Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 4, 1916, Page 13

h =N e s THE OMA MILLIONS FOR THE CHICAGO TERMINALS Number of Roads Unite in Building Two Great Structures for Pas- senger and Freight. THREE YEARS TO COMPLETE Chicago, June 3.—The sum of $66,- 000,000 will have been expended by several of the railroads operating in the Chicago district when the new freight and passenger terminals now under construction are completed. The freight terminal will be finished in about six more months, but it will take nearly three years to complete the passenger terminal The freight terminal will embrace laying of trackage on a stretch cover- ing twelve city blocks, from the Chi- cago river south to Twelfth street. The plans for the terminal were so arranged as to give a ma speed and convenience of handling freig with a minimum of ground space ne essary for the buildings involved. The | work is bing done by the Pennsyl-| vania lines, west, and will cost, for | land required, building material and | labor, approximately $16,000,000 and the finished work will be one of the greatest accomplishments of its kind in the history of modern railroads. Aim of Builders. The main aim of the builders was a terminal that would be so arranged as to eliminate street congestion in hand- ling traffic and would make speedy and easy the handling of the enor- mous and steadily growing freight business of Chicago. This result will be accomplished by close grouping of the several parts of the terminal structure and by placing the railroad tracks below street level, with the freight house just above the tracks, at street level, and with a storage warehouse above the freight house. The idea of placing the component parts of the terminal above one an- other was to save ground space and to make the handling of incoming and outgoing freight easy by a system of powerful, modern-type electric eleva- tors. Adjoining the freight house, and all under cover, will be eighteen tracks, which will accommodate 400 freight cars. Inclosed driveways will protect freight and freight handlers in all sorts of weather, Thousand Men at Work. One thousand men have been Wwork- ing for about ten months, some laying the heavy piling and concrete founda- tions, and some putting up the struc- tural steel framework of the buildings. About 25 per cent of the structural steel work remains to be finished. This will be in about six months and the total cost of labor, by that time, will, it is estimated, amount to about $1,500,000. The steel, brick, concrete, piling and terra cotta that will go into the build- ings will cost about $2,500,000. The structures will occupy a ground space 450 by 750 feet between Polk street on the north, and Taylor street on the south; between the Chicago river and what was once Stewart ave- nue. Acquisition of the ground thus used cost the railroad company $12,- Three Years to Finish. The union passenger terminals, on which preparatory work has begun and which will be completed in about three years, will cost about $50,000,000 and will be the finest railway pas- genger station in the world, its pro- Jectors say. It will be built and oc- cupied by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, the Pennsylvania, and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy roads, the Pennsylvania being represented by two branches, the Panhandle and the Fort Wayne. The station will be composed vir- tually of two buildings, with common facilities of egress and ingress. A main building will be west of Canal street and a concourse, between two sets of tracks, will be east of Canal street. Each of the two buildings will be surrounded by four streets, thus giving eight points of exit and en- trance to passengers and making ac- gess to trains quick and convenient, Train sheds will extend from Madison street, south to Harrison street. I"‘v») architectural feature of the main building will be a waiting roo: 100 by 300 feet and 120 feet )ng%\. ?T‘I?: ng will occupy a ground space BERLIN CITY OF SPENDERS Higher Priced Cafes Always Filled and Jewelers and Rug Dealers Do a Big Business. WAGES GREATLY INCREASED (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) | Berlin, May 30.—“Alles besetzt (all full), said a gorgeously uniformed in- | dividual standing before 'the street door of the big Friedrichstrasse cafe. T'he man to whom he spoke had no in- tention of going in, but he happened to look toward the door as he passed and the uniformed one had parroted forth his one phrase so many times that the simple glance in his direc- tion sufficed to evoke it again. | The passerby, however, grew curi- ous, and made a trip through the bet- ter parts of the city. This is what he found: 2 Three better class cafes with from ten to thirty persons standing out- side or in the entrance way, waiting for a table to become vacant. All other wine or beer restaurants visited so full that only in one could | a free table for two persons be found Two others where the door keeper announced in advance: “Alles be setzt.” | The observer had for months en- countered difficulty m finding a table in a leading restaurant having more than 500 tables. In one of the places, Unter den Linden, the head waiter had_ been graciously pleased to let him dine on his promise not to retain the table longer than an hour, In another Unter den Linden| restaurant he had found that it was | all but impossible to eat without re- serving a table in advance. And these two [_:]nces are_!he most expensive | ones in all Berlin. | Brings Wealth to Some. | The condition is symptomatic. War, | which brings poverty:and misery to | so many, brings wealth to others, Many persons who had been strug-| gling along_wilh barely more than| the necessaries of life for years, have grown wealthy almost over night And they are spending, spending lav- ishly, speudmg carelessly. Berlin has become the city of the spenders The crowds that fill the better class places go there in spite of the fact that everything costs more than be fore the war. Beer is dearer. Even coffee has increased in price The still considerable stocks of the high est grade French champagnes are finding a bigger sale than ever be fore, in the face of a price increase of 4 or 5 marks a bottle. A promi nent German champagne firm recent ly declared a dividend thrice great er than that of the precedign year It was only one dividend contributed by the spenders Caviar costs from 18 to 24 marks a 5 by 350 feet. The train sheds be of the latest covered-in type | will eliminate columns in ‘the he platform NO SPOUSE, SHE DIES IN FIRE Pathetlo Note and cente t by Yodng Indian | tities of pound in peace times in Berlin. Until the recent prohibition of the further import of non-indispensable articles it an end to the business, vast quan Astrachan caviar were be for prices upwards of 42 Similar conditions existed as Rugs High, Too. marks Girl Whoe Sacrificed Herself, Several Indi o | Indian reform associations bave been attach ee 1stom of marriage ! their efforts quit . or a ung girl ' Dealers rugs, br are doing a e porcelaing, Oriental { antiques generally of the secured by spenders have on hand. A t recently to one ocks alers bhe were ing company will pay for 1915 a 45 per cent dividend against 35 per cent for 1914, although cut off from its| mines in German South Africa. The| sale at increased prices of its stock on hand in Germany justifies this, | company officials said. Are Buying Pianos. The spenders are buying pianos. Their children are taking piano les- sons. Fashionable tailors are making evening clothes for men who never | before felt the need of them or who | could not afford them if they did. A mild winter has not been able to af-| fect seriously the business of the bes furriers. I'he Associated Press representa- tive asked the head of the largest theater ticket agency in Berlin about conditions in the theatrical world. | “Absolutely at the top notch,” he said. “Our business is every bit as good as at any previous rime, if not better. Indeed, I am disposed to think that it is better. All theaters are doing well. The people seem to have plenty of money, and they are spendimng it.” This last sentence of the ticket agent appears to sum up the situation, In the nature of things, the number of these spenders, of the people who are benefiting by the war, must be small, Wages for day labor have, it is true, increased greatly, but there are fewer men laborers left to draw them. Reclamations from military seryice affect chiefly only skilled craftsmen and leaders of undertak- ings. Hence the day laborers of mil- itary age are mainly with the colors, | One notes the absence of their custom in the cheaper saloons and beer restaurants, many of which are struggling along only with difficulty and some of which have had to close their doors. But as one ascends the scale one begins to meet the spenders, and their number increases in direct ratio with the expensiveness of the resort visited. Russ Pope Conducts Dramatic Easter Service at Front (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) At The Front With The Russian Army, June 1—Under a small tent dimly lit by candles, a mile from the firing line a R § an pope conducted aster to the ac- of an occasional cannon | shot and the intermittent glare of | Austrian rockets. It rained, and the solemn-faced soldiers who stood with bowed heads the improvised altar were drenched. The green and gold of the prelate gcontrasted strangely with the dun of the uni- forms and the black and white gowns | of a half dozen Sisters of Mercy who | stood huddled in the doorway of an| adjacent cottage Around the pope's neck was sus-| pended a crucifix upon a ribbon of | the Order of St. George, awarded for | service on t ttlefield. Now and then ords of the ser-| vice were pa drowned by the splashing a ining of guns and ammunition lumbering past through the | ud; but even the impressed by the our and urged on heasts in subdued sol composed in the ser a midr compani service before robe the cl avy 1 teamsters seemed solemnity of the | their strugg! e, their 1§ with the rising and falling es of the pope All eve I R istrian rockets in greater , sual pierc edt trenches o e greatest ) . he . light from parently had a se f the enemy ack . A A vals ur t | ' L L) t " rise nere . L LN WAl e GERMAN IMPERIAL BANK FORCED TO BUILD ANNEX PERSONAL SERVICE IS OBTAINED ON MRS. RRADY ol w | over details of the conduct HA SUNDAY BEE: JUNE ONE OF FAVORITES AT CHICAGO—Eddie O’Donnel, captain of the Duesenberg team and winner of Corona race, is on of speed pilots who is figured as money-getter at Chicago clasic on Saturday. FRENGH AIDED BY VERDUN Partisan Spirit in Parliament and Press Hushed During Brave Defense. 18 PESSIMISM DECREASING (Correspondence of the Associated Press ) Paris, April 30.—The battle of Ver dun appears have had a great moral effect in France. [t has turned ttention from irritating discussions the to of war, and has cut short an incipient revival of partisan spirit in Parlia- ment and in the press, which had been favored by relative stagnation |down the rest of his coffee and rush-| Uréa, at the front. Also, it seems to have diminished the number of pessimists and hence increased French dence in the final outcome. “They have shot their bolt,” is a frequent commentary heard in places where two months ago there were nervous complaints as to the prolong- ation of hostilities. “They can do np more than they have done, which is far from enough ever to shake the French army.” Shortly before the Germans at- tacked Verdun some radical and so- conf Get your Mon B o 4, 1916. cialist papers attacked the priests, the clericals and the “easy” class, charg ing them with shirking arduous and No priest o dangerous missions aristocrat, they said, had ever been scen in a trench. They also accused them of aiding and abetting the Ger after having helped to bring on the war in the hope that a dis aster to France would overthrow the republican or parliamentary regime, I'hey accused of sending money to Germany to subscribe to the Ger man war loans. A wineshop keeper of the Department of Lot, who re peated these accusations, was prose cuted and sentenced to three years’ imprisonment and was fined 1,000 francs [he campaign against the priests and clericals was even taken up by such a conspicuous writer as Mon sieur Paul Adam, who made similar charges in the leading radical news- paper of the south of France, the De veche de Toulouse, and drew upon Inu\\(-ll a storm of protest. The bat tle of Verdun did far more to stop the camy n than \ae conviction of the wineshop man of the Lot and the protests against the articles of Mon Paul Adam, It has, perhaps, accomplished even more than the let sieur ter of the premier, Monsieur Briand, declaring that all such calumnies should be punished. Today all par ties, including the socialists, who have just renewed their declaration in favor of a war to the bitter end, are working in harmony Apt Reply by Soldier. About two months ago it was pos sible to witness such incidents as that which took place in a little cafe in the center of Paris I'wo soldiers in stained uniforms, smacking of the front, were taking their morning coffee in a retired corner——modestly and inconspicuously, as is the way with the men who have seen real service. They were concealed from | two citizens who were discussing the war. “I've had my fill of it,” said one of the civilians, “It's time it was brought to a finish, If the generals in command can't do it, they ought to be replaced.” One of thesoldiers roset o his feet and confronted the pessimist. “My good friend,” he said, “you must have had a hard time of it. When were you mustered out? Tell us what you have done in the war, and what the war’s done to you to give you such a tired feeling.” The civilian gulped | ed out of the cafe without replying Today the cafe conversations are all about some exploit around Ver- | dun and what will happen to the Ger- mans, if they persist in their effort to take the ancient stronghold. | There is less discussion of the high | cost of living than two months ago, | |although there has been no appre- | ciable casing of prices. This, too, is | accounted fnr by the heroic resist- ‘anrr of the army. | You will always get best results if "ynu use Bee Want Ads, W PRICH BAFEYY NEGRO ATTACKS SOUTH SIDE WOMAN Stafonek is Felled With Blow [ in the Face. | ire. South Side police force went on*a man hunt yes- the the Practically following robbery and assault of Mrs. M second avenue and B street, who was attacked by a negro when she was alone in her home at 8:30 o’clock. terday Feeling among South Side residents is high, sinster threats were made as to what will happen to the negro if ¢ 18 captured Police and citizens are scouring the country around the scene of the at tack, automobiles and motorcycles fig v in the chase, The police & train on the Union Pacific railroad and went through it to see if | the negro was aboara Forces His Way In, According to Mrs. Stafonek's story, she answered a knock at the door and was confronted by a medium-sized negro, who inquired if there was any- one home, She closed the door in his face, but he forced his way into | the house, felling the woman with a blow in the face She arose and struggled with him | several minutes, finally being over-| powered and left lymng on the floor I'he negro ransacked the house, steal iug a watch, jewelry and a purse con- taning some small change. He es- caped before Mrs. Stafonek's cries for help attracted the neighbors’ at | tention | She was severely beaten about the face and body and is under the care | ’ a physician | | AMERICAN CONCERN TO PUT | LIGHT PLANT IN MONGOLIA an American concern in Shanghai [ Meyer & Co. 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