1'ITE OMAHA 1 > A1LY BEE : SUNDAY , DECEMBER 4 , 1808. 10
Special Sale Opens
December Tomorrow
will commence Monday morning and continue the entire month to sell all kinds of Furniture at unheard of prices. We
find our stock is much larger than we can afford to invoice and must reduce it at least fifty thousand dollars before
January 1st. Everything is included and goods in all lines must suffer alike We are very thankful for the patronage
given us during the past two wee/cs through our Closing Out Drapery Sale and feel that an honest effort is still appreciated.
and fifty cents
For this tine 8-foot extension -
tension tablu quarter
sawed oak finely pol
ished 45x45 inch top
other houses as $18.00
for it.
D itiitig room table's
67 patterns to nelect from.
(5.00 Antique Table for $3. 00
819.00 Flemish oak table 50
8-feot long 45x46 inch
square lop
$37.00 antique oak table clus- 00
terlegs colonial design 10
feet long 18x13 top
$32.00 solid , mahogany table-
ID feet long 48x48 Inch top 15
e-Inch fluted legs
$05.00 antique oak table 54x60 00
inch top 10 loot long claw 27
feet
All tables have been greatly reduced. Wo
cannot fall to please you and the prlco you
will ocver equal.
B uffets
21 patterns to select from
Can't resist them < fig *
at these prices. . . . % J < < >
D initiq chairs
137 designs to select from.
65c to $20 each
Wo show a fiolid oak chair
cnne seat with fine embossed -
bossed back and
it's worth 81.75
Some swell pat25
terns , each J _ to
Many patterns of fine chairs in lots of
six to close out cheap.
Six $20.00 solid mahogany
chairs finely carved bao.is OQO
with embossed leather
seat now , each
00
Arm chairs to match. . . 12
> arlor tables
Wo have lots of sample tables
at less than one-half regular price , all
are reduced.
rhittn closets
73 designs $9.25 to $58.00
This sale incum :
$15 China Closets. . . . $10.00
§ 20 China Closets - $13 00
$25 China Closets - $16.50
' 825.00 China Closet , round
bent ends 33 inches " 1
plas-t , \ QO
wide , 5 feet 6 inches high , \\J
antique oak .
$35.00 Corner China Closet ,
swell doors , llncly
carved
# 125.00 China Closet , French
design- , antique oak , A OQO
finely carved , T'Cj
mirror back .
/ / vou nc d one come and see
us and you will buy.
'ouches '
A fine Corduroy Couch < K
button top ; 28-inch wide *
with fine spring edge and
top
75 other patterns in velour tapestry ,
pantisote or real leather top $60.00
each.
jnrlor Furniture
In this department the prices are simply
paralyzed. We want to dispose of a largo
amount of these goods and have put a price
on each piece to eell It. All easy chairs ,
eofas , reception chairs , divans , odd pieces ,
colonial sofas or davenports are Included.
The entire of our second floor Is devoted
to this department and our assortment was
never equaled. .
20 to 50 cent
off on all goods.
goods.65c
for this
one
18x18
inch
t n ,
B 1 d oak
Purlor
Tublo
liristni-is Gifts
Never in the history of the
world could you putuha o such hand
some presents nt t-ueh low prices
Ladies' Desks Chcuul Glasses Shav
ing Cases Dressing Tables Fancy
Rockers Scran Baskets E.ny Chairs-
Colonial Sofas Parlor or Library
Tables Dining Koorn Pieces , etc.
Everything is olTorcd at a Dis omit of
2O to SO per cent from regular price.
G ods c < tn bo elected now and hold for
Christmas delivery.
Combination and Library
JLJIUi ill V Book
cases ;
over N 75
250 pat
terns
and you never saw them at our present
prices.
roti & brass bedsteads
I
Wo show tho-o goods In i * largo
virioty of styles ami colors. All liuvo
been reduced niul seine are now loss
than tbo manufacturers' cost.
From
925 3400
the swollost lot ever assembled 50
beautiful patterns under 25.00 others
at S35.no to # 75.00. 17 pattern * of
sample Sideboards at less than one-half
the regular price if you want a nice
article cheap come and see them.
emember
R
everything is included furni
ture for the parlor , library , chamber ,
dining room , don , hall or ofllco.4
It must all go.
I tore open our drapery advertisement
Monday and
vertisement in
Saturday Nights
this issue. Some nice thing *
this -week.
sill' on hand to cloo out.
1115-1117 Farnam Street. Cash must accompany all mail orders.
WHEAT FIELDS OF ARGENTINE
How Grain is Eaised and Marketed on the
South American Pampas.
LACK OF SKILL AMONG THE FARMERS
Wonderful Wheat Heiilons of the
Parana Valley and Pntnaonln
Ilcntriictltc'Snarinii of Lo-
cuBtn from llrnxll.
( Copyrighted , 1893 , by Frank O. Carpenter. )
nOSAIlIO. Oct. SI , 1S98. ( Special Cor
respondence of The Bee. ) Kosarlo Is the
Chicago of South America. It Is the chief
A heat market of the Argentine Republic.
It ships thousands of tons of wheat , corn ana
linseed every week , and within a short time
after this letter Is published hundreds of
ocean steamers will be anchors 1 under Its
bluffs loading this year's crops for Europe.
Rosarlo is situated on the Parana river ,
About 200 miles by land from Buenos Ayres.
It Is 300 miles by water from that city , and
about as far Inland Irom the Atlantic ocean
aa Plttsburg. Ocean steamers sail for 200
miles up the Rio dc la Plata past Buenos
A ; , us into -the mouth of the Paiuna , uii'l
then for about 300 miles up the river to
Rosarlo. The Parana at this point is a
mighty stream. It bos many Islands , and It
Is very wide. Its channel Is so deep that
steamers drawing sixteen feet can reaca
Rosarlo at any time of the year , and they
come hero from all parts of the world for
grain.
Rosarlo Itself la ono of the thriving towns
of the Argentine. It was founded about
l/ > } < nrs ago , but v heat ralsinr ; In the
Argentine gavu It a great boom , and within
the last ten years It has almost trebled Its
population. It has now about 100,000 people.
It Is well built , the streets crossing ouo
another at right angles. It has good hotels ,
dally newspapers , electric lights , telephones
end banks. It docs a bis wholesale and
retail business , but the most of its money
comes from wheat.
Wheat at Ho nrlo.
The warehouses are along the river and
the wheat IE , I venture , taken from the cars
to the steamers more cheaply at Rosarlo
than at any other point In the world. The
land about here Is a deep alluvial soil , which
has been carried down from tbo mountains
by the streams of the Rio do la Plata system.
Through this cell the Parana has cut Its
channel1 to such a depth that tbo bluffs upon
which the city stands are at least seventy
feet high. They ore precipitous , and Ro-
sarlo Is built clear to their edges , so that
the warehouses are higher than the masts
of the steamers floating on the river. All
along the banks of tbo river warehouses have
been built. They are uiaJo of gray gal
vanized Iron. They have railroad tracks
running between them and the edge of the
bluff , and much of the wheat which Is car
ried In on the cars Is transferred to the
ships without going Into the warehouses.
The transfer Is made by gravity. Each
chipping company has a long chute running :
from the edge of the bluff , and often from
the warehouse Itself , down Into the river ,
These chutes are made In sections , and are
o arranged that they form a trough run
ning from the bluff right Into tbo holds of
the steamers. Some of the chutes are sec
tions of Iron which can be hung on wire
cables , making an Iron chute from the hold
to the warehouse , eo arranged that It can bo
lengthened or shortened at will.
The wheat la bagged on the farm. The
cars carry It to the edge of the bluff , and I
Italian laborers take the bags and pitch i
them into the chutes. As noon as a bag ;
touches the chute It begins to descend , and I
A ( airly gallopi down the inclined trough I1
Into the steamer. The bags fly down one
after the otb T at the rate of several to the
minute , and as you look at them they make
you think of an army of galloping mlco and
you remember the horde which attacked the
cruel Archbishop Hatto in his island In the
Rhine.
I'oor nallrond Facilities ,
At harvest time the wheat becomes con
gested at Rosarto. The railroads have more
than they can do to carry the crop , and
almost all other traffic has to be suspended.
Thcro are not enough cars for the business.
There Is here no such system of Interchange
of cars as we have In the United States.
One company's cars cannot go over the tracks
of other companies. The result Is that the
wheat Is piled up In bags at the stations and
left there until it can be shipped. I saw
such piles In different parts of the Argentine.
As yet there are comparatively few ele
vators and the caring for the wheat Is after
the most wasteful methods. There are no
barns in the Argentine. The weather is such
that the stock feeds out of doors the year
around and only the finest of blooded animals
are kept under cover. Many of the work
animals are not fed , but have to rely upon
what they can cat in the pasture fields.
The result is that there Is no chance for
the farmer to store his wheat in barns and
ho bos to rely upon the railroads for getting
It to the markets. The- land Is level. There
are no grades to speak of and the freight
rates should be low.
I believe that 'Argentine wheat'ralslng Is
in Its Infancy. Twenty years ago the wise
men said that grain could never be grown
to any extent. The Argentines were then
Importing millions of dollars worth of wheat
every year and the farmers who were pastur
ing stock on what are now the principal
wheat fields were eating ( lour shipped from
the United States and Chill. Today the
Argentine has to a larhe extent the wheat
trade of South America. It plants millions
of acres every year and it produces from
30,000,000 , to 80,000,000 bushels a season , ac
cording to the weather and to the Invasions
of the locusts. For the last seven or eight
years It his produced from three-fifths to
four-fifths of the wheat crop of this conti
nent and today It Is shipping wheat to the
different parts of South America and to
Europe. When the Argentine has a good
crop the prices of wheat in the European
markets are affected and our farmers often
get less for their wheat in consequence. In
the past year or so flour mills have been
springing up and the Argentina has now
more than COO Hour mills , many of which
use machinery Imported from the United
States. I bad as flno bread for my break
fasts at Buenos Ayrea as you can Get at
any hotel in New York and as a rule the
flour used In the Argentine Is as good as
any wo produce. A great deal of Argentine
flour Is shipped to Brazil and Uruguay and
some is being sent to Europe.
tJriiln Area Increasing ,
The grain producing area of tbo Argentine
Increases every jcar. For a long time It
was confined to the valleys of the Parana
and Uruguay rivers , and It was supposed
that wheat could only bo grown near these
rivers. Year by year , however , the farms
have been puefced further back , and the
. wheat area at present is a large as that
of England and France. It Is said that If all
the lands which are known to be wheat lands
were used and these should produce a crop
of ten bushels per acre the Argentina could
now produce one-half the wheat crop of the
world ,
A new wheat rcplon is that of the south.
The Argentine from north to south Is longer
than the United States. During the last few
months I have been away down In Pata
gonia. I have traveled thousands of mlfrs
through tillable giounds which have never
been touched by the plow. Three hundred
miles south of Buenos Ares there Is a thrlv-
Ing seaport called Babla Blanca. There are
bis wheat warehouses there , and the .railroad
men tell me that they have more wheat than
they I can handle. This wheat comes from the
southern i part of the province of Buenos
Ayrcs , a province which is enormous in its ,
extent i and which is almost altogether composed - i I
posed ] of good Tand. Just south of this region
there are vast pampas having scanty pas I
turage and usually looked upon as deserts. '
Through these pampas run the two great
rivers , Colorado and Negro , or , , ln other
\vords , Red and Black rivers. I traveled for
days along these rivers In company with a
party of railroad surveyors. The rivers
hayo a quantity of water the year around ,
and their fall Is such as to make Irrigation
possible for a wide distance along them from
the Andes to the sea. In the future there
will be irrigated wheat farms throughout
that region. The land Is as rich as any
part of Cororado or Utah or California , and
its settlement and use Is only a question of
time. Already the Welsh , who have a
colony much further south , are growing
wheat by Irrigation. They are now exportIng -
Ing about 5,000 tons a year , and this has all
been grown on what until now was the
desert sands of Patagonia. About Rosarlo
and elsewhere In this valley of the Parana
the soli Is a rich , black loam from six inches
to three feet deep lying on o bed of clay.
All the country for 'hundreds of miles above
and below Rosarlo , and comprising large
parts of the provinces of Buenos Ayrcs ,
Santa Fo and Entre RIos , is composed of
this Boll , whloh Is very good for wheat.
Don't Know How to Farm.
I have never seen such poor farming any
where as is going on In the Argentine. Our
own farmers are bad enough , but these
people are infinitely worse. In the United
States the average yield of wheat per acre ,
taking the whole country , Is from twelve
to thirteen bushels. That of the Argentine
is not over ten. In England , where the
soil Is more carefully studied and cared
for , the average is twenty-nine bushels per
acre , in Holland twenty-five bushels , and In
France eighteen. The most of the wheat
of this country Is raised by Italian Im
migrants , many of whom farm the land on
( be shares. They do their work In the
roughest and most slovenly way. Much of
the wheat is sown on the ground as It Is
first plowed , the grain being dropped among
the clods. Other farmers drag brush over the
field and some of the better farmers use the
harrow. The plowing Is done with bullocks ,
who drag the plows thro'ugh the furrows by
means of a yoke attached to their horns. No
fertilizer whatever Is used , and the only Idea
of the man seems to be to get the wheat Into
the ground and then sit down and wait for
tha crop.
The life of the Argentine farmer would
never suit our people. An American farmer
could not bo happy here without ho
brought his friends and associates along
with him. I cannot describe the barren
ness and dreariness of the life. In most
of the wheat country there are no trees.
The little hut of the farmer , made of mud ,
etands out along on the dreary landscape.
It has not a sign of comfort , and the farm
ers do not seem to care for anything but
their wheat crop. Most of them have no
gardens. They run -their accounts nt the
nearest grocery and make annual settle
ments when they sell their wheat Most nf
them drink to excess , and few have any
thought beyond this ono crop. All have
large families , and at times of planting
and harvesting nearly all work. You may
eo boys of 8 riding horses in the field
and girls of 9 and 10 nro doing their
share of the harvest. The lack of elevators
and other conditions demand that the wheat
Bhould bo harvested quickly , and at this
tlmo you will not Qed a harder working
people In the world than these Italian farm
ers of the Argentine. Women and girls , men i
and boys , labor with all their strength from i
sunrise to sunset , and when It Is moonllcl't
you may see them out under the stars bind
ing and threshing wheat. It is the same
In planting time , but botwteu these ceasoni i
there Is a long vacation. The result Is that
the failure of a crop means partial starva
tion. There Is no reason for this. The land
Is susceptible of growing of a great va-
rlcty of crops , and as plowing can bo clone
I hero every month of the year the Argentine
farmer can ralso everything he uses. As It
Is , it Is said ho can now produce wheat at a
cost of from 25 to 30 cents a bushel. This
may bo so , but taking the average of good
| i and bad crops It Is probable that wheat costs
as much hero as it does in the United
States.
Farm WagonN of the Argentine.
It is curious to see how the wheat is car
ried to the cars from euch farms as are far
from the railroad. It Is hauled In bullock
carts , the wheels of which are about eight
foot high. A load weighing several tons. Is
balanced between a couple of these wheels
and from a dozen to sixteen bullocks are
harnessed up in double fllo In front of It.
As the cart moves onward over the rough
road the wheels glvo out fiuch a. screeching
that you think there must bo a hog-killing
going on near by. If you tell the farmer
that a bit of grcaso on the axle would stop
the noise ho replies that this Is necessary
and that the bullocks will not move unless
they bear It. In some few of the largo
farms modern machinery Is used and the
threshing Is commonly done with European
or American threshers.
The Argentine Is subject to drouth and
the crop rises and falls according to the
weather. The worst thing , however , that
the farmers have to contend with Is tbo
locusts. The pest that Infests the Argentine
IB fully as bad as the rocust plague with
which the Lord afflicted Pharaoh. The only
difference was that Pharaoh had his locusts
for a few days , but the Argentines seem
to be having theirs as a regular thing. The
plague does not extend to the extreme south ,
but for the last seven years the wheat
farmers of the Parana valley have been eerl-
oualy damaged by It. There are a lot of
locusts this year. Many people believe that
the situation is euch that tbo number of
locusts will Increase from year to year and
I that the country can never bo free from
| them. They argue this from the location of
I the Argentine. It Is , jou know , situated In
I the temperate zone , with a delightful climate
I and a fairly good soil. Just above It lies
Brazil , which U covered with tropical vege
tation and vast areas of which will never be
different from what they are now. In this ,
country It Is claimed that the locusts have ,
their breeding grounds. They are produced
by the millions there every year and , as a
swarm thinks nothing of a ( light of 500 |
miles , you can see that an army starting '
out from there Is n dangerous cnomy. They
say that the locusts breed In Brazil and an ,
nually start out for the south , eating up ,
everything ns they go. They argue that
they did not come In the remote past , be [
cause the Argentine was then covered with i
the coarse grass of the pampas. This the j
locusts did not especially care for , but now ,
uluce they have learned of tbo juicy , green ,
wheat , they come every year.
It Is hard to realize what a terrible thing
such an Invasion Is. The locusts appear In 1
great swarms , which often darken the sun
If they fly between It and you. They lighten
on everything green and begin eating. The
branches of thti trees bend down with their
weight and you can hear the snapping of f
their jaws as .they crunch the leaves.
They will strip an orchard In a night. They
often eat 'the ' flesh from the fruit , leaving
the stones of the peaches hanging to the
bare branches , They are capricious In their
feeding and all choice trees or those which
have been especially cultivated are sure to
be ea'ten. ' They will clean the crops from
the fields , eating the grain down to the
ground. Sometimes the ) will take tbo green
wheat from ono side of the road and pass
by that on 'the ' other , and they sometimes
fly on and on for dayi over rich fields to
feed on those bejond. The next swarm may
eat that which Is left.
It seems funny to think of these locusts
stopping railroad trains , but I have been
told again and again that this Is < he case.
They come In such numbers that they cover
the tracks. The cars crush them. The
rails become greasy , and the wheels spin
round without touching the rails and with
out moving the cars onward. At such times
tbo rails have to bo sanded to get the cars
to run. In Eomo of the towns 'it Is said
that they even ate the paint off the houses.
The llnliy IjOouHtM.
This pest of the locust has been BO great
that the Argentine government has been
spending large sums of money , to got rid of
them. Among other things they have sent
to the United States for Prof. Lawrence
Bruner of the University of Nebraska 1o
come hero to Investigate the subject and
to give- them advice. Mr. Bruner Is one of
the best authorities of the world on locusts
and It is from his report which has just
boon received thnt I get much of my Infer
mation. The Argentine locusts look very
much like grasshoppers. They are very
prlllfic and the greatest damage Is caused not
by those which como In swarms , but by the
joung locusts which follow. As the locusts
move over thf r ur.trv thcv lay their eggs
In the ground. Each female locust makes a
hole lu the giouiiu aim ius about luu tggs ,
and a month or BO later these turn Into 100
I
joung locusta , who crawl out and begin their
. march over the country. Their parents have
| pretty well cleaned up 'the ' crop. The babies
I start out to cat what has grown up In the
j | meanwhile. They cannot fly far at first and
they crawl along , eating up everything as
ithoy go. They cover the ground , crawl
over the fences and sweep the country of
everything green.
In a few weeks they glow wings and
then fly onward to other feeding giounds.
No conception can bo formed of the enor-
moua number of itheso locusts. In ono ,
year sixteen tons of eggs were destroyed j
In ono place. Billions of cpgs are now
bolng dug out of the ground and crushed , |
and today the Argentine farmers are fight
ing for their life with the locusts.
| How LocimtH Are Killed.
The methods for exterminating them are
many and costly. Thousands of dollars
are spent every year to kill them. At the
' tlmo of an Invasion all the farmers must
turn out and destroy them. They are
caught In traps of corrugated Iron. They
are scooped up with scrapers and killed ;
poisons are used and the guass plants and
weeds are sometimes sprinkled with arseI I
nlc , kerosene and creosote. They are
caught In bags , driven Into ditches an2 are
killed In all sorts of ways. Nevertheless ,
In 1S % It Is estimated that JSO.000,000 worth
of wheat was thus destroyed In two states
of the Argentine. This Impoverished the
farmers of those states , and the nitlonal
government sjwnt $10,000,000 that year In
giving them seed wheat.
As to what Is to be the future no one
| can tell. If It is true that the lousts are
i to ccmo every jear It will bo a long time
I before the Argentine can have a serious
permanent effect upon the wheat market
of the world. Still the Invasions up to
this tlmo have not extended very far south ,
and It may be that the new wheat regions
\UU cat be affected by them.
FRANK 0 \RPENTER. .
Constipation prevent * t w body from ridding -
ding Itself of waste matter. Do Witt's
Llttlo Early Risers will remove the trouble
and euro sick headache , blllrutiness , Inactive
liver , and clear the complexion. Small ,
euear-coaied ; don't crlpo or cause nausea.
' A very pretty watch chatelaine has a
I wreath of laurel leaves with a parrot rest-
. ing among the leaves. The parrot Is stud-
' d < jd with emeralds and rubles.
i
" Hu-can ? Perhaps you can tv y don't you i
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MONUMENT TO DICK BERLIN
Omaha Park and Boulevard System Due to
His Personal Efforta.
FATHER OF THE NOW DEAD STATUTE
lutcrentlngr Chut with the Mnn Who
Devised the Mennure lUut Mntlc
PoNNlble the Great Chnlii of
1'uhllc I'Juy Ground * .
When Mayor Moorea elgns the ordinance
which provides for the appointment of the
members of the Omaha Park commission by
the city council , ho will do away with tbo
usefulness of a statute that must hereafter
stand a monument to the astuteness of Hon.
R. S. Berlin.
It Is not generally known that Mr. Berlin
Is the father of the extensive aystem of
parks and boulevards of which Omaha Is
now eo proud , and which In the future will
doubtless bo one of the principal beasts of a
mighty metropolis. Before Mr. Dcrlln was
t'ent to the legislature ten jcars ago lie had
made up his mind that something Has needo.1
for the betterment of Omaha's condition as
regards the mailer of pailu. The real estate
boom was at Itj height at the time and
additions were being platted as fast as tbo
englneeis could run the lines. AH available
outlying property was rapidly being cut up
Into town lots and the prospects of secur
ing land for park purposes was dally becom
ing more remote. Hanscom park and Jef
ferson square represented all the city had In
this respect ; the one plot was In danger of
forfeiture under the reversionary clauro of .
the deed of gift , and the other was In de- j I
mand for \arlous purposes , such ns a slto for 1
the postofllce , city hall , market house , and
the like. Hoth lacked Improvement. Down
at Hanscom park the ground v.as very much .
as nature left It , and tbo first white cottiers j I
found It. Jefferson square afforded little t
more evidence of the refining touch of civil- i
Izatlon. The band stand , at once the despair
of the policeman on the beat and the haven
of rest for the wandering hobo , way almost
the only mark It bore of public Interest In i
breathing spots. This was practically the
situation. Mr. Berlin tells the story of the
legislation as follows :
"I had long realized the need of Eome law I
for the establishment of a park board with '
power to manage an extensive park system. I
I
I wanted It to have power to condemn needed
,
Fand for parks and boulevards , to be author- I
Izcd to Issue bonda for tbo purchase of the i
land , and to do such other acts as would bo
necessary for the correct maintenance and
control of the cystem which was to be built
up until commuisurate with the Importance
of Omaha. I made a careful study of the
park question ,
j Pouted Up on I'nrk * .
j
"My Investigation was as thorough as I
could make It. I spent my own money In
i traveling about the country visiting the
principal cities and looking Into the con
ditions surrounding the acquisition an1
| control of the parks. I got to bo a regular
i census report on parl.s. I Knew the name ,
I location , dimensions , value , Improvements ,
1 attractions and drawbacks of every park
of every city of Importance In the country ,
and I made up my mind that If anything
I could do would contribute to securing for
Omaha the most comprehensive and valua-
bio system of parVa It would bo done. The
greatest difficulty I had to face was how
to divorce the park system from politics
and keep It from falling Into the hands of
the real estate speculators. I realized the
futility of undertaking to select the com-
mlsstoners by popular vote. The situation
| in Omaha at the time forbade this. To
have the commissioners chosen by tha
mayor or city council seemed at the tlm
equally Inexpedient , while to have them
named by the governor , as were the Flr
and Police commissioners , was to put tits
control of on Important loial board In the
hands of a man too fnr away from the placa
of Interest. The governor could not have
the same deep concern for the city that
to me seemed essential to the success of
the park plan. In this extremity I adopted
the plan of having the board named by tha
juri cE , of the district court. At that tlma
on the bench of this district were Judges
Wnkeley , Doane , Groff and Hopewcll. It
was to these men that the choice of the
first purk board was left.
"After I once got the park board bill
under way It had fairly smooth sailing. It
encountered the opposition of only one man
In the house , Hon. B. S. Baker , member fof
JptTorson county , who made a speech against
the bill , but the measure went through nil
right. The rest Iswell known to the citi
zens of Omaha. Wo now have the start
of as flno a park and boulevard system ns
any city In the country. Hanscom and
nivervlew cannot bo excelled ; Jefferson
square Is a beautiful spot of green In tha
center of the busiest part of town ; Bwnla
park Is a lovely spot , and Miller , Fontn-
nellf , Himcbaugh and Him wood pirka have
all been extensively Improved. The boule
vard will ultimately bo the handsomest ur
ban driveway on the continent. "
Personnel of the Hoard.
The first park board waa maclo for the
year 1889 hs follows : George W. Miller ,
president ; George W. Llnlnger , vice presi
dent ; Augustus Pratt , George B. Lake , Al
fred Mlllard. For the next two jcars tha
txnrd was 'tbo ' name. In 1S92
Thomas Kllpntilck succeeded Mr.
Pratt. In 1803 A. P. Tukoy
succeeded Mr. Llnlnger. In 1894 M. II. Hcd-
field succeeded Dr. Miller , A. P. Tukcy being
ekftrd president. In 1895 C. E. Bates suc-
cceded Mr. Mlllard. In 1890 John C. Whar-
tori buccccded Judge Lake , and In 1897 H.
J. Cornish was appilntcd to succeed Mr. Rpd-
field and Captain II. E. Palmer to succeed
Mr. Kllpatrlck. The 1898 board was or-
ganlzcd as follows : Bates , president ;
Coinlsh , Wbarton , Palmer and J. II. Evans ,
named to succeed Mr. Tukoy. Durtnu
the ten years of Us exlitenco twelve men
have served on the board.
Briefly stated , the property under control
of tbo park board consists of < th following
with 'tbo ' Improvements :
Pak. Arrcs Vnlun.
Hltnwood . 215 133.001
Tontcnclle . 110 UJ.WX )
Miller . SO 75.CKX )
Homls . 10 V > .u
Illvcrvlcw . C 79WXJ
Hlmchaugh . 3 3,0 < iO
Jon'crson Snuuro . 2 200,000
Total . sr Jic7ooo
In addition to these parks , the board con
trol * the street parks , which at present nro
confined to the plots on Capitol avenue , and
Kountzc park , a "tract " of five acres , valued
at 110,000 , which will bo added to the sys
tem wbcn the exposition bulldlnga are re
moved.
HIM l.lfc Win Saved.
Mr. J. E. Lilly , a prominent citizen ol
Hannibal , Mo , lately had a wonderful dc-
llvcrancu from a frightful death , In telling
of It ho saysy" "I was taken with Typhoid
Fever , that /in Into Pneumonia. My lungi
became hardened. I was so weak I couldn't
even sit up In bed. Nothing helped ma. I
I expected to EOOII die of Consumption , when
I I hoard of Dr. King's New Discovery. Onl
bottle gave great relief. I crntlnued to uei
It and now am well and strong. I can't snjr
too much In ltn praise. " This jnarveloui
medlclno In tbo surest and quickest euro In
the world for all Throat and Lung Trouble.
Ilegular BUCH CO tents and fl.bO. Trial
bottles free at Kuhn & Co.'s drug stor'j ;
every bottle cimi-nntc i ! .
Mrs. Evangcllna Clsncios Carbcmell Is baolc
in Havana.