Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 4, 1909, Page 41

PART SEVEN JOBBING PAGES 1 TO 8. THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE. VOL. FOR ALL THE NEWS - OMAHA BEE YOUR MONEY'S WORTH XXXVIII-NO. 42. OMAHA SUNDAY MORNI} APRIL 4, 1909. NORTH AND BEAST UT on South Twenty-fourth street, one block north of Vin- ton, there is nearing comple- tion a mammoth coal and building material warehouse built of steel and concrete, which is the em- bodiment of economy and puts the coal and material business on a much higher plane. It has excited the curiosity of the curious, been viewed wi‘h admiration by the many advocates of suhstantial construction and declared a success by those who realize its possibilities as a time and lahor-saver. This warehouse is being built on a fifteen-acre tr on the dividing line between Om and South Omaha, from which thousands of consumers of coal and building material in both cities quickly supplied. The idea w « ¢ by Mr. C. W. Hull, the e preliminary plans were lall by him and were worked out with the assistance of one of Omaha's leading architects. it will soon be completed and occu- pied Ly the €. W. Hull Company, of wiich Mr. Hull is president and gen- eral manager. The company has been in business in Omaha cighteegy vears and is now the largest, most jFogres- slve wholesale and retail dealer in coal and bullding iaterial swest - of Chicago. The company has five men constantly soliciting business in the cities of Omaha, South Omaha and Couneil Bluffs and covers regularly with a strong force of traveling sales- et ha can owner VIEW OF C. W, HULL WAREHOUSE Recent Views of Up-to-Date Reinforced Steel-Concrete Buildings for the Storage of Coal and Building Materials Located at Twenty-Fourth and Spring Streets, and is Equipped with Automatic Unloading, Loading and Screening Arrangement men the states of Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa and South Dakota The steadily increasing business of the firm has made the building of ad- ditional and larger quarters—a mod- ern warehouse—a matter of necessity, and It was thought that whatever it did should be done on a large scale with a view to permanency; something in which to store a season’s supply of Portland cement and other perishable building materials and thousands of tons of coal. The immense structure now nearing completion will fill a long- felt want and reduce the cost of han- dling very materially. It has a total floor-space of 81,500 square. feet. The main building, which will be used for the storage of coal and bulk building materials, is 360 feet long by 60, feet wide, and is lsmaller meshes inserted, OFFICE BUILDING OF C. (divided into thirty gravity storage | | bins, each with a capacity of 350 tons, or a total maximum capacity of some- thing over 10,000 tons. These bins have sloping bottoms converging to the arch of a tunnel, which in many respects resembles the New York Sub- way; and the driveway through it is sufficiently wide to permit two teams with heavily loaded wagons to pass, with ‘plenty of room on either side. Specially designed adjustable loading chutes project from each of the grav- ity bins into the tunnel at a proper height for the loading of wagons and are so arranged that all coal passes over a screen through which the slack falls into special bins. These screens are so arranged that they may be re- moved and others with larger or which will W, make it possible to load thoroughly screened coal of the size ordered. The driveway through the tunmel will be paved with Colorado sandstone. The teams with empty wagons will en- ter the tunnel from the west end, load and pull out at the east end up an in- clined driveway in the shape of the letter ‘8 to a double scale at the top, where the welghing will be done by a competent weighmaster. The company's plans contemplate, among the many other decided im- provements in the inteiest of economy, doing away with the once indispensa- ble ‘“‘Shovel brigade.” A standard guage vailroad track extends through the building from the west, secured to heavy steel girders eight feet above the top of the tunnel, from which it will be possible to unload in approxi- HULL COMPANY, mately five minutes a train of nine thirty-six-foot hopper-bottom cars of coal. The time consumed in loading a wagon in the tunnel beneath will be about two minutes. The south part of the main building, with 10,600 square feet of floor space, will be used for the storage of package materials, cement, lime, plaster and mortar color and will be equipped with gravity carriers and other labor-saving devices. The capacity of this building is 20,000 barrels, which is equivalent to 200 carloads. The yard office building, with its ecommediows annex for yard employes and drivers, is built of red face brick from the Kansas Gas Belt, and the ex- terior is artistically paneled with a rough coat of cement plaster. The roof is made of red Spanish tiles. SOUTH AND EAST VIEW OF €. W. HULL WAREHOUSE until 6 in the evening and a conserva= tive estimate of the delivery equip- ment the operation of the new yard will require is thirty-five additional teams and wagons. Plans for a sta- ble are now being prepared and it will be sufficiently large to accommodate seventy-five horses. A special feature will be the sanitary arrangement of stalls to insure cleanliness and lessen the labor necessary to keep them in proper condition., Here, as elsewhere, the purpose of the company is to get the best service with the least amount of work. The main office of the company is located in the heart of Omaha's retall district and operations at its various vards are directed over private tele- phone wires. An intercommunicating system of telephones was installed several years ago, which makes it pos- sible to place orders promptly and without interruption. What is true of any large business in this respect appiles to the C. W. Hull Company. A capable telephone operator {s em- ployed and is kept busy making con- nections, about half of which are en- tirely independent of the central office. This I8 truly the age of advance- ment and no concern in Omaha has striven harder to keep abreast of the times than has the C. W.*Huil" Com- pany. The thought uppermost in the mind of the management has always been to lead and let others follow; to let others glean where {is has This bullding, heated by an up-to- date hot water plant, aside from being a combination of convenience and architectural beauty, is an innovation in the line of advertising, showing in a very attractive way the possibilities of this type of construction. To prepare the site for laying of track, foundation of warehouse and office 190,000 cubic yards of earth were moved and approximately 10,000 barrels of Portland cement, 300 cars of crushed stone, 200 cars sand, 200 tons reinforcing steel and 150 tons of structural steel were used in the con- struction of the building and re- taining walls of the inclined ap- proaches. To handle the present business of the company thirty teams are kept busy from 7 o'clock in the morning | reaped. e e e BY CONSTANTINOPLE'S WALLS Imperial City that is Begirt with Ruin, Filth and Deocay. SCORN OF EUROPEAN'S RAMPANT Hovels About Gates Throu Which Emperors and Trade of the East Once Passed and a Glimpse at the Market Garden. NETANTINOPLE, Mch. 13.—If one had i | magnificence or prosperity remalns to m] seen, except in the treasury of the sultan, where vast and untold riches are still stored. The Turk appears to be centuries behind all eclvilized peoples. For the use of the huge capital there is but one rallway line connecting it with the west, and this skirts the Marmora between the remains of the sea walls and the Turkish quarter of the city, untll it reaches Seven Towers, where the land walls start. On the sea side the line is fringed with low hovels, whose tin- patched sides have long been covercd with rust; beyond them, dividing Europe from Aslatic shores, lies the Marmora. Crasy Crannies Full of Life. On the land side, covering hills and val- not already realized that the Turk is & jeys, is a bewlldering mass of crazy looking, descendant of warriors and devastator: inheriting their dislike and Incapacity | gtories in height. weather-beaten dwellings, one or two Straggling hither and for peaceful occupations, a walk around |thjther like groups of centenarians or in- the walls of the capital today would s0on | gyriates, each house feebly props up its demonstrate it, for here on all sides are rain, deca; habitation. Less than & year ago such a trip was dangerous, if not lmpossible, owing to the Moslem's futense scorn and hatred of Juropeans. The declaration of the con- stitution has made friends, to all outward appearances, of Turk, Jew and Christian, and every one is free to do as he pleases; but as each man now carries a revolver for “selt-defence” you carry one too, for you are likely to be held up by some of {he loafers who Infest the neighborhood. The sea walls have been pulled down to make room for wharves and houses, and the land walls have sutfered almost as much from the heads of their conquerors | Kept, lead to They con- | Turkish fortress, at one time the Byzan- «ist of a double line of magnificent walis | tiie citadel, which is rented by the gov- | a8 from earthquakes and time. | structures that surround it, neighbor, which appears fis if about to , neglect, tilth and inconcelvable | ooljapse from sheer inability to stand alone. Here and there a rew house is seon; it stands for the moment yellow, crude and aggressive beside the tumble-down wooden and one won ders how soon it, too, will join the totter- ing throng. Then at the back of the town, like crowns resting upon the summit of the seven hills on which the city is bullt, are gigantic mosques, while the domes of thousands of smaller ones rise up from the city below, their innumerable minarets pointing like warning fingers toward the heavens. Narrow, winding streets, the Seven dirty and Towers, a in old and terraces, flanked by nearly 200 towers, | ernment, with the adjoining moat, to a extending from Seven Towers (Yed! Rouleh) on the Marmora to Eyoab ‘on the Golden Horn, During the time of Theodosius the Great between 413 and 447, the destroyed by earthquake, but in less than two months the people rebullt them, with wliitary gates leading to the terraces and public gates leading to the city. ~After the conquest by the Turks it was rumored that the city would be recaptured through one of these gates, which was so strong that market gardener who adds to th income derived from the sale of his vege- tables by charging 6 plastres (2 cents) for a sight of his property. If you stand for a moment the maln gateway you are immediately ace clean feat- ured, red fezzed opean clothes probably the son—wha invites you to come inside outside Exploring the yrinth There are: “The golden gate, the prison it had mever been taken by an enemy; s0 | of the ambassadors, the carvings and the in order to save the city from being re- captured by this entrance the superstitious Turks in & panic set to work and tore the sutewny dOWD. Sceme of Old-Time Glory. Probably” no other tn the world possesses such pictur military ruins @3 those grand old towers and walls, about whose base have encamped the armies of surrounding . DAtions. Arabs, Perslans, Goths, Turks, Bulgarians and Greeks have fought to possess the Quecn City of the cast. As one notes the decay and neglect now prevali on all sides it is almost im- possible to helieve that through these gates caravans have passed bearing the wealln of two continents: ‘“‘Merchandise of gold city aue tha | |of a winding marble and silver and preclous stones, and of pearls | and fine linen and purple and silk and scarlol, and all manner of vessels of ivory, Of most precious woud, and of brass and dungeous—only § plastres, monsieur,” he adds eagerly as you nesitate, and while you are hunting for the necessary coin the youngster disappears, medlately with a siderable age. He courtyard in the center of which solitary minaret—all that remains of little mosque the Turkish generals attended prayers—and pushing a door In one of the old towers he the lantern low for you to find the returning almost im- lighted lantern of escorts you across the con- Is a h where one open holds steps stairway Up and up you ascend number of steps, feeling your way tously, unil a welcome shaft of ¢ an interminable ylight reaches you from the doorless exit on the | summit of the walls. broad grass grown And here, upon the road that leads from tower to tower Is & view of land and sea, | of mountains and valleys and fertile plains, the owner of which should be the proudest 1ron, and marble and cinnamon, and odours | and happiest of monarchs instead of the and olutments, and frankincense and wine and oll, and fine flour, and wheat, beasts and sheep and horses and chariot Not & trace of former wealth, most miserable and haunted of human and | beings. Away to the south, of Beven Towers, is lying at the foot the Marmora with cau- | its many ships passing to and fro con- tinually and its islands, on one of which the robber vizlers of the old regime are isolated; beyond this lIs the Asiatic shore with its gigantie snowcapped mountains dwarfing into insignificance the towns and villages that creep along the water's edge. To the north lles the great capital with its suburbs, the heights upon the Bosporous, the long line of an- clent walls upon whose broad terraces one can still walk for a considerable distance, and outside theso the countryside with Its fringe of cemeteries and Its undulating fertile plains walting to be oultivated. While you arelost in admiration of this wonderful spot—full of such marvellous possibllities yet so grossly neglected— your guide calls your attention to several large, ugly buildings near the main en- trance to the fortress. They are the hospitals, lunatic asylums and orphan belonging to the Greeks, he tells you with great pride, but if you will de- scend he will show you the prison and dungeon in which ambassadors, sultans and many other people were confined schools Prison of the Ambassadors. Stooping in order not to knock your head against the top of & low marble gateway you follow the youth with his lantern into an unlit passage, down which it 1s only possible for one person to walk at a time, and after turning abruptly twice you enter a high, vaulted chamber. This was originally divided into two compart- ments, one having two openings in the roof, the other totally obscure; and In {1he former of these it was customary | for Turks to imprison the unfortu- nate ambassador of & country which | was at war with them But In the other dungeon none can say what horrible tragedies have been enacted; you only know that the mysterious hole into whose depths you peer in the dim light | 18 the road many poor, tortured wouls have | taken to eternity—falling down, down, | down, a hundred feet, until the bodics were | lost in the underwashing sea of Marmora. With a feeling of depression you return | once more to the daylight, and opposite you, somewhat appropriately stands the Golden Gate—the triumphal arch through which victorious emperors passed on the return from war. The Byzantine eagle still sits upon the marble pillars, but the Turks bave sealed up two of the three great archways, marking in tawdry paint the sultan's monogram and the Turkish coat-of-arms underneath the cross carved upon the central arch. the Smuggling Made Unpopular. Pass'ng through the gateway of the | 8 Towers you find a broad cobblestone road skirting the walls outside the ei which is better than many within its gate: At frequent intervals along this road are little red, wooden sheds—guard houses | erected by the Ottoman regie to prevent | the smuggling of contraband tobacco—and a too close inspection of one of thess is apt to bring you a shot in your ribs from the guardian of the law. To your left, fringing the road for miles, are the Turkish cemeteries, whose thous- ands of moss-grown and newly placed tombstones stand at dangerous angles upon thelr pointed base. In one of these anclent graveyards a patch of brilltant color which proves to be a funeral processlon moves slowly forward. There is the pelest, a comfortable look- ting old fellow in long robes and bright | | | it green turban; the corpse, covered with a crimson patterned cloth; several small boys In _ flannelette jackets of marvelous de- sign, and the group of mourners--men in loose, blue trousers, sleeveless vests which reveal gaudy colored shirts, and scarlet bands swathed round and round their walsts to & width of fourteen inches. A few feet from the group is the grave- digger, he leisurely pats the ground,”glv- ing a final touch to the open grave, while across his shoulders is slung a coat whose quaint mode of reparation reminds one of an old maid's patchwork quilt. Nobody weeps; 1t is not the custom of the Turks to lament the will of Allah. On the road itself, plodding along under heavy baskets of far, produce, are many hamals—human beasts of burden—whose travelstained rags and unwashed ap- pearance induce you to glve them a wide berth. And when nearlng Top Kapu gate you come in sight of a doubtful look- Ing encampment containing, &s you pre- mently discover, the surplus population of the Gipsy quarter within the gate you are inclined to give this a still wider berth, for were it not that a strong, strange odor of cooking assails your nostrils as you lopk down upon their hovels from the walls you would expeot to find yourself in the vicin- ity of the recently vacated outhouses of a farm. Women Disfigured by Disease. You are not surprised at the discases and sores which disfigure many of the women and girls who follow you, dressed in long, baggy trousers, asking for back- sheesh as you hurry your footsteps past the stench that rises from what appears to be the refuse heap of the great city, but neither the Gogs that wallow in the mire, nor the inhabitant of the nearest guardhouse seem to find in it anything unappetizing. In the boneyard near by, where worn out, useless beasts are slaugh- tered until they find a stray ‘which th gluttonously devour, Sickened with these sights and smells you turn around a slight bend and thank- fully see the little cafes and booths out- side the Adrianople gate, through which Mohammed the conqueror rode in triumph and through which each suceeding sultan at his accession to the throne has ridden to the palace after being girded with the sword of Osman at Eyoub Mosque. But for a while the walls, which are almost perfect here, are forgotten, as on reaching the last hill you come upon a little steep street and see before you, through a mist, the village of Eyoub with the dome and minaret of its mosque; and beyond these the Goiden Horn threading its way to the sweet waters of Europe, while ralsing its head out of a gauzy white mantle is the green hill on the opposite shore. Famous Gate of Kakoporto. Turning off the road here you enter the clty by a little postern gate—the famous Kerportoe, which lost the ity to the Turks during the last slege—and pass through & portion of the Greek quarter, where the women lean from their windows or come to their doors to see a stranger pass Shoulder to shoulder with the Greek col- ony is a group of Turkish houses closed and silent as if only occupled by the dead, and these you pass In some trepidation, remembering & recent experlence in an- other Turkish quarter, then hasten your steps as you come wuddenly upon several velled figures at an ancient fountain, bone, dogs turn over and nose among the | | which lends its support to a gigantic old oak in return for its protecting shade in summer, One or two more turns in the narrow, winding streets and you are in the Jewish quarter, where, it belng Saturday, shops Are closed, and men, women and children saunter about or stand chatting together in groups, old and young, m and bables, wearing fur lined overcoats of dingy cloth and doubtful age, take no notice as you pass among them to the quay, where a clamor commences Among the caiquedjis (boatmen) directly you put in an appearance. Taking your seat in the nearest caique, the experlenced oars- man pushes out into the crowded stream and you are soon lost in amagzement at his skill in avolding accidents. Directed by his strong arm and wat-hful eye, you cut through the water, only miss- ing collision by a hairsbreadth. The idea too of being upset in this stream is not pleasant, for had you not seen the acres of dirtheaps outside the walls you would find it difficult to believe that the wate: of the Golden Horn did not display the whole of the city's refuse. As if reading your thoughts the placid calquedji smiles reassuringly as he meets your eye. But the mext moment your heart Is in your mouth., He dexterously dodges with as- tunding nerve under the bow of an incom- ing steamer, cuts through the gradually diminishing space between two others and finaily lands you, glowing with nervous excitement, at the quay of Galata bridge without having recelved a scratch on the side of his delicate caique. FREDERICK LEIGH HUNT PAYS THE BILLS Chlef Financler of the African Expe- dition a Noted Soldler of Fortune. MOORE, An inte president to light who is African journey has just come in the discovery of the Individual to foot the bills. This person Is Leigh Hunt, nominally of Seattle, who spends much of his time in Washington, and In other capitals of the world. He is something of a captain of industry, but more of a soldier of fortune. He has had & varied and interesting career, has been connected with many vast com- merclal, industrial and patriotic enterprises. He has been much in the east in the last twenty years, having left Seattle early in the 'Ws, to explolt important mining con- slons obtained from the emperor of Corea. They were so profitable that Mr Hunt, in returning to America, went to Se- attle, where, having failed in business, he wed large sums of money, and voluntarily | pald his creditors in full, with interest He afterward was Interested in a move- ment to fmport negroes from America to ralse cotton In the Sudan, with the assist ance of frrigation, and was there closely allied with Lord Cromer, England's rep resentative in Africa. This enterprise was less profitable than the mines, and since then Mr. Hunt has been engaged In various more or less suc- cessful business ventures. Belng a warm personal friend of President Roosevelt and his family, he has, it is understood, ar- ranged a pretentious program of entertain- ment for them while the Smithsonlan In- stitution enterprise Is in progress, and which Involves travel by houseboat on the Nile, and other features of interest and pleasure.—Providence Journal, the | sting fact fn connection with the | and | man's, come down the mountain together on that car. "Those of you who don't care for locomo- tion of that kind can take the winding car- riage road which Mr, Harriman s building | around through the paths of the moun- tatn. | | When ELECTRIC RAILWAY TO THE DOOR | nothing HARRIMAN'S HILLTOP HOME| Palatial Retreat in the Wilds of Ramapo Mountains. Mr. Harrlman came there he found but a silent waste, a wildernéss. | He Insured the preservation of that wild, effect by securing to himself | 45,000 acres of hills and valleys thereabout, | and nobody can interfere with the solitary grandeur of the place unless the master of Tower hill becomes childish. | Btitmore, long famous as the greatest ex- 1 Edward H. Harriman chooses to stand | A™MPI€ 0f a great estate owned by a private in the tower of his coutry home at Arlfl‘lln':,::::nu\l: :;:Il:n“::":l‘r:w:m; u‘l?on-:t.-" b+ 3 r b when it is completed, and look to the|probably no place n Americs wh,:’,,:: southeast, he will seo @ great expanse of | same sense of isolation, reinforced by the hills and valleys uninterrupted by a habita- | presence of nature ai its wildest, can be tion of any kind and he will know that |80 balanced by luxury and beauty within. The place which Mr. Harriman selected to give this demonetration is rocky and strewn with boulders and girt with forests. The hill is one of the steepest in the Ramapo range. Harriman's house is, like that of scripture, builded on a rock, and literally so. A photograph recently taken of the east side of the house, showing the operations 8o far conducted, looks as if the whole thing were being blasted out of the side of a boulder. A large share of the grounds I8 to be has Forty-Five Thousand Acres of Play- ground, Scenery and Things Surround the Lonely Castle. ness everything within the range of his vision— | fan ot hills and him. ‘It 1s impossible,” said Andrew Carnegie, in those words or others, at the dedication of the new Carnegle institute in Pittsburg in 1907, “for a man to feel that he owns a mountain. He may know, intellectually, | that he owns it, but I defy any man to| feel & sensation of ownership as he looks | at a hill or valley. He simply can't realize | i |Blven over to an Italian playground and Edward H. Harriman can realize it and | garden, which will contrast oddly with feel it, If any man can, as he stands on the | the solemn grandeur all about, roof of his completed home and looks over | for the Family, the Ramapo range as far as he can see bty o menth oy ‘ The house itself rests in a stone holiow, It 18 venemently denied in every quarter | ®"d 10 make room for it the rock has had which has ité inspiration from Harriman|'© De,blasted on three sidcs. The bullding that he is building & palace in those| ¥!!! ‘contaln seventy rooms, of which Ramapa wilds. It is simply a home, they|!Wenty-two are bath rooms. It is in the {say, and thefe is to be nothing gaudy, |fOr™ Of & cross, with the entrance hall in nothing splendid. Doubtless this s so from | '1® West Wing. This hall is 30 by 8 feet in | Mr. Harriman's standpoint, and it leads ®/%¢. The great living room, which is in {to & feeling of speculation umong ordinary | the same wing, could be made into two or | citizens, unblessed or uncursed with wealth, | three flats if subdivided as to what Harriman would have done if| Terraces, muny of them, fall gracefully he had trled to be a Prince of Ramapo. "‘““V on the south side of the house. A | Harriman was the Columbus of Tower|8reat swimming pool and many sunken {Hill. Tower Hill is one tf the hills of |€OUFts to be filled with flowers, and mar- the Ramapo range, and until Harriman|ble fountains are among the many adorne me It was such 3 wilderness and al'| Ments of this house, which Harriman de- about 1t was such a wildness, as Fenimore | nles is palace. For the conveyance of Closssr {iikht Bave Hesolss everything needed in the mansion tunnels are being constructed in every direetion, and, of course, there are billlard pariors, bowling and all sorts of rooms needed for amusement, together with a big laundry, a dynamo room, a drying room and a large servans' quarter. those valloys—belong to! | Big Enou Grand and Louely. If you ask the address, it is Arden. But Arden, a litle village nesting in the hills, 1s ot to be from Harriman's grand and lonely You can stand there | and search the horlzon and the hilltops and | " NG SRl e | The Christopher Columbus of Tower hill Neither do you get to Harriman's home U4 not have found a place more thor- wagon. You take your automobile to|OUSPIY adapted for his purposes. Bven the | the top of the hill and then you get aboard | ¥'''4K€rs of Arden have taken the |one of the Harriman rallroads and go to [ ‘"UPle to explore it fully, and it lay, when raghuiis he first viewed 11, virgin from the hand i Harriman rallvoads? Cer.|Of Dature. It might huve lain' there for a tainly. The smallest of (he Harriman rafl. [ 10Usand years as untouched, uniess some roads operates up and down Tower hill, |Other Wealthy man had happened to light and it 1s Dot & part of the Harriman sys. | U900 It &8 Harriman did and for the ssmé tem, elther. purpose The master of railroad | systems of the country for his own Measure and the comfort of his guesis a little road with one car as ita rolling stock, and this car and down alleys, scen home. never the The cost riman been ‘lllv«\ one of the of it will not uigh waorlk put Bay great varies in teli estimate. Har- ol it has Sometimes us 3,000,000, Those ene say this is an overs estimate low as $1,200,000 Tower hill. The power now is Two will cover all, m, but Mr. Harriman will shortly | But that over a million has been spest cn change It to electricity. You and your|it thero is no question, and it i mot fine automoblle, if you are & guest of Harrl- | ished yel.~New York Times put in the others, as motive millions.