Omaha daily bee., 1915-07-11
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II with two Of tie corners cleared for the erection
OF buildings. when boy the Board
Of Trade lot occupied by No Fire Engine
house around which congresated whenever the
bell rang. which not very often, TO see tho
engine and the hooks get flying start On the lot
the street frame cottage, the home OF
the Charles s. Goodrich family with a posey garden
in front, and some inviting fruit in the back
yard. The street turned north at Fifteenth and
the Goodrich corner was quiet and delightful place
OF residence
That Alfred C. Kennedy had a wonderfully wids
circle OF friends in Omaha atested by the large
outpouring Of people at his funeral I had been
ISOLATED with him some what IN library board matters
] could help recalling the large number OF old
library board members who have PASSED away within
a short period Of tme-Eliiah Dunn. Harry p. Deue;,
william Wallace. and Mr. Kennedy, all in com
paratively few months. / also specially I'm
pressed by the emphasis DR. jerks laid the vaua-
bic service unsefishy rendered to the community in
unremunerative positions Of public and sem-publc
character II IT, alas true that those who put In
time and labor on our library boards. school boards
Ak Ben boards, and committees for meeting the
particular civic needs receive scant recognition and
little visible appreciation Of their work. The self
satisfaction in most instances must be the only
ward / often wonder whether this deplorable condi-
ton lie peculiar 20 Omaha whether there IL the
Indifference ingratitde to such public service
In other cities. too.
Picking up a copy of the North American Review,
my eye halted by what purported TO be a rough
drawing that Colonel Harvey had reproduced undec
held vision was not the map. but one of the in
scrptions II, being written inside out and spelling
something backwards-not Nebraska" converted into
'Ak-Sar-Ben"-but Omaha reversed into "Ahamo."
Colonel Harvey explains that at the time the Ger
approaching Paris in 1870. Mark Twain
published this Of the Notifications OF that city
drawn by himself and elucidated follows:
The idea Of this map is not original with me,
but is borrowed from the Tribune and the other
great metropolitan journals
B II claim no other merit for this production az
call IT. than that II IL The main
biemish Of the city-paper maps OF which It is an
imitation is. that In them more attention paid
70 artistic pcturesqueness than geographical re-
liability.
'1nasmuch this is the first time I ever tried
TO draft and engrave a map, attempt anything
In the line OF art well, the concentrations tho
work has received and tho admiration It has excited
among the people. have been very grateful to my
feelings And It Is touching to reflect that by far
the most enthusiastic Of these praises have come
from people who know nothing at all about art.
''By unimportant oversight have engraved
the map so that It reads wrongend first, except
left-handed people. forgot that in order to make
II right In print II should be drawn and engraved
upside down. However let the student who desires
to contemplate the map stand his head hold it
before her looking-glass That will bring II right
THE reader will comprehend at a glance that
that piece OF river with the High Bridge IT, got
left out to one side by reason OF slip of the en-
craving tool which rendered IL necessary to change
the entire course OF the River Rhine or else spoI
the map. After having spent two days in digging
and goustns at the map. would have lost so much
work.
II never had so much trouble with anything in
my life 0s odd with this map i had heaps of for
ufications scattered all around Paris, first but
every now and then my instruments would slip and
fetch away whole miles of batteries and leave the
vicinity as clean as II the Prussans had been there
the reader will find it well to frame this man
Tor future reference so that It may in extending
popular Intelligence and dlspelling the widespread
ignorance OF the day"
The puzzier IL the appearance on this map OF thu
mirrored title. Omaha along with those of Jersey
CITY, Vlncennes Verdun. Paris. Podunk Saint Cloud
High Bridge and the Erie canal Is not surprising
that among the so-caed official commendati ons
u 8 Grant Is quoted saying; at Is the only man
OF the kind l saw"