to close, At $1.1 ‘This is just the thing for Dusters. 100 Antique Oak Curtain Poles will be ciosed out at S}gc each; worth 20¢, cost tinsel $1.00 yard. At ¥4 Avd At 60c each. At £2.10 a yard—3- ach—Hand Crochet Fringt Fronts; regular price $1 ard—All our Colprea cach—T0 close, all our Silk Girdles; former prico Sillc Gimps; former price 7oc nch Monkey Fur; regular price $4 25 yard. All ouc Passamentrie Ornaments at 1c each. and it cousists of a series of big rooms around a great central court covering an acre, This court is much hke the court of St. Marks in Venice save thut St. Marks has only the Italian sky to roof it, whilo the pen- sion court is protected from the cold winds bya sky of glass, and 1ts immense glass roof is upheld by eizht mighty brick col- umns higher than auy city louse outside of a flat ond thicker than any treein America outside of California, Each of these col- umas coutain enough brick to build two tood-sized houses, and in the ages of the fu- ure they may stand hera like obelisks when the restof the building hus crumbled into ruins. Around this great court are arcades rising eallery above gallery and opening out from three stories of rooms. Some of the colunns of these are gilded or bronzed. The finish of the eourt, the columns and the walls is in white, the great diamoud glays room 1s set in framed mosnic of yellow and the great acre of floor is of colored tiles. In the cen- ter of the whole a_great fountain sends up a silvery spray and_the whole is one of the curiosities of architecture. It was in this building that the last two inaugural balls nayve been beld and iv is here thatall the great balls of the future presidents will be celebrated, At present the floor is illed with great cascs of files and you may walk for a mile in aud out throug the aisles sur- rounded by these greut cases of pension vavers, In these old papers 108t Toted e ot - Ve t andmotlier got o pension and Presidents Grant and Lincoln received land for their services i the Mexican nud Black Huwk wars, Robert B, Lee got 160 acres of land for the work he did as colonel in our war with Mexico, and Jefferson Davis received the swme amount for his services. The Mexican war pensions are fust dying out, and there are but few revolutionary widows on the pension rolls. About five years ugo there were eighty. The number is now re- duced to twenty-nine, and three of these are ninety-seven years of age, ‘They are Anna Maria Young of Penusylvania, Nancy Rains of Vermont and Susan Curtis of Maine, ‘They wust have been marrind to their hus- bands long after the Revolutionary war, for they were only seven year at the ' begiuning - of this ce tury, and the war closed seventeen years beforo that. The youngest revolutionary widow 18 Nancy Green, an Indiana woman of seventy-one. She ‘was born in 1819 and her husband must have boen gray-haircd when she married him, Mrs. Graut and Mrs. Garfiold are the only presidents’ wives who now receive pensions, ‘They get $5,000 & year by uspecial act of congress, Mrs. President Lincola got $3,000 a year from 15870 10 1582, Tho amount was then increased to £,000 and this it continued until her death. The duugiter of Presiaent Zach Taylor gets %50 & montu und she receives this for Gen- eral Taylor's services in the Mexican war, Among the noted widows of generals of the lave war who receive pensions ave those of B. D. Baker, Whipple, Sumner, Roberl Anderson, the hLero of Fort Sumpter, of George H. Custer, the Ingiun fighter, of Daniel McCook' and Frauk P. Blair, *Mvs. Jobn A, Logan gets #10 o week by u special act of cougress and the widow of Admiral Farragut, receives $2,000 a year the same way. Phil Kearney's widow did et $10 & moath but I am told she has mar- ried again aud the sum now goes to her cuil- dren. ~ Nirs. Geveral Haucoek gets a peusion and there are o number of other soldiers’ widows who have been pensioned by a speial act of congress, I chatted last night with Senator Blaw of New Hawpshire about the revision of the Prosbyterian church creed by which the more uiivanced thinkers take the worst ele- ments of hell ouv of their religion, aud Blair told me of his wonderful FIGHT WITH BRIMSTONE DAMATION. He is the offspring of Puritan parents and his boyhood was passed in an old farm house iu" New Hampshire in the garret of which there was a library of theo- logical works advocating foreordained hell for the non-eleet. "Phis light reading formed Senator Blair's first intellectual pabulum. Said he: ‘I read at those books before that open fire and I remember that when 1 was about nie years old I got it into my head that I bad committed the unpardonable sin. This unpardonable sin you W was one of the cardinal ts of the old theolozy. The books did not state what this sin was and the preschiors did not seem to know, but it mauy_be found the was as certain as death thab he who commit- ted 1t could have no fo, giveness and that he was foreordmined to the hortest fires of the lower reciins for an_ eter: nity of ages, Well I thought I hal committed it. Ithought I was bound to be damned and for weeks I lost sleep at nights and worried and fretted all the day over my condition. 1 think I snould have gone craz if I had not gotten reliet and my relief came from an old volume on THE UNPARDONABLE § ‘These consisted of sermons by a learned divine and 1 them 1t wus stated that the fact that a person thought he had committed the unpardonable sin was an_evidence that he had not committed it, for if he had com- mitted 1t, being damned already, the tires of repentance could uot touch his heart and he weuld go on blindly to his destruction. ‘Lhis relieved mo greatly and after a timo my dread of the sin passed away and I reguined wy usual health. 1 shall never forget the terror though that I felt and I am glad to say that religion grows more liberal as the world grows olaer.” I met ex-Postmaster General Creswell in the National Metropolitan bunk in Washing- ton yesterday. Heis one of the finest-look- ing nen n the Capital city. Tall, broad- shouidered and white-whjskered, his clear blue eyes iook out from under a broad, high forehead. and his tread 1528 firm and b step as active as 1t was when he was o m ver of the United States senate in 1865, where he had gone to autend Grant's fun eral. He was an intimate friend of Gran and was one of tho general’s wost ardent ad- mirers. After a few moments our conversa tion turned upon Graat, and he said: “Grant was the greatest general I havo ever kuown, and of ull the great men of my acquaintance L consider him the greatest. Ho was great as a statesman when you judge him by the soldier-statesman standard, and some of his acts and sayiugs as president are quoted today. He wasa great writer, and there are few works thut will compare in simplicity and beauty with his memoirs. His state papers were equally well written and be wrote all his messages with his own hand excepting those parts which he got from his cabinet officers, In preparing the paragrapbs relating to the post office and other departments he would give directions to his cabinet to condense their reports and insert such condensation in his messages.” “Did he advise much with his cabmner?” 1 asked, “Yes. He had hud his own opinion and his own policy but he advised with his cab- inet on all matters relating to the various de- vartments over which they are pluced, [ was at the head of the post oftice department and [ found him alwrys ready to change his views whenevar sufivient reasons could be givon for a change,’ He was quick to take advantage of the 'mowment and he decided upon matters usually s they came before him. Speaking of his readiness in wrinng his messages. . cund _his qnickuess of decision @, remarkable occured at tle time opening of the Franco war. It was ,the last night congressional agasion and Grant with _his cabinet was at the capitol’ signing bills when the news came, Now the great GGerman steam- ship line feared thdt its ships would be cap- tured by the Frendlt and that it would not be able to carry pn its voyages from Ger- many to America. “Its owners made a prop- sition to chaogethe line to an American ine, to have it carry the Awerican flag and to takeour mails from Awerica to the con- tinent. Under the American flag it wouid be safe from seizure by France, and it would give us ono of the greatest steamabip Lines of the world. This offer from the line came President Graat at the capitol. Fhe subject was pruzolld to his cabinet and turning to me be asked me what I thoughu of the prop- position from a social standpoint. I toid him @nd he asked me to put my views in writing, He then turned to Hamilton Fish and asked nim to write his views on the sublect from & diplomatic standpoint. We both dia so, and we both favored the taking of the line. General Graut took the two statewents and rapidly Wwiote su_iutroduction wnd @ couclusivn to them. Heo then sent this in 0 the senute as o message. In it he advised tue tuking of the hoe, and 4 MAD CONGMBSS ACTED UPON WIS ADVICE the American flag today would flvat over some of the finest sbips in the world, snd the of Prussian oi the Presideot Dress Trimmings. For §2.00--A complete set of m.‘«mj‘rnmmtngq. consisting of regular price £6 00 and $5.00 asdt, At 25¢ yard—Black Silk Tape Fringe, 5 inches wide, elegant for wraps: regular price five picces, in jet and gold 50 and $12.00 each. vd and $1.00 yard. ench, §1.00 cach, and $1.25 R, TR interests of American been furthered by this,” *Do you still think, general, that the Uni- ted States would have been benefitted by the re-election of President Grany?? “Tdo. General Grant was a man of steady growth. - He was a carcful observer, and the effect of his foreign tour and knowlegde gawed from his observation of the govern- ments of other countries would have made him an_invaluable president. Had he been nominated he surely would have been olected, and he wouid have done more to bring the south and north together thau any other man possibly could huve done. ‘Ihis was Lis gre .t desire in his tninking of a pos- sible re-election.” I here reterred to the Chicago convention which nominated Garfield and to the win~ derful persoverance of tho uoted ! whom Postmaster General Creswell was one. *Refor on this o trade would havos ng to the speech Conkiing made ion,” suid Postmaster General Creswell, ** Roscoe Conklin was a great man but he Iacked the adaptability of & pol- itician. ‘That speech at Chicago was a great one but )t kad lines in it here and there that offended the Sherman and Blaine men where it stould have concilinted them. iU was however Conkliug ~ and Joukling not u diplomat, I believe thut might bave been president had it notbeen for his proud nature which would not_permit bim 1o bend. He chance m Cincinnau when Hayes w ineted-buthe did-not-taie-it.—Roferring ]’I'hu'.;un speech, you remeniber the opening. After that great assembly bhud become quiet in clear tones hie recited that verse of poetry which fook the convention by and following which there was au upplause last- ing for nearly rter of an hour. Ho said: ' You'usk me whence my candidate, answer 1t shall be, comes from Appomatos, And its fumous appletree,’ “How they did cheer and how tho Sher man aud the Blaine men hissed. The words went around the country by telegravh and created a responsive torill in every Grant- loving hearl. It was ons of the great intro- ductions to great historic speecnes, and I have never seen ils origmal published, Conkling got the verse from Tom Murphy some mouths before the convention. He and Murphy were out rid- ing and Murphy told him he would like to read bim over u poem or two which he had written. This verse was in ono of the poems and Conkling us he beard it said it was a oud thing and stored it away in his brain for futurc use, Liko all great speakers bie was continually siudying for the future and I doubt whether he éver prepared a better sentence in advance for an extowpore spoech thau this.” FraANK G, CARPENTER. AL L The *Devil” Was a Coon A colored family living in Swam- poodle have been troubled for several mghts by a noise in and around their house and in the loft. says a Tex special to the St. Louis itepublic, fumily had about eoncluded that the devil had taken up his abode in the house top. They told the neighbors that the place was hauuted and that they could hear the devil crawling up the planks on the outside and slipping in. They also described the noise he made in the loft. Yesterday the family gathered seveval of their immediate neighbors and wade a search for. his satanic majesty. They tore off several planks from the gable end of the house, where the ghost, goblin or devil had been P N imagine their sur- orise at finding a big fat coon asleep in the feathers uflmlf a score of chickens ana ducks which that vicinity. e Mr. Coou soon bad his hide off and his body was put in a pot, and his coonship disappeared from sight for- he had captured in An Absolute Cure. The ORIGINAL ABIEPINE OINPMEN is only put up iu larae two-ounee tin boxes, and is an absolute cura for all sores, burns, wounds, chapped hands and all skia erup- tions. Win vely cure all kiuds of pil Ask for the ORIGINAL ABIETINE OINT- MENT., Sold by Goodman Drug company 8t 25 cents per box—by mail 80 cents. | copy at hand when Gents’ Furnishing Dept A few of the many bargains still to be found in our Geats' Furnishing Dapartment, All oods must bo closed out this wi Gents' Steel Gray Cashmere Pant An odd lot of ¢ er Underiwe 'a Horlin (floves, 1n tan colors only heavy lined Buck, Goat and ( “Angelo Reversible Lineue Boys' Suspenders at 10c a k. \ In air; former prico rogular pric Ifskin Gloves, former price §1.50, af Collars, redu Note following : nd Vests, medinm weight, regular price £1, af white at pes, at 40 former pr at 10c o c pair. d from 25¢ W 15¢ a box. Barr’'s Black Goods. We have only a fow bargains left in reductions till the prices k Warp Henriettas, our regular $1. “ine Brilliautine, our 65¢ quality for Pine Brilhantiue, our 85¢ quality for 53 Wo have a few pieces of good servic icand 15e. They v this department, and have made still further cem ridiculons. Take advantage of these bargains early Monduy mornine because there will be nothing left in the ev ng. 5> qual ty for $1.23. able Cablo and Cashmere Tiwills, sold by us at ill all be offered Monday at per yard. L.ap Robes. Wo have still a few Lap Robes and Horse Blankets left, but have made prices on them for Mond that will warrant a spe All our Wool Horse [ worth £4.00 ana $5.00 apie dy sale. ankets will be closed out on Mouday at $.45 each. They are Ali our fine Mobair Plush Lap Robes, worth $10.00 and $12.00, will be closed out in one Klannels. lot for 85.75 each. Examine the price: Flannels, Gra ing Flunnels, yowll see thew uo more, [Plannels, D All Wool 27-inch Cocheco Flannels, in sol Ladies’ Sacques aud Wrappers, and Clildren’s Dresses, regular price 6uc. ud qualities of our Plannels NOW, avy Blue Plannels, § ay Mixed Flannels and Red Mixed Flannels, See our Red Flanuels, White ped Skirting Flannels and Plaid Skirt- Only nine days longer and d colors, for Men's Shirts, Roys' Waiats, will bo closed out at 3hc yard; Au assorted line of Flannels, n all colors, at 13¢ yard. Fine All Wool Scarlet Flannel at 9¢ yard. ACCS,. At 20c a yard—All our 40-inch Valenciennes Flouuciug, in cre regular price At 12i¢ca ) price 2hcand die yard. At 10c a yard—HBest Sewing Silk and B At Blge euch—Ail styles Ladies' Linen € Atvifge cach yard and 90 yard. OUR RULERS OF THE RAIL. They Have Formulated New Laws for Their Employes. THE TIME CONVENTION'S WORK. A Number of New and Intevesting Reculations Which Ave Govern the Working Hand on the Railroads, to Ruyme of the Rall, Rules governing employes, which the time convention, composed of operat:ng officials from every railroad in America formulated, Ko into effect toduy on the entire Union Pa- cifle system, Among other things, and the most impor tant requirement is that every man shall be polite and considerate in his urse with the public. Heretofore many people have iscovered startling instances wh ticular exaction, if it was mado, ¥eemed to have very little Welght, Agents at small country stations nave fre- quently been known to assume an overbear- ing air and importance quite inconsistent with their positions. Heneeforth, however, such conduct, if brought to the notice of the proper authorities, will be considered sufficient cause for investigation and re- moval Eyery employe whose duties are in any- way prescribed by these rules must have a on duty and be con- sunt with them. He must ulso render all the assistance in his power in carrying them out and report infringements that como under his notice, If in doubt as to the meaning of any rule or special instruction, application must be maae to the proper autherity for an explana- tn, Ignorance on this point cannot be cou- sidered an excuse for neglect of duty. Pouching the subject of promotions, it is stated that advancement will depend largely upon & man's record for faithful service and his capacity for increased responsibility, On the other hand disubility from sickness or other cause will bo suficient forfeiture of every recognized right to claun cowpensa- tion. If an allowance is made it wust ve cunsidered u gratuity justitied by the eircum- stances of the cuse and the emplo; vious good conduct. “Mail agents, cxpress messoo b und sleeping car conductors, porLers, o agents aud all other persons connected with traios are subject, while ou duty, o these ruies Kach conductor aund engineer is ordered to provide himself with a suitable watch, which must be examined and certified o in accoras ance with o preseribed forw by a responsible watchmaker, Ho must file such certificate with the properly designated officer before he is allowed to take charge of a train or en gine. “These watches must bo exawined and cerficates rencwed every six months, Uunder the head of **l'ime ‘fables” there are a few points thay may atrike the averago reader as being rather interesting. Certain alphabetical signs, as noted below, placed before the figures indicate : '—Regular stop, "—Sop on signal to receive or dis charge passengers or freight. *97—Stop for meals. Day telegraph stations. " Night telegruph stations, H0"—Scales, " —Coal, Y1 Wyes, Trains are ulways designated by numbers, those going west tuking the oud and those castthe even. For iustance, the fast mail when en route to Sun Francisco v called No. 1, aud when coming cast No, 2 just the same as the new fast vestibule through passenger, which mukes ite appearance today, will bo known as. No. 8 when west bound and N for the opoosite direction. ‘Tue system used for signaling is also an important feature aud one in which conduc- tors, engineers, fremen, brakemen, station agents, telegraph operators, track foremen, road and bridge walchmeu must be absolutely m, red and pale blues ard—Cream and white Languidoe and Fedora Laces, all widths; regul @ Veilin llars, regular price 25¢ yard and $ie a yd. Infants' Feeding Bibs, all linen; former price 15c each. L_ tret, Omaha letter perfect. Flags and lanterns of diffe ent colors are the appliances use “Red signifies danger ahead, and when this signal is put out the traia should stop, ‘“When an engineer sees somothing green in front of him, he is expected to uvonce assume an uttitude of cautiousness und ap | proach 1t carefully.” White 18 always the beacon lizht of safery. In addition to these regular and never changea signals, torpedoes pluced on top of the rail so as to explode and make a noise when the wheels pass over them are ocvu- sionally used. One calls for an immediate stop. while two is u warning te reduce the speed instantly and look for the danger sig- nul. While running each train is required to display two green flags by day and two green lights at night. When they are on the front of the engine these flags denote that the wain is followed closely by another train. Two white flags are the aistinguishing marks of an “'extra.” Oune loug blust of the whistle says “we are approaching a station, crossing or jun tion.” A short blast cails’ for brakes, Two long toots mesn throw the the brakes of wkile vwo short ones are always an unsw o unother signal. Three distressing biows repeated untili answered mean that a train hus been broken in two, and three shor quick, ferky ones, when the tra 15 stunding still, mean that it back up. Four long blasts call u flagman from the west and four long, fol- lowed by a short one calls him_in from the 1 GUST & BUCCEsSTOn Of STOTT WITSTIoH GITS At~ tention to the fact that th other animals on the track. Lamps swung across the “stop;” rawsed and lowered vertically, ove ahead;” swung in a circle, ‘“‘move ack " swung in o circle at arm’s’ length, “teain parted.” Unnecessury use of the whistle 18 prohib ited and wust never be sounded when pass- ing a passing train except in_case of emer~ geacy. ‘The bell is rung before starting o train, must be rung for a quarter of a milo before reacning every road crossing at grade and until passed. ‘I'ne movement, of trams cut more of & fig- ure in every day ruilroading. Certain ones invariably have superiority over others, con- sequently they have rght of way. Muny a time in the past have blood-eurd- ling stories been told of the deadly rear-end collision. To preveat such horrible acei- dents these rules explicitly state that when atrain is detained at any station longer than five minutes, the allotted time, flagmen must go back with aanger signal sixteen telegraph poles,”’ from the rear, a mile, and stop other trains that musy be coming along, I2very person on the pay roll of the eom- pany 18 expected, says these rules, to devote himself exclusively to. its service, not only attending during the prescribed hours of the day or night, but also reside wherever re- questea. Persons having control of men will find it advantageous never o curse or abuse them, a8 boisterous, profane or valgar lunguage is strictly forbidden. However it 1s proscribed, therefore becowes obligatory upon the em ploye to control himseif, under all eircuwm- stances, no matter what the proclamation may be and, nstead of aisplaying pugitistic qualities, quietly make noteof insults offered and report them 1o superiors. The custom of making presents to officials is also discouraged and “'the habitual use of intoxicating drink will be considered good cause for dismissal from the servi Smoking is not allowed about the shops, st tion buildings and warenouses. 1f an em. loye gets discharged from oue department, Ku cunnot be taken iato unother ouly on the written request of the general manager, are cdttle or track mean Paragraph No. 211 says : “Every persou, accenting a position with this company, does 0 with the full knowl. edge of the 'dangers, incident to the opera- tion of railways and agrees to exercise dus care io the performance of hiv duties, to pre- vont aceident Lo himseif or others, and be fore using them to sce that the machiery or to0ls which he 18 Lo use are in & safe condi- tion to perform the services required. “ly condueling the movement of trains by telegraph tue terms ‘superior right' and ‘in- ferior Tight' ip Lbeso rules refor to the rights of trains uoder the time table aud train rulos and not L rights under special ordors, *‘When an order 18 to be trauswmitted, sig nals ‘81 or 10, meaning ‘rain crdor,’ will bo given o each ofice addresscd, followed by the word ‘copy,’ aud s figure indicating the number of copies to bo made, if more or less thau three—~thus, ‘L copy &' or ‘W9 copy 5. " -