Omaha daily bee., 1895-09-22
STRANGER WITHIN ouR GATES
4 philadelphia Gives His Impress
siOps of Omnhu.

n Ihttttetnhfhn eiNtS HIS impress
sions of omaha.
Mr.. j. II. Paist, chief clerk of the select
council of Philadelphia, publishes in the
Star of his home city his impressions of
Omaha, its depot, the surrounding empire
and the crops. He says:
was endured by the fai mers. The long sum
mer drouth left them without crops and
states, which had been more fortunate,
came to their assistance and sent them an
abundance of food and raiment to carry
them along to another season. They have
now garnered their wheat and oats, and
such magnificent crops We're never before
now ripening, and the farmers faces show
how happy they are. With starvation last
year confronting them they were sad and
abundance, they fear that the low prices
of grain will yield them a return barely
and gathering, without any return as profit.
They are talking 20-cent corn and 5O-cent
planted and the great yield, they have rea-
sons to talk as they do.
They will not want for food this year,
had promised themselves when they found
that nature was smiling upon them and
that the return for their labor promised
to be so ample.
Omaha, the metropolis of Nebraska, with
its 140, 900 people, is largely dependent on
the success of her neighbors, the agricul-
turists. That Is to say IT is what Is known
In the west as an 'agricultural town
" ~ ~ ~ VI OAiN
of the delegates TO the national convention
of the local building association leagues of
tive from Omaha said: we have had pretty
hard times the past two years In Omaha,
b b2t from fU mt tSe fact aSm that tne o grn crops p Spve d3p.
ing that period been almost total failures.
We are waiting for a rain now, and if it
Omaha will prosper
The rain did come, and the corn crop is
assured, and the metropolis of Nebraska is
looking ahead for a busy and satisfactory
largely upon the field products Of the state,
she has other interests which nave made
her what she is. one of the largest and
most beautiful Of the new cities of the
and wales In and around her, the North
Platte river at her door and a surrounding
manufacturing and wholesale industries, her
future prosperity ana growth seems to be
a natural distributing center, and the nu-
merous large and imposing edifices devoted
to the wholesale trade show that to be
Hills and other mining districts pay tribute
applied to smelted gold, which are arriving
in numbers sufficient to keep the works
bg,s s , aao om,,, 60 ,o
writer presented a far different appearance.
Then 1t was a city OF the plains, with. wide.
one-story wooden shops, stores and dwell
ings, and was generally about as uninviting
as most of the new towns of the then
""Georgo Francis Trains new hotel, and
it is a big one, too, was under, way. His
contract called for a hotel to be finished
and complete in ninety days. The time was
bn1id, nearly up up "a ana frs so was the he,, a9te H. The he
Folly is still standing
The story of the hotel runs: That Train
while stopping at the Their largest public
lower a dining room window, and it was
lowered. The cold air still annoyed Train
nnH hn gain ~ ,nlAH tho -Tfnlnxr aIAanI
The waiter pointed to the sash. One of
the big, panes OF, glass was gone, and Train
When he again entered the dining room and
found the glass out, he said: II will build
viii see that there are no broken panes of
Just what he had ASSERTED that he would do
regarded as the wealtRiest man in the city,
He was eccentric, but progressive. Dull
W 5tms' l feli HiP1n Dfs %dasadi f Mf. t hraln f;suP forl
tune. In fact, he lost about all he had
made; Omaha owes largely to him her early
but few. cities possess finer highways,
handsomer homes and more beautiful parks
large, numerous and well kept. Her water
works system, electric lighting and street
TTSh1t G new se diiy hs ahe While While bSP i no the mea ii@e as
pretentious in size or elegance as that of
fPhilladSeiphia' Is one that the omahaians
stories high, and has all of the modern
appointments to make ii inviting and COM
which is adjacent to the city hall, reminds
one of our Philadelphia Records business
Omaha prides herself on being one of
the healthiest cities in the union, The death
rate last year Was a trite over eight in
One would hardly Credit the fact that they
called, but they do. At both Lincoln and
Omaha you are reminded by the placards
upon the N eleG5si1 cars se that you you can go d,
pure and invigoratine ,breezes. The name
for the time imagine that you are not far
from Coney Island, with Its breakers and
salt air. The townspeople OF the two cities
speak of their beach as we do of Atlantic
City or Cape May, and seem to think quite
as much Of them as we do Of ours.
badly, is a new union depot, They feel HUI
inflated because they have to put up with
two years ago enlarged, and is a 'ramshack-
ling concern. Years back the railroad COM
depot, just across the tracks from the pres
ent crazy patch. Litigation stopped it's pro-
gress, and but for that Omaha would today
have one of the finest railroad stations in
material for It's completion lies in great
heaps exposed TO the elements, awaiting the
laws delay, before the work of completion
can go on"
Land Titles In Indian Territory.
There are now about 800, 900 white people
in the Indian territory, They have built up
towns, but are mere tenants at sufferance,
without a particle Of title to the lands on
which they built. Tho Indian courts are
closed against them, as are the Indian schools
to their children, 10000 Of whom have no
other opportunity for schooling, excepting
those whose parents are able to hire private
teachers They have no voice In the govern
ments Of these hve nations. nor a police ON
Ger to protect them or their property against