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Making: the Ice Crop for a Great City While the
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OW doth the buay littU Ice man
HI Improve each freezing hour,
I that he may Improve each
milium uuur next Bummer,
whea the sun's warm rays beat
down on the children of men
and the eight of an Ice wagon Is as welcome
as money from home. One has but to take
a little trip to Cut-Oft lake on the trolley
or on foot to see how the Ice man comes
unto his own and how he packs away
large sections of coolnens for distribution
In the days when the bosom of Cut-Off lake
Is covered with ripples and small raft and
lightning bugs. Today the lake Is covered
with a thick shell of concealed matter
formed by the crystallsatlon of water sub
ject to atmospheric changes. This con
cealed matter Is known as Ice, something
vhlch has no particular social standing In
winter time, but which Is courted by the
populace along about July time.
The Ice man loves extremes. When the
thermometer registers I, 10, 13 or U below,
then the Ice man chuckles a few chuckles,
eats a hurried meal or a hot roast beef
aandwlch and then hies himself to the Ice
field. lie galhereth many laborers around
him, gives them tools wherewith to gather
the Ice and promises them slmoleons on
pay day. The extreme cold weather warms
his heart, for the Ice man has a heart. An
eminent sciential has examined the ice
man and has declared he has a cardiac re
gion which responds to extreme heat or
cold. When the weather glass registers
100 above, then again It Is a token for the
Ice man to be glad, for he knows that the
law of demand will yield him many coins
Creighton
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Harland X Masstnan.
1ST Monday evening - th four
LI young men whose picture are
I shown above were selected to
in the debate with the Univer
sity of South Dakota, which
will be held at Vermilion, 8. D., between
HlWb 1 and April U, th exact date to be
fixed - by th South Dakota Institution.
Under the two-year agreement signed by
representatives of both universities, th
question for this year's debate was sub
mitted by th South Dakota school, and
Creighton wn given its choice of aide.
The question turn on th wisdom of na
turalisation of the Japanese by th United
States, and th local university, believing
that th Interests of this country will b
best served by denying to th Japan
th right to becom cltlsens of th United
States, chose to defend th negative of th
.debate. The question Is of mor than or
dinary Interest at this time because of th
rapid strides n ad by the Japanese In re
cent years along maay different line of
activity, and particularly because of th
disturbances which lately took plac on
our Paclfio oast.
CrelKhton' speaker wer chosen by th
method In vogu in other larg univer
sities. Th question for debate was an
nounced and the first preliminary wa
held ten days later. Out of th number of
speaker who entered this first contest th
judge Hon. C. J. Smyth. Hon, Le 8. E
teile and Rev. M. J. O'Connor, vie presi
dent of th university, choa six men.
tare of whom they placed on each aid of
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for the Ice he plucked from lake and river.
To thoroughly appreciate Ice cutting one
must go out to the lake In a proper frame
of mind and get into the atmosphere of
the Ufa have a thought for the forces of
nature which caused the Ice to be, and a
due regard for snow-covered sections of
thin Ice where the first crop has been cut.
Aside from the atmosphere that covers the
lake and Is composed of hydrogen and
oxygen, there Is an atmosphere that Is only
in evidence during the Ice cutting season
that atmosphere which artists get Into their
paintings and poets Into their poems. Hav
ing gotten Into the right frame of mind,
the searcher after truth and nature will
find much that Is Interesting even at Ice
cutting time. .,
At the conservative figure of $5 per ton,
at least 11,000,000 worth of Ice Is being taken
from Cut-Off lake alone this season. This
la based on figures reasonably correct. The
large Swift Ice house on the southwest end
of the, lake holds 60,000 tons, while the
Bwlft house across from Courtland beach
has a capacity of 80,000. The two houses
operated by the Omaha Ice and Cold
Storage company on the southeast end of
the lake have a combined capacity . of
K.000 tons. That makes 196,000 tons stored
on Uie lake.
Even In Ice cutting there must be system
and organisation. When that system begins
to operate, then the Ice goes into the house
at the rate of 8,000 tons day with a
reasonably large force at work. That Is at
the rate of about seven tons per minute
during the day's work.
The first work in cutting Ice Is the mark
Law School and Its
CREIGHTON UW SCHOOL, DEBATERS.
Hugh J. Boyle.
Arthur W. Proctor.
th question for th second contest, which
was held last Monday evening, resulting
in th (election of Harland L. Mossman,
Arthur W. Proctor and Hugh J. Boyle as
Crelghton's team, with Charles Haffke as
alternate. AH th speaker are members
of the law department of th university.
Mr. Mossman hall from Sioux City, la.;
Kir. Proctor from Omaha; Mr. BoyU from
Darlington, Wis., and Mr. Haffke from
South Omaha,
Next year the two universities will de
bate In Omaha, and Creighton will then
elect th question, leaving th choice of
side to th visitors.
Th excellence of the work exhibited In
these two preliminary contests Is In keep
ing with the splendid record which the
Crelghtoq law department has been mak
ing this year. The new enrollment this
year exceed the total enrollment of last
year, and this year's matriculation Is nearly
SO per cent larger than that of last year.
At its last meeting, held at Portland, Me.,
In August, 1307, the Association of American
Law Schools admitted the Creighton Col
lege of Law to membership-the thirty
seventh school to receive this signal recog
nition out of the 100 law schools In opera
tion In th United State. Th Nebraska
legislature, at It last session, passed a
law permitting graduates of th Creighton
law department to be admitted to practice
In all the court of th state without ex
amination another Indication of th quality
of Creighton' work.
That the department' reputation 1 not
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ing by plowmen with horse Ice plows, these
plows marking off long strips twenty-two
inches wide. Then these strips are marked
in the opposite direction at spaces of fourty
four inches, the marking showing a section
22x44. A channel Is opened In the Ice from
the field being worked to the elevator at
the shore. After the markings have been
made by the plows the marked sections
are separated Into large sections, eight
strips wide and about thirty long, making
a solid piece of Ice about sixteen feet wide
and about seventy-five feet long, this sec
tion having already been marked off Into
small sections 22x44 Inches. Having re
leased the large sections from the main
body of Ice, men with long poles and hooks
guide the small floating Islands of Ice Into
the opening of the channel by walking along
with what corresponds to low paths. Al
though these large sections weigh many tons
one man can push one along with little effort.
The rythemlc motion of these little Islands
of Ice. as they float and glisten under the
sunlight, has a soothing effect for tired
nerves. One of these large sections weigh
from fifty to seventy tons. Having floated
the large sections to a point near the ele
vator at the shore, other men divide them
Into smaller parts and in turn pass the
smaller sections on to another gang which
cuts the Ice as marked out by the plows,
namely Into the 22x44 Inch pieces.
When cut Into the 22x 44-Inch pieces the
Ice Is ready to be placed on the elevator
and put into the house. The elevator Is a
revolving apparatus, suggesting a large
tread mllf, one end dipped into the water
Debaters
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Charles Haffk.
merely local 1 evidenced by the fact that
this year's enrollment Is drawn from a
large territory," bounded on the west by
Colorado, on the east by Illinois, on th
south by Kansas and on the north by
Wisconsin and Minnesota. Its work ap
peals to lawyers, as Is shown by the fact
that a number of the students are the
ons of lawyers, and that the course here
compares favorably with that of other high
grade law schools Is shown by this, that
a number of students, who mad part of
their studies In such schools, have this
year enrolled at Creighton, where they
have been well pleased wtlh the training
given.
Creighton' success Is due In large part
to the seal and unselfish devotion of the
members of the Douglas county bench and
bar, who are co-operating with the uni
versity authorities In the effort to main
tain a high standard of scholarship. This
Interest of the local lawyers lends sest to
to the work of the school land gives It a
practical turn which Is api to be lacking
In a school whose teachers have either
never been practitioners or who have
abandoned the practice to devote them
selves exclusively to academic work. The
staff la recruited, almost entirely, from th
rank of local practitioner, who received
their theoretical training In th leading
law schools of th country, and who are
therefor In a position to live to th
Creighton students the benefit of experi
ence gleaned in many fields.
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to catch the ice cakes and the other end
at an angle of about forty-five degrees.
These sections of Ice, each weighing from
600 to twO pounds, are carried aloft on the
elevator and released at the top, where
they go sliding along over metal strips
along a slightly Inclined runway, where
men impede te progress with hooks and
keep the runway cleared by passing the ice
Into the house.
It is just fuiiny to watch those cakes of
Ice gliding along that runway, if, as Emer
son said, "haste Is vulgar," then ice on a
runway Is vulgar, for It runs along with
Increasing motion until It bumps Into an
other piece of ice and comes to a dead
stop, or Is stopped by one of the men with
long poles. And those men with poles have
to be alert, for a cake of fee weighing SCO
pounds moving along a runway like a cat
sliding down a bannister Is no trifle. Oc
casionally an Inexperienced man gets his
feet in the toad of one of these sliding
cakes of ice and then something happens.
If the man Is quick he may grab a beam
and save himself from falling. Sometimes
he is knocked over and has just time to
get out of the road of another piece of
ice coming along with brakes off. To the
observer It seems that then cakes of Ice
are In a hurry to be packed away In the
big house, but the truth Is the movement
of the Ice is accelerated by the force of
gravitation and a pair of metal runners.
The elevator is operated In one place on
Cut-Off lake by a eighty horsepower en
gine, which really moves three elevators,
one being used for loading railroad cars.
artly an Omaha Institution. It founder,
the late Count John A. Creighton. was
closely Identified with Omaha for many
years; Its building wai erected by him and
named after his brother Edward, who was
a pioneer of Omaha and the west; Its
staff of instructors Is made up exclusively
Gleanings from Story Teller's Pack
No Flattery Necessary.
OU NEEDN'T begin Jollying me,"
said the gruff man to the man
who had land to sell. "I'm not
a man that can be affected by
flattery. When I''
"That's just what I said to
www
in interrupted the agent. "I told
him, when he suggested your name to me,
that It was a relief to call on a man who
did not expect to be praised and flattered
to his face all the time. I tell you, Mr.
Grump, this city has mtghty few men such
a you. Nine men out of ten are simply
dying to have some one tell them how
great they are, but you are above such
weakness. Anyone can see that at a glance.
I'm glad of It. It's helpful to me to meet a
man who rise superior to the petty tac
tics of the average solicitor. It' a real
and lasting benefit, and an Instructive ex
perience." Ten minute later, after a few more such
comment on the part of the agent, the
man who could not be flattered Into sign
ing the contract was asking which line his
nam should be written upon. Success
of Convincing.
Colonel Plummer of New York, who hates
the sight of an automobile, bought the
other day a handsome brown mare to
match Barbary Belle. A day or two later
he asked his groom what he thought of
the new arrival. John replied: "She's cer
tainly a fine lookln' 'oss, sir, but I'm
afraid her temper's a bit too touchy."
"What makes .you think so?" asked the
colonel. "She don't appear to take kindly
to nobody, sir; she don't like me to go Into
the box to feed her." "Oh, she'll settle
down in a day or two. The surroundings
are strange, you know. I do not think
there i anything wrong with her temper."
"I didn't at first, sir," said John, "but
you see ah kicked me out o' the box twloe,
and when you comes to think about It
that' sort o' convlncln'." Pittsburg Press.
NeLUr.
A policeman saw a man acting rather
suspiciously near a Jewelry store In Ger
mantown one evening, so, going over to
him, be demanded to know who he was
and what he wanted.
"I'm thinking of opening a Jewelry store
in this neighborhood," replied the man.
"and I'm watching to see If there is much
trade."
The policeman went on his way satisfied.
Next morning word was received at th
station house that th Jewelry store hsd
been entered and robbed during the night.
The policeman who had accosted th
stranger said reflectively :
"H may be a thafe, but he' no liar."
till at the Froat.
John Henderson, a state senator of New
York, says he was riding in the smoking
car on a little one track road In th north
ern part, of the state two weeks ago, and
In the siat In front of him sat a Jewelry
drummer. H wa on of those wide
awake, never-let-aay-one-g?t-the-better-of-bim
style Of men. Presently the train
stopped to take on water, and th con
ductor neglected to sond back a flagman.
A limited express, running at th rat of
tea miles an bour, cam along and bumped
th rear end of th first train.
Th drummer was lifted from hi seat
and pitched, bead first, against th eat
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When the ice Is released from the ele
vator it Is guided by a series of runways,
the highest one being used last when the
house is nearly fllieu. lake, lor instance,
the 80,0u0-ton Swift house opposite Court
luud beach. Uhe runways are a bene of
platforms outside the house at different
stages trom the ground up. Ice men find
it convenient to pack Ice from the ground
up, slanting all Ice six Inches toward the
center of the house for every sixteen feet
of Ice. This protects the sides of the build
ing. To glance into that large buiidtpg
before it is quite full Is to see a rather
Imposing spectacle. One might imagine
all the Ice In the world was packed in
there.
Going back to the workmen. Each Ice
house has a superintendent, who divides
his men according to the class of work.
Last week there were ISO men working at
the southwest Swift house, while a force
of 212 men was at the other Swift house.
The Omaha Ice and Cold Storage company
had about 200 men at both houses on Cut
Off, making a total of nearly 600 cutting
Ice on that lake. The Swift company
maintains during the Ice cutting season a
dormitory across from the beach. In which
building 150 men are given lodging free
and furnished meals at 20 cents each.
Coffee Is furnished the men each morning
at 10 o'clock without price. A uniform
wage of 20 cents an hpur Is paid the ct
ters, who work ten hours a day.
The Omaha company has a bunk house
for the plowmen, who begin plowing the
Ice at 6 o'clock each morning so as to have
of Omaha men, and Its success Is due to
their untiring seal and devotion which not
only redounds to their credit, but makes
them co-workers in the achievement of an
Ideal worth any man's effort the main
tenance of a high standard of legal educa
tion. ahead. His silk hat was Jammed clear ,
down over his ears. He picked himself
up and settled back In his seat. No bone
had been broken. Then he pulled off h
hat, drew a long breath, and, straightening
up, said: "Hully gee! Well, they didn't
get by u anyway!" Cleveland Leader.
' A Care for Love,
W. E. Grange, author of the "History of
Primitive Love," referred, in the course of
a lecture in Boston, says the Herald, to the
modern cynical view of love that prevails.
"I remember once," said Prof. Grange,
"hearing two very ordinary men, a brick
layer and a plumber, discuss love in a
smoking car.
" 'I hold,' said the bricklayer, 'that If
you are terribly In love, the way to cur
yourself Is to run away.'
"The plumber shook his head and sneered:
" 'That will cure you,' he said, 'provided
you run away with the girl." "
Talked to tbe Wrong; Man.
The other day an Important-looking
gentleman took a seat beside a quiet man
In an Arkansas railway carriage, and began
a conversation.
"I'm going up to Little Rock," he said,
"to get a pardon for a convicted thief. I'm
not personally acquainted with the gover
nor, but he can't afford to refuse me."
"Is the fellow guilty T" asked the man.
"Of course, he Is; but that makes no
difference. His friends have agreed to give
me $j00 If I get him out, and the thermom
eter Is very low when I can't put up a good
talk. Where are you traveling?"
"Going to Little Rock."
"Do you live there?"
"Yes."
"Perhaps you might be of some service
to me. What business are you In?" ,
"I am the governor." St. Louis Republi
can. Aa Uneertala Iavestment.
Morris Sellers Largey,' th young Mon
tana millionaire who 1 devoting himself to
the theatrical business, said -at a dinner
apropos of his new theater In New York:
"I think that theatricals offer a fin field
for shrewd investors. They are very steady.
They sre not as the slave trade was during
the civil war.
"Perhaps you have heard of the lav
who wanted to buy hi freedom. Thi wa
before the war, and, since he was a very
good slave, his master would not sell him to
himself at any price.
"But as the war approached It end the
master not unnaturally changtd his mind.
He sent for the slav on morning and
asked him If ha wa still of the same mind
about purchasing himself.
"Th slave scratched his head, looked at
th ground, and faltered:
" 'Well, Mars Henry, ah did wantep buy
mahse'f, but Ah been a-studyin' erbout It
right smart lately, sah, an' Ah done com
to de 'elusion dat la dese times niggah
prop'ty am too onsartin, sah, to put any
money in.' "New Ycrk limes.
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"In th last analysis there Is nothing new
that any of us can say," ald Booker T.
Washington in Cambridge. "Th doctrine
of love, of punishment, of reward, and of
th future life are aa old a th world.
"This reminds m of an old negro whom
I met In th bill down south at a church
where I wa beseeching the audlenc to
stand by their pastor and pay him, a salary.
Frost King Reigns
OUIDINO THE RAFTS TO THE CHUTES.
Ice marked off ahead of the cutters. The
plows are drawn by horses and cut Into
the ice a few Inches to mark off the cakes.
Men with large saws cut the long sections
referred to before. Calvin Hasard, who
drowned In the lake last week, was a
plowman. He was crossing the lake before
daylight and stepped onto thin Ice formed
after ice had been cut.
The men seem to thrive at the Ice cut
ting business.
"The people uptown are asking how lea
cutters like their work," was a remark
made the other day to Robert Furrey,
manager for the Omaha company.
"This Is the healthiest business en the
earth," Mr. Furrey answered.
"Why, pork and beans taste Just like
pie when you are cutting ice. Tou eat and
sleep well, you Just can't get enough to
eat. It seems. Pale people should work
on the Ice a spell."
Men of all ages engage In the work.
Several old men were seen on the Ice last
week, while many beardless youths were
there.
A humoroua Incident occurred during the
week at one of the Omaha company's
houses. Robert Furrey wanted a few more
men to fill out that day. He saw five
likely looking candidates for his pay roll
wandering along over the Ice toward his
scene of operations.
He turned around to give attention to
some detail of the work, then turned
again toward the approaching five men.
Just In time to see the quintet go down
as one man Into the water inside the
Nebraska Editor
J. P.
T. ALBIN, editor and publisher
of the People's Banner at David
City, Neb., has disposed of his
newspaper plant to J. A. Con
stant at Sabetha, Kan. J. F.
Albln came to David City from
York county, Nebraska, ten years ago and
took hold of the People's Banner, which
at that time was neither a paying or
profitable proposition, but under the care
ful management of Mr. Albln, whose ability
as a newspaper man Is far above the aver
age, the Banner rapidly became one of the
strong papers of the state.
During the first few years Mr. Albln pub
lished the Banner as a populist paper and
It soon became the official organ of that
party in central Nebraska. After the cam
paign of 1896. Mr. Albln, who la a careful
student of events, concluded that he could
best serve his country by advocating the
principles of the republican party, and, aa
1 characteristic of the man, he renounced
I spoke s eloquently as I could. I watched
my audifftc and saw that I had every on
wtth m but this old fellow In th rar,
who kept mumbling to himself whenever I
finished an argument Finally I called out
to him. and asked why he opposed paying
a salary to hi hard-working minister.
" -No, uh; no, sun; w shan't pay him ao
more salary thl year. H' giving us th
am sermons h gav u last year.' h
said."' Boston Herald.
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"water box," a boarded enclosure nea
the elevator. Five soaked men were fished
out, taken over to the bunk house, dried
out and given some hot coffee. Then Mr,
Furrey gut out his time book and mad
motions like a man about to add flv
names to his list of employes. But he
did not add the names. The five men got
cold feet. No Ice cutting for them. Fur
rey told them about the pork and bean
tasting like pie, but that bad no effect.
They went their way and did not turn
back once until they reached Locust
street.
"I would bet you five women would not
have quit the game that early If they
wanted work," remarked Mr. Fur
rey.
Unusual rare has been taken this year
In keeping the Ire clean. Snow Is scraped
off first ai,d all foreign matter removed
from the top of the Ice before It la packed
Health Commissioner Connell ha beett
active this season In this regard and a
glance over the hike will show his order
are being enforced.
Within a few weeks or so the lake will
break up and the acres of Ice will dissolve
to mingle again with the lower water from
whence it came a while bock. There will
be no Ice In the land then except such a
was stored In the Ice houses. The peopl
will begin to shout, "Give us Ice I" And
the Ice men will answer back, "Com
ing up!"
Then it will be summer ttm and pork
and beans will not taste like pie to th
ice cutters.
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his allegiance to populism and came out
strong for the republican party, since which
time he has done yeoman service for that
cause. Under the careful management of
Mr. Albln the circulation of the Banner
ha jumped from a few hundred to ovnr
1.0(H), which shows that Mr. Albln has been
successful and that ;he people of But lor
county appreciate his work.
The only reason for Mr. Albln selling out
after getting the Banner on a good paying
basis is on account of poor health. He
has not at th present time decided what
he will do, but Intends to rest up for
awhile, then probably engage in the news
paper business again farther west. Mr.
Constant also purchased th David City
Journal and will combine the two papers,
and, a soon aa h can conveniently do so,
will put In a first-class printing press and
strictly up-to-date machinery and Job print
ing plant.
Aitor Trust company's director, laid of a
certain broker: '
'The man' nerve is amaxlng. It shocks
me. It reminds me of a money leader
'whom a friend of mine, a great rider to
hounds, once restortfid to.
" 'Yes,' said th money lender to my em
barrassed frttitid. 1 will renew your note,
but only an on condition, sir; namely, that
during th next paper chase at Lenox you
scatter from your bag these 1,000 pink
slip bearing my nam and th word.
"Money advanced on easy terms." Is It a
ge sir "Now York Bun.
