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Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-14
PASSING OF THE vANDERBILTs.
The Family Ceases TO BE a Factor In
Railroad Affairs.

Philadelphia Record.
w. c. Brown, the new president OF the
New York Central, is not a Vanderbilt.
There are plenty OF Vanderbilts. and most
Of them are pretty good fellows and cap
able railroad men, but no descendant of
the old commodore is the chief executive
of the great railroad system he established.
Mr.. Galloway began work as a clerk in a
freight office. Mr.. Newman, who has just
resigned, began in an equally modest way.
Mr.. Brown. the new president, is 90; at 16
he was a section boss. Afterward he was
a telegraph operator and a train dis
patcher and he has occupied almos every
station in the railroad service until after
a few years OF a vice presidency he sue
ceeds to the presidency of this great COR
poration.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-14
The democratic world-Herald is

The democratic World Herald is
throwing bouquets at the Howell
Ransom city charter with which
Omaha was inflicted and afiicted
twelve years ago. That is the city
charter that gave the railroads almost
complete immunity from municipal
taxation on their valuable terminals
and fixed things just as public service
corporations wanted them. If that
charter of twelve years ago was such
a good one. why is it no one is propos-
ing to go back to it?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-14
Helping Hand. extended.
New York World.

To the eternal credit OF the United States
be It said, only this country has sent to
the sufferers to date more money than the
public collections of Italy itself. The South
American countries come next; then Eng
land, with 100000 against our @S,6Oo.oOo. That
Japan has sent more than Germany, Tur-
key than Austria. Australia h Russia,
are other surprises.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-14
In the Image of Oklahoma.
New York Tribune.

bW LOAh IllDullGs
Governor S~hallenberger seems to be in
tensely interested in persuading the Ne
braska legislature to pass a law COM
pelling the banks of the state to guaran-
tee ono another's deposits. He takes the
Bryan-Haskell national platform very Sc
riously. Is Nebraska to be recast in the
image of Oklahoma?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-14

While an ~aeroplane may be pur-
chased for 5000, it should be re-
membered that the repair bills and
the accident policies add a neat
amount to the original cost.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-14

A Chicago architect expresses ear
that the building OF skyserapers in
that city will crack the earth and
cause a great disaster. An earth that
has stood for Chicago this long cannot
be that thin-skinned.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-14

oficers of the Anti-Saloon league
seem to be a little backward in ex-
pressing themselves on Governor Shall
lenbergers choice OF police commits
sioners for Omaha.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-14

No excitement is caused by the
governments call for the return of
t25, 900. 900 that have been on de-
post in the national banks. The
banks do not need the money.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-14

Turkey has agreed to accept $780,
100000 from Austria-Hungary for
the provinces Of Bosnia and Herzego-
VIVA, thus furnishing a gold lining to
the Balkan war cloud.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-14

Abdul Hamid, the sultan of Turkey,
has a private fortune of $500, coo, 900
on deposit with the Bank of England.
Turkish taxpayers know where he got
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-14
Push One, Kick the other.
Baltimore American.

A prosperity wave is predicted for this
year. This is a prediction which people
can largely help to bring true. n the
first step in its notification is to drive the
calamity howleTs to cover.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-14

Senator Tillman insists that he
must be either INDICATED or convicted.
He should be satisfied to let it go with
a plea of confession and avoidance.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-14

The newly elected democratic mem
bers of the county board may be justi-
fed from their point Of view for swap
ping votes for good committee chair
manships. But, II the tie-up includes
loading the county pay roll up with
crooks and thieves. the sooner they
unite themselves the better.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-14

The rush to inscribe signatures on
the lobbyists register at Lincoln has
not yet jostled or crushed anyone. The
lobbyists are there just the same, and
more a-coming.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-14

Tom Johnson will be the democratic
candidate for congress in Ohio TO sue
ceed MIR. Burton, promoted TO the SEN
ate. Republicans fear that the anx-
iety of the Clevelandites to get John
son out of town may result in his cleo
ton.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-14

San Francisco Chronicle.
Congress is buszing like a nest of dis
turbed hornets, but there are no signs yet
the person who has raised the dis
turbance thinks that he has been stung,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-14

Senator Tillman has at least re-
Trained from expressing a hope that
the lions will bite an African hunter
some time this year.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-14

Mr.. Hartman has returned to his
desk in New York and owners OF rail-
roads will be more careful than ever
about leaving them put over night.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-14

Baltimore proposes to pipe natural
gas from West Virginia. Why not
from the nearer and limitless source
OF supply at Washington?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-14

Even the latest data about Scylla
and Charybdis does not make it quite
clear which was the rock and which
the whirlpool.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-14

A. Conan Doyle, author of "Sher-
lock Holmes" has undergone a sur
gical operation which, we take it for
granted, was performed by DR.. Wat
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-14

"B. r. I. Troubles" is the heading
In a New York paper. 1t refers, how
ever, to the troubles of the Borough
Rapid Transit company and not to
those of b. r. Tillman.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-14

The next time Mr.. Bryan runs for
president one of his 1908 members of
the electoral college will find himself
on the black list.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-14
Taking Their own Measure,
Boston Transcript.

bOSIOH ITHHbCTlpl.
The same i~mpeccable senate that feels
so keenly Roosevelts shortcomings voted
by an overwhelming majority to have the
forthcoming census taken on the spells
basis.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-14

he was told to take It there and
did So The real fighter on land oil
sea executes orders without question.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-14
SAID IN FUN.

Say" said Mamie, what makes EN- so
anxious to discover the North pole2"
We'll" answered Maud, t~houghtfully, al
understand 1t would make a perfectly
lovely skating rink."-Washington Star.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-14

Some burglars who were found in
Tom Lawson's home escaped without
being compelled to buy copper stock
from him.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-14

marry again. She told him he could if he
permitted her to pick the kind of step
mother she desired.
"Welf?"
He is still unmarried. Cleveland Plain
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-14

The senator from the Union Stock
yards seems to have gotten his trade
mark on the whole legislature already.
Foxy!
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-14

STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
state Of Nebraska, Douglas County, S.:
George B. TEschuck, treasurer OF Inc
Bee Publishing being duly sworn.
says that the actual number of fun ana
complete copies OF The Daily, Morning,
Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-14

Oscar Hammerstein refuses to talk
about his row with the business men
OF Philadelphia. II he won't talk,
maybe he will sing.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-14

II Kerntru for vice president and
lands in the United States senate
why draw on imagination for a par
allel.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-14

The conductor of the water wagon
reports that he is losing more passen-
gers by transfers than he is gaining
In fresh fares.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-14

Yes, and Nebraska's democratic leg
islature is making more history day by
day.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-14

Fighting Bob" Evans says he Toes
not know why the fleet was sent TO
San Francisco. He only knows that
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-14

The annual January melting is more
noticeable in the coal bin than out
side.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-14

Denver ia Boosting a a-weeks old
baby that talks ~fluently, Yes, it's q
girl.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-14
OUT OF TOWN..

WHEN OUT OF TOWN.
Subscriber IsavinE the city tenn
poraxiIy shouId have The Bee
matted 10 them. Address will be
changed a. often 90 requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-14

Commissioner Bruning will now try
to explain the. difference between a
"tie,ups and an "understanding."s
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-14

Blobbs-Women are certainly contTadic.
tory.
Slobbs-That's right. It's when a woman
gets hot at you that she treats you coldly
Philadelphia Record.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-14

Dearest" he said, "let's be married next
Christmas"
"Geoffrey," said the young woman, look
ing at him suspiciously, II could stand
your wanting to bunch two sets OF presents
in one, but you've found out that my birth
day comes on Christmas, too, "-Chicago
Tribune,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-14

THE private detective who was shadow.
ing the great financier hit upon a certain
way Of making him show his hand"
What did he DOR
He disguised himself as a manicurfst.'
Baltimore American.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-14

Miss Maxine Elliott thought she would
make a little tour of inspection over her
new theater. in T~hirty-ninth street, one
morning last week. 1t is a very pretty
theater, and Miss Elliott is as fond of 1t
as a child is of a new toy.
Adjoining the stars dressing room Is a
perfect dream of a bath, with tiled floor,
an enticing porcelain tub. all the latest
thingumbobs in the way of showers, sprays,
mirrors, pomades, cerates and perfumed
waters, known in their fullness only to a
popular actress.
Miss Elliott entered her dressing room,
opened the door of the bathroom, and
started in. She only started, for in a
fraction of a second she packed away
with a shrek. A vision, surprising fair,
had met her gaze.
Lolling luxuriously back in the tub,
which was nearly filled, was the I'M
adorned Orwell. call him Mike-one of
the stage hands. His head was above
the water, and from his lips protruded a
dainty, gold-tipped cigarette. the curling
smoke from which mingled with the de-
licious vapors of the bath.
Miss Elliott summoned other attaches Of
the house and a charge was made upon
the bathroom. Mike was found sitting
up in the tub, rubbing a delicate pink
cream into a beard of several days
growth. while on a tub near by stood half
a dozen bottles of fragrant waters. all OF
which had been sampled. He laughed
when they caught him. A few minutes
later a husky but odorous person, about
three-quarters clad, might have been seen
making toward Sixth avenue.
They were one stage hand shy at the
Maxine Elliott theater. that night, but Miss
Elliott played with unusual fervor,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-14

The Hudson memorial bridge, the latest
bridge designed by the New York Bridge
Department, is more interesting perhaps
from an engineering standpoint than any
other around New York. 1t will serve not
only as a connecting link between New
York and Spuyten Duyvil, a suburb, but
will also commemorate the discovery of the
Hudson river by Hendrix Hudson nearly
300 years ago. The bridge and the ap-
proaches will be about 1900 feet long, with
four semi-circular arches OF los feet span
on the Spuyten Duyvil side and three on
the New York, with an enormous arch OF
700 feet between them. The remarkable
feature is that the bridge will be reinforced
concrete, exceeding in magnitude many
times any arched bridge ever built OF stone,
brick or concrete. The crown OF the main
arch will be 1856 feet above Spuyten Duyvil
creek, or fifty feet higher than the floor
Of the Brooklyn bridge above the East
river. The bridge, which will take three
years to build. is designed so the
greatest stress on the concrete is not more
than 70 pounds per square inch. and on
the steel 1000 pound per square inch, which
are both well within the safe limits. The
weight OF the steel reinforcement in the
arch and piers is estimated at 1900 tons
and the concrete $4,000 tons, making a
total of 14s, 600 tons.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-14


81 see 1t is stated that King Edward
consider the English national hymn zoo
slow"
Perhaps 1t worries him to thing the
king isn't saved with more celebrity"
land Plain Dealer.
Bridegroom Gin church)-Good heavens!
I've forgotten the minister's fee.
Best all right. Well send the
ushers around with the collection boxes
Boston Transcript.
81 never answer my husband back when
he gets in one Of his fits Of passion. I
have discovered a way of smoothing over
matters which has made a great hit with
him"
What means do you use2'
THE rolling pin. baltimore American.
Jane, there was a whole pie in the pan
try. What became OF it?'
NJ young man called on me las night.
ma'am."
And did he eat all that pie?"
He was forced to, ma'am. There was so
very little variety to choose from, ma'am."
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
"Biffen's daughter is very strict with
him"
YES"
II asked her some time ago il he could
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-22
DANGEROUS Insects.

The trolley car stopped in the mid
die of Il stretch of country read. Both
mOtorman and conductor tried in vain
to find out what the trouble was. At
last they gave it up, and the conductor
started down the track to the nearest
'rirphone.
What do you suppose is the trou-
blc:" inquired Il passenger of his seat
mate.
why, 1 don't know much about
electricity said the other, "but l
should say it was the obms. You see.
they get into the wires every little
while and make an awful fuss there.
Technically, L believe. it is called re-
sistance, but all 1t amounts to is stop
page-like cells in water pipe. you
know. l never saw an ohm myself.
They're microscopic. you know
Youths Companion.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-22
Comptroller of the Currency.
The Argus Daily Short Story
A Mess of Pottage-By H. S. Frank.
Copyrighted. 1909. by Associated Literary Press

''Who was that fellow, Ell he asked
Erred Taggart?"
Eyes, father"
didn't he? Well, I'm sorry for old man
Taggart. He sets the world by that
boy. An it's a pity too. Fred was the
smartest fellow round here at one
time for young chap an seemed to
have the maxim of something uDcom-
mon But the smartness has all H-aZ-
zled out now in kid gloves an SQUEAK
in boots. an he's goin' up to the city
to work for Sc a week when his IA
theirs got the finest farm round here.
an Fred could have the runnin' of il
IN a few years If he'd stay. Well.
well. Fools amt all dead yet. But
here comes Hank. Guess he wants TO
see you. Ell"
Elsie had been slipping into the
house with heightened color. but turn
ed back Hank was the son of Il heir
nearest neighbor and was a good.
whole souled fellow, with clear hfad
and energetic habits, but woefully d III
dent and slow of speech. Elsie III ed
him, but had never cared to anaE7Ze
what Hanks feelings might be toward
her.
AS he approached .hem the young
man nodded TO her father, who was
moving away toward the barn, and
then turned to her eXpectantiy. with
the color rising slowly to the roots OF
his hair. But not until her father Was
out of hearing did he speak.
Elsie he began then bashfTE ".
Erred just said goodby to me. He'll
be gone long time"
"Yes?" tentatively. He said good
by to me-
There's the rehearsal tonight-Sstt-
urday night, you know, Elsie be
went on It's quite a long walk, and
and yol'll be needing somebody to go
with you. l thought I'd better nun
over before any of the other boys got
around"
Il can go alone just as well as nOt,
Hank. It's bright moonlight"
Yes, yes; l know it's" desperately.
But there's rehearsals next week. and
church tomorrow night, and-inld
there's all summer long and all next
winter. 1t won't be moonlight all t2h
time. You'll need somebody to walk
with you. OF course l amt asking
you to keep company with me-" hur-
riedly, 'only-only you'll need some-
body till Fred gets back, and I'm
handiest."
I'm not engaged to Fred" proudly.
mo, of course not. 1 know that-ar
thought so. But he sort of kept COM
pany with you, and-and I'm handles.
Elsie, and you'll be sure to need some
body, and-and you and 1 will under
stand"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-22
Ship 49, sldy.

Washington dispatches make it plain
that the republicans are determined to
pass a ship subsidy bill at the APP
preaching session of congress in a pro-
fessed effort to solve the problem of
reestablishing American shipping and
shipbuilding.
1t is altogether probable that Presi-
dent Taft will recommend and urge Il
ship subsidy law in his annual mes
sage.
While the problem should be solved,
the proposed ship subsidy viii not
solve it, but will only aggravate the
disease, from which the country is suf-
fering. The time to solve 1t was when
the tariff was being reversed, and the
way by placing shipbuilding materials
in the free list and revising the gen.
eral tariff downward. Such a solution
would not cost the general government
a penny, and could not injure anyone
or anything, save possibly the monopo-
" of the American shipbuilding trust.
President Taft's plan is to donate TO
private ship owners from $6,G00,000 to
$4,000 GOO a year to start with. Once
given root. a ship subsidy is like a
tariff; it grows and grows and grows.
Germany, although maintaining a
high protection policy, does not permit
a cent of import duty to be levied on
shipbuilding materials. Even the men,
ber3 of the British parliament who are
endeavoring to saddle England with
ing materials are desirable, and that
should they be successful they would
not think of taxing materials that are
used in shipbuilding.
Note the comparative progress on
British and American shipping, which
we find in an exchange. one under free
trade and the other under protection:
RTitiSh American
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-22
How Whitman Helped ch;!ds.

The poet Walt Whitman was, as is
well known. dependent during most of
his life upon the kindness os his friends
and admirers for support. A few years
before his death one OF these friends
called upon him in his little house in
Camden.
We'll, Walt" he said. chow goes it
this winter? Any subscription needed
for Christmas"
No" said Whitman; mo. I'm at
work now. I'm in the employ OF
George Childs. He pays me $50 n
month";
You at work. May / ask what is
your OccupationT
why. ! ride In the street cars.
fall into talk with the drivers and con-
ductors and find out which of them
have no overcoats and guess at their
size and notify Childs, and then he
sends the ovcrcoats. It's not hard
work. said the poet thoughtfuily
And then, you know, it helps Childs
along"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-22
The Miners Organization.

One of the most impressive evidences
of the good which is accomplished by
the great organization of coal miners
is the systematic. business-like manner
in which that great body turned its
tender and loving attention to the
wants of the suffering widows and chill
dren of those men who met such an
awful fate in the doomed ST. Paul mine
at Cherry, Ill.
The moment the reports of the disas-
ter were heard the miners through
their organization set to work to has.
ten the emergency work which might
save the lives of those imprisoned in
the mine. Through those awful hours
Of suspense the miners organization
was at work doing all that could be
done in the emergency.
Then, when the awful realization
dawned that there was no hope for tho
rescue of the doomed miners, as the
rescuers had been beaten back by
gases and smoke and fire, the represen-
tatives of the miners union turned
with characteristic tenderness, sympa-
thy and love to those hundreds of
wives made widows, and thousands Of
little children rendered fatherless.
No one feels quite as keenly, quite
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-22

as deeply the full meaning of this ca
lamfty as the miner himself-especi-
ally the miner with { family whose
heroic bosom heaves with love when
he kisses his wife and children good
bye and crosses his Threshold to has
ten to his dangerous work.
Tens of thousands of big, magnani-
nous coal miner hearts are today
bursting with sympathy for the suffer
ing, sorrowing women and children at
Cherry. And they have not confined
their sympathy to sentiment, but have
promptly met conditions as they are
and planned an effective, material re-
lief work which is already in progress.
This closely woven brotherhood as
exemplified in the coal miners union
is indeed commendable, and, as the
sympathy Of the general public goes
out especially to the sufferers at
Cherry, there is ample reason to gen.
orally commend the miners and their
union for the heroic and humanitarian
manner in which they meet great
emergencies.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-22
British American
Million tons. Million

There was a time in the SOS and COS
when the United States had healthy
merchant marine, and 1t was not cod
died on subsidies, either. We lost our
hold on the seas through raising the
tariff on materials used in the con-
struction of ships. 1t now costs 40 per
cent more to build a ship in the United
States than it does in England. The
result is practically no ships are being
built here for the foreign trade. If
revision upward ruined our maritime
industries, we see no reason why we
may not conclude suitable revision
ownward-coupled with the repeal of
certain barbarous and antiquated navi-
cation laws-would not restore them.
The American people are not in a
mood for a ship subsidy. President
Taft and the Aldriches and the Can
mons and the Shoots should stop and
mediate. Their sins are already great.
Owing to republican extravaganza the
deficit in the national finances for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1909, was
the staggering sum of sS9, S11, 156. Then
there was a tariff revision that was no
torious as a fraud and fake. A ship
subsidy may be like the straw that
broke the camel's back.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-22
The impossible Cannon.

Anything quite so humorous as
Speaker Cannon's charge that Herman
Ridder offered him the presidency, on
= silver platter, with the compliments
Of the metropolitan newspapers, If he
would repeal the duty on print paper,
we have not read this many a day.
says the New York Post. Mr.. Ridder
g an estimable and useful gentleman,
whose services to the newspaper in
trying to obtain decent treatment from
congress were deserving Of high praise
We have yet to learn, however, that he
has become a candidate for bedlam,
and such he must be If he made any
such offer to Mr.. Cannon. OF course,
he did not; his word on that point
would suffice even II every probability
were not on his side. Mr.. Ridder has
seen every newspaper in New York
try to defeat given candidate for the
mayoralty-in vain. He knows, more
over, that no one can deliver" the
newspapers of this city; it is only by
accident that they ever pull together
On any important proposition.
But, more than that, unless Mr.. Rid
der was suffering from q complete men
tai alteration, he must have known
that IL all the city newspapers of the
country were to band together they
could not elect Mr.. Cannon to the pres
ldency. So foulmouthed, so coarse, so
selfish politician, utterly out of SYM
pathy with the wishes and spirit Of
the people Of the United States, has
never entered the White house. and
never will
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-22

The lilacs were in bloom, and above
them upon the limb of the big elm an
Oriole had hung her nest, and every
day in the sunshine her troubadour
mate sang to her of love and compan-
ionship and airy journeyings. From
across the fields came the odor of
freshly plowed ground and the breezy
calls of men to their horses. In the
barnyard were the cacklings of hens
and the peeping of many chickens,
while from the pasture below came the
lowing of cows to their calves. 1t
was mid-M May, and the wheat heads
were still green with their thriftiest
glowing. and the fence corners and
roadsides were CHEEKY with their gold
en- offerings of danceIions.
Elsie came to the kitchen door and
looked out. The orioles were singing,
and she ran lightly down the. STEPS