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t Page 2 Summer Nebraskan Tuesday, July 11, 196T . Soiver of Gold Spirit of People State Ca istorical Society Welcome Visitors 'Nebraska Place-Names' Tells When a Crick Becomes a Stream oitoL H 4 : t . 't ; i ; i - V; - i (Mil i If I I i v J . ' NEBRASKA STATE CAPITOL .. A quick tour of the Nebras ka State Capitol can be both entertaining and informative. In 20 minutes, one is im pressed even awed by the grandeur of the building. This magnificent edifice, built at a cost of $10 million on a "pay-as-you-go" plan, was completed in 1932. It is rated by 500 of the world's outstanding architects as the 4th most beautiful building in the world. Structurally, the building stands 432 feet high, including the well-known golden Sower statue. Its length and width are both 437 feet;, and the grounds cover 4 square blocks. Capitol Commission A Nebraska Capitol C o Ad mission was appointed in 1919 to set up a competition to choose architectural plans. The winner of the competi tion was Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue. Although thd state ' capitol building was to be designed after the national capitol, Goodhue's radically different plans won the unanimous ap proval of the judges. . " This building houses t h e state's governmental officers, with elected officers working on the second floor and ap pointed officers on the f i r s t floor. Over 1,800 people work at the capitol, with about 50 dif ferent state departments con ducting business there. The capitol has a complete symbolic scheme worked out, making it an artistic unit. Around the outside of the structure are engraved the names of the counties in the State. Mosaics Inside, the theme of the mo saics, tile domes and ceilings is the principle of man's life as shown by his activities. Imported stones and woods exemplify the thought, are and consideration that went into the architectural master piece. The height of the rotunda to the beautiful dome is 112 feet, comparable to a 10-story building. The observation tow er which is located on the 14th floor of the capitol is the same height as a 22-story sky scraper. The view from the observation tower affords one a magnificent vantage point from which to scan the rolling hills of Nebraska. . ... Decoration of the capitol is still not complete. Murals were added in 1955, and ad ditional murals are now being planned. Visitors Tourists from all over come to see the capitol. On one day "jthe sgest,flegter might include names ' of visitors from Mexico, Michigan, Illi nois,' California, Oregon, Tex as and Oklahoma. Guided tourS are available Monday through Friday at 9, 10; 11 - ini the morning and. at V2, 3, and. 845 in the after noon! ; Then DbserraticD itawer is open from 8:30 to 11:20 in the morning and t: 15 to 4: 20 in the afternoon on ; week days, n n n: t : ' : ,. , 'V. The -tour begins with a swing through the governor's reception - room,- through the beautiful -halls, a glance at one of the four enclosed. gardens, a view of the rotunda, a look at the Unicameral and the old Senate chambers. The trip is concluded in the Supreme Court Room. In addition to the beauty of the building, expert guides supply detail and color mak ing the tour informative as well as entertaining. . Most aptly describing the capitol are the words from a booklet, published in 1926 by the Nebraska Capitol Com mission .V.'.i'U-'.W'.'" "The new Capitol of Ne braska represents the most vivid and. original concept ever thought out' for the field of American art. It is not only a creation but it is an ex pression, of Nebraska's; .put pose and ideals." Pool Ayailable ; The Coliseum swimming pool is available for women students Monday through Fri daylrpm 4-5p.nt. during the summer. Suits and towels are provided." for a 10 cent fee. A swimming permit from Student Health is required. What have become of Enterprise and Opportunity, Nebraska? How is Beatrice pronounced? Was Ogallala an Indian tribe? Why is Tecumseh named for an Ohio In dian? When does a "crick" become a stream or a river? What is the difference between a hill and a buttc? What does Dakota mean? The answers to the what, where, why and how of Nebraska names are given in the book, Nebraska Place-Naines by Lil lian L. Fltzpatrick, recently published by the University of Nebraska Press. According to this book, towns and coun ties In Nebraska are named for everything ranging from village sayings to cattle brands, from famous scientists to Indian legends. The five distinct classifications of Ne braska place names are: (1) those named after local geographical features, (2) those named after people, (3) those given foreign names, , (4) those given Indian names and words, (5) those named for miscellaneous things. Geographic Towns named after local geographic features are in the majority. Newman Grove received its name from a grove of cottonwoods owned by Newman Warren.' Just outside the village of Table Rock ."is a peculiar, large, flat-topped rock shaped like a table. Scottsbluff is named from a ridge or bluff which had been named for a moun- taineer, Hiram Scott, whose body was found at the foot of the bluff. Also in this category are towns named for animals and flowers which once abounded around their present sites. "Beaver City is located on a river where scores of beavers lived; Primrose and Roseland were once fields of wild roses, Many places are named after people ; the founding fathers, the first post-master, railroad officials, or nationally or interna tionally famous people. - . HuXleJ- carries the name of the English 1 biologist, Thomas Huxley. Horace in, Greeley County, honors Horace Greeley who is credited with the saying, "Go West 'young man' and grow up with the coun- . try.".. ;',... . Strang was named for A.L. Strang, a . local business man who presented the city with a windmill which, served as a source of water for many years. Foreign Places Many names have been transferred from foreign places. Immigrants from Czecho slovakia settled in east-central Nebraska and called their village Prague after the capital of their home country. Dannebrog was labeled in honor of the Danish flag. Farwell'was originally called Posen by its Polish inhabitants. Later, when the Danish people began to outnumber the Poles, the name was changed to Fanvell, a p'ay on a l)?n!s!i word for goodbye mean ing "goodbye Posen". Indian words and legends have -had a Sreat influence in Nebraska names. Oma ha has a very significant meaning of '"Upstream stream, upstream people, or above all others upon a stream." This showed the tribe's social standing. Wives Wept French explorers called what is today . "Weeping Water'- "L'Eau qui. Pleure." which means "the water that weeps." Ah Indian legend told of the abduction of the beautiful daughter of a chief by a neighbor ing tribe. Inthe pursuit many were killed. The wives of the dead warriors wept so long that their tears were said to have formed a river. , An early settler, Isaac Pollard, chose the name Nehawka , because it was an Indian name easy to pronounce although its meaning "rustling water" had nothing . to do with the village. Nebraska has a number of original or coined, names which show ingenuity and imagination. Macy is the shortened form of the original name, Omaha Agency. Enola is the backwards spelling (with the first letter dropped) of the name of its founder, T. J. Malone. An old German immigrant who lived in the northeast corner of the state used to answer all questions with, "Why not?" The children and later the adults took up the saying. When it became time to name the town someone quipped, "Why not call it Whynot?" The idea caught on, and we now have Wynot, Nebraska. Two factions battled over a railroad station site. The side which won named the place, Winside. HOrsefoot and Keystone are two towns bearing cattle brand names. Future The future of a town was sometiaes con sidered in choosing a name. Magnet was so named because it was to "draw people toward the town as the magnet stone draws iron." Banner County was to be come the banner or leading county, while Garden County was to be a "garden spot.'' The junction city of Alliance was so named because it would be near the head of an alphabetical list of the;towns of the state. ; The name of one town, is a mistake. The ' people on the north fork of the Elkhorn River decided to call their town Nctr'fork, When the post office department received this name they thought it had been mis spelled so chcanged it to Norfolk. And the name of Nebraska Itself comes from the Indian word "Nibthaska" which means "fat water "t-the broad flat water of the Platte River which crosses the state. 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Although Nebraskans as a rule spend little time dwelling on the merits of their home state, much less describing them to others, we do possess a heritage that is as interest ing and exciting as that of many of our more outspoken neighbors. The Nebraska State His torical Society is just the place to discover this heri tage. The amount of informa tion available there is almost overwhelming to the firs t- time visitor and the continual changes provide something new each time for the fre quent visitor. Panorama Immediately upon entering the first floor foyer of the building, the visitor is greeted with a panoramic view of Ne braska. By means of displays arranged chronologically and viewed through curved glass panels, the history of Nebras ka unfolds, beginning with Folsom man, who lived here almost 10,000 years ago, con tinuing through the plains Indians, the coming of t h e white man, the first settle ments, the era of the Nebras ka cattlemen, and the recent progress in conservation, ir rigation and crop improve ment. The remaining two galleries on the first floor are elabor ations of the panels in the foyer. The Indian gallery traces Indian culture in Nebraska from the arrival of the noma dic hunter from Siberia to the tragedy of Wounded Knee (the end of the great India'n tribes in Nebraska) in 1890. Here the visitor can see how various plains Indians- Cheyenne, Pawnee, Oto, Ara pahoe, Omaha and others cooked their food, buried their dead, and fought their wars, as well as what the Indian brave wore to war and how the young maiden dressed to successfully catch the eye of the brave. Showmen Display There are also displays of the cavalrymen, the buffalo hunters and Nebraska's first showmen Buffalo Bill Cody and Omaha Charlie Bristol. The land was the magnet! which attracted settlers to! this country of monotonous prairie and climatic extremes. The Pioneer Gallery shows where these first settlers came from, who they were, how they came and how they lived afier they had arrived. Three-dimensional displavs depict the Indian tradin? in the general store and the" lire of the Nebraska cowboy. TJtere are also displavs of early Nebraskans' clothes, household furnishings and schools, as well as pictures and information about Nebras ka's first towns, the establish ment of the University and a display of famous Nebraskans in the fields of business, en tertainment, sports and poli tics. As in the Indian Gallery the Pioneer Gallery presents a complete and chronological picture of the white settlers' development in Nebraska ranging from a display of Fort Atkinson in 1819 to the military installations at LAFB in 1960. The basement of the His torical Society houses Collec tors' Lane, a series of ex hibits of items such as glass ware, guns, knives, dolls and china, commonly collected by hobby enthusiasts. Part of the second floor is devoted to complete replicas of four period rooms in Ne braska: a colonial bedroom, a parlor, the interior of a sod house and an average living room around the turn of the century. Library The remainder of the sec ond floor is occupied by an excellent reference library composed of books, manu scripts, archives, newspapers, genealogical materials and photographs related to t h e history of Nebraska and the West. According to Dr. John B. White, director of the library and archives, the Historical Society Collection contains ap proximately 45,000 books: 26. 000 bound volumes of Nebras ka newspapers, including an additional 6000 feet of micro film and newspapers dating from 1854 on; 75,000 photos of Nebraska scenes; and hun dreds of thousands of other manuscripts. Among these are the offi cial correspondence of all of the recent governors of Ne braska, the papers of Senator Hugh Butler and the official documents and diaries of J. Sterling Morton. On merely one of the six different levels of stacks in the library, it is possible to una imormaiion ranging trom the 1892 edition of the e- braska Farmer to the blue- Continued on Page 4 Golds or NEIRASKA Mas M9H or ivii'tMfMr, FOR THE DOG-GONE SHARP MAN FAMOUS HUSH PUPPIES SHOES! Slip-ons . . . ofreal plfsktn with erep soles tn4 heels. They're soil resistant, water repellent, and wearable all season. 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