Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 17, 1902, Page 17

AMERICA'S GREAT WAR CAME| Navy Will Try to Burprise the Forts and | Oapture Them, NEWSPAPERS AS RECOGNIZED FACTORS | 4 Long 1 Exten * Martial Law for Weeks. Never in the history of the United States bave there been found joint naval and military maneuvers on a seale even Als- tantly approaching those scheduled for *Ain | month. And for the firgt time in the history of the world there will\be recognized a new | and importast factor in war—the newspaper | world. The newspapers will be considered | a8 enemies; the fleots must beat them if | they can. The government does not desire | that the newspape: shall not try to get the news; Indeed, the authorities want them to try In every way possible. But they want their ships and men to prevent them from gotting it. 80, in one way, this mimic war will be | real. It will be a mimic war for the pos ®ession of the coast and an actual war against the reporters, whose dispdtch boats will be treated as enemies’ scouts to be | avolded or captured. Becretary Moody re- gards this as a very important part of the | maneuvers. He desires to find out just how | secret the movements of a fleet may be kept in time of actual war and he realizes that if the movements of a fleet can be ‘con- cealed from newspaper men bent on finding them out, they can be concealed from any- body. Just what plan has been adopted to prevent the newspapers from getting in- formation meant to be secret the secre- tary won't tell, but it is known that a care- ful and elaborate scheme has been pre. pared and the experionces of the Spanish war have been drawn on in formulating it. It any information meant to be secret is obtained by the mewspaper men, the meth- ods by which it was obtained will be care- fully and fully reported to the department, and after the maneuvers are over such In- stances will bé studied with a view of de- vising a satisfactory preventive of similar occurrences in case of mctual war. It was proved with the Mttle affatr with Bpain that newspurers were not only fac- tore of civilization, but factors of war. For the first time In the history of the world great fleets went out to make history, ac- companied by a great fleet bearing the men who were to write it. It was realized sud- denly that the future naval commande~ could not regard the newspaper Aispatch boat as a negligitle quantity. So in these most up-to-date maneuvers planned by the Navy department the newspapers have had & place assigned to them. ‘The strategy of each of the two opposing commanders will be directed to out-maneu- vering the hostfle fleet and the newspaper forces, and the strategy of the newspaper forces will aim at out-maneuvering both floets. It will be a pretty and most intere: ing contest, entirely new to warfare. The départment has refused to give out even a | eral sketc, of the maneuvers, but the | t part of the waueuvers, which will be purely naval, will consist of the attempt of & fleet, supposedly hostile, to elude a fleot ‘watohing to Intercept it and effact a land- ing on the coast, in all probability at some point between Martha's Vineyara and the | tern entrance to Lohg Island sound. The | epposigg commanders will not know, except in a general way, just what vessels com- pose the fleet against wheh they aré oper- ating, and some very startling surprises way Be sprung upon them by the managers of the maneuvers. Some nuval officers would not be surprised if the European sqnadron or the Bouth Atlantic fieet, or both, should suddenly appear on the coast. For all any- body knows, ships from one or both of these #quadrons may now be on their way to New England waters. All the avallable ships of the North Atlantic squadron will be employed— Dattleships, cruisers and gunboats, as well as & fleet of fifteen torpedo boats and twelve torpedo boat destroyers. All along the coast, plercing searchlights, some of 100,000-candle power, have been established to search with thelr flery eyes at night for the coming of the hostile fleet. Wire- less telegraphy will be thoroughly tested during_the maneuvers to the practic- ability of using it under war conditions for communicating between the different vessels. Many povel and modern appli- ances will be experimented with, and In all respects the'prosent maneuvers will be the most up-to-date affairs of the kind ever attempted. Expense Not Consider The question of cost is not to enter into the matter. The object is to have the maneuvers comprehensive and thorough, no matter what It costs, for it is belleved that the results will justity the expep- diture, however great it may be. Coal will be an important jtem of ex- pen: A battleship of the Oregon clas: burns seventy-five tons of coal at a speed of eleven or twelve knots, and the amount burned rises rapidly for every knot above that. One of the fast crulsers burns about 100 tons a day ordinarily, and twice that &t high speed, and coal costs the govern- ment about §3 a ton. Though a good deal of the target practice will be done with the economical subcaliber, a considerable portion of it will be done with full sery- ice charges and service projectiles. To fire one of the big turret guns on & battleship with full service charge and regular pro- Jectile costs from $500 to $600 each tim Torpedo boats, owing to their forced draught, are great eat of coal, and the cost of firing ships' guns, even though they may ust be the great turret guns, is considerable. So it will be seen that the cost of the maneuvers will mount up. It is generally believed by naval offcers that the objective polut of the ships de talled to represent the hostile feet is Newport. That port is a great strategle point in Mr. Moody's war, just as it was 8 the revolutionary war. Sandy Hook Unlikely. Of course, it is entirely possible that @ fleet may appear off New York suddenly by way of Sandy Hook. But that is not lkely. For an attack on fendy Hook | Cineinnatt to take the eity in the rear | populous could not be anything except & bombard- ment, and there would be no opportunity | for much naval maneuvring, although it would possibly be good “war" for the hos- tile fleet to attempt to draw the defending fleet by making at least a demonstration off the Hook But it s generally conceded by naval as well as army men that the Sandy Hook approach to New York is practically im- pregnable. The works might conceivably by demolished by a steady, concentrated overwhelming fire of long duration from & mighty fleet. But that would not be maneuvring; it would simply be pounding And even if Sandy Hook were demolished and taken, there would be the same fight to make all over again, for the hostile fleet could barely steam past the Hook before it would find itself in a zone of fire from the two huge forts of Wadsworth apd Hamilton, either one of which Is powerful enough to fight a whole navy alone. But o hostile fleet in possession of New port would be able to make that place a base of operation for an invading army moving to ths west on New York through moving around its eastern defenses and | coming in out of reach of its southern ones | And, of course, New York, the “queen of the would be the objective point in a campalgn of Invasion. Hostile expeditions sent out from Newport would aralyze the industries of the wealthy and Now England states. Massa- chusetts and Rhode Island, with thelr | gréat cotton and woolen manufactories, and Connecticut, with Its textile industries and its manufacturies of arms and amnunition, would be unprotocted before the invadere The outer line of New York's detenses which Ile at the eastern entrance of the sound, would be shorn of its usefulness, and such of them as are on the mainland would probably be taken in the rear and captured. New England is largely—almost entirely—supplied with coal by tong tows whieh night and day erawl up the coast. A hostile fleet in possession of Newport would be able to stop all this trafic and reduce New England to dependence upon the single existing coal raflroad for its supply of fuel Probable Plan of Attack. A hostile fleet could hardly hope to make & successtul direct attack on the defenses at the eastern entrance of Long Island sound; still less on those which guard the entrance to New York Harbor by way of Sandy Hook. To seize Newport and make it the base for land operations evidently would the most practicable plan of a cam- palgn of invasion. The section of coast on which the supposedly hostile fleet In these maneuvers is descending s guarded by great modern forts, either recently bulit and armed or recently supplied with new and powerful batterles. In Buzzard’s bay, Fort Rodman defends the barbor of New Bedford, the entrance of Narragansett bay 1s defended by Fort Adams at Newport, and Fort Wetherlll, which looks to it across the narrow en- trance to the harbor, and by Fort Greble on Dutch Island, situated where the wes- ern entrance to the bay s narrowest. Then come the forts which form the outer line of the defenses of New York to the east- ward. This group of powerful defensive works lies about thirty miles to the wes ward of Newport and consists of Fort Mansfleld at Wateh hill, Fort H. G. Wright on Fisher's lsland, Fort Michle on Guil island, Fort Terry on Plum island, and rort | Trumbull on New London harbor. ‘Whether the hostile fleet, it It eludes the opposing squadron, will attempt to take the defenses of Newport by a frontal attack or will try to effect a landing some- where on the adjacent coast and take the forts In reverse, is one of the questions to be answered by the mttackers. If it eludes the fleet on the lookout for it the commander of the hostile quadron ean do whichever his judgment dictates. His prob- lem I8 to give the slip to the defending fleet and 0 to manage that the newspaper fleet shall not discover his approach and give notice of his whereabouts until he has struck his blow, two rather difficult propo- sitions. Yet, when we remember the success of Cervera in masking his movements, the question does mot seem incapable of solu- tion. Vineyard sound offers every induce- ment for a call from a hostile fleet, for it is entirely undefended, and from Vineyard haven (the old Holmes' hole) the great tide of commerce which continually passes through Nantucket and Vineyard sounds and out over the shoals could be held at the Invader's mercy. It will be remem- bered that during the civil war a con- federate cruiser ran into Vimeyard haven, destroyed all the shipping in the neighbor- hoed and got off to again scott free. Vital Problems to Solve. There are all sorts of possibllities in that strip of coast from Martha's Vine- yard to Montauk, and when this yea maneuvers are over and the results summed up we shall know a great deal about them. The question which the maneuvers are to work out are questions of vital and national importance affecting every part of the country. This attack is not an attack on New York alone, but on all its sister cities, great and small, indeed on every bamlet. For the great market of the west is in the through the east to other countries, and the key of the east seems to be about Newport. The second part of the maneuver, while not calling for the display of strategic skill as the first part, will be more spec- tacular and nolsy, and will simulate the conditions of actual combat. After the hostlle fleet has succeeded or falled in its attempt to evade the fleet on the watch for it and effects a landing on the coast, the two fleets will combine to form onme great naval force and attempt to captere some of the forts wilhin the fleld of opera- tions. The forts will be defended by the army and the militla of the adjacent states, and will be assisted by a few small v pposed to have eacaped the annthilation the rest of the American fleet. All the 'ts mentioned have been supplied with great quantities of blank ammunition. Mine flelds have been lald out to cover the channels, and every other defensive pre- caution has been taken. The commanders of the forts will not know which of them is to be attacked wntil the hostile fleet appears before them, the object belng to take the place by surprise. And in this part of the maneuvers the news. paper forces will play a part also, as the tempt must be made by the fleet to prevent 4 FREE M!’I.; EGZE“ A CAN BE GURED . ) Kuhn & Co., 15th and Douglas Sts, Omaha. | . H. Merchant, 16th and Howard Sts., Omaha. Schaefer’s, 16th and Chicago Sts., Omaha. C. A. Melcher, 2401 N 8t., South Omaha. Oall at | J Geo, 8. Davis, 200 W. Broadway, Co. Bluffs, Ia. and receive a free sample of Remick's Eczema Cure The xn’n remedy for Eczama. Pimples, Skin Eruptions, Piles, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, AUGUST 17, 1902. Wildcat Iinsurance | A great deal of paper capital is being put into insurance companies. Fire insur- ance seems to be the favorite among the promoters, owing to the uwnusual demand for indemnity created by the retirement and reinsurance of so many prominent companies during the last year, and the re- duction of lines on the part of those that have remained in the field. Owners of large lines have not been able to get as much insurance as they needed, after exhausting all legitimate resources, and their willingness to “take chances” has given the insurance schemer his oppor- tunity. Since the first of the year, reports the Chicago Tribune, thirty-seven fire insur- ance companies have been projected, not counting the numerous Lioyds which have #prung up, of which Chicago alone s ro- sponsible for a dozen, with still others In process of organization. But life insur- ance, {00, is prosperous, although it has not the excuse that the demand exceeds the supply. Fourteen life ineurance companies have reached various stages of promotion since the first of the year. In addition there are four fraternal orders based on legel reserve plans, four surety companies, and as many casualty companies. Beside these there have been acores of fraternal orders with high- sounding names, and other variations of the assessment idea. Practically all these fire insurance com- panles are still on paper, and most of them will never get to the stage of ac- tually putting up more money than may be required for organization purposes. Most of them owe their origin to the Increases In fire f{nsurance rates that have been made 8o geuerally by the stock companies this year. The favorite argument of the men who are making a fight against what they re- gard as an unjustifiable increase In rates Is that they Will start a company of their own, carry thelr own risks and “keep the profits at home.” The Ineurance men cheerfully advise them to go ahead There are a number of “specialty” in surance companies which are pronounced all right, among which are the Grain Dealers’ National Mutual Fire, organized in Chicago last week by elevator owners, who Insist that their rates are too high, and which has secured one of the most expert grain insurance men In the west for its manager; the Lumber Fire and Marine of New York, organized by the lumbermen; the Southern Manufacturers’ Mutual cf South Carolina, flonted by the cotton mill men, and the company which the independent cottonseed oll men of the couth are organizing But the great majority of the new fire instirance concerns, some of them already doing a large business, has little back of them. Insurance men are viewing the mul- tiplication of Lioyds with alarm, and pre- dict a crash when once they start to eol- lapsing which will recall the similar Lioyds craze of ten years ago, which led to the prohibition of any more charters to such in- stitutions by New York state, In Illinols such companies are absolutely without restriction. All that is necessary 1s for a few men to allow the use of thelr names as “underwriters,” and with a man- ager with power of attorney to sign for the underwriters, and a stock of policies, the Lloyds is ready for business. The state throws rigld restrictions around. stock in- surance companies, but the constitution guarantees to every individual the right to insure property If he wants to and can find anyone who will take his guarantee, The Lloyds contend they are merely an aggregation of individuals and that there 18 no law that can touch them. The Illinols insurance department has gone over the question carefully, and admits that its hands are tied. There have been 8o many complaints, however, that It realizes the necessity for some measure of regulation Paper Capital Put up by Promoters. tor such concerns, and islature this winter which will give it such power There are & few Lloyds that have good men back of them, are well managed, and take in enough to pay their losses and ex- penses, with a 1itfle profit for the under- writers. But this s concerns. It they ever pay any losses it is only be- cause they hope to get enough advertising out of it to get It all back, and much more besides, in extra premiums. One was started here a few months ago with ten underwriters, of whom three had taken ad- vantage of the bankruptcy act in the I few years, while several of the others were Judgment proof. Another which began business a fortnight ago never has given out ita list of under- writers, and the manager says he does not know who they are, and does not care, 80 long as he can sell policies without them, on the name of the concern. He admitted that it had begun lssulng pollcles when his concern had only three anonymous un- derwriters, the ultimate number to be fif- teen or twenty. And yet such concerns are able to sell thelr policies, and some of them are taking in thousands of dollars a month. They work largely by mall, spreading their oir- culars In sections where there have been rate increases, and offering to write busi- ness which the regular companies fight shy of, and at reduced rates. There are plenty of people who will buy anything, 8o long as it is cheap, and from these the bogus Lioyds reap a rich harvest. If the insured ever has a loss, and the man- ager cannot figure out that it would be to his advantage to pay ft, the property owner finds, if he 1s not shut out by the manifold clauses of a cunningly devised policy, that to get anything he must sue each of the underwriters Individually, only to find in the end that they are judgment proof. e ————————————————————————————————————————————— Liquor Joints in Maine | I the epirit of Neal Dow s cognizant of human events In his beloved state of Maine, how it must grieve over the sudden death of Rev. Samuel F. Pearson, the parson sherift of Cumberland county, embracing the city of Portland. Rev. Pearson was an ardent prohibitionist, and nothing in Iife gave him greater delight than smash- ing kegs, cans and bottles of booze. His zeal in the cause of prohibition, which has been a statutory burlesque in Maine for torty years, prompted some practical jokers to secure his nomination for sheriff, and by an unexpected twist of political machines he was elected. As soon as the parson-sherift the oath of ofice he set about making the prohibition law a sober reality. It was no small job to root out of the city of Portland all the secret joints where liquor was sold, but he sucoeeded to a remarkable degree. Some of the wéthods cipiuyed by the venders of bos were common In Towa a dozen years ago. Some elaborate improvements in western methods were discovered and ruthlessly smashed. took Under the parson-sheriff’s administration a great deal has been heard about “hides” | in the city of Portland. The first one of any consequence found after the sherift’s forco was installed was In the stable of one of the biggest liquor wholesalers in Portland. He was ‘belleved to be having large ship- ments delivered seml-weekly, but the of- ficers were puzzled over the question of where he kept it stored. By a little de- tective work they learned the secret. Back- ing out his span of horses, they touched a secret spring and the whole floor of the double stall rose, disclosing a capacious storeroom, fllled with barrels, kegs and Jugs of every description. One day a member of the sheriff's force received - word from a ralded rumseller that the “hide” of the Fore street saloon was over a clothing store in the adjoining bullding. Two nights deputles watched in vain. The third night they were rewarded by seeing a load of beer backed up in front of the hallway entrance between the saloon and clothing store and apparently carrled upstairs by some mysterious process. Next morning the whole force of liquor deputies, aided by one of the civil deputies, worked two hours with axes, crowbars and Jimmies before they located the “bide.” The process of disposing of the barrels was to run them into the saloon and with a wind- lase holst them to the second story, then run them along the floor through a big hole that had been cut in the solid wall separat- ing the two buildings and then into a secret chamber whose entrance was covered by wall sheathing. This chamber floor was lined with mattresses and there was a pile of extra mattresses for use on the floor be- tween the hiding place and the saloon ele- vator to prevent making nolse the floor when moving barrels in or out. The hole in the wall was ingeniously closed on each side by a steel door, over which sheathing was laid. After finding the beer and whisky barrels that were on tap the deputles followed the supply pipes along by tearing up fioors. The two pipes connected with a chimney and through that ran into the saloon under a false floor. An improvised triple shutoff arrangement in the middle faucet completed the scheme. An outlay of $2,500 went to smash when the sheriff and his men ripped up that bar and carrled off the plece oon- talning the row of faucet Those faucets constituted one of the most Interesting of the prohibitfon sherif’s ex- hibits. With it were several copper tanks his deputies dug out of hotel and saloon walls; a triangular plece of flooring from a tenement house parlor, which operated on hinges and concealed a storeroom for whisky; a boarding house bed, which was used as a hiding place for whisky bottles; a cradle in which was found, underneath & Methods Employed to Evade Prohibition. baby whose mother was tenderly caring for him, three quarts of sealed liquors; gamblers’ layouts and peddlers’ outfits galore. The most remarkable article in the ex- hibit was the “body can,” a tin tank of crescent shape, which will hold a gallon. A stout cord attached to two small handles at the top went over the neck of the wearer and the can would o closely fit the chest of a boy or slim man that, covered by an overcoat, it readily escaped detec- tion. On Center street, Portland, a short thor- oughfare which prior to the parson-sheriff's administration had fourteen open saloons, all within 500 feet of a public school house, is a three-story bullding which is honey- combed with discovered ‘hides.” On the lower floor s a saloon where, when the sheriff's deputies are off the scent, an oc- casional glass of fourih grade whisky can be gulped down. The two upper floors for- merly comprised a tenement, but it has been abgndoned because of the officers’ frequent calls. One “hide” was under the parlor floor, another in the front hall, a third under the attic stairs. The rear wall of one of the attic clothes presses was one day dis covered to be a trifle shaky and after a long hunt the officers found a secret spring, the pushing of which swung the whole wall on a pair of center hinges, showing a llquor storeroom big enough to hold halt & dozen cases of beer and kegs of whisky. A big family bible, on top of a stand in & chamber of a Pleasant street tenement house, was moved by the officers in their search. One of them noticed that the book covers were badly thumb marked and he thought he detected a slight odor of whisky thereon. He lifted the little table, pounded with his Jimmy, struck a loose board, and, litting a trap door, saw a chest of whisky bottles whose finding cost the temant a fine of $100. news from being carried ashore by them which will give the commander of any fort an Inkling of the direction in which the hostile squadron is moving. Ships will try to run by the forts in the dark, and such torpedo boats as are supposed to be left for the purpose of defense will try to steal out and torpedo the approaching vessels. When a warship s discovered the forts will open on It and it will reply. Umplres stationed on the forts will signal by rockets when a ship is in a concentrated fire which it could not withstand if the shots from fne forts were real ones and it will be declared out of action. The same thing will be done when a suppositious mine is exploded upon a ship, and, in short, all the conditions of actual warfare will be simulated as nearly as possible. The portion of the army not used as garrison for the forts will be held in readiness at some strategle point to strike wherever the enemy may appear. This will tnvolve the working out of many practical problems in repld transportation. The Spanish war was the first war in the history of the world in “Which the news- papers played any important part in naval operations. In that war the press dispatch boats were regularly documented by . the secretary of the navy and provided with permission to follow the fleets and generally to crulse wherever they pleased within the sphere of operation Censorship During the War. It would have beep Impossible to have maiotained any secrecy whatever as to val movements had not a rigid censor- ship been established. At every American port from which dispatches could be seny there was a censor and there was a censor at the end ot every cable, who took care of what was sent from foreign ports. No attempt to conceal operations from the newspaper men was made, but they were not allowed to send what they knew to their papers. In the present maneuvers more attention’ will be pald to preventing the newspaper men from obtaining information than in preventing them from sending It after they have it, though In some cases that may be done, too. Many were the expedients to which the men with the mewspaper fleet resorted during the war with Spain in order to get the best of the censor, bui in most cases these expedients, though ingenious, did not succeed. It should be said that the malls and the express service were censored a well as the telegraph during the Spanish war, and that rigidly. No one knew of the censorship of the express until a reporter at Tampa, baving had his dispatches held up by telegraph and mail, sent a package of manuscript by express. When be thought bis package was well on its way to New York be boasted to some of his fellow cor- respondents of how be had outwitted the censor. Just at that moment Lieutenant Brady came up and courteously banded him back his manuseript, which had been cap- tured by one of the lieutenant’s men hefore it got to Savannabh. One man at Key West when the fleet sailed to bombard San Juan, sent & dispatch saying: “WFieet salled ‘for Havana.” Being & bit of false news, he thought the censor would pass it. Later he came back and handed in a message, “Make Havana smoke,” using a code word which had been agreed upon between him- self and his telegraph editor. Ob,” sald the censor, looking at the message, “perhaps you would better make the correction yourself,” and he handed him back his first dispatch, which had not been put on the wire: nor was it All sorts of codes were arranged, but none of them worked successtully, though one man did get through from Key West an important plece of news by telegraphing his wife, a purely imaginary person, to kiss a purely imaginary baby for him. Some- times & man would file a number of seem- ingly harmless telegrams which,” however, could be understood by his telegraph edi- tor. The censor would receive them smil- ingly and at night hand him back the whole bunch. Meantime the newspaper man's office might be abusing him violently by cable at great expense and length for not sending any news. One man got a tabooed plece of information to his paper by going by train from Tampa to Savannah and tele- graphing there to his editor, personally, at his house address that he had ‘“shipped him 100 boxes of Havana cigars,” with some detalls of their quality and price, all of which was translated by the use of a code by the editor into an interesting story. He did not repeat the exploit, however, for somehow his action became known to the |government and after that there was a censorship established at Savannah and for |that and anotber successtul operation of the sort the correspondent was temporarily for- bidden entirely to use the telegraph. One Commander's Threat. One naval commander was so enraged at finding that a correspondent had sent a cable dispatch saying that the fleet had passed a certain point in the West Indies that he summoned the newspaper man on board his ship, where he rated him soundly before all hands, ordering him not to bring his dispatch boat near the fleet again on the penalty of being fired upon and declared in a passion that he had a good mind to order up a file of marines and shoot the delinquent. Yet the man was not only doing what his paper had sent him out to |do and what the secretary of the navy had allowed him to joln the fleet to do; the dereliction, It there any, was at the New York end of the cable, where the gov- ernment should have confiscated the dis- patch it it were objectionable. When (he fleet of transports was ready to sall from Tampa all news from that place was shut off. Washington gave out a dispatch saying that the fleet had al- ready salled, and the wires were kept hot with the scornful words of Irate editors berating their men for mot having sent them news of such an fmportant event, The ficet was still in the bay and did not sall for two days afterward, but all that the censor would allow to go out, In response to the entreaties of the new: aner m; be sllowed to “square then with thelr ofices, was only the e sentence: ‘“Censor absolutely re- to pass eny mews pertaining to the But the censors and the news- paper men got along wel together wad | matched their wits against each other. In all probability, the best of good feeling will exist between the parties concerned in the war on the newspapers and the with the utmost friendliness. So, also, in navy during this year's maneuvers. The First Automobile. The claim that the first automobile used in America was made in 1884 is being dis- puted by an inventor who claims the cor- rect date should be 1864. While there may be some doubt as to the correct date of the first automobile, there is no disputing the fact that Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, the famous family medicine, was first intro- duced about ffty years ago, and during those years it bas never falled to cure insomnia, dyspepsia, indigestion and con- stipation. Give it & trial, ——— RELIGIOUS, Rev. Dr. Thomas Kennedy of Philadel- hia, ‘rector of the American college in ome. hds sailed for thig country, the prin: cipal object of his visi /being to secure funds for enlerging the college property. A memorial book In memory of the late Archbishop Corrigan s being complled by the Cathedral Literar: oclation of New York. It will include the sermons preached by Archbishop Ryan and Bishop MeQuaid The drmy and navy department of the Young Men's Christian assoclation of New York has just recelved two gifcs, $15,000 each, for the erection of buildings at Forts Hancock and Monroe. The donors are T 8 Gladding and Miss Helen Miller Gould The yearly expenditure of the Vatiean in Italy and abroad amounts, it is stated, to $4,000,000, the greatest fraction cuming from the Peters pence, which alone gives an average of $1,400.000, more than haif of which is contributed by the United States. The city of New York is bullding three chapels for the benefit of prisoners. In the new city prison now buflding on the site of the old Tombs will-be two chapels, one for | Protestants and one for Roman Catholics The new chapel on Blackwell's Island wili | serve for both Catholics and Protestants, The largest center of the Roman Ci church in America Is the archdliocese of New York, with an estimated Catholic pop- ulation of 1,200,00—that is to say. nearly one-tenth of all the Catholics In the United Btates, while its nunbers surpass those of all the most crowded centers of Italy, in- cluding Rome, Naples or Milan. At the seventh international conference of the Red Cross, held recently at St Petersburg, Russia, there were present Russian génerals, German court officials, English admirals, Swiss jurists, Americ surgeon generals, with many represent tives of other powers, and foremost of all, an American woman—Clara Barton On the eastern shore of the Turkish pen- insula of the Khakidide is a settlement of Greek friars. The brotherhood houses ft- self in a ship painted black, bearing at its Prow a white cross, and lodging over elgh! monks. The ship'is fitted with a beauti- deeorated ‘chapel, containing richly ed images of the saints. The crew s wholly of monks. Voyages are made from one holy site to another. hington Star: “I hope your motto is ‘Down with the trusts!' id the ear- nest friend ‘Well,” answered Senator Sorghum, “‘my motte with reference to trusts is something like that ould be no temporizing. Down answered Mr, Sorghum, sooth- true of only a few | the department is preparing a Bill to be presented to the leg- Reductions on Runq!;outs and Columbia Stanhopes ’flm“flgrflphs PlDu:;;umflmontoi Wagons, Stanhopes, Surries, Phaetons, Business Wagons in Omaha. Automobilee—Gasoli; Steam and Electric, carried in stock. Bloycles—a special reduction on everything. H. E. FREDRICKSON 15th and Capitol A Omaha. Whelesale and Ret Agents Wanted 12,000 1atest and most popular records to select froin. Exceptio nally Low Rates Every Day Every day during the months of Septem- ber and October, 1902, the Union Pacifiec will sell One-Way Bettlers' Tickets at the following rates: From Missouri River: .00 Ogden and Salt Lake. .00 Butte and Helena. .80 Spokane. 00 Portland and Ashland, Ban Francisco, Los Angeles, San and many other Californfa points. Correspondingly low rates termediate poln!mm- huc If You Want the Best In looking at offices In different bulldings, rental agent can give an office 1s to say that it s “as good It may be In some respects, but it can not be in The Bee Buuding s one of the only two absolutely fireproof offi the grestest praise the owner oe an office in The Bes every pect. bulldings fs Omaha. The Bec Building is the only bullding having all night end all day Sunday slevator service. The Dee Bullding furnishes electric light and water without ade ditional cost. The Bee Bullding is kept olean, mot some ut the time, but all of the time. Keep thete points in mind when looking for an office, and you will take one of those listed below, it you are wise. “ List of vacant rooms in The Bee Building Ground Floor. Per ROOM H: 18x43 feet. Faces Seventeenth street and has alley. This is & Jight room, epd the " rental pi light, water ana janitor service. It has an entranc Building Court Seventeenth street . . windows rice incl both b oo 405.00 ¢ First Floor. SUITE 101: There 18 no finer office suite In Omaha than this one. It is looated Just on the right hand ol ine Ereal marbie stairway, and "fl large windows looking upon the iront entrance way of the butiding. fronts on Farnam street. Une room is 17x1) and the other Sxid. It . ourglar-proof vault, marble mantel-plece, hardwood floors, and be frescoed. to SUIt LENANE ».... oG Price W50 ROOM 104: This room is jus the head of the raln stairway on the firat floor. able office for some real It would b very "di estate man or_ocon- tractor. The foor space is X $008 1iovesssrne sersnnnes eesraen Price Third Floor. ROOM 808: This room is Zlx8 feet and 18 very convenien ted elevator., A sign on the soor can be readily seen ln“'lll off ¢l vator o 93 4shsa deee o a2 ve ROOM 888: This room is 1ixdi feei and will be divided 'ta sul This room ls particuiarly adapied for some concern need! space and is & decidedly me office, having an eatrance gourt and windows looking out upen Beventssnth strest. It has a. v large burglar-proof vault, hard wood floors and is one of the chol .E ces in the buliding. evsenne ey 0008 Fourth Floor. “O00M 401: la’;x feet. This room is next to the elevator and has o lurge burglar-proof vault and is well ventilated. for the price furnishes frsi-clads accommodations ..:.’!fil‘"' Fifth Floor. SUITE 614: This is & very large room, 14x3 feet. It faces w light and well ventilated. It is very seldom that ce flr “l‘l’rll'-!., fered in The Bee Bullding. l} l?lll be used l1 ivantage by some employing nunb:f of clerks, or requiring large fldor wholesale jewsler, or mardufacturer & ‘agent, who would ke to . rireproof bullding, or 1t will be divided to suit the tenant.: il 60.00 ROOM 531: This room faces the court and is 18xi4 feet. It has & burgiar-proof vault, und as it 1y near the ‘LH’."" office and on the same floor v'tl . it woul & particular number of grain jood reom Brm desiring s ‘accommoaation: -r - R ird o N e I Sixth Floor. This consists of two rooms, both 4. h of them has & b::;\. pmer it. I(‘v. bo-ll u:lvm‘a:o:ntfi: n} ur] n.g SUITE 61 two .. . R. C. PETERS & C0., Rental Agents.