Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 24, 1909, Page 9

THE BEE Sensational Values Saturday in Our After Easter Suit Sale Your Unlimited and Unrestricted Choice of 400 Fine Suits Saturda Tailored y at § These Suits worth $25, §29.50; §35 Through a most fortunate purchase made by our Mr. 0. K. Scofield we are enabled to offer the greatest suit values at $156.00 that have ever been offered, Especial attention is directed to the very unusual assortment of materials, styles and colorings. The most extensive and attrac- tive ever before shown at this store or any other single store in Omaha. Never before were desirable man-tailored suits of fine all wool materials so cheap as you’ll see them selling here, starting at 8 o’cock Satur- day morning Suits worth $25, §29.50 and $35.00 on Sale, at . . STPHONSTRETCHES FOR MILES | Boring the Catskill Aqueduct Under .. Rondout Creek. WILL COST OVER SIX MILLION Water for New York To Be Carried 200 Feet Below the Creek's Hed Through a Sort of Jumbled Geolpgical Formation, NEW YORK, April 18.~A syphon will carry the new Catakill aqueduct under Rondout creek. The creek is in the middle of a valiey five or six miles wide and bounded on the north by the foothills of the Catskill mountains and on the south by the Shawangunk range. Beneath this valley at a polut near High Fulls and Stone Ridge In the town of Marbletown, Ulster eounty, the syphon is to be bullt. For many months before seltling the plans for the syphon engineers connected with the Board of Water Supply were studying the geological character of the territory which it was proposed to traverse, Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of holes were drilied wilh diamond bores. These showed that at some time in the remote past movements of the earth crust had taken place causing the strata to be wrenched and torn from their original pos tions and jumbled and huddled together in new and distorted layers much after the | tashion of & distorted and crumpled layer cake, Then came the glacial times when a huge sheet of ice covered all the land, smoothing off the hills and filling the valleys wtih the material pushed before it. The, filllng of the vall changed the courses of the streams and rivers, making it for the engineer to explore the line with borings so as to locate the 0ld channels. Along the line o= tnis syphon two of these channels or valleys were found deep down below ‘the present river and both much larger than the bed in which the present Rondout creek flows, necessary Went Deep for Foundation. The main problem was to find a satisfac- tory foundation of hard, impervious rock, and it was equally clear that the lower- most point of the tunnel must be deter- mined by the location of the rock forma- tlon, no matter how great the depth. This point was found to be nearly under the Rondout creek, about 200 feet below it and practically at sea level. The labors of the engineers to discover the exact subterranean tormétion have been graphically expressed in the -accoms panylng section of valley, The syphon will be bullt vntirely in rock and will cover a distance cf about and a half under the valley, will be fourteen one-half fect insi diame form, lined with cone crete and built to withstand the enormous pressure put upon it. The aqueduct at each end of the syphon is larger in diamet being seventeen feet high and thirteen feet four Inches wide at the and seventeen feet high and seventeen six inches wide at the northern. The syphon should be finished in four and a half years, The contract price is about $5,300,000 The geological features of this valley are especially interesting, hearing as they do evidences of the great glactal ment which In ancient times took there. filled In with cross the miles and in , circular southern move- place the drift of eand gravel, known as Shawangunk grit, resistant and almost as white as marble This Is #0 hard that it is used for mill: stones. Here also are huge layers shale, sandstone, limestone, slate hard, Before going to your new location we| are offering an unusual opportunity to buy| your spring outfit at a greatly reduced rate. Our prices are not lowered at the expense of quality. We please the most fastidious. Our suits at $20.00, $22.50, and $25.00 are +) winners. 20% DIS To close out our possible time, EVERYTHING IN THE COUNT stock in the shortest STORE will be sold at 20% reduction. This includes all our new stock of shirts, . underwear, neckwear and hosiery. BOURKE’S CLOTHES SHOP 319 So. 16th Street four | 1e| feet | Here are traces of anclent valleys and clay | and supcrposed on strata of white quarts ot | and | 19 { | flagetone, each having its distinct pecuii- | arties and formations. How Work Is Done. The work is being carried on from elght shafts varying In depth from 372 to T8 feet. Of these shaft No. 3 is completed at a depth of about 372 feet and No. 2 at & depth of #4 feet. Shaft No. 1 is down over 400 feet, shaft Nos. 4 and 5 each about %0 feet, shaft No. & over 500 feet, shaft No. 7 about 3% feet and shaft No. 8 about 430 feet. Power for all the work is delivered from a centsal compressed air plant on the banks of the Rondout river, whence a coplous supply of fresh water 1is pro- cured for the operation of the ten air compressors With & capacity of 24,000 cuble feet of free air a minute. The v shafts characteristics of thelr | the earth rock and shal trate and on them conditions lous present individual In some asy t and In others own. are easy to remove rapid continually such as streams progress difficult them- under- tunnel day and is present the tapping of which flood constant pumping disclosure of faults selves, | round the and require night, th and seams, and a thousand and one varying changes of material to be handled and overcome, For Instance, in shaft 4 progress was made at a satisfactory rate until suddenly & subterranean stream was tapped and water gushed forth in such quantities as almost to overwhelm the men working in the bottom of the pit. They were hurriedly daken out in the buckel, but meantime the pumps ar the bottom of the shaft were were burled in | teet of water. Work on this contract proceeds night and day. The “muckers for the most part negroes or forelgners, generally Lith- uanians and Slavonians, They are well paid, woll cared for, seemingly contented and without temptation save such as exists in the saloons established beyond the ju diction of the Board of Water Supply. Electricity Freely Used. Another important feature of the track 1s the made of eleetricily gener- ated from a central power plant. Bach of the eight shafts is equipped with tele- phones and communication is thus estab- lished between the bottom of the pit and the, surface with the contractor's central office and power house and with the var- lous offices of the engincers. The shafts are. lighted by electricity. The line of ‘the aqueduct is under police protection, which serves two useful pur- poses, the preservation of order and about the work and the protection of the people of the nelghborhood. The employes of the board and of the contractor show a wide range of training, nationality experience. One the best on“shaft 1 is a former had no difficulty In preserving order on his part of the work after a tempest- wous experience with half a dogen Lithu- antans, who fell 'before him as sheep the slaughterer. Another highly individual in the contractor's employ ex-captain of one of the leading varsity foot ball teams of the country, who for two or.three years held a proud position on Walter Camp's All-American eleven. t ads are business bo trom fifty are is- con- use on of inspectors prize fighter, who ore prized is an Bee w sters. Monument to @ St. Bernard. | Near the Hospice of St. Bernard Switzerland, i3 & amonument to Barry, one of the dogs, which always Interests tour Ists. This animal died some years ag and a writer in the Wide World Magazine tells his siory: “During the ten years he was at the hospice he sayed the lives of forty persons who had lost thefr way in the suow. On one occasion he found a child 10 years old, lying in the snow.under ti influence of the fatal slumber which pre cedes death, The dog warmed with its breath, and then roused it from sleep by licking it. This much accom plished, Barry, by Iying down on its si gave the child un obvious invitation te get upon its back and ride. The child did 80, and was thus carried to the monastery Barry was killed by some unknown person probably in mistake.” The inseription or monument s, “Barry herolc. Saved lives of forty persons, and was killed the forty-first.'—New York Trib Commencing promptiy at § . m, Sa | day Orkin Bros. store will open with over 1,00 32, 330 and $35 women's high grade stylish new tadlor-made suits on sale Sat- urday, §15. See Page & the by th ur pene- | submerged and in a short time the pumps | to seventy-five | and | chia | OMAHA ATURDAY APRIL STEALING WITH PEN AND INK Embezzlers and Defaulters Make Away with Large Roll. KNOWN TOTAL CONSIDERED LOW Peeulinrities of A0 Bestions of Buvns ing Up (he Money of Others— Bond Companies and Grow We, aneal hy. The vast army of professional thieves who rob by force or otherwise steal but & tithe of the millions of dollars that are taken unlawfully throughout the length and breadth of America year. It is the well-educated, carefully dressed gentlemen who hold positions of trust and whose only tools are pen and ink, who loot most of the treasure chests of corporations and individuals, They rarely are called theives, but generally are referred fo—when dis covered—as embezzlers or defaulters. They stole last year, so far as records show, nearly $12,000,00. The year before they | got away with nearly §0,000,000. If the em- bozzlements during 1900 keep up the record of January, this year will be another record-breaker for dishonesty and loss. The | report of defalcations for the first month {ot 1900 shows that the enormous total of 191,265,409 was taken during its thirty-one | days. This is at the rate of more than $15,000000 a year, Burglaries and other thefte amount to but about $3,000,000 | annually. | The amount of embezzlements only can | | be guessed at, after all, and it is more than likely that the figures given are far | below the actual are complied by one of the blg New York fidelity com- panies from official reports that come in | from agents all over the country, from | newspaper clippings and other available sources of inform Yet it is acknowl- | eaged by every one familiar with the sub- ject that hot more than half of the em- beszlements that occur ever are heard of except by those directly Interested. Thy are ‘nushed up for fear they will injure the standing of the concern that has been robbed. each to n Caught in the Aet. Sometimes the embezzler is caught red- | handed and 1s forced to disgorge most of | the money he has stolen. This generally is before he has had a chance to spend it and usually follows a theft that is com- | mitted under sudden and overpowering temptation. In many other cases, however, it is discovered unexpectedly that a trusted employe's defalcations have extended over a period of many months or years. It he | confesses and his family and friends mre able to make up even the major portion of the loss he frequently is allowed to go free and unwhipped of justice. But there are others whose cases are so flagrant the cannot be hid. The bonding company | loses thousands of dollars and then the | punishment is severe and certain “1 could stand on the roof of almost any of the tall buildings below Fulton street,” sald an employe of one of the big private detective agencies the other day, “and toss a stone on the roof of one or score of places where 1 personally know | that heavy defalcations have occurred that | never have been reported to the police or even hinted at in the newspaprs. In some of the cases the embezzlers have been caught, in others they are being hunted | for In various parts of the earth. Their | pursuit never will end until death of cap- ture gets the thief. The known statistics of loss indicating $12,000,000 stolen last year are accurate so far as they go. But the actual amount of embezzlements might reach four times that amount.” The Principal Vietims. Banks and trust companies are the heaviest losers, according to the published reports. Last year there was stolen from such corporations the sum $5,983,971 which was $2,901,90 than in 1% | Last January the defalcations from banks | and trust companies amounted to §i%4,860. | | 1f the embezzle nts continu at the | | rate during 1909 it will bring the -total of | losses for such institutions alone up to 9,400, which than the total | in all lines of business reported in more samo is more losse 19 General commercial houses of %2 through business, which term includes | all descriptions, lost defalte 1908—§390,000 | more than the year previous. During the | first month of 19 the total of the losses that came to light was $351,2 Public service corporations w. next | heaviest losers, their total being $1,04,741 in |1908. No one knows why it but this was nearly §760,000 below the previous year's | record. | The smallest losers in 1907 were the in- surance companies, who had $81540 taken | from them surreptitiously L though, their losses amounted to $581,2 increase of about 600 per cent. Beneficial | associations lost less than usual in 1908, only §281511, which was about half what they did in 1%07. Court trust funds were embezaled the extent of $554 last year, an increase of nearly $20,00. Trans- portation comy by which is meant | the steam railroads and water lines, cut | down their $111,175, their 1908 de- falcations being only the trifle of $242,608 This is especlally remarkable, considering the billions of money that the railroads' employes handle every year. “There isn't a safe made that a burglar |can’t get into with a little time and ade- quate opportunity to work without inter ruption,” said the superintendent of one | of the big bonding companies recently. “But safe-cracking isn't half so casy a: robbing with pen and ink re is a new system of accounting devised every few days, but 1 heard of one that was embezzlethent-proof. Fanny Side on Bonding Busine: “There is & funny side to the bonding business if knows where to look for | it,” he continued. of the clerks in the office the other day called my alten- | tion to & telegram from a bank, saying that one of their tellers was missing, and was $,00 short. He very justly remarked | that 1t wasn't the teller that was short, but elther the bank or ourselves. We learned later that he had lost part of the money on fast horses. The whole trouble, though, was that the horses were slow It is “that great bond which keeps me | pale,” as Macbeth once observed, which does the most to prevent dishonesty—that knowledge that the surety com- pany will pursue the defaulter who cannot make good, and will land him in .Jjail in the end. The surety and bonding eompanies keep an army detectives in thelr em- ploy for the purpose of running down these | thieves who have caused them loss. They will chase a man around the world even if | he than $100, and spend | thousands capture and convict him. Some of these chases are There is one man whose name the bonding com- pany a will who has | been pursued unremittingly for three years He stole about f100,000. At the rate he has been traveling the bonding company thinks have most of it by chase has led the detectives into country in the world | they always have arrived a week | month too late in following up-the. clews | of his reported appearance here and there far-off corners of th. The de- frozen in crossing the | Andean pusses on mulcback, they nearly in | to nies, losses by never One of Las stolen no more w historic intere: not reveal | he this | time | almo: | almost must The every spent 8o far or al in the e tectives lave been dency | collectea statistics, b | claim | tore gler's margin account is wiped out, he be gins to lose sleep at night and to stea [ defalcations among employes of banks and 920 Ladies’ Suits $19 On a Chargs Account $3 Cash and $1 Weekly Big Sale Sample Suits Saturday Ladies who have been waiting for a sale of high grade suits at*a low price—HERE’S YOUR OPPOR- TUNITY. Unseasonable weather has compelled manu- facturers to dispose of their sargple suits earlier than usual, BERGMANN & TURKEL, Located 26 to 34 West 17th Street, New York City sell us their entire sample line of ladies’ and misses’ spring suits—they are beautifully made, carefully tail- ored, and consist of all the very newest styles and latest materials—one and two of a kind. These suits are pos- itively worth $25.00; we offer them to you Saturday on a charge account for only— $1.00 : § WE BUY “K. N. & F.’s” SURPLUS 000000000000 0000000000000000000000000000000000 STOCK OF Sincerity Clothes THE BIGGEST BARGAIN EVENT OF THE YEAR—You take no chances when you buy these clothes—the label is a guarantee that they are made right and made of the right materials in the best and latest styles. save from $7.60 to $10 on any suit that you buy of us at You can Cash or Credit, $15 $12.50 ani $10 n black and tan— Men’s ' Hose customer, on sale Saturday for PEOPLE (The Peoples ¥irniture and Carpet Oo. 8t colors—the kind you pay 16c a pair for elsewhere—Ilimit of 5 pairs to a A S5c¢c RELIASLE CREDIT Established in 1887.) £0000000000006003800000000000000000006000060000009 have died of heat and thirst in chasing o thief on camels across African deserts. the:dhiag o chmels S5rom ’ # \t | my_ contention precisely.” The complete story of the hunted man, “You had as well sit down, it over Is told, will bo a veritable Odysey | I have decided ‘the : 0 Tlysses will | Feplied the court. “You need not clte of crime. The wanderings of [ )l‘Ml| " more cases. 1 have overruled your de be nothing to the long flight and pursult of | murrer and do not care (o hear You read this unnamed thief. mfl n;‘e;l'(l)l'}/m e ne 1 T % S 3 i have, your honor; 1 know But, despite all this huge total of dishon- | o, ave ” warcastically said the re- esty, the bonding companies wax wealthy Before a man can get a bond his character doubtable lawyer. “I know it, but I just wanted to show the court what a 1ool and reputation, directly, collaterally, and even back to the second generation, are Blackstone was."—Kansas City Times. Toaiced into most rigiaty. one or two ot | /HE EXPECTED" IS COMING the companies are even examining into the Naval Expansion in the United States hereditary tendencies toward crime on the part, of applicants. If they find that a E“""'o::""_'.'"" ot man's father or grandfatlier, or any mem- ber of his family, ever stole or committed & breach of trust, they argue that the ap- plicant may be liable to some day, just as a physiclan examining & man for life in- surance policy looks for a hereditary ten- to tuberculosis. The surety com- panies, from thelr many years of carefully figure on losing about 0 much money annually, and make their premiums sufficiently large to cover that | probable loss and leave them a handsome surplus. We Are Growing Better. Curiously enough, despite the large in- se In reported embezzlements that was shown last year over the year preceding it is the optimistic opinion of experts in guaraniceing honesty that people are less stone, the father of the common law. and undoubtedly an authority. He supports MAPruiett; point agaifst you,” The expected shortage of officers neces- ary to handle thé battleships of the United States is already apparent, and oc- casions a trumpet blast of warning from Admiral Robley D. Evans in Hampton's magazine. The admiral says, in part: “At the present moment we have not sufficlent oftieers for the ships now in commission, and this condition is growing worse month by month as new ships are ordered into service. There is not a single battieship in the fleet today that has her proper complement of officers to fight her to the best advantage, and this can never be cor- rected until the number of officers is largely increased, and this increase must be in the upper grades as w lower. “When this increase has been authorized some plan must be devised by which re- tirement will be more rapid in the upper grades, thus bringing younger men to com- mand and fiag ranks. “A large retired list but I see no other way the efficlency which we saying this I disclalm any reflection on the men now in the flag and 'command ranks. They are as efficient and able as any set of men could be under the condi- tfons which have surroupded them since the civl: war closed.” Fighting Bob puts condition squarely up to the Amerfcan people and congress, declaring: “When- ever the people of the United States want a change in the condition described, which are undoubtedly not good as they should be, and are willing to pay for a better condition, they hdve only to force thelr representatives In congress to give them what they want. The navy is theirs, and the money to make It what it should be, comes from them. They cannot have @ good thing without paying for it. Further- more, If they decide that officers and men shall be In proper proportion to the ships they have now, or must have in the future, then they must pay for them." | as in the will cost money, of bringing about all desire, and In the remedy for this irclined to steal than they used to be. They that the big defalcations that are coming to light are but the aftermath of he panic year. During good times, they say, there is less embeszlement—less that 1s discovered, at least. The defaulter, if he speculates in stocks, nine times out of ten goes long on the market. In boom times prices always are going up. There the trusted thief, for a time, at least make good his shortages an: cover them up in his books beyond th hope of discovery. But when prices of s curities begin to crumble and the embez Wall is able to hardef than ever by day so as to accom- plish the impossible and to avold the dis- covery which will come Inevitably some time. E ORIGINAL VALUE. THEM OVER at perts attribute the large amount of trust companies—it will be remembered that theso Tead in the list of losses—to the snall salaries pald. A teller who handles perhaps §1,000000 a day will receive $1,500 or $2,000 a year salary. He has to dress well and live in a respectuvle neighborhood. 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