Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 16, 1888, Page 16

o AR D DJUNDE PLAC o AN 5 5 SO AR 5Py S R e e 8 i ] THE OMAMA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 16, 1888.—~SIXTEEN PAGES PDundee Place was formerly known as the Patrick Farm. It was purchased from Mr. Patrickby this company in 1887 It was on July 1st, 1888, still unbroken. It is now nlatted, part of its streets are graded, and a large force is constantly employed in grading others. It is located in the pathway ot Omaha’s greatest growth. It has a high and healthful location. It is the coming select residence part of Omaha. Its restrictions as to business and class of buildings insures a first class neighborhood. It will be the place of homes for the best people ot Omaha. It has flve new houses in course of construction and three more will be commenced this month, costing $6,000, $8,000 and $10,000 each, for which contracts have been made. Itisonly necessary to pay one third cash to secure the ground, and if you wish to build a home, we will, if necessary make you a building loan, taking a second mortgage for the deferred payments on the lots. It is a fact that first-class homes can be built 20 per cent cheaper in Dundee Place than in any other part of Omaha. on account of hav- ing the advantage of our large contracts for brick, lumber and other building material, which we have made for the benefit of purchasers of this proverty. It will profit you to let us show you what and where Dundee Place is. It takes only twelve minutes to drive to the grounds from our office. The Patrick Land Company, SOILLE OWNERS, RooM 25, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, W. H. CRAIG, I'resident. N. D. ALLEN, Vice President. 'W. K. KURTZ, General Manager Pp—— 0 ' DUNDEE OUR HUCKSTERS IN HARNESS. ‘Where They Drive Their Bush.zess and How They Do It. AN OCCUPATION FOR A SEASON. The Fruit Vender at the Corner, th Produce Man in the Street, and Wiener-Wurst Man in the Darkness of Night. The:Huckster. An industry, the magmtude of which 1s but little understood by the majority of people, is that which is followed by the vast army of itenerant merchants. The street hucksters, of whom there are about one hundred and fifty, pay into the city treasury 360 each for their yearly license. The men who dispose of their wares from curb stone stands number about thirty; they also contri- ‘bute #5 per month to the city’s revenues. The hosts of “fakirs” who haunt the strects of Omuha, and who stay but a day or two, pay $2 per day for each day they ply their trade. The revenue de- rived from peddlers, curbstone mer- chants and ‘“‘fakirs” is no mean addi- tion to the sinews of the body cor- porate. Perhaps the largest number of these out-of-doors merchants are represented in those who sell vegetables and fruits in the residence portionsof the city. The man who vociferates his wares in whe ears of tho sleepy suburbanite is in the majority. He cri his ‘*‘po- tatoes, beets and onion in all the keys possible to the human voice. His partner on the sidewalk goes from door to door exhibiting sam- ples, joining in the uproar created by the man on the wagon. Their stock is fresh and cheap; much more so, gener- ally, than that sold at the corner gro- cery. They own their little wagon— and the equine wreck which drags it— and buy their stock from the early morning market-gardener; or else pro- cure that which the commission mer- chant cannot keep over night. Ineither case their wares are bargains, and the prudent housewife patronizes them lib- erally. These men are of all national- itics, the Italians predominating. Their rofits exceed the salaries of the major- fi of clerks, but their season is short. The lives they lead ave full of varied experiences. e Italians are largely in the ma- oty of nations in street merchandis- ng. The man who propels the banana wagon through the down-town streets is always an Ital He solls his fruit on fruit is not always trustworthy. The best-looking pears or peaches adorn the front of the pile of fruitin his wagon, and when the purchaser who takes a bagful home to his family opens it, he generally finds that the rear of the pile from which he has been served, was nov ur to par. These fellows are the noisiest of their clan. They move from corner to corner erying their goods. Hebrews, :' Italians, Trishmen, saucyand persistent, they work their fruit off on the hungr and unsuspecting citizen who wishes t treat his wife and children to an unac- customed luxury. Their business life is ephemeral; when winter comes thei occupation is gone; perhaps they bus themselves with the snow shovel. The men who run the stationary frui. stands on the corners are a lazy, good- ured lot. They pay a small rental for their location, and make money. One of the fads at these stands at pre! ent, and which is having a great run, a concoction ed “Turkish nougat.” It is supposed to be made of sugar and cream, and is full of almonds. Cut in thin slices it brings joy to the heart of the urchin who possesses the necessary 5 cents. At these stands is sometimes a temperance bar, where aproned proprietor makes cool lemonado and the more aristocratic **milk shake.” Some of th their season is short. Perhaps onc of the most interesting branches of street vending is exempli- fied in the midnight peddier of weiner- wurst sausages. He 1s commonly know as “Weine It is he who supplie the early morning lunch of out-al. night revelers, newspaper offices an The sausage is going out o in_ Omaha, however, an Weiney” now furnishes a jointof fried chicken, well seusoned and placed be- tween two slices of vye bread, for which he eharges 15 cents, or two sandwiches for a quarter. He isseen atall hours of the night wending his way along the streets, dropping into saloons, cheap hotels, and any place where he might chance to find a customer. This is n profitable business, and winer wurst men have been known to v from the business with a competency The “fakir” class is large, and em- braces many modes of making a liveli hood. ‘The cheap-jewel seductive sweetness of his tongue, sells many of his worthless rings to the un- sophisticated rural visitor, aud to the metropolitan who is more knowing, but fond of cheap display. To this class be- longs the man with the telescope, who invites the throng to ‘read their answer in the stars;” the man with the machine which registers the weight of your blow, the strength of your lungs, ete. Their name is legion, and their devices for luring the nickels of the crowd ave many, The men who follow street-vending are shrewd, loguacious d jolly, and many of them are characters in their way. The majority ave migratory, c tinually wandering from city to city; spending their summers in the norih a small margin, yet realizes a profit which enables himn to live in what is luxury for his class. His dollar-a-day enables him to enjoy his hard boef sau- sage, and revel in a glass of Chianti wino, He lives in an alloy surrounded by hordes of his people, and late in the evening = trundles his cart home to his brown wife. and browner babies, and eats his supper of black breadkand *'spagatii” or macearoni. g . The man who sells “California sugar pours,” ‘‘muscatel grapes,” and ‘‘free- stone peaches” from the wagon au- chored near the eurbstone is generally a burden to the merchaat in his vicin- ity. His voice is continuous and lust Hi never stops in his discordunt callss Tho scales upon which he weighs bi. and their winters in the south, and al- ways on the lookout for some new ake” which will prove extra attract- ive, —— The Wise Cop. Chicago Newe, When the peaceful stars are shining Burglars mount the basement stair, And whilo sleep is round us twining Carry off the silverware. Then policemen in the morning Ask us questions by the score, Leaving with the dreadful warning Not t do it any more. e Revivalist Harrison has just coneluded a week's canip meeting at Newburg on the Hudson, having gathered in 1,000 sinners during the strugg! the white- | 2 Jardly meet a man or gro fellows make money, but | 1 THE WEED NICOTIAN IN OMAHA The People Who Smoke and What They Smoke. RISE AND FALL OF THE STOGIE. Popularity of Expensive Goods— When, Where and How the De- voteces Buy Their Cigars— Profits of the Retailers. Nicotian Pickings. About every ten men in a dozen these days are addicted to the use of tobacco ‘n one form or another, and it is one of vhe most expensive habits one can ac- quire, Did you ever observe or stop to cal- culate upon the number of men of your acquaintance who smoke? If so you wave probably arvived at the conclusion #hat where one does not use the weed 7ou know of twenty who do. You can n boy upon these d who is not either away at acigar or a cigarette, wnd the habit seems to have become a universal one. If anybody thinks for a moment theve isn’t an enjoyment in a good Victoria, or Elegantes or a Habana, after a hearty 1 let him acquire the habit and try it. Man too, labor under th not only aids digestion but acts as an antidote for dyspepsia, and would just as soon miss their dinneras their cigar. But what about the tobaceo habit of the city of Omaha? To hegin with, it is enormous and prodigiously expensive. The a good class of sm( in this y 5 the case, however, in all com- vely new metropolitan centers, life fora period is of a more riot- ous and luxuriant vature than that lived in the old and finished citie there is anything people will it, and it nee what it costs, imported cigars smoked here 1 any other kind, those most in de two for a quarter or fiftecn The ten cent trade is % © cent trade hardly known atall. None ot the first class stores, the hotel booths and hotel fine saloons, handle five cent goods at all, and carry but a limited stock of ten cent goods. But this will not be the case much longe Already some dealers are com- plaining of a falling off of their trade, and they assign the reason to the ex- tensive antroduction of Wheeling stogies. Many of their best customers have gone to wusing the stogie, not wholly on account of their cheapness, though of course that is the premier consideration, but because they are made of good, pure tobacco, with no innocuous flavors or adulterations whatever. One hundred stogies can be bought for $1.25, when the cheapest nickel cigar costs from $4 to $4.50, and imported goods from %8 to 815. However, it has been the case in all the castern cities, and I suppose will be here, stogios have their day, Of course they will all sell in more or less gmnturr}unntitius, but eventually the lovers of choice aromatic tobacco, will g0 to the fine cigar. Omaha smokers run sively to light There almost exclu- goods, and every Bix out of ten young men who step u to a counter to purchase a smoke calls for 4 package ol cigarcttes. | But light wrappered cigars are in popular favor heve, and this is because the habit of smoking is such an extensive one, and the smoker thinks that in a Colorado madura, or a Claro he is getting tobacco of moderate strength, and there never was a greater fallacy than this. They are all made the same and there is no real difference i ight or dark cigar of any destinct y are all made from the same tobacco and sorted after made, those with light wrappers are desig- nated in one way, and those with dark wrapoers another. It is all the consumer’s imagination when he thinks he gets a mild smoke out of a light cigar. The manufacturing interests of this city are unusnally small, and none but ten cent goods are manufactured. The shops ave all Knights of Labor shops, ter the manufacturer pay nd for having them mad. amps and $4 for boxes, V. 11 afford to make a nickel Thére is much good goods used in the local factories, and o vast quantity vthat is vile and execrable. While they call them ten cent cigars, they are hardly good “twofers.” Omaha retail de buy most of their fine stock from York, which is the greatest cigar de in the worid, The difference between the New York and Chicago prices is about 15 per cent, and hence Chicago goods are infrequently handled here, Cigarettes are sold very close from the jobber to the retailer, and from r lér to the comsume They run at 25 1o $4 per thousand, and are re- led atH centsa y to a Cigarette , there 1p or po in_ the ot bub e ette tobacco is strongly natpd with opium. This nakes cigarette practice unequivocally hurt- ful, and when once acquired is almost impossible to ve off. The cigarette habit is certainly a distasteful one, and big. strong, healthy man with a garette in his mouth comes about as ..~].In:.|\mg a show of himself as is ible. To give an idea of the enormous profit there is in the cigar and tobacco bu ness, it is but necessary to state that the booths in the first-class hotels of this city vent for from $140 10 $160 per month, and the fine saloons at the same ratio, any of these places sell from 150 ‘to 800 fine cigars a day. These cigars, say, cost them from %78 to $90 a thousand, and they retail them at 15, 20 and cents a piece or two for a quarter, three for a half and five for a dollar.” They make any wherve from th and a half to four cents on a eigar, and in many instances double that. An inveterate smoker, or even a good customer, will smoke any where from six to igars a day It is easy to make vour own calculations. i o sl Shattered Hopes, Merchant Traceler, She sent hun back without a word, Or vouchsafed e'en a tea Discarded, with his pleas unh She left him sad and drear. The night before he thought to gain And hold her as his own, But now bis hopes were lost' in pan And joy fore'er was flown. She'd gone 40 sce him play base ball, And gazed at him with pride; She thought his worth above them ail Could never be denied. But fate wss cold and harsh that day; His plays were of the worst. He was, oh, shameful truth to say! Four times put out at first. She sent him back without a word, Nor vouchsafed e'en a tear; Discarded, with his pleas unheard, She left him sad and drear, The pope bas apy Rev. Dr. John S, Foley 10 be bishop of Detroit, OMAHA'S BIG JIMSON FORESTS Where They Are Found and the Uses They Subserve, THE HOME OF THE FOOTPADS. How They Annoy the Ladies, and the Mecans Employed by the Chief Police to Lay Them in the Dust. Weeds. “That is a helianthus,” said a lead- ing city florist yesterday, and THE BEE reporter gazed with admiration upon a botanical specimen of a plant he had always thought was a sunflower. In fact, he hal picked it from a stem nearly seven feet high, where it was growing 1n scelusion on Ninth street, near Douglas, and along with a number of other weeds was doing its best to cover up the deficiencies in the side- walks that are attributable to the con- tractors or the counc “There is no real harm in it,” contin- ued the flovist, “and some people think that it is a proventive against malaria, but T guess it makes lots of trouble for the farmers when it starts to pre-empt a cultivated farm. The jimson weed and the mullen plant are worse, ana you can find all three of them acting as shade trees in almost every part of the city. Tne Canada thistle has not yet become a nuisance and is apparently keeping in the back ground until the fishery troubles are ttled, but it has made its appeavance, 1d it is only & question of time until the state is over run with it, unless some action to prevent its spread is at once taken. The burdock is another of the street weeds in Omaha, but the seeds are oceasionally colleeted and used for canary seed, You will find lots of burrs 1 the outlying sections of the city. and you will tind in another month they will commence to give trouble. They say that when they take possession of a farm they can’t be axterminated, for that each burr con- tains two seeds, one of which, when planted, comes up the first vear, and the other the year after. I don’t give you that for ‘gospel, but it shows the opinion an agriculturist has. You can find the milk weed growing four or five feet in height in almost any part of the city, and unless it is valuable for the shede it affords, I don’t know that it is of any earthly use. Now is there anything else THE DBEE wants to "he reporter was too much stunned h the amount of jnformation he had received to answer, and waxdered ajm- lessly down Howard street until he nearly lost himself in the forest of all the above named »ds that hides the intersections of venth and Twelfth streets. Passing northward along Twelfth, he could just discover that Davenport street was still in existence, and might be found under the shade of the weeds. The residents of that classic precinet, howe are opposed to their removal, for there it is that the moon- lirht trysts ave kept,and that the hours are whiled away in the nothingness of | love’s young dréam. At Dodge street, near Tenth, the policeman on duty has to take observations daily to. find out to refer to a map for the locations of streets, alleys and city lots. “Yes, do say something in THE BEE that will make the council clear them away,” said a resident in that vicinity, ‘‘because, aside from everything else, they furnish the best of shelter for footpads and highway- men. The people in this section are terrorized, and afraid to venture out of doors after dark.” “Yes, and besides that, it keeps us girlsin the house most of the time,” said a petite brununette. *‘You know, those horrid weeds get full of dust, and then if we go through them they spoil our dresses. I1f we want to take a stroll 1 the evening it is worse, for then the dew and the dust combined spoil any- thing we wear.” : The recital of so much human misery was too much for the iron nerves of the scribe, and he staggered away to the office of Chief Seavey to see what could be done. “I'm doing all T can, and as fastas T " said that official, “but I use my on asto where the work is done. So far I have received more than a hundred re- quests to have weeds removed from ous streets in the city. Since the chain gang went to work we have re- discovered Sherman avenue, Clark, Lake, Grace, Corbett and North Twen- tieth streets, and if there is a good sup- ply of vagrants I hope to have the city cleared up within a week or two.” A steady tramp, tramp, tramp from the outside broke up the interview, and the reporter reached the sidewalk in time to see the men who are devoting their timo to the reclaiming of the city march back to their dungeon cells. There were twelve of them. Three were black, nine of them white and all of them dusty. S med with spades and somo with seythes, but all tired and thirsty looking, and awakening from the reverie into which he had fallen, the reporter came to the conciusion that everything on this earth was made for a purpose—even a tramp. e IMPIETIES. Rev. J. Torrey has_preached a sermon on “Spiritual Mountain Climbing.” ~ A punster, just before being fatally slaughtercd, said the reverend gentleman must huve come from a Torrey-d cume, First parson (cheerily) I'm oft for the mountains; my hay fever date is next week. When does your attack begin" Second parson (sadly) —"I shan't lave the hay fever this year—congregation is too poor.” Country Minister (to boy fishinz)—I'm very sorry to see you fishing on Sunday, lit- tle boy. Little boy-—Ain't you goin’ a fishin’ too, mister! Country minister—I am fishing for'souls. Little boy—Well, yow'll find 'eui werry small an’ shy in these parts, mister, Minister (dining with the family) —How Qid you like the sermon this morning, Bobby ¢ Qidn’t pay much attention to it sir Minister (much amused—-Why not, Bobby! Bobby—1 heard ma o pil, “Sauie thing over and again,” so I didn't think it was worth while, " Yeos, men arrive y in one ste thelr summer vi Satan, who has been, dividing the active orrupting our youth acy, will” now lese uvigorated Europe, duriog ‘their a moments of his tim and coquetting with dem f to his chargin that clergymen are again on top. 0 minister has been arrost my, or rather pol, wives living. It is surprising that a minister should be guilty of such sin, and it is even ould have i fourth wife for some ti taken advantage of the Chicago divorce ma- aceurately 1 in that vicinity, and:-up in the north- western part of the city. it is necessary the position of the putrol box l chines to get rid of the Wirce others. Among the dealers in tho “wheat crowd"” on the pros exchunge are se asked if he thought it was right for him ta speculate in grain, *“Well, I must own,” ha replied, “that my conscience is a littla, troubled sometimes, for this wheat business is a sort ot game of chance. We deal in fue tures, and take our chances as to the result of our speculative deals in the market. But I don’t know that we are any worse than tha preachier atthe church where I go Sundaysy e deals in futures altogether.” e R e A Funny World. Goodall's Sun, This world is very funny, For no matter how much money 4 Man is carning he will spend it, and b hary up all the time; v “T'o his utmost he is straining “T'o catch up without attaining, Till he makes his life a burden when {§ should be biiss sublime, He who earns a thousand merely, Thinks two thousand dollars yearly Would be just the figure to make happiness complete; But his income when it doubles Only multiplies his troubles, For_ his outgo then increasing makes hig both ends worse to meet. It is run in debt and borrow, Plush to-day and broke to morrow, Financiering every’ which way to. postpond the duy of doom; b Spending money ere he makes it, And then wondering what takes it, Till e, giving up tho riddle, looks for rosf within the tomb, Oh, this world is very funny To the average mun whose money Doesn't quite pay for the d thai dees before Lie shot And he kills himself by trying Just a little higher flying Than is suited to his pockct and his own eternal good, i A horned snake, cighteen inches longy with a horn one and one-quarter inches, wag killed last week near Rockw Tenn A milk-white gopher snake seventeen feefl six inches long, and having a part of his tail cut off at that, hus just becn sl Vi ig Glynn county, ¢ a. Mr. Melclive, of Pittsbur, fishing at Atlantic City mal strongly resembl and will pre: it curious of future g A Galveston ba one pound, and t to believe that it w to claim Mr whilg anls abled jabbere in alcohol for the ations. vipt born weighs exactl, M8 are encourage 1 grow up small enoug Tom Thumb's diamond ring ofs fered to whot d get it or X Master Melbourne Grubb ) lives neay Wytheville, Va., is cliimed to be the lurgest boy in Amer He meusures forty-sovem around the waist, forty-four around the thigly and thirteen around the muscle of the arme He is five feet two inches high, and weigh 210 pounds and was ten years old on July g T, R. Buld, of Carth 111, is the ownen of a mare that has a well devéloped snakg four or five luches long iuone of her cyess The suake Is about as large round us u hors@ hair, and very active, It is held in u transe parent sack which co nearly the wholg of the eye, and which is fiiled 1 o lighte colored fliid, Before the snake was dige covered the mare's eye was badly intlamedy All traces of sorencss n ured and she ffors no inconvenie o Porf Poter Gumaer, a reputable citizen Jervis, N. Y., owned & mare, fol which he had refused an offer of $1.000. The ma as_sufferng with a painful and Luu'} discase. Two veterinary sur 1l theig treatment ap, her piin and sufferi was shailoy gne of t under ¢ 1 then apom nd dunassy of birds, trued nating wioire stripes are brg but the plain ones ar fur and away bet style. o cLool teachers, *One of tuem was recently