Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 21, 1909, Page 1

THE OMAHA BEE & clean, rallable newspaper that is Admittad to each and every home. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE WEATHER FORECAST. For Nebraska—Cloudy For Unsettled; weather showe lowa showers For report see page 8 B T ——— VOL. XXXIX-—NO. 83. OMAHA, TUESDAY MORNING, with material prosperity: he bowed and tipped his hat to the most aristooratic people in the state and he was equally pleassd as he greeted the day laborer. But the big smile he donned at the station was bigger and brouder when he returned the cheering salute of thousands of school | entidren who waved flags and threw flow- ors at him. Hour and & Half’s Ride. The president’s parade left the station at 430 o'clock and at § drew up at the Omaha club, after having visited every sectlon of |Nebraska's metropolls. He saw the eity |at its best and at its worst, and thousands of men, women and children in the city had an opportunity to grest tne president. Inasmuch as every block of mis long trip he passed was crowded and apparently every home turned out its quota, the people who failed to see him wers very much in the mincsity Wher <he president's automobile left the stat’ he put on that broad smile of his % |ow make and he tipped his hat as he i r SAYS IT IS THE GRANDEST+ se viaduet, but the hat came off to stay s he started up the Incline o the viaduct shen a woman held up to his gase am hfant evidenly of a few months of age. ‘he president beamed his biggest smile on er and she was the one woman who had Mused to heed the injunction of the poilce ) vacate the Incline. For her persistence TAFTBOWSTO AK-SAR-BEN President of the United States Swears Allegiance to the King of Quivera. BIG DAY IN OMAHA ENDS AT DEN Chief Executive of Nation En, of Paprika Schnitzel, Seven Hours in Oity One Con Ovation to President. THOUSANDS GREET HIM AT DE. .. From There Along Route of Tour Admiring Throngs Cheer, her child was paid by & smile from the firat | man of the land. Through a lane formed of the Dahiman Guards, the president was whizzed down | the viaduet and his unique whirl through | the city was on | At times the trip assumed dramatic pro- SCHOOL CHILDREN MADE HAPPY |Portions. The 1id was off the speed limit at the very first and the ordinance that thou shalt go ®o fast and no faster" Shout for Head of Their Nation— | hung limp and lifeless at the snd Banguet Givem by Ak-Sar-Ben Didn't Mind the Dust. Real estate which had been stationary Governors at Om Clab a4 moment befors took wings and went Distinet Success. #ky high, much of the commodity elinging | affectionately to the president, filling his |eves and his halr and covering his cloth- For seven hours orammed full of west-|ing. But evidently it bothered the presi- ern hospliality and entertainment, Presi- |dent very little. He was carried over the dent TAR waa the guest of Omaha and | ground so fast at times that his greeting xm.mmu-nr-mn vestarday afternoon and | meant for peaple behind was caught by the evening. | advance guard of the crowd In front. And HeoGRiea Snem Wis ear Mrough an avenus | 4 i1y time the secret service mar wee made by €8s eifieges in the crowds of [ ...:\0'\o the dariver: “Hustie along; don't ool YT fhae SHisd AN6 URlon oW~ |, o pig” Dregitent Plokiens of the boara | stop, 4 o 4 Dou T TRRIOCE CRMY Jokdad | dnto ‘i o Toll Ty was sayine, ViNok too fast automobile and whisked through the whole- | 5 g 4 sale, business and residence sections of |50 SIOW the oity past many public and parochial| ON® MO of a very fow seconds was school bufldings, where children, lined up | Made in front of the homes of Omaha's by their teachers, waved him i greeting |0 cX-senators, General Charies F. Man- | with small American flags; then back to derson and Joseph H. Millard. There the the Omaha club for a few minutes of President greeted the two senators and rost before the $20 dinner, at which 10 Mrs. Manderson, 1 knights of Ak-Sar-Ben and a'few others | “I am sorry I have not time to et ou | were spated and finally to the den of |and visit with you,” he sald, and by thas King Ak-8ar-Bgn, where the singers and | time the secret service man had wave Jesters put on & specjal production of the | back an enthusiastic photographer's auto beautiful oprey, “Paprika Behnitsel” for | mobile and the driver had started the the benefit of the presidential party, and machine the president ywore Mllegiance to the king.| At Twenty-fourth and Leavenworth | When the party @ little before 11 o'clock. | street the president came very near being | Snder| the glare of ‘thousands of colored | yiopped by reason of the dignitied manner | Mahts thet flooded the streets, mcorched | .ome 1royugias county eltizen, who had | lor. Ul 91ation, Where, the Dresident's |.ovigently been to Havelock, . cromsed the | APSa L JOTA DA, SaheE S0 & spociall y i wivh his teats. . Ohist o Polles trein, & A T Inuous M8 T WAS! Donative, whase machine set the passtor cordial was ended. the parade, called to the man repeatedly | Car Strike a Drawhack. to get out of the way, but he heard not, or The lack of street cars, which stopped|if hearing, heeded not, for he took his ti runnlag W“n&sm hour before, MQying..the chief clearing the tnl{ the presidential party arrived, kept many the Just in time to prevent ®w halt ' of people from coming downtown to see the | procession. And the man never even Dresidadt, but everywhere the procession |goked around as the president's car passed of fourteen -utomow:dw -“ln-el'fl With | close to the rear of his wagon. cheers from crowded sidewalks. long befors the time for the train to ar- Loss arned the salutation of the hundreds on | PRESIDENT AT | CLUB DINNER Mr. Taft Gives Ample Evidence that His Long Auto Ride Was | Exhilerating. | | | Hearty and Jovial, He Seems to Enjoy | the Evening Immensely. | | BANQUET A SPLENDID FUNCTION President Consumes Some Thirty Minutes Shedding the Dust. | WELL COVERED FROM THE RIDE| Holds Levee at Roomas Entrance of Dining Before to Table, from Which Party Proceeds Direetly to Dem. Gotng President Taft dined well as the guest of the Board of Governors of Ak-Sar-Ben and the dinner at the Omaha club last [ evening will probably remain a pleasant Ilh-nllM‘tlnn even in the mind of the man who might be supposed satiated and sur- | feited with oceasions of the kind. “My friend sald the president in clos- ing a brief speech at the end of the dinner, “I enjoy being here. I hope I may be here often—even after I become a retired politiclan—and that you will receive me | as cordially as now." The president reached .the Omaha club at just 6 o'clock. He was taken immedi- ately to the rooms set aside for his use on the upper floor. The other men in the presidential party also -disappeared and changed from day to evening dress. Mea time the 150 diners of the evening were arriving and all were at hand by 6:15 at least. At 6:20 H. J. Penfold announced | from the landing of the maln stairca that the president would - be ready | In ten minutes. At the half hour the signal was given to ascend the | stairs. The crowd hung back for a few seconds, none wishing to appear forward. Then former Senator J. H.| Millard realizing tha{ some one had to| make a start put his foot on the first step | and the rest followed. Knew Muany Diners. The prestdent shoc hands with Zuests of the evening In the hall, gives on to the dining rooms. C. H Pickens, president of Ak-Rar-Been stood by his side. Fach man gave his own name as he approached, though a considerablc number, the president greeted by name or le for he knew many of the diners per- sonally The guests filing into the dining rooms found the tables arranged in the form of & rectangle with one of the shorter sides missing. Another table reached down the room from the center of where this miss- ing side would be, and parallel to the aj- réction of (he_two long sides of the rectangle. The president was seated at the further end of the room in the center of the closed short side. Flanking him were C. H. Pickens on his right and General Manderson on his left Senator Burkett | the whiel SEPTEMBER 21, 1909-TEN PAGES. Copyright, 198 by Moitet Studio, Chicaiso. VSIX(GI,H COPY TWO CEN CARS STOP FOR | THE PRESIDENT No Trolley Servioe After Four 0'clock Monday Afternoon Until this Morning. MOVE TO AVOID ANY TROUBLE Taft's Secretary Wires to Suspend Strike During Taft's Visit. MAYOR THEN CONSULTS WATTLES Latter Can't Suspend, but He Does Stop All Cars for Time. STRIKE BREAKERS NUMEROUS Four Hundred in All Will Be Here Tuen Wattles Says, When Normal Sehedules Are Promised. - Street Car Strike Situation. st of Mayor Dahlman street suspended Monday after- on account of the presi- Wil not be resumed until At car the requ at 4 g Wattles says practically full be resumed Tuesday morning ent will lnes The company says 180 strike breakers {rived Sunday and Mopday and are lodged 1 the car and on company {;r\!;;:rh Enough to make 40 will come {n by Tu day, says the company, [ Both Mr. Pratt and Mr. Wattles made |the statement Monday morning that there are no velopments looking to & ttle ment of the controversy. Such street | could give [at 4 p. m | company car service as the company vesterday terminated abruptly The cars were stopped by the as the resuit of a telegram from ;-l'n-hmvnl Taft's secretary asking that the car strike be called off for the day. This was impossible, and the company, at the | request of Mayor Dahiman, made the 4 [v. m. order President Wattles asserts by Tuesday the |company will have on hand 400 experienced men from other cities to take the places of |such men as remain on strike. The service | Monday was about the same as Sunday. | Apparently all efforts to offect a settie- trouble h falled. Both Mr, . r have M ment of th | Wattles and C. Pratt, a vic president’ of the international organization of street |raliway men, who Is conducting the strike, |*ald that no overtures looking to & ocon- |ference had been made by either side. | The mayor's action in requesting the street rallway officlals to stop all traffio | after 4 o'clock, follgwed the receipt of a telekram from Mr. Fred W. Carpenter, secretary at the White House, which read as follows: The Mayor, Omaha: Please wire me at once condition of strike in your city, Can- not arrangements be made to have strike called off for pefiod of the president's visit? FRED W, CARPENTER, Secretary. The mayor sent the following telegram in reply: Fred W. Carpenter, Tashington thing quiet here. Al cars will be iromn running before presilent arcives sud during hls stay in the oity. JAMES C. DAHLMAN, Before sending hik answer to the mee- sage, Mayor Dahiman called up President 0. and G. M. Hitchcock were at Pickens' progressed to the end of the serving of rive. Fifteen minutes before the scheduled time the police, aided by the Dahlman machines &t the station gave the presi- right and Senator Brown and former Sen- dent's car and a few others a start of courses with but one incident. Thi President Sends Wattles and asked If the strike could not be suspended while the president was in the city. W COVERNOR JOHNSON DYINU |House Physician Says He Will Live | But a Few Hours, | ator Millard on the other side of General | Manderson The dinner began without formality and the playing of “The St ner" by an orchestra and singing of the gues Manderson pangled Ban the rising and several blocks, but before much distunce had been covered the machines were lined out at respectful intervals and each drew on the crowds for generous applause. At Fifteenth and Farnam streets the president got his first glimpse of Omaha school boys in the high school cadatd, who formed a guard of honor through which his car and the others were run. Then to the Omaha High school and tae Central 8chool, where the largest school children and the smallest school children guards, under Captain Wilg, cleared an avenue from the train shed through the le-ver walting room of the depot, where the automoblle party was waiting. It was 4:35 when a Unlon Pacific shop whistle announced the approach of the train. The train pulled up to the main gate of the long train shed, but hefore it stopped the crowd had recognized the broadly smiling face of the chief execu- tive as he appearsd In the rear door of the car and a oheer went up which was €choed by the people back in the walting room. The president appeared with his black derby hat in his hand immediately behind Captain A. W. Butts. He waved his hat at the crowd, bowed and smiled | expansively as he clambered down the | step of the car and took Captain Butts' arm as he walked thrdugh the crowd. As he passed along the crowd took up (the cheering and the president acknowl- edged, the tribute by bowing right and| left and waving his hat. ; Greets Men He Knows. The members of the Dahlman gugrd| kept the crowd hack until the presidential Pty had passed and then the people| brbke through and followed the party to the cars outside the depot. Here the president held & short reception shaking lands with Senator Brown, Former Gov- ernor Sheldon and others whom he knew.| MR- MOHLER Before the traln arrived the crowds be-| MR. YOST &4n to congregate on the viaduct over which the car would have to pass. A dozen “ devp. the people craned their necks and MR C. D. BEATON period where ought to mend, but edged their way back and forth trying to| MR." JARDINE MR. LOMAX MR. CAMPBELL MR. SLOAN | does not mend. #0t 4 glimpse of the automobiles as they IN 3 “1 will not say now that it is positively | ascended the incline. Only now and then| MR. UTT MR. AUSTIN MR. BLANCHARD MR. BRECKENRIDGE | % certain that he will die, but could che face of the president, reddened| Mp BALDWIN MR. REED DR. SMITH MR. GLASS | are anywhere even by hours on the golf Mnks and somewhat MR. SAUNDERS MR. A. D. BRANDEIS |clear and he can discuss any thinner than when he was here last, be| MR. METZ MR. H. W. YATES el the body is siowly weakening. slnpsed as,the car sped up the street.| Lo Voo o MR. EDGAR ALLEN MR DRAKE | Dr. Mayo will return to the hospital at While there was no nolsy demonstration | B + R. LRYSON DR. ALLISON - | L | MR. HUGO BRA MR. UH MR BARLOW MR. PATRICK ! MR. BELDEN MR. BUCHOLZ J | ! Didn’t Start It, Can't Stop It. “We did not call the strike and we can- Answer to the o not suspend it,” was the snswer, “but If Govcrnor’s NOtC"“" request it, we will suspend all street car traffic during the time the president's party is. here."” Later Mayor Dahlman called up and asked that traffic be stopped, and an order was at once sent out from Mr, Wattles' of- fice to run no more cars atter 4 o'clook. Efforts of the strike officlals are being directed to the organigzing of the Couneil Bluffs employes of the company, Head- quarters have been established there and Ben Commons, one of the leaders of the international union, has been sent over to | help In the work. — At the headquarters of the local unien it was stated that men who have been running cars since the trouble began have been fillng applications for membership in the union. Secretary O. J. Randall of the union sald fifty-one applications had been received from one barn. Mr. Randall sald the union had re- celved over 40 applications for member- ship since Pratt and Commons had ri | Omaha. Introdoces Taft. When the dinner had reached the coffee! stage, Senator Manderson arose and bade the guests farther down the rooms move closer to the presidential table. Then he introduced Mr. Taft, as follows “My friends: This is a notable occasion, as I need scarcely tell There have been other notable occasions within these walls. Our minds go back—and it does not| ETT HE Is CONSCIOUS RK! FULLY Sl Thanks Shallenberger,” Whom He Regrets to Miss, for Welcome to State, Small Possibility that His Wonderful Vitality Will Again Assert Itself and that ere Will Be . - ARSERARY LY, Président Taft sént the following tele- (Continued on Second Page.) gram last night to/Governor Shallenberger ey ST !at Lincoln: “OMAHA, Sept. 20.—A. C. Shallenberger, governor, Lincoln: Your very kind tele- gram received, and I thank you for your welcome to Nebraska and for your good | wishes for my trip. 1I-regret not seelng you personally, but T shall hope to meet you in Washington during the next win- | ter. With renewed thanks, “W. H. TAFT.” o o " - This message was in answer to the fol- i s S g o b e by e it ey i liam J. and Charles Mayo were summoned | ‘*/LE Frorht COYOFROL Taft, Omaha, Neb. t0 Ooweraas Johnsoa's bensife atia whien | o TS LS o MR o Nabrasks T they came from the sick room shortly be- [ o puny' s b 14 OB e fore 6 p. m. Dr. William Mayo said et WA A Son e aale - ADA DIETZ ““Governor Johnson is not as well tonight. | journey on vour trip FORD | Ho is failing slowly. His pulse is 130, ASHTON C. SHALLENBERGER.” | perature 1005, respiration 3 ROOT | “He is conscious &na realizes his condi | tion. It is not a sinking spell, but | physical weakening. He has reache you, were SENATOR BU MR PICKENS THE PRESIDENT SENATOR BROWN SENATOR MILLARD (Continued on Second Page.) BULLETIN, ROCHESTER, Minn., S Dr. William J. Mayo just returned from the sick room and says he thinks the governor can live about an hour. The zovernor said to those gathered in the sici | room “Time drags so He became “MR. HITCHCOCK GEN. MANDERSON MR. DR. MR MR. MR. MR. MR. PENFOLD RICHARDSON BUCKINGHAM FORT BARKER HAZARD COURTNEY MR. FOWLER MR YETTER GEN. MORTON CAPT MR. MR. MR, MR BuTT 20.—(Midnight) GUULD DIETZ MURPHY BRANDEIS E. 'MR. FRY MR. MISCHLER MR. 'PECK MR. HOWE MR E. A CUDAHY COL. GARDENER MAJOR WILCOX MR. WEBSTER MR. BIDWELL MR. WAGNER MR. DAHLMAN MR. DUNLAP GEN COWIN MR. HOSTER MR. WILHELM MR. 8. P. ALLEN MR. J M. CUDAHY MR. MARTIN EMIL WATTLE: W H SMITH ROSFEWATII SMALL MR. C. N COL. GLAS: MR I am so uncomfortable.” silent again, MR MR MR HAYWARD MR. to pleasant o0 Plekets at All Barns, o The strikers are maintaining pickets at {all the car barns and will continue to do |#0 during the trouble. The pickets ar i(fl\'lnlml into three shifts of elght hours each Mr Jury Venire ‘ / is Discharged| tem Pratt says they will not d0 more than try to persuade men who are running cass to Quit their jobs and join the strikess ranks. On the other hand, the charge is made by | street rallway officials that men are being | intimidated by threats of assault and that strikers are calling up by telephone the | homes of men who are working and telling their wives to keep their husbands at homes as they bave been “spotted” and will be dealt with harshly, sl sheriff Hralley will swear in between {rial forty and fifty special deputies who will who | be located at important Intersections to connection with the | watch for possible trouble. The regulur nd the wrecking of | statf of deputies will be kept at the office the t | with two automobiles in readiness o calls from tne specials. Whils ca preparations were made to prevent the sirikers asserted there would be no trouble if they could avold it. They | d intended to use only peacs means of winning the strike. great the | he V'R. BLACK he his chances His mina is|Sensational Developments in Alleged “Fixing” Scandal in Chicago. not subjec , but ma-Dr ot of | of are CHICAGO, The discharge ix jurors n e v | seventy-fiv in Vineent energed swing &L any point n the course of the proces- :“‘fi i et e AR LN AT :‘:'Zm.:.‘.'f..d"l:flf:‘;;mu.;’".f-"‘"n;?':.".; MR S MAYWARD UR-N: 4 B MR. BRUCE MR “He 1s sinking very fast. ‘His mind § to walk down town and back home again| DR. DAVIS DR. JONAS st MR, clear ,.’,,H,h,” realizes that his condition | MR. COLE | MR. F. A. NASH MR. McGREW MR. MR. DAVIDSON MR. McHUGH MR. UPDIKE MR DR. LORD MR. KIRKENDALL MR. MILLER ‘:”f MR. ANDREESEN MR. BAUM MR. M. B MURFHY b MR. A. J. BEATON MR. POPPLETON a speciil from Des Moines consisted of MR. FOLDA DR MR. FRED PAFFENRA MR. EDWARDS five cars, the president's private car, the Mayflower, being attached to the rear. MR. DERIGHT MR MR. J. T. YATES MR MR. W. A. PAXTON DR. HULL Several Omaha people were passengers on the traln having gone to Des Molnes to retuin with the party. Among them were C. H. Pickens, president of the Ak-Sar-Ben MR. JOHN FLACK BEESON MR. REDICK JEFFREY MR FOSTER OILMORE MR. BURGESS MR. DUVAL board of governors; Gould Diets and Arthur C, Smith, members of the board WELLER SPENS MR. HARDING MR. GALLAGHER men the HAYDEN COHN KENN et and Joseph Altman with a of at very mb doctors have not that he vitality er the of only |y | given again rall up hope ansert hope wonderful they of the ny fixing dal was entered In the Altmans were new indictment for the governor said| John J. Holland, Johnson would | $20.000, charged His respiration |jury “fixing,” was relicved of his duties | New Men Dolng Well since secretary of jury eommission. | The men who nave been imported arrived is Nicholas M the secretary of Alder-{0n the Northwestern from Chicago during an Michael J. “Hinky Dink” Kenna, who | Sunday and were switehed around arrested on Saturday put Twenty-fourth street and Ames avenue little chanoe of sur. |$600 bonds, but who arrested Missourl Pacific Belt line. At night fon the today | the barn they got out of the box | ana gave cars and scampered for the back door of | the barn. Sever of them are said to LEOPARD BREAKS FROM CAGE{ST. JOSEPH'S FAIR IS OQPEN |Veve been frigniencd out of their jobs Interstate I while geting o the barns and fled from Annual Has Record N sash sational Jury n-suft company, was However and it are hoping a matter 8¢ here today hope now a few hours at best of | that he haa that he ashes, |and the again arres the house physiclans just the did not think Mr than four hours. reased considerably and his red and difficult - — | At 8 o'clock it was stated that Johnson was sinking and had viving the who sald me they SUMNEY BUSCH WAL with e in live mor has fn the as the 1ast builetin breathing very lab tin the national republican committee; Vietor Rosewater, editor of The Hee and member |~ of the republican national committee. Sena- tor Burkett was also on the train. night, TABLE CHART AT THE TAFT DINNER The accompanying chart shows the arrangement of the guests who sat down at the Omaha club last night, at the dinner ten- dered by the Board of Governors of Ak-Sar-Ben to Mr. Willlam Howard Taft, president of the MR MR. DR MR MR MR. MR. and not appeared nel Gardner and Lieutenant C o ‘ v Ben The dinner warrant car for $20,00, Ak-Sar bond: HE SEES OMAMA which was formal, | by a in the| lub. It was served ning room, on the r. and was one of the prece parlors of the c ded Animal i levee St. Paul (s Tearing Child s When Man Kills it with Axe. of governors; Will Hayward, secretary of KELBY the cars. They will not by the company President Taft has first hand informa- tlon of Omaha peopis, Omaha business catablishments, Omaha residences, schools be used to Any extent L. C. NASH for a day or perhaps Charles H. A United States. Mr, Plokens occupled the seat at the right of President Taft by reason of his being president of the Board of Governors. General Man- derson had the seat en the presi- dent's left because of his position as toastmaster. The guest list, with the exception of the mem- bers of the Dresident's personil party and the two senators from Nebraska, General Morton, Co/~ MR MR. DR. MR. ™R MR. MR and Omaha real estate such as ho other Jresigent ever had. Practically all of Omaha passed in re- view before him yesterday as he at the ead of & parade of automoblies, was whirled through the city, over a sixteen- mile aves, immediately after his arrival st Union station. He saw the most beautiful residences in Omaha and he 0ok off his hat as he bm the bomés of thoss less blessed Rl SWOBE WEAD SCHALEK ooss PEEK CUMMINGS MR MR MR MR MR MR STORZ PAGE REMINGTON KEOGH GUILD ’ s TAGGERT a MR. HEKRING ‘ ! MR MUIY ¢ $ elaborate functions e ahp. T were espec er given in deeo. rations e floral 1ally roses being in greatest bunches of were used. with other seasonable flowers and turned the dining reom veritable floral bower menu was simple, but was lessly prepared and as faultlessly served. lavish profusion American and Immense Beauties these OHNSTON PAUT crowd | per was th leopard The animal aged 4 v of the boy's of panie toda exhibited broke from its ed Martin Mar. and In the presence father tore the child's right fr ket and severed e The boy il have been killed 4 es Reustr a blacksmith | rushed and killed the beast [wen an axe pt. 20.—A which wa this Payne city cage attac tinson ars. | today b JOSEJH, Mo annual interstate with the ever made in a live stock show here, cipally from Missour! Kansas Nebraska. The St e connection with the i y tonight, with 412 ent « Had- | ley will be & guest at both = Thurs Live Stock show oper largest number of entries |t p < lows, an Joseph 1 ed | Monday onger. They arn and can Many of the and were are housed and fed at the be kept there indefinitely, new men were in servies doing weil, apparentiy, helr greatest drawback being *heir with Omaha's streets. be experien: & care are concerned, 1d to be in their seats In the arena by m cases, well attired and behaved. The company withdrew as many of ite 4 men as practicable B avoid their bee iaintance appear to