Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-01
TURNS DOWN ASPHALT BILL
Mayor Of Dss Moinss VstOss Resolution and
Champions Brick Industry,
TELEPHONE STRIKE SETTLEMENT REMOTE
Girls sympatbIEers Urge Patrons of
Concerns TO Discard Instruments
Deal Pending for Sale Of
Mutual Plant.
From a stan Correspondent

streets In the eastern part Of the city.
The mayor made his veto strictly on the
ground that the use Of asphalt In Des
Moines would be injurious to the brick
industry in the city.
The property owners had petitioned for
asphalt paving on this street and there
are already a number OF residence streets
in the western part Of the city that are
paved with asphalt, but a protest came
from the manufacturer of brick In the
city, and the mayor will not allow the use
Of asphalt on Des Moines streets.
Nearly all the paving in Des Moines Ia
with brick and it has nearly all been put
down in the last ten years. The entire
paving question will have to be opened up
again and the property owners who are in
terested and who will have to pay for the
brick will make an effort to force the city
to adopt asphalt where they want 1t.
In nearly all Of the smaller towns Of Iowa
brick is used exclusively as a paving ma
terial, but the brick is nearly all made
in Des Moines, where the clay is Just right
for paving brick. 1t is feared by the brick
people that II asphalt is used here It will
induce the people of the towns and smaller
cities to discard brick.
Strike settlement Remote.
The arbitration committee Of the Trades
and Labor assembly and the special COM
mittee named yesterday to advise with
them commenced a systematic canvass OF
the city today to induce the users Of tele-
phones to order their instruments out to-
morrow as a protest against the position
of the companies in maintaining their fight
against the telephone girls. The commit
tees went at it systematically and thor
a,,-AI,, a~I ,Ialp, chat thnu annproA ra0nU
pledges from the telephone users.
At the same time a movement has been
inaugurated for a sale of the Mutual plant
to a new company. E. H. Martin OF Web
ster City, c.. H. Deering Of Boone and G..
N. Bandy Of Perry are in the city, all
owners Of telephone properties, and have
submitted to the directors of the Mutual
a proposition for purchase of their plant.
They are already interested In the com
pany, through their connections, and Mr..
Martin has been asked to take personal
charge of the business for the present and
to make the fight against the telephone
girls.
The manager of the Iowa company states
that none of the linemen who went out
Saturday in sympathy with the strikers
were regularly employed and all their line
men are non-union men. There is less pros
pect now of a settlement than last week.
Crop situation In Iowa.
Director Sage Of the local weather and
crop service, while he refused to give a d.
rect opinion relative to the amount of dam
age excessive rains have already done In
Iowa, is extremely apprehensive as to the
outlook. His weekly weather and crop bull
letin, issued tomorrow, will be far from
annOura cling though a. Ia 1ILaIv the dIraofor
himself will hardly hazard a question as
to the amount of injury brought about by
the excessive rains and the exceedingly
low temperature for the month Of June.
All depends on the character of weather
through the month Of July. II II turns off
hot and dry the entire crop will be ruined.
Plants throw their roots deep into the
ground during dry weather to gather mois-
ture. During wet seasons the roots lie
along the surface. Hot, parching weather
would have the effect Of actually baking
the roots and destroying the plant. Con-
siderable anxiety is therefore felt relative
to the character Of weather during the com
ing month.
Sewage Disposal Plants.
The state board of control today adver-
tised for bids for new sewage disposal
plants at the hospital at Mt. Pleasant,
the reform school at Mitchellville and the
orphans home at Davenport. The bids are
to be in by the 18th Of the month.
There are three separate plans proposed,
one on the plan OF the international Sew
age company OF Boston and two on the
septic tank system. 1t has been found
that there is no way Of securing disposal
OF the we at either Of the institu-
tions by ordinary drainage and the state
has been put to too much expense to care
for the waste. The board hopes to get
offers for plans that will solve the prob
lem.
Burlington May Extend.
1t is announced that the Burlington COM
pany expects to complete the extension Of
the Burlington & Western to Des Moines
before fall and thus will have an entire
new route from Burlington to Des Moines.
The entire road from Burlington to os-
kaloosa was widened yesterday, 1t having
been a narrow guage, and despite the fact
that rain fell all day the work was done.
This is only a step toward running the line
from oskaloosa' to Tracey so that Burling-
ton trains can come by the new route to
Des Moines. The change in gauge leaves
but one narrow guage road in Iowa, that
from Bellevue to Cascade, owned by the
Milwaukee company.
Des MOines POstOmce Business.
Receipts from the Des Moines postofnce
for the fiscal year ending this morning
were 1886. $685. as against 1894 500. 25 for
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1901. This Is
a net increase over last year OF SOL, 903. 40.
The total receipts for the month Of June,
1902, are 3 s.25s.sO as against t26.4sS.13 for
the same month last year. This repre-
sents as a total increase for the month of
S6,775.77 or 1858 per cent.
The Des Moines postofice receipts have
been increasing steadily for the past four
years, running from 1925, 900 four years ago
to 1887, 900 at the close OF the fiscal year,
1902. The receipts are almost twice those
Of st. Joseph Notwithstanding the Missouri
city's population is 40 per cent more than
that Of Des Molnes. The figure is within
few thousand Of the total receipts Of the
Omaha postofice located In a city nearly
twice as large as Des Moines.
New Corporation Papers.
The following Incorporation papers were
filed with the secretary Of state today:
Iowa Upholstering company Of Des
Moines; capital $4,000; by Nellie Rhoads,
John Prettyman and others.
Calhoun Creamery company Of Church;
amendments changing time OF meeting.
Arlington Telephone company OF Mo-
Vile; capital 5000; by W.. 8. sanborn. NJ.