Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-17

RippIes ON the Current Of Life In the
Metropolis.

'0t . VI AaANNNAls NiAN AllEA ntEu
brought together in New york. forty-one
years ago last Tuesday. will outshlne by
several stories the new club quarters Of
No. 20 OF Omaha. The parent lodge will
spend 100000 in building a twelve-story
home, with all the comforts OF a home and
the luxuries OF a club. The location is the
southeast corner of Forty-third street and
Sixth avenue. and the structure is 10 be
finished and ready for dedication next
Christmas eve. Its facade will be of classic
style and will be treated in granite. marble
and limestone. For the accommodation of
tired Elks four high-speed passenger ele-
vators will be provided, while those who
need exercise will be permitted to climb
one monumental stairway or two spacious
subsidiary stairways. Besides these. of
course, there will be two service stairways.
ON of the great features of the building
VIII be the lodge room, which. upon coca
sion, will also be used as a ball room and
entertainment hall. II will be one Of the
most spacious and beautiful I'm this coun-
try, seventy-two feet in the clear in each
direction between the colonnades. eighty
seven by ninety-three feet between the
walls and rising to a height of thirty.two
feet above the parquetry floor. A prone
made will enclrcle the outside Of the colon.
nades on the first floor and will furnish
access to the retiring and l~ounging rooms
for both sexes. This chamber will be pro-
vided with two tiers of twenty-eight boxes
each, making ~fifty-six in all, with a prom
enade encircling and connecting each tier
ana also furnishing access to the retiring
rooms, which will be arranged for each
tier. The acoustic properties have received
particular consideration, so that this should
prove one OF the most attractive places in
the building.
AS designed the interior OF the building
Is to be decorated in ivory and gold. with
invisible reflected lighting effects through
out. Above the lodge chamber there will
be sixteen outside rooms with outside baths.
including twenty-four suites for the exclu-
slve accommodation of members This pro-
vision alone will be of immense advantage |
to visiting Elks. The whole roof will be
taken up by the solarium and roof garden,
with pereolas. fountains and all that goes
herewith In the way OF attraction, with an
appropriate treatment of plants. lights. etc.
Between 10000 and 1900 Elks live in Man
haitian and Brooklyn.
The health department began an anti
splitting crusade last week that fell upon
Offenders without warning. Nearly 200 spit
ters had been arrested the first day. Most
OF them were fined, the penalties ranging
W 80 lItIt was plenty OF |
excitement and all manner of protestation
every time an arrest was made, but per-
sons In the various stations who were not
arrested seemed to be glad that some re-
Duke was being offered to the practice.
The magistrates of Manhattan had been an
prised OF what was going to happen. An
had agreed to impose a fine where the
case justified II.
New York's prize M Is believed
to be w. II. McQuoid of the Consolidated
exchange. He lives at Mlddletown. N. v.
sixty-six miles away. and rides in every
morning and out every night. six DAYS in
the week, not to speak of Sundays and
holidays And he has been doing this for
thirty years. A little bit of arithmetic will
show that in those three decades he has
travelled on the Erie railroad alone 1.o07 500
miles, the equivalent OF 49, trips around the
world or four trips to the moon. And that
isn't all. He rarely comes into town with
out a bundle and never goes out without
something under his arm.
"Elks." "Buffaloes.'' white Rats, and
such strangely named fraternaI orders
have been known for years, but now an
other and even livelier sounding one has
made Its appearance in town. The new
clup, associations, league, band, order or
Whatever Its Members decide to call Il
is to be named The Devils
The membership consists of spenders.
FOUNDERS, first nighters and generally those
who make the Great White Way what IL
is. The chief requisite is\ apparently a
long pocket and a willingness TO din ones
hands therein on the slightest provocstion.
Much to the regret of the Males. Daisies.
tlossies' Tessies and others of the primary
and lesser stars, the feminine sex will
be barred from active membership. though
ladies will be well cared for by the MEM
bers, whose first reason for existence as
set forth in their articles of association is:
ITO care for. protect, amuse, dine, wine
and otherwise entertain the fair sex"
An appropriate emblem to distinguish
THE Devils" from other mortals NAV now
be seen in the form OF a miniature red
devil in the lapels of many prominent habi-
tues of old Broadway, and several actors
have already awaited themselves OF the
chance to sport the sporty emblem.
For the present, active membership will
be limited to New York City. but 1t is said
that chapters will soon be established
throughout the country. Already the. mix
ologists have honored the order by naming
a cocktail after it. Such a cocktail could
not, naturally, be anything but very hot
stuff.
1t was a strange story. emanating from
New York, that newspapers all over the
land printed the other day. 1t told of a
man who was so well contented with his
wife. HIS little daughter and his home that
he refused to fight for millions that might
be his. l.
Attilio p. Morosini is the happy and con-
tented man. When his father. the famous
Italian-American banker, Giovanni p.
Morosini, died a few months ago he left
an estate valued at from 100000 to &c.
coo 900. To each Of his four chiIdren he