Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 27, 1909, Page 9

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY ! “MIEE" W |Losns TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS Big Sale Ladies’ - Sample Suits Saturda manufacturer’s sample line o Spring Buits—lot consists of son’s most approved styles— 1| account we will place on sale a f Ladies’ this sea -just 165 suits in this shipment—all colors and all - sizes. from $30.00 to $35.00. Suits are actually worth We will place thém on sale tomorrow morning at eight o’clock, at the one price— Cash or Easy Payments | Special Sale of Men’s “Sincerity” Suits for Spring Wear. Consisting of all the new models, in this sea- son’s choicest fabrics—Men’s Suits should bring at least $20.00; we offer you tomorrow for only. .. that $14.75 WE TRUST THE PEOPLE A LT P/ s S Here they come!—the new Spring styles in Suits and Over- coats, $15.00 up to $40(00. Special- early. Twenty-five Raincoats, sold up to $25.00. Mostly blacks. Regulars and stouts, all sizes— Saturday only. Come at one price— $15 ' VOLLMER’S Expert Clothes Fitters, 107 South 16th Street 17 Years In Business in Omaha For a Business Administration C. H. ISARD Republican Candidate OUNCILMAN SIXTH WARD Primary Election, March 30th P@ST CARDS BEAL PEOTOGRAFPES We are expert and manufacture our own cards. Plotures taken in al' zar of the mountry. Our protographic adver- tsing ‘cards are strong business getters. Telephone or write and our representative will call on you. Drexo Post Card Co. TWENTIETH CENTURY FARMER o Dellar & Year sonable Weather Help Busine PRODUCTION WAITING ON TARIFF Progress in Iron and Steel Confined Largely to Shapes— Dry Goeds Keep Close to Immediate Needs. tructural NEW YORK, March 2.—R Co.’s G. Dun & Weekly Review of Trade tomorrow will say: Favorable conditions in crop growing sec- tions promise well for the future and the seusonable weather generally prevalling is Felpful to trade. advices from the north- west being particula) cheerful. The tariff discussion’ In congress bears heavily upon mary trades and the end of the debate is varicusly estimated at not before May 15 to July 1. W hatever progress i= making in iron and steel {8 mostly confined to structural lines The recent slight improvement io this divi- slon i belng maintained. A better inquiry i8 received from the railroads, the tonnage pending aggTegating a good volume. Further reported reductions in prices of ma ial ha 1lso broadened the demand for construction work and undertakings that had been deferred are again appear- ing. Stocks of plg iron continue to ac- cumula in the prireipal sections of the couvntry and there is still talk of reductton in active cap: ty. In the primary dry goods markets de- mend_at present is entirely confined to {mmediate requirements. Locally there is little_activity among distributors and ai- though the volume of business transacted shows ‘a moderate increase as compared with the corresponding period in 198 sales by no means approach normal. Export demand has practically ceased, althougn some tentative Inqgiries are still being re- ceived. The print cloth situation i3 less active, but ginghams continue to be in gocd request and certain lines of bleached goods are scarce and difficult to secure. In the woolen division interest centers chiefiy on prompt delivery of sample pieces, travelers preparing to go on the road earlfer than usual. The demand for resist dyes continues to be the most conspicuous feature of the market, while the net result of the season's trade in wool pears likely to bo unsatisfactory Yarn prices remain unchanged, with all descrip- tions in only moderate request. Trade in all kinds of footwear is still aull, buyers awaiting developments, but stocks are further depleted The recent large sales of domestic hides have caused a sharp advance in prices, especially In the country markets. The leather trade {8 decidedly dull in all lines, buyers show- Ing no disposition to operate at any price BRADSTREET'S REVIEW OF TRADE Weather, Crop ports St NEW YORK, March tomorrow will say Weather, crop and industrial reports are still irregular, with more than ordinawy uiet noted In most line. Wholesale trade ‘eels the effect of tariff discussion and uncertainties and, while a fair business is doing (in excess of last year In nearly all lines, disappointment ls exprossed aj the total volume of trade in the first quérter Buying from jobbers is conservative and orders are numerous rather than large and of a between seasons character at best, Retall trade has been hdmpered by storiny weather, but the approach of Kaster is reflected in some improvement in demand, largely In _women's wear fabrics and materials. Westren trade is | relatively better than that of the east Yin this line, but weather arrests ex pansion the country over. In industrig ines gencrally operations are qulet t dull. with the iron and steel trade, where prices are weaker, one of the apparently leust favorably situated lines. Wage re- ductions are becoming more numerogs, especially in the iron and allied trades The coal trade Is quiet east and wost Dullness in the bituminous trade is af- fecting coal-carrying roads earninge Business and industrial conditions and the large supply on hand discourage the idea of a strike by the anthracite miners on April 1. Ome of the best situated indus- tries in_the country 1s buflding, reported active at nearly all peints, with some improvement in demand for lumber and materials. Tariff uncertainty, how- ever, affects lumber as well as other lines. Business falules in the United the week ending with Mar: against 224 last weok, in the week of 1708, 166 in 169 "in 6 and 237 in 1505. Canadian failure e week number €5, which compares 32 last week and 41 last year Wheat, including flour, exports the United States and Canad ending Mareh 35 aggregate 715 bush- els. against 1864013 bushels last week and 2393964 bushels this week last year For the thirty-nine weeks ending Marc 25 this year the exports are 146,109, bushels, against 166,647,062 bushels in the corresponding perfod last year. plorn exports for bushels, against 801,282 bushels last w. and 845,138 bushels In 1308 For u® thirty-nine w-‘ou. H"““{: ll‘nrrh 25 cdrn exports are 23,740.366 bushel ains 41,808,677 bushels last year. ke 00 Sturdy oaks from little acorns grow-- advertising in The Bee will do wonders for | your business i Bradstreet's or the week DUN'S REVIEW OF TRADE Favorable Crop Conditions and Sea- | goods_ap- | which is | from | e week are 1,153,000 GRATH TELLS HOW| Minnesota Man Relates Details of | Way Swindlers Got Him. | Enticed Into Operation on Pretense of Business Deal and he Swa lowed Balt, Hook and AL | “I never in by life bet a cent on a horse | race, prize fight or wrestling match and T 4id not bet a cént on this Maybray | mateh,” sald Willam H. McGrath of Minnesota, one of the many ‘Mikes" of | the Maybray gang, who recently has come | trom a Minneapolis hospital, but not with- | standing this, he ‘“fell” to the extent of | $10,000, Mr. man McGrath was formerly in Minneapolis and gives good of how the gang got his maney | and says that he, as well as many other vietims was enticed to the scene of operations on the pretense of a legiti- mate business deal. At the proper moment | a sporting proposition, made fit the | inclination of the intended victim, would | he proposed, and in almost every case the vietim tumbled and the swindlers got his money “I was enticed into this affair in the first place to flllustrate to a friend of | mine that his friends were merely after | his money, and that by going to Omaha he { would readily find that there would be some fraud sprung on him whereby he would lose his money.’ sald Mr. McGrath, “In brief T was asked to bet money fur- | nished by my friend and his assoclates on | & wrestling match. againet a club of very rich men. 1 did not approve of the affalr and finally another wrestler, than he one previously selected, was Iuht”-i tuted and the match pulled off on the square. This was agreed to. The betting then began and In a short time 100,000 was in the stakeholder's hands. Money is Delayed. “At that point I was approached by friend, who insisted that a large sum of money needed to cover a bet made th# day before was delayed, but would arrive before the match wda pulled off. T was told by him that the whole plan would fail un- less the money could be raised. I was sur- rounded by my friend's assoclates, who urged with him that unless 1 could aid | them their united fortunes would be ruined | and my friend Insisted that his wife and | little girl would starve. I was promised that my interests would be protected in any event by the return of the money before the match was pulled of. | “Being in good faith and having confi- dence In a friend, I do not see how any | | average decent fellow could refuse such a request. I could be turned by another friend on the same piea today, tomorrow and hope to keep the same sentiment as long as I live. If drawing some money to | apply In such circumstances (were they real) constitutes acting like a sucker I am | proud of the distinction. “The match was pulled off and one of the wrestlers pretended to die, and that was the end of the game, as the crowd dis- persed. 1 did not seek to regain my money then, as my friend assured me that the stakeholder was all right, and that worthy had himself assured me that he had called all bets off and would return each man his money. Not COrying for His Money. “1 am not seeking now to get my money back, nor setting up a howl, as this hap- pened when 1 was considerably younger than 1 am now, but I have followed up this &ang hoping to save others from disaster. am a young man still and well able | to recover any losses I have met, but the acts 1 have ascertained and verified re- rding starving widows, wretched house- holds, old men once wealthy and now working gor day wages, bank wrecks, county trbasurers driven to dishonesty and bank cashiprs occupylng suicides' graves, show | that there ls another side tp this picture over which the public dares not smile. H “That & crowd of crooks and swindlers | may entice the weak, the Inexperienced, | the credulous or even the man who turns ide for a few hours from the paths nfl rectitude, and then set up a plea that “the | trimmer has been merely trimmed"” and get away with it before the American public, does not to me seem possible. That they will try it Is beyond doubt. For they have | no other defense.” a newspaper a my | NOISELESS GUN NO TERROR| Silencing Device Cannot Be Attached to the Hip Poecket Ar- | tillery. must be admitted that the Inventor | Maxim did much to rob his noiseiess gun |of its terror when he came out frankly | and unselfishly and reveuled the secret of its mechanism. It is stated that certain government authorities have criticised his action Jn this connection because the si- lencer is an invention that the govornment | might have been ready to purchase and | control. That the nuture of the attach-! ment is not clearly understood by the | public is shown by the reported statement | that the Pittsburg chief of police had said he would arrest any one possessing a si lencer and promptly lock him up. The chiet is stated to have pointed out that a | man wtih a silanced revolver could easily kill and escape detection. To this Inventor | Maxim 18 credited with replying that there | is no such thing as a silenced revolver, the pecullar construction cf the weapon pre- venting the use of the sMencer. The lattz is only designed for rifies, and murderers | do not hunt their victms down with | weapcns of this kind. The Inventor also points out that it is absoiutely impossible | to silence & rifle completely, the sound of | | the bullet as it tears through the air being | | sufficiently loud to betray the whereabouts | of the man who fires it It is quite lent that the Maxim vention has been regarded as a highly dangerous mystery. Yet the inventor ad- mits that its use is limited and so is ite success. It Mr. Maxim is right it is not an invention that any prowling assassin would find reason to favor.—Cleveland | Plain Dealer | “n | In- Bee Want Ads Are Business Boosters. | P ———— Tribute from Mexican Night Owls. “There is a funny old custom in the City ot Mexico which entitles the janitor, or portero. of lodging houses to collect a'few cents from any tenant who stays out after 110 o'clock at night.” said P. H. Dugan, a mining engineer of that capital | ““Some of the porteris put out signs, which translated into English read about | | this way: ‘If you want me.to open the door you will have to pay me, else 1 shall keep It closed.” Many & time I've seen | young gallants standing in the vestibule of their apartments in the wee sma' hours | lurching like a ship in & gale as they fished in their pockets for the needful coin that would cause the heart of the domestic to ‘n lent and let them in."—Baltimore Ameri- cen. | Six Hundred Vacclnated PHILADELPHIA, March ~Fifteen | physicians left hére today for Marows | Hook. Pa.. where they will assist in vaccinating 630 persons on board _the | unimpressive, {and grounds to MARCH 27 Regular $12.50 Silk Kimonos, Saturday, at— $5.95 pecial Valu Extraordinary WAIST SALE All Our Regular $6, $7.50, $10 and $12.50 Taffeta Waists, ®N SALE SATURDAY, at,. - $3.95 Promptly Saturday morning at 8 A, M. we offer the great- est Silk Waist bargains ever attempted in Omaha. Our entire stock of fine taffeta wai Values formerly $6.00, $7.50, $10.00 think of it! lutely none reserved, Just s—abso- and up to $15.00; all on sale Saturday morning at. . $3.95 The Newest in Suits—Beautiful Tailored Models at $25 and $35 We have received a couple hundred new suits thi made up of the finest materials procurable, in the v est fashions and shown in grey, green, navy roses, taupe, stripes and checks. values at Tailored Spring Skirts at $6.75, $7.50, $8.75, week y lat- ashes of These suits are special $25.00 and $35.00 $10 and $12.50 These are all made after the very newest models, plain tailor made, gored style, some with odd folds, others trim- med in new ways making them a bit fancy. Beautiful New Waists An extraordinary showing of embroidered and plain tucked linens, crepes, nets, madras and lingerie materials. es Saturday SENATORS' SWELL QUARTERS Gorgeous Office Building Erected for the Members, MOST LUXURIOUS ON EARTH Ninety-Two Su Membe: s for Ninety-Two with Caucus Halls to Match—Uncle Sam Pald a Pretty Price. There are ninety-two members of the United States senate, when every state is fully represented. When in the course of human events It becomes necessary for these ninety-two gentlemen to have busi- ness offices at the expense of the nation they erect a bullding in which 1,00 men would feel lonesome. It covers a space equal to several ordinary blocks of ground. And it lopks as much like a prosalc busi- ness office bullding as a lady's boudoir doe The cost of providing these ninety-two gentlemen with offices for the transaction of business I8 $4,672600 to date—to date, observe. There are already rumors of further appropriations to beautify, improve, complete it—round 1t out At the present moment, proved, uncompleted state, it is such a thing of beauty that the Congressional lbrary, accounted the most beautiful thing in Washington bites its lp with impo- tent envy as it looks at its new nelghbor from the other side of the grounds. The office bullding lies diagonally across from the senate wing of the capitol, in a northeasterly direction. In the days be- fore the new bullding went up there used to be an office building, rented by the government, known as the Maltbie build- ing—a sober brick structure gloomy and and greatly grieving those who had to oonduct their business there. As a rule these were democratic senators, who had no right. The republicans and all the democrats who could do so had their offices in the capitol. Now this forbidding Maltble bullding was across from the senate in another direc- tion, just about as far away as the new office building is. Nevertheless, in those days senators walked to it from the capitol and back again. Daily you would see such | senators as Balley trudging across the! street from the capitol with law books, sometimes, under their arms in its unim- Riding to Glory. But the new office building, though farther away, 18 too splendid to walk to, | and, besides, the real powers of the senate, | men such as Aldrich, have thelr offices | there. To walk Wwas unthinkable. 8o a| beautiful whitc subway was | under the capital, leading across the street | the office bullding. It as handsome a thing In the subway line as ever was constructed. In it are storage battery automobiles for | the transfer of senators from one building | to the othe Each automobile is capable | of seating ten persons. The machines are open and the seats are arranged somewhat like those In the trolley cars that have lanes down the center. The automobiles, like everything else in connection with the business building. structed with an eye to having them good | to look at, and they are trim and neat | as greyhounds. They flash like the wind through the | subway, dodging around the pretty curving white corners with speed that a dyspeptic Washington correspondent re- marked vindictively the other day: “I hope I'll be* when two automo- blles meet each coming around a | curve. The air full of smashed senators.” When you get Into you enter one of the handsomest electric elevators ever built. There are elevators and they are bullt of the fin- est bronze. The backs and sides, as you go In, are great sheets of bronze that are almost Itke ~mirrors. They usually provoke cries of admiration from the visitors The entrance to these elevators on the floors above are characterized by the same beauty and the same recklessness of ex- pense. They are in corner of A bullding, which you approsch through great white pillars and columns, The carving s exquisite and the doors are of finely carved brongze—the no constructed | ™ new have been con- such here other will be the office bullding everywhere American line steamship Merion from Liverpool, which is held at quarantine be- cause two passengers in the steerage were found to be suffering from smallpox. only part of this rich corner that iy of any other material than marble, A great courtyard, nearly the size of L3 city block, lies in the center of the bulld- Ing. This great court is to be filled with flowers and the finest fountains that money can buy. An enormous marble rotunda, a finer thing in its way than that in the capitol building itself, is the greatest beauty of the building. The most beautiful of the offices is that which has been set aside for party cau- cuses, which is called the ‘“sonference chamber.” This room costs $35,000, just as it stands, without furniture. Until present time senators have held their cau- cuses wherever they could find a place to hang up their coats, but usually in the senate chamber itself. A caucus Is not held more than once or twice in a session, as a rule, 80 that this great marble room will be rather a show place than a real office. The reason it is called a ‘“conference chamber” {s that senators are. usually touchy about the word caucus and gener- ally refuse to enter one unless it is called a “conference.” This is because a senator, regards It as beneath his dignity to enter an assemblage by the decisions of which he would be bound against his will. Really he usually Is bound by the decislon of the “conference,” but he has saved his face by the use of the other name. The monetary commission has five of- fices. Everything in the way of furniture is of solid mahogany, though that Is true of the other offices as well. The main room of the commission contains six solid mahognay bookcases with elaborate carv- It is richly carpeted In red, there are utiful crystal chandellers and in the valls are set pillars of veined Italian mar- ble. This is the room in which the full commission meets, with Senator Aldrich at its head. The other rooms are smaller, but furnished with equal beauty. The floors of all are of marble and the hangings of velvet. Instead of water coplers there is ice water on tap; you turn a faucet in the wall and draw the water. Across the way from the commission In room 313, Senator Aldrich has his offices. They are among the few that had been made ready for occupancy when the build- Ing was opened on Monday. in the room which Mr. Aldrich himself occuples there are great French windows opening on the marble veranda with its marble pillars. The radiators are of black iron. In an adjoining room, at a mahogany desk, sits Arthur B. 8holton, his secretary. Mr. Shol- ton was asked If It were permissible to photograph Mr. Aldrich's room. His an- swer was brief and absolutely comprehen- sive. He eaid o The dining room is places” of the bullding. It is called one of the most beautiful in the country. The furniture has not been moved in yet and the hall fteclf has not been completed. In one of the “show | the walls are set pillars of velned Italian marble and the walls themselves are of white marble. The appropriation for the site was $750,000, the | For its furniture $30,600 was appropriated. The building to date has cost $3,4%,000, but atter July 1, the beginning of the new fis- cal year, there is an additional appropria- tion of §128000 for the completion of the approaches, the front of the bullding and the court yard. The total, therefore, up to the present time is $4,672,500.—Philadel- phia North American. NECK AND NECK FOR HONORS Amasing and Amusing Rivalry Be- tween Safe Makers and Safe Crackers. Crime keeps pace with civilization, changes in the habits and customs of man- kind lead to new offenses, while some good old standbys have become unpopular. First, some cautious person invented an iron, burglar-proof safe; immedlately the cracks- man invented himself. This declared a war of wits between the safemaker and the safebreaker. The door to the original safe fitted In stralght like any ordinary door. They were so easy to open, by means of a jimmy, that they did not furnish the burglar with common amusement. It was unsportsmanlike. The wedge-shaped was something more difficult, untll the cracksman found a way to manage it. Then Mr. Inventor devised a combination lock, and thought he had utterly otuwitted the thief. But the no I ingentous thief bought him one and mercllessly studied out its weakness. At first he did not ate tempt to break the lock, but devoted him- self to blowing it open. This was child's play. He puttied up the crack all the way around the door, except a tiny hole at top and bottom. At the bottom hole he set a small shelf of very fine gunpowder. To the top hole he attached a vacum pump. By exhausting the air from the safe he cre- ated a strong current at the lower hole, which sucked in the powder. Then he fired the safe. That was all. The safemaker met this advanced method by corrugating the door to his safe and fitting 1t was rubber, so as to make it air tight. The cracksman took another twist in his art, used acld, destroyed the rubber, and again blew open the safe. As safe doors were made harder and harder, so dld Mr. Cracksman make his drills of finer and finer temper. But ail of these methods were accompanied by more or less nolse, and the cracksman dislikes notoriety. So he began to experiment with the combination lock and speedily found a means to open it. The cracksman took the little finger on his left hand and kept it bandaged for weeks 80 as to make It highly sensative to the touch. Then he pared his pall down Into the very quick, laylng the nerve centers bare. Thus without drills or powder he was able to open a safe by placing the sen- sitive end of his finger against the lock, while me slowly turned the combination 80 keen and delicate had his sense of touch become that he could feel when each tum. bler dropped Into position. The safe would be opened, rifled and closed again leaving no sign to show how the trick was turned The cracksman was tickled mightily with door | win his eye, the mystery and bewilderment he left be- hind him The sufemaker after another, which could not in the same old way; the hlih grade cracks- man bought them, one aftdr another, took them to his quiet workshop, studled every detail of their construction, and found new ways to break them. Neck to neck ran the armor plate of protection and the high- power guns of attack.—Appleton's Mag: zine. invented new safes, one be broken [HAVING “FUN WITH PARSON Stadent of His Fellowmen Bumps Against Some Un Specimends. Rey. Charles E. McCormick, D. D., pastor of the Farmington Avenue Methodist church of Hartford, Conn., and one of the best known Methodist clergymen in the state, is a student of human nature. He likes to frequent public place in a lay- man's garb and study his fellowmen. One warm day this spring, while on a visit to New York, he was sitting in Madison Square when a neatly dressed stranger | accosted him from a bench across the walk. Hoon the two were engaged in conversatios “Are you interestea horse-racing’ asked the stranger. “I ilke a good horse was the noncom- mittal reply of the clergyman, whose busi- | ness suit, crush hat and negligee shirt | belied his protession. “Say, I'm a telegrapher and get some dandy tips every day. Maybe you could use some. They're regular ‘sure things Needless to say the offer was politely declined. but as the stranger began to press | the matter, Dr. McCormick, with a twinkle told the fellow who he was. The stranger's discomfiture was as pititul as his departure was awkward and ludi- erout A day or two later the parson sat in the same seat, and another stranger, an old gentleman with a long gray beard and kindly face, sat down beside him. One remark led to another until the clergyman in a burst of confidence related his previous experience. It tickled the old man mightily, Chuckling In great giee and slapping the parson on the leg he exclaimes “He-he-he! That's & corker, And he believed it old sport! ~8uccess Magasine. Benefits of Breakiasting in Bed. Those Indolent persons who have been in the habit of breakfasting In bed can now do 80 with an easy conscience—if they haven't done it before. A German speclalist informs us that the practice is beneficial to merves and temper, and that thoss en: getic persons who pride themselves on ‘g- ring promptly and virtuously at the ‘amily breakfast table, all groomed and equipped for the day, are only digging their own graves. The recumbent tion, it seems is s0 favorable to digestion, and to that peace of mind that should aceom- pany the process that other specialist are recommending it for all meals. W ought, they say, to recline on couches at our feasts, as the Greeks and Romans did, but as that is manifestly impossible in the dining room of the ordinary flat, the best the ordinary mortal can do s to break- fast in bed.—Detrolt Free Press. Hello! N %‘ Give me GOLD MEDAL Hello! Give me a sack of flour lease = p NO fh( wrong FLOUR WASHBURN-CROSBY'S GROCER THF VERY HIGHEST QU