Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 13, 1902, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BE TUESDAY, MAY 13, 1902 THE IMPENDING STRIKE. Obeying the order of the executive mlmul!t¢ of thelr ten years, are said to be greatly couraged by the results in the several city elections which rages ai'd starvation; the American camps the streets and houses are kept clean and the people are well fed. in the Weyler camps; Death stalked health flourishes in were held last organization, em- ———————————————————————————————————————— mayors rllh:r of New York ) Live Nebraska Towns Brooklyn. All of these men have ployes in the anthracite mines of Penn- eylvania to the nwnber of 140,000 did not go to work yesterday morning. was not a formal strike. not it shall become so is yet to be de- termined by a convention of miners that will assemble tomorrow, when the is- #ues involved will' be fally discussed and the men will say through their del- Yo | egates what further shall be dote. is presumed that at this conventfon all 15¢ | the matters at issue between the miners and the operators will be presented and carefully considered. There 18 a strong sentiment among the miners against a strike, but whether sufficient to prevent a contest remains to be seen. 8o far as the operators are concerned there is no prospect of any concessioh. The lagest information in regard to their attitude is that while they do not intend to “irritate the men” and do not want a fight, they propose to do nothing to avert a conflict. This 1s not reassuring, nor will it be agreeable to the inter- ests throughout the country would be affected by a cessation of an- thracite coal production to learn that it 1s the purpose of the companies to stop nlltn; coal, even -though the result of this policy should be a famine, It js not easy to understand the motive of this extraordinary policy, plates punishing all consumers of an- thracite coal because the miners have grievances which the operators refuse to recognize or to remedy. On its face this seems to be a course of reprisal on the public for which there can be no Indiana democrats are temperament. They actually pretend to believe that much of their gain came from the agi- tation over the high price of beef, when their victories in the city elections are doubtless due for the most part to a low grade of candidates put up by the opposition party. PUBLIEHED E\'ER) I(Ull\l\fl the American camps. FREMONT —Pretty and Pushing. Fremont has been known for years as tho prettiest city in Nebraska and well deserves From the time it was platted in 1857 to the present it has been the alm of its citizens to look after aesthetic as well Its streets are lined with thrifty and graceful trees, principally Only a block from the s portion Is the park, which is al- ways kept in good condition. are broad; those in the business portion paved with stone or brick and in the rési- dence portions well graded. They are kept exceptionally clean, and its sidewalks and crosswalks In such condition that In fifteen years but one small judgment has been re- covered against the city for injuries. Its situation, in the valley of the Platte, only a few miles from the Elkhorn, midst of the best farming land in Nebraska, make it an exceptionally good town"” und a good polut for retall stores and implement dealers. 1s in the hands of but We Must Have Them, Louls Globe-Democrat The estimated cost of the six new ships Included in the naval program, co two battleships, crulsers and two gunboats Not many nations in these times can afford to keep In the naval swim. —— Fast Running on Western Rol Philadelphia Ledger. The other day the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy raflroad ran a train 14.8 miles at the rate of 98.6 miles an hour, and the Ledger alluded to it as an excellent “‘sam- " but expressed a preference for longer runs in practical work. RM8 OF SUBSCRIPTION. out Bunday), One Year. " made the city the home of & large number of traveling men. Fremont has four ma-| tional and two savifgs banks. The deposita Sulclde Hal of these six Institutions aggregate $1,600,- It is one of the few of the larger towns of the during the hard times. ‘Whether or %8, Oge Year. (.enm'v ¥Farmer, One Year. nnmv:m HY CARRIER. out S\mdly). per CBDY i per wi .| a8 business needs. THE GARBA One of the problems Omaha will have to grapple with and solve In the no dis- tant future is that of the collection and its garbage hnd refuse. While there is no pressing emergency that requires immediate attention, It is generally admitted that our present gar- bage system s Inadequate and unsatis- factory both by reason of the methods employed and certain legal obstacles which prevent the strict enforcement of sanitary regulations necessary for more effective work. The inquiries which the city engineer has been making with reference to the treatment of the garbage question in other citles to be embodied In a special report develop the fact that there is no uniformity whatever, although the ten- dency seems to be in the direction of in- cineration, especially in inland cities. In many places the refuse and manure is in great demand for purposes of fer- tilizer, yot here jn Omaha we suffer from the fact that the surrounding farm re 8o rich that no fertilizing ma- While the volume it B ono Bca u-eludlnl Suncay), i¥regaiarities in deiivery drenud to Cir Circulation credit to a metropolitan city. being the location of the Fremont Normal This lpltllulloh, founded in 1884, has Increased in size until its average at- tendance during the year exceeds 800 and the value of ite buildings and equipment reaches $100,000. It issues state and life teachers’ certificates. uldtion during the past few ye of an exceptionally desirable cl A large number ' of farmers from and adjoining counties, having ac- a competence by hard work and close attentlon to businees, and desiring to obtain better school facllitjes for thelr children, and the additional comforts and privileges of living in a small city, have moved here, many of them bullding commo- dious and attractive homes. Others have been brought here by the inducements the place affords for wholesale and retall trade| . = pla - and manufacturing enterpris a ten-foot vein of coal was d! Jamestown, about thirteen miles northwest of the city, and should that prove to be of a good quality, fuel for manufacturing estab- lished here will be so cheap that with its| . h4u0e of the excellent facilities for reaching all parts of the central west many kinds of factories will have a great advantage over those sit- uated farther éast. The development of the | vy yugtified In petverting the facts ic disposal of Considering that consisted of nine heavy cars, most of them Pullma: 1640 Umlr Bul l~‘T mple Court. Fotirteenth Street. CORRWONDENCE. relating to news and “not built for great speed’—ten wheelers seldom are— which broke all records for five miles and upward, was a very remarkable one, but the passenger department of the road does not like that word “‘sample,” and has sent the Ledger the history of a run made as far back as February 15, 1897, from Chicago to Denver, 1,025 miles, in 1,047 minutes, or at the rate of 54.25 miles an hour, with the stops that were made, and 68.74 miles, excluding stops. That traln was a light special, “?‘Onmflllnlulb Its retail business tive, progressive men, s of the city at heart Its railroad facili- ties, the main line of the Umlon Pacific and the main and branch lines of the Elkhorn, reach all the principal points in the north- ern and western parts of the state, the principal towns in the southern section, the Black Hills country and the states of Wyo. ming and Colorado. Its wholesale inter cover groceries, Jewelry, motions, fruit and produce, butter and eggs, books and stationery, school sup- plies, liquirs and cigars. Its manufacturing interests include a hemp mill, the ploneer of its kind in the factory employing fifty to seventy-five men, bindery, mattress factory, woven wire fence factory, foundry and machine shop, which has been recently enlarged on account of the in- Business lell:r! and remmnncu should. The Bee Publishing Com- l:ulTI!ANCE!. mp! accepted ln payment of chuk-. except on but was run ak, as it was ma up and eent out without any speclal pre, aration whatever and was handled in the It was good railroading and seemed to forecast the time when such &peeds, or something near them, will be at the service of every American traveler. coal, lumber, ordinary manner. which contem- ———— west, & harnes PERSONAL NOTES. terial {s necessary. a flour mill, and rapidity of the flow of the Mis- souri river effectually prevents any seri- James and Edward Coon, two wealthy merchants of Rantoul, Ill., have donated a & that had no bank fallures | Fefusiog to renew its Mquor license joinlng that any means would be jus vietim of the place poured carbolic “Sulclde Hall." only genuine “Sulcide Hall," This spring yvered near e was modified. beet sugar industry bas given employment | coin thig end. creased trade, several cigar factorles and numerous other smaller industries. wholesale and manufacturing business have possible justification and the effect of which upon public sentiment must be to create a strong sympathy with the miners, whose demands have already been very generally recognized as on the whole reasonable ,and worthy of the serious consideration of the oper- Indeed the operators have not undertaken to show that there is any- thing unreasonable in the grievances property in their home city to the Children’s home for orphans. The bronze statue of Richard P. Bland, which {s to be erected at Lebanon, Mo., his old home, has been completed and will be mounted as soon as the pedestal can be ous water contamination, at the same to many people here, to the benefit of the time we are probably expected to bave consideration for the towns and cities below us on the river, In case Omaha should grow to proportions that would largely increase its waste matter. Inasmuch as the present garbage con- tract has nearly two years yet to rum, we can-be in no hurry to inaugurate a Ald soclety as Dr. Charles F. Rand, who {s accepted as- being the first volunteer for the civil war, is still living in Washington, D, C. was also_the first soldier to win the con- gressional medal of honor for distingulshed Net total nl- New York Evening Post (Ind.) Net dally avera ew Yorl ning out as the fit national leader of his party | Baltimore American 'You think says th D in 1876, when it carried the doubtful states | SO Qevete the, sisee i thl i democratic Moses? question which everybody ‘Where s the new presence and sworn to pointed, with other citizens and om embers of the committee on recey General Brugore and staff, who are to this country to attend the unve! the statue of Rochambeau In Washing ote of the notorious of New York City, and the toughest bas gone out of business, the auth many resorts whioh gmve the Bowe; All the leading ‘religlous denominations | Malodorous reputation, “‘Suicide Hall are represented here and many of them baye chureh edifices which would be a|Others in infamy. Its Bownfall is due 1o ¢ persistent hammering of & hewspajer Frémont has sequired & reputation in Ne- | Porter. He was called to the dive - es on account of | evening to get the detatla of a dryui., stabbiog affray. He took mote of the year-old girls there and it seemed to | it was commonly kmewn, overlapped would cloee the joint. Not long after first ' opportunity came. A 17-year-o her whisky and dled there. He wro series of articles about the place. s of ‘peo- political protectors only laughed at b Another unfortunate committed suicide the sidewalk in front of the eobcert ha This time the reporter ocalled tho pli, The name stuck—the propeletor bruses!, accepted it and put & “barker” outside | announce to the Bowery that this was the There followed an epldemic of sulcides among the fallen women of that locality Few of them were actually identified witt but the young reporter organize’ & campalgn among his fellows at polic headquarters and every one of these death: was 1aid at the door of 285 Bowery. Public opinion was aroused; the proprie. tor and his backers became alarmed its distinctive qualities and the end came slowly but surely. Casulsts may find food for disoussion as to whether the reporter ARTHUR K. DAME. DESIGNED TO BE FUNNY, Washin answered Meandering to in' a could elevate the stag of New York, Connecticut and Indiana for fo“nwed only by ex-prizefight new garbage system, even if we were in a position to do so. Subscribed in ifore me lh!l Ih day of April, naturally asks and there would be no ap- proach to agreement among those who It is worth while to point presented by the miners, but have con- lantry in action. tented themselves in simply giving their antry in action Jacob A. Rlls of New York advocates the When the time for the first time since the republicans came M. B. HUNGA should answer. into power in 1861 10 May, 1985, Abraham Lisools was knows | © 2 UAed 0 holgiag them up.” throughout Illinois as an able man, but his cgmlgdelphll Preas: “I've action comes the systemn must first be agreed upon. We will then have to de- cide whether the plant shall be erected requests a perfunctory attention, never at any time since the situation became aggravated manifesting a sincere desire out that it has repeatedly happened that men have been national leaders who were hardly thought of as possible presidential opening of piblic schools in great cities on entertainments should be given to keep the Boys from the m A Oredit to the West. name signified little outside of that state. In June of that year, however, the Illinols | browed lisutonant. Ogden (Ia.) Reporter. If you want to see a real newspaper, one that {8 a credit to the middle w send for The Omaha Dally Bee. Sunday edition s a' magnificent publi- and operated by the city or by contract with a private person or corporation. This decision will have to depend upon the financial condition of the city and evils of tenement house life and the all-| candidates two years and a half before the alluring glitter of the saloons. The sale In New York to do anything for bringing about an amicable settlement. This matter is of very vital Interest It is now May, 1902, and the mext presi- of the famous dent will be chosen in November, 1004. library of John E. Burton of Lake Geneva, republicans held their convention, and de- "Wo n fu-t capture a bunch of misston. clared him their “first and only choice” for United States senator. In response he de- eenl of the receipts from their lectures.” lrlel hol livered that speech which was destined to May, 1894, Mr. Bryan himself was serving his second term in the house of repre- sentatives, but it 1s safe to say that not to a large portion of the public. The anthracite mine owners and coal roads Wis., recalls the fact that it was Burton who some years ago traded his $100,000 hotel catlon. Tts magaszine part is worth five times the cost of the paper. the relative importance of other public enterprises pressing for attention. become historic, based upon the quotation, “A house divided against itself cannot|g Xisiterat the museum ‘Yes, D! to Hurley, Wis., to a letter carrier, Byron 8. Ross of Chicago, for a collection of 8,000,000 and the workers in the mines are not alone concerned in the impending con- test. Many manufacturers and mil- S — Democtats In congress lament that their party Is without a policy. stand,” ‘in which he declared: “I belleve either in congress or o government cannot endure perma- | Clothes: F outside it, then dreamed of such a thing being the democratic candidate for litical démagogues one human being, ‘While political démagogues are harp- ing on charges against the army in the alf slave and half fre. A Boston policeman named Flynn did clothes The jofht | & suit of debates with Douglas which followed at- | moths hadn't ntun into It." as president two years and a half later and becoming so much the master of the party organization that no other name than his would be mentioned in the convention of llons of domestic consumers are inter- ested. It has a very direct relation to the question of a continuance of na- tlonal prosperity. From every point of view such a strike as is now threatened Shat were & new -complaint. Philippines, based on individual cases of cruelty and barbarism in the treat- ment of false guldes and prisoners, peo- ple should not overlook some of the blessings brought to the ¥ilipinos by some heroic work at & fire and the news- papers of that city have been showering him for effective leadership which he displayed during this campalgn rendered possible his nomination for the presidency in 1860. Here are four cases within the last half tracted wide attention, and the upuuyI — Rallway trains and ocean steamships may have thelr dangers, but they have the great ldvut-n of sticking close to with compliments. Officer Flynn publishes a statement urging that one Willlam Wiley be glven equal credit with himself and he his month of May ““There is enough life-saving glory Fweaty, yeare ‘dgv. century where men have become presiden- | elme. Thomas A. Hendricks, Allen G. Thurman, Thomas F. Bayard and other democrats of national reputation were thought of and talked of for the presidential nomination in 1884, The name of Grover Cleveland was almost unknown beyond the city limits of Buffalo, which had elected him mayor Before the following Im Earth. S ——— It 18 greatly to be feared that air- pavigation will not become popular with the general run of passengers for pome time yet to come. would be most unfortunate, but the in- dications are that nothing will be done by the operators to avert it. American occupation. A cable dispatch covering only a few lines tells of the abolition by the Philippine commission of imprisonment for debt in the islands by a law that will soon be put into effect. Imprisonment for debt is an for both of us.” Bhelby Cullom has his little weaknes one belng a desire to be con tial candidates who were not thought of for Philadeiie Phiebl’ GATRSRLE wanted by party managers two years ! ] ni and a halt before the election, more than | you wemt on mmy bl ndnanos0me beer mug one, indeed, & man the very very sugges- | Mrs. Goo cotrse, tion of whose national leadership would | Stand T meant it to be used only as an have been received with ridicule thirty Z | AMBRICAN INTERDSTS IN OUBA. The question as to the extent of months before a great party supported him | me all the t! !n November, American interests in Ouba 18 manl-| ;0 hug that our forefathers threw off he had made a record ur- Goodart—8he doesn't re at the polls. . Yet. two of the four were | . Guyvman Vs tull of tempsran v The Comnhercial chub’ will only be returning calls which the country merchants -have been making from time to time in Omaha. EEEe——— King Ak-Sar-Ben Is again summoning his loyal subjects to enroll themselves No patriotic citizen #hould have to have a second invitation. trade excursion | festly important in its bearing upon the pending proposition slons to the products of the island. has been asserted that the Sugar trust does not own lands in Cuba, but the president of that corporation stated be- fore the congressional committee that he had purchased land in the island on individual account. It has also been asserted that very little Cuban sugar lands are owned by Americans and that the ownership of nearly all those held by the people of only by a long and determined struggle. It has prevailed in Spanish-governed countries as a remnant of mediaevalism to be rooted out by twentleth century civilization. In wiping out this barbaric practice the United States gives the Filipinos a priceless boon acquired by other peoples at cost of great and cease- less efforts at emancipation. skipping upltl"‘l Wwith his 73 yes The late Bret Harte was a good deal of a as a reform offcial, which rendered him the most available candidate for governor that his party could present. by & phenomenal majority and his work as a reform governor rendered inevitable the acceptance of this mew man as the national leader of the democrats. to be for eight years, running for presl- dent three times and serving two terms. In May, 1874, Samuel J. Tilden was a private citizen of New York, respected for his ability as a lawyer and honored for his services in exposing the Tweed ring in 1871, but not known throughout the coun- His record as an opponent of Tam- many corruption in this city made him an jdeal democratic candldate ‘for governor in & year when reform was evidently the win- twice elected to the presidency, and a third carried the three doubtful states which “yam, would have {nsured his incumbency of the tariff conces- recluse, in that respect resembling Haw- thorne more than any other map of letters. In spite of his long absence from Call- fornia he never lost the spirit of that golden state, his latest stories of mining camps This he continued breathing the same air as those he wrote emong his hosts. for the Overland Monthly in early days, APPALLING FATE OF ST. PIERRE, It is well to remember that about nine put of ten of the inside tips on supreme court decisions heralded by the local yellow journals luve turned out to be E— —— A big silver strike. 1s reported from Arizona and lumps of pure silver as large as & man's head are sald to have been taken from the surface of mine. The deposit is thought to be the mother lode of great silver mines which will surpass the Comstock in riches. this forecast only proves true silver bricks will presently be used as a sib- stitute for granite pavement and silver spoons will be so cheap nobody will want to steal them. e ] Our amiable popocratic contemporary seems greatly concerned over the can- ¢idates the republicans may choose for dierent offices to be filled at the elec- tion this fall. Its concern, however, ls always manifested with a view to forc- ing weak candidates onto the republican St. Paul Pioneer Press: History affords no record of volcanic catastrophe of like magnitude since the destruction of Hercu- leaneum and Pompell by an eruption of Vesuvius in the first century of the Chris- In his statement before the senate committee last week, Mr. Bryson, com- missioner of deeds of Havana, gave the names of a number of large sugar plantations in Cuba which are owned by Americans. He stated that more than ome-half the sugar of the island 18 produced by American citizens and American corporations and that he knew of no large plantations owned by Cuban citizens. There were hundreds of small Cuban plantets, but he did not know of a single central or sugar factory owned by Cubans. He estl- mated that 20 per cent of the sugar Production of the island 1s controlled SEEEETE—— ‘When necessary, the managers of the Bouth Omaha meat packing concerns know aé little about thelr business as the officers of the local franchised cor- ning watchword for a state campalgn. The executive office at Albany furnished just the opportunity needed for a democrat to *show that hé could reform the abuses in the management of the canals which had thriven under the republicans, demonstration of his ability pointed him Indianapolis Journal: quake comes along the theory that the mere crust seems easy n enough then that the ‘When an earth- earth’s surface i to accept. It I human creature skates on very thin ice in- I - 3} ‘When the fuelonists reduced the rail- road assessment while they were in power in Nebraska, the World-Herald artist must have been conveniently off on a vacetion. New York Tribune: tragedy at Martinique is & tragic reproof to those who have been skeptical upon the subject of the storied earthquakes of the Tales of Pompell and of Lisbon 'may well be true, in all their horror, after all. Baltimore American: disaster on which the world has apparently entered is fearfully rounded out by the de- struction of a whole city and almost its en- tire population by an earthquake. This is one of the horrors which can be neither ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. Ripples on the Current of Life in the The period of you!' she stammered. It will take upward of $250,000,000 to complete the manifold works authorized or projected for tunnels, bridges »nd railroad terminals in New York City., To this sum should be added the millions needed for g ‘When that gl_ty tax levy is finally made the business of advancing money to employes on salary clalmsfor which warrants are with- city officers and 3 White House but for the counting of three Bret Harte, southern states for the republican candi- Sa: ' Each of the four except Tilden was sogou;'n" Pe':"pc more than once a presidential candidate, W lfhl knnv - WIAL, and 1t was generally belleved that Tilden o o might have secured a eecond nomination In gittin’ riled! if he had not put it away. History will very likely repeat itselt in T s oy Shum Familiar—too familiar—names n‘,).ov. why I 1 come are now suggested for the leadership of the wn from up yar, opposition in 1904. Veteran managers are e gl s diligently at work laying plpe and pulling Aln't of that crew— wires in the interest of men who have long Blest 1t you are! been before the public. Yet it may easily Money? Not much; happen that the presidential candidate two ; That atn't m kind; years from next fall will prove to be a man SN 08 e who has not been mentloned for the nomi- Becin, 1ve gou, ‘Whether he will turn out to be a Well, this yer Ji Moses {s another question. One previously 3 m unknown democratic candidate for the len{""l’n‘u’?;o&‘rn-ll,lo: presidency led his party twice to victory; Same eyes. another, twice to overwhelming defeat. “v"v‘};,f"fi', ' Speenges — e Since he come here, flfi_—n Bick, for a change. came face to face 'with a very irate gentle- man, who had been sitting next to her. w'hhh“' ., "llmn—-nudun—flnn are you trylng The_h— Jon ey} he demanded. That little cuss? “Yes—look there!” He pointed to the What m: Jg stery floor, and in an instant she had grasped “é‘;“"" . the situation. By mistake in groping she .1:.: I :-‘-':Rw. had found the lacing of his shoe, which she ou must rar bad taken for the other end of her own, I‘ "’“"' .2 and bad fastened them so carefully to- yo“ .na your tl:r. by Spanish citlzens, but not many of these own lands outright. ments of this witness are correct—and his position as commissioner of deeds certainly gives him most favorable op- portunity for knowing the facts—it ap- pears that Americans are more largely interested in Cuban sugar production than the people of the lsland, and why may it not be fairly assumed that the Sugar trust—or what is the same thing, the wen identified with that corpora- tlon—owns most of the sugar lands in ticket, so that an otherwise disconsolate democracy may be infused with a spark of hope that all of their innocents may not be slaughtered. E— The public school teachers who have t6 act as school census takers want it distinctly understood that they are engaged in a labor of love for the benefit of their annuity organization. 1f the school teachers had only volun- teered to take Uncle Sam’'s census for him we feel sure Omaha would have pplies and new docks. These expenditures will fall on the city, on rail- road companies and partly on private enter- prise. A correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger, reviewing the great enterprises projected and under way, says that within ten or twelve years New York should have across the East river and at least three tunnels under it, four tunnels under the North river, rallroads through Manhattan island and the Bronx, enlarged terminals for the New York Central railroad end an elaborate station in the heart of the city for the Pennsylvania rallroad. foreseen nor prevented—one of those ap- palling assertions of the might of nature human resource and human power stand ‘helpless. 8t. Louis Republie: find in the eruption on Martiniq for their studies. The disturbances, it may be noted in passing, have covered a consid- erable area. The neighboring British isles Vincent and Dominica have been more or less shaken, while the peak of Soufriere on St. Vincent has been in serl- In Guatemala on the contl- nent an earthquake of a grave character has taken place within a month, involving R iesentve s pncde Jolt. gether -that it took the gentleman quite five minutes to effect a release, under the amused glances of the other occupants of which had traveled twice that number of blocks befors the lady was ready to glive another signal. American commerce with Japan shows up in the statistical tables as exceeding that of any other nation. of the east aud ‘the Yankees of the west have mutugl trade advantages. Men of sclence will The Yankees There ‘are new residing in New York seven former members of the cabi of whom were secretaries of the treasury— namely, Falrchilds, Carlisle and Gag men who have been ministers to France— Blgolow, Morton, Reld and Porter; two ex- .| Bovernors of the state, two men who have ar two underground The banquet Carnegle Steel iven at Pittsburg by the ly to the inspect- ing officers of the Steel trust was con- tracted at $100 a plate. It takes a Steel three four been lleutenant governors and thirteen who the loss of 500 lives termined by present 8o far as can be de- advices there has been & widespread selsmic convulsion in the American tropics. Chicago Chronicle: earthquake appears to be due to a voleanic When lava contalns water im- ternal heat forms steam, which, If stored for a long time, blows off the top of the mountain, farring the ground and cleaving fissures at varying depths in the earth's The extent of the calamity in the French island 4nd contiguous waters will probably not be fully known for some time. Present reports place it among historic catastrophes, the loss of life being esti- mated at 40,000, Indlanapolls News: frust stomach to digest $100 worth of wictuals at one sitting. ’ s It King Edward would not stand so much upon ceremony but get himself crowned at once we would be spared & good deal of flummery and stupid gossip about the preparations snobo- r are making for the royal wasquer- 13 Knox, in his book on *“The Underground World,” written about thirty years ago, describing the first attempts at an elevated rallroad and a tunnel in New York City, expressed the opinion that it was doubtful than a single track would be bullt. one elevated line, which was a wretched affalr, running ounly to Thirteenth street. the island and therefore controls the |fared considerably better in the census greater part of the sugar production? If that be the case it is not the Cubans, but these American would profit by tariff concessions. It is stated that an attempt will be made to demonstrate beyond a perad- venture that the Sugar trust has a con- trol over practically the greater part of the sugar lands as well as this year's crop of cane in Cuba, and that an in- vestigator has been dispatched.to the island to make an examination into the It is thought that the records of the office in Havana where mortgages upon real estate, crops and other property are recorded will disclose the desired information, though it may not be possible to get complete informa- 1t is conceivable that the trust officials have carried on their operations, both in the purchase of sugar and of lands, through brokers and others so that these officlals would not be publicly identified with the trans- actions. At all events it is well that such un investigation should be wade. The great interest which the Sugar trust has shown in the question of tariff concession to Cuba - watraits the bellef that it owns a very large part of e—re— South Omaha's school board is talking about establishing permanent tenure for the teaching force In that burg. civil service tenure, reached, however, only through the most rigorous tests, is the best way to ralse the school stand- ard and keep it steady whenouce raised. investors, who There are thousands of women employed in offices and business houses on the lower end of Manhattan island. The majority of these are under 26. Scores of them come down town on every elevated train before [ eEetem—— The usual host ‘of claimants are try- fug to deprive the late J. Sterling Mor- ton of the credit of founding Arbor ‘But with all the trees traceable to that holiday as wute witnesses, they can hardly expect to get a verd mgainst bim. Cam——— — As America has no ribbons or crosses to bestow on unotable warriors in the service of other nations, our military and paval heroes will suffer nothing by thelr inability to accept favors from foreign potentates that we canuot pos- slbly reciprocate. e wme———T state of affairs. lllny ol them read the newspapers, a few have books that they peruse and a Jlarge number lean back in their seats and In such cases as this the astonishing thing is that people will consent to live in such places. koown that the velcano was a source of ex- treme danger. The people had been appre- hensive for some days. wrought by the velcano in Yet people apparently grow carel 1ndllmn( or resigned manags to live in cheeriuiness on the brink of ruln. Possibly it is as well, is damger of one kind or another every- And when men have made their bomes they are reluctant to abandon them. Bt. Plerre is the chief 'rnm years is the average life of an of- They marry at the end of that \u\nlly some fellow clerk. Despite th rommlc and humorous paragraphs few of them marry the bosses. jority of these girls are graduates of the grammar schools, are of the best charecter, modest in beering and are treated as ladlies because they expect to be treated as such, and by their carriage compel it Great destruction Our Jatksonlau friends are having a Bard time of it to find excuses for with- tion in this way. ‘Washington Post. It is too bad that certain democratic sen- ators canpot be induced to deposit thelr volces in the cloakroom wihen there is an unportast hen on. —eeee Now Will You Be Goed? The great ma- and somehow bolding that long-promised report on dis- cipiiuing m-lcli.qm members. They are if the report Just how much of a boost the couvention | New York Post: clubs gave this weary old earth is Dot apparent now, but doubtless it was quite as much as is given by tbe average conveation of men. —_— A Marked Diference. A bendeomely dressed lady, cently in & crowded Amsterdam a wae fortunste enough to have a seat, but when nearing her destination she noticed that the lacing of her Oxford tle was un- It was the work of a moment, city of the little lsland of Martinique, and its destruction will doubt- less imvolve widespread distress. We can- not doubt that the horror and the sym- pathy which this unparalleled calamity SPRING SUIT you are thinking about is awaiting your choosing. We take it for granted you will choose it here, for we have the “only” ready-to-wear clothing made that equals the cus- tom tailors so thoroughly. Quality, fit, finish and manufacture, the best, NO CLOTHING FITS LIKE OURS Either at $10.00 or at $26.00. Brownie e 3 Exclusive Clothiers and Furnishers. “‘Money,” sald Plod. 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