Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 21, 1890, Page 9

. PART TWO. THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE OMAHA SUNDAY MORNING,, DECEMBER 21, 1800—TWENTY PAGE PAGES 9 70 16, [ ——— TWENTIETH YEAR. = NUMBER 156, Open Bvenings Open Bvenings Until Christmas Until Christmas AVl - GOODS, with the assurance that nowhere can you obtain better values or larger selections in the lines enumerated than at our KELLEY STIGER & CO CORNER FARNAM AND FIFTEENTH STRERTS, GRAND DISPLAY OF GOODS BUITABLE FOR HOLIDAY GIFTS. To aid you in solving the more or less perplexing problem of what to give for a HOLIDAY PRESENT, we present the following list of DRY GOODS and FANCY establishment. 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Black at 75c and 85c. Men's Fine Silk Umbrellas, —AT— . $3.50, %5 and $6. Eiderdoion Comforts —AT— $5.50, $8.50 and $10 Bed Ladies’ Silk Hose —AT— $1.50, $2.15, $3, $3.25 Ladies’ Sslk Gloves AT $1.15,8$1.50, $1.75, $2 Cor. Farnam and 15th Sts. KELLEY, STI ER & CO Cor. Farnafi and iSth Sts. — e BY THE WILDCAT PROCESS. How Bogus Insurance Jompanies are in the Habit of Swindling People. BUSINESS CARRIED ON IN SECRET. Everything Must Be “Underground" In Order to Escape the Law— Inside Workings of aa Organized Fraud, The recefit failure of amber of wildeat insurance companies ana 10 astonishing re- sult of the attendant investigations as to the enormous business that these irresponsible institutions are doing throughout the state have aroused the regular underwriters of the city, and they are demanding the suppression of companies doing business contrary to law. A Bes reporter called upon a number of firms for information regarding the ‘‘under- grouud” and *‘wildcat” companies, and a des- cription of their modus operandi in catching victims, One of these men said: ““T'hese companies are called ‘underground’ because they do business contrary to law and are compelled to work in_secret, "covering up * thelir tracks and eluding the state officials in every manner, Like all other lawless ole- ments and lawbrealkere, they have a whole- some dread of authority and love darkness -zather than light. “Phey are called ‘wild cat' because they are financially as irresponsible and uunreliable #s the most notorious bank in the darkest ‘wild cat’ times, “Many of them, which circulate a grand array of assets in figures, have succoeded in securing excellent reports from the mercan- tilo agencies and display a beautifully en- graved policy sheet, are known by posted in- surance men to have no legal existence what- ever. Cases are known in which the whole so-called company consists of one impecunious individu who, taking that means ‘to raise the wind,’' has filled out documents with fictitious names, sentout clrculars and realized many hundred dollars from & guilfble public for his worthless licies. Several such cases have recently een unearthed by the insurance fraternity.” “How can & man perpetuate such & fraud successfully i “‘Remember, these concerns do not attempt, to conceal the 'fact that they are engaged in an illogal business, and like dealers in green goods they impress upon their customers the necessity of secrecy. Their victims there- fore when awakened to the fraud prefer to suffer in silence rather than expose them- solves to ridicule. And, besides, those who deal in secret with professed law-breakers are not in good condition to appeal to the law for redress. Suppose in such a case 8 man is brave enough to undertake a suit. To begin it he must find his company. He cannot sue at his home among his friends He can not get service on the company as he can on oue authorized to do business, but he must go to the home of the compmly. It may be in some other state. It ve in Europe. It may be like the Irishman’s flea. ‘‘Many a poor man has been thus rudel shocked out of a dream of security to fini himself ruined; to find that by his own act he had put himselt beyond the power of tho law to render any ossistance, It would seem that men of ordinary busi- pess sagacity would not get caught in such traps vot these same companies are doing & th vln{bullnen inthis state, They draw out of the city of Omaha alone about $30,000 annually, “These so-called companies wethods of doing business : 41, Through so-called ‘brokers’ located in some place like Chicago or New Orleans, send out'g\-ulnnt to those needing insurance, and without naming the company, simply offer have two ing thie insurance in ‘first class' companies at greatly reduced rates. *I have received hundreds of such circulars, They come from Chicago, New Orleans, New York, Boston, London, Paris and many other places. I have many times replied to them, asking the name of the company ad- vertised, but in mnoinstance did I ceed in learning it. The reply invariably has been: ‘Send on your application for iu- surance and by return mail I will forward a policy, which I guarantee to be good.) That sounds well and many a man caught by the words ‘I guarantee’ hus sent an application and premiums. 2, Through traveling inspectors. These are merely solicitors. Not @& week passes without & visit to Omaha by one of these gentlemen, Kuowing that they are liable to arrest if detected they carry on their opera- tions as secretly as possible, Having ascer- tained by previous correspondence what mer- chants are dissatisfied with the rates charged by the authorized companiee they slip into the city, quietly visit the parties they think they can catch, and get out of town again as s00n as possible, ““Their first effortis tosecure an applica- tion for insurance on the (mutnal plan) tell- ing their victim that on this plan he gets much cheaper insurance. But this renders the insured liable for all the obligations of the company, and & wary business man shuns that liability. “Failing to secure him on the mutual plan they offer him a policy for cash, the applicant being made to believe that heis thereby re- lieved of any liability. Many of our business men have recently had & sad awakening, by the failure of theé mutual companies, from this fancied security, by courts deciding that the holders of cash policies from mutual com- panies are liable for all the obligations of those companies, on the ground that they were conspiring to cheat the stockholders holding mutual policies, and their attempted fraud will not protect them, ““There are business men in this city who have sent in their losses to these companies only to be notified that the company had failed, and accompanying the notification would beanother stating that the insured would be assessed 30 per cent or more of his policy to meet his liabilities as a member of one of the wildcat mutual companies. Others have been advised to lock up their policies in gheir vaults and deny that they ever had any connection-with the company, and thus avoid any liability. “There is sometimes a difference between a wildcat and a regular underground company, although none but an experienced man would be able to detect the difference. What I mean is that an underground company is uot necessarily @ wildcat company, @s it is vossible for an houest man to get mixed uj ma gnu;%ot thieves, Both are underground, in that they evade the law, but some of them are honest _in that they realy intended to meet all losses, while the wildcat companies do not intend to pay a cent and could not pay even if they so desired. “These companies flourish all over the coun- try, but their headquarters are in the states where the insurance laws are lax. Washing- ton, D. C,, and New Orleans are veritable hotbeds of wildcat companies. There is no insurance law in the District of Columbia, and in Louisiuna the law is very lax, so that every inducement is offered to unscrupulous and impecunious persons to start an insurance company. All they have to do s to get their circulars Rrinted and flood the conntry with ihem. 'hey generally give & number of ref erences, but as not one in ten of their victims ever writes to any of the parties named, the ‘company’ is perfectly safe in quoting anyone he chooses. . It is surprising how many will bite at the bait thrown to them by the enterprisin wildeat speculator, They catch a number of the most substantial business men, It is but a short time since that I learned that one of the best business men in this city had over $50,000 insurance in thesé companies. In getting it transferred for him, 1 found out that he could have collected less than §3,000 of that amount 1f he nad experienced a loss, 1 satisfied him that this was so, and his insur- ance s now all placed with vegilar companies, Itis strauge tuat a prudent man will insure io these companies, when it is known that the regular companies during the past fifteen years have not been making buta fraction of 1 per cent, and these companics offer rates at a 'reduction of 25 per cent. ““There are hundreds of these wild catcom- anies in existence today, and fully one hun- red of them are doing busines 1 Nebraska. They are springing into existence every day. It doesn’t require any capital whatever to start one, and you must remember tnat very few have any legal existence. They sendout very attractive offers, merely alluding to themselves as a ‘non-board company.’ There is no way of preventing it, but the evil can be very greatly modified. Crime cannot be stopped altogether and con- fidence men are bound to ex n the world, Laws might be passed, however, that would tend to improve the situation.” ““‘What feature do you think essential in such laws?” “Well, in the first place, the state boards should be required to have direct knowledge of the responsibility of insurance companies before they grant a charter, and, secondly, thero should be & mutual arrangemeut by which a state would repeal the charter of & company* which was found doing a wild- cat business in another state. This was the ated by Mr. Alllen at t National underwriters’ convention, and it is the best that 1 have heard advocated. There are a great many companies that do a wild-cat business away from home, and such a law would put a stop to it. 1n one sense, nothing can be done, for as long as the gullible pub- lic will bpay over its cash to these irresponsible institutions,Just so long will the wild cat companies remain in existence. There is a rich field for them, and they are notslow in taking full advantage of it. There is not & business man in Omaha who would lend one of these fellows any money or en- dorse @ mnote for them for sixty or ninety days, yet when they come along with a_little printed matterand offer iusurance at reduced rates the merchants jump at the chance and pay over their premium without hardly stop- ping to ask a question, “In a great many cases they couldn't find their man again, 1o matter how badly they might want him. His company’s home office is right in bis satchel, and his home can be in one place just as well as in another. Busi- ness men aon't stop to look at the situation in its true light. They kick on the rates of- fered by the regular companies and they are completely carried away with the briiliant {;:Jspt:«'l of something that appears to infinitely better. 'The collapse of eight or ten of these companies during the past fow months shows how des lusive many of these hopes have been. They have entailed great loss, and fora while folks will look out & little, ' They always do, and then as the scare blows over they get careless and begin trying the wildcats again, Such companies can generally runa year or two. Thereare seldom many losses during the first year of a company’'s existence, and yery frequently none at all, When the losses do begin to come in, how ever, that is the end of the wildcat. There is nothing to pay losses with. The company has slipped all of the premiums in his pocket, and™e quietly steps out, leaving the vietim to whist More ri laws and the exercise of more sound business sense on the part of parties placing insurance will greatly reduce this evil that has grown to such mammoth pro- purtions.” _ plan ad e ‘With one exception. every crowned head of Europe has witnessed the exbibition of Prof, Darling and the lions, included in the host of attractive features which distinguish *‘Claud- ius Nero,”” the dramatic spectacle which will tour the big cities after its retirement from Niblo's stage. Messrs. Locke & Dayis, the owners of the poscant, pay $1,000 weekly for the services of six lions, the dog Nero and Prof, Darling, of which, of course, the pro- fessor receives the lions’ share, as well, inci- deutally, as that of the dog. ——— The only railroad train out of Omaha run expressly for the accommodation of Omaha, Council Bluffs, Des Moines and Chicago business is the Rock Island ves- tibuled limited, leaving Omaha at 4:30 p. m. daily, Ticket office, 1602 Sixteenth and Farpam sts,, Omaha, THE DEVIL USED IT THEN. Reminisoences Conneoted with the Site of a New Council Bluffs Church. HEADQUARTERS FOR ALL THE SPORTS “Perk,"" the Three Carl Monte Man, and His Game—High 1imes at the “Ocean Wave." The elegant new Methodist church, now being reared on upper Broadway, is a great L mprovement over the ofd brick building which was torn down to make way for the new. It is a still greater mprovement over the old log structure which occupied that very site forty years ago. The site now dedi- cated to the cause of righteousness was forty years ago the very center and acknowledged headquarters for the sporting characters, who at that time flocked to Council Bluffs in gangs. Council Bluffs, was then the great outfitting poiut for all golugwest, and there were crowds of strangers well supplied with money and movable property, enthusiastic for speculation of any sort, excited, restless and ready to invest in an¥ sort of device which presented a seeming chance to make big winnings speedily. Gamblers and crooks quickly learned that tho harvest of suckers was already ripe, and that the laborers were few. So they came hither in droves, Missouri furnishing the larger part, Everything ran free and open, Saloons paid no license, no attempt was made to con- trol, much less prohibit ga#mbling, and the world of sports held full sway. One who still lives in Council Bluffs, and’ is one of its re- spected citizens, was for years a bartender in the old “Ocean Wave," the saloon and gambling house which foymerly was locatéd on the lot.on which the uewMethodist church is being built. In talking of the wonderful changes he naturally ran . info numerous re- miniscences. H “The winter of 1833 ang (1854 was the live- liest time Council Bluffs ®yer saw. There were lots of days that you could hardly get across Broadway, it would be so crowded with teams, cattle, ete. ere was a great rush for the west, and was a good deal of rivalry between Council Bluffs and Platts- mouth, Tootle, Jackson & Co, use to have a big store here, and they usid to send men out on horseback to meet esiigrants, and get them to cowe here, insteadof going by way of Plattsmouth. These més would go out a hundred miles or so, .aad got big {my for drumming up and running In the emigrants, These were lively days farthe Bluffs, “Talk about gamblivg. "The woods were full of them, and they od big games too. Many o time have I seen from $300 to $1,500 in & pot in the ‘Old O¢ean Wave,! Then there were all sorts of ‘sure enough’ games, They were strung along Broadway and if a fellow didn’t lose ull,iis money on one, an- other would be pretty apt.tocatch him, All a fellow needed was a dry goods box, and he would set up business anywhere. There was the three card “moate ame, the strap game, ebuck-aluck, and all thcs: sort of things, ‘Perk' was the reat three-card monte man here that season, 1is name was Perkins, -and he came from New York, 1 dondt know what became of him. He was the biggest hearted fellow I ever saw. He wagslick, und would get all the money & man had inno time, but he would often give a fellow back some, enough 10 keep him from getting hungry, and that is more than lots of them would do, I never laughed so much in my life as I did to see him perform with ove tall, green, overgrown Yaukee boy from wuy down east. The boy had rigged bimseif out with the idea - that he would strike Indians at almost any time or place after he reached the Missis- sippi, He sauntered up to where Perkins was throwing monte, and Perkins began to joke with him. The young fellow had an old pistol strapped to him by a belt, and on the other side had a big bowie knife. He was eating @& large hunk of gingerbread, and altogether he was a character. Perkins in- troduced the game, and the young fellow got interested at once. The cards were thrown and the young fellow picked out the tray right off. Perkins expressed the greatest surprise. “‘Why, I never saw a man do that the first time in my life, If yvou can do that you can make a fortune playing this game. Try it again,’ “There was no money up, and they were just doing it for fun, and of course the young fellow picked out &' tray the second time. Perkins was apparently wonder struck. Ho could hardly believe his own eyes, “ipll tell you what D'l do young fellow, I’11 just bet you $500 that you can’t do it again.’ “The g'émng fellow had no money, not a cent, he being traveling with a party with whom his parents had sent him out. ““Well, I'll bet you 800 against that gun and knife, and that hunk of gingerbread, and your hat, I'm so0 sure you cant do that again,’ “The young fellow wus equally sure he could, and would not believe that the man would put up the 500, But he did. Hein- sisted on the young fellow taking off the belt, the old horse pistol, the knife and his hat, and deposited them with the hunk of ingerbread on the table, with the money. "he lookers-on could hardly keep from roar- ing. 'The cards were thrown. The young fellow smiled and picked out the card which he recognized by the corner being a little crumpled. The look of dispair which came over that young fellow’s face when he saw that he had lost, was worth the price of ad- mission. Perkins gathered in the motley collection, aud the young fellow began to blubber. ‘i1 don’t mina about the gingerbread, nor the hat. I can getalong without them, but what shall I do to protect mi'st:l( agaiust the Indians without wmy pistol and my knifot That pistol was one my father gave me, He used to own it. Oh dear, what shall I do?' “While the fellow sobbed and fairly groaned, Perkins was furnishing him what comfort he could by talking with the other boys about how close the Indians had @ot to the bluffs and about rumors of fights and all that, _After having all the fun they wanted out of the fellow, Perkins finally said to him: «1Say, young fellow, you scom to feel so bad, and the woods is 50 full of Indians, that I've concluded to give you back your things, on one condition. You must promise me never, so longas you live, to ever touch a card or a dice, not even for fun.! “The fellow fairly dropped on his knees to make the pledge, and when he took his things, and his gingerbread, he shot up the road for his camp as if there had been 8 whole tribe after him, yeiling the war whoovs. “Perkins was full of fun and would bet money against a man's hat, or his boots, or anything else, if & fellow 'dido't have any money. Then he would devil him awhile and givehim back bis boots, or his shart, or whatever he had got from him. Whenever he heard of a poor family, or any caseof need, he would give them §20, §30 or $40 as quick as he would @ cent. He was always giving away money. “Among the sports in those days who liked a game of poker, or faro, were John ‘Wallace, 'Lish Gladden, H, Johnson, H. Barnes, who, by the way, was the best single jumper in the whole west; and ‘Sport' Miller, Everybody here now knows Sport Miller, He went, awhile back, to the soldiers' home. You know, he's a veteran of two wars, the Mexican and the war of the rebellion. I've known the time when Sport had $7,000 in the bank. He used to llmy igh. One night when he had made ablg winning he went into & jewelry store and bought $300 worth of jewelry in one lump. He bought it of Beck, who was then earning bis trade and who is still in the l:xwelry business here. You have only seen Sport as he went around town as an old man chklul boots and drinking whisky. I tell on he's been a clipper in his day. He's worn is diamonds as big as anybody. I remem- ber when he was playing rather ‘against luck that two fellows, called ‘Grabem’ and ‘Keo- sauqua,’ were brought hero and staked against Sport, They broke him and he never got on his feet again to amount to anything, “Youmay think it strange, but withi all the drinking or gambling which was going on here, there was little or no robbery or burg- lary, or anything of that sort, Feilows would get S0 drunk that they would drop down on the sidewalk and go to sleep, with hundreds of dollars in their pockets, and no one ever disturbed them ortook a dallar from them, ‘they didn’t haveto. They could get what money they wanted in adiffercnt way. There were hardly any serious rows or anything of that sort, and no murder cases, “For drinks? Well, there was no lager. It was all cream ale, brought here from St. Joe by the barrel, and sold at 15 cents, just the same as was charged for whisky. Noth- ing less than 15 conts for anything. “Well, McFadden, who now officiates with s0 much dignity as bailiff in the district court, was one of the boys in those early years. He was the best man in these parts in dancing a jig and playing the bones, Bob Russell had a fiddle, and McKFadden would me the bones, and it was a great pair. They used to get §20 for just mrnfing a tune or two. 1 kuow one day those two got $40 just playing four different saloons, Me- Fadden was the pet jig dancer. One time French Pete, from Missouri Valley, a barber and a jig dancer, came down here and danced against McFadden in Babbitt's hall for a silver mounted belt and $125 in money. McKadden got away with the belt and the money." ——— The Debasement of the ‘Drama. The Kausas City Journal makes some grave, true observations in an editorial headed, *“Scandal the Envree to the Stage.” It says: ‘‘Mrs. Robert Ray Hamilton follows close after Mrs. Leslie Carter as a candidate for success on the stage, Mrs. Hamilton was pardoned out of the New Jersey penitentiary last week. 1t will be remembered that she was incarcerated in that wstitution on ac- count of & murderous assault which she com- mitted upon a maid servant who knew too much of her history. Mrs, Hamilton bhad been a good deal of an adventuress, and she succeeded in infatuating Robert Ray Hamil- ton, who was otherwise a level-headed man, of good family, and an honorable gentleman, She deceived him in more ways than one, and wound up by palming off upon him a child of which he was not the father nor she the mother, Shortly after this she attempted to kill the knowing maid and Jersey justice landed bherin prison. Andonly afew months ago the man whom she had ~deceived was drowned while hunting on a ranch in the far west, Is not all this sufficient to secure an immeaiate success for Mrs, Hamilton on the stage! She, at least, thinks so, and apparently she had negotiated with & manager bzfore her release from prison. Fof when she alighted from the train at Jersey City she was accom- panied by a middie-aged man who made the following announcement to the reporters: Yes, she is going on the stage, and o a short time—that is, as soon as her suit in her hus band's will ‘case is settlod. She possesscs dramatic talent of & very high order, es- ecially in emotional scenes, You may guess ow she is estimated as & coming actress when 1tell you that she has offers of engage- ments from all over the country, She is well known in amatear theatricals, and the managers of several New York theaters who have seen her play are now competing Lo secure her for their theaters in New York city. The elevation of the stage is more in the hands of the public than of the [xmlcnion. 1t is impossible to prevent women ike Mrs. Robert Ray Hamilton from making public spectacies of themselves except in one way—by a cessation of Enlrnnugo, 'he full houses which greet the the first actress in this country who relied upon her scandal to fill her purse were an invitation which other women quite as shameless have not been slow to accept, When the public become ashamed of the morbid curiosity which draws them to the theater to see women whose domestic in- ties, to put it mildly, have made themy notorious, the stage will 'very promptly @ relieved of their weight and will rise several Ppogs in consequence,”’ Christmas in a Lighthouse. Have you ever thought what it musk be to spend a Christmas day ina lighte house. For fifty years my Christmases have been there, *To you' landsmen and women, a snowy Christmas generally means that the day iscomplote; but by the lighthouse keeper itis too often ushered in by a northeast gale, writes Ida Lewis,the famous woman lighthouse keeper in the Ladies’ Home Journal. As far as the eye can reach under the light, I see nothing but the fast-driving flakes, while the sea dashes white on the rocks and is a visitor at my windows, knockin, noisily every few minutes. The win shrieks through this old house, rushes through the lantern with a noise like the shrill whistle of a steambout fore- telling danger. and even round the doors there is a chorus as if an army of fiends were attacking us. But with all this against us in the elements, in my girlish days we had many jolly Christmases, for we wero a large family of boys and girls, and liked, just as I do today, the pleas- ant giving and receiving of gifts, which marks the birthday of Christ. Now, with only my brotheér Rudolph loft, we mnkq the day as jovial as can be, and my dinner with its turkey and “fixings’ of celery and cranberry sauce, its mince pies and plum puddings, I should like to share with you all, —_—— Dr. Talmag as Cheer, In these holidays let all ths comfort- able classes exchinge the Lamentations of Jeremiah for the exultant Psalms of David—‘Praise ye the Lord, lot overys thing that hath breath praise the Lord,” and we will have a different state of things in this country, writes Rev, T, Dewitt Talmage in the Ladies Home Journal. T wish there might be & con- spiracy formed—I would like to belong to it—a conspiracy made up that all the merchants and editors and ministers of religion in this country agree that they would have faith in God and talk cheer- fully, und there would be a revival of business immediate and tremendous and glorious.” Stop singing Nuomi and old Windom and give us Mount Pisgah and Coronation, Merry Christmas! The land is full tfi{;)l‘nphetn and I have as much right to prophesy as any one. I prophesy that we are coming toward the grandest temporal prosperity we have ever witnessed in this country, Mes chanics are going to have larger wages- capitalists are going to have largerdiviy dends; the factories that are now closed are going to run day and night to meet demands; stores are going to be crowded with customers jostling each other and impatient to get waited on. Amid the rapid strides of business attorneys will be called in to interpret legalities and merchants overworked will want medi- cal attendance, and the churches are go- ing to be abundant with men and women |1mxlluuu to conscerate their gains to the Lord, You prophesy midnight! I prophes; midnoon. You pitch you tent towar: universal bankruptey; i pitch my tent toward national opulence. s 28 of the Great Rock Island route, 1602 Sixteenth and Farnam streets, Omaha, are the finest in the city. Call and see them. Tickets to all points oast at lowest rutes. e Dr. Birney cures catarrh, Bee bldg The new offi