Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 12, 1889, Page 16

I NSE— G 0 TR ol 6 L AR i e o per week or §20 per month 5 $200 worth of goods, ¢ 1 Bluffs, Florence, North Omaha i No trouble to show goods. $100 worth of goods, §3 per week or §12 per month. $75-worth of goods, $2.50 per week or §10 per month $50 worth of goods, §2.00 per week or $8 per month $25 worth of goods, $1.50 per week or $6 per month. Goods sold, delivered free of charge to Counc and South Omaha. s | =3 15 g o [ & e s w o i o [ z " [ (=" - 7 9 <] <) %) [ S 5 £ ) Z2 2 A Largest tance, furnished with Polite attention to all. Set of silver 1S g at ad n and $1 per week. ies residin $1 dow with every purchase of $10 and over. ) ty. Part f goods $10 worth o i stock to select from in the e car tickets free. plated tea spoons, THE MARSHES RECLAIMED. The Northern Flats Alive With ‘Warehouses and Factories. THE GROWTH OF TWO YEARS A Bection of the City Which Prom ises 10 Become One of the Most Lively Business Districts of Umaha. Hives of Industry. The person who imagines that the bot- toms lying east of Sherman avenue,and north of Nicholas street is a stretch of swamps profitable only for the propa- gation of frogs and the growth of dwarf willows, an opinion which once pre- wvailed, will have such delusions quickly destroyed by taking time for a Sunday afternoon drive or stroll over that sec- tion of the city, ‘Within afew years wonderful changes have been wrought there because a great and growing city like the me- tropolis of Nebraska will not let such valuable property remain long in o state of nature, ‘The Union Pacific shops and water- works are not, as many believe, the only individual enterprises on the bot- toms because the disrtict above swarms with hives of industry, marts of trad and other establishments furnishing employment for hundreds of the bread- winners of Omaha. At the southwest corner of this ter- ritory is the Missouri Pacific freight depot, and beyond, stretching north and south, is a perfoect network of tracks, over which rolls an almost con- tinuous procession of londed cars, To the oast, rise the great warchouses of the Winona Implement and Armstrong companies, crowded from cellar to roof with devices for the aid of horny- handed toil, Nextto these is the factory of E. M. Hulse & Co., where thirty-five hands are employed, who turn out 100 mat- tresses daily. besides a large quantity of beautiful lounges and bed-room sets. After this comes M. A. Disbrow’s im- mense warehouse with its inexhausti- ble stock of doors, sashes and. blinds. In fromt of this is a more modest struc- ture, but of greater benefit to Omaha, becnuse it is a factory, It belongs to L McGreor, and gives employment to thirty-five men, who last year turned out #40,000 worth of sash, doors, blinde, mouldings, frames, ete, The great cedar yard of Naugle & Co, with its mountains of poles, posts and railroad ties, cannot fail to attract at- tention. In their saw mill, the long eedar poles are cut into fence posts an blocks forpaving. A business smount- ing 10 #500,000 was transacted by this eompany last year, That “four-story brick structure in eourse of erection is being erected by Mr. N. O..Brown, a successful young contractor. It is 68x120 feet und will be used #e a warchquee. Over yonder 18 Mount & Griflin’s kindling fuctory and numerous other smaller establishments for the sale of eonl, wood, etc., are scuttered nlorg at fatervals, Over next to the river are the huge steuetures of the Omaha Ice company, and Nichoas strect bus been paveéd ‘with stone.almost to their doors. Before the ice-houses are reached, ene passes by a village of the wost wretehod shanties, occupied by a'lot of ré. wlhe northwest of the ive houses | are seen the towering flouring mills of Fowler & Gants, and the steady rumble of the machinery tells better than words of the immense amount of work done. Beyond these is the only silent fac- tory “of the bhottoms industries—the Goodman packing company, which has '.i.‘ml‘mrm'lly yiclded to the tendencies of all the packing house trade in this soction Omaha. To the southwest is the large brick structure occupied by the Omuha Barb Wire, Fence and Nail company. Over 40,000 pounds of barb wire are turned out every day, and besides this 20,000 Eounds of nails. The basement of the uilding is occupied by the Van Court & Bendict Pressed Brick and Stone company, which is doing a_driving business, particularly in munufacturing artificial stone. Away toward the west rises the smoke of the Omaha Milling and Ele- vator company, where an enviable busi- ness is done. Still northward towers the five-story building occupied by W.T. Seamun, dealer in all manner of vehicles. The structure is 80x120 feet, and contains ,000 square feet of flooring. The east front is o vast expanse of windows. The business has grown to such dimensions that another building, three stories high, is also used by M, Seaman as a store house. Beyond this is the three-story build- ing of the Bohn Manufucturing com- pany, dealers in sash and windows. ‘Pheir house is also 80x120 feet. To the northward, beyond those brown colored ice houses packed with the crystal product of Cut-off lake, is Mr. Herman Deiss’ brickyard, which has a capacity of 10,000,000 in a season. Mv. Deiss is to gravitute toward South “trying a new method for burning that atly reduces the cost of muking ick. The method is putented and Deiss is the only person in this country at present knowr of who is using it. It requires but oue-fourth the fuel of ordinary kilns. The Con- solidated Tank Lile company is next door, with its three large buildings and eight immense o1l tanks. This company claims to furnish ninety-five per cent of all the oil used in Nebraska, embracing lubricating, gasoline and kerosine oils, The main building is 210x50. The com- pany has its own cooper &hop in oue of the buildings, and a large force of men is kept constantly busy making barrels, In this vicinity is a settlement of cot- tages familiar to visitors to Cut-off lake. Some of them have no adornment, but most are at least puinted and though the homes are all humble they are far superior to the settlement on Poverty flat half a mile below. To the northward are situnted the large round houses of the Missouri Pacific and Chicago, St. Paul,, Min- neapolis & Omaha railroads and on the borders of the lake are the frowning structures used by Hammond & Co. .and Swift & Co. as ice houses. - Consider the lilies. They toil not, but they are exponsive, It was a woman who saw the first snake, but since then the weu bave attended 1o Lhat sort of thin ‘That Mr. Justice Stephen, of England, who said that he bad often wished to hear Rve's account of that apple transaction, had large Gualifications for the judicial position, A man at Sprinetield, Mass., who does not beliéve in the eficacy of prayer, offers $1,000 to any church congregation who will pray for a given thiog and huve it come to pass, _ Who shall say thut Chicago is not a water- ing place! ‘Two colored sisters were bap: tizod in the lake yestorday, and it was the real old-fashioned dip, too. They were soused clear under, Toe bathing seusou is now open. A revivalist av Tawa, Ia, receutly asked all of the congregation who paid their debts to rise. All rose but an cditor, who ex- plaized that he didn't pay his debts because the rest of the congregation owed him on subscriptions. A New York Episcopal clegyman is said to be pining for a distinetive Episcopal dress of shovel hat, knee bree ack sillc stock- ings and silver The chief dis couragemes of the irrev erent Ameri oy, who is not ap- valled by anything so English. There is a man in_Chicago who claims to be Jesus Christ, and there are of course not a few fools who believe him. There 1s cer- tainly not a city in_America where the re- appearance of the Son of Mun is more de manded by prevailing wickedness, First Deacon—Have you ever heard the Rev. Mr. Goodman, who exchanges pulpits with our pastor to-day? Second Deacon No. First Deacon—Well, T have, I think, Brother Passbasket, we'd better vary from our regular custom’ this morning and tuke up the collection before the sermon. A Maiden S, Neu he ties her strings of lighted hair, ‘And o'er her comely forehcad bare She nimbly dray With lissome speed She sings through cheeks that dimple : +Ob, violcts are biowing!" Heor buoyant arm & basket swings; The boyish winds he Aud rimple With sidling ear st A voice that sings to si #Oh, violets are blowing " The sweeping swallows dive to set In airy rings u coronet Upon her head that dances, And on the bill of birds that trill The burden sweet she faneies : 0N, violets are blowing " Within the brooks that break away To burgain at the booths of Spring, She drops her face, and hears them sing Of sunbeaws’ worth aud swects of But with their lay she dreams they s +Oh, violets ure blowin | Through grasses lush, with rise and dip, Along tier wined ankles trip, Whtre thoughts of Spring are vieing, "o whore she hears with woodland ears “The fairies softly A Pineville, ., man has 4 duck which he eluims was hatched from a hen's egg. A devil fish weighiog 2,00 pounds was caught some days ago in the Gulf of Mexico at St. James, Fla, by a party of tourist fishermen. A Lawreaceville, Ga., cyclone carried part of u fence twenly feet anu set it down augain just as jt had stood, every rail from the ground up in its place. A Leary, Ga.,, man wondered why his fine cow suddenly ceased giving milk, until one day the milkmaid found the cow lying down while a pig was inaustriously helpiug itself. Seventeen whales have been washed ashore on the coast of Norway in the last three mouths, and an Knglish paper claims that un 2pidemic has set in which bids fair 1o exterminute the big fellows. A Western Union operator, while receiy- 10K & message in Alabama, was shocked by & flash of electricity which camefrom the sky, and he received injuries from which he died in a few hours, The young girl who apparently died a week | ago iu Jeflerson, Kun., und whose face be canie suffused with color on the day ap- pointed for the funeral, thereby causing a postponement of the burial, appears to be turning to stoue. The cuse i one which ut- terly bufties the medical men, ‘I'ne bones of a mastodow were unearthed on tie furm of C. C. Tremble, near Windfall, Iud. One of the teeth was seven inches long and six inches in diameter, and a tusk of the asured nine feet. When uck the bomes they orumbled to and but a few of them were saved. — Chauncey M. Depew 18 said to have a hor- ror of death, doubtless because he knows thut he will not be permitted to make & speeeh at Lis own Tuneral, i T AS QUICK THOUGHT. How Stenography Was Introduced Into Nebraska. A5 JOHN BELL'S RECOLLECTIONS. 1he Fir t R-poriers and How the Pionc ortd the Rirst Trial in the State Which Was It corded in Short-Han Rapid as Thought. At the regular meeting of the Omaha Shorthand society Tuesday night, John T. Bell, of the Mercury, addressed the ‘on the early history of short- hand in Nebraska, as follows *The first attempt made to secure the passage of a li providing for official veportin courts in Nebraska was in the 1. when Senator Has- 1, of Dougl introduced a bill in legislature, which was substantially a copy of the Towa law with a per diem pay of $8.10 per 100 words for tran- seripts. The bill was sat down upon so promptly und with such force by his us- sociates, that Juage Hu I's hawe stood straight up with astonishwment, and he bas never been able to get it en- tively flattencd down yet. he countics paid in warrants in instances worth 60 cents on the soci some dollar, “When the legislature met in 1877 the reportere weve granted a salary of S1L,000 ivstead of a diem pay, but the house finance committee forgot 1o appropriate money to pay the 5 i and the result was that for they were a burden upon the Two years later an apprope made to cover this back | temporary statesmen of that took their little whae the law pro- viding for court work, and the present statute, which fixes the salury ut 0, with an allowance of 5 cents per dred for transcript. is the result. the state wus ready to usciulness of shorthund, for when impeachmont trial of Gov- ernor David Butler came an a few weeks luter four stenographers were employed to tuke the proceediugs, each of whom wiis puid $15 for u portion of the time occupied ther case and #10 per day for the remainde: The following summer three reporters were employed by the state in reporting the constitu- tional convention of i that year, and were paid ) per day esch, including Sundays and adjournments. “During the legislture 1885 a bill was blocked out by Geneval Estabrook und other lawyers and sent down to Lincoln, where'it was taken in charge by S Crawford of West Poiut, which bill provided for the ap- pointment of stenographers by three district judzes whose jurisdiction then extended over the entire state. The session of orted at the exy county, but in eivil suits liti- gants used their own judgment in that respect and most of them squandered money by not employing the reporter. **In 1870 shere were but three short- wd writers in Omaha—John Gray e 1872 a leading law reporter of Chicago), John Hall (then employed on the Omaha Tribune, nown resident of London, Eng.,) and myself with Dadn Brown of Burlington, lu., now of the shorthand firm .of Brown & Holkand of Chicago. We did the work for the state in the spring and summer of 1871, | ! that pl ‘s901Ig yse) e ‘sjuomifed AQqIuoly 1o Aoz Lseqy uwo pros ‘9equBIBNY) 10 AJLIMOSg AUY JNOYIIM 939 ‘'SHAOLS ‘SLAJIVI FINLININA “BUBWQ JO SSNOH 3IPaJ) [BI3qQIT ISOAl Pue Sulpes- 3y asio} juswiejsuj yjowwejy s sjdosd J91Sqa\ pue eiudojijed ‘19g IS Y191 UMON GI9 pue g|9 of which mention has been made. In that year Homer Stull (now . leading lawyer of Tdaho) came to Omaha as the city editor of the Herald, and a year or wwo later Alfred Sorenson became known 1o fame as the city editor of the Bee. These gentlemen would have in- creased the number of local stenogra- phers by two, but for the removal from the cit; ' and Hall, “April 15, 1875, 1 was appointed by Judge George B. Lake, then district judge for the ond district, eml ing ten counties, the official reporter fer his court, the first one thus ap- pointed, and fo only one in the state. ever reported by shorthand in Net was one tried before judge Crounse at Premont, in April, 1870, when John Smith, proprietor of a small hotel in e, wus on t is life for the killing of one George Gallon of West Point, in consequence of a quar- vel over fificen cents worth of hay. Upon the recommendation of Judge Crouns ay long life be his—I wus employe Dr. Miller to report the case for three dollars per column. I remember that in measuring up the work afterwards, when I went to the oftice for my pi r. Richardson told 75, and I thought then, and huve not changed my opinion since, that it would have beén a very neat and appropriate thing for M Richardson to huve measured his thumb a few times, after the fashion of & coun- storekeeper in measuring calico, in er to have made it an en twelve columns, If T had known ti it would have lacked such a trifle of footing up &30, 1 ve gladly thrown a few additional lines into the report, and thus earned thut extra quarte *This Fremont experience was a hard one. Before that I had never attempted to report even a speech, und had no iden whatever of court proceedings, as d never been 1n a court room dur- ing a trial. A consciousness that a human life might depend upon the ne- curscy of my report had a crushing effect upon me, and when I erawled off to bed ut 3 o'clock in the mornin cnse having been commen h and rvushed ulong toa close—l wus 8o exhausted that T did not care whether I awnkened again in this life or not, *[n addition to the physical and ner- vous strain, 1 was dep by the dreadful fear that | might not be able to read my note But I was, The Benn Pitman system of shorthand was intended hy its in tor, fortunately for me. to be read as well as written— therain differing from some more mod- ern systems—und, upon tackling my notes after a sound and dreamless sleep of several hours, they unwound them- selves before me jn the pleasantest manner imaginable. Indeed, 1 rather proud of them, and have brou to chow to this assemblage of b young stenographers to-night th ' puge of shorthond notes ever taken in a Nebraska court, and to ask if they will not agree with me that, consider- ing the circumstances, they are at least pussuble samples.” e CONNUBIALITI Four brides were made happy in one day at Beaver Crossing, I1l., last week. A man applied for his fifth marriage cer- tificate at iome, Ga., not long ago. Elopements in Covington, Ky., averaged three @ day & few weeks ago for three days. A Mr. Straw married @ Miss Berry at Chillicothe, O., and now they will go in to raise a crop of strawberries. A judge st Truckee, Nev., marricd a coupte in the morning and was importuned 10 grunt the brige a divorce the same day A ring-tailed raccoon, kept by s Lavsiug, Mich., man 8 & pet, broke loose ‘the other night ' and ate up u wedding cake, sampled the rest of the wedding feast wud made the de 50 mad that she almost postponed the wedding. The emperor of China is much dissatisfied with the chief bride chosen for him, and has openly expressed his displeasure to the ex- empress regent, who did the selecting of im- verial consorts. The indifference shown to her by her husband 1s said to cause the decpest pain to the girl-empress, and she is said to be partly deranged with grief, Probably the oldest couple that ever stood before a marriage altar in Ohio is John Suill- ing and Mis. Tabitha Ackerman, who have just been made husband and wife at Bur- bank. The groom _is cighty-scven years of age, and this is his third matrimonial ven- ture. The bride, who becomes a bride for the second time, is eighty-three years of age. Both are fairly well to do. Several months ago a Troy girl employea in'a box factory wrote her nume in the bot- tom of a box, which reached the printing house of Tuitle & Co., Rutland, where a presswan named Alfred Henonshaw saw the name and addressed a letter to the girl, A correspondence ensued, and o few days ago Alfred met the girl at Troy, fell madly n love with her, and they are to be married shortly. ey RMINT DROPS, A tobacco trust i lics. 1Vs a wise champagne cork that knows its own popper. A hen may get the garden sced by a scratch, but she zets it all the same. Speaking of scrub games, what's the mat- ter with spring house-cleaning Many erave charges are made against citi- zens by the secretary of a cemetery associa- tion. Actresses who have no diamonds are now seeking advertisements through the patent medicine syndicate. People who have seen the much-talked of Cherokee strip report that the Cherokee sel- dom does anything else. ‘I'ho farmers are fighting the twine-binding trust by adopting long strings of resolutions. Similia similibus curantur, In order to be an eflicient officer a police- man need not be an agriculturist, but he should be 4 man to pull beats, Aman never opens & box of chewing to- bacco with a corkscrew: he simply pulls the plug out with his fingers. One hundred years ago not a single game of base ball was played anywhere in the United States, Now look at us. General Boulanger was @ street hero in Frauce and a suspicious character in Bel- gium, but he is & whole circus in England, A. Jax, a Detroit saloonkeeper, is under arrest. He might defy the “lightuing" sold over his bar, but the law gathercd him in. Since the departure of German opera and the adyent of negro minstreley the revival in trade in these parts has been very marked, A Philadelphia doctor says that base ball conduces to heart disease. is expliing why young ladies are 80 fond of chawpion pitchirs. Mr. Sewall, one of the American commis sioners to Berlin to settle the Samoan affair, has drawn first blood. But Bismarck drew the first Leer. Umpire (to his wife)—1 believe 1 should like some griddle cakes for supper to-uight, my dear. Umpire's wife (from the kitchen, not long after) —Battér up! The Oklaboma basebail club has not yet been organized. R K. Volver has putina ball or two with @ swiftuess und accuracy which would indicate who wus w be the pitcher. Ana nowgdemooratic opposers of veteran pensions 10 union soldiers are real mad at Corporal Tamucr. They ure trying to de- vise some new system of corporal punish- ment, Good openings will be speedily prepared for would-be settlers on the Indian land kuown as the Cherokee strip, The soil ig light and it Jdoes not take long to dig & grave. 1f-you are thinkiug of going over to Paris you had better take & Junch, Four Ame cans went to u cafe in that ity and oraered @ carte blauche ding for which they Lad 10 pay $400. ¥ A Parisan crank recently fired a blank cartridge at President Carhol The hurm- less character of the rel duel is ex plained. ‘I'ne principuls Provubly use Dinni cartridges, PEPP . plug ugly of monopo- HONEY FOR THIE LADIES, The Hading veil is disappearing. Old-fashioned barege is again stylish, They are wearing hat crowns much lower just now. I'rieze has now all textures, all colors, all garments for its own. 0 Black moire, both in silk and ribbon, will be used by the acre in summer costumes, Both for great folk and small, black continues to be the leading colors in stock- ings. Ruflies, puffs ull manner of flounces and furbolows are promised for the pear fu- ture, Black grows morc and more in favor as the thing to be combiued with any und all colors. A useful new traveling cloak exactly copies a monk’s long, loose gown in brown Carme- lite wool. Striped tennis gowns are frequently worn with striped Cowes caps to match them. So are beach gowns. Irish poplin, though not yet a favorite with the world at large, 18 very much used by the leaders of fushion, Hairpins and tiny side-combs decorated with pearls and diamonds are worn with certain styles of coiffure. by Among the new beautiful materials that are useful as well, are the Chinese washing silks that are meeting with great tavor, ‘The yoke waists are now about as much worn by full grown women as they have been by children for the past two years, The newest fabric for little givl® clothing is plnided mohair. Its is light in texture and its color combinutions are generally artistic, Itis just as well to remember that blouse waists of washing silk must be entirely un- lined if they ure ever to be successfully washed, The new deep-pointed trimming L plain_edge drapery. Amoug Worth's latest inventions 1s a train that fulls over half u yard or so at the top, and does uway with the necessity of further ornswment, It is announced upon authority that the fashionable shade of hair just now is lght brown, 8o full of warm tints as to seem red in sunlight. Honors are easy botwcon plaids and stripes. Plaids are in high favor with the i fine stripes are moderately worn by the mass of womankiud, The Hading gown, that comes in just as the mlsul.fllud llmilin;,' veil goes out, 1s cut all in one piece at the front, and fulls straj and full from throat to foot. THIERS The scarf mantles of corded silk are ex} ceedingly sunple and pretty, and will brin areturn to the wool mantles trimued with fringe that formerly were in vogue. Waistcouts will be almost do rigneur with wash gowns this scason and are made re. movable 80 as to let the pretty silk or cam. bric skirt uow and then come to the front, Light openwork straw, rushes and Nea. politan braid is used for summer bonnets aud hats, and finely pleated horse.lair is used in treilis effects for capotes, toques and bonnets, HBlack grenadine will be much used for thin mid-summer gowns. Many of them are tigured in high colors and’ will be used fop underskirts and accessories of costumes maialy composed of the phain, Vory elegant crepes ae Chine, in of lovely tints and patterns, e.,é’el“'v“‘,‘fii lurgely into the composition of full-dresd toilets for summer resorts, The greatesy use made of thew, at present is for aecordions plaited skirts on elaborate tea-gowns, Slippers of undressed kid in sh, and gray, in gracefully arched 1’.‘-’;:.:'. e, wedium-high heels, are very styli a dressy accompaninents to @ demi-dresd wiler; however, they have not superseded the branzo or blaek kid sanduls in popularitys ‘I'ho square shaped paiasols are exhibi 1 wany UDIUS Con Lo S Ca i fabric.” Sowe of the round ones ure dee arched between the points, - throwing the ribs o unpleasing prominence, The sie ©of most of the purasols is very large, and the 1osl Xpeusive have jewelled huandics, and are wade of silk veiled, and edged with real ets and costly laces, or with uccordeon pleatings of tuile or silk gauze, black gimps and are used points up, with the rderiug the gown or the