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Indiana tribuÌˆne. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1878-1907, 1905-08-02

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Indiana tribuÌˆne. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1878-1907, 1905-08-02

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fir brei Warf bas Stiid, aber ba bas
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Stiid binben. ,Sie fo1e nur ettpas
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bens.
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ten, Biz bic 9ranae fertig tpGren. Sas
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Tie lei. Wdbrenb Tie nod barber MODS
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alien Seiten betra9tets, hierauf Sruu
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Der armen 8rau in tleinen 8etrdgen
abge5pgen puroen.
Indiana tribuÌˆne. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1878-1907, 1905-08-02

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Indiana tribuÌˆne. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1878-1907, 1905-08-02
Yolitii@e Anfiinbignuseu.
Jobn u. 6einlein.

empfiebIt ii9 ben Steuer3abIern unb Stimms
gebern Der stem @arb aIs
QanbtSat fiir etaotratb,
unterrporfen Der bemofratii1en Nominas
tionS > &onbention.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-16

average estimate on the 1900 names proved
to be about 100000, the amount to be raised.
The estimate OF the most optimistic mem
Der of the committee reached something
above S2O0,0OO Those who served on the
finance committee were necessarily the best
informed men OF the board as to the finan-
cial status OF their fellow citizens.
Two thousand cards were then printed
and name was placed on each, with the
address The highest estimated subscrip-
ton was placed on the card and also the
name or number OF the committee to which
was assigned the task OF getting the money.
1t had been found from long experience
that the only successful way to start
campaign is to make the first subscription
a large one. 1t must also be a conditional
subscription its payment contingent on the
raising of a certain amount by certain
time. This heightens the enthusiasm of all
concerned in the canvass and causes them
to make every effort to secure the amount
which is needed in order to hold the first
committee leaders, If that first $4,000 or
$4,000. which ever 1t is, is lost by failure to
meet the conditions of its subscription each
man would feel himself in part directly re-
sponsible. Hence, the subscription is asked
for with the condition in order to make the
hustlers work their best. Only the leaders
are told that the condition was requested
by the directors who secured the donation.
In setting about for the first subscription
three members Of the board OF directors
went to see Guy c. Barton and asked him
to give $4,000 conditionally. He generously
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-16

new. For several days a stream Of water
more than 100 yards wide and several feet
deep poured down through North Omaha.
emptying into Cut OF lake, raising that
body of water until It overfiowed at its
southern end. Then 1t appeared that the
cut off was about to be completed and that
the costly East Omaha bridge would be
left on the Iowa side over snye. This
danger was averted by the subsistence of
the water and the protection applied to the
bank OF the river from a point above Flor
ence to a point below Omaha has practic-
ally effaced even the remotest danger of a
cut off.
The recent freshet has been rather un-
usual demonstration and attracted a great
deal of attention. although 1t did little
damage. Houses in the bottoms and on
Cut OFF island were flooded, Courtland
Beach was put out OF commission for few
days a summer park and many low-lying
fields were inundated. Great throngs Of
sightseers were attracted daily to the
river to witness the spectacle OF the food,
and were amply repaid, for the sight OF the
Missouri when it has reached high water
stage is certainly an inspiring one.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-16
Record Flood of 1881.

The highest recorded stage of water in
the Missouri river at this point was on April
"a, 1881. when the gauge indicated 23S feet
or SIS feet above the danger line, the danger
line being fixed at Is feet above the low
water mark.
There exists a pretty we'll authenticated
tradition that in the year 1874 the Missouri
reached even higher point than in 1881.
This tradition is based upon the story OF
American Fur Trading company employees
who, even in historic times in this section.
have pointed out where driftwood lodged in
the 1874 food. at points considerably higher
than the 1881 flood. There is also an old
high water mark at Fort Leavenworth,
Kan, indicating the height OF the 1874 food
which is much higher than the mark indi-
eating the 1881 food.
Only in one instance has the river passed
the danger line here at Omaha since 1884,
and that was on April Is, 1900, when II
reached the height of 1876 feet. or but half
a foot above the danger line. Only twice
prior to 1893 did the river reach or pass
the stage Of II feet after 1881. On April G.
1884 a stage of II feet was reached and en-
April IS, 1897. a stage OF 17.2 feet was
reached.
The highest point reached by the river
CONTINUED on Page Eighth
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-16
Getting Busy with Public.

The work being now we'll organized
among the members OF the board of III
rectors and the young mon, the most i'm
portant thing was to see that just as many
people as possible outside the association
were set to talking. One hundred citizens
allowed their names to be used by the
board of directors as an advisory board and
promised to help in getting subscriptions
when necessary. Many went to work as
soon as their names were placed on the
committee. others became enthusiastic
when they saw their friends collecting
money and their own names in the papers
members Of the advisory board. This
committee was not called together until
July G, ten days before the final effort. A
chairman had been selected in the person
of H. H. Baldrige, man of wide acquaint-
ance and eminently fitted to know Just
where the work of each member of his
committee would be most effective. He ap-
pointed subcommittee to solicit from busi-
ness men In various lines. In the ten days
which the committee worked they secured
thousands of dollars, at the same time
keeping the project before the public mind.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-16
CnmnnIrn for the Fund.

The details OF a subscription campaign
and its prosecution to ultimate success are
as intricate as those of any other large
business enterprise. A small army is rep
resented in its force of canvassers, secre-
taries and Office clerks. Fully 200 persons
were engaged in some degree in the cam
paign. Great care was required in the Sc
lection of committee chairmen and an end
less amount of pains taken to inspire them
with the proper spirit of enthusiasm and
confidence. Plans for advertising had to
be carefully laid. The making out of lists
OF possible subscribers with the aid OF
the directory involved infinite labor.
To begin at the beginning would be TO
commence the narration of the story with
the conference of the board of directors
with International Field Secretary C. S.
Ward, who is regarded as an expert In
the management of subscription campaigns
and who was sent to Omaha to lend his
aid
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-16
Lining Up for the Work.

The campaign was formally opened at a
meeting OF the board Of directors at the
Millard hotel. c. s. Ward was present and
outlined TO them the plan recently used at
Washington with much success Members
OF the board showed their faith and inter-
est by going down into their pockets for
large subscriptions, starting a directors
fund which soon afterward reached the
sum OF $4,000
The young men Of the association got into
line at q banquet at the Dellone hotel a
short time after. c. S. Ward, Secretary b.
c. Wade and members of the board Of di-
rectors were present to inject enthusiasm
into the young men>a they succeeded in
doing IL. A committee Of 100 was selected
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-16

IONS are never certain just where they will
be called upon to pay the next seasons
taxes. Now and then the tiller of the
soil is strangely rewarded for his work.
Not great many years ago a Missouri
farmer, plowing a field more than three
miles from the rivers channel, unearthed
steamboat that had been sunk forty years
before. His treasure trove amply repaid
him for his toll Another effect has been
to stimulate cultivation. for 1t is known
that several tempting cargoes Of whisky
were lost, three or four not many miles from
Omaha, on sunken steamers, and the man
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-16

Nebraska to its mouth showing its sew
eral channels during the last fifty years,
presents an incredible tanEle Of lines and
loops, marking the vagarious course Of
the willful stream over the rich bottom"
lands through which its lower stretches
roam at pleasure. This is why 1t has been
called treacherous. Its channel shifts, its
waters cut into the. banks first on one
side and then on the other. 1t has de-
voured fertile farms on one shore. and
has set up equally fertile farms on the
other in such freakish way that dwellers
along the stream during high water sea-
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-16

appearance of the Missouri river
is hardly calculated to inspire
IeYSHSf3I confidence, but when its ordinary
- turbid tide is swollen by the
waters OF a sudden freshet, and 1t sweeps
along in full food. It is really terrible ~
its suggestion of resistless might Even
those who have become most familiar with
the stream have never undertaken to
clothe 1t with the attributes of majesty;
yet its mighty flow and tremendous power
have in them the elements OF intensity
and vital energy that challenge the i'm
agtnation and arrest attention. 1t has
been called a treacherous stream; this is
because foolhardy or inexperienced persons
have underestimated its potentiality and
have undertaken to toy with 1t as with
ordinary streams. Approached with a
proper consideration for it's strength and
Importance, II serves, not with docility,
but with fidelity the uses to which IL may
be called. 1t was never subdued. The
great Mississippi, whose majestic flood is
one of the wonders of the world submitted
with becoming grace to being harnessed
by man; the Ohio and the Hudson and
lesser streams made little or no protest
when man called them into requisition as
highways of commerce. But the Missouri,
born in the mountains and big with the
freedom of the glorious wildness of ma
ture that surrounds its nativity, has al
ways resented mans puny efforts to fix
for its channel metes and bounds. 1t
tumbles out c. the granite Businesses OF
the Rockies a torrential stream of already
majestic proportions, and for more than
1000 miles it sweeps its course through
the greatest alluvial plains of the world.
laughing at every attempt to restrain II.
Its ways have been the despair of hydro
graphers and engineers. and its meander
has been the undoing OF the official records
of every commonwealth touched In its
course. Its whims are the unreasoning
ones of child of nature. untrammeed by
civilized conventions and undaunted by
musts and must nots II is the Big Muddy
and law unto itself. 1t is as susceptible
OF navigation today as at any time in
its known history, but the dangers and
difficulties OF directing commerce along its
tortuous course have practically resulted
in its being abandoned as a commercial
artery and being given over TO its primeyl
idleness and wantonness.
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Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-16

and 1t was pledged to raise $4,000 In JUS
tice to the enthusiasm of the young men
IL may be said that they had raised their
$4,000 and had started on another $4,000 by
the first day of the last week of the cam
paign. The committee was divided into
squads OF ten men each and placed under
the leadership of ten captains. 1t was a
plan used by Mr.. Ward in many places and
always found effective in stirring up en-
thusiasm and rivalry among the young
men.
'I tell you." said Mr.. Ward. "in order to
make the subscription work success, you
must get the members OF the association
enlisted; get them to talking and working.
The most gratifying feature here in Omaha
is the fact that the young men have buck
led into the campaign with a vigor that
have never seen equaled before. 1t has
been my experience that the young men
can be depended on for one-tenth of the
whole amount, but here they had secured
that part by the beginning of the last
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-16


hung on the front Of the Barker
I block at Fifteenth and Farnam
S streets It's face is white, the di-
vision marks on 1t black and the figures a
bright red Two black hands stand out
boldly against the white dial, one of which
has marked noon day after day, while the
other moved each day but small part Of
the circumference The timepiece is con-
spicuous from either side of Farnam street
for a distance of a block either way from
Fifteenth II is the clock which marked
the growth OF the Young Mems Christian
association building fund.
This novelty in the way Of advertising a
public subi cription project is an Omaha
invention. 1t was made by j. c. Pentland,
physical director of the association.
''It has been one Of the biggest adver-
tlsing features Of our campaign" said G. 8.
Ward international field secretary, who
has been in Omaha engineering the sub
scription work. II have been engaged for
many years in the raising OF funds for as
ISOLATION buildings and wherever 1 go 1
pick up ideas which will assist me in the
next campaign. The clock is a happy
Omaha idea. It will be used hereafter in
all subscription work with which 1 am
connected"
As 100000 was the amount to be raised,
the clock was made TO register 100 minutes,
each representing 5000. The pleasure of
watching the big hand move one minute
cost $1,000 Through the agency of the
newspapers the clock was made daily
feature, and thousands OF people began to
raise their faces to note the time when
passing along Farnam street. They de-
scribed the clock to their friends. In this
way mention of the new building and the
subscription fund for It were kept con-
tinually in the public ear.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-16
Associntion Experts in Line.

Very important was the force Of associa-
tion secretaries. B. c. Wade, local general
secretary, directed the work at the office.
International Field Secretary Ward. besides
helping to outline the campaign, acted as
an advisory committee of one with the va
rious chairmen and was especially respon-
sible for the work of the board of directors
F. L. Willis, secretary here for eight years
before Mr.. Wade's advent. having a wide
acquaintance, was active in getting money,
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-16

They were no doubt inspired by the work Of
the young men. When business man saw
one of his clerks going down into his pocket
for one or two months salary his eyes
were opened as TO his own duty.
One of the largest donations to come from
the work OF this committee was subscribed
at a luncheon given by C. c. George at the
Commercial club to the real estate men.
On this occasion the sum of 81 ,2S5 was SUBJ
scribed by twelve men.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-16

and worked with Mr.. Baldrige and his COM
mittee State Secretary ]. p. Bailey was
enlisted TO look after the newspapers and
the churches. Sunday morning Of the last
week he had speakers in all the churches
OF the city to lay the needs of the assocla-
ton before the congregations. Secretary c.
NJ. Mayne of Lincoln, formerly assistant
secretary in Omaha, assisted the young
men. Arthur Jorgensen, the local financial
secretary was power as the director OF
the young mems committee.
To l. w. Carpenter. president Of tho
board Of directors, the association men give
the large share of the credit for success
For thirty days he gave more than half OF
his business time to subscription work and
during the last few days he was scarcely
at his desk in his Office at all. He was in
valuable in directing committee work and
in canvassing those who were expected to
give large sums.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-16
Fairly Well Controlled Here.

Fairly Well Controlled Here.
Many years have passed since the Mis-
souri, INDUCED in any expensive or really
dangerous freaks near Omaha. Cut on
island was its last demonstration in this
line, and that occurred far back in the 7Os
but in 1897 the channel threatened to re-
turn to It's old course, with a mile or two Of
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-16

met the request. The subscription was
made Saturday. Sunday morning all the
papers came out with the story, Barton
Gives Ten Thousand" and the first big gun
of the campaign had been fired. Then the
various soliciting committees of the board
of directors went to work in good earnest
to see how many S5,OOOs, 81 zoos and $5OOs
they could get.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-16
When the Big Muddy Gets Out OF It's Banks

who uncovers one of these cargoes on his
farm will be repaid, for he will have that
much liquid gold on his hands when he
brings that long buried product of the
still to the surface.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-16
Many small subacriptiona.

Although the Omaha campaign was con-
Quoted along well established lines, it was
different in one respect from others. There
was less number OF large subscriptions.
Ordinarily in subscriptions amounting to
secured In S10O00s and S5OOOs. Here the
largest was $4,000 and there were few
others more than $1,000. At the same time
there was more public spirit and more
cooperation than In other places. The
people came out readily with their small
subscriptions. They gave early in the
campaign, too, and while the leaders ex-
pected to find II necessary to secure $4,000
in the last day. there was much less than
that amount for the last two days.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-16
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separate Headquarters Plan.

week. At the middle Of the last week one
Of the squads was credited with 5000"
separate Headquarters Plan.
with the young men started in their
work tho bo; rd of directors began to look
about for headquarters building. To have
an Office for the campaigners separate from
the association building was an idea bor-
rowed from the Washington association in
It's recent subscription work. Such an
office keeps the secretaries away from
their daily round of association duties and
relieves their minds of petty worries con-
nected with routine. To meet this need
George Barker came to the front with the
vacant bank quarters in the Barker block
at Fifteenth and Farnam streets The
headquarters location was advertised by
means of the daily papers and large ban
ner was hung across Farnam street to call
attention to the location.
Estimating Probable subscriptions.
Then Secretary B. c. Wade got busy in
this Office with force of clerks and stenog-
raphers. Two thousand names were Sc
lected from the directory and listed accord
ing to business interests and business and
residence districts The telephone direc-
tory and club rolls were used also in get
ting names Two stenographers and three
clerks were required all the time, even
after all the names were listed.
These names went into the hands OF a
finance committee composed Of four mem
bers Of the board Of directors Each man
placed an estimate on each name Of the
amount he thought would be given. The