Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 28, 1916, Page 4

e 4 FIFTH NEBRASKA SLEEPS IN THE MUD Our Soldier Boys in Texas Meet Deplorable Conditions in Training Camp. HAVE NO UNDERWEAR Floyd P. Gibbons, staff correspond- ent of the Chicago Tribune, who was in Mexico with the Pershing column and afterwards at the Texas training camps where the National Guard was concentrated, is writing a series of uncensored letters to the Tribune about conditions in these camps. In the Tribune on Tuesday ap- peared one of these letters which will have much interest in Nebraska be- cause it deals with the situation of the Fifth Nebraska. Sanitary Conditions Wretched. Mr. Gibbons writes: “Open cesspools in the ground took the' place of incinerators for weeks while the fegiments waited for mate- rigl to build this sanitary essential. When it rained the crude containers, ag fwell as. the latrines, became flood- ed'and carried pollution all over the camps. When"it ‘was windy, ashes and half-burned particles of refuse were spread about, while odors of a crematory pfevailed. When bricks were reccived for the incinerators, sement.was missing, - Other regiments I\lad bricks and cement, but no trow- els, “Company B of the First Minne- sota did not have enough blankets to o. around. | The Second. regiment yom the same state was shy shelter halves. The Third regiment reached the border with an embarrassing de- ficiency of shirts and pants, I was told. ;I saw Virginia noncommis- sioned. officers drilling and some of thw ore derby hats and stiff straw licadgear. Some had leggings and some did not and some wore civilian shirts." Nebraska Boys Without Shoes. “And Bryan's state—Nebraska. A month' and a half after their arrival on'the border the Fifth Nebraska in- fantry was still in need of shoes for the entire regiment. v . “The regiment had not received cots and was sleeping in the mud, as there were no floors. There were two companies without blankets, and the rest of the regiment, before leay- ing ifs state camp, had received a of gray blankets with pink stripes, and the officer told me that threé experts who-examined the cov- er were unable to find a trace of wool in them The blankets were of oncerning blankets, on Septem- ber 15 Governor Dunne of Illinois petitioned the War department to grant a furlough of ten days for the entire. First and Second infantry reg- iments, then at Springfield, on the oiinds that the men were suffering rom the cold and did not have el h equipment to keep * them : E:romh Without Underwear, “But there were additional digcom- - suffered by the Nebraska regi- “which arrived on the bordef on . 14. Until August 27 the men without underwear, with the ex- E of the single privately owned they had worn when they left 4omes. On that day: they re- the first issue of undérshirts, B w‘hiclh were size 45, Lil'(‘ic of« “of the «on ation told .me that there were fi(‘)tim men in the regiment who could' fit into a gar- ment larger than size 40 and that the g’qlm' number needed 36s. Compan of the Fifth, coming from Bryan's mw. Lincoln, Neb,, arrived on the " der lacking hats, shoes, pants and® e =35 - s to the regulation amount. “Without cots, without floors, with- ut_ sleeping bags, some of the men withoit blankets, and some of the blankets without wool, and all of the without changes of clothing or es, the Fifth Nebraska had' to make the best of its pitiful condi- tion, In my opinion, it descrves great er ) 'l‘nmpotfiflom Inadequate. !g‘aqdec\:me transportation only in- eased the_difiiculties o nugr ying 1 e men. Three hundred miles of single track railroad is all that con- qects ‘the lower Rio Grande valley th’ 5he rest of the country. Every. thing ‘that reached the valley had to m;ovcr the gingle line of the St. , Brownsville & Mexico. The mef had to be fed; consequently rations ’,.ot precedence over other sup- ol he food shipments, together | regular Ahirpinxvm and from the civilian population of the valley, almost requited the entire facilities ol;tfie. ;oad‘ . “Major General O'Ryan, command- ing the New York division, told me ng -day that his quartermaster de- partment had been able to get ahead of current needs by only four days' l\l”_litl." HES AND PAINS 't neglect & pain anywhere, hut find out what causes {t and conquer the cause. A pain in the kidney region may put you on your back tomorro Don’t blame the Weather for swollen y I 1! warning of in stomach may be the of ndicitis. A creak in a the forerunner of rheumatism. Aches more than likely trouble. o olnt m; hronie head- warn you of serious ‘bost way s to keep condition In_and day out y taking GO MEDAL HAARLEM Capsules. Sold by rellable druggists, oney refunded it they do not- help you. re_of substitutes. “The only pure ‘tm- Hi m Ol Capsules the GOLD AL.—Advertisement. Firoprool Eurepeen || HOTEL LOYAL OMAHA 160 and Conlt BRASKA Trade Specially Invited $1.00 and $1.50 $1.50 and Up New Unitarian Pastor Says that He Notes a Spiritual Awakening The new Unitarian’ pastor for the First Unitarian church of Omaha, Robert F. Leavens, has arrived in Omaha from Fitchburg, Mass., where he has been in charge of a Unitarian church for some years. Prior to that time he was pastor of one of the large Unitarian churches in Boston. Mr. Leavens will open regular ser- vices Sunday morning in the present quarters of the Unitarians, Turpin's hall. “There are numerous evidences of a spiritual awakening in different sections of the country,” said Mr. Leavens on his arrival in Omaha. “All religious bodies are feeling the effects and most of them are contributing their influence. One cause is the Eurupcan war, which has shocked so- ciety to its foundations and forced people to more serious thought. Also the materialism of the last half cen- tury has run its length and a reaction has set in upward toward idealism. ‘Man cannot live by bread alone’ ‘Billy’ Sunday and the other evangel- ists have helped in their way. Another token is the ethical revival noticeable in business and politics. ‘Success’ used to be the slogan; now one hears more about ‘service’ The unrestrict- ed liberty of the individual to plunder and exploit is being checked in the in- terest of public righteousness and common welfare.” The old Unitarian church in Omaha was sold to the German Singing so- cicty in May, 1913. From that time until January 1, 1915, the Unitarians of Omaha had no church. Services were then begun at the parish house, Fortieth and Cass streets. On Janu- ary 1, 1916, services were opened at Turpin’s hall, A campaign will be made for funds REV. ROBERT F, LEAVENS, to buy ground and build a new Uni- tarian church soon after the services begin regularly this fall. Asks $15,000 When Half Soles Refuse To Keep Contract! | Rubber half-soles for automobile tires proved the undoing of Osee Al- len Fulk, formerly a prominent in- surance man of Lincoln, according to a voluminous suit filed against the International Rubber company ask-! ing the payment of $15,000 damages. When flocks of dissatisfied customers descended upon him demanding that he replace the half soles, Osee's trou- bles began, and they continued antil he was forced to shut up shop on Farnam auto row, he complains. After contracting with the rubber company to handle the half-soles n Douglas county and Council Bluffs, Fulk asserts that he was assured by the firm that the soles would run 10,- 000 to 15,000 miles before wearing out, that they could safely be guar- anteed for 3,500 miles, that they were fully protected by patent and that by hard work and careful dickering he could knock out a profit of about $100 a day by equipping cars. After disposing of a series of the soles complaints began to pour in, the auto owners declaring the soles not what the They demanded that they be replaced and Fulk did the replacing out of his own pocket.” He took the kicks and! replaced until his coffers became ex- hausted, he alleges. Hence the siit for $15,000. On top of it all other! patented auto half-soles began to ap-i pear on the market and competition caused’ commercial ills. Before en- tering the half-sole business Fulk was drawing $300 a month as assist-! ant agent for an insurance compauy‘ at Lincoln, were cracked up to be. | Y! edick Lbsgsa;. g In His Sand Point Bath Beach Suit| After battling for two days in dis- trict court Oak C. Redick, capitalist, lost his case against Evan Worthing when the jury returned a verdict in favor of the keeper of the Sand Point bathing beach at 3 o'clock Wednes- day afternoon. Redick, owner of the property on Carter lake occupied by the resort, sual for a division of the summer’'s profits, about. $1,400, alleg- ing that Worthing had agreed to op- erate the place on a 50-58 basis. At- torney J. A. C. Kennedy, for Wor- thing, followed the line of defense of the landlord persecuting a tenant who | had made good in spite of actions of the property owner. E. L. Myers, Former Member of Legislature, is Dead E. L. Myers, member of the Ne- braska legislature in 1895 and again| in 1911, died Tuesday night at Green Gables, Lincoln, where he had been since Febru.ry, 1915, due to a nervous breakdown. The funeral will be held in Omaha on Thursday or Friday. Mr. Myers was 54 years of age. He/| | located in Newport, Neb,, thirty-one iness there until 1911, when he asso- ciated himself with the Luse ‘Land company of St. Paul. The family home in recent years has been at| | Bassett. The surviving members of the fam- ily are Mrs. ‘Myers, Ruth Huston, a married daughter, and Raymond My- ers, 16-year-old son. Colds Need Attentlon. Your cold needs Dr. Bell's Pine-Tar-Hon- oy; it cuts phlegm, kills germs, stops the cough. Only 26¢c. Al druggists.—Ady, 'LIGHT CONTRACT ears ago and was in the lumber bus-| | [§ ALL PREPARED | City to Have Many More Lights | and to Keep Within the Funds Available. USE ORNAMENTAL POSTS | The proposed street lighting con- tract ordinance which will be dis- | cussed before the city council com- mittee of the whole next Monday morning has been prepared. It is practically the same proposition which was discussed last spring, when {the ordinance was placed on file. The following are the annual rates proposed. Lamps on center sus- pensions or hung from mast arms, $31; ornamental iron posts connect- ed to underground conduit system, $36 for single lights and $68 for two- light posts. Ornamental posts wifl b2 used | throughout the extent of the conduit system as now established. The new type of 400-candlepower Mazda lamps will be installed throughout the proposed new system. The ordinance rrovides that the light company shall place the lamps |according to a plan prepared by the | city electrician. The proposition is to grant the con- tract for a period of five years. Cor- |poration Counsel Lambert has ex- | plained that this contract would not interfere with the proposition of a municipal plant. | Another feature of the proposed street lighting contract is that the light company praposes to install I nearly 1,200 az‘fditlonal lamps and that the annual expense of the entire sys- tem shall not exceed the city's appro- priation for this purpose. {Iten Biscuit Company to Again Extend Its Plant More extensions are’ in_sight for the Iten Biscuit company in Omaha, although officials will not yet state when these extensions are to be made. | The company has just purchased an- other quarter block of ground front- ing on Twelfth and on Davenport streets. This adjoins the half block on which,the company's plant is now located, giving the company a total of three-quarters of a block. If your skin itches just use Resinol No remedy can honestly promise to keal every case of eczemaor sim- ilarskinailment. But Resinol Oint- ment; aided by Resinol Soap, gives such insiant relief from the itching and burning, and so generally suc- ceeds in clearing the eruption away for good, that it is the standard skin treatment of thousands and thou- sands of physicians. Why nottry it? Resino! Ointmentand Resinol Soap are sold by all druggists. For sample of each, free, write to Dept. 2-R, Resinol, Baltimore, Md. Rail gang ot the B end of the Union Pacific line, 1868. Y “Their r”u’l'ly in track laying, as far as I know, has never been excelled.” —Gen. G. M. Dodge. JEERA 1 ; Nature was kind to the builders of the Union Pacific Railroad. With a continent at their disposal they were able to select the best and most economical route from the East to the West. That is the prime reason why this road has the lowest grades of all the western lines. Moreover, the economy of natural advant the directors of the put back into “additions end better ments” & remarkable annual income. It enabled the road to be firse among western lines with successive refinements of equipment and service. The Union Pacific double track; first to start exclusive, expedited mail trains; first to ballast and fewest curves enabled Union Pacific to proportion of the in the modern way; first with ‘electric lights in trains and engines; semaphore its railroad crossings; first with electric block signals, interlocking plants and composite t-lephones; with diners on through trains; first with practically every device which makes for secu-ity and comfort of travelers and for safety and expedition in the passage of freight. fifst to first In some of these items the Union Pacific is the enly, as was the first to Road of the well as the first, western road. It is properly called “The Standard m.n UNION PACIFIC SYSTEM Joins East and West with a Boulevard of Steel L. BEINDORFF, C. P. & T. A, 1324 Farnam St., Omaha, Neb. 'Phone Doug. 4000, | | Postoffice Safe At Milford Blown Thieves blew open the safe in the| Milford postoffice shortly after mid- night last night and got away with| $141 in cash and $112 worth of stamps. | They made good their escape by au- | tomobile and the police have not even | a meager description of them. Entrance was gained through the; back door. The explosion blew the door four feet from its moorings and shattered many panes of glass. The safe-crackers overlooked | stamps to the value of $300 and three registered letters. Kearney Band Will Not Come to Ak-Sar-Ben Show The band of forty-four pieces of the state industrial school at Kear-| ney will not come to Omaha during | Ak-Sar-Ben because of the heavy ex- ense required to transport and care or the boys during the carnival Superintendent C. J. Clark of the institution has returned to Kearney after conferring with Ak-Sar-Ben offi- cials. The committee offered to ap- propriate $200 for the band, but this was considered insufficient. Soldiers Run Guard, Get Drunk and Fight With Carranzistas Washington, Sept. 27.—A report on the fight between American and Mexican soldiers in a saloon in El Valle, near the American expedition-|e | ary base, last Friday was made to the War department today by Brigadier General Pershing, with the comment the incident merely a drunken brawl. He did not give the name of the American trooper who was killed. The dispatch follows: “Several soldiers’ from EIl Valle camp ran guard Friday night, went into E1 Valle, got drunk and engaged in a row with Carranza soldicis. One | Carranza officer killed, one Carranza soldier wounded, one American sol- dier killed and another slightly wounded. A board of officers has been investigating insofar as to as- certain names of any other of the| party. : | Carranza officials as simply a drunk- The matter is looked upon by en row.” Key to the Situation—The Bee Want Ads, Visitors Already _Flock to the City Ak-Sar-Ben travel into Omaha yesterday was so heavy that extra coaches were attached on most of the trains. Both the Union and Burling- ton passenger stations were regular bee hives, being crowded with strang- Travel to the city for the carnival season, say the passenger men of the | railroads, starts out well and much | heavier than during former years. | that the Carranza officials regarded | Next week however, the jam 15 ex- | pected, and it is anticipated that the | crowds will be about the largest in | the history of Omaha, especially Thursday, the occasion of the visit of President Wilson. “ Eczema Is Conquered J, Greasy salves and ointments should not be applied if good clear skin is wanted. 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Distributors, Omaha, Nebr. Families Supplied by G. H. Hansen, Dealer—Phone Douglas 2506 The express charges on the cheapest beer are just as high as on the best Liquid Bread always MISSOURI PACIFIC IRON MOUNTAIN Do You Feel That You Need a Rest? Don’t wait until you are worn out completely. Take a couple of weeks off and Go to Hot Springs,Ark. The most wonderful health and pleasure resort in the country Best Reached Over Th Missouri Pacific—Iron Mountain Write me for further information Omaha Office, 1423 Farnam St. Phone Douglas 104. T. F. GODFREY, G. A. P. D. Tickets Also at Union Station.