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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (April 19, 1908)
3 ii M fm. MM ft A WV as a. .) .) . jm rirsc statue oi ureat - r If w work upoa ir.arhl". It will prlnh; If on brass, time will efface; If we reaf ti:nrU, tr.i"- vt!! pi )' ( d't t Viit If wnrk vpf.n mortal mlnin nd lmb thn wlirj fnncicU . ,t.! t te Jul fear of Ooil. and with luvn iir t'tlkiw man and lov tt country, w er.trav; on thot ta'i lts mth',Tnr ti-at will brighten to all eternity. Daniel Wehtpr. UAtuvsu In a spirit of rever- C ence, brn In love of country, I raised In an atmuaphare of pmt- nouc uavoiion, uia ataiue erected to the memory of Abra ham Lincoln by tha rhlldren of tha city of Omaha on tha canspua of tha hlh school ctamla today the only monu ment In the whole atate of Nebraska dedi cated to the memory of a truly' rreat American. On other atarna of prominent man, an American, baa been erected In another Ne braska elty, and In park In Omaha stands a monument erected to tli memory of a leading elUsen of the land of the kaiser, but do Nebraska city or class of Nebraska cltisana, young or old. has before, honored the Bam and memory of a really rreat man, a representative American. lovtiil and rcvared by all. The statue of Lincoln therefore stands out dietim live and unluus In that It was purchaFed by the children ot tte hlfh school of the city of Omaha. Tha yoflih of Omaha have biased the way, havs taught a lesson in patriotism to their alders, not alone In Omaha, but In tha entire atate, and to them should truly be accorded the honor of purchasing, erecting nd unvelllnT the first monument to the memory of the first American Abraham Lincoln, not the father, but the savior of hie country, This honor should be accorded the youth of Omaha despite the carving !n glaring letter on the base of the statue the announcement that the statue has been copyrighted by the art dealer thro ash whom It was purrhased. Patriotism Inspired the high school atu denia In securing the statue of this great man. For years they studied the life of Lincoi and far years they atudled the picture of Uoaoln, and they cams te love the Lincoln e bis younger days, the Magnolia Blooms in Omaha O the other glories ot the Omaha climate which bare given U the right to be classed, in the T banana belt must now be added aaothar distinction, that of being In the "magnolia belt." A genuine magnolia tree Is bow tn full bloom at the noma of Mr. and lira, C M. Wllhelm, Thirty-eighth aad Farnam streets. The bloom first appeared Monday and the spectacle was an axoeedingly beautiful one. resembling in many respects a colossal bouquet and as fragrant as tt was beautiful. The flowers, large and waxy-Ilka, were of a delicately tinted pink at the start, but have aew lapsed into white, and though the blootna are withering now, the tree it yet beautiful aad excite the admiration of all beholder, Tbla magnolia tree la the enly one that la known to exist in Nebraska, though sev era! attampta have been made to cultivate them m this state, but without auoces. The tree la about sixteen feet In height and waa planted In 11 present location ten or eleven yeara ago bv K. C Morehouse, who still wna tae prealaea. Mr. Morehoua waa t v '. 1 . . ; . r- - - r i , - . t atAo:rou mz3S ut fvlu swxua - V t ... . V- - V I - - -- 1 ,- 1 SUPERINTENDENT DAVIDSON DELIVERING HIS ! t ' 'v. - ' !. ; . . V..- . t . $ - - - ; - , ! ' . . ' - v. - - , l :: :: -, . ' H:'r , " . ; . , g - ' . ... . , - i . . f.. . ' . ; : r ' - ; ' ' ' . f s -. MI33 MONA COWBUU WHO UNVEILED THH BTATUB. beardless Lincoln aa typified In the statue on the high school grounds. Hanging tn the hull of the high school Is a picture of ti.e great emancipator from which likeness the statue was cast, and It la this picture which hundreds of children In the school have studied the last few years. A southerner first proposed the erection of the statue of Abraham Lincoln, J. F. Woolery, assistant principal, mentioned the matter to Principal Waterhouse of the high then general freight agent of the Elkhorn road, and procured the shrub from the south. Planting it on the south side of the hou " trea throve under protection from the cold north winds. . It has bloomed two or three times prior to the present year, but not with such massive and striking beautv aa at this season. The magnolia tree belongs to the genus of exogenous trees and shrubs and la a native of the warm parts of North America, thriving best in the latitudes south from Philadelphia and Baltimore and attaining it greatest luxuriance In South Carolina, which bears the nam of the Magnolia tat. There are aevsm species of the mag nolia In the United Btatea. 80ms are ever green, others deciduous and aU are hand aome trees and shrubs, all having large, fragrant flowers. The Omaha specimen be- long to th species of magnolia grandlflora and la of th deciduous order, being leafless tn winter, th bloom coming befur th leaf. The bark, leave and seeds of ths various specie abound in a bitter tonic principle,' and bav limited use to modiolus. f X ' ' .t ths hugus oral American in iMebraska lint trom School 9.' " V. .V i. : . . "7 f . '" A V 7; V ADDRESS. schooL It met with hi approval, and the subject was broached to the students of the school, who In turn became enthusiast! over 1L This was several years ago, and for a time tha matter was seemingly dropped. On his next visit to Vienna Prof. Woolery visited several sculptor and found out what the coat would be. Two thousand dollars was the lowest price se cured, and when this information was brought back to Omaha the faculty mem ber thought the burden would be too great for the school children to shoulder aicne, and Mr. Waterhouse called on the art committee of the "Woman's club for help. The club agreed to raise the money for the statue if the school children would erect the pedestal. The offer of the Wo man's club was accepted, but when the pupils of the school heard of it thera aross a storm of protest. "This I our statue, not the Woman' club, and we want to do It alone." said the spekesman for a delegation of the high school students sent to Interview the principal, who told them to go ahead and raUs moneTl They entered Into the work with a aval and In on short week the money was all ralsrd. Then the question of the copy for tha statue cam up. but the pupils pointed to tha picture hanging on the wall, the one which they had learned to love as best typifying their Ideal statesman, and It was decided to use that picture for the copy for the sculptor. The mounment was there for ordered cast from tha famous Heaster portrait, tha portrait showing the martyred p'd,,nt wlthout th" rd. nl bcua of this unanimous wish of tha youth of tha city ot Omaha tha statu unveiled on tha forty-third anniversary of the assassin ation of Lincoln shows him without the beard. Moat, if not all, other statues of the war president show him with the beard, th famous St. Gauden's statue In Lincoln park, Chicago, represent hint so, snd therefore for U.la other reason tha monument In this city is distlnutlva in an other respect aside from being th flrat to be erected in the whole state of Nebraska. Th statue depict a homely man, and Lincoln was a homely man. Lincoln In a way prided himself on being a homely man, according to stories of his life. The story Is told that one time when he waa still struggling lawyer In tha then frontier atate of Illinal hs mad a vow that it he ever met a man hemller than he ha would shoot Mathematical OW fast dl h animals go? HI What la the greatest speed of each of the animals, from the ncrse to we camei, irom m ant to the fleet This la th problem which has busted the brains of more than one Investigation, and the results of their work ha been gathered together by Prof. Ofalahausea ta a meet Interesting shape, A riding hors 00 vers firty Inches each second whll walking; at a jog trot tt euvar eleven tset a seonnd, while th two-minute horse cover forty-four feet a second. This la quit a contrast to tha leisurely Ox which moves aver only two feet eecoad Inches a second when hitched to a plow. The elephant while pulling more than six borsea walks ever four aad a bait feet of ground each aeeond, and running aa fast aa it can cover only eighteen feet second. The dromedary can aovar Binty-thra mil tn sixteen bouts, which represent tta day march, anil san do thla twa er three day together, traveling at tha eoaaiaut rata of alght feet per second. Th aromedartee at the auita have, bo aver, covered IK miles In twelv hour, or at tha rat f Bin and two-thlxda mile a bus. Sheep dog aad bunUng dogs run at a speed of from thirty-three ta torty-flv feet a aeoend, but tha fr stoat hunting dogs sever i-ttty fee a Of tlM TTIHJ XJNCXtUW STATUa. i - - T4 .- I . him, One day he met hi match In looks. Lincoln was smooth shaven. General Maa Btopplng him on the street, Lincoln looked derson and William Wallace, who knew the long and bard at the man and then pulled a gun trom bis pocket and told the man that hla day had come and that he waa ta be slier. "Don't shoot me," the stranger replledUjt Tuesday afternoon a hitherto silent "I never saw you before and I knew have never done you any barm." "That may all be so, my friend." replied iue miurt presiaeni, dui 1 maae a vow once several years ago that if I aver met a homelier man ihan I, I would shoot him. And you are the man," The stranger took one glance at Lincoln and then saldr "Well, If I am homelier than you, than for God's ake shoot and shoot quick." The figure of Lincoln was rough and un couth, and in those day men did not crease ' their trousers. But because the trousers ar not creased and a certain "baggtness" la noticeable at the knees criticism has arisen from professional artists. Profes- slonal artists have also objected to the beardless representation, the lack of beard having brought down a veritable storm of protest on the heads of the member of tha scheol board and the children, and tha board baa been Importuned to rvject the statue and aonslgn It to the scrap pile. Tha beard, or rather the lack at whiskers. and the creaaele trousers form th prtn- cipal objections ot en artistic arbitrator, though thr i hardly a part of the atatue to which, h doe. not point the finger of koto. tu mma im iw ivr uw Hvay, the fao la caricature, the chin la amoolh haven, the band look aa If It were mad ef wood, tha figure seems to be falling AWM. ha.'kw m Wf thai (lntlaaa AP Hot tf thai period, th trou-ra ab.uld be creased, th. ....... , ... , k.. . ... Mate I not erected on th beat site and tha whole thing la but aa advertising scheme f th enterprising art dealer who copyrighted the work, These are a few of th objection which 'the objector find In th aculptor'a representation ot th. mar- tyred president. Many who knew the Immortal Lincoln meet these objections with proof that the Lincoln of UOu, when he was elected, and th Lincoln of IM. when the war broke out. Wore no beard even though It were necessary to answer these objections when the children who bought the statue se lected tha cast and are pleased with the work. A number of veteran of who knew President Lincoln and who today live In Omaha, go on record a aaying that Calculation of the Speed of Animals ninety feet a second for a short distance. An English foxhound will cover sixty feet a ecoqd, while a tiger travels ouly five feet a second ta captivity. A lion Is said to b able to run faster than tha best hunting bora while at large. Th mole paasss rapidly througU Its sub terranean diggings, extending trom lOu to tto feet, moving at the rata of alx and a half feet a second, and on th surface of th earth trareia at a speed of ten feet a second. . Authorities differ as to the speed of tha bare, aome atallng that ta can cover sixty feet a second, whll others stat that It can go only ana-third a fast. Th dear of various species are all speedy, but whan pursued by bounds a roebuok bas been known to cover seventy-four feet a second. The wonderful Utile antelope aovwre twenty te thirty feet at leap, springing tan feet in th air, and th swift est dog aan catch It only when tired aut Bwtftar than all tha animals Is that monster bird, tha oat rich, which bas been knows to Uavel at th tremendous rat of lat teet a second, or a mile ta thirty-three eaoonria. faster than any bora can go. This la tha striking eontraat with th tor toise, which, if five Inohe long, cover a half In oh a second, and if tan inch long, two and ana-baif Inches aeoond. A toad hope eight tnehea a second, though B Is axUy ) far he lungi ft frog atta Inane long, hoc 'Ml -. 1 tt. - . ' J i ' ' .. "' A itir Af -I " immh ''rj"'evr--'"Ll 1 ' .1 JUST AFTER TUB DRAPERT HAD great president, have previously been quoted In the public prints aa aaying that he wore no beard, but when the flag dropped from the statue at the unveiling veteran stepped out of the throng and said: "That la a true likeness of Abraham Lin- collK tha Uncoln r tu,w.- V Tha veteran waa Dr. W. M. Stone. Ha served throughout the war of the rebellion, saw the president several times and Is pos itive he waa smooth shaven. The last time when Dr. Btonj saw Lincoln it was at Harrison' Landing, where the president had gone to see McCIaUan during the war, and he says that Lincoln wore no beard "d nUl trousers were not creased. The President was not garbed In the uniform of Ua army, but aalle from that the doctor ts of the opinion that hi clothe wer of tha prlod and that the clothes depicted on the status are as near being like the worn hy the president as any. The first commemorative statue to be erected In Nebraska waa that to the rnera- orT 0f J. Sterling Morton, unveiled a tew Agn ta w- Dom, town, Nebraska City The greater part of th fund for thlr monumeat were raised in Nebraska City, bct money ,ls0 ctuna from other psrta of tn. not ,TeB ra,Md on. eUtan of -Ulrena M wu th money tor the Lincoln Mvm y, goon rtu am unveUIng of the atatue ot Marten, a bust ef Schiller, tha famous Qennaa author, waa unveiled In SUvervtew park in this olty, but, la this, re spect was not paid ta great American, "ouh V!"? ""l hoDnf th. nam. of BohlUer can not be questioned. These two monuments, then, of Morton "d eohuter- own of publlo siwomki in nwru prior to opting of the tatu of Lincoln by cnuarea or taa oman in aonooi. But th purchasing of tha statue ef Lin coln la not the first work of art secured by th. high school pupils of Omaha. Five other statues, though smaller, have been purchased by them, all of which are en sconced tn the building. They have also bought ten busts, one bas relief, one fries and seventy pictures by masters. All ot thesa have been secured within the last seven yeara and all by tha children unaided, , the collection costing over 5,000. Mrs. Har riet Towns waa the leader tn art In th but three Inches a second, but swims four and one-half inches a second. A large frog may. however, jump thirteen Inches a sao ond. Tha chamelon la not much more rapid than tortoise when walking, covering alne-aixteeoth inehas a second, and run ning only tbrme Inches a second. A rattlesnake movee In a curved Una four lnchee a second, and whsa after lis prey may travel twenty of forty Inches a ancood. Of course no animal can be expected to rival tha bird in flight, but It la Inter eating to note the speed of tha buds, aa it baa been ascertained by the German scholars. The eagle flies seventy-five feet a aeoond, which la Ova feet faster than tha wild duck files. The wild goose, how. ever, double th speed of the eagle, clear big tha air at the tremendous rte of 150 feet a second, so that It travels a mile In thirty-five seoocda. Tha greatest speed attained by a carrier pigeon I 110 f a aeoond in this eouatry, though Gaetke claims that tn trial ever twenty-five geo graphical mile hi pigeon attained a meaa speed of 170 feet a second. Tha swiftest af all th bird without any question is th swallow, which ha mad. Lo feet a aeoond, and ba been attained th tncnandaus speed ot WO feet aeoond tn a teat made by th French scientists. At this rat th weilw eat op a mil of spao tn lghtaen suns Is Mlnneepoll Ttihwa, ' '-Pi? -1 - r X ' f FREDERICK U'CONNEli rRESSNTIN O THE 4 1? FALLEN. high school, having presented a fine ptctura to tha school In lan. aftar four of her chil dren had been graduated from the school. She made tha presentation In tha hop that other would follow her example, but no other pictures or werk of art whatsoever have since been given tha school, all bar lng been purchased either by tha children or tha board. Plaoed In tha triangle by tha main entrance to the high aohool building, tha statue of Lincoln Biases aa a beacon beck oning the student at tha school on to a higher, greater and batter Ufa. They cannot enter or leave tha building without seeing the statue, their statu, of Lincoln, and in their eye there 1 naught ax osnsure far the work. Tha statue la tha representation of the Lincoln they bar learned to revere, It Is the personification of patriotism. It Is ths embodiment of that which they ohertsh most highly lov of country. As Goethe aays: "True art la tha repre Captain of K. U. CONNOR a SMITH. Blair, Ol (Neb.) boy ha been chom I captain of tha sophomore de al kaH. . . T , of Kansas, where he will lead his team against the freshmen on May day. In year past May day ha been made memorable at gar" univer sity by aa annual class tight between th CCTTNNOR . C SMITH OF BLAJR WUOLS4CI TUB SOFHOMOaH CLAM AT KANSAS UNiVtitatXX. .- Children - f. STATTIEV sentation of the Ideal, not tha man;" so wn li tha children, they heed not the crude folds In the garments or tha wrinkles In th massive brow of their Lincoln, they sea nothing but the Ideal manv ths rall-aplltter wh stepped Into the breech when the ship of state waa pounding to piece on tha shoals of secession, and they revere th man Lincoln, drsplte tha pointing of th finger ot scorn by people who hava made a study of art. The censuring of their work la, however, hurting the high school student, and pleas of Intervention hava been mad to the mayor, but that official can do) nothing. "I wish It were In my power to stop this wrangling about the Lincoln statue," say Mayor Dahlman, "for tt la a (ham to hurt the feeling of these children after they have worked so hard to get th statu and, have gloried In the unveiling ot tha. first work of tha kind In this state which hag apnropr.ated tho name of Lincoln for It capital, but, of course, I can do nothings I never saw Lincoln, Ilka many other young men, but I find no fault With tha statu, But If I did rind any flaw in It. J would keep my mouth shut and say .nothing to Injure the feelings ot these children who have chovn forth more patriotic feeling than many of us wh hava reached mature years." The statue of Lincoln stands today an Irsplratlon to tho youth of Omaha and they glory tn tt and point to It with pride, though there la no mark on tt to show that th children ot the high school bought and erected it and do date to show when It waa unveiled. "Alexander represent Greece when th glob trembled beneath the tread of tta armies, Caesar respond for Rome when It victorious legtona blazed tha pathway of mn!ra even above tha fwirthera wu. Na poleon typifies Franca whsn Its proud eagle cleft th skies above tha highest Alps, and Lincoln answers to tha name of America when the fires of liberty gleamed brightest on Its altars and tha great heart oC th nation was touched from on high." This was the closing senteno of th ad dress by W. F. Ourley at tha nnvelllnc ot the statue of Linooln, and th climax placing the great American above all the mighty men of the past ages meet with th com- patriotio devotion held by tha children of tha Omaha High school, and with bead uncovered they gase with respect upoa their status of the savior ef their eouatry Abraham Lincoln. Debating Team freshmen and aophomoraa, resulting tn many broken bone. Chancellor Strong succeeded in substituting mental In place ot the physical warfare and th twa classes are now producing poets and eong Stsra who ar heralding th coming batu of words. Tha Nebraska, boy waa on th Blair High school team which, defeated; Omab la 4bt In 1Mb,