Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 26, 1910, Page 5

l'Hh BF s ()\!\H\ SATURDAY, l"lum{b r_{mderlul Sacrifice Sale Saturday [ Cocts § Sold from $15.00 to $25 These wonderful offers will certainly bring stylish Coats, Tailored Suits and Dresses. class .00 the crowds. 00 Tailored Suits $9.75 Dresses $8.50 Sold from $25.00 to $35.00 Sold from $17.50 to $27.50 Think of it, high Hundreds to choose from and nearly every garment good for spring wear, on sale for less than cost of materials. THE TAILORED SUITS are all m:d and medium length jackets and full skirts. 2 of all wool materials, with short THE COATS are all made of splendid wool materials in good styles. THE DRESSES are made of broadcloths, serges, foulards and messalines. COATS Sold at B.( Sale Starts Promptly at 8 o'Clock WATER BOILED BY HOT AIR| Jolly Bacillus Gets Cooked by Steam in City Hall Talkfest. CHLORIDE OF LIME TO BE TRIED Dinintectant Suggested at Meeting of Vixed Elements to Purity Wa Contaminated by Halley's Comet and Other Things. L] ow the folly bacillus colony of the Mis. sourl river 1s'to be treated to an experi- mental taste of “bleaching powder.” That announcement was made at an Informal meeting of the city council, held last night for the discussion of the typhoid fever situ- atlon. The water company Is to take steps to put the efficacy of chloride of lime to the test af once. didn't Father Rigge at Creighton say that the aurora borealls or something or other ke that put 500 telephones out of com- mission here? Just suppose that some- .thing like, that got to working on the ¥ human aystem.” * “How about Mr. Halley's comet? sug- gested O'Brien of the water board. “Bure," replled 'S. Arlon Lewls The little knot of sclentist smiled ap- ®yrovingly. Prof. Crowley of Creighton uni- “versity, ity chemist, present as an expert, made a note with the utmost gravity. Then the center of interest was shifted to a little go between Dr. R. W. Connell, health commissioner, and W. T. Graham, who represented the Real Estate exchange. Graham and Conmell Hook Up. he streets and backyards of Omaha in a frightful and dangerous con- declared My. Graham. “T don't whose the responsiblilty is for these conditions, but when the spring thaws come the already bad conditions will be mueh worse If necessary our ordinances should be revised. We must clean up at y expens After a walt of an hour, ordinance book in bhand. Dr. Connell got his Inning. He read rapidly an ordinance relating to the duty of real estatc owners and those re- sponsible for properties. He declared that The Missouri river, the traits of the gentle and dlgent bacillus typhold fever, water plants, real estate, city ordinances, depart- mental responsibility, the germ theory and Halley's comet were the subjects of the discussions of the evening, frequently pyro- technle In tone. The meeting inciuded members of the city council, officers of the health department, are dition,” know TAILORED SUITS Sold at $15.00, $19.50, $22.50, $25.00 $25.00, $30.00, $32.50, $35.00 $17.50, $22.50, $25.00, $27.50 ind when the gir cleared rose to remark: ‘I take on only live ones." After the meeting he and the physician resumed thelr argument. elder Gun for Responsible Man. “Why, If a child of mine got this dread- ful disease I'd take a gun to the mah who is responsible, it I could find him,” exclalmed Dr. Moore. ‘‘There's nothing to it at all but just talk; there's nothing done. “We are doing something,” interrupted D. J. O'Brien of the Water board. “To- night It hes been decided to try out the chloride of lime process, which eastern experience has proven highly successful.” “Oh, durn the hypo-chloride,” exploded Dr. Moore. “Let's have a government ex- pert.” At this juncture Dr. Hipple read a let- ter from Secretary Wilson recommending the chloride process. flalley’s Comet Responsible. “I'm not an expert, but I've had the fever and I know something about it,” announced S. Arion Lewis of the West Lesvenworth Improvement club, getting into the discussion eagerly. “I think that maybe it aln't the water. Why, all these disedses travel In cycle waves. “I tell you, gentlemen, there's something in the atmospheric Influence we don’t understand. Why, only a few weeks ago, not a real estate man in Omaha had heeded his numerous requests to clean up and that eity ordinances wers ignored. “Wa've had more troublo with Mr. Gra- ham's work within a store’s throw of this city hall than anywhere else In the oit exclalmed Councllman McGovern leap- ing to hisTeet, “why we've had to send the police out to clear the streets on his account.” “That policeman you speak of carried only one of those formal notices that he dellvered to all the real estate people and the contractors,” retorted Mr. Graham. “I fear that my friend has gone out of hls way to make a thrust. Councilman Berka rose to make a peace- making speech, while half a dozen men came to thelr feet to get into the row. Just then somebody declared the meeting adjourned. The merry gathering had been at it for four hours. COLPETZER CANNOT SEE THE JUSTICE OF LUMBER RATES a’'s Belng Larg- nter Ought to Be in Its Favor. Frank Colpetzer of the Chicago Lumber company was the first witness at the In- terstate Commerce commission hearing in the matter of the Commercial club of the members of the Water board, repre sentative of the Omaha Water company, members of the Real Estate exchange and the Dougles County Medical soclety, Chloride of Lime Advocated. A report from an investigation of condi tions and reme was presented by u committee from the Water board composeu of Dr. A. H. iippie, D. J. O'Brien and R B. Howell. “his committee recommended the trial of the chioride of lime process in the purification of the city water. Thls re- port was first presented to the Water board at @ meeting in executive session Wednes- day afternoun. Edmund M. Fairtiela, of the water company, treatment wo be tries W willing to co-nprvate wiih the elty health cepar ment and the Water boacd o au nie exteat,” sald Mr. Fair- field. {here are obvicus reascns why no extensive work can be taken up.” Dv. Miliard Langfeld, bacterfologlst for the eity, declarcd that the water was not the suurco of (yphold fever in the clty We are not surs seneral Qdeclared munager that the the that purification of the water will cut n the typhoid fever, and Jf, after the trlal of the chlorine proe- 88, the nuinber of cases should be reduced Wwe would not thea be that the real source of disease had been reached, sald Dr. Langfeld. He called attention to many other possible sources of typhold fever, maming various channels of the food supply, Dr. Moore Wauts Action. Dr, Richard Moore yose (o declare war and proceeded at once into the & verbal charge on everybody in sight. “The Waterworks says nothing can done" he exclaimed Impressively, ‘“the health commissioner's office {s at the end of it§ rope, the water board ean do noth- ing. There I8 nothing to It but just talk talk, talk. Our only alternative now fs | 0 appeal to an expe:t to call on Washing- | ton to send us an expert to determine the trouble once for all” This suggestion was in substance Mentical with a resolution passed by the Douglas County Medical soclety at a meet- Ing Wedhesday declaring the necessity of #eliing mgre doctors from down east into wrangle re took oecasion to fly Into Dr. I, charging him with blas and istitied in saying | thick ot | | e | Omaha against the Andersonville & Sa- line River and other raliroads charged with exacting excessive and unfair rates on yellow and other pine from southern producing polnts to Omaha. Mr. Colpetzer said Omaha was the largest lumber wholesaling peint on the M tiver except St. Leuls. Eighty per cent of the lumber recelved here was southern pine, on which & rate of 2% cents was now exacted by the railroads, as against 22 cents prior to 1899, when it was raised to 25 cents and in 1908 to 25 cents and is now 26% cents. Mr. Colpetzer was unable to see why the rate should have bgen increased from 22 cents. In the carly days of the lumber business in the Missour! valley the weight per car shipment was about 30,000 pounds or 8,000 feet. Since 189 this has been in- creased 100 per cent, the minimum load now being about 55,000 pounds or 18,000 feet, though he had known of some cars being loaded to 50,000 pounds. Lumber shipments constant as a rule and there is very little clalm made for damage or delays iii shipment against the raliroad companies hauling the lumber. Op the basls of the 26i4-cent rate there is made an additional cost of §7% cents per 1,000 feet | for lumber, or in round numbers about $i | per 100 feet from southern producing points |to Omaha. The price of lumber varies | with the inorease or diminution of frelght | rates, | |KEEPS AUTO FOR BAD BILL Chauffeur Puts Iis Bmployer Trouble Over an Unworthy Account, | ““You owe me $3."" sald the chauffeur. “I do not," replied his employer. Well, you pay me, or I'll keep your old car,” declared the driver with deflance. What is more he made good on his prom- to| l Ise. \\’ C. Raapke of the Raapke Wholesale Grocery company has replovined his car, & White Steamer, from the Kemper Auto company's garage. The ear had been left there by Frank Datman, who was Mr, Raapke's chauffeur. | An attempt to get the car without a ro-| plevin process falled. According to the plaintiff in the action, Datman had an unworthy claim for money due and eloped | to the garage with the auto when Mr. The bacte:iologist only smiled | Raapke refused to liquidate it kK BROS. MONEY T0 GET CONVENTIONS Eleven Thousand Dollars in Sight of the Commercial Club. 80 SAYS PUBLICITY COMMITTEE Executive Committee of the Club Has Busy Session and Shows that Much Real Work is Being Done. The publicity commitice of the Com- merclal club reported $11,000 in sight for general work and conventions at the meet- ing of the executive committee of the club yesterday. It reported that all conventions that had convened In Omaha during its term of office had been well taken care of, and that the calendar for the current year shows a large number of conventions secured for 1910. The department called especial attention to the “tested seed corn” campaign now In progress. The industrial committee was not to be outdone and showed that on Monday of this week the Hughes-Purcell Paint company of Kansas City, jobbers In all kinds of paints, had located here; that on Tuesday the Nineteen Hundred Washer company of Binghamton, N. Y., and on Wednesday the Andres Stone and Marble company of Mil- waukee had established branches in Omaha. Litigation before the Interstate Commerce commission and a signal victory just gained wére told of in the report of the trans- portation committee. The traffic bureau is now engaged in an effort to keep down creamery, lumber and grain rates affect- ing Omaha. Cole Prods Committees. ‘These reports showed that at least three of the mew committees of the executive committee of the Commercial club were busy. Chairman David Cole called upon every committee for a report. He says he will carry out his determination not to have any ornamental committees. Several of the chairmen promised to have reports ready for the next meeting. John Latenser, architect, and Lynn P. Campbell were elected to active member- ship in the Commercial club. The commit- tee on public affairs has been instructed to co-operate with C. L. Saunders, supervisor of the census, to see that Omaha is given a just representation, especially dustrial field. Mr. Saunders will address the executive committee on the subject nex: Tuesday. Report was made on the Indian ware- house situation by the reading of tele- grams from Congressman Hitchcock and Senator Brown, in which advice was given that both the house and the senate commit- tees on Indlan affairs had voted in favor of the warehouse appropriation. which in- sures the contlnuance of the Omaha ware- house. Approves Signal Corps Bill The club approved the bill now before congress for the enlargement of the signal corps. This was introduced by Senator Burkett. This naturally carrles with it the further development of Fort Omaha. Reports were read that both Senators Bur- kett and Brown had introduced bills pro- viding for an appropriation of $260,000 to protect the eity water works and other property in the north part of Omaha from the encroachments of the Missour! river’ Additional telegrams were sent by the club urging this appropriation be made im nedi- ately avallable for the speeific purpose. The movement in favor of holding some aeronautic attractions in Omaha during 11910 was endorsed. The club voted to try | to assist the Omaha Sangerfest association in securing rates for the Sangerfest in Omaha. Letters and telegrams will be sent Washington urging congress to pass the Lowden bill now before that body, pro- viding for the purchase and crection of em- bassy, legation and consular bulldings in forelgn countries. TEST SHNWS LETTER CARRIER SYSTEM IN OMAHA IS FAST Mail Delivered Five Hours After it is Dropped In the Box. to A test of the rapidity with which city mall may be dispatched to and from widely remote sections of the clty has been made by the postoffice department. Test letters were dropped in mall boxes in the far suburban districts away from | the sub-stations at 8 a. m., addressed to parties either In the business sections or directly opposite sections of the city from which the letters were started. There were elghteen of these letters, fifteen of which were delivered to the parties addressed within five hours from the time they were placed I the mall hoxes. These letters were gathered up from the polut of deposit by the letters carrfers in| mclr regular morning routes, taken In the inary course to the sub-sia‘lon and there nt to the maln office downtown, and in the in- | | worth of loot was taken, DRESSES Sold at 0 39.75 $8.5( 1510 DOUGLAS STREET Sale Starts N 1510 STREET at 8 o'Clock from there again distributed to the sub- station of their delivery In time for the afternoon carrier delivery from that station and delivered to the party addressed. None of “the carriers knew of the tests. ““We are’more than gratified with the re- fult,” sald Postmaster Thomas, ‘“as it shows that the carrier delivery system of Omaha is about as perfect as it can be made." TRAMPS BURN SHACK THAT SHELTERS THEM FROM STORM Permitted to Slee and Take Revenge for Dis- missal. Take the cat out spit at you.—Proverb. Two unidentified tramps are charged with the burning of a storehouse building at 1213 Cass strect early Friday morning because the owner had them ordered away from their sleeping place and locked the doors. “Please, mister, can’t we get in that old junk house out of the wind tonight?” begged & pair of vagran:s of John Wright, who used the building to store second-hand furniture. Mr. Wright assented and found a few nights later that the hoboes had declded to make his warehouse their permanent awelling. The policeman on that beat or- dered them away. Then Wright nailed up the windows and locked the doors. Thursday night he sinlled as he watched the pair try to enter their forbidden den. Friday morning at 4:30 he awoke to find the place in flames. The department was called, but too late. The building and con- tents were destroyed. The loss is estimated at §200. There was no insurance. The building was the property of John Colbert. of the fire and he'll YOUNG WOMEN RUSH FROM FIRE LADEN WITH DRESSES | Tatloresses Snatch Half Finished Gar- ments When They See Smoke in the Buildin Considerable excitement was caused in the Paxton block Friday noon when smoke began to pour out of the windows on the first and second floors, north side. A score of young women working in the Holland Ladiés Tailoring establishment on the sec- ond floor rushed out with their arms filled | with half finlshed as well as with their own wraps. The fire was soon located in the work- shop of the Huteson Optical company on the alley side. James Zimmerman, fore- man, and Roy Davls, apprentice, were just completing thelr luncheon when they dis- | covered flames leping from the corner of the room. The fire department soon put | out the fire, but the damage to the op: goods is considerable. The loss to the building and shop is estimated at $0, with an additiopal loss to optical goods. The | loss was fully Insured by the Brennan- Love company. DENTAL GOLD ROBBERY -SUSPECT GETS OFF EASILY Roy Green Only Lack of Proof Against Probably Wil Win Vagrancy Charge, Roy Green, held as & suspect In the dental | gold robbery cases, where more than $1,000 cannot be p tively connected with the operations of the gang supposed to be at work. He will be taken into police court Saturday morning and there glyen a sentence for vagrancy. Green, when arrested by Detectives Maloney and Van Deusen, made a sensa- tional attempt to escape. Running from his room down over fire escapes and roof unclad, he hid at last in a stranger's bed. He has served numerous terms for theft. Captain John Savage of the detective de- partment Is inclined to the opinion that the robberies were the work ‘of ome or two! men. They are belleved to have been th men who robbed the establishments of Den- | ver and Des Moines' dentists earlier in the year. | MISSOURI PACIFIC IS BLAMED Railroad Held Vr‘"‘rn! in Case of Death of George Coome- atock, That the Missourl Pecific was negligent in the fallure to afford proper protection from moving cars, was the decision of the coroner's Jury at an Inquest held on ths death of George Coomstock Coomstock was struck and crushed, lo Ing both his lege, when run down by a switeh | engine at Fifteenth and Clark streets while on his way to his home, 2613 North Thirteenth street, Wednesday evening. He died in the hospital a few hours later. A Dloody Affair is lung hemorrhage. Etop it and eurs weak lungs, coughs and colls with Dr. King's New Discovery. e and §L00. For sale by Beaton Drr There One Night | thick and fast that there does not seem to dresses for customers | AR\ 26, 1910. Correct Dress for Best Dressed Men in Omaha are Wearing Berg Clothing They are buying them now at great]y reduced prices—buying snappy styles and most desirable patterns and colorings at about a 50% reduction—Are you getting your share of these good things? There’s plenty of weather still ahead to repay the investment. Spring is a long way off and there are, as yet, no authentic or thoroughly correct spring clothes being shown—except in the staples—The real swell creations are two weeks off—and when the time comes watch This Store show ’em. Heavy and Medium Overcoats, in fancy colorings and black See Windows. Handsome Suits, in fancy and blue and See Windows. Men’s Extra Trousers—stripes, checks, | Any Boys Winter Cap in the blue and black—that sold up to $7.50; are now offered at two prices— The tragedy of the mine has become such |a grewsome thing that humanity may well shudder at its awful record. In the last ten years 20,000 coal miners and nearly 10,000 metal miners have perished while at work. In the year 1907, 812 unfortunates |lost their lives, and the following year 2,450 were lost in the coal mines of the United States alone. This terrible tragedy of the mines is being enacted nearly every day, Only a short time ago more than 30 men were roasted to death in a coal mine at Cherry, Ill, and since then 200 more have been killed in explosions. Soeventy-nine were numbered on the death |roll at Primero, Colo., and a few days later thirty-five were killed in Kentucky. Eleven were hurled Into eternity at Indi- ana, Penn., and after that an explosion in a mine in Mexico wiped out nearly 100 more. These disasters are coming so be time between explosions to bury the |dead. Every time the newspapers report on of these horrors 50,00 feminine hearts | talter for a moment, for the wife of the miner has every reason to live in constant apprehension, Today, at Cherry, Ill, a most grewsome serles of events is taking place. One hun- |dred and eighty bodles are still in the mine, whose shaft was sealed weeks ago in the hope of smothering the fire that was raging. Miners and officlals, hoping | that the fire has been extingulshed, are | preparing to bring out ‘the bodies. The | few surviving miners, fearful that an {opm«mn- of disease Wil follow the re- moval of the corpses, are cogly and sen- | #ibly demanding that the bodies of the men |in the mine be destroyed by chemicals. The women, many of them made widow |by the husbands being lost in this | holocaust, are pleading that the bodies bo ! preserved for burial. Sentiment means \mm‘e to them in their great grief/ than any | @ire consequence that may follow. Many 'nf them feel that they have already lost all and that nothing worse can happen. A sad feature of this heart-rending tragedy Is | that seventy-four bables have been born |to these women since that terrible day— seventy-four pitiful little orphans whose helpless plight calls for the deepest sym- pathy. The very suggestion that their fathers' lives may have been lost by care- lessness is an awful arraignment against lm.,u\ who are responsible. A shot firer in a coal mine, who was gettin $8aa for his dangerous work, made a pand upon the superintendend of the mine for more money. “You're gettthg more wages now than you are entitled to,” was the the superintendent. ‘“Wagee,"” cxclalmed the shot firer, “this company doesn't pay me wages. It bets me three dollars a day that I won't come out of this mine alive. If I do, the com- pany glves me $3; if I don't, they bury me." Soven hundred thousand coal miners and 200,000 metal miners dally make a bet with |the owners of the mines that they will jcome out allve, It then win, they get thelr wages for the day; If they lo: the com- | pany buries them and that is about all. A little later, the widows may get & few hundred dollars—twenty-five of thom set- tled the other day at the rate of §250 each. There 18, hov a brighter side to this dark horror of the mincs, The people are | beginning to realize the situation and to act accordingly. The investigation stage | has passed and the publie is stunned at | what it has learned. Statistios of mine | aceidents in this and foreign countries have been ecagerly scanned for information, and | the results have been In every instance to the discredit of the United States. The European flgures show in many countries not more than one man killed in every | 1000 employed in a year's time, and in other countries less than two. In the United | Btates, In 1907, nearly five men in every thousand employed were killed in the coal | mines, and in 1903 the rate was nearly four. Someone who delves in figures makes the statement that If the United States had the record of (he best European countries, such as Belglum, 15000 out of the 20,000 men Killed in the coal mines of this country in the past ten years might have been saved Further Investigation of the European of eply $10 o | store. Men and Boys 25c¢ Men’s Winter Oaps in two lots at two prices— 50c Caps 25¢-~85¢ for Caps worth to §2 TSI O UL A Some Things You Want to Know Preventing Mine Disasters. figures descloses the fact that years ago these countries had records as disgraceful as our own. The reduction in the number of accidents In this most hazardous - cupation began when these countries took up a sclentific investigation of the causes of accldents. The decrease in the number of deaths has continued untl today In Gormany, Great Britlan, Belglum aifd France, the coal mines are killing slightly over one man in every 1000 employed. The year 1007 witnessed four of the most shocking mine explosions In the history of the United States. Tho greatest of these was at Monogah, W. Va, In which 368 men were killed. A few days later there followed the exploston in the Darr mine in Pennsylvania, where 160 were killed. An- other at the Naomi mine In Pennsylvania killed thirty-four, and still another at Yo- landa, Ala., killed sixty-ons. After tils the United States Government began & serles of Investigations into the causes of disasters in coal mines. The United States Geologieal Survey, which was Intrusted with this work, established at Pittsburg a station patterned after the best sclentific stations in Europe. It was sald before these investigations commenced that a miner took his life in his hands every time he touched off a charge of powder in the mines, the various explosives being so variable in strength that no one knew just what they would do. The great fear of the coal miner is what is known as the “blow-out” shot. This means a shot that, instead of explod- ing and breaking the coal, blows the mine. This occurs when the powder has not been perfectly tamped, or when it Is not strong enough to break the coal. A “blow-out” shot sends a tongue of flame leaping through the mine, and if there is gas nearby or fine coal dust floating In the air, an explosion follows that kills or malms everyone near. The officlals of the survey therefore des termined to standardize explosives and to test them ‘in the presence of gas or coal dust. a huge steel cylinder, 100 feet long and six feet in dlametcr. This eylinder was filled with natural gas, which corresponds with fire damp, and & “blow-out” shot was re- produced, the explosive being fired by elec- trieity from a cannon in one end of the cylinder. If an explosion followed, this powder was not considered proper for use in mines where there was gas. The cylinder would then be filled with coal dust and the explosive discharged in it. If the coal dust ignited with & roar, then the explo- slve used was deemed unfit for use In dan- gerous mines. The Investigation of explo- sives was continued until a number were found that would stand both tests without igniting the gas or the coal dust. These explosives were termed “permissible,” and thelr use urged In nJnes where there w gas or coal dust in dangerous quantitie Two lists of “permissible plosives have 50 far boen published and recommonded it the s‘ate mining bureaus. A queer phase of the situation has been the incredulity of the miners and operators alike as to the explosiveness of conl dus: When the government began its tests, hardly a coal miner in tha country bo lieved that conl dust wowld explode. They went to the Pijtsburg station in spoc'a trains to see it hefore they would belleve the statemonts made. In this conneetion, the attentlon of the miners was ealled to the fact that there was & violent ex plosion of flour dust in a Minneapolis mill a number of yoars ago. They were | also to'd to remember that some of the | greatest explosions In the coal mines of the United States, that at Monongah in particular, were caused bv coal dust This has opened stlll another problem whieh the officials are working on—how to render harmless the coul dust In the minhe, One ~xperiment was to rush to - certain mine after there has been & sudden drop the temperature and inv te the cond'- tion of the alr. The officlals caleulated the amount of molsture entering the mine and the amount going out. and found to thelr amazement that the mine was losing ut into | The explosives are being tested in | S f fifty tons of molsture every twenty-four hours. It is readily seen that a few days of such conditions would leave the ccal dust In a very dry state, and render it more llable to explode if it came into cofitact with a flame. This is the causs of the great coal dust explosions that have cost so many hundreds lives. It also explalns why most of these disasters occur in the winter time. % At the Pittsburg station there is a room known as the “rescue room,” whore min- crs are taught to use of the oxygen hel- met, an anparatus that permits breathing artitietally in deadly gases. Part of the ‘“rescue room" contains an air-tight con partment, fitted up to resomble the inter- lor of a mine. This place Is filled with deadly gases and the axperts, elad In thelr oxygen helmets, can remain there for two hours without returning to the fresh alr. These helmets have proved valuable {m- mediately after explosions, permitting res- cuers to enter the mines at onee and bring out men who were slowly being asphyxia- ted. The government now has a crew of trained rescuers who respond to every ac- cldent call with a reasonable radius of the station. These heroes, although arriv- Ing late at the Cherry disaster, brought twenty men aliye from the burning mine, This work has been so successful that cubstations have been established in the coal fields of Tonnessee, Oklahoma, Tili- nols and Washington, ' and recommenda- tions for six more have been made. Tho government's sole purpose in this Is to teach the miners the use of the oxyRen helmets so that oach mine will be encou aged to malntain its own resoue corps. Ten of the blg mining companics of the country have already established such sta- tions, By FREDERIC J. MASKIN, Juhss ch e G Bl |CLEMENT CHASE AT LAYMEN'S ‘ MEETINGS IN OTHER CITIES Attends Bix Gatherings at Kansas City and Topeka for Ideas and Inspiration. Clement Chase has returned from Kansas | City and Topeka where he went to attend | the conventions of the Laymen's Mission- ary movement and get Ideas thiat would be helpful in conducting the Omaha conven- tion next month of which he is chalrman, Mr. Chase says he obtained some val- | uable pointers and as to inspiration it came in great big lumps. “Tho dinner in Convention hall at Kansas | City Wednesday evening was a wonderfully | inspiring sight,”” sald he. *“This suditorium Is larger than ours and there were seated 1,840 men at.long tables running the entire length and facing the spenker's siand, which was at the vide. The galleries were packed, with the women, the men sang, cheered and gavo colloge calls agross the big hall. Pho speakers were Blshop Tutt presiding blshiop of the Eplscopal chure Governor Hadley of Missouri, H. C. Stunts and J. Campbell White of New York City, and myself. “When Bishop Tuttle finished, every man n the. audknce sprang to his feet and saved his napkin in the chautauqua salute until tho bishop rose and acknowledged the ovation. The lcading men of Kansas Clty have thrown themselves Into this movemont and, as happcned at 8t. Louls, It 18 expected that the wealthy men will begin forming what are known as the Four Square clubs, in which four men bipfl them. selves together to give (o forelgn missions annually In sums running In four figures, I saw In the audience Mr. Perry, president of the Natlonal Bank of Commerce, Mr. Neal, president of the Southwest National bank, in fact, officlals trom every financial institution in Kansas Cit Mr. Chase spoke the next morning in | Topeka at a breakfast for tie men of the ircopal churches given at the eathedral, over which Bishod Milspaugh prealded | The other speakers were Rov. Perey Rilver land A. V. Saell of Oklaboma Clty. Later Mr. Chase addressed the conventon In the Topeka auditorium and a rally of the Baptist men at a noon luncheon. He had a long confererce with Campbsil White and D, B. 44y upon the program for the Omaha conyention, Mr. Eddy being in charge. Mr. Chase will describa the Kan- as City dinner and show pholographs nf it at the workers' rally to be held at the Young Men's Christlan association Sunday atternoon.