Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 4, 1900, Page 15

November 4, 1900, THE 1LLUSTRATED BEE. 4 O Director of the Mint I'he congre onal act of 1867 deling - s - general plan of all cemeteries I \ drave o be marked with a small head b National Cemetery @0 i George E. Robert | grave wand name of deceased, itk It is an anomaly in the history of na- herded a few rods distant O A A B “:""‘:‘ il I | 0 be almost inconceivable. None tional cemeteries that the cemetery at fence which then enclosed the grou Hh 'v‘l"“‘l“‘.“ Y x““"“"l'” Frati ierie \ Y \ fully appreciate it, for the event Ifort. McPherson, Neb., is so little known The cavalry horse of the cot bt s e . ! \ i v K0 L efface the tmpressions of 10 the citizens of the state which is thus cer broke from the herd rtuMTEs: RIS YERTL L bOE Y the price f by TR iy that we cannot now realize the honored, Yet for years Memorial day ha 1a 1 to the ¢ enee '< ’ W hi ‘l‘mwvn . v 1 d f the tua been here most carefully observed. The cited manner () ! head over the pick i1 ¢ Officot of I R n royea \ ) have almo; cemetery is reached from Maxwell, a rail- et everal time hen bounded away to o 0 T ol recot ‘ N R vt in Augu SO you could road station miles west from Omaha, the herd nd returncd with the whol 't fe Fotord of Gvery Towa He M ) borrow mor 1 N« with a six-mile carriage drive through the “command leapin ind i ng a t ml at tort ‘0 g pit \ v Towa was lendu ney Not most picturesque section of Nebraska. The halted only at the pickets opposite the I\'m‘l.‘..u History Boctivh g ¢ H v ‘ utl h Lollar could be had on a i lass farm North Platte river, rising in Wyoming, the firing line; then by sudden movement the dret the " attable i | \ ! PRI Enterprise w lead Capl South Platte in Colorado, unite their waters entire number gave a bound and would erected within the (nclosure v whioh i ' ! hiy 1t \ I was in hidin Men of wealth, instead just below the town of North Platte, divide have ted the fence but for the timely oo a superintendon olé i troin ¢ he d n f pursuing the natural | to om (fter o short junction and run in distinet arrival of their keeper They had scented | fo 0 “'l] tre. XY, Ainablvd i Buny v ¢ oshowt \ vy oand increase i, were | cssed of hannels about thirty mile reunite and the fray ind, all riderless as they wers fos Such is the neral pla How ¢ he ! ! but one lea, and that was to keep from flow as the North Platte river to the Mis- by strange instinct obeyed what wa ronching and ninple its provisiol i ) 1 later ' ng what they had Prosperity wa t m ol wing t Ia a nal v iy I oud third and f Classe Arha - \lat ( | Custer battle sty of Columbia, 2 I rud Georgia Indian Territory lowa, 1 Indiana, 2, Kentucky Kan Lou ha i Maryland, 4 M 1 i ] M ouri North Carolina, 4; New York New Jersey New Mexivo, 1 Pennsyl vanda, 2, South Carolina Fexa I'en nessee, 7; Virginia, 16; Old Mex 1 | The greater number of the have been located in proximity to old battleticid \ | Whas Antictam, Gettysburg, ot ' old trenches of death at Andersonville are HOW gra grown and guarded ‘ It will be remembered when General Cu } ter and his gallant band met Sitting Bull and his brave the entire command fel \ before the savages The General Custer b cemetery embraces the soil drenched with the blood of that ill-fated band, wh bodies are there interred Under act of 1873, general orders 47, na 1 al cemeteries was « iblished in the City of Mexico, Old Mexico, a national cem ciery for the interment of the remains ot oflicers and soldiers of the United State and of citizens of the Untted Sta who fell in battle or died in and around F clty OFFICERS QUARTERS AT FORT M'IPHE RSON NATIONAL CEMETERY AT FORT M'PHERSON Fhese cemeteries are maintained by pers gyper, e was elected state printer for impossible under such condition Good S manent congressional appropriation, an- jowy by a joint ballot of the cral aso times come from the tall cmployment ot souri. Within this thirty-mile area them the Ul to battle and rushed to the oo tes be ing submitted LY the sev e [ veavs OF it AlfC the wenithsbrodiicink. fabtors. of 8o Maxwell. By carriage to the National cem- “front eral superintendents Directon has been chalpman of the clety he output of all the comforts of SUyhe NI AR GRIRE SULIISE SUy s UL AL LA AL 8L What sible feature of American civili= popunlican committee of the Tenth modern life s vastly greater in modern driving bridge ninety-six rods long. Two corner of the northwest avenue le:‘ mar- ,otion gives higher index of the FENREH D rRaelan ] L Bl P e Rl veatn abl. (imbs thaniintibe e Mot the fabt thal miles across the meadow land the South bl |Iul4|’-“tl1l~ beat the name Spotted e e Fupliblfe ihint thin proviklon Fan ERE fa e natival [ taTbREal (R LI At Batator. olibinbot: 16 Faliitoracd and. mana: mote Platte is reached and crossed by a bridge Horsc Spotted Horse was chief of the perpetual care of the sacred dust of the Dolliver political contests as proprictor of effective by accumulated capital Under 198 rods long. Several smaller bridges Pawnees and served the government as a by whose death the nation’s unity is ¢ H1K Htmhe Dapok and: de nn. IBtMats FHENA; odarn \nausLEial conaitions capital an span the subdivided waters which encircle loyal scout LB LR LR BT Y He attained o national reputation as a labor work together, and when cither forty or more small islands of the two He died at I-n.-|| Kearney and by m-lx»vl- ‘) o T Tl e R e s D il (R SAISEN e LIS CUR L Jucct Coin at School in Finance™ in ING as & ing nothing. Under the threats of Mi | The government rescrvation of Fort Mc- With his comrades in arms American - Pictorial - Monthly “Queer iy to “Coin's Financial hool In Bryan and the Chicago platform in 1596 | Pherson was originally four miles square \ notable monument has been erected (0 gy g o9v 1806 he wrote the pamphlet, “lowa and the capital was frightencd, lost all interest in Much of this has been opened to settle- the memory of twenty-elght enlisted men What's queer?’ Silver Question,” in which the interests of carnings and looked only for self-preserya | nent. The fort was long occupled by the ©f Company G, Sixth infantry, Killed in ac “That night falls the Jows farmer in peistion to the silver tion Millions and millions went o | * Rifth United States cavalry. There now ton near Fort Laramie, Wyo. the Gratta Yes." GUeRElB Wath BRIy E doniigred o Fana) (o inaay e Lyt oTRELINE Ty cvary remain 128 acres, lying in a most romantic Massacre, August ROR L But it doesn't break vas widely circulated during the presi- body who had anything preferred to hide ‘ spot on the south bunk of the South Platte OR famers eternal camping ground The day breaks.' dential campaign of that year. In 1897 ho it or sit down on it until the situation river in an amphitheater at the base of hills And glory guards with solemn rouaa ‘Yes." wrote CBimetallism in France” and “Money, changed The result, naturally, was that which skirt the herizon. The old fort is The bivouac of the lead But it doesn’t fall Wang nd rice tor the tional Sound a1l Kinds of property were almost unsal dismantled and tenantless, The officers or Soldiers Whe Die in Serviee, ‘No." dald Money league. In January, 1898, he was ap- able, for when nobody wants to buy ther mess house still stands windowless, voice- By act of congre 1862, authority | Queer, isn't it pointed director of the mint by President i no price for anything, and wage-carner less, refusing to give up its secrets. “Tars yested in the president, as commander-in And he was gone McKinley, This appointment was made ot were out of cmployment by thousand get Hill™ is still a landmark of strange chief of the American army, “to purchas T the instance of retary Ga who e Mro Bryan and his followers pointed o memortes. The cemctery ground is a cemetery grounds and cause them to b In China came acquainted with Mr. Roberts through this condition, due to their own alarming square of five acres, inclosed with a brick enclosed, to be used as a national cemetery his writing The lowa d ion in con- proposil s proof of the evil influence wall of graceful design, sixteen feet high, for the soldiers who shall die in the service Detroit Journal Today the plenipoten sy know. nothine. of. the olaction until Bt old . atandasd The low price of with columns every twenty feet. The en- of the courtry tiaries entered the throne room together 4 be agre \ o them, and grain was caused by the gold standard trance is guarded by granite pillars and In 1866 the secretary of war is “author The power they said ubmit col had 1o knowledee of 0 until Byery business failure, every factory shut heavy iron gates. Outside the inclosure are jzed and required to take immediate meas lectively a note!" te 1 hin lown, every man out of employment was commodicus barns for government car- ures (o preserve from desecration the An oat giggled the emperor, being of ' kil pointed to as one of (he loglcal and neces riages and horses, an ice house and other graves of the soldiers of the United States weak mind Yoy rogllts of the kold standivd Suoh pretentious furnishings, a splendid garden, who fell in battle or died of disease in the Things looked black for a while, until When asked for an ooxpm im - of h tendeneie T ald, must inevitably con el One hundred yards to the west is a field and in hospital during the war of the the empress dowager ready tact came to opinion on the financial cor ions of the tinue and conditlons must get constantly well, with massive tank, and the water is pebellion and to secure suitable burial the rescue, United States today he sadd orse 80 long as the gold standard wa # conveyed by pipes to the hydrant within places in which they may be properly in IS a matter of horse sonse, inoany The contrast between financial con o Iniaindd Sryan staked his reputation, the enclosure, which furnishes pure water gerred, and to have the grounds enclosed, event!" interposed she, with a bright smile dition now and four year ARo are O i AR he St A7 B0OROMIAL atd &tath for domestic and ground uses. Entering nat upen that proposition Hoe was the eastern gateway a graveled drive creating and aggravating the very condi leads to the “porter's lodge or superin tlons he deseribed Hea ‘was ke a man tendent's residence. This is a three-story W6 et Qb (o his-haue- and-then comt brick building, with ample verandas, su plains that he has no place to sleep Out perintendent’s office, where visitors regis of that condition of chaos and alarm the ter, and the government business is trans country bhegan to cmerg oon after the acted. The family section is modern and election of McKinley Naburally. tiine inviting. Midway the central avenue is was required to anccomplish u general pe the flag mound, twenty-four feet in cir- vival of industry Modern Industry is go cumference and six feet in height, sreen complex and Its various divisions so de and lovely with trailing vines, It i3 pendent upon each other that when all ascended by a flight of steps anld here at Are prostrate’ no otie can spring suddenly sunrise the regulaton flag, 12x21, is flung into full activity alon Blost ‘thare must to the wir of heaven, to cast its pro- be confidence in botter time comita and tecting care over the 824 graves of the sol- with that capital begin cautiously, to diers of the civil war and one solitar prepare for it; then, as capital employ Philippine grave. lebor, the various industries begin to act The Burinl Section, and react upon cach other, supporting and The burial section, after the order of all timulating each other, until all reach national cemeteries, presents a level sur their highest activity, which is when the face. Each grave is indicated by the con- productiy toree of soclety are all In ventional headstone, one foot high, ten wetion, perfectly balanced, engaged in sup inches wide and four inches thick, and plying each other bears the number and name of the de- ceased, Marble blocks six inches square, Money Comes Out of Hiding, « four in height, define the graves of 349 of Mr. Bryan showed his ignorance of this the great army of the “unknown,” while natural recuperation and again staked hi here and there a monument has been reputation on his fallacies by sneering com erected by friends or comrades, ments upon conditions at that time. Crossing These marble blocks, in serried line Towa on his return to Nebraska, shortly Few nameg record, ) deeds detine, atter election, he said he was hureying hotn And dying, set the iive f prosperity that was rolling over the country This, this, the price of liberty, t was the foolish bhoastfulne of a man Slightly remote from the flag mound is did not dream that ho could be in error the octagonal rostrum, built after the na- yet, before President MeKinley's ad tional design of stone and iron, with ministration wa ix months old there were 4 8 unique decorations, vine-clad and flag betantial evidences of returning prosperity wreathed, everywhere The first result wa an The following incident is told of the abundance of money to loan. It came out of burial of €. L. Hequembourg, chaplain ol hidin to earn something again Before the Fifth cavalry, which was stationed a! the end of 1897 the Union Pacllic reorganiza the fert in the early days. The body had tion was accomplished on a basis which gave been lowered to its resting place and min the government every dollar of its claim ute guns were being fired across the grave The horses of the Fifth cavalry were STUDENTS' LIBRARY IN CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY, OMAHA i (Continued on Page Five.)