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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-17

The lines through South Dakota follow
the Missouri river region, except for the
branch going to Deadwood to the big min
Ing districts of the Black Hills. Wheat in
thousands of tons pour into Omaha from
here, an unofficial estimate Of the amount
being that Omaha received over 90 per cent
Of the grain shipments from this country.
New Connections Made.
In the last year large improvements have
been going on and some additions made,
the connection from Blunt to Gettysburg
and from Blunt to Hitchcock being one OF
them. Signal and other protective measures
are constantly being investigated, and at
the present time a number of new devices
for the passenger travel safety are being
installed.
Some years ago complete double track
system with Chicago was installed. making
the line of the road there one of the best.
With it's connections with the Union Pa
cifc in the west the combination Chicago,
Union Pacific and Northwestern line is the
most travelled road for passengers coming
from the Windy City TO the Pacific coast
The freight traffic from Chicago to Omaha
eclipses even the great grain and iobbers
trade to the west, the big depot of the
road in Omaha being crowded to it's ca
pacity In some seasons
The complete mileage of this system
covers almost 5000 miles, the Nebraska
lines aggregating 1,102 miles alone. With
the recent additions to the service there
are at the present time 1543 locomotives,
1,45O cars, and 6O,OOO freight cars, making
total OF 1898 cars on the entire road,
In the state of Nebraska there are EN-
ployed 5000 people. Omaha taking a goodly
proportion OF these.
NOrthwesterR's New Depot.
The new freight depot of the Northwest
ern, which was built In 1905 and 1906. Is now
full block wide from Thirteenth street
to Fourteenth street and from Davenport
! street to Webster street, with room to
double the capacity II found necessary. As
soon as the business justlfies the enlarge
! ment by a consistent Increase building will
begin. Another OF the big enlarGements
to be made is the building OF new pas
senger terminal in Chicago, the structury
to cost almost s9O0OOOO0. In Omaha the
Northwestern is considered to be favorable
to the plan OF enlarging the Union Depot.
In Omaha the entire offices of the road
which are a branch headquarters have
been made over new floors and all modern
office fixtures and conveniences being pu
in.
In recent years the original Northwest
ern road with Its 5000 miles OF trackas'
have been connected with what was the
Chicago. ST. Paul, Minneap polls and Omahs
roj d, the Pierre Rapid city and North
western railway, and the Wyoming an,
Northwestern road. making a total mile
age OF the system OF 1905 miles. covering
a vast territory from the lake shore lne
OF Lake Superior and Lake Michigan
tracks to the roads far into the dry ant
arid region of the west which The roat
is doing it's utmost to improve.
Many Trains 20 Chicago.
On this line five trains a day leav
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-17

concerning the financial status and the
credit of municipalities as well as indi-
vidual firms and corporations, gave to
Omaha a stEikingly strong editorial men
ton in the last January Annual Review.
Under the caption. Expansion al Omaha"
Bradstrtets says in the course of gem
eral article:
Building has been active in Omaha, the
total permits taken out during 1909 being
S7.3C0,0CO, an increase Of S3.50oOOO over 1908.
Some steel structure buildings and new
court house were included. but there were
1900 new dwellings making the fourth
consecutive year during which more than
1000 new places for people TO live were
erected In twelve months; 400 new homes
in four years. Real estate values in
creased Is to 80 per cent on business prop
erty; 10 to % per cent on residence lots.
Transfers. si2.900.OOO"
Obviously then. a city with such a Brad
street rating naturally has gilt-edged credit
and ready market for It's securities.
Such is the Omaha OF 1910, the same city
that fifty years ago found difficulty in
peddling It's script
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-17
Affairs of the CITY Looked After by
Army of Employees.
MILLIONS IN CITY IMPROVEMENTS
Y Parks, Buildings and Other PrOpert!
of Much Value.
CASH BALANCE LOOKS LARGE
some Tabloid Facts About the City
and the Men on whom the Con-
duct of Its Business Has
Been Placed.

Almost large enough for a state capital,
omaha's city hall building stands near the
crest OF the Farnam street hill, alongside
the Bee building, an enduring monument
10 omaha's municipal greatness.
The Omaha city hall was built In 1891 at
a cost of $4,000 for construction, eX-
elusive OF the value of the ground.
Take a glance at the rugged solid
cornerstones OF the city hall. study the
strength OF it's walls, contemplate the
heights pierced by its tower-size up the
massive building in all its beauty. Then
YOU have an index to the solidity of the
business side OF omaha's government. The
vast array of clerical details entering into
the affairs OF the city requires an army
of officials and attaches. The city's bust
ness is big Immense sums of money
must be handled and accounted for. and
{Strict business system must be employed
iA order that the city may know whittier
A. is dr. rting In a financial sense. You
see the politician smoking his cigar and
taking life easy, and you perhaps reach
the conclusion that "A city hall job Is a
snap. So Il is sometimes for some indi-
viduals, but the fact remains neVerthe-
less that there is much work to be done
md somebody is doing e. The politician
with the black cigar is not all Of the city
hal force over there behind big desk
and row after row OF figures, YOU will
find hard working clerks They are the
workers Of the city administration
Rack in the fifties so history records,
omaha as a municipality, was far from
wealthy city scrip passed in lieu OF money
IN those days-that is. 1t passed sometimes.
other times It was refused. But those hard
nan days have long since passed into a
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-17

sonnet of Omahas city council at the pres
ent time and the ward represented by each:
@; f. Brucker, president city council.
Charles NJ. Davis, temporary president.
Louis Berka, First ward
Lee Bridges, Second Ward.
Louis Burmeister, Third ward.
l.. b. johnson, Fourth Ward
g. +. Brucker, Fifth ward
w. S. Sheldon, Sixth ward.
Fred Schroeder, Seventh ward.
]. b. Hummel, Eighth ward.
Thomas McGovern, Ninth ward
A. c. Kugel, Tenth ward.
M. F. Funkhouser Eleventh ward.
&. M. Davis, Twelfth ward
Activity In Public improvements.
During the year 1909, Omaha expended
$685. 47l,6l for street Improvements, dis
tributed as follows
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-17
BANK CLEARINGS GROWING
Month, with No backward
Movement.

Bank clearings in Omaha steadily climb
higher as each month goes by. For the
first seven months Of the year 1910 there is
an increase OF almost S7OOOO,OOO over the
same time OF 1903 As the prosperity Of
city can always be gauged by the growth
OF its bank clearings these figures show
that Omaha is developing rapidly as a com
mercial and banking center
During the seven months of 1909 the total
amount OF bank clearlngs was Si2O,592.-
1916, and for the corresponding period of
time this year, s49O,6il, 329A
The following figures from the Omaha
Clearing House association show a COM
parative statement OF past years
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-17
Credit of the city.

Credit of the city.
One of the gratifying facts concerning
Omaha. and a fact OF which every Omaha
citizen has reason 70 be proud, is the
splendid credit OF the city Bradstreets,
from which agency emanates cold facts
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-17

guarding public health. There is a system
OF rigid inspection OF milk and other
edibles such as are subject to contamina-
ton and the rate of mortality in proper
ton to population is notably small. Not
for many years has there been anything
even approaching a serious epidemic, and
Dr. Ralph Connell, health officer, is on
record with the statement that so far as
sanitary precautions are CONCERNED Omaha
is in excellent condition. In all that per-
tains to first aid to the injured" Omaha
is up to the minute in comparison with
other metropolitan cities
City is Well PoIIced.
Chief of Police John ]. Donahue has 1876
men in his department. In the selection OF
policemen, Omaha applies all of the tests
that experience in policing a large city has
proven to be necessary. Omaha policemen
are physical giants, comparing well in
physique with the Broadway squad in New
York or the best to be found in any other
city. The character of man is also a mat
ter of concern and taken in the aggregate,
Omaha has as clean a police force as can
be found anywhere. Police headquarters
are at Eleventh and Dodge streets and
from that central station all of the men in
the department operate. Among the other
modern advances made by the Omaha
police department is the RELOCATING Of the
od-time BLACK Maria" and the substitu-
ton of an up-to-date automobile patrol
wagon.
Ready to Fight Fire.
The Omaha fire department. under COM
mand OF Chief Charles A. Salter, is one OF
the best in the United States. All that is
effective and modern has been included in
the fire-fighting paraphernalia. and the per-
centage OF loss from fires in Omaha is re-
markedly light. The departments consists
OF 2O6 men, including officers. There are
nineteen stations The following table in
dicates the location of the stations. to-
gether with the officers and men on duty in
each place:
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-17

Grading repairs, SS.1O5 3d.
The year 1910, now turning into its fin
ishing half, will bring many other public
improvements to Omaha, notable among
which is ten miles OF new paving which
will be completed before the end of the
year. There is also a vast expansion of
sewer facilities. and new sidewalks have
become so common that they no longer at
tract more than passing comment. Omaha
now, exclusive of the work now under
way, but as yet unfinished. has 1872 miles of
paving, and each year sees the mileage
heightened. If all the paving in Omaha
We're stretched out in a straight line, it
would form. continuous walk linking
Omaha with Sioux Falls, $. d., or IL
turned around the other way, it would lead
from Omaha to st. Joseph Mo
Omaha Is Reading Center.
Judging from the vast array of figures
always in evidence attesting Omaha S
commercial supremacy, one might deduce
that Omaha is given to cold, sordld bust
ness to the exclusion OF the finer things
that go TO make up a city. Such. however,
Is not the case. Witness I'm support of
Omaha's claim to culture the attention
that is given to the spendid public library
which occupies its own 100000 home on
Harvey and Eighteenth streets, This IL
brary contains almost any book that is in
circulation, with the exception, Of course
OF such publications that are barred from
libraries In general.
The official roster of the public library is
as follows; f. L. Halter, president; II. p.
Deuel.. vice president; A. ID. Fetterman
secretary. Directors: Lucien Stevens, J. J
Ryder. Edward Black, l.. J. TePoel. A. j
Couett II l. RinRWalt Edith Tobitt "A.
brarian; Margaret O'Brien, assistant H.
brarian.
Omaha has ample provision for safe
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-17


in various banks as follows:
Cash in observation-disclosures. S5OS. 40
Checks for deposit. 5626 n
Balance in banks, city funds
First National. .......... S2,3S, $50. 3S
Merchants NATIONAL. 2S2. 23l.G7
Nebraska National. 49,. 115, 426.12
Omaha National......... 239, 621.42
~. 5. National. ,........., 2St251.3l
Kountze Bros. n, ". 5515S.60
City National. .........,. 12o 0S9.Sl
Corn Exchange NATL. i52Si647-- ,4ss, l55. Is
Balances in banks, school funds
First National. ...,.......S SO, 4O6.6l
Merchants National.... S7.S97.41
Omaha National........ 49,022.01
u s. National ........... 62,5S9.l
Kountze. Bros. n. ". 1851
City National. ............ 12SS6.OO- 2S7 so
Police relief fund
Merchants National.....$ l11.36
u. S. National. ..,....... 633.S6- 745 %
Special fund
Merchants National. 100000
Total cash on hand ............ 81, 1876, 765 II
The bonded debt OF Omaha at the pres
ent time exclusive OF special street i'm
provement obligations of short time, aggre-
gates $780, 900, which by comparison with
several other cities OF the Omaha class
is considered by municipal experts to be a
good showing,
Fortune in Public Buildings.
1t is estimated that the city of Omaha
has approximately 100000 represented in
public buildings and parks Entering into
this $5,OOO,OO0 total are such items as city
hall public library, several parks, fire sta
tons, city jail and school properties
OmRha's official Roster.
The personnel of the city's official roster
is as follows:
James c. Dahman. mayor.
Dan b. Butler city clerk.
Frank A. Furay, city and county treas
urer
g o. Lobeck, comptroller
Harry Il. Rurnam, city attorney,
Charles III. Withheld, building inspector,
| George w, Craig. city engineer.
Ralph w. Connell, health commissioner.
Waldemar Michaelsen. city electrician.
/ John c. Lynch, plumbing inspector
Joseph Scully, milk commissioner.
| Charles +. Crowley. gas commissioner.
/ Robert J. Wolfe boiler inspector.
Emil Wahlstrom, custodian city hall,
/ g.. T. Dickinson, city cutor.
| John j. MGhoney, clerk police court
/ Wood w Hartley, city abstracter.
! A. Il. WaggOner pound master.
! John j. killian, market master.
Richard A. Schneider. license Inspector
/ John G.. Pegg, Inspector weights and
Esau Freshman. meat inspector.
! q. r.. Young, city veterinary.
h OF the foregoing offices, all are elective
from mayor to city engineer From street
commissioner to the end OF the list. the
Officers coming under the appoIntive
system.
Personnel of the city Council,
The following names indicate the per
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-17

mere bit of Renaissance, and today
omaha's strong box is plethoric.
Cash Balance August o, 1910.
Any firm or any institution. either private
or public. that has almost $2,O00O0O in bank
toits credit, is by the very nature of things
rather strong in a money sense. Omaha
has the $2OOO.OOO. or nearly So for the last
financial statement issued by Comptroller
Lobeck shows that on August g. this year.
the city of Omaha had total balance of
cash In bank, amounting to BLDG. 765. IL
just a little. short of the 100000 mark.
The money thus mentioned is distributed
In various banks as follows:
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-09-29
RAILROADS EARNING MORE
THE TOTAL GROSS INCOME IN
CREASED $3.50, oooy 900.
While the Net Operating Revenues
Was $110,3o6, 900 Greater Than
the Previous Year.

Chicago, Illinois-An increase of
$336,O00,000 in the total gross earnings
Of the railroads of the United States
in the year ending June 80, 1910, over
those of the preceding year is shown
by figures received from Washington
by the Interstate Commerce commits
sioners, holding court here to ascer-
tain whether an increase in freight
rates is to be permitted. Total gross
earnings of all the railroads, embrac-
ing 236,690 miles, in the last fiscal
year were $780, 5O,OOO, an increase
Of 1877 per cent.
Total net operating revenue of all
the roads last year was $685., 900,
showing an increase of $110, 306,0 900, or
1873 per cent.
1t is said that the Interstate Com
merce commission never was able to
get total figures compiled so quickly
after the close Of the fiscal year as
they have expedited the tabulations
so as to use the figures in connection
with the present hearing on freight
rates.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-09-29
NO MONEY SHORTAGE NOW
The Banks Have Fortified Themselves
and the Crops are Proving to
be Abundant.

Washington, D. Cit is unlikely
that there will be any shortage Of
money this fall anywhere in the
United States, according to the view
of the treasury department. In its
opinion the danger mark. If there act
ually has been one several months
past, has been left astern. The depart
ment officials give these reasons for
the prediction Of plentiful money:
Primarily the banks saw what look
ed like money shortage coming sew
eral months ago. They have piled
up gold, built up reserves and cut
down risky loans and bonds or other
securities, which might not be easy to
sell have been turned into money.
Nearly every crop in this country
this year Is reported to be a bumper
one. Corn will set new record
Four-fifths of the crop has been gath
cred, so the chances of~loss from frost
is small. The oat crop is the greatest
in years. The cotton crop will be l.
100000 bales greater than it was last
year.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-09-29

Great Britain has just launched one
Of the biggest Of the dreadnought bat
tleships which the government is
steadily adding to the navy. And that
American ideas are good for some
thing in this connection is shown by
the information which has leaked out,
Notwithstanding the careful way in
which naval secrets are guarded, that
the guns on the new vessel will be
arranged much like those on United
States battleships of the latest design,
so that they can be fred one above an
other and concentrate tremendous
striking power at given point. Build
ers Of our warships are giving valua-
BILE points to all the world.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-09-29
GILMAN NATIONAL COMMANDER
The Boston Man Heads the G. A. r.
for Coming Year-Praise for
Confederate Soldiers.

Atlantic City, N. ]. - John E. Gill
man of Boston was elected comman.
der-in-chief of the G. A. R. for the COM
ing year. John McElroy of Washing
ton was the only other candidate and
he withdrew his name before the bal
loting began.
With fine tribute to the Confed-
crate soldiers, Samuel R. Van SAINT
of Minnesota, commander-in-chief, for
mally. opened the business session of
the national encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic. The command
er spoke earnestly as he expressed his
qualification at the increasing fra
termination of the BLUE" and the
Gray"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-09-29
DO INCHES MAKE THE MANa

Until the time Of the war between
Russia and Japan the short man was
obliged to defend the proves OF his
kind by citing Napoleon as an exam
pie OF what short persons could do.
Balzac, the great French novelist.
whose height was a trife more than
i've feet, often half whimsically, often
seriously. endeavored to show con-
nection between short stature and ex.
cellence. 1t was also source of con-
ISOLATION to him and to other men who
were not in the tall class. to read in
history that the Roman conquerers
were short But after the Russo-Japa-
nese war 1t became evident TO all that
stature had nothing to do with the
case, unless. perhaps, the victory Of
the little Jap proved that the short
man was the superior of the tall. But
now come the municipal authorities
In our cities, who say that tall po-
nceman is better than q short and
that a tan fireman is the superior Of
short fireman. says Boston Globe.
Five feet IN inches is the limit Of
shortness to be tolerated say some.
while others lower the standard
quarter Of an inch. Others would low
or It half an inch more. Supersti-
tons die hard. We are still children,
and. although far from the age Of
giants, we cling to the notion that
inches make the man.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-09-29
BRYAN'S EDITOR A B0LTER
clines to Support Mayor DahIman
for Governor.

Lincoln, Nebraska.-R. l.. Metcalfe,
associate editor of W. j. Bryan's Com
moner, has issued statement de-
clining to support Mayor Dahlman,
the anti-prohibition Democratic candi-
date for governor and states that he
will support G. H. Aldrich, the county
option Republican candidate. Met
calfe was defeated for United States
senator on county option platform.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-09-29

1t will be a good day in this city
when every boy who goes to the high
school can multiply and divide with
unfailing accuracy, when he knows
the rule Of three and is up on frac-
tons, says Philadelphia Inquirer. If
in addition to that he can write legi-
bly,, read distinctly and spell correctly
he will have better equipment than
has been common of late. In trying
to teach children too much we have
not trained them to definite ways of
thinking. Yet to think clearly about
anything Is the great prerequisite of
.1fe and ought to be the chief aim OF
education.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-09-29
Puzzled by Wireless.

"Mistah Jenkins" asked an old ne
gro of Atlanta Of his employer,
would 20 be so good. sab, as to ex-
plain to me bout this wireless tele-
graph business l hears 'em-a-talking
'bout?"
why. certainly, Henry" responded
the employer. though can do so only
in a general way. as l myself know
little Of the subject. The thing con-
sists in sending messages through the
air instead Of over wires"
"Yassah." said Henry, II knows
bout dat; but, sab, what beats me is
how dey fasten the air to the poles!"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-09-29
ROOSEVELT THINKS HE HAS WON
After Conference at Sycamore Hill
He Estimates His Majority at
100 In Convention.

Oyster Bay, N. Y.-T feel certain
that we will have a majority of one
hundred delegates in the state con-
vention. I will run for the temporary
Craftsmanship. My friends desire that
l run, 1t will be an open convention
fight
In these words Col. Theodore Roose-
welt made it clear that he confidently
believes that he has the old guard of
the Republican party beaten in the
Saratoga fight. He made his sanguine
announcement after conference at
Sycamore Hill.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-09-29
BLACKLIST LAW UPHELD
Thomas Eitzmartin Awarded $4,000
Damages Against st. Louis and
San Francisco Railroad Co.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.-Okla-
homa's new law forbidding the black
listing of discharged employees by rail-
road companies was invoked to the
benefit of the defendant when a jury
awarded damages in the sum of &c.,
600 to Thomas Fitzmartin who was
discharged from the st. Louis & San
Francisco railroad in 1908.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-09-29
A Suit to Stop BootIesglns.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.-Fred 8.
Caldwell, state prohibition law en-
forcement attorney, filed suit in the
superior court asking that an injunc-
ton be issued against railway COM
panies. express companies, draymen
and others delivering intoxicating
liquors to persons holding internal
revenue licenses for selling liquor in
violation of the state law.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-09-29
Japan Wants Canal Fortified.

Washington, d. C.-Baron Uchida,
the Japanese ambassador has been in
structed by his government to support
the United States in the policy of for
tifying the Panama canal. To carry out
these instructions Baron Uchida will
bring his vacation to close and hur.
ry back to Washington.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-09-29

reports Of accidents to women wear.
Ing hobble skirts begin to come in.
OF course such accidents are inevita-
BILE. A woman who deliberately binds
her limbs before submitting herself to
the dangers Of the highway is doubly
handicapped. for even unhampered
physically, she likely would lack the
intelligence to dodge a street car.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-09-29
Not on Your Life.

An Irishman obtained a position in
a skyscraper that was being built. He
had to carry mortar UP to the top
floor. One day he went up and
couldn't find his way down. The boss
missed him and called up to him:
Pat" said the boss, why don't you
come DOWN."
II don't know tie way" said Pat.
We'll, come down the way you
went up"
Faith, and won't" said Pat, "for
came up head first"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-09-29
Asks a c. & 0. Receiver.

Logansport, Indiana. - Suit has
been filed in the Cass county circuit
court here asking that a receiver be
appointed for the Chesapeake & Ohio
railroad and that the charter of the
company be revoked and the corpor-
alton be dissolved. Fraud is charged
in filing of recent mortgage.