Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-05-07

~ go, at the Omaha railway gate.
IN Arriving stranger gets this hrst
- Impression of the citys transfer aspect;
h@&$1&M i5jconscious that the and the west,
NS9SSaSS4 INC city and the country, at the
railway station. And a lot of people
VIZ $3.50 Lto Omaha go out OF Omaha with the sta
ton their only glimpse of the city. Out in western
Nebraska there is many small settlement of people
from across the who say Omaha" and have
d vision OF long, wearyng day spent roaming up
and down the platform sleeping on the hard benches
or YEARLY watching the constant coming and going
Of people at the station. To them Omaha is a rail-
way station, transfer station break in the Journey
which brought them across the sea- the new
country and into the plains where they hope to
golden grain.
Even as these unassimilated citizens sit and wait
and leave the city unexplored, number of city folk
when journey bent, rush through the station board
their train and fare forth into their travels quite
conscious that if they paused and watched with seeing
eye they would find the whole world mirrored in this
scene.
At the hour in the afternoon when the westward
bound passengers meet the eastwardbound people the
station is most democratic. it is also most cos
mopolitan, spot Waiting for the arstocratic Over
land Limited to leave for the west and carry
ward TO flower state is a group OF ease-saturated
folk. Their garments, like their manner proclaim
their eminence, and aloofness from the money care
They pace the platoon, exchanging lively anecdote
and somewhat arrogantly demanding and receiving
right-of-way.
In one corner Of the bench against the wall sits
bumped and crouched, timd, bent and labor worn
little woman who has left the toll of her peasant home
in Russia and with Anton-the grizzed, stolid man
who stands out by the iron grating watching the en-
gine-has come to America to seek more bountiful
sustenance Beside her the seat is a bundle which
holds her clothes. She sits there the image of pa
thence and Watches without envy but with curiosity
the swinging, assured stride OF the American women
What she thinks? Nobody knows, because no CLINT
OF IL finds expression in her face
Out through the gate, seeking admttance 10 the
train which will carry them back to their plains home
Is group of native Americans. The men wear
slouchy specimens of the white mans cloes" but
over their dresses the women wear bright-colored
blankets. The simplicity OF their conures shrieks
Its at the puns and eurls of the white sisters
headdress.
From the train shed enters important person
HIS immaculate white coat proclaims his once and
his spells his connection with the special car
which is on its westward way He carries a yellow
bit of paper and steps auntily along TO the telegraph
once TO forward this message This ONCE of mes
senger acquires dignity from George Washington's"
manner Of assuming it-and from the size of the fee
He spares glance to right left but passes dis
painfully through the litter of boxes and bags
which belong TO the group OF syrans waiting to be
marshalled TO the train and to the western Jobs"
The Pullman car autoerat passes too. agitated
group OF three people stout. voluble woman, who
Ing IT" and the limpid vowel which proelaims her
former residence In the vineyard district OF France
Beside the two. listening uncomfortably to the dis