Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-07-20

and fresh paint. and porches have be-
come the rule. Pictures of Mckinley
abound. On X street are several
blocks where it seems as if almost ev-
cry house has a picture of 1.-The advance
agent of prosperity"
Pictures Of Bryan are not wanting.
though they are not nearly so numer-
Gus as the Mckinley pictures. On one
block a handsome mansion displays
the Bryan face behind the plate glass.
Beside it is a humble cottage of one
story and three rooms, with a picture
of Mckinley behind the most conspic-
uous window pane.
New paving is going down. Addi-
tional gas mains are being laid. The
locomotive works are running on a
large contract. THE largest cream
cry in the world" keeps a tank of the
finest buttermilk on draught continu-
ously, and refuse to take any money
for "all you can drink" These are
conditions of the year 1900 in Lincoln,
Neb., the home of William Jennings
Bryan. Even the man who marched
with Coxey to Washington and was a
lieutenant Of the commonweal army
has got a steady job to his liking. He
rides the horse lawn mower on the
state house grounds.
Several times a day the newspaper
correspondents stationed at Lincoln
go around the corner and invade the
creamery. There is a faucet and a
tin cup. Help yourself" is the rule.
At first the newspaper men wanted to
pay for the drinks. The creamery
people said the buttermilk faucet was
the town pump, and that it would be
impossible to estimate the price of a
drink of buttermilk when they sold it
at &c a gallon to anybody who would
come after it.
AS the result of an understanding
reached between the creamery people
and the press a tank has been set
apart for buttermilk baths. Julian
Hawthorne led the fashion, taking a
buttermilk bath every day. Some
others followed, and the buttermilk
bath has become a Lincoln institution.
Four years ago there wasn't such a
thing here as a buttermilk bath. Many
of the male population neglected other
kinds of baths. They were too busy
talking politics and saving the country.
1.-THE Eleventh and o street crowd"
was famous. At the intersection of
the two thoroughfares hundreds of
men assembled from day to day and
talked "rasho" and per capiter." The
crowd was SO large at times that it OBJ
structed traffic. Men stood in groups
and talked and talked and forgot to
go home for their meals. There is no
Eleventh and o streets crowd" this
year.
Evidences Of prosperity with Mr..
Bryan r not limited to the fresh
paint and new porch. Newspaper
stories that he has $4,000 in bonds in
a safe place are ridiculed by the can
didate, who says he would like to see
some of them. "a healthy growth" of
his estate is admitted. In 1896 Mr..
Bryan returned to the assessor his oc-
cupation as a lawyer, and his taxable
wealth at $27O. This year he gives
no occupation, and lists his property
at $4,5OO. The accretion has been
steady for the past four years. In
1890 he was put down as a lawyer with
no property. In 1893 he was returned
as a congressman by profession, with
an estate valued at 1882. The next
year showed that his property had
shrunken to $500. In 1895 Mr.. BRYAN
was a lawyer worth 1910. The first
year after he ran for president Mr..
Bryan returned $1,4S5, and in 1898 his
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