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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
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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
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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.
"Thayer attached it to Jim Tyng head,
and from that moment the mask entered
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, Automobile Floral Parade
Tuesday Afternoon, Sept. 30 Mag
nificent pageant of beautiful women in
flower-decorated autos.
Electrical Parade
Wednesday Night, Oot. 1 Scenos
from the Arabian Nights. Twenty beau
tiful floats. Most expensive parado in
history of Ak-Sar-Ben.
German Day Parade
Thursday Afternoon, Oct. 2 Ten
thousand Germans, in Omaha to celo
brato "German Day," will maroh in tho
parado.
Coronation Ball
Friday Evening, Oct. 3 Impressive
ceremonies of tho coronation of Ak-Sar-Ben
XIX, followed by tho ball.
Douglas County Fair
Every Afternoon and Evening Tho
choicest farm products and live stock of
Douglas County will be shown.
Irwin Bros. Frontier Day Wild
West Show
Every Afternoon, Sept. 27 to Oct. 4
Bigger and hotter show than ever; 250
performers cowboys, bronco busters,
Indians, wild horses, buffaloes, untamed
Bteers, eta
Big Hippodrome Show
Every Afternoon and Evening, Sept.
29 to Oot. 4 A high class one-ring cir
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Street Carnival
Every Afternoon and Evening High
grade attractions, including Herbert A.
Kline's Carnival Shows, Big Animal
Show, Oriental Show, Six Diving Girls,
Princess Victoria, the smallest woman in
tho world, Jolly Trixio, tho 685-pound
girl, and the Soven-iu-Ono Show. Now
carnival grounds, 17th and Howard Sts.
By far Inrger and hotter than the old.
At Auditorium
Evening Only Ak-Snr-Bon and Irwin
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