Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 30, 1890, Page 14

- 14 THE e £ et e e ot e 8 e e THRIFT AT THE WHITE HOUSE Bomething of the Socond Class Hashery About It. CAN'T KEEP VICTUALS WARM mings of the Presidential Beantifal Bur Barn- No Room for Lige—A the Attic, Bhorte Kitehen like~ Peep Into Misfits, . Carpenter | Special to THE National Mansion [Copyright 1830, by Fran WasnixoToN, March 2 Ber “All houses wherein have lived and died Are hauated housos, doors Tho harmiess glido, Witn fect that make floors.’ men Through the open phantoms on their errands no sound upon the “There are more guests at table than the s Invited; thi Is thronged v As silent as the od hall inoffensive ghosts, res on the w itlumin pict Shall we have a n v white house! All Washington is talicing about it Mrs, Harrison nas expressed her sentiments as to the cramped condition of th struct ure, and a sub-committes of the senate with Spooner at its head, is considering plans and {nvestigating the condition of wo present structure, Thero A strong seatiment against nging the presont building and tho ghosts of th tsof the past are whispering warning words into our states men's ears they walk to the man sion. Fat, p v, bald-headed fohn Adaws in kneo bre gaiters is g1y ing his expevience as he heopened the build fng n 1500 and his prim wife Abigail pro tests against the mutilation of the east room in which she dried her husband's shirts, Red-headed, freckled-faced Thomas Jefforson sceme realy to jnmp out of his frame in Elijah Haltord's rooms when the subject is mentioted in his prescnce, and the ghost of Dolly Madison in high red tur ban and gorgeous gown changes its features from pleasant to severe at the thougit. “The white house is a part of the history of the country Within it doha Quincy Adams chemed with Henry Clay against Andrew Jackson, and before the fireplaces that now warm the shins of Harrison, Old Hickory sut in wrapper and slippers and smoked his corn-cob vipe. It was here that the presi dent's grandfather vassed his last hours, and here, foxy, dapper, scheming Martin Van Buren laid his plans for a re-clection, which he didn't get. Here Frank Iierce told storics and here James Buchanan strutted through his four short years of greatucss. It was here that the great Abrabam Liucoln lived and uvon these walls are photographed the words of Girant and Garfield. It was here teat President Cleve land showed himself a man and hero today President Harrison is making the history which will fix the fate of his party at the next vresidentinl election. No! The ghosts of the great statesmon a well s thosc of prosidents and their wive protest aguinst the doing away of the whit house. It may be added to or 1t may b turned into the business ofiices of the presi dent, but 1T WILL NEVER BE DESTROTED, Thero is 1o doubt but that it is too small When John Adams occupicd itthe country had a population of little more than five mil lions. 'Thie United States has now near] seventy millions and the business of the pres- ideut’s oflice hus 8o grown that nearly the whole of the executive mansion is_occupied by it. When Abigail Adams came into it she had too much room. Mrs. Harrison has barely space to turn around in and she husto receivo her friends in one of the halls. The white house today is like o big hotel and President IHarrison s the landlord vory man and woman who comes to Wash- ington thinks he has o right to cnter his house without knocking. “They tramp over his carpets with thoir muddy boots, ask all sorts of impudent questions of his servants, And tie chances are that they carry away a bitof the furniture. Every now and then a picce us big as your hand is clipped out of one of the lace curtaius by a relic-huntor, and during President Lincoln’s time a womun was caught in the very cet of cutting the costly curtains of the iSast room. She cried when she was found out and she was taken up weeping to the president’s room. Mr, Lincoln looked at her sorrowfully and told her thut the best thing ste could” do was to leavo the city. It is the same with the cush- ions of the furnituro and it1s by no means safe 10 let sightseers move about save u BY. the oye of o guide. These guides are the vresident’s servants and they lave all they can do to keep the crowds out of the most privato parts of the house. Not infrequently visitors want to sco the kitchen and all the howe life that Mrs, tlarrison gets must come from a little space on the second {loor, Let mo give you a plain, practical deserip= tlon of the white house as it is. The presi- dent's grounds cover many acres, They ar surrounded by a high iron fence with ere iroa gotes and the grounds are filled with fine old oals trees. On one side of them 18 tho treasury, tomb-like, and on the other side is the biggest granito build of the world, the 13,000,000 structure 1 as state, war and navy department. To the soutli and back 81 the white house beyond wide park flows the muddy Potomac and in frout runs the busy strest’ of Pennsyivania avenue, The white iouse covers a third of an acre. It is a long, rectangular, almost squatty two-story structuro with a wide porte cochere having a floor as big as that of the average two-story houses, The porte cochere is upheld by lonie columns as big around as the largest oaks of the forest and its roof supported by these is of the Grecian order. Around the roof of the whito house there'is 4 marble fence about a8 high o8 tablo and made of round marble Pilars the siao of u bugo ball club. “'Ihg uilding has o basement under it and twd rows of big rectangular windows look out of the stories above this. The basement win dows are square and (he most of them look us though they needed washing, Wide walks lead up inthic shape of a half-moon from Peunsylvania avenue to the white house aud you walk half the length of the house before you get to the front door. As you do 80 you can look right down into the basewent “and if your eyes aro sharp about every other day of the week you will see a number of colored girls here with irons in their hauds polishing the president’s shirts a0d putting the finishing touches on baby McKee's unmentionables. It on leaving the mansion you walk over toward tne state, war and navy departments your nostrils may be saluted with the aud hominy which is being cooked in the president’s kitchen and you may see the president's colored lady cnef producing those exquisite dishes which aro making the state dinners 80 famous. In other words you see dircetly into tho kitchen of tho white house. It is not half big enough for an establishment of our president, and 1t has nono of he mod- ern conveniences for keeping dinners warm which the best restaurants of tho country contain. ‘Thero is u big range at ono side of the room, und where is auother littie ranze in tho scullery beyond. ‘Ihe cooking utens s ure of copper and the walls are plastered and not tiled Tho entire fr white house is laundry 1 he shes and nt of the basement of the aken up with kitchens and back has the storo roow, a furnuce o whisper it low in the ear of our church brothor—a billard room. Bii liards have been played in the white house ever since the duys of John Quincy Adaws, President Arthur could handle cuo equal to Slosson, Johu Quincy Adams bought the first billiard tablo that was ever used in the white house, sud his extravagance in this respect was mado o campaign issue, and he eventually p he table out of his own pocket 1 dou't kuow that Presidest Har rison piays, but the table is there in the basement and ho can it he will Let us look at the first floor of the white house. Guards stund at the duors and a giaut Apolio in the shape of Colouel Dins. more 1nspects every man who comes in. Tk doors are of mahogany uud the kpobs are as big alwost as the head of a baby. You turn them and on brass hinges tho great doors turn wward and you aro in the tued vesti- bule at the back of which there is a wall of wosaic of beautiful stones and colored glass which reminds one of the eled palace of Frederick the Great at Potsdam This wall Tiffany. 1t cost many thousands ars but ono old lady who looked at it i told the guard she was “'glad to see President Harrison “had becoma ecouom- ie L and that he had saved the country mon ng o glass wail of old broken bottle purty, too," the old woman “and you wouldn't think it home-made."’ 10 band piays at the pres ident's receptions but there is nothing home like about the vestibule. It is so big that fou could build an eight-room house inside of it and thirty mon could march abrest through it without touching their elbows Just next to this at the left is a hall with stairs leading to the president's office, aud on the other side of this hall is the mighty east room. You never see Mrs. Harrison or any of the family upon theso stairs, They aré the property of the public and the CRASELESS TIEAD OF THE COUNTLESS CROWD which besicges the president goes its muitied way up and down them. ‘The cast room be- lougs to the peopie. It isalways open to visitors, and the only uso that President Harrison gets from it is in crowding his eall- ers into .t at a big presidential reception, It is one of tho most bautiful rooms i the world. Its walls arc painted in silver and gold and its ceiling is three times as high as that of an ordinary room. It takes 42 yards sells carpet to cover it and the vel- vhich vour feet sinic is of the color of The most wonderful hing acn le of o they cost niece. massive mirrors, cach 08 biz as two billird s, 8ot into the walls about the room, and whon the chundeliers re lighted these pendants are reflected hike diamonds in these mirrors and the scene 18 bably brilliant, Still you might as nish o barnora bow i alley and us to think of using tis big ing¢ room, or the home life of & privat President Harrison wanted couldn't get it, for the people have monopolized it by the precedent of gen- arations, It is the sume with said It is here the Mar onc of these is m hemian giass, and e are eight the green room, the blue room and the red rod They are full of beauties in furniture and hangings but they are us much shut out from the day hife of the president as the pa New Eneland farmer's wife which is dus every day but never used except for comy ny. It i inthe biue room that President Hurrison with bis wife standing beside him shokes the hands of the muttitude b a big reception. ‘Fhe room is ovalin shape, fin islied in blue satin fresco and its diameter is about that of a country church. Still it is hardly large enough for this purpose and when the crowd is out of itit1s too large for common use. ‘There are many dining rooms in Washington larger than the state’ dining room and I can count on my trgers a aozen vhich are more beautifully furnished. here are none of the conveniences for se ing u great dinner und these thousand dollar feasts which the president gives have te be largely gotten up outside of the house and hired waiters have to be brought in to pass the victuals. Tho diming room used by the family or the private dining room is at the right of the vestibule. This has to be turned insid> out at every vig reception for the table must be removed and shelves put around the room to hoid the hats and coats of the puests. At such re ceptions the state dining room vecomes o ludies’ dressing room and more fuss is made in the exceutive mansion every time the president receives than you make in your own home wnen your daughters are warried. Not long ago there was A MANTEL BED IN THE KECEPTION ROOM opposite Eljah Halford's oflice on the sccs ond tloor. | passed through this room yes and noticed that it was there still, ther it 15 used or not I do not kuow. Think of the president of the United Stutes veing compeiled to have a wardrobe bed in one of s parlors. It1s true no ono knows what it i3, but it makes one think of the ocs cupant of u second-class bourding house who I8 trying to keep up nppearances and pre- tending to have « suite of rooms when hLe along with only one. hero is a general plan about the white nouse which when once understond makes tho building simplicity itself. 1f you will covering one-third of an gthwise by o ball eigh~ wiil have the general On the ground floor at the great east 1 and rans the nd bisect it le teen feet wido you plan of thoe bulding. the ena nearest the treasury room cuts off a part of this b whole length of the building. The vestibule und the private dining room and the dress- ing rooui are on the north of this hail aud on the soutii are the green, bluo red and stato dining rooms. Al of the rooms of the build- iz thus go off from this hall and all_are of tho sume length, viz: about twenty-cight feet, At the excreme end of tho lower floor is a great shed of glass covering the ares of several ordinary houses and making up tho conservatories of the white nouse. This is no part, however, of the original structure bo considered as won- neeted witn it. “The second floor is on the same plan, Al of tho rooms are big and three-fourths of them aro made up of oilices. Tho living rooms of the presidentare ut the west end of the second floor und Mrs, Harrison has only four good sized bed rooms. It take: about an hundred vards of carpet to cover cach one of them and she has turned lower end of the hall into a sitting roowm, and the children are using the little privato of- fice at the northwest corner of the building whel President Arthur used to receive Lis most inumato friends. In addi- tion to these four bed rooms two of which are in the north and two on the south side of the building, there is a Jittle bed room which was originally inteaded for a dressing room on_the southwest cor- uer, and a servantis lodged 10 o nall bed room_just over the vestibule, which is seven fcet wide and eighteen feet long. There is wn elevator leading to this floor, and there ave two or three bath rooms huddled to- gethor right over the big entraoce hall. The targer bed rooms huve no bath rooms con- nected with them, and this is the case with the president’s bed room which ovens into the oftice or library where he raccives his callers, ‘Tho busimess offices of the whito houso tuke up the whole of the eastern portion of the second. floor. Entering the big frout door you turn to the left ana march up a pair of stuirs about fivo feet wide. You note that though the carpet is new the TREAD OF TIE OFKICE SELKER has worn off 1ts nap, aud at any hour of the morning you pass the wost noted men of the country on the stairs. They stamp along as though tney owned the building, and most of them think they do. When you reach the sccond floor you find that your sur- roundings are those of o business ostablishi- ment rather than those of a private residence. ‘I'wo colored gentlemen stana at guard at the door and n gray haired wun short and squutty sits before u little desk as you enter the ball. Heis in the corner made by the partition which has been run across the hall to give the president’s wife a sitting room andas he looks at you lis back is turned toward the door of the room in which the cabinet meets. This man 18 Serg Loefller. ke is the president's messen aud he Lias been bere for almost a score years. He is in o weasure the watch dog of the president and ho curries all tho cards of noted visitors 1n to Mr. Harrison. He has some times to deal with cranks in caso these pass by the giaut form and blue eyes of Col ouel Dmsmore below, Sergeunt Loeflle makes abour the sixth guard you have passed sin entering the white house. You are wmotioned by him to the left and turning your eyes you sea s couple of colored guards one of whom is the watchdog of the private secretary. You go by theso iuto a big reception room which is o the end of the eant room and which is filled with very ordinary furniture, It is here that the ofticeseekers cool their heels until tho presi- dent is ready to receive them, and it is bere that Colonel Crook the caslier of tho prest dent sits. In u littlo room beyond this thore is o telegraph oftice and here the president hus telephone connections with allof the preat departments, Next to this there is an. otber oftice 1 which clerks work and the lower end of the big hall has been parti- tioned off and made into an office. [n the southeast corner of the building, Mr. Pru- den, makes up with his fine Italian hand th com'missions that the president gives to of ficers and noxt to this ofice and opening int tho ball is the private secretary's room, This 18 one of the big ro of the building. It takes 103 yards of pet to it and it has win ws which command & beautiful view of the Potomac. cheery wocd fire burns on ono side of and in front of the windows and beh big lat desk sits the littie five fool eight auatomy who represents to wost of the call ors the president of the United States, The privato secrotary of the president holds an o Mce fully as important as that of a cabinet minister, aud Colonel Halford fills it well, cover OMAHA DAILY He is a dark-faced, bluck-eyod sober young man of about forty'years of age. He doos not weigh over 125 pounds atd his faco (s of an intelligent cast. His forehead is broad and full, his noso thin and his cheeks rather hollow than full, He drasses well but has not tire rough and ready democratic his predecessor, Colonel Lawont. ‘Luere are no quarters for his accommodation in the whito house and he must come heve often in the evening and consult with the presi- dent upon the business of the Lour, The cabinet room lies botween the private secretary's room and the library, in whicn Presicent Harrison sits, This room is @ most entirely filled with a long aining tabl which runs from one end of it to the othe Around this table are nine high-backed chairs, and_there are writing materials placed at different stations upon it. ‘There i3 & big globe in one corner of the room und itis uround this that tho president, Secre- tary Blaine and the other ministers stand whiie the discuss international questions. The cabinet meet hero about overy other day aud they usually spend several hou a session. I'ho room is of such u nature it cannot be used for anythini el meetings of the cabinet, and 1t 18 a business offico pure and simple. In it have been hela all tho cabinet mooting for several adminis- trations, though President Lincoln used to hold his cabinet meetings in the room now used by Colonel Halford. THE PRESIDENT'S OFFICE is in the library. This room 18 n big oval of velvet Brussels to ing out do and callers ure nd he The president's about the room with head bont over as he He receives nearly overy ho is be- nearly 28 feet long. scated on chairs usually stands talks with them, one who hus business with him and sieged by a host of congressu every day. 1t is this room which forms his howe and his business is always with him. 1is bed room is uext to it aud the ghost of work undone musthover over lim as I T'he prosident of the United State gots through with his work and theroe it Lo be some arrangement by which ho could got away for u certain time during the day from the care of his office. Ife ought not to have to eat and to sleap bathed 1 the persiration of ofiice-seekiniz applications, and thero is no other business man in tho United States who would endure such sur- roundings as the environments of our presi- dent Tho attic of the white houso might be supposed to furnish some room. It does not. ‘Lhe roof is so low in some places that you cannot stand upright under it. All the light comes from the skylights and the placo 18 fit for nothing but a’ lumber room. In it are stored President Harrison’s trun Baby McKee's cast-off clothes, and the old turniture of the exccutive mansion. RATS AND SPIDERS are about the oaly inhabitants and the top of the white bouse is more like a country garret than the attic of a two-story house covering a quarter of an_acre and situated one of the greatest cities of tne United tates. “The truth about the matter is that the ex- ecutive mansion woulddo very well for the vrivate residence of the president or for his oftices. 1t will not do for both and the states- men appreciate it. In 1852 Senator Morrill tad a bill which passed the senate appropri- ating 30,000 to build an cxtension to the white house, and Mrs, Harrison has said that there ought to be two winis added to it. She woula remodel the conservatory, add o hall of painting and statuary and wouid leave the present building us it is sandwiched betwecn the ends of these two wings. In this way the historical associations of the “building would bo preserved aud Mrs. [arrison's ideas are much vetter than that of Senator In, 1s, who was in favor of adding a story to the building. ‘I'he white house has cost already about £2,000,000, It took £300,000 to build 1t nearly one hundred years ago,and more than $1,700,000 have sinco been spent upon it. It is 'tull of beauties in the way of furnituroand pictures, and though it costs us more than 125,000 a yeur to pay the presideat’s salary and keep up Lis establishment we are rich and can afford it. Fraxk G. CAKPENTER. OB BURDETTE Some Interesting Reminescences of the Humorist by W. G. Albright. Tn speuking about advertising and his faith in the daily newspaperas the most legitimato ana profitable medium, Mr. W. G. Albright, relapsiog into a reminescont mood, remarked: It may be news to you that I at one timo had aspirations to become a great newspaper man myself. While clerking in my father's store at Fort Madison, I1., some sixtecn years ago, 1 cast about for some occupation with which to fill 1 the leisuro nours, and conceived the idea of establishing a news bureau for the proper collection and distri- bution through the medium of the press of all the importaut events trunspiring . _our city and vicinity. The result was gratiry- ing. I became correspondent for quite a number of papers and added many u pretty penny to wy then meagre income, “Among other papers for which I was the Burlington Hawkeye, then ascendency and justly regarded as one of the spiciest and abiést newspapers in tio country, and through my connestion with it became acquainted with Robert J. Bur- dette, the famous humorist. Burdotte had worlked on tho Peoria ‘Iranscript beforc coming to Burlington and while kuown as a conscientious and efiicient newspaper man, was not considered a particularly shining light among the profession until ¥rank Hat, ton discovered the humorist in him. | atthat time controlled tne Hawlkeye made his discovery in the following rem able manner: When calling at Burdette's housc one day, he found Mrs. Burdette, who at thut time Wwas a contirmed invalid, sitting upright in bed with o scrap book’ in her hands, laughing uproariously. She laughed until the tears run down her cheeks and 1t was sometime bofore she could stop and ex- plain to the astouishod Hatton the cause of this stranze hilarity. I was reading somo of Robert’s squibs,” she cxplained at last and handed the book to Mr. Hatton, who at once bucamo deeply intercsted in it. Bur- dette bad mado a practice of jotting down on seraps of paper, cards or uuything within reach 1n that peculiar siyle of his which afterward made him so famous, any littlo thing occurring to him as funny, cramming the “'copy” into bis pockeis and un- loading ~ them upon tis wife's bed on reaching home. They amused her aud were written solely with a view to af- fording her a little amusement during the loug and weary hours of sickuess. Mrs, Burgette had preserved theso little jokes in aserap book and would trequently pick it up to whilo away the time. This timo she had not picked it up in_vain, The future posts muster general’s keen perception told him at once that he had struck in this modest book wealth and famo for his paper and his edlit- or, Obtaining the loan of the book he took it to his sanctum and 10 the next issuo of the Hawkeye there appeared a whole column of Burjette's *squibs,’ under the head of litorial Dots.” Burdette was furious and uporaided his friond for “trying to make hiw the laughing stock of the country.’ Buu Hatton insisted on continuing the publication of the articles, which were reproduced by many of the lead- ing papers in the country and in timoe becawe the stock in trade of tho press all land. Teus the Borlington Hawk oye and Robert J, Burdotto soon became ns fuwilar to every reader in the land as the noonday sun, Offers of positions ard wnvitations to lecture thencetorward rained upon lurdette, who, however, remained loyal to the friend who had_‘brought him out.’ I haa the pleasure of accompanying Mr. and Mrs. Burdette on a trip to Put-in Bay ou an editorial excursion und had oc sion to note the really touching tenderness and devotion with which the ‘funny’ man of the Huwkeye cared for bis loving wife. Thoy adored and lived for eactother in the literal sense of the word, their marriage haviog taken plice at what was then cou sidered tho death-bed of Mrs, Burdetto. Tho physicians had given her up and sho was asked for any dying request she gt wish to male, when sho gasped out 'R ort.' Burdetto was sent for and marr her there and then. His wife proved a m angelic helpmeet to him, notwithstanding her constant ailings. Her delicate womanly seusibilities, bright ntellect and thorough knowledge of everything that can intorest well-educated man, mado her invaluable to him and they were but seldom separatod during life, Mrs. Burdette even accompany iog her hus 1 on all his journeys, when evor tho state of her health would peruit Burdette is now a man of wealth and po. sition; he has wingled with men in all sta tious of life, has lectured iu every principal city of the uniou, and bis career has beeu such that particular events may well be be acted in its BEK: rof | SUNDAY, MARCH lieved to have Iopt/their distinctoess in the grand total, bit T° doubt whother ho will ever forget the occasion of his lecturo on The Rise and Futt of tho Moustache,” de livered in Mount Pjcasant, Ia. This lecture was @iven under 'the auspices of the Hur lington boating msgociation, which 1s very high-toned and countains among its members arare amount of jtellect, tulent and wit, here Is an lusane gaylum at Mount Pleas ant, and it had bhéd quictly arranged among the members of the association that every- body in the audicrce should ehoke dotn any rising mirth, and simply staro at Burdetto like an assomblags of narmless lunatics ‘This programme 'tvas carried out, much to the chiagrin and wonderment of the lecturer, until, in describing the rise and fall of the moustache, he cailo to tho passage “her faco was very much flushed, and Tom bad enough first-class complexion on his shoul- der to g a femule seminary,’” when one scholors from the ladics seminar, ted at Mt. Pleasant, had to give vent o her feelings and burst out in peal of silvery jaughter loud and long. The rest of the audicnce, while likewise overcome with emotion, carried out the programme, however, but it was evident thoy were on the point of exploding, when one of the invited guests, a tall, flne looking gentleman from Chicago, himself 10 mean humorist, who had preferred a seat among the audience to his proffered place on the platform, attemuted to check the risibilities of the young ludy and prevent a general outburst, Hc in his scat to tho full Nheight of nis majestic form, deliberately turned around and gave the still laughing young lady such a look of astonishment 8corn as one might imagine in a sedato dea. con frowninz down upon ill benaved childre in church that brought down the house Not a man or woman in the audience mado suother effort to resst, Such luughit yelling, screeching, clapping of hands and stamping of feet had provably never before greeted Burdotto at any of his lectures, He badalready bacome uneasy ut the inex- plicable ~ solerness of his audience, his slight form betrayed his ne vousness visibly and he doubtless reme bered that the town he was speaking in Lar bored several hundred insane patients who might prove just such interested listencra were those before him. Laughter is conta ious and Burdette humself joined in the gen hilarity, and thereafter could proceed only with dillicuity We do not hear somuch of Burdette now adays as we used to, which 18 truly a pity. He has done much good to mankind in wen- eral by his writings, both humorous _and pa- thetic, for nearly every ot ¢ of his jokes cou tained some wood lesson; n fact, they were largely based upon the smaller failings of humanity and exposed a good desl of ~the in- nate cusedness of the average mortal. They have been as a mirror to many & man Who had considered himseif quito @ model until reading some of Burdette's sarcasms appli= cable o his particular case. The world would be better off if there were wore Bur- dettes.” Children who aro worms may be quickly relieved by giv- ing them Dr.J. H. MecLeans Liguid Vermifuge. [ukills and expels worms. - GRAND ISLAND'S SCHOOLS. troubled with Like Everything Else They Are of the Very Best. Graxp IsLaxn, Neb., March 23 - to Tne Bek.|—The cducational advantages of Grand Island arc of the hest. The value of schiool property alone is §1:5,000. There are six school bifildings, four of which ure fine brick and stone structures, and two frame. ‘'Lhere is a corps of thirty-five teacn ers under the supetvision of City Superin- tendent IR. J. Barr. The nigh school course is an advanced one and includes the higher mathematics, all of the natural seiences und three years of Latin and German. Pupils graduating from the hizh scuool are ad- mitted to the state university on diploma, In connection with the schools there 18 also & night school for the convenience of those who cannot attend during the du. ‘The Dodge school 'vccupies a block in Secoud ward. It is a twenty room brick stone building, including five reci rooms and a large physical chemical labratorv. Itis heated by steam, has seventeen teachiers, and all _grades, in- cluding the primarics and the bigh school. The Howard school in which ail bran up to the high school are taught, is sit in the first ward, and_occupics a block. i5 a fifteen-room brick and - stone building, including three recitation rooms. It has twelvo teachiers and is also heated by steam. The Warner school in the Second ward occupies half block, 18 & two room brick and stone buiiding, riid bus two teachers and primary grade: “The Platt school is a two-room brick and stone building, occupics & quarter of a bloclk i the Fourth ward, has two teachers and the chart and first primary grades. The livaus school is & oneroom frame building, occupies a quarter of u block, hus one teacher and primary grades, The Handy school in'the Fourth ward is a otie-room frame, for primary grades, and oc- cupies a quarter of a block. Great interest 1s manifested in the schools and no expense i3 sparel in makmg them first-class in e v parucular. “The State Security bunk building, a brick wilh cut~stone front, is an elegant structur and would do credit to Farnam street Omaba. It is now nearly completed and will 5000 be ready for vccupiucy. The Grand Island & Wyoming Central railw idemued arignt of way last month for a belt line around uie city, the grade i3 soon to b 'Tho various aMiance organizations in_this county arc making thinzs hum. The Caro voys have incorporated and are now shipping m four to ten carloads of corn per weok, © ure dozens of strangers o the 18 daily, seoking locations for enter- s of various descriptions, and_the idea is prevalont that Grand Istand will have a rapid erowth this coming summer. e 2 i e . the nd tion and Entirely new idoas in Bas- ter Cards, Eggsand Book= lots. 7 & EDDY, BOOKSELLERS AND STATIONERS, ENGRAVERS AND PRINTERS, 113 Sowih 16th Street. Bueeesful whereal! Hegieiies it 1l g ¥, HISCOX, nd | as | | 30, PAGES. nasmmay EASTER PRESENTATION GIFTS The demand fc Gifts ywing trade in Omaha, ilver, 00,~SIXTEEN is every a made of Easter inereasing year, we have extra Thousands supply this gr to secure every novelty made in new ladie ntlem Bed Rock Pll"ices. Inspection Invited. C. S. RAYMOND, Jeweler, Douglas and 15th Sts. Omaha Medical and Surgical Institute for s and g Boauty—How Acqnired { m— There I8 nothing that adds moreattractionor | T he beauty to the human faco thau a nice complex fon. Thoqnostion s of THow 15 1t po3- | / sible to regaln w beautiful skin? This is quickly answered —tliere (s but 016 method of acquiv gz it aud that {5 by renewing the skin, Hut how can the skin berenewed? Only by a gradual Process of removing o outer cuticieand deaw- 1ug from underneath ail impu:ites, leaving tho under szin free from discolorations and blem 1shes, The nature of the skin is such that fm- mediately under the outer layer there i3 a fine nd beantiful under skin ke that of the young, andafter the old skin has been removed this un- dvr skin takes {ts place, 1 thero a remody that will do this without njury to the under skin? There Is but one and that is the World Henown- ed Faco Bleach, manufactured by Mme, A Ruppert. the leading complexion speciailst, New York. This article, besidos removing pini- , blackheads, motlr; frockles, brown swhess, wrinkles of the outer skin ¢s bask o natural healthy und youtnful color, and is a de-ided benefit to all com 15, a8 40 firms the skin, thus praventing tan, cluinz and wrinkles, Ruppert has given evident and convineing proofs of the efliciency of Face Bleach by clearing one-halfor the faces of patlents and fnvicing the public to call be fore, during nud after trestment, and the most skeptical conld not but remark the wonderful powers of her tonie. Agalu she ofters to cy or remove by the use of Face tleach any ca pimples, moth, freckles, ete., fres to an, Willing to have half their faces clearedata tim and allow tiie public to call and sec them at e offtce in New York City, Face Bleach does not i show o1l the face and i< entrely harniless to the most delicte complexion, The uss of one bottle will show u ded svement, and @ great ien pleased with one bottle, lorougaly clear the compiexion 1t us: throe, Iri e threo Vottles f. Every lady should not fail to send § cents £or circular. For tho troatment of al Trusses. 1} Apparatus i I'reat NINETY HOOMS FOIt Wil odations Wost. Wr cireutars on Deformiiics and race Fo s, Tumors, Cancer. Caeri, Bronehitis, Inhalacon, Eleetriclty, Par oy Eye, Lar, Skin and Blood. and ol Surgleal Operations. DISEASES OF WOMEN w » t Women Free. Wo have lately ndded n Lylng-in Departnent for Wosen 11 ate.) Only Reliable Medieal Institute Making # Spectalty of PRIVATE DISEASES wiccoss fiilly treated. Syphilitic polson r 1 from the system without merenry New Restorative treatment for Loss of Vital Power. Parties unable to visitus mas be tronled ol hone b cspondence. Al com fons confidenting, Meiticine struments sent by o e Ked, no marks ¢ L CORLENLs Or sende ial Interyiew proforred. Call i onsil tory of s (i we will send in pl rapper our BOOK TO MEN FIEE 1ivate, 4 Dise tency. 8yphills. Gl 1 Varicocele, with question st Omaha Medical and Surgical Institute Corner 9th and Harney Streets, Omaha. Neh, " HOSE Attendn Kiiney v, Wook of pers MADAM A, RUPPERT, loxion Spe. ) Eust Fourteenth t, New Yor YON: Yo AT THE ExposiTion UNIVERSELLE, PARIS, 1339, Tho Highest Possiblo Premium, THE ° OHLY +« GRAND » PRIZE FOR JLV (G IMACGHINES, WS AWARDED TO e I LU Com sty The ONLY Lawn or Garden Hose MADE which will stand 400 POUNDS PRESSURE. BUY the BEST, 10 wil LAST the LONGEST ——AND THE— A lose w wiil do good work in most citles, Wil not give satisfaction in Omaba, countof theextreme high pressure. While dealers comnlan of #CROSS OF THEM 1 ImeouRICHELe ol ki LEG]ON ’OF HOHOR, ]" e presaieo. i BRAND" is guurantosd to $taid the iighest pres<iivs. iy all dealers, or WAS CONFERRED UPON G OMAHA RUBBER Co ] 1008 Farnam-st., Omaha, Neb. e Fresident of e Lompany. R t . i WHEELER & WILSON MFG. C0. |JammrioioSale OF Re 185-187 Waboah Ave., Chicago. $5 SET OF TEETH ON RUBBER E.EELODMAN & 00 For Five Dollars. DR.R. W.BAILEY, Dentist, Paxton Block, 16th and Farnam Streets. Vi We Are Here to Stay“““‘ having within the past two months largely increased our office room, are now ketter prepared to turn out the best class of work, and imuch more rapidly than heretofore. We msake a full sct | oftesth on rubber for FIVE DOLLARS, guarantesd to be as wel | made as plates sent out of any dental office in this country. Do not — 1 let others influence you not to come, but make us a Teeth extracted WITHOUT PAIN, and without using chloroform gas, ether or electricity. Filling at Iowest rates. Remember the expect in a few days the flrst importation in tLi5 year ot cation. DR. BAILEY, Dentist, Paxton Block Gray Afiizan Parrofs | Open evenings unill 8 o'clock Take elovator on 16th street, 16th s P um, Cut this out. Mention this vap:r and as 1 have many orders for P them on hund alrendy, | beg CPRICAL EAGINEER AND CONTRACTOL, but nomn s | Brush Electric Compan Estimates and plans furnisied. Correspondence solicited. and Tuesday MAX GEISLER 832-833 N, Y. Life Building, - - Lo - - SPENCER OTIS, i Of Every Design and Finish. HIMEBAUGH & TAYLOR, 1405 Dougias St Chicago Electric Light ENLARCING CO. £ 100 DRIRAITY) 2 sl | Waite for cotatogue B | terais. B0 E. Randolph St. Chicagoe Y- Omaha. No. Omaha Neb, mploto 17 Dougias st Machunical Lrawings, Elevators or and fons and ¥u or 8 5 fufnishod PATENT OFFICE WORK A SPECIALTY MemberAmericanSociety of Mechanical Engineer A OWEN'S BLINCTRIC BT BENTS' ~ Mo, 4 WITH SPINAL APPLIANCE ATTACHED, Dr, OWEN'S Elcetro- & Wechall wearer andcanbemade The Suspe: appliances U 3 ebbe mado in applying Llectrielty to the Body, T Front View, 0f & belt wants th alvanio cclls with 100 degrees of st degrocs of sirenith, has & IPonitive and Negative curreot, s B Belkin ok o Chtions W Are or Viorea fo Belh, of & 164 to the body, fnd 15 worn only fr IThe Owen Belt 15 not & Chain, Tested by any one beforo i'is ap superior to all others now offerod for sale, responsible parties on thirty d ourfreoillustrated Book " of without the aid of & physician or the use of medicine. nted year 10 their case they will be 50 advised 261} The OWEN ELECTRIC BELT and 826 Broadway, Dot waste your money y n belts pa opinion, and if the belt 1ot adapte and all diseasos 'lut'\,r-wl]n:I 3 trinl, and if it does not Prove te be or do what wo &eprede 24 Dogos written by aphysician of over 40 years exp P-(an‘a.l_x August 16, '87. tmproved July 20, 1889, , W Y N~ ; % LADIES' SPINAL AFPLIANCE ATTAGHED, Cure thefollo matism of any Dance, Drights b Nervodn Debilit Waating _of s '[{(i.drun s Belt and annnmr{ will “57cr= ers ot aneryous character —ftheu, ZZe= Epilepsy,Spinal Diseases, St. Vitus! S2ry Diseases, eril and Discases, ,Trcmbling, 1y = caused from Indiseretion in Youihor Married Life, Nervous P'ro tion, Female Complaints, Iuhrl.nllm-rl\uu.ux| Caser | :(l;u.:“:u]u‘;x 0 produce a will compare with it. Tho currentis underthocontrol SoTHied or nerong to buit any omplaints this cannot he done with any otherLelt, cetly totho Battery, the disks are s adjusted that by means of 4% S.m{ the Body. This |3 the Latest aid Greatest improve his Ele anio Tiody Belthas fust Loe nigented Every buyer best, and this he will find the Owen to be (R ers {rom all others. 1t 1 o Bazfery Belt coptainin e et R 4 Btk Fower Guarantce Belt, which Contains Two Hiatteries and Law 2 ‘and the current can bo rever . Als it frase and Boltcombined. T o £ Pad, of auy description. Itw ‘I(‘Illrho'l'fl (‘gnfivll.(l’l'l‘( ) ‘urable by Flectricity or a Galvanie Batiery. The Fleetric current can bo X Lo ten ho day or Dight. 1l buy 1o other, as 1t 18 light and eusily worn anc bavo in our and all oth Paralysis Piles, Heart 3% ' Kidney 7 Buspensory. ory for weaknees of menis connected d o Eleetricity can bo carried to any v Exhaus ngethio World 4 Back View. Wy Galvanic Cellg, with 400 ‘aticr cxaminiog thia Lelt yOu Wil b TG et complets er e il Eend our Full Power No, 4 hielt comy > lectro-Galvanio Deltand Appliance, WML ECH, G50 0 ol b the bost. - Bend 6e. postago for M2 you ean roturn ER0 Be: 1ed anvel i ine tructions how to treatyourself with electricity it you in s plaln ealedl S of Cotik, Chilblains, Oramps in Feet or Legs, or Cold Fea t Do otrio thaoles, ino €500 ) Uy can Feat asruret that they will teoeivo un honeat Jor ladi cents, and !l who call or wr ill eecelve Ope o R Tor Lo o at oice, oF by mail free. _Forinformation how 10 obtn trial beltseoZd-pugo ook & APPLIANCE CO., 306 North Broadway, 8t. Louis, Mo. Northeast Corner of I12th, New York City. tire Confidence w 1ence, which will b, irof Dr. Owen's Elc Send for & 3 ag0, We have private cousultation ro 1d to efforts articles N s \ l ! 5