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Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-04
Date for Active Campaign.

March Is the active canvass for the $l&.-
900 will be begun and will last one month.
In this a large number of prominent local
women besides several national work.
ers. will participate.
In addition to these 100 young business
women, members of the association, have
organized in teams OF ten for the raising
OF at least $4,000, and while this may seem
IA small proportion to be raised by the
members. considering the restrictions
placed upon their canvass It will be a cred
table accomplishment. It is by this means
that it is hoped to reach the small sub
scribers-the individuals, men and women,
with whom the finance committee might
not come IN contact but who might, and
are desired to help, even to a small ex-
tent Women have ever had to look well
to the little things and the finance COM
mittee realizes that there is to be no ex-
centons in their canvass.
The first active steps in the campaign
were taken week ago when the 100 bust
ness women members met together at a
BANQUET in tho association rooms, guests
OF the finance committee. and outlined
their plans
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-04

ing up the prairie at so much per acre. He
turned his savings into cattle. and let them
Craze on government lands. AS he made
more money he bought more cattle, and, to
make a long story short, he is now a mil
lionaire and is growing richer and richer
1t was in his office in Calgary that 1
chatted with this man on cattle raising.
Said he:
There has never been such a country
for money making as this. All we have
had to do has been TO turn the cattle ont
on the prairie and let them grow into gold
The climate Is such that they can feed out
of doors all the year round and the grass
fattens them almost well grain.
am now shipping to Liverpool stock which
have never tasted corn. They are grass
fed and their flesh is hard enough to stand
the voyage"
mot we'll grain fed stock?" asked l.
Perhaps not" was the reply. But they
cost less to raise and they are worth more
money to u.s."
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-04

ernoon, a noon meeting every Friday and
special meetings during the year. The en-
roll.0ent in the Bible classes is 22S The
educational department provides classes
in literature English, arithmetic, vocal
music French, German, Spanish. elocu-
ton history and under the industrial
classes sewing, millinery and embroidery
are taught. Two hundred and thirty-nine
women enrolled in these classes. An
entertainment course of five or six lee
lures musicales or rectals supplements
the class work.
The gymnasium has provided recreation
and a thorough course in gymnastics by
a graduate physical director. With poor
facilities and meager equipment the high
est enrolment in this department has
reached 1885,
The noon lunch furnished wholesome and
well cooked food at prices considerably
less than 1t be provided at other
places this being made possible by the
volunteer service of women of the city
who take regular turns helping with the
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-04
Canada Cattle for England.

What can you get for a good steer, Mr..
Burns?"
"A 4-year-old fit for the market will bring
$40 here" was the reply.
What will it sell for In Liverpool"
"Seventy-five or eighty dollars 1t costs
just about $50 to get it there, for we must
send 1t 1000 miles by rail and then across
the Atlantic ocean. The people who handle
such cattle expect to make 81 or IS a head"
How much do such animals weight"
II have shipped many which have aver
aged one ton EACH and we sell hundreds
which will weigh 1850 pounds. Such beasts
are entirely grass fed"
But will not the stock business now fall
on? / understand that the ranches are
being cut up into farms"
Yes, that will be the case with ranching
pure and simple, although stock raising
will increase. 1t now takes ten acres OF
wild grass to support one steer, while on
the farms the same land will support ten
We have now about 10000 cattle in this
vicinity. We shall eventually have 1900
OOO"
But what kind of feed can you raise for
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-04
Stockmen Against Farmers.


stockmen Against Farmers.
find somewhat the same InctlOn be-
tween the cattlemen and sheepmen here as
in the United States. The government
regulates where the sheep rancnes are to
be and the result is that there are fewer
sheep than cattle or horses.
The cattlemen also object to the farms
which are growing up in the stock country.
Within the last few years it has been
found that almost ali OF these semi-arId
lands will raise winter wheat, and large
part OF such lands are being turned into
farms. l met here at Calgary Chicago
man who had fenced in loo acres He
had bought this tract in the heart OF a
Iich grazing country and was about to
raise winter wheat, The stockmen warned
him to leave and cut his fences. After
they had done this several times he called
upon the head of the mounted police, Colo
mel Saunders, and said:
Il have come to see If my rights cannot
be projected. i am not a Canadian citi-
zen, but am an American who has bought
property in Canada / have clear title
to my farm, but your stockmen say that
i shall not till it and they have cut my
fences again and again"
Il think We can protect you,' replied the
chief. II will send you officer and lie
will swear in your hired men as members
of our police force. After that they can
arrest anyone who dares touch your fences
or destroy your crop. If the intruders re-
sist arrest and your men shoot them in
carrying out their duties that act will be
perfectly legal"
Thereupon the Chicago man went back to
his ranch. A few days later his hanGs
were made temporary members of the
mounted police and from that time on he
had no further trouble.
l would say. however, that the Canada
cowboy is a far more orderly creature than
his American brother. He lacks the pic
turesqueness of our frontiersman and he
never dashes into the settlements to
shOot-up the towns. The system Of mounted
police which prevails throughout western
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-04
some Existing buildings.


And in the face of this canvass about to
ton buildings of other cities and how
they have been acquired may be opportune
The Detroit building, which is the largest
and perhaps the most completely
equipped. cost, with the furnishings, $780,
OOc OF this amount $4,000 was given by
Miss Grace Whitney Hoff and another
s25,OC0 was the bequest of her father. The
lot cost $4,000. The building. which is a
five-story structure, is the center of the
women's interests Of the city. Its school of
domestic science is model and an inspira-
ton to other associations to go and do
likewise"
the gift Of Mrs. w s. Benton as a me-
mortal to her husband. cost, with the lot,
something over 500 COO. the furnishings
were given by the citizens
The Milwaukee building was erected a
few years ago at a cost of s9O,0cO. and was
the gift of Miss Planltington of that city
The lot was purchased by the citizens.
These are three of the largest association
buildings in this country and while they
are all comparatively new buildings their
work has already outgrown them. 1t Is
Citations that the Omaha women propose to
erect a building that will be adequate to
the demands so rapidly increasing.
Poughkeepsie has just dedicated a hand
some new building, of which 1t is said that
every citizen contributed to its building
fund.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-04

serving With this help and the CAFETERIA
plan of serving very little hired help is
required and the lunch room yields a
small! profit to the association.
The rest rooms are equipped with
couches, to which scores and scores of
tired women come daily for rest, esDe-
cially during the noon hour, which is inn
proved to the utmost by women employed
in the stores who must be on their feet
the greater part of the day. The reading
room is furnished with the best current
magazines. periodicals and daily papers
and a small library and also a supply of
comfortable chairs.
The extension work includes visits to
factories with noon meetings and Bible
and Industrial classes, Bible classes in the
commercial colleges and Il branch in the
southeast part of the city with classes
and social gatherings for those who live
too far away to come to the central
rooms. During the past year employment
has been found for 151 women and 1i5
have been directed to suitable boarding
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-04
Land of Fine stock.

Most of the stock raised here is well
bred. One thousand dollars is by no means
a high price for a bull, and there are cat
tie sales at Calgary every year which COM
pare favorably with any in the United
States. The favorite animal is the Short
horn, but there are many Polled Angus and
Galloways. The best breeding stock comes
from England. and there are some ranch
men who make a speciality of raising choice
beef for the English market. The Canada
Cattle company which has 10000 head on
Its different ranches, ships its stock on
the hoof to England. The animals are all
grass fed, and the sanitary regulations
are such that they must be killed within
eight days after landing in Great Britain.
Sir William Van Horne has big farm
In western Canada which is noted for its
fine cattle, and there are many rich farm
ers in Manitoba Right in the heart of
the wheat belt Thomas Greenway, a for
mer premier of that province, has a farm
of 1000 acres, but he plants only one-half
of this in grain and devotes the balance
to raising highly-bred Shorthorns. He has
now 200, and says they are the most profit
able part of his farming operations.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-04
Great Canadian Range.

These stockmen claim to have moro graz
ing lands than We have. l have travelled
for hundreds OF miles east and north of
Calgary through a rich prairie country
covered with grass, and ! am told such
lands run south to the United States line.
The Canadians say that their possible
ranching area is bigger than Texas, and
come describe II is equal to six states as
large as Pennsylvania.
The most of this country is now let out
on government leases. The annual rent is
4 cents an acre. but the grass is so thin
that II takes twenty acres to feed one head
OF stock, and the government will not per-
NIT more than that average number to be
grazed on any of the ranches
Our own cattle country has been greatly
overstocked. The grasses have been so cut
on that they will not come up and our
Agricultural department is encouraging re-
seeding the plains. Here, in Canada, every
thing Is under rigid government super
vision. The mounted police patrol the
ranches. They enforce the protection Of
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-04

Thirteen years ago, April "a, 1893, the
Omaha Young Womens Christian associa-
ton was organized with fifty-four active
and thirty-three associate members, the
first work being the furnishing of three
rooms in the McCague building for a noon
rest and lunch room and educational re-
lgious and social work. From this be-
ginning 1t has grown to the sixth associa-
ton in this country in point of numbers
and third in the number of Bible classes
and its lunch and noon rest for women.
Before the close of the first year more
commodious rooms were secured in the Bee
building, and here the association worked
and grew until the summer of 1897, when
what was known as the old library rooms
in the Paxton block were secured. Three
years ago FIVE adjoining rooms were rented
and in these outgrown quarters the associa-
ton is housed today.
The membership has grown from the
eighty-six charter members to 1,S45 men,
bers and the work has grown apace.
The first year there were IL ,975 lunches
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-04
Young Womens Christian Association Opens Building Campo
Organization Funds the Erection of Home for the

women were asked to wait. They cheer
fully complied and did efficient work in
raising money for the educational depart
ment Of the exposition. Since then, other
enterprises Of a public and general charac-
ter have made demands upon the city and
for each and all of these the association
has had TO wait. Three years ago an or
ganized effort was begun to secure the
much needed building and the time since
then has been devoted to acquainting the
public with the great need as well as the
preliminary work. So nearly has the assoc
citation been self supporting that the COM
mittee has had to explain away many erron-
eous ideas that had resulted through igno-
rance of the work. The fact that the great
work done in the past has cost the pub
lie so little encourages the women to be-
lieve that the money required for the build
ing will be freely given and that they
will be equipped for the much needed and
rapidly growing work.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-04

Twice within the past twenty
years the citizens Of Omaha have
been called upon to erect suit
IEIEIYl able building for the Young Mems
- Christian association, the first
time in 1886 and 81, when the present
building at Sixteenth and Douglas street
was built at cost of $1,000. and last
year when something over $4,000 was
solicited for the new building being erected
at Seventeenth and Harvey streets. And
the city is proud Of a work for young
men which has made such demands. And
apace with this Christian movement for
men has grown n sister work for young
women, the Young Womens Christian as
ISOLATION, but so modest have been its
demands that, although 1t is about 10
enter it's fourteenth year and has n mem
bership of over 1900, It is comparatively
little known beyond the circle that is an
terested in II.
1t was with something approaching
amazement, therefore, that many people
received the announcement that the
Young women's Christian association is
about 10 begin an active canvass for $780,
900 for the erection of building that will
be adequate to its actual needs. Last sum-
mer the association purchased the tri
angular property at the southwest corner
of Seventeenth and st. Mary's avenue at
a cost Of $4,000. OF this $500 was sub
scribed by the members and the re-
mainder by business men and others. The
lot is two-thirds again as large as the
ordinary city lot and. while its location
is considered out OF the way by MANY.
It is especially convenient for the several
hundred business women who visit its rest,
lunch and reading rooms daily.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-04
Supported by the Members.

The association derives its principal sup
port from its membership dues, the active
membership Zee being 81 n year. The
sociate membership costs the same, 81 a
year, and carries every privilege except
that of voting At the annual meeting. A
gratifying number Of women are giving
their support through a sustaining menu
bership of s. a year. the privilege being the
same as the 81 membership a life menu
bership costs SIS.
Slight additional charges are made for
the class work, which is necessary to its
support.
In the associations of some of the larger
cities moro young women are enrolled in
the educational classes than in any one Of
the women's colleges of this country. and
as has been said, Here is means of edu-
cation-not a college education-but an
education for the girl who missed college,
the girl who does not know our language
the girl who was taken out of school when
in the fourth grade to go to work in a mill
or in shop; the girl who has missed the
opportunity of an early education"
As has been so well stated by an officer
of the local association: I'm the changed
and changing social and industrial condi-
tons, women by the thousands must go
out Oh the LoHe 10 Help 10 tHe WORM
work just as in all times past she has
done her share In the home. There are
questions TO be settled by organizations,
unions, by legislation, state and federal, to
NEE: humaney the conditions of the wage
earning woman; but there is need now and
will be when all is done for the community
to make up to these women the lack of
home, school and church privileges. This
in most emphatic way the Young Wom-
ans Christian association does, not in
charitable or patrc nizing way, but In dig
nified. self-respecting way. Not alone to
the wage-earnng woman, but the women
of the home and the girls who have had
college advantages, the association minis
tiers and gives opportunity for fellowship,
culture and service. Every gift and talent
may be exercised for the good Of others"
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-04
Organization of Local Society.

Lowell. Mass, Paterson, n. j., Rockford.
ILL.,, and Ottumwa, Ia, are other cities that
have or will dedicate new buildings within
the year and there are forty-five others in
process of erection besides these. Indicating
the demand and the recognition Of the
value of this work, of which It has been
truly said: 1T touches the girl at any
point of contact and from that point pro-
ceeds to help the whole girl" Twenty
five cities, most of them smaller than
Omaha, already have Young Womens
Christian association buildings.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-04
The Armour of Canada.

One of the best known ranching men of
the west is Patrick c. Burns of Calgary.
He is the Armour of this part OF the world.
and is sometimes called the cattle king
Of the British northwest. He shipped $500
carloads of beeves last year, and he has
now about 0ooO head in his yards. He
has big trade with Manitoba. British
Columbia and Alaska. At the beginning
of the Klondike gold discovery he got 81, 900
apiece at Dawson for steers, and as much
as 81 pound for beef on the hoof.
Pat Burns came to Calgary about TWEEN
ty-tive years ago, and began life by plow-
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-04


I drove out over the prairie Yesterday 70
the Robinson horse ranch This is devoted
to rearing Clydesdale and Shires for the
markets OF British Columbia and eastern
Canada. These horses are in great demand
in the mining regions. some of them going
we drove for several hours over a rolling
prairie covered with a thick grass, now
cured into hay. II Is brown on top but
green near the roots The horses feed on
such grass all the year round. They are
pastured in the midst Of the winter, even
when the ground is covered with snow.
They paw the snow away with their feet,
and. as the cowboys tell me, come out hog
fat in the spring.
The ranch buildings here consist of
dwelling worth perhaps about SeOcO, barn
the size of a country livery stable and a
number of corrals. The horses live on the
prairies and the buildings are compare
lively cheap. The owner OF this ranch, al
though he is worth $1,000 lives as simply
as the ordinary store clerk Of one OF our
cities His house here is comfortable. but
not pretentious and during our call his
wife spologized for her appearance. saying
that she had lust come from superintend-
ing the dressing of some hogs which had
been killed that morning. She chatted
freely about her ranch life. saying that she
preferred It greatly 10 that OF San Fran
cisco. where her girlhood was spent
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-04

served. Last year there were 166,142 or an
average of 500 daily. The receipts for all
purposes the first year were sligo. Last
year they were s1S,766.45. For thirteen years
the association has faithfully administered
to the spiritual, intellectual and social
wants of young women, and it is one of
the most nearly self-supporting associa-
lions in the country.
In this respect it is looked to with adj
niration by all other associations, but ma
tional workers have on several occasions
criticised it's independence on the ground
that in asking so little of the community
it prevented many from knowing of its
work. Last year about $500 was solicited
for running expenses this being the largest
amount ever asked, and was only made
necessary through a necessity of additional
equipment that drew heavily upon the as
ISOLATION finances.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-04
Raising Hooded Hor-er.

One Of the large stock businesses here is
horse raising. / saw thousands of horses
feeding on the prairies between here and
Medicine Hat, and passed large herds on
my way north to Edmonton. The horses
are fine looking. The day of the broncho
and tho broncho buster have passed, and the
animals now breeding are handled by the
stockmen so that they are comparatively
tame when ready to break. Nearly all the
best known horses are represented There
are Clydes from Scotland, thoroughbred
Shires from England and Percherons from
France. Some of tho ranchers are raising
trCtting stock and others park saddlers for
our city markets Robin Adair, which re-
Gently took the first prize at the Now York
horse show was reared Just outside of Cal
gary, and near by there ia a stCclman who
mas l,2c0 Percteron mares, There are stall
lion shows here every year and they COM
pare with the cattle shows in quality.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-04

the cattle against diseases, and have dip
ping stations where all the stock that
comes into the country is examined and
treated to prevent the Introduction of
Texas fever and other plaques. These
police have veterinary surgeons with them
and they watch carefully all cattle from the
United States.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-04
How Fine Cattle and Horses Are British Norwes

Canada results in good order being every
where kept. The farmers are regularly
visited and cattle thieves are vigorously
punished. Indeed, the general order In
both town and country is superior to that
of the western parts of the United States.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-04
Prattle OF the Youngsters

Nov, Tommy" said the fond parent,
who was it that discovered the handwrit-
ing on the WALTZ" THE teacher" promptly
replied Tommy, AN said | did it with my
new pencil an kept me in"
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-04

houses.
The association work. is carried on by
a board Of directors and six salar.cd sec
retar.es The rooms are open from a.
m until $3.50 y. m. every day with Sab
bath meetings that stand for the best
things. the building Of character the cul-
ture and protection OF womanhood
And this is but an outline Of the work
being done. The present quarters are
entirely outgrown and the class work is
carried on under a handicap. There is
still n wide field among the 10000 waGe
earning women Of Omaha that the assoc
citation has only entered but expansion
is impossible, end until building adc-
Cuate to these demands is secured tie
association can only hold its own with
the present membership.
The lunch and rest rooms are so crowded
during the noon hour that scores of women
who would patronize them cannot take
the time waiting In line to be served or
TO wait their turn for vacant couch
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-04
women Have Waited Long.

The association took its first steps toward
building in 1897, but at that time the
Transmississippi exposition project seemed
all that could be taken care Of and the
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-04

Little 4-year-old Mabel, who had become
weary of fiat life, climbed on her fathers
knee the other evening and said Papa,
| do wish you would save some money and
buy US a back yard"
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-04

Little Elsie-What do they call the man
who goes around looking for people who
don't pay enough taxes?
Small Elmer-A taxidermist. l guess.
Little Else-Why is he called that?
Small Elmer-Papa says he skins, every
body, so l sp'ose that's why.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-04

known as the Great American desert ex-
tends from Montana north into Canada. 1t
comprises region more than twice as
large as Ohio. running from the Rocky
mountains eastward, devoted to grazing.
The land though semi-arid is covered with
the richest of grasses and it is now sup
porting hundreds of thousands of cattle,
horses, sheep and hogs. According to the
last census there were 100000 cattle In
Manitoba and the northwest, little more
than a third that many horses, and about
100000 hogs and sheep. Large herds are
now brought from Texas here to be fed
and more than 10000 beeves were shipped
on the hoof last year from Calgary to Eng
land. Just north of this region there is a
dairy country where they establishing
creameries with government assistance,
and where they expect to raise butter and
cheese for British Columbia and the orient
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-04

they please, holding tight to the reins
The pulling of the wagon soon tires them
out and in a short time they are ready
for general use"
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-04

Guest (at dinner)-Aren't you going to eat
any of the pudding, Harry?
Harry-No, maam. l guess not.
Guest-Don't you like it?
Harry-Yes, ma'am; but mamma said I'd
have to cut it out if you took two plates Of
il.