The times., 1898-09-20
THINGS SEEN AND HEARD.

OoeH Lew expOSltlOnS III the tinted States
that have not been attended by Presidents.
Ii is regarded as the correct thing to have
President help out undertaking of
this kind. The Omaha Exposition is no
doubt worthy of liberal patronage. 1t is
the hrst exposition that has ever been
held that far West that has attracted so
much attention. The Midwinter Expo
sition held few years ago at San Fran
cisco was failure. The scheme was con-
ceived by NJ. II. DeYoung, of the San
Francisco Chronicle, at the close of the
Worlds Fair at Chicago. 1t well
advertised but was too far away 10 have
much patronage
If there is any one man entitled to
ia r cegree of credit for the success of the
Omaha Exposition, it is Mr.. Rosewater.
editor of the Omaha Bee Mr.. Rosewater
has some traits of the average Chicago
man. He is always talking about his
town. He has doomed Omaha from the
time he went into the newspaper business
until the present time. Rosewater was
one of the crack telegraph operators dur
ing the Civil War. He was for several
years engaged in a confidential capacity
with Secretary of War Stanton. AT the
close of the war he went West and set
tied at Omaha. The Bee was originally
theater program, but by gradual stages
of evolution 1t was developed into a news
paper
A story is told of Rosewater that is
vouched for to be absolutely correct by
those in Omaha who are familiar with
the circumstances. AT a late hour of the
night when the last page of the Bee was
being sent to the stereotyper, through
/ some accident it fell off the truck and
was pied 1t, of course, was page one
of the paper. but the last page to be p.ac-
ed on the press. 1t was TOO late to at
| tempt to remedy the accident by reset
| ting the page. If this was done all mails
| would be missed A brilliant idea was
originated by the managing editor, whoi
by the way, was Swede. The rival
paper at that time, the Herald, was eX-
actly the same size as the Bee. The
managing editor of the Bee sent word TO
the managing editor of the Herald that
he had met with an accident and that
the first page Of his paper was pied, and
| asked the Herald editor TO lend him the
matrix of the Herald's first page This
was done. The title head OF the Herald
was cut out of the matriX and the tit-e
head of the Bee substituted, a plate was
| cast and the paper was sent to press. The
style of the two papers was not unlike,
especially in the designation of the spe-
/! cial matter, though their dress was
different The Bee ran a line Special
Dispatch to the Bee" and the Herald ran
a similar line, Special Telegram to the
! Herald"
The mana ginG editor and the foreman
! expected TO be invited 10 discontinue their
services to the paper on Mr.. Rosewater's
. arrival at the office the next morning.
| There was great apprehension Every
| body in the office knew of the accident
| except Mr.. Rosewater. He read his own
! paper the next morning with his usual
I care but he never noticed the peculiar
makeup of the first page II was more
| than two years after that before Rose
water was told of the mishap. When in
/ formed of the fact he declined to be-
! lieve it The files of the two papers were
| produced two years back and there it
was, the first page of the Bee was made
! up from the first page of the Herald.
! 1t cost Rosewater several dollars hard
earned cash to square himself with the
office in the shape of drinks and din
| ners to the force. The editorial and me-
! chanical departments of the paper ar
gued that man who would not see so
| pronounced a change in his own paper
! should be made TO pay for his stupidity.
| The death of Miss Winnie Davis calls
I to mind the announcement of her engage
ment about six years ago 10 a gentleman
! of Rochester, New York. Miss Davis
| had become acquainted with the gentle
| man while crossing the Atlantic on her
return from Paris few months after the
| death of her distinguished father. They
became in love with each other, and in
|
announced. He was handsome and had
/ a prosperous business but was not rich.
| Miss Davis, il, all reports are true, was
very much in love with him, but the en-
! gagement was finally broken. 1t has been
stated, and there is no reason to doubt
| the authenticity of the report, that Miss
| Davis was influenced to sbreak the en-
! gagement by. many of her prominent
| Southern friends, they taking the position
| that ii was not the correct thing for her
| to marry a Northern man. She was ap-
| pealed to by many of the old Confederate
| generals, in which both political and
| social influence was brought to bear.
| Men who had been the friends of her
! father during the rebellion felt a general
| interest in the young girl, and argued
| that If her father were living he would
not consent to her marrying a man who
was not from the South and maintaining
the same political sentiment regarding
| the difficulty between the States. This is
| believed to have been the only time that
| Miss Davis was ever engaged. If she had
any affairs of the heart at any other time
previous or afterward, it was never
known beyond the privacy of her own
| family.
| at is a curious fact, said d. G. Owings,
postoffice inspector, yesterday, how quick
men in the postal service can detect any
thing valuable inside of letters. This
comes from constant handling of mail.
/ Some men are so sensitive in their touch
! of a letter that they can tell instinctively
| that there is something in it other than
| writing. 1t is an easy trick with them
| to detect whether a letter has money in
| ii or not. If there is but one bill folded
| inside a good expert handler of mail will
| detect it. Others detect IL by smelling it,
| especially IL the money is a little worn.
| If they think letter contains money
| they will smell the envelope and in that
way make the discovery doubly sure. The
majority of letters that are lost through
dishonest mail clerks are special delivery
| letters / suppose the clerks believe a
| special delivery letter must necessarily
| contain something valuable. The per-
| centage of letters stolen is small when
| compared with the number handled. There
are very few dishonest men in the mail
| service"
1.-THE bravery of the American volun-
| teer is only exceeded by his generosity"
! said Miss Cecil Clay treasurer of the re-
| lief committee appointed by the local
[ chapter of the Daughters of the Ameri-
| can Revolution to look after the fami-