Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 4, 1903, Page 11

R BB EDITORIAL SHEET. HE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE. E ’1ABLl~lll l) JUNE ()\l AHA, SU NDAY MORNI (.‘.. .lA U AT BENNETT'S 1903. All\ 1, Rl § PAGES 11 TO 20. «.-j SINGLE COrY FIVE CEN AT BENNETT’S The Closing Days of the Most Tragically Stirring Event in Your City’s Trading History Begins Tomorrow at 8 A. M. THE GREAT RECEIVER'S SALE WILL THEN BE RENEWED IN REAL EARNESTNESS We are only yielding to the force of circumstances in the MERCILESS PRICE-CUTTING POLICY THAT WILL BE MAINTAINED TO THE END—a policy that means a MINT TO YOU—though it would appear—a painful nettle-rash to our competltors. - Departments are running full force. Under the orders of the court, all stocks must be pushed no matter what the loss. Embroideries—Most of our spring embroideries come in Baturday—we can not hold them until after the meeting of creditors, they must all be #0ld In ten days—there is nearly one hundred’ thousand yards intended to be sold at from 10c to 86c per yard—it will be put on our bargain table 5 MONDAY MORNING @t 15¢, 12¢, 100 A0 0seeeeeecenereerermnnssressssnsnns ....0C Women’s Tailored Suits— The flllltrl we nflervd to the trade since the opening of OUR MAMMOTH STORE—have been admitedly the best styles and values ever offered in Omaha—now you can select your cholce from about two hundred suits and get one-third off our closest prices—new jackets— new cloaks—new ulsters—new capes—new furs, Including Alaska seal, mink, beaver, otter, Persian lamb, and ail the lower grades are being sold at ome-third oft the marked prices. Women’s Fleeced Lined Undervests and Pants— Splendid fine and firm—a large shipment that wi late coming in 25C that should bring 40c each, will be sold at Handkerchiefs for a Pem’y—’lhs last case of our im- mense haudkerchief purchase—to sell at Ge and 10c, will be put on sale MONDAY MORNING at 10 o'clock at ONE PENNY EACH. Cloaks Women’s snd Children’s Jackets, and Ulsters—We must cut down our enormous stock of these garments—Monday morning we will sell them at ONE-HALF OFF THE MARKED PRICES. Listen, $20.00 cloaks at $10.00—$10.00 cloaks at $5.00—$5.00 cloaks at $2.50. NO SUCH REDUCTIONS HAVE EVER BEEN MADE ON NEW, UP-TO-DATE CLOAKS. - At the Linen Gounter—x.zv rzoox B8-inch bleached and cream table dgmask, huvy quality, none better at 19 this price, worth 3Ge, at, per yard..... (] 80-inch bleached and silver bleached loom dam: k table linen, the 37 best G0c linen In the city, at, per yard.. . Feash wesvels [+ 60-inch guaranteed all pure linen cream loom damask, the best wearing talie linen for restaurant use manufactured, worth 69c yard, at. o sossens 49C 64-inch extra fine and heavy warranted all pure linen table damask, cream color, the best 75c grade, at, per yard P 92-Inch extra heavy and fine grass bleached superior satin damask, warranted all pure linen, the best $1.25 grade, at, per yard ¥a-Inich extra fine full grase bleached fine Irish satin damask table linen, will give the best satistaction and polish beautifull worth: $1.50 yard, at, per yard < 20-inch loom damask dice pattern table aapking, the best wearing napkins made for restaurant, use, worth $1.26 per dozen, at per dozen. 18-inch bleached s 1.60 dozen, at...... 5 All our fine satin damask grass bleached table Bapkios, dlfterent sizes, worth $2.60 dozen, at. N-inéh extrs, fine heavy srass bleached Trish linen dinner mapkina, Deautiful patterns, worth $6.00, at, per doZen..,....evvirveriiiisaririnns 16x32 bleached huck towels, worth 9c, at, 80240 all 1inan Buck towsls, the best yalue ever offered fn the line for for the money, worth 20c, at, each. Ak 1234 sheet bianksts, the large sise, in grays, worth $1.35, at per pair.. vens 1144 extra helvy sheet blankets, In grays, worth $1.85 pair, at.. LZargs aise bed somtarts, oaversd with s siikaline and S1led with high grade white cotton batting, worth $1.35, at each Large and extra heavy bed comforters, best white cotton batting filling, worth $2.25, at each 4 Outing flannels in both light and dark color all tast washable colors, worth 10c yard, at. Prisiged Denim stand covers, fancy patterns, printed on both sides, worth 35c, at each cheok, plald and stripe Continues Until January 5, 1903 Such goods, such prices and such terms were never offered to Omaha people before. We have no used, rented, repaired in this sale. cost—do not be deceived see for yourself—these pianos all go; call at once or write and secure a bargain before it is too late —this is your opportunity of a lifetime to secure a strictly high grade piano at the price of a cheap one. Only high grade, date pianos, all sold at less than factory or second-hand stock up-to- by others, but call and BENNETT CLOTHING Tremendous Clean Up of Boys’ and Children’s Clothing at Bankrupt Prices. . « . + « . MAIN FLOOR. ALL MUST GO AND GO QUICKLY The inexorable has happened. The Court says, “Get these goods out,”” and out they must, Norfolk two-piece suits, Norfolk three-piece suits, Sailo . Blouses, Russian Blouses, Reefer Suits. ALL THE LATEST NOVELTIES New Pianos from $120.00 up New Organs from $2 8.00 up Come in and See Us Before Buying A11 Sold on Our Easy Payment Plan Sheet Music, Musical Merchandise sold at most any price AT THE SILK COUNTER-:zv #zo0z 19-inch black and silk taffeta, the 65c grade, for this 37 sale only.. . C 1,600 yards of very fine imported fancy and plain corded silk in corded stripes, ‘tinsel wastings, Irish poplins and embroidered taffetas, ;mm worth 3 up to $1.76 yard, all go In this eale at, per yard 9C A fow hundred yards of very elegant Fremch silks, piain evening shades, in s pretty fancy weave, a sood $T quality, 5 for this sale only.. 7 C 31-inch fine imported black pean de sole, very. elegaat quality for dresses, §1.40. qual- ity, will be sacrificed in this sale at, BLACK DRESS GOODS 40-inch black English mohair, plain weave, 46c quality, at, per yard. 44-inch black English serg 65c quality, at. 45-inch black English cheviot, e quality, a . 46-inch black twine mistral, fine all wool quality, worth $1.15 yard “ ™ GOLORED DRESS GOODS 50 pleces fine all wool sultings, 38 to 42 inches wide, both plain and fancy, v out at, per yard Franch all wool challle 29c¢ 44c 50c 73c guaranteed all wool‘ strictly all wool, the ., almost every desirable shade, ues to 65c yard, to be closed . 35¢ - 33c| . 89¢| 2% mecu inch bro.dclomn Vehotians and suitings, worth up to $1.85 yard, all go In this sale at, per yard. Straw Mattings Straw Mattings THIRD FLOOR SPRING IMPORT OF Japanese and China Mattings Fine Japanese Linen Jute Mat- tings, the spring designs and colorings, goods that sell reg- ularly at 40c¢ and 45¢ yard, for...... 220 40 yard roll for $6.00. Anotlwr lot of fine Japanese A Mattings, to sell at 30c¢ and 35¢, at this | s‘a:le furlsc Suits that sold up to $4.95 1 95 ° Suits that sold to $8.95 o utloi at sold up to 2.90 MAIN FLOOR. GLEAN UP OF | A Grockery Clean-Up Pictures and T e Picture Frames Decor to.eees $9.00 12-piece Decorated Toilet Lo L Set, cut down 6 50 . $1.00 Decorated Table Lamps, 60c¢ cut down $7.00 Decorated Table Lamps, Rochester burner, 4 50 Table Lamps, e 2,90 ‘$1A50 Decorated \\'m.-- Sets, 6 of tumblers and 85C moulding is the most complete in | : pitcher ... 4 | See what you can buy for 10e, the city. Te and Se. Our $1 Table is a wiuner—you will find $2, $3 and $4 goods on this table—Decorated Imn- ported Cup and 150 Plate Sets only..... NEVER BEFORE WERE PICTURES AND PICTURE FRAMES offered at such low 00 Decorated T Rochester burner, for prices. We still show a full lineé of these goods, all are new and up-to-date and first-class. In every particular our line We will have to dis- pose of them either by the length to fit your picture at prices reg: ardless | or made up into frames of cost or value. AT BENNETT'S - Beginning tomorrow at 8 a. m. all br verware— Belt Pins, at HALF OFF HALF OFF Jewelry Department Will Offer for Sale 1-brac ware—=8-day Parlor and Mantel Clocks, 8il- STERLING SILVER NOVEL TIES—Wrist and Side Bags, Brooch and HALF OFF AT BENNETT'S ®ale 1s blowing great guns from the south It was on such a winter's night that | TALES TOLD BY LIFE-SAVERS| Thrilling Inoidents Recalled by the Stormy | bamed 1o their attempts to. venn re | Potrels of Ocean Beaches. mainland across Shinnecock bay, ran the | boat over the fiats until its bottom grated and held fast on the sand. Then jumping into the knee deep water, they tugged and pulled the boat after them until it was issard beacked. After that they made the craft safe from the storm and, a little while | later, set their faces toward the gale- | driven rain and breasted their way to the station house. They threw open the door just as the life- ers were sitting down to a meal of salt pork, bofled cabbage and hot coffee, served | on a table hid under a plece of clean oil cloth. With that open-heartedness and naive simplicity characteristic of the men who work along the sea coast, the five “beachers,” making no excuse for thelr frugal fare, invited the visitors to eat. As they d1d so the heat from the wood fire In the big cooking stove back of them quickly dried their drenched clothing and skins, so that when the last of the mounds of food had disappearcd from the platters and pipes | lighted and chairs tiited comfortably back against walls, (hey were In fitting mood to show interest in Capiain Alanson Penny's reminiscent observation: “Bad night, but clear weather alongside the night when schooner Louis V. Place went ashore off the Lone Hill station | about four years ago He took a deep puff at his pipe. Maybe you'd care to hear about it? right; yes—yes." PATROL DUTY AT SHINNECOCK STATION Perils Encountered W Rages and When Summer Storm Lash the Atlantle to n the ury. One of the government's numerous life- | saving stations om Long Island's wreck- strewn south beach is called Shinmecock. It is cighty-five miles east from New York s the railroad runs, and that is about as the crows fly. The unpretentious one-story traine station house, capped by a little box- ke lookout, is surrounded by a trio of dwellings, doll house in proportions, in which live as many families of life savers. The only other evidences of habitation on the desolate sandy stretch are two or three unpainted storage sheds and a flae | 'signal pole, vastly overtowering the squat | buildings within its shadow | From Suinnecock bay, which separates the beach from the mainland to the north. Xbe whole station is clearly visible on al fair day across the four-mile stretch of water; but let one take up his stand on the ocean’s edge ffty yards o the south of the station and look northward, and he will | sec naught of human handiwork except the | top of the flag pole—that and an abruptly | Once more & big volume of smoke hid the plsing ridge of sand. This ridge, which | captain’s face, and, as it cleared away, he ds pure golden and silvery and iron red | continued: By turns, continues almost centrally along | “The ses was awful that night. Gen the boach 8s far &s cye can see to east ' erally I don't muotice the awfuluess or | and It bas the pocullar property | grandeur of (he sea, belng so used (0 it, nolses of the sea from out ‘ but that night the combers were the highest the ears of the Shinnecock life savers ex- ' I've ever seen, and they threw spruy over An | brought ashore and one died shortly after cept on the stormiest of nights when the | the top of the ridge yonder, which is sixty l.mwmm to rescue the saflors, went to|come ashore, barking like all possessed. He | yards from the water's edge at ebb and And the sleet pleces and died a fe weeks later. He dled about thirty feet above it. of a broken heart—died becaflse he had not fell in sheets. been able to save the eight sallors who ‘It was around about midnight when the |froze before his eyes. And these are the Loufs V. Place was blown on to the bar. |last words he said before he died Captain Sam Baker and his crew were down | ‘God pity the poor boys out yonder in at the shore in a Jifty with the beach ap- | the rigging.’ " paratus, for they knew that quick work was needed to save men grounded in such a sea. They shot out the line and it wouldn't hold. They shot out the line again and it wouldn't hold, and they shot it out time after time, but it wouldn't hold, for | the schooner was rolling so frightfully that none of the sallors dared come out of the rigging to make it fest. “And they couldn't go out to the schooner in the surf boat. The wind had jammed the sea between shore and vessel, £90 yards | away, with porridge—that's ice packed tight | between spaniel and bull, and he's a mighty and thick. No boat can live or get through | bright dog. He keeps me company on my such ice, so there they were—Captain Baker | watch in good weather, but whenever he and his men—helpless as bables, and sob. ‘v Sees me put on my sou-wester he runs and bing like babies, (0o, with the sailors freez- | hides behind the stove. But if there's a ing to death in the rigging before tkeir | wreck and he s us taking out the beach eves | apparatus, no matter if it's blowing a gale “There was nothing to do except to wait |and the rain cuts like a knife, Nipsy fol- for the wind to die down. They walted two | lows and works with me. days and nights, beside the peach fires, i “Nipsy has done a good which lit up the faces of the freezing sail- | bright things, but the ors, and as they waited and watched this|did was to save a life (wo years ago last man and that, frozen beyond further endur- | August ance, let go his hold and fell into the sea. | ecast from On the second night they saw one man eral armed with a rope's end, beat two of the | laun men near him to keep them awake and from freezing. The next day the sea died | down, the ice broke and the surf boat wa finally worked to the side of the schooner, but not before the man who had whipped the others to keep them alive had fal into the sea. The two survivors Nipsy, the Dog Life Saver. Captain Penny struck & match and, as he relighted his pipe, he sald between short pufts “Tell them about Nipsy, Carter." Charles A. Carter is No. 1 at the Shinne- cork station, where he has patrolled the | beach for twenty-five years. He reached down at his side and patted a medium sized black dog on the head. “This s Nipsy,” he sald. “He's a cross many ast the Delaware capes, foundered bundred yards off shore. We hed the surf boat and made for it as s00n as we saw Its distress, but before we reached it and just before it went under a big wave broke over the ship and washed the crew of four overboard “It was stiff work, but somehow we man- n | aged to pull three men from the sea before were | they'd shipped enough water to drown ‘em | The fourth was nowhere to be seen and, after looking around for a while, we gave him up for lost and headed for the shore. When we landed Nipsy was runniog up aud down the beach, where he kuew 'd The other, I'm told, lived, but he was am- putated all to pleces, nearly “When it was all over Captain Baker who was balf crazy all the time he was pretty | best thing he ever | when a coal coller, bound for down | jumped all arourd me, nearly knocking me over, and between jumps he'd run eastward as if he wanted me to go with | Finally, 1 said to myself, ‘Nipsy's found something and maybe it's the missing sailor,’ I sald, just for something to say. Well, anyway, I humored the dog and fol- lowed him, and he ran about 500 yards down the beach and stood still and barked. Pretty | soon I came up to him and—what do you think I saw lying tbere in the sands? My nephew, “Nipsy took me to him just in time and | %0 we saved his litn. He was the missing man from the collier, and he had been tossed ashore by the breakers. ¥ rol Duty in a Blizsard. Carter looked at the clock. “Almost § o'clock,” he sald. “Rudd, we'll be on patrol in a few minutes and won't be back before midnight, so speak up before | we go." “Yes—yes,” John W. Rudd, No. 2, drawl- ingly responded in Long Island vernacular, and then continued I started out for patrol duty on the first | night of the '8S blizzard. It {s only a matte of fifty or sixty yards to the beach from | the station hovse, but the snow was 80 blinding and the wind so high that it took | me fifteen minutes to reach the beach. | ;’lht-n 1 headed for the patrol house about & | mile to the westward. My idea was to get | there and stay there, because that’s allow- | able in such weather “I thought I'd never reach that house. 1 fought against the wind until I was almost | ready to drop, and the only thing that kept | me up at the end was the thought that I'd freeze if 1 didn't hold out. The snow kept | me from seeing ahead—I couldn't have seen | the captain i he'd been walking alongside | |of me. I teared all the time that I'd go past the box. because, I knew the lamp light wouldn't be visible. So, when I thought 1'd almost reached it, I stuck my arms out | before the % b in front as far as I could and walked that shot out the line and flew signals and all way until they ached so I thought I couldn't | that, but the Itallans, it turned out, didn’t keep them up any longer. And then ker- | know the first thing about our work, and plunk! went & fist against the patrol box. |so they didn't know how to answer the “Guess how long I'd been covering the signals and didn't make fast the rope. mile?” Rudd was fastening his sou'wester| *“When the captain saw that the Italians under his chin. “Just two hours,” he said, | didn't know what to do, he and his men as he slung & coston signal over his|launched the surf boat and pulled out for shoulder and opened the door. “Yes—yes." | the bark. They reached her bow and were just making ready to take off some of the sallors when the boat got caught in the terrible undertow that exists around the bar and was sucked under. Every mother's son of them was drowned like rats. And they went under so suddemly they didn't have time to make & single shout for help. “Two hours later the storm dled down enough to allow all of the Italisus to get ashore with almost dry skins.” GAMBLING ON THE INCREASE Mises Betting on & Subject of Investiga Tale of an English Frigate. James G. Smith No. §, to whose lot fell the replenishing of the wood fire, spoke up as he clattered the stove lid back into place: “Don’t know why, but 'I'm reminded of a yarn that I heard at a Cape Cod station a few years back. “Seems that an English frigate was wrecked off the beach, where the station s, 200 years ago. One day four or five years ago the hull of a vessel all at once stuck ftself above the water In full sight of the station, and musket and pistol butts, like those used before the revolution, and old woodwork was thrown up on shore. “‘It's the hull of the English frigate brown up out of the quicksands,’ the lite avers said; and then they sent word to the people in the village. House of Lords Horse Rac LONDON, Jan. 3.—The rapid increase in betting on horse racing in the United King- L | dom, especially among workingmen, and the evils arisipg therefrom are fully ac- knowledged in the report of the select com- mittee of the House of Lords issued today, but the remedies recommended are not far beac wreck, in “They came trooping down to the and began putting out to the hopes of securing the treasure that is sald to have gone down with the frigate. But first boat was fairly under way, and just suddenly and silently as it | reaching had appeared, the bull sank back into the | The committee finds the betting is greatly quicksands. And it hasn't been seen since.” | facilitated by the newspapers publishing starting prices, but the committes is Dot prepared to recommend its prohibition, as it would tend to encourage dishonesty on the part of the bookmakers. It recommends that all advertisements and circulars of sporting ‘“tipsters” be made fllegal and favors legislation enabling bookmakers to be imprisoned for betting The crew [on the streets with children. How Life-Saving Crew Was Drowned. “Yes- station light ago yes; and the erew of that same it's the closest to Highland lost their liyes about fifteen years spoke up George J. Caffrey, surfman 4. “It happened in this way “An Itallan bark was blown over one of the bars and on to the other,