The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-09-05


activity in any direction excepting
those taken by the street cars. Al
excellent system of transfer is es
tablished between Council Bluffs anC
Omaha and the line also extendt
about four miles south of the Iity tt
a pleasure resort called Lake Man
ava. This is an institution that hat
been fostercd by, the car company
for the purpose of promoting the
passenger business.
The city has very handsome hotel
called the "Grande," but the tran.
sient business done there would be
discounted any day by that of our
Downing Hotel of Jack Helm. The
retail business rooms, with few ex-
captions are quite ordinary. Oska-
loosa stores can compare very favor
ably with the best of that town and
the general appearance of the bust
ness part of our little city is far ahead
of that of the Bluffs.
The city has very excellent morn
ing newspaper in the ''Nonpareil," a
sheet that makes its appearance
seven mornings in the week 1t is a
news medium of unquestioned worth
and is well supported by the people
OF the town and neighboring country.
Excellent train service enables the
paper to command an extensive cir
| culation and it is read far and wide.
1t is ably edited and has an ebert and
active force of news gatherers who
miss nothing that is going on in the
community. They gave much atten-
ton and space to the encampment
and the annual outing of the state
guard has never been better handled
in any city ever visited. The mon.
pareil is one of few good things to
be found in the town.
The great city of Omaha, of ex-
position fame, is just acrossthe Miss
ouri river within q half hours ride
from the business center of Council
Bluffs. Omaha has about everything
good that the Bluffs should have had
and the town has strings on every
thing that the Bluffs has any prospect
of having.
Omaha and Council Bluffs started
in a race some years ago. There was
no handicap. One place had no ap-
parent advantage over the other,
unless, indeed, natural conditions
favored the Iowa town. The places
grew and in the race one was ahead
for period then the other. Finally
there developed a different DISPOSE
ton in the people of the two cities.
Omaha had an enterprise and a far
seeing judgment that seemed lacking
in the other city. She received her
"second wind" when the packing
house industry was developed in
South Omaha. 1t is said that this
prize was once within the grasp OF
Council Bluffs, -since that time there
can be no comparison between the
two cities.
Omaha is a city and has all the adj
vantages and disadvantages of a
large place. There are fine, large
public buildings and magnificent rail,
way stations that are the wonder oil
all who visit them. 1t is a city oil
wealth which has been accumulated
through business enterprise and fore.
thought. The foundations have been
we'll laid and Omaha will continue ia
hold her prestige as a business center
of the middle west.
There is another splendid news.
paper in this city, the "Omaha Bee, D
paper that is known over the length
and breadth of the land. The paper
has ever been an exponent of the
city's enterprise and growth and
faithfully represents it in all ways
When the city grew the Bee was or
the wing so to speak. The paper
was apace with the. town and bull
{ one of the finest properties to be seer
in the city. 1t is sky scraper o.
many stories and modern equipment
with exterior of brown stone. The
architecture is striking in appearance
and the ornate work is most elabo
rate. The interior elegance of the
structurel,is not surpassed by the
vaunted.trade palaces of the east.
1t is not generally known that al
oskaloosa boy is at the head of tn,
editorial management of the paper
His name is Theodore Mccullough
and he has made himself popular, =
and justly so-with the people o
Omaha and the entire state of Neb
raska. Every one knows the gentle
man and to know him is to like him
The gentleman knows Mahaska PEG
pie and places of few years ago a
he knows the streets of Omaha. H,
was at oneitime on the point Of start
ing democratic paper In the city o
Oskaloosa, 4 1t was at the time whel
the democracy OF the county was de