Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-05
CROWDS AT PARAMOUNT PARK
Six Thousand People Believed to Have
Visited the Resort,
SOME ONE NEGLECTED THE BAND CONCERT
No Music to Entertain the Many WISH
tors, but the Abundant scenery
Afforded All Some
Diversion.

The 5000 or 1000 people in Omaha and
Council Bluffs who like to get away from
the noise and excitement that attend life
In the city on the nations natal day were at
Fairmount park yesterday. They started
early. The trains from Omaha that arrived
as early as 1880 o'clock had their loads of
passengers who we're seeking a quiet day
at the park. There were men with large
families and well filled baskets, women with
their children. young men and their sweet
hearts and sweet young girls in groups of
from four to fourteen, all with one objective
point and one purpose in mind. The result
was that those who were seeking a quiet
day in a pleasant place found the place
pleasant enough, but there was no more
quiet at Paramount than at any other place
where people love to congregate on holt
days. The man who wanted to get out and
be alone with his family found several
thousand other fellows of the same mind,
and the park was thronged as it has not been
before in years. In the absence of a band
concert, a lamentable oversight on some
body's part, there was nothing for the crowds
to do but enjoy the scenery and stroll
through the wooded glens of the park. 1t is
conservatively estimated that fully 5000 peo-
pie visited the park during the day and more
than half were from Omaha.
In the absence of any general program in
the celebration of the Fourth of July the
citizens of Council Bluffs were left largely
to their own resources, and their forms of
celebration and entertainment were numer-
Gus and varied.
Cashier Hannah of the Citizens bank put
on a blue suit and took tickets on the Man
ava motor all day. He got up a sweat, had
a good time and didn't overlook a cent.
w. II. Bradley hitched his bay mule to a
sulky and went into the country to be alone
with his surging thoughts.
j.. G. DeHaven locked his store early in
the day and spent the Fourth reading free
silver literature.
Marshal Treynor, the tenor politician.
spent the day rehearsing his new song, ded-
icated to Congressman Hager and entitled
You Amt Mad at Me A. L., Are You?'
The School Board quartet spent the day
preparing a new work in mental arithmetic.
The question that stumped them was the
division OF 100 by 4.
w. j. Davenport spent the day thinking
of the fun he was going to have with the
fireworks in the evening. Then he wore out
his patience with balloons that wouldn't
float and cannon crackers that Wouldn't
crack.
Tom Dawson spent the day working on his
patent for an elastic hatband that will con-
form to heads before and after conventions.
Theodore Guitar couldn't take a holiday
and worked just as hard as usual all day.
Alderman Casper was busy all day on his
treatise, What l Know About Water from
Observation"
DR.. Treynor added another chapter to his
valuable medical work, Charley Horse, It's
Prevalence Among Council Bluffs Ball Play
ers."
Captain Beck entertained a Manawa audi
ence with Seabrook's favorite, Long live
the King is a sad song to sing when your in
come consists of your health
County Clerk Reed entertained a select
company of friends with an illustrated
lecture on how he saved Hager from defeat.
County Treasurer Arnd stopped clipping
coupons long enough to clip a few sand
burrs from the lot at his country home. HE
has been rusticating since the late congress
sional convention.
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