Omaha daily bee., 1915-02-02
Kennedy's Dream Book


IN WENTY-EGIiT years ago Monday arrived In
i Omaha, coming straight from the old town,
Burlington, Iowa. 1t pleasant morning.
and walked across the surface tracks from the old
depot up Tenth street to Farnam and then rather
mozied along up Farnam till the Merchants hotel
reached. where stopped few days.
Eighty-seven about the tail end of the real
tate boom and there real estate In
Omaha at that time than any other class There
cable trolley in Omaha at that time. A
dInky box street car. with mule-power, stopped
the north side OF the surface tracks at the depot
II east. about Marcy street. TO Ninth, then
north TO Farnam, to Fifteenth The old cow she'd"
the union depot called. still covered the tracks
where passenger trains stopped The Bee pub
iished between Ninth and Tenth on Farnam the Her
aid the corner of the alley where the orphe,m
stands the World was published In the store
room formerly occupied by Jud Cree's saloon Elf.
teenth street and the Republican at Tenth and Doug
las The city hail. Bee. building. Paxton block. New
York Life Karbach. Continental the old and
Young Mems Christian association buildings
built since came Brandeis store at Thirteenth
and Howard streets and Hayden Bros occupied one
next to the OF the alley where Wool
worths 10-cent store Is located The Planters hotel
with stable connected leaned Sixteenth street
where the pcstoffice stands. St. Marys
was a prominent and paved thoroughfare. Leaven-
worth street was q hog-back trail Of mud The city
HAN was in the frame building at the northwest cor
ner OF Sixteenth and Farnam streets. think the
Paxton hotel the biggest building In Omaha
the world at that thae-next to the Union Pacific
headquarters. Max Meyer, Garneau s. p Morse, DR..
Mercer. c. T.. Mayne the big business men
member Edward Rosewater ana o, IT. Rothacker
the political hammer throwers.
The Knights OF Labor were the big noise in the
labor game at that time: trade unions just COM
ing to the front with less mushroom growth
The printers. molders. cgarmakers and bricklsyers
were the trade unions that have had continuous
stence. The printers had $50 members at that time
but less than thirty-five OF the members who
here then here today. II the facts could be
cured believe the whole population has changed in
about the ratio since 81 Omaha big
generous overgrown border town. with city ambitions
Union Pacific payday was an event once month IN
the business world. and the Durant engine boys and
members OF the iron holders union had to be
suited about things political. The first Labor day
parade held In Omaha took place on the Fourth
OF July The men marched forty miles II seemed
and the day hot as blazes.
Council Bluffs was 50 cents from Omaha; South
Omaha was bluffiug Dundee wasn't; ditto Benson
Boyd's theater where the Nebraska Clothing COM
pany Is now and doc" Haynes was the swell dia-
mond studded guy at the ticket window ed Witis's
bar next door. "miled" ell the politics. Dick Wilde
sold the best whisky The Two Orphans sold the swell
clothes The town had eleven savings banks; man
without savings bank stock passe; later on the
man with tho stock passe. Omaha was wonder
IN those days She was bluffing then. but she's got
the hank roll today
Governor Morehead broke his pick when he dug 1t
into the printing office In the state pententiary
scheme. all risht; all right!
Omaha and Nebraska working and women have
reason TO feel pleased with the employers
OF the city and state the compensation law the
books the amendments pending before the leg
isature Al the present moment the employers OF
Missouri are banded together In statewide Organise
ton TO fight the compensation law and prevent It's
being adopted. In Nebraska the spirit controlling "a
best illustrated IN Hamiton's declaration. I'VE
are not selling and legs" ana the employers
come back. we not IN the market 20 buy them"
We have faith In the Nebraska spirit and at all
IN the Missouri game. The Nebraska worgmen and
employers are speaking terms OF the most friendly
kind regarding compensation law making. and n let
alone they viii perfect law that will een-
fury ana be credit 10 both employer and employee.