Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-11-01
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TON OF 4 CAMPAIGN AGAINST TRAMPs.
STAT Correspondence Of The EvESNo STAR
ST. Louis, No., October %.
The busy and ever-growing city Of Omaha is
now nothing but memory; only dream. a. it
we're, but it makes every member Of the ex-
cursion party tired again just to think of IL.
In Omahs hospitality ran riot, and il it did
not wear out the city's guests it was because
the city's guests were, in . physical sense, .
pretty tough crowd. Great things we're e1-
pected Of Omaha. From the time the special
train pulled out Of the 9Th street depot on the
Sd instant right straight along up to last Sat-
urday Capt. Bourke talked OF little else than
the big Nebraska city. While We were inspect
ing the factories Of New England, the
captain was continually referring to the greater
greatness Of what he was pleased to term
my city" In Chicago he was heard TO insti-
tute comparison between the Illinois mart and
his adopted home. st. Paul and Minneapolis
he declared to be simply nowhere in the race
for commercial supremacy, and even at Niagara
he was heard TO remark, in response to some
thing complimentary about the cataract, that
when the party got to Omaha he would show
them sights really worth looking at. Well. we
got to Omaha and now, trying to rest in the
queen city Of the southwest, want to put my
self on record as saying that il the party ever
had too much OF good thing anywhere they
got it in Omaha. The delegates have never
been so rushed about since the start and II they
| strike another such town they will have to sue
cumb. The members of the local committees
worked like beavers, but they had no mercy
on their guests and the result was very tired
crowd of visitors. The inspection of the Grant
smelling works, the dress parade at Fort Omaha:
the tortuously long drive back to the city and
the late dinner yesterday could have been put
up with, because there was an object apparent
in each Of those numbers Of the program. but
no one will ever be able to satisfactorily ex-
plain why half a hundred WORKOUT men should
have been bundled into three trains of electric
cars, in company with twice as many natives
who didn't care whether they were tired or not,
and taken over
TO COUNCIL BLUFFS
If there is anything attractive in that long
struggling Iowa village failed to discover it
either on Sunday or on any one Of several pre-
vious days which have been spent in exploring
that region. For two long dreary hours the
chilly Missouri river breeZes toyed with the
their respective marrows, but they stood it
nobly. They depressed hundreds Of yawns, OBJ
stinately refused to go to sleep, and smiled
pleasantly at every remark-inane or other
wise-which was addressed to them. Only one
incident served to brighten q fragment Of that
awful period, and, usual, Lieut.. McCrea was
the sufferer. The lieutenant was under the
wing, so to speak, of the mayor of Council
Bluffs, and when the former suggested that he
would like to make brief call upon an old
friend in the village ''hizzonner" insisted upon
the gallant officers taking his private vehicle,
which was near the place where the
cars then happened to be. The proffered
conveyance was accepted and then the mayor,
imagining that the old "salt" might fail to steer
himself properly through the labyrinth OF
shanties and railroad tracks, which vex the
face of nature thereabouts, ordered the chief of
police to accompany Mr.. McCrea to the desired
locality. In vain did "Mac" insist that there was
not the slightest necessity for guide, in vain
guardian of the peace to leave him alone. To-
gether they lett the cars, together did they
walk across the street to the waiting carriage
and, with MAC" slightly in the lead,
together they seated themselves therein.
mischievous attache intimated to the
natives that the gentleman had been
arrested and rush was at once made in the
direction of the carriage in which the lieuten-
ant, under police escort, was being driven
rapidly away. Never liz his life did the lieu
tenant blush more deeply or continuously than
he did as he was driven past the half dozen
cars in which his friends and companions were
seated. He looked as though he was guilty
and the boys gave him the grand laugh as he
went by. Everybody in the party thinks the
world of McCrea, but the temptation to .'pile
on the agony" was in this instance too strong
to be effectually resisted.
The newspaper representatives who accom-
panied the delegates to Omaha were the re-
cipients of many kind attentions, especially
from Senator Paddock, Representative Con-
nell, ex-Representative John A. McShane and
Mr.. Amin of the Omaha Bee.
CAPT. BoURKEs TRAMP STORY.
eyes," sighed Capt. Bourke. as the train
pulled out of the Union Pacific depot in Omaha
at o'clock this morning 1--WE had a good deal
Of fun in this town. Away off in that neighbor-
hood, he went on indicating in the direction
of the Union Pacific freight yards, 1--WE had a
pitched battle i'll 1878. Want me to tell you
about 1t j suppose, instead OF allowing me to
retire In search Of a much needed rest. Well,
/ had just come back from participating in a
number Of interesting little social events with
my copper-tinted brethren in the northwest,
and was feeling pretty good because they had
not required of me even a single lock of my
once beautiful hair, which, by the way, is less
numerous and less luxuriant than it once was.
When I reached Omaha found the place was
infested with tramps-not the harmless easily
SATISFIED 'vag, who asks your wife for a sand
wich and who finally compromises on a five
course dinner, ending with cigars and coffee,
but the really vicious cusses who went armed
and who had the town considerably terrorized
The people stood it as long their spirit of
Christian charity held out and when that was
exhausted they organized q number Of volun-
teer companies whose avowed OBJECT was the
destruction of the genus tramp within the cor
porate limits Of the city. The outlaws num-
bered about 700 and they were intrenched in a
large number of Union Pacific and Burlington
and Missouri freight cars, which they had some
time before taken possession of. There were
probably about ], 500 in our little army and at
the request of q few citizens took command
of one Of the companies and we sailed in. NV
little crowd numbered forty and think We