Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-23

woodr,en Of tho World Day.
sneciaI nrogran beginning at $40 o'clock
In tho evening on main stage Auditorium.
Address Of welcome, Mayor James c.
songs by Hawaiians.
Nddress, Iowa. by Maurice Connolly
Dubuque.
Address "Petter Crops and Better Men
''p,xie." bv Land Show Concert band
Address. "WoodcrRft'' j. c. Root.
omaha publicity performances. by "A
club
woodmen drill teams attend in uniform
This is Iowa day at the Land Show.
special program for the Iowans Will he
given on the main stage Of the Auditorium
in the evening. beginning at $50 o'clock
Features for the entertainment Of the
woodmen Of the World will he included in
the program. The Omaha Ad club will he
in attendance. The Ad men will speak for
themselves with an original series Of dem
onstrations
Maurice Connolly OF Dubuque and Prof
=. G. Holden OF Aiues win speak in the
evening for Iowa.
Attendance at the Land Show yesterday
was typical OF Sunday crowds. All Omaha
was at the show, Thousands walked
through the long aisles TO see the fruits
of the soil from the great west and north
west
Music by the Land Show Concert band.
cornet solos by Miss Nettie Reiter. songs
by the native Hawaiian octet and enter
tanning lectures constituted the amuse-
ments Of the day.
The fish exhibit In the basement adjoining
the lecture halls proved one OF the most
interesting displays to the Sunday visi-
tors A number OF railroad officials de-
voted a part Of their day OF rest TO the
inspection Of the show.
Frank walters says n Word.
Frank Walters, general manager OF the
Northwestern system looked over the
highly specialized alfalfa display made by
his road He pronounced II good We've
spent a lot of money At this show" ne re-
marked.
"sorry?" interrogated a jestlnG visitor. at
hts side.
mot bit OF IT, Best investment ever"
answered Mr.. walters ''We'l get It back
and make a profit, too on this display in
the results that It win show along the lines
| of the Northwestern"
Frank A. Wadleigh, general passenger
agent of the Denver & Rio Grande rail-
road. arrived Sunday to inspect the Land
Show. Last night be proceeded on to his
headquarters at Denver
The best land show l have seen" said
Mr.. Wadleigh after he had made the
rounds of the big display and was seated at
| last In front Of the big panoramic display
which forms the background OF the extern
sive showing made by the Colorado ex-
hibitors
81 am glad Of the showing that Colorado
is making here, and I'm especially proud
of the share the Denver & Rio Grande has
! in the show.
I'VE owe much to The Omaha Bee for
the conception of the Land Show idea,
which has made possible this purely west
ern display, and much to the men who
have carried the show project through 10
its successful contamination in the scene
laid out before us here"
Mr.. Wadleigh was shown about the land
| products display by Fred A. Shank, who
covered Colorado territory for the Land
Show In the preliminary arrangements for
the showing made by the state here. The
railroad man was more than satisfied with
the big display made by his state.
The Land Show and its lessons embody
the same aims that our western railroads
ars working toward" continued Mr.. wad-
leigh. I'VE are trying 10 instil agricultural
! education into the minds Of our people as
well as to bring new people in. No farmer
or farm investor can visit the Land Show
ideas which will bring him money and
some measure of prosperity to those in his
circle Of influence
The show has today given me some ideas
tkat l will be glad to utilize in our agri-
cultural educational campaign which we
are to carry on along the lines OF the
Denver & Rio Grande by special exhibit
trains. We Will have displays OF products
and illustrated lectures by specialists. We
have been working in this direction in the
improvement OF the potato crop for some
time Now we propose to generalize the
movement for all OF the fields OF agrl-
culture included In our section. Increased
tonnage shows the result Of the effort very
directly.
"The Land SHOW and It's lessons will
accomplish the same result because ot
the Land show we will unquestionably see
bigger crops in the whole west and greater
acreage under cultivation
"The Land Show Is a proposition so deep
that it viii take a great deal OF time to
sum up IT'S manifold benefits not only to
Omaha, but TO Nebraska and the people Of
the great west in general" said Henry
Gerng, president OF the Ad club ''As an
Omaha proposition Il deserves not only the
greatest OF praise, but viii show It's i'm
mediate results In the business 10 be de-
rived from the counties and states from
which exhibits have been made. In talking
with a great many exhibitors / find that
they are all loud I'm their praise Of Omaha
and particularly the enterprise shown by
The Omaha Bee and Twentieth Century
Farmer, In making such decided success
In all phases of the Land show
Then the merchants manufacturers and
jobbers must certainly feel that Try are
do. .fv,1 t,.ft
Of expense directly 10 them The Land
Show is bringing 10 them customers and
prospective customers from all over the
country
The generally abused railroads are GER
tainly doing their share toward makina
this Land Show a success ] am apprecIa-
tive Of what they arc doing