Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 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 10 each home a setting of
lawn and shade that doubles its attrao.
tiveness
Neither Is Lincoln set down upon a fiat
and oheerless plain. To the west il the
valley OF the Self. wherein are the
greater part Of the railroad yards and
around which cluster the larger manu-
factories and warehouses. On the gently
undulsting rise from this valley is the
business district. which thrusts its way
to the east. spreading fanliks az II goes.
70 be checked by the slightly elevated
plateaus around the Antelope and that
border the Salt on the east. Thus II IL
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 It's real
hNNNAVRANCnNs N NIATNSlY IlOT0 Llhn n ke1-
Grafton old. The first citizens OF Lincoln
were men and women with their fortunes
TO make They labored 20 WELL not so
much with respect to themselves per-
sonally as for the city OF their adoption.
sacrificing and working 30 that those who
came after them might be better fitted
70 make the city what in their dreams II
had been TO them. that today one OF the
strong ''pulls'' of the city is that which
II exerts upon the other residents OF Ne
braska- Within the last ten years hum
dreds OF men who had made modest for
tunes upon the farms and in the smaller
towns OF the state have come to Lincoln
70 live. These are men whose so and $40
land has become 500 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 felt they could safely
challenge the competition of the city
field Some OF these newcomers had made
all the money they desired and have re-
tired. but most Of them retain the in.
terests where their fortunes first rooted.
City's Pulling Power.
1t Is difficult in a paragraph to sharply
picture to the imagination the effect upon
the character Of the population that this
sort OF emigration has had. Few persons
move to a large city because they prefer
It as a 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 or in
the way Of increased advantage for those
who are already well established In a line
OF business. II is from this source of
supply that a city gets It's 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 It's population gains from the
same source a. other large cities. there
has also rested this advantage. that II
has also been gathering the cream skim
med off other sections OF the state.
Taken in connection with the fact that
already the city had bullded better than
the average commercial center by also
weaving into It's structure the strong fiber