Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, July 30, 1905, Page 4, Image 23
Jul SO, 1905. Electric Street Railway Brings Joy, and Recreation to the Aultitudes TITE OMAITA ILLUSTRATED REE. Hot For Street Cr Ride. ET'8 take a itreet car ride." If we take It over any of the lines that gridiron Omaha and radiate out from It these beautiful nummer days or equally oeiiclotm evenlnire, we mill reallio that there are undiscovered vista of beauty and en joyment In and about the city of which the average Inhabitant hardly dreams. "Let s take a street car ride." Pew people fully realise what this means, A street cur ride brings to the ordinary person of moderate means an opportunity to secure rest and recreation for himself, his wife and his children for a few cents for which he would have to pay many d 1 lars hut for the Invention of the electric trolley. With a street car at their dis posal Omaha householders can stay at home through the heated season, enjoying all the comforts and conveniences of their own house and at the same time by Judici ously planned outings and picnics, have all the benefits of a summer resort. ' "Let's take a street car ride." In almost any ulrectlon you may go In or out of Omaha, If he have but the observ atlve eye for color and ensemble, and the soul to appreciate loveliness, he will find that nature has been Indeed lavish In spreading her charms of woodland and meadow, of hill and stream, all about him. .Beauty Spots Around Omaha. It is no exaggeration to say that painter has never spread on canvas more entranc ing views for the real lover of nature than may be found at many spots within close reach. And none of these haunts of out door beauty are far enough away from the car lines to necessitate a fatiguing walk. All are quite handily located, accessible and safe dny and night. Passengers in and out on the Benson line will readily recall . some of the de lights that greet the eye at almost every turn. There are few more satisfying pros pects lying out of doors than those offered at the . Country club. The comfortable looking mansion, with appropriate and 'n jpresslve settings, suggests leisure and yet Is redolent of Joyous life. With Its well kept path, ornate spread of vegetation In the way of flower and fern and hedge and rolling lawn, this play place of the golfer and the automohllist is Indeed a pleasure to look at. The passerby on the street car may enjoy all the pleasures of the place Indirectly and will hardly tire of the views that open to his admiring gaze at very new turn of the track. That retreat of sylvan loveliness, Bemls park. Is also on this line, and for its extent is one of the very prettiest parks to be found anywhere. Located In the midst of a residence section, it yet has all the ear marks of nature's own handiwork. To look through Bemls park to the high ground be yond, where handsome homes are sur rounded by generous lawns, is to get a glimpse of summer fairyland. And even in winter this spot presents pictures for the eye that are dazzling almost beyond de scription. After passing Bemls the traveler may feast his eye on a real farm In city sur roundings. There are forty acres of roll ing? land bearing the ordinary farm crops and In the foreground Is a typical old farm house with all the surroundings of such a place. Sylvan 'radicate Park. If we. stay 011 a South Omaha car with destination at Albright we pass through the centers of Omaha and South Omaha from the country side, to the hum and bustle of the city street, and then out again Into Some Tersely and Timely The FUhtlnK Chaplain. OLONEL' CHARLES W. LARNET was talking at West Point about a famous and .venerable army chaplain. "A braver and more upright man never lived." Colonel Lamed said. "During the civil war he was In the thick of many a . fierce engagement. He com forted the wounded, cheered on the brave and put new spirit Into the faint-hearted. "He was once distributing cartridges In the midst of a hot fight. As he approached a certain company he heard a black bearded private swearing at the enemy. "'Blank them! the man was saying, 'dash blank the ' "But the chaplain Interrupted this stream of blasphemy. " 'You shouldn't speak like that, friend.' he said. "Then he handed the man a packet of cartridges, adding: " "Don't curse them. Shoot them, shoot them.' "Buffalo Enquirer. Governor Marcos Morton's Rents. , The late Governor Marcus A. Morton, whose old home In Taunton Is now the Mor ton hospital, was aa careless In his dress aa he was punctual In collecting bis rents. It was no uncommon sight to see him walking the streets without stockings, the expanse iri n i i , The mm mm Stay at Home the rural regions. Such a changing pano rama of sce"- sound and prospect Is hardly to tw "M In any other twelve mile stretch ofhreet car travel. And to enjoy It costs a nickel! Ten cents for a round trip, comprising such pleasures of travel and of sight as would have cost many, many dollars a generation ago! Verily, modern folk are lucky beyond the dreams of the pioneers. By boarding one of the big cars with the fierce headlights headed for South Omaha one can have the conductor l"t him off at the very edge of Syndicate park. Here Is nature unadorned Und In her most pleasing aspect. Faun and satyr never disported themselves In more lovely surroundings of forest and grassy lawn. One Is quite ready at spots to hearken for the sound of the pipes of Pan. Here Is wild woodland vista and flower spangled forest glade wherein the lover of poetic conceit may allow his fancy to play at will. "Lakes of beauty softly sleeping" offer no more restful or en trancing Inspiration than the glades and hillsides of Syndicate park, broken as they are by watery reaches of more or less depth and reflecting momentarily the shift ing shadows of the passing sunshine. Re flection and retrospection may alike be here Indulged in beauteous solitade or ' along the traveled walks, where each seems busy with his own. Syndicate park will unfold new delights to old and young if they will but visit It at the proper times. Glories of Fort Omaha. In an opposite direction lies beautiful Florence, to reach which the passenger, must change cars at Twenty-fourth and Ames avenue. In a moment, as It were, we get off the paved street onto the dirt road, are immersed In the drone and the cent of the country lane and Inhale the world-long familiar odor of the upturned oil and the growing crops. Along the road side are the flowers and the grasses of childhood' precious memory, and stretch ing away to the . hazy horizon are far reaches of prairie and copse. Interspersed. between the bottom of his trouser legs and his ioes revealing that fact to the public. One day as the governor passed down the street a flutter of white beneath his coat tails gave mute testimony of the need of re pairs in which his trousers stood. In a group of Idlers was a wag who was also one of the governor's tenants. "Great horn spoons!" he shouted, as the governor passed, "I never knew Governor Morton let his rents get so far behind!" Boston Herald. The Biblical Examination. Dr. R. J. Baldwin, secretary of the South ern Educational conference, patted a little Mobile colored boy on the head. "This little boy," he said, "failed in an examination last week. It was an examina tion on the Bible and the first question the teacher asked was: " 'How many commandments are there T "The little boy thought a while and then he answered: " 'A hundred. "'A hundred! No, of course not,' said the examiner. That . will do for you. " ''And the little boy went out sadly. He had failed. "But he hung about the building and In halt hour another boy appeared. He was on the way to the examination, too. He asked the boy who had failed what ques Largest Electrical Sign in Omaha, at Sixteenth and Harney Streets Advertising the AllTallow Soap that Means White, Sweet, Clean CiothesThe Best All' Around Laundry Soap People Now j 6 BEAUTIFUL OUTLOOK AT FLORENCE, NOW EABILT ACCESSIBLE) BT ' " . .. PICNIC GROUNDS among the farmsteads are homes fronted by lawns and surrounded by bush and flower bed. The city transplanted to the country, or nature's wild-scented attrac tions brought to the city home, which you will! Fort Omaha old Fort Omaha of glorious memory! Is passed on this trip to Florence, going and coming. After many years of tions had been put to htm, and the un happy failure answered: " 'The teacher wanted to know how many commandments there were. What will you say when he asks you that?" " 'I'll say ten," was the reply. "The boy who had failed laughed ' loud and lon. " Ten! he cried. 'Well,' Just try him with your ten. I tried him with a hun dred, and he wasn't satisfied.' "--Cincinnati Enquirer. The Seashore! the Stave. Henry B. Dixey was talking at the Lambs' club about Turkish baths, which the newspapers at that time were con demning as unhealthy. ,"I overhoard the other day," said Mr. Dlxey. "a Turkish bath conversation be tween a young and beautiful girl and her mother. " "My dear,' the mother said, 'this 1 a rather big bill for Turkish baths. Why do you go there so often?" I "The young woman answered: " 'Where else can a girl go who has nothing to wear?' "New York Times. The Beeentrle Depositor. H. A. Fuller, toastmaster at the annual banquet of the Pennsylvania bankers' con vention In Wllkesbarre last month, Intro Have All the , v . - ..'is- y AT SYNDICATE PARK. ON SOUTH OMAHA CAR LINE, neglect and slow-moving decay the old camping ground of, dead and gone warrior Is now undergoing a rehabilitation that will make .It. shine .resplendaut the borne of -the wlg-wag man. He Is the eye and the ear of the fighting man, and a most excel lent development In . modern i soldiering. This will soon be a show place' of merit to be added to the many attractions of Omaha. duced with this story the banker who re sponded to the toast, "Our Depositors." "A depositor In a neighboring trust com pany Is an eccentric farmer of middle age. This farmer, though he is wealthy, over drew his account one day' to the tune of 00. "Notification of the overdraft was at once sent to htm. "He replied: " 'You tell me that I have overdawn my , account 1000. Well. I know it. Bo what is .the necessity of bothering me about It? Why not trust me aa I do you? Do I go to ypu when I have money in your Institution and shout: "You have $600 of mine?" Such statements are eujierfiuous either way.' " Philadelphia Ledger.. The Fat Drnmer. At a dinner given in New York In Walter Damrosch's honor, the musician said: "The arts tend to spiritualize us." "How true that Is." said Mr. Damrosch's neighbor. "Fat people, fat painters, tat musicians, fat dramatists, don't exist, do they?" , "I don't believe they do," said Mr. Dam rosch.. Then, smiling, he went on: "Did you ever hear of the Dubuque drum mer who waa discharged?" "No, never," said the neighbor. "Well," began Mr. Damrosoh, "there was a drummer In a Dubuque band who had , Told PTn 1 1 fpTl HEP fc IIIM Willis J - - I i l-lslllsWil z. . h u yj ic s) : - ra? ? ran Benefits of Summer Resorts ' ELECTRIC STREET RAILWAY. Passing the fort, we move on between farm fences, and as we pass we may note the hive of the worker than whom there is no greater save the ant. Just now he is Improving each shining hour to the full and the traveler enjoys with the bee the clover odor and the breeze bearing the rummer ozone. A Tittle further along the biddy hen Is parading around In a big drummed faithfully for over twenty years He waa never absent from his post of duty, he was never late or careless, and never, In fortissimo passages, did he spare himself in his attacks upon his drum. "Nevertheless, the leader of the band took this faithful servitor aside one day and sr.:i: " 'Brown, I'm sorry, but I shall have to dispense with your services. "It seemed to the unfortunate drummer that the bright sunlight turned a gloomy black. ""Why?" he gasped. . "The loader, a lean, aesthetic chap, frowned as he answered: " "Why? You ask me why? A man who has rot so fat he can no longer hit the middle of his drum asks me why ?" Buffalo Enquirer. Cow Didn't Look Well. Assistant Attorney General Charles H. Robb, who became famous for his work In running down the postal grafters a couple of years ago, began the practice of law in a small village In, Vermont. He knew all the people of the town, as well as most of the farmers In the surrounding country. "One day," said Mr. Robb, "a tall, lank Yankee, a veritable David Harum, came Into my office. It seems that he had got Tales yard as If she were really boss of the Job.' But over In one corner Is the mechanical wonder that does not belong to any union and has almost put the hen out of business, the brooding and sphinx-like Incubator. Still, the cackle, cackle, is there, and the Shanghai rooster struts about like a pan oplied champion who knows no rival. Some roosters are worth going miles to see. There are many such along the lines of the street cars, and they are not all wearing feathcrB, either. There are any quantity of "little roosters" In pants, who are a Joy to the soul of the man who once was a boy. The other kind don't count, anyway. $ Florence the Beatful. , Arrived at Florence, the traveler can alight and proceed to drink In views of field and river that will transport him far afield to the wonderful places he has read of. Coming down from the pinnacles of venseful pleasure thus attained, he can enter the plant of the water works company and be up against the most modern ma chinery, through whose operation a whole city full of people ts supplied with pure water. There Is also a very satisfying view of railroad, river and verdant banks to be had if you transfer on your way back. and go over the Ames avenue way toward South Omaha. Hovels and high bridges, rises and falls of land, moving trains and flashing river craft, are all comprehended In this view, which continues for blocks. Going west to Walnut Hill at sunset the traveler will enjoy such a picture as poets and painters have raved over and which will be ever new to the person with a soul for God's wonders. In the other direction transfer at Twenty-fcurth and Cuming and let the electric car take you to that wide spreading precinct of park perfection, Hanscom park. It is in large measure as nature left It; and right here nature may be proud of her work. Steep hillsides are' covered with verdure and adorned with real trees, Whitehall around the eye may rest on hlgh-sprlnglng fern And luscious looking grasses that tempt to a roll down Both Grim Into trouble as a result of trading a cow. He had succeeded In plamlng off on an unsuspecting neighbor an uncertain look ing animal which proved to be stone blind. In addition It was lean and run down gen erally. On finding that the cow couldn't see the farmer who had been Imposed upon brought suit against my client. I ques tioned the man. " 'Did you tell this farmer that the cow was blind?' " 'Indeed, I did,' protested my client, with a sheepish look, 'I told him that she didn't look well.' "Brooklyn Eagle. Dlest the Tie. Bishop Potter tells a story of a young minister who came to grief while deliver ing his first sermon. He had dressed under a great deal of excitement previous to entering the church and neglected to fasten his necktie down behind. During the course of his sermon the tie gradually slipped up over his collar, until nearly every one In the congregation noticed his predicament and smiled radiantly at the situation. Concluding his remarks the young minister, sparring for an opportunity to adjust the tie, said: "Let us Join In singing hymn No. 68." He had announced the hymn at random. 0 1 v hill regardlesa. Children are irfdeed In luck who can play In Ilanscom park, and grown observers niay there Bud much to cnthusa over. Rlverrletr Korlte. Rlvervlew park Is So large anil so full of chances for the lover of nature to get his fill of valley and of vlst.i that It must be seen to be really enjoyed. Winding patha take one Into dense Jungle and Into "open ings" where long lawns stretch away through Immense trees that are an absolute delight for the tired and grouchy denizen of a city house or the holder of a noisy Job. Here the visitor may be a primeval pilgrim in very trutn. ana innugn mere d thoui;ands about, he may walk alone. Rlv ervlew park is (.enormia In dimensions and cared for Just enough to be a real forest retreat for those who will. On the Council Bluffs line the traveler m-lll rta llirniih n 1 1 V n.l ( n f A I h. (..mnlrV, cross big waters and view from afar the modern engines of ihan's power, then Into the city again and still on Into the country once mure, through Ideal scenery, to famous and fascinating lUnawa. Such a trip is rarely to be found within the limits of a twenty-five cent, piece. It Is to renew life and energy to make It on a sweltering day. And to return In the evening is to be brought quite within the belief that a fairyland U U be scan and enjoyed for the seeking. The Summer Gardens. Courtlond Beach Is reached by pasjage through comfortable residence streets and by homes surrounded by flower gardens, a line of travel picturesque In the extreme, then into the fields again, alongside farm lands and pond and brake and bog; then a swing around a big circle In sight of the river, to the gates of aa pretty a small lake resort aa one would want to see. Krug park is reached by a trip from the center of the city quite to Its circumference. It has a wealth of lawn and trees and grav eled walks. There are comfortable build ings and a large outdoor arena where re freshments are served, amidst music, after noon and evening. All the parka have all the conveniences demanded by modern pleasure seekers, and there are no "keep off the grass" signs. Tired men and women and exuber ant children may enjoy the feel of the sward, If they desire to stretch them selves at length, without let or hindrance, and they do. West OTfr Hill and Dale. There Is a car line running out Leaven worth street, with a transfer from Park avenue, that will take the sightseer to an other side of the city, In the neighborhood of the big county hospital. This Is worthy ' of a visit by anyone Interested In sociology. There are wards for the Insane and for the pauper, and from the high ground sur rounding the hospital a long reach of coun try Is to be viewed. Near the county hospital, closest to the Hanscom park west side line, la the grounds of the Field club. This is a large organization, which has Invested & great deal of money in club house, tennis courts, ball grounds and golf links. It is a private pleasure resort, but well worth a visit It one can set an invitation. , Right here In Omaha, within a ride of A few minutes, there are attractions of nat ural and built-up beauty not to ba found In many cities of the metropolitan class. Electricity applied to the movement of street cars makes them all available, and at the smallest expense. and Gay not knowing the nature of the words. The congregation turned to the hymn, then gave a gasp and nearly strangled. The hymn read: "Blest Be the Tie that Binds." New York Times. Habit Was Too Strong;. The force of old associations, as Samuel Beverly learned one Sunday morning, Is something against which to be on guard. After thirty years of service as a railroad man, chiefly In the capacity of conductor, Beverly had retired, and was spending his days quietly in his native town. Just after he had taken his accustomed seat one morning In church he was re quested to perform the duty of an absent deacon by assisting In taking up the collec tion. He was proceeding decorously along the aisle with the plate when, half way down the aisle, he came to the Atkinson pew. On this morning Mrs. Atkinson's Uncle Harvey, who happened to sit next the aisle, had dropped off Into a pleasant ljttle nap. When Beverly espied the old man he un consciously doffed the demeanor suited to the place and In a twinkling became official. He tapped the sleeping man on the shoul der. "Ticket, please!" he demanded, sharply and audibly. Youth's Companion. -J U D SB o ri