Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 24, 1910, Page 9

. EDITORIAL ‘ 4 PAGES 9 TO 16, OMAHA DALy BEE. VOL. XXXIX—NO. 215. OMAHA, THURSDAY MORNING, Phnfzmm 24, 1910, ””()\ER\ IllTSWA[ER BflAllD Int,dnou BuolM Calling it \“a Ylelen Expensé.” THINKS 1T TIME FOR SOME ACTION Peaple Are Sick JT'W Offiee Jnst Draw Sab ang ¥Pay Attorneys \ Rieh Fees. Maintaining ft in to & incilimah MeGoybro . horvitiea some of his eolleagies Wednesday morning at the adjourned moeting of: the city ‘councit by introducing 'this resolution “Whereas,| The Omaha Water board, as conatituted nd elected by the people ‘ot sald city, 18’ charged with many and oner- ousgduties; ‘and, hereas, The sajd Water board, performancd of its said burdensome and onerous dufles, is In all things superior &nd paramount to the mayor and city coun- cfl, and can'receive no advice or assistance from any source execpt (i tho ‘maiter of providing means for the payment of run- ning expenses; and, “Whereas, Thc rald Water board \has labored long and faithful'y in the discharge of sald duties and has mplished much m the Way of drawing ies, cmploying Jettorpeys ahd othér agsittants, but hothing else to spcak of which is visible to the naked eye; thergfore, be it “Resolved by the Ly, o nell, the mayor goncurring, ‘That the eity attorney be, and ’1 hereby anthiorized dnd directed, to peti- n the Water board for permission at once to dismiss alllitigation now pending between the bity of Omaha and, the Omaha Water oqmmny at the expense of the ecity, and that a copy of this resolution be for- ‘warded to the Water board, with the re 100 sl quest that kaid board at once inform the | city of Omaha of the dismissal of such Iit- | igation and of the lssuance of bonds here- tofore authdrized by vdte of, the people to be issued, 8hd of the taking possossion ot the Omaha water plant in the name of the clty of Omgha.” Fdukhousér ‘Sits’ Down, ‘When McGovern moved the suspension of the rules and the ndoptfon of the resb- lution @oungliman,/Funkhouser was at once on his feet,\moving that the resolution be placed on file. “The Water hbard does 1ot want sych a resolution ag fhis,’® sald ' the councilman from the Eleventh, “and does not want the councll to buft into its busiress in any wasd' ““* councflman from the Eleventh ward does not seem to know what his constity- ents and the people generally want,” re- torted Mc@overn. ‘“There is a demand throughout, this city that something be one and ever since it was created the Water board has been simply a useless expense. 1 insist that this resolution go to the com- mittee of the whole.” s This motion prevailedj atter Onunknmn Johnson hag pleaded thatithe Water board bo left In peace and quiet. and Councllman By dges had shot in A warm remark about continual promises from year to y:ar. with nothing done. 3 Darlow Makes oSt ¢bment M. T. Barlow, president of the Water board, when apprised of the resolution in- troduced iy council ing suit and the taking over of the plant bygdhe oity, sald: '$| Water board will certainly give due conkideration to ghy expression of opinion from the elty counpll, the same as it would to anything adopted by the Commercial club or any other civic body. Those things are merely the'opliions of a cerialn number of gentlemen, whoever they muy be, “There afe (business nen and others in Omaha who think that to dlsmiss the suit now in|the *United States supreme court would be thé best thing to do. That wogld mean the entry of judgment against the city, and when the judgment was paid the plant would be taken over as a matter of courfe. That's one view. There are many others who do not agfee with it; but, as t say, thesies expressions are all matters of opinion, pécular to whoever may he utter- ing thewm." KICK ON THE CITY AUTO PRICE Complaiut is Made by Colonel George Rogers. City Comptrotler Lobeck cauysed some stir among the city councilmen when he brought up the matter at Wednesday's meeting of paying for the recently pur- chased hutomobile. He sald his deputy Yad fnformed him that Colonel George Rogers, who is not on the governor's statf, ad sajd that the city auto was discarded to H. E. Fredrickson for $1,00. The latter was alleged ta have spent only 3300 on the machine for repairs and the eity agreed to pay #8200 Tho comptrallar eald he felt it a duty fa call the council's attention to these rumars before paying the money. Counclinten Hummel, Johnson and Brucker egpstituting the cominittee that bought the ifapine sald they had tried out every chine offered shey got hold of; that the one offered Rogers and his partners was not placed At their disposal, and that o purchase’ hgll been recommended only ' § 5 i \ f by itself, pack in a tub, water ‘and let stand over night. in-the | by Councilman Me- | Govern looking to a dismissal of the pend- | Use Three Tubs for Washing after they had ascertained everything pos- sibM, relating to the machine In question. Thep) had | been told the machine was turnéd babk. td Fredrickson at .00, be. chuse’ Btors, wanted & diffarent kind " of maéhine and Frederickson had thrown if all extras necessary to completely equip | the machine before the bargain had been |elosed. . “Why dén’t the kickérs come before the qoufigll, If they have fny fauwlt to find?" |'asked Councilmag Hummel. “Heve i the 'pmu to filb any protest, not oh the'street corners br to #ome employe of the city.” The city comptroller told the council he was satisfied and that the warrant for the auto would be pald. MANY WANT TO INSURE DITY WALL | Wwenty-Two Blds Ave In for That! | Polley of $250,000. | Twenty-two | bids Were recelved by the } council for the privilege of insuring the | city'hall and contents for $2%50,00. The bids | are tendered in great detall as to time. pereent of value to be insured and allow- ance 'of co-ordinate insurance. | Covnglilman Funkhouser, who s himself I the (nfurance business, said it would re. quire a cafeful fabulation, which the clerk was directed to make, before the best bid could be dectded on Dr. Connell, commissfoner of health, nsked, the council to abolish the office of city ' veterinarfan and dairy inspector This office 18 at pfésent held by Dr. G. R. | Young, and it 1 understood considerable | friction exists between him’ and the coms | miseioner. In his letter to the council the | latter says flatly that' the aulry inspector | hampered all his efforts to U | mille; gnd that he: would n prefer to handle the dairy inspection dl- rectly than to have the present arcange- ment continued, The recommendation was | sent to the committee of the whole. | City Electridian’ Michaelsen sent in a | communication showing the city will have | this year for lighting purposés $16.000, ‘and | that each counciiman can have four new arc lampsd, or thelf equivalent in gas lamps. It was %0 ordered, with a recommendation | by MeGovern that Councllman Schrdeder of the Seventh have the lamps not needed by | Councilman Burmester In the Third. | The council passed. over the mayor's veto the resolution ordering President . Bur- mester to. recognize the city clerk and the newspaper men as part of the city govern- ment when he gives his reception and ban- | quet. The 'president accepted the action of the eouncil gracefully, with a promise to make good at a date In the near futune. APPRAISEMENT OF PROPERTY | —— Entimates for Opening Twenty-Second | Will Be Made Under Ordinance. Appraisement of property for the open- Ing of Twenty-second street, from Howard | to Dodge, will be proceeded with under an ordinance p@ssed by the council, which was introduced by Councilman Johnson. The work will be split into two districts, to keep, within the amount allowed by the charter for any one district, Bishop ‘A. L. Willlams of the Episcopal filocess of. Nebraska, asked permission to use part of. Dodme street as, originally Platted for the purpose of constructing the | new! bullding the dlocese is to erect on the site of. the old Clarkson hospital, between' ventéenth and Righ ewi on Dpdge. & mmittea. will consider the requ L A communication was recelved from the Federation of Imprgvement Clubs asking that the ¢ty hall q&'nas he kept open on | Saturday the sameyas any other day. was placed on file.| An ordinance wah intfoduced to permit | the Northwestern road to bulld a track on Twelfth street In the whofesale district. It went to the committee on rajlways and viaduets. An ordinanfe to license and regulate bill- boards was introduced. Tt has been pre- pared along the lines of the decision made recently by Judge Estelle that the other ordinance, Which was taken into court, was too broad. The committee of the whole will_give it consideration, FAITHFUL DOG LETS NO ONE TOUCH HIS OWNER’S CLOTHES | Guards Thdm Even Tailor Shop # Tl Maater is Sent For, Then Surrenders the Fort, “Jim," an ordinary looking dog, belonging to T, J. ©'Brien, proprietor of the Hen- shaw, has ‘exhibited ‘some,_ traits his owner | aid not know he had. Jim followed a porter with two suits of Mr. O'Brien's into Dresher's the tailor, next ddor, to have them pressed. Some of the employes noticed the dog lying on the floor, but supposed it was a tramp dog that had come In out of the blizzard. After the clothes had been there for two hours the porter at Dresher's tried to take the sults to the rear to have them cleaned and pressed. ‘Here Is where Jim got In. He would not let anyone approach his master's sults. The men ‘thought the dog was crazy or mad. ! An hour ufterwards, Al Dresher appeared | and was told of the “mad’ dog. Mr. | Dresher at onge recognized whose dog! It was and called him by name, but still he would not permit the suits to be touched. The only solution was to send-for Mr. O'Brien. When the falthful dog saw his| master he wagged his tall and surrendered the fort. It ONE FOR TABLE-LINEN, one for bed and body linen, and one for soiled towels and cloths. WET THFE CLOTHES, rub Lenox Soap solution over the solled parts, fold and roll ch piece cdover with warm soapy TO MANE SOAP SOLUTION: Take a calie of Lenox Soap, cut it into small pieces, dissolve these in three quarts of boiling water, Hoop wa solution is formed. ot boiling polnt until a LENOX SOAFP SOLUTION dses better worl then scap, there is no waste. end is more economicsl, because Lenox Soap-Just fits the hand | truston Margaret Willlamson and Charlotte | down' the street, | the hurry call ‘and’ both the combatants |came in a feeble volce. /| stock of papers and magazines,” TRYING HANSCOM PARK CARS WOMEN HAVE FURIOUS FIGHT Two Sisterssin-Iaw Lock Room and Have & Rough-and-Tumble. ONE BEATEN TO INSENSIBILITY They W Farnitpre Thelr | Flevce Combat and Turn Room- House Into Veritable Pandemoniom. in Locked in & room together to prevent in- Wililamson, ~ sisters-in-law, prepared to fight to the desper nd at their rooming houge, 1815 Cass street. They had strug- gled and battled as only women can, when & newspaper man broke down a door and | the fight was ended. Masgaret Willlamson | was lylng unconsclous on the floor. The other woman dashed out the door and | only to be captured by | another reporter. The unconsious warrior was revived by emergericy treatment by a pelice surgeon. An automobile load of officers answered were taken to the police station. An examination of the premises showed a carefully laid design to carry the strug- gle to the end. Each door was roped shut and every n’induw fastened down, Both women” had been in polige court in | the morning before to anwwer charges | originating with the first chapter of the | row. Margaret Williamson had been fined 3% and Charlotte was discharged. James | Willlamson, the husband 6f Chariotte, was | fined $10. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Harvey, | proprietors of the rooming house, appeared | at the police station to make complaint. ‘“They have broken up the furniture and it's in a regular pandemonium,” declared Mrs, Harvey. “T'm afraid that when they get done with the furniture they'll start on me and my husband.” Women Go to Police Station. The two women left the police station to- gether, while James Willlamson left to take up his day's work. At the rooming house on Cass street the two women got together and went at It again, with the room locked that they might go to the finish. The battle raged back and forth across the room; dfstes and furniture crashed and screams plerced the air. When the | reporters reached the house it was close | to the finish. The sound of a cry for help Theri the door was broken down and Charlotte Williamson dashed out with a | baby in her arms. When she was caught | and arrested she refused to talk, The Willlamson family group is belleved | to have come to Omaha from Stoux City. | Under 4 cellar door in the flooring a o lection of literature comprising solieitors' | blanks from 'a number of Omaha concerns | was found. These people had been In the | city but a few days. Their neighbors know | nothing of the source of the m ghty quarrel, Mar;arét, Willlamson was taken to the émergency hospital at the police station jfor treatment. ~There It was said she wvould” prQ\fly recover hout difficulty. Her er-ifhlaw s inijail The police Bave, nof, beed able o, fihd the hughands of the battil I3 zomen Billboard Kid Finds Business Man Easy Mark Hands Him a Buffalo Talk for $37.50 and Draws Off Check for Sixty Dollars, "'Please, mister, T need $57.50 to get my sald the youthful grafter known as “The Billboard Kid' to a certain business man of Omaha. “And as security for the payment of the money, If you let me have it, I'lc bring up to your barn my nice little horse and buggy, just as soon as I get the check cashed and can get home.” “What are you to get with so much money?” cautlously inquired the busihess | man, - who, himself, has sold papers and hustled against hard fate in other days. The' bright boy with the biilboard ad- dress went Into detalls. giving the number of different papers and periodicals he had to have in order to do business at his dream stand and the list came to exactly $37.50. | Having figured his needs to the penny, the lud glaborated on the way his parents had gone sick on his hands, how his nice! horse ‘was hungry and cold, how his air- ship hit a barb wjre fence and made it necessary for him to buy new posts. and how his flancee had not enjoved a mixed arink and a fancy sandwich at his ex- pense for about & day and a half, “‘Here," atfer carefully listening to the buffalo | story of the bright-faced urchin, I gm | going to give you this check for $60, and you get your parents all they need in the way of medicine apd food, and you keep your horse and buggy at home, my boy. You pay me as soon as you can, and I ans very glad to help you." “I'm sure yow're much obliged,”" smil- ingly replicd the slippery kid, talking vol apuk so as to save the feelings of .h!s| benefactor. He cashed the check In the outer office —and is spending it somewhere that Proba- tion Officer Bernstein cannot locate. ON: PAY-ON-ENTER PLAN Street Rallway Company Will Buy | Twenty-Five New Conches When Expeviment in Comecluded. Experiments are being made by the Omahs & Councll Blaffs Street Rallway |company In transforming some of the Iargest cars of the type used on thel Twen- ty-fourth street car line, into pay-as-you- enter cars. As soon as the cxperiments are completed, twenty-five new cars of the |type will be orflered. An effort i being {made to find a car with less plattarm bo- hind wbich may be used, because 'of the Alfticultles in such long edrs, The company has bought, an autpmobile truck, which is velng eguipped with a wire tower for emergency calls, and with this |expects to make a considerable saving in time in wire repales. « sald the cautious busimess man, |, THE OMAHA BEE goes to the homes—is read by the women-—sells goods for advertisers. The Low-Cost, High-Class Car Silent as the Foot of Time “A long, Iow,'rakish craft”’ This car, as well as the other two of the Mitchell line, contains ‘more real automobile value than any other car now on the market, and you will be given every oppor- tunity to prove it for yourself .The fact that motor cars began with almost prohibitive prices, and many of then! still linger around the high-cost mark, has created the belief in many minds that it is impossible to build a low-cost 'métor car that is really high-class. Yet to the student the belief| has been disproved by the existence of many low- cost cars which supply all the essential features of the high cost cars, and these cars are steadily advan- cing in public estimation because of their consistent performances year in and year out. The excuse for a medium-priced six-cylinder car is the public demand, and the six cylinder is just as easy of accomplishment as the four cylinder providing the factory produ- cing it iscapable of building a good motor of any power. A six requires a little more material than a four, but it does not follow that it runs into materially more superficial standpoint of can for what you do. Take, for Six-cylinder, new this year. money save from the purely ‘‘get every penny you " instance, the Mitchell It is a de- velopment of the Mitchell Four of 1909. Two extra cylinders have been added ‘and’ the frame and wheel base lengthened, but the Mitchell Company found that the cost of this development n 2 factory so thoroughly equipped as theirs was T.ae Mitchell Line are on Exhibition at the Auto Show ‘February 21-26. COIT AUTOMOBILE C0., 2207 Farnam St., Omaha, Neb, which carries so much classical beauty that it will open the eyes of those unenlightened ones who still cling fo the fallacy that high price proves intrinsic merit. not sufficient- to warrant any change in the orig- inal price of the Big Four, so they made no change in the price when they created. the Six. Thus there springs into existence the medium- priced six-cylinder car, which is so good in every particular -that it raises the pertinent question: “Why do other makers insist on such radical dif- ference in price between a a six-cylinder car?’” four-cylinder car and The medium-priced Mitchell Six-cylinder car contains the same excellent materials as are used in the high-cost cars—they show the same careful workmanship, the same power, the same speed, the same design and the same finish and equipment. one factory can produce Why is it then that a six-cylinder car at $2,000 which will give perfect satisfaction and please the taste and comfort just as well, while another concern insists upo as much, for a six that is no b n $6,000, or three times ctter in any particular? The answer is that the public has be¢n educated to believe in high prices, and the makers of high- cost cars are content to let the public remam in its unenlightened state. There is- a growing tendency towards the six, and.what becomes popu- lar in this country must be produced. It is the enterprising maker whio jmmediately begins to figure on how the cost of the popular vehicle may be reduced while'the: “standsstill” maker, who is anxious to get rich quick, tries to see how much he can tncrease his profits, and he depends wholly on the public’s lack of mechanical knowledge to get away with it 20 SUCGESSORS TO S 4 SPEAKERS FOR THE LAYMEN'S‘ MISSIONARY MOVEMENT HERE List i1s Selected and Big Preliminary Meeting Will De Held Sunday Afternoon. Omaha, South Omaha and Councll Bluffs pastors and lay committeenion, some 600 will meet Bunday at 3:30 p. m. at the Quite a problem. confronts the oompany {on” Fort street, from Twenty-fourth to | Thirtieth. A sewer Is to be bullt on this street \his summer, which will take the center of the road. There is no other strect the company could use temporarily; for its Flovence line, as cars cannot be rul under the WorthWestern bildge n ' “Fhirtieth street. o Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is famous ltor its eures of coughs, colds and croup, Omaha ' Young Men's Christian assoelation to prepare for the convention to be held In Omaha March 17 to 20 to further tne national caumpaign of the Laymen's Miy- sionary movement. ‘This convention is fn- terdenominational and will consist of lay- men from eastern Nebraska and ‘south- western lowa. Meeting With the pastors Sunday after- noon will be the central co-operating com- mittee and the missfonary committee of he three clies and It is expected 600 dele- Paris Branches: i Rugde Tilsitt and Avanue MacMahan Gy ,W ¥, 0,'B. Rnclnl. i Pimono Douuln- [t —— T S gates will be present. Dr. F. H. Bheets of Chidago Will be one of the speakers. An effort is being made to have every chufeh in the dlstrict rgpresented by its leading laymen and to ‘have lay members | of the missionary committee In attendanee. Churches are expected to have five laymen present for each 100 members. The move- ment (s 'a men'§ movement. Some of the leaders In the wisslonary mavement of the country will attend as speakers and the following list will show the high character of the speaiers already securtd for work |n connectlon with this convention: Géorge Bherwood Bady, nationhl seere- tary Young' Men's Christlan “assoclation, Indla. 8. Barl Taylor, New York City, general wecretary Laymen's Movement Methodist Episcopal church, Dr. W, B, Anderson, Philadeiphia, as- soalate. secrefary Bokrd of Forelgn Mis- slons Unlted’ Presbyterlan church. Dr., B. W. Alien, Cinciunatl, secrétary Board of Forelsn Mirs'ons Chrigtian ehurch, Dr. Charles Edwin Bradt, seeretary Board. of Forelgn M{a?n;u Presbyterian church, ~United Stat América. Homer C. 8tdntz, New York Clty, corre- | sponding sccretary Board of Forelgn Mis- | sions Methodis: hpincopgl chfireh. ' * M. D, Bubank, misglonary, Nan- king, China. George Heber Jones. ‘missidnary,’ Korea: John E. Merrill, missionary,” Turkey, Dr. John Aberly, miasignary, India’ Rockwell Clancy, misslonary, India. J. L. Desring, missionary, Japas W. C. dsétl, misstonary, Chipa. Dr. Q. €, Rollit, wsecretaw 'depirtment domestic and foreign missions of the Prot- estant Kplscopal church. Isane Taylor Headland, Peking, China. Bishop W. 8. Lewls, l'vu Chow. China. “[took the case from the jury. Py " ‘Thomus Mbody, missfonary, Afri Bishop John L. Nuelsen, Omabn 'RE,. Rov. Arthur' L.t Willlams, Bishop of Nebraska. ISTEWART CASE'S THIRD TRIAL Omaha, in Which Keeaan Got Mixed Up s Back in the Distriet b Court. Tho sult of Robert A. Stewart againkt the Omaha & Gouncll’ Bluffy Street Rail< wiy company s in district court for . its third trial. At the first heaning the coust The plaintitt secured/a new trial from the supreme ‘oourt This second trial took piace last ‘June and resulted in a hung jury. The case them Bechime famous because of the charges’ of fury tampering, which resulted in the in- dletment of Al Keenan, Btewart seeks §15,000