Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 11, 1894, Page 13

ANONG THE Merchants INSURANCE. MEN Organization of a Balvage Corps is Being Vigorously Agitated, CRUSADE AGAINST DEFECTIVE WIRING ellations Anticipate fome ¢ or a Ralse—Trouble In Kn Risks—General News of t in Insurance Clrel possibility of the class remaining as un- profitable for the next ten years as it has been for the last ten.” Ho Wants to Know. A business man of this city who “has a little curfosity, you. know,” desires to sub- mit the following questions to the fire in- suranco agents of Omaha st—Ot the three large fires of Omaba, namoly, the Wakefleld, Farnam Street thea- ter and Shiverick, did the companies will- ingly comply with the requirements of the valued poiley law and settlo all losses promptly? Second—Did not Mr, Wakefleld have to in- voke the ald of the courts? Third—Has the Farnam Street theater fire insurance been paid In compliance with the Some Facts About the Locol Assembly of the Knights of Labor, ITS HISTORY, PROGRESS AND GOOD WORKS What it Has Heen Dolr 1 Will Continue to Do in Relloving Among the Families of Members— Labor Distress ANONG THOSE WHO WORK | THE OMAHA DAILY BEE SUNDAY, 'FEBRUARY 11. 1891 establishment of a"Bfamic course in all Institutions of learnmg. Eastern anthracite €oal sales agents de- elded, January 18, tejmestrict the output to 2,000,000 tons for the, month The St. Loufs unlgns have assessed work- ing members 10 cents per w sist in providing for the ufiemployed Of the 3,000 men okually employed by the Maryland Steel company at Sparrows Point, Baltimore, but 600 are, now at work The Midland shops at Colorado City, Colo., run only half time ‘ffom now on, working Mondays, Wednesda¥¥ and Thursda: The employes of ‘the Clover Leaf have hired an _able lawyer, and propose __to fight any further reduction in wages All the coal mines at Mauch Chunk are reported in operation. The railroad shops are SIXTEEN I\ ARCHITECTS OFFICES What the Building Prospect in Omaha is for the Coming Year, SEVERAL LARGE STRUCTURES IN VEW But the Keeps Th —seh neral Feellng of Uncertainty m Yet Within the Shadows mes that Will Get OfF the I rints. PAGES. Once more we call 13 your atten- tion to our great purchase of law? Fourth—Did not the adjusters endeavor to ring in a deduction of old brick and old fron | In the total loss fire of the Farnam Street | NO in full blast and there are few idle men. The railroad firemen’s union at Terre Haute say thelr wages have been reduced There Is strong talk favoring a salvage Hrist GlGEHIRG, Which anaBlen s corps In Omaha. The idea naturally meets with the approval of the insurance men, and The building prospects for 1894 in Omaha The prominent part that District Assembly appear to be largely contingent upon the gen of the Knights of Labor has taken worsted to sell 3000 c'egant \ until they now only make $39 per month eral condition of business throughout the A RitAted theater fire, instead of complying with the | in relieving distress of unfortunate persons ¥ § oughe he the subject is being vigorously agitat ‘-“ o | FCQuirements of the insurance law on the | brings that organization forward as one of | Mincra In m\ (r{l{;}‘mn :rn‘ll( »v:\l;\ln:. ‘::: country, as s the case elsowhere, but prob- It 18 claimed that much property could be | Nepraska statute books the leading and well working organizations | (fiCt are OPDOSIDE peratives In tEVING | aply not to so great an extent. A visit to A Ny T1E -4 tot 4 N CNRE ok Becste 8 to lengthen the hours of work from elght to . Saved in casos 1ike the Fecent Dowon wlote | L IttICIN Jb Dot irue, that many. peoplo . .riyy welt. - For asveral yeats the KnIEHCS. |, ot the offices of the various architects reveated re, which leaped across the street and [ Who suffer from a big fire like the above, b Sl AL 4 * pater amo cel conce! ko, o & Belden's stock, | have to whistle for their money for a longer | of Labor were well organized in Omaha, | Can Makers assembly No. 1384 of the | & Ereater amount of uncertainty concerning ° BERELOUE 111, Ot (EHOTIDROR e that | time than is absolutely necossary? but from the fact that the city assemblies | Knights of Labor, located at Baltimore, has | the future than has ever been known before, The advocates of the salvage idea say tha Sixth—Why do some insurance agents of | were tied up with the state assembly, the | made a satisfactory agreement With' the | All of them have more or less work In much of the stock damaged by water upon | Omaha_contihually cry about losses before | FO E0 PR W C0 Ho R nioq prom | employers. prospect, but there is not the certainty of it D that oecasion could have been saved it | they adjust insurance and pay the insured i The custom tailors convention appointed a | poing carrled forward to completion that Omaha had been blessed with a salvage [ What fa due. In it a loss to the agencles | carrylng out measures that would have re- | wommiites to draft resolutions protesting | o M THES GOTHE W o e o before one dollar has been paid to the man | sulted in great benefit to the local members. | against those clauses of the Wilson bill pre- | 12 n noticed in former years. Very few “"" i Tin- 68 w0 iy Dl fFek | 0 CAFTIILhE poTloy? At every annual election of officers the | judiclal to the craft. of the plans have as yet been suffictently 4 th "r(" |h.“‘r1:'§ -n| v' defective clectric wir- Insurance Ite Omaha knights were not able to get more An employers’ llability bill has passed | matured to allow of their being made he city Is credited to bl AT FRERY 4% O 20°5HF SeRE ALE: Loilh than one or two members upon the state ex- | second reading in England. It provides that [ public, though many of them are reasonably N s CERRRIL FAINATpaiey. Db NS scutive committeo, and when action was de- | all employers must pay damages to men | certain of being carried out. There are be made by the fire insuranco men | The Georgia valued policy bill has been | ecu ) 8 injured in their employ. petmepihiien il L i FOR Killed, sired here it was often prevented on account several large buildings that were commenced and in bulldings where the wiring s | KIII The woolen mills at Haverhill, Mass., have | jact vear that are not yet comploted, and B found in bad shape policles will | ,The Insurance commissioner bill in South | of the inability to convene the board in | .riinyy"vosumed operations, One hundred | LASt vear that are not yet completed, and N Sausslen, | P “hunah® oL Mr. Dlotati | Carolin is dead, time to consider the matters requiring im- | hnd fifty men have been put to work at a | WOTK on them will be pushed forward as North " tod to cancel the | n1hC organization of a salvage corps at | mediate attention. reduction of 15 per cent. rapldly as possible. Among theso are the of the Northern, who wanted to ean Minneapolis is being discussed. In the year 1500 the local leaders held a | Forty-six thousand dollars have been | public library building, the club insurance with the Boston store people the One of the favorite forms of rebating by day of the fire, came too late, to the evident subterfuge is the purchase of inocuous plug raised for the relief of the unemployed at San Francisco and 2,000 men have been put to bullding, on both of which a amount of work remains to be done, and the conference to consider some method by considerable which they conld get direct power from the 10 and $12 fegmt ot Inapsclor Hartman. Tie Boston | bts, i work in Golden Gate park. telephone company’s bullding, several pub- . buflding and stock was insured for $160,000. | Offers of insurance on clectric railway | Beneral assembly to organize a district in | o By o g o Philadelphia’s men have | lic school buildings and the new Central Of this amount $120,000 was on the stock | plants in other cities are becoming very com- | Douglas county. It was argued at this [ yoo“given work by the Philadelphia Nat- | Unite] Presbyterian church, all of which and the balanco on the bullling, furniture | mon. meeting that if the Omaha knights could or- | yral Gas company. The company is laying | are practically completed. and fixtures, The list was published in The Buffalo fire fnsurance agents talk of estab- a new line to the Armstrong fleld. ganize a district assembly which would get BOSTON STORE BUILDING. Beo last week, Nearly every company rep- resented locally was interested. Captain Palmer’s agencies got caught for $140,000 of the amount. Merchants appreliend a gencral 20 per cent advance next month, and while local under- writers are reticent on the subject they ad- mit that such a movement is highly prob- able, The city was filled with Insurance adjus- ters during the last week. Mr. Milverstead of Sioux City was the first man on tho ground after the news of the fire renched him. It is now thought that there will be a large salvage in Thompson & Belden's stock. Insurance agents continue to lament the fnadequate pressure of the waterworks and point to the Hoston store conflagration as only ono of many Instances where the waterworks company has proved unequal to the emergency. They say that the fire engings were the only safeguards against an extynsive conflagration. fn life insurance circles the week has been comparatively quiet. Next month the 1i underwriters will glve a big banquet at the Commercial club. The local association has permanently abandoned its official organ and has come to the conclusion that it is not necessary to revive it, as The prints all the ne 124 Howell and other members of the coun- cil who are interested In insurance are criti- clsing City Electriclan Cowgill because he falled to.make a timely report of the de- fective wiring in_the busincss houses re- cently destroyed by fire, and which, they clatm, were so glaringly defective that in one Instance Mr. Clough, an insurance man, detected it at a glance, without an instru- ment test, and reported it to Inspector Hart- man. The insurance men generally have spread on their war paint, and as they are not in a very amiable mood they are now concentrating the cause of their miseries upon Mr. Cowgill, whom they say is not suf- ficlently rigld in inspection. Mr. Cowgill refutes the charge and says that the trouble lies in the present eity ordi- nance governing electric wires. e says that all the buildings, with few exceptions, which he has inspected have complied with the present ordinance, These cxceptions re- celved his prompt attentlon and the defects were remedied. Mr. Cowgill furthermore as- gerts that the new ordinance governing electric wiring has been pigeon-holed by the council, as It evidently did not sult Mr. Wiley of the clectric light company. The city electriclan takes the position that he cannot compel property owners to exceed the re- quirements of the existing ordinance, and he emphatically objects to being made a scapegoat for the inadvertence of others. Trouble In Kan Insuranco agents all over the country are agitated over the action of State Insurance Commissioner Snider of Kansas. He has tssued an order revoking the license of the Home Fire Insurance company of New York to do business in Kansas. Mr. Snider de- clined to make any explanation. It is understood, however, that this Is the first move on the part of the superintendent of Insurance to enforce the collection of the reciprocal insurance tax. which, it is claimed, 1s due Kansas from about twenty New York Insurance companies. According to the superintendent of insurance all New York companios doing business In the state are in default for twenty-three vears, or sinco the enactment of the reciprocal tax law In 1871, and that there Is now due from them about §200,000. The claim against the Home company is believed to be $15,000, Tess $4,000 which was paid between 1881 and 1885, Mr. Welch claims this is all that Is Que for the reason that the New York law taxing foreign insurance companies was only in force during these years, and conse- quently that the Kansas reciprocal tax did not operate against New York companies at any other time. Recently Superintendent Snider called on all New York companies to make a statement of thelr business done in Kansas since 1871 All' complied excopt the Home, and it is bolieved its licenso was ro- voked because of its faflure to make this statement. The Home Insurance company, which did a business of $16,000,000 in Kan- sas last year, has about 200 agents in the state and last year received in premiums $154,655 and paid losses amounting to about $72,000. Goneral Agont Welch had an exciting in- terview with Superintendent Snider and told him bluntly he would continie to do bust- ness rogardless of his order. Snider, it is sald, informed him that if he did ho would send him to the penitentiary. Insurance men oxpect the licenses of all the New York companies will be revoked unless the tax is weedily paid. Farm Risks, insurance companies Firo writing farm ~7isks state that a cold wave causes a corre- sponding wave of clalms, and that in the winter time the loss records will furnish re- liable data as to the periods as well as the location of the sovere weather. So many reasons are assigned for the unprofitableness of farm property, from an underwriting standpoint, that it would seem impossible that any more could exist; and this last claim that farm property is being used for thermometrical purposes would lmpress itself at first as being ridiculous were it not, in fact, strongly Insisted upon by many unde writers whose word 1s even better than their bond. This class of property being isolated, and usually cheap in construction, it is neces- sary to have hot fires in cold her. Es- pecially in sections where wood is used for fuel, the heat is not steady, and defective flues are numerous. Thus it comes about that cold weather, hot fires and numerous claims are coineldent. An underwriter who has just been looking over the returns on farm’ property in the cast for 1593 says: ‘“As usual, the year's results show a loss ratio of over 100 per cent, and we are out the expenses of getting the business. There does not seem to be any possibility of making farm property pay its own way without & sharp advance in rates. Depreciation in farm buildings is more rapid than the addition In value by new buildings or repairs to old structures, and it {8 probable that the loss will increase rather than decrease. It Is becoming a serious question with agents writing this business as to where to place it, so many companies are declining it. ““The completion of every unprofitable year adds additional companies to the list of those prohibiting farm property, and it will soon become a problom for the farmer as to where he can find Indemnity, The most careful selection has little apparent effect, nd, although we have written this busi: ness more or less for several years, we are almost discouraged when we think of the lishing a clearing house, where all accounts between agents shall be settled each month. Towa newspapers are in a stew again ove the alleged shutting out of Tllinois assess- ment life insurance concerns organized under the laws of lowa. Tho decislon in favor of the companies concerning the application of the Tetas anti- trust law may lead to a rearrangement of the Jalonick rating bureau on a new basls. ennessee life agents arc endeavoring to form a state organization, and as a nucleus havo formed one at Chattanooga. D. J. Duffy is chairman and J. Cole Evans secre- tary. The Underwriters Salvage company of New York has resolved that no individual shall be permitted to hold its stock, and that “equal advantages of investment shall be offered to all fire insurance companies in the United States.” It is rumored that the Colonia Firc In- surance company of Germany will enter the United States for business. It Is a company the of the North German and will fol- low the program laid down by that company. 1t will make its deposit in Iilinois, and may evon select the same representatives in Chi- £o as that of the North German. The presfdents of tern life insurance companies are said to have been conferring together for the purpose of agreeing upon some method of reducing the cost of procur ing new business. President Hugo Wesen- douck of the Germania Life recommends the payment to agents of 2 per cent of the amount Insured, and not to exceed 2% per cent of the premiums for collection. The pressure for insurance on bonded warehouses is great and rates are being slowly forced up. The question of insuring duties is assuming. a new phase. Some im- porters now demand a clause that “‘all duties paid or unpald” shall be considered as part of the cash value of bonded goods. If the companies take premiums on such forms they will have to pay the losses, but how they hope to recover from the government is a puzzle. The employes protective policy recently written by the Standard Accident of Detroit for the Pabst Brewing company of Milwau- Kee covers every man in the employ of the big brewery, and provides for specific death benefits and for one-half the weeckly wages and medical attendance in caso of accident. The risk, for which there was considerable competition, was placed by George H. Rus- sell, the Standard’s manager for Wisconsin. The premium is about $6,000 a year. E. B. Cralg, the Tennessee insurance com- missioner, has served the following notice to Insurance agents in the state: “In ac- cordance with section 4 of the revenue bill of the general assembly, 1893, all Insurance agents doing business in the state are re- quired to pay to this office a tax of $10 each per_ annum in all counties except Davidson, Shelby, Hamilton and Knox, in which coun- ties a tax of $20 is required. This tax must be paid before certificates of authority can be_Issued. The past year proved a hard one on the life insurance solicitors generally except in Omaha. The hard times cut into many a man's calculations, and side issues like the World's fair, which could not be ignored, called for a’ goodly outlay of ready cash. Consepuently, with the exception of the “‘giants,” few companies show a gain over the business written in 1892. The largest companles kept up a vigorous canvass for business, and, of covrse, their methods were rewarded so far at least as volume ls con- cerned. ———— EDUCATIONAL. Thero are 1,752 students in Cornell univer- sity, at Ithaca, N. Y., this year, to 1,665 last year. It is proposed to fit out all schools in Kan- sas City, Kan., with bath tubs. -The mental wheel in Kansas Is a turbine, The educational staff of the University of Pennsylvania numbers 268, as against 2 last year, while tho students number 2,180— an increase of 125 over last year. The first free public school over ostab- lished in the world was at Dorchester, Mass., in 163). The site of the school is very prop- erly to be marked by an enduring monu- ment. Prof. W. 8. Lytle of Mercer county, Penn- sylvania, s one of the oldest, in point of service, school teachers in the country. He began teaching in 1839, Ho is as active as a man of 45. Miss Marcia P. Brown, formerly principal of a school in Malden, Mass., is now a mem- ber of the State Board of Education in San Paula, Brazil, and the head of the govern- ment normal school there, Prof. Helnrich Hertz, who recently dled at Bonn, was considered to be the greatest physicist in Germany next to Helmholtz. He was only 37 when he died and his death caused sorrow in the selentific world. Miss Alico Cooke has been appointed lec- turer in history of Owens college, Manches- ter. This is the first time a woman has been appointed in a university college in England a lecturer to mixed classes of men and women, Dr. Webstor, who has resigned the presi- dency of Union college, at Schenectady, N. Y., on account of ill health, will be succeoded by Rev. Andrew V. Raymond, pastor of the Fourth Presbyterian church at Albany, and a Union graduate, class of '76. American colleges have 100,000 students preparing for the fray, including sprigs for medicine, theology and the law, It Is to be hoped they may not be educated too much to earn a living with their hands and too little to succeed with their brains, It is reported that Governor Pattison of Pennsylvania will be invited, upon the ex- piration of his term of office in the state's service, to become president of Lehigh uni- versity, ~ President Henry Coffee s now years old, and {s expected soon to retire be cause of his advanced age. Prof. Richardson, formerly of Dartmouth, is now the director of the American school at Athens and has been appointed for a perfod of five years. He Is supported this year in his work by Prof. John Willlams White of Harvard university. The excava- tions this spring will be in charge of the di- rector of the school. Roanoke college, which has been educating Choctaw Indians for more than twenty years, and has also had a number of Moxican and Japanese students, has now recelved one of the first two Koreans to enter college in the United States, the other being at the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania. Mr. Surh Brung Kico, who has entered the regular course at Roanoke, came to this country in April id has already gained a falr command of English, e — De Witt's Haszel salve cures plles, 1ts power dircct from the general assembly it would place the local members in better working order and would tend to build up their membership. It was also argued that the expense of convening the executive board would be much less and would give better satisfaction to the members, as action could always be taken in less time than in tho old way, which required men to come to- gether from all parts of the state. It was well known that the local members did not have enough votes in the state to withdraw and form a- district, as this question would be voted on by the representatives from all over the state and the general sentiment was to hold on to the knights of Omaha as a part of the sta nbly. For the pur- pe of furthering this movement a county assembly was formed. D. Clem Deaver was elected county master workman; Michacl Nelson, recording secretary; Mrs. J. M. Ken- ney, worthy forman, and A. Miller, treas- urer. Correspondence was at_once -entered into with General Secretary Hayes of Philadel- phia and he was informed of the united de- sire of the Omaha knights to be organized into a distinct district assembly and the advantages to be gained were fully set forth. Sccretary Hayes was induced to come to Omaha and ook over the field, after which ho was satisfled that the demands of the Omaha members were reasonable and should be acceded to by the members throughout the state. Upon his recommendation the local members were allowed to withdraw from the state assembly at the next annual meeting and a district charter was at once applied for and granted under the number 126, Such was the work ofsestablishing Dis- trict Assembly No. 126, which is now consid- ered gne of the best central labor organiza- tionsin the west. At the formation of the district the follow- ing oflicers were elected: District master workman, Mrs. J. M. Kenney; district worthy foreman, D. Clem Deaver; district recording secretary, Alfred Fawkner; dis- trict treasurer, Charles Rosenquest; execu- tive board, P. H. McNeill, J. H. Scott, Mamie Lane, Michael Nelson and Mrs. J. M. Ken- ney. Tollowing this administration M. R. Hunt- ington was elected master workman; Herman Culien, worthy foreman; Michael Nelson, re- cording secretary; Charles Rosenquest, treas- urer; executive board, Mrs. J. M. Kenney, Herman Cohen, M. R. Huntington, Michael Nelson and Mamie Lane, The next election resulted as follows: Herman Cohen, master workman; Dora Walkefleld, worthy foreman; Michael Nelson, recording _ secretary; Charles Rosenquest, treasurer; exceutive board, W. A. J. Goodin, Michael Nelson, M. R. Huntington, Herman Colien and Mrs. J. M. Kenney. During this administration several new as- semblies were organized and the Knights of Labor in Omaha took on quite a growth. “Through the active work of the officers their present hall on Fourteenth street was se- cured and furnished, which has since been a scource of income to the district assembly, as some kbor organizations meet there every weekday night and it is sometimes used for religious services on Sunday. The next election of officers resulted as follows: M. R. Huntington, master work- man; Carl Meyer, worthy foreman; W. A. J. Goodin, recording secretary; Charles Nel- son, treasurer; executive board, M. R. Huntington, W. A. J. Goodin, Cari Meyer, Mrs. J. M. Kenney and George B. Henkle. Nothing unusual occurred during this admin- istration. The matter of pushing the or- ganization to the front rank was well at- tended to and the debt of the district was paid, leaving the next and present adminis- tratfon a_clear and bright field to further carry out the principles of knighthood. This administration organized the clerks as- sembly and also the cooks assembly, under ters 992 and 443 respectivelly. The present officers are: Herman Cohen, master workman; Carl Meyer, worthy fore: man; Michael Nelson, treasurer; executive board, Thomas C. Kelsey, M. R. Huntington, Charles Nelson, Herman Cohen and Michael Nelson. . The District holds regular meetings in its hall on Fourteenth street every second and fourth Saturday evening. The executive board holds meetings at the call of the chairman and can be convened at almost any time within two or three hours when necessary. The rellef committee has, during the past two weeks, rendered aid to over 200 needy families, and announces that the £00d work will be kept up as long as worthy persons apply for aid. During the past week no less than five wagon loads of pro- visions have been delivered from the relief bureau to the needy poor and several orders for coal have been honored. Labor Notes, The Stove works will shortly, The pulp factory at Madison, resumed . work. A tailor in Turkey, about $1 per week, Federation men and Knights of Labor are fraternizing in Albany. cil of Canon City for allowing men to break the eight hour law on eity work. A Knights of Labor assembly of bookbind- ers has been organized at Harlem, Signs of steady Industrial revival are re- ported throughout central Connecticut. There are said to be 2,000 skilled mo- chanics out of work In Rochester, N. Y. The State Labor commission of Colorado has been asked to prosecute the city coun- Men are still determined to resist the pro- posed reduction in Northern Pacific wages. The street car strikers at Bridgeport, Conn., have resumed work at the company's terms. Murphy, Masey & Co.’s chalr factory at Detroit, employing 450 men, has resumed operations. An Omaha man has Invented a car coupler that has been endorsed by the local swilch- men's union. Three members of the Labor union have been political offices, At Cohoes, N. Y., 4,000 people are out of work owing to the idleness of a large num- ber of knitting mills, Bakers' union, No. 84, Long Island City, which was disbanded some months ago, 1s about to be reorganized. The Allegheny county grand fury has in- dicted thirty-nine of the Mansfield coal riot- ers for unlawful assemblage. During the past three months 1,000 sa- loons In Chicago have been forced to close by the financial depression. The Brickmakers assoclation, before ad- Journing, adopted resolutions favoring the Detroit resume Me., has it skilled, can earn Lincoln appointed Central to fill Knights of Labor assemblies throughout the country are voting upon amendments to the constitution of the order adopted by the recent general assembly in Philadelphta. Several mills at Moosup, Conn., have closed down, throwing about 1,200 hands out of work. No rent will be charged operatives in the company’s houses as long as the mills are idle. The reduction of wag attempted by the boss tilelayers of New York has been with- nd the detormined s and Encaustic Til drawn, owing to taken by the Mosaic layers' union. In Minnesota every street car must be provided with vestibules to protect drivers and conductors, the agitation of the State Federation of Labor having resulted in a law being passed to that effect. In a riot at the Vesuvius iron works at Pittsburg between strikers and nonunion men, one of the latter was fatally shot and several others were severely beaten. The works are closed pending police protection. Cleveland Laundry Workers assembly No. 520 has been running a laundry on the co- operative plan for the past eight months. The girls draw good wages each week, and are also building up a good trade. Knights of Labor coopers at Rochester, N. Y., have succeeded in getting peniten- tiary made barrels out of the market in that city. The purchasers of barrels and kegs have agreed to use none but those made by Rochester workmen. = The woolen mills at Oregon City, Ore., have shut down. A 10 per cent cut in wages has been proposed, which the opera- tors agreed not to accept. All attempts to settle the matter have failed, and the mills will be closed for an indefinite period. The Tradesman says that the southern farmers as a class are in a better pecuniary condition at this season than ever before. Less money was borrowed on the security of growing crops and more supplies were made at home. Kynock & Co., manufacturers of ammuni- tion, who own the Lyon works at Birming- ham, arranged an eight-hour schedule, ac- cording to which wages for plece work are unchanged and the pay of day workers Is raised so that they will earn the same wages as heretofore. In 1887 Levl estimated that the earnings of English agricultural laborers were £75,- 000,000 per annum; of those engaged in te tile manufactures, £47,000,000; building trades, £43,000,000; metals, £32,000,000; ships and raflways, £28,000,000; servants, £60,000,- 000; showing that agriculture was stil the most remunerative business for the laborer. In accordance with the decision of the government, the adoption of the elght-hour day In the government factorles in England goes into effect on Monday. A total of nearly 20,000 wage workers employed in the arsenals and factories at Woolwich, Enficld and other places will be benefited by the de- cision. It scems likely that the chambers of commerce of Cripple Creek, Denver and Colorado Springs will appoint a committee to act with a committee from the Cripple Creek Miners union in an endeavor to pre- vent anything occurring from the work hour question which might result injuriously to the camp. The rod mill of the Illinois Steel mills has started up, glving employment to 200 men. The converters have been run for one week with 900 men, and more will be put on. After a stoppage of two years, tho rail mill will start up, and it is now thought that the mills will run steadily for at least six months. Several Wheeling pottery manufacturers have reduced wages 10 per cent and in ad- ditlon propose that “20 per cent of thelr wages at the new rate will be withheld until 1t 1s known what changes will be made in the tarift schedules. In case there is no change the 20 per cent will be handed to the workmen."” Messrs. Rogers, Brown & Co., Philadel- phia, write: “When the tarift question is decided so that those directly interested can know more clearly what wages they will have to pay to meet competition both home and abroad business will adjust itself to the new conditions and less complaints of Qullness will be heard.” Tho varlous trades unions of England are making a notable record in the way of re- lieving the present distress. As an example, an official report published says that the Ingineers’ union {s maintaining no less than 12,000 members who are either out of work or on the sick list. In order to accomplish this every member of the union at work makes a weekly subscription of 50 cents to the relief fund. Only two strikes were ever known to have occurred in Turkey. One was of dockyard laborers in the government employ for their arrears of pay; they had recelved nothing for seven months. The other was of clgar- ettemakers in the government factories for the exclusion of women from the works. The dockmen got thelr money, and the women were turned out of the factories with the comment, “Allah! ‘what does it matter. They are only women:" PEACEFUL VALLEY. Fetroit, Tribune It lies between two banks of hills, By woodlands crowned, and cut’ with rills Which dimple down & join the flow Where runs the river still below, Pale willows brood above the stream, And quietness, as in,a dream, Enfolds the whole and makes it seem A gentle Arcadia. From troubled citles troubled men Escape to scenes like'this, and when Their tired gaze Is tested here They deem that strife comes never near A spot whose aspects lends no trace Of flying time's hotr-fevered pace Or restless life's gold-gu race, Sweet nature's world they see. All sounds far and softened here, A soothin dence lulls the ear, “ne breeze-Loine hum of ruril urty; No grind and crush of busy marts, No wailing echo of the woes That gripe the brains and hearts of those Who' writhe in competition's throes The listener assail. The calmer lot of rural toll Seems sweeter than the city' moil. They gaze upon the outward show. And go their ways and never know That mortgagee's all-grasping hand And envy deep of neighbor's land And loneliness and heart-ache stand Writ large in country tale. - The total amount spent In forelgn mis- sions last year by the Presbyterians, Con- grogationalists, Methodists, Baptists and Eplscopalians aggregated $3,500,000. DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve cures plles. The only building which has passed the period of uncertainty, or which has been so sufficiently developed that the projectors are willing that their plans should be made public, is that of the Boston store, which is to be built on the site of the one recently destroyed by fire. John Latenser is already engaged upon the plans for this, and it is expected that a portion of it will be ready for occup: some time in May. It will be a four-story modern structure, covering an entire quarter of a block and built In a most substantial manner. The portion of the building on the site covered by the old one will be completed first, and that on the site now occupied by the two small buildings to the north at a later date in the summer. Mr. Latenser is also at work upon the plans for an elegant residence for Herman Cohn, which will be constructed during the summe ' The contracts have been let for the new gov- ernment building, and the stone is beginning to arrive for the superstructure, and the pub- lic can reasonably expect to sce some tangible results on this_ edific the present year, and if no unforseen event happens the present generation may witness its com- pletion, NEW THING FOR OMAHA. Fisher & Lawrie report nothing certain in the way of large structures, though several are being talked of and several of them will probably be built, though in most cases they depend upon contingencies which may or may not affect them adversely. They have several residences on hand, but none of them of_commanding importance. Walker & Kimball have nothing new on hand that is a certalnty, though as usual several are. talking of building, and if tho present money stringency should abate, some at least of them would be built. Charles Beindorft has several projects on hand that are practically assured, though they have not sufficiently developed to war- rant the full publication of the plans. One of them is for a structure of an entirely different character from anything in the city, and in fact, there {s only one like it in the country, and the use to which it is to be put is also new in Omaha. The build- ing will cost about §75,000 when completed, and the future of the project will be of con- siderable intercst to the people of this city. He is also engaged upon plans for a large four-story building to be used for wholesale purposes, which, it is reasonably certain, will be built, and if it is it will involve the removal to this city of a large wholesale firm now located elsewhere. If it does remove it will make this city headquarters, though it may not possibly entirely abandon its pres- ent field. LARGE APARTMENT HOUSE. The same gentleman is also working upon plans for a large apartment house which is to he put up in the northwestern part of the city. This is to be one of the largest build- ings of this class in the city. It will be threo stories high with basement, the base- ment to be occupied by stores, The third story will contain a large room which can to be used for dances and similar purposes. The ercction of this building is a cer- tainty, though the builder is not yet ready to make his plans public. All of the architects report that never be- fore in the history of the city has there been 80 much_uncertainty among men who really want to build, as to the future. The market house project, the union depot and numerous other enterprises of a public nature which are hanging fire more or less influence them, and this, coupled with the money stringency, is having a discouraging effect. There will, of course, be a large number of private residences put up, but probably not so many as in previous years. e e . GENERAL DANDY Goes on the Army Reti Sketeh of His Career, Brigadier General George B. Dandy, as- sistant quartermaster general, United States army, and for sometime in charge of the quartermaster’s department in the Depart- List Today— ment of the Platte, celebrates his 64th birthday today. The event is also the oc- casion of closing his army career and of securing him a place upon the retired list. That career has been one of continuous service since 1857, previous to which time he had becn also a participant in the short war with Mexico. All his fellow officers agree that he has earned his day of rest by steady and meritorious devotion to his duty. General Dandy was born in Georgia, Fel ruary 11, 1830, his parents removing the same year to New Jersey. His early educa- tion was obtained in private schools in that state. At the age of 17 he enlisted in the Tenth United States infantry and served throughout the war with Mexico. After the close of that war he returned to his New Jersey home and began the study of medi- cine, but on recelving the appointment of cadet in the military academy at West Point, gave up the idea of healing tho sick and has ever since devoted his life and energles to service In the army. In 1857 he was commisioned second lien- tenant in the Third artillery. His first active service was in fighting hostile Indians in the then territory of Washington, win- ning honorable mention from General Scott for gallantry in that expedition. His services during the war of the re- bellion were varied and he steadily rose in the ranks until in March, 1565, he was as- signed to the command of the Third brigade, First division of the Twenty-fourth army corps. In March, 1862, he was appointed captaln on the general staff and assigned to duty at General McClellan's headquarters in the field. In August of the samo year, on the death of Colonel Brown, ho was com- missioned by the governor of New York as colonel of the One Hundroth New York volunteers. It was with reluctance that the general government consented to this trans- for, as it desired his services whero he was This regiment was known throughout the war as the “Board of Trade" regiment on account of its being adopted by the Board of Trade of Buffalo. At the head of this regiment he performed meritorious and gallant service, participating in the battles of Folly island, the assault and capture of Morris Island, the assault and capture of rt Wagner and the engagements at Port Walthall Junction, Drury's Bluff, Deep Bot- tom, Deep Run, Fussell's Mills and the slege of Potersburg. As commander of the Third brigade of the First division, Twenty- fourth army corps, he took part In the en- gagement at Fort' Gregs, south of Peters burg, in which engagement his brother, who had succeeded to the command of his former regiment, was killed. General Dandy was present at the last engagement of the war at Appomattox Court House and personally tion them worth from $20 to $23, reg- These suits are beyond ques- the finest lot ever shown in Omaha for the money, all ot ularly, but having made a good bargain ourselves we offer them 90e¢ on the Dollar N. E. COR. 15T AND DOUCLAS. CONTINENTAL witnessed many of the scenes incident to the finale of the great struggle. Since the close of the war he has served in the quartermaster’s department, being assigned to duty principally in the west. In the course of duty in the department he bullt Fort Phil Kearney in the Big Horn mountains and Fort Abraham Lincoln in North Dakota. He has at different times been assigned to duty at Fort Yuma, Ar Buffalo, N. Y.; Portland, Ore., Vancouvers, Wash.; St. Louis, Mo., and Omaha. He ha steadily risen in rank to be deputy quar- termaster general and breyet brigadier gen- eral, U. S."A., which rank he will hold at the time of his retirement. During the past year General Dandy pre- sented to the Buffalo Historical society of Buffalo, N. Y., an ofl portrait of himself. The portralt was desired on account of his having commanded the Board of Trade regi- ment of that city. Aside from being meritorious from an arlistic standpoint, the portrait has an interesting history. It was painted from life by Private Coleman, one of the enlisted men of the regiment. It was painted in 1863, while the regiment was stationed in North Carolina, and during the time that he was engaged upon it the regi- ment was liable to be called fnto action at any time. The historical soclety acknowl- cdged the gift In a fitting manner and adopted resolutions thanking the donor and expressing their high appreciation, not only of the gift, but of the donor, who has been made_one of its honorary members. Gen- eral Dandy and his family expect to retain their residence in Omaha, although they may spend some time in traveling abroad. General Dandy’s son has just been appointed by the president cadet at large at West Point, where he expects to prepare himself for a military carcer, following the example st by his father. B Don’t think you have drank the ne plus ultra of wines until you have tried Cook's Bxtra Dry Imperial Champagne. il i il QUAINT FAMILY NAMES. Oddities Which Distingulsh the Democeratic Administrati A good deal of amu: by the odd nam democratic administration ¢ the Cincinnati In' the south th from that in nam and family and the cs, such as obtains in there is always an the children the n; moth ryation of i south, In family na sectd ¢ among of th man cstablished ous or John, and so on. At deal in and the A to Aeslgni thn throt lia W distigulsh the m the others of the vast throng florts I that direction are As @ man can hardly be the name of Smith he of sometimes Amusing, own distinctively by must seclc distinctive recognit through gome surname and bo known by that S0 wo find dn the cabinet Hoke Smith, The Hoke eaves him from extinguishment. 80 ou Lun el oyt ot Kentioky Nt to the and holds his own In th Abe Sluj ip and colobrated until t chara 1t he had an ordinary name he would never have been heard of. s and Pod Dismuke o ne in for of notoriety th nes, ngularity as of N and Joxhua Jump of Indiana samo category, owing much o th s, as do also Hroad dppointees under the 1ist of men Who have nch of the sup court distin and the Now Yorkers have sent Mr. Lemuel Quigs t) con- Bress. In the house of representatives we have Lafe Pence and Tom Johnson, who fiercely resents being called Thomas, and declares that his name is Tom and not Thomas. 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