Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 11, 1903, Page 10

OMAHA DAILY BEE TOR 'eosT2N SONS TOMORROW THE GREATEST BARGAINS OF OUR GREAT CHALLENGE CLEARING SALE More than double the amount of merchandise offered at any previous sale in our history, 25¢ DRESS GOODS AT 10c Btrictly all wool suitings, part wool camel's hair effects, in plaids and stripes and zibeline plaids, especially adaptable for waists, skirts and children's dresses, all on sale on bargain square at clearing loc sale price. . Special Values in Jewelry Ladies’ Belts and Chatelaine Bags Just recelved the swellest belts for street and evening wear. 75¢, $1.00,% $2.50 M ¢ in real worth Chatelaine Bags are seal, walrus, sueds, ete. double the price we ask, at The price reductions will cause the most sensational sale ever known to Omaha merchandising, Extra salespeople have been employed and every arrangement made to 1,I0O0O PIECES OF LAC Bought of the Marine Underwriters Bought from the Marine Underwriters 1,100 pieces of laces and slightly damaged by sea water in transit. These are all new laces and patterns, as they arrived in this country less than twenty days ago. As these laces were slightly damaged we secured them at just one-quarter value. In most instances the damage was so slight as to be unnoticeable. This will be one of the grandest bargains in laces that we have ever been able to offer. These laces have been exhibited in the window for the past week where they have been greatly admired. This lot consists of the finest English Torchon and French Valenciennes laces and in- sertings in all widths and matched sets, and many worth as high as 20c a yard. Will be sold at about one-third regular price. On Four Large Bargain Squares e (2535 (5] Sensational Selling of Embroideries Immense lots of all kinds of the finest embroideries and insertings ever shown in Omaha. Many of these are sample strips. They come in sussie, narnsook and cambric, many neat and dainty patterns, also a large assortment of wide, showy embroideries. Greatest display ever seen west of New York City, worth regularly up to 35¢ a yard, during this special sale at— c. B¢, 10c and 15¢ a Yard Challenge Clearing Sale of Cloaks ; Furs $27.50 Novelty Coats at $12.50 The odds and ends of our finer silk Monte Jackets and Monte Carlos, silk and satin Carlos, Valour Blouses, lined, some with high fur etc., that have sold as 12 50 storm collars, that sold 3. high as $27.50, Bt...... hs up to $12.50, a .00 and $10.00 Cloaks and Jackets at $1.98—A fine assortment of 19-27-30 and “H—in‘efi clo’ah and jackets, many silk and satin lined, actually sold up 1 9 8 10 $10.00, at the w urdn/pr;cs of.. IR ¢ ) nds of fine stock SILK SKIRTS—0dds and e s 5-98 o odds and ends of golf skirts, as high as $15.00—Special, at....... . ..., .00 Qolf Skirts at $1.98—Ctosing out ’iflomnym and esokm, huuw'l:g:tlfi‘tuao, special, at........ . 1.98 e 49¢ Clearance Sale of Black Silks The “Bonnet’’ Black Taffetas— All our 27-inch black imported ‘‘Bonpet” guar- anteed taff otas at special sale. Everybody knows the ‘‘Bonnet” Lyons, France, black silks. This is a perfect taffeta and has the right kind of finish. Every piece bears the manufaotur- er’s stamp. Absolutely Worth $1.25 a yard, as long as they last, & yard . insertings strictly up-to-date their real 85¢ Taffetas at 50c One lot of 21-inch black rustling taffeta, very glossy and strong, 35 pleces to go %2 a yard—all go at B e, 5OC W $1.50 Silks at 67ic a Yard One lot of black moire antique, black moire velours, black velours imprime, molre Francals, black molire Louls XIV style, that have been selling up to $1.60, special clearing sale price, & yard $2.00 Velvets and Cor duroys at 69¢ All our fancy corduroys, plain velvet velvet waistings, metallic velyets, fancy Panne velvets, hair line velvets, etc., that have been' selling up to black broadcloths, Silks on Bargain Square Over 6,000 yards of all kinds of silks, consisting of black 36 and 27-inch taffet: peau de sole, satins, fancy corded silks, colored lining taffetas and fancy walstings, and an immense new lot of swell trimming lsc, 39‘:’ 49C, 69C silks and foulards, all go at, & yard A Challenge Clearing Sale of TABLE LINENS $c quality, ®0-inch bleached and l9c $1.50 quality, 72-inch all linen, unbleached tabl satin damask, full bleached, 60c_quality, 64-inch silver bleached 29C give ease and satisfaction to purchasing, 89¢ DRESS GOODS at 39c Yard All our imported 44-inch whip cords in reds, blues and blacks, the new mo- dren’s dresses, all wool albatrosses, In cream and evening shades, suitings and homespuns In grays, castors and blue: 69c DRESS GOODS at 25c Yard This Includes strictly all wool flaked homespuns and suitings, all woel knicker- albatrosses, all shades—pinks, light blues and creams. The above are all guaranteed 69¢ qunll(y'—- $1.00 DRESS GOODS at 49c¢ inch Panama cloths, canvas etamines, Scotch worsteds, zibelines, mistrals, burr diagonal cloth and mohair crepons. Every yard guaras teed to be worth $1—more on sale on bargain square, at $1.25 DRESS GOODS at 69 The highest grade of imported armures, prunellas, tallor suitings, lusters and unfinished worsteds. All on sale on bargain square at clearing sale price— Odd lots and broken lines at a mere trifle of their value. Swellest Goods of the Year at Sweeping Reductions hair basket plaide, bright colorings for walsts and chil- 3 all on sale at, per yard 90 poplins, jacquards, basket cloths, polka dot 2 clearing sale price, per yard .. . Sereaans 5 C and volle etamines, storm serges, cheviots, {lluminated 4 clearing sale price, per yard . cone . 90 granites, twine etamines and canvas etamines, mohair per yard Challenge Sale of Lace Curtains Monday morning we will Inaugurate one of the most colessal sales of lace cur- tains ever attempted in Omaha. For immense quantity, fine quality and low prices we can say with confidence this will be the greatest money-saving sale ever held in the west, even by ourselves. double $12,50 IMonte Carlos at $3.85 per yard ...... elegant quality and beautiful new designs, at, per yard all linen 'table damask, at, One big lot of all linen, large per yard slze, extra heavy, full bleached 60c_quality all linen silver Scotch napkine, worth $2, for TR DI R &L 39C Auithe batasios of the an tinen i A g Y tray cloths, knotted fringe, that 6o quality, extra heavy, all linen, full gGId at 2 to 38¢, 0 at, each ... bleached and silver bleached 3 table damask—some 3 yards 9c 3-inch square lunch c wide, at .. that sold at Bc to $1.2 quality, extra fine full bleached satin _°ach . fintshed table damask, ail 2c and 35c towel pure linen, Belfast goods, 75C fringe and at, per yard .... go at, each . Good quality sheeting, bleached and unbleached, 24 yards wide—on sale at regular department—at, per yard waee . I5¢ BASEMENT BARGAINS 5,000 yards Imitation French Flannels and extra heavy cotton eiderdown, worth up to 25¢ d-—on sale Monday at... One big lot of extra fine Corded Ginghams, Scotch Chambray, French Ginghams and Madras cloth—worth up to 20c— all go Monday at, per yard Thousands of yards of extra fine Bran- denberg Percales. These would be churflnl?io a yard, on sals Monday at .. 5,000 yards of all kinds of [luslin, cambrics and long cloths, etc. on sale Monday at, yard One big lot of the very best grade Out- ing Flannel, in light and dark 1 colors, go at, yard .02C J L. BRANDEIS & SONS. 61/20 All the balance of fine Oxford Waist« ings—that have sold up to 2 c,8| 20 at, yard 2C One big counter of Iadras, Cheviots, Ginghams, Waistings, etc.,, worth up to 250 a yard—on sala ot i e One big counter of 36-inch Sateen, in lain black, black and white and ancies—go at, 6 ;c yard BOSTON STORE. FOUR BASETMENT SPECIALS $22.50 & $29.00 Astrachan and Electric Choice of all our $3.00 Seal Jackets, closing 11.90 Jackets at..... out at.... A 30 in long, CBolce of Ladies' .00 Tal- $20.00 Astrachan Capes—: . B9 >3ered Bbits.at fur trimmed, g.I‘ulll ourl, ~ Cholce of Miss $59 at.. at.. $50.00 Near Seal Jackets, RE. $100.00 Persian Lamb Co-u.. +5.00 Waiking Coets: Baum Martin Reveres. « Ladies’ $7.50 and $9.00 %‘ Tallored Suits at lored Suits, worth up to $22.50, 9 9 f v J. L. BRANDEIS & SON Cholce of Children’ in an endless In addition to our own great lace curtain stock, our eastern representative has less than 50 cents on the dollar. The whole stock, comprising thousands ot pairs, goes on sale Monday at such wonderfully low prices that even it you don't away until you do need them. $3.00 CURTAINS at 49¢ Each fine Brussels weaves, all full length and width, and worth up to $3.00 a pair, and not a pair in the lot worth less 90 ORCh Liiiiriininriiiiiiiiies $5.00 CURTAINS at $1.98 Pair Cable Nets, Domestic, Arablany, Ruffled Nets with wide lace edge and insertion—worth up to §5.00 a pair—every L] $7.50 CURTAINS at $3.98 Pair dreds of pairs of elegant curtains from our own stock, such Real Brussels, Irish Point, heavy corded Arablans, elegant Cable Nets & pair—all go in one big lot Monday at, 3.9 per pair . PEPTTn Monday we offer 2,000 yards of the very finest grades of velour: variety of bright, handsome patterns, suitable for up- $1.00 & yard—challenge por yard .....eee Just closed a deal for the whole accumulated stock of an eastern importer at need them now it would pay you to buy them as an Iuvestment and put them ‘We will offer about 3,000 pairs of elegant curtains in all the latest designs and than twice what we ask for them—on sale Monday at, This lot comprises about 1,600 pairs of the finer grades of Nottinghams, elegant pair & declded snap—on sale Monday af In this lot go all the finest goods in the big importer's stock as well as hun- and Point-de-Cal and actually worth up to $7.50 $1.00 VELOURS for 30c holstering chairs, couches, etc., ete. Actual value J. L. BRANDEIS & 80 BOSTON STORE BOSTON STORE. J. L. BRANDEIS & SONS. chine and erecting has been co pleted for some time and partially equipped with the new machinery and in use. Besides this, the power house, store house, transfer platform, oil house, round 0] r, ten imches in diameter, LABOR AND INDI utside dime: slons of which are 70x224 teet. The walls re of concrete and are four feet six !ncl hi The system of handling the olls i Each compresor has cuble feet of free alr & minute and weighs about 50,000 pounds. The coal chutes for power house supply NEW UNION PACIFIC SHOPS Detailed Desoription of the Plast Now Y The Holly Loop system drains this hendar‘ and all high pressure steam piping in this plant. Hay is the most profitable crop in Bng- land. Upholstering room Paint stock room . Transfer table | The United Btates now uses more raw Being Oonstruoted. MAMMOTH HIVE OF INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY Huge Buillding: Be W with the t Machinery and Sur- by = Beautiful Park and Gre When the Union Pacific's new Omaha shops, with their twenty-four different de- partments and numerous structures, are | and President Burt goets all the wpare ground, including his forty-acre farm which adjoins the shop site on the morth- east, transformed into a series of beautiful parke—as he says he s going to for the edification of the employes—it will seem that Omaha has extended its limits to in- elude another attractive suburban town. Already the largest and most important | buildings are up and in use. The area cov- | evered by the shops s so wide, the build- | ings so large, the number of men required | te operate them so great and the spirit of sotivity will be so intense, that it really | will seem like a new village has suddenly sprang up, when this mammoth plant is complete and in full operation. No one appears to know just when that | will be, President Burt has sald spring will see the completion of all the structures, | but he does mot pretend to say when his subsidiary enterprises will reach consum- | mation. It is his intention to have the | #pace mot used for other purposes between | the buildings, laid out in plots and deco- | rated by landscape gardeners, so as to give an inviting and homelike appearance to the | soene, Then the plan is to plow up all that Jarge tract lylng between the shops and the Missourl river on the northeast and transform it into one large, beautitul park that will become the pride of all the shop- men, but not the shopmen only—all Omaha. The tract is fertile bottom soil and if! properly drained, doubtiess would meet all President Burt's expectations. The shops, when completed, will take rank with any similar establishment In the country, and it is the desire of President Burt to make the place unique for its parks Most Important Alveady Finished. When work was begun on thes new shops complefion was figured on for August, THE, but numerous obatacles have wrisen | bunt. house and pattern shop are finished and partially or wholly in service. Work on the other buildings is progressing as rapidly as possible. The company has endeavored to use its own forces in this glgantic con- struction work, belleving that it would 1 sure better and more faithful performance than to contract with outsiders, if not afford as great facility in completing the work. It has been necessary in the erection of the mew bulldings, which will occupy the same site as the old shops, to interfere with the regular work as little as possible Therefore the processes of demolition and renewal have been carrfed on simultane- ously and the completion of the new shops retarded as & consequence. Wherever practicable the old machinery has been installed in the new shops and herein lies another source of delay. Such of the old equipment as was considered sultable for transference was kept in use in the old shops just as long as possible so as not to consume unnecessary time in changing it. The large percentage of new tools ir the equipment of the new shops has, how ever, enabled the transition to be made with & minimum of difculty. 5 What Plant Comprises. The general site of the new shops, as has been stated, will be that of the old plant The new car shops will be removed a little further east, toward the river, instead of occupylng their old position near the center of the yards. The company owns a large tract of land skirting the river, and by utilizing this with buildings it gives room for future expansion. When' completed the serles of structures comprising this gigantic plant will be in- closed within a high board fence sur- mounted with barbed wire. There wilt be a narrow entrance and outlet at the south and on the side toward the center | of the city. This fence already is partially when completed, the entire plant: Power houne Machine angd e Storehouse . It will surround these structures, | Wheel platform . Roundhouse ... Viaduct and incli Object of the Viaduct. The viaduct mentioned in this list will be constructed as a means of entrance to the plant. It will begin at Capitol avenue —which has a considerable slope toward the tracks—and thereto runs at an angle of about 400 feet, crossing the .tracks of several rallroads, including a part of those of the Union Pacific, which enter the shop grounds. | This viaduct is built as a substitute en- | trance and exit for Ninth street, which ex- tends down there In an angular direction. The grade crossings have long ago become | & nuisance and a menace at this point, and | the street has been abandoned by the city. All these dangers will be obviated, it is thought, by the viaduct, | One large root will cover the coach re- | pair, cabinet | the mill, and another will shelter the wheel and truck, cleaning and plating, coach | paint, upholstering and, paint stock rooms. The round house being buflt is not to be | a very extensive affair. It is put up merely | for the use of switch engines. The prin- | cipal division round house is at Council | Blufrs, The foundations for all the columns of | every structure are set on 18-inch concrete caps, supported by piles driven to the bed rock, generally sixteen feet deep. All the buildings are of brick and steel and con- | erete 1s used libérally. The plant will get its water supply from the city. It will be conveyed through a 10-inch main running through the length of the yard, and connmected at -each end thfough a meter. The pressure will be about fifteen pounds. As to fire protection for the new plant it will be the same as that afforded the old, through the agency of the company’s own department, supple- mented by the city's force. Power Plant. Taking up the departments of the plant separately, it may be appropriaste to deal first with the power house. Six Scotch marine type boilers, internally fired, with 200-horse power each, designedl to carry a $ | working pressure of 180 pounds of steam, Y T e isoa Blacksmith “shop Blacksmith fron storage Blackamith coal storage Boller stock ... oo Pattern shop and atoreroom are installed in the power plant. The sheils of the boilers are made of seven- elghths-inch steel, and are ten fest and & balf in diameter. A chimney nine feet in dizmeter and 305 feet high receives the gases from this plant through & breeching of 3-16-inch steel. The stenm b deliversd by the hollers to & maln freight car repair shops and | Two Westinghouse compound automatic | engines comprise the engine equipment. | They have cylinder dimensions 18x30x18 inches and one engine for the light loads | 12x20x16. Two-hundred-and-fifty-volt direct current compound wound engine type of Westinghouse generators are used. The two larger generators are of the 250-kilo- watt capacity at 250 revolutions a minute, | and the smaller is rated at 75 kilowatts at 300 revolutions s minute. The generators deliver current through paper insulated lead incased stranded copper cables, run in | condult beneath the brick floor to a blue | Vermont marble switch hoard at the side of the dynamo room. A feature of this board {s the use of the double pole circuit breakers instead of switches upon the power panel. What the Motors De. These twenty-one motors are required for driving line shafting, fans, exbausters and old tools; one 30-horse power at 575 revolutions a minate; eleven 20-horse power at 600 revolutions a minute, seven 15-horse power at 650 revolutions, one 10-horse power at 750 revolutions, one 5-horse power at 950 revolutions. For the purpose of driving individual tools there are twenty- | three other motors. This makes a total throughout the plant, not including the | motors upon the cranes, of 610-horse power in motors. Each motor Is capable of de- veloping a power 50 per cent above its rated capacity without injurious heating. | All of the motors in the entire shops are of the Westinghouse make. The laminated | pole pleces, split bearings, which can be | changed without moving the armature from the fleld or the pinion from the shaft, and a thorougnly ventllated armature without band wires, the armature colls being held in place by wedges in slots is the main fea- ture of the motors. A Stromsburg-Carlson central energy em 18 being Installed through- out the plant, a station being established | at each foreman's desk and in each de- partment. Provisions also are made for a fire alarm system. The direct steam system of heating, with a modern piping arrangement, is used for all the smaller bufldings. The boller shop, the tank shop snd the main machine shop | are hested by means of the Sturtevant ! blower system. | A great smount af compressed alr 1s used throughout the shops far speeial purposes. The air plnt consists of two Ingersoll- Sergesut air compressors of the AQuplex | Gupe, with cross-sompound stesm qylinders consists of a structure 129% feet long, ap- proached by an incline on a seven-foot grade, brought to a level through a vertical curve, of 31% feet, the base of the rall being at a height of 11 feet from grade. The tressle is continued 75 feet beyond the chutes and ends in & bumper pecullar to the Union Pacific. Mach n Erecting Shop. The machine and erecting shop is the largest of the series of buildings. It is 150x400 feet in dimensions, has three tracks on the erecting side, spaced twenty-three feet from center to center. At a distance of thirty-two feet from the inner track is a material track for serving machinery, planers, driving wheel lathes, etc. The track through the machine shops will be extended continuously through the boller shops. The floor space of this building is un- broken save for the supporting columns. The clear height under the roof trusses is forty feet. The ends and sides are largely devoted to windows and one-third of the | roof is “‘Paradim’ skylight and the moni- tor roof is practically all skylight and side windows. The shop office for the general foreman, and the tool room are located near the middle of the machine side of the bullding. The distribution of tools is on the annunciator system, about forty push buttons being located in different parts of the shops. The machine tools are grouped in differ- ent classes and operated by an electric | motor with the exception of a one tem- borse power in the gallery and a fifteen- horse power in the tool room. Current is brought from the power house on overhead feeders. Boiler Shops. The boller shops are 150x244 feet and are constructed similar to the machine shops. Spacs will be given to locomotive carpen- try, repairs of tender frames and other such work, aside from the bofler and flus work. The distribution of tools ls much the same as in the machine shops. Several of the tools are to be rum by imdividual motors. Twenty-five-ton cranes of sixty- nine feet, nine Inches span, and one ten- ton crane of fhirty-eight feet eight inches span, cester to cemier af rails, will be in- cluded in the equipment. A riveting tower 24x35 feet and sixty-five feet high will be located at th~ south end of the building. The natural lighting will in all respects be similar to that in the muchine shops. ofl Houwe. The entire system will gat ofl from this the heavy | the reverse of the one generally used. The ofl is forced into the tanks by pumping and dellvered by gravity. Two pumps, one for flluminating and the other for lubricating ofl, are used. A storage room is separated from the tank room by a brick wall, with a fire door arranged to slide up. A steam- ing tank for cleaning barrels is provided in an adjoining apartment. Steam is ad- mitted, loosens the oil in the barrel, which rune out and floats on the water of con- densation in the tank and is skimmed off. All pipes within the house are covered and incandescent lights are incased as an addi- tional precaution against fire. Storeho: The storehouse, 50x288 feet, is, like the oll house, the central depot for the entire system. This 1s a two-story structure, the etationery department occupying a part of the second floor. The storekesper's office is on the ground floor. The heavy storage rooms and the shelying rooms are con- nected with the store rooms above by ele. vators. A transfer platform with tracks on each side extends the full lemgth of the building. Pattern Shop. A two-story bullding has been erected for & pattern shop and for pattern storage, It is 650x200 feet and provides ample facili- ties for the storage of all patterns and all the work to be done in this Iine. As in the case of every bullding throughout the plant epecial efforts have been made .. silk for manufacturing than France, In round figures, $600,000000 gold is the amount of American capltal Invested in Mexico by 1,117 American companles, firms and individuals, England buys from the United States In & year more than $100,00.000 worth of toneat an lour, meats to the same amou 0,000,000 bushels of corn, A In Liverpcol alone there are four shops that sell American boots and 'shoes ox- clusively ane alf a dozen others ak a speclalty of them. {ibmase Mexico buys 58 per cent of all its imports rom. the United” Staten and- seits B per cent of all its exports to the United States American manufacturers are sald po tively to have stripped the uropean mar- Kets of hides. Irom the point of View ot ustrian shoe manufacturers t Austr ® this 1s & skin Completed interurban electrical road: the ‘states of Ohlo and Indiana ape: now uv&lnu:fll)‘ M.97‘b pfll' mile per annum. The ISt of operating them is stated L cent of the gross receipts, AW per A dredge recently bullt for levee bufldin, the mouth of the S8acramento rl'\'er has i mshell” scoop on a boom 156 feet long, l; h' Il‘nlnendlwdflnl)x;"\'i- tons of earth in each bite and deposits it i e P on the bank in The most remarkable feature of British forelgn trade is the largest lvllqvnr!mnr:rf 1: which Is done with the United States, this Anglo-American trade being larger ' thu. ::hl I)u:mrfl}' LIJ]()' other :wo countries e world. No two c > the wr contiguous countr It 1s estimated by Lord Cromer, the Brit- ish agent in Egypt, that the Assouan dan which has cost about $12,500,000, will i creame the agricultural earning 'power Flypt NLMM00 every vear—in other wor v Y & percent {i every twelve months. .85 aver 3 to secure the structure alnst fire, and to this end Andreen fire proof shutters have been adopted. Blacksmith Shop and Car Department. The homes of the blacksmiths and car shops are not yet completed. The loca- tion of the blacksmith shop is between the locomotive wnd car shops and adjacent to both eince its work will cover both de- partments. A transfer table, 80x350 feet, will occupy the space between the two principal bulldings devoted to the car de- partment. A wheel platform will be erected outside the wheel and truck shop, 60x150 feet, with a depressed track en- trance. The available space east of the bulldings will be occupled by tracks for the freight car repair yard The banking house of Drexel & Co. Phila- delphia, gladdened the hearts of itx entire force by repealng its generous New Year gift. One year ago every man in the em- ploy of the Drexels recalved at the end of the twelvemanth a present equal to a full jour's miary. New Yeurs day. it is said, this munificence on the part of the bankin house was duplicated, and the Laithf