Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 10, 1909, Page 11

RIDG LE |CAMES OF SKILLED CROOKS | Shady Methods of Chasing Other ~ Women, ‘DON'T BUY Your Suit Until You Attend Our Specl: | of it are seldom aware that this is merely Tailored Suits $30.50 Sults 18.00 $24.50 Sulls_16.00 $22.50 Suits 14.00 dies’ $18.50 Suils 12,00 $16.50 Suits 10.00 Ladies’ $15.00 Suls_8.50 OUR LIBERAL CREDIT SYSTEM — $1.00 Per Week IT'S EASY—“THE RIDGLEY WAY" RYTHING FOR MEN AND WOMEN 1417 Douglas St. Elmer Beddeo, M A Bottle of Fine Easter Wine FREE o 9 P Baturday we will tomer making a purchase of Hiller's brands of liquors, ($1.00 or more) with a BOTTLE OF FINE EASTER WINE FREE. HILLER'S WHISKEYS FIll Quarts, 80¢c, $1, $1.25 Hiller's Fine Wines 35¢, 50¢c, 75¢ Per Quart I 1t comes from HILLER'S It must be good 1309 Farnam St. Prompt Delivery —Both Phones present each cus- G. A. Lindquest Co.| 235-36 Paxton Block. makers of good clothes. A nice line ine pattarns on hand ) are right. A liberal discount on two more suita. and our prices At the Theaters “In the Nick of Time" at the Krug. Melodrama of the sort that is active, and oft times te without being coarse and | common, several pleasing vaudeville num- bers and a goodly portion of comedy are blended acceptably In the last offering of the regular season at the Krug. “In the Nick of Time" began a week-end engage- ment Thureday night, and although not patronized by a crowded house, made quite a hit with those who attended. it is dif- forent from the usual melodrama and lacks that sameness of situations and cli- maxes which 8o often makes that class of play tiresome. Neither s it made comie by ever-present gun play and impossible deeds of herolsm. Its situations are extra- ordinary enough to make the plece a go without glving it a flavor of impossibility. | And us a welcome bit of variety, there ls {no hero of the Johnnie-on-the-8pot order to be always playing to the gallery. The character who s the hero 1s a hero sure enough, but of the sort that Is lifelike and not exaggerated. A feature of note Is the presentation of a scene depicting o vaude- ville entertainment that becombes enlivened by a tragedy in one of the boxes, and a climax of tenseness and fascination. Miss Della Clarke, who heads the company and also wrote the play, is well adapted to her role and plays it with relish Although handicapped by a bad cold last night, she | succeeded In carrying part with apt- ness. The rest of the large company sup- ports her well and makes the production a well rounded evening of entertalnment. It Is staged in nine scenes with speclal set the ot of " SHAKE INTO YOUR SHOES Allen’s Foot-Base, a powder. Relieves paint smarting, nervouy 1t's the t comfort discavery of t! Foot-Ease makes tight or new shoes callous, swolle ing foet. Sold by all Drugg 4 Shoe Stores. By mail for %c In stamps. Allen 8. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. foet and ngrowing nails, and in- stantly takes the sting out of the corns and’ bunions. Don'’t ccept any substitute. Trial package FREE. Address tings. HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER IS ILL | Miss Belle M. W Recovery ut, on s So Sick Her Said to Be in Doubt, Miss Belle R. Wilson, teacher in the high ‘HoTELS, t) Boston’s New Hotel Bids you and your friends & hearty welcome. No paine will be spared to make your next visit a loayer one. best, amid surroundings tastidioualy sppointed. Everything new, attrac. € tive and cosy, with prices reasoasble Cor. Boylston and Washington Sts. TEL. 41440 OXFORD. Dinger parties before and after the theatre will receive our sgecial at- tention. Ladies when i will find it mokt coavenient to have luncheon here with every knows comfort aad exclusion. Ainslie & Grabow Company, Operasing LLINGWO oD ——— | school, is seriously ill at her home at 410 North Twenty-third street and the attend- ing physician fears she will not survive | the week out. Miss Wiison took co'd about | #ix weeks ago and this developed into the &rip with other complication. She has been in the high scliool over eight years and has been teacher of mathematics. Miss Wilson lives with her mother Go To The Bottom of your trunk and get out your last spring’s clothing. Where the garments are too solled (o look fresh and nice, the French Dry Cleaning Process wili make them look as well as in their prisiine beauty. If they are badly worn, or If you are tired of the colors, our unexcelled dyeing facilities are at your service. Fun't:h Dry Cleaning Works | claiming | sort |a man | car so that the fender would hit him. | tiontst | As soon as the “accident” took place one |ot | down, brush | bulance; I'll take the poor fellow myself. | would produce |and operated for a while | Selinger was pushed against People’s Money, THINK OF FALLING OFF CARS ness of Hurting Owe's Seif & Reg~ Exteacting Coln rien of Cor- The profession or trade of falling off | trolley cars for a living has been men- tioned . occasionally In newspapers and magazines, but even those who have read one branch of a far wider business—a specialty, in tact The business of hurting yourself and then sulng somebody for damages, like all other professions in this era of specializa- tion, has been apeclalized and refined True, there are atill a great many profes- slonals who are what may be called gen- eral practitioners, just as the family doc- tor still survives in large numbers in epite of the nerve specialist, the brain specialiat | and the stomach speclalist. Nevertheless, the specialist Is the real thing In this business, as in others. The man who can fall out of an elevator every few months, the woman who can bang her- self against & boit of cloth in a depart- ment store at frequent intervals, not only conserves his or her intellect by not hav- ing to think up different methods all the time, but grows so expert by concentra- tion that the profit is surer and the risk almost eliminated. The profession, too, and general practice. in onme locality, such extending their field Long Island City at the furthest. There are others who take the entire Atlantic coast as a fleld; will fall/off a trolley car today in Boston and turn up next month under the wheels of a truck In Charleston. Still others operate throughout the entire United Btates, and at least one case is of record where the financier chose Great Britain and the United States as his mod- est field. The growth of the business has forced the firms and corporations who have been engaged in paylng out money to these financlers to take defensive action, and hence there was formed not long ago the “Adliance Against Accident Fraud,” which now numbers among Its members over fifty firms and corporations in various parts of the union. This company, or alllance, keeps a card index of all accident cases, and when one of its members is sued and reports the case the alllance searches its records to tind It the plaintiff has ever sued anyone before. If he has, previous suits are looked up by the alliance and the defend- ant member is notified of the result. A card index of doctors and lawyers Is also kept. In Boston, Chicago and Philadelphia a cross-index of addresses Is kept. For instance, If John Smithovitch of 121 State street sues the Boston Elevated the case Is Indexed under Smithovitch and also un- der State street, so that if any of John's nelghbors in that house begin a damage suit against anybody an investigation can be started to see if & self-hurting trust ex- ists in that locality. How the Game Works. In one house In Boston eleven claimants were found by this method. The way the gdme was worked was this: A would sue the Boston Elevated, claiming that he had caught his foot in getting out of a car; B and C_would be his witnesses. B wouid sue the electric light company, claiming that he stumbled over a stump in the dark; A and C would be his witnesses. C would sue the Merchants’ Expre company, that an express wagon rounded a corner too quickly and a box fell off and landed on his foot; A and B would be his witnesses. The law firm of Coakley & | Sherman, in Boston, handled at one time 00 cases against the Boston Elevated. In Philadelphia the Mercer brothers op- erated successfully for a long time with a of private hospital. They had in | thelr combination a lawyer, a physician and a nurse. Their speclalty was having “throw a fit" In front of a street At one time tfley had a professional contor- in their employ for this purpose. | is aivided into local Some prefer to stay as New York Cit: no further than to the firm, In a wagon, would jump the excited spectators aside and say, “Never mind walting for an am- Then he would load the injured man into his wagon, drive him to a private house and keep him thers for three weeks under the care of the nurse. The physician the necessary proof, the lawyer would bring suit and there would | he & settlement or a verdict. The Mercers were finally driven out of Philadelphla In New York, but have since scattered. Joseph A. Shay, who recently got into trouble for trying to rig up the escape of a prisoner from the Tombs, was their counsel Mak Corporations Pay. While in New York the Mercers formed a combination with an artificial leg dealer When & man came to him to buy a leg the dealer would suggest that he might as well get some money from some corpora- tion for the loss of his leg and send him to the Mercers to fix up & story of how he lost it There have been a singularly large num- ber of accidents in the Belinger family of 200 Forsyth street, New York. Ida Selin- ger, aged 14, was the first vietim. sued her landlord, claiming that on August 4, 1808, part of the celling fell and hurt her head. On September 8, 1%6, Jacob 8 seat on a Weinlander & Smith Ladies' Exclusive Furnishings 1 317 So. 16th Strest DUTCR LINEN COLLARS. We have just received u large shipment of pure linen Dutch Collars, most stylish and up-to-date. dainty Dutch Lace Collars, popular this seaeon. XID GLOVES. Our _excellent quality 1.28 kind for .... .il 1.75 for o Regular Long, $3.80 Gloves 848 | | Otfers select accommodations (o dis- criminating people. ABSOLUTELY FIREFROOF, and ioras every “facility for the' com. ort of guests heart ‘of the eity, nelghborhood, convenieot to &ll sur. Situated in the very i A very qulet - face. Subway and slevated rallway lines, and in the midst of the shop- ping, and theater distriet Rooms With Bath $2 and Up. Special rut Restaurant & la Carte, SETH . MOSELEY, 8D, New Haven House. Ne by the month or season Brooklyn car and hurt Brooklyn Rapid Transit. ©On August 21, 1906, & car on De Lancey street gave a | start, throwing Annie Selinger to the floor Then the whole Selinger family, together with five other tenants in the Forsyth trest house, sued the Consolidated Gas company, clalming that a leaking meter made them Il It was settied for $160. L. Edwin Oppenhelm is the lawyer appearing in all these cases. The Bruhnke family equally unfortunate as far as traced Hermina Bruhnke against City of Chi- cago, June 2, 187; same against same, January 31, 18%; same against Metzel Bros 158; same against Chicago City Rallway | Company, 1699; same against same, Sep- | tember M, 1902; Willlam Bruhnke (her son) ainst Chicago City Rallway, December 81, 1904; same against same, July 17, 1%0; | Annie Bruhnke (daughter) against Libby, MeNeil & Co.. December 31, 190 The later misfortunes of the tamily have not been traced Born te Trouble, Blizabeth Willlams of Brooklyn is an-| other person who had a good deal of trou- ble in her Mfe. She felt obliged to sue the Coney Teland & Wrooklyn rallroad Au gust 6 197, for a car collision: the Brook- | Iyn Rapid Transit company on July 3, | 1907, for falling over some boards in the Ridgewood depot: the Long Island rail- road on June 10, 198, for talling over a mat in Long Island City, and A. D. Matthews He sued the of Chicago was Its record runs thus Bruhnke Haven. Conn e o e e s & Sons on December 15, 1308, for bumping | #ome witnesses could be | Giiroy | known as Odetto or Duette. | patent | except | that they | ot ot SATURDAY, APRIL Nams of Long Island City seem unable to avold hurting themselves. Willlams' wife and son also feel obliged sometimes to sue rallroad companies. Rogers has a longer list of injuries than the Willlams family put together and is quite impartial as b tween rallroad companies and dry goods stores. Rogers 1s a philanthropist and when not suffering from himself will g0 to lawyers who have accident cascs on hand and tell them he can get witnesses for them. He went to Thomas F. Gilroy, for Instance, and told him he knew where tained In a dam had on hand. Mr, him to go ahead; | %0 many that Mr. suspiclons were aroused. He in vestigated and “fired” the crew. Among the specialists of note may be mentioned William J. Leonard, who for- merly operated in Boston. but left there | some months ago. leonard has a woman partner named Mary Toner, otherwise 8he, too, had a speclaity, quite different from Leonard’ and neither ever Infringed on the other' Leonard's speclalty was elovator accldents and Miss Toner's was a refine- ment of the trolley cag method Miss Tomer's Specialty. The usual method of getting hurt In a trolley car is to be thrown from your seat when the car gives a jerk, but Miss Ton- er's specialty was boarding cars just as they started and being thrown to the ground Leonard never bothered with trolley cars | once. He practiced the profession | of getting out of elevators when the car was not quite level with the landing and tripping over the casing. His record for the year 1%8 was as follows: Sued American Fidelity company 18; Travelers urance company, same a Employ Ldability company, April 5, Travelers' Insurance company, March; Boston and Worcester Street Rallway com- pany, May 1; Casualty company of Amer- fca, June 18. In his case against the Employers' Lia- bility company he gave the name of John Thurman and In the second of Nis sults against the Travelers' Insurance ocom- pany that of Willlam Ward. All were elevator accldents except one trolley car sult and one case where he was ‘'struck by a team.” But the most remarkable specialty Is thatof G. W. McDonald, alllas Danlel, who gets hit in the eye with an incandes- cent light. He is operating in the west now. His method is to enter a trolley car and quietly unscrew one of the Incandes- cent lights. When the car starts of gives a jerk the globe falls. As it does so Me- Donald gives a cry of pain and claps his hands to his eye. In his hand is a com- pound which has the effect of inflaming |the eye and making it water. Then, of course, he sues the road. He 1s known to have muleted the Little Rock (Ark.) Rallway and Electric com- pany on July 3, 18, and the Birmingham (Ala.) Light and Power company on Au- gust 3 of the same year. Five days after- ward he was in Oklahoma City and un- dertook to play his usual game on the Oklahoma Railway company. He falled, the Oklahoma being too sharp for him, and moved on to Guthrie, where he tried it again. The Guthrie people had been forewarned and he failed, but on Novem- ber 4 he played the game successfully on the Memphis (Tenn.) Street Rallway com- pany. As a result, the Memphis company has joined the alllance. At least one of these operators allows no pent-up continent to contract his powers. His name is John D. Robinson. He loomed up in Baltimore with a clalm against the United Rallway and Hlectric company. Detective Atkingon of the Baitimore police department produced proof that Robinson | had worked In London and collected $215 from the Bmployers' Liabllity Assurance company there. Robinson went to jail for | a year and the Alllance Agalnst Accident | Fraud gave Atkinson $500 as a reward. | One novel varfation of the game is played at the expense of lawyers Instead of cor- | porations. The practitioner appears In a law offico with a bandaged hand and a | circumstantial story of how he was in- jured by a street car, together with a fake list of witnesses. He asks the lawyer to take his case and the lawyer does s0. As the client is leaving he asks the lawyer to cash a lodge premium for $, and the attorney eagerly consents. He never hears again of his client.—Philadelphia Ledger. MYSTERIES OF DEATH VALLEY Man Steadily Penetrating the hidden Spot in Search of Treasure, { Slowly but surely, inch by ineh, in the | face of drouth- and intense heat, man | is solving the mysterics of Death Valley, and one by its hitherto unlocked | treasure vaults are being thrown open | to add o the wealth of the world. There 18 gold, in large and small quantities | throughout the length of the valley, par- ticularly at Skidoo and other nelghboring camps In the Panaminta; there is copper aplenty, enough borax to supply the entire world for many a year, and now It seems probable that the district will soon known as & large producer of rock salt These salt deposits are found In the | foothills of the Avakatw mountains, at{ the southern end of Death Valley, and within sixteen miles of the Tonopah & Tidewater rallroad. There are four dis- | tinet bodles, known as the Death Valley King, Salt Basin and Jumoo salt mines The salt appears to lle In ledge form with | well defined walls, particularly on the | upper or hanging walls. The deposits have been well prospectors for many not until the completion assumed any too, age sult that lawyer innocently told but Rogers furnished Gilroy's whole March s’ For- be | known to it was tiroad years, but of the r commercial value. Years ago some of the material was freighted to the Tecopa mine for in & chlorination mill In use on the property, | when it was mined for its high purface | values of silver. The Death Valley mine consists of elghty | acres, and it Is upen this ground that the larger part of the present development of the deposits has been done. The show- ing is 500 wide by 1,000 feet in length, the salt belng covered with wash gravel and mud to a mininmum depth of ten feet. Where the salt has been most exposed to the elements it has dlssolved and mixed with the mud and gravel, forming an in- crustation harder aven than the rock sait The development consists of numerous open cuts, tunnels and shafts, all penetrating the surface incrustation and showing pure salt in the face. It Is estimated that there are 260,000 ton of salt already exposed In this deposit The King mine lies one mile to the north the Death Valley property and shows salt for more than one hundred feet in width, traceable for 1,20 feet. In one place the rock salt stands fifty feet above the surrounding foundation The Salt Basin property lies one lle further to the south- east, on what is really a continuation of the King deposit. Two miles further south- east is the Jumbo ming salo Angeles J5e showing seventy-five feet body ses.—Los | Times. ‘ —— | mmer Coverlets The light single blankein every one has may be made summer coverlets by covering with a silk- oline slip. tied here and there to keep it smooth. This protects the blanket, is easily that nearly into pleasant against & bolt of cloth Thomas A. Rogers and Charles A. Wil | 10, 1909 15§10 DOUGLAS STREET made of finest materials; values $2.00 and $2.25— onsaleat. ... ORI FORMERLY O. Beautiful Silk Dresses $ Made fo Sell at $22, $22.50 and $25, at Our resident New York buyer purc hased these beautiful dresses at a wonderfully low price, and we are giving you the benefit of this remarkable sale for just before Easter, when silk dresses are most in de- mand; all are pretty new styles. terials are silk foulard, messaline and pongee. Several hundred to choose from; $20.00, $22.50 and $25.00 Dresses; ON SALE SATURDAY AT . .. .. Stunning Tailored Suits, § Values $35.00, §37.50 and $40.00, A R s o o R New Shirt Waists, $1.45 These pretty shirt waists are just from the maker’s hands; crisp new styles— e 1510 DOUGLAS STREET K. SCOFIELD CLOAK & SUIT cO 29 Over 300 new tailored suits that just ar- rived will be placed on sale Saturday. beautiful new models, perfectly tailored in plain mannish styles and beautifully trimmed designs. The materials are fine worsteds, Prunella cloth and French serges, in all colors. are $35.00, $37.50 and $40.00 values; on sale Saturday at s g e o All are Stylish New Skirts, $5.95 Saturday morning<ve will place on sale a splendid collection of new skirts; all are perfectly tailored of all wool materials; in the very newest styles; values $7.50 to $10.00; on sale at rated in Omaha. WALL PAPER We Bought fer Spot Cash froam the Receiver of the late firm of RUTHERFORD & JENSEN their magnificent stock of strictly up-to-date German, French, English and Domestic WALL PAPERS which will be sold at about ONE-TENTH THE ORIGINAL VALUES This will be the most giga > Their stock consists of nearly 250,000 rol Ceme in and Look at Them About April 8th, at 2008 FARNAMSTREET ntic sale of Wall Paper ever inaugu- MEW YORK'S DEBT CAPACITY City May Legally Borrow Hundred and Fifty Millions More, DICK CROKER ON PROHIBITION the Former Tammany Chieftain ovement Wil Says Drive the to NEW YORK, April 9.—8hould the opinion of Referee Benjamin K. Tracy, the debt limit of New York City rendered to- day, he upheld by the courts, the city's prospects for extension of subway con struction eMeve the present cobjested transportation conditions would be appear to be excellent. The report finds that the borrowing capacity of the city on June %0 last was §106.206,714 is presumably | several millions greater present. Mr Tracy was appointed by the supreme court ! as referee in injunction proceedings, the determination of which hinged upon the city's actual debt limit Caleulating the permanent debt of the city at $517,844,45, the referee found that the constitutional borrowing power at the close of the last fiscal year was more than $106,000,000, and that to calculate the present debt limit the Increase In the assessment | roll Yor 198 must be allowed for. As the assessment roll showed an Increase of more than 480,000,000, the apparent con- clulon 1s that the present borrowing pacity of the city is probably nearly $1 000,000, This estimate is far:larger tha: any previously made Dick Croker on Prohibitien. Commenting tonight on th prohibition legislation now sweeping the country, Richard Croker predicted that this course, It persisted fn would Jrive rich | Americans abread, where more liberal | views prevailed Europe, on personal liberty acing, one of the We class it as & o to what and when a The whole question will resolve this: We'll make money will go to Europe to enfoy it." Speaking of the president, whom he met | during his stay in Washington, Mr. Croker and p of over wave said he, “can give us points Here we stopped horse | grandest sports there me. We legislate man shall drink itselt here our but | washed. and does away with the disagree able feel of the wool ald: “He is & fine, big, splendld, whole- | | souled man, genial and smart. He'll m-l more than equal country with the polse and the brains, backed by plenty of physical strength.” The Shubert the Theatrical first of what atrical war, The Shuberte, it is stated, have long been object the syndicate langer, | Fronman and Al against them Is said to have been planned. But the Shuberts, according to the Trib- une, have taken the initlative and are pre- pared to make the fight a thorough one A new managers' assoclation, which will tnclude David Belasco and the Shuberts, will be formed, it Is un- | aerstooa. They Bunday ed_under Drivers’ themselves entitied they Cab that famiifes. tlons condemning Sunaay funerals and ask- to any emergency this He is there ing the assistance of ministers and others Interested in Sunday observance in*an agltation to abolish the custom. The reso- lutions recite that the cab drivers need “intellectual instruction” and time ta “worship with thejr families,” and thgs, funerals can be conducted on days other than Sunday. HYMENEAL. Collins-Nelson, Mias Myrtle M. Nelson, daughver of Walter Nelson, and William M. Collins, ali;,. of Blkton, B. D., were married by Rew; Charles W. Savidge Thursdey at 4 p. m at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. L. A Bennett, 206 North Nineteenth street. . i Matherly-V man, P Miss Cora M. Vardman, daughter jéf Frank Vardman, and Willlam A. Matherly were married by Rev. Charles W. Savidge at his residence, at 4:30 p. m., Thursday, They were accompanied by Warren J, | Savage and Mrs. Frank Faber | Mundin-Miller, Miss Helen Miller, daugter of ler, and. George A. Mundin were married by Rev. Charles W. Bavidge Thursday afterncon at’s o'clock. . may have to face heatrical Manag anncuucement today by War. the Messrs that they have withdrawn from Managers' association s gun, sccording to the Tribune, will undoubtedly be a big the- of concern to the members of composed of Klaw & Er- & Zimmerman, Charles Hayman, and a fight Nixon Harrison Grey Fiske Their § John Mil in Chlcago ban of the Carriage and The jehus consider to a day of rest, mo may attend church with their The drivers have adopted resolu- Want funerals the union y om, have been Quick Action for Yoar Money—You that by using The Bee advertising columna, 5,000 California Groves ‘When you eat oranges for health, you should bave the best. When you eat them for taste, you want the best. When youask for ' Sunkist’’—you get the best. “‘Sunkist’’ (seedless) Oranges are tree-ripened —hand-picked, full-flavored, deficious fruit —the pick of 5,000 orange roves. The name ‘‘Sunkist’’ on the box is the public's guarantee that these are the best to be had, Ask Your Dealer for “‘ Sunkist’’ Oranges are & health frait. Their action on the digestive organs and on the liver make them a household uecessity, Give the children oranges. Ask for ‘‘Sune kist.”" Your dealer has a fresh shipment today. California *Sunkist” Lemons are juicy and mostly recipe for Lemon Sherbet: Rub the yellow mons with % pound of loaf sugar. Crush the put it info & sauce pan with & pint of m 'eflfl{ until sugar I8 dissolyed. When cold, add the strained julce of the lemons. Take out the rindand serve in sherbet glasses. (Will serve seven persons.) Mostly Seedless