Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 28, 1902, Page 10

REPLY 10 PRESIDENT NASH me et Andrew Rosewater Adds Another Chapter DENIES SOME PUBLISHED STATEMENTS | employed on the Columbus project. Oity Engineer Admits that Opposition dent of the local electric light company, h THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1902. A GREAT CLEARING SALE! The Grandest Sale Ever Held in Omaha Begins Monday, Dec. 29, at 8 O’Clock Every department in the store united in the miost sensa- tional value=-giving ever con- ceived. E HAVE planned this sweeping reduction of stock on the most extensive lines ever attempted in Omaha. announce a grand clearing sale of every line of goods in our store in qualities and assortments almost boundless. BRANDEIZ. 'oSTSN SONS All stocks will be sacrificed at this sale, goods at almost incredible reductions. Conditions have aided us and we are able to We find that our stocks are too large at this time and in order to make a great reduction in the quickest possible time we have slashed prices—cutting them far below the limit that others dare to go. Tomorrow we reassert our supremacy in the western mercantile world. Clearing Sale Petticoats All of our $1.00 moreen and mercerized sateen black and colored petticoats with ruffles and corded SOC around the bottom—Clearing Sale Price 75¢ Wrappers at 25c—All of our percale and other colored wrappers,also Indigo print wmppera,onzsc main floor bargain square—Clearing Sale Price.. $2.50 Wool Waists at $1.00—Our entire stock of French flannel ladies’ waists, beautifully trimmed and appliqued, all of this fall's styles— Ciearing Sale Price 1-00 75c¢ Wool Fascinators at 21c—Our entire stock of strictly all wool knit and crocheted fascinators 210 all colors—Clearing Sale Price .......... 25c¢ Double Knit Mittens 15c—Ladies’ and children’s all Baxony wool double knit mittens, plain and 15C fancy back, 26¢ quality—Clearing Sale Price 50c and 75c Golf Gloves at 39c—Ladies’ and children’s all wool golf gloves in black and great variety of fancy colors, worth 50¢ and 75¢ a pair—Clearing Sale Price.... ........ 39C Clearing Sale Underwear Tisses’, Children’s and Boys' Fine and Heavy Ribbed Vests. Pants and Drawers, worth up to 35c, each.... ... .............. Ladies’ 75¢ Underwear at 29c—Heavy ribbed and extrs heavy 20 fleecy lined, in ecru and silver gray, all sizes, each..... C Boys’ and Girls’ Heavy Australian Wool Underwear— 60c quality, at. Infants’ and Children’s Heavy Fleeced Underwear—in pink, biue 5 and silver gray, small sizes, at, each ... ......... Nisses’ and Children’s Heavy Weight Camel’s Hair Underwear— lsc CLEARANCE OF WINTER CAPS and Odds and Ends of Men’s Furnishings. All the 50c t 25c—All wool caps in the Brigh ton, golf and golf yachtstyles, just in for ocoid weather, during this clearing sale at...... The FETRus T pr e 25C All the 75c and $1 Caps at 50c—Made of beaver, covert cloth, chinchilla, and ailk plush, in thiy season's popular styles for men and boys’ wear, during this clearing sale at 500 All the $1.50 and $2.50 Caps at 98c—Our very very finest caps made of chuice kerseys, broad- cloth, finest cheviots and heavy serges, in the styles most popular this year, during this clearing sale at..... RO b 98C Children’'s Wool Tams—200 dozen, camel’s 1 hair, assorted colors, at QC Children’s Wool Toques—300 dozen, in 5 O T R R R R 1 C All our 75¢ awd 50c Underwear at 25c—All the broken lots of fine fleece lined, derby rib- 5 bed underwear, at.... . .2 C All our 89¢c and $1 Underwear for 45¢c— 4 5 In all the wool and wool fleeces, at C Alfl our i‘lilficd-ndd 50&]:( Nelckwear at 25c¢c—Puffs, our-in-hands and tecks, all pure gilk, at p 2SC All our 75¢c and $1 Gloves at 50c—Genu- 50 ine cordovan, calfskin, dog skin,and fur back, C Way’s 50c and 75c Mufflers at 25¢—200 25 dozen all wool sweater neck mufflers, at C GREAT REDUCTIONS IN CLOAK AND FUR CLEARANCE IMost Remarkable Bargains in Popular Cloaks and Furs THESE PRICES LAST DURING THE CLEARING SALE ONLY At $5.00—Choice of 500 kersey jackets—Monte Carlos and 27-inch conts—popular colors—worth ousily 810 and 812 each, at ... . 19-inch, 27-inch and 30-inch long, ker- One big table of fine kersey coats—:27- seys, meltons, etc.—odds and ends, inch and 30-inch long, also 42 and from the $5.00, $6.00 and $7.50 45-inch cloaks, well lined, high storm lots—all go collar, many worth up at 1.98 0 $10.00, Bt +uveernniienes 3 85 At $8.50—Choice of fine Monte Carlos, all the novelties of the year, any one in the lot worth $13.50 and wany as high as 318, at Astrakhan Capes—Fully 30-inch long, rich glossy cur), gen satin lining, worth up to $20, at.......... sessesisns . 24-inch Astrakhan Jackets—Good heavy furrier’s satin lining, storm collar, worth as high as 825, at......c.eeveiueseiinnenannns 12-50 American Stone Marten and Canadian marten scarfs—worth easily $2.00, at .,. b 98¢ 512‘.50 and $15 Scarfs —Of fox, Siberian squirrel, ete., a ___,#*? All the Isabella and Sable Fox Scarfs—Single and doubls, large ! brush tails that have wold at $17.50 and 819, at........ ceen 200 Fine Golf Skirts—Odd lots, worth up to $6.50, ut.. Sllk Skirts—Choice of all the odds and ends; sold as high B!;H‘k cloth skirt: as 815,00, at.. Children’s and 85 C 175, 32, $2.60, at All the children’s coats, worth All the children’s short andl 1 %600, during clearing sate, at...... 2+98 o bt aoh lonis .4.98 skirts at i coats, worth $10, clearing sale.. Children’s Coats at 98c—Choice of 200 children's reefors and Allthe Finer Grades of Children’s Coats, worth up to817.50 bux coats, with and without capes, worth $2.50, during this clearing sale ...... IRERTPON 9SC i‘é‘“"“ o Tl 6-98 HOSIERY CLEARANu.c HANDKERCHIEF CLEARING Misses’ and Children’s Fast Black Hoslery—Some 6' Big Lots of All Kinds of Handkerchiefs in plain white and with double knees, worth up to 20c, all size: ....02C i%ncy bv:ders‘ some slightly mussed, worth up to 1 c go at. 3 Meu’s INedium and Heavy Weight Wool Socks in sil- 10 ver grey and camel’s hair worth 20c, go at a pair..... C 15¢ Misses’ Children’s and Boys, all wool Hoslery in fine and heavy ribbed, 25¢ quality at. Ladies’ Plain and Heavy Ribbed all wool Hosi me- dium and heavy weight, worth up to35c go nmalr... 1 50 Ladies’ Fast Black Heavy Fleeced Hosiery in plain lzk GRAND CLEARANCE SALE OF $150,000 Stock of Men's Suits and Overcoats A Clothing clearance of the greatest magnitude ever known in Omaha. We must clear away our huge clothing stock and We are Selling Regardless of Cost or Value S15and 18 OVERCOATS and Su1Ts at PSS $5.00 Choice of our entire stock of Men’s $10 and $12.50 Overcoats and Suits at These elegant garments all come from our recent purchases from the east. Every Suit and Overcoat a model of beauty. Not a garment of our recent purchases escapes the cut. Prices all Slashed to Close Out the Immense Stocks. NEVER SUCH A CLOTHING OPPORTUNITY IN OMAHA. Men's $3 and $4 Pantsat $1.50—Finecas- Men's $5 and $6 Pants at $2.98—Made of simere, worsted and cheviots, the newest fabries. cut sold all season for 83 and $4. 1 in the latest fashion, 8 Now at...... W AR . at. 4 1.25 85c Ladies’ and Ien’s Handkerchiefs in white and fancy colored borders, some with lace inserting, others embroidered; also a lot of ladies’ plaia all Jinen hemstitched handker- chiefs which sold up to 2(c each, ali go at 4.50 50c Silk Handkerchiefs at 15c—Closing outall the ladies’' and men’s plain and funcy silk handkerchiefs, hundreds of styles, many worth up to 50c each, all on bargain equare at... ..................15C Boys’ $3 Knee Pants Suits at $1:25—Ages 3 to 8, fancy larger sizes up to 15 years, with double breasted coats. All worth UpP o83, 8t..eiirenni, wuns Cape Overcoats—{rom ages 4 Accumulated odds and ends in 10 12, wool materials and sold s children’s vestee suits ages 3 for 84 and #5, basewent........ to 8, in the basement at. nitude and merit. to Power Franchise Controversy, projects is equally untruthtul. Has Gained Its int for Present, Continue Mr. Main. for the third time within the past sixty | light and energy in the city of Omaha served the public during the greater part Pleased to have him say so. creditable to honestly and fait ct than 79 & minisipel ‘orpor..:.l:: nll‘url‘l‘ terprise, not blindly, but tully raillway or other corporation. presumption being that the length of public | 190KIng to the public and not my individual service is a measure of reputation honestly | IBterest. earned, more 5o even in public than private pavements of Omaba. was Dot city engineer during the period |amount. Mr. ‘when wooden pavements were and that T publicly advised against wooden | Bicipal excursions, hunting and pavements prior to that period, all of Mr. Nash's calumnies, though haviog not the re fess to under tien, fall of their purpose. dence In referring to the contents of his en &lneer's confidential reports on my plans. T hat I gave publicity to a part of | Rance? eport, only after Mr. Nash's at- | ell light by the horse power tempt at willful misrepresentation through | Strange that all the electricia a published interview citing my plans as inferior to the others in point of mag- | ate per kilowatt hour based upon the ex- | Mr. Nash's reference to | tébt of horse-power energy consumed. A my infidelity to the Fremont and Columbus | €ONSumer of average one horse-power gu- I never was I went | he consumes an average of ten horse power. | there on a telegraphic call of its president | The difference between Mr. Nash's com- | and looked over the field a part of ome | PARY rates for power and light is that it day, Teceiving no pay nor making any re- | Charges 15 cents for electric energy used | port thereon. As to the Fremont canal pro- | fOF light, whilst it charges 10 cents for | act of “The ‘Powers’ Behind the Throne ' moters, I did not seek thém; they sought| the same energy if used for power. me, and so far I bave yet to get one cent for anything I did for them, although I|Charge for the same energy, prepared reports, profiles, maps and esti- | Whether applied to lighting or for power. mates from time to time for all the in-|ID (his, s in the case of arc lamp, Mr vestigators of thelr project, including even | N6h's councilmanic quintet has followed | and public safety as well & to the per- As to the Seymour Park project, it Dr.| days appeared in print in protest agalnst | Miller can truthfully show where I have allowing competition 1n the sale qf electric | ¢Ver done any underhand work against it, I will be pleased to have him do so. More What he says may be summarized as abuse, | than that, it he can show that I ever vio- personal calumny and downright deception. | 1ated any obligations, professional or per- 1 am assalled at the outset because I have S00al, to him or his “"flvlfly-\: W“'m‘:'-' species of currish attacks, instigated by a My public of thirty years in thé professional capacity | TePOrts, as well as the flles of the press, bear testimony to the fact that without g tand that it s | of ongineer. I fall to understand tha pay or hope of pay I did as much as any dozen people in Omaha to advance that en- | conscientiously, Mr. Nash states that in fixing the maxi- lite. mum price for street lighting 1 deceltfully By way of diversion I am charged with | name $65 per year for arc lights of present responsibility for all the rotten wooden |standard of 462 watts, twelve hours each Considering that 1 day, intending to charge twelve times that Nash doubtless understands d {n Omaha | more about table d'hoting aldermanic mu- fishing parties, etc., than electrical matters. I pro- nd the English language cheap power ques- | and insist that my ordinance is clear and soipgr gy gl £ s unmistakable, and if not, why has Mr. | Mr. Nash intimates that I violated confi- lNuh'- aldermanic quintet, which reported | terprise, and so far they have succeeded. Mr. | not heard.” on a new ordinance after consulting him, used the same language 1n its last ordi- | Grand Clearing Sale of Silks 4.600 yards of plain and fancy silk novelty velours, 27 and 86-inch fine lining silks, Roman stripe silks, black peau lords, and a lot of fine lengths in waist- ing and trimming silk, worth up to $1.50, ‘ : during this clearing sale, yard.......... have about 3,000 yards of fine black guaranteed taffota, all widths from 22 to 86 inches—They are not remnants but good lengths up to 25 yards of one kind—We want to close out the entire lot at quick selling price, 690 at, a yard .. Every yard of our silk velvet waistings, coronation vel- vet cords. 2 and 3 tone hair line novelty - velvets, plain and check velvets. printed warp f ? 5 C During this clearing sale, ut, yard........... desvwens 8,600 yards of every kind of high class gilks, consisting grenadines. swell Lyons sitk for party gowns, ete. e and a fine lot of velvets, ‘ ? D C During this clearing sale, at. Clearing Sale on Dress Goods. plaid dress goods, all them a yard wide— COURBEIINE DRI INION) B8 FRIA <+ s odsvsnicosedsnysossns s isshoen Black French Flannels, also triquoed French Flannels in colors %4 54-in Golf Skirting and Suitings, regular 20 Cc price ¥1 yard, during this clearing sale at canvas, etamines, granites, cheviots, serges, ete, black and all colors—clearing sale price, SILKS ON BARGAIN SQUARE de soie, black taffetas, black armure brilliant, pretty fou- Black Taffeta Silk Department—We 590 worth up to $1.2 velvets that sold up to $2,00— of dress silks, waist silks, beautiful printed warp silks, fancy dress antique and facoune in silk department— 25c¢ Dress Goods at 10c a Yard—Plain and all wool 75c¢ French Flannels at 25¢ clearing sale price, at, yard.......... eeesscsssssscsns $1.00 and $1.25 Dress Goods—Camel’s hair serges, zibelines, SOC Great Basement Clearing Sale Monday we begin to close out our entire stock on hand of all kinds of winter goods at about one-fourth their regular value. All the balance of our stock on hand of iight and 5C dark outing flannels, goes at a yard. All the balance of our stock on hand of cotton 3lc and shaker flannel, in remnants, go at, yard.......~2 6lc All the imitation French flannels— (A B S All the swansdown flannels— | AL Por YR Vs iiv0viei 2c All the mercerized and plain black sateen— B PO YBIE s o4 i wrire Hnannie e o0 ioiih ceeseat SC All the high class heavily mercerized Italian cloth, worth 40c, at, per yard .......... AT All the balance of stock on hand of comfort 31 gnlico: nt ey YAM % 0T n T R P 2C Choice of our entire stock of comforters, worth up to $2.50, go at, each .. ]-25 Closing out all the wool blankets, former price 2 98 was more than double, go at $4.98, $3.98 and . 4« « Closing out all the odds and ends of lace curtains, all in one big lot, only 1, 2, 3 and 4 pair of a kind, worth up to §$2.50, go at, pair ....... 980 Hundreds of other bargain lots in the basement. . 10¢c Mr. Nash T es I am trylog to| welcome to his bosom companions, but let | playing them proudly to the man who lived | kilowatt. | bim remember that crooked deeds llke next door. ‘ and card | curses come home to roost. Free Junket- | “Yes, indeed,” he said, ons specify a|ing excursions, special locomotive trips, | “they're dalstes.” fishing trips, hunting trips, profitable in- terests in contracts, cash loans, cash ad- admiringly, | rates of electric copo Alice looked a little disappointed. |'s ergy pays more per kilowatt hour than it | the alluring and seductive devices which always succeed In securing the measures which. the electric wizard directs to be passed or doomed to defeat. The curtain has gone down on the first grocer’s shop the other day and, reading | from a paper, sald: In the | “I want six pounds of sugar at 6% cents | go meanwhile the public will be asked how it | g pound.” likes the performance. Tho play it must| “Yes sald the shopman; “that will b | be conceded, is exciting, though it has ele- | 39 cents.” ents of danger both to the public morals to bed that night. “He doesn't know the | | difference between shoes and flowers.” In my | The second act is yet to be played. ordinance rates, 3% cents is made the regardl pound.” “Sixty-six cents.” my language i its last ordinance nur- | formers themselves. tured into life by the aid and support of ANDREW ROSEWATER. “Four pounds of tea at 50 cents a pound.” | Mr. Nash's company. PRy i Ml —— ety In conclusion, I dem it proper to state| PRATTLE OF THE YOUNGSTERS. ARG 90 8o ‘oontinued: that the power controversy has mot been of | | coffee at 25 cents, seven tins of milk at 10 my seeking. - Ever since I have sought the 1 nts, four tins of tomatoes at 9 cents and | solution of the power problem, independ~ :.*gm P it Badbly o is The shopman made out the bill and | this handed it to the lad, saying mother ‘send the money or does she want them entered?" Teacher—Can you explain the difference | “My mother didn't send me at all,” said between a king and a president? the boy, seizing hold of the bill. Small Pupil—A king 1s born and a presi- | arithmetic lesson and I had to get it done | and and ard Sunday School Teacher—Now, Harry, can ently of others, I have been beset by every | You tell me who Adam wi Harry (aged §5)—Yes, ma'am. He was the central source, the location of which s so | fellow that discovered the world. manifest that it is entirely needless to point out. In undertaking the gigantic task of pyt- ting life into a power enterprise that it successful would lift Omaha out of a slough Rev. “Joe" Jones, brother of Rev. “Sam" | Jones, is dead An intelligent looking boy walked into a | Si-Nan-Foo, China. Father England, who has b liciting funds for a memorial church to nounces that he has already recelved $62,500. Bishop Partridge of Kyoto, belleves that | there must be an Orlental fype of Chris- | 1, tianity, just as there is an Occidental, and “Eleven pounds of rice at 6 cents &| that the Protestant Episcopal church of America cannot be transplanted to Japa sion of his silver papal jubllation, a u o “Five pounds of | collection of obsolete stamps of Jemma Rev. D. 8. McCurry of 72 years old and has do in the Baptist church for forty years. In “Did your | &1 coup! By the will of the late Willlan® Pitts of Taunton, Mass. “It's my | copal LAHOR AND INDUSTRY, RELIGIOUS, The number of laborers required to cults The late Dr. Parker's first sermon was | vate the tea crop of India is 666,000, “ ’ | preached from a crossbeam spanning a saw | v “ B | oy dou’t think Mr. Robinson knows mueh,” | DIFUGYSR yiiluge" in' Northumberland n 184, ances and “dark horse” gifts are among | sald she to her mother when she was goIng | whom he was 18 years old. Mrs. John Murray, who was sent to the interfor of China twenty-six years ago from | employes of the ol Within the last five years the Jabor or or- ganizations of New York state haye in. creased in membership 75 per cent It Is estimated that % per cent of the gar trust are females, ang New York by the American Board of | the great majority re e 3 Presbyterian Missions, has just dled at ht majority are minors. The compensation act gives full rights to Canadian working men to sue and ¢ A this law being tar better for the worke than any similar laws of the United States, According to statistics published by the New Jersey buresu of labor, unfon care penters In “that state average $2.03 a day fifty-three hours a week, and non-union nters 3213 a day and Afty-elght hours The new All-American rallroad in Alaska will be 450 miles iong, and will cost $16,000,+ 000., The Central Venezuelan, cause of the Robert ton of Farmington, en in this country so- memory of Cardinal Newman, The pope & an enthusiastic philatelist, | predent alfculty 1n South Amrice’ o e the priests of Cashmere are intending | 516,000,000 and is only 110 e . to present to him next year, on the oc ily 110 mlles long. The engineering difculties in Venesuela can hardly be greater than in Alaska. There are great possibilities in the steel plates, or wide ralls for geperal use, which iave been lald on a block of Murray street in New York City. Tests have been made showlng that it requires less power by 37h per cent to move load on these ralls than on Belglan blocks, and m starting the saving of power Is 0 per cent or moro. These ralls can be lald In any street. They obstruct nothing, and if they make it possi. ble to move loads more rapldly they will increase the capacity of t The great Bessemer en&ne, which a few years ago was the largest in the world, has Cashmere. nesville, Ga., | | active work time he delivercd 9,800 sermons, married baptized 4,013 persons and con- unerals. 3$35,000 Is bequeathed for ectlon of chapels and conducting mis- y work In order to ad the Epls- faith among the ne s of Georgia other southern states. o unknown portrait of Martin | he ! A0 | dent has to get himself elected. show." A hitherto un i In | been outdone. Fuel oll is the cause of iia of despond and set it on a progressive pace s e somahow. | Lather, ‘peinted by laucas Cransch. th| losing its task.: Whe ew desion’ic cod | once more, I soon discovered after attempt- | .. S0 They Hurried Along. fenberg, has been uncovered nthe town | Lhe _“'“,‘f':,““;,",‘fw"’;’I’“,"‘fi‘;*"" of {18 ow . par TE, | u | In: the town | in‘use on the B o extensio . fng t0 do %o thirugh csrialn ereasisstions, | ol PS Chicago Post: “You must have enjoyed | ehurch'of Wittenberg " 11" la pronunced | ii,i5 °" {he Bl Pato extension of the' Kock that T would share the fate of all others, oll, wha ' to be the best portrait of Martin Luther | Alamog N. M., to Cox Ca il «| “It the shortest days of the year are in|the comments of that country cousin of | ¢Yigience. anon, fitty-one unless I broke away from the old moorings | “And so original in his remarks. Did its allied owners. This required an inde- S pendent franchise to sell power 1n Om: Mother (sternly)—Willie, you took some I had a right to expect the assistance of | Of those preserves from the pantry “Yes. Omaha citizens in this effort. Instead, Willie (shrewdly)—Oh! who told you that? “What did he say about it?" number of dependents of certain corpora- | Mother—No one told me. I suspected it! | “He sald It was the first time he ever |, R tions, backed up by a solid five of the city | Now, tell the truth, didn't you? | wished he was a saint. After that I hur-| council, at once set out to sandbag my en- |~ Willie—Ma, “children should be seen and | 15"\ ' V. he see that copy of “The Temptation of St. Anthony?" "’ | Publish your legel natices in The Weekly “Bee my new shoes!" sald little Alice, dis- | Bee. ephone i38 4 th Nash, like Mephistopheles, may gloat at the success of his seductive Infiuence—bhe is R, . AT 5 an: he eni . o December how can February be the sh ours. He's a stranger to art, isn't he?” Rev. John L. Bcudder, the Jersey City Th ire Is a total elevation of 6,00 feet. | - urs. He' R ? v. John L. Bcudder, the Jersey City The grade ranges from 3 to 8 per. oo d put the enterprise om & footing inde- | ooy ’m 08 Pobruary. 4o thy shertest | “Of course.” Congregational preacher,’ sull continues to | The jast Bart Is coupled” wit s W pendent of the local electrical company and | D the year R h Very h run a boxing class in the basement of his church and has now started a skating rink in a big tent The reverend gentleman strongly advocates the idea that the mis- w#lon of the church includes the cultivation | of muscle as well as morals Re on account of disagreem on the question of socialism Grady had been for some time outspoken in adv fused elther to retract or remain silent at avy curves. here to find an engine which would operate economically under such con. be puzzling alone. To all led, however, the fact that the along this part of the line is strongly and the engine must garry a tank nough to supply itself for the round 2 miles. This locomotive was tried. 25,000 pounds. 1t is now twenty cars, welghing nine { up the 63 per cént grade at an ave speed of fiv six miles an hour, with the same amoun 1 a8 two engines had of Butte, Mont., e Catholi¢ church t with his bishop Father Mc- v. Thomas McGrad left the ministry of ocacy of soclalistic ideas, and re- e mandate of Bishop Maes. | required before to do the same work. \ > e