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take a car rldtf today? The
weather Is fine and I would
like to show you how thoroughly
this wide-spreading metro-
polltan city Is covered by car
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line."
This query, addressed to Uncle George.
who was viBlttng with his nephew, brought
an affirmative answer and the pair started
out to see how far they could travel for a
few nlckles In a state where the railroads
collect I cents a mile. It takes 133 miles
of rail to cars for tha people who are lo-
cated on or near the lines In the twenty-
five square miles which go to make up the
city of Omaha.
Uncle George and his guide started out
on the old Hanscom park line, or the "old
green line," as It was known In the days of
horse cars. They went to the west side
of Hanscom park and Uncle George was
shown the Field club a few blocks away,
where over 00 members enjoy the great
outdoor sports. The line now runs to Thlr-
ty-second and Grover streets, or the city
limits, the boundary line between Omaha
and South Omaha.
'We could have gone on the east, side of
this beautiful nark." said William, "and
the car taken us to Twenty-
ninth and Dupont streets and back again
to this line at Twentyninth and Pacific.
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Throng Business District.
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the city on the main business thorough-
lare eixieenia street int niuir wtui
to Cuming street, west on Cuming to
Twenty-fourth and north on Twenty-fourth
to Ames avenue, where the company main
tains large bams for the cars of the South
Omaha and Twenty-fourth street lines.
"How would you Ilka to go to Florence to
... ,m f th- lre-Pst numninir enalnes In
the worldT" was asked .of Uncle Geerge,
and he signified his assent by a significant
"Come on." Taking a Florence car which
was in watting they were soon enroute to
a town older than Omaha, founded by the
' Mormons on their westward hegtra.
"This beautiful spot with large buildings
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and high trees la Fort Omaha, formerly
used as an army post and now In use by
Uncle Sam as his principal signal station."
explained William. "They are going to
have some balloons here this summer and,
then wo will have to come up again. That
line running to tha west goes to Forest
Lawn oemetery. . for you see Omaha out-
grew the old burying places and 820 acres
of beautiful rolling land was bought here
some years ago and laid out for a ceme-
tery.
Mow, Behold Florcneo.
"This Is the old and ancient and honor-
able city or Florence. lea, mat is truly
an historic tree. It was planted many
years ago by the Mormons and they yearly
send a delegation to visit n. uver me mil
Is a Mormon enmetery, the burying ground
for the Mormons when they stopped at
Florence while enroute to the west In
search of a new home.
"1 guess we had better run down to the
pumping station, it won't tak but a minute.
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Tea, of course, they are large enrfneef
t takes large engine to furnish water for
a" purposes for 200,000 people, for this
supplies Omaha, South Omaha and all tha
suburbs. As big as a house, you sayT
Well, yes, but they need to be big."
On the way back Miller park was passed
nd h tourists, feeling fine from the fresh
country air of the suburbs, were ready for.
mother Jaunt. "We could go out this
South Omaha line for about a mile, for It
ha" JUBt been extended to Forty-second
and Grand avenue, but I guess ws had bet-
ter C t0 South Omaha."
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An1 80 they went down Ames avenf
and then down Sherman avenue to tha
brewery where a turn for a block put the
on Seventeenth street; they continued paai
ttm Unseed oil works and grain elevatosf
to Cass where they turned to the east am
Fourteenth street, passing the new $1.01,Qrs '
freight depot of the Northwestern. Pane
tng through the business district on Fou
teenth street they turned west on Howar
to Sixteenth and were soon speeding south
Past the Her Grand and Rome hotels.
Across the big Sixteenth street viaduct, the
main connection turf... ....w -i..
and the center of the city, over the Bur-
llngton and Union Pacific tracks and In
sight of Pa Rourke's ball park.
heard you won the pennant here last
willlam," said Uncle George.
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..y,. and we ara irnir.v to .1. it ..
tng year too."
winning io we southwest over a former
cow path which Is now known as Vlntos
street the couple was soon at Twenty
fourth and Viuton streets where the
street railway company maintains large
"l moula "a"
,ln'' A "'rKht line carried our heroes
to South Omaha which was seen smoking
in me aisiane.
Aronnd tha Loop to a Street.
This car runs us around the loop to Q
street and back on Twenty-fourth, but
ii we naa caugnt a car starting at the
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"n hl0 vd wn to Albright, a
J"" ,u"rl to th "outn of South
Omaha. These packing houses we will go
through on another day, but we are travel-
" ome today and must be on our way.
"W could go back to Omaha via three
different line. A new line runs from here
straight to Twenty-fourth and Leaven-
worth down Leavenworth to Sixteenth,
eaat on Howard to Fifteenth, north on
Fifteenth to Capitol avenue and west to
sixteenth, where it gets on the busy tracks
0f the Hansoom park line and runs to
Twenty-fourth and Leavenworth and thus
down here, Th business got so heavy that
th old Sherman avenue lino could not
handle it all, so a new line was built via
Thirteenth street and now a third line con
nects tha two cities via Twenty-fourth
street.
Seen to Lin of the System.
"I guess w had better go back over th
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0NE op THE GREAT REYNOLDS PUMPJNO. ENGINES
AT THE MINNE-LUSA PLANT.
Thirteenth street line, for that Is the scenlo
line of the entire system. I'm sorry we
have not the time to go to Fort Crook over
the Interurban, for that, too, has some
splendid scenery, running through the
Gleanings
The Trlrk Watch Dog.
HE Congressional Story Tellers'
club got together as soon as
congress met, organised for the
session and heard some of the
tales the members had gath-
ered during the recess.
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"Tha relations between the Treasury de-
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panmeni ana mo uJi ... ow i,u.,
tald a member. "remind me of a man I
knew out ,n Missouri who bought an Aire-
da terrler pup. xhege fcre ,raatt doff
and he trained his to do all sorU of tricks,
,nc,U(iing carrying buckets and basket lh
bl, mouth and ,0s u, market, and all
xilttt-
"Thu was supposed to be a good watoh
dog but ODe night my friend came home
very late. He met a burglar coming out
0t his house loaded down with loot and
the trick watch dog was -walking in front
of him carrvlna- a lantern." Saturday
Evening Post.
Th Frond Widow.
"That famous editor and statesman,
Charles Emory Smith," said a Philadelphia
Journalist, "was a modest man. He be
lieved In modesty-even to Journalism. He
tnougm ii paia no Detier lor a newspaper
than for a man continually to be bragging,
"I once drew up a prospectus for him.
There were several blatantly boastful parst-
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ancient city of Bellevue. where Bellevue
college Is located. A regiment of soldiers
la kept by Uncle Sam at the fort, always
in fine condition, and It Is well worth visit-
lng. But we will go there some other time.
from the Story Teller's Pack
graphs in It, and Mr. Smith ran his pencil
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Pretty nearly as bad as the epitaph that the
young widow carved on her aged husband's
tomb. Th epitaph said:
"'Sacred to the memory of John James
Greer- aud who departed this life bit-
terly resetting that he must leave forever
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I'miaaeipnia Kecora,
Divine Defines Grass Widow.
Presiding - Elder G. A. Lcnhoff of the
Macon district tells this story of the late
Bibhop W. W. Duncan of the Methodist
Episcopal church:
When Bishop Duncan first went to Texas
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was suffering severely with hay fever. He
was of a nervous disposition and referred
to his malady with such frequency that It
became a bit tiresome to the preachers.
A brother got up to make a report, and
In the course of it be used the term "grass
widow."
"Grass widow!" cried the bishop. "I've
heard that expression used half a dosen
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I never heard
,t before- wn, you please tc me what ,
a grass widow Is?" '
The offending brother looked as calm
and as serious as an undertaker during the
storm of laughter which the bishop's
speech had developed. When things quieted
down he said, very gently:
"A grass widow, blehop, Is a woman
whose husband has died with hay fever.".
Macun Herald.
A Scot' anggeatloa.
Superintendent McLaren of San Fran
cisco's system of public parKS was In
specting the work of restoring Union
square to Its former beauty, now thai the
little' St. Francis has been removed. .
"I'm for heavin' this uu out; It's a bum
little bush," remarked the gardener with a
brogue.
"Which one?" inqulr.d Mcltren. "You
don't mean this beautitul little Scotch
heather? All It needs is more water and It
Will grow as tall as you are."
"You're not very tall yourself, Mr. Mc
Laren." "Not extraordinarily so."
"I say,. Mr. McLaren," reflected the gar
dener, thoughtfully, "did you ever try
water yourself?" San Francisco Chronicle.
His Heart to Heart Talk.
Senator Charles W. Fulton of Oregon
was a "stumper" whoso methods were ef
fective. He would begin like this:
"Well. I must say I'm disappointed at
this crowd! Look at all the ugly men!
Not a good loeking man In the whole con
vention. How does it happen that such
a lot of misshapen features on the mascu
line side have beeu able to attract so
many beautiful female partners? Her
I've been a bachelor for forty years; but
If I had known you fellows could do aa
well as you've done. I'd never have been
bachelor for fifteen minutes," etc.
fly this beart-to-heart method he placol.
5, 1903.
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Here comes the Walnut Hill car; It carries
people from Albright t Benson, thirteen
miles for B cents."
Uncle George and William started for
Omaha over the Walnut Hill line and as
himself cn the best of terms with his hear-
"u "tf" i a aive into ponucs. me
Jke of u wa" that his wife was prob-
ably sitting in the audience listening to
his remarks. Cleveland Leader,
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MI Generals Brave fn
..The late Bishop Coleman," said a Wash-
tnsrtnn diulne. in tak.
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wore rough clothes and slept In farm
rtouses. Sometimes the people took him
for an aged tramp. Always he had in
teresting experiences.
"These tramping experiences often served
the bishop In his sermons. Thus, once, in
a sermon on peace, he said that if they
who made the wars had actually to go out
and fight them fight them as tha common
soldier does, without honor, without hope,
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without anything desirable warfare would
speedily be abolished.
"One evening," he went on, "at a Vir
ginia farm, a little farm boy said to him:
" 'Is generals brave?' "
" 'Yes, to be sure,' the bishop answered.
Why do you ask?'
"'Because.' said the little boy, 'If they
are brave I don't understand why, when
the artists make pictures of a battle, the
generals is always on a hill, four miles
away, watching the fighting through an
opera glnss." "Washington News,
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' they went east on Missouri avenue the Mis
souri liver spread out to view In all Its
grandeur, carrying the melted snows from
the mountains to the gulf. Turning at
Thirteenth street the river was still In
sight and Rlvervlew park was passed. Here
the city keeps a menagerie and one of the
largest parks of the park system. Vinton
street park is passed on the opposite side
from that the travelers saw it on the way
down and they were soon In Bohemian
town, a section of the city settled largely
by Industrious Bohemians. The car passes
under the Union Pacific and Burlington
tracks Instead of over, as had been the case
on Sixteenth street and the heart of the
city was passed on Thirteenth street and
the travelers were soon en route for an
other direction.
Walnut Hill and Its Pioneer.
The Walnut Hill line goes west on Cum
. Ing street to Fortieth, where a turn is
made at the corner where stands the 1m-
posing dwell ng of tha late Mr. Mercer, who
laid out that beautiful sett ement of splen-
did up-to-date residences. Here Is the water
works high pressure reservoir, for the
builders of the plant figured that In case
. of fire It would be a fine Idea to have a
?r7w busman affrsua
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on the water front north of the Smelting
works.
The car then runs in a'northwesterny dl
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by the Forty Nlner. to , California. At
Forty-second a new branch runs to the
state Institute for the Deaf and the
line continues its winding course until
rounding the crest of the hilt, a clump of
trees on one side and a long stretch
green sward on the other. brings forth
an Inquiry from Uncle George,
"That Is Krug park, a summer resort on
the right," said William, "and on the left one of which ran from Sixteenth and Lo
in the Omaha Country club, Omaha's most cust to the WThIte Lead works to Eaist
aristocratic out-door club. They own their Omaha and the other to Courtland Beach,
own grounds and have as fine a plant as which la patronized largely by members of
any club in the country. We are out of the Omaha Rod, and Gun club. He ' told
the city limits now and will soon be at him of the West Leavenworth street line,
Benson, a town which has Its own mayor which runs to Forty-eighth street, or to
and other officers and is growing rapidly, the Catholic oemetery. The cars from this
You see. If we had started at the end of nB cr0Bslng the business district on Flf
thls line we would have traveled thirteen teenth street going south and Sixteenth,
miles for our nickel. street going north and then run on out to
"This line used to start at a distillery walnut Hill. He told him of the old Dodge
and end at a cemetery." added William, as street Wne, which was formerly a cable
they alighted at Thirty-third and Cuming road ftnj ran trom tlie depots to the Den
street to await for a Harney street car. at Twentieth and Lake. This line has boon
"They have extended the line to the south extended from time to time until It now
so that Joke no longer goes for the cars ,top, at lhe front gate of the Diets Ath
run six blocks Boutb of the distillery. u.tlo club baI1 park told Uncla
f the trips whfrh might be taken to Lake
Up to Crelghlon University. Manawa and Fairmont park In Council
"This is Crelghton university, one of the Bluffs. He spoke of the new line pn
monuments to the memory of Count and Fortieth, connecting Farnam and Cuming.
Ekiward Crelghton and we Will soon be to "Well, we surely have traveled some to-
the high school. Omaha has but one high
school, but It Is a great one. That stone
In the high school yard marks the Nlntey
sixth principal merldan. The capltol of the
state was once located where the high
school now stands, but it burned down In
about 1870 and the big red part of that
building was built In 1871.
'The street railway company la going to
abandon that acre barn," said William as
or pomps from the oaixsrt at minns-lusa,
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they reached Twentieth and Harney
streets. . "Jt wa not large enough to ac
commodate the cars of the Dodge, Farnam
and Harney street lines so the company
has bought a new sight on South Tenth
street. This barn was formerly the power
house for the old cable company, which
had a couple of lines In operation, but they
gave way to the electric cars.
"We are proud of that new Young Men'a
Christian association building. It Is one of
the finest In the country and Just back
there where you see that structural Iron
6"olng up la the new home of the Youna;
Women's Christian association."
On Farnam Street Line
When the depots had been reached
change was made to the Farnam street line,
which runs out past St. Joseph's hospital
and willbe extended this summer to River
view park. Returning the travelers were
again whirled through the busy center of
th. olt.T mnA kill .nil t'.U until
tfc residences was reached.
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This is a new section of the city that haj
has
sprung up In the last decade, we will go
on out to Dundee, the suburb of pretty
homos, a city In itself, outside of Omaha's
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corporate limits. This line was extended
th) ummer t Ha H , b u ,d
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pcrance club and seems to be doing well
for a youngster.
Sid Trips. They Missed.
Coming back from Dundee William told
his uncle of the side trips they had missed.
He told him of the spur with two cars.
day, William," said uncle George as tbey
arrived at home, "but I am glad I took
the trip, for this city Is beautiful with Us
rolling hills and splendid residences. I am
surprised you know as much about your
own town as you do, William, for people
who live In a city generally don't get
around as much as they should."
"Oh, I took a trip on the sight seeing
car," replied William.
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