Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-01
ITINERARY OF NEBRASKANS
Home Folks" Train Will Spend Som
Time in Detroit.
MAYOR jim" MEETS GOTHAM POLICEMAN
One of "The Finest" Attempts to
Curb Ardor of His Honor
When He Carries a
LaSso.
MAYOR jim" MEETS GOTHAM POLICEMAN

NEW YORK, Aug. S.-(special Tele-
gram) 1.-THE first arrangements were made
this morning for the departure of the spe-
cial train carrying the Nebraskans. Mr.
Bryan and a number of other distinguished
democrats home.
Home folks" train. with the peerless
Leader" Norman Mack of Buffalo, Dan
Campau of Detroit and Harry Walter on
board will leave Jersey City at o'clock
Sunday, September q and will arrive in
Detroit Monday noon. 1t will leave there
at II 80 Monday night, arriving in Chicago
Tuesday morning, where the day will be
spent After the reception of Mr.. Bryan
Tuesday evening the train will leave Chi
cago at II 30 p. M, via the Great Western
arriving In Omaha at 2:30 o'clock Wednes-
day.
At an early hour this morning Major Jim
Dahlman, Dave O'Brien and number Of
other citizens of Nebraska became involved
in an alteration with an officious police
man, who attempted to move Bryan's home
folks from the sidewalk in front Of their
headquarters at the Victoria hotel.
After the reception. to Bryan and an out
door meeting. which was addressed by
Mayor Jim." he and two friends went
into Spankley's for midnight luncheon. Jim
had his lariat with him, which he used to
demonstrate to the big crowd in Madison
square how he had lassoed Nebraska's
great commoner, and taking the lariat as
homely illustration of the holding power
of Bryan on the people.
Policeman Catches O'Brien.
After luncheon Mayor Jim" and his
friends punched up with a number of
other neighbors in front Of the Victoria to
talk over the events of the night. A little
newsboy came along, and, spying the lariat
hanging on Dahlman's arm, he said he bet
Jim could not lasso him. The boy had the
words hardly out of his mouth when
Mayor jim made a throw, catching the
youngster around the leg This was sure
enough sport for the deniEens OF the dis
trict. Edging away from the crowd, which
had collected by this time. the boy again
challenged Mayor Jim" to rope him and
he, nothing loath, sent the lariat hurting
through the air. the loop falling over the
boys shoulders.
On seeing the crowd and realizing that
he was expected to do something, the po-
liceman on duty at the Victoria, in an ex-
ceedingly rough manner. told the Ne
braskans that they would have to move
on" taking Dave oBrien by the arm TO
move him along. But Dave was not one
OF the moving kind He explained that the
police regulations of New York were not
being fractured. but the copper" was not
OF the reasoning kind and began 10 tell the
1 boys" that they were not gentlemen and
were lot of. -four fiushers." Mr.. Dahlman
here took "A hand. He told the cop" that
II Dave o'Brien was touched there would
be hell on Broadway" or words that this
effect Twenty Nebraskans who saw the
incident backed up Dahlman and they made
1t clear to the off1cer that there would be
a trough house IL any effort was made
to pull anyone.
At-this juncture a plain-clothes man came
along and spoke few words TO the irate
Bobby" It had the desired effect. The
cop" had important business up the street
and the "home folks" went to bed.