Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-07
AFFAIRS AT SOUTH OMAHA
Boosters Club Plans to Hold Celebra.
ton Labor Day.
WILL ASSIST AT THAT TINE

Purpose IL to Keep Public In south
Omaha by Providing Them Lively
Up-to-Date Entertainment--
weldon Seriously Hurt.
Plans are forming looking to a monster
Labor day or a celebration similar in tone
to the one inaugurated by the Boosters
club on the Fourth Of July, last
The labor organizations will take UP the
consideration OF ways and means at tomor-
row nights meeting. 1T is safe to say"
said one Of the labor leaders, that the
thing win be carried through" The
Boosters club composed Of business men
! of the city WILL it is understood. take hold
OF the proposition as soon as the labor
organizations have signified their deter
mination 10 cooperate.
| In support Of the proposed demonstra-
tion 1t is urged that South Omaha is
town whose citizenship is largely COM
posed Of the laboring class Unless the
| city provide a celebration at home the
labor people viii go out OF town to par
| ticipate in the Omaha celebration This
| the business men are opposed to for sew
| eral reasons
| In the first place, they say the egress
of the laborlng people and sghtseers on
| Labor day will take a great deal Of money
| out OF town. Last Of all the business men
and the Boosters club are frankly pledged
to home celebration which they say does
an incalculable amount OF good towards
making the citizens unit in the develop
ment of the town.
While the plans for the Labor day cele-
bration are yet in embryo, some of the
leaders expressed themselves in favor OF
having q monster parade, including repre-
seentatives Of every craft in the city. 1t
is also proposed to carry out a special pro-
gram of frontier entertainment at Syndi-
| cate park.
James weldon Hurt.
James Weldon, driver for the Union
Stock Yards company. residing at Thirty
second and u streets, was thrown from
his wagon at Thirty-second and l. streets
yesterday evening at 4;3O o'clock and Sc
verey injured about the head and body.
Weldon, 1t is understood was driving
east when another wagon coming from the
west caused his team to take fright. Dash
ing down the street Weldon's team Is said
TO have become entangled with another,
causing Weldon to lose his balance and
fall from the vehicle.
found that the injured man suffered sew
eral conclusions about the head, bruised
his hips and knees and fractured five
ribs on his left side. He was for a while
rendered unconscious, DR.. Koenig ordered
him to the South Omaha hospital, where
at late hour he was said TO be reEting
easy.
Best Repair Work I'm the City.
Cressey The Shoeman at our new location.
Mayor Trainor has indicated to the city
attorney the need of an ordinance consti-
tuting a new civic officer, whose duty II
shall be to inspect weights measures. gas
water and electricity. The mayor has had
the matter under consideration for some
time and is urged to renewed to the
time and is urged to renewed effort to the
repeated complaints of the citizens who
4 aver that they have no redress against
the decisions Of the inspectors paid by the
public service corporations of the city. The
mayor instanced a case where city in
spector would be a protection against the
arbitrary decisions of public service cor
porations.
AS to the appointment the mayor could
not say when 1t would be made. He said
the city attorney would prepare the
ordinance and that the council would be
ChllSd upOh " dNl lHlihSuldASl1
The new officer It is expected will receive
, a liberal salary, but the mayor bluntly
declared that the appointment would be
made with reference to the technical quail
fications OF the applicant rather than to
any other consideration. 1T will be use
less to poster me with applications for
the place until II has been created. said
his honor, and then l shall choose some
one who Is skilled mechanic and who
knows and understands thoroughly the
duties of the office"
You VIII Find shoes
; at our new location to suit every one
Popular prices, 81 TO S4OO pair.-Cressey.
Roberts solves Problem.
City Engineer George Roberts has JUS
devised a plan for making a double road
way with a parked terrace between the
higher and lower sides OF the street or
Twenty-seventh between G and streets
The plan is a unique one among municipa
, engineers and, besides having the advan
! tage Of saving the abutlng property owners
considerable money, will solve the diff
! Guilty OF paving and grading a street
whose two sides have a difference in height
amounting 10 about thirty-fiye feet.
AZ the engineer sees the matter, II will
/ cost all the property owners In that sec
ton a goodly sum either 20 lower or rais'
the present grade according as they are
on the higher or lower side OF the street
The engineer approxlmates the cost OF thu
work at $4,000.
The expense, he says will be eliminated
IL his plan for a parked terrace between
u double roadway will be accepted by tbs
property owners
IL Is proposed according to the plan e
, maintain a twenty-foot roadway on tn,
high side OF the street and a twenty-foo
roadway on the lower side, with a parked
terrace OF twenty feet connecting the tive
roads. This plan has been successfully
Z adopted In Kansas City, where there arr
: numerous hills and fills 10 be overcome by
municipal engineers. The double terrace
I IN the center Of the way givesNR beautiful
D park-like effect and does much towards
the increase OF property values
Somewhere IN this city of eonglomeratec
9 smells there is an individual the keennes
' Of whose olfactory perceptions LED him un
! erringly to the Rock Island depot at Tween
9 ty-fOurth and Washington streets. WheT
g he broke into box ear containing whisky
E last Friday night,
The thirsty one appropriated one cas-
> of triple y, sixty-horse power booze anC