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Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-06
vINToN SCHOOL PROSPECTS
Board of Education VIII Have Mat
ter ut Its Monday Night
r.. Meeting.

The Board Of Education Is expected Mon
day night to try to solve the question of
which local architect shall draw the plans
for the new Vinton school on the south
side. There is a wide difference OF opinion
among the members and an effort will be
made, doubtless. to thresh the thing out in
executive session. Member Lindsay has
served notice that he will oppose barring
the doors and excluding the public, believ-
ing that all worth saying can be uttered
in public hearing.
John Latenser, T. r. Kimball, Fisher &
Lawrie and Frederick w. Clarke are among
the Omaha architects who have friends
on the board to support their claims. Vari-
Gus reasons are being raised why certain
architects should or should not receive tho
contract and some zest may be injected
into the meetings Of the board, which have
had a remarkable placidity for months past.
Another matter to be brought up will
be the request of the Womans club for a
separate school for delinquents, where they
may be given special instruction and train
ing. The board members haven't studied
the question sufficiently to know just where
they stand on IT. Objections have been
raised. but the chief one is lack of money
to put the scheme through in less than
two or three years. Meanwhile It had been
hoped to extend the manual training work
to many of the grade schools.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-06
Banking Interests.

In 1856 there were seven banks in the
Territory of Nebraska. These were the
Western Exchange company OF Omaha, the
Bank of Nebraska at Omaha. the Bank of
Florence, the Fontanelle bank at Belle
vue, the Platte Valley bank at Nebraska
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-06
THREE STATE CONVENTIONS
photographer, Dentists and HOmeO-
PRthie Doctors Gather Here
on same Days.

Three state conventions viii be held In
Omaha May Is to IS, The Nebraska
State Photographers' association. the No
braska State Dental society. and the Ne
braska Homeopathic Medical society will
hold their annual meetings on that date
The railroads have granted a rate OF a
fare and one-half from all points in Ne
braska and nifty miles into Iowa. The
Omaha Commercial club has arranged for
Creighton hall as the meeting place and
exhibit room OF the photographers. The
other examinations have not secured quar-
terra.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-06

City, the Bank Of DeSoto and the Bank OF
Tekamah. These banks were with prac-
tically no restriction. The public protection
was the integrity and financial ability of
those securing the charter. Under the
unlimited powers given, these independent
banks they could issue almost unlimited
currency In an argument in the first ter
ritorial legislature when the chartering
Of additional banks was under discussion,
1t was declared that the banks already
had the power to issue their currency to
the extent of over 5000 for each man in the
territory over q years of age. That was
the beginning of banking in what is now
this state. Out from 1t grew the appellation
of wildcat banking and failures and de-
faults were of almost everyday occurrence.
1t would be interesting to show in detail
the growth away from the wild banking
methods of fifty years ago In this state,
to the fixed, safe and unassailable banking
conditions which exist IN Nebraska today
It is sufficient, however. to show here sim
ply the material growth of banks in this
state in the last fifty years.
Only thirty years ago the national banks
in this state numbered nine. January L,
1906. the number had increased to 1862 ma
tional banks in Nebraska The total num-
year. fifty years after the first banks were
established, numbered 7OS These banks,
both national and state, had a capital Of
nearly $25.0Oo,OoO. and the deposits at the
same time amounted to s1SS. 4S2.OS2. How
the wealth Of the people of this state has
Increased since the FIRST settlements in this
territory were madel What a growth even
In the last thirty years, from a few mil
lion dollars in a few banks in the state to
t1saooOooo in over 700 banks!
story 81 Ten Years. e
And the story of the last ten years in
the material advancement of the people of
this state. represented in their banking
interests. Is equally interesting. In the
last seven, years the deposits in the banks
OF Nebraska have increased over SIS. 900, 900.
In six years time the deposits in the
banks CT Nebraska have doubled and when
we consider the development of the banking
business for nifty years and the marvellous
progress that Is being made by the people
of this state along the highway of wealth.
who can say what another fifty years or
even what another ten years will show for
the wealth Of the people Of this state,
through their banking institutions?
Let me for a moment on this occasion
digress from my subject to say that now
a-days we hear 1t said that progress and
civilization follow the flag. And so they
do, but want to put it in another way.
Civilization and progress have in Nebraska
and l believe generally, followed the Chris
tan church. How much we are indebted
to the early missionaries and the splendid
Christian ministers who have unfurled the
banner OF Christ in establishing churches
in new territories, and who by their de-
votion, sacrifices and untiring zeal have
kept that banner ever floating. How much
we Congregationalists owe to those who
established the First Congregational church
of Omaha, whose golden anniversary We
celebrate here today. The planting OF
churches has and ever will advance the
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-06

material growth and welfare Of any
country.
Growth of Churches.
You will note from the figures have
Just given you that there is on deposit in
the banks of Nebraska nearly 500 per
capita for every man, woman and child in
our state. Permit me to say, as we have
been so blessed and prospered by GOD,
can we not with our almost 5000 member
ship in our Congregational churches in
Nebraska, contribute for one year at least
1915 on the average for each member to
be used specifically where 1t is so much
needed? To illustrate: Sixteen thousand
members at 1915 per member equals $780,,
Co., Of which to the support of home mis-
sionary work appropriate $4,000; to our own
college and five academies-Doane, Franklin,
Gates, Weeping Water and Chadron-ap-
propriate S5OOOO toward new buildings and
endowments which are so much needed
With the splendid showing in our state in
material growth. we can do this If we will
Our Christian college and academies are
not only training the minds, but building
character, which will endure in the lives
of the young men and women who go forth
from these institutions.
But 1 must resume my subject: II we
need another illustration of the way de-
velopment has come to this state, in the
year 1856 there were four newspapers in
the then new territory. This means OF
public communication had hardly taken
its first step in that year. But today, after
the lapse of fifty years, the newspaper,
the giant of communication, has reached
in this state the total number OF GAL publ
cations of this character.
Along Educational Lines.
There is another field and another IL
lustration Of the material development in
this state. which goes far toward the foun-
dalton for all the success pictured in the
development of Nebraska. The pioneer set
tiers in this territory believed in public
education and the establishing of the means
to build men of ability from the children
of the pioneer days in the territory. An
act to establish public schools was passed
by the territorial legislature and approved
January &c. 1856 At the same session of
the territorial legislature three universi-
ties for the territory of Nebraska were
Incorporated. What If these first steps
accomplished, little and that the proposed
universities never existed save on paper?
The spirit of the pioneer was there and
the aspiration TO make for this state a
great educated community was uppermost
in the minds of those who had the destiny
OF Nebraska in their minds fifty years
ago.
The same aggressive spirit for education
that characterized the pioneer has been
dominant every step of the way in the
development of Nebraska UP to the pres
emit Fifty years ago there was oLly the
hope and the wish for education in this
state Today what have we? A perma-
nent school fund for aid and support OF
public schools, amounting to T1g,OOO
school lands for the use of the public
schools amounting to 100000 acres. which
can fairly be valued at an average OF
SIS per acre. The value of the public
school property in Observation-Disclosures
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-06
STREET RAILWAY EXTENSIONS
Line to Bellevue VIII BE Finished on
Time and Others Are Going
Ahead.

Grading is progressing rapidly on the
Omaha & Council Bluffs Street Railway
eompany's Bellevue line and the directors
hope to have the line opened on the sched-
ule time. Some rails have been laid. but
several heavy cuts keep back this part OF
the work The track to Forest Lawn ceme-
terry was completed Saturday. except the
terminal, which will be delayed until the
building is completed at the entrance to
the cemetery. General Manager Smith says
the cars will be put on TO the cemetery
Immediately and a good schedule main
tanned.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-06
PROSPECT HILL SEWER BUILT
Eight Months OF work Sees the Mig
Drain Finished and Ready
for Service.

After eight months labor under two
separate contracts in the hands OF ]. o.
Corby and John f. Daley. the Prospect
Hill main sewer system has been COM
pleted except for the placing OF inlets
The principal stem OF the sewer runs
from Hamilton south to Thirtieth and
Burt streets, emptying into the Burt
street main sewer. A large district Is
served. Part of the main sewer passes
through the Creighton farm tract, per-
mission being given by the owner. vino
did not want a street opened through IT,
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-06

One OF the surprising announcements
OF the week was that the WoOdmen Circle
had given an option on its property at the
southwest corner OF Eighteenth and Far
nam streets. The Circle bought the
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-06

Hastings q Heyden have taken the block
north Of their formerly exploited block g.
Sulphur Springs addition. and have placed
it on the market. It is just at. the south
end of what is known as the blum tract
of the Transmississippi exposition grounds
In block the majority Of the lots have
been sold and eight houses have been built
to date.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-06

354, 25 Search the records of the COM
mencements of any state in the union,
and find If you can another state that in
the first fifty years of its settlement shows
any growth to compare with that Of Me-
braska.
In 1855, outside OF the frontier black
smith, who repaired the broken wagons
that traversed the plains, and who made
the crudest kind of repairs upon the few
implements that were used in the first
attempts at agriculture in Nebraska, there
was nothing that could be called manufac-
turing in the limits of the territory. The
United States census of 1860 gives the first
record OF manufacturing in what is now
this state and the number Of manufac-
lures was listed at 1o7, employing 236 peo-
pie What is the record today? The latest
statistics of manufacture in Nebraska fur
nished by the United States government
for the year 1905 show that there are in
the state 1873 manufacturing plants, hav-
ing a capital Of SSO,OOOOOO. having over 10000
employees, paying in wages over 81 200, 900
annually and turning out finished products
to the value of $154.91sO0O every year. And
yet Nebraska is not numbered among the
larger manufacturing states in the union.
1t is secondary proposition in the annual
wealth production of this state. But yet
what an enormous growth in this line of
manufacturing is the less than fifty year
record.
Crop Statistics. tfs
The first crop statistics Of Nebraska were
given to the public In the United States
census Of 1860. Before that date not more
than enough to meet the little LEGAL demand
of the few early settlers was produced in
fhA hal fo Nah ulra tn
1850 the territory produced 1fT.Ooo bushels
Of wheat and 10000 bushels OF corn.
Forty-five years later in the year 1905, the
state Of Nebraska produced 100000 bush
els of wheat and 2450oo.o0O bushels Of corn.
Less than fifty years ago large herds Of
buffalo were roaming over our state where
today 6,327,S7O head of cattle. sheep. horses
and hogs are feeding on our fertile pralries.
The live stock receipts at the South Omaha
market alone during the years 1905 repre-
scented nearly s75,OOO.OOO,
There was grown from the soil of Ne
braska in 1905 agricultural products and
stock to the value of S295. oo0 How can
we comprehend figures of this kind9 And
what a marvellous story less than fifty
years of Nebraska tells the world In
round numbers the state Of Nebraska in
the last ten years OF its history has pro-
duced In Its corn crop alone over two
billion bushels of that cereal. And re-
markable as the growth OF this state
in its development Of railway, its develop
ment of manufactures and its agricultural
development. equally remarkable is the
financial growth of Nebraska in the last
fifty years in the financial and banking In
situations.
Banking Interests.
In 1856 there were seven banks in the
Tcrrffnrv of NahrosLa Thee. xyara tho
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-06
Growth OF MateriaI Wealth.

In 1856 the value OF all property. real
and personal. found in the territory Of Ne
braskas was u,7o6,sls. over against this
item stands the total valuation OF property
OF all kinds in this state. exclusive OF ran
way property, which Is shown by the
grand assessment roll for 1906 TO be q E22.-
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-06

Saturday morning FIRE destroyed two OF
the houses which have been offered for sale
by the Northwestern. They were two
frame structures standing at the northeast
corner Of Thirteenth and California streets
and were priced at 500. A tenant in one
OF them was getting lunch and her gasoline
stove exploded scattering fire over the
house. 1t extended to another dwelling and
both were destroyed.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-06
TIMELY REAL ESTATE TALK
Hastings & Heydsn Gall Their New North
west Addition Military,
EFFECT OF BUILDING ON THE PAY ROLL
some Thoughts suggested by the BiE
Gang of Men working on
the New Brandeis -
Block.

Military addition is the name Hastings q
Heyden have given to their new suburban
Immediately north of Krug park.
the title being suggested by the fact that
one goes out Military avenue to get to II.
The addition was plated last week and Is
now on the market. The east twenty acres
have been divided into city lots, the next ten
acres into half-acre. lots and the rear ten
acres into acre lots. The prices named are
a little bit higher than lots in any addition
that far out which has been placed on the
market, with the exception of Benson,
which, OF course, is town of itself The
owners believe the price is justified by the
scarcity of good suburban property and
the demand for It. They have planted $50
trees, graders started to work Friday and
men are busy seeding the ground and clear
ing 1t of any rubbish which might be on
1t. Twenty-Five of the city lots have been
sold and that before the plat has gone on
record In this number only one single lot
has been sold, the majority of the pur-
chasers wanting three or four In no case
have they been bought for speculation, but
for the building of homes.
There is a large demand for acreage
property at a reasonable distance from the
car line" said Mr.. Heyden. 'T have been
surprised at the success we have already
met in placing this new tract on the mar
ket. We expected the lots to sell, but the
demand has been even better than we
thought"
Las Vegas daily optic., 1906-12-31

Whether public utility h" admin
istered by the government itself or hy
private corporation. we hold that
every person who uses ii should I've held
to pay the cost of the service which
he receives and that no man should he
compelled hy taxation or otherwise to
bear any part of his ncighhor's ex~
penses for light and power. for tele-
phone service or for transportation u
himself or OF his goods. Z
Every proposal that municipality
assume operation Of all public utilities
and reduce rates TO persons using
them. regardless Of what tho service
may actually cost. Is an attempt to
force some men 10 hear the expenses
Of others. because where the outlay for
operation exceeds earnings the deficit
must be made up by taxation. and this
we denounce as sociallstic and there
fore hostile to justice and subverslve
OF democratic government. - Bourke
Cochran.
Las Vegas daily optic., 1906-12-31
HOW CITIES LOSE MONEY.
Municipal Plants Pay No Taxes and
Reduce Tax Receipts. ;

The subject Of lost taxes is one that
deserves far more attention than II
usually receives from advocates OF
municipal ownership. There Is scarce
ly municipal plant In this country
which mentions this item in Its reports.
although 1t In just as much an element
In cost of production rs coal and
wages. The omission In readily over
looked. because II Is "A negative ex-
penSe involving n" direct payment. but
only a loss OF income TO the city.
II you own store for which YOU
are receiving Il good rental aud dis
possess your tenant in order to occupy
II yourself the rental value OF the store
becomes n charge against your bust
ness. just as II was previously a
charge against your tenants business.
and you are out of packet unless your
profits exceed the rent you formerly
received Similarly II city buys out
or otherwise ,lispossrsses a public serv.
Ice corporation the real. personal and
/ franchise taxes formerly paid by the
corporation become Il charge against
the operation OF the municipal plant
that succeeds the corporation. AMI the
city IN out of pocket unless the profits
| Of Its plant exceed the taxes lost.
Las Vegas daily optic., 1906-12-31
GOVERNMENT WAGES LOW.


Truan issss 10 lsEaa tAae aa*Ea=~ Ewsaal
CT af tie oEsiaaaFy ar4bsae~s II fs&a
ux4@t an The I naaesi states sAyansw~i a0
iess than Il Isrg eras siG*s& - l@s aaare
rxmesp that b.. tlse purrAas<E II f@sl
fsE . faaaily had a" laay $ia7 IN i'Eea
faE the same anaaai1y said quality q
feed that ~ woAaia Issar~-ha~~ Ina iass&
Ihs~e arr ofsAelal saafa>'ss ooGaEaiel
b. the highly ~kllis~a sxg@Tta employed
by tie federal soseghnaeaa., aaAd every
housewife khows that they sls' Iaof 0FeT-
state the adyaner Dtlas.g aaee*"ssitses o.
life have advanced 10 sOsa With ap
pr0xlmaa~iy equal ralsaslaty
Inqnesflonatsly wages ought. genet
ally speaking. 10 have aAs ase't'ss ssaaae'
what Ia pF0poriioa TO the inrreAse in
the Gust of iiEtng. In private employ
meat this has aplnrrntly taken place.
tie average wages l'eT hour Reported
hy the federal bureau Of IaboT being
I738 I.er cent higher 10 Isssi than In
lsssi and the average weekly earnings
l2ss pr cent higher. The advances
thus represented are spread all over tie
country: they characterize every pEi
yate Industrial enterprise and have
benefited all elaSses Of waTkmen em
ploy esi Ia private undertakings.
lI"w is ID with puhlle employment: 7:
/ few undertakings coaadmrit$i under
public ownership eInplny lAlsoT like
that similarly serving private einpl0y.
ers la the same communities. aud In
these eases the public rate "f wages
has slowly been adTansr"l s'na"what
In pruiprtlon 10 the advance tn th"
wages privately paid. But where ANY
American government. municipal. state
or national. In the sole OF. by far th"
largest employer Of a particular class
of labor the advances to meet increas.
ell cost of living have been s'' few that
, the ordinary investigator viii le un'
able 10 discover single instance.
Throughout the postal service. among
the a:,,U0 clerical employees at Wash
ington. In the customs aud internal
revenue services there have been no
advances In pay to meet the rise In
cost of food. clothing and shelter The
pay of letter carriers. for example. re.
mains rr~'iseiy where II was fixed
twenty years ago Iy an a"t APPROX e,l
on Jan. 3. 1887.
The largest printing office In the
' world Is that maintained at Washing
ton 10y the government. and there the
federal government employs large
fore" "f Intelligent and highly skilled
worklngmen 4 change In the basis
Of payment in iS.9 from the piere
work Ia the per hour system prevents
comparisons viii, dates prior 10 the
change. but wages have remained sta,
tionary since March ,. iSE. although
the official statlSticians report that the
cost az food has advanced since the
rate Of wages was fixed by statute fnl-
~ i215 per cent. During the same
years the wages Of printers In private
book publishing or job printing cstab'
lIshmentS advanced throughout the
United States as follows: COmp0sitnrs,
male. 1867 per cent. romposltors e.
male 2O.3n per cent press feeders.
male. 224i per cent: press feeders. fr
male "l21 I~r cent; rres~mcn. ll.II
per cent II r. Newr"mh.
Las Vegas daily optic., 1906-12-31
LONG LIVE THE BOSS!
Municipal Ownership Would Make His
Position imprsensbis.

Referring 10 the recent announcement
that 5i.iiG persons are Oh the payroll
Of New York city. the Newark Adyer.
tiser declares that In the event of mu.
nlcipal ownership of street railways,
electric light and gas plants. ferries and
other public utilities the city employees
would constitute u political army that
would make a change OF admlnlstra
ton impossible.
1t recalls the fact that 5000 city
employees In Philadelphia kept rhila-
delphia In the hands OF the corrupt
Durham machine for years. and only
u great popular uprising overthrow the
grafters.
III Durham had had control Of the
street railroads and other public utiil.
ties In Philadelphia through municipsl
ownership" II observes, "he could ha q
laughed at popular uprisings. lie
would have been as absolute In his au-
thoTity as the ear"
The point IN well taken.
In other cities the political situation
under publ" ownership would be az II
would In Philadelphia and New York.
Bosses may a overthrown and
grafters turned out whenever the pub
lie will II at present Public ownership
OF all public utilities would cnd this,
II would bind the people hand and
foot and deliver them into tho hands
OF political grafters. - Long Branch
Record
Las Vegas daily optic., 1906-12-31
DO YOU OWN A HORSE?
Electric Light Plants Are Like Horses
In Snme Reaneeta


The subject Of depreciation is well
worthy of th" careful consideration of
those who ARE prone to ignore that
item In estimating the cost of lights
supplied by municipal plants. But a.
more people own horses than llghtfn:
plants II may m helpful To consider
depreciation as applied TO horses.
You pay $3.50 for tiv" year,old
horse. That's original cost II you bor-
row the money you must pay interest
on IL. II you don't borrow ii you loSe
the interest you would get If y"u didn't
buy the horse Either way it's interest
You feed the horse. and perhaps hire
man to take care of him. That's oper,
ating expenses You get him shod o"-
casionally and call IN the veterinarian
when lie Is sick That's renewals and
repairs. After Il few years, in spite OF
the hest of care, the horse Is no longer
capable Of doing the required work
and II sold for $50, loss Of 5000 "a
compared with the original cost. That's
depreciation II you haven't laid that
by year by year out Of the horses
earnings. you've got to borrow 1t to
buy new horse. and you may not
find II easy to do y, II you haven't re-
paid the original loan. That's what
happens to municipal plants that don't
provide an adequate depreciation fund
Las Vegas daily optic., 1906-12-31
A. a Socialist Sees u.

Every recognized authority on 80
cialiSt economics. from Marx to Ferri,
has been and IN an ayowed economic:
evolutionist They all without excep
ton recognize that public ownership
under capitalism must come before the
full Socialist programme can mect with
realization.
When the Socialist party shall sue
eeed to power In municipality, state or
nation it will fall heir 10 the holdings
of its capitalist predecessors. Every
dollars worth of property that ~r can
wrcst from private capitalism through
public ownership will fall into the
hands of the Socialist party without Il
struggle upon its succession to power
International Socialist Review.