Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-12

Mayor Gaynor's new broom is swishing
around In open places and odd corners with
a recklessness that is rude and painful to
the hamfatters. Loafers on the job have
had their hookworm jolted and put at
work on a regulation minute. Where the
rules call for eight hours as a days work,
bureau chiefs are ordered to see that the
required time is put in. Anywhere from
one to five hours a day, according to the
attitude Of the employe, have been con-
sidered a fair return for the city's coin.
Going on a standard schedule of eight
hours is a cruel and unusual penalty, for
a place on the payroll, and smacks Of
tyrrany. But eight hours go or the kicker
goes. Equally disgusting is the abolition
OF joy-ridlng on the clty's machine. The
city WINS 1903 motor cars costing $253,0 O0.
Sixty chauffeurs are employed at an an
nusl salary of $4,000. Last year car main
tenance and supplies took t1S4.OOO. That
these cars were kept busy during the wax
ing hours Is indicated by the maintenance
figures, and more of the wear and tear
was taken in private affairs thar in public
business. N more Of this" exclaims the
mayor. Any city chauffeur or bureau
chief using a city car for private business
gets the hook on the spot.
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The combination of milk dealers is rap
idly breaking up under the strain of the
revelations of the investigation before Ref
cree william G. Brown.
Two of the largest milk dealing firms in
Brooklyn have already broken. their tacit
agreement to have no competition, and
one, of them has invaded the Manhattan
territory, in distinct violation Of the trade
,,5,r.toras, vvbI,h ,onRl,ad a.. nroro-
lions to Brooklyn.
Confronted with the fact that their trade
IL going to the few independent deal
ers who still charge eight cents and with
the further situation, as admitted generally
in the trade and on the witness stand by
dealers, that the milk market is over sup
piled and the prices should be lowered
instead Of raised, to conform with the laws
Of supply and demand, these two COM
panies have set out to steal away one an
others trade and get back some of the
business they have lost since the price OF
milk was raised on November 1.
The result is a trade war hat will un-
doubtedly make for the benefit of the con-
sumner.
Milo, a prize Plymouth Rock rooster, had
led a blameless, sober, yes, a patriarchial
life up to New Years. Then all was
changed. Frank Rue of Fast Wood place,
Cedar Grove, N. j., owns Milo and the
amazing change OF conduct pained
him greatly. Worst Of all, the rooster In
duoed six Leghorn hens hitherto modest
and ladylike, to join him in alcoholic dis
Mr.. Rue heard Milo crow continuously
for ten minutes and went to see what had
rise to that unprecedented musical
A bacchanalian spectacle
his staring eyes. Milo lay on his
back in the barnyard. He was growing
all his might, wagging his head fool
and kicking. Around and around
him staggered the six Buff Leghorn hens.
Plainly they had lost all sense of hen
.propriety. They became a barnyard ballet
corps. Coquettishly and clucking joyously
they went wiggling around their lord and
From their wa of dancing they
have been drilled as the six Salome
Their dancing ardor gradually
cooled and they zigzagged off to their
1t turned out that a New Years mince
pie, heavily charged with brandy and rum,
had fallen from a kitchen window sill.
The record price of Manhattan land was
made last week. The corner Of Wal and
streets was sold to the Manhattan
company for $3.50 a square foot, not
as was previously reported. The for
mer record price was 1868 a. square foot
for the corner of Broadway and Wall
Wall street, as 1t Is known. This
of $655 is the actual price for the real
estate, as the nineteen-story Offender
h.aI H. l. a.. l.. 49,, aou,, - raalro ,oo,,
for a thirSy-two-story structure. This cor
merit is only 25x75 ~feet-is therefore the
most valuable plot Of ground in the world.
In 1888 it sold for IS, 125, In 1S4s for SIS, OOO.
Sixty years later It brought 81, OO,OOO. Well
may we, like Billy Nye, find fault with
our ancestors for not being present when
island was sold FOR SIS and a
Of rum.
A gentle form OF blackmail," as a citi-
zen calls II. is in continual operation in
New York; 'and," he adds, IT don't see
how one can get away from IT,"
The reason for my complaint" he con-
tinued, sis this. Every few days 1 receive
a package Of tickets to some charitable or
phi~lanthropic endeavor to get money out
Of the public pocket, with a. request to sell
or keep them, and to send the money to
such and such an address. I know the
thing is all right, and the object is a
worthy one, but / do not relish being sand
bagged In this way. I prefer to select my
own charities, when it comes to handing
out the cash.
you see, these tickets, and this gentle
nudge to give up, comes usually from some
one ! know, and your suggestion that they
be bundled up and sent back is fraught
embarrassment 1t is a sort of social
blackmail that l do not think is justified
by even the most worthy form of charity"
After a three-day search through a half
mile of snow banks at Scarborough, Mrs.
A, Vanderlip, wife Of the former as
sistant secretary of the treasury. has re-
celved the last of a dozen pearls which
she lost while coasting on Briarcliff Hill
night. The pearls we're in a neck