Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 1, 1915, Page 10

JITNEY DRIVERS G0 INTO 0. 5. COURT Beek Restraining Order to Prevent| City Ordinance Being Put Into Effect July 7. EXPLAIN REASON FOR ACTION A petition for a restraining order to prevent the city commissioners from putting into effect the recently- enacted jitney ordinance was filed in tederal court by Attorneys Thurston, Crow and Morrison. Judge T. C. Munger will come from Lincoln Fri- day to hear the arguments. The plaintiffs are: Harry Counell Blufts, and Floyd E. Ba G T. Palen, C. R. Cott, Ralph Brosil, Os- wald Lewls and Lawrence T. Conklin, Omaha, and others. The city of Omaha is the defendant. Mr. Carr alloges that he 18 the owner of three jitneys operating in Omaha; that he has invested $3,000 in his property, and that others have Invested a total of $10,000 in the business. The petition attacks the ordinance on the ground that it is unconstitutional in being confisca- tory of the property and businesses of the complainants and owners and oper- ators of jitney buses. The principal M. Carr, complainant states that he would per-|. sopally be damaged to the extent of $10,000 by the provisions of the ordinance. Oont of the Jitney. The ocost of operating a jitney in Omaha in given as follows: of car, supplies, oll, etc. Total........ annual receipts of a five-passenger stated ‘as 32,000, leaving a margin $300 for profit. Mr. Carr drives his cars himeelf. ordinance becomes operative the would have to pay a total of in addition to present costs, out all profit, men who are filing the petl- organized the Jitney Transit o George Knott, switchman in the pas- senger yards at the Union station and who wak caught between the bumpers of two cars a woek ago and nearly crushed to death, s back on the job, ready for another close call Bad luck has been a boon companion of George Knott almost from the day of | {his birth and there are few men who 1hl\’u sustained more injurles than he and are still living. When a boy, his bad luck started when he was caught in a street rallway turntable at Twentleth and Lake streets. At that time he was cut and brulsed and surgeons debated for & week reiative to cutting off both his logs. However, the legs wers saved. Some years later and after he had grown to manhood, Knott was out hunting. He 'T/;e_y May Break Krrlotz lr)utrThey | Are Not Ableto Make an End of Him | him to the hospital for nearly six months pulled his gun from & wagon and the weapon was discharged, tearing away part of his right side Bome years ago Knott went rallroading and one day he fell ffom the top of a freight car, breaking both legs. This sent and shortly after coming out he fell agaln, breaking both legs again. This erippled him so0 that he could not follow the occupation of a brakeman and he secured employment in the switeh yards. There bad luck followed him, he sustain- Ing numerous minor injurfes. A week ago he was caught betwecn the ®umpers of two oars and when he was takén out the attending surgeon asserted that he could not live, He did, however, and now he is back on the job. TRACES HIS PAMILY | BACK 1,000 YEARS F. A. Agnew Connects Ancestry with Signers of Declaration— Will Help Receive Bell. MANY ARE BEING HEARD FROM F. A. Agnew, South Side resident, can trace his ancestry back 1,000 years. He will be a member of the local reception committee which will serve on July 9 when the liberty bell | will be here, Commissioner Kugel, chairman of the Liberty bell general committee, ia begin- | ning to hear from the descendants of | persons who were identified with the days of '76. Y The commissioner wants Omahans to delve Into their genealogical records and |fresh milk and ice and the fund help form this ancient end honorable so- clety of sons and daughters of ‘76 for service on July 9. Back to the Signers. Mr, Agnew writes that his maternal great-grandfather was first cousin of eompany, and ‘‘What they desire in | John Morton of Philadelphia, one of the ‘place of & I-!hr each car is a blanket | signers of the Declaration of Indepen- Mability bond,” sald Mr, Morrison. dence. His mother's father was o cap- “Mach owner In the company would |tain in the war of 1812. General Charles &ive.a Bill of sale of his car as security. | Morton, who was stationed here and who A blanket bond would be secured from |ajed in Washington, D. C., a few months % bonding company. protecting all the | ago, olaimed his relatives and the Mor- ‘members of mfll&::_uznr}mll: -n‘rt ton branch of the Agnew family are de- Ariver e calied oot Ve scendants of Willlam the Conqueror of ‘would. be taken oare of under this bond. | England. The cost te each man would be very | My mother's ancestors came to this smail. country in 180 and the Agnew family The litney ondinance, against which |came in 180, wrote Mr. Agnew. ;?N"I‘m is directed, is to go into effect . Leldy will be another “'vice presi- Fleharty 8ays the ~ Jitney Bond Law is ‘ 'Raauong._b_l_e in Scope Solicitor | Wwho drew the belleves the jitney e~ E i H iy H i i i it i : ig i { il EEZI; ity 9:" i [ i £ i i i £s ) il i it | i g ] i | amount to about 9,000 gregate. It would seem men defeat thelr own case ures may be accepted. As to the bond requirements, 1 would say the 32,50 maxi- mum for one death and & maximum lia- bility of $10,000 for any quite reasonable, If the public I8 to be considered. half of Texas, drouth. Oats, o 4| ficlal publication of the National Fra- fti’i! 11 '|His great-grand fow frelght | ¢rt. Isaao J. Wittwer, John W. Barrett, during the of the Liberty bell. r fought In the revolutionary war and he adds that the Leidy family settled in Philadelphia in 1682, J. M, Greevy, secretary of the Penn- sylvania soclety, Is busy on this matter. His soclety will meet Tuesday evening in the ploneer's room at the court house. Tuesday Chalrman Kugel will bave a meeting with the various subcom- mittees and others interested in the visit of the bell to this eity, Mr. Kugél ‘will endeavor to have a band of music greet the' specisl traln as it arrives. oy May Plant Ivory Spike on Course for Oglmps' Help Speedway. officlals are thinking of capable of seventy-mile speed to achieve i ' Decatur moved out of the harbor un- r the Doujras street bridge and began the current of the Missouri Decatur, Captain Stevens said ‘would not attempt to reach De- less than three days, as the dis- ity-five miles by river. The regularly between Omaha 80 that the latter river t rallway factlities may now traffio communication with 1484 1 Egii ol 1 4 iz it i % £ Convention for Deaf to Be Held in Omaha The June number of The Frat, the of- ternity of the Deat, :s filled with.infor- mation about the annual convention of the soclety, held In Omaha Jyly 5 to 13 The Hotel Rome will he headquarters, J. Schuyler Long of Council Bluffs is presi- dent of the Omaha division of the sock ety. after | The local committees in charge of the convention are headed by Walds H. Roth~ Perry E. Seely, Harry G. Long and Mrs, Ota C. Blankenship. H || was unden water. The Bee's Fund for Free Milk and Ice No, we know it has not been very hot yet—but the heat is bound to come. Then the little tots will need will have plenty of demands to meet. Contributions from 10 cents to $5 are solicited and will be acknowl- edged in this column. Previously acknowled, PERR G. Stors .. . o wW. B . W. FParnam Smith. Sections of State Visited by Heavy Rains and Hail The south half of Nebraska and north- orn Kansas was hard hit by rain and hail Tuesday night, according to the re- ports coming to the rafiroads. Practically all that portion of the country south of the Platte river and extending down into central Kansas was visited by a heavy rain, the precipitation ranging from one to three Inches. In a number of locall- ties there was hall, severely damaging ef crops in its path. Both the Rock Island and Burlington roads sustained considerable loss by rea- L of the rain that again threws the streams out of their banks. The only report coming to the Rock Island is that the rain was very heavy and that the damage will be considerable. Along the Burlington west of Stam- ford on the Bt. Francis branch the orib- bing that was put in following the wash- outs of a. week ago was all washed away and the line again put out of commission. On the main line across the southern part bf the state a number of small ‘Washouts wére reported west of Hdison and Oxford. "West of the first named place ‘w-stretch of track a mile in length P the Republican valley a washout was reported between Franklin and Riverton, seriously delayjng traffic and necessitating the diverting of trains to the Sterling line. A severe hall- STOP JAYWALKING Has White Marks Painted on Street Crossings for the Pedestrians to Follow. HAS A PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECT The business of educating the dear public is a tedious undertaking, as any seller of gold bricks or some- thing will tell you. The latest at- tempt to work upon the collective mind of Omaha is being put forth by the city in the interest of better traf- fic regulation. Painters appeared on busy downtown ocorners and produced glaring white lines several inches wide and about ten feet apart, on every intersection. The object is to make a sort of imaginary pen, or coop, for wayward feet, and thus prevent outting the street catti-corner, or “Jay- walking,” as it 18 more popularly known. Of course there is nothing to prevent the wayward feet from straying out of the bounds except the traffic policeman in the middie of the street, but he's gen erally so busy that the pedestrian is nearly across before noticed Traffio Officer Charley Chapman at Sixteenth and Howard was standing on the sidewalk watching the painters mark out the paths, when a would-be wag ap- proached. “Hey, Charley, what s this—have they got you here to keep folks In the ‘stralght and narrow path? “Nope,” answered Chapman. “I'm here to answer foollsh questions.’” Commissioner Drexel said: “The lines | extend from sidewalk to sidewalk and are | s0 glaring that when one steps ‘out of bounds’' he will instantly notice it, and | remember the traffic rule about ‘jay- walking.' There's an explanation of the working of the human mind which will #how you why these lines will be a great | preventer of jaywalking, and I'd tell you what the explanation s, only I forgot it However, the lines work out well in other ocities, and it won't take long to educate the public not to ‘Jaywalk’ downtown.” Apartments, flats, houses and cottages can be rented quickly and cheaply by a Bee “For Rent.” Hold that Stock in Federal Reserve Bank Must Pay Tax A request made by bankers to the Doug- las county Board of Bqualization that capital stock in the federdl reserve bank at Kansds City be exempt from taxation was refused. The board held that stock in the reserve bank, should be assessed at its face value In spite of representa- tions that the federal bank's operations show a deficit since f{ts establishment. The' United States National asked that $20,000 stock held by it in the Kansas City reserve bank be exempted from taxation. ) ‘The board held its customary evening seasion, to which bankers were invited, and assessed twenty-five banks of Douglas county on & valuation of $7,000,- 000, The following bankers were present: W, H. Byghols and J. De F. Richards, Omaha National; H. 8, Clarke, Corn Bx- change: W, A. Rathsack, Security State; . B. Haverstick, United States Na- tional; James B. Owen and J. C. French, Stock Yards National; W. J. Coad, Pack- ers’ National; T. L. Davis, First Na. storm was reported between Alllance and Halsoy on the Billings line, MADAM! 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