Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 8, 1890, Page 3

)¢ Al — - / © with the de: THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, SUNDAY, THOSE DEMANDS OF LABOR. An Fpito. s of What Workmen Think Would Benefit Them. THE POPULARITY OF THE DEMAND. Local Cle riers ks Organizing—Letter Car- Axking for Eight Hours— Powderly on the Knights of Labor. ‘The leaders in the several labor organiza- tions of this city are beginning to realize that Omaha will, before another year, be equal to Chicago in the interest displayed in hor demonstrations, To be plain ard at the same time truthful, these men know that the feel- ing which has lain dormant so long is being gradually, effectually awakened, A great, many things which, if taken singly, would have butlittle effect, have been 80 suddenly welded as to bring all the discon- tent which has existed Yo the surfuc Many of the causes are of this ssatisfac- tion of long standing, while others are of re- cent origin, They are long hours, small renumeration, unchristian treatment, want of time for im- provement,sand equality measured only by the size of the individual bank account. On the first of these the great fight will be made, The strugglo will be inbut one way, the men hold, namely—n reduction in the hours constituting a work—and when the contest is over—when the vanquished and the vietors agree—hands that are now idle, they hold, will be honestly employed; homes that are now desolate will sur* rounded with comforts, and stomachs thay are now w from forced and continued ;.ul'ing will be strengthened with wholesome 00d. The desire for an eight-hour day, these wen hold, is much more sal than any- one outside the labor ory ations would suppose. The printers, who aro known to bo conservative, it is said fayor an eight-hour duy. The shoo clerks are now moving for ehorte: hours and, from the activity mani- osted in the painters’ union and one or two nizations which might be named, that the demand fora shorter ) il v)ng day will becomre general before June 5 1801, Laboring men, too, want to & when they go ' to the poils to vote, Th think the Australian ballot bill will afford that protcetion; they want it and they claim they will get it or they will go into politics this fall in o way that will surprise the poli- ticians, ed prote Clerks Organizing. Today the clerks in the many stores of the city expect to complete their organization by ction of permanent oficers and the m of delegatos to represent their in- ests in the Central labor union. or s the clerks of Omaha have wrest- led with the shorter hour problem, and this season they again took it up unde union idea, Isolated as they , unknown by a major portion of their fellow- Jgnorant of important events transpiring ind them and concerning them, it is con- lered no surprise that a chas sought. The men ave intelligent, r ble and pro- gressive. At the present time the membe ship of the clerks’ union amounts to 500 and is in own belialf, but as soon as they get their own union on its feet, they propose to go into ineyard to Iibor, and will then pro- 1 to organize the lady ‘clerks into a local a8 embly Already the movement Lus had its effect, as the furniture stores have conceded that the wiands of the clerks are just, and as a result ) while any number of Ory goods stoyos are foliowing suit and allowing their clerks to have their evenings to themselves, tter Carriers and Bight Ho ng up the fight that was inaugurated by the letter carriers, the vostofiice clerks have declaved for an eight-hour working da and have succeeded in inducing Gener Ketcham of New York to introduce a bill in congress providing that the working day of the 9,000 clerks in the first, second and third L al cluss postoffices shall not exceed eight hours, ht hours has been specified as o day’s labor for all the employes of the government and equity would seem to require that it be extended to that hard working class of postal employes, the clerks, who now work on an average of twelve hours a day and in some instances even longer, and are compelled to be on duty holidays and Sundays —a reauire- ment which is not made without extra pay of any other class of persons in_ tho civil ice. Besides consideratis affect- ing divectly the welfare of the clorks, it is maint ined that a shortening of these hours labo domanded by cousiderations ublic convenience. A clerk who has Deen on duty ten or twelve hours consceu- ly is not likely to be in the best condition sponsible and exacting work ired speed and accuracy. There 15 no knowing how many of the v errors in the transmission of the mails are to be attributed, not to any lack of zeal or at- tention on thé part of the postal employ but to downright weariness. A lessening of the hours of labor might, in a large part, compensate for an inerease in cost by an actual increase in the efliciency of the postal service, At any rato the point Is oue which will undoubtedly be considered. tiv to perform b fous Cincinnati Carpenters Out. Every union carpenter in tho city of Cin- cinnati has struck, and for once work is at a standstill in Ohio's met cal days ago 1,400 of tho carpenters went out bo cause the bosses would not agreo to the union scale. A few days later their places were filled by non-union men, which rosulted in the strike becoming general. The men have now served notice that they will stay out un- til an-agreement has been signed by the Dosses that they will live up to the rules adopted by the Central labor union and will discharge the non-union men in their employ. Three Victories. “The laboring men of New York have won n victory that to them means a great doal Last week Governor Hill was induced to sign bills prohibiting hat ma in state's prisons; providing for the appointment of ight female factory lnspoctors and for the weekly payment of wages by the corporations in the state, Powderly on the K, of L. The public demonstration in Albany Y, last Thursday, in honor of the are General Master Workman Powderly, who lectured before the laboring men in that city, drew the Kuights of Labor from all over the state, In the parade 5,000 knights were in line, After marching about the principal streets of the city a halt was called at a large hall, where after being introduced by N. G. Spald- {ug, secretary of the state farmers' league, Mr. Powderly said: “You talk of the conflict of thirty years ago, when the men of the time marched to N. 1 of the'scuth to do battle, If we believe cam- wign stories the war is still on. If we read Jistory,we know that those men felt in their the close of the truggle that slave was dead, Tnoy felt peoud of their work, and it was a noble thing to do to strike the shackles from the limbs of four millious of slaves. Tho achioyement was one that any nution might well be proud of. Time went on and slavery again showed its head in the heart: Jand, and there are today in this country more sluves than there were when the war began. exist not ulone in the south nor they ure not_among the in the o it but” everywhere among colored race alone cur sixty millions of people. But Wwhile the war was going on seeds were being planted that will im time com- pletely wipe out the slavery that is marching through the land. In 1862 the garment-cut ters of Philadelphia felt that they were not being treated us they should be und formed a soclety for their protection. They ran alc doing practically nothing to beuefit their cont dition, until oue night in October, 1800, they Beided to disband, Things had craduplly | Powers, widow of Thomas H. Powers, grown worse during the period of their exist- ence. When they organized thiey were work- ing nine and a half hours per day, and when they disbanded they were working eleven hours for the same pay. Whon the mecting adjourned, one old man who had been a mem- ber of the so organized seven persons, oty, including himself, into a society which he nimed would be far-reaching and practical It was the birth of the Knighta of Labor. The organization was perfected December 2%, 1866, and since then it has spread through almost e yuntry of the civilized world The disagréement on religious questions pre vented some from going into the t question w ttled we get a Catholic ud and a tant, no matter what denomination, We say to them: Suppose an order that all the people in the count must go to New York city, They t onhalf a dozen different raiiroads, but no matter which of the roads they take they are to get, thel the same. But wh ¢ destination the wisest and tell, from the dust on their co road they took to reach the pl there all the same. Just so it is 1 he i can't tell whea person gets there what jous convictions were during life. Thiat settles tho roligious question. Now let's see how close together they are on the other questions, One says to the other: “How much moriey are you making?? “Two dollars aday,” is the reply. “Don’t you think you ought to get two and a-half?’ “The ¢ on that and shake hands. Then th arises: “Don’t you think you ought to have m. “Don't children should more leisu hike you think, your darken the doors of the'schools instead of the factories Then they shake again. They are on a level there, and so they should be on a level on religious questions of the Knights of “Au in, to one is mong other labor bu- king people What ar Labor! We the concern of all,” things the necessity reaus, that the conditions of we all over the land should be known. They have established twenty-one labor bureaus in y states, and a department of labor at s ou that is searching ull the world t find out what is done to promote the hold th welfare of the toiling mas: At Cohoes last Tuesday evening I saw children leaving the great” mills after their I k who could ot bo more than ten I stood at the gates of the mills to their homes. They passed by the sch on their way to work The passed it again going home in the even- ing. The doors were closed to them, and it the stage of manhood, stinted in mahood and wo" whien they arrive of others, for their minds have closed against the education should have received in youth. the child is cducated. 1izs of the man of wealth who realizes that is action indepriving the child of an edu- murdered anintelicct that might pen an_ or nt to his country. I bt not but that if those who are accounta- for this crime, for it is » these Se to it that What_can be the feel- ble stand, as I stoo coming from_the mills, they f 10 se would say with me, itisa wrong and Iwill do my i end it 1 ot a rich mar this world's goods than I actually as poor as [ am, [ would pauper than be a millionaire and owe my wealth to the lubor of children whose future T destroyed by driving them to the factory when they should be in the school room. Some of our men have folt that the women should not be organized; they ara too good to be brought into un_assembly of the Knights of Labor. They should not mingle_with the foul-smelling, tobacco-chewing, profane men in tho assemblics, vight for these women to sit at the ble in the evening uncles and hus- t with thein in an of all may be dis- bands, is it not vi embly where the ssod ! If th utside of the Christian church where the name of woman d to be sacred, where it «d and 1 more than anywher . that local ussembly of the Knights n[ If the women are not or the work th: id strength oD place is in Labor. will soon be d are now do not be re future, for it n will vk of the thut women will do_all the work through the aid of science and inven tion. And then when the men are standing avound idle they will wish that_they had taken heed to the precepts of the Knights or Labor and demanded for the women of the land equal pay for cqual y ion of contract labor y witnessed the landing v shipload of emigrants. talwart body of people. The women od on their heads articles of household articles, such as bedding, ctc the men were willing they should do so. wel dently they were woman's rights men. In many instances both men and women wore wooden shoes. They cume to an already ove crowded country. When two men land in this countey now-a-days they stand on a spot that will only furnish work for one. The condition of things has changed in the past fifty years. Then there was plenty to do and few to do it, but the coun has tilled up so rapidly that now there are too many I would say the people of the old count b at home until the existing load upon us is removed. then we will receive you with open arms. For tak- ing this staud, it is said by some that, if that ws enforced, L would bea turfeutter in and today. Tn answer, T s far better to be a turfentte present time than a paup of Ameri want men will work for woods and cut their shoes o say that em should be so vest that not more than 2,000 should be alloy land on our shores ok, and th man should be able to read _and_write he be allowed tc i ican citizenship.” HONEY FOR nowh nts a day and go out in the We the trees, HE LADIE Glace kid gloves have taken the place of suede gloves, Glazed black kid fs more pop- ulaf for st than tan, which it has to degree vepliced. stockings are worn this season of the me hue as the ¢ They arc very com- able. Plain black add toa shapely ankle, but stripes detract from it. An anti-flit trust is being_organized regular watering place givls. Their motto is, It is coloved d the juice of Turkish prunes. White and pale-lemon ost large white hats produce Nurrow velvet ribbons are them agaiust the crown. A young lady has evolved the following re- flection on masculine Washington : The saddest words of tongue or pen— There are too many women and uot enough men. he popular fad in Washington nowadays the study of the language and literature of Spain, which was given a great impetus by the sessions of the Pan-American congress, _ Yellow and manve are the colors for under- on, If white, there are stripes in light, ollow. Sometimes the yellow s dotted inl White, aud white stars are frequent. ch feathers on ming effect. d to confing gant I 3 They are scaveely ever se ching as high us the elbow, andare growing short Kuitted do and Leng 3 ing in populavity., Their yielding quality and ventilating features make them favor- ites with ladies and children in summering, “The young people of Belvidere, Ill., are in arow which promises to involve the best families there, One of the north side young ladies a few days ago tried to organize a ten- nis elub. A chosen few were invited to join, but the many were left out. I'rom tnese it was proposed to buy nets, ete., but the own- ers refused to sell. - This started the quarrel, which commenced at the first meeting and has spread until many who do not know a acquet frow a baseball bat have taken sides, ‘ormer friends do not speak as they pass by. Some years ngo European dress began to come in yogue in dupan for women as well as suits are grow- for men, but @ reaction has set in. The anese women are not satisfied with the nury dress styles of civilization, but they are” unwilling "to return to their and hence they have bee “rational dress” advocated by the varfous female dress reform Philadelpbia has within her limits proba bly from twenty to twenty-five women who are worth a willion or more. She has twice that many women who are worth more than £00,000, und there are hundreds of women in the city whose pe fons rauge from 20,000 to £100,000, T'h st woman in Philadephi is believed to be Mrs. Anna M Mrs ly esthmated old di making a study Powers’ possessious ore_vario <t from $5,000,000 10 §12,000,000, , but | Special Prices for Monday and all the Week, on Black and Colored Dress .t . . deries, Silk Mit Goods, Embroideries, Silk Mi DRESS GOODS. 1. & will do well to examine this stock. MOURNING DEPARTMENT. s Brocaded China Silks $1,worth BATISTE, 10¢. In this department we are offering A3tat N KA DAl 20 pieces 86-inch Batiste at 10¢, reg- some very grent bargains. Special at- | Plaid Surahs, in all the new Scoteh | )5, rice, 13ic. alled to the Black Nun's , Black Albatross at 60c, she and Black Brillian- tine at 50c. They are the greatest bar- gains we have offered. 42-inch Black Alhatross at 60¢, worth Te 40-inch Black Nun's Veiling at 6 worth 75e. 42-inch Black well worth #1. 44-inch genuine English worth 95¢3 40-inch Black Brilliantine would be good value at 75c. Wa have & splendid Line of fancy weaves 10 black goods, which we offer at , worth 95¢ In black and white dress goods we show an elegant assortment in strip plaids and Remnants of 1 goods at pr close them out Monday with a rush. COLORED DR GOODS. 42-inch Colorea Brilliantines, splendid assortment of colors; black and white checks and stripe: mll nu placed on sale Monday at 50¢ per 3 they \\nuhl be cheap at (oc. ,in all the new tention is Veiling at Black Serge at Nuns' Vei'ing at 7ic, S at 7he, rge 500 at in a 1so that shades, at 53¢, worth T0c. : All wool De Beige at vorth 55 neh colored Nuns' Veiling at Ge, cheap at 75e. Tamese Cloth, in all the tures, at 60c, worth S0c. This finest cloth made for traveling dres BLACK AND COLORED SILK: 24-inch Figured China Silk at 50c, duced from 3 24-inch Wash Surahs, in all the latest esigns, at $1. 24-inch printed Indian Silks, 'l('gunt designs, av $1, reduce:d from $1.25. 27-inch Shanghai Silks, in black and colored figured, at 31, wortk. $1.50 We show un elegant line of Cream Brecaded China Silks at $1.85, worth ¢ mix- the re- di plaid effects, 24 inches wide, at $1 and $1.25 BLACK SILKS SPECTAL. SPECIAL. SPECIAL. We will place on sale at £1.25 a lot of Black Faille, Black Satin Rhadama, Black Gros Grain, Black Peau De Soie Dre worth from $1.50 to $1 Our Silks, that are ce Monda s 81.25 per yard. nteed to wear. aded Grenadine at #1.15, worth D) These silks are guar Bro. Grenadines Frame at $1.55; worth $1.60. SPECIALL Siliks, all colors, at 50c, Plain Pongee worth THe. WHITE GOODS, Three special bargains in Satin Checked Lawns will be offered Monday; they are the best values in white goods we have ever offered. LOT I.—Satin ohecked Lawns at 10¢, worth 15 LOT II.— ., worth 1f {' I1L—This lot we call speci Checked La in ns at tention to, as they are most el goods und well worth 20c; our price Monday is 15¢ per yard. BLACK INDIA LINON. Fast Black India Linou at 20¢ Fast Black Tndia Linon at 20c, regu- ar price Extra fine [ st Black India Linon at 30c, wo FRENC [( SATEENS We place on our counters one case of French Sateens, elegant designs, equal to anything that has been sold at 85c; on Monday our price is 22ic. WHITE INDIA LINONS. We have a complete stock of India Linons, in_ all the different ..u.mm y und offer them Monday at 10c, 163c, ¢ , worth {to be found in the city, and customers | REMNAN All short lengtis of F Ginghams Sdotch ench and White ateens, Goods will be offered at less than cost price. BLACK SA TEENS. Just_received another shipment of Fast Black Sateens. Customers who have been waiting can now be suppiied; price, 22} and New 30¢, 85¢, MUL Cream Mulls just received at Oc, 60¢ and 75e. be. FIGURED INDIA DIMITY. Choic Dimi Choi worth 35¢. SILK MT] about 50 dozen Ladies’ We have Silk Mitts that counters Monda, o styles 1t 18c, worth > styles in Figured Swiss at 2ic, v price of 15¢ per pair. The regular pri in India Iigured TS, 15e. Tan will be placed on our at the extraordinary co of these mitts has been from 30c¢ to 50 per pair. They must be sold and we make the price so low that they will be sold out in on Remember the price is only 15¢ ir DOMESTIC REPARTMENT. New Zephyr plaids and ripes ams, in stylish worth 15¢ Just opened a new lot of those extra fine Zephyr ¢ per cgant Ladie gray K and R All odd le cales, Seersu coe p ce. styles of Satecnsat 1 s’ Colored S Brilliantines, gray. suckers, all ab special p) gths of Ginghams, will be closed out atJess than cost This is a_chance to buy cheap nghams in styles equal to cotch or French goods; the price i, in black and .. Moreen in kivts, Sate al INA oD Per- and Cali- Sateens dresses for the children. LIN EN DEPARTMT T, BED SPREADS, $1.50 One case of fine Crochet Bed Spreads (Marseilles patterns) at $ 50 dozen extra quality fancy borders, at $2 pe 50, worth $2. Huck Towels, dozen, worth 82,75, 0 dozen whito Turkish Towels, $1. 03 would be cheap at §2, 10 picces genuine German Half Bleached Damask at 65¢, well worth 8se. 25 dozen 58 Napkins at $1.25; good value at $1.50. BLEACHED DAMASK, $1.00. AT $1.00—We show the finest assort- ment of the cit the quality sold at $1.% per dozen. LADI We are in laides’ cash silks and the lutest wed FLANN this VEL In Flannels shirts, wr styles are SO New de Flannel: CHILDREN? ible Damask to The style is_equal to goods usually Napkins : dupted for department we show special styles in fancy suitable ppers and bathing suits elegant, to 85¢ per yard, gns shown also o complete line of white Hemstitehed Flannels. 30 inch Outing bo found in are clegant and mateh to at S’ LONDON SHIRTS howing some elegant styles London Shirts, in _stripes, outing flannels; they novelty and are spec- traveling and holiday DEPARTMENT. some striped Outing for blouse w: from prices range in Embroidered Flannels 15 MULL BO Children’s black Mull Bonnets at 60c, worth 7 Children’s black Surah Hats, very stylish. at $1.85. SUMMER_CORSETS 50e, 25 dozen ladies’ Summer Corsets, odd sizes, at / perfect fitting; they are well worth 7he. HOSIERY AND UNDERWEAR, doz. ladies’ fast black Lisle Thr Hose, spl ity, at Tae, ed heel worth $1. and toc, xtra g Special Sale Monday of Ladics’s MUSLIN UNDERWEAR. L EY SHIGER & CO., Gor. Goods, Silk Hosiery and Muslin Underwear. DO E White ladies® fast black threads silk 1 thread stocking made, guaranteed to wear. Ladies who have tried these stockings once will wear nothing else; price $1.15, 25 dozen Hose (3 lisle) the bust Ladies’ puro silk Vests, low nock, leeves, ribbon in neck and arm, in black m, pink and blue, at §I, worth §1.7 ATTRACTIVE BAR IBROIDERY 45 inch Swiss Embroid in all the latest styles, AINS IN OUR DEPT. ed Skir 0e. #1.25 and 0 a yard, worthalmost one- half more. 45 ingh white hemstitched TLawn Skirtings, 33c, worth 60e, 45 inch white hemstitched Tucked Lawn Skirtines, 5 beautiful styles of |h.-~|- very popular goods, reduced to A yard, actually worth $1.15. inch white hemstitched Corded Lawn Flouncings, very desirable for children’s dross, only 85¢ a yard, worth Ble, 3 and 27 inch Swiss Embroidered Flouncings, exquisite desizns, the cor= rect thing for children’s dross, raro val- ues at 4o, e, 53¢, Gae, and $1 o yard, 2 spec | bargains in ladies’ Windsor Ties, in all the latest stylos; the eor- reet thing to woar with the now = Vas- sae” and fine flannel shict waists, soo ¢ and H0¢ each. them. only all the latest nov e, $1 and $1.25 0s in oe, ble, Japanese elties, at 25 each- 48 1ch silk only 85¢ a rd, worth $1.25. 48 inch all silk Brussels Draping Nets, in polka dots and squares, only 95¢ a yard, worth $1.35. LACI LACES, 1,000 yards fine Oviental, Antique Vals, Chantilly, Point Gage, Fedor ete., ete., reduced to 20¢ a yard, worth up to 40¢. ALL SILK 19 1ches wide deep hund knotted ) each, worth $5. all Russian Fish SURAH SASHES. and 4 yards long, with fringe ends, only and 15th Streets. SPECTRES OF VOLUNTEERS. How They Still Gather 'Round the Festive Board in No, 6.+ MORE OF THE OMAHA FIRE-FIGHTERS, How the Company the Historic Walls With all Memories to Which They Have Succeeded. Wonderful dreams must visit the slumbers of the boys at No. 6. It is midnight, and the bell of the last car is heard faintly tinkling in_ the distance, A dim light on the lower floor gleams on the brass mountings of the ponderous hose cart and the polished buckles of the fire harness, which latter viewed through the gloom, scem to be suspended in air or encireling invisible horses. Now and_then the thump of an iron-shod heel behind the threcbarred doors uin the r, proclaims the fact that the fire he will be ready when the summons come: air of mice creep out into the light il ses leir own shadows, and there is a scuttling and seuflting across the floor, dying away In faint squeaks behind the wainscot- ting. These and the ticking of the clock, or the measured footfalls of the patrolman on the stonc pavement are the only sounds leard. Upstaivs, the undulations of seven white coverlets 1 the f firemen, Beside each cot is the *‘night rig, the rubber boots and pants and the helmet ready for the call. The moonlight glistens on the polished brass sliding pole and ove the white covers of the beds. No sound is but the deep, regular breathing of rors, rms of seven sleeping heard he the slumby A wouderful thing happens. The clang of abell comes from the bell-tower above—a ghostly bell it must be, for though the ham- mer and tower are ~||H there, the bell ‘was long ago taken away to do duty elsewher At the first stroke, cots, sleepers, sliding pole and “night rigs”’ vanish. The room is the same, but the occupants and furniture are changed. The hall is filled with spectres. Spectres long and_spectres short, spectres stout and spectres lean, spectres pretty and spectres plain, spectres fair, dark, young, old, inwhite gowns and in Pr Albert frocks, in plug hats and Dolly Varden bouuets, m cutaways and in pullbacks, in tweeds, broadcloth, silks and satins Long tables extend down the full length of the hall loaded with gr jolly set of “spook ather ubout the boart stly delicacies, A seem to be as they with their panto- mime jabbering and gesturing. They attack v intangible viands with as much gustoas if they were material. They argue, flirt, laugh and clink glasses, Bumpers of invisi- ble beer and wine are quaffed till some of the bibbers become rather vociferously talkative spectresy Thén comes the speech-muking, with ges- tures 50 expressive that one can almost in- terpret them into compliments for the brav “fire ladd Rounds of inaudible applaus: greet cach successive speaker and everybody speaks or calls on his neighbor, The tables are cleared away and a ghostly dance begins to the music of ghostly musi- cians, They waltz and polka, shottische and gallop, swing on the corners, allemande left all over thoe hall. The frisky spectres jig when they balance and swing ‘thefr partners oft their feet. The bungling ones plung their feet through the ladies ounces and are hustled here and there through the figures till they look as if they would give the world for o séat It is the banquets a rsary of one of old No, 1's ts have come back to live over again the wonderful times of the good old volunteer days, This is the house which stood on the corner of Twentieth and Izard streets when the volun teer department gave so many of their memorable banquets when mayor and council ¢ me and were toasted and toasted in return aad to which all the world and his wife schemed for an invitation 1f the walls could give out th ouce did the slumbers of Hose company No. 6 would be disturbed by many & peal of laugh ter or burst of musie Things are different now, The wen who oceupy the cots do not banguet and toast and make love to their sweeticar \\Mu pin- uing round in dance, “They dpend most of their time, waiting for the sound the Ry in the attitude of sprinter waiting for the pistol shot. night, they sleep with an eye and an open. No. 6 has no volunteer record and h: n existence a little over thre the mnew brick engine house on } for No. 1 the frame now s abandoned 2 on was buil ard and Sixt idle for a long time. The council final moved it down into the street where it now stands, where it was anized and refitted. Hose company No. § was then organized and laced in it. mpany consists of vt Balcer William Sidell Bonner, third pipeman. ptain is one of the oldest men in the aving come jn in the fall of 1879, veen connected with No. 2 and 5 times, and at the organiz tion of No. 6 was madc He doc 10t COvet any newspap and is con- tent, us he ong at his busine Like all th . the house is always in perfect order. The brass of harness, pole, cart and gongs is polished Ul it shines Thé d with snowy whi ams. The horses in till_they shine 1 nplaint on the sco that a pair of nly make no ¢ of comfort, barring tho whips hangs over each bick ready to do some effetive work when ¢ During the night v's horse and cupy the nov the « George Blale, who hi uteen years of his life in the depar s on one of the cots. The chief 1 \teenth and Cuming and_in case of fire is picked up by his driver at bis residence, A featurc of the house, which, slightly modified, has heen put into all of the stations and which must be credited o George Coul- ter, superintendent of fire and police alarms, is the cut-off horses’ stalls, ~ When an fire comes in_these doors fly tically releasing the hor: unecting with the doors of of alurm open aut trivance for this purpose consists tric attachment and a set of rods wh slighly a small bolt_before the \ sounds. Stroug springs do st, and th horses, if they are up to their busiiess, are on their w to their harnes before the whips can strike them. The is a set of levers in the outer room by which tho ma- chine an be so adjusted that one, two or all the' horses may be released when the alarin sogids,or by Which all may be retained us is neckssary sometimes for *the purposes of drill or when testing the alarm system. it The Only One. The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway is the only line running solid vestibuled, electric lighted and steam heated trains between Chic Council Bluffs and Omaha. The berth reading lamp feature in the Pullman sleeping cars run on these lines is patented and cannot,ho used .by any other railway company. 1t is the great improvement of the nge. Try it and he convinced, Sleeping cars leave the Union Pac du,m( Omaha, at 6 p. m, daily, arriving at Chicago at 9:30 a.m. Passengers taking this train are not compelled to get out of the cars at Council Bluffs and wait for the train to be cleaned. Get ckets and sleeping car berths at Union ticket office, 1501 Farnam st, F. A. NASH, Gen. Agt J. E. PRESTON Pass Agt. ), TP ) Through coaches—Pullman palace slecpers, dining cars, free veclining chair cars to Chicago and intervening points via the great Rock Island route, Tick- et office 1602, Sixteenth and Farnam. Burlington New Local Train On and after Sunday, May 25, the Bur- lington will run a new locil train leay- ing Omaha 8:15 a. m., areiving Lincoln 9:50 & m., Returning, leave Lincoln p. m., arriving Omaha 9 p, m. This train is solely for local business and does not wait for connections, and will therefore always be ontime, Ticket oftice nam street, ‘Telephone 250, Tickets at_lowest rates and superior accommodations via the great Rock Is- land route. Ticket office, 1602—Six- teenth and Furnam strects, Omaha JOLNSO0N S “HAPPY VALLEY.” Realized in Nature's Handiwork in Omaha's New Syndicate Park, WOODED HILLS AND CRYSTAL LAKES. Where ¥ May Roam and the Merry Laughof Mcertals Mingles With the Notes of Na- turc's Choristers ted over with new houses put up to sell and which nobody having neither front yard alley, and each so faithful o will buy, yard, street nor copy of the other fu visited the place Omab bigh shrubbe ite a yellow bank, « A little opposite_side out wretehed crowd of half tled each other in a swarm of be Sthing very who would him follow his instructions his reward. 1 terrace ed birds and nearness and dom of the f a glorious beau! thi: flower O [ s2ape g its trees, its beauties had the good A little wi atu Ty the left and th visitor the beauty An ocean of léaves, of W filling the muring music about him, in the name, 1as a veal estate ving about ne people of a landscape predominate, spot- or vows of old- baclk that the mouotony is pain- ither is there the entrance to Syndi In motor line were = with instructions to follo; noses and they would find the urther down the sf A wre usic drinke attractive mmune with natur no 3 1 L unobtainal v of rk commissi u cunning hand fashion: and the mse to follow in h nty-fourth street the « a suffocating bec tive about vl Those who wst Sunday over the South deposited in the mud ay road cut Lwith a dens nything ate vl ot and on the hed band was blaring while rs jostled and hus- e hall and clustered about the ¢ dang all this to one but let, and he will find in led drives and walks in o spraying fountain swans in the lake €5 10X Lerrices, no tortured with t ness of the fre But Syndicate park has its own surpassing all anim planned it and no land- nded its hills nor set out all it men who impro dk from the entrance on ad winds about to bursts upon the eye of the of the place. the mysterious mur, h s uboye him and air! An ocean whose waves dip down, down, down iuto deep, dark vistas of green! Away off the pikzeous are ¢ ing in the again, il all ont against the long @ sh the i ove he s "The sunlight upon the to the east where the 1, theirwhite wings gleam- sunlight, they rest of vise up and up the world {s shut ¥, s of the nd dog side of the winding dviy v it on into the park protected from the is laden with the the forest, of the white i there, @ bespangling ses and ferns, which c filters brown earth of el.ns, white-onks, wood now reach out and we sweet perfume of clover, which grows ad the hundreds of wild the rank growth of pet hill and val through the leaves the road in little disks of yellow gold Flitting to and fro across riads of cat-birds, blue-birds, fi is everywhere, cle around take bedlam of bird-u an aspivant v flute-like n like the silyer wild music which birds only make in the co depths of masses of fo High up on the other vine a sweet-voiced singor it up till the ) far away that he ¢ the road are my: brown thrushes, robins, hes and doves. Thelr nusic weird exultant sort of durk sl of that deep ra sends out a single which rings through the all of & cornet, Rivals all air is filled with a Then it dies aw D SCi be heard, pipes bis noteand tho pe rlormance is repeated The road brar ere, and we are unde cided which to take, That to the left curves down int ub leave an aln pite That t ¢ tod with ferns ay of Syndicate park s its surpriscs. Fve step almost brings the loiterer opposite ne ope u the fo through which new vista A turnsti to the shad laughte the birds and ri: mated s¢ down to - point chairs, settees, table: beauty are at the fork of the road decides and wo take neith betwee of children mingle with the songs of ng ove e is opened up. An undulating law; e branch, but plungo The <houtings and ight knollan ani- densely wooded,slopes the Rusti and pavillions are ov tered here and there and bundreds of visi occupy them. It is the fivst hot day of the spring and white dresses are fluttering, — Bands of chil- children arc romping over tho ¢ flying through th in the swi 5 of young girl: old people, vorkers, dfiuking in the sweet woodland fragrance; lonely ones with fab and pencil weiting homo; sentimental | ones ings in the trees on all sides, and on the s 1d at the roots of the tree king dreamily out re young people h the fathomless blue thre nto the open- | of the sky lovers oblivions to all the dd of beauty about | them; | wakers whose ouly idea of enjoy is a romp and artisiic ones drinkin phase of the beauty about them We walk down to the end of the point and look over. At our feet, curving about the miniature promontory and perhups fifty feet below, rowing course not turn in it arms and yellow, & the oaks and the blue sk better for that, and a graveled fenc dren ary At cold the springs and men_ tr made the grottos another when they The is the cumulus masses of leaves which .3 from banks high up above itin 1 the | various shhdes of yellow and green which the leaves 1y in the tendel ng time. Near the center elm towers aloft, es almost from had been how be: A lakes, most beautiful Thero is the deep depths of the winding or ystal. and But ¢lms which hang oy and silvory A rustic walk leads ‘along People along the bank nd gazing dreamily people will, and_ half flinging pe arious points along the cool grottos from whose clear, springs, flingiug its grac bank to bank, et apart in utiful a thing o tr road leads 1 and from this looking views wood, for the do for a 1 would brown s of vit and il the it its brink, o leaning over tho into its depths as dozen laughing chil bles to “inale rings," itious nam It would no a four: 1 sy it th I¢ elonds above fened 1ks are deep, depths bubble up the tinkling of whose ds with the music of the birds es of the children, Nature made d to imitate nuture lake_over the bank to nformed, and we go to in- a little' larger than the 10 gravel walk, and its waters are ot quite so clear., Its great beauty a of this lk wnificent ul branch though it this wuy to illustrate > cin be, tw n the two east one of the of all is obtained ravine, losing itsclf in the the luke seen in glimpses through the overhanging branches with its are caves in the shadows appear wing of a flitt light; there ur seen throu ottos and playing children; th ¢ oriole ) the tr ore their foling 50 deep that black: dnst which the gleams in the sun s groups of white dresses s of the point,and aboye all this there is the dreamy, misty glow of a golden summer day. Only $10.00 to New Y¢ With cor Louis, Dee Logansport, troit, and south, the only line cars to termediate sleeping cars on 164 hour all information call a ow York tur, Fort Buftalo, Boston and_all IRemembe running Toledo and Detroit and all in- points. AL 'k via the Wabash Railroad, heap rates to St. Lafayette, Toledo, 1 oints cast the {\ abash is reclining chair anville Wayne, Pullman trains, Time to For tickets and the Wabash tickot buflet all office, 1502 Farnam street, Owmaha, or at Union Pacific transfer depot, Council Bluffs, or write GEO. N, CLAYTON, 1502 Farnam street, Omul b, - Lowest Rates on Earth via the Bur- lingt To all points east, south ar Omaha to Chicago and ret to Kansas City; \hie City and returr A verybody and fice 1 Mason Sts, IN THE SOCIAL WHIRL, Week Proves Quict One. bt Social club gave ption at the home of M 'he Past Rather a Th Joy Starl le re unsman last week, The evening spent in games, music and singing, followed htful lunch which was served Those present_were Misse: 1. Uitspatr Mabel Lew ra_ Prose geio McDer Mabel Cotter, . B. Baumer, 1. MeVar, 0. Foley, H Ruby Fol¢ mott, 1L, ' field, M Ogborm, M M. Porter Pago, B 1lin, Dora nox, Hatt bro, I'rundell, 4 Wi il, Rose Ilen, Thina Smith, Welma Barie Tracy Flyun, O, ctell, J. Stitt, E Rosenberry M. Allen, . J. Dahlt strom, Wil Moran, 1. Haskell. H. Haskell, orge Kinney, B. Price, B, Scracublin Jonas, Charles Dutton, I Bailey, Ross Bailoy, Grant Clevelind, Wil Und . Cannon, ' 1 Potter, B! Fowle 5 ton, J. Epeneter Ratelan, nle Swmock, Bdward Fried, Mr. and Mrs, Elling- wood. Ollie Mc On Wednesday afternoon little Ollie Me- Lain, aged five, and living at 3019 Burtstreet, gave a most delightful birthday party to about forty of her little friends, The re- freshments were of the choicest aud the nt the most cordial, all of which folks fully appreciated. Ollie re- ived a number of presents and flowers in Ina style that the profusion ) old beau to girls to suppc ance of the house had given the guc from parlor to kitehe would put many boys escorted the from the shame, Jug there were unmstukable sign dren hadenjoyed themselves, God bless the mothers thut do not keep their houses too fine for the boys and girl home what it should be, the arth. Those presen rt Wilson, Willis awrence Guild, M merson, Bertha T Jonas, Ethel Jonas, Carl Wil Phil Merrill, Florence Templ but who mike 0, Lois I on, Carl '\ ven, ton, Willie Guild, Guy McLuin, Jennio Ben- nett, Richard M Woston, Paulsen, Mabel Emerson, Oscar Burg, ' Corn Paulsen, aul Paulsn, Mary Rice, Chay tolfe M ith M licodore errill, Sadie Curtis, Taylor, Clyde Westoil, Benawa, Ada Burg, Jonus, Mis ‘hary | s Burg und Ada An Orchard Hill Luncheon Mrs. John Wagner, assisted by Mrs. Dr, McClanahan, gave an elegant 1 o'clock luncheon on Thursday, at her beautiful home on Orchard Hill, Invitations were ex- tended to Mrs. H. B. Coryell, Mrs. H., D, ely, Mrs. Charles Haley, Mrs. L. 5. Churles Van Tyle, Mrs, ( ¥ Mrs. D. L. Johnston, Mrs, R, L. Hodgin, Mrs “Phomp Mrs, C. L. Bla: . Wilson, Mrs. B. Conkling, Mrs. M, L, § Mrs, L, I, Weeks, Ms! C. Hutehiso M. L, Van Horn, Mrs. A, B. Carpenter, Mrs, Dr. Baitey, Mrs. Dr. Van Patten of Chicago, 1L, aud " Mrs, Dr. Mo Clanuban, Social Gossip. On Thursday at 1 o'clock M i, Webster of Orchard street gave & dinuer, with covers laid for ten, in honor of Dr, and Mrs, Van Patten of St. Charles, 111 Miss Gertrude Johnson and Mr, James R. Kennedy were united in m t 8 0'clock Wednesday ever of the bride’s pavents, the Mr. Wheeler of South Omaha’ performing the ceremor Phe bride was the recipient of many bea ful and valuable presents, among which adeed toalot on Kighteenth and Castelbue streets from her parcits Mr. and_Mrs. George W, ‘ panicd by Mr. Ames’ father, G Am foft Satuvday afternoon on n European t which will last till October. They will ull the poiuts usual ched by Euroj tourists but expeet to spend the greater of the time in ki 1, F'rance and Germany. The only railvond train out of Om run expressly for the accommodation of Omaha, Council Bluffs, Des Moines snd Chicago 1 the Roek Islund vestib ving Omaha at 4:13 p. m. daily t oftice 1602, Sixteenth | and Furnum su., Omaha,