Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1882-12-01
To Omaha and Back.

Last week we made a flying trip TO
Omaha, on business and pleasure COM
bined. Leaving Moberly after mid
night by the cannon BALI daylight
found us skimming over the beautiful
prairies OF northwest Missouri. As far
as we could judge, western Missouri
and southwestern Iowa has no cause Tor
complaint in the way of crops, and at
every station We're substantial evil
denees of improvement and prosperity,
Council Bluffs, opposite Omaha, was
reached about eleven o'clock and here
we found the end OF the q. p. Ry.
whose rails stretch away across the
PLAINS, over the mountains, and down
the western slope TIL they reach the
Pacific.
The muddy Missouri crossed and we
found ourselves In the metropolis of
Nebraska-Omaha-a second Kansas
CITY in vim, enterprise and prosperity.
Two gears ago the census showed a
population of thirty thousand, now she
has nearly double that number with
a steady increase of ten thousand per-
annum.
After dinner, in company with DR..
j. NJ. Swetnam, proprietor OF the
GRAPHIC, we took stroll over the city
and back to the bluffs which overlook
the liver. In every direction new
houses, churches, factories and business
places were going up. The town ex-
tends along the river fully fur miles,
and back from it from one to two
miles before the suburbs are reached.
On one of its highest points handsome
high school building resembling our
Normal, and nearly as large, overlooks
the town, while ward schools are dot
ted here and there at convenient points
over the city.
We found DR.. Swetnam established
in handsome office under the New
Opera House in the very heart of the
city, and already enjoying a good
practice and in the very hest Of spirits.
The Opera House is the pride OF
Omaha. 1t cost round hundred thou
sand and will compare tavorably with
DeBars or the Olympic IN st. Louis in
finish. taste and arrangement, if not in
size. Its capacity was fully tested on
Monday mig ht when .he silver tongued,
poet orator
r. G. INGEEsoLL
was greeted with an audience of two
thousand four hundred people. Few
men can hold such an audience, two
hours and half. but Pope Bob did it.
Tuesday morning we took another
look about the city, observed its tele-
graph lines, its street railways, its gas
and electric light arrangements, Its |
business houses and palatial
With more regular ground
on which to build, yet with handsome
building sites and bluffs rising to tine
level of tn. plauteau back other, Omaha
has much to remind one of Kansas City.
A brief visit to the Offices OF the daily |
Herald and the Bee the two leading
daily papers Of the city, and we bade
Om aha good bye.
The Wabash competes at Omaha for
eastern travel and runs line of re-
clining chair cars that are models OF ele-
gance and comfort. They are warmed
with hot air or steam through pipes
near the floor and the old fashioned
poky, smoky, stove Is abolished. The
use OF reclining seats has snpplanted
.he sleeping car imposition, and no
extra charge is imposed on the tired
traveller
Frank F. Smith, salesman committed
suicide in Chicago. Oh Monday night.
lie left a note saying. "One woman's
1eceitful love caused me to do this"