Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-10

While the wind was gently moving off
shore at the Battery last Friday. a score
OF reporters quartered at the ship news
office got occasional whiffs OF an odor
strong enough to warrant a post-mortem.
A short distance off were two trunks just
In from the emigrant station. The more
the reporters shifted the odor, the more
their eyes centered on the trunks. The
trail OF the odor was u~nmistakable. IL leu
directly to the trunks. What did they con-
tain? The odor indicated some decayins
substance. Policemen Joined the reporters
and ~loungers swelled the crowd, all re-
naming at a respectful distance. Tests by
various acute nostrils developed a belet
there was a trunk mystery worth invesu-
CATION. Possibly a crime was committed
and concealed in the trunks. The polics
decided to act, and shipped the trunks TO
the station. The reporters hooked onto
the telephone ear OF their respective city
editors. Presently the station was crowded
with gumshoe word painters, puzzle solvers
and camera men. When the stage setting
was all ready for the main act, a police
man knocked the lid off the first trunk.
All windows were thrown up and one OF
J the party volunteered to take from the top
tray a round bundle. He held the bundle
aloft and remarked: That looks like a
head"
The COP who peered into the bundle after
making an opening through a soiled under
shirt said 1t was a head-of cheese.
The ship news men looked foolish and the
sleuth reporters made what they would
call in the Language Of the sleuths a quick
getaway. The COPS put the lid back on the
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| heads OF cheese Of various shapes and,
sending a larger assortment Of odors than
even the veterans Of the trunk mystery
squad ever thought could be put into or
come out of a small trunk.
1t begins to look as though the moving
platform for street pedestrians would soon
reach the experimental stage in New York.
A corporation called the Continuous Tran
sit company has applied for official per-
mission to lay under Broadway, from
Tenth street to Forty-second street, such
platform and to operate the same.
The plan c~ontemplates a series Of four
moving platforms on each side of the
street. The first is to move at the rate Of
three miles an hour, the second at six, tho
third at nine and the fourth at twelve. On
this latter would be seats for those who
cared to sit down. A fare of five cents
for a round trip is to be charged. The
proposition Is now under consideration by
the city authorities.
A doubling Thomas in trousers visited
the recent woman suffrage convention,
held in Carnegie Hall. He went to revile;
he came away to praise. Here are some
Of his tributes:
"a notable gathering.
"a well-organized and well-conducted
convention.
THE delegates were intelligent and
thoughtful.
THE speakers were exceptionally able.
9TH proceedings were businesslike in
the highest degree.
There was a sense Of the greatness and
Importance of the movement,
mo organization of men could have mani
tested more seriousness of purpose or a
more jealous devotion to a worthy cause"
Asked II his wife was there, he said:
"Well 1 guess not. She doesn't believe in
woman suffrage at ALL"
Mayor Mcclellan, in appointing three
women to membership on the Board Of
Education, showed a disposition to distri-
butte the honors evenly.
Miss olivia Leventritt is a Jewess. Mrs.
Helen Carroll Robbins is a Roman Catholic.
Mrs. Alice L. Post is an Episcopalian.
The mayor has learned a lot about women
in educational affairs since he came into
office. He has held many public hearings
during the long fight Of the women school
teachers Of New York for pay equal to that
of the men teachers, and has vetoed one
law compelling the city to make the ad-
vances asked for. 1t is only fair to add
that his chief objection to the law was
that he believed 1t was an invasion on the
part Of the Legislature OF the right Of New
York City to take care of its own affairs.
His respect for women as students of
public affairs, has apparently been vastly
increased, and he has made it apparent in
a conspicuous manner and IN an enduring
form.
New York has just celebrated the ter
centenary of Henry Hudson's sailing up
the North river and the belated centenary
of Robert Fulton's steamins up the same
noble stream, writes Brander Matthews in
the Forum. And although the city did not
acknowledge the fact formally, 1t was also
celebrating the centenary of the first work
of imagination written by a native Amer
lean and stll surviving In the memory Of
the average reader. 1t was in 1909 that
Irving published Knickerbocker's History
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