Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 13, 1902, Page 19

{ WHERE THE GROSTS STALK At Loast Bome Oredulons Believe Implicitly that Thay De, HAUNTED WARDS IN MANY HOSPITALS Despite the protestations of hospital at- taches that ghost stories invariably ema- vate from the fertile imaginations of pa- tients, certain traditions and ghastly tales are handed down year after year by de- parting to incoming house doctors and by senior nurses to ‘‘probs.” A notorfous haunted ward is now used as a supply room in a Boston hospital where hupdreds of municipal patients are cared for annually. In its earlier history it opened from a corridor leading to the operating room, and was frequently used a8 & single or private ward for patients just taken from the operating table. Sud- Qenly it seemed to fall under some evil fofluence, and the story went forth in the hosplal that the room was hoodooed. No matter how simple the operation the pa- tient removed to this room would die be- fore rallying from the anaesthetic. So reg- ulprly was this result recorded that for & {ime the ward was closed, but in due sea- son the accommodations of the institution proved inadequate for its needs and the haunted room was reopensd. The initial operation was followed by the customary catastrophe. The head nurse and her vigilant assistants were panio- stricken and the house surgeon was baf- fled, but determined to probe the mystery. And probe it he did. . When the next patient was carried from the operating table to this ward the ‘house surgeon personally superintended the re- moval. Later in the afternoon he appeared before the head nurse with an air of sup- pressed excitement and lssued orders that between the hours of § and 10 p. m. neither she nor her assistants should emter the now dreaded room. By 8 o'clock the patient, not fully recov- ered from the suasthetic, lay in a doze. The nurses were ostensibly busy in the large wards at either end of the corridor, and the house surgeon, vigilant and calm, lay under the cot of the patient—walting. The moments passed like hours, but he did not move, and at last It came—a stealthy step that eould be felt rather than heard—from the direction of & door leading to a swinging balcony. A few leaden seo- onds and something paused beside the cot. Then two long muscular arms shot out from under the cot, there rose a wild mixture of English and Itallan expletives, and two forms writhed on the floor, locked in deadly embrace. When the startled nurses and helpers came to the rescue they found the surgeon bleeding from several flesh wonds recelved 0, but still one of the night watchmen and belpers. of the Mystery. When “Tony” had been removed to the fnsane ward and the excited patient soothed, the surgeon explained .the situ- stion. While superintending the removal of the patient he bad suddenly cauglit the eye of “Tony,” who was watching the pro- ceeding, and was struck with the expres- slon of triumph, bellish and gloating in its intensity. In this he saw a possible solu- tion to the horrible mystery. “Tony" had been regarded as a harmless and useful helper in the various wards, but from the moment of his capture in the haunted ward he became violently insane. There was no means of knowing how mmny patients had @led of actual heart fallure resultant on the operations and how many had been victims of his cunning. What methods he employed remained a mystery also, though it was generally thought that the patients, weakened by the operations and stupe- fled by anaesthetics, were smothered by the mad Italian. In spite of the fact that the angel of death showed mno further inclination to visit. the room and that municipal charges were more carefully examined before be- ing detalled for duty, the horrer of the ward remained. In the interests of good order among the attaches the superintend- ent soon transformed it into a shelf-lined supply room. Yet there are “probs” who in the imagine they see “Tony from spirit land in search of fresh vie- tims. And the house surgeon, now a gray- haired practitioner, still owds the stiletto. Tn a great Bast Side hospital of New York, the center of tenement life misery, the nurses tell a weird tale of a little ehorus girl who comes back at certain sea- sons of the year, trailing after the conven- tlonal burial shroud which she begged #hould never be wrapped around her. And fhereby hangs a pathetic story. Tragedy of Stage Lite. “The girl, who came of poor, hard-work- ing parents, was enamored of stage life. $he was honest 1b her intentions and am- bitions and had visjons of & hard struggle o the chorus, I s under & good mas- ter; and finally & chance in a leading role. Her sweetheart, a respectable young ma- £ : i o il Tg E | { £ : i ig 55 ;s I | | : £ i i g i i “. g i ] i i | % 1 ; i it i g % ! g; g it i THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAYX, JULY 13, 1902. Enlarging Yellowstone | Yellowstone park will be almost double in size it & bill now before congress becomes & law. To the present area of the park it is proposed to add 3,254 square miles, making the total 6,567 square miles. General John F. Lacey, chairman of the house committee on public lands, hopes to secure the necessary legislation. The rea- sons for the proposed increase in the area of the park, says the Brooklyn Bagle, are to be found in a report recently submitted to the speaker of the house of representa- tives by the secreary of the interior, In which he declared that moose, elk, deer, antelope, mountain sheep and other game which have summer range within the bound- arles of the park, wandering into the timber and land reservations east and eouth dur- ing the winter, “are ruthlessly killed in ! numbers by pot hunters and others for their heads, teeth, pelt and meat,” and turther and most important, “the practi- cal extinction of the large game will be but a question of & short time unless the government, by appropriate legislation, provides for thelr protection.” The League of American Sportsmen, with headquarters in New York, is doing what it can to influence senators and representa- tives in Washington toenact the legal la President G. O. Shields of the league forwarded to Washington coples of & reso- Intion passed at a recent meeting of the national organization at Indianapolls, whereln it is said: “We deeply deplore this neglect of duty on the part of our senators and representatives in congress, and we re- quest and urge that body to appropriate bereafter at least $20,000 a year for the employment of scouts and gamekeepers in the park, in order that the few remaining buffhlo and other game may, If possible, be ved from the ravages of these skin hunt- ers.” . On the authority of the League of Amer- fean Sportsmen it is reported that, while & few years ago there were 400 buffalo in the national park, today the herd consists f fewer than thirty. The league puts the blame for the virtual extinction of the buf- falo upon “poachers living near the bor- ders of the park, alded and abetted and in- spired by unprincipled taxidermists.” Two ways of preserving and protecting the wild game have been suggested within the last four years. The first is by congres- sional legislation to annex the wintering pastures of elk, deer moose and mountain sheep to the present boundaries of the Yel- lowstone National park; the second is to prevent anyone entering or being upon the A Hero of Five Wars | In General Chaffee the United States pos- sesses a soldier, a patriot and a man. When the stirring events which thrilled the na- tional pulse to fever in 1898 and carried the Stars and Stripes into Asla to remain, shall have drifted farther into the past and his- tory with clearer vision shall mark the names worthy of enduring fame, Adna R. Chaffee, will stand high on the roll of honor. As & soldier General Chaffee was born in the civil war. He joined the ranks as a private in. the Sixth cavalry on July 22, 1861. From that day to the present hour his record shows & steady progress that has brought him to the rank of major gen- eral, third on the list for the lleutenant general’s command of the whole army. To the lay mind the army register may be dry reading, but what schoolboy could read Chaffee’s record without a glow of pride? First a trooper, then a sergeant and a first sergeant. This brings him to 1863, when he was made a second lleutenant. This was in. March, and by July he had won the brevet rank of first lleutenant for gallant and- meritorious services In the battle of Gettysburg. In February, 1865, he was a first lleutenant and the very next month ‘Wwon & brevet captaincy in the battle of Din- widdie Court House, Va. In October, 1867, he first drew the pay of a regular captain. True to his previous record, we find him brevetted a major in March of the following year. This time the ervice for which brevetted,” reads: “Gallant and efficient services In an engagement with Comanche Indians at Point Creek, Tex.” During the long period from the close of the civil war until the outbreak of the re- cent war with Spain the army was small and In spite of the continual Indlan fighting lineal promotion was slow—deadly slow— 1o the poor captain or lleutenant who served his sixteen or twenty vears with never a p upward. Chaffes was no exception to the rule, and for twenty years, from 1867 to 1888, he remained & captain. There must have been many a long, dreary day out on the western desert, where, had a spirit of the plains whispered to Chaffee: “One day you will command a brigade in the troplics and defeat the troops of an fant ki later, you will lead an Amer- lcan column over the burning plains of China, amidst the armies of the world, to the relief of Pekin, and again you, & . publio lands in that region for the purpose of pursuing or hunting wild game. Of the two courses, the first is almost unanimously favored by the authorities who have had oceasion to Investigate the situation. In addition, argument in favor of the an- nexation of this territory is found in Its natural beauty. Bits of pleturesque coun- try would be taken from Idaho and Mon- tana; but the home of the elk is known to be chiefly in Wyoming, and from that state most of the new territory would be drawn. The tamoas Snake River country, the wild, rugged sweeps of mountain peaks and the mammoth forest reserves due east from the park would be placed under the supervision of the government. — The Teton nnre. on the south of the National park, rising 13,780 feet above the sea level and bein, most elevated sum- mit in that part of the country, would form an attraction equaling the great geysers of thé stretches to the north. General 8. B. °0 M. Young, then colonel, in 1898, after a careful examination of the region, said of this section of it: “The average elevation of this range Is probably not far from 13,000 teet, and it forms an effectual barrier to the country lylng to the eastward, since it can be crossed at only onme point, Teten pases, at the southwest corner of this addition. On the east the Teton range descends precipi- tously to Jackson's Hole, a large mountaln valley, which extends from north to south across this addition. This valley has an elevation of from 6.500 to 7,000 f too high for effective agriculture; but it serves as a wintering ground for immense herds of antelope and elk. The dimensions of this valley—twenty-five miles in length with an average breadth of ten miles, an area of 250 square miles—together with its shelt- ered, secluded character, make it of great value as a winter resort for game. It s estimated that at least 10,000 elk, whose summer range is in the park, drift south- ward to Jackson’s Hole, wnere they range In the winter. Enormous numbers are slaughtered here.” It 18 designed to attach a small plece of Montana to the northwest portion of the park. From the report of Gemeral Young it 1s gathered that this, too, will prove a most charming addendum. It includes the upper basin of the Madison river with the canyon below it and a lofty mountain, eemingly trying to rear its way to the stars on the west. On the north runs the Gallatin river, guarded by a chain of bristly peaks. The upper valley of the Madison river is described as a broad, level ex- panse, heavily forested “with rugged and precipitous tops Dbordering mountains major general in the regular army, will command a division of 60,000 mén and con- trol an archipelago containing 8,000,000 Asiaties”—well, I can imagine the Captain Chaftes of those days pulling himseif to- gether and taking a good stiff finger of rye to drive such fantastic pipe dreams for- ever from his brain. Yet the spirit would bave spoken truly, for just these things have come to pass, and in thelr enacting revealed the character of the man and glven the nation its opportunity to create the general. In the clearing away of the smoke when Spain had been fairly beaten, it was cheer- ing to read the tributes to Chaflee and Law- ton and Ludlow. There was enough of scandal and mismanagement, from Alger at home to Shafter in the fleld, to creato anger amidst rejolcing. But for every jack in office two true men came to light, and the world of Europe learned it as well as the people at home. This little paragraph, taken from ‘“The Regulars at Bl Caney,” by Colonel Arthur Lee of the British army, exhibits the qualities that won those brevets and inspires everyone who has been in the fleld with Chaffee with admiration for him as a soldier: *‘The situation was & trying one for the nerves of the oldest soldier and some of the younger hands fell back from the firing line and crept toward the road. In a moment the general pounced upon them, inquiring their destination in low, unhoneyed accents, and then, taking them persuasively by the elbow, led them back to the extreme front, and, having de- posited them in the extreme fronmt, stood over them while he distributed a few last words of pungent and sulphurous advice. Throughout the day he set the most con- spicuous example to his men, and that he escaped unhurt was a miracle. One bullet clipped & button off his coat, another passed under his shoulder-strap, but nelther touched him, and there must be some truth in the old adage that fortune favors the brave. At the conclusion of the Spanish-Ameri- can war General Chaffee, then a lieutenant colonel In regular army, but who had been acting as a major general of volun- teers, was promoted to & colonelcy in the Bighth cavalry. The government had learned his value, and when, in 1900, the National Pleasure Greund to Be Doubled in Size. reaching altitudes of some 10,000 to 11,000 feet.” This valley is also a wintering fleld for elk and antelope and, according to General Young, “bas been for many years and still s the rendesvous for the most daring and most successful poachers.” But Jackson's Hole in the Teton range 1s acknowledged to be the cholce resort for the migrating herds of big game. In this connection & story is told of how Jackson's Hole received its name. “Away back In the 60s,” as the old scout puts it, in that “perticular neck of the Snake river ken- try” a famous bandit and horsethiet named Teton Jackson held undisputed sway. Horses were stolen In Idaho and Montana and by swift, masterly dashes were brought to this valley, “rested up"” and then sent to Utah and Colorado to be sold. It is sald Jackson's resort was impreg- nable from the west, whence the horses came, except through the Teton pass, which that of Thermopylae for its pos- sibilities of defense. Jackson held the pass for more than a year, as the tales of h bloodthirstiness and cruelties secured him immunity. In 1831 Captaln Bonneville and party went through it and at a much earlier day the Astor party, under a Mr. Hunt, explored it. Since the days of Teton Jackson a gang of poachers has been at work there and elsewhere in the reserve country. The state of Wyoming has come in for some eriticlsm for not doing more for the pro- tection of the Natlonal park denizens which seek the valley country in the snowy days of winter. Hunters, who hunt for the sport of it have time and again told with smiles of the “easy licenses” recelved from Wyo- ming justices of the peace at "“$40 per.” This llcense says in substance: ‘“In com- slderation of the payment of $40, authority is given by the state of Wyoming to " to pursue, hunt and kill no: more than two elk, two deer and three antelope, one mountain sheep and ome mountain goat within the state from the 1st day of Sep- tember to th it day of December,” etc. In the words of one hunter, “armed with this pretentious authority we broke camp and turned our faces to Jackson's lake,” where it is safe to wager they slaughtered all the bilg game they could. But the jus- tice of the peace had collected $160 from this party and hence the law had been sufficiently observed. The campaign for extension of the Yellowstone National park is well started and s being managed by competent hands. Chairman Lacey of the house committes on public lands is known as the friend of any project affecting the preservation of bird or beast. Sydney Adamson in Leslie’s Weekly. situation of the American minister and all of the legation staff in Pekin demanded the presence of American troops in China for their relief, it was everybody's good for- tune that Chaffee was the man selected. We who spent those weary days in China after the allles had capture Tien Tsin ‘waiting, waiting for reinforcements, for f00d supplies, for ammunition, for more ar- tillery, ready to march, and k with the thought of what might have happened to our friends, prisoners, nihety miles away meross the burning plains—we alone can tell how much i{s due to Chaffee’s arrival and instant determination that the column should march, ready or not ready. General Yamaguelin, commanding the Japanese, agreed with Chaffee, and the world knows the story of what followed. But all this is of Chaffee the soldler and pever & word of Chaffee the man. In Pekin, when the dead wi buried and the troops settled in camp, the cold north- ern winter drove us indoors to mess din- ners and jolly evenings. I chanced to be & guest at one particular mess in the Tar- tar city when a banquet was given, at which both General Chaffee and Mr. Conger, the minister, were present. That evening, over the wine, General Chaffee made a speech full of good fellowship for the junior offi- cers present and bringing very near the old Indian fighting days when they were all out on the plains together and nobody was bigger than a captain. Toward the end of his speech, simply and without affectation, he referred to his absent fam- ily and sent the thoughts of every man miles across the seas. One sentence re- vealed the man as the nation should know him: “After my country, my family is all that is-dearest to me on earth.” With his record as a soldier before you and that last sentence to reveal the man I might lay aside my pen. But there is one word more. ‘Where General Otis and General MacArthur falled to do their whole duty in the Philip- pines General Chaffee has succeeded In fully doing his. That the democrats see in his euccess the end of their chance to make the Philippines a successful party issue is shown in their savage attacks upon him and the army he comman: Belleve me, there is no American living unto whom the nation's homor might. be intrusted for safer keeping. L S e son, had vislong also—when he would be & successtul contractor and build a palace fit for the idol of his heart. In vain ne reasoned with the girl that already his wages would support two very comforta- bly. Art was the triumphant wooer and the girl sang in the chorus of a Broadway production. How she worked! In falr weather and foul, always on time, always throwing her small energies into the work a8 If the entire performance depended on her! Never was a fine scored agalnst the name of Elaine Clayton, dear to the young mascn as Mary MeCartney. The stage manager always smiled at ber cheerily when she nodded to him, but once he turned to the star with a shrug of his shouldere. “Nice little girl that, but she won't last long. Ther consumption in that face. T've secn ‘em before.” The young mason saw it, too, but Mary | shook her head and closed her ears to his entreaties. Why, look at her eyes! Apd the color she had—she really did not have | to rouge any more! 3 Then came that awful night when she could mot sing in the final. The wild burst of melody swung past her. Something had etopped the notes in her throat. When she opened her eyes the orchestra was playing for the exit of the audience, and someone was wiplag her lips with & handkerchief that burned red. They were married the next day. The mason had won out against his rival, but at what cost! Flercely he anded the right to care for the fragile little creature who nmow turned to him with frightened, yearning eyes. And finally she came to t great hospital overlooking the river, and there she lay day after day, watching the light on the watet and counting the hours untll his work would be over and he could come and hold her hand. Her death was sudden. She realized the truth, but there was no time to send for the faithtul husband. So she drew the nurse close and whispered: “Tell him I sald to put on me that stage dress—the one 1 liked best—with the pink roses and the ruffes. 1 loved it so—It was the first one I ever bought. Tell him I don't want ome of those awful straight ‘Wrappers they put on mother. I want—" The nurse delivered the meesage, but she was busy and did not give much thought to the determined curve of his lips, the angry, Jealous light that shone in his eyes. When she attended the funeral—for she had really learned to care for the patient little sufferer—she recalled it all. The slender figure in the casket was robed In a strajght, simple gown of white and there were white roses in the wasted hands. The husband 'med to read the question in the nurse’s eyes and he burst forth in & perfect passion of grief. “It stood between us for years—that stage business. She'd never died if she'd Jeft it alone, and I couldn't a-bear to see her in that finery. She loved it better mor she did me and I hate it. There ain't no use iIn living!™ Now it may be t the nurse was over- worked and exhausted, but she declares that on the very came mnight the white- robed figure walked beside her in the ward and looked Into her face with accusing eves. Agaln and agein the vision appeared until, in spite of her determination to shake off the idea, she went to the super- intendent, told the story and was trans- ferred to another ward. And this is an- other ghost that walks for the benefit of timid “probe.” The Black Bottle. It was an Irish woman who gained the soubriquet of “Black Biddy" by reason of her dread of being put out of the world be- fore her time through the unkindly offices of the “black bottle.” The latter is sup- posed by the lower classes to be kept in stock at all charity hospitals for the sol purpose of hastening the end of incurable: and no amount of reasoning can convince them that it js & myth. Biddy was suffering from cancer and in spite of intense agony never lost her de- sire to live. She watched with unceasing vigilance every drop of medicins that was poured out for her, always suspicious tha it came from the dreaded black bottle. She even suspected fer food and finally grew so weak that a malt tonic was or- dered. The dose was measured into & wine gfass at & time behind the screen that sur- rounded her cot, but unfortunately she happened to spy the nurse carrying the tonic back to the medicine closet. It was in a dark-colored bottle. Instantly the ward resounded with pro- fanity—and Biddy was an expert in this line. Straight up in bed she sat, cursing the nurse and her black bottle until the cords of her hands and neck stood out like sinews of an athlete. Back from her grave she promised to come to haunt ber. Before the nurse could quell the disorder which prevailed in the ward and soothe the enraged Biddy, the unusual exertion did its work. A hemorrhage set fn and Biddy died, the victim of her own fury. But nothing could convince the other pa- tients that the cause of her death was natural. To this day newcomers in the ward hear the tale and watch for the com- ing of Biddy at midnight. And nine out of ten will insist that they have seen her dogging the steps of nurses and warning them to beware of the black bottle. The Shade Came Back. At & local sanitarium for the insane was started & ghastly tale which saw its end t s similar institution in New York. At first named the rates are sufficlently high to assure the friemds of private pa- tients that the institution is admirably con- ducted. But a scandal suddenly arose when it was learned that & patient lying at death's door had been fatally injured by an attendapt. Just before his death the patient’s reason was restored and, ralsing himselt in bed, he cursed the attendant and vowed he would haunt him. The nurse was relieved from duty and the matter quickly hushed up. On secur- ing a position in New York he was placed in charge of a ward containing six pa- tients, presumably mild and harmless. Just on the stroke of 12 one night some unseen influence seemed to stir the maniacs and they became unmanageable. In the struggle that followed the attendant was struck over the head with & chair and the blow, which eventually proved fatal, landed in the exact spot where but & few months before the patient in the sanitarium had been struck. The dying man insisted that seven men instead of six had set upon him and that MID-SUMMER CLEARING SALE We have finished our July inventory and have marked all small lots at fully one-third less than regular value. This in face of the big advance in prices gives you an oppor- tunity to buy furniture at— Fifty Cents on the Dollar Over 250 pieces including beds, tables, sideboards, china cabinets, dressers, rockers, Morris, parlor and dining room chairs at fully— HALF REGULAR VALUE Iron Beds Full sisze iron beds, white enamel— brass trimmings, bargain hunters, you will find them on sale at . 50 13— ror—bed, dresser and Ppleces for the price of one, only $13.50. 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But when they investigated the fellow’s past record more than ofde was in- clined to set aside the theory of delirium. Pranks of Cupid. ‘While the average female trained nurse looks upon her profession with a most businesslike oye, cupld sometimes enters into her computations. A pretty girl of finds the hospital ward but a vestibule to matrimony. Some five years ago a de- cldedly pretty young woman took a ocourse of training at a private sanitarium, and in due time developed into a fairly efliclent but not particularly gifted nurse. To this hospital was brought the son of a wealthy family to be operated upon for appendicitis. The operation was pronounced successful, and his convalescence was auspiciously in- augurated. In & few days he began to view with favor the pretty young woman who ministered to his needs. In ten days his convalgscence and his flirtation wers both progressing finely, when, without any ‘warning, unfavorable symptoms set in and he died within a few hours. His pretty nurse was completely de- moralized and Had to be sent on a vaca- tion. Her agitation was sttributed to af- fection for the young man, for the entire staff had marked the progress of the love affair. But on her refurn she developed horror of the institution and banded in her resignation. Before finally leaving, she asked for an interview with its head, and confessed the cause of her patient's death. He had begged so pitifully for re- lief from the liquid diet enforced by the physiclans that her common sense had yielded to her desire to please him and she had surreptitiously given him a plece of strawberry shortcak: In the interests of the hospital, the mat- ter naturally was never made public even among the nurses. Nothing more was heard of the girl untll the Spanish war broke out, when she was among the first to offer her services. Later came word that through her very devotion to her work sl had contracted typhold-malaria and died. Today, at her old hospital post, the new nurses whisper of the young girl with the red cross-on her arm who comes back in the stillness of the night to bend over a certain cot, whether it be empty or oc- cupled, as if begging forgiveness of its occupsat. Haunted Ambulance. Brooklyn can boast of & unique adjunct to, its hospital service—a haunted ambulance. About a year ago the ambulance surgeon ‘was called upon to attend & man found near one of the entrances to throwing him playfully into the ambulance trotted off to the hospital with him. On reaching their destination he discovered that the pstient had Inconsiderately died enroute, and the autopsy revealed a frac- tured skull. The ambulance surgeon has long since completed his hospital service and is bulld- ing up a private practice. 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None are worth less than $7.50 and some 498 worth $10; on sale Monday at......#&== Worth 8$2.60 for $1.25-We will place on sale Monday fifty pair of rope chenille portieres, all the latest colorings, perfect goods, every pair worth 125 $2.50, on sale Monday at ............ A== Worth $6.50 for $3.50—We will place on sale Monday twenty-five porch shades in six and eight-foot. widths by 8 feet long, in plain and assorted colo_s, 326 worth $6.50, for............. . ..., Qo= 19Z FURNITURE COMPANY AND 1319 FARNAM STREET. The 102 422 28 YEARS ESTABLISNED, 45 cured * 1E08 Ok S Nanwas Thss e NO MONEY JIL! e send FREE and ) L CURED, page treatise o e et e e ot BRS. THORNTON & MINOR | If You Want the Best In looking at offices in different buildings, the greatest praise the owner or rental agent can glive an office is to say that it is “as good as an office in The Bee Bullding.” It may be in some respects, but it can not be in every respeoct. The Bee Buiiding is one of the only two absolutely fireproof office buildings ia Omaha. The Bee Building is the only bullding having all night and all day Sunday elevator service. The Bee Bullding furnishes electric light and water without ad- :::ml cost. The Bee Bullding is kept clean, not some of the time, but all of the . Keep these points In mind when looking for an office, and take those listed below, if you aré wise. " e List of vacant rooms in The Bee Building Ground Fioor. Rental Per Month, 18x43 feet, Faces Seventeenth street and windows &l the . This is & large. Hght room, and the rental price includes heat it water and Janitor service, it has an entrance beth The_ Beé Bullding Court and Beventeenth street .. - n Price 3.0 FirstFloor. . ITE 101: There is no finer office suite in Omaha than this one. It is located {ust on the right hand of the great marble stairway, and has unusualy rge windows looking upon the front entrance way of the b 3 fronts on Farnam street. One room is 17x19 and the other 8x15. It burglar-proof vault, marble mantel-plece, hardwood floors, and will | frescoed to suit tenant o5 asssessns it the head of the main stairwa ery “desirable office for some real estal The floor space is 16x18 feet . Third Floor. is 21x8 feet and is very conveniently located near readily seen in stepping off th tractor. ROOM 308: This room elevator. A sign on the door can be - - $16.00 : This room is 17x82 feet and will be divided to sull it room Is iculatly adapted for t Py ShE g S et g el R s mt upon Seventeenth street, It has a ng vault, 'wood floors and is one of the owll)r? w0 the - Fourth Floor. lofi.h:.fll: 16x18 feet. This re oom {8 next to the elevator and faces court. It @ large burglar-proof vault and is well ventllated. Has good lighi and for l{: price furnishes first-claks lccommv:dl!.lznl sererenens ....Pfufu.'lfl,l) Fifth Floor. & very large room, 17x43 feet. ht and 1! vnnlll{u‘. It is ver 1 in The Bullding. It coul employlng & g number of wholesale jewele) nuf SUITE 514: This i It faces west but is wel seldom that space of this size be used to cler ks, or requl . or mai turer s agent, Who Woul fireproof building, or it will be divided to sult the tenant. .. : This room fi he court and is 18xi4 feet. It has a burglar- vault, and as it is the telegraph office and on the same floor firme, 1t would be & particular good room for & $50.08 *hoar al?l'lll‘ln‘l'l"lb- ‘accomm: tho! PR nfl.. Sixth Floor. SUITE 610: This consists of two rooms, both 184x11%. large burglar-proof vault, have been newly decorated a: :BI‘I:? any business or pro comf{ wo . R. C. PETERS & CO,, Rental Agents. them has are _rooms lonal man may Price