Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-12-13

The owners Of new million dollar
apartment house which IL being built on
upper Broadway will be able to say, with
out eNaggeration, that their building pos
sesses all modern conveniences." The
plans filed with the city inspectors show
that the convenences TO be installed in
clude a perfectly equipped hospital.
kindergarten. bowling alley, Turkish baths.
billiard rooms. electric grill. reading rooms.
gymnasium. swimming pool, roller skating
rink tennis courts Ito be transferred into
an ice rink in the winter. an enclosed play
ground on the roof and a model dairy,
butcher shop and drug store. Each apart
ment viii be equipped with electric dish
washers and electric ranges, electric wash
ing machines and electric ironers and
clothes dryers, electric garbage incinera-
tor and an automatic refrigerator plant.
The American Museum Of Natural His
tory In New York, announces that It has
just come into possession Of a practically
complete skeleton OF a trachadon. a mon
ster which lived on the earth not less than
100000 years ago. It was found in the
Hell Creek region Of the bad lands OF
Montana, where for eight years the museum
has been carrying on extensive explora-
TONS The museums announcement of this
latest find says:
PLANT remains, leaves, fruits and wood
found with the fossilized bones show that
the climate Of the United States as far
north as Canada country was from tenn
perate to sub-tropicRl at the close Of the
cretaceous period. II Is concluded that
Montana was sub-tropical The trachadons
were aquatic dinosaurs and spent most Of
their time in fresh water lagoons. which
p
the interior Their remains have been
found in sea deposits that were sormed
near the shore.
These animals combined some anatomi-
cal characters Of both lizards and croco-
diles. but have no living relatives or de-
scendsnts. They were kangaroo shaped,
with long hind legs and reduced fcrelegs.
and long, powerful swimming tail. The
peculiar expanded bill resembles a ducks
bill, and was covered with a horny mass,
denticulate in form, which was probably
used in gathering vegetable food
For eighteen years James Mangan walked
his beat as a policeman Of the greater city.
and in all that time nothing had happNned
to him. says the New York correspondent
Of the Cincinnati Times-Star. His name
never got in the reports for bravery He
did his duty well, but It came to him In the
common and prosaic form 1t offers to the
greatest run of men. His hair had begun
to turn graS and the fire OF youth had
abated. His fellows in the station began
to call him Pop" In all those years he
had not so much as stopped a runaway
No green grocer could have led a more
placid life. Even the men he arrested, won
by the good-natured pollceman's smile, did
not resist
And then, the other night. his chance
came TO him. Locked on the top floor Of
burning building were two little children.
A weeping mother came and Mangan, with
eighteen years OF kindly duty behind him,
became a hero, He struggled up to the
locked door through a swirling hell OF
flame and smoke Burned. half. strangled.
he burst in the door and gathered the
little ones in his arms. protected under
the heavy cloth Of his uniform coat.
Down the tottering stairway he felt his
way blinded and gasping Half way down
its flame-rotted timbers broke beneath him
and he fell Even as Inconsistencies came
upon him, he still drew over the little
children the skirts OF his coat and 1t was
thus the firemen found him when they
fought through the curtain Of flames that
barred their entrance Mangan. they say,
will die.
to say. And when they told him that the
boy and girl were safe faint smile came
to his blackened lips
'Mangan's luck" he Whispered.