Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-11-12

Rippies on tho Current Of Life I'm the
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few get away without the dinner mark
OF their teeth Never has their eppetites
been whetted as keenly az the present time.
The success OF the state ticket, minus the
head, puts within reach two huge jobs
involving millions. The FIRST of these Il
the deepening OF the Erie canal, for which
the state voted SOL 100000 in bonds. The
other is the Improvement Of country roadS,
for which t0OO00OO have been pledged.
These undertakings and a vast amount Of
smaller Jobs and spells, controlled by
vaElous state officers and boards. In which
Governor Hughes will be a minority. pass
from republican to democratic control. and
all the boys who, have gone hungry Ia the
trenches for a dozen years are ripe for
the piefest
Following a supreme court decision that
the Knickerbocker Trust company must
do away with the entire front Of It's build
ing az Fifth avenue and Thirty-fourth
street because that portion Of the struc-
ture encroaehes over the building Inc.
Corporation Counsel Ellison has announced
that he win make every property owner
on Fifth avenue whose building encroaches
on the avenue chop that portion or.
The decision will affect many of the
handsome buildings on the avenue Sherry
win have to give UP his outdoor Partisan
cafe IL the corporation counsel insists on
going ahead with his plans. The waldorf
Astoria will be forced to give up the orna-
mental garden between the walk and the
windows The vanderbilts must cut away
at least half OF the $4,000 wrought iron
fence az Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth
streets. and the whltneys pretty lawn
and garden must CO.
The corporation counsers reasons for
the move are tina. tho influx OF business
on Fifth avenue has resulted in It's over
crowdins and that more room for trafiic
is necessary.
The manager OF a New York employment
agency which places many servants Ia
large establishments contributed bit OF
information the other day when she told
a client that not a servant in the place
would go to a home in which a house
keeper is employed
''They are brought in always for the pur-
pose Of reducing expenses" the manager
said, land they begin, of course, on the
servants. Maids employed under one of
these women often have insufficient food.
1t is by no means unusual for the SER
wants in the house TO arrange that one
shall every day buy something for them
to eat. Every servant buys for one day
In the week and only w that way are
they able TO get enough to eat. II often
happens that a servant who has been
working under a housekeeper win come
back to me with the request to put her
for awhile into a small family in which
she can get well fed. so they are all OPP
posed TO the housekeeper."
According TO statistics at hand in the
tenement house department II is now evil
dent that the real estate market OF this
city Is in the throes OF an overproduction
of tenement houses. with this condition
/ at hand many builders are not going TO
make a financial success OF their under
/ talxings in this class of buildings. Many
| real estate professionals were fearful early
| last spring that an overproduction az tene-
| ment houses would be made apparent In
/ the autumn. Brokers IN the districts where
| tenement house construction is the heaviest
! have been bearish on the market for sew
/ eral months. Rents OF apartments have
been shaved in many instances from the
usual prices. and in other instances from
one to two months free rental is offered
to prospective tenants as an inducement
to tenancy. Builders are not prone 10
make inducements of the kind mentioned
l when conditions in the speculative build
1 AIs
Brooklyn and the Bronx tenement houses
have been and are being built at a pace
faster than the growth Of the greater elty's
population warrants.
1 At the instance OF many school teachers
a crusade has been started against the
storekeepers who operate penny-in-th e-slot
4 machines. These machines are said to Gre
ate desire among school children for
gambling, and the teachers say they lead
to more serious games OF chance.
The machines to which objection is made
are OF the type in which a coin is In
serted and allowed to fall through pegs.
II Il stops at a slot marked &c" the player
is entitled to a stick Of chewing gum II
the penny stops in a slot marked "15" the
player is entitled to Is cents in trade. In
several stores the owner was able 70 com
promise for the 25-oent trade claims with
s cents In cash
There was nre in the woman's eye, the
sound OF battle in her voice. reports the
New York Sun. The man at the desk Saw
her coming and pushed forward a heavy
blue volume.
write Il down there" he said.
what lie that for?" she asked.
Complaints" he said. Everybody who
has any fault TO fnd with the management
OF this store is respectfully requested 20
register her kicks in this book Every
morning the managers Of the different de-
partments look over the entries OF the
preceding day. II a customer has been
subjected 20 impudence, II she has had
dimculty IN getting waited on II goods
have not been delivered promptly, or II
hundred and one other disagreeable things
have happened, all she has to do is to say
so. and every EFFORT will be made TO I'M
prove the conditions, always provided that
the complainant signs her right name, 50
that she may be produced as a witness"
The woman looked over the four pages
Of complaints that had been entered on
that day only.
what a queer idea" she said.
ct may be queer" he said but Il Is a
mighty good ides- It is a great labor
saver. without that book we would have
70 hire half dozen extra employees Did
You write down your complaint
mo" said the woman Il don't believe
I have anythinG TO say"
Basis Of a Fortune.