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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 18, 1910)
D i ! 1 ft THE OMAHA SUNDAY HKK: SEPTEMBER 1. 1D1U. 3 Omaha Business Men Who Scorn the Auto and the Trolley Gar Alik 8 TtlTTWI mMM F - ! ' "Jz, ' "J 111 111 1 lanimnii ,, . j,,,,,, , .. , ,tmM . j,ix i ii n L i i. vriL1 iLllu uiam,m m mnj -I -, c--,. r nw-w-JiM i m m i mam jwii lui iii'i .imimimni uwhmh.iwui i . i.k 3 t-, I ns.teSSr V: - I diftU. - !8 ' V .kfjli.:vv''-: fqjf -.1:-. ,. ..!! . --.v: . .-J ,,;! V - I Liji vj--J -j: i-wVn '-. 1 1 - I j I I I i'7 VM " I 4y t.jo 'V ? a . - J . jJ j- W -- -... dg J . J , Idlfc r: : Vj -.;; li fe1 . t- t i f (1, ': - , . r.lmii jiiiiihujwjii iwiiiimuiiiii'ni'W''" Hi' i :, 1 : jt ' " - ir STi X. X ! - ' 1! A 1 LA haa vtr ilun- rl. (!';, t,, uito unupi al to mf o rldr to torn." tlio practical :! r,f w. : - Jtrt tow f.ic'-.r r n'Vir.s clu rr!-;- thlnB, r)U.M.t.v :mv.-Si: t n:rj ti a p-.t hlcV. fcir.oty hai c'.muIcI that wt lch tnl?i;t b estal ucl witrt uotlx! o.-.e Fiery Iz l" the ff- a foml.'.jl or kuii In ia :. fpet lI.b t fi re;: Icrovn clt:trn. 'ot'.n; In U.lfiitlnws inn Hir.ir ltHt way fs phj firal c;r,, a.?pi;. d to hio ui ctor far 'lemonhtrotlon thin re! cf. "V "I mar. "Ves you isryo'i B'o ob to walk from your him to your of.", :r every rnrrnln?." t': Cortor urpnl. "ftiid if 01 w! 1 fo.lo- my advlro, you mon o'yftvc a vast lmr.ro ;em7it In your lor.illtai," Still l:pt ra b-it wlillns to ,-r ab at rtra-ar. the tuati ita":t:l to town the r"it ir.ornirs. As !:e rwu.in Into i'trmra ntr-t at the lnterprt on of TM'fy-lith r'.rt"., hp taw hi 'ctor wh tilng by in a V.3 rtd automobile, wh'ch at tliat lin e tu a urnt.'ty In Omai a. ' If walklnff le ach a cooa tal3. mt:?l the man. "I Tonder why the doctor ioean't try It hlmflf7 II! jut aelt him that ques tion. It'e a goiter for him." Iater In the ay, the man IrlerrOTtt"! the doctor, whereat that worthy rr.erc-ly Brril!ed and rerr.arkei that It 1 tbe dootor'e bualnei to give medicine, not to take It. 80 the man kept on walking That wa j the .brt, 1 as.o.n. when tlio aveiase man of affair, a ! bit Jadrd by too clo.e appllrntlon In o.'fK'P, 1 flnda himself In np.Ml of rxorrlse. hp walks. , He mlsht tmploy a phykal lnntr-.n-ior. he I mlrht Indulge In h"avy mitiny for prlvaio j gymnnnltim equipment and he ml sht put Ij himself throuRh nil of tlio ianry movtmf-iita known to the art .f pitysloal culturff. , He could If he would, do all of lhi. for I taking the irarace Omahan ae a type, ho haa ample man to dfioy all e::penr ji Incident to tho luxury- hut after ell, he walki. Walking, the doctore a,v, is the very j best form of excrcie. That l why, per 1 hape, the Omaha man prefers walking to I the mor fancy methods n ich aa are ll'a 0 rtrated In the health rnatau-.ini.i. j- If a correct cennie were Liken of Omihi j men of affaire who every wcrklns mornlnf 1 ot th woek walk from home to office, the j result would be a numerical aurpriae. It I there be ekeptlca who doubt the general j prevalence of the walking habit In Omaha, nearly ten yearn ago. He It atlll wall-.lnsr-let them Journey out on Waet Farnrtm. iht hm niv. from hi. home to hta Park avenue or any ono of several other ofrice every morning. Bometlmea there le connltig. He walks like the history writers ; prominent tnorougnraraa In the Omaha "who's who," you know that Lieutenant Governor E. G. MeGllton Is mornlna tin early rain, but on these oocaslons out say Abe Lincoln walked that Is Ores off a yard or more of distance ever.' time he steps. N C. O, Gcer lives In Dundee, and ae miles are measured, Dundee !s a eoiulf.cr able dletanca from fro.n the heart of thir.ss In Omaha. Yet, ra'.n or hire, Mr. Carrye traverses the ground on foot every v.-orklnj (alonr about 8 o clock, or a little later, and comes a big rain ooat and the man walks they will see for themselvaa scotes tf proml- jU,t as though the aun were shining, nent citizens .winging their way along on others from time to- time, one by one. 'oot dropped into the "walking down" habit. Caapor E. Tost, president of the Nebraska Eom. nrefei- to tar "walkln ud town." Telephone company, an Omaha pioneer who perhaps It would be correct linguistic ell ,haa helped for many years to make local miration to almply "walk to town." omlt- history, la nominally dean of the Pedestrian ting whether It le "down" or "up." Waiving morning of the week. olub. It la called the "peueatrian club" un- that fine technical point of language, the victor Roaewator. editor of tlto Do. has : officially, because It Is not really a club to fact remains that Bcores of well known men aldfrmanlc plrth In need of reduction, far as formal organization is conctrned. - walk to their work of mornings, while the for jJO t3 0f the litlie and wiry tyre, yet h Mr. YoM, now well along In the afiernoon clerk whose tlo pay envelope comes around finds walking bonefldal. and )o clips off ; of a busy life, has made a practice of cover- every Saturday nlcht whlzses by on the tnc distance tctT. con hla Wet Farnnm lng the distance between his homo and his p. a. y. e. trolley cars. That la the clerk's street home and tho Bte bulksiug in dou'jli ornce on root ror ten years or more, ne nusiness, nowever. 11s r.as no geuiy swan- oulek t:mr. Air. jlcs-.vaLtr talr.kt a 110 5u.cL3e Cockrell cJiiie Ben baket l H. Tirkens. whose name haa lor yeuia bf n InCcllibiy linked with .thing commer cial In O-.naha. la In bad standlr.rr with the clt.b, all 'oeer.use after er.ee a :r.ot:nc;:i I Creat f.it:-. -..ii jem in pdes'.rinihm. he llotor. -t! to tlc luro of a big autirrohllc. .Vow aa hlii former ro-'walkri-s y alon of mornlnsa townward bent. M:. rirh :. Uvea at Thirty-ninth and Dat'cnport streets ing to reduce, and besides. If he prefers to wr!)js, and mar.y quest. onn of Importance rushes b loavii'- or.ly a streuk nf ;.:ii;ji;r.o and hla office 1 at Eighteenth and Dourlss go townward by trolley, there Is none with ,r weighed ami determined In hie, mlr.'l atreets. It la surprising how easily he clips right to object. aa he covers the distance between home and off that apace. Along about 8 o'clock every morning there sactum. "I hava found walking down town of looms up over the cre3t of the Farr.am Charles C. Rotewater, general manager mornings to be of gTeat physical boneflt." ftreet hill, the tallest man In Omaha. Tou of the Bee. Is also a member of H o pedta- says Mr. Tost, "and It is alFo a r-Ieaiure can see him blocks'away. his eaiy. nwl-zlng trlan club. He llva on Dewey over.ue wlilch I would' regret to surrender. I have stride attesting supplcnees of limb and prefers an early rr.orrrir.gwallt to an ut btn at It so Ions r.or that it wvi!d seem ease of respiraUon. Then if you are versed mobile ride any time. ' vapor aa n t.ivntlni: nry to tne ci-m T. J. Muhor.ey, tiilnka out n:nny a lrsal and c.l'eis wlin dcdl In (he product of the rirh farm land tribunry to Oma!-.a. Ji.hn C. Kr'-nch In h S .nth Otn-jhit bank rashltr. but he lives i.i Omaha in tlie West ir.rn:im clii--lrict. Pi-thips some time In tlio future his et thus asm , will reach a point that will prompt him to walk a 1 the wty to South Omaha, but nt present ha is contrr.t to Journey a part of the way cn t!.o street car. Korir.e. United States Senator Joseph H. Millard if. prominent among the old r mem- ti'd from sypterrtatic peftewtriapi?m iss found In the experience of John C. Whnrt. 11. H. are n. f. jiist to he a Krod fellow, )ii;:epl !o U:Ue 'ip the walking hittiit. Six tr i lht ye;irH ;i;u his physicians titr'd but ;:fi. r r. f -. tri'ils. lie ilecttled Jt as ion h m to t.ike exercise. Ip t that t'nie l-.U m cli like nr, ami Htrtvp'itway h went life had been ilosolv sedentary and rerinus hm i. ti lih: jiutuniu'i lie which now i-jr.l..! fatty aymptomv were uppeai Ir.R. Tl.e ilor lor threw a flight Into the mind of .ir. Wharton, but assured him that there was yet time for application f tl.e leintdy urn! that the aforesaid reiA.-dy waa wall'inr. So Mr. Wharton nut only ai tiuired the hai.lt of walking to town, but he Roes the other pedestrians one better and arises about 6 rhin". I1t ! ono 5oui.h Thirry-eiffhth In the "600" block, and o'clock each moinlnff for a ramble befor? problem on the way down town. Un rar.'ira bers cf the pedestrian club. He lives on a big umbrella, :ain or of the heat walkera In the city. It ir itis custom to walk the greater part breakfast. Sometimes he covers eight or Nets V;:d'ke addles t'je cr;i'n problem r.a of the time to and from hlB bank. he drllla nlonr LUcewise. iSdwnrd brook, John A. l'tihn, Frank P. w..-st-Cowniii Perhaps one of the most ftriklng ex amrlrs of the ph-slcal benefits to be de- ten miles between the huuts of o and 7 o'clock. Then, after breakfast, he walks to his office. hint ."lorn his linrt i-trect home to hla cul- lf-Ri. every ninrnit'.e: or.d evening. Kiieli mcjiitlt or s.i 11 new recruit Joins tha wuikini: brigade, and thus for the joiners have riuch morp than overliHlane-'d the bicksl .ins. If Theodore Ho isevtlt, the st . envious, wire an Oinnhan, he would find toii:;:imy ;i-pli-nty on hla rambles, and If that fjr-fami'd theatrical troupe whieh rag tir.ie ki.uk lilslory dni'larcH hud trouble In 1r:iiisit from Sch.Teetecly to Troy had had the OtiiuIih walklr.g spirit, the sung would revi-r have In-cn wrltttn. Automobile Procession at York Calls Up Pictures of Days Gone By From the Story Tellers' Pack g e!MliPlilllwwaiwiiill WsWTHiliiiMiiiiitsaiiiiiaaTiatisiaTaara II . I .r- , ..m . - . .It,. i IE II : - , J e-v ' li U S- rcC ujuMMJimMmmmn.imw.Mmwm tC YfSmPT -IJli-cJ. ix.x mute cry-L-w , . I S 3 ataaaasBjaaaaaaaaaaevessaiiri ". i," t - v , y v - , r ee.,..v 4 MS Costly lllf fereare. THY recently evole.I what l:i considered to he u fine coiiun drum. Tills Is it: "What Is the difference be- of ho tween a druK'J'at and a fa.r.11 laborer '.' ' 'ini answer, eo Senator Murphy says, is: "One la a pharmacist, tlio other is a farm asslrtunt." The other night he strolled Into a drits store in his diuricl to get a prefcrirti'.m ' 1 know another titled man. Judge (Jrctne. " Aie you. air,' 1 cm 1.1 asked 1.1 rn. 'a fulled ritaits JuUse or ' a circuit court Jud.;e7' " 1 ain't neither,' he replied. I'm a Judge racin'.' " I'niiaiieipiila Record. "Mta. fleman" ReUincs Cap ?urpleand"?CVlute v Firt Prize ae way In finally decided to give the first prize locomotive. Mrs. Merman lJehllr.tr. whose tar was done In f.ontia In purple a.id v. hit", ut.d pr- . . m. .1 fade. One of thel, pl-s ,a to acarce.y le.saava,,,. the pioneer, the 8.d ",t,e- 'L T!" . Z seeder, tne piootiini? ir:n'fr, inn rwnw-ia i'r:i.c w .ie t- . - Hi: businoss men of ork are oins about in tho riahl wu to take care of thfir lor.il lowed by the frelthters. who : time to c- vilUalioa nnd the Thus the red innn. the hunter and trapper. prov.de their rustotners with entertainment of a rational sort. Recently an automobile i.ee was made the order of the dy. All of the ard the auiomobile have f pured in the etrem, who drove ti's tun ear and who i panorama eupsested by the process on of ,housnt by ina:iT to l e emit..! to first tally decked automobiles that passed in review for the edification of the peopie place. The third prize was given to automobile owners within the nelgnDor- tathered n the C!y 0f York to make a hood of the prosperous city were Invited modrn holldav. to take part, and mora than sally decked machine were In line when the Nelson Automobile company for the swan float it had oa exhibition. This was a Thia Dicture of the mutations of time Is splendidly executed deelgn and attracted a not more vivid than that presented by York great dea' of favorable comment a It procession moved along the itreets. It oounlv anj tho city Itself. The beautiful pased altmg. Many of the other nr were was a moat remarkable spectacle and cur- fari(VI wjtn their handsome homes and deserving of the hifrhest praise by reason rted the mind bark to that not very far Cutbi:!ldlne, the pretty little city with Its of their attractiveness. away time when the proceaalona along the bulnrM blocks, the brlek and stone of Its York Is now plann'.nj another great en way were those of the m'cratlnif Indians well krpt streets, lta parka. Its I'vhta, Its tertainment In the way of a corn show, with their hardy ponies, squaws and pap- tvery evidence of material prosperity seems which is being looked forward to by every Puoaee. or the war party, naked and be- lo naVe aprung up aa at the touch of a farmer In the county. It Is proposed to daubed, slipping stealthily along the trail, fairy's wand from the wilderness Itse.C. make this tlie largest and best com show Another procession that haa pussed this The most arduous duty of the day de- of lta kind held In the atate. Tl-e Com way was that of the prairie schooner, the vulved upon the Judge who were called merclal club uf vork. which is a live wire sraonaut of '49 making their way to the upon to select the moat attractive from In everything. Is tack of the undertakiug gold fields of the New Fl lnrado beyond among the large number of beautifully and prophase to see that success U the mountalna Thea In turn were fol- decorated automobiles uu parads. , They achieved. ... :. ... "Z" ' TsKsalaJj..J;-" . . .V - - : f jOffCf4 vara" v r ... .-. , ..... -i. xss .; -J .f..: '.H J- NrU- the I F - fr i ' ' - v r . f.-j , 11 : ' 1 r w 1 ii ;i j i I f LI : .. w . I,. .... ' . t'arryinii lU.ut i'oo Far. Kobe; l Lincoln O Utlen, editor of the Bosto:i Transcript, is a great admirer of the tiir.ft of thi; Vermonters, but thinks s nietl:nes they carry It loo far. Uinta was up in Vermont last summer filled, the chief Ingredient of which wa and went to dinner witn a frteni who ha boiax. lie propounded the loiiundrum to son. e poilil. si ampliations. Aa tiiey came In his drug friend. Afttr a slight mental the door ne iieaid the lady of the huuee struggle the clerk "gave II up" a.-.d was ay to Hie hired girl. toid the an? wer, . and in duty bound. "1 '- Mr. Jenes has somebody with laughed hearwly. A few minutes liter thj him to dinner. lako these two big pula- prescrlption 'was filled and the price waJ t.u-s tic w n to the cellar and bnnj up three tij tents. " :r.all urns." Mew york Sun. "TI ankK." said Senator Mutpliy. "1 can 4; undtislard thu lo ttnts, but what Is the M Talked l.aperouto 1st Sleep, cents 'or'. V.Ik 11 Mr. Smith your Intimate friend 'Oh, ti.at." rei I ed the drugttist blamily.' niUi-wok the other morning' ho wm "thai Is te difference tetween the pliarum- fcteeied by his wife with thia: citt and the iarni a.-si-jtain.' i'hllaue.pliia ' i! sweet boy, do you know you came 'i'.ine.. home last nuht and you talked in your sleip ':' "Urcat Seotu No, did IT" said Bmitb, badly agitated. "What did I sayT Tell in." I Just couldn't make it all out, but it nt i:... l-'iiult. Clement J. Uriseoll, New York's com mfsIoner of weights and nuasurts, ndvo- cates the sale of bread strictly by wiUht. "Some bakers oppose th.s Id.a." lie said tuJ1tJ uke ante-up-Jatk pot slake. . . ,. ..., f..s, , v ... ... 1 )(tl. y., -cs, my dear. 1 was reciting for the poor .to trust to the hak. r a g, n- a Uule lllBt a frlen(, Ku uacb. erosity than to pin him .(own. as groersv,. ...... , ,,..,.,.,, ... .. ' ' ..... - - - ... .... a, w W aud butchciu aiv pirncd .low 11 now. "Well, it seems to me that lur Lakers a'e as Illogical ar.'l absurd as the beggar who wore u pla.ard. saying, -l have only six months to Ine.' He was a lolui-t beggar, but the pla.ard to.n htd all In arts. and t.irough Us ub r.cy he mui t have ma le lw c-is' silence: 1 iauie iioii.e.. li means, 'How is my darl- K"'l U'liigliC." " Philadelphia Times. True, ttfi,lfe. Owiiae A.ie, ai a dinner at Haseldeu farm, l.i.f Indiana residence, aald of his i ir F7 a 1l.1v. "A IJni!ad:'.ph!n who had lieii'td the beggar lib. 1 ally m Hhilad. Iplua in 11)0 I "You ace. I am thinking up original aud leaiisiio iui us. And for my heroine I've hit on u remarkable good tiling. It's io .7. ;, , l' e "no,- rt."? -' true. It s a wonder It never o. ii. in...'. " 'Why, you oujihl to be a-hamed of yourself.- the I'i.ilad. Ihian cried. only, six months to Ine, fjrs.oih! You wire s.j lug thai five years a;;o. " Will.' muwled the bengal, 'It ain't my fauiu is it. If the d. to. a make mistakej?' " New York Tunes. rim 'i is Title. on lin ed to 1'inero or llervieu or soine- uoiiy otron-. "v'hat iu It?" a guest asked, eagerly. "My hen ine," said Mr. Ade, "is a bru ti.it in tlie first act and a blonde iu th A Clerical Hetort. At a certaJn church it Is the custom at a marriage for the clergyman to kiss the Uelscn .uto Ccrnpanjs "Flodlr Third 'teie William Jennings Bryan once Joked about I't'de after the ceremony. A young woman our A merit an fondness fur iltles. who' was about to be married in the " You all know of the eulonel," he said, chtiien ilid not relish the prospect, and "who gut his title by inheritance, laving instiucted her prospective husband to tell married Colonel IJrown's widow. Hot 1 oiicn the clergy man that she did not wish him met a general who ot his title neither by to kiss her. The bridegroom did as di- lnheiitance, nor by service, nor by anything retted. "Well. Ueorge," said the young ou could mention. woman when he appeared, "did you tell " 'General," 1 aald to him, 'how do you the clergyman that 1 did not wlah him to come by this title of yours, ant-way?' kiss, me?" "Oh. yes." "And what did ""Why. sir.'.. eaid lie. 'I passed my youth he say?" "He sa.d that in that caae ha in the flour Hade and for twenty -act tii would charge 01. ly half the usual fee." tais was a general millei.' Loi.don Vanily Fair,