Omaha daily bee., 1906-09-02
OLD FRIENDS RECALLEVENTS
Pioneers whs Have Known Mr., ROs,wster
Long Grow Reminiscent.
Army EXPERIENCE s.lATtO BY HIM
Member of stan Reeites InterestinE
Conversation with HIS OLD
Employer, who Reviews
scenes of Great Battles.

scenes Of Great Battles.
Il will complete forty years Of life In
Omaha on Tuesday. September T." said
Major John h. Furay. II knew Edward
Rosewater all that time, for q number OF
years intimately. and later on a friendly
footing. II is interesting and pathetic to
me to recall that Edward Rosewater was
the first man l met and became acquainted
with after landing here
"You see, my regiment had been sta
toned at Fort Laramie prior to this and
l acted a good deal OF 1.-The time as aju-
tant. In this connection / signed many
kilograms addressed TO Colonel Sapp at
Omaha, then commanding the Department
OF the Platte. II seems that in the local
telegraph ONCE Mr.. Rosewater had be-
came familiar with my name, because of
this correspondence. came TO Omaha on
a steamboat, the City of Denver. from st.
Joseph, after being mustered out Of the
army service, subsequent to the Indian cam
paigning. 4 remember that Il took us sew
erai weeks to make the journey on the
Missouri owing. to the condition of the
river. Harry Deuel. was clerk OF the boat,
which burned on the next trip He was the
fiIst Omaha man with whom became
acquainted, but / met him before reaching
Omaha. '.. -,...
After reached Omaha my first thought
was to telegraph relatives announcing my
safe arrival 4 asked the way to the tele-
graph Office and found II. l wrote my
telegram and handed It over to the opera
tor. The latter counted the words and
said:
Are you not the Major Furay who has
been out west ighting the Indians?
Il said was and the operator told me
his name was Edward Rosewater and that
he knew me by name and reputation
through the interchange Of military tele-
grams He shook hands with me and was
very friendly, and that was how ! came
to know him. His friendly reception meant
more to me than can describe, for was
a total stranger In Omaha and knew no
one here. II was time and occasion when
acquaintance and friendship counted for
good deal TO me. and-I appreciated Mr..
Rosewater's kindly attitude.
I For a number Of years we were on
intimate terms ana 1 helped elect him TO
term in the legislature.
81 remember distinctly that his young
friends, including myself. doubted ex-
tremely the wisdom Of his course in aband-
onlng his position with the telegraph COM
pany to devote all his energy to The Bee.
A good job was a sure thing, we figured,
and preferable to the uncertain venture
of starting a newspaper without great
financial backing in a new town and in
the face Of hard competition. or course
events proved to- everyone's satisfaction
that Mr. Rosewater had seized just the
1t.
He never would have undertaken II or sue
ceeded were II not for his indomltable
energy and the fact that he never recog-
nized defeat or knew when he was beaten
:, The day after Mr.. Rosowaters death the
flag was run up, half way on the stan of
Boyles'e Business college. as on many other
buildings of a private character In tho
city t 800,
Il did this mereiy, as 4 mark Of personal
respect and gratitude. toward Mr.. Rose-
water" said President H. 3. Boyles. in
speaking about 1t. mot very many per-
sons know that Mr.. Rosewhter aided me In
the most substantial way In starting my
school, and without solicitation on my part
In 1897 1 established the college in The
Bee building, occupying a single room fer
which paid $3.50 a month rent. Business
was so light that even this amount was
decided burden. I had one little old type
writer and a secondhand desk Mr.. Rose
water observed the condition of things and
very soon offered to loan me a room rent
free so that might have at least a pri-
vate- office apart from the school room.
He did It In a quiet and wholly unostenta-
tious manner. Business grew better and 1
rented another room. He loaned me ar
other room for an ONCE and this process
kept UP until was paying slT5 month
rent Mr. Rosewater then concluded was
on my feet and the free room rent ceased.
never forgot this kindness. for Il came
at a time when needed 1t the most"
DR.. George L. Miller. whose paper the
Herald and the Republican were the only
two in the field when The Bee was founded,
tells OF an incident to which he believes the
success Of the new paper Crhe Bee) de-
pended.
'"The Herald and the Republican were
both evening papers, but I had secretly
decided to make the, Herald a morning
paper. had instructed my employees that
the fact we were to change to the morning
field was not to be made public. A drunken
printer gave II away TO the Republican
and Major BAlcombe OF that paper sur
prised us by changing the Republican to
morning paper on the very day we
changed.
IF we had been sensible. we would have
drawn straws TO see who would issue
morning and who an evening paper thus
dizfding the field Between US. but we didn't
We left the evening field unoceupied and
Mr. Rosewater entered II with The Bee.
Considering the hard struggle he had with
I 40 nhf he'll hfla
have kept the paper anoat II he had had
an evening paper TO tight"
Mr. Rosevater's oversight OF details
which led him TO make a tour Of the Bee
building almost daily is illustrated by a