Omaha daily bee., 1896-01-23
IN LINE FOR THE EXPOSITION.
Council BIuTs Joins 0mnhn in the
Great Entcrprisc.

Council Bluffs Joins Omaha In the
Great Enterprise.
The members OF the Merchants and Manu-
featuring association OF Council Bluffs and
their guests filled twelve tables at the ban
quet given by the association at the Grand
hotel last night The banquet was up to
the high character warranted by Landlord
Clarks reputation as a host. Dinner was
served from $40 until 10 o'clock. The tables
were tastefuly decorated and the excellent
menu faultlessly served. Around the tables
were seated
Omaha z. T. Lindsay, John A. Wake
field, @. w. Wattles, J. II. Evans, Charles
Metz, j. II. Payne, Dan Farrell.
Council Bluffs: F. H. 0dell, Hon. John Y.
Stone, Mayor j. II. Cleaver, NJ. F. Rohrer,
Colonel d. b. Daily, s. B. wadsworth. c.
Henry Wells, Clarence Judson, Frank Cham.
berlin, J. A. Gorham, Frank T. True General
e. F. Test, Elliott Alton, II. w. Sawyer, DR..
V. |. Treynor. w. j. Leverett, l. f. Hen
bricks, C. r. Hannah J. ]. Steadman, William
Moore, w. A. Maurer E. II. Merriam, W. II.
Wakefield, w. w. Loomis, S. H. Foster,
Theodore Guitar, ]. II. Greenshields, F. w.
Spetman, e. II. Rothert, A. S. Hazelton
John w. Paul, ]. NJ. Lane, w. NJ Shepard,
George w. Lipe, c. G. Saunders, o. w. Gra-
ham, Chris Straub, J. p. O'Keefe, e. II.
Lougee, e. l.. Shubert, ]. @. Anderson, A.
Whitelaw, A. s. Gilbert and j. w. Beatty OF
Nevada, Ia, a trustee Of the Iowa School for
the Deaf.
While the banquet was being served the
Council Bluffs Mandolin club, located in the
hall, furnished excellent music.
r. H. Odell was master of ceremonies, and
after the cigars had been passed he arose and
told the object of the gathering, which was
to discuss in frank manner the mutual in
terests of the two cities, and especially tc
unite Council Bluffs and western Iowa in the
ha undertaken
Ing the Transnississippl exposition in 1898
AS member Of the association he wanted
to assure the members Of the Commercial
club of Omaha and the other Nebraska gen
tlemen present that the association and the
business people Of Council Bluffs felt the
community Of interests and were ready to dc
all within their power to advance the inter
ests of Omaha and the west by furtherne
in every way the big enterprise Omaha had
undertaken.
Major j. H. Ceaver extended the freedom
of the city to the Omaha men and vel
coined them while pledging them all the aid
the city could give to the great work in
hand.
e. T. Lindsay of Omaha was called out
as the hard worker and practical organizer ol
the enterprise, and spoke for a few mo.
ments, modestly repellng the shower Of com
pliments that Speaker Odell had rained upon
him.
G. w. Wattles, president Of the Omaha
progress of the work that Omaha had under.
taken. He traced back the community of in.
terest that created the great expositions OF
the world to the old Greeks holding their
Olympian games. This exposition idea hae
expanded in after centuries into that great,
est of all industrial gatherings, the Chicago
exposition of 1893. That exposition gave the
world its first genuine idea Of the rea
greatness of the American republic. The
Atlanta exposition had done for the south
what the Chicago event had done for the ma
tion. 1t had gone farther in de-
veopng the interests of the south
than all else since the war. The
Transmississippi exposition will do more
than all else at our command to increase our
wealth and influence. He gave in detail a
statement of the origin of the Omaha idea,
and told all that had been done. Omaha,
he said, was pledged to her part in fnan-
ciaI way by raising 100000, and IL that was
not enough she would raise 500, 900. He
spoke of the great benefit it would be to this
locality to hold the exposition in the center
of population represented by the two cities.
The territory that will be represented is of
greater area than France, Germany and
Great Britain 1t has greater resources than
those countries. We might get along with
out the manufactures of the New England
states. but the New England states cannot
get along without our corn, our breadstuffs
and our pork, and nothing would tend to
bring together such forces for our advance
ment east west ana Soutn, as great eApo-
siton of this kind. The eastern citizen will
not take the time to get out and see us and
go over the vast territory that we represent,
but he will come when we gather all OF our
products into one grand exposition. both
cities will reap alike the inestimable bene-
fits that will accrue to us. He believed that
within radius of ten miles from the spot
upon which he was standing, twenty-five
years would see one of the greatest metro
politan centers in the republic. A little river
cannot divide these two towns. The people
of Utah have assured us that they will not
hesitate to pass any laws necessary for us,
and we want the assistance OF the Iowa leg
islature, and we must reach 1t through the
people of Council Bluffs.
Hon. John Y. Stone declared that there
was no citizen of Iowa or Nebraska more
heartily in sympathy with the great project
under discussion than he. No enterprise is
more important Here is what may be called
the central belt No city in the belt is SO
favorably situated as Omaha. There will be
found no hand in Iowa raised to retard the
enterprise. There Is every reason why these
two great states should unite in this grand
work. Our interests are the same. There
can be no favorable legislation in Nebraska
that will not favorably affect Iowa, and
anything that will help Iowa will bear IA
vorably upon Nebraska. Wherever the state
of Nebraska has a friend there Iowa has
friend also. Tell the world that on the west
ern side of the Mississippi great eXposi-
tion Is building up. we extenu you our
hands, gentlemen, and tell you that what
ever you and the people of Nebraska are in
terested in we are also.
j. A. Wakefield, Dan A. Farrell, G.. H.
Payne and other Omaha men spoke. Colonel
]. j. Steadman, Hon. H. w. Rothert, Hon.
J. w. Beatty of Story county, and other
Iowa men responded to calls in speeches that
indicated that the subject had awakened a
deep interest for them. The banquet did not
terminate until nearly midnight, and when
the gentlemen were ready to retire they felt
that the meeting had been in every way a
most pronounced success
The following resolution introduced by Col
onel d. b. Daily, was adopted:
Resloyed, That 1t is the sense and feeling
of the Merchants and Manufacturers asso-
citation of Council Bluffs and Omaha that
the United States government recognize
and extend beliigerent rights to the strug-
Cling insurgents of Cuba.
Mr.. E. F. Clark presented the following
proposition:
In order to further the enterprise of a
Transmississippi exposition | propose 10
build Transmissouri bicycle path upon
which the transrocky mountain boys and the
transatlantic girls may display their grace
and trans-verslty and trans-planted trousers
and travel TO and fro between the Twin
Cities. "
Passing of Pioneer.
Mrs. Anna e. Heiser. one Of the Oldest