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Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-19
DON'T SPOIL THE BUILDING.

The council committee on public prop
erty and buildings has decided upon a
light-colored granite for the base, and
Berea stone, trimmed with Portage red
stone, for the superstructure of the new
city hall. This Is very serious mis-
take. It's effect, il carried out, would
mar the appearance Of the building and
make it an architectural abortion.
In choosing the material for public
building its surroundings should be
taken into account, as we'll as the effects
which would be produced in carrying
out the architects designs. There
is no doubt that Berea sand
stone is durable, and when
used in a classical cut-stone structure
like the court house or Commercial
National bank, its effect Is pleasing.
But just imagine the court house or
Commercial bank with red-stone win
dowsiils and caps. Could anything be
more Inappropriate The city hall
building with Berea stone and Portage
trimmings on light granite base,
standing against THE BEE building,
would be horribly grotesque.
This is not the worst feature, how
ever. The plans of the city hall are ex-
tremeiy ornamental, and the
stone work is to be rock
faced. Light colored rock-faced
stone will catch and absorb dust and
smoke and stain 80 as TO make the
building look like an old smoke house.
Anybody who has seen rock-faced
Berca stone buildings in Chicago, Gin
cinnati, Cleveland anu elsewhere will
attest that they absorb smoke and dust
and within a very few years become
dingy and prematurely aged.
Omaha wants a CITY hall building that
will be thing of beauty ana a JOY for
ever. 1t should be building that will
hold its color and the color should
be as much as possible subdued
and in harmony with the design of the
architect. A dark granite base with
Portage red or Colorado red stone
would be in keeping with the surround
ings. and would moreover keep its color
and remain unaffected by the ravages
of time. 1t is to be hoped the COM
mittee will revise it's decision in regard
to material.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-19
ON THE SIDE.

Edward Bechtoldt, the young New York
broker who has won so much on horse racing
this year, never goes near the race track, but
places all his bets by telegraph through
agents. This example is encouraging. After
awhile men will stay at home with their
families and enjoy a social game of cards
down town by telephone.
The Wyoming convention has adopted a
clause to the constitution granting women
all the civil and political rights and priv
ileges enjoyed by men. This is supposed to
include building the kitchen fires and shov.
cling the snow off the walks
huge COB of melancholy will envelop
countless homes in this section before the
county campaign is over.
Corn is thought to be very generally out of
danger of injury from frost. On with the
dance and let the ketydids do the fiddling.
Ex-Postmaster General Frank Hatton and
Civil Service Commissioner Lyman are be-
coming almost uncivil in their civil service
reform controversy. But both being north
ern men they will fight to finish within the
columns of the press and will not transfer
the quarrel to some secluded spot where pls-
tolls would be substituted for pencils.
The sovereign grand lodge of Odd Fellows
meeting at Columbus, O., defeated propo-
sition to change the age of eligibility to mem
bership from twenty-one TO eighteen. The
Odd Fellows mean to get along without the
young fellows.
The very warm fight that is being engen-
dered over the locating of South Dakotas
capital will no doubt make the coming win
ter much milder than usual in that locality
The late storm on the Atlantic coast in
ured the oyster crop of the season to the
extent of nearly two million dollars, and an
advance in price is expected. Church festi-
val managers will take notice and ada an
other gallon of water for each oyster in the
soup.
The dudes and mashers have fallen on
hard lines. The municipal boot is getting
i'll It's work in great shape.
On the corners it is muted in melancholy
accents that there is more mouth than
money afloat among aspirants for county Of
fees. A huge drought prevails in conse-
quence. An irrigation commission is in or
der.
The astonishing feature of the discovery
of the lost ten acres by the county is that
no county officer had hand in the disappear
ance.
Some of the Tenth street property owners
are so modest in their demands that if they
were given the world with viaducts over the
oceans, they would claim damages from the
rest OF mankind for trespassing.
The vital statistics for August show sur.
plus Of forty-four births over deaths in this
cty-preof positive that Omaha is getting
there, as the boys say, with both feet.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-19

single state, nearly the whole OF it rep
resenting the accumulated earnings OF
labor, is certainly significant fact in
its bearing upon the question OF the con-
dition OF the workingmen in the United
States.
There are periods OF depression in this
country when the employment and re-
muneration OF labor are uDsatis-
factory. There are classes OF labor
whose condition IL is desirable to i'm
prove. But as whole nowhere else is
labor 80 we'll rewarded as in the
United States, nowhere else is 1t so
generally prosperous, nowhere else has
II so great opportunities, and nowhere
else has it so few sound reasons for COM
plant. This is the testimony OF the
fifty intelligent workmen who have
just returned from the investigation OF
the condition OF European labor, and
IL ought to have q reassuring in
Huence with American workmen gen.
eral1y
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-19
HOME AND FOREIGN LABOR.

The party OF fifty American skilled
workmen who weht abroad in July to
investigate the condition of labor in
various countries of Europe returned
last week. The men of every trade in
the expedition unite in saying that the
workmen in Europe are not as we'll paid
and do not work as hard or as many
hours as the workmen Of the United
States. The members Of this party,
each representing a different industry,
visited England, France and Ger
many, each man giving special at
tention to Investigating the con-
dition of the labor employed
in the trade with which he is connected.
AS result OF these opinions the con-
sensus of opinion is that on the whole
the skilled workmen in the United
States are better off than their Euro
pean brethren, and that they have little
reason to fear the competition of Euro
pean labor. In a number of industries,
by reason of the indisposition to use inn
proved machinery, it costs more to pro-
duce articles than in this country, be-
sides which the greater part of the
labor OF Europe is less efficient than
that of America. All these intelli-
gent workmen agree that the United
States is far preferable to any country
of Europe for the skilled worker, al
though the European artisan as rule
works fewer hours than the workmen of
this country and has more holidays.
The testimony OF these expert Qbserv-
ers is highly interesting, and ought to
erroneous statements and false theories
that are prevalent regarding the rela-
tive condition Of labor in Europe and
America. 1t is doubtless true that certain
classes OF labor in this country are no
better off than in Europe, but there can
be no question that skilled labor in
every department Of industry in the
prosperity than similar labor abroad
and certainly has much greater oppor-
tunities. There are localities in this
country where the wages paid and the
amount OF labor performed render the
condition OF the workers no more favor
able than that abroad, but taking the
whole country through it is not TO be
doubted that the skilled workmen Of
America are better conditioned than
those Of any other country in the world,
No better evidence Of the prosperity
and thrift of the working classes of a
country is to be found than that fur
nished by the statistics OF the savings
banks, and comparison Of these in
this couotry with any country OF Europe
will very conclusively show the superior
advantages enjoyed by American work.
men. The single state OF New York
makes a showing OF savings that
will compare favorably with that
OF England, Germany or France,
the latest returns Of the savings
institutions OF that state giving the num-
ber OF depositors at over thirteen hum
dred thousand, the average deposit Of
each being nearly four hundred dollars.
Five hundred and twenty million dol
lars deposited in the savings banks Of a
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-19

ter from the telegraph superintendent 40
Nashville informing me that my services
were dispensed with because ems
tertained free soil sentiments, which
the company could not tolerate
from any OF its employees. The
letter wound up with the urgent advice that
had better go north i'll wished TO continue
in the business, My suspicious at once led
me TO believe that Thomas was at the bottom
OF this. On the impulse OF the moment I
walked over TO his house and asked him
whether he had written any letter against
me TO the superintendent. "Ycs, 1have, sir"
replied he. "Aud what did you writel' said
I. "I wrote him that you were an abolition
ist and would "a soon marry a Niger as
white glrl.n "You are an Internal liar"
burst out. Thomas Immediately pulled down
a gun suspended on the wall and would prob
ably have shot me had not Mrs. Thomas
rushed between US aud finally persuaded mo
to leave tho house A few days later bid
good bye 10 Murfreesboro. Instead OF going
north / went further south, into Mis-.
sissppi, and finally located at
Stevenson, Ala, on the Nashville
road. Within few days after l had taken
charge at Stevenson my successor at that
point warned mo not to come back by way OF
Murfreesboro or would be mobbed. l took
the first train for Murfreesboro aud arrived
there the next morning. was not moiestod,
however, and returned TO my post in north
Alabama. had not seon Thomas since tho
great uupleasantness. Now l entered his
Office and handed him my card. He merely
glanced at it. and exclaimed, "i dou't know
who you are, sir" "But am sure you do
know who am IL you will take the trouble
to lool,n said l. And then Thomas took
a second look and extending his
hand gave me d cordial welcome.
Possibly might not have known him either
had he called on me. Both of us had UNDER
gone considerable change since 1861 After
a mutual Interchange of histories Thomas
opened an adjoining door to his office and
asked whether knew his son John, now
manager of tho Nashville road, al have
never met him." said /. "Oh yes, 1 have;
he's tho red-headed baby you had when
lived in Murfreesboro. He was two years
old when made his acquaintance"
At half past this afternoon myself and
young John Thomas nave taken the express
train for Chattanooga, John to inspect tho
road and myself to compare what is now
with what was before the war and at its out
break. Il. RosEwATER.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-19
THE AFTERNOON TEA.

The family flower is the poppy.
1t was only summer arrangement
"To die when the flowers de-"
We carelessly said, "When the parting comes
No one will cry"
So we danced or talked or rowed the streams
BY the light of the midnight moon,
We laughed in the sun--but the autumn
f.osts
Came all too soon.
The parting came with laugh and jest
A backward glance and sigh,
But he held my hands to-day till 1 said,
"Some one did cryp'
Mr.. Thomas p. Taylor, the great hustle
manufacturer of Bridgeport Conn. says:
"While the sizes and shapes Of pustles have
changed much during the last year it is not
likely that any manufacturers will be COM
PEELED to go out Of the business so long as
bustles sell SO well as they do at the present
time.o
Ono of the prettiesu women at Bar Harbor
is French woman who is known as the
Contesse du Bartonne. She is petite, clever
and seemingly wealthy. She has dark eyes
and light hair. and dresses in exquiste taste
She is accompanied only by her maid, and
says that this is her first visit to this country
Pugs are no longer the fashion, and now
we wonder il the ladies will find their short
legs and ugly little black noses $50 beauti-
full" The Scotch and Skye terrier are COM
ing to the 'front.' and as they possess both in
telligence and beauty the change Is certainly
desirable one.
Bessie How was ii you refused Charlie
when YOU love hum sop Jennie-"Because
after proposing once he changed the subject
and never referred TO il again. l intended
to accept him the third time he asked.
~ trust you will not think hard of me-"
he remarked, reaching for his hat. "Sir"
she answered irigldly, lone who knows you
can never think hard Of you" And wander
ing homeward meath the electric light he
wondered what it was she meant to convey.
He (senteutiously)- think of it, Miss
Laura, we should have died together. She
(musingly)-But think OF 1t, Allyn, how
much better TO live together. He took the
hint.
"No, Mr.. Brown l cannot marry you.
You score gooser this time" "Can't tell
yet" said Mr.. Brown, rising from his knees.
''I've got To third, and haven't had an an
swer from the other two YET"
Mrs. Grover Cleveland shot deer in the
Adriondacks the other day. An offensive
partisan, who intimated that she had aimed
at a chalk-mark on a barn door, was taken
out and hanged by an infuriated mob
A composltor wanders along Park row
to-day because he set up a sentence-"Hun-
dreds saw the beautiful girls demise"-and
and the printer changed the ID" to oh"
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-19
GIVE THEM FAIR PLAY.

For years THE BEE has counseled
property owners against signing for
wooden pavement only because 1t
may be cheaper than stone. But owing
to the fact that a great deal Of prop
erty has been held for speculation, own
erS have sought the cheaper kind of
pavement with the expectation of dis
posing of their holdings before the
pavement would have to be relaid.
There are, Of course, some people who
prefer wooden pavement because it is
noiseless.
THE BEES opinion has not changed
upon the merits of different paving
materials. Our aim has been if possible
to warn short-sighted property owners
against throwing away money on in
ferior paving material. 10, But when
the majority of free-holders upon
a street sign for wooden blocks the
authorities are Obliged to carry into ef
feet their expressed preferences. Neither
the council or the board of public
works has any option in the premises.
All they can do in the interest of the
property owner and city at large is to
invite competition. award the contract
to the lowest responsible bidder, and
hold him strictly to the proper perfor-
nance of his contract,
The controversy between the chair
man OF the board OF public works and
Fred Gray, over the wooden paving con-
tract awarded to Naugle, has mani
testify the elements of personal malice,
over and above the strict perfor-
nance of duty. Major Balcombe has no
use for Fred Gray, because Gray
was active in taking the control of the
city hall building out OF the hands Of
Major Balcombe. 1t is an open secret
that Major Balcombe is anxious to pun
ish Gray for meddling with the revised
charter. The appeal which the con-
tractor has made for protection against
this petty persecution has compelled
the council TO look into the matter, with
view to putting an end to the whole
squabble.
systematic and causeless effort to harass
the contractor because of his business
relations to Mr. Gray, they may have to
take stops to protect him. This is a de-
plorable controversy at best. AS a
rule, there has been very indifferent
inspection of our paving, and contract
ors have been allowed to take advan-
tage of the leniency which the board
of public works had shown in super
vising their work. But contractors
also have rights which the city must
protect. They should not he subjected
to malicious fault-tinding any more
than to blackmailing tactics.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-19

WASHINGTON women have enjoyed
the right to vote under the territorial
form OF government, but at the coming
state election 1t is proposed to ignore
them altogether. The women are dis
posed to fight the matter. AS the cleo
tion officers do not intend to accept the
vote of the fair sex they expect to have
separate ballot boxes prepared in which
their votes may be deposited, and then
go to the courts for a decision whether
they shall be counted. 1t will be nice
question of law for the judges of the
new state to pass upon.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-19
mYnMINo ANn srArEHoon.


The constitutional con vention OF Wy
oming is making fair progress and so
far as it's work has gone 1t has been in
the main well done, The question that
has most obstructed the proceedings and
which appeared likely to be a source OF
considerable discord, that of woman
suffrage, 1t now appears probable will
be settled by the adoption OF coustitu-
tional provision for universal suffrage.
The suffrage committee reported in
favor Of this, and 1t is significant Of the
result that q motion to submit
the question of woman suffrage
separately to vote OF the people was
lost. II is believed that fully four
fifths of the men OF the territories are
opposed to female suffrage, but some
of those who are mos. opposed to 1t are
among the most Jealous advocates OF
statehood. They do not want TO pro-
woke the opposition of the female voters
by submitting constitution depriving
them OF the suffrage. The opponents
OF statehood, who are also, as body,
opposed TO female suffrage, hope
iOl dttltiOs Aoi 'ie'e
would give them the help OF the
woman voters to defeat the con-
stitution at the polls. AS the women
have the right to vote in determining
whether they shall or shall not
be disfranchised, they constitute bal
ance-holding body OF very considerable
Importance.
- V.N,.ly
Times, who has investigated the situa-
tion in Wyoming, found that the de-
mand for state government is not
unanimous cne. To the people in the
sparsely settled portions of the territory
statehood is not so attractive as it is to
those in other parts whose condition is
more favorable for meeting the IN
creased demands and burdens involved
in maintaining state government.
The opposition comes most largely
from the democrats, from fear
that the political complexion will
be more and more surely repub-
lican, but it is to some extent shared
by republicans. This opposition, how
ever, is not very formidable, and unless
the convention rejects the proposal for
universal suffrage, which now appears
very improbable, no difficulty will be
encountered in having the constitution
ratified by the people. 1t would doubt
less carry with the women arrayed
against it, but greater effort would be
required.
So far there has been no conspicuous
indication of railroad influence in the
ton, and the tendency appears
to be to adopt a liberal policy toward
the roads, or at least to prescribe no
harsh or oppressive conditions the effect
of which might be to interfere with
railroad development. What may hap
pen later on, however, when the re-
auirements of statehood are to be met,
can not safely be predicted
from the present inactivity and
| apparent Indifference of the railroads.
When congressman and senators are
to be elected the time will have arrived
for the corporations to assert themselves,
| and it would be an altogether eXcep-
tional experience if they should fail to
do so. The prospect of Wyoming re-
ceiving favorable consideration for its
claims to statehood from the next con-
gress is regarded as much moro favora-
BILE than for the other territories that
are moving in the same direction.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-19

THE rascality of Ives, developed in the
trial in progress in New York, sur
passes in brazen duplicity, deliberate
robbery and COOL calculating villainy,
any scandal of the present generation.
The rise and fall of Tweed occupied n
decade, but in four years Ives sprung
from beardless youth to high posi-
ton among the railroad sharks of the
country, confidenced friends and foes
alike and detiantly swlhdled all. When
the ordinary stock watering scheme
failed him he boldly forged his way into
the pockets of his dupes, and covered
his tracks with purchased perjurers.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-19

THE Russian oil wells along the shore
of the Caspian sea, the prodigious yield
of which has exceeded IN quantity the
most noted wells in Pennsylvania, have
exhausted the subterranean store OF oil
from which their production has been
drawn. Russia has been this country's
greatest rival in the petroleum market.
With reports OF the gradual failure Of
the oil fields OF Pennsylvania comes the
news that frrther and greater diseov-
cries OF oil have been made in Wyo-
ming. Eastern capital is already look
ing towards the western oil fields and il
the supply at the east becomes compar-
atively exhausted the west will be able
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-19

PooR's Railroad Manual for the
present year estimates that nearly
eight million OF the people of the
United States are dependent upon the
railroads and industries connected with
railroads for living. 1t is also stated
that the railroad interest is the great
est in the country, and that it has be-
come so thoroughly part Of the econo-
mic system Of the republic'as to be sec.
ond only to the government itself. This
is literally true, and unless the railroad
power is checked and curbed, it will
soon be more potential than the gov
ernment, and the American people will
become mere serfs Of the Goulds and
Vanderbilts.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-19
THE encam pment of the state militia

at Beatrice is pronounced success.
Despite the absence of the appetizing
larder and melon patch which filled the
aching voids in Wahoo years ago, the
brigadiers and colonels dazzle the spec
tators with wilderness of FURNISHED
buttons and native brass The spectacle
by the reduced salaries.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-19

ANOTHER of Cleveland's imported
pets has fallen by the wayside in Mon
tana. William B. Webb, eX-secretary
of the territory, has been forcibly re-
quested to refund some six thousand
dollars Of government money which he
made away. with during office hours.
Webb was sent west to grow up with
the country, but failed to keep his paws
off the forbidden pile. He stands a fair
chance Of being temporarily eXiled.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-19

THERE is no better indication Of the
growth and prosperity of the city than
the demand for workmen of every class.
In the building trades and public works
the supply scarcely equals the demand,
and the work mapped out for the fall
months insures steady employment for
all until winter settles down to business
n this region. This fact emphasizes
and confirms. Omaha's right to the title
of the workingman's home.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-19

THE authorities might expedite mat
ters by making public request for all
parties having land that has strayed or
been stolen from Douglas county to re-
turn it at once to the county auditor.
The recent finding of one plat OF one
hundred and sixty and one of ten acres
that had gone astray suggests the possi-
bilty that there are others outside the
county fold.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-19

THE statement OF the Union Pacific
earnings for the first seven months OF
the year shows snug surplus over ex-
penses, though not as great as for the
same period last year. The statement
emphasizes the fact that the property is
ON substantial payiag basis and would
earn an enormous dividend il the water
was squeezed out Of the stock.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-19

A BLANKET mortgage of one hun
dred and sixty million dollars
is TO be put on the Northern Pacific rail-
road. That should be sufficient to pro-
tect it from the cold and snow of the
northern winds.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-19
The Code Duelio.

Phuddstphid Hcm-
A gener alton ago the duellst was man
respected and admired; to-day he Is a laugh
ing stock. Then the duel was a tragedy,
now IL is a farce. Common sense condemned
it, the ablest eloquence of virtue assailed 1t,
the law frowned on and punished it, but
public opinion held on to IL until the press
laughed it down, and by the notoriety it gave
dueling took away its fame.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-19

NEW YORK is already making great
plans for "a grand memorial arch for
1892" A few years ago great plans
were made for u monument to General
Grant, and later on for centennial
arch, but neither passed beyond the
nan Sfnrn.