Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-23
AFFAIRS AT SOUTH OMAHA
Renewal Bonds Will Be Offered for
Sale Tonight.
OVER HUNDRED THOUSAND BLOCK
Numerous Dealers Appear and There
Are Evidences that Genuine
Competition WIN Result
for MIA Issue.

for Btg Issue.
Tonight at special meeting Of the city
council there will be offered for sale
an issue Of renewal bonds involving
NlO,sS9. The city has offered them at
the rate Of a. per cent and If the inten-
ton Of the mayor and more conservative
members Of the city council carries, the
bonds Will be sold at that figure and no
other
There has been considerable discussion
whether the city will be able to get bid
ders at the ~ per cent rate. but since
the city clerk and the mayor have taken
u upon themselves personally 20 inter-
| est different bond houses the country
! over, the responses received have been
encouraging to say the least.
| yesterday bond buyers from representa-
| tive houses called upon the mayor and
It is hoped that at tonight's meeting
there will be enough competition TO war
rant the sale Of the bonds at the figure
mentioned by the city.
1t is, however, understood that there
is determined effort to make the city
pay per cent on the bonds instead of
the figure quoted. This cannot be done
unless the ordinance calling for the sale
Of bonds at ~ per cent is made to read
s per cent.
Said Mayor Trainor yesterday: ''Those
bonds will be sold at 4% per cent or they
will not be sold at all. mean to take
hand in this matter myself and IL the
bonds are not taken at the figure Of
] fered by the city we will make arrange.
ments that will protect the credit of the
city and at the same time leave the bonds
to future date when our figures will
be accepted"
As to the further issue of the 1912
bonds there is a strong undercurrent of
sentiment that favors the postponement
Of the issue until a time when the money
is actually in demand for the proposed
/ improvements.
Says PivOnka Usurps Right.
Chief Of Police John Briggs yesterday
charged Police Commissioner Joseph
Pivonka with overstepping the limits Of
MS authority In usurping the duties of
the chief of police.
Chief Briggs says that in effect the
system being pursued by Commissioner
Pivonka will demoralize the discipline of
the police department The chief in
stanced several cases where officers were
given directions by the commissioner in
the face of counter commands from the
chief and captains.
In one case where the chief for the good
| OF the service refused to accord a ten
days leave to an officer the request was
repeated during the chiefs absence TO
two OF the captains, who flatly refused
to accord the permission. In this in
stance the chief AYERS Commissioner
Pivonka told the officer in question TO
take the ten days leave.
Chief Briggs mentioned a case where
an officer was relieved of his club and
star by the police commissioner without
having any recourse to the chief
This state of affairs cannot 60 on
without detriment to the police depart
ment," said the chief as he concluded his
interview.
Mayor as Santa Claus.
Mayor Trainpr will act .as Santa Claus
| to the poor Of the city this afternoon
when he gives away the Christmas good
things collected from the packers and
some of the merchants.
Early this morning wagons will be sent
! to the merchants who nave promised gifts
for the poor and it is expected that
large amount of goods and eatables will
have been collected before noon.
Mayor Trainor has carried out his in
tention of helping some of the deserving
| poor Of the city unaided save for the
merchants and packers who responded
to his appeal. Not all Of those who were
approached in the good cause came for
ward with the generosity that might have
been expected from the prosperous at
this season of the year. One grocer when
asked to contribute in money or goods
declared that he had not seen any of the
city's trade on his order books.
The donations collected consist of
meats and chickens from the packers,
!
and everything that goes to make up a
happy Christmas for the poor.
The distribution will be made this
afternoon at the city hall.
DiE Week at Y. VI. c. A.
Next week will be a big week with the
local Young Mems Christian association,
who have prepared an entertainment that
will dazzle the eyes and tantalize the
ears Of the citizens of South Omaha.
The affair will open on December 2s
| with an art exhibit of the Young Mems
Christian association gallery. On Friday
and Saturday evenings following there
will be grand indoor carnival consist
ing Of the following numbers:
The laughing gallery. sleight of hand
| and prestidigitator performance.
| Just discovered love germ.
One cast in the fish pond.
Madame Sipawhiski, fortune teller.
! World famous Ventriloqutst.
Wild man from desert island.
On Monday evening, January /, there
will be a gymnasium exhibition Of regu-
lar class work.
Hacks for Private Calls.
Give US your private calls for funerals.
Price reduced. 81. Broderick & MasIow-
sky, 2SO1 Q ST. Bell South 1881, Ind.
F-0l7.
| Bowling Scores.
DUNHAM TAILORS.
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