Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-11
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L activity, it looks as if Farnam street property
prices were starting on another upgrade extend
ing all along its length When / was boy we
used to go skating on two ponds, one on either
side OF the road, just about on Twenty-hrst street
where two great oak trees formed an arch across
a narrow lane that had to wind between them
and on which two wagons could not pass, and
west /of that was nothing but country hill and
dale think the irony Of fate is well illustrated
by the experience of the Lutheran church people,
now the Kountze Memorial, whose house of wor-
ship was located first on Douglas between Twelfth
and Thirteenth, whence it was pushed out by the
nroads Of business to make way for the Millard
hotel. The new church was erected at Sixteenth
and Harney with a special purpose to be safe
from the pressure of commercialism, and there it
stood until completely surrounded by stores and
office buildings that made the approaching thor
oughfares the busiest marts OF trade in the city.
Again the church moved to get away from busi-
to its present location at Twenty-sixth and Far
nam, not many years ago at that, and today it is
again the center of business development and it
is only question of time when it will have to
choose once more between being downtown
church and another move. venture the predc-
tion that no more dwellings or residences will be
built on Farnam street east Of Fortieth.
By way OF finishing the discussion as to the
proper way of spelling "Farnam" street and the
peculiar mistake that caused it to be spelled
"Farnham" for perhaps twenty-five years, until
the "h' was reformed out of it, let me say that
a document was dug up not long ago by Charles
L. Saunders bearing the original signature OF
Henry Farnam, after whom the street was named
The autograph is attached among several others
to notice sent to the then Governor Alvin
Saunders advising him Of the meeting Of the in
corporators of the company organized to build
the Union Pacific railway.
Those who ought to know say The Bees
smoker for the grocers was attended by more
men engaged in that line of business in Omaha
than had ever been brought together before. The
party had two-fold purpose OF sociability and of
securing attention to talk upon advertising and
the way advertising helps to build up business.
incidentally, the occasion demonstrated the neces-
sty of the corner grocery and the community
service which it renders, and for which nothing
else is likely to be developed "just as good" or
anywhere near as good.
The death of Adophus w. Green, announced
in the news reports last week, is reminder of
one Of the wonder stories of American industry in
which he played the leading part Colonel Green
who was lawyer practising in Chicago and often
visitor to Omaha, organized the National Bis
cult company and later became its president and
made even more OF a hit as captain of finance
than he had done as legal practitioner. 1t was
his program OF expansion that took in the old
Garneau Cracker company here and absorbed
numerous cracker factories all over the country.
When the Nebraska law was passed requiring the
marking of weights on all food packages, he or
dered complete discontinuance Of business in
this state and great mllion-dollar factory about
to be erected to supply this section of the country
was built in Kansas City instead of in Omaha,
although Omaha got some other cracker factories
instead For the opening of this Kansas City
plant he issued large number of invitations and