Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 5, 1909, Page 13

i AEROES OF THE TELECRAPH Lofty Courage of Knights of the Key | in Face of Danger. | TWO INSTANCES OUT OF MANY Hrrol in n of Operntor Dome to Death Wreek of Overland Limited ~=Hero of the Galveston Disaster. Three years ago as the Overland Limited | dashed through the night, in the bad | lahds forty-five miles west of Cheyenne, | Wye. a rail broke In two and came up | through the bottom of the baggage car. In | an instant the train of nine cars was piled | thirty feet high, while about and beneath the wreckage were more than 13 dead or injured human beings. A frightful sleet storm with biting cold was raging, and | to this the hurt and dying lay exposed. | The locomotive was wrecked so that it was impossible to cut loose and race ahead | 10 the nearest settlement with word of the | disaster, and it med as If nothing couid | A Few Sections of $3.5 be done to save the sufferers except to|gyailable at the astoundingly low price of $16.00 an acre. We flag the mext train, due in five hours, when, from under the wreck, on hands and knee stumps, came an apparition leaving | @ red trail behind. It proved to be Frank Shaley, & telegraph lineman who nad been | 804 inVestigate, sent up the road to locate & wire trouble | and who, with his satchel of instruments strapped across a shoulder, had been in the baggage car when the crash came. Clutching the precious satchel, he dragged himself forward, but his legs had been smashed off at the knees and he was bleed- | Ing frightfully. “The telegraph! Cut In on the telegraph?’ he shouted, but not a man there knew which one of the scores | of wires to cut, and Shaley himself could | not tell without testing. They threw a rope across an arm of one of the poles, passed a sling about the dying man, and valley and our land. will explain to you fully why this opportunity is offered if you will read this announcement through and then call at our offices In the first place this land has no railroads at present. The Grand Trunk, the greatest railroad system in Canada, is now building through to the Pacific Coast as rapidly as human energy will permit. The railroad is backed by the government of Canada, and the line is surveyed and laid out directly through the Nechaco The railroad line will be completed through this land within a few months according to its agreement with the government. When the transportation line is completed and this land has con- nection with Prince Rupert, Seattle, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmon- Rivar Bottem Lanlis, Loaval and Clbarai, Natural Wild Meadows Grow Grass 4 Tons te the Acre. \ YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE A CITIZEN OR EVEN A RESIDENT OF CANADA TO ACQUIRE FULL GOVERNMENT GUARANTEED TITLE. Moreover you may pay $16.00 an acre for your land in seven payments, coovering six years. The first payment required is only $3.50 an acre. CALL AND INVESTIGATE THIS TOMORROW. IT DOES NOT COST YOU ANYTHING TO FIND OUT ALL ABOUT THIS. THERE ARE ONLY A FEW SECTIONS OF LAND AVAILABLE AT THIS PRICE AND YOU OWE IT TO YOUR- SELF TO LOOK INTO THIS MATTER BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. Official Reports of the Government Engineers Give holsted him up. Then he cut and grounded the wire and coniected his telegraph key. Tenderly propped by anxious hande, he began to send the call for the Cheyenne operator, meanwhile gazing stoically ar the pool where his life blood ebbed away. At that unusual hour of the night he found | trouble in raising his man, and he pounded | his key for ten minutes before he got an answering click. “Number 17 terribly wrecked forty miles | t of Cheyenne. Send hospital train” he sald. Then they pillowed his head on the satchel and an armful of waste, while | forty miles away & whistle shrieked | through the night and brought engineer, fireman, and 200 Japanese tumbled on to | the wrecking train, followed by the .hos- | pital train with doctors and nurses. But Shaley was gone when they came. Not a line in the ashen face betrayed the inhu- man torture he must have Undergone, nor day, there is no telling how high an acre for every dollar this costs with the first trains. ton, Winnipeg and the east by fast trains running several times a the values may go, for there is no land anywhere of better quality. Fruit lands as good as this are bringing a hundred doliars you. And there can be no more fruit lands. There are no more new regions to be opened up atter | the beautiful valleys of British Columbia affected by the Grand Trunk Pacific railroad are settled. You see, this is a chance which only a few people have, to get into a new country, just ahead of a great railroad line, and get some land while it may be had very cheaply. The raise in values in such cases as this are almost magic. Double upon double the values mount with the great stream of population which come in Full Description of Each Piece of Land We Offer ‘When you call at our office we will show you reports and field notes made right on the ground by the government engin- eers, showing the exact location of each quarter section of this land, the character of the soil, what it grows, the creeks, springs, streams upon the land, the climate, rainfall and matters regarding which a prospective investor might be interested. These reports and field notes give you every particular about the different pieces available, and give you the expert opinion of qualified engineers concerning the land. The Climate of Central British Columbia is about the same as the climite of Washington and Oregon, and to quote the govern- meat report, is “all that could be wished for. Nechaco Valley Farm Land An Acre Cash, Balance 6 Annual Payments at 6% on the Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad THE RICHEST OF BRITISH COLUMBIA FARM LANDS | Does Not Require Irrigation. THE GREATEST FRUIT AND DAIRY COUNTRY ON THE CONTINENT TODAY It is almost unbelievable that such land as this should be | Out-of-town people may mail or wire orders for this land, in any quantity, from 80 acres upward. A payment or guarantee of 25c an acre must accompany such orders. These orders will be placed in the order in which they are received, upon land con- forming to purchasers’ answers to the following questions. The balance of the first payment will become due when the land con- tract is executed. WHAT THE GOVERNMENT SAYS: “‘The soil is everywhere of the richest quality. ““In previous reports I have deseribed the flat country of the Nechaco as the greatest farm- ing district of British Columbia. ““All reports go to show that the Nach aco is one of the most greatly favored by nature in the whole of the Prov ince. It’s advantages are many; land do you want? the land is level the soil is What do you wish to raise . . . N upon the land? rich and climate mild. o How B, 1t any, of your land would you like to have in timber? Upon a great many sections of this land there are small timber patches, affording trees for fuel and for fencing. Do you prefer to be located on or near a lake? Do you wish to be located on the north or the suoth gide of the Grand Trunk railroad? Sign full name of person to whom papers are to be made Coupon. How many acres of The demand for every product of the farm is great and ever in- creasing. Amount inclosed §. ... This payment i to be returned in case this coupon is received after all land to be disposed of is taken. the strain of turning his mind from his own agony and Impending déom to the Mttle brass Instrument with which he had saved scores of lives. 5 Dick Spellane was one of the few sur- vivors of the Galvestoh flood. Galveston's | mayor, Walter C. Jones, came toward him. *“My God, Dick, this is terrible, ter- rible!”” he sald In a volce choked and| broken. ‘“We're cut off as if on an island Delter, Horton & Co., Seattle. National Bank of Commerce, Seattle. in the Pacific, and before night 30,000 will be starving. What under heaven can we dot Spellane up to this time had himself wandered as if In a half dream, but at the question the telegraph operator, who for years had sat taking messages of disaster | by land and sea, awoke. ‘Do, man? Get | into communication with the outside world somehow." Within an hour Spellane was aboard the Pherabe, a powerful thirty-foot launch, and had set forth to cross Galvenston bay to the mainland, and §o follow the rafiroad track on foot for Houston, forty-seven { miles away. For two hours the launch | | fought, covering a bare seven miles abreast | of the matnland; but nowhere along shore | “capable | cOuld Spellane see a place to land. Wreck- age of houses, barhs, ships, raflroad trains | litterea the shore far as the eye oould ~isuch was the decision of the vast| ooh Off what had been Texas City, throng attending the recital given by Spellane realized he would have to hit or Landow, the pianist, at the First Baptist | miss, and ran full speed ahead at the | church, on Thursday evening last | shore, fetching up in & heap of debris. | Landow's superb handling of the plano| All he could find of the railroad was the | % Vv + iii-of-way. Ties were gone. Seventy- s yet a toplc of conversaiion AMONK | ,,..q greel rafls lay bent and twisted like the critics and music lovers making UP | pnairpins and corkscrews, and telegraph the audlence | potes were rased n as if cut off with However, the lustre added to the repu- |a buzz saw. Through knee-deep water and «ffion of the MASON & HAMLIN plano, | ankle-deep mud he slipped and fioundered. Which by the way, is the only instrument | Th®.hot sun, beating through the murk of uned by Landow, I also worthy of com- | the SWeiteriug calm that had followed the ment here, storm, baked him as If in a kiln, untll he | was mad with thirst; but in the midst of | Hearers experienced positive thrills of [that watery desolation there was not & | pleasure whenever Landow's marvelpus heavy bass work brought forth from the drop of water fit to drink, for the brine | of the gulf had flooded streams and wells. MASON & HAMLIN, sounds that were truly orchestral and harplike. At such His feet were covered only with felt slip- Mmes, heavy, yet always harmonious vi- pers, and dye had souked out of these, | drutions fairly penetrated the auditorium. MASON & HAMLIN IN LANDOW RECITAL True Musicianly Quality of an Ex- quisite Toned Plano Excites Much Pleasure for Vast Audience. A ated Praise for Player and Piano Played. Listeners in Rapture. “An uncommon artist’ enqugh to rank with A a's greatest” poisoning his ankles until they were as it on fire and swollen big around as | saucers | Yet he staggered into Houston that even- | |ing. A ghastly figure he was, elad in an | undershirt, linen trousers and an outing | cap, bare legs swollen to the size of water- | | melons. | “Gulveston is gone! Galveston is gone!” | he mumbled thickly as he limped through the streets toward the telegrebh office, followed by & crowd. “Any wires work- | he gasped. He sank into a chalr In front of u desk, and the magic fingers |that had senf the quick, clear, even, In cisive Mors which even today thi man is famed, grasped the knob of a tele | graph key and emlled up St. Louis, where | President McKinley heppened to be. This was the message | “President Inley. ‘St. Louis. Mo. | hurricane and tidal wave destroyed ton. At least ten thousand are dead veston d surrounding _country. | to thirty thousand are homeless, | food, clothing, tents. doctors, nd—above all disinfectants.” | presently, came a moment when | tor Then, Spellane did that for which congress owes | him @ medal. A New York sheet had | been “tipped off’ that Spellane had ar- | rived with one of the biggest stories In But on the other huau, with the MASON SAHAMLLY, Landow was alto able 10 |, ceneration, and & braen sitor thought in the treble. Even though remarkably |D% ®4W his chance for a beat. He sent ‘upm as the execution was In such pas- | ‘i% message to Spellane | ¥ sages, the softness was ever apparent— | The ———offers you $5.00 for exclusive | | the effect requiring merely a “halt aipr |S1Or¥ Of Oalveston disaster.” | 0f the MASON & HAMI keys. Five thousand doll What was not | ! "Xt 1a in sueh exacting tests that the action | ¥400 t0 & man unnerved. unstrung, 3 man | | qualities of & plano are brought out, very |% Yeéars old, on the threshold of begin- | fow makes having the “almost halr-trig. |IRE life all over again, with & wife and | &er" action regulstion required | three hungary Mttle ones to feed! For ' The MASON & HAMLIN, however. | a minute Speilane sat, face flushing. Then equal to even Landow's precise " | the blood receded, and out of his brown and on many occasions hearers whispersd | €8 snapped a spark and under his black ‘te one another, “Isn't .hat a gorgeous | ™ che the teeth came together with ' toned instrument? | cliek Landow himself, upon finishing his pro- [ 'impossible,” gram, turned to sereval friends, econ N your fidentially remarking: “That's the finest | Snswer. Smstrumen. I have ever piayed upon.’ T am not selling the lives of 30,000 human The exclusive selling of the MASON & | CTeatures at any price. My first duty fis| ' HAMLIN plano is confined to the A.|'oward them.” Within ten minutes, into Hoape company of 1513 Douglss street, | the office of the Associated Press, spel- | Omaha, and this well known concern has | 18ne clicked the story, without writing a lately devised & special parlor for the |WOrd of copy~in itself a marvelous tele- | ! exhipition of these famed instruments | §7&phic feat. Almost word for word as | ! exclusively. he sent the story, so it sped throughout | | The Mason & Hamlin Tenslon Tone |the country to the hundreds of papers in nator is responsible for much of the | the Asscciated Press service: and how the melody socorded by Landow in country responded, how at first warships recent recital here, and should be and then trainloads and shiploads of as- 'thoroughly examined before one pur- sistance were rushed from every port and . chases & planc of any make whatever polnt, 18 & matier of history.'—A. W. answered price,” he own simply. o came the | tinance committee If the majority of GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC LAND COMPANY REFERENCES—Omaha National Bank, Omaha. ‘411 NEW YORK LIFE BUILDING, OMAHA Some Things You Want to Know The American Congress—Law-Making by Committee ‘While congress ostensibly legislates in open senate and house, it virtuallly ab- dicates all power to its committees. It may sit by and see that they do their work well, and It may ratity what they do, in order that the constitutional con- ditions of law making may be complied with, but nonetheless the s that govern the American people are largely committee-made. A proposition which secks to become law knocks at the door of the congress through an individual mem- ber, as & rule. In the house the member simply writes out his propesition and places it in & basket on the speaker's table. That busket is called ‘“‘the hopper' and appro- priately so, because from thence the propo- sition goes into the mill that grinds out new legislation. In the senate, where things are done with a little more dignity, a bill is introduced by a member's rising A senator rises, obtalns the recognition of the chalr, and formally Introduces the bk The next step Is to refer it to & commit- tee. As a rule public bills are referred to the appropriate committees by the wpeaker of the house and the president of the sen- te, acting within the scope .of the rules. But there is a provision in the case of the house, that where the house choses to do %0 it can refer a bill to any committee it may desire. It so heppens that in many cases the mere reference of & bill to the committee 18 tantamount to placing It in @ pigeon-hole forever, since the majority of the committee is against the measure. Another committee might be favorable in its atutude toward the measure. Bo the house may elect to send it to the com- mittes which Is not packed against it, al- though it would, in the natural course, g0 to the other committee. Here then, is the first strategic point, in legisiation It ts used only in rare instance, but when it Is there Is & hard-fought battle After a committee gets a measure il has control of its destiny. If the majority of the committee votes against report- ing it, it diee. The greater number are plgeon-holed by the committee chairman and are never considered at all, even in committee. Perhaps forty-nine out of every tifty public blils Introduced dic forever in committee rooms. The commitiees are often battle-grounds of great political struggles. A notable instance was the fight on the Payne-Aldrich tariff bl in the finance commictee of the senate. It was plain to thg leaders of the majority that they would not get their forces into line on & given proposition at the outset. So they served notice on the democratic mem- bers that the republicans had & little mu- tiny in their own ranks and did not intend to fight it out with the demperats until they had straightened out their own dif- ferences. Then, by the application of the majority rule principle, the majority forced an agreement. But no demoerats were admitted .uftil is was settled. Then the democrats were invited in and given thelr choice of accepting or rejecting the ma- jority bill. Thus many parts of the bill, which could not have mustered a majority of the full committee at any time, were incorporated into the bill as favorably re- ported to the senate. It fs not often that materlal changes are made in bills as reported by the commit- tees. A notable instance of adherence to committee recommendations was that of the senate finance committee on the tariff bi'l. Although every member of the senate well knew that not over half of the con- tested points in the bill have passed the that committee had not caucused themselves by & hard and fast the senute lived up standing by the findings tions of its committees. and course, the committees are reversed, but these cases are exceptional. When an important matter comes committees grant extended hearings. The hearings on the raflroad rate bill con- tinued for months, and they fill as many volumes as an encycopedia. No one seri- ously supposes that every senator reads all this testimony, or that even every member of the committee does so. The aggregate of all the hearings of all the committees during a session “of congress often con- stitutes tens of thousands of pages. There Is much inconsistency in the extent at which different matters are heard by con- gress. When the simple question of whether Reed Smoot should be awarded & seat In the sentte or unseated was being considered the senate committee on priv- iliges and elections spent many times as much money and took many times as much testimony as was taken by the finance committes In the consideration of the last tarift bill. On account of the importance of committee. senfority means much In o gress. In the majority of cases medioerit with long service counts more than great ability with only a few vears of service behind it. The tactical position s, of course, the committee chairmanship. And If one will look over the list of committee chair- men in the house and semate he will find that every Important chalr {s occupled by a man of long service. In many cases there are men who sit even below the salt who are possessed of more ablity than the chairman, but they have not been there long enough to get the high post- tlons. The rule is. with certain exceptions in the case of the chairmen, that the newe: members of a committee go to the foot of the table, just as the child entering school begins in the A B C ciass. The child may by reason of precocity or studiousness, progress faster than his felows; but prac- tically the only way & commiitée member advances up the table toward its head is when & member ahead of him dies or leaves co! ess. Influence may get the new member named upon a committee more im- portant than some other committee, but it rarely will advance him one seat nearer the chalrman at the big table around which the committee gathers for its deliberations. It is when a man reaches the chairman- ship and the ranking membership on the majority and the minority sides, that he reaches his real usefulness In congr:s®. This makes him a member of the conference committee on legislation with which his committee has to deal. And the confer- ence committees of congress are really the strategic positions on the battlefields of legislation. \What little round top was in the battle of Gettysburg, that is the con- ference committee in legislative campaigns. After the house has had its say about a law in process of passage, and the sen has had its say, it usually is found that they disagree. The senate wants this thing incorporated that the house has not put in, and it wants that thing left out that the house has put in. Here, then, 18 where the conference com- mittee comes in and settles things. It up the must get the house to back down cn some of its propositions, and the senate to re- cede from some of the things it put into the bill. It Is a game of give and take. Usually it is played by three members of the house and three from the senate. The chairman of the ‘two committees of the senate and house, the ranking democrat and’ the ranking republican of each com- mittee constitute the conference commit- tee. After they get together on every Pproposition, the house conferees go back to the house with a statement of the spoils they have won and those they have lost, and the senate conferees go back to the seénate with a similar account. As a rule they recommend that their respective bodies accept the compromise they have made. Some times they " cannot agree compromisers that they are, and then they €0 back to their respective bodies for further instructions, after which the tug | begins all over again. Often the | of war battie lasts for days, and some times it is drawn out into weeks. There have been times when one house has laid down its ultimatum, “Thus far will we go and no further,” and the other has countcred with a statement of the points upon which it will not surrender. promise is past they go back to thelr re- spective houses and announce thelr in- abllity to agree. Some times new con- ferees are appointed, eepecially If the measure be an Important one, and they keep pegging away untll a compromise is finally completed. There have been times, however, even with such important legis- lgtion™as the biz appropriation bills, the conferees have not agreed and the mattter has gone over to a sucoeeding ses- sion. But there are times ference committees do even more than patch up Aifferences. One body may amend the measure passed by body by striking out all after the enaetin, clause. That leaves the conferees free tc bring in an entirely new measure on the subject, and it has some times happened that the conference committee of #ix men has written a measure different from that passed by either body and both have ac- cepted It. SBome times, again, Lhe confer- ence committees bring in reports when these con- 1s exceptional. Usually the house and the senate simply ratity what the conferees do, and then the bill is ready for the signature of the presideit. Men may speak in the house and the senate. There may seem to be a battle royal in progress on the floor of the two chambers, and the world may look on and think it is witnessing law in the making But, with the exception of the few in- stances where the whole country is aroused and all eyes are turned on Washington, congress legislates enttrely by its commit- tees. Behind the closed doors of commit- tee and conference rooms are made the agreements which the senate and the house ratify By PREDERIC J. HASKIN. Tomorrow—1THE AMERICAN CONGRESS —Procedure in the Benate. WHY SUFFER LONGER? When ‘vu may be perfectly and instantly em y & supreme power, of the worst allments that afflict humanity, regardiess of sec beliefs? SEE— 4338 Charies Bt Benson, Walnut Hill and Deaf Instilute oars half a blr™ = s After all hope of com- | that the othe: | whieh | one or both houses will not aceept, but this | A Proclamation to the People of Omaha Our cities have been honored by the loca- tion of the National Corn Exposition. The responsibility of making a thorough success of the most important agricultural event in the interest of our grain and grass erop, that the United States has ever known, rests, not only on those who have been actively engaged in the work, but upon every loyal citizen of the three cities. It cannot be a siccess without the cordial and enthusiastic support of each and every man and woman in the community. If you have friends who should or might be interested in the Exposition, write them a per- sonal letter. The homes and hospitality of our people must be extended to our guests. Merchants and business houses should pre- pare to decorate their places of business and vie with each other to see who can produce the most attractive outward appearance of welcome. There are innumerable small courtesies, that count for much, which each of us can show the strangers within our gates after our visitors |4 ere with us. | Having been made hosts on so important an occasion, the opportunity is offered us to show our visitors that true hospitality which is characteristic of the spirit of the West. The National Corn Exposition, ‘ O. C. Resewater, Chairman Committee. Information Bureau ¥. M. C. A. Bldg., 17th and HMarney Sts. 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