Omaha daily bee., 1895-12-08

yers TO make settlements, no hagglng over
! terms, and none Of the difficulties attendant
In fixing the cash valuation OF title.
Few OF the Ideas associated with American
millionaires are applicabe TO these people.
Mr.. Mccormick is an industrious business
man, and good one. He Is active in carry
ing on the manufacture Of the reaper out Of
which his father made a fortune, and is a
hard worker as well as manager. Miss
Rockefeller was reared under the old regime.
She heard family prayers and was a Sunday
school teacher. She spent thousands every
year for clothes. but far the larger part OF
them went to the poor. She was IAN angel"
that visited the hospital with flowers and
other gifts every day. She speaks German,
French Spanish. Japanese and Italian and
reads the classics in the original tongues.
She has nothing in common with New Nork's
fast set, and found her society in her church.
But she rides a wheel, skates, swms, is a
fine walker and a perfect horsewoman.
Healthy, happy, energetic, generous and full
Of good purposes, she is such a bride as de-
serves the favors of fortune and will make
them the means Of blessings to others.
The Buffalo Illustrated Express Of the 1st
inst publishes an interesting sketch and
photograph of Mrs. Fannie NJ. Merryheld, a
telegraph operator we'll known in Omaha and
throughout the west I'm the several branches
Of the telegraph service throughout the coun-
try" says the Express, there are a few
operators who, by an unusual degree OF eX-
pertness in the receiving and sending of mes
sages, have won special distinction among
their co-workers, but even in that limited
coterie there are few indeed who have a
record that can equal that of the subject of
this sketch; a record of which Mrs. Merry
field Is not only justly proud herself, but
which the Western Union company is pleased
to hold up as an example of what may be
accomplished by intelligent and persistent
application to duty. Mrs. Merryfied first en-
tered the telegraph service in small office
at Blairsown, Ia, in 1865, for the old Illinois
& Mississippi Telegraph company. In 1856 she
went to Chicago as an operator and later as
chief of the womans department. In 1872
and 1873 che was an operator for the At |
lantic & Pacific and Union Pacific at Omaha, |
under Mr.. Dckey. From 1874 to 1876 she |
was in San Francisco and Los Angeles for |
the Western Union, and between 1878 and
1882 served in Colorado for the Western |
Union and Denver & Rio Grande Railway |
company. In 1888 she went to Cheyenne, and |
has remained there up to the present time. |
occupying the position of night wire chief |
In that office there are eight duplex and two |
quad SETS besides the Wheatstone repeat5rs |
half set, Morse repeaters, ETC., all OF which |
Mrs. Merryfied has in charge, giving the ut |
most satisfaction. During the recent Indian |
troubles in Wyoming her expert work called |
forth remarks of surprise from newspaper |
operators in Chicago and New York by her |
good sending. The Western Union manage |
ment speaks of Mrs. Merryfeld in the highest |
terms, and expresses the hrpe that her thirty |
years service may be supplemented by many |
years yet of usefulness both to herself, to |
the company she serves 50 acceptably, and |
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