Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-05-03
.UNLSTUDENTS
INSPECT OMAHA
BUSINESS LIFE
Four Hundred Young Men Are
Guests Of Commercial
Bodies On Tour to Supple
ment Studies.

Yesterday was University day in
Omaha and everybody knew it. Four
hundred of the young men students
Of the state university, aboard a
special train over the Burlington, ar
rived shortly after 10 o'clock.
At the Union stock yards. about
100 of the students. interested in
live stock and various departments
of the packing house industry, de-
trained and spent considerable
portion of the day.
At noon they were the guests of
the Union Stock Yards company,
lunching at the exchange. Carl
Smith was in charge of groups, !
to S, inclusive, and during their
tour OF the big plants they saw
everything thxt goes with the pro-
duction of the output of the houses
that have made Omaha famous as
a meat packing center. :
Rain Dampens Ardor.
When the special train reached
Omaha, 4 drilling rain set in and
for time 1t dampened the ardor and
the clothing of the students.
The students were divided into 20
groups and each group, conveyed by
an Omaha man started our to take
in the city. ;.
Group No. 6, under the guidance of
G. M. Wallace, visited the public Ii
brary and the grain exchange.
Another group interested in chem
ical matters went to the smelter, the
art glass factories, the engraving
plants and the manufacturing plants
Of the pobbing chemists.
Other groups, interested in botany
and plant culture of various kinds,
journeyed to Forest Lawn, the
woods in the vicinity of Florence
ard to number of the larger green
houses.
Students interested in mechanics
and engineering, and there were a
host of them, toured the Union
Pacific shops, electric light plant,
waterworks pumping station, gas
plantand power plants of the numer-
GUS large buildings in the business
center.
A large number, of the students
went to the FIGURING mills and the
great grain elevators of the Omaha
terminals, while still others visited
the Lininger art gallery and the sew
eral large private galleries of the
city.
Boys who are specially interested
in financial affairs made d tour of
the banking houses, still greater
number going to the implement
establishments and jobbing houses.
Visit Medical School.
Among the students were NUM-
Der who are preparing themselves
for the medical profession. All of
these were escorted to the Univer-
sity Of Nebraska College of Med
icine, which they expect to enter
upon completing the preparatory
course in Lincoln.
At noon there was gathering of
students at the Chamber of Com
merce, where lunch was served,
after which they again, little tired,
but anxious to see the city, resumed
their rounds.
In making their tours about the
city the boys travelled in chartered
street cars, stopping as long as they
desired at points of interest.
At 6 o'clock last evening the
boys were dined at the Hotel Fon-
tenelle and shortly afterward at the
Auditorium there was a public re-
caption, followed by a dance that
continued until the returning train
departed for Lincoln at II o'clock
The medical students were not
scheduled for the Auditorium gath
ering, but instead they were enter
tanned at the University club. They
heard short talks on the activity of
the medical profession in military
life. The addresses were given by
returned members Of the medical
corns