Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-03
AFFAIRS AT SOUTH OMAHA
Park Board Takes Steps to Secure the
Cassidy Tract
PuReHAsE LONG CONTEMPLATED
aCity clerk .Has Resolution 60 PreseHt
go Council specifyIng Telephone
Fire Alarm system aud
Its Regulation.

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Gof Thirty-ninth and q streets. the park
aboard last night approved the findings OF
The report and ordered the same filed for
final action.
" The site under consideration is known
as the Cassidy tract ana lies in the cen
ter Of a district thickly populated by work
ingmen. who claim that the board has
acted heretofore without consideration OF
the park needs Of their section OF the city.
II. is probable that the next step IN me
purchase Of the property In question VIII
be delayed until the sale Of the $1,000 park
bonds lately issued by the city.
~ From the same fund will be taken an
amount sufficient 10 buy a flfty-fOot tract
giving insress 10 Mandan park At the
meeting last night there was considerable
discussion as to the power OF the board
to take possession Of the property desired
y x right of eminent domain should the
price demanded prove exoTbitsnt. Three
separate parcels Of land are involved in
the proposed purchase. embracing what is
known as the Barrett tract and small por-
tons belonging to Mrs. Sorenson and
sarpy county.
Right of COndemnatiI
II was asserted at the meeting that the
consideration of the proposed purchase had
hbeen before the board under one guse or
another during an interval extending over
Neight or ten years. At the meeting It was
determined to seek the advice Of the city
attorney whether the park board enjoys
the prerogstlve OF exercising the right OF
eminent domain in condemnation proceed
ings or whether the right inheres only in
the corporate body of the city considered
as such. Awaiting the opinion Of the legal
department the purchase Of the Barrett
tract will be further delayed.
= Chairman J. II. Kopietz declared that
NTH the enlarged appropriation contained
IN the levy of the present year the board,
BY exercising economy, would be able to
Spend $500 on permanent park improve
'ipents Heretofore the amount expended
In permanent improvements each year has
been limited 20 a meager four or five
hundred dollars.
Chairman KOpietz announced the follow
Ing committees TO serve for the coming
year;
Park ipproYements-M j Mccarthy and
= lFlnance-P. q. Caldwell and. F. f Fan
,Employment-J H. Van Dusen and John
Aspdyka.
ssirhe improvement committee acting in
conjunction with W. Scott King, the en-
gineer for the board, will lay out plan
for, permanent park improvements which
viii he reported to the board at its next
smeeting, September 8 at p. m.
!, Itfwas announced that arrangements had
.hsep made with the Packers National
hank TO cash all the warrants issued by
1.-THE; board until such time as the money
tproduced by the levy had become avail
able, =
- ga e. Fire Alarm Plans ra.rr
y Resolutions, according to the agreements
s6etween the city and the Nebraska. Tele-
,phope company in regard to the number
and department to be devoted to the fire
alarm services are in the office Of the city
solerk awaiting the action Of the city
sco,incil.
eltThe resolution specifies that No. 50 shall
DE the fire number and that the operator
ctt charge shall, while engaged in the work
sof the fire alarm department. be reckoned
II public servant and not an employe Of
tho company liable to damages from others
Aforementioned by the discharge Of the fire
slafm duties.
Church services.
st. Edwards Mission. Services as usual.
West Side MethodistzSunday school at
1880 Preaching at $3.50 and s.
81 Letter Memorial--Sunday school at 10.
iPreachlng at H. Evening services at 1880.
Is Bethel Baptist Forty-third and /, F. M
,Itubbell, MISUNDERSTANDING school at =.
Preaching service every Friday evening
at s.
Hsst Clements Mission. Vespers and Sun
day school, $780, This is the opening OF
the school for the season and We hope to
see all the children present,
First Methodist Rev. j. M. Boutwell,,
day school at 9:45. Preaching at II; sub
Ject Labor" Epworth league at Brass
chapel at Z,
FIRST Baptist Twenty-fifth and II. Rev
c. d, Ilsley Pastor-Bible school meets at
e;l5 Morning worship at II; subject,
Labor and Morals" Baptist Young Peo-
pies meeting at l. Evening worship at g.
st Martins, Twenty-fourth. and J
streets Rev. Alfred G. White, rector. Sun
day school, 10 a. m II a. m, holy com
nrTRe' Inexorabie Command-Go Forward.
:. st. Luke's Lutheran, Rev: s. III. Yerian
Pastor-Sunday school at 9;45 Morning
DO Not Rebel Against the Lord" Chill
nren,s Mission Band at g. subject "ouI
Boys and Girls in india"
and X, w. A. Pollock Pastor-Sabbath
school at 10, Preaching at II; subject
he sSrptural phase Of the Labor Prob
n Preaching at s. subject Christ the
Bread OF Life"
Thirst Presbyterian, Rev. Robert Wheeler
10. D., Pastor-Bible school at s:A5 Al
aepa rtments-home, primary, foreign anC
klepentary-will take a lesson in RE-
slew" Labor day sermon by the pastor
Evening service at 81; subject, Some Re
iigious Fallaoies." BY request of the pas
aor the men of the Board OF Deacons vii
wait on attendants at the west eutranc,
and welcome incoming and outgoing wor
shippers at both services.
Magic city Gossip.
A. H. Philson OF Leigh was the guest o.
Thomas Hector on Thursday
Mr. and Mrs William Hersch report the
birth of a daughter at, their home 30
North Twenty-fourth street.
Mrs Martin Enright and Mrs. Mar.
Clark Of st. Joseph, Mo, are the guests o.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. p. COrrigan.
Members OF, the Shamrock club Pickl,
band are requested TO report at the clul
rooms not later than Sunday night.
Frank zil1as 664 south Twenty-nintl
street, announces that his wife, Mrs. Zikas
is the happy mother OF a new daughter.
Misses Angela ana Margaret Hector
daughters OF MIR. aud Mrs. Thomas Hector
hRyb returned home from visit TO Leigh
Ned.
James McAniney, assistant superntend
'ent at the city han, was taken suddenly II
yesterday morning and removed TO hi
hgIne.
Mrs. Margaret Anderson has returned L
her duties as city telephone operator afte
two weeks trip 10 Des Moines an
vicinity.
The Letter South Side Aid society vii
between and o'clock at the home of Mrs
Knight las gouth Thirty-first EtreRt