Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 9, 1903, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1903 CURRENT OUNCIL MINOR MENTION, Davis sells drugs. Btockert seils carpets. Crayon enlarging, 308 Broadway, Expert watch repalring. Leftert, 400 B'y. Celobrated Metz beer on tap. Neumayer. Diamond betrothal rings at Leffer! ] Broadway. MK and 18K wedding rings at Leffert's w9 Broadway. Plctures and frames. Alexander's Art store, 333 Broadwas The city councll will meet this morning as n committee of the whole. The district court grand jury Is announced to mako its final report Thursday of this week. Bluft Clty Masonic lodge will hold a spe- clal mceting this evening for work in he third degree. Camp No. 7151, Modern Woodmen of America, will meet in regular session this evening ‘at 8 o'clock. Pottawattamie fribe, Improved Order of Red Men, will meet this evening for work in the chilefs’ degree. Lost, at carnival, trimmed in white cord Bee office and get reward. Mrs. P. H. Wareham of East Washington avenue, lefi yesterday on a two weeks Visit to relatives in Lincoln, Neb. ¥or rent, office room, ground fioor; one of the most central locations in the busl- ness portion of the city. Apply to The Bes office, city. contract to_keep public or private s free from roaches by the year. In. sect Exterminator Manufaciuring company, Council Bluffa, Ia. Telaphone I-64. To advertise our many new styles of ple- tures we will for thirty days give to those who mention this ad % per cent reduction on all work. Life size poriraits a specialty. The Stigleman Biudio, 48 and & Bouth Main street Harry Cousins, a patient at the Woman Christan Association hospital, day commitied to St. Bérnara's h the commissloners for the insane. mittment was made on an information tiled by Dr. R. E Articles lady's black Jacket Finder leave at Councfl Bluffs Carpet apeny were filed yesterday in the oilios of tns county recorder. The in- corporators are Charies A. Beno, who is resident; L. R. Iiypes, vice president; . Bush, secretary and general manager; A. F. Beno, J. D. Evans and W. F. Hypes. Tho recelpts tn the general fund of the Christian Home last week were §i(6, being $35 below the ueeds of the week and in- creasing the deficiency tn this fund to date to 5.64.06 1n the manager's fund the re- celpts were 33855, 3815 below the needs of tue week and increasing the de- ficlency to §14470 in this fund to date. Mrs. lena Kennedy, wife of Benjamin Kennedy, died yesterday morning at the Woman'd Christian Association ~ hospital from appendicitis, after an iliness of three | weeks. Sne was il years of age and besides | ber husband, leaves a little daughter. The | funeral will be held Thursday aiterncon at 3 o'clock from St Paul's Episcopal church. Frank Hutchinson, the Mynster Springs dairyman, brought his family to the carn- ival Monday evening and hitched his two- seatod carriage back of a Broadway hotel. When he was ready to start homo he di covered that someons had appropriated t Fig. The polics were notified, while Hutol {nson and bis family had to tramp it home. No trace of tis rig had been found up to last night Oba C. Finley, aged 64 years, died yester. day evening at his home, 8 South First Streel, afier an two_years. B sides 'his wife, one daughter, Mrs. H. K Smith of this city, and one son, J. T. ley of Portland, Ore., survive him. been a resident of Council Bluffs for , coming here from IHamburg, la. He was a member of the Woodmen of the World and the Modern Woodmen of The funeral will be held Thurs- day _aftl n at 2 o'clock from the resi- dence, and interment will be in Walnut Hill cemotery. The services will be conducted by Rev. Andrew Renwick. N. T. Plumbing Ce. Te! 0. Night, Fe6. teen Prohibitionists Are Soarce: The . prohibitionists of Fottawattamie county did not turn out in sufficient force at the convention yesterday afternoon to name a county ticket and an adjournment was taken to Friday afternoon, Septémber 25, when the meeting will be held in Ouak- land. The call for the convention yesterday aft- ®rnoon was lssued by B, P. Fetter and J. G. Uhle, chairman and secretary, respect- tvely, of the county central committee, but meither was present. In their absence W. . Elwell of Ames, chairman of the state central committes, presided and H. B. [Knowlgs of this city acted as secretary. | The attendance was Umited to six women | and five men, there being present in addi- | ton to the chairman and secretary Revs. A. Overton, Henry DeLong and C. Hover, There were two or three spectators, but when the chalrman asked when putting the motion to adjourn to Oakland for those who were attending the convention to raise their hands, thess left the room. Chalrman Elwell occupled the time of the meeting With an address o the cause of temperance, during which he denounced Sunday base ball. ¥iayes Held for Robbery. Teddy Hayes, the mulatto who was ar- rested Friday night by & speclal officer after ho had broken into the Miwaukee depot and on whose person was found Jewelry stolen the night before from the trunk of Mrs. Patsy Fallon in the baggage room of the Illinols Central, was yesterday bound over to the grand jury now in ses- slon by Judge Bcott In police court. Hayes admitted being implicated in the robbery at the Illinols Central depot but claimed two other men did the job while he kept watch on the outside. The Canadi- a0 colns and dlamond sunburst brooch tak- en from Mrs. Fallon's trunk were given him, he says, as his share of the swag. The men who committed the burglary, Hayes clatma, left the city the same night on a Burlington freight. When Hayes was told that he was charged with breaking into the Milwaukee depot he said: “I d1d not break anything, sure, I simply pushed the window up.” Hayes has the initials “J. B." tattooed on his right arm and the police belive Hayes 4s an assumed name. He was transferred from the city jall to the county bastile y terday. Plumbing and heating. mixby & Son. 1 Estate Transters. These transfers were filed yesterday in the abstract, title and loan office of Squire & Annis, 101 Pearl street: Elizabeth B. Parsons to James Holm, lots 5 and 6 Dblock 73, Riddl SRRIITE T, 5 Ntrs o esis (ur o toer g Nebraski Telephone company to’ the ublie, &1l feet of ndZ feet of lot 1, lock 2 Bayliss' 1st add. d County treasurer to D. B, Btuart, jot 3 In sub-lot 304, original Plll, except the nd0 feet and w0 feet, t. d.... ‘Windson Savings bank to A. W. Har- #85 feet lots 5 and 6, block 14, add., w. d o3y, Rohilig to J. W' k 10, McMahon, Coopa add, g e d . . . D, Al.ulll and wife to same, same, \\"Xlllm Southern and wife to Abra- ham and Sarah J. Thomas, nb) feet 1ot 14, and the s¥ lots § to'13, block 3, Honey Creek. w, d... . Heirs of Helnrich Voas to Minnie Btude, A300 fect lot 31, and nif7 feet of lot 32 Avoca company's subdi H_ O Beiffert Lumber compan Bertha Beuck, pars lot 6, biock 15, Walnut, w. o A sssnes Executors of Horace Bversit to Benjamin Porter, nel %-T7-4l, w. d. 7,20 Ten transfers, total. 1 BLUFFS. . |STREET FAIR IS CROWDED Fully Eight Thousand Visitors to the Grounds Day and Night ROWDYISM IS PROMPTLY SUPPRESSED Number of New Attractions Added and Al Them Are Deoing a Land Ofce Busine: ot The attendance at the street fair and NEWS OF IOWA. hibited to the officers a big bump on the side of his head Two hours later the police arrested John and Peter Lane, campers In the western part of the city, and Charles Douglas. At the Lanes' camp the police found an old shotgun with the stock freshly broken and this they took as evidence. Btherton ac- cused John Lane of being the one of the trio who knocked him down. Peter Lane and Douglas were charged with drunkenness and disturbing the peace, while John Lane had a charge of highway robbery booked against him. Pending the fillng of information, Judge Scoft gave the three defendants and Etherton ten days on bread und water on general principles. COAL DEALERS FIGHTING SHY Unwilling to Enter Into Hard and Fast Contract to Furnish Fuel. carnival yesterday kept pace with that of | the opening day. over 5,000 tickets had been mold at the gates, and with tho admissions by season and coupon tickets the attendance again reached the 8,000 mark. During the afternoan the carnival grounds Aare the children's paradise and hundreds of them were to be seen enjoying the varled attractions. The Ferris wheel, as it was last year, is again the popular attraction for the young folk and it never stopped for | =& moment during the afterncon or evening, except to take on and let off its patrons, The. crowd last night simply. packed the grounds. Everyone had a good time and there was & total absence of any rowdyism or horseplay, due to the efficlent steps taken by the management to protect the visitors from anything of a disagreeablo nature. A number of new attractions were added yesterday and in the parlance of the spleler, there was something doing every minute. The De Kreko shows are proving, as they did last year, popular features of the carnival, this being especially true of the Streets of India, at which is to be seen the high diving act of Prof. Johnson and the mysterious performance of the ori- entals. Just east of the main entrance the Wom- an's Christian association hospital manage- ment has installed an emergency hospital, quartered In a tent and fitted for any emergency. A trained nurse is in charge afternoon and evening. The young women of the Flower Mission and the Assoclated Charitles are doing a land office business and both these deserv- ing organisations will reap & good harvest from the carnival | PROTECTING COUNTY BRIDGES Approaches to Many Endangered by Manner of Constructing’ Ditches, The Board of County Supervisors yester- day decided that some action Wwas neces- sary to prevent the destruction of the ap- proaches to the county bridges from the water which is permitted to empty from the water ways alongside the roads too close to the bridges. The recent heavy rains demonstrated this and the supervi: ors were Instructed to confer with the township trustees in their respective terri- tories with & view to having this remedied. A great part of yesterday's sesston was devoted to the auditing and allowing of claims against the county, which bave ac- cumulated sifoe the last session. George T. Miller was reappointed super- visor of the poor for Kane township for another year at & salary of 30 & month. The reports of the three soldiers' reliet fund commissloners, - George T. Miller, Councl Bluffs; C. H. Norton, Avoca; . B. Wilson Carson, showed that the following amounts had been expended by them dur- ing the past year: Miller, $3,818; Norton, $195.65; Wilson, $235.90. The commissioners recommended that when the tax levy is made that a levy not exoeeding one-quarter mill be made for the soldiers' rellef fund. Norton was reelected commissioner of the fund for another term of three years, The auditor was Instructed to advertise for bids for coal and wood, bids to be re- celved up to 9 o'clock Saturday morning, September 12. The board will at this session fix the tax levy for 1%03. 'SCHOOLS OPEN FOR THE YEAR Slight Decrease in Enrollm Last Year, Owing to the Flood, t Over The long summer vacation for the youth of Council Blufts ended yesterday with the opening of the public schools for the new school year. BEverything was in readiness at the different bulldings to recelve the puplls and session began promptly at 9 o'clock. The young people were made happy by the announcement that during this week the schools will be dismissad each afternoon at § o'clock so that those who desire may attend the street fair and carnival. The luncheon period and re- cesses will be shortened somewhat to make up. The enrollment for the first day was slightly smaller than that of last year on the opening day. This s acoounted for by the conditions resulting from the flood. which still prevall in certain sections of the oity. The decrease, however, s not as great as had been anticipated, and it is expected .that when the flood conditions aro relleved the enrollment will this year far exceed that of 1%2. The total enroll- ment yesterday, according to the reports recelved by BSuperintendent Clifford last evening, was 4,532, as against 4,482 for the opening day of ladt year, The enroliment by schoals follows: High school Washington Bloomer . Twentlet Plorco street Third stroet Bighth street Becond avenue Avenue B Thirty-second st.. Madison avenue Plghth avenue Harrison street Courtland . m 1 et 7 51 21 ave.. Mary Klein Goes Free. Mary Klein, the 16-year-old girl arrested on complaint of Max Knapp, foreman in one of the Bouth Omaha pucking houses, was discharged in Justice Ouren's court yesterday and the case against her dis- missed. Knapp claimed that the girl had twice promised to marry him and that | relying on her promise, he had g her | valuable jewelry in addition to providing her with a trouseau. The young woman compromised matters by nsenting to the return to Knapp of the dfamond earings { and gold watch and chain he had presented her with. This satisfed Knapp and he was not present to prosecute when the case was called yesterday mornir R wy Nets Little, Thomas Btherton, living at 303 West { Broadway, complained to the police shoruy after 1 o'clock yesterday morning that he had been held up, sssaulted and robhed near the eormer of Thirty-seventh street and Broadway by three men with whom e, EORE SA% Puene he had beea drinking earlier in the night. He claimed (o have been knocked dewn with the butt of a shotgun and robbed of L7, and la corroboration of his story ex- Up to 10 o'clock last night | The Board of Education s experiencing more or less trouble in securing bids for supplying the schools with coal' which are acceptable to the committes on fuel and | heating, of which Member Gorman 1s | chalrman. Owing to the possibilities of strikes among the miners and rafiroad men the dealers are not inclinel this year to assume all responsibility in the matter of furnishing coal. The committes, however, will not award the contract on &ny other terms. | The board held a special session i day afternoon to open the new coal but the matter of awarding the contract was deferred. At the former meetng the Bluff City Lumber company submitted the lowest bid, which was $4.91 for Centerville | lump, The board deemed this price ex- cessive and decided to reject all bids and advertise again. The bids received yester- day were as follows: IPenlon-Wickham Coal company—Center- ville lump, screened, delivered, $4.88%: same free on board cars, $4.3s5%; Centerville mine run, delivered, $4.79; cars, $4.29; Forest City lump, delivered, $4.68; same free on board cars, $4.15; Cherokee &n steam, September dellvery only, $3.18. he compiny would not guarfntee sealed cars. Carbon 'Coal company-—Centerville lump, delivered, $4.85; same free on board cars, $4.37; Centerville mine run, dellyered, $4.74} same, free on board cars, $i.27; Excello lump, delivered, $4.7; same free on board cars, $4.29; Excello mine run, delivered, $4.40; eame free on board cars, $3.99; Cher. okee pea steam, September delivery only, $3.05. | ®8lun City Lumber company—Centervillo | screened lump, delivered, $4.81; same free | on board cars,’ $4.34; Centerville mine run delivered, $4.73; same free on board oars, $1.25; Novinger mine run, delivered, $i. same free on board cars, §. C pea steam, September dellve ) | _Council Bluffs Coal and lce compan: { Bevier mine run, delivered, $4.51; same fres |on board cars 34.02; Cherokee pea steam, September delivery ‘'only, $8.05. | R H. Willams—Centerville screened lump, delivered, $4.97; same free on board ‘cnn, 0T, Bids from H. A. Cox and M. J. Riaski were recelved by Secretary Ross after the hour named In the advertisement and were not considered. | The supervisor of bulldings and grounds reported that the recent flood had washed away the plank sidewalk around the Twentleth avenue school and the committee on bufldings and grounds was empowered 110 replace it with a brick sidewalk. It was decided to pay cash for the sessment for the grading back of the Washington avenue and high school bufld- ings. The assessment against the high school ‘amounted to 3266 and that against the Washington avenue school for the grading of Ross street, a little over §60. | Marriage Lict Licenses to wed were issued yesterday to the following: Name and residence. Hartwell W. Webb, New York City. Emma M. Morehouse, Council Bluffs, H. R. Hanson, Pottawattamie Co., Ia. Myrtle Hough, Pottawattamie Co., I Guy Walton, Council Bluff Grace Cozad, Council Bluff: Kind Wishes at Parting. CRESTON, Ia., Sept. 8.—(Speclal)—F. A. Torrey, who has been master mechanic of | the West Towa dlvision of the Burlington | for the past two years but who was re- cently promoted to the office of assistant superintendent of motive power, with head- quarters at Chicago, left yesterday for his new dutles, Before his departure he was surprise by a committes from the shops here and presented with a set of resolutions telling of thelr regret at losing him and commending his work. Mr. Torrey re- sponded to the committee In & touching manner and sald that though he was leay- ing them he would always remember their kind words and always have a soft spot In his heart for the men. Bad Outlook in Uniom. CRESTON, Ia., Sept. 8.—(Special)—The past week has been one of great severity on crops of all kind. The corn whose roots had been weakened by the heavy rains and winds of the past week was not able to stand up in the fow days of nice weather we had the first part of the week and heavy rains the last of the week still fur- ther weakened it 80 but few fields are now standing. The heavy rains of the last of'the week has delayed threshing and ruined much of the small grain and as the farm- |ers were depending upon this for their | profit they are feeling very blue. Potatoes are rotting in the ground and all that is doing well s fall pastures. Change Convention Date. ONAWA, Ia., Sept. 8.—(8pecial Telegram.) ~The date of the republican representativ convention of the Fifty-seventh district— | 1da and Monona counties—has been chirg:d from September 24 to Tuesday, September 15, when it will meet at Onawa. Boy Ormshed by Caving Earth, HARLAN, Ia., BSeptt 8.—(Special tele- gram.)—Sam Simmers, a boy 17 years of | age, was killed at 1 o'clock at & brick yard |a mile east of Harlan. Two loads of earth caved in on him. He leaves a widowed | mother. : New York Judge Renominated. | NEW YORK, Bept. 8—The state repub lican convention today named Judge Dennis O'Brien for re-slection to the court of ap- peals. Judge O'Brien was named by tha democrats to be his own successor lest | week Not tried Ayer’s Sarsaparilla? Then you haven’t tried Sarsaparilla! s same free on board | EARLY (ORY 1S MATURING|$500,000 [N PRIZES . Prospeots for Good, Orop CGreatly Improved During Past Week, RAINS DELAY THRESHING OF WHEAT Complaint of Rust Quite General in the Ootton Belt and th Apple Crop is Below Average. WASHINGTON, Sept. &—The weather bureau's weekly crop bulietin: Early corn s maturing rapldly, some flelds belng safe from ffost, and cutting is in progress in southern and central sections of the corn belt. Late corn has advanced satistactorily generally in the great corn states, except in Iowa, and under favorable conditions the bulk of the crop will be safe In two or three weeks. In lowa it is matur- ing slowly and the crop needs rain in Kan- sas, Arkansas, southern Missourl and the states of the upper Ohlo valley. Spring wheat harvest fa nearly completed In the northern Rocky mountain stat and threshing is general. Rains have again delayed stacking and threshing in North Dakota, and this work has been somewhat retarded by damp grain in shook in South Dakota, and by damp weather, which has caused damage to wheat In shock and stack. Complaints of rust and shedding are gen- eral throughout the cotton belt, and as a result the condition of cotton has deterio- rated during the last week. Prospects for an average crop of apples are reported from portions of New England, the middle Atlantic states, Iowa, Kansas and Oklahoma; a light crop s promised in Missour), less than the average In New York, although the fruit is of better quality. ain is needed to prepare the soil in Wasi ington. Mxcellent progress has been made with this work in other seotions and wheat seeding has begun in Missourl, Kansas and Nebraska. NEBRASKA CROP CONDITIONS Splendid Yield of Corn in Sight if Frost Only Holds Off & Little. Bulletin of the Nebraska Section of the Climate and Crop Service of the Weather Bureau for the Week Ending September 7, 1%8.—The past week has been warm and dry. The mean dally temperature has averaged 2 degrees above the normal in eastern counties and § degrees in western. In a few northern counties the rainfall ranged from a quarter to a little more than balf an inch, but generally it was less than a tenth of an inch, and In a large portion of the state no measurable amount fell. The past week was generally favorable for agricultural interests. Threshing and haying progressed rapidly. Threshing from #hock is now well advanced and threshing from stack has begun. In some central counties some grain still In shock is sprout- Ing. A large crop of wild or prairie hay 1s being secured in the northern and western parts of the state. While corn has matured somewhat slowly and needs rmer woather, still {t has made a substantial advance and conditions are more promising than a week ago. Early corn is denting; the oorn crop promises to be excellent if not injured by an early frost. Plowing is well advanced, with the ground in ex- cellent condition. Sowing of winter wheat is generally beglfffiing. Potatoes are a short crop In mdWt, parts of the state. Pastures and ranges contiuue In good con- dition. Bulletin of the Iowa section of the climate and crop service of the Weather bureau for the week ending September 17, 1%03: September opened with nearly normal temperature and generally favorable condi- tions for farm operations. The nights were quite cool, but there has Leen sufficlent warmth by day during the week to main- tain the growth of vegetation. The corn crop has made fair advancement, but most of the flelds still show the deep green color of mid-summer, and the ripening process has not been sufficiently rapid to allay the foeling of anxlety: as to the future safety of the crop. The final output, as to the {and generally dry weather the balance of this month. Bxcellent progress has been made in fall plowing, with the soll in good condition. Threshing reports Indicate a very large yield of timothy seed. The laf potato crop is doing fairly well, except in low, wet soll. A very satisfactory erop of fall apples {s being harvested and mar- keted. FIND BODY ON THE PRAIRIE That of & Woman Whom No Ome the Vietinity ix Able to Identity, STURGIS, 8. D, Sept. 8.—(Special Tele- gram.)—An unidentified woman was found dead on the prairfe away from all roads on the Alkali, sixteen miles east of here this forenoon. Sherift Brown and Coroner immediately went there. The body was discovered by some children. Parties in that vicinity are unable to identify her. Foley Likely to Go Free, EVANSTON, Wyo., Sept. 8.—(Special.)—A {petition is being circulated among the | heaviest tax payers In Ulnta county pray- |ing that the commissioners refrain from appropriating money for a retrial of M. W. trial. Foley has been tried twice and was serving a sentence in the state penitentiary | when granted a new trial by the supreme court. His father lives In another state and is unable to support himself. The lead- ing citizens of the county would be glad to get rid of Foley. It ia believed the coun- ty commissioners will refrain from appro- | priating any more money for his prosecu- | tion and that his release will be ordered by | the county attorney at the next term of court, Sheep Commission’s Ruling. CHEYENNE, Wyo., Sept. 8.—After list- ening to protests of sheep owners against the recent order compelling the dipping of all sheep on account of the prevalence of scab, the board of sheep commlissioners to- dey modified the orde: 50 ae to allow flocks not affected by scab to have clean bills ot health, Inspection to beglin at once, ELECTRIC LIGHT CONVENTION Co; er Edison Pat- ents Get Together to O Business Relatio neerns Working U FRONTENAC, N, Y., Seft. 8.~The twen- ty-fourth annual convention of the Associa- tion of Edison Nlumnating Companies met today at the Hotel Frontenac for a seasion of thres days. One hundred delegates, representing an invested capital of $300,000,- 00, were presen’ This association was organized for the purpoue of allowing illuminating companies working under the Edison patents to co- operate their efforts. Secret sessions will be held dally. On Thursday the election of officers for the next year will take place. Drouth conditions have delayed plowing | in the Ohlo valley and Oklahoma and more | of $5.00 each wi he School Children of A merica be given to School Children’s Competitive Advertising Contest No. 1317. This sketch was made by Myrtle Keller, age 12, Lake School, Omaha, Neb. We give a cash prize of $5.00 for any drawing of thia character which we aoccept and use. All school children can compate, Full Instructions will be found on inside of each package of Egg-O-See, telling what to do to get ths pilze and how to make the drawings. The enormous consumption of Bgg-O-See Juck S £2.0- wher- over introduced, excelling that of all other Flaked Wheat Foods combined, proves conolusively the introductioin of a high class full weight age of flaked wheat food Retailing for 10 Cents that paok- has struck a popular chord—by manufacturing In enormous quantities, in the largest and most per- fectly equipped food mill in the world, wi produce a full weight high grade product at this lower price. amount of soundness, depends upon warm | Sparks were notified this afternoen and | | | Foley, who was recently granted a new | If your grocer does not keep it, s d you & pack: Address all communications to Battle Cree ASK YOUR GROCER FOR THE GREEN PACKA GE, us his name and 10 echits and we wily nge prepald. 'k Breakfast Food Co.. Quiney, Il DELICATE JOB WELL DONE Huge Theater Moved Twenty-Two Feet Without Oracking a Rib THIRTY MEN DO THE WORK HANDILY Second Largest Job of the Kind Kver Done—Nine Hundred “Jacke” and Tons of Steel Roll- Employed. Thirty sturdy men have lately ucoom- plished in Pittsburg the Brodingnagian feat of moving a weight of 4992000 pounds a distance of twenty-two feet. More than that, they have picked up what might be compared to a gigantic basket of eggs, taken the bottom out of the basket and set the eggs down without so much as jarring a single shell. To be more exact, they have lifted the massive Grand Opera House bullding oft its foundation, shoved it for- wartl twenty-two feet and planted It on a new tase. It required less than thirty-six hours to acomplish the job and it was all done so nicely that you couldn’t see the structure moving. In this colossal bullding were the largest theater In Pittsburg, the largest bilifard and pool room in the United States, a bowling alley, a barber shop and various other establishments, yet the whole massive fabric has been transplanted without accl- dent, without jar and without even the slightest injury to any part of it. It is the biggest contract of the desorip- tion ever executed in Pittsburg, and per- haps the most Important undertaking of its kind In the history of moving. The Chi- cago comtractor who superintended the work, viewing it in the light of elghteen vears' oxperience, expresses the opinion that it is the second greatest job ever ac- complished in the house moving line. He places ahead of it the movement of a Baptist church in the Windy City In 1895, This bullding occupled a ground space of 161 x93 fpet and carrled a stone tower 2% feet high. The Grand Opera house, Pittsburg, sits on 128x80 feet and reached an altitude around its four sides of 90 feet. While larger bulldings have been moved, the welght of the theater and the character of the work give It its important place among | nouse moving projects., Its massive walls and great beams welgh approximately between ten and twelve tons per running foot, which s an aggre- gate welght of 249 tons. To move such an enormous shell of brick and mortar was no child's play, for it should be re- membered that the Gramd Opera house was bullt three decades ago; but, having had its stiffened sinews limbered and fts youth renewed, it moved forward with | the smoothness and steadiness of a be- calmed yacht on an inland sea. Why 1t Was Mov The moving of the Grand Opera houss was necessitated by a street improvement, the widening of Diamond street. The theater actually fronts on this thorough- tare, but that fact is not generally known |to the average Pittsburger, for the en- trance to the house is from DIfth avenue, | The city fathers years ago determined to widen Diamond street In order that Pitts- burg's business streets might be relleved In part of their congestion. |” Property owners, however, fought the | improvement tooth and nail and carried the city through all the courts of the state and even into the United Btates judiclary, for | they realized that it was to be a costly im- provement. Ultimately the municipality | triumphed and in last April the tenants were notified to get out, so that the cut might be made. The Grand Opera house was given time to fintsh its season, but agreed to have the Wutlding moved befors the beginning of the fall weason. Twenty feet were out off the bulldings on one sde of the street Fortunately for the Grand, it 18 so situatsd that the cut could not injure the structure. Botween this theater and its sister play- house, the Avenue fheater, was a vacant space of twenty feet, #0 that all that was necessary was to move the Grand forward until it came cheek by jowl with the Avenue. This is what has been dons. The men employed In the moving projeot were four weeks in preparing for it, thirty hours in actually moving it forward and remained two weeks to put on the finishing touckes. No work done in the open in Pittsburg in yecent years has attracted so mueh at- tentfon or elicited #o much comment. Thers 1s always a crowd on Diamond street in the vicinity of the theater watching the work, 1and at noon, when the law offices and | eounting rooms empty their army of toil- | ers, the thoroughtare is almost impassable | Mith the curfous. The native tendency to Investigate Is strong and men and women | are meen climbing over girders and steel beams, the better to observe the work, the | methods employed In lifting the buflding | from its old foundations, moving it back- ward and planting it on its new resting place. Many are amazed at the thickness end strength of the massive walls whioh form the main structure, and, remembering that the bullding was erected three decades | ago, when *‘vencering’* and the many other | modern methods of money saving were un- known, shake their heads and with an ex- pression about ihe artificiality of the pres ent and the stabllity of the past pass on, ' [POWER OF A WOMAN'S SONG- Facing Death on Tempestous Mra. Grover Cheered Her The wife of a humble steward of Amorican schooner proved herself a hero- ine indeed in the early hours of yesterday morning, when, with songs of good cheer, she caused ten men, with one exception all members of the cyew of the foundered schooner Henry P. Mason, to forget for the time being what appoared to be a mure and speedy death in the storm-racked watens of the Atlantic, The woman who proved so brave was Mrs. Chester Grover of Tennant's Harbor, Me, and the ex- perlences she underwent were enough to chill the heart of the bravest man, me. Used Nine Hundred Jacks, The process of moving this great struc- ture was the same as is employed in under- takings of minor importance, but of the | same character. The contractor employed 900 jacks and by this multitude of devices | screwed up the bullding, thread by thread, | until it was rajsed to the required height. | Then supports and roliers were placed neath the structure, ready for the move. ment backward, Then jackscrews were planted horizon- tally against the sidewalk and screwed up slowly, thus pushing the bullding along on the 600 steel rollers, The thirty men were at thelr posts of duty in various parts of the bullding. A single whistle blew, and each man gave the screw over which he presided a single twist. It was scarcely possible to detect a movement, but by theve means alone the mass of brick and mortar was pushed along. No power other than that of human strength was utilizsed. The men merely operated the jacks and they in turn set the steel spheres rolling. The rise in the butld. ing was only half an inch. When the theater stood over its new foundation the stonemasons and brick- layers began their work. The bullding wan not allowed to rest on the foundation, but over it, and the stone work was bullt up to join the brick work. This prevented any possibility of jarring or of getting tho structure out of plumb. Slowly the steel beams were removed and the opening in the walls, where they had been inserted to distribute the welght, was rapidly bricked up. It was surprising the amount of material used in & job of this kind. In addition to the 90 jackscrews and the 800 two and a quarter inch steel rollers, 100 tons of steel | beams, 15x42, were used. It is estimated that the cost of the mov- ing of this bullding and the improvements which Manager Harry Davis contem- plates will involve an expenditure of closn to a quarter of a million of doliars, Much of this expense, however, will be borne by the city in the nature of benefits for the damage to the property by reason ef taking twenty feet off the frontage, The bullding, however, stands today stronger and firmer than ever before, for in Its great trunk groat steel ribs have been inserted, the foundation is entirely new and the whole edifice has had the advantage of a complete overhauling and an expert inspection. NEW YORK, Sept. 8. —~Right Rev. Danlel Bylvester Tuttle, biehop of Missourl. has become senior bishop of the Protestant Episcopal chureh b{ the death of Right Rev. Thomas Mach Clark, blshop of Rhods Island. Dr. Tuttle was consecrated bishop in 1867, L) cording to the storfes told by Mason's crew and the Sandy Hook lifesavers. Many times In the darkness the sailors, efter a great wave would curl with terrifte force over their little craft, would almost | glve up hope, and some of them went s) far as to prepara for what they felt was to be certain death. Then it was that Mrs. Gruver showed the stuff she was made oft. As the wind howled and the seas everywhere were | breaking over the littla party she Legan | to sing. She sang the songs that the men had heard In their boyhooG days; songs of good cheer, songs that were written to make men and women forget trouble or disaster, songs of lops, and her voice somehow could be hearl rbove the roaring of the sen. The bravery of the little womam braced the drooping spirts of the men wonderfully, and at the conclusion of an extremely appropriate one they would show their appreciation by cheering her, despite the awfulness of thelr surroundings. Fev- eral times Mrs, Marialous joined in the chorus, and after the rescus Captain Frost told a member of Navigator's crew that had it not been for the bravery of the women during the terrible night when the winds howled with demoniacal flerceness and the seas were breaking over them no savagely, he had no doubt but that several of the men, although all of them proved themselves true mariners, would have given up all hope.—New York Times, WOODMEN HAVE CELEBRATION: Oceasion ia the I Millouth ROCK IBLAND, Iil, Bept. 8.—(Speel Telegram.) — Today Head Clerk C. W. Hawes Issued benefit certificate No 1000 - 000 to Bdward A. Parker of Chicago, an applicant for membership i1 the Modern Woodmen of America. This means that there have been 1,000,000 certificates of beneficlal membership issued by the Modern Woodmen soclety during the past twenty years. The amount of Insurance represented by these certificates is §1,498,000,000, of which there are at the present time $1,200,000,(00 in force. The lssuance of the 1,000,000th cer- tificate by the head office was made the occasion for an Impromptu eelebration. Candy Makers Q. Work, CHICAGO, Bept. 8.—One thousand cand: makers, employed by sixi factories, struck today to enforoe a nine hour day without reduction of wages. Semator Clark Back N‘W YORK, Sept. 8.—Senator Willlam A. Clark of Montana arrived today from Eu- ope on the steamer Deutschland. ICK FEQMD"ACHE CONSTIPATION BILIOUSNESS AND LIVER TROUBLE EITHER IS QUICKLY RELIEVED AND | THE Dosg PERMANENTLY CURED BY Don't be tricked by unscrupulous Druggis with worthless substitutes. [ | [ i ] l !