Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-30
MRS. NATION BREAKS RECORD
Measures Up Over All Other Single Handed
Oonversationalists.
TALKS MORE THAN AN INSURANCE AGENT
at Happy-HOur Emporium of "Micky"
Mullen Hatchetier Meets with
Cordial Reception and Ap-
prOpriate Music.

When she started for North Bend. Neb.,
on g Union Pacific train at $50 last night
Carrie Nation had spent Just twenty-four
hours in Omaha and broken nothing but
the record for single-handed conversation.
Accepting the adsge that the pen Is
mightier than the sword she seems to have
created another to the effect that the
tongue is mightier than the Ratchet. and
retired as a smasher to become an eX-
horter.
with the possible exception Of insurance
agents and theatrical advance men she can,
undeniably. talk faster and longer than any
other human being on earth and the his
tory Of her visit in Omaha is the record OF
a series OF monologues, delivered in all
sorts Of places and to all kinds Of audiences.
She began talking the minute she ar
rived and she stopped only for sleep.
She talked r~eproschfully to a dane
ing party at the Her Grand after her lee
ture Friday night, and yesterday morning
she resumed operations early at a Sixteenth
stress saloon near Kountze Memorial
church, at which latter place she ate one
OF the two meals she allows herself in the
course Of a day. To the saloon proprietor
she spoke severely, criticislng him for being
In a business which was. she said. only pre-
Iiminary to a life Job at coallng the fur
naces OF the Inferno.
starts on Her Tour.
At lis in the afternoon she again left
the hotel and ibis time on a regular tour.
With her were Mrs. Shinrock, Miss Ora
| shinrock and Miss Ruth Shinrock, local
samaritans, and Mrs. NJ. A. S. Monagon OF
Lincoln, state superintendent OF the Chris
tian citizenship department Of the Woman's
Christian Temperance union, who has
travelled with Mrs. Nation all this month
and left with her for the North Bend and
Fremont meetings. Besides these women
we're three reporters and a lot OF other
neople who we're also in the rubber bust
ness, but not for a living.
At the county Jail. which was the hrst
place visited. Mrs. Nation talked piouslyr
but good humoredly, to all 1.-THE boys
knelt to pray for them, led In the singing
OF where is Ny Wandering Boy and dis
tributed diminutive hatchets to all the
prisoners in the line.
To her great disappointment the mayors
ONCE. next visited, was locked and she
turned her attention to Chief Of Police
Donahue. who put away his cigar. at her
request, and treated her with courtesy
Her plant to him was based on the Slocum
liquor law Of Nebraska, but when she ad-
mitted that she had not read it and grew
personal with the chief, the latter grew
warm and the relations cold-and the
hatchetier retired to avoid the chills that
are incident to such abrupt changes In
climatic conditions.
"Micky" IL HOspitable.
From the chiefs ONCE the procession OF
| righteousness moved majestically and i'm
~posingly to the happy-hour emporium OF
"Micky'' Mullen, a Frenchman with a green
vest, who smiled largely and serenely when
| she told him he was feeding hell, and re-
sponded that he was glad the place had
such a good appetite. His orchestra, TAX
ing the cue from his genial hospitality, re-
spondcd to her request for music by play
ing her ~favorite, THE Last Rose OF Sum
mer," slow measure, followed by They
Had to Carry Carrie to the Ferry" double
quick.
In the triumphal march eastward on
Davenport street the Creighton Medical col
lege contributed a large contingent of en-
thusiastic students and when Ninth street
was reached a crowd OF 200 was at her
heels, all shouting her name, but not with
unkindly emphasis. Pausing to be photo
graphed at the corner Of Ninth and Capt.
! toll avenue, the dark meat Of the tender
loin, she dived unhesitatingly into the
laboratory Of Lou Goldsmith, a maker OF
merry nights and gloomy mornings. II is
not a religious place. nor governed with
much decorum, and before the crusader
left the building she conceded 1t to be "as
bad a place as she had ever visited in her
whole life"
Half Hour at Mission.
From this she went to the tidy little mis-