Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 24, 1889, Page 13

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Wae solicit your patronage solely upon the RELIABILITY of the b 's1Ing Suradg juese[q || | || | ) | | N | | N N | N ) | N | NP ) I T l | (- ] L I (AN AERIAL VIEW OF ONAHA. How the City Looks From the Tower of the New York Life. A LONG JOURNEY BY LADDER. A Sail Through Cloudland--Magnifi- cent Distances—Floating Viaducts and Bridges--An Army of Work- men and Clouds of Dust. From Mid Alr. u will have to climb ladders,” re- marked the superintendent of construc- tion of the New York Life gsurance building, as he wrote out an order to vass the reporter through the building. Nothing very appalling in_that cer- tainly, thought he, as armed with the pass he set out upon his journey heaven- ward, Gradually, however, the full significance of the remark dawned upon him. Three, four, five. six stories ure passed. = Eyed, cars, hair and clothes are sifted full of lime. Eleva- tors loaded with brick, stone, mortar, everything, shoot up and down in un- _comfortable proximity. Hoarse voices far up aboye warn the unwary to **look out below.” Huge pulleys creak above and below. Splashes of mortar and bits of brick and stono wre falling in evevy divection, and reaching away above, into some impenctrable aerial region is a long weary vista ' of ladders. Up, _up, up tho visitor olimbs, atovery floor pussing. new detachments of the army of work- men-~painters, lathers, plasterers, slone masons, brick masons, tile work- ers, hod carriers, glaziers, carpenters, jomers, iron workers, all busy at their alloted tasks. They swarm through the halls and corridors or cling to ladders, cks and window ledges liks human What u babel of voices, creaking pes and wheels, cluttering of ham- whistling of tunes! Itisa bedlam ustry where each and every mite fu the huge hive contributes his share w the gradually forming mouument 40 the greatness of the human brain and the power of human musele. Tho tenth story is pussed when sud- donly the elimber gets o glhulmu down, ‘down, down, somewhere into the bdwels of the earth. With u startled gasp he clutches the ladder and. closes his cyoes, Oue glance is enongh. Such a reciing, dizzy, helpless sensation as comes over one, whon, between the rounds of his freail support,he catehessight of the little specks of humanity 1o the depths of the seemingly bottoml darknoss will not be courted a second 'he thirteenth floor last, and whitened with dust, tho vis- itor comes out into regions of mid air. is reached at At the first flush the exparvicnee is not altogether pleasant, There is that d y falling foeling which great alti- tudes always inspire, and involuntavily one speoulates as to tho coneaguencos of a fall. Will he be spitted on the spire of the Kountze Meworial church, or go erashing through the glass dome of 'k Bee building? Distance is €0l ered, for most of the iles immediately below and there is upparently a choice of a fulling spot saywhere within fifteen of twenty blocks, Gradually, howewer, this feel- ing wears nvay aud the mugnificence of the view is approciinted. ‘L're eity, with all its spires, domes and many-shaped roofs, iles spread out below like one of the clay {onea by childish fingers, The view is uninterruptad over all the stroots of ths of town and huadrode cen of dlnlnma vehivles and pedustrivng i tovins fash- | can be seen along the whole length of Farnam, Douglas, Dodge, Capitol Ave- nue, Harney, Howard, St. Mary’s ave- nue, Fourteenth, Fifteenth. Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteeuth, and ocea- sional glimpses can be had of every street in the city from the river to the crest of the hills on the west and from Lake to Vinton. Beyond the city the view is limited only by the horizon. At this season of universal brown it is in- teresting only for its extent, but when spring has begun to clothe hills, valleys and groves with verdure and beauty the magnificence of the scene may be imagined and will no doubt at- tract many visitors to the tower. ‘When visited last week a dense cloud of smoke rolled over all of the eastern part of the eity. The Big Muddy glori- fied by distance and sunlight, mean- dered down through a broad sweep of mingled grays and browns into the dis- tant purple of the hills of Towa, To the right and almo8t within hand-shaking distance, is the stony figure of justice = which surmounts the Uome of the court house, t2 the left an open space, which at first glance is apt to be taken for some one’s back yard till a little black speck crawls over it and it is recognized as Jefferson square. Fort Omaha, Sheeley’s station, the round houses and Union Pacific shops, Hanscom park are all in full view, but if the reader will stop to think of some lace where the tower of the New York ife cannot be seen he will get an idea of what is not visible, which is more to the point, there are, for instance no filthy alleys, or noisesome baclk vards in sight, but with all her unsightly blemishes obliterated by dis- tance the city is seen from this vantage spot fair and - beautiful. Sixteenth atreet especially withthe long stretch of pavement from Kountz’s place to Vin- ton street 1s a magnificent thorough- fare, marred only bya forest of up- sightly poles. * Farnam street does not guin much excent to the west. All the Tower portion is foreshortened, and its many magnificent build- ings are dwarled by comparison with the lofty point from which they are viewed. Away over tothe south, miles away seemingly, between the rounded summits of tree-covered Lills, u trail of silvery smoke indicates the pussage of a railway train. All along the river bottum scores of other uffing and snorting locomotives dart fiilhur and thither. On all sides, north, south, east und west, cable cars, horse cars, hitcks and busses without number crawl hither and thithev, and the rattle and rumble of their myriad wheels floats up to the tower blended into & monotonous drone. A little over to the foating over the house two delicate somi-cphemor struc- turos suspended in mid-air—the vinduets. Over the river are two oth- ers, one with a long train of cars creep- i“f aoross it. A0k up & minute, Soft white cluuds are suiling across ihe clear hlue sky, No! The clouds are motionless and the tower on which we are stunding is rvushing like tho | wind through space. The city with all its noise and smoke is loft bvehind, and_ with o delicious feol of exhilaration we are the regions of infiuite blue. s and pure the air which we drink in, in doep draughts! One canalmost imagine himsolf etheralized, spiritualized, freed from the fattors of & material body and traveling, as thought travels, ivto iu- fnite space, A thought of the return trip brings down eyes aud exaltation of spirit with n jork, and with faltering footsteps wany & jump of the heart to the mouth the long hkand over bund deswentis boguu.g right, are 8, A WONDERFUL WESTER 41ILL Fashioned by an Enterprising Dan- ish Citizen of Council Bluffs. WHAT PLUCK WILL ACCOMPLISH. He Had Neither Money Nor Lumber, and Yet He Built a Bl Which Makes His Living. . An Antiguated Mill. Near the south limit of the city of Council Bluffs, where the compactness of ite buildings gives place to straggling houses, as though the town was unde- cided whether to stop or go ahead to- ward Lake Manawa, there stands an old mill. It is old in all senses. Its form is a familiar feature in sketches of German and Danish scenery. It stands as the exponent of the civilizations of past centurivs and suggests the life and manners of the Rhinish peasant. A group of men in short coats, baggy pants and cornocopia hats, and women with short skirts and handkerchiefs would lend s real transformation to the scene and picture in its realismof the humble life of the “Fatherland.” This mill was builded years before Council Bluffs took to itself in any con- siderable measure the metropolitanism which characterizes her buildings and business to-day. It was erected by Christopher Christisnsen in what was then as it is now, the *Denmark” of the city. The builder was by trade a cab- inet maker, and a good one, too. He also possessed a nractical knowledge of milling and turning. Being an 1n- tensely practical man and business to the core, he conceived the scheme of putting up a combination mill which would cover the aboye lines of manufac- ture. He was practically without means but his ingenuity bridged over the seeming necessity, and with the ex- penditure of but little wmoney the mill was completed, together with its necessaryapplisnces. There were luthes und saws and an old-fashioned but serviceable set of burr stones. This was for years the Mecca to which the Danish wheat and corn as well as the the broken chairs came, and while the grist was ground for the tithe in toll, the miller and his friend spun yarns of their youth time in ®he Fatherlaud across the seas, Muny times had THe BEE man looked upon the monuwment of ingenious in- dustry, and with unusual interest. It is the only thing of its kind in the west, if not 1n tne entire country. It is octangular in form, covering, perhaps, thirty feet of ground. Its sides vise to an altitude of probably eight feet. 'This, the lower flocr, is surmounted by a half roof, which ends with the four- foot walk, This walk runs around the turret, which bears the fan, or motive- power of the mill, the second story of the miil, and is probably eighieen or twenty feot high. ke four spectral arms which consti- tute the fan are about fiffden feet wide and revolve at an angle of fully fifveen degrees. The material of which tne building is composed is a most feurious combina- tion. Nearly all the wood native to this latitude is he: A timber of oak bears a board of cottonwood or pine. In this is shown the economicul genius of the builder. Timbers and boards of The turret forms | various léngths and sizos are made to do the same service, and fit the places for which the ordinary artisan would require an entire lumber yard. Shingled ? Yes; but with such shingles as the reader never saw before. Oyster cans battered out to a smoothe surface and odd pieces of sheet iron got from various piaces where they were serving no purpose are nailed on to serve as weatherboard and roof. Afew days ago THi BEE sought to gain access to the queer structure feel- g certain the inside must be as quaint and odd as the exterior. - Permission was granted by the housewife and a tour of investigation was made. The lower floor was found to be divided in half, forming two rooms of fairly good s1ze. In one room the sawing and rough work isdone. Table legs, chair backs and various parts of broken fur- niture were scattered about also piles of lumber waiting the use of the owner. The other room contains the saws; lathes, etc., with which that part of the business of the owner 'is prosecuted. The walls are papered thickly on all sides with Danish papers, and a more comfortable workshop it would be hard to find. Ascending into the turret the writer found the stones which years ago had ground the flour and meal but were now cast aside and unused. The **New Process” together with the rapid affili- ation of the Danish character with American customs doubtless forced the owner to lay aside the mill stones and devote his entirve time to his trade pro- per. Passing away from this curious pile the reporter was fllled with wonder at the sturdy pluck and genius which out of things which would not serve the uses of another this industrious Dane had wrought to so noble a purpose and with such grand results. e Good for the Little Frincess. An anecdote of the Empress Freder- icl’s early days when -among us as princess royal is told by no less an au- thority than Eurl Granville, says a writer in Modern Socie His lord- ship relates that one day he was d ing in Windsor park in an opex riage with her royal highness, aged then about nine years, and her govern- ess, LadycLytton, Whetheror not the little priucess found her companions too staid (’ur ber: juvenile taste, on ‘their passing some poor children playing on the grassshé remarked: ‘*‘How happy those litthe girls look.” Lady Lytton, in true, prim governess style, to “‘im- prove the occasion,” answered senten- tiously: (*Phey look happy because they are good,” *How do you know that?" retorted the ever-smart Vieky; I think it very likely is because they have no ladygoverness.” e St LU Cutp Little Indian Maid i, When Mids Ellen Terry was last in Philadelphia, says the ~Philadelphia Record, she bocame deeply interested in the Indiau children at the Lincoln institute on south Eleventl street, and paid them several visits, While she was very generous in her gifts to them her curious manunerisms made a deep impression upon their unsophisticated mind, and one girl remaviced ton lady connected with the management: **How ce Miss Terry is! But isn'L it o pity she is always drunk when she cowes to see us!” Another story, not o whit less natural, relates to an evening which some of the young redskins spent atthe Academy of Music, where mauny of the ladies present were in full ovening drvess. Af- ter the little Indians had reached home that night one of them said very plain- tively: *‘It was beautiful; but I'wonder if we couldn’t get to work nnd make some clothes for those ladies.” V- MADE LOVETO THE COACHMAN How a Rhode Island Girl Outwitted an Obdurate Papa. HE FOUND THE GOLDEN FLEECE. A Connecticut Man Turns Up Wealthy After an Absence ot Twenty- One Years—Her Fortivade Converted Him. Little Romances, Chief of Police Hughes of Montreal is responsible for an elopement story connecting the name of the daughtsr of a wealthy resident of Newport, K. L., with thatof the family coachman. A month ago, it seems, the twenty-one- vear-old daughter of ‘a Mr. Seywold or Stewart of Newport was asked in mar- riage by some gentloman whose name does not appear. The father was will- ing, but the girl was not, and said so. There was a stormy time between parent_and daughter, which cnded by the father informing’ the girl that he would force her to marry the man of his choi The daughter determined tb foil the objectionable suitor, and began making love to the family conch- man, whose ‘name is eithor Stowart or Seywold. Within a week the conchman was ready to lny down his life for his mis- trogs. and sho, prompily taking udyan- tl t tage of his devotion, proposed that they elope. Tho coachman consented, and three weeks ago ihe father awoke to find his daughter and the coachman missing, and a note telling him that his daughter didn’t think she would marry her father’s choice after all, Detectives were employed, and one of them came to Montreal. He located the pair in a small cottage at u village about six miles from the city on the back of Montreal island, The girl had re, ted her step,and 1t took little argument to induce her to return home. Coachy remonstrated considerably,but subsided on being threatened with arres Before parting the girl swore fidelity to Stewart, or Seyol promssed that she would ne anybody else. They had not been aar- ried. The conchmun cannot be found. News has just been received in Wa- terbury. Conn., from a man who for- merly resided in that city, and who, for twenty-one years, had been reported to be dead, but who is now a wealthy resi- dent of Victoria, Australin. In April, 1868, Fred H. Woolworth, of Water- bury, aged twenty-three, diswppeared. Nothing was heard of him and it was supposed be had committed suicide or had been foully dealt with, and a lavge sum of money was expeuded in teying to find his body. All efforts proved fruit- less, the sedvch wus abandoned, and the Woolworth family mourned for the missing one as the victini of a mysto- rions tragedy. A few days ago Wool- worth’s friends reccived a letter post- marked Australia, and on ovoning it discovered that it was Fred. He said that since 1 ing Watorbury he had led a somewhat ndventureson life, Im- mediately aftor hie disnoy 1 he went on a whaling voyage aud for three years encountered ull the perils inei- dent to life on a whaling vessel, the end of that time he went to Aus- tralia, where he has since residad. A few years ugo he purcoused for #25 a gold mine suppose less, and i duy or two later discovered gold sufti- cient to v ¢ p rich, A dy s founud the other tsof Indianapolis, A dying man uight ipon the st BB gL e sk he having taken twenty grains of cyanide of potassium with suicidal in- teut. On his person was a note saying that unhappy circumstances and a woman had ruined his life; that he had lostall he possessed and was without a home and beyond the aid of friends. The body was the next day identified as that of Emil Borstel, of Phillipsburg, N. J., where he was a prosperous busi- man. He came of a wealthy family in Heidelberg, Germany, and while mak- ing a pleasure trip back to his old home he formed the acquaintance on the steamer of Mss Carrie Remius, of Cleveland, O. They were betrothed, but the engagement was broken off be- cause of parental opposition. Upon the meeting of the couple in New York some time afterwards the attachment was renewed and the marriage day was appointed. On L!Oillf to Cleveland, however, to claim his be trothed, he found her parents had perspanded her into marriage with Charles Reich. Borstel last Christmas came to this city, but he acted like a heartbroken man and disappeared a short time ago, only to be found lying in the roadway dying. Quite recently ho veceived a $1,200 draft from Germany. He owns property in New Jersey, besides a large ranch in Texas, wlllel'e his brother is a wéalthy k trader. sto City front pedestrians of San Kran- cisco were edified ently by the elo- quence of the first Chinese evangelist who has made his apperance in that locality. He announced his name as Ah Qui. He did not claim any connec- tion with either the Salvation "Army or the Holiness Band. “Ten years ngzo I wasa very bad man,” said he.” “*What you call Highbinders here, that's what [ was in Canton. I worked for a big mandarin fifteen years. During that time I killed fifty-one peo- ple for money. Twenty of them were women. I will tell you how I was con- ed. My muster set his eyes on n stian Chinese girl, but could not get her, 50 1 was sent to klll her, I was given $10 for the act, 1 found her alone in the house oue night, and on her re- fusal to accompany me to my master I told hershe must die. She asked to pra 1 was so affected that the knife Alrupfimd frow my hand, and that inci- dent led me to christianity. I grow to love her and she became my wife, The preacher at whose house she lived married us *One night we were scized and car- ried to the house of my former master. He ordered mo to murder her and I re- fused to doit. Then he said that an other would porform that office and that 1 could end my days by hari-kuri, His order was obeyed in one case. The, disrobod 1y wifo and. thres men boults her, while ‘a third cut off limb after limb. She prayed for them while they doing this as long as she had Dbroath in her body.” At this point Qui leaped into the air and shrieked three unenvthly yells, while the crowd who had listencd to the weird story stood aghast with sup- pressud excitement. He seemed to b insanc for at lenst & moment. T wiping his oyes he said: “The n day I eseaped, and here [ am.” 'he exhortation which foliowed lasted for as ieast twenty minutes and was in- tensely eurnest, Ho said that he pro- posed to go all through this land and toll the story of his conversion to show | the power of grace | —~—— Just What She Wanted. Chicago Herald: “Ma, can I have another piece of mince pis?” **No, my child, yow'd dream of your grandwmother.” % *Ilike to drewm of my grandmother, ma. - Sho used to give me two piecos of pie. i funny as {f thare was only one, THE ANGELS WERE MOULTING, - How a Little Girl Explained flu‘ Dream of Jacob. HIS TEACHER WAS LIKE RUBENS, Johnnie in the Art Gallery—An Augel- of Meroy — Princess Viotoria and Her Governess—-Our Cute Babvies. Lottie Solves a Great Mystery. Pittsburg Press: The raetor was 8 vefy genial old gentleman and always taught the smail children in the Sun school. One day he, by request,handed the class over to his young nephew, whe * undertook the duty very willl subject was Jacob’s dream. along smoothly until, in and unguarded moment. he impulsively asked: “Chil- dren, why did the angels walk up and down the ladder instead of fying® Profound silence. (The young man con: fessed when he came home that he had no sooner nsked the question than he was compelled to acknowledge his 1 abili to answer it.) At length small child held up her hand. “*Well, what is it, Lottie?” ‘Please, sir, J thinks 1 knows.,” ‘‘Speak out, then don’t be afraid.” “Ploase, sir, I thinke it wuz ’cause they wuz moulting, sie.” Young man (immenscly relieyed)i *Quite right, Lottie,” 4 Note—Lottie’s mother kept canaries = for sale. i A Modei s tance. Yonkers Statesman: “What a wons derful painter Rubens was?” remarked. Merrite at the art gallery. “Yes,” ase sented Cora; ‘it is said of him that he could change a laughing face into & one by a single oige.”” “Why," & spoke up little Joh school-teacher can do that,” An Angol of Mercy. A littie girl was graciously permitted one bright Sunday to go with her mams ma to hear papa preach, says a writer 1 Harper’s Young People. [t wus o time of great rejoicing und responsibils ty, and the little face was all alight with happy anticipation Now, chanced ghat on this spe papa’s sermon was of the “warning’ ops = der, and his earnest voice rang out 5ol emnly in tho Sunday quiet. ~ After & moment of breathless surprise and hors ror the fittle listoner’s soul was wrought upon with a great pity for the poor mor= tals upon whom s0 much wrath was de: ;«' nding. She rose excitedly to her e just peeping over the hack of the sea cul&fd ?nt in nwcult childish toneg, “*What for is you scolding ull the P ¥ poopied Deporiment. Boston Beacon: **Minnie has beon fn to see me te-day,” sald little Hyoeyonem eld, *und she behaved like n indy,” A “And 1 hope you did too,” siid her mother, 8, indeed, I did; T turned somers sots for her on the bed.” e Arithangtic and Ave, Philadelphia Reco Firat Littla Girl (at tho theator)—-Ain't it nice to have two of those funny Dromios?. Secon tle Girl—Yes, it'y twice us Very Dudes! RAE New York World: Johnn who surreptitiously making a I‘z 'u:“ Janiin - the pantsy)--*Little ghi should be secn und 1.0t Reard, I'dou’t want tw be “een or Lenvd eithel £ v "L went innie in disgust, *my al wuu;dog b and, her wids reproachful eyes

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