Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 8, 1891, Page 12

FOOH BAH OF THE IMis Bervioss Cost the Oity a Neat Bum Each Month, DRAWING SALARY FOR FOUR OFFICES. Mr. Lowry's Plea for Retrenchment Not Supported by His Cficial Rovord—A ¢ 1 Jury for B o8, To the Editor of Tie Bee ordinance and ob- Mr. Patrick “parlor” for OuANA, Deo, 7 P to November wel on warrant No. 20 O'Henr Trew #2 tor use of his election purposes, while Mr. T, J. Lowry drew gniy A3 warrant for the supe purpose. 1t Mr. O'Henrne hus the ed T, ). Lowry he huve u pull Mr. Lowry I8 more th howeyv sinee durlng Mayor Cushin drew pay for eleven dinys ucting mayor, eleven days for acting on the llce B Voird wnd cleven duys on fire and poll - misston as Mayor Cash s substitn As un all round sulury grabber Mr. J. Lowry Is entitled to the palm TAXPAYEL he above noto from “Taxpayer’’ was oc onea by the publication in Tue Bre of an item showing that Mr. O'Hearne drew pay a8 a juror and as o ion oftfeial for a share of th. timo for which he has a cluim against the city for alleged servi an {uspector under the employ and dir of Major Birknauser, chairman of the Board of Public Work: st ey absence b as ction 1. J. Lowry, mentioned in “Taxpay- er's”’ communication, i president of the city council, He is the leaderof the democratic forces in that body, and is one ‘of tho most enthusiastic Iy tes of reform aud re trenctiment, according to_his owu declara tions. Ho 'is the same T. J. Lowry who stood up in the council chamber on Satur night and eloquently pleadcd for a purincation of the press, Ho characterized the newspaper reporters penuiless leeches who didn’t tax id were out for the stuff all the time. He de- plored the fact that o spaper report erin town was a blackmailer and regretted that money should intluenco tho press and public officials, He even went so far as to apveal to the Real Estate Ownors' associa- od to use its influence in_getting the mone loving representives of the press to tone down their reports touching municipal scan- dals, Of course this specch had its effect on the lobby, and any sucn iutimation as *“Tax- payer” mukes iu his letter wonld have met with iittle credence in that crowd of listen- $ng admirers of the First ward Pooh Bah. Yet, with the aid of the records of the ¢ comptroller's ofice, 1t is not difficult to thro o differcnt light on the orator's pien for purity in the pross and municipal affars, When ho made the statement that there had been too much talk in the press of municipal extravagance, the fingers of his right hand fondied a roll of & which Acting Mayor Lowry had drawn for thirteen days in the caicf oxécutive chair in Novem ber. When be eloquently pleaded for pro- tection of taxpayers against the leeches of the press his nand went to the right pocket of his pants and toyed with the coin, $I which had been recerved by . Lowry ncting chairman of the Hoard of Firo and Polico commissioners, The press, he suid, had accused members of the council. and Isely too, of being 1n office for tho money was in it, and n:s left hand jingled the drawn by Thomas J. Lowry as chair- licenso board for thirtéon days in When he aeplored the fact a penniless reporter couid with apparent im- 3 Land ruin the character of un honest man, he slapped his manly breast, mentally observing at the time that the €6.07 which vepresented ancilman Lowry’s salary for November, safo in bis inside pocket. “PaxPayer’ was right. aid for Mr. I November to t tune: Ealary councliman Acting mayor, thirtec Actin Irmun po Azting chalrman lie For Novomber Mayor Cushing drew fuil pay as mayor, chairman of the police board Bnd chairman of the license board. 'ho city of Omaha cial service in nse board. Talk of a Grand Jurs. ‘There s now astrong probability that a grand jury will be catled for tho next term of the district court which convenes on Fob- ruary 6. Should the body ve called, there wro several matters of a public uature that will be brought up for investigation. In speaking of the matter County Attor- ney Mahoney stated that in his opinton a grand jury would be catled, though ho would not say what ho would present for considera- tion, Ho would talk tho matter over with the judges s soon as the new bonch organ- jzed. Judge Irvine smd he could not express his ideas upon the subjeet, but was sure the subjcet would be culied fo the atte tion of the judees when the mecting of the vench was held. audge Duyis said a grand jury would called 1f 1t was desired by County Attorn Maboney. Ho was positive that the matter would be considered by the judges, Judge Ierguson had given the subject some thought, and was protty suro that the matter would be considered by tho judges when they met to reorganize the bench. bl and he was 7. Ho wanted her 1o promise to marry him. He offered candy, ice cream and nuts. but she was obdurate, Finally he said lie would give nor a bottle of Haller's Sure Cure Cough Syrup. She smiled, lud her hand in his and said, yours till death. She was WINDEK TOURS To Summer Lands via Route. The Wabash are now selling vound trip tickets good returning June I, 1892, to all the winter resorts in Ten- nesseo, M ippi, Alabama, Geor Plorida, North and South Louisinna, Arkansas and Toxas, The quickest and best route to the Hot Springs of Arkansas. For tickets and full information in regard to routes east or south cull at Wabash oftice, 1502 Farnam street, or write G. N. Clayton, N. W, Pass. Agt. the Wabash gin, wolina, - 16 DECRER, DENIED 7T Judge Doane's Deccis'on in a Some- what Sensational Divoree Suit. Judge Doane banded down an opinion Saturday in the divorce suitof Louise A. Hopkins agaiust Alvert M. Hopkins, The decree was denied and the suit dismissed at the cost of the plaintiff. In passing upon the caso tho judge said : “In tho case of Hopkins against Hopkins there ura two controlling cousiderations which oreyent granting the relief prayed: Pirst Phe universal rule is that even inan ex parto watter whero there is 1o defense whatever no divorce will be granted on the unsup- ported testimeny of the plaintiff. There must be some other witness to support tho one making the application, in this casc there s absoutely no corroborn tion whatever of the testimony of the plaintiff, none whatever, not a single circumstance. On the contrary the defend- ant denios evory singlo allogation of the petition. Not only that, but whatever eir- cumstances thore are aside from her own oath in the way of testimony, are eutirely neonsistent with her statemen The ground for divorco Is extromo cruelty, con- sisting of words, not acts, After first'deny lng it, sho says finally that defendant aid strike ber once: but Iam satisfied from ae- fendant's stutement and from the qualified way in which sho speaks of it herseif, that it was dove simply in playfulness. She had e¥en forgotten about it when frst asked From the sccond day after the marriago down to the separation she attributes many thing to him which, to say the least, ave bighly improvable. In her first statement sho says she cried coutinually, but after. wards modifiod it very greatly and said se did not ory in’ the presonce of defendant or ~others, but only when she was aloue. While this very thing was going on, as she says, and whilo she claimed to be so very miserable aua folt ke committiog suicide, in her hus band's absonce at different times, she writes 1o bim letters in which she tells him how well she is enjoying hersulf and wishing for his return, and espocially on ber visit to Red Dak, what & good time she is having, bow COUNGL, | THE porfectly happy she is atd expressing a nging to see him, letters written at tho very time nid upon the heels as she says of the time he was driving her to distraction. Now, that is highly improbasie, to say tho least. If he was treating her so cruelly as sho statos, when shoe was writing to him in confi- dence there would have boen something in her manuer or form of writing to indicate it: but there is absolutely nothing of the kind, simply the expression of the warmest affec- tion. So, I say, that is entirely inconsistent with hor statements, ‘There are half a dozen of those lotters written under different cir cumstatces and at different periods of their married life, There is not a single wi not one, of singie act of cruelty and the exprossion of ha guage, and that is an insuperabio obstacle in tho way of granting the relief sought. *“The second reason why a divorce should tot be granted, is that under thelaw a di- voreo for cruelty will not be granted when it simply produces mental distress, It must produce a physical effect. There must be something by which it cau be proveda by others, something othc could see she was affected by. Sho says it affected her so she coutd hardly attend to her duties, and hurdly knew what she was doing, and frequentiy went tn that condition to hor father’s hou Her parents testify they never saw anything of that kind, and while they were witnesses | for her and would bo supposed to give her all possivle assistance, still they suy they aever noticed any difference in herat all. Another circumstance which is very signifi- cant is tha fact that she says sho went to visit her mother frequently durin - d serious trouble, but never uttered one of complmnt 1o her. It would havo 1 the most natural thing in the world for to make complaint to her mother, but sho did not sava word about it unul she She says before she left he e which she should write to him saying would not_return, etc. that letter is 10 bher own handwriting testimony that he dictated it is eutirely upported, and tho letters written to h to return are the most natural letters that a husband could write. So that after all her testimony is without any support wkatever. I shall o the divorce and the plaintiff w0sts of the suit.” 11 KAILROADS, acific’s Trouble with lts imen—Rail Notes Superintendent Sutherland of the Ne- braska division of the Union Pacific has ro- urned from a trip over his line and reports | everything in good working trim. demand for more cars than can be furnished, | but thus far there have been no serions rosults from the inadequate supply. Iu fact the Union Pucific is in much better shape than 1ts competitors to meet tne emergency. At Grand Island Mr. Sutherland gave a hearing to Yardmaster Cleary, who had been discharged for general incompotency. It was shown, among other things, that be had al- lowed ' 167 empty cars to accumulate in the Grand Islana yara wheu | they were in great dem: for ser- | vice. Assistant Grund Chief Downey of the switchmen’s ovganization was present and had to admit that he could urge nothing in dafense of the yardmaster, but recom- mended him to the superiutendent’s syn pathy. Mr. Sutherland has mado an nppointment, for today to meet a committec of Omaha switchmen, who have a_grievance to present mn ovehalf of oue of their number aamed Clancy. He was laid off a few days ago under the operation of a new rule, and he charges that the yardmas- ter was unfair iv the matter. The superin- tendent, in speaking of the matter, said: ““We had some trouble for a long time from an abuse of the practice of ‘calling up.! The switchmen, when they wanted to lay off, got into the habit of waiting until u foew minutes Vefore they wers due to report for duty, when thoy would call up the yard- master and motify him that they would not come down to work. The result was that tie switchman’s engine ran short-handed. We bad a number of small accidents, and in making an investigation we several times ran up against the excuso that the crew was a man short. This state of things led 10 the issue of an order requiring switchimen to get leave of absence 1n the pro- per manner. If one of them laid off without such leave the yardmaster was instructed to suspend him a few days for the first of- fense and to discharge him if 1t were re- peated.” The superintendent intimated that the order may not have been carricd out properly i se of Clancy, in which case it might ssary to revoke the yardmaster's action, but he had no knowledge of the argu- ments'the switchmen would present. Ho evidently is disposed to be fair and antici- pates no trouble, Won the Suirt, Judge J. 3. Cessna of Hastings returned yesterday from Galesburg, Iil., where peared as counsel in an important railroad caso. In 1882 Mr. C. L. James of Hastings sued the Chicago, Burlington & Quiney Rail- voad company for overcharging on live stock shipmen Tuo case passed through the United States circuit coury and finally was sent back to tho district court at Galesburg. One of the main questions at issue was tho legality and reasonablenoss of the schedule rates of the railroud commission of 1873. The plaintiff came very near losing the caso by reason of the fact that he nad given the railroad com- pany a release and discharge from all claim and liability in 1852 Judge Cessna held, hoiwever, in presenting the side of the plain tiff, that 'to release a debt for a payment of only a part of it was nota full discharge or reléase, and that the company con.mitted an illegal uct in paying oback rebates. These arguments sustained by the court. The case lasted a full week and attracted a good aeal of attention in railroad ol He se- cured a verdict against the company of £,000 and attorney’s fees, Railrond Notes. Tha funeral of the late £, B. Whitney of the Union Pacifle, was held at St. Paul yesterday afternoon, and all thegen- oral freight offices of that ron wero ordered close after 2 o'clock. This included the offices at Omaha, Kaunsas City, Denver, Salt Lake, Portland, St Joseph and Butte. The general froight ofico of Omaha was represented at the funeral by Mossrs. J. Muanroe, A. H., Wood, Jumes War- : i B. Choate, J. B, Hayden and I, M. Frye. ( ntendent Nichols represented the operating department and C. ie the passen, ‘T'he railroad officials are being hounded for cars for intoriorshippers, but the probability is tuat the shortage will increase until the eastern railroads are prepared to accept the flood of grain pouring out of the west. George T. West, city passenger agont of the Northwestern, is in Chicago. General Passenger Agent Buchanau of the Elkhorn will go to Kansas City tonight to attend the meeting of the Transmissouri Pas- songor association tomorrow. Excursion rates for the holiduys will Le the chief sub ject of discussion. H. hle of Des Moines, traveling pas- senger agent of the Elkhorn, is in the city - Solid Trains From Omaha. Vestibuled, electric lighted snd steam heated, with the finest dining, sleeping und rechining chaiv car service in the | world, via the *'Chicago & Omaha Short Line™ of the Chicago, Milwaukeo & St. Puul Railway. Double daily train service, leaving Omaha at 12 [ m and 6:20 p, m., with no transfer at Coun- cil Bluffs us' horotofore. Apply 1501 Farnam street for ticketsand further in formation or nadress F. A. NAsH, . PRESTON, Gen. Agt City Pass. Agt. e U St s Court Notes. case of the Union Pacific Railway company against P. Hrackett, on a writ ef cjootment, 1s still in progross before the United States court. Brackett, who resides in 1llinois, hoids the Litlo toa half section of land in Merrick county, which s also claimed the Union Pacitic compuny, hence the suit The case against E. Dixon, murder the first degree, is down for today. John Jackson, indicted for manslaughter, for killing a prisoner in his haods at Fort Robinson, and who forfeited his $2,500 bona, was rearrested Sunday by Deputy Jackson and brought to this city. He will be arralgued this morniug. -— Four hundred and fifty aollar § Warranted seven yoars for $187,50, Now scale. Hayden Bros The There is | ¢ OMAHA DAILY - BEE: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1801-TWELVE PAGE | WHOLESALE DRY G0ODS TRADE The Foundation of the Business Laid by Milton Tootle, ROOM FOR SOME MORE HOUSES IN OMAHA, What the Dry Goods Jobbers are Do- ing for the City in the Way of Employing Labor and Circulating Money. Milton Tootle may be said to have laid the foundation for the wholesale dry goods busi- ness of the Missourl river cities when he opened houses at Kansas City, St. Joseph, Omaha and Sioux City, The business pros- pered from the very outset and as St. Joseph was Mr. Tootle's home all the profits poured into that city. At the tine of Mr. Tootle's death a fow years ago, his fortune was estimated at about 10,000,000 It had always been his policy to build up bis own city and to that fuct § Joseph owes much to er success as a whol sule point, Besides enlarging the original house and making it onc of the strongest ana most im portant on the river,new houses were opened, off-shouts of the parent establishment, until now St. Joseph has five large dry goods job- bing firms, thrce of them rated at a millior doliars or more, As against this number at St. Joseph Omaha has two houses, the house founded here by Mr. ‘Lootle having passed into other nand: a new house having grown up in the eity. This aisparity in numbers, in favor of tho eity down the river, is du to'no other apparent reason than the ‘tendency given to the dry goods busines at the very smmencement by its founder. Omabn has fully as good a location, al mostGthrée times the population and is farther away from Kansas City and St. Louis, which are strpny competitors in much of St. Joseph's terrifory. Omalia has many ndvantages over hor rival in this business, but still can lay claim to only two houses, because no Omaha Tootio has risen to give the business the vpoct of his millions. Busitess men, thoronghly conversant with tho situation, claim that no botter field for the investment of capital can be found in the country than is offered in the dry guods jobibing business at Omaha. ‘the jobbers now located here would welcome anothor bouse, for though it might cut into their trade 10 some extent, it would tend to make Omabia g more tmportant dry goods murkot, and in that way bo of bene: it to all the end. oy would, perhaj prefer to sce @ St. Joseph housc woved up here, but as that is 1ot likely to oceur they would make no op- position to'a new house starting. Thie boot and shoo jobbers would also like #o0ds houses Liere as in boots and shoes in the same city where they buy thew dry goods. ‘I'he only wonder is that more houses have not been started here, when it is so gencrally recognized by busiuess men that there is such a solendid opening. The jobbers of boots and shoes could well afford o subscribe lurgely to the capital stock of a new dry goods touse as & means of helping along their own busines: “There are in the city several jobbing houses that nlrendy have worked up a largo trade in branches of the dry goods ovsiness, as for example the houses handling notions. A no- tion house could be very readily extended so as to include the whole range of dry goods, and 1t would appear to be an advaitage to such a house to o so. Notions form an im- portant department in every dry goods house and it would seem as if a firm that could afford to keep men on the road to sell goods, belonging 1o one department of tho busiaess, could profitably add & full line of dry goods, As a matter of fact the question of capital very largely into the cousideration of any such extension of a business, but in a city the size of Omuha there ought to be plenty of men willing to invest mouey in so promis- ing an enterprise. It was not tho object of this article, how- aver, to point ont what might ve doue, but rather what hus already been accompiished. The fact remains that Omaha has two wholesale dry goods houses, managed by wideawake cifizens, who are rapidly pushing their business into new territcry and crowd- ing out their eastern compeutors. They are Owaba men who make the intorests of the city their interegt, and always stand_ roady to encourage new on prises that will tend to develop the resources of the west. They are men who help the manufacturers by handling their profucts wstead of trying to crush out the manufac- turing sowrit by bringing in eastern goods to bo sold in completion with thoso of home pro- duction. No manufactureris too small to re- ceive consideration at their hands. As noted before, they have during the vast three months put on its fect the pearl button in- dustry which is uow_supporting at least a hundred people. They huve —contributed largely to the success of theoverali manu- facturers who, as was showu in o orevious article, give employment divectly to 327 peo- plo. P Fhose two housos, M. . Smith & Co., and the Kilpatrick-Koch Dry Goods company, furnish work for 172 employes and pay out in wages over $100,000 annually. The money thus paid out finds 1ts way into general c culation and contributes to the prosperity of overy business enterprise in the city. Could there be any better arcument ad- wanced to prove that it 15 an advantage to overy citizen to help build up large business houses in the city. But the pav roll is not the only monoy placed in_ecirculation by the dry goods jobbers. If their general expenses. and the sums which they pay out to local manufacturers were to be iucluded it would make @ showing that woula double the amount of the pay roll several times over, No class of business men can be more in- terested in the number of people employod in the city, aud the amount of money put 1 cir- calation in this way, than the rétail denlers and it is accordingly to their interest to do all they can to encourage enterprises furnishing such employment, 1t is 1o tho interest of every retail dealer of dr, ods in this eity to buy as mueh of Lis stock as possiblo from the locai jobbers. A fow of the largest retail _merchants 1n the city can buy many lines of goods from first hands, os well as the jobbers, but if there are any lines which they can oktain in Omaha as cheaply as olsewhere it is to their advantageto do so Smaller houses which buy from the jobbers will be inexcusablo it they do not givo the benefit of their trade to the Omaba hous Every Nebrasku retail merchant who buys goods “from the Omaba jobbers is con contributing just so much toward the up- building of the wholesale trade of the state, and iu 5o downg is working to his own inte est. Iivery additional man given emplo; ment by the growth of the wholesalo trado makes just one more man to vonsume tho product of Nebraska farms. sry western merchunt who sends his woney tothe east nelps to postpono the time when the west will be~rme commercially and finaucially indepencent of tho large and wealthy cities of the east. horo are a few ncrchiits in Nobraska who feel too large to buy of jobbing houses within their own stite, but fortunately for the good of the countiy, the number is yearly becoming smaller. Many times business men outside of the city de not realize the sizo_and importance of the Omaha houses and for thul resson go elsowhero to buy. Itis an almost every day occurrence for business men mrking their first visit to the city to romark, “Why, 1 had no idea you bad such a larye place, that you carried such a complete stock of goods.” o do wway with the lack of appreciation of this character the dry goods jobbors huve adopted the plan of encouraging their oustomers = to visit the eity. They give each traveling man the crediv for the sales made to his customers in the house, Omaha's jobbing houses are so much larger than generaily supposed that this plan might who | work to advantage in all branches of the job- bing traae, "Tho faot must not be ove~'ooked that the dry goods trade of this city ass mads won derful progress during the past year. In spite of short crops and stringent money markets the business hus been rapialy broad- ening out and It is to be interest of every Ne- braskan, yes, and of everv western business man, 10'do what he van to keep up this moye- ment 1o the right divection, e The new Hotel Brunswick, 16th and Jackson. with all modern improvem ents Now open for guests, Moderate prices CONTINENTAL CLOTHING HOUSK 1The Event of the Season. Over $50,00 worth of Men’s, Boys’ and Children’s Overcoats and Ulsters from the wholesale stock of the Continental Clothing House of Boston, shipped to Omaha and offered this week at prices averaging about 60 cents on the dollar of the regular retail prices, affording the public an opportunity of buying an overcoat at less than manufacturer’s cost. A sale of this magnitude has never been attempted in Omaha. We mean to unload these goods in the next 15 days. Come carly. Men's Ouercoats, ~ Boys™ Overcoats, Children's Overcoats, Men's Ulsters, Boys' Ulsters, Children's Ulsters, The prices at which these goods are marked places us in a position to under” scll all competitors. This sale meais goods retailed at less than jobbers’ prices. We cannot attempt a description. The extent and variety of this stock is be- wildering and when it is borne in mind that we scll only reliable, first-class goods, it makes this sale worthy the attention of every person in Nebraska. Our limited space will allow us to mention only a few of the most attractive lots. $8.00. $8.00. $8.00. Lot No. 1. 'We call attention to 100 pure, all wool, heavy weight diagonal overcoats, made in the best manner, guaranteed color, and sold in any retail store at $13, Our price $S. $6.50 $6.50 Lot No. We offer 125 biack beaver Overcoats, serge lined, silk velvet collars, fly front, and made up in excellent style at $6.50 each. Sold in the usual course of trade for $10. $11.00O $11.00 $11.00 Lot No. 3. This is one of the choicest lots in the whole stock, made from a handsome Ker- sey, handsomely lined, silk velvet collar and in every respect a first class garment, usually re- tailed at $18. Our price at this sale, $11 each. $B13. P13 /e offer 75 Oxford mixed Kersey Overcoats, satin sleeve linings, a regular tai- we offer. until (o] Lot No. 4. V lor made overcoat of the highest grade, the average retail price of which is $22; e 1400 1400 Lot No. 5. We offer 125 Kersey Overcoats in three different shades, goods made by us early in the scason for our finest trade, elegantly trimmed, and cannot be bought outside of our store for less than $20, Our price at this sale will be $14. ULSTERS. ULSTERS. ULSTERS They have become very popular: Remember, no shoddy at any We have sold more ulsters this scason than ever before. At this sale we offer the best values ever shown in this city. price. Only reliable goods sold at the Continental. MEN'S SUIT DEPARTMENT. The balance of the suit stock bought recently from Miner, Beal & Co., of Boston, will be closed out this week. Many of the best lots are still in good shape. Don’t miss this oppor- unity of buying a first-class business or dress suit at a saving of from $5 to $8 on each suit. BOYS OVERCOAT DEPARTMENT. $3.00 $3.70 $4.00 At this sale we offer bargain lots of boys’ Cape Overcoats at $3.50, $3.75 and $4. BOYS STORM COATS AND ULSTERS Special bargain lines at $5, $5.50 and $6, 1 BONS. SIIIT DEPARTMENT. Special bargain line during this sale at $3, $3.50, $4 and $4.50. CONTINENTAL CLOTHING HOUSE, Cor. Douglas and 15th Sts The Largest Wholesale and Retail Clothing House West of the Mississippi -~