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Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-17

NJ sea.
Christmas at sea-and still the ghost fog
liEgers,
Far oil Arenas throws her beacon light,
or like an angel lifts a glowing finger
To warn against The porils of the night.
The mists arise Ola ocean seems 10 listen
To catch the greeting OF the kindly stars;
The moon pours forth her scattered beams
that -lisJen
Among tie jewelcd frost points on the
o, vie Of mine, in that far harbor wait
For my return on this Homecoming day
Why should the sailor feel the Christmas
With port and love such bitter leagues
awayH
Star OF the lonely mariner so keep
Love Ia tho world and peace upon the
WALLACE IRWIN.
\ Greeting.
We wish you a merry Christmas
and If We could have our way,
We would drive al Icarc ana s,rTuw
out Of your life today.
This beautiful Christmas morning
Should be brightest OF all Iar year
We would bring you peace and gladness,
With Gods good Will ana cheer.
There would be no empty places,
Not even one vacant chair,
And not a sigh or heart cry,
Should tali on the Christmas air.
only the song OF the angels
Should float through this air this day
Peace and plenty ill the earth.
Ii We could have our way.
ALICE PHILLIPS ALDRICH.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-17

He Sunday school idea is not new,
nor Is n modern. 1t is "A matter OF
knowledge without question with
theologists that in Old Testament
times the young were carefully
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-17

Beginning mt the Beginning.
The cradle roll is used to get children
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-25
THEFT OF STAMPS CHARGED.
Willard Bragg Alleged to Have Pill
fered From Railway COMPANY,

Suspicion was the charge upon which
Willard Bragg of Warrenton, Va, was ar
rested late yesterday afternoon by Police
man Dierkoph of the first precinct. While
there was no definite offense charged
against the young man, 1t Is alleged that
he stole stamps from the offices of the
Southern Railway Company. where he was
employed as clerk in the freight claims
branch of the service. 1t was known that
the thefts had been going on for some
time and that about 500 worth of stamps
had been taken. Suspicion did not rest
upon Bragg until after he was taken into
custody yesterday. He picked up by
the policeman, who found him trying to
dispose of sheet of postage stamps. AT
the station he admitted that he had par
ticipated in a transaction involving the sale
of 100 2-cent stamps for 81 two days ago.
THAT was my first offense," he said after
being locked up, land L wouldn't have done
that If had not been put up to it,
Bragg was employed by the railway COM
pany for several months prior to last De-
cember. AT that time he resigned and left
the companys employ. He returned only
about month ago, and already stated
says he yielded to temptation and engaged
in his first alleged dishonest transa elton.
He denies that he was implicated in the
theft of the 500 worth of stamps De-
tectives Hartigan and Baur were detailed
upon the case by Capt. Boardman and ad-
dltlonal arrests are expected.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-25

Is dumped and the wagons circle back to
the starting point. There are twenty or
thirty wagons employed in the work, and
they are filled and taken away fast as
the steel cable that pulls them up the grade
can be detached from the tongue of one
wagon and hauled back and attached to the
tongue of another
The work is done In sort Of endless
chain system that never seems to break and
results In the old grade giving way foot by
foot. The retaining walls of the yiaduct
have practically been completed, and 1t
only remains to complete the grade and
cover 1t over. AS stated, much more than
half OF the work Of grading has been done
Building Taking Shape.
The steel framework of the station itself
is beginning to look more like a building
than 1t did month ago. The ringers and
ironworkers are hosting and fitting the
great steel beams and columns all day,
and every day, and the skeleton of the
building is rapidly being assembled into
something like the form it will have when
the structure is complete. The thousand
odd pieces of metal that are used In the
construction Of a building Of this character
are as carefully and accurately measured
and fitted as are the works Of a watch
Building. it is conceded has become
much more of a science than it once was
and the highest form of the science can be
seen in practical demonstration at the
union station building. In the old days a
load or two of lumber of one size was
dumped on the site of the new building and
carpenters cut and fitted the beams. With
steel construction the engineer who plans
the building must plan the size and charac-
ter OF every beam and every girder He
must know the location of every plate and
the number and size OF every bolt that is to
hold them together.
These measurements are sent to the foun-
dry where the beams and Orders are
wrought and the building is actually built
in the foundry from the dra wings Of the
engineers and architects. 1t is then shipped
10 the site it Is to permanently occupy
with each piece of metal that is to go into
It's construction numbered and marked The
men VINO put 1t together take each piece
as II comes and put it in the place it is to
occupy. The pieces are not interchange
able, and each has but one place in which
TO rest and are put in that place. ~,
Easy Work for Skilled Men.
The assembling of the steel framework
would be a Chinese puzzle to any but the
nimble men who work the derricks and
climb to the tops of the columns To them
1t is easy, because every piece they handle
Is numbered and can only fit into a piece
with given number, and they only have
supply large enough to complete one sec
ton on hand at time.
Just how soon the union station will he
ready for use none of those in authority
can foretell. The great tunnel beneath Can
itoi I'M Is almost completed; the plaza is
beginning to look like a plaza, and the
northern approaches only await the com
pletlon of the HI street viaduct to begin the
hnlshlng touches. Altogether the work is
IN most satisfactory condition, both from
the standpoint of the contractor who is
gong 1t and the citizen who wants to see
1t finished. ~ 'eo
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-25
MUSICALE AND SMOKER.
Function Under Auspices of the Com
mercial League.

The Commercial League gave a musicale
and smoker last evening at O'Clock at the
headquarters of the league at 1341 Penn
sylvania avenue northwest, which was at
tended by large crowd. Mr.. Charles r.
Watson was the master of ceremonies and
deserves credit for the excellent program
which he provided for the entertainment of
the guests Of the evening. The hit of the
evening was the singing of Billy Thornton,
who opened the program with barytone
solo, AN Old Sweetheart of Mime and
which was followed by several songs of the
sunny south, which seemed to please those
IN attendance immensely.
The others who contributed to the enter
tainment were Mr.. Lucien F. Conen, solo
volinist, late of the Theodore Thomas Or
chestra of Chicago; MIR. Walter Humphrey,
basso; the Neapolitan Mandolin Quartet.
consisting of Messrs. Todd, Hunt, Galleher
and Yundt; Mr. Harry Hanlein. character
artist Mr.. Albert Griffith, whistling and
limitations, the Birenomore Male Quartet,
which is composed of Messrs. Birch, Stew
ems, Hicks and Moore: Mr.. Arthur Middle
ton, basso, accompanied on the piano by
Mr. Edwin S. Gee; Mr.. Finley Hayes, reel
tations; Mr.. William S. School, violinist;
MI f. F. Ayres, songs and limitations, and
Mr. Edward Finley, recitations. During
the intervals between the numbers on the
program music was furnished by the Ital-
ian harpers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-25

and the old underground electric car tracks,
which, by the way, now tower some ten or
fifteen feet above the cinder path laid for
pedestrians along the new level. are be-
ing removed in sections Of from ten to
twenty feet in length, at a single swOop.
The contractors who laid the road originally
seemed to have known their business thor
oughly. They so fmbedded the tracks and
conduit arches in concrete that they have
become absolutely inseparable and must all
be broken out together. Three gangs Of
men are busy at the task of tearing up
these tracks and removing the old con-
duit. One set Of men Is at each end and
one working in the middle.
For distance of half a block or more the
tracks have all been removed and the grade
leveled from one retaining wall to another.
between Delaware avenue and I'd street
and half way to LIST street the laborers are
still at their tasks. At Sd street, where the
down grade to the viaduct will begin, the
laborers have managed to tear up ten or
fifteen feet of the track, and were busy
yesterday getting out huge chunks OF con-
crete conduit with screw jacks and like APP
paratus. The men who are building the
station have not waited for the others to
get the tracks out Of the way, but are
digging out the street each side. The
north side was excavated some time ago In
order that the temporary tracks of the H
street electric road might be laid there and
temporary sidewalk constructed.
Tracks for Electric Cars.
The electric cars are being sent through
the viaduct by means of the trolley, and
the temporary sidewalk is a wide cinder
path The south side of the street Is being
excavated with a steam shovel of the larg-
est size. The shovel is working its way east
from I'd street, half a block between LIST
street and Delaware avenue having been
excavated at the time. A line of patent
dump wagons is run up on the new street
level opposite the shovel, and the wagons
are pulled to I'd street by means Of
steel cable and dummy engine. Once on
the street level horses and mules pull
wagons to the plaza site, where the earth
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-25
Good Roads Convention at Portland.

. PORTLAND. Greg. June 24.-The good
roads convention assumed more normal
condition today when Acting Chairman
Scott raped for order Apparently the
tumultuous scenes of yesterday afternoon
had been forgotten. The set program for
the first session was performed as arranged.
addresses being made by President Goode
of the Lewis and Clark exposition, Gov.
Pardee of California, Gov. Gooding of Idaho
and Jefferson Myers of Oregon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-25
LONG FLIGHT TEST.
Honling Pigeons Off for Boston From
st. Louis.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ST. LOUIS. Mo, June A.-Six homiug
pigeons, bearing typewriter messages ON
tissue paper in aluminium capsules were
released here carrying greetings to The
mayor of Boston. The first of the seven
relay points is Louisville. Rae, Cincinnati
then Pittsburg. WashingtL" New York,
Pawtucket and finally Boston. Only day
fights will be made. The test Is one of
the longest ever planned in America. I'm
less thunder storms are encountered an
average speed is expected of forty miles
an hour. and they will not stop unless shot
OF exhausted. Each bird carries an alumi-
mum band fastened on the right foot and
the address of the owner is printed on the
right wing.
j. Parkinson of ST. Louis released the
birds here consigned to S. J. Schreiek
Louisville, Ky. The test is the outgrowth
of worlds fair competition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-25
New Financial Enterprise.

Another enterprise has been fnaugurated
in the local financial fields. as indicated In
the announcement of the Citizens Loan and
Trust Company, with Offices in the Com
mercial National Bank building, at 14th
and G streets northwest. The company is
capitalized at $4,000 1t proposes to deal
In real estate and second trust loans and
viii advance money-by mail--on pianos.
furniture and personal property of all de-
ocriptions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-25
BEGINS TO TAKE FORM
Union Station Work Gives
Evidence Of Progress.
SCENE AT THE PLAZA
BUSY MEN EMPLOYED ON THE
SEPARATE SECTIONS.
Transformation Of a Wide Area-Plan-
ming for Structure Of Importance
to Washington.

In one of the musical comedies that sue
ceeded last season there was a popular
song which had for it's theme the line:
Amt it funny what a difference just a
few hours maker
With the substitution of days for
''hours'' that refrain would make a good
one for people whose business takes them
occasionally to the vicinity OF the new
union station site. Every week, every day.
every hour, almost every minute, brings
with 1t a change In the topography of the
vast stretch of territory the union station
operations cover. To keep up with the
progress of the work demands concen-
tration of time and attention that must not
relax. No individual can keep himself
perfectly informed as to all the work that
is being done without visiting every part
of 1t each twenty-four hours, and 1t Is a
good days work to visit all parts of the
station site.
The workmen who started in at the pull
ing, hauling. building and tearing down a
year or so ago all seemed to be working at
totally independent tasks which apparent
ly had relation to each other. One
great gang went to work in the southwest
section; another proceeded to dig and haul
in the extreme northeast; another began
building tall structures of concrete just
south of the Capitol and still another COM
menced hauling earth and filling in low
places. Each gang seemed to be doing
something that had the opposite effect Of
another. One would begin digging hole
in the ground APPARENTLY for sewer pipe
while another, in another part of the city,
proceeded to build with brick and mortar
an extension on a sewer pipe, which they
capped with a manhole after ii had risen
thirty feet in the air and informed aston
ished observers that the top of the shaft
would be the level of future street.
Puzzle to the Layman.
So stupendous were the changes that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-25
BY LARGE MAJORITY.
Joseph Reilly Reelected Business
Agent of Carpenters and Joiners.

At special meeting OF the local ad-
visory board Of the United Brotherhood of
Carpenters and Joiners of the United
States held last night, to receive the re-
.urns OF the election which had been pend
ing during the past week among the re-
spective local bodies, 1t was ascertained
that Joseph Reilly had been reelected bus..
ness agent for the ensuing term by an over
whelming majority over his competitors.
E. L. Lomax and Thomas G. Igiehart.
The question of consolidating all OF the
local carpenters unions into one local was
also considered at this meeting, and the
question will be referred to a referendum
vote of the entire membership at an early
date.
The special meeting was held In the
Hutchins building. 10th and D streets. and
was largely attended, not only by the repre-
sentatives, but by all the officers of the
local bodies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-25
OPERA HOUSE BURNED.
Fire at Redbank, N. j., From Defective
Wiring

REDBANK, N. j., June 24.-The Redbank
Opera House was destroyed today by fire
originating from effectively insulated
wire. A boy named Connors, employed as
a Waterman, who discovered the fire and
returned to the building after giving the
alarm, is believed to have persisted
Ten fremen were injured when the walls
collapsed The Boston Ideal Opera Com
pany, which began an engagement here last
night, lost all its costumes, scenery and
properties, valued at $4,000 The loss on
the opera house is about $4,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-25
Sudden Death at. Cumberland.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CUMBERLAND. Nd, June 24.-Dominick
Gallagher, aged ffty-eight years, a retired
saloon and restaurant keeper, died suddenly
today at his home here. He was a native
of Donegal, Ireland, and came to America
when a young man, spending his early
manhood travelling and dealing in notions
in southern Pennsylvania. A widow and
one child survive.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-25
New Wheat Makes Its Appearance.

Wheat of the crop of 1905 has begun to
come up from the counties along the Poto-
mac, the first shipment having been brought
from Westmoreland county, Va. on the
steamer Harry Randall on her last trip.
The consignment was small one, of about
thirty bushels, and was shipped to Alexan-
dria- No new Potomac wheat has been
brought to Washington. The lot sent 10
Alexandria was purchased by mill there.
and. 1t Is stated, over a dollar per bushel
was paid for it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-25

winds becoming variable.
Virginia, fair Sunday. Monday. fair,
warmer, in the interior; light to fresh
north winds becoming variable.
Weather conditions and general forecast
The winds along the New England and
middle Atlantic coast will be light and va
riable On the south Atlantic coast fresh
to north becoming variable. On the gulf
coast. light to fresh southerly On the
lower lakes, light and variable, and on the
upper lakes, light TO fresh south except
easterly on Lake Superior, becoming fresh
northerly Monday
There have been showers in the middle
south Atlantic and gulf states, the Ohio
valley. the northwest and the north dis
tricts west OF the Rocky mountains else
where the weather was generally fair
temperatures have fallen in the middle
Atlantic states. and have generally risen in
the central valleys, the lake region and the
middle slope.
There will be showers Sunday in the
south Atlantic states. central Rocky noun
tam region, the northwest and the north
districts west of the Rocky mountains
continuing Monday in the latter district and
IN Montana. II will be cooler Sunday in
we south Atlantic states, central Rocky
mountain region and the west portion OF
the middle slope In the east and north
east temperatures will remain moderate
sunday and Monday.
Tide Table.
Today-Low tide. s:54 am and 9O6 n m .
high tide. 2:1O am. and 2:26 pm.
Tomorrow-Low tide. 9:45 am. and e:55
PM nigh tide. 2:5s am. and 3:1T pm.
The Sun and Moon.
Today-Sun rose, 4:35 am: sun sets 100
pm. 49, 80"
Tomorrow-Sun rises 4:36 am.
Moon rises. 1852 am. tomorrow
The City Lights.
The city lights and naphtha lamps all
lighted by thirty minutes after sunset: ex-
unguishlng begun one hour before sunrise.
All arc and incandescent lamps lighted If
teen minutes after sunset and extinguished
forty-five minutes before sunrise.
Up-River Waters.
Special Dispatch TO The Star
HARPER'S FERRY. w Va Juna "a
Both rivers are muddy here today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-25

the work. that 1t was a puzzle to the lay
man to find just what sort of a system they
were operating under and Just how they ex-
pected to accomplish what they had set
out to do. The average citizen. when he
considers the digging Of foundations for
house, always thinks of beginning at one
end and working to the other. Modern
builders begin at the four corners and in
the middle SO that by the time the five
gangs of workmen started on the job have
gotten fairly to work the foundation is
dug and the stones are being laid This is
the manner in which things have been done
on the union station project. The con-
tractors began at both ends and In the mid
die and worked the gangs toward each other.
When the work started. therefore, 1t looked
as though the men in charge were taking
piece of earth here and there, dilly-dallying
along, giving promise of a completed sta
ton for the benefit of the next generation
only.
People are beginning to see now. The
work of a year and a few odd months is
beginning to tell All parts of the work
are shaping themselves into something like
concrete form. The immense waste of
stone and earth and retaining walls that
seemed to mar the landscape, and-called
the plaza"-is beginning to look like some
thing more than a simple picture of con-
crete columns and mud The most notice
able and quickest of the changes that have
been and are being made is to be observed
In the process of the depression of H street
northeast between 1st and Sd streets.
Some people have facetiously referred to it
as the suppression" of street.
The whole character of the thorOughfare
has been changed. 1t will be completely
covered by the approaches to the station
building when it is completed, and the work
of building these approaches Is SO rapidly
being carried forward that il will not be
long before the street VIII be entirely out
of sight.
Rapid Progress Made.
Within the past few weeks this section
of the work has taken en- a very rapid
gait. The grade of the street is being low
cred at he rate of Seycra! feet per day
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-25
BIG DAM COMPLETED.
Constructed by Massachusetts, at Cost
of 81 .603 .635

CLINTON, Mass, June 2I-The Wachu-
sett dam, constructed by the commonwealth
at cost of 81 603, 635. to hold 60, ZOO, O0O. 900
gallons of water in a reservoir which will
supply Boston and adjacent cities and
towns. was completed today.
The undertaking was begun in June. 1901.
in the Nashua river basin. The main struc-
ture of the dam is $50 feet long, with
maximum height of 2o5 feet. The dam is
constructed of rubble granite masonry. with
Q covering of tishlar.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-25
Kappa Alpha Biennial at Asheville.

ASHEVILLE. N. c., June 24.-Three hum
bred members of the Kappa, Alpha college
fraternity will open its biennial convention
here Tuesday. The following general Off
GERS will be in attendance: Ed Chambers
Smith of Raleigh, N. c.; Tazewell T. Hub
bard of Norfolk, Va, G. H.; Frank H. Nc
Connell of Talladega, Ala. G.. p; Hardin T.
Burnley of Richmond Va editor of Jour-
nal: Ben l.. Crew of Atlanta, Ga. chief
alumnus. and r. Douglas +. Feagan of Ma
con, Ga, catalogue editor. The convention
will be In session three days.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-25
pushcart Men Under Charges.

Policemen Lille. Smith and Bobo of the
first precinct made a raid on a number of
Greek pushcart merchants who were doing
business in the vicinity of 9TH and X streets
northwest yesterday afternoon. six of the
merchants being arrested and charged with
obstructing the streets. They gave their
names as James Menudukes, Sperio Hokus,
George Mitkria, Pietro Mann, George Chac-
olates and Andrian Playakes. Each defend
ant left So collateral for his appearance in
the Police Court tomorrow.