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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 28, 1913)
THE OMAHA SVXDAY BIO 13: SEPTKMBKK 2S, 10H. 1I-D ( PAS EYE ON CENTRAL PACIFIC Iffnion Pacific Would Like to Own Road for Extension. JWOTTLD UTILIZE IDLE MONEY Stockholders of llnrrlmnti System Atubltlona to I'nt Surplus Fonda "Where They Will Kara Something;. Th Union raclflo has nn eyo on the jCentral Pacific, but whether It will ever Ibe ablo to acquire this stretch of road, Inow the undisputed property of the Southern Pacific, la a mooted quest cn iTho Union Pacific wants the road In order that It may have n direct line .from Omaha to the Pacific coast, and, moreover, wants It In prder that the Harrlman system may be extended from coast to coast. Just how to tret control and povses Ion of the Central Pacific from Ogdcn to Benlcla, Cal., Is the question that Is giving Union Pacific and Us lejal department and stockholders a lot of an noyance at ths time. It could bo dono by purohaie providing the Southern Pa olflo would let bo of the property, but It Is not Inclined to do so. The Union Paolflo has the money with which to buy it the road was on the market, for, besides the $200,000,000 of surplus on hand, It has $SS,OCO,000 more saved up from the sale of Southern Pacific stock When the merger of the Union and Southern was ordered unmcrged by the courts. All of this money Is on hand and the Union Pacific docs not know What to do with tho vast sum. The road bed Is in perfect condition and all of the equipment required for tho opera tion of the road Is In the best possible shape, so there Is no place where the. money can bo put unless It Is used In the construction of new lines, which Is Improbable, or by the purchasing of the lino from Ogden west , Profit Sharing Itond. I That tho Central Pacific Is a good piece of railroad property Is Indicated by Its report for the fiscal year ending j June 30, last. That report shows that 1 the gross earnings of tho road wero 30,4S3,TT2, or a total not Income of 114, 1 SJS.823. i The Central has a mileage of 2,104 and, while held under a ninety-nine-year lease from the Huntfagtons, Is practically owned by the Southern. Legal representatives of the Union Pa cific, not those of Omaha, but the big ones elsewhere, contend that when the time comes, If the Southern will not let go of the Central Pacific, there Is another course that may be adopted. They Intimate that a dlvorcemont, or un merging of tho two roads Is not so re motely Improbable, In which event, the Union Pacific would be at liberty to come In and make tho purchase. The Union -Pacific attorneys say there Is a precedent for tho unmerglng by the court and that the precedent Is the decision of the supreme court which di vorced the Union and Southern Pacific roads- A belief is current In high finan cial circles that the big surplus being accumulated by the Union Paolflo Is being held Intact for the purposo ol taking over the Central when the time comes.' Their Mission. A largo crowd had gathered at the sta tion , to receive the famous statesman. The reporter Indicated a group In the foreground. "They are personal friends, gathered to see him about speaking hero,'1 he explained. "Is.lt necessary to use persuasion to induce him to speak?'' "Not at all; thev are going to try to wovent him." Judge. Prize Baby and Her Ancestry LZJ SJH Q base ball, At first the players, other than tho In the varsity, and the spectators, were Inclined to ridicule It, and It caused ! tin nil of rommiinl tvhun It was anrn hv Tyng at the Tain game that year. Har vard won and two years later tram after team adopted the mask. "As I recall Thayer In those days he was the sort of n man that would have caused n sensation now. He was about five feet nine weighed about ISO. and at I first gave no sign of what he really could do. His eyes wcro his charm. Bright and alsrt as they looked out from beneath a heavy shook of dark, ourly hair, they sensed every move In a bs ball game. Fred played, directed and dominated the nine, lie sold little, but what he said meant much, "Why. If Fred was a player today the newspaper would take so much cpac to tell of him that there would only be three Unea left to reoount ths trouble! of the New Haven, two lines for Qoy ernor Foes, one for the mayor, and IK room at aU for th titrated." Bcto, Herald. Persistent Advertising Is the Tload t Big Return. Sent r Victrolas on FREE Trial! Sitting, from left to right: Jacob C. March, 98: Qcnevtovo G. Chapman, 29 months: W. T. March. 70. Standing: Harriet Frahm, 47; Gertrude Ellen Chap man, i'i. IJttlo Miss Genevieve Chapman of Ccresco, although she Is only 29 months old, Is ono of the most Interesting young ladles In Nebraska, for she wears honors worthy to commend her to the notice of all societies Interested in eugenics In tho world. She Is not only a great, great granddaughter, but shb was a prize win ner nt the stato fair baby show. When Genevieve was born It was an event which overshadowed In Importance to tho family any other happening since Jacob C. March, now W years old, walked barefoot fron Kentucky to Mis souri, for she made that patriarch a great-great-grandfather and gave the family the distinction of having living representatives of five generations In direct line of descent. , Gcnevlevo Is tho daughter of Mrs. Gertrude Ellen Chapman, who Is 16 years old. Her grandmother Is Mrs. Harriett Frahm, 47 years old, and her great-grandfather Is W. T. 'March, 70 years old, son of Jacob C. March. She lives with her mother and her great-great-'grand-father at the home of her great-grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. March, at Ccresco. Jacob C. March war born in Clark county, Kentucky, July 15, 1817. In the fail of 1829 his parents decided to make an attempt to Improve their lowly for tunes and started with a camping outfit for Boone county, Missouri. They had only two' horses, one of which the mother rode, whllo the other pulled tho father and two smaller children In a buggy, so Jacob and his brother walked all the way. As the result of the death of his father and the poverty of tho family during his boyhood, Jacob C. March never learned to read and write until ho was 88 years old, when he taught himself to do so. When he was I years of age he enlisted In the army following the call for soldiers to go to Florida to guelj a rebellion of Seminole Indians, ills com-' pany was commanded by Ulysses, S, Grant, then captain, and the regiment was under orders of Colonel Gentry. His ser vice In the army lasted six months. Th fe . ' war ' ' ''II? GENEVIEVE G. CHAPMAN. vessel In which they embarked at Now Orleans required twenty-ono days to make the trip to Tampa, Flo. On May SO, 1841, Mr. March was mar ried to Harriett Kelly and to them were born eight children. He came to Ne braska In 1S73 and settled near Coresco. Since that time he has always lived either In Saunders or Lancaster county. He scoured a pension twenty years ago through the assistance of The Omaha Bee. His wife died several years ago at the age of 90 years. Genlevleve Chapman was bom March 18, 1911, and from the first gave ovlderic that she was an unusually strong child. Her growth was rapid and she had no serious illness. 'The 'only special atten tion that has been pato to her food has been care that she should eat little candy or foods 'containing much sugar,- Allrsht wants of plain food, which she selects herself from the table, has been, the usual presrtptlon for her diet. Plenty of sunshine and fresh air and frequent baths are other features of her mother's system which aro believed to have assisted In giving tho little girl such an excellent start In life so far as physical conditions are concerned. She has learned to enjoy a dally bath and Is allowed to run out In tho yard at will during nice weather. INVENTED BASE BALL MASK Trllinte to the Mnn Who Saved the Pace of the Sinn Ilehlnil the rintr. Of all the Harvard men and base ball lovers the world over who mourned the loss lnit week of Frederick Wlnthrop Thayer of Cohasset, Harvard, '78, cap tain of the famous 'varBlty nines of 1876, 1977 and 1878, and Inventor of the catcher's mask, none felt It more poignantly than General William A. Bancroft, president of the Boston elevated. A chum and classmate of "Fred" Thayer In the days whon he himself was known as "Foxy" Bancroft the nows of his former comrade's death recalled many of the details of their life at Harvard. He was one of the first to learn of Thayer's Invention of the mask In fact, wan one of those who was shown It be foro either player or "fan" ever drtamtd of such an Innovation. "Tho days when Thayer entered liar, vard base ball differed somewhat from the present. A Pitcher had to throw un derhanded and end his throw with arm atretohed out Then that changed and as a consequence the ball waa thrown much more swiftly. Dr. Harold C Ernst, a professor in tho medical school, was pitcher on the 'varsity nine, and James A. Tyng, the real estate dealer, was catcher, They made a wonderful bat tery. "Thayer noticed that the mora freedom given the pitcher tho greater became tho risk of the catcher. One day be let ft few Into the secret. He waa going to make a mask. A few days before the Tale game of 1876 he came on th fltld with It- Save for the fact It waa made more heavily It waa muoh similar to the masks In use today. 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