Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 29, 1888, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 1888~SIX OMAHA KNOWN TO FAME. —— A Townsman Tells the Bean-Eaters of Our Wondrous Growth. Tn a recent issue, the Boston Herald prints the following interview with an Omaha man: Tt is not often that one meets a more enthusiastic western man, or one better primed with information about the city he lives in and the grow- ing country around it, than Mr. Nat M. Brigham, of Omaha, who has been here on a visit fora few weeks. Mr. Brig- | She ham is well known in Boston, where he was for some years prominent in athletic and musical circles. bered as a member of the famous *78and '70 Harvard 'Versity crew. Since 1885 | one night’s performance than she ever he has made his home in Omaha, to which great and growing town the mod- ern Athens has contributed so many de- sirable citizens and so many millions of money, and his enthusiasm in behalf of the place of his adoption, its growth and its progress, is great. International Expositions. The present year will be memorable for international expositions, and as none of them would be regarded as complete without an American exhibit, if this country is'represented in each a considerable sum must be drawn for the the obligations of the state in relation to public education. matter to determine is where the line This is what the cur- rent discussion haschiefly in view, and as we have said its general drift isin favor of a curtailment of the obligations of the state to such provision for the in- struction of its youth as will equip them for intelligent citizenship. plates as the sole duty of the state to give to every child a series of years which are devoted to mental discipline, leaving him at the end of the specified time with a nucleus around which he can ever afterward build, words, at the public school he is to learn the alphabet of education, so that he may go through life spelling his way and ever acquiring new knowledge. relations of whisky. There are doubte who are in need of there isa suspicion them are pretty on the subject ale THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. less several sena this information, by abroad that most thoroughly posté bbb ai— Stupid Threats. When the Central Labor union of ssed those ‘‘roast- nouncing me for rs to work on the BEE building more hours at less pay than was being earned by carpenters employed elsewhere in this city, I made a random guess that the Central Labor union was a fraud, and the men who in- stigated those resolutions personal or had a spite The important TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. should be drawn. 1y (Morning Edition i For Six Months t Three Months. 'he Omaha fl‘“mhy BeE, ) including Sunday, . IR , mailed to any ad- LLAND 010 FARNAM STRI: OManA OFFicE, Nos.OL Already bills have passed congress ap- 3 propriating fifty thousand dollars for an exhibit at Melbourne and thirty thous- and dollars for an exhibit at Barcelona. A bill appropriating thirty thousand American exhibit at Brusscls has been favorably reported to the house, and it is proposed to Federated Tra: ing resolutions)’ compelling carpe; Al communications relating to forial matter should be addressed to the EDITOR NUSINESS LETTERS. All business letters and remittances shonld be addressed to THE DBEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, Drafts, checks and postoffice orders to ‘madé pEyable to the order of the company. The Bee Pablishing Company. Proprictors E. ROSEWATER, Editor THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska, eo. I, Tzschuck, secretary of The Bea Pub- swear that the oo for the week dollars for an for an exhibit of the United States at the Paris exposi- AMERTCAN clergymen, that is to say the ministers of the United States, will watdh with extreme interest the caso now pending in the United States cir- cuit court of New York against the wardens of Trinity church over the imn- portation from England of Rev. E. Wal- pole Wagren. The facts ave still fresh in the public mind how Trinity church of New York made an agreement with Mr. E. Walpole Warren from Great Britain to take charge of the church upon an agreed salary. In makingsuch acon- tract the church corporation laid itself open to a charge of violating thestatute importation of the wardens and vestrymen of Trinity deny that the hir- ing of clergymen comes within the let- ter or intent of the statute. district attorney insists that the law has been violated since a preacher can not claim the exception actors, artists, and singers. was taken under advisement, as this case i interest and could be mad of many a pulpit sermon. Home-preach- ing and home-talent deserve euncour- to the im- Preachers can make three hundred and sixty thousand dol- lars which it is proposed the govern- ment shall expend for a display of the nation’s products in the expositions of DBesides this congress is expected to make appropriations for having the government represented at the Ohio valley exposition and the uni- versal exposition of 1892 to commemo- rate the discovery of America, while the colored exposition proposed to be held in Atlanta asks a loan of four hun- dred thousand dollars that would doubt- less amount practically toa gift. probable, therefore, that not less than one million dollars will be appropriated by the present congress for exhibits in international and domestic expositions. The practical question is whether this method of advertising the coun- try’s products will result in sufficient benefit to repay the outlay. no doubt that these expositions have a measure of commercial value for those who participate in them, and unques- tionably it is the policy of a great and prosperous industrial nation itself of them to a certain extent. government is happily in condition to afford a liberal expenditure on this ac- count, and if there was a reasonable cor- tainty of advantages equal to the outlay the people would not disapprove of a much larger sum to be exvended than But there can be no not a single carpenter has yet been em- ployed in the new BEE building afforded sufficient proof that the men behind those resolutions were not familiar with fire-proof buildings and not employed at any building trade. My suspicions have been fully con- The so-called Central Labor union is chiefly composed of confed- erated professional deal in votes and make a living chiefly in black-mailing canaidates. it from very otheg lands, “and this has been very thorough ressed upon me during my trip east. he fact is due almost entirely to a lax- | got Omaha, if you aro art of her business men. fi They have been content to seo the city row to its present proportions without | tants, nviting the aid of eastern capital.” ‘“At what figuresdo you put the popu- lation of Omaha?” - *“An even 100,000, Mnn{ give figures | Reminiscences of the Dead Statesman above this limit, but I prefe servative in my statement, for the cold- blooded census man will be around soon. However, even A ROUND HUNDRED THOUSAND is o remarkable showing. If you had | handsome figure’ 'looked from the Towa bank of the Mis- souri in the s ammer of 1854, you would have seen but a single cabin where a thriving metropolis now stands. The | much so that when Mormous at this time made Council Bluffs their headquarters, and a_little later established winter quarters at the village of Florence, which miles north of our city. established friendly relations with the Omaha Indians, Florence became quite a workingmen who 18,089 GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. d in ‘my_presence this N.P. FEIL, £worn to and 23th day of April, A, D, ‘Btate o Nebraska, . Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, do- 5 ¥ ot The' Bee good authority that and says that he who had made themselves conspicuous in upholding the attempt to burn down the BEE building four years ago, and have on various occasions shown their at the o Daily Bee for the month was 14:310_copies: for May, 1 : for June, 1887, 14,147 copied; 0/ coples; for August, 1 o8 for Beptember, 1887, 1 4,353 coples; for 5,220 coples: for December, 1887, 15,041 copies ry, 188, 15,200 coples: for February, M2 coples; for March, copls GEO. B,'TZSCHUCK. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence this 16th duy It is also reported to me that an edi- tor of that sheet was consulted and gave his approval to the dastardly effort of the confederated slanderers. Last Sunday the following call ap- peared prominently on the editorial page of the Republican: A LABOR MEETING. A joint meeting of labor unions of the city i8tobe held at the council chamber at?2 o'clock this afternoon. meeting is not stated, but the presumption is that the strike of bricklayers will receive at- of April, A. D. 1888 FEIL, Notary ¥ te universal It is not every mother-in-law whose presence is agreeable. toria’s visit to Emperor Frederick is said to have brought the rosesto his But Queen Vie- TTEP and Ten of the best paying churches in New York city are served by imported ASSURANCE comes to us officially all The object of the the way from Washington that neither Benator Manderson nor Senator Pad- dock were for or against the relocation of the Niobrara land office. neutrality of our senators cannot fail to be very gratifying to the citizens of " O'Neill and Niobrara as well as to all other parties concerned. e 1847, Brigham Young started with his band of pioneers to discover a perma- nent loeation.” “What were the causes which led to the sudden growth of Omah “In order to answer that question T | Itw must go back to the is now proposed. thereby brought into sharp competition with this foreign American theologi The possibility that another setof reso- lutions may be adopted intorest the owner of the building ‘“at the corner of Seventeenth and Farnam streets” in the proceegings, This call for labor unifons was spuri- its object was carefully con- cealed by the parties’ who got it up. The labor \miou'!lwegc entirely ignorant of it, and scprcgly dware of the object The “edtneil chamber had been secured foma union labor meeting, but nobody known to be responsible or omq'm- of labor unions her the call. some of these projected ex- ! 3 is calculated to al schools, which > just as much a: woulen mills, are turning out every year enough of this form of labor pro- duct to fully supply the home demand. In spite of its oddity, this question is sufficiently serious to be looked at as one of our labor problems. doubted whether as to these the sums appropriated or proposed will not prove wasteful extravagance. are sound commercial reasons why the United States should be well repre- sented at Melbourne and Paris, but an expenditure of sixty thousand dollars at Brussels and Barcelona would probably be nothing more than a contribution to international amity, and productive of no material benefits of consequence. We should cultivate the good will of the nations, but only on such terms of fair reciprocity as will assure mutual advantages as nearly equul as possible. The duty of the government toaid the people in bringing their products to the notice of the braska had even a territomal govern- ment, and within two or three years the city had a population of 200 or 300 pio- There was no further activity 5), when the projcet of building acific was first agitated, and Omaha profited by the vast immi- gration to the gold fields of California. At the completion of the road Omaha IT is not out of place for the BEE to say a good word for Mr. . Brigham, who 18 so closely identified with the musical circles of our city. glance at the gentlemau’s interview i with the Boston | %= Omabha, reprinted in another column, will show that Mr. Brigham can do as much in aiding Omaha’s commercial in- . terests as he has done in elevating our musical tastes. THE conrse of Mr. Andrew Carnegie, 1n securing the services of. a body of Pinkerton hirelings to guard his works, is justly condemned by those who ap- preciate the pernicious character of this tice of employing private and irre- sponsible mercenaries to perform a duty which belongs to the local or state The New York Commercial Advertiser thus refers to the matter: We do not believe in government by Pinkerton, and for that reason we cannot be entirely satisfied with the auspices under which Mr, Carnegie's extensive iron works There is no reason, it seems to us, for calling in thescrvice of a cohort of private mercenaries at such a juncture. preserving order inheres 1n the state, and, as Pennsylvania knows to her cost, the state is pecuniarily responsible for the maintenance of order within its borders, mind, it jars on one to find corporations and business men relying on a detective agency for protection rather than on the recular and properly constituted machinery of the prominent as an as willing to fa the meeting proved a fizzle in point of numbers or representation of trades The bricklayers, who were supposed to be most interested, were conspicuous for their absence. ‘When my attention was directed to the implied threats contained in the 1870 to 1880 the growth was only moder- ate, and the population had increased t0 30,000. In the meantime the wonder- ful country around Omaha was rapidly The immense corn belt in which Omaha lies had been undergoin . Iris now definitely known at the na- tional capital that President Cleveland’s intentions with regard to the vacant chief justiceship are decidedly indefi- This definitely disposes of all the rumor, gossip and gabble which for the . past thirty days has been wired from by enterprising mongers, and affords them further scope for exercising their ingenuity in con- cocting political fiction. e reference to the advantages to be de- estimate of these may be made 1n connection with an ex- hibit in Belgium and Spain, and we do not think it would be the proposed appropriations. The truth is that so long as the existing fiscal policy of the United States remains as barrier between us and the markets of the world for our manufactured pro- ducts, and we continue dependent upon foreign ship owners for the transporta- tion of those products, our exhibits in foreign expositions, however creditable, cannot be counted upon to be largely attend the meefing .and meet my ac- cusers face to any daring enough tocharge in my hear- ing that I had misused or betrayed the Less than thirty persons being present by actual count I did not deem it worth while to enter the room. The promoters of this gathering dis- creetly concluded to avoid discussion of £ building and contented them- selves with proposing a grand parade of workingmen in honor of Mr. McGuire. This was eminently proper and met with my hearty approval. Guire is reputed to be a representative of progressive American labor and a man of excellent character. The only question in my mind was, whether the parade would be a success in view of the short notice and lack of preparations. idea expressed through the BEE has been distorted into hostility to the dem- onstration by designing parlies who are trying to make political capital And now I am relia- informed that the proposed demon- stration has another showing the strength of organized labor in Omaha and its sympathy for the union bricklayers now out of employment. chiefs of the confeder- A reasonable ‘Washington e e uch as to justify workingmen. “We are doing pretty well in that re- there is the best possible live men in the manufactur- ing line, whom we will gladly welcome We have the largest smelting and refining works in the world, the biggest linseed oil works in America, distilleries, breweries, boiler works, barbed wire factories, white lead works, flour mills, ete., employing alto- With this in THE terrible a line of the Burlington road near Alma, which is said to have been caused by a washout under the foundations of a bridge, should be promptly and thor- * oughly investigated by the state board * of transportation, and the facts ascer- tained by the board should be made public without reseive. is due to negligence on the part of the managers of the road, they should be held responsible. and encourage. THe right to marry one wife’s sister has been asubject for agita- tion in the British parliament for many To Americans, the prohibition appears highly ridiculous. land it is considered a scrious legal At every session of the commons a bill to legalize the marriage ister-in-law is introduced and is pussed with little objection. lords have invariably measure by overwhelming odds. question, of course, is solely one of ex- cy in the interest of inherited There is no question of morals The bill has again passed the house of commons and goes up to the house of lords for its periodical veto, this state of things longer, the deceased wife's sister bill may become an issue of such importance as to rock the British constitution from center to circumference, 1f the accident $5,000,000 CAPITAL AND 5,000 MEN Omabha is, first of all, a great commer- Commerce has been the greatest factor in its growth thus far. The State and Education. It will be a misfortune to the people of this country 1f they shall ever lose interest in the discussion of the public school system in any of its relations. Greatly important as many other ques- tions are, this is certainly of paramount In the series of paperson the public schools that have been con- tributed to the Forum oldest thinkers in the country on this subject, it is an important fo agree in the opinion that the state is not justified in providing public educa- tion beyond what is necessary to intelli- This is unquestiona- bly the trend of the most intelligent trump card. e have 300 jobbing houses with $12,000,000 capital invested, and the sales in 1887 reached $45,000,000. The future of Omaha’s trade is very She has a splendid tributary country, none better in the world—Ne- braska 1tself, with 76,000 square miles and a million of inhabitants. Then,too, | the end was foreordained. the verdict her jobbers penetrate, and cover in ctive lines, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Nevada and even Ore- Thirteen great railronds center- ing in Umaha pour a ceaseless tide of migrating humanity through the | man, Mr. It will be well if the anniversary of General Grant’s birthday shall herve- be regularly celebrated, * merely by banquets in a few cities, as on last Friday evening, but generally, 50 that the whole people can share in it . and thereby manifest the nation’s re- spect for the memory of the great The fame of Grant will grow brighter with the years, and the more carefully his claims to the honor of his are studied the stronger It is an essential imyortance. against the Bre. by some of the object besides One of the will go on much | ated Central gent citizenship. they will appear. “part of the education of the people in patriotism that they shall not be allowed to forget patriots whose ability and vir- tues contributed to maintain and cement Of these General Grant must always be reckoned with the great- “*What does the pork packing indus- q t-the BEE office and “‘hoot” h murchpastitho BER eloosand oottt oot A G an pive: Hingham This threat has no terrors If carried out, it will “Omaha is the largest pork-packing center in the world, and it has jumped to this position in the last three years. | form. In 1885 South Omaha packing houses used but 78,000 hogs. well to note it as indicating a probable have allowed themselves to be by a gang of vagabonds who brought labor into disrepute in this city time and again by their disgrace- For myself, I defyt My relations I7 has been flnally decided by the Chicago local committee to hold the national republican convention in the new auditorium building, a strong movement to call the meeting in the famous exposition building, inas- much as the latter will accommodate at least a thousand more spectators. trouble heretofore has been that the gallery has had altogether too much to say in influencing the deliberations of the convention. An enthusiastic packed ry seems irresistible in carrying delegates with a rush to support the popular hero of the hour, Shrewd polit- ical managers have taken advantage of this more than once at Chicago, But in the auditorium, where the seating capacity is limited, demonstrations of this character will be checked consider- in the past dozen or twenty yearsto load the state with the re- sponsibility for a system of public edu- cation which goes very far beyond what is necessary to intelligent citizenship. The view of those the obligations of the state in the mat- ter of public education is thus tersely in one of. the Forum “Public teaching has little or nothing to do, then, except to deal with what is level with average condition, tional talent, and the exceptional treat- ment due to it, belong to individual entecprise and to philanthropy. state is not in the philanthropic busi- ness; it is no parent, has no personal regards, no affections. horizontal, not vertical colleges and unive) vantage to the minority; but the state goes out of its province in maintaining them, unless it can show that by sueh maintenance it advantages the majority, which it might not be easy to do.” idea is to adjust the matter on a basis of wholesome utilitarianism. It need hardly be said that this view does not find universal acceptance; that there are those who argue it is quite as much the business of the state to provide for the teaching of its youth in the sci- ences, in philosophy, in jurisprudence, as it is for it to provide for the care of the idiotie, the blind, or the phenomen- ally incompetent; that it is a narrow and unwise principle that would leave all the chances of higher education to There is some obvious weak- ness in the opposing arguinent, but it is not wholly without strength, and skill- fully eraployed would not fail to win wide and respectful consideration. all who consider this matter intelli- gently and without grant that there ought to bo a limit to E—— ENGLISI constitutional writers have pointed out the fact that the political eomplexion of Europe is gradually be- " @ing Americanized, gang to do their worst. to the working people have undergone no change and my course workingmen is too well known to re- quire any explanation. hypocerisy, and I warn workingmen here and now against allowing themselves to play cats-paw for the hypocrites and knaves who have been trying to build up broken-winded and unpopular papers by lying about mb in connection with the bricklayers’ sirilje. E. ROSEWATER, Tmperceptibly the British have absorbed American ideas of government which become a part of their laws after passing through the hands of parliament, shere is a general feeling that the French constitution is imperfecs, and But I detest tering houses h tions that the #hat the best thing to dois to throw it aside and frame a body of laws as nearly modeled after the constitution United States as the structure of that country will pemit, the first principles of a republic from the French savants of the last century, the United States will gladly give their de- Having 1mbibed Mrs. Logan's Views. Derrorr, Mich., Aprit 28.—[Special Tele- gram to the Ber/—Mvs. General Logan, who is in the city on business, proached last night s to her thoughts on the political outlook. 'She deplied that her in- we gone since her hus- dshe had heard a great deal of talk about, Ggneral Alger as presi- md " all the republicans on the subjoct seemed to think him a first class man; one who could be elected. Since Mr, Blaine's avitudrawal she said Mr. Alger's name had been especially prominent in Washington circles. —r—— Derroir, April 28.—An Evening Journal special from Washington, says that Senator Stanford told the Journal reporter that all the ta'k about him as a presidential candidate was absurd, He is not now and never has been a candidate, and does not wish to be cousidered as such. Its duties are High schools, sities are an ] Toe educational world is at present watching with considerable interest and impatience the work of completing the great Lick telescope and observatory on Mount Hamilton in event is likely to mark an epoch in as- No expense has been spared to perfect an instrument which shall combine ail the latest inventions and discoveries in that science, scope itself is equipped with the largest The observatory has been built with every known mechani- cal appliance that can aid in the work. With such au instrument the heavens will be read as an open book, and the stars will be mere punctuation marks across the page, ——— Tue United States senate wants to in- vestigate the aleohol habit. sitien is to create a commission of five, to be appointed by the president, which shall continue not to exceed two years, and which shall during that time prose- cute a searching iuvestigation regard- ing the moial, economic and political scendants the benefit of the draft which bas withstood the straining test of war terests in politics band’s death, but s do not lack Dattention hundred aund fifty thousand dollars are to be expended this and adding to school v for the accommodation of the rapidly increasing army of children, 19,237 in number, according to the census just completed for 1858, p is high, the teachers com- the salaries paid as liberal iaav——1 THERE is favorable promise that rail- road construction this year will be very much larger than was expceted when the year opened. During the first three months nearly eleven hundred miles of track were laid, exceeding the number f miles for the corresponding period of On this fact a leading rail- ay journal expresses the opinion that Iroad building for this year will not below eight thousand miles, and veach twelve thousand miles, or even exceed that figur dential candidate, lenses ever used, A large num- ber of new enterprises in the way of New Yomg, April 28.—P. Link & Co,, wlns,mlgnad to-aay. Preferences amount railroad building are projected, particu- larly in the southern and southweste states and in the territories, and all the indications are that railway construction will greatly exceed what was expected &t the beginning of the year, with the possibility of reaching pretty close to B TR, The Weekly Statement, New Youx, April 28.—The weekly bank statement shows the $1,870,000, The banks now hold $16,197,000. — Bond Offori WasiNGTON, April 28~ to-day amountsa to §1,984,000, *You feel satisfied that Omaha has a great future before her?” “Beyond peradventure. Her commer- cial importance is already established. last year's record of nearly thirtecn thousand miles. prejudice must in mind that tremendous development, for she is in TEEN PAGES. many He will be remem- r to be con- Musically, ican city, conclusion, yourself. the midst of & most wonderful agricul- tural country, which is bein, settled by thrifty farmers. and cities throughout Nebraska resem- ble Omaha in a certain way, for they are all bright and busy, and growing rapidly. As they grow,so grows Omaha. There is a certain thrift and enterprise about the people which make Nebraska essentially a northern state. think a Bostonian might take up his residence in Omaha without missing the delights of Omaha boasts society, and also an Apollo club--a male organization of thirty voices. had two weeksof the national opera. We have had Patti—and Patti, by the way, took from Omaha more money for received in a single night inany Amer- ‘We have Booth and Barrett, Langtry, Salvini, Bernhardt and all the lesser lights of the stage. *‘I hope my enthusiasm does not run away with me,” said Mr. Brigham, in “‘but there In the course of | pleasure in living in a growin conversation, the writer asked why | ¢ity, which you would ready Omaha din not seem to enjoy an equal share of public attention with Minne- St. Paul and Kansas City. s true that Omaha has not been well advertised,” replied Mr. Briq{'m‘ Omahais the most hospitable town in the y Im- | United States, and in time sho will b one of the most beautiful. stand if you were once in_such a place Omaha is the half-way house etween Boston and San Francisco. We call her the ‘Gate City,” and the gates are always open. on’t wait too long, for find her a metropolis of 800,000 inhabi- PR — ROSCOE CONKLING. by a Journalist. Washington Letter to Kansas City Journal: Without possibly intending it, Roscoe Cokling was always on From the waist up he was a strikingly From his waist down he was rather meagerly equipped. His legs were out of proportion with the rest of bis body, and looked shaky. so point, on April 4, | prise that the act of h founding of the | his en In 1886 237,000 [ in his nervous were killed, and in 1887 over 1,000,000. | dience over. Omaha lies in the very heartof the corn belt, and must be the headquarters of this industry in® its section of the country; for beyond the Rocky moun- tains there is practically no corn land. Pive of the heaviest concerns in the United States are already here, and the business of their packing and slaugh- reached such propor- eipts from hogs, sheep and cattle will average $100,000 per in Omaba. Two | bought public or private is not alone in this clappings. not care. to bave scheme succeed, and who believed they had all they cared for of a general in the chair of state, selected Garfield as their hero, and, when the Ohio delega~ tion entered the hall,the applause given Gartield, its chairman, was just as great as that given Conkling when heentered at the head of his delegation. always been a question in packing are our | whether Conkling had concluded, prior to the beginning of the balloting, that Grant was not the choice. ways gseemed to me that heintuitionally understood that the end had come, an that his defiance, and the bitterness of his memorable talk, sprang from the conviction that no matter what he said upon thous passioned could be with nor a lifetime. fication of a pig removed from al tion, sulk in my tent and dec| cevt 80 signiticant an honor? The result we know, but one of the bitterest re- sults, minor, was a lack of cordiality, a lack of mtler?n. almost a brgukin;‘zl off ‘booming.’ Bear | of personal intercourse, and finally a BOOIN 12 hodulng bitter feeling, a quarrel,aimost,between the two, which was never made up, & has dwelt upon his senate as the most dramatic episode of his tife. It was perhaps the most influential career. certainly the hinge on which ire future turued. not until 1854 that Ne- | absolutely behind the bar of preferment, and although President Arthur did nis best to conciliate him and to reintre- duce him to the foremost rank of influ- ence by nominating him to the chief justiceship of the United States, the generally accepted belief was that Conk- ling’s public career was closed. more dramatic than his quiet leaving of the senate chamber was his magnificent possessed a population of 16,000. From | presence in the Chicago convention, when, as chief of the famous 806 third- term Grant men, he stood, the center of applauding enthusiasts, for an hour and a quarter, unable to make his voice heard beyond the limits of the report- ers’ table on which he stood. The big ranches ha ‘What a memorable occasion! giving way to small. farms | Whata magnificent audience, what towns and cities | an inspiring were springing up all over the state. Omaha was the natural distributing center, and in 1880 she felt for the first time the impetus of a great boom. In | conscious dignity, standing, when be- 1883 the population of the city was 48.- | fore an 000; in 1885 it was 65,000; in 1886 it was 1887 it was 99,000, and thiis it very likely reaches 110,000, and is still growing.” *Is Omaha much of a manufacturing audience, as though he were carved in marble, particular about the position of his feet, and thoughtfully careful about the pose and angles of his body. in all public assemblages, and on this occasion he was made the text for regu- lar applauding recognition. entered the hall, at the head of the New York delegation, the galleries in- cariably burst forth with hurrahs and rn men, who did He The wesf was virtually rendered. numbered not less than 12,000 people, and iv has been estimated that there were 15,000 in the rin named what Breathless with ex multitude sat, hushed, waiting, then with a voice clear as any bell, the speaker said: “When asked what state he hails from, Our sole responsoe shall be, He comes from Appomattox, And its famous apple tree.” That settled it. That settled it for the next hour and a quarter, during which time, as though pundemonium itself had broken looso, ““How about your city finances?"” the audience in excellent condition. Whoever owns an Omaha bond to-day has tangible security of 3100 for eve screamed and yelled, while the hero of waiting for his chance. After the nomination of Garfield, which dollar the obligation calls for. I shoul Conkling saw was coming, so much so add that public improvements of the most valuable description are rapidly going forward, and at least $2,000,000 is to be spent in this way during the cur- day stood paticn that he wrote a line of sarcastic con- gratulations on the margi paper and passed it to him as he sat some ten or twelve benches in the rear, New York was hat about your public schoois?” the vice-presidency. gued, threatened, EDUCATIONAL MATTERS ng that New York could as light is different from darkness. But ty afforded [ Morton declined, at Conkling’s behest, ning. Even | It was then offered to Chester A, thur, Conkling’s nearcst and dearcst With him Coukling pleaded long and carnestly, but, as Arthur sub- sequently said, *“T'his is one chance of ‘Why should I for tha grati- ue, now that Grant is possibility of nomina- i breach which was never healed. Durin waiting weeks, when Garflel suffered agonies untold, Conkling was dent Arthur was there. Logan, Senator Thomas C. Platt, Emory A. Storrs, Senator Jones, of Nevada, and other men well known cared for Garfield special one of his most ardent sympathizers in the terrible strain to which he was sub- jected, and anxiousl, of every bulletin, that, in the not remote time friend and all chief executive of the nation,and there- fore the head of the great party which I say much of Conk- ling prior tothis during the Indian campaign, when everything trembled, as it were; in the balance, and it was a whother Garfiield’s western was sufficient English’s money bags and presumed in- fluence in the state of his residence. C3 There was a hotel in Indianapolis called the New-Denison, Conkling was made to feel at home, there being with him Senator Dorsey, My, John C. New, George Gorham and party of subordinate republican It was hard work to make Conkling forget his bitterness of feeling, harder almost than to make him forget his disappointment at the non-renomination chief, and when he went to Indianapo- is far advanced. noticed the tenor would becomo the placed him there, to overcome One thing more. his friend and extent through states, it was noticed that he never al« luded to the name of either candidate, but confined himself, almost entirely, in all his speeches, td an elucidation of his views, and the views of the republi« can party, in respect of the tariff, and contenting himself also with reminding the country of the significant services done to the nation by the party those candidates he hoped would be elected. No figure of late years has been more familiar on Broadway or Fifth avenue, in certain of our clubs, and especially in the cafe of the Hoffman house, than that of Roscoe Conkling. kindly disposed man, and not half so proud, so austere, so haughty, as people His manner was against It almost seemed as though he belittlement he walked, " the upper part of his body almost seemed to be dragging the rest of him after him. Like all men of profound convictions, is about six | he was apt to bo dogmatic in their as- The Mormons | sertion, and it was difficult for him to rvegard with any degree of tolerance, the village of | opposition or contrary argument. prosperous | have noticed with judged him. considerable sur- since his death, irement from the feariug a tra social claims in a remarkable degree. L never saw him in the opera house, save two or three occasions, called to pay client, Mr. Pulitzer, with ily he made a party now and then. He was by no means a habitual the- went out of his way very markedly. at the time of the New York Press club benefit, when one of whose fam- $3.800 to the burial his regard for the boys. and occupied a proseenium box, and did much toencouage the lecturér and the audience by his considerate attention and doubtless sincere courtesy. g had a fund of anecdote and story which served him well on the platform, in the courts and amoung friends in or- dinary intercourse. o to public dinners, and it was a very rare thing to find him in any public semblago unless he was there as the He cared less for social intercourse than any man [ ever saw, and it would be a lasting mistake if the public at large were to judge of his in- timacies, by the names upon the cards, left for him at the hotel during his last 5. He was not asociable man, and not given to entertainments. fond of books, and sports, and particularly of long walks, His last long walk usec he not been determined, by unusual ex- ertion, to overcome the elements them- he would be among us He purchased He didn’t care to 3¢ figure head. scene. Conkling was chairman of the New York delegation. He stood tall,some five feet ten or eleven inches, and bore himself always with —_——— BOTTLES MADE OF PAPER. They Are Said to Be Far Superior to the Glass Article. An attemptnow beéing made on an ex- introduce bottles made of paper into this country merits some i The paper bottle in- dustry, which has achieved considerable success in Chicago, and is gradually ex- tending throughout the United States, has not yot obtained any development on this side of the Atlantic. among the advantages accruing from ptation of paper is the fact es are unbreakable, while the cost at which they can be placed on the market is considerably lower than that of an article of the same size in glass, stoneware or tin, in weight is moreover affected, n de- sideration of no small moment cost of carriage of lai be taken into consid tended scale to passing notice. this new ada; that the bott) A great saving The audience tion, while the was fa herman, and Mr ) misnamed his man, Mr. Blaine, New York was called for by thousands nds anxious to hear the im- eloguence source of loss with glass bottles is obvi- Special machinery is ture of paper A long strip of paper of requi- site thickness having been formed a tube by bending around a ci “mandrel,” is covered externally with an outer glazed sheet, bearing any printed labels to be employed; the tube then cut into short lengths, to the added tops, bottoms orof wood if special strength is required—nothing further being necessary beyond pouring in and ously impossible. employed in the manu which they knew ifficulty frestrained, and Conkling strode proudly to the plat- Standing on a reporter’s table, holding a dainty cambric handkerchief hand, he looked the nu- ends of which are and necks of paper pectancy the great which, on setting, will effectual the action of acids, spivits, ink lization of pune civing new adaptations, a are enumeration of which would con- stitute a formidable list, while enough has been said to demonstrate that the latest development of this materi the bottle making industry bids fair to unimportant” part ained from paper, hold not an varied uses now ob -~ Diamonds Guarded Ingeniously. crown jewels were sold by auction last season is was well known that th and most historical of the gems, includ- “Regent” diamond, were reserved, and these may now be scon in the Louvre in the the gallery ing the famous Apollo, which is such & prominent ob- Before these priceless gems , however, a committee of s and experts were ap- sointed in order to docide on some plan lor rendering their loss by theft virt- And this is what the bribed. was offered Lo Levi . Morton, and Mr. cear in building | Morton, had he consulted his own de- ouses, to provide | sire, would have accepted it, and had he done so how the course of politics would have changed, for at Garfield’s death Morton, not Arthur, would have The standard of | been president, and the entire political complexion of New York politics, and therefore national polities, would have as in many of our larger cities. Text | been as difforent to what it soon became books are furnished without expense to the pupils, and every fa for mental and manual trs L the science of domestic economy, in- 1 cluding the art of cookery, is now being friend. taught in the high school department gratifying success. You may sy, and the assertion will be warranted by facts, that Omaha is fairly to the front the matter of ually impossibl showcase, the glass are exceptionally thick and the iron framework of which is abuormully strong, and an attendant to specially keep he precious exhibit all day are exhibited in cause 1 suspect any visitor or visitors he has only to touch within his'reach, whereupon the glass pears from view and y constructed shaft over the top of which the same auto- 'y causes thick covers, formed of thick iuetal plates, to close The ingenuity dics case promptly disaj sinks into & pecin matic machin with a sharp snap. played in carrying out this plan is markable and the fact that the clock- upparatus has cost close upon £ will convey some idea of its complicates