Omaha daily bee., 1915-09-02
Lincoln: A City THAT Believes i'm Itself

giant cliffs up which one must toll to
reach the haven OF home-just easy
grades that make riding upon the boule-
wards a pleasure and that make possible
the giving to each home setting OF
lawn and shade that doubles its attrao.
tiveness
Neither IL Lincoln set down upon a flat
and cherries plain. TS the west IL the
valley OF the Salt. wherein arc the
greater part Of the railroad yards and
around which cluster the larger manu-
factories and warehouses. On tho gently
undulsting rise from this valley is the
business district, which thrusts it's way
to the east. spreading fanliks as II goes,
20 be checked by the slightly elevated
plateaus around the Antelope and that
border the Salt on the east Thus II is
that after passing the ramparts Of the
flat buildings, apartment and rooming
houses that surround the business sec
ton OF every city. building sites, ideal
and attractive. are found upon which
Thousands OF Lincoln people and other
Nebraskans have built comfortable and
coy homes.
The great agricultural west In Its real
development, IL scarcely more than n GER
GRAFTON old. The first citizens OF Lincoln
were men and women with their fortunes
to make. They labored 70 well, not so
much with respect to themselves per-
sonally as for the city of their adoption.
sacrificing and working so that those who
came after them might be better fitted
to make the city what in their dreams Il
N 20 ehaN - n.
strong ''pulls' Of the city is that which
II eSerts upon the other residents Of Ne
braska- Within the last ten years hun
dreds Of men who had made modest for
tunes upon the farms and In the smaller
towns OF the state have come to Lincoln
20 live. These are men whose $40 and $40
land has become 800 and $50 land; mer-
chants whose thrift and labor have given
them a surplus that fills their every
physical need bankers who have gar
nered rich sheaves from the wheat fields
Of fortune; lawyers and other professional
men who had made 30 good a start out
side that they relt they could safely
challenge the competition Of the city
field Some Of these newcomers had made
all the money they desired and have re-
hEeus put hnObt Oh tnem retain the IN
terests where their fortunes first rooted.
Clty's Pulling Power.
II is difficult in a paragraph to sharply
picture to the imagination the effect upon
the character Of tho population that this
sort of emigration has had. Few persons
move to a large city because they prefer
It as place OF residence. The pulling
power OF big city lies in what II can
offer in the way of work for those who
are yet seeking the bubble fortune OF in
the way OF increased advantage for those
who are already well established in q line
Of business. II Is from this source Of
supply that a city gets its vigor and its
hustle, but that which differentiates one
city from another. which makes one more
attractive than the other. Is its power to
draw from other strata OF society.
With Lincoln. which drafts the major
portions of its population gains from the
same source as other large cities, there
has also rested this advantage, that II
has also been gathering the cream skim
mad off other sections OF the state.
Taken in connection with the fact that
already the city had builded better than
the average commercial center by also
weaving into its structure the strong fiber