Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 20, 1915, Page 2

MERCIAL HIGH. NORTH HIGH SOHOC FAYORED BY BOARD‘? | CENTRAL OQUTGROWS CAPACITY | A north side pubdlic high school Is| being considered by members of the| Board of Education with considerable | earpestness. The mattef has Been | mentioned before, but not until the present time has it assumed a ‘unrgo}lnl phase. | Robert Cowell, chaltman of the finnw-i committes of the Board of Education, discusaing the forchcoming sale of $600.00) | school bonds, sald: “The north side high school proposition grows in my my mind the more | have considercd this matter and have discussed it with other members | of the board. The ides meoris to be favored by the board." ‘ T this connection Mr, Cowell takes noto | of the rapid growth of the north part of the city, He confidentially belloves it will be a matter of comparatively & short time before Florence will become a part of Greater Omaha. He says Central High school Is rapidly cutgrowing its capacity. i Wounld Cost Two Hundred Thousand | The proposed . nort! ide high school would not be as pretentious as Central High, but it would be na well equipped. It is estimated thet $200,000 would cover the cost of bullding and site. This matter will be discussed by the in committes of the whole. “In the event that board should Geckde | = e — north high school, the work cerning the Arablo's fate It was not completed before the opening even known officlally here that it had September next year. laft Liverpool till after the word came that it had been sunk, and no passenger have list had bean prepared here for publica~ sites from tion when the | The Arablc was one of the largest of the few British vessels remaining in the Trans-Atlantic service. On its recent trips It has carried far fewer passengers, especially Americans, than in times of peace. When it salled from this, port, July 3, It was shielded wo far as pos- sible against gunfire which might de- ®roy tho steering gear, by bags of sand plled hgh above It $ LARGE AMOUNT OF MAIL. i Eiffr E*fi : : gy ERf i i £ Yl ?} i i i & i | : i ! e L ik ! i £ i i ;g £ ] the. | § o § E i et | : i 4 ! : : { fi !;flt : o i H] i i i i i £ ¢ i 2E, i I it £ | i g r‘f H i ; i i : ; g ; : l £ H | 4 s i il i H i i 5 H f 2 ¥ H / E i i i : | 3 i 2 d ‘i i i i i il {taals & A e L lllf§§ zs THE BEK | NEW PRINCIPAL OF THE m. pumm have been active in these wn tern since the declaration by the German government In February of a naval war zone around the British s The Arable, a twin screw steamship, ar- rived in New York on its malden trip on | July 5, 198, having bedn launched at Bel- fast on Decgmber 15 of the previous year. | At thatetime it was one of the largest |steamships engaged in trans-Atiantic | trade. Four Hundred Persons Aboard, | LONDON, Aug. 10.—The White Star | company announced that the Arabic had { on board 17 pecond and third class-pas- {sangers, and no first class passengers. | There were 240 men In the crew, making [a total of 40 persons on bosrd. It salled for Liverpool at 3 o'clook yester- day afternoon, The Arabic's tonnage is 15,001 gross and 10,08 net. Tt is 600 feet long, 6 feet beam and 47 feet in depth. It wns built in Belfast in 195 by Harland & Wolff. On 1th last eastward trip the Arabic ar- rived in Liverpool on August 6 from New York. Following the receipt of a cablegram announcing its safe arrival, the bureau of combustibles of New York City al- sticks of dynamite had been discovered on board on July 27, the night befors it safled from New York. Oonce before, since the beginning of lowed the fact to becomeé known that two | OMAHA, FRIDAY eulf. Tes half way across the ses wall All the sallors from this vessel were rescusd by soldiers at Fort Crockett. Three Big Fires. There were three disastrous fires in Galveston since the storm. The first of thess, which broke out in & laundry mear the Santa Fe depot, odeurred early Tues- day morning. This bloek, with the ene adjoining, was burned to the ground Later a fire started in the store of the Galveston Dry Goods company and at noon Wednesday there was a fire in the | warenouse of the Direct Navigation-com- pany. It was estimated that these three fires alone caused damage of approxi- mately 5350000 in excess of that created by the torm. Late reports received at Texas City stated that the fire ywas subsequently gotten under aomtrol | by the use of engines pumping water trom |the streets. The greatest need of Gal- veston now and the 20,000 or more people |Who remained in Galveston during the storm Is food and fresh water. At noon Wednesday it was reported there was | sdarcely enoush water to last another day and much of this would be required for baking bread. Nearly all the stores of groceries were water soaked, packages of erackers being sold for 15 cents each. Both ends of the causeway were washed out and it will be several weeks before direct rail connection can be re- sumed. Gangs of men are busily en- gaged in clearing the rallroad tracks of the war, the Arablc had a close call. A |ihe debris which ls piled on them between cable messege from London on March A ToXas Oity Junction and Texas City. The 77 said the steamer had been pursued ‘arehouse and dock people of Texes by & German submarine in the Irish Sea, on the voyage which ended on that day. SAILED L WEDNESDAY | prani o | Report to New York Says I tHad | 175 Passengers. | NEW YORK, Aug. 10.~The White Star | Iine announced this afternoon that they | had received a message stating that the ' | sengers marine f i "t ue all ent into | gieo :i' ! if i n;ig [ Arablc salled late yesterday. ( A mecond message received a fow min- utes after the one unnouncing the vessel had sailed contained the information that the Arablo had aboard 130 cabin passen- gers and forty-five in the steerage. This message contained no reference to the reported sinking of the vessel The Arabje, one of the fe Star vessels remaining In Atlantic service, salled on fits last oue. | ward voysge from this port on July| 2% last. It had sboard 158 passengeérs and ' approximately 10,000 tons of cargo, almost | all of which was war supplies. Aero- planes and automoblies formed the chief | portion of the cargo. Attack by a German submarine ap- parently was feared when the vepsel left New York, for around its steering gear there were plled numerous sandbags as @ protection against gun fire. This also | was taken as an Indleation in case it | U boat the big liner o ‘cHance at getting away, trusting to its speed. ‘The crew usually consisted. of about 20 men. It was assumed today that it had, this number aboard when It left Liverpool yesterday. All' the crew, | was sald, were of forelgn citisenship. Captain Will Finch commanded the ship, Fifteen boat, loads of the Arablo’s pas- sengers and crews have been saved, ac- cording to & cable dlspatch received here at 3:30 p. m. by the White Star line. The dispatch follows: iy ‘“The Arablo sailed Wednesday after- noon with & and mails and 17 pas- and was sunk by s German sub- at 9:18 o'clock this morning off the. south .coast of Ireland, Hopeful all passengers and crew have been saved, HURICANE TOLL OF LIFE NEARLY FOUR HUNDRED |Paratively #mal City have placed these facilities at the isposal of a committes of Galveston people and as soon as rall communica- tion can be made ample supplies can be sent across the bay in barges and United States transports. Monuments Blown Across Street. The storm broks over the city at § clock Monday aftermoon. The wind o AUGUST 20, 19 hotel ten minutes before it collapsed, sald Ragedale. “We swam in elght fest of water surrotnding the structure. Among these inside were nine women and two children. Four of the women were saved, but the two children were lost." SCORE DEAD AT BEAUMONT People: at Jok Refage in Treetops. BEAUMONT, Tex., Aug from the storm-stricken district adjacent jto Beaumont early today was meager, but no more fatalities were repogted. So far as known here, nearly a score of persons are dead, with a number re- ported as missing. Reports from Babine and Sabine Pass, Tex., and Johnson's Bayou and Lees- burg, La., where heavy lose of )ife was feared, declared that all persons at those places were safe . | "Many narrow escapes trom desth have been reported. The 400 residents of John- son's Bayou saved their lives by takihg {to be washed away. A man drifted into Port Bolivar Wednesday on a bale of cotton, to which he had been clinging since Monday night. He was nearly dead from exposure. Thousands of cattle in the section below ‘Beaumont have been lost. \ NINETEEN DROWN AT BRAZOS Excursionists Who Take Refuge in Lite Saving Station Killed. FREEPORT, Tex., Aug. 19.-Nineteen persons were drowned at the Brasos United States Lifesaving station in the storm Monday night, acoording to reports received here. The only known dead, most of whom are said to be excursion- ists, were the wife and child of Captain John P, Steinhart, keeper of the station, blew water in from the bay, flooding the | streets and ocellars, Business men con- tinued to work untll mearly 9 o'clock re- moving goods to places of safety, At that hour the water was four to six feot deep In Market street and all who could sought refuge in the higher floors The wind flowing from the north, con- tinued to increase its veloeity until about 3 o'clock, At that hour, it Is estimated, it bad reached a velocity of from 50 to 120 miles an hour. Meanwhile it had veered from the north around to the east and then came directly dut of the south, It was this south wind, sending in the ves from the gulf to break agalnst the wall which ald the damege to the westérn part of the city and to the boulevard. At no time, however, say those who spent the night in the Hotel Galves, 4id the sea rin clear across the wall. The breakers ‘thundered, against it, sending the spray high in the air. and the waves broks over the wall with terrific force. 8o great was thie force that the two | granite monuments which were placed at the foot of Tremont street to commem- orate the storm of 1900, were blown clear &cross this boulevard, a distance of more lhu.n fifty foet. DALLAS llTl’IA‘I‘I«I' LOWER Death Rol Iat An is Less “Than Two H . DALLAS, Tex., Aug. 19,—With informa- tion from Galveston and other points on the Texas southeust gulf coast slowly sifting through, it seemed certain early today that the terrific tropical storm of this week h xacted only a com- i ot life, and that the loss of pro in the city of Gal- veston at least, small, as compared 10 the storm of 180, According to re- ports, the great $2500,000 sea wall saved | the eity of Galveston from even a worse | horror than that of 1900, According to | |available reports, the total of lives lost throughout the storm district is less than ' 200, The damage in Galveston this week, ! (Continued rrom Page One.) Veasels that were out in the gulf when the hurricane struck were yet unreported and other tugs and steamers were known to have been lost, although no informa- tion as to loss of life on them was avall- able. That Galveston did not suffer & worse The velooity of the wind that struck Galveston Monday afterncon is sald to based upon meager reports, is placed at 193,000,000, with the loss of fourteen lives, |In 1900, 5,00 persons met death and the property Joss reached $16,000,000, Harller reports placed the damage at Galveston as high as $15,000,000, ‘but this apparently was disproved by later ad- vices brought out by newspaper men and other persons. While a large section of the storm dis- trict is yet to be heard from, the num- ber of deaths, based on the best ob- tainable information, follows: have gone as high as 10 miles on hour. o Fires caused 60,00 damage in Gal- veqton, but at latest reports were under | The atorm had grextly abated today and had passed inland. The weather bureau at Washington reported it had Ppassed mortheast with greatly diminished SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Aug. 19.— The total number of persons killed in Texas by the storm of the last few days will approximate 400, according to Charles 8, Hayden, correspondent f the Light, who returned teday Tom Houston and Galveston, The dead in Galveston may reach from 250 to 300, Mr. Hayden said. However, the exact number may never be known. The heaviest loss e fitteen | Of life was sustained on the shippi making for only fourteen bodles had been recov- ered in the city of Galveston. bank bullding and the Rosenbdurg Nbrary held thelr thousands. Wall Holds baok Sea. £f §§ i ; E ! ! ; ! ] 1 ! i 3 gf H H Es ? | : 4 iE] : : i 1 f E ¢ 4 % i l i i i i | | il £ NS Reports from Beaumont say fifty-six were lost when the dredge, Sam Houston, went down in Galveston bay. Thirty per sons who boarded a steamer at FPort Boli- var lighthouse are thought to ‘have per- ished when the vessel broke from its moorings and drifted into the gulf, ac- cording to refugees at Beaumont from Port Bolivar. . Fires, which heve been raging in Gal- veston, were reported under centrol last night, this item of damage alone having been estimated at in excess of $350,000. There was no train service out or into the city, and the telegraph and telephons facilities, destroyed early Monday nighf, still were out of commission, with pros- pects of their restoration within the next twenty-four hours very doubtful, The dnly means of transportation there was by boat. i > Reports of looting by negroes and the killing of several of the Jooters have mot was placed under martial law as an act of precaution. today. 7H] s;EI i | - i e i 2if ; ? ié g;! i LT Allies Declare Cotton Contraband to Protect Market WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—"The allied governments have agreed in principle that cotton is contraband of war. The exact @ate when this announcement shall be made 1s still under consideration, s well as other detalls connécted with-the pro- clamations." This statement was authorized today at the British embassy. As soon as the official announcement is made, it will be disciosed also that the allled governments have prepared to stand behind the market to prevent ruin- ous depression of prices and. minimize hardships to planters, DEATH RECORD. H. 8. Faller. CRETE, Neb, Aug. 19.—(Special)—H. 8. Fuller, for more. than forty years a resident of this city, died suddenly Tues- | day at midnight at his residence in this city, Mrs. Fuller was president of the City National bank of this city and one of the pioneer business men of Nebraska. Two of Mr. Fuller's sons live in Call- fornia and upon their arrival funeral ar- rangements will be completed. Bayou Take 19.=News | refuge in tree tops, leaving their homes | _the hose, light the gas and presto! The above | man, %3 Had on Lrous: coat and vest, Disappeared August 9! h been found of him. He mi have :N'umn }h;ll;:‘llfle o;‘muour r‘vu'u reward o or his body, B, W. Richards, Ashland, Nebraska, No trace | in the bay. Up to noon yesterday|besn confirmed, and it s stated the city | Nothing else “just as good” on the market 10c per package 1 Ib. net weight ASK YOUR GROCER and do not accept a substitute e e 5 Six months’ reat allowed if yoyu decide to purchase. & & ploture of C, §. Wort-' ukn old. Gold front teeth. | S ots Autumn Selections We ‘truly believe Sorosis Shoes are not excelled any- where ‘in artistic excel- lence—beautifnl styling, genuine exclusiveness or superiority of qual- ity. Thompson-Belden & Co. Our assortments are extensive - showing the best skilled workman- ship, so designed as to be adaptable to street or house wear. It’'s Moving Right Along— That Bargain Sale of Gas Fixtures We must admit that we underestimated the ability of folks to recognize good opportunities. When we announced our Sale of Gas Ranges and Lighting Fixtures we feared we would be classed with some who are always and forever of- fering ‘‘bargains.’’ . But there are good reasons behind this sale, and people quickly realized it. -Moreover; we are grati- fied to know that people have faith in what we say. Here’'s Are Some Specimen Values HEATING STOVES CABINET RANGES. A No. 4 Reznor heating stove, 23 inches high, 12 inches wide, cop- Ffl:p'&rf:‘;::tbn:""' elevated per heat reflector, equipped with y y four legs 80 as nice art screening to prevent chil- | to leave room for cleaning under- neath; big, full sized oven, warm- dren getting burnt or clothing from catching fire. Six feet of | ing closet, four burners, full en- ameled finish. Regular $43.00 rubber hose comes with stove . Free. Stove made of nicely fin- | value, butit’s shop-worn, $35 therefore ... ished sheet steel. Reg- 33'50 That's just a sample of the uiar price $5.00, now These stoves are just dandy lor such Weather as uju-. Allyyou 'l:’g; w?x!;“.ot::::rfl}e ||s:eI:°. :":’ shop- ¥ Vi 4 have to do is sot it down, attach tlo WAL, ‘havihd Detn . soif b payments and had to be taken ‘back after a short time by de- fault. But they're every one per- fectly good ranges and corking good values. They are selliag rapldly so if you want a gas range better come right away quick; else the best bargains may all be gone, . FIXTURES One style is a combination gas and electric hanging fixture made of brushed brass in pretty design. It has one inverted Welsbach gas mantle, and one electric light " socket. Now marked 32.75 half price, which is. . There are many, many fixtures of all kinds and styles. And ls- ten; every fixture is new, never been used, though we're sellipg them all at half price because they are shop-worn. the cool room is soon a warm one because these stoves warm up rapidly. There are many heating stoves, all sizes and styles. They _have been used on our sales floor to demonstrate and ‘that’s the only reason for the reductions. DOMES To describe omne: It is made of beautiful art. glass of subdued tone to harmonize with most any room, and the glass is in-laid or set in dull brass wrought into an | artistic design. It is 27 incheés In diaméter nn% '“hml 1lnl'ly priced at $14.50, though it is now only « slz There are other domes, to be | sure, different sizes, and designs and colorings to suit most all tastes. They certainly are desir- able to hang over dining room tables, Omaha Gas Company 1509 Howard Street Near Sixteenth AMUSEMENTS. 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