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Omaha daily bee., 1885-09-03

The city council is eighty muddled
about the city hall mater. The ordi.
lance passed nearly two months sgo,
which located the city hall on the corner
of Eighteenth and Farpam streets, makeg
1t the duty of the committee on public
property and improvements, In conjunc.
ton with the city engineer, to procure
suitable plans for the building, and after
these plans have been approved by the
board Of education to submit them for
final adoption to the council. The ordi.
nance leaves the choice of means for pro-
curing plans entirely with the committee.
It do es not requlre the committee to adver
tise for competitive plans. The employ
mept of the architects left entirely to Its
judgment. The ordinance is still in force
and cannot be repealed or changed by
resolution, If 1t can be repealed at all.
Mayor Boyd and the board of education
have signed a contract under Its provis-
ions and we doubt whether power exists
In the council to amend or abrogate 1t.
All it can do is to reject the plans if they
don't suit,
Omaha daily bee., 1885-09-03

successful In elevsting tho standard OF
mechanics. Now the goats and the
sheep are not separated; the most skilled
carpenter Is clsssed with men
wSo can hardly build a
fence. Employers frequently ask
why should the unions intist upon equal
wages to all classes Of workmen, whether
skilled or unskilled and they point to the
fact that the unions include not only
honest and good workmen but poor and
d~isreputable mechanics. This can not be
avoided: whenever there Ia q strike every
man Is picked up who can compete and
thus the unions are compelled often to
take In men who are not o credit to
their craft. Incidentally, Mr.. Rosewater
called attention to the ridiculous attitude
which workipgmen occupy In the fqusb-
BILE over the city hall plans. Omaha
worklngmeh had been quoted ss bsckers
OF home talent architects when in fact
home labor has never been encouraged by
Omaha architects who always
Insist that contractors and build
ers should import building
materisl, from abroad. When men will
put up four story buildings to tumble
10 huhe Va W'hut thbl bEb
hardly fit to be trusted with the plans of
public buildings and towers 1872 feet high.
In closing, the speaker reminded them
that there is no relief for labor to be had
from the promises of politicians whether
they be In congress, the legisl ,ture or the
city council. Workipgmen have their
W destinies Ia their h,nds and must
help themselves.
The ringing applause with which tho
audience endorsed Mr.. R2sewater' pcsl.
tion on tho city hall matter, indicates that
"home talent" az now popularity applied,
has not the support of the mass of the
citizenr.
w. j. Nseves, financial secretary of
the union, supported Mr.. Rosewater's ut
terances relative to the city hall aud en-.
tered into o most intelligent and clear
presentation of tho labor problem, which
was spprec'atively received.
MIR. Reeves was followed by j. Ell.
Thomson and g. Glaidks, after which
the meeting adjourned.
Omaha daily bee., 1885-09-03

JUDGE FORAKER, In his opening cam
paign speech, made one of the blunders
committed by John Sherman, and that
was In defending John Roach and charg-
Ing bis 'ruln" to the democratic admins.
t~rat'on. In the first place Mr.. Roach
was not very badly ruined, as he Is by no
means q bankrupt, and In the next place
the democratic sd miniHtration Is not to
blame for his failure to comply with his
contracts. The less said In defense of
John Roach by republican campaign ora.
tors the better. He 4, very poor smmu-
milton, and hardly worth being elevated
into a political itsue.
Omaha daily bee., 1885-09-03

Now that the SO. 1000 secretaries of the
railway commission have completed their
tour over the Union Pacific and its
branches In Nebraska we shall soon look
for as big q puff for the managers Of that
road az was recently given to the B. &
M. Management. The Sioux City & Pa
cIfc will of course be treated In the same
manner when it's turn comes. Tne secre-
tarleH of the Nebraska railway commits
sion soy that they have not met with as
many complaints as they expected.
This statement does not in the least sur
prise u. The people know the timber of
which the commission IL composed, and
they know that IL Is only a waste of time
to make any complaints.
Omaha daily bee., 1885-09-03
THE plank In the Miss,ssippi demccratic

The plank In the Mississippi democratic
platform favoring the giving of state
pensions TO dis .bled confederate soldiers
Is likely to create a great deal of discussion.
1t Is the opinion of a prominent lawyer
that if Mississippi or any other state
should attempt to pension confederates
In this manner, there would not only be
strong objections raised, but numerous
suits would result, owing to the injustice
of taxing people for any such purpose.
The collection of such a tax would very
likely b, resisted on the ground of ille-
gallty, and tho probability Is that the
tax payer would be victorious,
Omaha daily bee., 1885-09-03
LABOR AND

There are in the United States forty coffin
factories, the lsrgest being In Cincinnati.
A Bridgeton firm has received a large order
from Australia for its new power punching
press.
The Haytien government has contracted
for lighthouse material with q New York
manufacturer.
So fsr 1873 miles of natural gas-pipe have
been laid to furnish Pittsburg manufacturers
with gas from seven companies.
A Pittsburg manufacturer has been re-
quested to send in bids for the erection of
hosting machinery for an elevator in southern
Russia.
Exports of American products are ~increas.
ing. A st. Louis pipe manufacturer, has just
shipped six carloads of pipe to Japan via San
Francisco.
The wages of colored miners in Virginia are
30 cents 10 81 per day of ten or twelve hours.
In Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama wages
are so 10 80 cents a day of eleven or twelve
hours.
Such great manufs cturers as Krupp, Whit
worth, Armstrong and Hotchkiss have to send
to America for all their screw-bar wrenches
About 81, 1000 dozen are exported to Europe
annually.
A young Springfield, Mass, mechanic has
taken out ~thirty-fve valuable patents, cover
inLS hietuous VI pFopeIllCR cars DY compressed
air and by electricity, and fur the storage of
electricity.
jarrett and Rankin, two ex-labor officials
OF western Pennsylvania, are rendering ex-
cel(ent services to workmen by preaching the
gospel OF; temperance. Fellow-wolkm tenn.
perance unions are being formed.
The fifteen rubber.boot concerns in the
United States turn out 40, 600, GOO pairs an
nually, and foreign markets are now being in.
dustriouily sampled to extend the sale abroad,
but q clumsy style is wanted abroad.
lEnRlish trades.unionism is thoroughly
equipped for the forthcoming parliamentary
struggle. The speakers have been drilled and
instructed. The programme has been agreed
upon, and even the conservative party is more
than half friendly to It's proposed measures.
1t is q mistake to imagine that we have
everything to learn from foreign skilled labor.
A Mr.. Mayer, of Germany, has been a year
or more in our American tanneries working as
a common workman to find out how Ameri-
cans make such superior material. He is not
the only one.
A new iron mill is to bs erected at Stetsop,
Pa. A new one at Columbia is just complet-
ed. One is to be erected at Lebanon. Axle
works are to be erected at Wilkes b are. A
new pipe foundry is going up OF Reading.
ALI this In addition TO o half.dozsn steel
works.
Omaha daily bee., 1885-09-03

IT has come to q very pretty pass.
indeed, when 1t i, necessary for A.
J. Hanscom to make en- affidavit to
bolster up his soa-ln.law a, q candidate
for q federal Office, aud a. gertise j. Ster'
ling Morton as a bold, bid man. Mean
time, MI. L,mbertson, an offensive par
tisan, who goes cunning for snIpe and
brings down bourbous In every campaign,
continues to draw his salary with his
usual regularity.
Omaha daily bee., 1885-09-03
THE DAILY BEE--THURsDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1885.

be replaced by q system which will make
Portland the best iIlu minated city in New
England, ald one of the best in the
country, ss every gas aud nspths lamp
will be removed. Lamps OF from 10 to
80 candle power are to be us,d as needed,
and operated as arc lights are 10 seri IS,
their circuit, being extended If necessary
over lorg distances aud supplied by q
special Edison dynamo. The city may
thus be Ii 1tsd at the same moment and
the lamps s~xtiugulshed In the morning as
quickly, thus dlspen,iug with attendance
for these purposes. That this change
has been made after the most careful
consideration is evident when 1t Is re-
membsred that two-6fths Of the stock Of
the gas company Is owned By the city,
and that NJ effort has been spared by the
gas interests outside the city ownership
to show the electric system too
expensive for permanent adoption.
Should TIE experiment prove successful,
as it will In all probability, at Portland,
the system will soon find It's way into
every city of this country. Hitherto the
principal objections to electricity for
street illuminating purposes have been
the uncertainty of the light and the ex-
pense. The electricians, however, claim
that they have overcome all defects, and
that the street light to be introduced In
Portland is simply perfect, and can be
depended upon for continuous illumina-
tion with cs much certainty as gas, while
the expense will not be any more. 1t is
safe to say, therefore, that gas will soon
be supers, ded for all Illuminating pur-
poses by electricity, and the change will
be hailed with delight by the Victims of
~noxlous smells ard exorbitant bills,
which the willy gasometer has been taught
30 we'll to build up esch month.
Omaha daily bee., 1885-09-03
Mr. Goodrich and the City Hall.

Alderman Goodrich was angry yester.
day morning. He stood In front of hia
Farnam street store, ksthed In the chill
air of The dawn, and was reading the
morning organ Of his party. His usual
good temper WAS a total wreck and as a
reporter for the BEE approached, he tore
the pspsr in tW and pitched the frag-
ments into the rubbish sw ept out by the
chore boy.
CTS o pity that some newspaper hired
men mover cen get anything right. Lee
der did not say last night what he is re-
ported to have said in that pspsr [%point.
Ing 10 the frsgments Mr.. L:eder could
not have made such remarkr, as he was
as well aware of what l wrote TO Mr..
Myers as / myself. l did write to the
Detroit architect some few weeks ago, but
merely informed him ftheintended cree.
ton Of a city hill building here and
a,ked him If no would furnish q guide
sketch of such a sti u ,ture. He replied
that he wa, then busy at Grand Rapids,
but would shortly pass Omaha on his
way to Denver, and he would stop here
then long enough to accommodate. me.
When he came the other day he brought
the paper with him, which is sn outline
plan intended merely to atf,rd the first
of a desirabls building. He ,arges
nothing for 1t and, in fac, affords the
city q point of economy, saving the ex-
pense of a committee trip owe the
sch as the county commissioners
were ccmpellsd to make to catch a con-
for q court house. No, cir, Mr..
Lseder never said In reference to me
what that newspaper puts in his mouth"
A gentleman who had acoosted Mr..
Goodrich and heard the last remarks, In
ieriered here: II don't believe" said
he, ''that Lseder Is so anxious to foster
and assist home talent as he declares him
self. He seeks more to be put on record
he imssints that the working
men wilt applaud him."
Omaha daily bee., 1885-09-03

SARA BARNHARDT has taken q tumble
at last. 1t WA a real tumble, too. She
fell down stairs, and the harmless acct.
dent was considered Of sufici ant import
ance to be csbled to the United States
with the assurance that she was moro
fri yhtened than hurt. Inssmuch as Sara
has signedA contract to make another tour
Of America, two years hence, we shall
now have q oablegram concerning her
every time she snsezes. If advertising
rates were charged up agairsi her, she
would n Ut make enough money to pay
the bill.
Omaha daily bee., 1885-09-03
FOOD

People generally have no idea of the
extent to which the trade In adulterated
butter is being carried on. Ulsomargsr.
Inc AMI busterlns are now made 30
perfectly In Imitation Of creamery butter
that 1t j, difficult for the consumer to tell
the oiffsrsn:e between the bogu, and
genuine articles. Some months ago a.
an exposition In india q sample of Amer
icsn bogus butter took the frat premium
for creamery, and tho fraud was not dis
co cred until some time after wards. A
rectnt invsss'g, alton In Chicago showed
that out Of thirty sample, purchased at
various places in that city and
Tabled and sold as pure creamery
butter received fresh every day from
the couniry'-onIy three proved to be
genuine butter. People do not caro- how
much Of this stuff Is manufactured If 1t Is
only properly labeled and sold for just
what 1t is, tus tho practice OF paluing off
thsse compounds for pure bult'r 10 sim.
ply obtaining monty under false pre-
1t is a crime, and can no
d ,ubt be punished. While the manufac-
tore of oleomArgsrlne and butieriae can
not be stopped, The manufacturers can
very ea,ily be prevented ircm selling
their products under false names. There
Is q law In Illinois which conpels the
Omaha daily bee., 1885-09-03

WHAT does Councilman Fursy mean
when he gays "there is q hen on in the
effort to have Mr.. Myers employed as
nrchitec. Of the city hall Is there apy-
thing crooked In tn Or againrt public
interest? Is there anything IN it any
where near as selfish as the scheme of
certain parties who want to sell to the
city a lot of ravineu and gulleys In the
luburbs for parks and boulevards2
Omaha daily bee., 1885-09-03
The County Institute.

County Su 2erlntendent Drummer for.
warded yesterday to State Superintendent
Jones his report of the county institute
held here Ia August. From this 1t would
appear the total snrolImtn. was "a and
the average daily attendance DO. Fifty.
eight certificates were issued. The total
cost of the institute was S1l3.72 of which
amount the county contributed S25. Mr.
Bruner 10 concluding his report asid that
tho iuatitu. 70 Of 1885 WAS the most slcceti-
fal ever held in D,uglas county.
Omaha daily bee., 1885-09-03
OUR "RAILWAY REGULATORS.

| oOIo leHAlLNa Al IlES lOINO,
The three 90, 200 secretaries, MeSsrs.
Gere, Cowdry and Buschow, together
with State Treasurer Willard and Aud.
itor Babcock, recently completed q Junk
citing tour over the Union Pacific. The
party, which would have been complete
had Governor Dawes bsen included, ex-
tended Its ''rallway investigations to
Cheyenne, In Wyoming. The eminent
'~'railway regulators" as they are called
by the Cheyenne Sun, rolled iato Ckey-
enne In regal style In their Every hand
some coach,"-the private car of Charles
Francis Adams-on Last Sunday evening,
and were given q drive about the city.
The Sun informs us that sail expressed
the greatest admiration for the city, and
said, In responze to q remark, that the
one thing most needed was a depot, that
If Cheyenne were In Nebrs ska the depot
would come in a hurry" This kind of talk
from the Nebraska railway commissioners
may do in Wyoming, but 1t won't do In
Nebraska. How about the Union Pacific
oowshed in Omaha2 Is that much.needed
new depot coming In a hurry2 We should
say not. 1t Ia not coming In any more of q
hurry than the depot In Cheyenne. 1t
would seem that the Nebraska railway
commissioners are but as powerful In
Wyoming as they are In their own state.
The San was alHo equally mislnformed by
tho veracious commissioners on other
po!nte. It was told that the duties of the
commission ers ''are to stand between the
railroads and the people, and zee that JUS.
tice is done to both" II that Is the case,
then why don't they do their duty2
The Sun was also led to say that
"they both prevent discrimination
against particular localities by the rail-
roads, and also stand In the way of hasty
or uncalled-for legislation detrimen.
tai to the roadt?' So far as
unjust determinations are concerned,
they prevent nothing of the kind. The
people have no confidence whatever In
them, well knowing that their complaints
will bs pigeon-holed, and that they will
bs told that they must seek the courts
for relief. They know that some Excuse
will be framed to delsy action. AS to
how the commission will act regarding
railroad legislation, that can only be de-
termined In the future, but we
venture to say that when the
matter comes to a test they will be found
working In the interest of the railroads, |
for whoee benefit The com mission was
notoriously created. The Cheyenne paper
concludes Its lsuda.ory article with the
stats ment that 'the gentlemen compoa-
Ing the Nebraska commission are all
prominent In their state, and of such rep.
utation for fairness that their selection Ia
most heartily approved by tho people and
prers." Mr.. Gore probably put that in.
There Is no paper In Nebraska that would
give him such q strong endorsement ex-
cept the Lincoln Journal, In which the
Suns article will probably be reproduced.
Omaha daily bee., 1885-09-03

COLORADO Is to have a new capitol
building in Denver. to cost 81, 900, 900,
the AGO. pied plans for which were drawn
by Mr.. Myers, who designed the Omaha
court house. The new Colorado capitol
will be 295 feet long, 1872 feet desp at
the center. and S26 feet high, surmountei
by a statue of Colorado, The structure
will riquirc 1,O0O carloses f cut stone,
H. coo, 600 brick, aad 1000, COO pounds
of iron. Mr. Myers has adopted tae
Oer'ntLian order of s~lslsic architecture,
which Is admitted to be the most graci-
ful padu.tIon which The genius of Greek
architecture and builders ever evolved.
Omaha daily bee., 1885-09-03

manufacturers to brand their products
with their right names, but the
Law in that state Is evidently
q dead letter. Ii is about time that II
should be enfoicsd, and 1t would be il
the producers Of pure butter In that state
would combine and take the matter In
hand. II they do not do 1t the adulters-
lions will continue to Aood the markets
as well as the country groceries, through
out the west and northwest.
Bat butter Is not the only article Of
food that Is being extensively adulterated
and sold for ''pure goods" There Is
hardly any article Of general use that Is
not In some way Initiated or adultersted
with deleterlous Ingredients.
This business, which Is certainly damsg-
ing to honest Industry and harmful
to the consumer, should be checked
in some way, but 80 long as
H. yields enormous profits and
makes immense fortunes for those en-
gagged In It, It will be q difficult matter TO
put a stop to It. MI. Colmsn, the COM
missioner of agriculture, in his address
before the annual convention Of the asso-
citation of off dial agricultural chemists,
discussed this subject in a very practical
manner, and his sue gsstlons will be heart
lily endorsed by the honest producers and
the consumers. Mr.. Gilman urges CO.
operation on the part of the general gov
eminent with the state governments In
passing stringent laws sgatnst adulters-
tionu of food, and he thought that there
should be a fixed standard of purity and
established methods for the detection of
adulteraiions.
Omaha daily bee., 1885-09-03
Waterways d

A number of the Nebraska delegates
appointed by the governor to attend
the Norihw eEtern Waterways ODE
ventiop, which otcas at ST..
Paul, Man, to-day, passed
through the city yesterday on
their way thither. John P. Hartman,
delegate from Kesrney, stopped during
tho day In this city. Hon. John NJ,
Thurston will represent Omaha, Mr.. Ben
Gallagher, the other delegate, not being
able to attend
Omaha daily bee., 1885-09-03

THE Omaha Tribune, a German daily,
has just celebrated Its second birthday,
and may now beregarded as a permanent
institution. Under the able editorial
management Of Mr.. Schnacke the
Tribune has mado great strides, and Is
receiving the hearty support of the best
class of our German population.
Omaha daily bee., 1885-09-03
ELECTRICITY AS AN ILLUMINANr

The streets of Portland, Maine, arc
soon to b, entirely Illuminated with cleo.
trlolty, which, 1t Is expected will abolish
gas lamis from the city. Portland for
merly used 46S gas lights and 1875 nsph-
tina lanterns, aud even then considerable
districts vera left Ia this darkness. For
some tine past, however, thu cluz,ns
have hal q Taste Of good service In the
operation of 100 ar, lamps, and now %
more are 10 be placed, aud the spaces
on the outskirts, AZ well az some lo,Il.-
II s denseiy shaded By trees, supplied by
25O Ellison ''muni dp,l" incAndescent
from the same station. by this
means tho former wsstohsd lighting will
Omaha daily bee., 1885-09-03

MAYOR BoYD's veto of the ordinance
creating the Office of sidewalk inspector
was su,tained BY the council. The
mayor held that it is the duty of the street
commissioner TO attend to the sidewalks.
Now then. let the street commissioner do
his duty, and report all sidewalks that
are out CT repair as wall as the places
that need new sidewalks.
Omaha daily bee., 1885-09-03

THE Cheyenne Suns laudstory article
regarding the Nebraska rail way COMMITS
sion, inspired, no doubt by the chairman
of that body, shows that Charles II.
Gere knows how to make hay while
the aun shines.
Omaha daily bee., 1885-09-03

NEBRASKA democrats are being fed
with fourth class p ontofic es at an average
rate Of less than two offices per day.
This Ia pretty thin soup, and not very
much of 1t either, but 1t is the best that
can be had during the absence of the
chief cook on a Fl shIng excursion.
Omaha daily bee., 1885-09-03

THE Omaha exposition opens to NOR
row and continues for one week. 1t will
be a great success In every respect. The
numerous attractions are bound to draw
a large attendance from all parts of the
atata.
Omaha daily bee., 1885-09-03

BEN BUTLER, who obi cots to moving
his cattle out of Indian Territory, thinks
he Is a bigger nan than the president.
After vacation is over somebody may sit
down on Benjsmln.
Omaha daily bee., 1885-09-03

SOME idea of The immigration to Texa
from the older southern states since the
war, ss! - he Laredo Times, may be had
from tb' notice of reunions of Alabama
brigade Georgia regiments, Virginia
Black lure, etc., in various portions of
Texas.
Omaha daily bee., 1885-09-03
C,uuty NIedics.

The Douglas County Medical Society,
after tuo months adjournment, held an
int restiDg 81 sslon Tu aisy night. DIR. Lea
read an abla paper on IA &c ,thetics. .
which Was followed by a general di.cus-
sion Of the subject
Omaha daily bee., 1885-09-03

COUNCILMAN DAILY has been cap.
by some very pretty plans drawn
BY home talent. Why can't they point
to the buildings they have planned 1t
Is easy enough to draw pretty pictures.
1t Is another thing to plan 5000, 900
buildings that will stand the test Of time
A nd fire.
Omaha daily bee., 1885-09-03

THE frequent and fatal explosions of
natural gas In Pittsburg ought to make
that city a good e id for accident insur-
ance companies.
Omaha daily bee., 1885-09-03

Angostura B,tters is known as the grea
regu lator of the digestive organs all over the
world. Have it in your house. Ask your
gro Ger or druggist for the genuine article. man.
ufa ctured by DIR. j. G. b. Siegert & Sons.
Omaha daily bee., 1885-09-03

"R THERE |" exclaimed the oyster, Of
II came in with September.