Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-04

every possibility Of harbor making. One
big railway ran through It, another along
its western edge. Five miles away to the
south was the prosperous city OF Waukegan,
where there was a harbor and the lake ter
minus Of the 'outer belt line-the ElEin.
Joliet & Eastern railway. There was every
facility for this line also to enter the
promised land"
Industries Picked out.
Dowie already had his industry picked
out. He wanted to get one with which the
name Of Zion" could easily be associated.
Lace making was a new industry in this
country. An English lace maker was try
ing to sell his plant and come over to join
DOwie. Dowie bought the plant. organized
an association with a capital Of 81 900, 600
to run it-collecting $500. 600 cash from his
followers on his personal security before
he bought a foot Of land or laid a brick
for the factory, and guaranteeing from 6 to
IL per cent dividends on the stock. He
went outside of lace making in his plans
and prospectus. He planncd-and still
plans-a great textile industry, where cot
ton shall be spun and woven into cloth,
where wooden goods shall be made and
where lace shall be manufactured-al Of
the best materials, at good prices, and all
to the upbullding Of the christian Catholic
church,
Dowie had not yet a foot Of the land, nor
had he then found a man capable Of buying
it. Had he asked real estate men, they
would have told him 1t would be impossible
to buy a tract as large as he w~anted-6,5O
acres-so near Chicago, without paying
fabulous prices for II, even II he could
persuade the holders to sell it at all. Fall
ura IN hry upv eippIa nora Of ~ would no
fatal, for he had planned a city in which
there should be no liquor or tobacco, and
in which these should be forbidden in the
deeds and leases. If a single acre of land
was owned by an outsider, the owner could
set up a saloon or do as he pleased in the
midst of the godly community and corrupt
the inhabitants.
Dowie's Great scheme.
When things go right with Dowie he as,
sures himself and his followers that It Il
the Lords doings. When they go wrong
the devil has %triumphed. In this case the
Lord came to the rescue and sent a reaI
estate man named Wheelock to Zion with
a proposition to sell another tract of LAND
to them. Dowie and Sloan sized him VI
as a pretty safe man to work with, and 81
: they made a contract with him to go ant
buy the land they wanted on a slidini
, commission. The cheaper he got 1t tn
t more he made.
Here is s25. 900" said Sloan. "Deposl
studied them as II they were children,
watching the effects of different kinds OF
food and care. She read everything that
could be found on the subject, corresponding
with well known keepers, and visited the
large cities for the purpose Of talking with
the heads of geological gardens. When hcI
lions began to die she sat up with then
night after night and hardly slept or ats
until she found and remedied the cause o.
the disease. AS a result her collection be,
came healthy and successful, and the bah!
lions and other interesting inmates of thu
animal houses became valued friends ant
=, acquaintances of all the small boys an.
girls of Denver. From time to time sht
, added fine specimens. She established
} seal pond, and her ostrich, harnessed will
flowers, and drawing a smart little trap
r was a feature Of the floral parades in som,
of Denver's annual fall festivals,
Fer some years, while she was learning
[ the business, Mrs. Glitch labored under thu
most crushing financial burdens. Blu
eventually, as she stopped leak after leak
, and learned more and more how to cater
10 the populdI ldates' sue Iolleu 'ueW ol
and began to accumulate money, until shC
is now in an enyiable position.
Summer after summer she has been Of
fered exorbitant inducements to grant con
cessions for the selling OF beer and alec.
holic drinks, but has invariably refused
Every summer too, every child in the
charitable institutions of Denver is giver
a free outing in her garden, and the aged
inmates at the Old Ladies' Home. nearby
all have season passes, indicating that
business success is not incompatible with
generosity and high principles. Mrs, Glitch
is a beautiful, charming, elegantly gowned
woman, the last in the world whom one
would suspect of being at the head Of a
great business.