Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 26, 1889, Page 11

A MODEL SYSTEM OF PARKS. The Many Beautiful Breathing Places of St. Louls. COST OF THEIR MAINTENANCE, How They Were Secured by the City and How Thoy Are Managed— Munificent Gifts of Fri- vate Individuals, The City of Parks. 87. Lovis, May 28.—|Special to Tne Bee. | ~8t. Louis has often been called the “Park City” on account of the thorough knowledge her citizens have of the inestimable advan- tages of fresh air and the practical way in which they have followed up that knowledge by a utilization of the almost unequaled natural advantages for park purposes, Including the “Zoo” and Shaw's garden, both of which are properly classed asarteries of the city lungs, no lest than twenty-four parks and squares contribute to the good health and natural beauty of the municipality. An aggregate of 2,110 acres inside the city limits is dedicated to this purvose and there is no talk of ever reducing the area, though the new million-dollar city hall may be built in the center of Washington square, a down- town park of four ncros. COST OF MAINTENANCE. No city has been more fortunate in the matter of parks than St. Louis, and no city takes greator pride in such institutions. ‘Whero it has been necessary to issue bonds, as in the case of Iorest, Fallon and Caronda- let they have been made to run twenty vears and bear 6 per cent interest. The park bonds of St. Louis, payable in 1405, are consides ilt-edged + ectritios and never go under 'he bonds are in no case a lien on the park Rrounds to secure payment. The chief expense, therefore, in connec- tion with the parks is the cost of their care and maintenance. The park commissioner, ‘who is ex officia a member of the board of public improvements is selected by the mayor and holds his office four years, his sulary be- ing £2,000 per annum. Tovery park down to the smallest has a keeper, who is uppointed by the commission- ers subject to the approval of the mayor. The swallest salury paid o keeper is $1850 por annum, the largest (Forest Park) §1,500. All the lurger parks employ practical gar. aeners, The cost of maintaining these varks in 1558 was us follows: Benton $2.661.68, Carondalet £3,110.38, Carr Square § ), Forest Park (minimum_al- lowed) $30,000, Gamble Place $0S5 vois Place 8054.44, Hyde Park $§2,002.12, Jackson Place $630.44, Laclede Park $711.24, Lafayette Park $5,9 Lyon Park $1,- 78,82, O'Fallon Park §2,420.07, St. Louis 41.77, St. Louis Place extension §1,400.53; t. Louis Square $494.57, Tower 25,000, Waghington Square $1,207.43. The total is considerably less thun $100,000, a8 will be seen. * Add to this #5,172.42 cost of the park commissioner’s office and you have the exnct cost of maintaning the finest and one of the most extensive systems of parks in the world for twelve months. Mr, E. G. Eggling, the general superin- tendent of parks in St. Louis 18 a botanist of extensive reputation and character. At the break of the war he was a private gardener in the family of Jefierson Davis, ex-president of the confederacy. APPRAISED VALUE. The value of St. Louis' parks are, as ap- praised, 1852, as follows Forest Park, 1,371 acres, purchase price, 09,9952 cost to Au, $15,855,420.16; since 1877 § r has been appro- priated forit. Itis more of a rural retrcat than a place for botanical display. Tower grove, 2i6 acres, including land and improvem O'Fallon, 160 acres $ Carondalet, 180 ac: Laclede, 8 acres Hyde, 12 acres, I3entou, 14 acres, Lyon, 10 acres. Washington, 6 Gravois, 8 a Carr Square, St. Louls place, Lafayatte, 30 acres. ... Jackson place, 2 acros, ment......... . ceeer aas Exchange square, 13 acres. 96,150 Gamble place, 1 acre, oy 22,000 It is proper to ndd to this that the value of real ostate throughout the city has ad- vauced materially since 183 BOULEVARDS. St. Louis was slower to awake to the im- portance of boulevards and drives than she was in reslizing the advantages of purks, but once public sentiment_becume aroused it took but a few years to briug to a state of perfection some of the handsomest unprove- ments of this racter in Amer| est end” is the ultra-fushionable part of St. Louis and Forest park parallels he sunset line of the city for a sweep two miles in length, Leading to this park from irand avenue, a beautiful street running north and south from river bank to river bank (St. Louis is on a bend in the Missis- sippi), are the two drives hinted at above. Forest park and Lindell, the former is 150 feet wide, the latter 194 feet, and they are paved with asphalt. The average cost of these streets was approximately six dollars a foot front; including sidewalks, the money being rased by special und general taxation. Under the charter property cannot be taxed, especially more than twenty-five per cent. of its value. As all the property on boulevards is worth many times six di foot the property owners bear the greater part of the burden, in some instances more and in somo less, according to lucation, ete. Circling the extreme western boundary of the city, extending from Bellefontaine ceme- tery on the north to the river Des Peres on the south, a stretch of more than ten miles is what will one day be the equal of any Parisian driveway, a natural boulevard eighty feet wide, high and dry and easily improved. A great deal of money has been spent on this street and its future is assured 88 a popular resident quarter, ‘West Pine street, from Nincteenth street to Grand avenue, is sixty feet wide, and is paved with asphalium, 1t is @ very pobular resort for wheelmen, Including the side- walks, the improvements cost 87 per foot frout, approximately, and residence property being very valuable, nearly all the mouey was raised by special taxation. Grand avenue thirty-six blocks west from the river front, running north and south, is a residence street of great popularity. It is rapidly bemg paved from terminus to ter- minus with asphalt. The cost of these im- provements ranges from &5 to # per front ;Jul, raised almost cntirely by special taxa- son Twelfth street, unless it is swallowed up by pommerce, which is rapidly retreating from the river frout, will be a down town boule- vard one day. It is now chiefly noted for the magnificent statue in bronze of General U. Grant, between Olive and Locust stre which was unveiled about a year ago, C eral Sherman assisting at the ceremonies. Appropos the march of the business inter- ests from the lovee west, a scheme is now in embryo that, if carried out, will work a won- derful chunge in the appearance of St. Louls as approached frowm the east. It is o build a driveway and boulevard along the river front about seven miles from end to end. The Forest Park Improvement company has beon granted permission to build a boulo- vard along the north line of the park from King's highway to Union aveaue, and it is about completed. This cost the city nothing, THE FATL GROUNDS AND Z00. Iu St. Louis all distances are reckonod from the court house, which for purposes of con- veniences is arbitrairily considered the con- ter of the town, though its wagnificent dome poluts skywards but four blocks from the river feont, the building itself occupying the square botween Hroudway and Fourth streets and Market and Chestout. The fi grounds, which include the zoo- logical gurdens, are situated on Grand ave- pue and Kosuth avenue, and lie three and & half miles northwest from the court house. There are eighty-three acres in this tract und and it is beauuifully laid out in walks and drives, flunked on either side with flowers of every beautiful hue and delightful fragrauce. Where cottages of unique Lr'llxll do not dot Ahe grounds, the drooping foliage of splendid shide trecs, the daucing flow of cool foun- tains, or tho natural sparkle of clear lakes that Wirror back tho hnbp{‘lurraundingl af- furd the visitor delight, Near the center of e _grouuds is the largest awmpbitheater in the United Stutes, capable of seating 50,000 pt'u]hh, and it wus tested 1o its uumost ca- puclty ‘on the day of the presidential visit in 243,174 300,000 11,000 165,000 75,000 70,000 205,000 20,000 70,000 150,000 & 1,103,050 no apprais October, 1847, when Mr. Cleveland occupied a seat in the grand stand. The fair grounds belong to the Fair association and are of course maintained at no cost to the city, up 10 two years ago they were exempt from tax- ation, but a granger assembly decreed that they should bear their share of the burdens of the state, SHAW'S GARDEN. Shaw's garder is one of the most famous spots in Americo. It is as yet private prop- erty, but the public is allowed free access to it every day in the year except Sunday. It 18 owned by Mr, Henry Shaw, the bachelor hilanthropist, many times a millionaire,who as spont Lhirty years and thousands of dol- lars bringing it to its present degree of beauty and perfection. The garden has an area of fifty-four acres, and is situated on Tower Grove, between Shaw and Magnolia avenues. Its hot houscs and conservatories contain the rarest flowers that the earth pro- duces. The flora of the world is represented within its walls, all 8o charmingly arranged that the visitor walks as if in a fairy bower, and with a fet stops spans - a_whole zone, and breathes ull the climates of the flower producing world, Oranges, lemons, bananas and figs are seen growing, and the stately pahn rises around rubber, trees, century plants and other rare curious products. 1t is rogarded by botanists as witliout doubt the finest garden in the world, Mr. Shaw, who is now in vigorous health at theage of ninety, will eventually make the garden the prop- erty of the city. It is now maintained en- tirely at his own expense. FORRST PARK, Forest park is the apple of the St. Louisian’s eye, the pride and glory of the town. four and a-half miles due west of the court house, and embraces 1 of forest, through which a dancing living water courses, shaded by the spread- ing protection of great oaks, Four strect and one steam car line reach it, and it is the “Central” park of St. Lonis, the ‘‘Fair- mount” of the west. Two of the handsomest boulevards in the world, *'Forest Park” and “Lindell,” also connect it with the city, and every afternoon, in season, they are biocked with carriages ith’ equestrians, and dotted with wheslmen. The park was established in 1875, long before the city reached its: eastern guteway, and the com- missioners who condemned it, under order of court, after a special act of the legislature had authorized its purchase, allowed .the owners 149,005 for it. To raise this money twenty years six per cent bonds were issued and they are now worth in the St. Louis money market, some of them having been renewed, however, 2t a lesser rate, twenty- three per cent premium. The sum of $30,000 is annually spent in the park, which amount is drawn from the ordinary revenue fund for municipal purposes, Forest park’s popular- ity is almost phenomenul, and no wounder. Situated high and dry, essivle from any part of the city in a fow minutes for a single fare of five cents, a veritable rural retreat within a step, practically, of down town,why should iv not bet The Gentlemen’s Driving club maintains a speed ring in the park, with & track one mile round, picnic parties by the score can lose themselves in shady nooks where indegenious blue grass springs from earth with tropical luxuriance, twenty-five amateur base ball games can be played at one time in _the “open’ without in- terference, und it is the paradise for school children out for a frolic. 'The St. Lows Post-Dispatch with characteristic enterprise has inaugurated a movemeant to sond the poor children out with their attendants every day during the heated term this scason, and already one cable road has volunteered 1,000 passes, round trip per weelk, to the fund. The fresh air mission will co-operate. A Iake covering fifty acres affords unexcelled advantages for boat-riding. ‘There are monuments in Forest Parkof Frank P. Blair, who ran for vice president on the ticket with Seymour in 1858, and Kd- ward Bates, Mr. Lincoln's attorney general. TOWER GROVE PARK. The citizen who has 5 cents and o leisure half day can ride from the court house to ~Tower Grove park on_a not very swift horse line of the put-your-nickle-in-the-slot var and enjoy himself to the fuil. Tower G is another monument to the generosity of Mr. Henry Shaw, the venerable owner of Shaw's garden. It comprises 276 acres be- Tween Magnolia avenue and Arsenal streeot, and was deeded to the city by the philanthro- pist o 1870. Thero are hand- some aud imposing entrances to the park and within are numerous rare decidu- ous and evergreen trees, It has fountains, statues, artiticial lakes, rivulets, ornamental bridges, shrubbery, flowers, an evergreon labrynth, summer houses, pagodas and shade treesof infinite variety., Handsome bronze statues of Shakespeare, Humboldt, aud Christopher Columbus add to the interest of this park, and busts of Mozart, Wagner, Rossini, Verdi, Gounod, Beethoven and Han- del are much admired, Tower park being pre-eminently the central park of St. Louis. The city, under conditions of Mr. Shaw’s deed, spends $25,000 a y drawn from the gener purposes. It is under the control of private commissioners appointed by Mr. Shaw, chosen frow among St. Lous’ most represent: ative citizens, LAPAYETTE PARK. Lafayette park is one of the oldest breath- ing spots in St. Louis, and was formerly St. Louis commons, but it was dedicated to its present purpose in 1851 and has since been under the hand of the gardener until it blooms and blossoms like the vale of Cash- mere, It comprises 30 acres almost in the heart of the city, situated within fifteen min- utes' ride by ho ar from the court house, bounded by Mississippi, Lafayette, Missouri and Park avenues, aristocratic residence streets, whose stately mansions, if fortun- ately situated opposite, rejoice in a thirty- acre front yard maintained at public exponse, whose estimated value is $100,000 per acre. Bronze statues of Thomas H. Benton, thirty years a United States senator from Missouri, George Washington and the Marquis De Lafayetts attract the admiration of the artist. A kecper employed at a salary of $1,800 per anuum, looks after Lafayette park, under the general supervision of the park commissioner. The entire costof the beauti- ful spot for the year 1888, was $6,917.82, and it is probably visited by 10,000 peoplo daily onan average. Lafayette parkis also con- trolled by a board of private commissioners, which is a perpetual corporation, All the other parks (oxcept Shaw's garden, which is private property maintained for public benefit) are controlled by the municipal as- sembly. r on Tower grove, fund for municipal O'FALLON PARK, O'Fallon park, three and one quarter miles northwest from the court house and a short distance north of the fair grounds, covers just one-quarter of a section of land (160 acres), and was formerly the country seat of Coloneél John O'Fallon, 1t is doited through- out by “‘clumps” of trees, making begutiful groves. It was purchased by the city in 1875 :mllux 1882 & commission fixed its value at 243,17 BENTON PARK. One of the prottiest and most popular re- sorts in St. Louis was originally the Potter's fleld, the city cemetery being removed and its site mude Benton park in 1860, after the great cholera epidemic. It cost the city very little to malse the place what it now is, 140 acres of beautiful forest, field and flowers, situated between Jefferson avenue and Arsenal street and Wisconsin avenue and Wyoming street. It cost the city $2,661.08 to maintain this handsome resort for Soutn St. Louisians in 1888, CARONDALET PARK. St. Louis has been fortunate in securing parks without cost. Besides the Shaw gifts, the gift of Lyon purk by the government, and other donations which will be mentioned below, 150 acres now known as Carondalet purk was purchased by the stato legislature for the city in 1874, It is & most eligible situation in South St. Louis, but has as yet received little attention. With rapid transit to the south end, which will be realized this year, Carondalet park will come more promi- nently into notice, HYDE PARK, The city purchased Hyde park in 1854 for £30,000, It lies between Salisbury street and Brennan avenue and Twelfth and Fourteonth streets. It contuins 120 acres, It is a favor- ite resort with yorth-cnders, being beaati- fully laid out and handsomely improved. LYON PARK, By an aot of cougi approved Maroh 8, 1860, Lyon park, that portion of the United States arsenal grovn s lying between Caron- dalet svenue and Fourth street, was donated 10 tho city on conditior that the oty finish the statute of General Lyon, then under way. It is a very attractive spot and the Lyon movument is another work of the sculptor's art that is fast guining for Nt. Louls facie as the “Mcnumental Civy."” OTHER PARES. Washington squave will be the site of the new eity hall. It contains six acres between Clark avenue ana Markot street and Twelfth park referred to above. Tt was purchased by the city in 1840 for 000, with the un- derstanding that it was to be used for public urposes forever. The sum of $56,500 has expended on it since its creation. Gravois park, containing eight acres, is one of the original St. Louis commons grants aud costs the city nothing. It lies between Pon- tiac _and Kanseas avenuos and Miami street and Louisiana avenue, and being isolated, is little frequented. It is a reserve for future use when the city grows, Carr Square, situated between Carr, East Sixteenth, Wash aud West Sixteenth streets 18 & half a mile northeast of the court house and is much frequented by working people. It is attravtive and was given the city in 1842 by William C. Carr. St. Louis place is & long narrow strip of ground one block wide, very uneven and con- tains fifteen acres. St Louis avenue sepa- rates it into two parts. It is a popular pic nic ground and was also a gift to the city, being donated by Colonel John O'Fallon and others for a pleasure groun Laclede Park is a small reservation in the south end, is bounded by Laclede and Merri- mac streets and Iowa and California ave nues. [t cost the city nothing, being ‘‘re served” in 18 Jackson place is a small north St. Louis park donated to the city in 1516 as a play- ground for children and it has never lost its vopularity in that respoct. _Gamble Place is the smallest park in the . and was opened by private citizens in , between Gamble and Dickson and Gar- on and Glasgow avenues, and has since been maintained at the expense of the city. FRONTIER TELEGRAPHY. How the News From Oklahoma Was Sent to the Press of the Country, On April 22 the largest and most com- plete, to say,nothing of being the most intricate, lot of circuits ever put up 1n the stato of Kansas were arranged at the Wichita Western Union office on the occasion of the filing of 50,000 words of Oklahoma press news, says the Elec- tric Age. A special press representi- train was run from Guthrie, loma te to Wichi con- taining twent en newspaper men with their correspondence for the e ern papers. The train made no stops between Guthrie and Wichita, ana when it reached Wichita it was discov- ered that the rival reporters had adopted all manuer of means to get thei respective ‘‘copy to the telograph office fivst, that it might have the preference in being sent out. Some two or three of them hod race horses, ridden by ex- pert jockeys, in waiting at the depot, and befors the train had fairly stopped the daring reporters sprang from it. and rushing up to the riders, handed them an envelope containing their manuscript, and the word, “Go,” was given, when the horses dashed off on a dead run for the tele- graph office. Others had secured fast cabs; and yet others, not to be outdone, had secured light buggies and fixed alarm gongs on the front, that could be operated from the seat by their feet, in order to warn the street passengers at crossings to look out for their mad flight, and as quickly as po jumped into them and start Bcene on the route to was indescribable. Fi ge white horse ridden by the cor- respondent of the New York World, closely followed by another ridden by the correspondent of the Herald; then came the buggies with their. gongs clanging as they swaved from side to side in thgir mad carcer. Thay were followed by the slower cabs ou the dead run. The police in vain tried to stop the headlong flight. So cunningly was it planned that u casual observer standing at the depot five minutes be- fore the arrival of the train would have noticed nothing uncommon. At the office each man had a boy sted who would catch his horse as he ashed up. When the calvacade reached the space in front of the office a groat shout went up from the people on the streets, the various correspon- dents threw themselves from their horses and buggies and .made a rush for the door, which had been left open for the purpose, and all tried to hand their copy to the receiving clerk at the same time. The World correspondent (who, by the way, is red-headed and rode a white horse) was the first to file his stuff. At the operating{room Chief Operator B. C. Elder was in charge with the tance of Night Chief Operator E. S. Bowers. A new quad had been run to Arkansas City, and was looped on all four corners of the regular Wichita-Kansas City circuits. The men were placed at a table each, and were all ready, the Kansas City operators being in ting, and when the speciuls were filed they were quickly distributed and three minutesafter the train pulled in at the depot the matter wuas being transmitted as rapidly as fifteen first- class operators could handle it. It was filed at 10:45 p. m.. and at 12:30 a. m. the last word had been sent. Manager Hackett was in attendance at the coun- ter and distributed the ‘‘copy;” Night Chief Bowers kept business moving, while Chief Operator Elder looked after the wires. Strange tosay, not one of fifteen circuits went down during the spurt and all worked fine. Kansas City handled the same night 100,000 words of press matter from the various Kansas points. ed. the oftice cune o ———— HE FOUGHT FOR FRANCE, One of the First Napoleon’s Heroes Passes Away In New York. Henri Matthieu, who fought under Napoleon at Waterloo, died on Tuesday last in tha basement of the brick build- ing at 845 West Fifty-thivd street, aged one hundred and one years, one mounth and four days. In the last years of his life, despite his great age,the old sol- dier went out of doors nearly every day when it was pleasant, and was known to every child in a radius of half a mile by his cane, his patriarchal beard and his ,nlmlm\ul, smiling word of greeting. When Matthieu was twenty-one years old he was conscripted into the emper- or's army us a cavalryman in the Ninth Hussars, says & New York special to the Sun Francisco Examin He was nouv in the Russian campaign,but was sent to the front when the emperor was main- taining an unequal struggle with the allies at Leipsic. The blowing up of the bridgeat Leipsic in the retreat of the I'rench army, he remembered dis- tinctly, When Napoleon was at Elba Matthieu was mustered out. On the emperor’s return from Elba, Matthieu took up his musket again and followed Bonaparte’s fortunes for the hundred days. The scenes he then wit- nessed were more vivid to him in his age than nujlhlng before or since. He remembered the brown horse he rode in the battle of Waterloo,when his regi- ment was cut to pieces. Matthieu was wounded in the head with a bullet, and he was in the hospital for & long time before he was considered out of dan- No old moustache at the Invalides could be more enthusiastic in his devo- tion to Napoleon’s memory. That and a queer political antipathy towards the Russians were subjects on which any visitor could make the soldier flare up, and if he was teased too far he would get into a violent passion. Only the day before his death a friend asked Matthieu what period of his long life he had enjoyed the most. “When fighting for my country,”was the answer, e s Mothers give Angostura Bitters to their children to §top colic and loose- ness of the bowels. Dr. J. G. B. Siegert & Sons, sole manufacturers, At all sud Thirteeuth sireets, beiug the down-town | druggists, A MIDNIGHT ;flfll’ SKYWARD. Sensations of & Olimbar of a of a Council fi'lu&’s Light Tower. MAGNIFICENT VJEW OF THE CITY. Dwarfed Distapces and Stunted Heights—How 1t"Would bs in a Storm—Trials of the Watchman — The :ku‘ Towers. Ata Perilous Height, The municipal codhicil of the efty of Council Bluffs, although not given to following the udmonitions of the scrip- tures touching all the procecdings of its executive sessions, has ashining tes- timonial to the effect that, on one ocea- sion, the members of that august body were g0 fully impressed with the wis- dom of the scriptural statement that *‘a lighton a hill cannot be hid,” that ¢ resolved to withdraw their electric street lights from under the figurative bushel tuat had previously covered them, and place them on a candlestick 150 feet high. The result was the tower light system that has for the past year shed a noon- day illumination ovér the city during the hours of midnight darkness. There are probably, very few of the thousands who have stood around the base of these towers and gazed av the four lights shining like bril cons 154 feet above them, who have over stood at the other end of the tower and gazed upon the vastly more interesting spectacle stretched out beneath them. In fact, there are hundreds who have been heard to assert, as they watched the voung man whose duty it isto daily carbon the lights shoot upward through space in his miniature elevator, that suflicient money could not be piled to- gether to induce him to make the trip. And yet a teip like this doubly re- pays the adventurous climber, who has suflicient strength of limb and steadi- ness of nerve to earry him to the top. A few nights since the reporter, in- spired by curiosity and a desire o win immortal fame, uccepted un invitation from the night watchman of the towers to accompany him on a trip to ispect the court house lights. The lights on this tower are the farthest from the earth of any 1n the city, being 1 ot from terra firma. They not, however, the highest above sea level, as the Oak- land avenue tower stands on a bluff nearly seventy-five feet above the foun- dation of the court house. As the guide stated at the beginning of the trip, this wus the hardest and most tedious td' uscénd of any of tte towers, as an elevator furnished trans- portution to the top of all the others, with very little motive as the part of the climber, while to reach the summit and_ staind on a level with the court house'lights,it is ry climb over two hundred steps i buiiding, then up ai outside ladder for the remaining distance. Notwithstanding the discouraging prospect, the sctive decided to tackle the court house'tower, as he infinitely preferred, in cdse he should fall, that his descent should be through the classical atmospheyé of a temple of ju tice, burdened 'with familiarity with the disciples of Blackstone and Coke, than through the d&61d and friendless contents of outer Space. upon which the influence of man’s a ation had seem- ingly never been exerted. As it was nearing the hour of mid- night, the greatbuilding appeared dark and deserted, but the guide produced a key that proved to be the “‘open ses- ame” to the court house doors, and the tourist started upon his trip of explora- tiou. The familiar portion of the structure was traversed and left behind. After what seemed to be an interminable climb of countless stairways and lad- ders, the reporter was ushered into a little octagonal apartment from which there was_seemingly no outlet but the hole 1n the floor through which en- trance had been effected. Eight little round windows looked out on every side, and a close examination revealed a little hook on each side of one of them. It was the work of bavely.a second to lift out the window, frame all, and the guide disuprcm-ed through the aperture. A small platform, two feet square and an iron ladder extend- ing upward was all that could be seen. *Come on,” called the guide from somo unseen point above and the tourist started again. A glance downward revealed the earth apparently 1,000 feet below, and the roof of the court house was so far away as to be unrecognizable. A’ rather queer sensation passed through the frame of the beholder, and his hat rose involuntarily in respectful awe, as he volunteered the information that he “‘guessed he didn’t care to go any further.” Put your back to the ladder, look stra‘ght’ up, and come up backwards and you will be all right,” were the next directions, which the reporter fol- lowed, and was soon standing on the hittle platform inside the iron railing, with his shoulders on alevel with the four great 2,000 candle power lights that swung noiselessly on all sides of him. Away on all sides stretched an inter- esting picture, in the subdued and pleas- ing light of 56,000 candle power spread all over the city by means of this tower and its six twin brothers. Just as the beholder was preparing to take it all in in detail, his companion sqgthingly remarked, “Be careful you 't come in contact with the framestof aby of those lamps, or this iron tower ;would short circuit a current through your body,and then you wouldn’t have tb climb down.” JAs the climbing was vepy good, it is need- less to say the Eorfie steered clear of the lamps. 3 The hissing ok made a rather ggu visitor soon beci got all about it burning carbons e noise, but the used to it, and for- guide pointed out the buildings a) nts of interest that had seemed so familiar below. The transfer and the Union Pacific yards seemed bapgly a stone’s throw distant. The glaring headlights of the switching engines were plainly visible, and the eye (;ar.m plaiuly discern the swinging lunterh i hana of the in- visible switchman. ' 4'here was avidently life there, but except the occusionul distant clang of the bell and the vicious puffing of an overloaded ‘locomotive, there was no sound from this busy hive. A little beyond was Omaha, but the beholder could scarcely believe that it was o near, until satis- fied that those lines of lights extending up the hill at such even dis- tances were indeed the street lights of the twin city., The blazing chimneys of the smelting works were then pointed out, and still later the quiet little suburb of Florence, that should have been eoundly sleeping in peace and darkness, made known its whereabouts by a few dim lights. The light did not extend to the river, and the position of the devious chaupel of the dix Muady could only be gucssed at from other well known landmarks, A long line of lights showed where Broadway’s smooth surface extended toward the bridge. The cars of the electric motor moved swiftly up from the river, like toy conches piloted by a one-eyed demon, but as they came nearer thoir appearance became more familiar and less uncanny. Away on the hill to the north lay Fairview, with its white marble shafts gleaming coldly in the artificial light thrown from the Oukland avenue tow The strects of the city, far below, were nearly deserted, but the laughter and songs of revelers occusionally floated to the ear. Lver and anon a hack rattled noisily along, or a belated clubman could be seen hurrying home, Bayless park seemed almost directly under- neath, and invited the beholder to step off into its sen of green folinge. To the east, the blulfs made a rather dismal background, while to the south, the Sixth street tower lighted up hundreds of roofs of palatial residences and more humble cottages. “It looks nice, doesn’t it?” queried the guide, after it had all been care- fully inspected. ‘“Now then, the next thing for you to do is to take it in some stormy, windy night. 1f you think this was a tough climb, you ought to try the elevator in the tower when the wind is blowing sixty miles an hour, and the gusts fairly take your breath away; or in the winter, when everything is all ice and snow, and the sleet seems to cit to the bone. There isn’t quite so much poetry slid- ing around on an ice-coated tower 150 foet from the ground. Tuke it againon astormy night, when the thunder is loud enough to crack your skull open, and the lightning fairly blinds you,and you will see very different from this. You ought to take in all of them, and then you can take your pick from actual reporter perfectly satisfied with what he saw, and told ~his guide for tho rest he willing to “take s word for it The descent e without any difficulty, and on reaching terra firma, he back his recent lofty perch, seemingly such a little distanco above him, he fully realized the truth of the saying that there are difforent ways of looking at things, but was still a little more strongly than ev impressed in favor of the good old way. Office hours, 9 Bunaays, 108 m, to1p. m. Speciallsts in Chronic, Nervous, Skin and lood eases. ©-Consultation at office or by mail fres. Medicines sent by mail or express, securely packed, free froui observation, rantees to ture quickly. safely and permanently. q LITY Sprimatorshies, st NER flub nal Iosses, Night Emis. sions, Physical Decay, arislug from Indiscre- tion, "Excess or_Indalience. producing Sleep- lesshess, Despondency, Pimples on the face aversion to society, easily discouraged, lack of contldence, dull, unfit for study or business,and finds life & burden safely, permanently and privately cured. Consult 1rs, Betts & Betta, 48 Farnam St,, Omaha, Ney hills, & disease b 000 and SKin DiSeases meazt norribie in ita s, complotely erac without the ald Scrotula, Erysipelas, Fever Sores, cers, Pains in the Head and Bones, ore Throat, Mouth and Tongue, Ca: permanently cured where others -dmv Ul‘infll‘y and Bladder Complaints, Paintul, Dificult, too fre- quent Burning or Bloody Urine, Uring hign col ored_or with milky sediment on standing, Week Rack, Gonnorrheen, Gieet, Cystitis, &c., Promptly andSafely Cured, Charges Reasona- S-TRIGTUREl Guaranteed per- mauent O moval complete, without cutting, causiic or Qilatation. Cureseflected at homo bv patient ithout & moments pain or annovance. Yumu% Hen and Middle-Aged - Men, A SURE DURE ¥ie. o s organtt weakness, destroying both mind nndg.od'. with allits areaded flls, permanently cured. RS, BETTS Adress thoue who Lays impaired themselves by improper indul- EBIICEI and solitary habi h ERANE- m. to $p. m, Teury. o bitd,” which ruin both ody and mind, unfitting them for business, study or marriuge. MARRIED MER, oF thoso entering on that hap- Py life, aware of pbysical dobility, quickly as sistea. OUR SUCCESS is based upon facts. First—Practical Expe- rience, Second—Lvery case 13 especially studied, thus starting aright. "Third—Medicines are pre- pared in our laboratory exactly to suit each case, thus affecting cures without injury. §4“Send 6 cents postago for celebratod works on Chronic, Nervous and Deligate Disease Thousunds cured, (A friendly lotter or cal may save you future suffering and shame, and 8l golden years 1o lie. ENo lotters ane lx:m'ed umm‘.‘.w.mp-nmd by 4 cents in stamps. ress or call on E DRS. BET'TS & EETTS, 1408 Farnam Srtnet. Omaha, Ne CASOLINE STOVES REFRIGERATORS Ice Cream Freezers, The most complete line in the city. WM. LYLE DICKEY & CO., § 1403 Douglas Street, H. B. IREY. TO LOAN, On City and Farm Proverty! GASH ON HAND, Mortgags Paper Bought. renzer Block. opp. P,O. OMAHA BUSINE im0 Pon ooliae KIn"EYMIfll all urinary troubles ennll{ uick- 1Y and sutely cured byDOCIURA Cup: sules. Beveral cases cured 1n seven days, Bold at8L60 per box, all drugglsts, &l |i) mall fr ‘ln.n-mnvm'l"u Co. 112 White st, Full direc- ons, It AGENTS WANTED, 100 BOOKAGEN13 v BALABLE BOOI AT ONCE, expostod E'-'I'.’h. PUB. C0L 1116 Pina L, ST, L0015, MO ‘ THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, MAY 26, 1880—SIXTEEN PAGES. §0. A FULL SET OF TEETH FOR FIVE DOLLARS. DR.R. W. BAILEY, - DENTIST. Paxton Block, 16th and Farnam Streets. We wish to announce to the people of Omaha and vicinity that from this date on we propose to make a FULL SET OF TEETH on rubber for guaranteed to be as well made as plates sent out from any dental office in this city, and for which you would have to pay THREE TIMES AS MUCH. This offer is not made by us simply to get you into our office and charge yott more for a set of teeth than we advertisel Do not allow others to prejudice you before making us a call and examining specimens of our skill, Besides rubber teoth we make teeth on the following bases: GOLD, ALUMe INUM, SILVER, CONTINUOUS GUM,CELLULOID, CAST METAL, ETC, Teeth without plates, Bridge-work, Gold and Porcelain faced crowns, ote. The best method in the city for extracting teeth without pain and withoud the use of Chloroform, Ether, Gus or Electricity, the patient remaing perfectly conscious, but feeling no pain. GOLD, ALLOY, CEMENT and AMALGAM FILLINGS, one-half rates. $6. TAKE ELEVATOR ON SIXTEENTH STREET. OFFICE 312 and 313 PAXTON BLOCK. Mention this paper. “FISH BRAND” HOSE] Cut this out. The ONLY Lawn or Garden Hose MADE which will stand ' 250 POUNDS PRESSURE. BUY the BEST, It will LAST the LONGEST A hose which will do good work fn most citlss, will not glve satistaction in Omaha, on acount of the extreme high pross While dealers complain of other hose being returned in large guantities beca enough to d 1 th auso it i not_ strov stand the pressurc. Not One Foot of e “FISH BRAND" has ever failed. For sale by ull deaters, or OMAHA RUBBER CoO,, 1008 Farnam-st,, Omaha, Neb. ‘Wholesale or Retail. ETCHINGS, EMERSON, ENGRAVINGS, HALLET & DAVIS, ARTIST SUPPLIES, KIMBALL, MOULDINGS, PIANOS AND ORGANS FRAMES, SHEET MUSIOC. 1513 Donglas St Omaha, Nebraska. DEWEY & STONE Furniture Company A mognificent display of everything useful and ornemental in the fural ture maker’s art at reasonable prices. "~ THE BUSINESS OF THE OMAHA MERCHANT TAILOR COMPANY, 114 SOUTE 15T STREET, Has far exceeded thelr expectations. Tho low prices, togetuer with o work and perfect fit, have convinced their customers that it fs the cheapest plice to buy their garments, They wre cons stantly recelving new goods for the summer trade. PANTS FROM 87 UPWARDS SULTS FROM $28 UPWARDS, JOHNT, DILLON | Three REAL ESTATE LoanCompany Room 49 Barker Block, cor. 15th and Farnam Streets. Trackage Property 21 lots have heen sold during the past 80 days, on 10th and 11th streets, near Nicholas street. by us. This property is especially adapted for warenouses al yards, factories, ete. It is easyfof access, three quarters of a mile from the postoffice; is reached from 16th street, by going east on Nicholas. A FEW Choice Bargains Left Union Pacific, Missouri Pacific, Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley, Belt Line, Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha,Chi- cago & Nortwestern, Burlington & Missouri River, Kansas City, St. Joe & Council Bluffs, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Trackage. The Illinois Centraland Winona & Southwestern contemplate trackage in the immediate vicin- ity very shortly, Nicholasis now paved to 10th street, which gives a continuous line of level pave- ment toany part of the city.Many warehouses are now in course of erection in this locality, BUI SO0 DEAF!. 80 Stars dencrd T RGN q Now Yorke Rk V0 ACENTD CALIFORNIA LW Sorinklrs JAS. MORTON & SON 1511 Dodge Street, PATRONIZE Home-Made Cigars TRAD MARK, _“RED LABEL.” _ DCCTOR (. M. Jordan Late of the University of New York City snd Howardl mwrmy.{s'uh» ington, 1, C, 1A OFFIOES Xo, 310 and 311 Ramge Building, Corner Fittoenth and Har Hney sts,. Omaba, Neb, fwhere all curable case laro treuted with - sug Ccoss, DYRPEPSIA, DEARs VTN, ASTHOA, IMATISM, ALL NERVOUS AND GKIN TION at office or by madl, 10 114,10, 2104 p.m., 7 t0 8p, i, Sunday office hours from 9 a. m., to 1 p. m; Many diseases ure trented successtully by Dr. Jordon througn the mails,end It 15 thus possib) e for those unible to make urney (o obl JRES I, TIOSPTTAL I(BA'IYMBNTfl 2 MRS, hook 0B Diseases of Nose, T'.roaty T —— REFERENC M. M. Humlin, Vionix Ins, Co, B.A Orchard, Carpet Dealer, John Ebelby, Grocer. _John Kush, Gity Troasur Jours