Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 20, 1910, Page 26

2 THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MARCH 20, sompotitions for Watters and Cummings (£ he gots down to serious work right away and improves his chances In flelding at sec- ond. He so far has not shown up to any butter advantage than Watters. There fs but a singlo cholee for short- stop—Ole Metcalfe, last year's star player. In some of the games this spring Ole has | pulled off some plays that would have brought forth applause from a bunch of National league fans. They were much more sengations, than anything he exe- cuted last season, and he was rated as a feading shortstop then. Coach .Carroll (hinks Metcaite will bs the best in the Missouri valley conference for the present veason. Amnother Vacancy st Third. The graduation from college athletics of Captain “Buck” Beltzer last fall after the slose of the gridiron season robbed the Cornhuskers of a orack third baseman and left that posftion open for a general scram- ble. Lofgren and Wood, two new oandi- futes, have been handling the ball in that vieinity in pleasing manner for threo weeks .. each of them plays as though they could just about take the job for the coming season. Wood has been picking up bot grounders and tending to the third base territory in almost faultless style. He has been touching the ball at bat for sev. ersl hits. He has proved to be fast in run- ning bases, too. Stlil, Wood has had no edge on Lofgren, who has been flelding in aimost fauitiess style, and slugging the ball with much reg. ularity. Of the two Lofgren apparently has been doing just a little better work. He flelds with more ease than Wood and ex- bibits more knowledge of the game. Yet there is little chofce between them and both of them will stand a brilllant chance of getting on the varsity. Balderson, & Wilber player, has done only & littie playing In the infield, but he Is showing up well, and may develop rap- Idly before the varsity's schedule season opens. He is thought (o be & heavy hitter. Only One Garden Job Open. With Sturtesnegger and Sleughter on hand for their old places in the outfleld, thes. apparently, only one position in the v, rden that is left open for com- petition. Bliss, Farley and Kessler are working to get located in the outfleld. They all field well, but none of them has yet shown any great propensity for fooling pitehers by batting out the pet balls of the twirlers. They need considerable practice with the stick. Bturtesnegger will probably get his job In the left garden. He Is putting up a bet- ter game than he did last season. His bat- ting has Improved very much. Slaughter, who has not been on the team for two years, is playing ball. He s located In center fiold and in capable of holding that In the line of mound artists, Mathers and Olmstead are the only two who are nearly esrtain of getting places on the staff. They were the beat in the twirling line that the varsity had last spring, and they look to be the best there is on the campus this sea- son, Both are pitching more assuring ball thah they were when the season closed last year, and before the schedule 6f games for this spring 1s well under way they ought to be in classy form. @ ocertainty as yet, for he enough work to show his not told the coaches with the nine all ams was one of the best the west and did excel- k for the varsity. He may not be form he had st that does not pitch as fast the days of old, he will valuable man to the Cornhusker staff, the present 18 the weakest {3 | : §8 H : Frank is Doing Well. Frank, the Grand Island boy, is #ood ball, and during the week de- some goods that surprised the of college fans that invades Ne- tiold each day. When he has Cap- Greenalit to work with him he pitohes . If he conquers a slight ten- wildness he will be a valuable o team this spring. He has plenty and several good curves. has been rather a dlsappointment fans In that he does not seem to @ame seriously enough. He sluffs moves around In flelding his 4 though he had time to burn, make & good pitcher, but he #et more ginger into his work #ucoeed with the team this ik ! . Pt 1 £ another pitcher who has not into practice with any show He has been out to but a games and has not allowed get & lineup on his work. He the goods, but nobody will fact unless he gets into the practice games and sticks #quad. Freshman Team Stromg One. This week's practice has proved the f % sy Faclt beld down by a cracking good player. Most of the men on the team ocan hit the ball berd. In sddition to having nine regular players for this team, the first-year Corn- huskers haye several substitutes who are Just about s good as the men on the first team. X For _while it was thought the freshies ‘Wwould be shy men In the twirling lne, but this week two men were brought out who Will be in forin to take care of the pitch- ing end of ‘the work. Seldel and Klepser each were able to puzsle the varsity with their throwing, and proved to Coach Carroll The annual Baster vaocation will inter- fore with the practice this week. The re- ceqs begins Wednesday evening and extends to the following Tuesday moraing. Coach Carroll plans to have all the varsity players Lincoln by & week from Sun- this week, and just Coach Carroll Is on the snxious seat BADGER STRONG MAN READY Oscar Osthoff Will Be in Trim for Weight Events. MUST GET RID OF “CON” FIRST Coneh Lathrop Makes Find in Ray Sanders, Former Morgan Park Star-—Base Ball Prae- toe Regina. MADISON, Wis., March 19.—(Special.)—~ Although the hope for a champlonship track team at the University ot Wisconsin this year is not causing the fans to go into ecstacy of delight, they have been bright- ened materially during the last week by the reappearance of Oscar P. Osthoff, the varsity strong man, on the campus once again, At the close of the last semester he was obliged to go home for medical treatment and for & time it seemed as If the varsity would have to get along without him. The big fellow has improved fast, however, and will be the Badger's hope in the weight events in the conference this year, Wisconsin will be weakened in the dual meets for the reason that Osthoff will will not be eligible until after the spring “con” exams, but he will keep in condition, and it is expected that he will carry off at least elght points in the confersnce meet this year. He took second to the Btanford crack last spring and, as the latter le now coming with the coast ath- letes to Chloago, Osthoff ought to have little trouble in taking first in the shot and possibly a first in the discus. Fast One. Discovered. Coach Lathrop discovered his first “dark horse” Jast week, the athlete in question being Ray Sanders, a former Morgan Park star. Sanders worked at the vault last year, but falled to do anything remarkable In the event. This spring he announced his intention of trying fgain for the same event. He was doing some slight light work on the track one afternoon when the coach spotted him and, seeing the possi- bilities of & §0od man, sent him to try the Quarter. Sanders, although new to the dis- tance, managed to go the three laps In an even :56, the fastest time that was made by any of the reldy men, and Lathrop ex- pects him to do much better on the larger track, and especlally out of doors. Captain Culver had the base ball men out on ‘the lower campus on Wednesday, the earllest that the men have taken to out- door work In several years. Culver and Coach Barry are working at the batting end of the game, allowing the candidates to whack the ball to all corners of the lot and giving the outfielders plenty of prac- tice, The gym team which will represent the Badgers In the coming gymnastic meet &t Minneapolls, will be weakened materially by the loss of Grunert, who Is said to be the best gymnast that has been seen here sinoe the days of Zeidlehack, who captured the Individual championship the two years that he represented Wisconsin, There are & number of promising youngsters, how- ver, and while thers is litle hope of the Badgers taking first, Coach Zeldlehack is confident that his team will make a good showing. NEW RECORD IS LOOKED FOR Olafield Expected to Beat All at Day- tona Meet. DAYTONA, Fla., March 19.—-One hundred and fifty miles an hour is the speed which Will be attained by the winner of the one mile world's straightway champlionship on the Daytona beach during the 1910 speed carnival, to be held March 23, 23 and 24, ac- cording to a prediotion made by Hemmery, the great French driver. In a letter to Barney Oldfield, the noted automobilist, who s the new owner of the 20 horsepower Bens, with which Hemmery drove a mile over the Brooklands track In England at the rate of 128 miles an hour, the Intrepld Frenchman tells Oldtield' that 10 miles an hour speed can be made if his instructions as to gearing and adjusting the carburetor are followed. Hemmery knows the Daytona beach well, and the big Benz was bullt for him to eclipse the record of Naszarro, the Itallan, who had previously attained a speed of Wl miles an hour on Brooklands, Hemmery cautioned Oldfield to work out on the beach with the car for at least two weeks and to have wind shields for head and body before he attempted to open the monster to its lmit, The local automoblle offclals are very hopeful of having the Bens-Fiat match de- cided at Daytona. According to Oldfield, the #6,000 purse and $1,000 cup which the Fiat side olaims has been offered by the Los Angeles board track promoters is a myth. Propositions were made to pay Oid- fleld a stated ‘amoun and his expenses and De Palma was also to get a certain sum for going to the coast. It is sald that the ags) te was to have equalled about 35,000, and after the talk of the blg race came up the promoters simply added a $§1,00 cup and called it a $6,000 purse. Oldfield asserts that Arnoid, owner of the 200 horsepower Fiat, agreed to race against his Benz In Florida, and the track cham- plon says that the Fiat man will have to make good his agreement' and race In Florida or not et all. Barney seems to bave the best of the argument, as the Florida course 18 the only one in the worid on which two cars can be sent at their Sreatest speed. Oldfield has announced that he will posi- tively not 4o to Los Angeles for the open- ing meet of the board track, and until the racing circutt opens in the east, the monster Benz will not be seen In action except in Fiorida. In 1904, Oldfield defeated W, K. Vander- bildt, Jr., and his Mercedes with the Win- ton Bullet, but Vanderbilt captured the record for the fastest mile ever driven In the world up to that time. Since then it has been Oldfield's ambition to hold the mile straightway record, and this was foremost In his mind when he paid §14,00 for the big Bens. TELEGRAPH STUDENTS TRY TO FIND WHO JOKE IS ON All Agree to Go to Theater and Ome Forgets and Attends Class— Others Suspended. Eighteen jokers Who are learning to grab dots and dashes out of the atmos- phere at Boyles college are searching dili- gently to ascertaln just whom a certain Joke is on. The balmy weather of last week no inno- oulated thelr systems with the lasy bug or mayhap the hook worm that all the members of the telegraphy class just didn't see how It was possible for them to attend classes Friday afterncon so they got up & binding sgreement, signed in blood and elaborately embellished with skulls and cross bones to “eut” the seat of learning off thelr visiting list and attend the theater. But there was a slip in the plan for one future rallroad president forgot all about the agreement and attended class. This made the “prof.” med and when the ab- sentees appeared at night for Instruction they were handed & suspension of one week. Now they ask? “Who is it on?" P. B.-They have to pay their board next week just the same, JAS.E. SULLIVAN. MEMBER OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTER OF THEA AU MARSHAL AT THE INDOOR MEET APRIL 1..... CREWS LINE UP FOR RACE (Continued from First Page.) and the crews, which are now practicing on the river, row their first practice race about Easter time. As 4 result they are having rather stiff training now. The Wisconsin crews are becoming in- terested In the race scheduled with the University of Washington on Lake Men- dotaon, June 4 While Wisconsin has the advantage of a Poughkeepsie training over the Puget Sound oarsmen, a Badger grad- uate recently returned to his matter from & trip to Seattle and Informed Coach E4- wad Ten Eyck, jr., that his men would need their best to win from Washington. He had seen the Washington crews at work on the water and was impressed with the form they displayed. He says that Coach Conlbeer has a pair of twin brothers in the stroke and No. 7 positions of his freshman shell. Along the shore of Lake Mendota there aro blocks of fraternity houses and resi- dences and Coach Ten Eyck has arranged a badge system for the locaity to insure financial support from spectators in that section on June 4. Base Ball Scores. At Fort Worth—Cleveland second team, 7; Indlanapolis, 5. At Atlanta—Philadelphia American regu- | lars, T; Atlanta, 2. At Birmingham-—Philadelphia American second, 9; Birmingham, 0. At Hot Springs—Brooklyn regulars, 11; second team, 1. ‘At Dallas—Dallas (Texas league), 0, 2, 1; , 0. Batterfes: her; Poineil, Works and Browning and Stanage, Schmidt and Casey. At Hot Springs—Boston Americans, 2, 7, 2; Cincinnati Nationals, 2,8, 4. Batteries rger, Ehrman, Steele 'and Carrigan Anderson, Cheney and McLean. TENNIS MEET IN AUGUST Executive Committtee of National As- sociation Meets. FIXES DATES FOR FIELD CLUB Preliminary Tie Matches for Na- tional Doubles Championship Will Again Go to Onwentsin Club Courts. NEW YORK, March 194~The executive committee of the United States National Lawn Tennis assoclation yesterday, at the Waldorf Astorfa, discussed tournament awards and open meetings. Thelr task proved difficult, for the applications num- ber 150 ,as against 114 last year. New applications come in great part from the south and west. In the west the newly- Instituted clay court champlonship probably will be played at the Omaha Field olub August 5. The preliminary tie matches for the national doubles champlonship again ‘| g0 to the Onwentsia club, Chicago, instead of the Crescent Athletic club at Bay Ridge, L. I. Three days of the first week of August will be designated. The womans' natlonal champlonship will again be decided on the courts of the Philadelphia Cricket club Helghts late in June. comers' tournament, beginning with the challenge champlonship match in doubles, will be played at the Casino, Newport, R. L, August 16 and the following ten days. At Houston—St, Louls Americans, 5, 11, 1; Houston (Texas league), 0, 3 1. Batterfe: Lake, Bailey and Killifer and Allen; Weh man, Allery and Burch and Hamil{on. Chatter from the Ring Side The Emeryville race course in Almoda county, just across the bay from San Francisco is an ideal place for the John- son-Jeffries tight. Up until the California legislature put & crimp in race track bet- ting the Emeryville track was noted far and near, but little has been done In racing the last winter. Emeryville is one of the California towns that was incorporated some years ago for a special purpose. Racing was under at- tack at Ingleside and other courses so that the notion was concelved of bullding a new town with a race course as the prin- clpal feature. Tom Willlams owns the larger majority of stock of the New Cali- fornla Jockey club which, in turn qwne Emeryviile. Jeffries, who has been hunting in the Tehachipl mountains, announces that he will train for the fight In the mountains | near Santa Cruz where a camp will be es- tablished April 1. Jeffries will not do any real hard work until the first of May. Frank Gotch and Corbett won't join the outfit untll June 1. Roger Cornell of Friseo and Bob Armstrong, together with “Farmer” Burns will handle the big tellow in the meantime. Billy Delaney refused overtures which were made to him to join the training squad, Ever since Jeff re- pudiated & match which Delaney made with Bill Squires bad blood has existed between | the men. Tommy Murphy, the little Harlem light- welght, who got a decision over Owen Moran, is making every effort possible to get at Wolgast for a fight before Battling Nelson gets & return flght. Murphy through his manager, Johnny Oliver, pre- pared to post $5,000 to insure a forty-tive round battle, but Wolgast would have none of ft. Murphy says he Is willing to fight anywhere, weighing In 138 pounds at the ringside and allowing the $5,00 to go as a side bet, Y “I have been trying to get at Wolgast for a long time," said Murphy. “I wanted to get at Nelson before Wolgast fought him. I will keep this offer up and if Wol- gast and Nelson fight again, I will come in first for a chance at the winner." Pal Moore, the great little Philadelphia bantamwelght, is temporarily out of the game owing to an injury which he re- celved to one of his ears during the six- round fight with Tommy O'Toole. Pal's physiclan has advised him to rest up for a fortnight before taking on another op-| ponent, Abe Attell is the latest aspirant for Ad Wolgast's title. Attell, who has been ac- cused of picking up soft ones for the last six months is sore at the words which are being said about him “What can & fellow do when he gets panned for everything?' sald Able with tears of regret. I get knocked if I make a match and if T don't, get brofled. Every time I knock out & man the anvil chorus gets busy, and If I can’t knock him out 1 get fried by the sporting dopsters. Every time I move a roar gues up from every sportoralist from New York to Oakland.” ¥, E. Coulon, father of Johnny, the Chi- cago bantam welght, is posting a $1,000 for- feit to match the youngster Wwith any ban- tam in the world. Coulon has been doing some good fighting in the south and has shown himself to be a master of the two- fisted art. The only condition attached to Pop Coulon's offer is that both boys welgh in at 115 pounds at the ring side. Packey McFarland is here to go after Ad Wolgast, now that he failed to get a fight with Freddy Welsh abroad. Welsh's tac- tics have been 8o glaring that he is com- pletely discredited both in England and America. Packey offcred Welsh every in- ducement, but the Welshman absolutely re- fused to listen to terms. Packey now wants td get a match with Wolgast. While Welsh claimed the lightweight champlonship of England, he really has no International standing, because he has repeatedly re- fused to meet the lghtwelght chiamplon of the world. Jack Johnson {s the “bad man” of the ring, according to Joe Choynski, the only man who ever knocked Johngon out. And this knockout came in the carly days be- fore Johnson knew much of the game. Speaking of the event, Choynski says: “As the only man who ever knocked John- son out, it might be Inferred that I know considerable of the punching ability of this big, black man, who will soon battle for the supremacy of the world. It was In Galveston, Tex., in 1901, that Johnson and I met. The negro, stripped, was a formidable antagonist. His long, gorilla-llke arms were muscular and he was extremely quick on his feet. “I was promised $500 and a percentage of the gate receipts to knock out the negro, and as #oon as 1 got into the ring I com- menced to formulate my plans. I was skipping around Johnson, darting and duck- ing, while he was doing the same to me. 1 dow't think there was a blow struck in the first two rounds. In the third I saw something must be done. I purposely ralsed my guard to have Jack lead to my ribs and he bit. I lashed out with a left hook for his jaw, and those days I had a mighty wallop. I reached for the point of the jaw, but the blow was high and caught the big fellow right behind the eye. He went down with a terrible crash. Just as 1 was congratulating myself, the sheriff and a couple of Texan rangers arrested us both. We spent a month in jall and neither got a cent for the fight. Then we were ordered out of the state, and I don't think either one of us has been back since, I gave Johnson his first sclentific lessons In that jail at Galveston and he was a | mighty apt pupi.” Kid McCoy, who earned a fortune in fighting, another in marriage and a third upon the stage, but who fs now “broke,” 1s trylng to get a fight club started i New York. MecCoy went to Paris some Ume ago with the idea of opening a eclub there, but the project falled chlefly through the Kid's unsavory reputation. Then he journeyed into London with the \dea of opening an American bar, It costs money to open an American bar in Lon- don, ®o the Kid salled for home. Battling Nelson has started to work get- ting & rest. It requires a good deal of hard work for the husky and energetic Battler to take recreation, AFFAIRS AT SOUTH OMAHA Republican Swedish-Norwegian Club Opens Campaign. TRAINOR ADDRESSES THE VOTERS Sentiment of Oltizens with Reapect to Austral Ballot Found to Be Favorable—Mud Creek in Court, The meetings held last night by the republicans were the first representative meetings of the spring campalgn. The one of most importance was that of the Swedish Norweglan republican olub at Toner's hall. This meeting was attended by 180 men and the utmost good feeling and enthusiasm prevalled. The candidates were present for the greater part and spoke hopetully of the outlook. pects are apparent than at any previous campalgn for many years. It is sure that P. J. Trainor s a fast runner and he has the happy faculty of pleasing everyons needs of the campaign and the city. He sald the city needed a government of economy, sensible morality and active in- dustry. It must be the duty of the South Omaha officlals to keep the taxes lower than in Omaha 0 that the people will remain loyal to the home government. He told how, in his administration of county affairs, his efforts on a single item of the welghing of all supplies had saved the county $10,000. He sald he was confident he could maintain the economy of the present administration which was all sate for the year after having pald up a $20,000 deficit left by the democrats of the pre- ceding campalgn. John Shultz, John Larsen, Swan Larsen, Frank Dworak, Thomas Kelly, Frank Riha and several others were present. One of the best features of the meeting was the presence of & majority of the defeated candidates who expressed themselves satis- fied and ready to work for the election of the ticket. Sentt t Ballet, Speclal care was taken to discover the sontiment of the people with regard to the Australian ballot. It was sald by all who had been out finding out the sentiment of the people that they were glad the Austral- ian ballot was to be used for it appealed more to the voter and in using it he was certain that he was voting wishes in all particulars, while with the machine he was fearful lest he was fafling to vote correctly. The fact of the cost was one of the points which was ably discussed. From the fact that the only ndditional expense arises from the printing of the ballots it was demonstrated that the.printing bill would not be over $100 while it costs fully $150 to move and replace the machines. After the candidates had spoken, Nels Lundgren, A, L. Bergquist and B. L. Gus. tafson spoke briefly representing the senti- ment of the rank and file of the party. Mr. Lundgren, being one of the oldest resi- dents, knew all the candidates from the be- ginning of their life in South Omaha and he found much pleasure in assuring the audience that he could vouch for all of them. A. L. Bergquist spoke of the need of a wise government because the city was the home of its residents and the residents must determine what the environment of the children should be and under what conditions they should be reared. E. L. Gustafson emphasized the fact that the South Omaha government must be one of economy and prudence to cope with the sentiment looking toward union of the two clties. Atter this meeting, which was held early in the evening, the candidates left to at- tend a meeting held at Twenty-eighth and R streets under the auspices of the South Omraha African Republican club, This meeting was also largely attended and the candidates repeated thelr arguments in substance. Timothy H. Horan § Timothy H. Horan, a celery farmer of Sarpy county, does not wish the water of Mud creek diverted as s proposed through the new canal. He s not one of the partie; who long ago brought suit to compel the clty to abate the nuisance of the creek into which much sew: has been dumped for many years. He wants the water of the creek to irrigate his celery farm, and main- taine that to divert the water will cause him damage to the extent of the value of the crop. Therefore he has brought a suit to secure a restrafning order to prevent the water from belng diverted. The other suit has been settled and judgment for damages is contingent only on the effort of the city to abate the nuisance. The city was given twenty days within which to divert the water of Mud creek in the for- mer case and is now to be restrained from diverting the creek in the latter case. A hearing to precede a restraining order will be held Saturday morning. Church Serv! Most of the South Omaha churches will take cognizance of Palm Sunday In the The cholr will take part by presenting speclal music morning and evening. Dr. R. L. Wheeler will conduct the Palm Sunday service, with a reception to members and baptism to any who may apply. The evening service will be evan- gelical. George Heber Jones of Irorea will preach at the Methodist church Sunday morning. Mr. Jones is one of the foremost leaders in the laymen's misslonary movemient. One of the convention speakers will also ap- pear at the evening rvice. Rev. T. M. Ransom will preach at Let- ler Memorial church at 7:3 Sunday even- ing. Rev. George Van Winkle will conduct the seryice at the First Baptist church Sunday morning. In the evening Rev. George R. Dye will speak. Ho is & missionary to Indla. Elaborate programs have been prepared by the Episcopal and Catholic societies, Wi m Meckra. Willilam Meckra, a boy 10 years of age, dled at the South Omaha hospital Saturday morning from the effect of injuries re- celved. Tuesday evening in a street oar aceldent. He was struck by a car at Twen- ty-fourth and H streets as he was crossing and thrown violently. His arm was broken and he had serlous injury about the head and face, but it was not thought he was dangerously hurt, H!s injuries proved more serlous, however, upon developments. His | parents llve at Twengy-ninth and H streets, An inquest will be held at the request of the parents. The funeral has not been ar- ranged. Magle City Gossip. Kitchen woman wantd st the Burton restaurant. The top price for hogs &t South Omaha yesterday was $10.76. B, B. Wilcox was in South Omaha yes- terday, Ho w from Fremont. For JE'I;,TERH dl:?l‘r'l‘LE.l; R")mebal; call 568, ‘rompt ver: al of the town. P HENRY 3. TERTER Mr. and Mrs. D. 3. Farrell, 1218 North Twenty-fourth, announce the birth of & son. Mrs. Almira Courtwrich of Mechanles. ville, 1a., is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. . H. Roberts. Tlsl. ‘Workingmen's hold & street. All working men be present. Mrs. E. H. Roberts has {mproved in health quit '“,‘,T""‘“'"V of late. She has Political club_will night at %2 J are requested to of feeder stoers sold yes- Far better pros- | Ol he meets. He spoke last night on the| )y, QM: on the market at $6.90. This is & record for feeders. A republican rall afterncon at New sixth and U streets. The held y_will be held Sunday Settiers’ hall, Thirty- funeral of Mrs. John Hogan will be t 2 p. m. Sunday. The burial will be lary's cemetery. The regular meeting of Phil Kearney Bo"L and, the Women's Reliet Corps will ¢ held Saturday night. The funeral of John Kelly will be held at 2 p. m. today at the pariors of Heafey & Heatey, to Forest Lawn cemetery. The Mmfant son of Mr. ana srs. Harry Tague, Forty-fourth and Harrison streets, died yesterday. The funeral will be held at' 10 a. m. toda: John Tollin was arrested Thursday night for the alleged orime of stabbing Amos Shepherd. Shepherd was not seriously hurt :hott.ro ble oocurred at Twenty-sixth and stree At the Theaters “The Writing on the Wall” at the d company In “The Wall,” a drama in three Hurlburt: und Munroe. The cast Mr, Harrlson Hunter Misg Olga Nethersole Miss Joo Wallace 80] g On aots, by Wil rection of Walla -Mr. Hamiiton Mott governess £ Miss Charlot to Muriel . My, James B. Ross Albert Perry eters, manservant..Mr, Frederick Browne ‘hristine, & maid. Miss Arnolai In a little speech, after the fall of the last curtain at the Brandels last night, Miss Nethersole said that a number of tenement houses in New York had been torn down and remodeled since the production of her play, “The Writing On the Wall,” in that city. It is hoped that this is' due to the fact that the play was produced, for that | would Indicate that the New York land- |lord's heart Is not encased In a harveyized stecl box, as has often been suggested. But the expose of Trinity’s connection with the tenement scandal, as well as efforts put forth by a number of interested and de- termined organizations, such as are repre- sonted in the play by Lincoln Schuyler, may have had some effect on the reform. Seventy-three was the number stated by Miss Nethersole; s maglc resides In that number, for it was long ago adopted by the telegraphers of the world as a signal of @reeting and felicitation, and ought to prove 80 in this instance. At any rate, Mi; Nethersole has proven her serious purpose in this and other things she has undertaken In the work of making the world a better place to live in, and If the lesson of the Hurlburt play carrles with it such convie- tion as will ald In solving the problem of housing the people in the citles, especially the poor, it will be because it has been presented In a convincing way. Baldly, the story is that of a man who thinks of himself; his income is derived from tenements he knows to be unfit for human habitation. When pleaded with by his wife, he makes promises, but does not keep them. Her notlons of reform would cost him money If carried into effect, and he wants the money for his own uses. So instead of putting up the new fire escapes and making that much for safety, he pri- vately orders his secretary to have the old ones painted to look like new. And when the fire breaks out, his own baby boy 18 caught with the others and burned to death. But the man had also decelved the wife In another way, and had kept up his connection with the other woman after he had given his word that the affair was ended. The money that would have gone o bulld fire escapes was spent in buying a costly necklace of pearls for this woman, which fell into the hands of the wife. She had listened to a confesslon of love from & man she loved, but had sent him away, that she might give her life to her boy. And both boy and lover were burned in the fire that destroyed the tenement her husband owned. Crushed under this, and with arrest awaiting him, the husband turns to the wife and begs her to go on with him and begin anew. She is willing, if he will start right, and he agrees to do It Incidental is a terrible arralgnment of the landlord system. Trinity comes in for & share of the denunciation, and we see & prospective bride accepting a string of emeralds and a set of sables she knows purchased by money pald as rent for used for immoral purposes by the of outcast We also see a young man acting as pander for his employer, be- cause it means high pay for little work and a chance to get to a point of worldly possessions where, to use his own words, “I can enjoy spending money without ting drunk." Miss Nethersole shows in the wife all that mastery of detall that has marked her as among the foremost of actresses. Bhe creates the character with the warm glow of her own impulsive personality, and moves it through the atmosphere of sordid selfishness without distorting its dramatic value at a single point. In the early scenes she is the loving mother and the faithful wife, but & woman as well, whose gener- osity and sense of justice urge her to ask her husband to assist in remedying so much of the evil s he is personally responsible for. When the mood shifts, she 1s still the woman, but in the moment of her deepes griet she forces home to her husband his fault, and insists on his coming up out of the muck. No mock herolcs mar this phase of the play or the manner of its playing; her attitude is logical and convincing, and her conclusion 18 a triumph for her argu- ment. Mr, Hunter s well cast for the role of the husband, acting with convincing sin- cerity, even to the very last, where he tinally gives way under the weight that has crushed him and agrees to follow his wife's lead and start anew and honestly. Miss Charlotto Tittell makes much out of & small part, and Mr. Ross, Mr. Mott and Mr. Perry are also sharers in the credit for the success of the whole. It has been a long time since a play staged with such an effective background has been seen In Omaha. Miss Nethersole gives much at- tentlon to detalls, and in this she has over- looked no point. This afterncon Miss Nethersole will pre- sent “Camille,” a role in which she Is very strong, and which she will give in the costumes of 1837, For the evening perform- ance she will play another of her powerful creations, that of Fanny LeGrande in Clyde Fitch's famous play, “Sapho,” based on the Daudet novel. LEGACY FOR MRS. CULBERTSON Mother of M George Hogers of Omaha PERU, Neb, March 19.—(Special)—Mrs, B. J. Culbertson has recently received $10,- 000 a5 her portion of the estate of Charley Draper, a nephew, who died in & hospital { B. Bchnefier . Clothes that “stand theracket” It takes plenty of honest handwork and the best of trimmings to make a garment that won't go to pleces, lose shape and “‘break” under hard wear, rain and neglect. ~~We're are careful with these par ticulars, which don't show at the be. ginning, as with the outside finish, for they’'re bound to show in the end. —The style you admire the first day will remain to the very end, for it's bullt right fnto the cloth—it must last. ——An early selection is best. SUITS §$25.00 to $30.00 Dresher £ Tailor PR SR L I * DD FenmsOnt MSiS0.12thSt, Lincoln Open Evenings—Too Busy Making Clothes to Close. DOG MEDICINES psinated Digestive Tablets.,. Ange Cure Liquid, non-?olwnou quid Shampoo Hoap—kills fleas.. Elllluflr Powder—reduces fever. 3 blets—Give as a tonie jor 3 Cough Tablets for Dogs . Bye Lotion ... Victor's Flea Kilier, pints, %c and. Spratt’s—Dent's—Glover's Dog 2 600 & & £ We sell Medicine—ask for book. Sherman & MicConnell Drug Co. Cor. 16th and Dodge, Omaha. OWL DRUG ¢O. Cor. 16th and Harney, Omaha. D Second ward, Willlam Wood; city clerk, H, W. Conover; police judge, P. B, Hea- ton; city treasurer, Louls Thorgrimson; city engineer, Norman J. Campbell; mem- bers of the Board of Kducation, B, H. Doan and H. E. Culbertson. ‘While republican in name, the caucus was strictly non-partisan, in fact, and one of the largest caucuses ever held in the eity, SAM MADISON HELD NEGLIGENT Coroner’s Jury Finds He DIid Not Give Proper Care to Elevator, A coroner's jury found Sum Madigon, the elevator conductor In the Boyd theater, gullty of negligence when he left the eleva- tor on the fourth floor of that bullding, at the Inquest held over the death of Miss Bessio. Chambers, who fell four stories through the elevator shaft. Madison, it Is claimed, took the elevator to the fourth floor of the bullding, and while he was on an errand on that floor the elevator ascended. Miss Chambers walked Into the shaft and dropped to the basement. She dled a few hours later at Clarkson hospital. JEWELRY STORE IS ROBBED Watches and Gems Worth $2,500 Are Taken from BDurns Bros. at Plerpont, 8, D. ABERDEEN, 8., D., March 19(Spectal Telegram.)—Two men last night broke into the jewelry ‘store of Burns Brothers, at Plerpont, 8. D., securing $2,600 in watohes and jewelry. The men appeared to have gone to Plerpont on a frelght train, reach- ing there at § o'clock. They broke the glass in the front door, then unloeked the door from the Inside. The jewelry store occuples but part of the room, and the drug store the remainder, but the stock of drugs was not molested. There 15 no clue. ) AMONG THE LOCAL BOWLERS Bungalows Take Two Out of Three in Contest on Basement J Al The Bungalows won two games out of three from the Hollys on the Basement alleys last night. Ward had high total of 618. " Monday night the Beselin Mixers and Morton's X. Y. Z. will play. Score: BUNGALOWS. 1st. 2. 161 16 2 160 3 1 420 144 Tot. Gwynne 456 Ward Ross . .. 463 HOLLYS 1st 42 140 128 Totals Tot. 27 4U 42 MeAndrews Roche . Gillham . Totals . 410 1,268 The Beselin Mixers won two games from the Derby Woolen Mills last night on the basement allcys. Beselin had " all high honors, with 549 for totals and 212 for single ame. Monday night Beselin Mixers and . Y. Z. Beore DERBY WOOLEN MILLS, 2d. 187 17 139 Tot. 512 42 453 1491 Lahecka ... Geddes . Bowers .. Totals 3 . 460 499 BESELIN MIXERS, 2d. Tot. b9 460 4% Beselin “ole Omaha Bherwood Schumaker Johnson racy Chandler in Shelbyville, Ind, about a year ago, The estate was & large one, being valued &t $600,000 and was lurgelv holdings in coal lands and bank securities. Mrs, Culbert- son 1s the widow of Samuel Culbertson, tormerly county clerk of Nemaha ocounty, and the mother of Mrs. George Rogers of Omaha. She makes her home In this city with her daughter, Miss Grace Culbertson, a teacher In the State normal. Ticket at MeCook. M'COOK, Neb, March 19.—(Special Tele- gram.)—At the republican eity caucus to- night the following city ticket was nom- inated: Mayor E. P. Huber; councliman, lmm ward, J. 8. Stansberry; coungllman, Totals. . Booster Matthes Total 23 Cudabys win in rollotf, A