Omaha daily bee., 1889-04-24
GUESTS OF GOOD PEOPLE.
Railroad Men Entertained at the
Christian Association Rooms,
AND A ROYAL TIME THEY HAD.
An Interesting Programme With
Plenty OF Good Music and Bet
ter Fare Than Eating Sta
tion Sandwiches.
A Successful Entertainment.

A glaring, dazzling locomotive headlight
stared you in the face, last night, rs you
dashed around the first curve of the big
stairway of the Young Mems Christian As
sociation building. II almost blinded you
for moment. Then it was passed. You
were on the platform-the second landing of
the stairway.
"Ticketsl'
There was vision that made you think
you had dreamily got aboard of train.
A conductor with a red lantern.
Then you began to realize where you
were. -. s.
The conductor and his red lantern and
his tickets" was q chalk sketch, in q back
ground of black paint over large board.
You have, perhaps, seen similar boards in
pool room, il not, and If your memory is not
defective, you have had your attention
called to them when you attended school.
When you left the platform on the last
stairway, you were handed pass. 1t was
sort of little pamphlet, containing about
dozen pages. 1t was quite lengthy and re-
sembled pass that the railroad COM
panies give newspapers nowadays 1t
was ticket and used as
programme. 1t was also q way bill and a
bill of fare, with palace car porter beauti-
fully engraved in black on q wood cut.
The railroad men of Omaha had side
tracked from the yards and depots to the
Young Mems Christian association. They
were not running train. The association
was running them. They had been invited
to reception. 1t was a magnificent affair.
Over eight hundred people were there. The
railroad men and their friends were received
by, the reception committee at 8
posed of j. B. Caldwell, chairman;
M l.. Stone, secretary; Il. p. Cramer,
A. M Hopkins, Silas Cobb, j. A. Beck, A.
M. Joplin, C. II. Ball, +. G.. Jones, Wallace
u ral
Cain, w. S. Heller, G. e. Williamson, e. G.
Wilbur and the general secretary, George G,
Jenner, who was assisted by II. w. Scha-
schke.
committee delivered the address of well
come after the visitors were ushered
into the concert hall It. H. Taylor
was master of ceremonies, and after brief
talk Mrs. Lippincott was introduced
to render a piano solo. 1t was received with
much appreciation as well as a vocal solo by
Miss Pennock which followed. She was ac-
companied by Miss Fitch who sang Cows
are In the Corn" in gratifying manner.
After this Mr.. Wiedensall made a general
talk about the association, its achievements
accomplishments. Miss Myra Gould, an elo-
cutionst, delivered recitation and Charles
X. Carlson cleverly did a tenor solo, A. E.
Merris did himself credit as violinist in
solo and this part of the entertainment con-
cluded with club swinging act
by Prof. j. T. Gwathmey, the gymn asium
instructor. This was the feature of the con-
cert hall exercises.
Looking over the next leaf of the pro-
gramme you heard porter yell "Thirty
minutes for refreshments" or you saw the
lines in cold but fancy type staring you in
the face
grand rush was made for the dining
hall. A neat bill of fare, or bill of lading, as
they called it, was handed you, which an
nounced that you would get sand soup"
"bad breaks" etc However, this was en-
joyed and the guests were ushered into the
gymnasium, where an exhibition in athletic
exercises was given. The exhibition was
one Of the finest and most artistic ever given
in the gymnasium. 1t was enjoyed i'm
mensely, and on many contests the ladies
were very enthusiastic for their Harry"
their George" their "W,lle.' etc. The
exercises consisted of a dumb-bell drill, led
by Larry Denise, high kicking, high jump
ing, far and high diving, broad jumping,
tumbling, horizontal and parallel bar exer-
else. The high jump was made by Fred S.
ROBBINS, whose leap was feet inches in
the air. Henry Mccormick won the prize
on II foot 3 inch ''for dive jump" On the
high dive Burt Cook was victorious He
went over the pole at 8 feet The distance
jump was won by Z. Il. Zimmerman.
The entertainment was over at IL o'clock,
and the railroaders had 1907 sprung on
them.