Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 31, 1887, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF BUBSORTPTION ¢ RK OVFICE, ROOM (5, TRIBUNE BUILDIN F‘lA QPFICE No. g1 AN 916 FARNAN STREFY. ARG INGTON OFFICE, NO. 615 FOUNTRENTH STRERT. CORRESPONDENCE? All communiocations relating to newa and edi- torial matter should be addressed Lo tho Ebi- TOR OF THMR Ber, BUSINESS LETTERS? All buriness letters and remittances should be ressed to Tue PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMARA. Drafts, s and postoffice orders 0 be made payable to the order of the company, TAE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, Epiro THE DAILY BEE. Bworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska, County of Douglas. ! U Geo. B. Tzschuck, secretary of The Dee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circuiation of the Daily Bee % the week ending Mar. 25th 1857, wus as ednesd s nesda; uradny, B 'riaay, Mar. 25, « Subscribed and sworn;to before e this 26th dayof March A, D., 187, N. P. FRIL, ISEALI Notarv Publie. Geo, B, 'l'zschuck, bclmi first duly sworn, deposes and says that he |s secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual av- erage dally circulation of the Daily Bee for themonth of March, lwi 11,637 coples: for flrll, 1886, 12,191 copies: for for May, 1888, 12,- coples; for June, 1856, 12,208 coples; for Julé.‘ 1886, 12,314 copies; for August, 1886, 18, coples; for September, 1886, 13,030 copies; for October, 1836, 12,080 coples; for November, 1886, 13,348 coples; for December, 1886, 13,237 copies; for January, 1887, 16,266 coples; for February, ', 14,198 coples. Gro. B, T28CHUCK. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 9th day of March, A. D), 1887, [SEAL. N. F Notary Publle. AN nxch?mg} refers to him as tho “pie- bellied fraud Paul Vandervoort.” Tae wat:r;s;k:umpnn; can now movo its works ten miles up the viver. WE are now living under the new char- ter, without knowing just exactly what its provisions are. It is a common expcrl’c’nce for honora- ble men to be cursed with prodigal sons. Beorpions, as it were. n committee to investigate the gambling bill conspiracy. anti- It 13 now getting along to that time of year when the ravages of festive light- ning rod agents are reported. CrARENCE CoOK, of Cincinnati, it is £aid, will be chosen by President Cleve- land for United States treasurer. Mavor Boyp wants to be a second Grover Cleveland, He carries a bundle of ready-made vetoes in his pocket. HEREAFTER no job can be rushed through the city council by ordinance, in a single night, by "suspending the rules. THE street commissioners cannot too soon order a thorough cleansing of streets and alleys. Wun‘,weathor and filth breed disease. Mg. CLEVELAND will make a tour of the west during the month of May. Omaha will be pleased to extend a wel- come to the nation’s chief. Mar mukers will be obliged to visit Nebraska soon. The legislature has carved out many new counties, and made a wonderful change in the north- ‘western part of the stat ems—— To-NIGHT at 13 o'clock the twentieth #ession of the Nebraska legislature passes iuto history. And a sorry history it will make, too. Sound the glad tidings over Nebraska’s broad prairies. TEERseaTp—— OyAHA has a new oharter, but she has the same dangerous railway crossing on Tonth streot. There is the plot for a foarful tragedy some day. A more dan- gerous man-trap could not be conceived. eE———— THERE is a sad suggestion in the thought that the legislature adjourns one day aftor the railroad passes have been called in, To see fifty or sixty of those statesmen walking home,will be a melan- Sholy spectacle. Tuere can be no doubt that Phil Armour, the king of packers, has an eye on Omaha as the proper placo to em- bark in business. And it may as well be remarked that Omaha has an eye on Mr. Armour, and would be pleased to have him locate among us. Tar Now York Sun continues to boom one Bill Coleman, of San Francisco, for president. Although tho San Francisco man has a “bar’l,"” it is not likely that his boom, under the the nourishing rays of the Sun, will materialize any more than did that of Bell Holman, — Oun state legislature has sent Mr, Par- nell, by cable, a few hundred words of sympathy. This was right and proper, But after the legislature adjourns and the ®school house meetings” already an. mounced are ended, some of the mem- bers will want sympathy from Mr, Par- nell, or some other man. ENpee———— It is pleasing to know that Mrs. James *Brown Potter has finally madoe her debut at the Haymarket theatre, London. The socount of the lady’s first appearance showa that the Prince of Wales was in - the audience. Also Lady Coln Camp- & E bell and Oscar Wilde. Mrs. Potter cer- tainly knows more about advertising than she docs about acting, ETEEE——— TreRE have been 80 many things said pooently unfavorable to the official con- duot of Mr. ts, secretary of war, shat the report of a misunderstanding be- . Sween bim and General Sheridan. From general course of the seorelary as re- o one would infer that he is holding simply as a matter of accom- m the public. The president _might do well to permit him to cultivate ‘Bls desire for exclusiveness at his own “’m. It is very ocrtain he never missed. wh : "THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1887. Ralsing a ¥ lasuo, The appeal to prejudice, made by the saline land jobbers against Omaha, in order to carry their point, is a repetition of the tactice which haye been for years pursued by jobbers at the capital. Every time that any member from Douglas county opposcs one of these.periodical grabs, a howlis raised that Omaha is jeul- ous of Lincoln, and wants to deprive her of the proper share of state appropria- tions. Now Omaha has no rival in Lin- coln, and nobody outside of an insane asylum would believe that Omaha is jeal- ous of the growth of the capital city. There never was a time since the capital was located at Lincoln when Omaha looked upon that ecity as a dangerous commercial competitor, While Lincoln has been growing very rapidly, Omaha has pot been standing still. The two cities are no nearer to each other in population or .commercial com- petition than they ever have been. Each has its own proper field, and each can grow without impairing the growth and prosperity of the other. Itis only nat- ural that the county which pays more than.one-tenth of all the taxes of the state should object to any measure that needlessly increases taxation or disposes of the state’s property without an equiv- alent, The saline land syndicate simply takes advantage ot the prevailing dispo- sition to counteract the influence of Omaha in raising the old anti-Omaha threadbare cry, For ast Time, A dissolute dead beat who gained infa- mous notoriety in Colorado as the boon companion of prostitutes and frequenters of dives and dens occupics for the time being the editorial chair of an Omaha daily. For weeks this beastly debauchee has been pouring out oceans of filthy, vulgar and disgusting billingsgate upon the editor of the BEke. And we presume he will continue to wallow in this mire of filth until ho has ruined everybody counected with the paper he edits. Not content with his tavorite role of bar-rqom blackguard, this miscreant has written the most atrocious libels and published them as a vindication of the conspirators and bribe-solicitors in the legislature whom he extols as models of integrity. It is almost needless for usto proncunce the charges he makes as bare-faced false- hoods, fabricated for the occasion by a depraved wretch deyoid of all decency. Once and for all time we are done with him. Hercafter no notice will be taken of his foul ravings, mm————— Let Him Come. It is to be hoved the reportthat Presi- dent Cleveland is contemplating a visit to the great west is well-founded. Itisa trip which he ought to take for his own sake. At present he must nccessarily have only a very vague and inadequate idea of the vast country of which he is the executive. In the “‘pent-up Utica" 1n which his migrations have thus far been confined he may have scen the best as well as tho worst, features of American civilization. but it has been quite impos- sible for him to get any knowledge or ex- perience of that large spirit, courageous purpose, and progressive enterprise which are only tobe found in their full- estdevelopment in the ‘‘boundless west.” With all the advantages the east may fairly claim to possessin an advanced culture and the conditions which contri- bute tothe comforts of life, it cannot alone produce a fully developed Ameri- can citizen, The man who passes his life, there will necessarily be dwarfed and shrunken in some directions. Thers isinevitably to such a man a sectional narrowness which does not permit him to see and think broadly and generously. Mr. Cleveland is himself an excellent ex- ample in proof of this, He knows nothing really of this great empire outside of the state of New York and the District of Colum- bia. The president of the republic should have a wider acquaintance with his country. In his Nashville speech Sena- tor Sherman observed that if Clovelana had ever seen the great waterways of the land he would not have killed the river and harbor bill with a pocket veto. It the president, however, is contem- plating a western visit purely as a politi- cal adventure, it would not be fair to en- courage him, As the nation’s executive he would certainly receive the most cor- dial welcome, The virtue of patriotism is nowhere stronger than in the west, and the president would fiud that this people can honor their highest servant quite as heartily, it not altogether so gracefully as can those of the east. The effect of this might be to mislead him into the impression that the west desired & con- tinuance of his administration, Popular enthusiasm has deceived some of our worthiest men. We have no wish to see Mr. Cleveland added tothe list. Itis due to him to say, therefore, that the majority of the western people entertaln views favorable to some other citizen for president after the fourth of March, 1889, The conviction that this is desira- ble and necessary is so firmly fixed that we are entirely sure Mr. Cleveland eannot change it. He would waste, in the effort todo so, valuable time that might be profitably employed in localities where the certainties of the situation are less unalterably against him. Neverthe- less it is hoped the president may con- clude to visit the west, bringing with him Mrs. Cleveland and Colonel Lamont. They will be cordially welcomea, and they would all be wiser for having made the trip. An Appeal That Will e Honored. The appeals 8f Parncll, through the president of the Land League of Amer- ica, to the American people, ‘‘for that sympathy and support which they never withheld from a people struggling for liberty," will not go unhonored. In this supreme struggle of Irishmen and the friends of Ireland's cause to ward off the iniquitous and brutal policy of repres- sion and tyranny proclaimed by the Salisbury government, the protest of the Amcrican people against this projected wrong, and their sympathy with the un- bappy people who are the objects of British oppression and abuse, will be de- clared in no uncertain terms. The peo- plo of this country know the hollowness and the falsity of the pretexts upon which the tory government ot Great Britain bases its claim of the necessity ofits proposed course. They are not withous accurate knowledge of the hard- ships and sufferings of the people of Ire- land, which are being borne with a pa- tience of fortitude that may well com- rand the admiration of the world, They cannot be deceived by tory falsehoods and inventions basely put forward to justify a policy which is & mockery of justice and a scandal upon the civilization of the age. Mr. Gladstone, as well as Mr. Parnell, has clearly indicated the iniquities and tyrannical character of the measure now impending over hapless Ireland. Itis a proposition to employ brutal might to compel a people already utterly impov- erished to submit to attempted exactions, they are wholly unable to meet. It is a plan to protect the plunderers in the per- petration of any injustice against & peo- ple now almost driven to despair by the ruthless persecution of the title owners of the soil in Ireland. It is a policy of repression and coercion as heartless and severe as any ever proclaimed by Russia, The success of this policy would destroy, as Mr. Gludstone said, all prospect of conciliation, and instead of curing or palliating the ills of Ireland, would ag- gravate deep seated and worse disor- ders. It is the duty of the American people, in the interest of justice, civilization, and the rights of a deeply-wronged people manaced with greater outrages, to extend moral sympathy to the men who are courageously battling against the pro- tected iniquity of the tory government, and material aid to the impoverished thousands who are bravely and patiently bearing their heavy burden of hardship and oppression. All look to the people of this republic for the encouragement which freemen should give to those seek- ing their liberty, and they must not be disappointed. The appeal of Parnell should clicit from every quarter of Amer- ica a ringing response in protest against a policy which if successful will be the crowning political crime of this century. Or the 500 Indians, including men, women and children, confined in Fort Marion, Florida, since last fall, twenty- three have died and many others are so enfeebled by their close confinement tiat they cannot survive many months. This fact is strong argument that an Indian cannot be civilized. Itis a part of his nature to run free over the coun- try and live by his labors of ‘“hunting, fishing and trapping.”” The Umatilla Indians of the northwest have becn tamed, but they continue to live in their wigwams and enjoy war dances and dog astheir fathers did before them. A “FELLOW of infinite jest and most ex cellent fancy” was consigned to the tomb in New York yesterday. W. R. Travers, whose death recently occurred in Ber- muda, was for many years a conspicnous figure in Wall street, from whose busy haunts his spontancous wit will be sadly missed by his host of friends and admi- rers. He wasa man of marked origin- ality, and the many witty sayings and flashes of humor ascribed to him would make a large volume. “Where be your jibes now, and your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?” —_— TaE railroad managers will now close’ their oil rooms, order in their cappers and retire from Lincoln. Every decent railroad bill has been beaten, the fraud- ulent commission has not been abol- ished, and the free-booters can continue their raids on the Nebraska producers and shippers. The expenses of the lebby and oil room will be taxed up to the help- less patrons of the roads. THE boodlers and sell-outs of the legis- lature kave a champion who is worthy of their companionship. He writes edi- torials between drinks in the Umaha bur- rooms and strikes heavy blows in their defense while reeling Getween the lamp posts. THE appointment of Mr. G, W. Tillson as city engineer is in strict conformity with practical civil service reform. Mr. Tillson has filled the pozition of first assistant city engineer for a namber of years, and 18 justly entitled to this pro- motion. THE register of deed bill has passed and will doubtless become a law. This will give Donglas county a new and much nceded officer. The county clerk has ample business to keep his time fully employed without supervising the regis- tration of deeds. TRE man who had a father that fought for liberty in five countries, ought to honor his memory by behaving himself, keeping decent compsny and keeping out of the gutter, ——— FORTUNE AND MISFORTUNE. Lucy Zirota earns the largest salary of any dwarf in the world. Her manager, Mr. Smith, gets $500 a week. Mad Bearis said to be the wealthiest In- dian in Dakota, beink the possessor of exten- sive herds of catile and horses. ‘There {s arich man in the Black Hills, says the Bismarck Times, who dates the begin- ning of his fortune from the day when he £old his wite for $4,000. 3 John De Witt, of Belgium, Wis., buried $10 In money near his barn. Some time later he searched an entire day without belng ableto find it, Then in despair he hanged himself, If Africa’s golden fountains do not roll down their golden sands to any great extent yet the golden quartz of the Transvaal®gold fields is ylelding ninety ounces of gold to the ton, If consular reports are correct, Nathaniel Jones, of Chicago, is spending $120,000 on & magnificent house on the shores of luke Michigan, He made the money in a single deal in Pullman stock in conjunction with George M. Pullman and others, Great is plush, Samuel Cunliffe Lister, maker of thar much used article, has just paid $1,550,000 cash for the Jervaulx Abbey estate In England, He it was who a few years ago similarly paid out $2,300,000 for Swinton park. E. J. (“Lucky"”) Baldwin recently told & San Francisco reporter that he owns 53,000 acres of land, and Is willing to sell 8,000 acres upon the outlying borders of his ranch for $000 per acre. Strangely enough, the re- porter did not purchase. Joseph Rabpitt, a fireman at the court house in St. Louis has fallen heir to $3,000,- 000 by the death of his uncle, also named Joseph Rabbitt, at Melbourne, Australia. ‘This is a specles of Australian Rabbitt whose rapid multiplication would be immensely popular in this country, Alittle old woman In tattered attire sells matches on the streets of Philadelpbia. She is named Maria Loulsa Hancock and claims relationship tothe dead general, Although apparently very poor she is said to be worth $30,000, She secures her entire sustenance from free lunch counters in saloons where she sells matches. Aehad, Forsan, 13 4%, 380 1, B !““‘:flu 'llllll‘l‘ll LY rli‘ in the Havana ) g &nlwllonl‘luo'umnd lnrw{ to ri Coaed s "mfl‘.”““‘"i’ o e e e his al us em, finall wnndem{b&l to Philadelphia and has since been living in poverty, He is now an inmate of the Forrest home. b Mr, 8. C. Lister, the “silk king” of Eng- land, is more than seventy years old, but stout and hearty, and busy every day with the concerns of his great factories and Ianded estates. He invented wool-combing by machinery, velvet llI!lell making by ma- chinery and the utilization of silk waste. He spent $3,000,000 in dell‘lop"l{ those Indus- tries, and has made more than $250,000 a year out of each of them. He says he never went in for nnyn&g in which he did not confidently see $250.000 a year. A Newspager Man All Over, York Times. There seems to bea icombination between the Omaha dailies to do up the Ber. With- out any prejudice or Interest in the scrap, proor con, we are ready to hazzard some wealth that Rosewater can and will keep the flies off the young and budding newspaper adventurers who have undertaken the job. The Bex will continue to be the best news- paper in the state, as long as its would-bo rivals continuously denounce its editor, and as continuously try to ape him. If Rothaker, Fred Nye, and Hitchcock, should all alight on Rosewater’s ear at once, he would hardly take the trouble tobrush them off. Rose- water s a newspaper nan all over: these others edit papers as boys play marbles. Pttt Lt Newspaper Exposures, New York World, A Chieago grand jury has found thirty- two bills ot indictment against corrupt ofti- cials, It may be remarked that this pro- cedure is the result of a series of newspaper exposures of the methods throuzh which the city has been systematically robbed. ‘I'he newaspapers are neatly always up to this sort of business. Through their alertness and devotion to pubiic Interests a great many rascals are brought to book, and out of the thieves thus arraigned the criminal lawyers secure big fees. And yet some of the crim- inal lawyers pretend that they would contine the functions of the mewspapers to simoly mentioning cases incourt by their docket numbers and recording verdicts as a mere matter of news. Sl e Social Scan . Jumes Thomson, Then would a splendid city rise to view, ith carts and cars aud coaches, roaring all: Wide-poured abroad behold the giddy crew; See how they dash along from wall fo wall§ At uver){ldour. hark how they thundering ca Good Lord! what ean this giddy rout excite? ‘Why, on each other with fell tooth to fall; A neighbor’s fortune, tame or peace to blight, Aud make new tiresome parties for the com- ing night, —_— BTATE AND TERRITORY., Nebraska Jottings, Wahoo politics are waxing wet and warm. Harlan county has voted a bonus to the Kansas City & Omaha road. Creamery buildings and & new depot have been added to Wahoo's greatness. Butler county clnij:s the largest num- ber of cultivated farms in the state, The number is 695. { The cheering news comes from Ne- braska City that the Missouri river s going down on the run. Grand Island capigplists haye put u the ducats, to the sbaum. of OSO,BW, 10':' the new Bank of Comumerce. Tecumseh is figutiag on the profits and benefits of selling the public square and investing the proceeds festimuted at §49,- 000, in a court house 1n another part Of the city. The pole evil is spreading. The Ne- braska telephone compuny has thousands of poles piled up in this city, which will be planted in various parts of the state on or about Arbor day. Nebraska City has reccived assurance that the Missouri Pacific will be in opera- tion to that city by the 10th of June. By that time the surrounding banks of ochre will be sufliciently diluted to prop- erly crimson the eyvent. John Fitzgerald has made a llmelz Fm of of a hose cart to the Plattsmouth fire- men, conditioned, however, that no com- pany shall be named after him, The cart 18 the one which the Lincoln team won at New Orleans, and will prove es- vecially useful now that the waterworks are in motion, ! Minden is threatened with a deluge of railroads. Since $50,000 was voted to the Kansas City & Omahu extension, the na- tives have laid oat vast schemes to cap- ture the B. ., Rock Island and Elk- horn Valley ro: ds, and extend the corpo- ration limits to accommodate the rush. A few trembling mosshacks who stood on the path of progress have been burned in efligy, and the main line of prosperity is now free of obstruction. The mournful cry goes skurrying heavenward from Crawford, “Are we in Condaught or in free America?”” It ap- pears thut Uncle Sam has st%pped on the “inalicnable rights’’ of John Sechler, who squatted on a section of the present reser- vation of Fort Robinson before it was es- tablished, and has been ordered to vamoose. He had improved the home- stead to the extent of $7,000, and the or- der to vacate 18 denounced as an outrage and unnecessary hardship. Charles Erickson, a Dodge count; farmer, was vlelousl{ caressed by hi wife on his return home last Friday evenh:ig. He evidentl: lorgiot to bring her a dress pattern of the latest style, and was struck down with an axe before he could utter a word in explanation. The first cut shaved off a slice of his scalp and the second or third paralyzed hisarm. He managed to escape to a neighbor's house ‘and a doctor was called to patch him up. Charlie's wife Eropnlal to boss the shack at any cost of lood or bones. The plant of the Nebraska City Can- ning company will consist of five build- ings covering 8,700 square feet. The company has completed its contracts for the year. The most important are with Hafer & Henderson, of Shenandoah, who put in for the concern fifty acres of corn and twenty of tomatoes, on two tracts not far from the city that they have rented. Boyer & Bradley will fur, the product ¢f thirty acres planted corn and five in tomatoes. Manager Black figures that with a good croxl ey will receive sufficient’ corn for 250,000 cans and enough tomatoes for 150,000; this estimate making no uccount of peas and beans, Wyonfhg. The new land district, with headquar- ters at Bufialo, embyaces Crook, John- son and Fremont coungies, The buildings of the university of W{- oming m Laramie a apidly approach- g completion. cost will reach The advance guard of the B. & M. rail- road builders expegt to celebrate the Fourth of July on the west side of the boundary line. b A round up on a filtfimile range in the neighborhood of Douglas resulted in find- ing 248 deaa steers, victims of the win- ter’s exposure, The Colorado & Wyoming railroad, a branch of the Burlington, has been incor- orated with a capital of $3,000,000. The ntention is to build a branch to Chey- enne this season, Colorado. The legislature is still drawing its sal- :ry 'tnthou! rendering the stute an equv- ent. Real estato transferes in Denver last week averaged $150,000 a day. Business is reviving rapidly in all lines, The large influx of settlers is spreading over the eastern counties, and govern- ment land is disappearing rapidly. The authorities of Denver are consider- ing plans to turn Cherry coreek from its present channel and thus prevent dam- age by floods in the future. It is expected that the cost will reach half a mitlion dollars, The scheme is favorably re- coived, anp will be inaugurated if the taxpayers yote bonds to meet the ex- pense. A Denver authoress, worth §75,000, was suceessfully wood by Charles Garlich, an English adventurer and wife hunter, The marriage day was named, the church and minister engaged, and friends invited to witness tho tying of the knot. An anti- nuptial contract was signed, in which the prospective groom settled $50,000 on the bride to be. An examination of the notes proved them to be base countorfeits and the match was broken instanter, “Chawley" is nnconsolable over the mis- carriage of his plans and the loss of a moderate fortune. -~ A BOOM AT YORK. There's No Wind in 1t, but It is Solid and Substantial. York, Neb., March 30.—[Correspond- ence of the Bek.]-The premonitory throes of a great boom are already being felt in our flourishing little city. A boom is like the wind; for no man knows whence it comes or whither it goes, and 1t 18 frequently wind itseif. But ours isn't that kind. 1t is solid and substantial, and not a mere evanescent phantom. It has something behind it and under 1t to support and uphold it. In other words, we are having a good, healthy, vigorous prosperity and growth in York. For a long time we have had the best, the largest and most flourishing town in the state having only one railroad. We have a region of country around us that is not surpassed in nat- ural resources and improvements, if it is equaled in the rich and productive state of Nebraska. We thercfore have a good solid foundation upon which to construct a boom. With two additional railroads coming to our city this spring, who can measure the height and depth and length and breadth of our approaching boom? The Kansas City & Omaha railroad is rapidly approaching completion. The dirt 1s fairly flying all along the line and in thirty days the grading will bo done thruufi out the county, By the middle of 1a) or the 1st of June trains will be running, giving us a com- peting line to Omaha, as well as opening up direct communicution with St. Joc and Kansas Cilr. This line is equivalent to two new railronds for York in itself, and will probably be so operated, the prospect now bemli that the Union Pa- citic will operate the line from here to Omaha, and the St. Joe & Grand Island from here south. 8 is o big thing of itself. But in addition to this the North- western 1s also mal ravid strides in our direction. The right of way is being bought, and in a short time grading will be commenced, By the 1st of July this great corporation will be sending its traina to York. We will thus have three com- peting lines to Omaha during the coming summer, and, in reality, have four inde- pendent lines of railrond. These great acquisitions in a single season are havin, a great effect on our town. The spirit o progress which has always charactorized the place has received a new impetus. Eight new additions and subdiyisions are being platted, and a_great activity in real estate is manifested. The county clerk informs your correspondent that the real estate transfers within the city have increased by nearly one-third in the last month. “A public sale of lots in Hillside addition occurred last week, to which those having it in charge ran free carriages, and resulted in the sale of a large number of lots. Al- though so early in the season a number of huildinfu are in process of erection, Many handsome store buildings and res- idences are going to be erected this year. One new court house1s being rnpldl{ car- ried forward toward completion. It will be the best court house in the state out- side of OUmaha. The B. & M. are engaged in building a new depot, which is a long felt want; the large travel toand from York making the present depot de- cidedly inadequate for the proper ac- commodatibn of the public, Our college is emerging from the diffi- culties which have lately beset its path and is about to enter upon n career of re- newed prosperity. With the additional railroad facilities which our town is going to have and the financial assist- ance pledged to this institution, its future is remarkably promising for a career of great usefuluess and an extensive pat- ronage. ‘Wae bave good reason to belicve that York will be a division station on one of oyr new lines if not in both of them, which would ac- celerate and boom even more yet. Some of our enterprising citizens have formed a strict railway company and will apply for a franchise right away, and thus we revel in enterprises and improvemeé\ts. e The Elevated Railway. To the Editor of the BEE: I lately read in your journal an article on the Mack elevated railway, and I think the subject of so much interest to the citizens of Omaha that with your leave I shall say a few words on the subject. A long resi- dence in Chicago and other American cities convinces me that a very serious and embarrassing problem that all grow- ing cities must soon try to solve is that of rapld transit. In cities where ordi- nary railroads cross the streets at grade the trains must be run so slowly over crossings that average rapid running is impracticable. Street railroads are ex- cellent in their way for journeys that do not exceed half a mile, but when they are required to carry a great portion of a city’s population three or four miles, morning and evening, the most patient traveler soon concludes that the street car is an irritating discomfort and waste of time. When the street car is moved by a cable instead of by horses, the transportation becomes slightly more prompt, but a street cable car that gets over four miles in half an hour has yet to be put on the road., Owing to the slow movement of all surface cars,which must necessarily be held down to a max- 1mum speed of eight miles an hour, real suffering is imposed upon the people who have daily to make long journeys to and from their work., The only way to etfect a ra press the can be 80 M%h speed be- tween stopping voints, Those who have given the subject of rapid transit in cities earnest study and wide investiga- tion, are convinced that the rapid transit of the future must be conducted on elevated railroads. New York and Lon- don are the only two cities in the world well supplied with the means of rapid transit, and both cities have prospered enormously since the means of internal transportation have been provided. New York has eievated railroads traversin every important point, and London is honéy-combed with under-ground rail- wavs. Both systems are good, but the latter is so expensive that none but the richest citis could meet the first cost, and it has other objectionable tures. The greatest objection to tI vated ructures in New York is that they ob- struct the light and are built without regard to etic considerations. e Mack elevated railroad coutd be built s0 that its appearance would not be objectionable, the cost of the structure would be comparatively light, and its ad- wvantages o the city of Omaba would be immense. Now is the time to get an elevated railroad bwlt. When a city s to the size of New York, Boston Bhiiadelphia and Chicago before elovated railroads are buill, the difliculties in the way of obtaining the right of way become immense, and_in some cases they grow insurmountable. Omaha's opportunity exists before the dog in the manger peo- ple be~ome strong enough to bar the wny to improvements, The mechanical fea- tures of the Muck structure are excellent, combining, as they do, lightness with durability. The erection and operation of an elevated railroad in Omaha would pluce the eity in the front of ail enter- prising western cities and would cer- tainly prove the best paying investment the place had gone into Jately. Havin, a personal interest in the progress and development of Omaha, [ rec d the elevated railroad enterprise ns one that would contribute immensely to the pros- perity of the city. Yours traly, CHANICAL ENGINEER. ——~— ‘“IT WAS MY LAST CIGAR." The Author of the Second Most Popu- lar Song James M. Hubbard. Chicago Mail, March 25: If there is nn{ melody which divides honors with “‘Home, Sweet Home," it 18 that other American sonfi, “It was My Last Cigar.” The author, J. M. Hubbard, has been for eighteen years in the Chioago post. office, and is one of the oldest and most valuable government officials in the rail- way service. Although over a million coples have been printed and sold in this country by a single publluhin‘f‘nrm. and althoug! lyv,hns been sung in the German universities for twenty years, and all oyer the world where sweet music 18 prized, the man who wrote it has never made a penny out of it. Its history is a strange musical romance, Although James M. Hubbard is thought of at Wushington and everywhere only as an expert who by extraordinary service has mastered all ‘the details of the rail- way-mail service, forty years ago he was the professor of music at Yale college He succeeded to the chair ch Nathan- iel P. Willis left vacant. Librarian Poole who is known and loved he complished head of the public W but who1s known better all over the English-speaking world by his famous catalogues of current litorature, was at Yale at the same time. That was an era of musical enthusiasm at the blue uni- versity in the beautiful Elm city. Instead of an organ in the chapel in those days there was an orchestry of students led by the wondertul violin playing of James M, Hubbard. A Beethoven socicty flourished there, and old Centre church, presided over in those duys by the Rev. Dr. Bacon, as it was thirty years later by our own Rev. Dr. Noble, depended upon that Bee- thoven society of Yale college for all its s 1n Old South college, the dormi- tory best known to all Yale men, tlat ic and the following words w written: **It was off the blue Canary Isles One glorious summer day, I sat upon the quarter-deck And whifled my cares away, And as the fragment smoke arose Like incense in the air, 1 breathed a sigh to think, in south, It was my last cigar.” The words ha n written by a Yalensian named Condit, who was an intimate friend ot Hubbard, and who lived in the Old South college at the same time. The lines have their story as well as the music, for they were sug- ested by the actual experience of Con- it. The latter one day handed them to Hubbard with the request that he set them to music for the college boys. The melody was improvised and put on paper that very day at a smgle sitting, in a room on the top floor of that old brick structure on the south end of the line of the Yale dormitories, and that looks squarely down on Chapel street. It took immensely among the students. Hub- bard had sent his manuscript to New York for publication, and in the course of time received the proofs back. A copy- right was then secured by filing in the office of the pro- bate court in each county. Hub- barb took a copy of the song, ‘and, roll- ing it up, handed it with the fees to a friend named Cleveland, who was a clerk in the office of Probate Judge Blackman, That is the last the author thought of the cor‘yright privileges. The music had meanwhile slowly spread from one college to another, and from the col- leges to the outside musical world. De- mands had been made on the different publishers for it and Oliver Ditson began to republish it without credit. It was some_year or more before the author found that his music was being stolen. He then hastened to claim his royalties He was defied, There was no copyright, it was answered; his privileges were lost. Investigation proved the claim only too true, El‘evclnnd. 1o whom the music had been given, had fallen dead the day after the trust had been committed to him. A search through Judge Blackman’s office in New Haven ten years lator discovered the identical proof-sheet still rolled up and covered with dust, thrown up an out of sight upon the top of a bookcase m the probate clerk’s office. In the course of the investigation Oliver Ditson & Co. themselves admitted that they had sold 1,000,000 copies of the music and had realized the largest profits they had ever known on a single sheet of music. James M. Hubbard, from New Haven, went to Kalamazoo, where he also taught music. They were willing to pay more for talent even in those days out west than they were in Now Haven. Before the war he came to Chicago Saturday nights to conduct the musio of one of the big churches. Finally Plymouth secured his services, and, to uvoid the great trouble and fatigue of the Kalamazoo trip, they requested him to locate in Chi- cago. Mrs, Hubbard, a well-known liter- ry woman, was the sister of the then editor of the Post here, He secured a lace for the musician in the postoffice. hat was eighteen rs ago. Hubbard became so valuable & part of the mail machinery that for all this time he has survived the changes down at the gov- ernment building. He is known, ns I have said already, as & man too valuable to the government to let go; yet not many of even his acquaintances know him as the auther of the second best American song ever written. he ‘“‘New Haven Gray March” was also written by Hubbard. So was a very popular melody, ‘Dreaming On."” Li- brarian Poole, during the 1850 campaign, saw a very stirring piece of poetry on Garfield in n newspaper. He cut it out and sent it to Hubbard 1n a note suggest- ing that he set it to music. 1t proved the most popular campaign song of the year, and was sung all over the country. e Napoteon’s Place In History. New Princeton Review for March: We take him for what he is, a posthumous brother of Dante and Michael Angelo; in the clear outlines of his vision, in the in tensity, the coherency, and the onward logic of his reverie, in the profundity of his meditations, in the superhuman andeur of his conceptions, he is, indeed their fellow and their equal, His genious is of the same staturc and the same struct- ure; he is one of tho three sovercign minds of the Italian renaissance. Only, while the first two operate on paper and on marble, the latter operates on the liv- ing being, on the sensitive and suftering flesh of humanity, e Nevada City, Cal., boasts of a strong man; a big Cornish miner, who the other day, when a rider's saddle turned snd threw him to the ground with his foot fast in the stirrup, seized the frightened horse by the tail und held him by main ltrengll'l until the rider was rescued from his dangerous situation. e et Another of the well-known beauties of the London social world is about to for- sake the drawiog room—though not for the stage —Mrs. Wheeler, 80 well known a8 the contemporary of the Jersey Lily, both in beauty and popularity, being about to enter 8 dressmaker's establish- ment as one of the working partnoers. A CARD. 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Lots in the “Annex” have quadrupled in value and are still advancing, while a street car line is already building past Baker Place, adding hun- dreds of dollars to ths valueof every lot. ’ Albright's Choice was se- lected by me with the greatest care after a thorough study and with the full knowledge of its value, and I can consci- entiously say to those seeking a safe and profitable invest- ment that Albright's Choice offers chances not excelled in this market for a suve thing. Early investors have already reaped large profits in CASH, and with the many important improvements contemplated, @ gsome of which are now under way, every lot in this splen- did addition will prove a bo nanza to first buyers, Further information, plats and prices, will be cheerfully furnished. Buggies ready at all times to show property. Respectfully, W.G. ALBRIGHT - SOLE OWNER, 218 8. 15th Street. Branch office at South Oma- ha. . N. B. Property for sale inall parts of the city