Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 29, 1902, Page 28

Overhead Railroad Crossings and Modern Traffic BELT LINE CROSSING SHERMAN AVENUE BELT LINE CROSSING AT FORTY-FIFTH AND CUMING ILLINOIS CENTRAL CROSSING M. P. AND ELKHORN YARDS UNION PACIFIC CROSSING ON SIXTH STRE ELKHORN VIADUCT OVER BELT LINE B. & M. AND U. P. CROSSING ON THIRTEENTH STREET. B. & M. AND U. P. CROSSING ON FOURTEENTH STREET B. & M. AND U. P. CROSSI ON EIGHTH STREET UTURE generations, and even this And yet the stories of the no expense and no trouble has provided for; that city trafic could not generation will never believe old-timers will be based on been spared to construct a be interrupted by the railroads anl that where the Immense struc facts It is the wonderful place for every kind of traffic that the railroads could not stand ture at the foot of Douglas street growth and progress of and travel, from railroad aside for the city traffic—hence the trains which go ninety miles construction of viaducts. The railroad an hour outside of the city tracks were spanned, in other places they limits to the furniture van were raised and the wagon road builded un spans the mighty Missourl, a half Omaha that makes them seem century ago the *49ers’ had to haul water incredible, and the poem of in which to float ferry boats that carried Saxe a slander long lines of freight wagons across th The bridges across the Mis- which travels when hired out derneath the tracks. And since the first { river; the next generation will likely not souri river give one on enter at $2 an hour one mile in viaduct was constructed sixteen years ago ) pelieve the old man who remembers the Ing the city a fair idea of five hours and gets to {ite Omaha has kept up the gocd work in pro- l time he brought a wagonload of pumpkins what to expect in the way of destination at bedtime viding for its traffic, until now it stands at to Omaha and had to walit forty minutes facilities for traffic. Full of Among the people here it is the head of all towns of its class—and its while a frelght train was switching before Western push and enterprise an unwritten law, “keep in c¢lass is the the procession or be run viaducts. Up over,” but that law has never been enforced in regard to its traffic, and each year makes that day more distant first class—in the number of to date it has no tunnels or subways seven miles in length, because it does not need one, but it has constructed viaducts with such regularity and has been he could cross the tracks into the city in Its people compelled to strug safety; or the old man who remembers gle for everything they got, when the mud was so deep that he had to Omaha, among its first acts go home after getting in the city limits in paving the way to become and bring back another team to pull him ihe commercial as well as 8o persistent in making good its roads that out. And all will wonder from whence the geographical center of when such a law will be en- (he dedication to the use of the public of a — came the inspiration that caused John G the United States, began to forced Early in its youth, viaduct excites a moment's inter and the Saxe to write prepare roads for its traffic as railroad ifter railroad “jpcident” is soon forgotten, except by the With this end in view hol . . - came into the city, draining residents of that particular neighborhood Hast ever been to Omaha, lows have been s 1 the country around of t 3 oty Where rolls the broad Missouri down o AAYe Daen SRADDGG, & arc f 1ts Sixteen vears ago persons from the south Where four strong horses scarce can draw river has been bridged, hills products, Omaha realized tha An empty wagon through the town? have been city traffic would have to be cut through, and B. & M. OVER BELT LINE—-ELKHORN IN BACKGROUND (Continued on Seventh Page.) Teams from the Omaha Police Force Which Recently Played Ball for Benefit of Auditorium Fund r~ B PG TR T e = Ry SR MARRIED MEN SINGLE MEN