Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-08-03

+. A beautiful and quiet city is FIRE.
mont. Like many other cities of east
ern Nebraska, the abundance of shade
trees is one of the first things that i'm
presses the visitor. Nebraskans do
not have to be informed on this point,
yet there are many from the east,
newcomers to the state or county,
who are interested in the early laws
which exempted from taxation those
who would plant sufficient trees.
Sometimes they overdid it. At any
rate, the easterner who gathered the
impression that Nebraska is treeless
state will have to revise his conception
of conditions as they now exist Elms,
naples, mostly of the soft variety,
box elders and cottonwoods are some
of the kinds most numerous. On
some of the streets, which are not
narrow by any means, the trees so
nearly overlap each other as to make
the effect most delightful. on hot day
in summer. There are times, of
course, when in long storm there
seems to be too much shade and dark
ness, but it is always easier to cut
down tree. thar. it is to grow one.
The population is estimated at
nearly, if not quite, $4,000 The city
is we'll Lighted by whiteway system,
inaugrated in 1910. The water comes
from driven wells. 1t has library,
erected by Carnegie money i'll 1902
at a cost of more than $4,000, with
a circulation of 40,l53. 1t has high
school, erected about two years ago,
in place of an old, at :. total cost of
nearly 100000. 1t has college with
an attendance of 1900, normal
school, and business course being in
cluded; Young Mems Christian as
sociatisn, which recently paid debt
of $30,00O; mayor and eight coun-
cilmen, the former republican and the
latter democratic; only nine saloons,
four having been arbitrarily elimi-
mated within the last few months;
four national banks, two savings
banks and a trust company with a
capital of nearly 100000 one daily
paper, The Tribune, republican, and
The Weekly Herald, which is politi-
cally thorn in the side of its neigh
Dor; more than forty trains day,
which enable one to make round
trip 10 Omaha and back five times
within twenty-four hous S; one good
hotel, with more tina. fifty rooms,
with hot and cold water i'll every
room, and new hotel in prospect at
cost of $l75,000; nearly ten miles
of paving, mostly stone and brick,
with additional work in progress; OPP
erations in progress on fifty new
buildings and new court house cost
ing 100000 planned; eighteen
churches, with a membership of more
than 1900; a pay roll of more than
100000 in its industrial concerns;
seventy manufacturing and jobbing
concerns; no slums; few foreigners
and less than a dozen negroes in its
population; three hospitals, post
office, with receipts of n ore than $751;
900; coultr. club, with member
ship of about zoo; a small death rate
and three undertakers, who, the town
boosters say, are Starving to death"
The city's assessed valuation is
about 100000. Its tax rate is SO
mills for city, county, state and other
purposes. Those who pay for gas
number about 1000, and not quite half
that number take electric light. The
gas rate is SIPS.
There are $500 telephones within
the city limits. Six policemen guard
the city by day, besides traffic Off
Ger, and there are two night police
men. There are two picture show
houses, two fine parks, where there
is not only plenty of shade, but an
abundance of seats. There are miles
of good sidewalks OF cement and
city ordinance forbids the building
of any made of wood. There is a
good leverage system and the Oldest
inhabitant cannot recall an epidemic |
except those incident to children,