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Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-25
Riot Will Not Stop Payment
Of Taxes, Says Treasurer

Rumors that records in the
county treasurer's Office, destroyed
during the riot and FIRE of Septem-
Der 2S, will never be restored, and
that delinquent and unpaid taxes
will not be collected are strongly
denied by M. L. Endres, city and
county treasurer.
THE receipts given for taxes paid
in years past are numbered and in
triplicate, and are credited to tax
accounts OF property. These were
not destroyed, and a recheck is
now being made in order to give
US a complete list OF unpaid and de-
linquent taxes" says Mr.. Endres.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-25
COMP ANY FREES
BLUE EYES;E|NE
/. OF $500 IS PAID
Lincoln Lumber Concern Set
ties Charge Against Biga-
mist-Leaves With Sec
ond Wife.

Harvey Floyd Harris, famous
Blue Eyes," quilted the county jail
in Council Bluffs yesterday after
noon free and untrammelled. Before
he reached the side walk in front Of
the courthouse he met Mrs. Babe
Young Benjamin, whose marriage to
him January 20 last, caused his ar
rest and prosecution by Mrs. Clara
Harris, deserted Des Moines wife,
on bigamy charges.
It would have required $50 days
more in jail unless a $500 fine had
Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-25
Infant Badly Burned
When Coffee Spills

Reaching for a pot of coffee which
was boiling on the kitchen stove.
Jack Schneider, 2 years old, son OF
John Schneider, 1850 Gordon street,
overturned the pot, spilling the
coffee on himself and receiving
burns about the face, body and
arms, yesterday.
: Police Surgeon Johnson, who at
tended the child at the home, says
he will recover. The child's mother
was present, but could not reach
him before the coffee was spilled,
she says.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-25
Fall Suits
1t euiU poy you to Toxic odvom-
tage of these reductions
7wo Special Groups---
1913 $44

Fall Suits, both fur
trimmed a n d tai
lored, Of Velour de
LANES, Silvertone,
Broadcloth and .Tri-
cotine.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-25
Nonpartisan League Bank
Solvent, Dakota Court Rules

Bismarck, N. D.. Oct. 24.-The
North Dakota supreme court. in
Scandinavian-American bank OF Far
q and State Bank Examiner Lot
tn, permanent writ restraining
the state bank board from interior
inc with the saairs of the bank, and
held that the bank was solvent.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-25

Plain and models,
trimmed in Nu-
tria, Opossum,
Natural Raccoon
and Sealine, of
Tinseltone, Duvet
Superior, Silver
tone and Baffin
Seal Pushes.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-25

Plain a n d hand
somely fur trimmed
Suits of Tinseltone.
Silvertone, c. h e "
roma and Duvet de
Lame.
The sun., 1919-04-13

When IL was all bought and Archi-
tect Cass Gilbert had drawn his plans
there were many sCeptics, among
whom Woolworth was not numbered,
~ feel satisfied now that I have the
plot" he said, land have the greatest
confidence in the world that whatever
may come the building will be the
safest investment into which l could
put money"
1t cost about s14,OOo.OOO. Wool
worth's original contribution was So
0O0, 900. Some of the capital came
from Europe. Two years ago it was
said that Woolworth was the sole
owner of the building. If so, he had
bought up the share OF others. Any
way, he lived 10 see verified his pre-
dlction as to advertising value. lie
said in 1917:
did you know that the childrens
school books tell them about the worlds
highest building? My secretary re-
Gently received a post card from the
Pacific coast addressed simply The
Highest Building in the World and 3
letter was received from Germany
once with nothing but the name of the
person TO whom II was addressed and
| 'Woolworth Building no country OIL
city was mentioned. ] noticed once II
n trade paper in Europe that Americs
was typitied by n picture Of the Wool
worth Building. without even the nam,
OF the budding being given. Perhap!
The sun., 1919-04-13
The METROPOLITAN TOWER, 700 FEET HIGH,
so STORIES, snd JOHN "A. HEGEMAh WHO
BUILT 1T ~

my idea was not quite so foolish as
most people imagined"
His ambition to open a store in
every civilized town in the world" and
it's realization so far as every Ameri-
can town of more than 5000 popula-
ton is concerned, is we'll enough
known by now. His early reverses
were known to comparatively few per-
sons until quite recently, when he set
down his own biography with this
preface:
~ do not wish TO talk about myself
and will consent to do so only In the
hope that the story of the dishearten-
ing experiences of a green country
boy, trying to make a start in the
business world. may encourage other
young men who are sometimes tempted
TO feel that all the business opportuni-
| ties are filed and the roads of success
are closed TO them
81 can assure them that | had moth
| ing but disbursement at the start
and even after the first store was
opened there was failure and plenty OF
trouble before the business was finally
established on a secure foundation ter
years later,
"And I want to say this: There Is
Just as good chance to-day as ther,
was then"
ON the farm AT Great Bend, Jeffer
son county, New York, whittier th'
family moved from a farm at RodmaI
The sun., 1919-04-13

trying to discourage him, told him he
would have to do all the ncanest work
In the store-deliver packages, wash
windows, sweep the floor, do all the
other cleaning "aGd any other dirty
work that has TO be done" Woolworth
in ten years of saving had tucked
away the magnificent sum of $50.
That would keep him going until
salary started. He jumped at the job.
on the following Monday he saved
80 cents carfare by riding to Water
town with hts father. who was taking
in load OF potatoes. The snow was
three feet deep.
He Was "a Poor Salesman.
AS the sleigh drove away 7 could
see my mother standing at the door
and she stood there as long as | was
in sight" Thus Woolworth remem-
bered that morning IN March, 1873 At
the end of six months his pay was
increased 30 cents week, but he was
discouraged and continued to be.
II discovered" he said a few weeks
| ago. that | was poor salesman, and
| admit that even to-day the hardest
thing for me TO do is to sell goods. But
could trim up tho store, display the
goods and dress windows quite well.
From Sc a week ut Augsburg
Moore's, later Smith & Moore's. h
went to $40 n week at \. Bushnell &
Co.'S. where his skill at window trim
ming was not encouraged. Take i
/ all out: we don't want any Windows
/ trimmed here" said Bushnell when hi
young clerk had arranged an attrac
( tive display, Bushnell said there Wcr
boys getting Sc a week who were sell
ing more goods than Woolworth was
and cut his wages to IS. WOODWORK
wrote a sorrowful letter TO his mother
She replied as a mother should, end
Ing with "Some day, my son, you wi
be a rich man" The UNHAPPY clerl
didn't believe II. Worry over his fail
ure made him i'll. He went back L
the farm and could do no work for
year. He had married. When he re
covered his strength he bought fou
acre farm, giving a mortgage for $50
The sun., 1919-04-13

Cephren, Menkaure ana the rest of the
Egyptian kings had the single, vain
purpose OF immortaliZing their own
memory with the pyramids that were
their tombs. The Woolworths, the
Hegemans and the Bournes build me-
MORALS of past industry and give hos
tages to industry of the future. Said
the practical Woolworth:
THE highest and largest office build
ing in the world Think of the value
Of that designation simply from the
advertising point of view. Take for
instance an importer who may have
connections in Paris. 1t will be nee
essary only for him to tell his CORE
spondents that he occupies quarters In
the highest building in the world.
Wherever his business may be spoken
Of to whomsoever he may write, he
will tell them that he is in the worlds
highest building. Take again the mil
lions of persons who visit this city.
What will they go to see? The City
Hall, the Public Library and some of
the other great structures, but when
they get home. no matter where In
the wide world they live, the first
uueSllOu lItg Will 10 dohcu 10 i1iu
you go to the top of the highest build
ing in the world?' The fame OF such
a building will not only add to pres
tige of New York, but to the building
1t will be of the greatest value
The Problem OF n Site.
At the outset his purpose was TO
obtain a site on Broadway for a build
ing to house the Irving National EX-
change Bank. The idea of making IL
tall building arrived while negotia-
tions for the Park place corner were
under way. It struck him that i,
would be well to get the adjoining
plot on the south and erect a sky
scraper while he was about 1t. The
bank officers agreed to that. and told
Woolworth that II he would personally
stand a large share OF the cost they
would let him call the structure the
Woolworth Building. How the resi-
Of the site was acquired IL q story il
itself.
The sun., 1919-04-13
By THoREAU CRONYN.

q KTY years ago there were three
boys in this State who seemed
~ no better favored than countless
inquisitive contemporaries. One OF
them, In fact, was so poor that al
though he lived in the country on a
farm he never learned to skate because
he never had a pair OF skates-which
as everybody knows is the last word
IN poverty. The two others were a
little better placed. but not much.
Within the last month these three
New Workers.. having passed or nearly
attained their three score and ten,
have died. They have left monuments
which call the very clouds to witness
again the old story of American oppor-
tunity. To them-to Francis Winheld
woolworth, to John Rogers Hegeman
and TO Frederick Gilbert Bourne-the
world owes it's three tallest buildings.
The Singer tower rose first, then the
Metropolitan and then the Woolworth
spIre. whose noble INSTALLATION OF the
dream OF the boy too poor to own
pair of skates moved Arthur Balfour
10 exclaim: what am / to say OF
CITY that builds the most beautiful
cathedral in the world and calls 1t an
office building?'' And in this order the
three tower builders passed away:
Bourne, president OF the Singer com
pany when It raised its shaft above
lower Broadway: Hegeman, president
of the Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company, who went the Singer one
better with the white sentinel or Madi-
son Square: Woolworth, who sur
PASSED both of them and proved that
although the towers of Ilium may
have been topless those OF New York
assuredly are not.
Woo,worth was brought up on n
farm. Bourne was a choir boy IN
Trinity Church. Hegeman came from
Ilatlands. now part OF Brooklyn. lie
had more early schooling than the
others, but like them had TO make his
own way. To-day would have beer
woolworth's s7th birthday. next sun
The sun., 1919-04-13

when Francis W was years old he
wore cowhide boots in the winter and
went barefoot In summer. While
other boys were playing ball, lie was
pitching hay or ralting after the cart
He thought then It was a pretty tough
l.fc. Upon later reflection WoolWorth,
the merchant, found it good, and said:
1T is a great advantage for boy
TO start on n farm, not only for the
sake of his constitution, but on the
! farm you learn very little of what is
going on in the world; not like the
young man born in the city who sees
too much and knows more than is good
/ for him."
| Maybe Bourne and Hegeman dis
agreed with him on that point.
At 16 he left public school, which
| he had attended winters, but put in
two more winters, at commercial
school in Watertown. He hated farm
work future Woolworths, cheer up j.
hut liked to make things look tidy
around the house and barn. on his
own hook he cut logs. hauled them TO
mill, had them sawed into boards and
built a picket fence in front Of the
house. Indicated title for a popular
biography, From Picket Fence to the
Woolworth Building"
He wanted either TO be a railroad
engineer Casually the most fascinating
Job In the world to the farm boy) oil
a clerk In a store. He and his brother
used TO set the dining table against
the WALL load It with household arti'
Giles and play at keeping store. The
) station agent at Great Bend had /
grocery store. He let Woolworth terc
the counter ard sell railroad ticket'
, without pay during two winters. Tha
! brought the boy TO his majority. HI
was going to be a merchant or know
: the reason why. He hunted the coun
l try around, but nobody wanted an in
Experienced clerk. Eventually Augs
; bury & Moore OF WATERFOWL let hin
. work three months for nothing an
the second three months of trial 70
$3.50 a week, Woolworth later pic
e tured himself Gs the greenest fellow
a who ever came OF the farm, Moore
The sun., 1919-04-13

day Hegeman's 18th. Bourne was IS.
Hegeman and Bourne were of the city
and made their fortunes mere by steady
progress without setbacks. Woolworth
trampled many a thistle, was buffeted
long time before the gospel of the
dime and the nickel found its audience.
ana when he finally arrived in New
York he was a made man, though not
yet a tower builder.
How Their Towers Fay.
The businesses or these three men
were dissimilar: there was little SINH
larity in their lives the buildings they
created or were instrumental in Great
ing each has it's own identity. Three
men of different temperaments and
histories, they possessed in common
great ability. the habit OF industry, and
above all imagination and the ability to
turn 1t to practical use. For let no
body suppose that because such sky
scrapers as these men left may net
only small return on the money in
vestment they do not pay. The writer
was about to say that the mere adver-
Using value OF the Woolworth, Singer
and Metropolitan buildings is beyond
computation, but on second thought IL
is probable that somewhere in the
great organizations they represent
there are men who have figured to the
last cent just what It means in cash to
have the whole world measuring its
architectural aspiration by the altitude
| of the Woolworth, the Singer and the
Metropolitan.
Now it is a most interesting fact
that when WOODWORK first set out &c
put up a building in New York his idea
was purely commercial.
II had no desire to erect a monu'
ment that would cause posterity to re-
member me-" he said eight years ago
81 saw possibilities of making a grea
income producing property in which
could invest my money" Later he de
cided to make the home of the execu
tive offices in New York, as he said, "a
monument to the Woolworth bust
ness" The conception probably nevel
exceeded that. The great Chufu
The sun., 1919-04-13
Tie WOOLWORTh BUILDING o
$50 FEET HIGH, 81 STORIES ~

and his note for $500 and started rails
ing chickens and potatoes. He had
made up his mind he was not fitted
for mercantile life. lie had almost be-
come Farmer Woolworth for good
when to his amazement Moore & Smith
asked him TO come back 10 them ITO
tone up the store" at $40 week.
Moore had heard of store in Port
Huron, Mich, that had put in dve
cent counter and found It n huge sue
cess. Moore went to New York and
brought back TO Watertown SIS worth
of cent goods. 1t was county fair
week in WATERFOWL. Moore and Wool
worth took some old tables from a
sewing room. on them mixed the new
goods with old stuff that had been
lying around for years and marked
everything cents. The first days
sales were so big that Moore tele-
graphed to New York for more goods.
THAT" Mr.. Woolworth said, was
the real begiHing of the cent busi-
ness SO far as ! was concerned. l be-
lieve there was never anything In the
history OF merchandising that mot
with such success as the cent coun-
= ter. Customers seemed crazy to get
anything they could find on the coun
ter. whether 1t had any value or not
They told everybody what they had
bought for cents, and soon the little
country merchants came in and bought
$50 worth at n time, only TO come back
two days later for twice as much
more.
THE result was that Moore a
/ Smiths business soon turned into a
! big wholesale house and eventually
/ they were selling probably as many
/ cent goods as Spolman Brothers
/ twholesalers) in New York. The
clerks in the store got the cent fever
and one after another left and started
retail stores for themselves.
I'm the meantime was selling
goods { I'D trying TO figure out how
\ could get into the cent store busi-
ness. had no money. and there was
no one TO put up money for me. How
| Continued on Eighth Pd1s.
The sun., 1919-04-13

Continued on Eighth Pogo
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-02-08

II is all planted. The wind Is not
bad when 1t blows over grain or al
falfa. 1t Is the desert dust that nags
one" He coughed again. "Golng in?"
Richard said he was going in.
"Are you going to settle in the val.
leyf" The inqulstor was a man of
about fifty, Rlckard decided, with a
desert tan of apparent health. His
face was clear cut and intelligent.
II don't know"
"Just looking the country overT
"You might call II that"
"Go slow" admonished his compan-
Ion. "Don't let yourself be carried
away 1t is a wonderful country. But
go slow. It's the ones who expect TO
make millions the first year that be-
come the worst knockers. Go slow,
l always tell them. Go slow"
''It's not a good time to buy. then?''
mot so good as II was ten years
agol But land Is cheaper than II was
yNUI DdShs III ctifit btrtEANt1 NUu
can buy good farm for ticket back
home, the farmers are so discouraged.
Cold feet" The slang sounded oddly
somehow. The mans voice had the
cultivated precision of the purlst.
"Cold feet. The rivers chilled them.
The valleys losing faith in the COM
pany"
"What company?' inquired Richard
again.
There's but one company to the
valley. the one that brought them
here, the d. II. They don't call the
railroad the company. They won't rec
ognlse that probleml It's had hard
luck from the first, the d. r. At the
very start the wrong man got hold of
II. Sather. the first promoter, was a
faker--a pretty thorough faker. The
company recognized, but It's been In
bad 0dor wiIh-t the Cuhllc eyer since y
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-02-08

operative brotherhood that helped
them to their glory. We are centuries
behind them. I'm getting out here
Imperial. If you come up to Imperial
look me up. Brandon's my name. I've
no card these days!"
"There are several things l want to
hear from you," answered Richard,
following brown necktie and pointed
beard to the platform. "I'll be sure
to look you up. Mines Rickard."
! The breeze which was now entering
the car windows had blown over the
clover-leafed fields. Its message was
sweet and fresh. Rickard could see
the canals leading off like silver
threads 10 the homes and farms of the
future; 'the socialists dream come
truel" Willows of two or three years
growth outlined the banks. Here and
there tent or ramada set up
brave defiance against the hard con-
iitions of the land 1t was invading.
Rickard leaned out of the window and
looked back up the valley which was
dominated by the range now wrapping
pound itself gauzy, iridescent drap-
cries,
''The monument to an effete super
stitionl" he repeated. 'That wasn't
q bad idea"
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-02-08
@ @meoaeoNneezA ooMaN0y

He assured his interlocutOr that he
was going In. His mood isolated the
phrase; its significance vastly differ
ent from ''going on"
''Buying?"
II think not"
ut is good time to buy" Rlckard
suspected a real estate agent. "Nor
land Is low-rock bottom prices on
account of the uneasiness about the
river. People are afraid. They want
to see the company redeem some of
its promises before they come in; and
the company isn't In much of a
hurry"
RIckard asked what company he re-
ferred to.
The young-old face with the faded
eyes looked at him In surprise. "The
ID. II. company, Desert Reclamation,
which brought us all here.'
"Scamps?" The newcomers survey
Of the long line of naked mountains
and lean lands that formed the neck
Of the valley gave snub of casual
ness to the question.
"No. Foolsr' The answer was as
swift as a bullet. "Though some
people think them worse than that
don't go so far; I'm willing to say
they've tried. I'll say that much. But
they haven't the know-how."
The window seats, Richard could
see, were filled before the cars halted,
by the experienced ones who had not
waited for the train to be made up.
In the scramble he spied vacant
window on the sunny side and made
for It. A stranger dropped into the
seat beside him.
Every window in the car was open.
Each red velveted, dusty seat was
filled. A strong desert wind was blow
Ing sand into their faces, dlscolorlng
the seats and covering the floor.
The engineer turned to his compan-
ion, who was coughing.
"Do you mind this window being
open?"
"rd mind If It were not. It's always
bad at the junction. When we get
into the cultivated country you will
see what the valley will be like when
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-02-08

sode. He couldn't make 1t clear to
the man whose stare was balancing
him why he could not oust Tom Har-
din.
s'Is it personal reasonT Mar
shall's gaze had returned to his ring
making.
Rickard admitted 1t was personal.
''Then don't accept IT. l wouldn't
be your friend If l didn't advise you
to disregard the little thing, to take
the big thing. Maybe you are going
to be married" He did not wait for
Richards vigorous negative. "That
can wait. The river won't. There's
a river running away down yonder
running the valley, running the homes
of families men have carried in with
them. I've asked you to save them.
There's a debt OF honor to be paid.
My promise. l have asked you TO pay
II. There's history being written in
that desert. I've asked you to write
1t. And you say No"
"Nol | say yesW clipped RlcSard.
The Marshall oratory had swept him
to his feet.
The dramatic moment was chilled
by their Anglo-Saxon self-conscious-
ness. An awkward silence hung. Then:
sWhen can you go?'
To-day, tomorrow, the first train
out"
ssGood |"
"Any instructions"
"Just stop that river!'
"The expenseY demanded the engi-
neer 'Ilow far can | co.
'D-.vn the expensep cried Tod
Marshall. "Just go ahead"