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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 4, 1914)
TIIE OMAILV SUNDAY BEE: OCTOBER 4, 1914. Ak-Sar-Ben Offerings of South Omaha's Most Progressive Merchants South Omaha Justifies by Results Its Full Right to Be Called the Magic City K Every Day is Bargain Day I 2 n I You onn always find pood bargains in ; j j. i: u i '. W t: : i Vi II : j !! m ti '5: X I : r ft 6 4,.. FURNITURE ' CARPETS HARDWARE PAINT GLASS i AT Koutsky Pavlik Co. South Omaha. Neb. The Home of Quality and Price. One Purchase Will Convince. Mrs. I .,.,,, W-tHIMM' 1 ' .' 1 . "'J.JJ . " . N. IN. I Mill - if'k. ,.?! J 1 I - f - - -- ...... " 77E SCHLITZ CAFE Short Order a Specialty REGULAR DINNER 33c. SERVED FROM 11:00 TO 2:80. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. nAR CONNECTION. 28th and O St. Phone So. 8190. SHERMAN, Prop. BOB T ATLOR . Tayl or & PLUMPING AND HEATING COMPANY ESTIMATES CHEERFULLY GIVEN. 0 YEARS ELX PKRIKNCK. Telephones I So. TOO Baa. Bo. SOS1. Clt Vortk Mtk' It. SOUTH CHfaWa. Pnrity, QuaJlty THE TASTE TELLS GoldstrWs Straight Pure Whiskey Tna eonatant Aaaand for our 139 per en fitraJeht WhUkey haa placed ua In a poaltloi to alva you tha beat value for the nuny. I'm r ta you the beat value fur the nuny. 1 me wmakay la a fine mellow whlakey. lie in one-gallon aleea botUea. with yeara of bualneaa guarantee behind It. Ir medlral uae and purity It hae no equal. Every bottle hae tha green atamp wltb 10 per rent ' proof on eame to aeatire you that we want to give you fine quality Whlakey. All wo aak In a trial order. 1'alronlsa your home market. Why aend away fur your ltquora whrn you ' can get the aame at hoineT Wo give prompt delivery. All gtxxle ahlpped la plain boxea aame day on receipt of order. Dou't delay. Order today. LAM AJTD OOVB-tCmaw Wm BACK OkDBa. Ooldatrom'a Mtralgkt 4-year-old WUakay. 1-gal. Bottle izraiai rmxrAXB I-gal. Jii or Iwo 1-gal. bottiea f 0.00 1-gaL rug or keg B-TS e-aal. keg or five 1-Kal. Jim. 13.78 Ordera for Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho, Bortn and onto Dakota, Montana, Oregon aad Weaataatoa maet call for galloaa or more to bo prepaid. To euatomera dealrlng qaaatl tUa of thla Wkiakey, by tha barrel or half ' barrel, we wtU make apeolal prtoea. free. I quart wine or btackoerry with aah gallon order until October 10. Sol. S. Goldstrom Dist. Co. IVOX 06, HOUTII rue rr G. L. Braxllrj, Pree. and Tree. cmm .4A4. n - i i i i a. w . Louis Bradford Lumber Company Wholesale and retail LUMBER, LATH, SHINGLES, ETC Off! '90th and O Sts. f f FiliU1 Plumbing, Heating & Construction Oo. GENERAL CONTRACTORS OKPICE AND SHOW ROOMS 210-12 NORTH 24T1I ST SOUTH OMAHA PHONE MUTll . III ' DRAPERIES STOVES WALL PAPER X. B. Carter acr. rui c&edd Big Hats the Real Style Onr etoea: newest la Sonth OmUfc It la simply bower of beanty and weeltk. We opened la oar n.w location twUmbtf lit. While onr atook la tne cUlst money on liny Our Price .Are Car Price Because onr atock la aaw, dont e mislead abont onr prices. Wi oaa aetiafy yon atria, UiM and alao parse. Le Royal Hat Shop awd DXKSKMAxnra rABim Fiona South 1MB. B. Mtk St. , ,' . . v v- d It? MICHAEL Michael Age 100. per cent urn , put up by 1th our li our Cotbrtrom'i $3.20 ay , ' "7.tl? "TMlJf'iVJraT 0U1IA, NERRABKA A. BAKICE t Bakery and Restaurant ire iTfeun iianuiacturvT. 433 North 24th Street. Telephone South 197. Confection. Bakkea X.naoh S erred. Paul Rradley, See'y. Telephone South 234. J South Omaha la a city of 3,000 'ople, of which only one-tenth are American born. It la what la termed a packing town, and Ita population la largely of the laboring rlaaa, and largely of a foreign-born element The government of the town la largely rcpreacntatlva of the Population. To a great extent It la In tha handa of the native born Americana, who are making the fight to mold the total population Into tha thrifty, pro greealve, thoroughly American town. The tank la not an eaay one, for here you have a many nationalities repre sented as the most cosmopolitan! city In th world. It used to be In America that New York, Ban Francisco, Boston, New Orleans and Baltimore were aa connted the cosmopolitan eltlea per ex cellence. I.nter Chicago attracted the wave of foreign Immigrants, and from Chicago came the Initial foundlnga of tha foreign colonies which today occupy a large part of South Omaha. Hera wltbln tha radlua of a few hundred acres one can find members of every tribe and nationality under tha aky. Living In neighborhood colonics, these foreigners, to a great extent, seek to maintain their Individuality and the manners of their native lands. Here you will find tha races of tha north of Europe, which quickly Inter marry and amalgamate with the native born. Her also you will find tha Im migrants from the south of Europe, dif ficult to handle and for generations main taining their national traits and Indi vidualities as against tha persistent In fluences of American education. Line, of Racial Cleavage. You will find, for example, tha Japan ese living In a colony by himself In tha west of tha packing center. You will find the Greeks and tha Roumanians, tha Berba, tha Albanians and tha Austrian, each all maintaining the tines of tha old world nationalities. You wllk find the Ruaa, tha Bohemian, tha Pole, tha Llthunlan, tha Belgian, tha Italian, tha Irish, the English and tha German all represented In South Omaha. You will find tha Turk and tha Chines. Only now and again will you come across the Frenchman, but you will find him. To the native born of the city baa fallen the lot of welding thia mass Into such shape that It may easily be amalgamated Into American cltlienahlp. Not easily successful Is tha effort, because of the great preponderance' of foreign-born, but slowly and by steady, persistent steps the great school system of South Omaha Is meeting the problems of cosmopolitan ism that threaten or encourage, aa you look at tha matter. The government of South. Omaha Is representative of the laboring town that it la To a large extent tha present off!' olala are American by birth. Mayor Thomas Hoctor la tha son of an Irish father and a Oerman mother. It la pos sible his heritage that, has made him able ta see and meet tha questions that confront him daily in the administration of a cosmopolitan city. School mm4 Cfcnrek laflneeee. South Omaha and Ita officials have used tha great lever of the schoola and ehurchea to bring about a better order of 'hlngs. Slowly the change comes, but It loes come at last Immigrants of few ears back today own and occupy neat merlcan homes, bought and paid for ut of the meager earnings as packing ouse employes. On the othfr hand, your oriental and Immigrants from the Levant prove the i stumbling block In the progress of tha city. Seldom property owners, they have become a menace to tha more thrifty working classes of tha town. Working for leaser wages than American work men and tha better class of foreigners demand, the orientals and tha Immi grants from tha Levant have acquired a foothold In South Omaha which has dona much to keep tha city from reach ing Ita fullest growth. Where a Bohe- maJn or a Oerman or an Irish immigrant will build a home and establish his fam ily as American In a generation, orientals and near srlentals will work for less money, live In squalor and send hun dreds of thousands of dollars out of the city. And yet despite all thla South Omaha has grown to be the suburb most dealr aoie 10 oraana, rrom which It la now eepatrated by a political line only. In thirty years South Omaha has acquired bualness and property valued at many millions of dollar It haa a packing center that It the second largest ir the world. It has five banks, whose weekly clearings place It among the first cities of the United States, It enjoya the same lighting system, tha same water system ana in same street car service aa Omaha. It has more than thlrty-flv miles of paved atreeta and alleys and Is now occupied In putting In more paving It has a city hall and jail building which, while not large. Is modern In every re spect. Tha north and of South Omaha, Is populated by Amert can-born residents almost exclusively. Here some of the prettiest homes la the two Omaha are to be found. Growth for the Better. A few yeara ago the city waa centered about what la now Twenty-sixth and Twenty-eeventh and N streets. Today the bualneaa of tha city la transacted at Twenty-fourth and N street There Is much, room for Improvement to be sure, uur inings grow natter ns time goes along and the South Omaha of today Is fr" Mayes Serum Company U. S. Veterinary License No. 20 POTENT ANTI-CHOLERA SERUM Wc want a live representative in every county. Write us when in need of serum that will protect 108 Exchange Building. faf and away representative of American opportunity and weetern push. As Mayor Tom Hoctor puts it: "We are not angels here In South Omaha, and our Interpreta tion of some lawa may be a hit liberal, but wa have steadily progressed as we Some Features of Life in South Omaha in Days Gone By and Now South Omaha ie cosmopolitan, and there fore Interesting. Its story is as varied aa the lives of those who come and go. Within Its gates you may find the salt of the earth, and soma who may have lost their savor. On the surface It Is not unlike the typical western town. You have tlie residential section with Its tidy American homes and well kept lawns. You have tha ehurchea and the schools, and the fresh baked brick of Its building block Step across a street, go around a corner and you are In the midst of an alien land, thousands of miles away from America. So with tha men you meet there. The twang of the Yankee and tha drawl of the southerner la there. The quick wit and the merry laugh cf the Irishman la frequent The Jovla) German and the musical children of Queen Carmen's land commingle with the Jarring discord of the northern tribes, and the atrangeness of tha oriental tongue. And with all the strangeness of the lingual dleoord Is not mora strange than the story of South Omaha, Its ups and downs and the his tory of Its early days. Talea of Days Gone By. The pioneers will tell you strange things of the early days In South Omaha, Politically for Instance they'll tell you of the first mayor of South Omaha, Colonel B. P. Savage. Colonel Savage had a way of marshaling his forces not strictly in accord with "Robert's Rules of Order. It Is said of him that he once convened a county convention vl et arrala. When tha convention grew restive the doughty colonel unllmbered a healthy pair of "forty-fives" and advised the convention delegates that It would be dangerous to leave the assembly. Nobody left Lu Gibson, who le now one of the lead ing real eatate men of this section, waa also a witness of some of the early doings In Bouth Omaha. When Lu first came to Sooth Omaha Daniel O'Connell was Justice of the peace and Incidentally held his court back of a saloon. In those days the saloons closed only to give the bar keep a few minutes' nap. O'Connell one day had a bad man up before him. Ha sentenced the man to thirty daya In the county Jail, holding a gun In tha prisoner s face the while be Imposed the sentence. Tha prisoner vilified the Judge and dared him to Increase the penalty. O'Connell made it sixty days, and under continued provocation raised the limit until ha had Imposed a sentence of one year. Still he kept hla man covered. Then a lawyer came In and got the culprit released upon habeas corpus proceedings because the Judge had exceeded the speed limit In Im peding sentence. One of Johsi Brlsrar' Bspej-feaeee. In the early days the police were not always above suspicion. Chief Brlggs tell a story of bis early daya In South Omaha. I wa en my wey home one night" aald Brlgga, "whan I heard someone fol lowing me. I did not carry a gun. but I pretty Bandy with my flata. I stooped down to tie my shoe and so caught sight of two men. The star on one of them told ma It waa the police. They halted me and wanted to go through me. Then there was a fight That nUxht I did not go home, but walked around town hunting poUcemen. They were scarce after the two would-be holdups bad been hauled Into the police atation. Another tuna I caught a policeman robbing a poor blind man near Twenty- fifth and U atreots. I butted la and the cod called out the police force to trim me. 1 told them they could lock me up If they wanted to but they could not beat me or the blind man up. I was not locked up. Colonel Savage as an administrator was there all the tune. Once he sent for the police and gave thla order: "When I send you to arrest a mast I expect you to bring him in. Bring htm In alive If you can but bring him In." How Tons Hector Won. Tom Hoctor can also tell some few yarns of South Omaha when ha will. For Instance Hoctor waa once nominated for city clerk, his first office. He waa "gun shy" so to speak. His opponent for the nomination an older man, was making the usual speech replete with promises of the mlllenlum If he should happen to be elected. Hoctor waa at tha meeting and while his opponent was making his speech Hoctor thought of a funny story which set him laughing. The crowd called on him for a speech and he told the story. The crowd liked it and Hoctor was nomi nated, Newspaper Me of Old Daya, Another South Omaha man who could tell of the early days le Bruce McCulloch. editor of the 8tockman-Journal and the story teller par excellence of the Magic City. McCulloch has watched the city grow from a way station to a metropolis. Ha knew and can tell you of every character worth knowing In the Magic City. He, with Gens Mayfleld. Jesse Click. John M. Tanner, Samuel P. Brigham, J. B. MacMurphy. Henry Richmond. J. B. Erion, W. C. Root and Henry Murpby went nlonK, and if the treatment has siicreoile.l so far It will not prove a fail ure - now. South Omaha Is a packing town. But It Is a good town, and we are gradually making good American citlxens here In the melting pot of nations." were the pioneers of the newapaper world, of the Magic City. MacMurphy and Click are dead and ISrlrhma, Erlon and Root are gone, but the rest are respected clti cens of South Omaha. Henry Murphy, no"v city attorney, waa once a newspaper publisher in South Omaha, The paper was made up in Omaha and then aent to South Omaha to be printed. Henry ran a republican paper which was not exactly popular n South Omaha. Subscribers were few and far between. When pay day came Henry waa willing to write the checka for hla workmen, but the latter developed a most persistent liking for coin of the realm. In such atralta tha paper had to auspend publication until auch time aa tha editor could raise the funds. He fi nally disposed of the paper with the assistance of his copy boy. Lew Etter, now superintendent of malls In Bou'h Omaha, was a member of the early day builders. Ho ran a grocery store and later a cigar store. Lew took up politics as offering the best chance for a scrap. He was a republican, to make assurance doubly sure. On election days his duty waa to make the round of the polls where the roughest element congregated. In those days It took long and most delicate diplomatic work to assure safe conduct to the man who wanted to vote the republican ticket In South Omaha. Lew was the dlplomate Later when the tide changed Lew be came the republican leader until he re tired from politics. But those days are gone In South Omaha. The packing housea and the stock yards have brought many men who have helped to make tha city a better place to live In. The power of the law less element has gradually dwindled un til it Is now a negligible quantity. The face of the city haa changed too. What was once an Impassable morass between N and J streets from Twenty-fourth and east has become the main thoroughfare of the city, covered with business blocks. Steadily the city has been moving for ward and the spirit of the old adventu rous times has passed before the modern way of doing things and the Maglo City Is coming Into Ita own. Anti-Hog Cholera Serum . The modern scientific treat ment for tha prevention of Hog Cholera ' Endorsed and advocated by the U. 8. Dept. of Agriculture. The vaccination of hoga for tha freventlon of Hog Cholera haa ong passed the experimental stage. This treatment where yOl'EIT SITBUat haa been prop erly applied, baa proved1 to be Just as practical and satisfactory as similar method used In treating human belnga. The O. X. SBBXTK CO., recently vaccinated 4,000 head stock hogs In the U. & Yards. South Omaha, Neb., with a loss of less than one per cent ' Tha same company haa vaccin ated thousands of hogs In the country districts with equal re sult. It 1s very Important that rOTSBT SEBUM be used and the only way to obtain thla Is by In stating on serum produced by a company operating under a U. S. government license. YoU will be satisfied with re sults from use of O. K. SEBUM prepared uncVr U. 8. Government License No. (3. Wa recommend the Simultane ous method only. O.K. SERUM C i WBXTB US TOB nrrOBMATlOB SOUTH OatABA. BEB. Office a5S Exohang. Petersen & Michelsen I1ARDVJAHE 2408 N Rtrret. Phone So. 163 A first class Hardware Store where you can get anything you want and at right' prices. PLENTY OF MEN TO DO YOUR BID DING. : : : Finest Line of Stoves in the City. South Omaha, Neb, Johnson & Son, Sncoeesor to Johnson at Karl qui st. -wwT "e' w A Thought for the Furniture Buyer... We are now In the midst of the season where the thoughtful housekeeper la going to add some new pieces of Furniture In the home. We wish to state that our line of Bedroom, Dining Room and Parlor Furniture consists of the best quality and most tip-to-date patterns to be found in any house furnishing store at prices that will appeal to you. All we ask Is a visit to our store and the goods and prices will do the reet. We are sole agents for the celebrated Bucks Stoves and Ranges. Every stove a winner and absolutely guaranteed; every purchase from us means a saving to you. See us before you buy.. Reliable Furniture To keep your lce box clean and sanitary yon must have SOUTH OMAHA ICE CO. ICE AND COAL J. W. GRIBBLK, President Office Phone South 78. Brown Park Mineral Springs Baths . WE CURE RHEUMATISM ft: llllii Como and Visit a Health Resort at Home. 20 YEARS' EXPERIENCE AT HOT SPRIRfiS, ARK. Take Grosstown Gar To 25th and 0 Sts., South Omaha G. 3. Concannon, Lesseo rBBB BABY AUTO BOAVBDZJTO Br ABXB CABBT gS TOB A OB Or iU USDS AUTOKOBrXJBS VAffUD OXXKaU UTKBT BUBXBBSS Back Cans Say or Bight STAR LIVERY BARN Suco.ssor ta K. K. BUVHTBO JAMXa A, ABBBBSOB. TTOp. HORSK8 ItOl'OJHT, SOI4 A YD EXCHANGED rBOaCPT AJTD SA.TX8TAOTOBT innn Mth aad JT Ste Tel. Sonta 73. rr Phone So. 220. BRAXDES BLDCJ-, 2320 N ST. P. J. BOYCE BUFFET Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars THE HOME OP FIRST CLASS GOODS." SOUTH OMAHA, NEB, B. X. HOWL1ID, ?Wf. B. 0. STUBBOCX, Seoy. O. a TABXUBAB, Vloa-Bras. and Treaa. E. H. Howland Lumber & Coal Co, LUMBER and COAL 1T BOBTB TWBBTT-rOlTBTX ST, Between & and at. Offlee Telephone So. 7 Yard Telephone So. 8s. SOUTH OnEABLA. South Omaha Van & Transfer Co. FRED C. BEVERAGE, Prop. No Job Too Biff; No Job Too Small Always competent men sent. Our service is the very best. Try us. Phone South 14 621 North Twenty-fourth Street, South Omaha. When You Want Style, Quality, Comfort YOU BUST BUT INNER COMFORT SHOES We are aole agents in South Omaha for these famous, world wide advertised shoe. , Ail onr Fell and Wlntsr Stoek of Latest Lasts for man, women and children are now on display. 405 N. 24th St, So. Omaha . . h T. , aBeat IMiaBia fc aY, seTB.afc ..aaJaf Co., 313 North 24th Street How Do You Know OUR ICE IS PURE? Try It-Find Out O. A. GRIRBLE, Treeurarer. Yard Phone South DO. Gents' department open day and night. Ladies' department daily; Sunday till. 12 o'clock. Today we add more help to our ladies' department and Trill give quicker and better service. 1 UTX1T BOBTBS tOXTm WABB3D MOTIBO ana B 1T.T. xxnrna ft iirr.rm BOUTK OnULKA, JJ JJ .J a