THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: OCTOBER 1, 191o.
Nebraska's .Wonderful Story
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meet . so constituted should endure
among the nations of the earth."
Float; No. 13 will show two figura
tlve slaves, broken mancles, two
btoodhonnds, and a heroic figure of
liberty holding aloft the torch of
freedom. . ... .
Now the story represented by page
ants leaves the floats for a moment
and takes Its place, among gaily ap
pareled marching personages. Group
No. 8 represents General Fremont,
the pathfinder, with Kit Carson as
a guide, and accompanied by cavalry
force ."and pack mules and equipment
on their way across the plains and the
then untraveled mountain to the Pa
cific toast ( ' ' 'i - i
. Z Mormon Expedition. . ;.
Next is an expedition of peace
Group No. 10, representing the Mor
mon -expedition of 1846, traveling
westward with their prairie schooners
drawi by oxen, followed by their
armed men keeping wary watch for
hostile Indians. Following next in
orderwill be the Mormon expedition
of 1856, which started from Florence,
wandering across the silent prairies
and unknown mountains to Ziort, like
the Itraelites of old, men women snd
children, with their lowly belongings
in paaks and in pushcarts. Here also
will be shown a replica of the sod
tabernacle they had built in' Flor
ence Jen years before. 5 '
Groop ' No. 12 Present ' 'th
freighters boldly striking across the
country with their mule teams and
guard, the faint beginning of that
vast Volume of communication that
todays speeds from coast 'to- coast
Group. No. 13 will illustrate the pony
expreji and the stajge coach, the last
method of transportation before the
prairies and mountains were crossed
by rajls of steel.
m First Capitol ;
Thi early struggles and growth of
Omaha, a humble hamlet reached by
a steamboat-on the Missouri, and
stag coach across Iowa, next attract
our attention, and we set in Float No.
14, th First Territorial Capitol Build
ing, a pretentious building of that
day, two stories in height, with a
shingle roof, in which were formu
lated by the solons of that early time
the beginnings of civil government
The geographies of that time de
scribed all the lands west of the newly
established Omaha capitol as the
Great American Desert . .
Naturally there will follow the aeal
of the infant territory shown by Float
15, with a waving flag. The ambitious
word "Progress" and the triumphant
phrase "Popular Sovereignty," show
ing in the back ground the steamboat,
th infant railroad and thy. scroll
bearing the word "Constitution." Next
in quaint sequence will be Float No.
16, representing the "First Inaugural
Ball," given at the City hotel, at
Eleventh and Harney street, Omaha,
in honor of Governor Isard during
the bitter winter, weather of 1859,
when those present danced energeti
cally to keep' warm, to music fur
nished by an orchtstra consisting of
a single fiddle, according to Dr.
Miller' narativ. ,
Group No. 14, rep relents General
John M. Thayer and his First Ne
braska regiment marching to martial
music . The days of the civil war had
come and the sons of .Nebraska of
fered themselves for the cause of the
union.' . r .'-
Great American Desert
In 186$ 'the. civil war ended: th
day of peace came, and the civil war
veterans began taking homesteads on
the rapidly disappearing Great Amer
ican Desert Float No. 17, represents
the. Building Erected by Daniel Fre
miti, who made the first selection
under th Federal Homestead act It
represent the humbl beginning of
an agricultural domain that was to be
come one of the richest productive
states of the union.
Float No. 18, represents "The Span
ning of the Continent" Probably no
more momentous event took place in
Nebraska's history than the location
of th terminus of the Union Pacific
railway, by President Lincoln. When
it wss constructed through the Platte
vatley midway through th state, it
opened op for settlement and cul
tivation million of acres of land.' And
there followed the construction of
other railroads and the building of
towns and cities, and the prosperous
future of th state became assured.
On this float will be shown a bust of
the martyred president and a model of
the first locomotive that ever pushed
its way westward from the Missouri
river. t -
Omaha Keep Capitol -
In 1866 the people of the. territory
framed for themselves a state consti
tution, and elected state officers, a
congressman and two United States
senators, and after an interesting de
bate in -congress became admitted
into the sisterhood of states. Omaha
still remained the capital city of the
state, and t state house had been con
structed and then stood on uapitoi
Hilt, where now atands the Central
High school. That original capitol
building, with its unfinished pre
tentious Corinthian columns, is re
produced in Float No. 19. Float No.
20, represent the seal adopted when
Nebraska became one of the United
States. In front of this great seal ia
the humble log cabin and dug-out of
the pioneer, and in the rear of the
float is represented the luxurious
dwelling of the modern farmer, sur
rounded by inventions of every kind,
including the automobile, electric
lights, telephone and labor saving de
vices.
Next in order will come float rep
resenting in a picturesque manner
some of the privations, sufferings and
hardshiDS throuRh which our early
settlers passed in the struggle toward
prosperous statehood. Moat io. ii.
represents the "Pioneer Wife and
Mother," with her children, while
iIliSafiisiaI
Breaks Record of City With
1 $19,415,806 in Deposits
During the twelve months between September,, 2, 1915, and;
sSeptember 12, 1916, Omaha banks registered probably the most
Jsplendid growth in the financial history of the city.:
I '. The top notch of all bank deposits in Nebraska's history has
fbeen attained by one of the Omaha banks, the Omaha National,
Ethis' ontlEwespbndinff to a general call of the comptroller on
all mi!k&f6f a statement of condition) September 12, this bank
:reports( deposits i on that date of $19,415,806. At the last previous
kail, June 30, it had on depo'siV$ 15,752,556. FZFl'
i ' Half a dozen years ago when' any one of the three biggest
fbanks in Oniaha attained deposits of $13,000,000 or so, it was '
accounted a' big' event. . "
Capital . . . . $ 1,000.000.00
Surplus and Profits 1,000,000.00
! Resources . . . 22,000,000.00
The Omaha National Bank
'' -i Farnam and Seventeenth h as .
.... Organized July 2, 1866 ....
OFFICERS
'''L. J. H. 1VMLLARD, Pretident . .
W. H. BUCHOLZ, Vic Proident I WARD M. BURGESS, Vice Pretident
fj. DeP. RICH ARDS, Cuhler I FRANK BOYD, AmL Cwhier
:B. A. WILCOX, Awt tCsUMer EZRA MtLLARD, AmL Caihier
! v O. T. ALV1SON, AmL Cashier
j. h. millard
; arthur c smith
;e.acudahy
jcHARLES H. BROWN
:LOUISCNASH
DIRECTORS
W. H. BUCHOLZ
J. DeF. RICHARDS.
WARD M. BURGESS
ISAAC W. CARPENTER
EZRA MILLARD
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near them was the lurking danger
from ever present aboriginal Indians.
Then Came Grasshopper.
Float No. 22 Is typicI of the
devastating awarm of grasshoppers,
which were so destructive of all the
crops and vegetation of the state as
to leave it as barren a a stricken
wilderness and without a parallel in
th world" history, excepting the
single incident of old Egypt
Group No. 17. Which will follow
the grasshopper float represents the
settlers fleeing from the "plague of
locusts," back to the east with what
ever little effects ould be saved, car
ried m a prairie schooner, on the sides
of which were scrolled the words:
'Eaten up by the grasshoppers. Go
ing back to five with wife's folks."
Float No. 23 Presents in bright
colors the pleading figure of the In
dian maiden, "Nebraska," praying for
rain, white she suffers under the piti
less rays of the sun; and also pre
sents hungry coyotes and the dis
heartened farmer standing by his up
turned plow. It is the story of the
years of th drouth, when the state
was one more turned into desola
tion, and broken hearted farmers
again fled eastward.
Arbor Day. .
Now com 6 happier day, and we
gladly turn to look at Float No. 24.
"Arbor Day," with it bust of J. Ster
ling Morton, 'the father of our tree
planting system, which has resulted in
transforming the original barren
prairies into beautiful landscapes as
rich in color and attractive in ap
pearance a the most charming spots
of New England. '
Most fitting next in order comes
Float No. 25, dedicated to the indus
tries that have placed the young state
of Nebraska among the first of the
union, in agriculture, horticulture and
animal Industries- On this float are
characters representing bountiful
Ceres and cracious Pomona, both en
throned and with overflowing cornu
copias emblems of peace and Bound
less plenty.
Float No.
26 Represents the im-
Eggerss
0'FlyngCo. X
Omaha Fiber
,. and
Corrugated
Box Co.
Corrugated Shipping
Boxes
Paper Folding Boxes
Cigar Boxes'
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van (aMvartaa' Fu Wut-Ad to
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mense live stock industry. Here will
be represented animal figures, the
belching smoke of the packing houses,
and on the rear of the float, the tri
umph of refrigeration by which Ne
braska's live stock products find their
way all over the world.
Cheerful Hen.
Float No. 27 Will show figures of
the ''Cheerful Hen," which adds to
Nebraska's wealth flii"
than the value of the gold mined in
many western state, and the ra
tient Cow" shown on Float No-
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