Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 14, 1915, Page 5

< | f ‘\ }‘ { THE BEE: OMAHA SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 19156, BATTLE FOR PIELD CLUB GOLF HONORS, Societ-y Women See , Stecher Win Match| i FREMONT, | Telegram.)--Joe Stecher | | Neb., Aug 13- ~(Spectal | defeated Mort 'HERRMANN TALKS ABOUT REDS DEAL Annual Competmon for Club Cham- | Fenderson of Altoona, Pa., In_straight | Whether Club Wlll Change Hands or pionship Will Be Started Satur- day with Qualifying Round. RESULTS OF PLAY BY WOMEN| The qualifying round of the an-| night crowd of 260 | reople. Stecher se«urvd the first fall in five minutes and ten seconds, and the | ‘m-mml in three minutes and eight sec-| He used the sclssors 'nd half vel- | mvn in each fall. It was Stecher's firat | mateh in Fremont since he defeated Cut- ler. July 5 and scores of Fremont so- falls last before a Remain in Hands of Present Owners Decided Soon. |CALIFORNIAN HAS AN OPTION CINCINNATI, O, Aug. 1%~Whether nual play for the club championship | clety women turned out to see the Dodge the Cincinnati base ball elub will change at the Omaha Field club will be| played today. A big field is en- tered In the championskip event and pome exclting golf is promised. As a special Inducement to players who have yet to reach the champlonship class, G. H. Conant wil! give a prize to; be competed for by golfers with handi-| caps of over seventeen. This is expected | to add Interest among the mew golfers &t the club and those who never hope to reach the same class Sam Reynolds is . The mashie pitching champlonship con- test will bo ged also. Th sta today 18 & yearly event at the Kleld club now. Ernest Swect having provided a trophy | which will bo contested for each year. Miss Pansy Willla Mrs, C. W Bins and Mrs - Parmer were the winners In the piay for the Mrs. L J. Dunn trophies at the Field club. Mrs. Dubn donated the trophies and the women golters were to play thirty Loles, eithér nine or eigateen at a time, sometime during the weck. A big field of women entered the ecvent and the scores turned In were all «lose. The| womer. are now competing for the trophies presented by Robert Rosenswalg. Final reductions Satuarday. we find, on going through r st bargains, UNION SUIT SALE Suits $2.00 Grades, $1.45 $2.50 Grades, $1.85 August Clean-up Sale After a successful season's which we have reduced for Saturday only, ken lines of Union Suits, Values to $1.00 - Men’s Suits $10.00 $12.50 Suits. . . $15.00 Suits. . $18.00 Suits. ..... Last Call Palm Beach Suits 118 Suits, dark and light colors, nicely made— Your choice )formerly to $7.50), at. ..... No Alterations. MEN'S ODD TROUSERS 1,600 fine Shirts, all styles, formerly selling at $1.00 and $1.25, [ A S Broken lots of Dress and Collar At tached Shirts, values to 75c, at Cholce of any Straw Hat, value to $3.00, 75¢, bov Henderson weighed 214 and Stecher 22 | pounds. Stecher came to Fremoat from | Schuyler, where he played ball with the! Dodge team this afternoon. He did not train for the match. | Over %0 tractor men in attendancs at the tractor show here the Commercial club at the mateh. | | |““Motor Madness” | Attraction at Fair LINCOLN, Aug 1.—(Special)—Lin- | coln and San Francisco will have the | opportunity to see “Motor Madness,” the new attraction recently imported from abroad. Visitors to the Nebraska state fair will pet to seo the attraction. A circular stec! raifl, twenty feet in diameter, 1s suspended by ropes about twenty-five feet above the ground. On this steel rall two motorcyclists pursue each other. To the moto! les ropes are attached and at the end of cuch rope a woman hangs by the teeth. business ock, small lots of different avticles Get your share of these 35¢ OUR FINEST Clean-up of Bro- - Price P Y 2625 | S 750 e 900 G 210% Hnlu. l l% huiu 1 250 saes...115% | $3.00 Grades, $2.35 $5.00 Grades, $3.85 . 55¢ | hands or remain in the hands of its| present stockholders will probably be de- clded by next Tuesday. “When Warren M. Carter of Pasadena, Cal., was In this city not long ago,” said August Herrmann, president of the Cin- oinnati club, here tonight, “he asked me in the Cincinnati club. I told him I would consider the matter and confer with some of the stockholders and let him know later. At a subsequent meeting I told him it could be arranged, and he then asked me if I thousht he could ob- tain the controlling interest in the club, and I told him he could if he was will- ing to pay the price asked. He sald he would like to consider it two weeks or a | month and it will be a month next Tues- day since the conversation took place. Figure Named. “There was a figure named during our conversation, but at that time I did not consider it in the form of an option, al- though I belleve that the figure is cor- rect and that Mr, right, could purchase the controlling in- terest in the club for the amount. “It is purely a business proposition and does not mean that we desire to sell the Cincinnati club, it will mean a handsome Trevenue those who desire to sell, as well as & good thing for those who remain in the club, After this conversation Mr. Carter left town, and I have not heard from him nor soen him since; therefore I was greatly surprised today when [ was Informed that Le had made a statement that he had an option on the controlling interest of the club. Must Stay in League. Furthermore, if the club is sold to Mr. Carter, the condition was made that [ would remain at the head of the club ! into the water s almost continuous. The | said: and that the club would remain in the cutting is different from anything I have| In addition to the shorter miloage the National league | ever meen the river do. The point of at-| service of the Uinicn Pacific In pelnt ot Mr, Herrmnin stated further that he [tack Is nearly a mile long. a huge el|tune 18 Mmuch superior. The fastest knowledge that persons who had no club to the Federal league. absolutely no chance et He for the than the st In the d there was club be in any National. on Club. PASADENA, 13.—~Warren N Carter, clty trustee of South Pasadena, confirmed today a report that he was | interested in a deal to acquire ownership ' of the Cincinnati National league base ball club; | noon none were guests of it I thought he could purchase some stock | of It will be left within an Carter or anyone else who, after Investigation we find to be all | If Mr. Carter pur- ! chases the club for the amount named, for ity had offered the controlling in- | league other | [rh\mk falls in at the lower end new un | dermining has been completed at the up MISSOURI IS CUTTING FARMS Great Stretohes of Land Boutheast of Manawa Are Being Eaten Up Daily. per and another strip s peeled off is continuous, making a cut of more| than 100 feet each day. At this rate it| will not be long until Curr lake and Isl- | and park are reached | “How much further it will go is prob- Hrmnllwfl A big bunch of willows that WILL SOON REACH CARR LA,KE‘)m.- helped to form a bar above the | point where the eutting is helng done ap- | pears to be responsidle for the mischiet. It has shunted the directly | gainst the bank, It swept This | The Missouri river has resumed its ero- sion of the banks on the lowa side south. east of Lake Manawa and the high h . N o4 priced farm land Is now disappearing at | \WhY The Gutting woud coame T4 [ the rate of many acres & day. In the last | penrt-bresiing to see the valuable land two days the current has cut mto n.n;“l’:"““"“"m ol > land a distance of 30 feet, - g L R S A : eot, And has BON® | . \0r the bank, which i many feet above | | eastward nearly three-quarters of & mile since the ago. Yesterday only forty aeres of the | wards farm remained, and at the !it was disappearing during the cutting began a few reaks | the level of the river, for the crumbling | week | earth gives little warning before it plunges into the seething cauldron below. rute | The roar of the current can be heard a | long way off. ¥ ‘Blg Ogden Gateway Case Won by U, P,/ 0d- | other week. The farm a few weeks ago compiised 100 acres of land, valued at $200 an acre. Splen@ld crops of corn and small grain wero growing on the Iand, | and yesterday acre after acre of corn that promised to yleld seventy-five bush- els to the acre was falling into the stream The river is now only half a mile from | Carr lake, the attraction of the 108-acre | The Interstate Commerce commission Wednesday settled one of the most impor- tant passenger rate controversies which it has ever been called upon to review, when it handed down its decision in the Ogden gateway case In 1914 the Unlon Pacific system an- nounced its intention to discontinue the interchange with the Denver & Rio | Grande at Ogden of passenzer business to or from points on the Oregon Short Line—a part of the Unlon Pacitic system. The Denver & Rio Grande ocontended that as these rates had been in effect | bout eighteen years they should not be | caucelled. The Union Pacific stood upon | what It regarded as Its legal right to George C. Clark of the Leonard Kverett | retire from an arrangement which short company went to the scene yesterday | hauled its own lines and contended that afternoon and returned after an Inspec- | it was entitled to the long haul on pas- tion of several hours. He wrote Mr. |senger traffic to and from territory Everett that a farm house on the Ever- | served by the Oregon Short Line. The ett land was doomed and doubted that it | principal reason assigned was the large |could be moved In time to escape de- |expenditures made by the Union Pacific |struction. Mr. Clark explained the case |in the comstruction of branch lines—par- of the rapld destruction of the farm land | ticularly to Yellowstone park and in at the present time as being due to the | Oregon Bhort Line territory, the testi- fact that the river has now reached u|mony indlcating that In recent years |mection where the subsoll is all sand, | §100,000,00 was expended in the construc- which melta with extraordinary rapidity [tion of branches to enable the Union Pa- {under action of the swift current. cific to serve Idaho and adjacent terri- *“No one can realize the rapidity of the | tory, while the Denver & Rio Grande on | destruction unless he sees what is going | the other hand had invested nothing 1A on," sald Mr. Clark. “The current Js| Oregon Short Line territory. rushing along with extraordinary rapid- Commissioner Harlan, in announcing {ity and the sound of the falling earth|the majority opinion of the commission, park, known as Island park, belonging {to the Council Bluffs park system, and llho probability seemed certain that the main channel of the current will cut into the lake, and may take the greater part of the park land. Long stretches of the public highway have been swallowed up and several houses and farm bulldings | have been dragged.back to save them. A line of telephone poles was moved twioc | this week and yesterday was ght In | the general ruln and swept away. over ita rails from Omaha reaches O bow eaten into the rich farm lands. The| In elghteen hours and ifty five bw'm.um river is taking it off in regular slices, [less time {han the best train between | peeling oft the long strips from one end | bnp aune Points over any {to the other. The earth will begin to Grande, topplo nto the stream at the upper end |, The ;:‘.“‘".;.‘:“",_‘,2’:&)’,' ' &gt 4 jof the cut and a continuous succession of route, as hereinbefore pointed out, is splashes will follow until the lower end other route in enver Rio ’llm- teen hours longer in point of time, Under longer by nearly 40 miles and Is |!8 reached. By the time the last DbIE| yyon circumatances, If no through route The Bee's Fund for Free Milk and Ice The Bee's fund for the hot weather little ones continues to grow and to spread helpfulness and sunshine. There is no oreed or color in its distribution or its collection, as wit- | ness the handsome contribution {from the Dunbar Social Athletic |club, composed of local colored folk. Contributions from 10 cents to $5 are solicited and will be acknowl- edged in this column. Previcusly acknowledged Dunbar Iullvhl\llotlc olub. .. 4833, n 1 an_order based on the requiring the Union offie system to short hanl itself \ishing the present parity of fares r the Denver & Rio Grande would bo gical and arbitrary In the highest de- gree Police to Contest in Revolver Shoot Omaha police are preparing for the annual revolver medal shoot, which fs to be held August 1S, at central station. A 85 gold medal offered by Frenk Parmalee for the best marksman in “Class A" Is the incentive. No other prites as yet have been offered for the were now onen, record before us, best shots in class “B" and class “C." The police have been holding com- petitive turn--( |ruuu~ every month. Soricent M been high man five Ilmon out of ten practice shoots, and Patrol Chauffeur lee Fleming has Others who hoots are Of- been leader three times, have led in the monthly ficers Caldwell and Graham. Police Commissioner Kugel others not yet named will be the judges of the contest. Chief Dunn, who Is famed as a revolver shot, will in an probabllity enter the competition also, and Rwo | DEMANDS HEAD OF - BRIDGEPORT MAYOR Central Labor Unmn Adopts Resolu- tions Calling for Impeachment of City's Chief. REVIEW OF DECISION SOUGHT E BRIDGEPORT, Conn,, Aug. 18~ The Central Labor union of Bridge- port, it was announced today, has adopted a new set of resolutions calling for the impeachment of Mayor Clifford B. Wilson, who 1{s | also lleutenant governor of Connec- j ticut, for ordering the arrest of any- {one who should attempt to speak on | labor matters at an open air gather« ‘\lnx, and a judicial review of the de- cision of Deputy Judge F. L. Wilder, who found three labor leaders gullty ;of breach of the peace in defying the | mayor ! Kach union has been requested to ratity the r lution, | Three Hundred Men Strike. | WOONSOCKET, R, 1, Aug. 13.-Three hundred employes of the Taft-Plerce Manufacturing company, the majority of them machinists, struck today when their demands for shorter hours and a 25 per cent increase In wages were refused. The company manufactures machinery and tools. Wil Fight Men, NEW YORK, Aug. 15.~Indications that an effort will be made by organized man- ufacturing interests, as represented by the Natlonal Metal Trades association, | to resist the demand of the machinists’ union for a general eight-hour work day developed here today when the Garvin Machine company opened its doors and , called on its men to work under former conditions as to hours and pay. The Gar- | vin plant, which employs about 1,500 men, closed down on August 2 after it had refused the demands of the 600 ma- | ohinists for the elght-hour day. South 8ide and Dundee police will par- tiotpate. ate soveral officers who are keen on the trigger. According shots In the central department are: BSergeant 1. B. Ferris, Chauffeur Lee Fleming, Officers Caldwell, Graham, In the South Side department | None Responds at Fiest, The time for the resumption of work | was set for 12:30 today and at that hour figures taken from the ! several hundred of the former employes monthly practice shoots the best plstol gathered around the plant. Bugene Gare vin, vice president of the plant, addressed the men, inviting them to return to work |at the old acale of hours and wages. At Steaderman, Chief Dunn, Sergeant S8am- | the time apparently not a man responded, uelson, Earl Risk, Frank MoCabe, G. B, Knutson, Chautfeur Lester Warner, Jim Murbhy, Detective Pagnoseskl, Detective Fleming and Detective Cunningham. The figures also show that all of the men on trafflo and motoroycle duty are | better than ordinary marksmen. |but late today announcement was mede in behalf of the company that more than 100 of the strikers had returned to work under the company’s conditions Rent rooms quick with a Bee Want Ad. | Bee “For Rent." la week whether I shall exercise the | option.” of money involved, but intimated that ership of the club, meaning franchises, park and property of eyery description.” {from the owners of the Cincinnati club | while he was o na visit to his old home | Turkish Gunboat Is { ish battleship on the morning of August |8 at the entrance 29¢ rather that Sunday is the hardest day in the week for the lady of the house? Planning, preparing and supervising the serving of an elaborate dinner makes it a day of tofl Why go to this trouble and expense when you can dine here, surrounded with every than one of rest and relaxation, convenience and luxury, at prices most fair? X Sunday night Dinner De Luxe from Six to Nine at One Fifty the person. Concert by Christman and his orchestra. Reservations may be made by phone. Douglas 1511, THE F‘ONTL\ I“LLF WILL SFRVE YOU WELL” have a thirty-day option on the sald Mr. Carter. “I will decide in Mr. Carter refused to state the amount | |1t approximateld $1,000,000, | ‘The transactions,” said Mr, Carter, ‘contemplate purchase of exclusive own- Mr, Carter said he procured the option in Cincinnati two weeks ago. 320 ‘Sunk by a Britisher in the Dardanelles LONDON, Aug, 13.-~The Turkish gun- boat Berk-i-Savet and an empty trans- port have been torpedoed in the Darda- clles by a British submarine, It was officially announced tonight. | The announcement seys: “The vice admiral in the Dardanelle reports that one of the British submarines operating in these waters sank a Turk- spuns, tweeds, serges, ete. ot the Sea of Mar- —~—————~— mora. “A Turkish gunboat, the Berk-1-Sat- vet, and an empty fraasncrt also have been torpedoed (1 the Dardanelles by one of the British sul marines. “In connection with the above in a Turkish official ecommunication, dated 12 Choice patterns, weaves and colorings of the season. blues, browns, stripes, checks, Scoteh and silk mixtures, worsteds, cheviots, home- August 9, it was 1eported that the Tur'c- ish battleship Kheyr-ed-Din Barbarossa bad been torpedoed Ly an enemy sub- marine. The Kheyr-ed-Din Barbarossa was o former German battleship pur- chased by Turkey in 1010, twenty-two knots, Politeness Worth $10 to This Thief “Aw, here's your money back, Just kidding you.' With these words a daylight snatch- thief threw George P, Griffin off his guard at Twelfth and Howard stgeets yesterday afternoon, so that Griffin d'd not choke him for snatching & rgd from Griffin‘s hand. ‘When the thief had gone and it was too late to choke him, Griffin counted the roll and found he was 310 short. Gritfin is from Fort Crook. He stood in front of a saloon at Twelfth and How $22.50 Mohair Coat and Pants Suits cooceeense Boys’ $2.45 Suit 217 Boys’' Suits to be sold 1 was to 17 years, and values worth up Your Choice Saturday e Tt %ol . ey’ G0p Shizty snd Hlouses. ... - v Hats. ; about to buy for his parched palate. Boys’ m“og’,'rk and s"fl:!:": Siite. | A smart stranger strolled past him Boyt $1 'wo-piece g 5 whistling. The next instant the whistiing Boys' 50¢ Union Suits Pt 3 stranger had grabbed the roll and was Boyl 50¢ Balbriggan Shirts lml I)rnwern. s whistling his way down the street. Boys’ 26¢ Windsor Ties........ 2 Griffin yelled for the police. The Bo;: 25¢ Soft Collars, Ties to |nnl<'h ndves stranger stopped whistling, and, coming back, handed the roll to Griffin, with the — above words. He had so sweet a smile, and so much the look of a good fellow, that Griffin thought surely no evil could come from such & man. He took the roll, laughed good-naturedly, and even thought of apologizing. But the whistling stranger had whistled his way down the street and around the corner by the time Griffin had counted bis money. each....oiovnitiinnes styles, special, It Will Relleve Backache. Apply Sican's Liniment to your back, Pain gone almost instantly, Dom't rub, it penirates. Zc. All druggists.—Advertise- ‘ment. Special lot of one-piece Bathing Suits 15 Cale Saturday Knowing the char- acter of tailoring, style and quality of our suits, wisé parents will take advantage of this special offer. Saturday. to $7.50-—— §.45 Children’s Wash Suits $3.00 Children’s Wash Suits, sailor, blouse, Russian and b‘.ch I Bathing Suits 75¢ Our Greatest 12 Price Sale Is Nearing It’s End And to make its ending an impressive and last- ing memory of the Best Values your money ever bought--we are going to offer you Saturday as a never-to-be-forgotten inducement Men’s and young men’s strictly high-class hand-tail- ored spring and summer weight suits, That sold u) w $25, has been divided into two big lots and mark: two special prices for quick selling. (Mostly large and small .m.) $7?_5.!_) and 89.'.%_' Grays, “A Profusion of Wonderful Values Way Beyond Your Expectation' See Douglas Street Windows ALL BROKEN LINES OF OUR REGULAR Kuppenheimer; Hart, Schaffner & Marx; Stein-Bloch and Society Brand Suits still continue at Half Price. Palm Beach and Tropical Suits at Special Prices $7.50 Palm Beach Suits........$4.50 Extra Pants Sale Now is the season where an extra pair of Trousers éan produce a won- derful effect of newness to ones ap- ;-f."'wfif".‘i"'m.";?x; wl:::-’;:. ey $9.50 Palm Beach Suits. .......$6.50 pearance—Wool, crash, serge, duck It was 202 feet long, twenty-seven feet $10.00 Tropical 2-Piece Suits..$6.75 and tropical fabries. | It ' fttd with tw 61 punes | G100 Moliair Cost 4nd Pants o o All Reduced In Price hou' = by 4 L S T | six six-pounders, two one-pounders and A » 15.00 Mohair Coat and Pants $2-8250 $3-88.50 845086 96.87.50 :‘::«.:o;:edfclt:: ,:uh‘:p.:a e:::. gniu Naivevis Biateless « b VDO Trousers Trousers Trousers Trousers All sizes and styles for 214 39¢c 1o e s $4.00 values ........,.$2.66 $6.00 values .. .$3.86 $8.00 values .. .$4.66 Great Reductions In $1.50 and $2.00 Athletic Union Underwear, Nainsook, Mull, Crepe; all s e Manhattan Shirts $1.50 Manhattan Shirts.......... $2.00 Manhattan Shirts. $2.50 and $3.00 Straw Hats 65c Our entire stock of Sailor Strnw- that sold at $2.00, $2.50 and $3.00, all at once price. . Any Leghorn Hat, worth to $6.00, now. . Bangkok and Panama Hats Two Big Specials Saturday 65¢ $5.00 values ..... 5 $7.50 values ..... 05 $10.00 values 556 Shirts and Underwear $1.50 and $2.00 Negligee Shirts — Crepe and Striped Madras, Soisette and Percale, soft and stiff cuffs, all slzes—— 79¢ $3 Manhattan Shirts,