Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-10
AFFAIRS At SOUTH OMAHA
Rout. for Street Car Line to Bellows
Decided on by Company.
RUNS SOUTHEASTERN ALONG THE RIDGE
Contractors Are NOW out Fisuring on
the work 10 he Done, which
at some Places VIII
he Heavy.

Manager Smith of the Omaha & Council
Bluffs Street Railway company has made
the announcement that the route from
South Omaha to Bellevue for the new
suburban line has been decided upon and
several contractors have been asked to
put in bids on the work. Superintendent
Smith said:
I'VE are anxious to have this work COM
pleted as soon as possible and have asked
for bids from several contractors. The
route will be from the present terminus
Of the South Omaha line at Albright in
southeasterly direction along the ridge to
Bellevue. The route has been decided only
as far as the Bellevue college grounds and
the right-of-way men are still figuring on
the balance of the route through Bellevue
and on to Fort Crook, which we also in
tend to build"
Three contractors were over the new
route Saturday figuring on the work. some
of which will be very heavy. The estab-
lished roads will not be followed, but
right-of-way has been purchased right
along the top Of the ridges through farm
lands.
The Florence line, which the company
was so many years in deciding to build has
proven such a money maker that this line
sible and is expected to develop into
good feeder to the Omaha lines.
This announcement was received in
South Omaha with considerable satisfaction
on the part of the merchants of the town,
who see in the construction a greatly in
creased territory tributary to South Omaha.
Since the South Omaha merchants have be-
gun to work together to their own inter-
ests all these added sources of trade are
heralded with Joy.
BARRIERS Are BubbIinE over.
BARRIERS of South Omaha are up in arms
over a report in one of the newspapers
concerning the proposed action Of some
of the BARRIERS in returning to the old
scale of prices for work. The result of that
action would be practically seeding from
the union and the probable disruption Of
the South Omaha local. Some of the
BARRIERS had announced that, beginning with
next Monday, they would return to the old
scale of prices and forwarded their cards
to the union, thus indicating that they
wished to withdraw from the union.
A denial of this has been made to The
Bee by Frank Fitzsmmons, president of
| local No. 81. He says:
IL noticed in the world-TIerald an article
headed, South Omaha BARRIERS May Dis
solve Union I desire to assert that the
writer of the article Is mistaken and to
! say in this connection that the union never
was in better circumstances than at the
present time and never so strong as now.
1t is possible there may be one or two
BARRIERS in South Omaha who think their
services in shaving patrons are only worth
| 10 cents and 1 am not prepared TO dispute
| that proposition and agree with them under
| those circumstances il would not be right
/ for them to charge more; but speaking for
| the organization, permit me to say that
such BARRIERS will have no effect on the
union. Our patrons as a whole are in favor
of the union and If man wants to close
| his shop I know of no reason why he
should not do so nor of any more certain
or speedy way than trying to run without
union card on his wall. We recognize
the truth in the saying, United we stand.
divided we fall"
Mass Meeting on Sewer.
| A mass meeting of the citizens of South
| Omaha has been called at the city hall
! for Thursday night, December "A, to con-
slider the sewer bond proposition Ever
since City Attorney Lambert handed in
| his written opinion that the Stock Yards
| company cannot be made to build any part
of the sewer except the tunnel through
| Albright to the river, the question has been
discussed quite freely by the people of
! South Omaha. The contention has been
made that the Stock Yards company can
be made to build the sewer and the city
to afterward pay for half of the cost OF
! construction Considerable feeling Is being
displayed over this question and the citi-
zens of this thriving burg are aroused SO