Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 2, 1915, Page 16

t P — BEE THE Lincoln : A Ci Posworiice, bederal Court House und C stoms House in Lincoln, Which is Being Greatly Enlarged to Meet the Demands of the Continually Growing Patronage. By W. 8, WHITTEN, Secretary Lincoln Commercial Club, and exceptional which to to make a city in in which business. children. ¥or these are the three things— to live, to lova and to learn—which most concern the mormal man because they le nearest to his heart and his desire. Because of its location In the heart of the great wheat, corn and grass growing and meat making country and of the net- work of raflroads which connect it with wll of the rich farms and great ranches of the west, the city of Lincoln, Neb., 15 | As An Educational Center Lincoln is the leading educational center of the west, and hes a student population during the #chool year of 8,000. Here are its leading educational institutions University of Nebraska, embrac- ing seven colleges, including the college of agriculture, which has a separate plant located two miles east of the main university. Nebraska Wesleyan university, the central college of tne Meth- odist Episcopal church in the wert. Cotner university, founded and maintained by the Christlan church, a strong denomination in this section. Union college, headquarters in the west of the Seventh Day Ad- A BTOOK PREMIUM RECEIPTS FOR 1914 LINCOLN, all Nebraska. HREE things there are which insure a city possessing them a future of prosperous growth stability. These are its desirability as do one’s home and in which to educate one's OF LINOOLN, NEBRASKA United States Depository entral National Capital, $150,000.00 Surpius and Undivided Profits $60,000.00 A general banking business in all lines conducted with a view to the upbuilding of P. L. BALL, Prasident F. E JORNSON, Vice-Pres. "W. W. HACKNEY, Jr., V-Pres. assured of a volume of commerce meas- ured only by the enterprise and talent of those who engage in business within its borders, Beoause of its fine, wide and shaded streets, ita grassy parks, its paved boule- vards, its well bullt homes, the absence of slums and the presence of a population composed of those elements that enter into the making of an alert and progres- sive people, it is & home city of unusual attractiveness. Because of its great universities—five in number—its business and musical col- leges and its compact and up-to-date school system it offers to all who seek | the foundations of a liberal education or |the finish of the professions an oppor- | tunity to select and secure what they will. | Numbered within the city and its en- virons are 6,000 people, men, women and chiidren, who have come within the space |of & few years to engage in business, to [ bulla homes and to equip themselves with a rounded education, Capita) City of Nebraska. All this has been accomplished In a little more than a generation, much less than fifty vears. In 1868 the present site of the city of Lincoln was occupled by the small village of Lancaster, a sleepy little inland town where had gathered |some hardy souls intent upon ploneering |an unknown country, The conflicting ambitions of (then) better situated towna within the state and the nability of a majority of the people to favor one city above the other, led to the selection of Lancaster as the capital, located on the rolling prairie overlooking the valleys of two small creeks, and the renaming of the place Lincoln. o Quick Start. As the capital of a young but fast grow- ing state, Lincoln at once became the mecca for hundreds of ambitious youag persons, and within a few yéars founda- tions had been laid for an enduring cfvic structure, Rallroads backed by home and foreign capital sprang into belng us though by a magiclan's wand, one already within the showed slgns of hesitating about reach- ing out across the prairies to the new COMPANY Wt asaesmes s s ae 2 $140,000.00 A Nebraska Company owned Nebraska m.m‘d hr!l.o'- people. Its 1913 Nebraska business was the largest of any company doing business in the state. Bank | metropolls, the people offered large sub. sidiew or proceeded to bulld connecting | 1ines themselves. Out of this weiter of little and poorly-built roads there have been evolved five great modern rallroads which serve the city, forming arteries of trade that bring vast commercial terri- tories within the reach of its business men Barly in its life as a city, Lincoln de- veloped into a jobbing center, and as the roads were extended and as agriculture muitiplied, this form of commerce, linked with manufacturing in dosens of lines. be- came a dominant factor in fts growth. An the capitai, the city became and re- | mains the political center of the state. | The University of Nebraska followed hortly after the selection of Lincoln as the capit and fts growth has run far and fast ahead of that of the state itwelf as individual wealth plled up and the bellef in a strong educational system grew. The dominance of agriculture as the great husiness of the state early led to the founding close to the city of a giant agricultural college and school, where hundreds of boys from the farm | are taught everything there is to know | about their business. To insure the stability of its educational institutions & large part of the agricultural domain was early set aside as school, university and agricultural lands. From sales and rentals a fund, invested in bonds and amounting now to $10,000,000, has been collected—and there yet remain thousands of mores aa the inheritance of the educa- tional system of the state, The Lincoln of 1870 numbered a thousand or two souls, clustered about a combination business and residence district that was lTess than a mile square. Today the city proper has an area of clght square miles, and within five miles of the postoffice 65,000 people Itve and labor. The one-story frame store bulldings with flaring fronts of plonesr days have been replaced with modern business blocks, ranging in helght to eight stories, equipped with all modern devices for comfort and quick dispatch and filled with merchandise of quality and worth. The lliy-equipped cottage of the ploneer has vanished and in its place are found the bungalow, the fine resi- dence and the palatial mansion. There are no rookeries where the shiftiess and the unlucky seek refuge, no districts where vice and crime are given quasi- license to flourish and to prey. The Lin- coln of today enjoys a prosperity so well distributed that it is equally as well famed for the absence of Knob hill pal- nces as it is for the absence of slums. Muntoipal Growth. Within the elght square miles of ter- ritory are to be found sixty-three miles of paved streets, sixty-five miles of street railways’ and nl ~five miles of sewers. It owns its own water plant and its own street lighting plant, It has also branched out into commercial lighting, and through the competition thus given has given consumers the lowest electric rates pos- sible in & city of any considerable area. Its street car system maintains up-to- date cars upon schedules faster than those of other cities of its size, an’ by reason of the compactness of the business district and the spreading character of the residence sections few homes are beyond a fifteen minutes' ride to business and a few cars are overcrowded. no great hilla to climb, no outs through which streets need burrow their way, no ebr ok cfl[fa he NEBRASKA of your own, H K. BURKET, President. E. P. LEONARD, state Increased in population, as the rafl-| The roll of the prairie upon which Lin. coln is located is so gentle that there are Association Lincoln’s Largest Savings Institution Assets Over $3,300,000.00 Has loaned over nine millions to . home builders If you want to have a home you in securing one on very reasonable terms. For further information address home office, 1409 O Street, Lincoln, Nebraska. ty that Belie glant cliffs up which one must toll to reach the haven of home—just oasy grades that make riding upon the boule- vards a pleasure and that make possibie the giving to each home a setting of AHA. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1915 of superior educational facilities, this im- migration has given to the population & tone and to its civio life a flavor that raise it above the dead level of a mere home town. A condition like this makes Jawn and shade that doubles its attrae. | for a democratic community, since it tiveness. Neither is Lincoln set down upon a flat and cheerlees plain. To the west is the valley of the Selt, wherein are the greater part of the rallroad yards and around which cluster the larger manu- factories and warehouses. district, which thrusts its t, spreading fanlike as it goe: to be checked by the slightly elevated plateaus around the Antelope and that border the Salt on the east. Thus it is that after passing the ramparts of the flat buildings, apartment and rooming houses that ‘surround the business sec- tion of every city, bullding sites, ideal and attractive, are found upom which thousands of Lincoln people and other | Nebraskans have bullt comfortable and coxy homes. The great agricultural west, in its real development, is scarcely more than a gen- eration old. The first citizens of Lincoln were men and women with their fortunes to make. They labored so well, not so much with respect to themselves per- sonally as for the city of their adoption. sacrifieing and working so that those who came after them might be better fitted to make the city what in their dreams it had been to them, that today one of the strong “pulls” of the city Is that which it exerts upon the other residents of Ne- braska. Within the last ten years hun- | dreds of men who had made modest for. | tunes upon the farms and in the smaller towns of the state have come to Lincoln o live. These are men whose $10 and $20 land has become $100 and §150 land; mer- | chants whose thrift and labor have given | them a surplus that fills thelr every | physical need; bankers who have gar- nered rich sheaves from the wheat flelds | of fortune; lawyers and other professional | men who had made so good a start out- | safely | side that they felt they could challenge the competition of the city fleld. Some of these newcomers had made | all the money they desired and have re- tired, but most of them retain the in- terests where their fortunes first rooted. City's Pulling Power. It is difficult in & paragraph to sharply pleture to the imagination the effect upon the character of the population that this sort of emigration has had. Few persons move to a large city because they prefer 1t a place of resldence. The pulling power of a big oity lles in what it can offer In the way of work for those who are yet seeking the bubble fortune or in the way of increased advantage for those who are already well established in a line of busines: supply that a city gets its vigor and its hustle, but that which differentiates one city from another, which makes one more It is from this source of sttractive than the other, is its power to draw from other strata of soclety. With Lincoln, which drafts the major portions of its population gains from the same source as other large cities, there has also rested this advantage, that it has also been gathering the cream skim- med off other sections of the state. Taken in connection with the fact that already the clty had builded better than the average ecommercial center by also weaving into its structure the strong fiber |and thus elevates undulating rise from this valley is lhl] | busine !in fta development, | ratses the average of education and ex- perience, the sources of real learning, the general level whereas in most citles the tendency Is towards an aristocracy of weaith on one ! hand and a communism of poverty on the the big house on the hill and the ed cottage in the lowlands. While the cultural advantages of Lincoln as a residence city have been emphasized there has been no neglect of the material side. encircling the city, but within its borders, runs a paved boulevard, interlaced with dozens of other equally well-surfaced streets, that accommodates a conetantly increasing automobile pleasure traffic. and well-graded dirt roads. These lead out to and past a dozen parks, including amusement resorts, grounds attached to wtate Institutions and municipal recreation grounds. The city maintaine two parks, one in the west section and one in the east sec- tion. The latter, Antelope park, is but the beginning of an ambitious project that will include a wide strip of land, partly woodland now and part of it rail- road right-of-way, running through the city diagonally. Already Antelope park is the mecea of thousands who find recreation In Its leafy shades. The oity employs a band to give concerts regularly In the summer season, it maintains a zoo and botanical gardens, and is developing all other phases of park growth. Routh- west of the city is Epworth Lake vark, the home of the Nebraska Epworth as- sembly, where for ten days each summer thousands of Nebraskans live the simple life in tents and listen to programs that excel In attractiveness any of the west- ern chautauqua gatherings. West of the city is Capital Beach park, located upon a wide spreading lake and equipped with the usual white city amusement devices. To the northeast are the grounds of the Nebraska state fair, where one of the greatest live stock and agricultural ex- positions {n the country is held for eight days early each fall. On the east are several small parks, maintained by the state or by suburban towns that lure hun- dreds to their cool stretches in summer time. Lincoln holds a membership in the Western Base Ball league, which main. tains two park Its Educational Plant. No city in the west is so well equipped with an educational plant as is Lincoln. This city offers opportunity for a com- plete education, from the kindergarten up through the high school and into the uni- versity, and from there into any one of the leading professions. The secondary schools consists of twenty-eight publio and private schools. A new high achool bullding that is the latest word in con- struction and in devices for effective work, and which will cost nearly three- quarters of a million, is nearing com- pletion. Sixteen ward school buildings house the remainder of the 13,000 school children, tion Is given strong emphasis In the schools of Lincoln. The fact that so large a percentage of children leave | school before they complete the grades in every city has been recognized here ves in I[tself Completely out from the city In other ai- re other boulevards, paved part way and tapering off into well-dragged City Building, Locuted on Federal Squa in Which the Severa]l Departments of City Government Are Housed. |and an effort made to meet the condi- tions. Instead of seeking to combat a situation that has its basis in economic conditions, the school management has |substituted practical studies for the theo- retical. Not only are the boys and girls in the grades being taught things, the knowledge of which will become of prac- tical value to them just as soon as they leave school, but they e been organized into a junior eivic and industrial league, whose 2,700 members are periodically shown through the great industries of the city and made acquainted, through talks and {llustrations, with how industry is The parochial side of educa- organized, what each one offers in the way of pay and opportunity and what problems and chances they face. In sim- ilar practical ways are they taught how they are governed through the state, county and city administrations. To add attractiveness and interest to the task of gaining an education 1,200 home and school gardens are cultivated; there are fully equipped playgrounds at twelve bulldings; three summer recrea- tion centers are maintained and domes- tio science and manual training given unusval prominence in the curriculum. In the hours when the city plant is not running, pre-vocational and night schools ocoupy the buildings, and at other hours they are made use of as soclal centers. In addition there are high-class private and parochlal achools, a military academy ‘with a natlon-wide reputation, two splen- did business colleges, several conserva- tories with staffs recruited from the best known musical centers of the world, and other colleges where concert ringing, dramatio art and oratory are taught. A dental college is also an adjunct of a practical nature. As a University Town. - Located In suburbs immediately adjoin- ing Lincoln are the Nebraska Wesleyan university, the leading college of that denomination in the west, with an enroll ment exceeding 863; Cotner university, and Loan we can assist M. W. FOLSOM, Secretary. J. A. PIPER, Anditor. 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The State Orthopedic hospital. The state fair. The governor's mansion, The State Hospital for the sane (one of three). Three-fourths of the state po- litical conventions are held in Lin. coln, and all of the state officors are required by law to maintan residences in the city. soglety e Company. If you are looking for a Company to farnish your life insarance, If you want a policy that will give yon pure legal reserve life insurance at lowest cost, this Company can furnish it. If you are looking for a company that is conducted in the interest of its polioy holders, this Company is IT. If you are lovking for a company with a good surplus and with the ability to pay liberal dividends, this Company is IT. The assets of THE SECURITY MUTUAL LIFE are first class in every respect. This is the important feature of this Other companies may be as= good, but, why look further? If you want a polioy, or if you want an agent’s contract, waddress the Compexy at Lincoln, Neb. The Security Mutual Life Insurance Company Of LINCOLN, NZBRASKA largely by the Christian) church denomination, where 26 students pursue knowledge, and Union college, the! western denominational university of the| Seventh Day Adventists, and where 308 students are fitted for missionary and other church activities. ‘The capsheat of Lincoln's educational| structure is the University of Nebraska. At the last election the voters of the state were asked to determine whether they wished the university to be extended upon its downtown campus or to be con- solidated with the school upon the farm campus, on the eastern border of the city. They over-| whelmingly voted against consolidation, and at the same time authorized the Btate Agricultural