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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-22

of the flats in the summer have window gardens hanging out over the streets. These are filed with flowers and the va rious stories are decorated with lines of roses and fuchsias and other sbright-col- ored blossoms. Of late the flats have been built with balconies arranged espe- cially for flowers, so that one can walk under hanging gardens for miles through the streets. looking up at flowers all the way.
 In Business Berlin. The business parts of the city are be- coming quite as well decorated as the residence sections. The Germans are good win low 1ressers They understand the value of plate glass. and many mer- chants keep men on the sidewalks who rub the windows with chamois skins every few minutes to keep the glass clear of moisture and dust.
 The stores usually have small stocks, but they carry their whole stock in the windows. Many of the windows are framed in with shelves or with rolling cupboards which can be pushed up close to the plate glass As you look at the windows you imagine the establishment Is large but upon entering find only counter and a small compartment back of 1t, with one or two clerks In charge. If you ask to see something like the goods in the windows. the merchant rolls back the cupboard and hands you out the article. for it is often the only one he has in stock. If you buy he thanks you. but If not, in most cases. he assumes an injured air and wonders what you mean by asking the price and handling his goods without purchasing.
 Indeed, fear to look at any article here, without l am sure of buying some fhinO haV tu not toned to our ways of doing. They make more of their business and give you less for your money. They expect you to take
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of novelties, and Americans should send their newest things to this market AL ready a variety of American goods are
 sold in the department stores sacn things as speaking and muslcal machines. typewritcrs photographic n-
 struments. American furniture and desks
 having sections devoted to them.
 The Great German Stomach. have takes several Turkish baths
 since came to Berlin. and while oolng go have dad a bird's-eye view or the great German stomach. It Is enormous! The god Bacchus had nothing like it. and
 Garnbrinus himself would look at II with
 envy. It is almost universal. Every oth- CT man you meet carries bay window about with him. and some over-developed
 ones actually measure two feet from vest | button to back bone.
 These people live well. They are great eaters and great drinkers. Every block has its restaurant and beer garden, and
 in every one you can be well fed Some of the best restaurants are the cheap
 est, There is one known as "Kempin-
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Copyright, 1908. by Frank G. Carpenter. )
 Berlin, 1908.
 Berlin is the best managed city in Eu- rope. It has uniformly the best buildings and the best streets The streets are put down on most of them, and you can drop your handkerchief almost anywhere without soiiing It. There Is no rubbish to be seen. If you throw a scrap of paper on the pavement a policeman may order you to pick 1t up, and if you leave a pile of dirt in your yard you may be arrested.
 The town is watched and everything is made pleasing to the eye. All plans have to be submitted to the city architect and every sign board has to be approved be- fore it can goup. You can not build a dog kennel without the approval of the city fathers. and they regulate the width of every wall the height of the ceilings, and also the height of every house. The re- suit Is that the most of the buildings are uniform. They are all flats, and you can ride for miles past yellow structures of five stories. most of which have stores below and apartments above.
 What Berlin Owns.
 The Germans believe in the city own OiSbip VI puuHC WOThS anu 6eTlin IS ln- terested in all sorts of undertakings. She owns the market halls and cattle yards She has savings banks and loan offices, and more real estate than any individual or corporation in Prussia. She owns gas and electric works, and lights not only the streets, but also private houses. for a consideration. She runs an insurance company, and forces every property own CT to take out an insurance policy to pre- vent loss in case of fire. At the same time by her building regulations she sees to 1t that her losses are as few as possible, and the result is that the insurance de- partment makes money. Indeed, every department does comparatively well; the city pays all of her own expenses and comes out a million dollars or so ahead at the end of the year.
 Still Berlin carries the interest upon large public debt. She owes S65, 900 900. which is little more than one-fifth the debt of New York, $15, ,0O0, 900 more than the debt of Philadelphia, >i little less
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skis" on Leipsigerstrasse, not far from Freidrichstrasse, where I can get an ex-, cellent dinner for two or three marks. I pay ' 1-2 cents for soup, 2 cents for as much roast goose as l want and S7 cents for a beefsteak. Salads and sweets are approximately cheap, and everything Is we'll served
 There are many other good restaurants some so housed that they would be cons sidered palacious in the United StateS The hotels have good meals and alto- gether one gets as much for him money here as at any place I know.
 The Little Matter of Beer.
 AS to beer, the Germans make the bests and they know 1t. There are millions in- vested in beer gardens and beer halls in' Berlin, and their income amounts to mil- lions a year. It is said that a million glasses are drunk every day, and this means a half million quarts The beerl glasses here are regulated by law. andl the ordinary drink Is twice that of the United States. There is a mark near thei top of every glass made with a file, toI which the beer must rise without foam, and the customer always insists on full, glasses.
 Beer in Germany takes the place of water l venture there are ten glasses of beer swallowed here to every glass of, water, and also that there are hundredsi of men who drink on the average some- thing like a gallon a day. Men, women and children drink. early and late andj the total consumption surpases concep- ton. One of our consuls, of an arithme- tical bent. recently made an estimate of the annual beer bill of the nation. Hist figures show that the Germans swallow enough beer every year to make lake six feet deep and more than a mile square and so much that it will average forty gallons to every man, woman and child in the country.
 Much of the beer drunken is Bavarian. which country is said to make the bestt beer of the world. Munich alone ships 9,0OOO0O barrels every year, and 1t drinks more than 1t ships. The Nuremberger and Pisner beers are also largely used, and Berlin makes an excellent article.
 Frank G. Carpenter.
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Christmas The most of the employees are girls, as well dressed and fine-look!ng you will see anywhere. They work from 8 o'clock in the morning until in the evening, with two hours off at noon for lunch, Their wages are from 25 to 50 cents a day. and they eat and sleep them selves.
 The department stores do all they can to attract custom and visitors. Take Wertheipis. which Is the biggest store in Berlin. It has a winter garden filled with palm trees aud tropical plants and so covered with ferns that they make a per feet carpet on each side the path, There is fountain in 1t and seats under the palms where the customers can rest and chat between the intervals of shopping. In the summer there is an additional gar den and fountain. The store has a | luncheon room and all the other attrac- tions of similar establishments in the United States.
 Teitzs Department Store which ranks next to Wertheim's, has an American
 soda fountain, which came from Philadel-
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phia. The foutnain is an immense one, made of marble and silver. It has about one hundred spiggots. It furnishes ice cream soda, but the drink does not com- pare with our American article. This is one of the few soda fountains in Ber- lin and 1t is well patroniEed.
 Pictures While You Wait. Both of these stores have their photo graph galleries, with special days for men, women and children. The day l visited Wertheims was evidently baby day, for a score and more of babies were waiting to be taken. The photographer was swell dresed in a long black frocl coat and creased trousers. He showed me his instantaneous apparatus, consist ing in part of magnesium flash lights operated by electricity. All his photo- graphs are made in one-hundredth of a second, which is especially good for the babies.
 Another feature of the stores are their theater bureaus. Each sells tickets for all the operas. concerts, varieties and other amusements. Teitz has recently added a travelling bureau, where you can buy railroad and steamship tickets and have roundtrip rates all over Europe at reduced prices.
 One of the chief drawbacks in this krade is the lack of cash carriers or cash boys. The clerks are not allowed to handle money. They merely make out a check for you and you go with them to one of the cashiers desks stationed in different parts of the store and yourself pay over the money. At the same time the clerk hands your purchases to the bundle boy to be wrapped up and goes back to his work.
 Buying Departments.
 don't know whether our department stores have the same system of buying goods which is common here On the top floors of the department stores are sample rooms with counters and all fa- cilities for displaying goods. On certain days of the week certain kinds of goods are bought, and on these days the men selling such goods appear with their sam set day. At that time all the corset salesmen from Berlin and elsewhere come to the store and fix their samples in the rooms allotted to them. The buyers of the store go over them and order such as they want. Another day may be de- voted to dresses, coats, etc, and a third to hardware.
 Berlin Is one of the chief manufactur- ing cities of Europe, and many kinds of goods are made in 1t. It Is noted for its notions. and in this Is fast becoming equal to Paris. The Berlinese are fond
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torium surpasslng anything of It's kind in the world. The church room will be conducted on the same plan as the church of the Stranger in New York, being de- voted particularly to services for strangers in the city. The office build- ing will be constructed strictly in accord ance with modern business ideas.
 The banquet was attended by four State Governors-Mickey of Neblaska Durbin of Indiana; Bates of Massachu- setts and Yates of Illinois Twenty five per cent of the Governors of the country are Methndtsts and. all were invited to the affair.
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Church to Have skyscraper.

Chicago Telegram to Baltimore Sun.
 Announcement of plans for a fifteen story office building at the cost of Sl,OOO, O00 to house the Methodist interests of Chicago. was made by Allen A. Gilbert, president of the Chicago Methodist Social Union, at the Methodist governors ban quet held at the Auditorium tonight.
 The present site of the First Metho- dist Church. at Clark and Washington Streets in the heart of the business dis trlct, will be the site of the new struct- mre, which is to contain a church audi
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Old Landmark to Become Museum New York Telegram to Chicago. Tribune.
 The wealthy residents of Rye have p1rss chased the old Haviland inn ana VIII The inn is one of the revolutionary land marks of Westchester County. and hasi
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your hat off when you enter the store and keep 1t off while there, and you should say goodbye when you leave. at
 which time one of the clerks opens the door and bows you out. The average clerk wears a froek coat. and in the best
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been known as public house since 1731. In the stage coach days 1t was a relay station where passengers for New York and Boston would dismount and spend the night Many famous men were patrons Washington. while hurrying to Connecti- cut to join Rochambeau in the coup against the British, stopped there over night Lafayette was a guest at the tav- ern in 1924, The property was owned by local builder who was about to demol- ish 1t and erect modern business build. ing on the site, when Nfr. Parsons and otheP wealthy residents clubbed together and bought it for $15.O00,.
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'' 7 7
Why Dr. Humphreys "Seventy seven" is the best remedy
 for La Grippe.

Because when TT is taken the instant a chilly sensation is felt. together with some form of gentle exercise, until per spiration Is induced, 1t will break up the Grip then and there.
 Because the persistent use of "77'' will break up a Cold that hangs on and has not yielded to other treatment. preventing Grip and Pneumonia.
 Because the tonicity of ''77'' sustains the system during, and restores the vii taltty after the attack, preventing long and tedious convalescence.
 Because TIT is a small vial of pleas ant pellets that fits the vest pocketsseve handy and ready prepared to take. At Druggists. g cents. or mailed.
 Humphreys Med. Co. Cor William & John Streets. New York.
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She-Dear. you have crushed and almost suffocated me. What kind of a hug do you call that? ..,t tI
 He--Thats a Metropolitan Street RaIl- way hug.-I1fe
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Prickly Ash Bitters cures disease of the kidneys, cleanses and strengthens the liver stomach and bowels
 ady-wed-fri-su
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ABUNDANT HEALTH is assured when there is good blood in the veins. Hoods Sarsaparilla Is the medicine to make good blood. Begin taking 1t now. It Is just what the system needs at this time and will do great good. Sharpens the appe- tIte, steadies the nerves.
 adV-tu-thu-su.
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stores all the clerks are dressed in this way.
 Berdn's New Department Stores.
 The crusty customs of the Berlin mer- chants have made department stores very popular. The people are glad to go where they can look at goods without buying, and where the merchants advertise that It Is no trouble to show them
 There have been no department stores ln Germany until late, but there are now two in Berlin, either of which would be 8 credit to any American city. Each em- ploys about 2,500 hands, with more on
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stores all the clerks are dressed in this
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-09-01
GOING AFTER
PlNENUTS
Piutes Leaving in Large Mum.
bers for Table and Cinna-
bar Mountains

The Indians of Winnemueca and vi
cinity are leaving in large numbers
for the south on their annual pinenut
gathering excursions, and nearly all
that remain are preparing to follow
soon. They are conspicuous already
for their absence, and Indians for ser
wants are at a premium. with no
takers of the unusual offers for their
services. There are no sQuaws in
town who can be secured to do a wash
ing, and the ladies with very few ex-
ceptions are personally performing
the work usually done by the Indian
woman.
Reports have come to the Winnie
mucca Piutes that not in five or six
years have the pinenuts been so plen-
tiful or Of such fine quality and they
are therefore leaving in exhuberant
spirits. Every rose has it's thorn,
however, and some of the old Indians
are telling with many a forboding
shake of the head and anxious sigh
that the quantity of pinenuts foretells
long, hard winter. They rely i'm
plicitly in the sign"
1t would be harder to imagine a
greater variety OF vehicles and lay
outs than is represented in the flock
ing of the Indians to the south Most
OF them are taking wagons or pack
horses, for the pale face brother is
heap stuck on the pinenuts himself.
and can always be counted upon to
separate himself from his coin when
they are offered. The ruling price
paid is $3.50 to SO for flour sack
full OF tie hulled or shelled nuts.
The Indians are expecting to go
from seventy to one hundred miles
south of Winnemucca. Some have
Table mountain in view, others are
heading for Cinnabar mountain. The
majority of them will be gone for
five or six weeks.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-09-01
READY FOR SNAKE DANCES
Railroads Prepared 10 Garry
People to Arizona

Railroads in many parts of the west
are already making preparations for
the Moki snake dance. This dramatic
pagan ceremony of the Pueblo Indians
will occur at Tusaya, Ariz., in Septem-
be- and is already attracting a great
deal Of attention as it is a rare event.
and until recent years whites were not
allowed to witness it.
The snake dance of the Pueblo In
dians is a prayer for rain and con-
tinues for nine days. The public dance,
in which the live rattlesnakes are
handled. occurs on the last day. The
province of Tusayana comprises 1000
square miles and is inhabited by 1000
Indians who are grouped into seven
villages on three high mesasaon the
southern border. Wolpi, the place of
the gap on the first mesa, where the
most interesting festivities are to take
place, is peopled by Indians who are
said to be more progressive and more
friendly to the whites than the In
dians on the other mesas. A snake
dance occurs on each of these mesas.
but all occur on different dates. All
visitors to the dance must have a per-
NIT from the superintendent and Act
ing United States Indian Agent Chas.
L. Burton.-Salt Lake Tribune.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-09-01
IS ACQUIRING
REAL ESTATE
Western Pacific Getting Op-
tons on Valuable Property
in San francisco

The announcement that the Western
baseball grounds at the corner of
Ninth and Harrison streets is followed
by the discovery that seven or eight
city blocks in that vicinity are being
quietly bonded by a local real estate
agent acting for a corporation. which
is believed to be the Western Pacific.
The matter has been conducted with
the greatest secrecy. but it is known
that nearly every property-owner be-
tween Eighth and Ninth streets, from
Channel north TO Market, has been ap-
ings. Some of the propetry-owners
have learned that the land is wanted
for railroad terminus and are hold
ing out for advanced prices.
Benjamin Gum is the real estate
agent who is securing the options. but
he declines to state for whom he is
acting in the matter. Yesterday Mr..
Gum admitted that he was acting as
agent for certain corporation which
expects to put through a large deal
and he expressed regret that the
transaction has become known, as he
feared the publicity might put stop
to his plans.
This morning Mr. Gum was as
dumb as the Western Pacific repre-
Isentatives who decline to deny or ar
firm that their road is seeking the
land for terminal purposes.
Il don't know anything about any
such transaction" Mr.. Gum added to
his previous statement this morning.
The property already bonded, how
ever, amounts in value to a million
dollars or more.
The block on which the baseball
grounds were located at Ninth and
Harrison streets is said to have al
ready been purchased by the Western
Pacific from Otto Greenewald, the
former owner. Eventually the mys-
terious corporation, which is believed
to be the same company, hopes to Sc
cure clean sweep from Channel
street to Market, between Eighth and
Ninth streets. The property will prob
ably be used for freight yards and
passenger and freight depot to be
erected at the Market street end of
the tract.
The Wesern Pacific is surveying at
the present time from Haywards to
Sar Jose and north to this city, on
branch line which will circle the
southern arm of the bay This road
will enter San Francisco from the
south and the company is endeavoring
to secure a suitable location for its
enthusiastically S. F. Bulletin.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-09-01
STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD
Late News Notes Gathered
From Many Places in
Nevada

Senator Stewart is expected to ar
rive in Nevada about September 18th.
Horses are dying of anthrax on the
Truckee meadows, says the Reno ,ia-
zette.
\ man known as TEX" is in Jail
a. Tonopah, charged with morse
stealing
The Tonopah Mining company has
again announced its intention 10 build
A railroad TO Sodaville.
The Journal says teachers are IN
demand in Washoe county districts.
Applicants should address County Su-
perintendent Pike at Reno.
A man employed at Longabaugh 9
wood camp at Prices lake was Sc
yerely injured last week by falling
and striking head first on a rock.
Sticks of dynamite found unie~ a
railroad bridge near Halleck. Elko
county. indicate they were placed
there for the purpose of wrecking a
train.
Secretary of State w. q. Douglass is
credited with having purchased 1900
acres of land east of Washoe lake and
will pipe water from Little valley to
irrigate it.
The Reno Painters and Decorators
unions have indorsed the eight-houT
law and will support the miners and
millmen in their efforts to maintain
its constitutionality.
A Chinaman who cut off his queue
at Hawthorne, Esmeralda county, last
week disappeared suddenly. and it is
thought he was murdered by his
countrymen.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-09-01
THE MURDER CASE
New Indictments Returned
and Demurrer Taken

Pursuant to call issued yesterday
the grand jury met this morning at
10 O'Clock to consider the case of the
men now held for the murder of Jack
Welch. A new Indictment was re-
turned, to which the defendants de-
INJURED and the case was taken under
morrow morning. The case of Men
dola, arrested at Paradise for ASSAULT.
was submitted to the grand jury and
j. +. Dennis was appointed attorney
for defendant. Owing to the fat that
the witnesses in the case were not on
hand nothing could be done. but the
grand jury will take the matter up
later.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-09-01
CHICAGO HOLDUP
Three Men Rob Street Car
Office of $4,000

CHICAGO, August 31.-Without a
others wounded by hold-up men at
the barns of the Chicago City Railway
company, Sixty-frst and State streets,
at an early hour today. The shooting
was done by three men, who escaped,
after securing $4,000. Three of the
men who were shot were working in
the cashiers Office and the other was
a motorman asleep in the outer Office.
The men in the Office were shot be-
fore they were aware of the robbers
presence, and the motorman was kill
ed as he was arising from a bench
where he had been sleeping.
The dead:
FRANK STEWART, assistant clerk.
iii cashiers office; shot through body;
died half an hour later.
JOHN b. JOHNSON. motorman; ;
shot through head; died instantly.
The injured:
William Edmond, receiving clerk;
shot in left thigh; will recover.
Henry Biehl; shot in the head; will
recover.
The robbers took no chances but
disposed of all the opposition of the
employees before they entered the CT
flee. Choosing the time when the EN-
Iployes were busily engaged in Dalanc-
Ing up the receipts of the night. just
after the last conductor mad turned
in his money and left the barns, the
robbers suddenly appeared at the re-
ceiving window and began shooting
without warning.
The first bullet struck Stewart and
he fell to the floor without q word.
Biehl and Edmond. who were sitting
near Stewart. turned to see what was
the matter, out before they could
leave their chairs they were render.
ed helpless by The bullets of the rob-
bers. Johnson, the motorman. who
had been asleep on bench in the
outer office, started to go TO the as
sistance of his companions. bat was
shot and killed before he couli get
on his fee.
Making sure that all opposition Lad
been removed The cobbers then b"cbe
open the door OF the cashiers Office
With sledge hammer and took from
The desk 5000 in bills. They then
made their escape. Four men were
arrested three hours later on sus-
picion of being implicated in the
crime. They. as yet, have not been
identified.