Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-02

OF course you can, and enjoy the hilarious
bout better than you ever did grand opera.
Time Can't ERace These.
Oh, the games we played and the songs
we sunE
Let them go; they were just the trim
mings compared to the first ice cream,
when we ate with shoes and stockings on
and felt like Solomon on a gorgeous spree
in the new hickory shirt and jeans pants
and roundabout that mother had made be-
tween times. Dear. dead pioneer women!
Hats off to you!
My, My! How different boys were then;
and girls, too, in the days when linsey
woolsey dress was awful nice and a white
one a dream, to he worn with proper mod
esty and smoothed with most careful touch.
And how the future foot ball players,
base ball fans politicians and bankers and
society queens, school ma'ams and store
clerks clung to papa and mamma! How
shyly they entered into acquaintance, with
what hesitancy started some world-old
game, and by and by what gusto they
worked up for pom pom pullaway" and
"ring around a rosyv' The days of the
Kerry dances in Granuaile were not more
boisterously unrestrained or angelically
precious to memory.
All these thoughts come thronging to the
mind OF the easy-resting old-timer as he
reads the proclamation of Mayor Moores
today. Just gather a bunch like C. A.
Baldwin. Harvey Link. DR.. George L. Mn
| Ter, Judge Wakeley. NJ. ]. Feenan, Judge
Doane. William Emerson, Mike Dee, Pat
McArdle, and hundred others you will
readily recall. They will give you food
for thought and tell you wonderful hap
penings of past Fourths until the cows
| come home.
| Ages ago some poetical Irishman wrote a
rollcking song about THE jolly Old Groves
of the Pool" II was and is come -all-ye''
| to thrill the heart OF the ramblers from
| Cork and Glare and the County Mayo; 10
] arouse good fellowship between men Of the
Black North and the Catholic South even.
| But let some of the men named above
tell you of the pleasant groves where
Omaha folk disported In the past Though
now nearly all vanished. they are to sense
| and memory dear, full of ghosts twere
| royal pleasure to meet. There is no wrath
OF the thousands who wander therein
smiling and happy old-time boy and girl
but would be welcome, thrice welcome, ir
any form.
Groves of the Good Old Days.
There was Saunders grove. and Redick's
and Rogers and the big one part Of which
| is now BemiS park, ana burphur springs
and the green aisles out Bellevue way
And overlooking the pleasant prospects fol
the eye then and now was Capitol Hill
There was where the cannon was located
that served notice on any one who Nigh
be asleep that the Fourth had arrived will
all it's years of added gloryl And Their
were punched the enthusiastic gunners, VIII,
kept the signal of great Joy sounding a
long as they judged It ought to sound
They were serving notice on all the worlt
that the starry banner close by was fiyinI
high and wide for freedom and for promise
The stars of glory sparkled anew ever
Fourth on Capitol Hill. you bet
Some OF the picnic places were quit
} a spell away from the central points 4
those days. Saunders grove is now Gu
by Harney from Twentieth to Twenty
| fourth. Redick's grove was about Thirty
/ second and Leavenworth. Sulphur Spring
; was at the point where Joe Redmond want
! to establish Gray Eagle park, over on IN
brow OF the north bluffs. At Sixth an
. Hickory was about the location of Rogers
: grove. Bemis park is what is left of
piece OF picnic timber that extended froI
I Burt to Hamilton and from about Thirtiet
: to Thirty-seventh, Cunning street was nc
4 yet thought Of
~ AS a rule the volunteer fremen ha