Omaha daily bee., 1892-06-20
was had with President o'pouohoe ys,,er

was had with President O'Donohoe yester
day, who said
lin the first place we propose to have every
county in Nebraska represented. We will
have samples OF all grains and grasses as wei
as samples OF the root crops. The
grain samples will be enclosed Ia noa,
glass jars which will be arranged in cases,
properly labeled, showing the location OF the
county, as well rs the farm on which they
were raised. The name of the donor OF the
samples will also appear. Thon we will
have substantially bound pamphlets for free
distribution which will give short sketch
OF the state, the several counties, tho prom.
inent towns, the price Of vacant and i'm.
proved lands. Next we propose to show
what 1t costs to raise crops, the profit and
the number of bushels that we can raise
per acre.
'.The book will contain agricultural sta
tistics that will be interesting TO the thou
sands of people who will visit the exposition
with view to finding out something
about the great west
1--WE will also treat the cities and town,
fairly and the plan will DO something ike
this; We expect to have large sized photo
graphs of the principal buildings In Omaha,
South Omaha, Lincoln, Nebraska City, Be-
atrice. Grand Island, Fremont aud nun.
dred or more other places These, together
with the birdseye views of the towns, will be
framed and hung about the interior OF our
room. The pictures Will also be reduced IN
size and bound in book form to be given out
as souvenirs. In addition to these we will
havo large pictures showing the Oinahn of
1880. the South Omaha of 1854, the kearney
of 1868 and other towns when they were IN
their infancy, that the people may compare
them with their present greatness"
How 1t Will lie Operated.
The rules OF the Columbian Exposition
prohibit giving away advertising matter
upon the ground, but the promIlcatons OF
the Nebraska Develo pment company have a
N 10 mi inn N Ir ;k.
building 1t will have a fully equipped kitchen.
Hero will be baked cake, maze wholly from
Nebraska products; pan cakes OF Nebraska
-four and candy from the Nebraska sugar
manufactured at the Nebraska sugar refiner-
los. This will be done by an army Of white.
aproned Nebraska boys and girls. This food
will be cooked aud eaten upon the
ground, and while the members
of the company do not expect to
run restaurant they do expect to feed
thousands every day. Then they will have
q bureau of in formation, where a stranger
from any part of the world can ask and OBJ
tain reliable information regarding any city,
town or county in the state. This adver-
tising scheme IS not for one locality, but Is
for the state at large.
In speaking OF the disposition of tho stock
President O'Donohoe said that the plan was
todispose OF 1t to individuals in this state.
The IDEA was to interest the farmers to an
extent that each man would find that he had
an object in making the Nebraska exhibit the
best on the ground. The exhibit would
in no way interfere with the regular state
exhibit, but would merely be addition
and would DO for the purpose Of bringing the
state more prominently before the public.
What May BE Accomplished.
Two classes OF people the members OF the
company hoped TO interest in Nebraska.
One class was the farmers of the east who
were on the lookout for cheap homes ana the
most productive country in the world. The
other class was the manufacturers who were
looking for locations where they could in
crease their wealth and their output. If the
farmers and representative business men of
tho state put their shoulders to the wheel
MIR. O'Donohoe mad no IDEA but that Ne
braska could make an exhibit that would not
only be creditable to herself, but would in
terest and astonish the people of the entire
world