Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-10-25
CHRISTMAS SHIP :
GIFTS, START ON
THEIR way EAST
First Car of the Presents for the
Children in war.stricken
Europe Loaded.
OMAHA RESPONDS PROUDLY
And the People Of All Parts of Ne.
braska Join in This Most Worthy
Charitable Undertaking.
LADEN WITH CHRISTMAS CHEER
Best Wishes for the Little Sufferers
Goes to War Zone with
Valued Gifts.
ALL SCHOOLS LEND A HAND
Dundee, Florence and Council Bluffs
Join in Good Work.
GOD SPEED THE GOOD SHIP
HISudreds Send Their Thanks TO The
Bee for thc Splendid Work 1t
Undertook in the Name OF
Suffering Humanity.
GOD SPEED THE GOOD SHIP
HtSadreds Send Their Thanks 60 The
Bee for the Splendid Work 1t
Undertook in the Name OF
Suffering Humanity.
Well. It's over.

Well, It's over.
The first car for the Christmas
ship from Nebraska has been loaded,
and is now on its way to Chicago,
where it will be made part Of train
that will be hurried through to
BROOKLYN, there to be loaded on the
Jason, which sails for Europe on Mo-
vember 10.
What an inspiring days work 1t
was, only those who took part in 1t
will ever know, Thousands OF pack
ages were ON hand, waiting to be put
into the packing cases, when the ex-
perts took up the work as soon as
the day was light enough to start.
And, as box after box was filled, and
one big truck after another rolled
away to the Burlington freight depot,
load after load of packages arrived
until the packers sent out the
"S. o. s."
Packers Are Swamped.
We're swainped" -
but lney were mot All tntS hN0cu
was little help and more packing cases,
and these were supplied, and work went
merrily on all the rest of the afternoon
and into the evening.
And at 10 o'clock last night part OF
Burlington fast freight train, billed
through to Chicago, was the car loaded
with tho freight that is more precious
than money can buy, because it Is the
gift of loving, sympathetic hearts.
But this does not end the shipment
While Saturday was set as the day for
closing the contributions, a great many
people found it impossible to get their
goods and gifts into The Bee office in
Time and it was found necessary to plan
for another shipment on Monday. This
it Is quite likely, will be sent forward by
express. in order that It may be on time
ut Brooklyn.
Ton of Presents.
While much OF the shipment consists
OF toys, the boxes were not toys. One
One box came through from Holdrege,
NeD., which weighed 1900 pounds. Just
think OF it-one ton of Christmas gifts
in this one box. All the boxes sent out
weighed hundreds of pounds, and taxed
the strength of the big men who handled
them in loading and unloading but they
were working in cause in which their
big hearts as we'll as their big muscles
were enlisted, and what would have been
toll under ordinary circumstances became
real JOY. 1t was inspiring to watch the
carpenters drive nails, the packers stow
the goods away I'm the boxes, and the
truckers load the stuff on the great vans
The job of packing the thousands of
gifts in shipping cases was enormous
and required the services of a small army
all day yesterday. Louis c. Nash OF the
Burgess-Nssh company sent over two OF
his expert packers, as did also Ed Malone
or Hayden Bros. In addition to these the
entire janitor force of The Bee Building
eompeny. reporters. editorial men, adver-
tising men and office boys were busy all
day assisting in the packing.
shipping boxes were sent over by the
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