Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 1, 1888, Page 12

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Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Pnb- ng company, does soleninly swear that the etual circutation of the Daily e for the week i Dec, 25, 1857, was as follows. urday Dec. 17 nday, Dec. | onday, Dec.19. a . 20) 14,5 ednendny, Dec. 3] (15 ursday, Dec. 1435 iday, Dec. 23, K0 Average.. . 1504 ZSCHUUR. Gro, B, fworn to and subscribed in my prese #0tl day of December, A. D. IeZ." © BEAL) Notary Public Btate of Nebraska, County of Douglas, Geos B. Tzschucl #es and says th first duly sworn, de- secretary of The Tiea ublishing company, that the actual average ‘or daily circulation "of “the Daily Hee the ‘month of December, 186, 15,237 for January, 17, 16,200 ruary, 1687, lkm coples coples: for 97, 1 e 14,147 927 copies: 'for June, 147, for July, 1887, 14,063 coples; for August, 161 coples: for Se 11 9 cop! ptem) ", 887, 145 October, 1857, 1458; for November, 1 ) GEO, B. TZSCHUCK, Bworn to and subscribed in_my presence this 8d day of December, A. D. 1847, g N.P. FEIT, (BEAL.) Notary Public. i bost gift that 1888 can bring is a “Hoart for any Fate.” Tue progress of the Cherokees to- ward civilization is not slow. They now claim “No Man’s Land” with all the assurance of a Black Hills’ claim- jumpor. A crry that has constructed over 2,500 buildings at a cost of over $9,000,000, within twelve months, and made public improvements during the same period which exceed $3,000,000, enjoys a very healthy boom that is not likely to col- lapse. THE yoar 1887 surpassed all previous years in the extent of vailroad building. "Nearly thirteen thousand miles of new main line track were constructed. In T 1882, a year of extraorainary railroad activity, about eleven thousand five Rundred miles were built. TnE BEE presents its compliments ot the new year to its thousands of patrons through an illustrated review which graphically tells the story of a year's growth of Omaha. It is a record of marvelous enterprise and unparalleled achievement to which ot only Omaha, but Nebraska, may well point with pride. THE state railroad commissioners of Minnesota have ordered that after to- day each upper berth in any sleeping car run or operated upon any railroad in that state shall be and remain closed, whenever the berth beneath the same shall be occupied by o passenger until such upper berth shall be needed for actual occupancy by some other passen- ger requiving the same. The propriety and justice of this order will be heartily appreciated by the patrons of sledping cars, who will universally vote the Min- mesota commissioners a level-headed body. When the upper berth of a sleep- ing car is not to be occupied there is no good reason why it should not remain ‘olosed for the comfort and convenience ©of the passenger who has the lower berth. The rule should become general. THERE is to be a very strong effort made to induce congress at the present Bession to remove the tariff of 80 per cent on foreign works of art. The effort has been made with great regularity every yenr, but the advocates of the re- 'moval are more hopeful now of accom- Plishing something. The retention of this duty is a stigma on the country Which no persons are more anxious to have removed than the American artists abroad. One of these, Mr. R. H. Park, the distinguished sculptor, is now in Washington to advoeate the re- moval of the duty, and rofer- ving to the subje he says: ““The art schools of Europe treat the American artists genorously; why should mnot our government reciprocate? In every city in Italy, there is an art school supported by the government where American students are taught by the ablest professors, free of cost; the Ttalian government pays for all. To this consideration add the other that the United States is the only civilized country in the world where a tax is placed upon the import of works of art. Art is an educator and should be free, This harsh treatment of the foreign artists who are so generous to us is some- thing we are not proud of. In the world of art it is o stigma upon our country and upon us; it is a protection that we don’t want. To the last con- gress there was presonted a Yetition signed by every representative Ameri- can artist whether sculptor or painter, whether located nt home or abroad, ask- ing for the repeal of that tax which now operates against our foreign brothers. Itisa hindrance to American culture, and the growth of a healthy esthutic taste in the country, and if American art- ists don’t wantit,surcly Ame ers don’t, and I don'tsee any v the American people should.™ It would seem that tho average congressman, though he know no more of art than a " Bioux brave, must be impressed by this sort of argument, while to those mem- ders who have an intelligent coneeption of the educational influence of art it should be sufficient to call their atten- itlon to this anomalons and humilating ition of the United States to induce ‘Shem to promptly give their influence «and vote for the removal of this wholly Admexcusable duty that seandulizes the @ation. THE OMAHA DAILY BEil: S8UNDAY, - In a Nutshell Omha has planted over 120,000,000 of brick fn stores, bank buildings, paeking houses and residences during the year just closed., The sales of Omaha's jobbing houses for twelve months foot up over $44,000,- [LLIN The stock yards have handled 265,000 head of cattle and over 1,100,000 hogs. The smeltng works, breweries, oil mills, distillevies, shot factory, lead foundries and minor industrial concerns b turned out over $20,000,000 of products. The packing houses have slaughtered over 65,000 head of cattle, 875,000 hogs and 50,000 sheep, which were converted into meat products, at a cost of over $13,000,000. The sales of Omaha wholesale grocers aggregate over #8,000,000 during the year. One hundred and twenty-two passen-'| ger trains now run in and out of Omaha every twenty-four hours. The national banks of Omaha have over $12,000,000 on deposit, and the clearings of these banks last year were very nearly $150,000,000. Over 7,000 skilled and unskilled work- men are employed in Omaha industrial establishments. In addition to these over 2,000 lahorers were employed last season in the Omaha brick yards. These are cold facts. Se—— A Liberal Education. There may easily be a wide difference of opinion as to what constitutes a liberal education. It is very likely that no two persons qualified 1o vender an intelligent opinion would exactly agree as to the range of acquirements to such an education, just as no two have been found to be in com- plete accord as to the best hundred books for special reading. Cortai studies must be cmbraced iggmny classi- fication, as certain book 1l not he omitted from any wisely selected list, but after th vided the v @ necessary parts ave pro- st will become matter of contention. But regardless of the in- evitable difference that must als ways be found between liberally edu- ated men on this subjeet, what is generaily understood as o liberal educa- tion is a condition that all having the means and opportunity may properly aspire to, alike for the personal grati- fihtion and the advantages. In the current number of the Atlantic Monthly this subject receives thoughtful and intelligent consideration by Mr. Edward J. Lowell. This writer does not regard a college course as indispen- sable to the achievement of success in the higher walks of life, nor does he think it useless. Tts purpose is both to discipline and inform the mind, and for those whose circumstances will permit them to have it without too great sacri- fice he deems it well worthhaving. And with regard to a college course Mr.Lowell has no sympathy with the antiquated view that it ought to be solely discip- linary, while not depreciating the value of the disciplinary power of a course that embraces enough of mathematics and Latin, While giving Latin a first place in the preparation for college, Mr. Lowell would omit Greek and substitute therefor German and French. He recog- nizes, as every intelligent man must, the essential importance of these mod- ern languages, not alone in every line of scholarship, but for every practical reason. As between German and Greek he leaves no doubt of his prefer- ence for the former in the preparation for college, and he would go farther and make Greek an elective in the col- lege course. History, metaphysics and science have their value in a preparatory course, and the acquisition of a thorough knowledge of Euglish is emphatically urged. The province of & hberal education, in the view of Mr. Lowell, is ‘‘to widen the mind, to make it turn more readily to new subjects of interest, to-make it understand the ideas of others. The man who is liberally educated should possess more varied pleasures, a sounder judgment, more sympathy with his fellow beings, a higher ideal of life and of its duties, than are held by other men.” It isnot an argument against a liberal education that it is not always found to produce these results. Turning Over New Leaves. The first day of the new year might proy be christened “good reso- lution day,” for there is nothing so charactevistic of it as the fact that y everybody proposes making it the starting point of a veform in some feature of their conduct or practices which the mistakes or mishaps of the past have indieated to be necessary or expedient. If all the good resolutions that will be taken to-day could be writ- ten down they would cover paper enough to belt the earth. And what a curious, instructive and impressive exhibit they would make of personal histories, am- bitions and mental conditions. Fore- most in the army of reforn both in numbers and apparent earnestnes be the bibulous fellows. They been figuring on what it them during the past yoar “end up” and crediting against it the amount of alleged fun they have had. The result is very genervally unsatis factory, and the grand resolve is taken that the new year shall not witness o repetition of their folly. The people who have recklessly lived beyond their income, and whom the close of the old year left largely in debt, will to-day be willing to make affidavit that for the coming yeartheywill curtail theirexpen- ditures and keep within their receipts. The young women who hiave boen idling away their time and allowing mother to do most of the work wmay perhaps re- solve that their conduet has been v lit- tle ungrateful and ought to be reformed, Hushands will promise to themselves to have 1w cern for their “better halves s will firmly deter- mine future their husbands will that in shall have uo ground for complaint that, the little duties of domestic life, such, for exumple, as the supplying of missing buttons, are neglected, And so on through the whole human family, within the pale of civilization, good resolutions will be the order of to-day. Whether the effects of these resolu- tions are partially good ov wholly bad is 4 matter for individual decision, but this much is certain and of general ap- plication: Don't make them unless you mean it for all time. Resolutions fre- quently broken take away the stamina of character. For the coming year there are many things that might be per- manently sworn off. Politic- ians might abandon place-hunting, and go to work to earn an honest livi hood. Monopolies might stop grinding the poor into the dust and become human. Boodlers might leave off boodling, and all kinds and qualitics of unscrupulous men in public trusts might cease abusing the confidence of the people. But unhappily experience gives noassurance that any of these de- sired results will be vouchsafed, and that although a few may really adhere to and profit by the resolutions made to- day, the great majority will be back in the old and more congenial track before the week is ended. —— A Pure Food Convention, To the many who eat to live, rather than to the few that live to eat, the quality of food is a matter of vast im- portance to their bodily welfare. It seems to be one of the conditions of this age of deception and severe competition that pretty much every thing a man must take into his system to replace tho waste thereof is more or less something else than what it is represented to be. Time was when inscrutable hash and impenetrable mince pie were about the only dishes in general use which were surrounded by a dark veil of mystery. Science, however, has discovered that adulteration has placed its pernicious grasp on many kinds of food, and people who know this must eat their meals in the unpleasant conviction that chemical reaction or microscopical exami- nation might find much that is far from nutritious in the dishes placed before them. The voice of the eating world will be unanimous in declaring that this state of affairs must be remedied, and to do this is one of the objects, as we under- stand it, of the national pure food con- vention which is to be held in Wash- ington this month. We have seen no ement of just what this convention proposes doing, but it is an easy and sufe inference that it will be prepared to show sufficient reason for meeting in an array of instructive, if not startling, facts regarding the prevalence of im- pure food, and will urge national legis- lation for preventing and punishing food adulteratiol The convention will find its desive in respect to legisla- tion already anticipated, atleastin part. Senator Farwell, of Illimois, has intro- duced in the senate a bill relating to adulterations of food which seems to be 80 comprehensive and complete that its approval by the pure food convention, as well as by congress, ought to be assured. The aim of this measure is to secure truthful labels on all food pro- ducts and drinks that are sold. Such labels shall state the proportions of the genuine products and of the other articles composing the mixture. The bill fixes a fine of $500 for its violation, one-half to go to the informer and one- half to the prosecuting attorney, - a sum sufficient to secure zeal and vigilance in prosecuting offenders. It may be well before dismissing this suhject to remark that while all efforts to prevent adulterations and secure pure food are to be commended, the public should be cautioned against exaggerated notions regarding the prevalence of im- pure foods. As a matter of fact it is far less general and serious than is com- monly supposed. A very careful and extended examination made among the retail dealers of New York within a few months disclosed a much smaller per centage of adulteration than had been believed to exist, and’it is very likely the dealers of the rest of the country are not less honest. Furthermore all adulterations are not necessarily harm- ful, and where a not unwholesome mix- ture is produced the objection is not that it is impuve, but thatit is a fraud. Still, everybody must commend the purpose of the pure food advocates and wlsh them succes: Em——— REFORM is the watchword of the age, and why not with all the other reform movements a burial reform association. Such an one has been organized in New York, with some guite eminent ‘names envolled among its membership, the object of which is to promote economy, decency and sanitary interests in funerals. The plan contemplates plain hearses, no trappings, no ‘‘emblems, no *floral pieces,” no eating and drink- ing, no ride to the grave except by the immediate family; a riddance of the notion that all club or society money must be spent on the funeral; early interment s0il sufficient and suita- ble,” the use of rapidly decaying ma- terial for coffins; burial plots instead of family vaults, the vemoval of dead bodies in erowded cities from the houses of the living to an under- taker's morvtuary chamber; finally, “the impressing upon officers of public charities and correc- tions of the claimsof the proper and reverent burial, The new society is quite as much concerned with the proper burial of the dead as with ending the waste of funerals. The objects in this respect ave the best that can be done with the present system of burial in the ground; and the last men- tioned—the encouragement of decent and humane conduct of pauper burials on the part of the suthorities—has been waiting long for some one to take it up, for such burials have beenand are a dis- grace to our civilization,little more care being shown in putting a pauper in the ground than if it werea dogor cat. It has been well suggested that the association would do vastly better for reform if it were but advanced far enough to promote cremation, the only truly sani- tary method of burial, and one which must soon be resorted to in our great cities from the necessity of the 0. If u great epidem! poorest to should visit one of them, for iustance, it would immensely increase the safety of the rest of the people if the bodies of its victims might be burned. The cause of cremation does not, despite the unauswerable ar guments in its favor, make rapid ad- vance. The New Eungland Crematioa society of Boston has just disbauded, and recomicended its @embers to join ANUARY 1, 1888 the Massachusetigsqciety of Worcester, which many of thewi. have done. The new associationstirts under Epi palian auspices, dmbhe intention is to draw into it menerd of all religious de- nominations. At TnE state of Jdowa has had for two years a registry 1#w ‘somewhat similar 1o the one which thelast legislature of Nebraska adopted,, and which the supreme court of this state declaved un- constitutional. fte were some differ- ences in the detsilsy but ih the main features the two tTaws were practically similar. The effeét' of the operation of the Towa law was to materially reduce the vote of the state, partly for the rea- son, common to all such statutes, that they impose a little trd@ble that all voters are not disposed to take, and partly because some regarded it as uns constitutional and would not acquiesce init. A test case was finally brought under the law, and the supreme court of Towa at Cedar Rapids has just ren- dered a decision that it is unconstitu- tional. — OMAHA still maintains her position as the fourth largest lumber market in America. Her lumber merchants have handled over 800,000,000 feet of all varieties of lumber in the past year, and that, too, in spite of the drawback of flagrant railway diserimination. ONE hundred and twenty thousand more immigrants came into this coun- try in 1887 than in 1886. As immigra- tion fluctuates in accordance with the prosperity in the nation, it is evident that the past yeur was better than the one previous. POLITICAL POINTS. Tt 18 said the ex-Congressman McKenzle, of Kentucky, will be appointed minister to Mexico. The presiding officers of the Pennsylvania and Delaware state grange conventions ad- vocate tariff reform. President Robinson, of Brown university, Joins the other colloge presidents in appyov- ing the president’s message. Secretary Fessenden, of the national re- pubiican committee, is reported to continue in political work only from friendship for Blaine. A petition to congress for a postal tele- graph system will be presented to every voter in Portland, Me., and then sent to Mr. T. B. Reed. The country at large has not yet been im- pressed with the Chicago campaign for the democratic national convention, but it is under way. The Boston Herald thinks Mr. Sherman’s only chance to make headway against Blaine is to make the specch of a statesman in the senate nextmonth. The New York Evening Post says of the Pacific railroud investigation, that although it has brought out liftle that is new, it can- not be said that it was usélass. The fierce fight between the democratic factions in Louisiana is pringing out a great many interesting though hardly credible facts about politics in that state. Massachusetts newspapers show that if the import duties on coal were removed New England would be freed from the worst exac- tions of the Pennsylyania coal rings. The friends of division in Dakota are claim- ing that the capital ring stuffed the boxes in the north hulf of the territory. 1t is true that a suspiciously large vote was polled in both divisions. Senator Farwell is so firm in the belicf that tobacco is a necessity that he wants to repeal not ouly the internal revenue tax on tobacco and cigars, but also the import duties on the same. Senator Riddleberger is fully as amusing ashe used to be. Age cannot wither him nor custom stale his infinite variety, to adapt a witty remark once made by the lamented Shakespeare. The tariff reform wedge splits both ways. For every old whig that it will crowd out of the democratic party it will cleave oft a for- mer democrat or a progressive young man from the republican party. The Providence Journal (Rep.) comment- ing upon the statement that Senator Blair's educational bill Lias been revised and amended, says that ‘1t would be best improved by striking out the enacting clause.” The attitude of the republican party is nof mistaken by any one. That party has a con- sistent protection record both in its legisla- tive action and m its platform declarations. Recent expression on this subject has been freer and stronger than ever, made so by the more radical position taken by the demo- cratic party through its official head. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (dem.) wants the meeting of congress changed to October, or November 1 at the latest and says: “It seems absurd to continue an arrangement of sessions which crowds all of the work of both sessions into the last year of the term for which the members were elected, und ver; often makes a miserable abortion of the short sessions.” ————— Needs no Protective Tariff, Philadelphia Record, An “Infantry Industry:” Age cannot wither it, nor custom stale its infinite rapac- ity ——— Would Make a Very Small Bouquet. New Orteans Pieayune: It is customary now to put white flowers on the desks of congressmen who have been elected without fraud. Information Wanted. Lowisville Couvier-Journal, The governor of Deleware owns eleven farms in that state. The mame of the owner of the otner is not gi Not in Vogue. Minneapotis Tribune. A large-sized, fully developed coal-trust is in need in this section'of country. That is 10 say, & corporation that will trust the con- sumer and see that full weight is given. LT The Opportunity of, a Life-Time. Vew Fork ress. If some leader of female fashion will sit in the theater with her bat.off until she makes the other women do - likewise, the men wili sec that she gets a statue as colossal as Miss Liberty or the hats, ) s Cheap and Common. San Franciseo Alta, In the work done on the Panama canal already 40,000 lives have been sacrificed. By way of contrast, behold the healthy Henne- pin canal, on which nothing has been sacri- ficed but wind. ————— Just About, Providence Journal, It is about as fair to accuse the man who desires an intelligent and judicious revision of the tariff of being a free-trader as the man who burns the rubbish in his Lackyard of being an incendiary — Ll Independence in Chicago., Chicage News, With Lake Michigix full of uatural gasand portions of the river capable of being set on fire there is no need of citizens taking off their hats to.coal dealers any wore unless they wish to do so. Overp. Kansas City Journal. Senator Stanford's private secretary draws the senator's salary and mileage, M) in all, for his own wages. For this liberal pay we presume he writes the senator's speeches and if 80, he is overpaid. Lowir I N Would Depop e the Conntry. Pittsburg Dispateh, ‘There is not much danger that the United States will adopt the example of the European republic and commence shooting disappointed presidential candidates. That would produce too large a higtus in the popus lation. —— Signs of a Trying Winter. Providence Journal. There is every indication of a terrible win- ter. The president has set every tariff and free trade crank in the country in revolution, now Senator Stewart, of Nevada, who ought to know better, bas sprung the silver ques- tion upon the unhappy nation. ——— — A Peep at the Other Side. Louvisvil'e CourierJournal That a great railroad man who cleven years ago was getting only 875 amonth isnow getting £25,000 a year is all very wel before we go into ecstasies over this marvel- ous increase, let us call to mind the various millionaires of eleven years ago who to-day are not worth a nickel. oo SO, A New Year Greeting. Liltian Dynevor Rice in St. Nicholas. A Happy New Year to all, to-day! Though winds are blowing and skies are gray, And snow and icicles fill the air, . While mercury stands—I'll not say where-- Aud each one's thinking, “Oh, dear!oh dear! A pretty way to begin the year!” But I'll chauge that if yow'll kindly wait, For, if you please, I'm 88, I promise you sun and skies of blue (And rain und snowstorm and tempest, t00). But it lies with you, I'll whisper here, To make me a sad or a merry year; For all the sunshine that's in the sky Will not bring smiles if you choose to cry, Nor all the rain that the clouds can hold Will tarnish a soul that's bright as gold. And so, whatever your score may be, Just please remember, and don’t blame me— For once again, as I close, I'll state 1 am Yours submissively, 83, -— HAVE REFUSED TWELVE. There Will Be a Dozen Less Saloons In Omaha Hereafter. Last evening the excise board, comprising Mayor Broatch, W. F. Bechel, president of the city council and City Clerk Southard completed their examination of the bonds and the names of free holders submitted by saloon keepers making application for license, Out of the lurge batch the applications of twelve were rejected. Their names will not be made public until they are formally noti- fied to suspend business by Chief of Police Seavy. This precaution is rendered neces- sary by the board, as they fully anticipate the annoyance they would have to undergo from the solicitations of people with self ap- plied influence to rescind their action. o ———r Took More Than Her Share. Lou Austin and Dora Conn, who have been running a bawdy house in partnership, had afalling out yesterday, and cach decided to start in the new year on their own hook., In packing her trunk Lou managed to get into the bottom of it some $15 in money und $12 worth of clothes belonging to Dor Thelat- ter swore out a warrant for her partner’s ar- rest and about 9 o'clock last night she was run in. Lou's trunk was found out in an alley where she had secrctly moved it S A Swedish Ball. The Swedish Library association gave their eighth annual ball last evening at Ma- sonic hall. A large number were present and a thoroughly pleasant time was enjoyed by all' Rohr's orchestra furnished some excel- lent music and twenty-four numbers were danced. —_——— EDUCATIONAL. Over 80 per cent of the high school grad- uates-of the United States are girls. France has built within five years 45,000 school houses at a cost of £30,000,000. Prof. Woolsey has returned to Yale col- loge after spending two years in California. M. P. means ‘‘Master of Pies” at St. Al- bans's Cooking college. M. K., ‘“Master of Cooking.” At the Wesleyan university, Middletown, Conn., J. R. Henshaw, a sophomore, has be- come insane from over study. J The Kansas City board of education has de- cided to make the study of Spanish com- pulsory in the city high schools, Dr. Charles F. McDonald, head of the postal money department, claims to be the first Irish-American grauate from Harvard. Prof. F. L. 0. Roehrig, formerly linguist and philologist at Cornell, 18 now managing a French paper, La Progrés, at Los Angeles, Cal. Williams college alumni_propose to raise $100,000 for the erection and maintenance of a memorial building to the late Mark Hop- kins on the college grounds. Mrs. Emma P. Ewing, professor of domes- tic economy in Purdue college, turns out such splendid housekeepers that nearly all her girls become engaged before their gradu- ation, Baron de Hirsch has not yet made his al leged magnificent endowment of Jewish schools in Russia, buthas invited sugges- tions from several sources as to the by means of givin e benevolent in- tehtions, and has entered into negotiations h the Russian government ou the sub- ject. rhigan, at Ann Arbor, h d o sharp attack of Anglo-mania '‘mined effort has been recently made to induce the Ann Arvbor stu- dents to adopt the cap and gown usedat Ox- ford and Cambridge. But the loyal Ameri- can collegians rose in the pride and majesty of the new world independence and defeated the suggestion by an overwhelmingyote. — RELIGIOUS, There are Young Men’s Christian associa- tions at Jerusalem, Beyrout, Damacus, Jaffa and Nazareth, It is estimated that for every missionary that goes to Africa are sent to that coun! The American missionary socicty has 240 teachers, 8,618 scholars in its 6 chartered, 16 normal and 32 common schools in the south. Rev. Hugh O, Pentecost is to_preach in_a church in New York that will hereafter be called *“The Church of Jesus, the Corpen- ter."” The first Protestant sermon preached west of the Mississippi was preached by Samuel 0,000 gallons of liquor J. Mills, the father of the American board. The Mount Pleasant _Congregational church, Washington, D. C., has just s a building site for a prospective house of worship. The Camelite monks on Maunt Carmel of- fered their 20,000 acres in Galilee to the Ro- man Catholic Palestine society, which al- dy has established a colony on Lake Tib- The apostolic v ent 90 priests, iate of Dakota has at I ths, 100 stations without chu; un’ students, 24 parochial schools, 4 convents, 3 academics, 10 Tudian schools, 1 hospital and a Catholic pop- ulation of 50,000, . has just closed a se ngs’ at Pitts- burg, Pa nolidays he will a month in_Louisville, where a tabe seating 5,000 people is being bullt for his use, and will afterward visit the Pacific coast. In Sweden there are 400 churches, a_gain of 20 the last year, 483 preachers, and 31,004 members. In Germany there are more mem- bers (33,451), but fewer churches and minis- ters. The 'latter number 430. of whom 350 are unordained, and the churches count up 10 108 ouly BRIDGE OVER THE MISSOURI The Matter Thoroughly Discussed By Citizens Last Night. TIMELY AND IMPORTANT MOVE. An Appeal to the Secretary of War in Relation to the Douglas Street Bridge Charter—Postoftice and Fort. Proceedings of the Meeting. The unanimity existing among the citizens of Omaha for an additional bridge across the Missouri river from this city to Council Bluffs was ratified last night. The cold and stormy weather did not retard a good sized number of representative men from ussem- bling at one of the hotels in answer to invita- tions sent out by Senator Manderson and Congressman McShane to discuss the sub- ject. Joseph Barker, Esq., was chosen to preside and Mr. Fred Grey discharged the duties of secretary. Senator Manderson set the ball rolling by giving a careful and concise history of the charters granted by congress for the bridg- ing of the Missouri at a point opposite Omaha, and closed by inquiring what the wishes of the people of Omaha were regard- ing the proposed bridge from Douglas and Ninth streets. < In answer to interrogations feom Judge Woolworth, the senator said that the Doug- Ins and Ninth street bridge was the one chartered by the Omaha and Council Bluffs bridge company, and they received their authority from congress, which stipulated that it should be a wagon and railroad bridge combined. He did not think that congress would sanction the _building of any other kind. The Nebraska Central company has a charter from con- gross for the construction of a low bridge with u draw, given them prior to that awarded the Omaha and Council Bluffs com- pany. The secretary of war is opposed to the establishment of low bridges at any point on the Missouri, and the senator thought that perhaps owing to this fact, together with the one that the Omaha and Council Bluffs com- pany had secured a site gave them priovity over their predecessors. Mr. John Horbach took the floor and said he had it from good authori braska Central had ne the bridge, but had turned it over to the Chi cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad to com- plete. This deal was ultimately killed by the Union Pacific railroad lobbyists in- Washing- ton, who dictated legislation that compelled the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul to aban- don the undertaking. General Cowin ventured the remark that Mr. Horbach was laboring @ mistake. Mr. Grey wanted to know why the Chi- cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad could not use the Douglas strect bridge. He was told that the grade and approaches would not permit it. Mr. Horbach remarked that the truth of the matter was the Union Pacific did not want to see another bridge across the Mis- souri at this point unless they couid coutrol Two-thirds of the bridge earnings of the Pacific comes from the transportation ght over their bridge. A wagon bridge alone at Douglas street would be an obstruc- tion, and Mr. Horbach agreed to subscribe money to abolish it. Mr. Grey could not agree with Mr. Hor- bach regards a wagon bridge being an ob- struction. It would be a good thing for the retailers of Omaha. Mr. Max Meyer doubted the consistency of Mr. Grey's uassertion that the retailers would be helped by a wagon bridge. It might be a benofit to garden truck venders, but the would not be helped 20'per cent eceipts by it. Congressman McShane brought the meet- ing down to a point by asking, Do we want a wagon bridge to the exclusion of a com- bined bridgei’” There are and were a num- ber of objectionable features inthe Nebraska Central company’s bridge, among them Major Sutton's requirements that the Chi- cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad, if they built, were to keep and ' retain the channel for a mile above and below the bridge. McShane said that he had a talk in New York with seve of the direct- ors of the latter road, and they had become i imbued with the belief that they could get into Nebraska much cheaper by building a bridge over the Missouri forty miles north of Omaha. He had endeavored to disabuse them of this idea, by promising them that if they desired it he would introduce a bill in congress giving them right of way near or opposite Omaha, which bill he did not deem he would have any difficulty in getting through. Several gentlemen thought Mr. McShane would experience considerable opposition from the Union Pacific and other competing incs. Mr. E. Rosewater did not anticipate much opposition, at least nothing very great, for if the Chicago, Milwauke & St. Paul were de- termined to come into Nebraska it made but litle difference to opposition lines whether they came in at Omaha or forty miles above the city. General Cowan inquired if an investigation could not be ordered by the government to test the practicability of running trains over the Douglas street bridge. Mr. K. Rosewater was strongly of the opinion that he secretary of war had never been favored with a topograph- ical map showing the surroundings aud ap- proaches to the bridge. The original act of 1871 required the Union Pacific railroad to build a wagon and railroad bridge, but the bridge was operated for fourteen years be- fore compliance with the charter was under- taken. They now have an alleged wagon bridge. This Douglas street bridge is a sort of asecond edition, a_wagon bridge with a railroad bridge the future. The other was a railroad bridge with a wagon briage in the future. Mr. Rosewater suggested that Ne- braska's senators and members in congress petition thesecretary of war to send enginec here to examine the topography of the ap- proaches and surroundings of the bridge. It would only take a few months, and we can wait that long. Mr. Barker said he was opposed to a wagon bridge if it would prevent the Chicago, Mil- waukee & St. Paul from buildivg a railroud bridge at this point. . Finally the following resolution by Mr. Colpetzer was entertained and unanimously our representative in ed to procure the ssary tain if the Omaha and Council Bluffs bridge company plying with the conditions of the and instructions of the seccrotary of war when the site and kind of bridge was adopted. Senator Manderson then addressed the mecting on what Nebraska's representatives in both houscs of congress ure doing o pro- cure a new postoffice and a site for Jlort Omaha. Mr. Manderson snid_that Gencral Sheridan favors the transferring of the fg to_a point ten to twelve miles from the Mr. E. Rosewater backed up Mr. Mandy ; culer, adding: that 2 woeks ago he on the gencral and found him quite liv the subject. The gencral, Mr. Rosewater said, is quite friendly towards Omalia, but will mot sanction the expenditure of one penny for improvements on the present fort. The speaker concluded by saying that he t Omaha had better agrec with the this particular, and sccure the ents while the money is in the treas- Y. A motion by Mayor Broateh to the effect that our representatives in cougress ¢ themselves to the pussage of a bill to form with the wishes of General Sheridan was adopted, after which the mecting ad- journed. nks From the City Mission. The ladies from the Omaha City Mission desire to publicly thank the followiug gentle- men and ladies for the liberal donutions re- ceived Thursday for the poor child Mesdames, S Cleb Hopkins, Lake, Joseph Burton, ( Shelton, William Ross, Thomas € man Kountze, George W. Doune nuol Buck, N. Merriam, G. M. Hitchicoek, William Flemming, . Colpetzor, Millard, Downs, Shiclds, Shaw, H. G. Clark, Monel!, Ken nedy, Muhoney, Coudon, D Pattérson Meossrs. J. E. 1oyd, W. J. Austin, Bennett & Co., H. Pundt, Sloan & Johnson, Paxton & Jallaghor, Paxton Hotel and Millard hotel. Cash douations were received from Warren T n, A. P. Barton, cigh, Her rd Switeler and Lyman Richardson. There were many contributions received withou§ the names of the donors. bt Personal Paragraphs. J. L. Brandels, of the firm of J. T, Brandeis & Sons, leaves to-day for Europe - MUSICAL AND DRAMATIO. Pauline Lueca intends to leave the sf foe good and settle in Vienna as teacher of sing- ing. M. Saint-Sacns has gone to Spain, where he is work on a new opera. D'Oyley Carte's English _opera company is going to Russia to warble Gilbert and Sullie van before the czar, Two weeks ago Mozart's “‘Don Glovanni' was performed for the 500th time at the Royal opera house, Berlin, Miss nn, a sister of Mra. Corneliug iderbilt, has written a play founded on ine idents of Bar Harbor life, hel Sprague, the daughter of Kato Chase Sprague, will make her debut on the stage of the Boston museum. Philadelphia’s new grand opera house has & seating capacity of 2,800, 1t will be run on the combination plan on the higher scale of prices. The English comic opera composer, Solo- mons, offers to build an opera around John L. Sullivan, in which the siugger will appear in Isthmian games. Gilbert & Sullivan's “Pinafore,” pere formed in the original English by onc of Mr, 'Oyly Carte's companies, has met with ime mense success in Bel A rumor has been current in musical cire c‘hm(\)v):lllil: mi-l last fow d; that Miss Aus. der Ohg, the distinguished pianist,is engagod to Mr. Walter Damrosch. F e Mme. Patti sends word to her American friends that she loves them all and longs to return to them—'‘they are 8o enthusiastie." Look out for another farewell tour, There will be four big _minstrel shows on tho road mext scason: Thatcher, Primroso & West; Sweatnam, Rice & Fagan; McNash, Ramza & Arno, and Johnson & Slavin. Rudolph Aronson has composed, and Harry Paulton (who helped to make Ermine) has written the text of a comic opera called Cap- hg:n Kidd. It will be scen first in Now York city. Miss Selome Melbourne, who vas married to Berry Wall, the *“king of the dudes,” was an actress for just one week, having appeared l{!'h\‘y New York Bijou opera house in “‘La The indifatigable Gounod is again at work upon a new composition. It is a hymn set to words by M. Georges Boyer, and entitled otre Dame de France,” or, “La Marseil- aise de lu Vierge.” Mmie. Ilma di Murska, who was engaged for cight months as instructress of singing with the Nutional Conservatory of Music, hus had a row with the magement and is about to cancel her engagement. Michael Bonner, the violinist who is 'making through Germany, must hav sensation, to judge from the have appearcd in papers. A niew comic opera, enttitled “Simplicius,” Strauss, the brilliant composer of tho ypsy- Baron,” “Prince Methusalom," “Merry War,” ‘and_muny other New York successes, had its first performance in Vie enna on Saturday last. An almost completely finished oratorio: *“The Creation.” has been_discovered among the posthumous papers of the Abbe Liszt. It is is stated that the work will have its first public performance at the next Birme ingham (England) music festival, Barton McGuckin, the Irish tenor who tukes the leading lyric tenor solos during the National opera scason, is a native of Dublin. At the age of ton he was a leading soprano in the choir of Armagh cathedral, and at eigh- teen was assistant organist of the cathedral, It is said that Maud Granger is playing in small western halls at 10 cents admission, and that she is the only female in the com: pany, the ludy characters being interpreted y male impersonutors and that the orches. tra music is provided by a piuno, a fiddle and a big drumn, Josef Hofmann is such asuccess that al- though Messrs. Abbey, Schoeffel and Graw heavy losers by the collapse of the ierster concert tour, they will make through Hofmann more monay, over and above their original expectations, than they have lost by Gerster's fuilure, Collier, in his “Essay on Music,” makes this curious_suggestions: “I believe it is invent an instrument that shall rary effcet to those martial ones 0 instrument that shall sini the H\Pi ts and shake the nerves and curdle the blood and inspire despair and cowardice. Hoyt's new comedy, ‘‘A Brass Monke owes its existence to Anstey's novel, Fallen Idol.” The brass monkey is given to amanas a Christmas present and brings him bad luck. He endeavors to get rid of it, but it is always on hand to_torture him until he finds a charm which relieves him of his torment and restores his peace of mind. The statement that Lotta will retire from the stage aftrr this season and devote herselt to the managerient of & home for orphan chils dren is truc to the extent that the actress, with the assistanco, of certain influcntial friends, who are prominent in business oir- cles in New York, has laid plans looking to the establishment o1 an mstitution of that de- scription, The latest Furopean dispatches to somo German newspapers brings tidings that Jos. Jouckim, the greatest of living violinists has been stricken with paraly In respect of breadth of style and volume of tone Joachim stood casily first and foremost among tho violin virtuosos of the day. In the Beethoven concerto he had no rivals and in_ his own Hungarian concerto—a most dificult compo- sition--he was actually unapproachable. Some American playwrights work exclu- sively for the English market. J. Taylor Lewis, of New York, has sent over thrce short farces to a London manager, and Ro- ina Vokes has tly taken ono from him, 'here's an exchungo bureau of plays in New York, which has a representative in London., Lewis deposited 25 and a MS. with the b reau. The London agent reccive the MS. and the money, less u percentage, and gives a select entertainment some even- ing, to which a number of managers are vited, and at which he rcads the MS. sells it outright for £30 say, and remits it to the New York bureau, which pays the author, An American manager cau secure a B copyright thro ¢ burcau, wl for u 200 fee 3 a place ong 2 him in Loudon, or in Paris if a Freach right should be desired. When Modjeska first reached New Yorl, and when Mary Anderson got there from tha west, they were very poor. Modjeska was to play Camille, o more expensive femalo to cestume than Pauline. She had no dresses little money, but the day Camille «d upon she bought cheap, very She got a_cheap 'bit of pensive pink material, and a woman to sew. Modjeska designed and fitted those dresses, and they shook up the female part of New York to its centre, They were graceful, novel and marvelously becou- ing, for, if Modjeska didw’t have the dresses for' the play sho had the art. Then there was poor Mary—poor Mary in those days! She was going to play Pauline. She had no cos- tume handsome cnough for the big act. She went to Johnson's,aud they made her a cheap white satin with ' ostrich feather trimming ubout the neck. The dress didn't cost moro than 85, but Mary looked a beauty in it, und the sweetest picture she ever had taken of her handsome face was one in the cheap white satin. ations are going forward for Mme. Patti’s South American tour, during which she is to receive for her services the trifling 0 of 5,000, in addition to a largo of the gross receipts whenever shall be in excess of the manager's total outlay. Mme. Patti's traveling expenses are defrayed, of course, by her impressario, and as sho is the sole occupunt of @ car whe cver she travels by rail,and the solitary oce pant of half a dozen staterooms whenever sha takes ship, it will bo conceded that her tour § cpenditiire of monoy. The s that are to make up the 1 left to Sigdor Ciacehi, tho South American impressario who is inte ested with Messrs. Abbey and Crau in the tour. Signor Ciacchi and his associates are not to have the fleld to themselves durin Mme. Patti's tournce, for while the Pattl performances are in' progress o new and and magnificent opera house will be opened to the public of Buenos Ayres, with Signoe Tamagno as the chief attraction, Signor ‘Tamagno is a sort of demigod in those dis- tant parts, and a demigod whose cult is cons siderably costlicr than that of the deities of old. is to receive, for fifty operatic pery formuuces, 5,250 & night, young American a concert tour created quite ticisms that some of the Germun