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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-09-21
By A ]. Chewing Co..
Real Estate Auctionecrs.
u EREMPTORY AUCTION SALE
I OF
NO. AIS WEST DUyAL STREET.

AS requested by the owner. who has
determined to sell. we will offer to those
desiring real estate bargains in the above
numbered property, or
TUESDAY, Esd SEPTEMBER, 1902,
at & ociock P. VI.
This L. a good dwelling of four rooms.
deep lot back to an alley. Please attend.
A. J. CHEWING CO.,
Auctioneers.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-18
CHOKING OFF TIE POWER PHoJE


When the ordinance granting the
Thomson-Houston company the right to
lay n system of electric wire conduits
under the streets and alleys Of Omaha
was pending before the council in con-
junction with an extension of the con-
tract for street lighting, this valuable
grant was voted by the council and ap-
proved by the mayor on the assurances
that the company would either directly
or through capitalists indirectly inter
ested undertake the project Of supply
ing this city with cheaper power, to be
derived from the construction of reser-
voirs and canals in the neighborhood Of
the Platte or Elkhorn rivers.
While it is barely possible that a ma
jorlty of the council would have voted
the conduit ordinance and new electric
lighting contract to the Thomson-H ous-
ton company without competition, we
feel sure the proposition would have
met with vigorous opposition from the
business men and taxpayers of Omaha
excepting for the inducement of the
power canal, and doubt exceedingly
whether it would have received the ap-
prevail of the mayor. The failure of the
electric lighting company to take even
the preliminary steps toward redeeming
its pledge Justifes the suspicion Of bad
faith, If not the allegation of sharp prac-
tice in engineering the conduit ordinance
and extension Of the lighting contract
more than a yea before the expiration
of the old contract.
If the tactics now being pursued to
prevent the submission of a PROPOSE
ton of vital moment to the voters of
Omaha are successful Omaha may as
well abandon all hope of solving the
cheap power problem for years to come.
II is not uncommon for the OBJ
ponents of bills introduced in the
legislature to load them down
with killing amendments. This mode
of warfare is now being pursued
under the lead OF Councilman Hascall,
who is an expert at parliamentary Jug
glery. While it is eminently proper to
safeguard the public interest by reason
able guarantees, 1t is an insult to popu-
lar intelligence to exact conditions de
signed to Illustrate the entire project
and to make its acceptance impossible,
and yet this is precisely what Council
man Hascall and his associates are try
ing TO do under the pretext that they are
protecting the community.
The assumption that the grant of this
franchise will prevent the projectors of
the Columbus canal or the Fremont
power scheme from carrying out their
enterprises is preposterOus. Omaha is
not a walled city. II any man or cor,
poration can land cheaper power at the
city limits of Omaha or South Omaha,
the packing houses, the mills and fac
tories Of Omaha would soon find a way
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-18
CANDOR.
II. G. Drummer.

II. c. Drummer.
Il know what you're going to say" she
AND She stood up looking uncommonly
You are going to speak of the hectic fall.
And say you're sorry the dead
And no other summer was like 1t, you
And can 1 imagine what made It so?
Now, aren't you, honestly?' Yes" 1 said.
81 know what you're going to say" she
You are going to ask II I forget
That day in June when the woods were
And you carried me"-here she dropped her
over the creek; you are going to say
Do l remember that horrtd day;
Now, aren't you, honestly?" Yes" I
said.
II know what you're going to say.' she
You are going to say that since that
You nave rather tended to run to rhyme
And"-her clear glance fell, and her cheek
grew red
And have I noticed your tone was
queer?
why, everybody has seen IT herei
Now, aren't you. honestly?" yes" I
IT know what wou're going to say" I
You're going to say you've been much
And I'm short of ~tact-you Will say de-
And I'm clumsy and awkward, and call me
And l bear abuse like a dear old lamb
And youH have me, anyway, just as I
Now aren't you, honestIy?" "Yes," she
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-18
PROSPERITY HERE TO STAY.
Evidences of the OOuntry's Ability to
Avert a Financial Crisis.

Louisville Courier-Journal.
The testimony OF the London Statist that
large American loans have been paid on In
Paris, substantially reducing our interna-
tional debts, is only part of the evidence
of the financial strength of the United
States which has come to light during the
past six weeks OF a stringent money mar
ket. What is still more notable Is that
the heavy liquidation which has been 60
ing on in stocks has caused no serious fall
ures anywhere-a proof that the specula-
tion was not as rampant as had been rep
resented. All the stocks sold have found
buyers at good prices, showing that some
body has had the money for investment at
the declines. There has been no panic.
though a powerful bear party has been
operating and very heavy declines were
predicted at the beginning. OF late the
rallies have been more violent than the
declines, and the low points at the market
are on each decline a little above the pre-
vious ones, so that IL the worst is not over
there is little likelihood OF any great fall.
Leaving Wall street, which is entitled to
notice purely as the indication Of financial
opinion, we find every branch Of trade con-
tinuing to flourish. Our agricultural inter-
ests, on which our prosperity is based. have
been strengthened by large gains in the
corn and oats, hay and potato crops. The
wheat crop is turning out larger than the
preliminary report gave reason to believe.
and 1t is the largest yield, with but three.
and possibly only two, exceptions In his
tory. The cotton crop. at first thought to
be seriously cut short, has been favored ex-
ceptionally by the season, and now there
is little expert questioning of a yield OF at
least IL, 200, 900 bales. Best OF all. these
farm products are in great demand at highly
remunerative prices, thus guaranteeing the
prosperity Of trade for the next year. IL no
longer.
For a while the croakers have been claim
ing that railroad earnings were shrinking.
There was some decline in the net earn
ings OF August and September. due to the
anthracite strike, which seriously affected a
number Of important lines. but late figures
on September show the upward march was
ouly slightly checked. October earnings did
better. The typical corn-earrying road,
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-18

the Atchison, showed a gross increase OF
S520,o 900 for the month, and a Vsry large net
increase. yet the new corn crop has barely
begun to move. When this important cereal
is marketed in all the forms in which It
goes into consumption, expert opinion Is
that the railroads will have such trafic as
never before. The railroads cannot have
freight unless general business is active.
The legitimate business situation has not
had a backset anywhere. while Europe has
been waiting with bated breath for a rep
etition OF the hard times of 1898. These
hard times seem still far of. for we have
weathered apparently what is the worst
part Of a serious monetary famine. with
out a distressing accumulation Of business
failures. as must have been the case were
not conditions intrinsically sound.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-18
Personal NOTES.
age,

Gibbs Mansfield. son of the actor, will
present a Christmas tree to the Free School
for Crippled Children in New York.
1t is said that Adlai Dean, IS years of age,
who died lately in Boone county, KY, was
the last surviving veteran OF the Mexican
war.
NJ. Coquelin, in addition to being a good
actor. is also a good shot. When last in
Germany NJ. Coquelin was complimented by
the kaiser on his craftsmanship.
A Pittsburg mar who tried to play a joke
ON a friend by pretending to be a highway
man was killed. II he had been the real
thing he would have escaped without a
scratch, most likely.
DR.. Tulllo Verdi, at one time a cele-
brated physician in Washington, has just
died at Milan. Italy. During President
Grants administration he was commits
stoned by him to study the hygienic laws Of
Europe.
w. ]. Bailey, the bachelor governor Of
Kansas, has received 1000 proposals OF
marriage from women in the United States
and Canada. Lieutenant governor Hanna,
also a bachelor, has received more than 500.
]. B. Hutchinson, for five years general
manager OF the Pennsylvania railroad, has
been compelled to resign-used up with the
growth Of the interests under his charge.
He has been for nearly forty years with
the company and the directors will make a
new place for him, that of assistant to the
second vice president. He is to go out OF
his present Office January l and will be
given four months vacation before resum-
ing work.
General John B. Gordon, commander OF
| the ITnited Confederate Wptarang has issued
a circular letter calling the attention Of the
members TO the restrictions in the constitu-
tion of the federation prohibiting in the
camps any political or religious action or
the Endorsement OF any candidate for po-
litical ONCE. He reminds them that the
objects and purposes Of the organization
are, strictly and solely, social, literary,
historical and benevolent.
Keir Hardie, the British member Of Par
lament, adheres for the most part TO the
small cap-a cross between the cap known
as Scotch and the kind OF tight-htting cap
a workman wears when hei is starting for
work in the bleak early morning. It was
this cap which led to a little Incident. Kerr
Hardie on the opening day Of Parliament
came down to the library TO consult some
books. Are you working here, mater"
queried a friendly policeman at the palace
yard gate. YES" o the roof?"-which
was undergoing repairs at the time. mo,
on the door"
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-18

mission has demonstrated time and
again that statements on material points
given out by the operators are uncandid
or altogether false. Their pretended sta
tistics of wages are mere juggles with
figures, from which 1t is impossible to
arrive at the average individual earn
ings, as from three to five persons are
sometimes paid out of checks made out
to a single mine worker, Plainly the
operators from the first have deceived
the public.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-18
ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK.
RippIes on the Current of Life I'm h
MetropoIIs

Participants in the conference OF the
National Civic Federation In New York
City last week maintained a degree OF
dignity BETTING the subjects under dis
cussion. Every speaker was very much
in earnest and few ventured any observa-
lions OF a humorous nature. One Of the
exceptions noted by the Evening Post was
a story told by Samuel Mathes Of Cleve-
land. Mr.. Mathes has business interests
in common with L. c. Hanna, brother Of
Senator Hanna, the federation's chairman.
Three years ago there was a strike Of ore
handlers in one OF the lake towns and he
and Mr.. Hanna undertook to persuade the
men to return to work.
I'VE got along all ~right-chiefy by COM
promise-with all except the engineers"
said he. I'm that case a merchant Of the
town was mutually agreed on as arbitrator.
and 1t was arranged that both sides should
argue before him the question Of an in
crease In wages. Mr.. Hanna represented
the employers, while an engineer, Pat
Ryan spoke for his fellows. Mr.. Hanna
made a long, elaborate argument before
the arbitrator, covering all the points he
expected his opponent to raise. What was
his surprise, as he finished, to find that
all Pat had to say was:
Mister Ref'ree, tn byes wants tn
raise!'
Mr.. Hanna was telling Of this q few
hours later and had Just expressed him
self as certain that the decision would be
In our favor when the telephone bell rang.
The referee was at the other end and he
informed us that he had reached a decision
in favor OF the mems demand for more
wages!'
Ten years ago." writes the correspond
ent Of the Philadelphia Ledger, there was
not a single bank in New York that had a
capital of more than $4,000 900. The theory
that prevailed then was that It was a dis
advantage to a bank to have a capital Of
more than a million or two. Several In
stitutions, indeed. reduced the amount Of
their capital. But there has been a radical
change in ten years. In that time the total
capitalization OF members OF the clearing
house has increased about $45, 900, 900, which
is all represented by the increased ca
pacity of four institutions, namely, the
National City bank, the Bank Of Commerce,
First National bank and the new Western
National Bank of the United States. The
total capital Of these four institutions is
sos, 900, 900. But even this does not ade-
quately represent their financial power.
Their alliances with great insurance and
trust companies, and with capitalists of i'm
mense wealth and international connections,
give them a standing higher even than their
capital, large as it is, represents"
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-18

that this was because they were either
spending too much on the properties or
the earnings were too small. This is a
revelation. If the railroads are actually
spending more money than they earn,
where do the millions and millions Of
dividends which they have distributed
to stockholders come from? Why should
not the stockholders go down into their
own pockets for the money expended for
Improvements and extensions instead Of
taxing up the cost of improvements to
shippers and producers through In
creased freight rates?
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-18

Contrary to the general impression
and to the anticipation of experts,
money that was withdrawn from the
eastern banks for use in crop movement
is likely to return earlier and in larger
volume than last year. Last week the
New York banks gained from the in
terror 81, 100000, whereas for the same
week of 1901 they lost more than that
amount. The extraordinary demand for
money in New York and the correspond
ing high rate of interest tend to attract
thither every available dollar.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-18

to utilize 1t and so would the street
railway and electric lighting companies.
The only possible benefit derived from
the proposed franchise by its promoter
would be the inducement It would afford
to capitalists to invest two or three mil
lion dollars in the canal power project.
The attempt to block the franchise is
not in the interest Of Omaha, but mani
festly an effort to perpetuate the exist
ing electric lighting and power monopoly
with prices based upon the high cost of
fuel
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-18
FOR TRUST PROSECUTION.


The house of representatives has voted
100000 for use by the Department of
Justice in the prosecution of trusts. 1t
is perhaps safe to assume that this ac-
ton will be approved by the senate and
thus there will be placed in the hands
of the attorney general Of the United
States an ample sun with which to in
stitute and carry on proceedings against
the great combinations under the Sher-
man antitrust law. In the course of
the debate on the proposition a demo
cratic member criticised the attorney
general for not having enforced the anti
trust law, but congress rather than that
official is to blame, since Il failed to
provide him with the means for carry
ing IN prosecutions. A proper enforce
ment of the antitrust law will involve
a very considerable expenditure and 1t
was the duty of congress to have long
ago made provision for this. If 1t shall
now do so there is no reason to doubt
that the Department Of Justice will
faithfully perform its duty. Attorney
General Knox has shown that he is in
hearty accord with President Roosevelt
respecting the illegal combinations and
with the means to proceed against them
provided it can be confidently predicted
that he will act with all possible vigor.
The action Of the house will have gen.
eral public approval.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-18

There is plenty of law in Pennsyl-
vania, If enforced, to stop the outrage
of requiring a little girl of 10 to work
at night, twelve hours continuously on
her feet, for 65 cents. And if there were
no statutory law it would seem that a
father earning $1,000 last year and
yet permitting or causing the child
to be thus abused might be forced by
public sentiment to stop 1t. If ever a
boycott is permissible, it is in such a
case as this.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-18

With over forty antitrust bills al
ready introduced in the house the sub
committee might be able to pick out
some suggestions for a measure to be
reported to the full committee. But, as
the session lasts only three months and
as a month, If the holiday recess be
counted, has virtually gone, not much
more time can be occupied with getting
ready for the mere preliminaries to
action
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-18

1t is safe to say that England and Ger
many would today be paying little at
tention to the diplomatic representa-
tons Of the United States If we had not
provided ourselves with a substantial
navy. After all it is might as much as
right that counts In international dis
cuSsiOnS,
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-18

There will not be so much doing for
some time as there has been lately in
the industry of promoting mergers and
the exploitation of inflated securities.
For the past year or two it looked as if
nothing could stop that industry. But
the stock jobbers and promoting specu-
lators are now up against a money mar
ket that is too much for them. The
simple truth is that their business has
been overdone. The real object Of most
Of the fotations was to get something
for a little oor nothing and the public
has had all Of their goods that are
wanted or that can be taken. Legiti-
mate business, however, is in good con-
dition and will care little for the win
ter Of the stock jobbers' discomfort
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-18


The constitution of the state of Mis-
souri, prohibits any state officer or any
member of the legislature from solicit
Ing, receiving or accepting railroad
passes or free mileage books on penalty
of loss Of Office. A new constitutional
amendment is to be introduced at the
coming session of the Missouri legis-
lature making 1t obligatory upon all rail-
road companies in Missouri to furnish
transportation to state officers and legis-
lators over their roads within the state
during the period for which they are
elected. The i~ntroducer of such an
amendment will, however, run some
risk. Back in 1889 a member of the
Missouri legislature introduced a con-
current resolution to repeal the section
of the constitution which prohibits Iegis-
lators from accepting railroad passes.
1t did not go through and the I~ntroducer
did not go back. In Nebraska the in
PRODUCER of an amendment to the con
stitutlon to prohibit the issuance of rail-
road passes would not be In danger of
signing his political death warrant, but
the chances of passing such an amend
ment by h necessary three-ifths vote
would be very, very slim.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-18

The Chicago Auditorium, which repre-
sents an investment of 81, 7G5,OO0, paid
for the year 1902 $42,36l in state, county
and city taxes, or "a mills ON its actual
value. With a fair assessment repre-.
senting actual values, an Investment OF
81, 80. 600 would be taxed only Is mills
for state, county and city purposes in
Omaha, or $15,Ss5 less than was i'm.
posed on the Auditorium building OF
Chicago
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-18

Explorers journeying southeast from
Chatham square along James street, relates
the Times, come upon the wholesale ba-
mana quarter, the greater part OF three
blocks Of that thoroughfare below Madison
street. James street is narrow and lined
with somewhat forbidding brick tenements,
many of them originally the dwellings OF
single families. Sometimes the ground
floor apartments and sometimes the cellars
OF these houses are occupied by the ba-
mana dealers, mostly Italians, with perhaps
a few Greeks. But for the banana shops
the street would be dreary enough, but the
display of bright yellow fruit in front of
each shop, and in one block nearly every
house has such a shop, gives the region a
gay aspect, especially when the sun hap
pens to be shining brightly into the tun-
nel-like thoroughfare. You may catch sight
Of the gay display almost as soon as you
leave Chatham square. It is sufficiently
foreign in suggestion.
Every proprietor hangs a few buDches of
ripening bananas outside his shop close to
the sidewalk, and most of the shops have
no other sign than these displays of mer-
chandise, though one at the corner OF Madi-
son street has upon its awning this legend,
"All Kind Of Bananas" AS the little shops
have only the one kind of goods the punches
swinging about the doorway are an effect
ual advertisement.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-18

Chicago has enacted a new tenement
house ordinance hat should be dupli-
Gated for Omaha. Among the require
ments of the Chicago tenement house
ordinance are that every tenement
house shall have a bulkhead, or
~scuttle, covered with freproof materials.
in the roof. Every tenement house shall
have at least two flights Of stairs ex-
tending from the entrance fool to the
top story and one additional stairway
for every additional forty rooms. All
stairway halls shall be enclosed on
all sides with solid masonry. Every
main entrance hall shall be at least
three feet six inches wide in the clear.
The walls of bay windows must be of
brick or other ~freproof material. In
addition to these precautions all the
best modern safety appliances must be
provided.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-18
Success and Failure
Brooklyn Eagle

George Fred Williams Of Massachusetts
is trying to stretch himself to the size Of
Thomas B. Reeds mentality. He classes
the ex-speaker's career a failure because
he said what he thought" Well, Williams
has said what he thought" and the peo-
pie of Massachusetts, have also said what
they thought"-about Williams. Their YER
dict was diseouraging TO Williams.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-18

If the other Omaha dailies had the big
calculations they claim, why should they
charge advertising patrons smaller rates
than are commanded by advertising
space in The Bee? Here is n stickler.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-18

Mr.. Hartman recently declared that
he had heard nothing about the Union
Pacific lockout. He is hearing plenty
about 1t now. but he appears to be
afflicted with an impeachment to his hear
ing apparatus.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-18

The World-Hera says it made no
return for city taxation, but left its
valuation TO the assessor, who fixed it
at $4,000, although the assessment in
the county last spring was S43,S00. The
assessor must have got an idea some
where that the property was rapidly
depreeiating in value. But still the
VIII. should have the benefit of its
version of how 1t happened.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-18

The local franchised corporations have
concluded to submit with good grace to
assessment for taxation at figures some
where approximating the true market
value of their property and franchises.
The railroads would do well to sound
the temper of the people and recede
from their untenable position that their
valuable city terminals shall be taxed
only as prairie mileage.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-18

If Colonel Bryan has gone to Mexico
to volunteer advice against the adoption
of the gold standard. it is safe to say
that he has not taken with him copies Of
his old speeches in which he predicted
the results Of the rejection of the silver
standard in the United States.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-18

The traffic manager of the Lake Shore
& Michigan Southern railroad declared
before the Interstate Commerce Com
mission that for a long time the railroads
Of this country have been relatively
spending more money than they earned;
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-18

1t is a tradition In Wall street that a
broker never voluntarily %retires from the
street, but must wait for death or mis-
fortune to compel his retirement, but
Broker Henry B. Vaughan, who is credited
with having amassed $4,000, 900 in the last
six years, is the exception that proves the
rule. Despite the fact that he has put
away 81, 900, 900 for each year that he has
spent as a member of the Stock exchange
he bought a seat in 1S96-he has retired.
He sold his seat for $4,000 and expects to
spend the proceeds this winter in a pleas
ure trip to Europe. Mr.. Vaughan, who is
60 years old, according to his own admis-
sion, does not look within ten years of that
age.