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The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-08-22
Vandalia Discharges Men

Indianapolis. Ind, Aug. 22.-The
Vandalla railroad has discharged sew
erl members of the Order OF RAILWAY
Photographers for refusing to handle
commercial messages aud has hired
non-union men. The general chair
man OF the order is here in confer
cnce with strike leaders.
Operator Insane From Overwork.
New York. Aug. 22.-Driyen in
sane by exhaustion, due to overwork
and long hours. Harry Behnkin. a
telegraph operator in the main Office
OF the Western Union building. at
1O5 Broadway. was taken to Bellevue
hospital today
Behnkin. who lives in Brooklyn.
was working at his key when his
brain gave way. He. had been acting
strangely since he came TO work In
the morning, and finally Sergeant
Higgins and Patrolman Roberts were
called in. They found Behnkin NUT
tering TO himself and saying GOD
bless YOU" every few moments to
those around him. He had a bottle
half filled with water and asked for a
drink before the policemen took him
out.
He resisted for a few moments,
but afterward became quiet and ac-
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-08-22
M',IILLEN SAFE.

New York. Aug. 22.-Dis-
patches from Bcrnc, Switzer-
land. states that Francis Mac
Millcn, the American violinist.
reported lost in the Alps, j. safe.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-08-22

Grahamville, Aug. 22.-(SpecialD
MIR. Charles Crawford, who Is
critically III OF typhoid fever, Is rest
ing easy today. but his friends look
for him not to recover,
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-08-22

Broom. of the First Christian church,
Mr.. Vaughan Dabney. of the Chris
tian church: Mr.. w. 7. Harrison, of
the Seventh district; Miss Rosa Kolb
Miss Olga List. Miss Catherine Rock
and Mr. Will Rock, Of the German
Evangelical church.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-08-22

Mr.. ]. T. Ragsdale, of Bowling
Green. left today for Princeton after
a bushes trip In the city.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-08-22
RsAHf -.

Scattered showers tnoight. Friday
fair aud warmer. Highest temper
ature yesterday, 80; lowest today. %.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-08-22
ATTEND CONVENTION
OF SUNDAY SCHOOLS

Among those who will attend the
state Sunday school convention at
August 26 and %, are
the Rev. W. E. Bourquin, pastor OF
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-08-22

tue perhidh E'ahSeliOai IN
county president; and Mrs!
quin. Mrs. f. w. Rash. of ~
ty; NJ Lettie smith, Mrs.
Miles and Mr.. B. b. Adams.
Mathodist church. Mr. CeorRe
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13

Building for 1906 shows an increase Of
per cent over 1905. The small percentage
OF gain is due to the heavy decrease in
building in New York City. Were Manhat-
tan and the Bronx not taken into consid--
Grafton the increase would have been per
cent. Official reports TO the Construction
News from thirty-nine leading cities show
that permits were taken out for the con-
struction OF 139, 457 buildings. involving a
total cost Of 1856 s73 72, against 1872, 41S build
ings aggregadng in cost $685. SSS, 800 for 1905,
an increase of 1893 buildings and 50, ,SS1,
or / per cent. This is professionally the
high record for building operations in this
country. The increase in 1905 over 1904 was
70 per cent
In twenty-seven cities II will be seen
there were increases for the year ranging
as high as Is per cent while in ten there
were losses II is significant that In New
York City there was a decrease Of IS per
cent while the other principal cities show
gains The decrease is due undoubtedly to
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13

the Tightening Of tho money market IN the
east and the difficulty in securing building
loans In wide contrast with the conditions
which prevail elsewhere. The increases in
the other large cities were only moderate,
but some OF the interior cities at remote
points show remarkable gains. The Pacific
coast cities show remarkable activity. Chi
cago and Brooklyn each gained / per cent,
while Philadelphia's increase was 16 per
cent. Other gains were Seattle, &c; Duluth,
65; Tacoma, 60; Atlanta, 81; Salt Lake city,
So; Toledo, 80; Cleveland, IS; Worcester, 20;
st, Louis and Detroit, each q; Los Angeles,
Is; Buffalo, II; Lincoln, 10; st. Paul, 10;
Louisville, y; Dallas, 12; Denver, ~; New
Orleans, 9. Decreases are to be noted in
Cincinnati, 81 per cent; Pueblo, IS; Indian
apolis, 20; Davenport G; Washington, Il:
Topeka, H.
As result Of the open winter building
continues active in all sections and people
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13

$40, 10000 has been authorized for these
canals and It will surprise most folks TO
know that work has been begun on no less
than twenty-five separate projects and that
already more than 100 miles of these
canals have been constructed.
Canal Across Cape Cod.
No one needs to be informed Of the mag
nltude of the Panama and Erie canal prof.
ects. The latest enterprise of this kind TO
be taken up is the construction of q ship
canal twelve miles long across Cape Cod at
a cost OF about 100000
It will save many miles in the water trip
from New York to Boston and 1t is thought
will reduce the Massachusetts coast ship
wrecks to a minimum. August Belmont
& Co. have undertaken the work and II is
| announced that operations will begin
within year It will require only three
years to finish 1t after It has been begun.
This canal across Cape Cod is only one
of chain OF canals that arc projected
along the Atlantic coast for an inland pas
sage for small craft. The plan is to make
the Delaware G. Raritan canal across New
Jersey navigable for torpedo boats, and to
treat the Delaware & Chesapeake canal in
the same way.
Vessels would then pass down the Chesa-
peake bay to Norfolk. where they would
enter the Dismal Swamp canal by charging
the famous Jericho canal. Passing through
the North Carolina sounds and around
Hatteras the inland passage would soon
strike the North Florida coast.
A canal across Florida would not be a
difficult engineering feat, and thus the
United States would secure a passage for
small craft from New England to the Gulf
of Mexico. 1t would be invaluable for
small naval vessels in time of war
With the construction of the Cape Cod
canal the establishment of an inland
waterway becomes feasible and would not
be excessive in cost. The distance across
New Jersey is only about forty miles and
| the distance from the Delaware to the
Chesapeake ia less than twenty.
The Dismal Swamp canal would be un-
der fifty miles. The rest is a mere mat
| ter of dredging. If the Cape Cod canal
| is dug, engineers say 1t is only a ques-
ton of time before the full inland passage
scheme will be adopted by the federal
government for the sake of self-protection
| If for no other reason.
Canada's TIdewater Scheme. o.
Aside from the Cape Cod project the
most costly tidewater enterprise in con-
temptation is that OF building the Geor-
gian Bay and Tidewater Ship canal from
Lake Huron across the peninsula to the
ottawa river and down that to the St.
| Lawrence river. Canada has always
fought railroads with canals. In that way
1t has made the st. Lawrence a mighty
tributary to its prosperity.
This new scheme is to allow boats from
the Great Lahes to avoid Lakes Erie and
Ontario in their passage to the sea and
thus divert largely the grain trade of the
northwest from the United States. The
scheme will cost more than 800, 100000 and
its details are under consideration by the
Canadian government.
The other great canals now in use in
this country are the two at Sault Ste.
Marie, the St. Clair canal and the We'll
land canal, all of which furnish an outlet
from Lake Superior to the st. Lawrence
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13
DISCRIMINATION IS THERE
Plenty Of Game in Grain Rates for
Legislative Hunters
OMAHA GETS SHORT END OF DEALS
Sc. Joe q Grand Island Helps Kansas
city and Omaha Road boosts
Minneapolis Against
This city.

There seems TO be a feeling that this
Nebraska legislature now In session will
look into the grain rate situation in the
state very carefully" said local grain
man. II that is done, the legislators Will
find. among other things, that one Ne
braska railroad, the st. Joseph & Grand
Island, is charging IA cents on corn and oats
for haul Of 100 miles within this state.
while hauling TO Kansas City $50 miles
from the same point Of origin, for Is cents;
that another Nebraska road. the Omaha.
charges l2jh cents on corn and oats within
the state and hauls from the same pointI
to Minneapolis, $40 miles, for l4is cents.
''rhese instances are not isolated. bud
are typical of the Nebraska situation. IN
the Nebraska legislators wish to do somel
'equalizing. the field is ready. omaha
grain dealers would not ask for anything
better than equalization on mileagei
basis with Minneapolis on the north and
Kansas City on the south. II that were
accomplished, the Omaha market would.
I 20 second to Chicago in 1907.
''Beside keeping fresh In the minds of|
Omaha shippers the discrimination Of the,
Rock Island Frisco system against OMAHA
the recent circular OF the Commercial club
and the Omaha Grain exchange may alsoI
be the means OF getting some facts before,
Vice President w. b. Biddle Of the Rock
Island" said member of the Grain ex-
change. Saturday. as he glanced over thel
circular In question.
I'm discussion which was had betweenI
the Omaha people and Mr.. Biddle, he took
the position he had no desire to antagonlze|
this market or to promote the Kansas City
market. 1t may be. when he learns thel
position taken by the Kansas City Board
Of Trade in openly Boosting of the ad-
vantages Kansas City has secured at the|
expense OF Omaha and st. Louis, Mr..
Blddle will raise some objection to having
his roads used merely as an Instrument
to promote the growth of Kansas City att
the expense of Omaha and St. Louis.
1.-THE reason of Kansas City's determine
ton to deprives Omaha OF its natural
geographical advantage is evident, when|
the annual report of the Kansas Cityl
Board OF Trade is analysed and 1t is found
that the receipts of grain at Kansas City
decreased nearly 100000 bushels under
1906. while during the same period the re-
ceipts at Omaha increased about 100OO.OO0
bushels"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13

who are familiar with the situation in the
leading cities predict TINT the results for
1907 will be equally satisfactory.
Food for reflection is found in the table
Of building operations for December as pre-
sented below. There are two features espe-
cially worthy of consideration. II shows
very clearly the effect of the mild weather
and also indicates pretty definitely the re-
markable growth Of smaller cities OF the
country While there was a decrease OF
is per cent compared with the correspond
ing month a year ago, there were some
phenomenal gains.
The notable increase in building in Dav-
export is due to the granting of a permit
for a new hotel TO cost. S250OCO. seattle's
big increase is accounted for by a permit
for a hve-story jail and hospital TO cost
$S25,OOO The figures In detail for the year
and for the months as given by the Con-
struction News are:
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13
CUT IN COUNTY EXPENSES
rhirty-FIve Thousand Dollars Topped
on Running Costs for
the Year.

cut OF $4,000 in the estimate Of the
running expenses Of the county for the
coming year is provided for in a resolution
W Chairman Ure OF the finance commit
tee, which will be acted on at meeting
Of the county board this afternoon. The
estimate which 1t is believed will be
adopted by the board provides for an ex-
penditure of $4,000. Last year the esti-
mate was $59O,OoO and the year before that
s625,O0 This will make a reduction of
$3.50. 600 in the estimates for the running
expenses of the county in the last two
years
The reduction under the estimates of
last year comes in the road, bridges and
bond sinking funds In the first two funds
the cut is $4,000 in the third $4,000. A
comparison of the estimate in the resolution
with the estimates of previous years is
made In the following table:
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13

is not always swift. Seldom do
sect Rich Quick" schemes of
any kind prosper for very long
or yield a solid success. One of
the best aids to success is to
save. We will help you to save.
Be it a large or small amount it
makes no difference. If you
save something every week you
will soon be on the road to pros
perity. We pay six per cent in
terest on savings accounts and
$1.00 will start you.
Homestead monthly payment
loans made at reasonable rates.
Omaha Loan & Building Assn,
S. E. Corner 10th and Dodge SITS.
G. W. LOOmis, Pres. G. NJ. Nattinger, See'y
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13
tails 1886, 900

The county commissioners are much
gratifed at the prospect of being able to
make such a substantial cut in the esti-
mate and at the same time can see their
way clear to keep the county on a cash
basis as nearly the provisions of the
statute will permit
The commissioners met Saturday morn
ing in committee Of the whole and were in
session until after IL o'clock. An adjourn
ment was taken until o'clock.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13
Overdue Bark sighted.

SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 12.-The bark Big
Bonanza, which was cast adrift by the
tug Samson during a storm on January 5,
while being towed to Portland, and had not
since been seen, is now a few miles off the
Golden Gate and will soon enter this port
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13
Collections BY treasurer.

County and City Treasurer Fink re-
ports that during 1906 his ONCE received
Sl9. 2lS7S interest from banks on daily de-
posits. The county received the sum Of
81, 600 IN surplus fees such as collection
u taxes for city and state.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13

ments Through the agency Of the Byron
Reed company he has bought two large
houses. which he will hold as income bear
ers and also as investments. One is at
Thirty-seventh and jackson streets and
another is in the Hanscom park district
Mr.. McCune spends his winters in Omaha,
stopping at the Merchants hotel, and says
he sees no city in all his travels which
ooks better for an investment than Omaha
Among the realty men Of the city there
is much argument pro and con regarding
the opening of Twenty-fourth street Some
think the street ought to be opened past
Creighton university to Cunning street, with
the ultimate idea of a street car line from
Cunning to Leavenworth street down
Twenty-fourth. Many declare that such
a line would draw a certain amount Of
retail business, to the detriment of the
downtown district and at the same time
would spoil Twenty-fourth street as resi-
dence street.
The Young women's Christian associa-
ton is to make a final effort in the next
two weeks to raise the $4,000 or $4,000
necessary to complete the building fund
Contracts for the erection of the new home
will not be let until this amount is Sc
cured, say the women, but as soon as 1t
is raised the specifications will be given
to contractors that bids may be secured
and contracts awarded in time for build
ing operations early in the spring.
Rome Miller is having some work done
on the Rome hotel not called for in the
original contract. 1t is the addition on
part of the building OF another story,
which will be used for servants quar-
ters. The new structure is about ready
for the roof. 1t has been connected with
the Brunswick block section OF the old
Her Grand, and the front of the Bruins
wick has been boarded UP In preparation
for a remodeling, which will include an
entrance and large lobby.
The Omaha Real Estate exchange has
put itself on record as demanding of the
legislature provision for an increase in
the appropriation for Omaha parks and
boulevards, provision for an increase in
the appropriation for streets and paving
and a change in the landlord and tenant
law which will make 1t possible for the
landlord TO get the tenant Out of build
ing, a thing which seems impossible under
existing circumstances. The realty mon
want a law by which an owner can have
tenant elected at any time by quick
process of law, the tenant to be protected
in his rights by a bond furnished by the
landlord, the bond to be forfeited in case
of unjust dispossession. The right of lien
on the property of the tenant to compel
payment of rent is not asked, as a clause
with such a provision in the proposed bill
might cause the defeat OF the whole meas
ure
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13
NEW ERA OF CANAL BUILDING
rejects Under Consideration that Would
Cost a Billion Of Dollars.
SOME REAL ENTERPRISES UNDER WAY
Waterways to Garry Ore to Pittsburg,
Connect Great Lakes with Gulf
and Ocean and to Irri-
gate Arid West.

Another canal building era has come to
the United States and Canada. The
Panama canal and the Improvement of
the Erie canal are two enterprises that
mark it, and other notable projects are
contemplated or under way
The first canal era was after the Revo-
lutionary war. 1t lasted until the railroads
came. They practically killed the canals.
The great railroad systems are now
nearly all built and a new development of
the transportation problem is under way
of such a magnitude that few persons ex-
cept engineers realize what is going on,
The reason that new canal projects have
sprung up is that 1t is asserted that 1t
costs only one-fourth. as a rule, to carry
freight in bulk by inland water transpor-
taton Of what it costs by rail-
Railroads are better adapted to carrying
freight in small parcels, so to speak, than
in great bulk, say the advocates of canals
A 1OOO-ton barge, 1t is declared win carry
as much freight as a train of 100 cars and
there is little fuel to be burned to add to
the cost. The belief has arisen in the
minds of some capitalists and engineers
that the canals by moving freight Of great
bulk, will cheaper the cost of manufacture
and thus increase the output of what the
railroads can handle profitably in smaller
bulk.
Ore Carriers Interested.
A demonstration of this has come with
the carrying OF iron ore to the mills in
Pittsburg. 1t costs more to haul the ore
by rail from Ashtabula, o., to Pittsburg,
less than $50 miles, than 1t does to carry the
same ore nearly 900 miles from the Lake
Superior mines to Ashtabua.
And curiously enough the greatest canal
projects now contemplated, but not yet
under way, center about Pittsburg. There
are two schemes to connect the Ohio river
and Lake Erie, and another scheme to con-
meet Pittsburg with Chesapeake bay. If
they go through Pittsburg's place as
manufacturing center will remain abso-
lutely secure, the engineers says, and the
city will be developed as rapidly as New
York was through the building Of the Erie
canal.
But aside from the navigable canals pro-
posed, large number OF which will prob
ably be dug in turn and the cost of which
will amount to hundreds of millions of dol
lars, there is a great scheme of canal build
ing right in the United States that persons
in the east know almost nothing Of. II is
the great scheme Of federal irrigation in
the west by which more than 1000 900 acres
Of land VIII be added TO our cutivable
domain and which will cost from 5000 900, 900
to $500 OO, 600.
Already the expenditure of more than
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13

Now is the time to make your wants
known through The Bee Want Ad Page.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13

Another wholesale building IN prospect
according to c. F. Weller, is one proposed
by the Richardson Drug company which
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13

w. ]. Hynes has bought from Ebenezer
l.. Brownee a long two-story store and
fat building at Sixteenth and Corby
streets. Mr.. Hynes paid $S3OO trading in
some property at Hastings. Neb., where he
formerly lived. The lot is 50 by 15S feet
and is entirely covered by the building,
which contains six stores and six flats.
Mr. Brownlee paid $4,000 for the property
about three years ago.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13

for sixteen years has been doing business
in fiye-story building at Ninth and Jack.
son streets. and which has 80 far outgrown
that structure that It is now compelled to
use storage room in another part Of the
wholesale district. The site has not been
announced, and indeed the negotiations for
its purchase have not been completed The
building proposed is seven stories in height
&C feet in width and 1872 feet in length, and
will cost between $4,000 and 100000 to
build. The company's lease on its present
quarters will expire early in 1903 and Presi-
dent Weller wants to have the new build
ing completed by that time. The building
now occupied by the concern belongs to
John II. Green.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13
Building Record for Twelve Months, 1900

No. Cost No. Cost Pc Cent
Bldgs. 1906 Bldgs. 1876. Cain Loss,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13

William McCune, western representative
of the Buffalo Bin show, has made several
purchases OF Omaha property as invest
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13

Van A. Writ has bought from F. d. Wead
a house and lot at 415s Cass street.
+. w. Chapman has bought from z. G..
Rood two acres just south of the Country
club and will erect house on the land.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-13
Building Record for December, 1909.

NO. Cost No Cost Per Cent
Bldss. 1905 Bdgs. 1895. Gain. Loss
The Washington times., 1907-05-14
INSANE BEAUTY
HUGS POLICEMAN
Chief Inspector Cortright
Sends Woman to
Bellevue.

NEW YORK, May l4.-CarmelI Deti-
co. slender beauty, who looks like a
girl Of eighteen. although she says she
Is twenty-five years old, became violent
ly insane in the Office of Chief Inspector
Cortright, at police headquarters today,
and threw the entire building into a
turmoil.
A week ago, the young woman came
from Pittsburg, with her baby, to search
for an uncle, who. she said, resided
in Mulberry street. Her husband had
deserted her. and she was left alone.
She appealed TO the police TO help her
then and seemed quite rational
Today she went 10 police headquarters
with her baby in her arms and en-
tered Chief Inspector Cortright's office.
Pumping the infant down on the in
spectOr's desk she threw herself upon
him, clasping him in her arms. and beg
ging him TO save her.
The police are trying to murder me
and my baby" she cried. Everybody
wants to murder me. Save my baby"
Inspector Cortright found II was I'm
possible TO calm her and she was sent
to Bellevue.
The Washington times., 1907-05-14
SCHNEIDER'S BODY
SHIPPED NORTH

Accompanied by Nathan Oberndorfer,
brother-in-law Of Morris Schneider. the
remains Of the latter were shipped 70
New York city this morning for burial.
The body was kept in the morgue last
night awaiting the arrival Of the rela-
tive. This morning Coroner hewitt gave
permission for its removal
Mr.. Schneider was a lawyer in part
nership with his brother. Abraham. at
1873 Broadway, New York. He came 70
Washington yesterday to see William Il
Robson, an attorney, with Offices IN the
Bond building. Immediately after leav-
ing the local attorney Mr.. Schneider
went To Gerstenberg's restaurant for
luncheon. Scarcely had he ordered his
meal when he was stricken with heart
failure and fell to the floor in a dying
condition.
Medical assistance was rendered by
Dr. II. n. Kaufman. but within a few
moments Mr. Schneider breathed his
last. For some time his body lay IN the
establishment while Policeman Horne
endeavOred to identify him Mr.. Robe
son finally arrived and established the
IDENTITY OF the New York attorney