THE BEE: OMAHA; SATURDai,
WHERE DID OMAHA
GET ITSMONICKER?
It Starts from an Indian Name
Jesie Lowe Christened
This City. .
EVOLUTION OF MUNY TITLE
' By A. R. OROH .
How did Omaha come to be named
Omaha? Or, a Juliet would bare pat
the question, - ,
"Oraahs, Omaha!
Wherefore art tnoa Omaha ?" .'
I aee a great many hands raited.
"That's an easy question," yon siy.
"It was named after the Omaha In
diana." si. 'A. :". '
"But there were no Omaha In
dians," I answer from the heights of
my wisdom. 'Those Indians were the
'Mahas.'"
That is what Lewis and Clark, who
conducted the famous expedition in
1804, called them. In their records we
read:
"We halted to examine a spot
where one of the great chiefs of the
Mahas, named Blackbird, who died
about four years ago of the smallpox,
was buried."
These explorers refer frequently to
the "Mahas." How, then, I repeat,
did Omaha come to be named Omaha
instead of Maha?
it it a question that has puzzled
historian. We are in the dark as to
how or when the letter 'O' wat pre
fixed to the name," says Henry T.
Williams.
j Probing Mystery.
I will now dispel this darkness.
My researches and investigations and
deep thought on the subject hare
evolved an explanation of the mystery.
I shall make everything clear to the
satisfaction of the most particular.
Listen carefully, then, in order that
you may no longer be in darkness
as to how and why your city was
riven its euphonious and orotund
name. .
A man named Tesse Lowe lived fn
Kanesville, now Council Bluffs, back
in 1853. On July 23 of that year he
paddled a small skiff across the river
and was to charmed with the location
that he predicted then, and there
that this would, some day, be the
site of a great city. To back up his
belief, he staked out a claim, which
was located m the vicinity of the
west end of the present Cuming
street,
Jesse then began to look about for
a name for the city. He decided to
name it after the Indians. .But this
name. Maha didn t sound very eu
phonious. The First Natse.
Then a bright idea came to him.
Why not fasten hit own name on to
the city that was to be. No sooner
said than done. He called if "Lowe
trlaha." .
The "e," however, was superfluous.
So he dropped that out, making it
"Lowmaha.
Time went on as1 time has a habit
of doing. People came and settled
in the growing town. They were all
anxious to grow with growing Low
maha. The "w," also wat superfluous. So.
gradually that wat dropped out and
the city came to be known as "Lo
maha." - . ..;
And then, the "L being half silent,
it also went the way of the "e" and
the "w," leaving the city's tame with
out one superfluous letter, beautiful
and euphonious, "Omaha.", -
That's the way I have it "doped
out," and it seems to be pretty good
dope. Anyway it't good enough till
someone dopes out something better.
Only One Package of
. Victrola Needles at Once
Steel needtet for the Victrola are
now growing scarce. Some of the
local dealers have declared a partial
"embargo" 'on the aale of these points
to their customers.
"We can only sell one nackaae.'
said the sales girl in one of the local
shops when a customer wanted to buy
hve packages. ...
"Whit's no?" asked .the customer.
"Don't know, but we . just can't get
them from the-factories, so we have
orders to tell only one package to a
customer. We don't, know when we
can set any more." '
."I suppose they . are . shooting
needles at one another in the war
now," ventured the buyer, pocketing
his one lonesome package of needles.
The girl shrugged her shoulders. "I
don't know, but I guess it's the war
that makes them scarce somehow.
Guess they must be using them as
hobaails for the soldiers boots.
Special Books for Men
And Women at Library
Omahans desiring technical infor
mation on many subjects can find it
in numerous new books just received
at the public library, says Miss Edith
Tobitt, librarian.
Women's wearing aoDarel. textiles
and the various methods of their
making are illustrated and written up
for the fair sex, while men may find
valuable facts about electricity, steam
boilers, railroading, metallurgy, fruit
growing and poultry raising. Other
volumes treat of buying, merchandis
ing, window trimming and other bus
iness subjects.
"Besides having many technical
books in the reference room," says
Miss Tobitt, we now have a large
assortment which patrons of the
library can borrow on cards and take
home for study. These new ones are
among those for circulation "
Attend the
Sale
of Furniture, Rugs and
j Draperies
. Beginning Monday,,
i February 19th
j 'At both stores.'
'THE CENTRAL
! 17th mud Howard Sta.
THE RAYMOND
, 1513-15 Howard St.
Great Great Grandniece of Betsy
Ross, Who Made First Flag, Here
Has Been a Resident of Omaha
Since Last Summer and
Has Many Interesting
Belies.
VANITY FANS, WOOD FORKS
While patriotic interest runs high
the presence of a great-great grand-
neice of Betsy Rots in Omaha has
just been discovered. She ia Mrs. H.
V. Radigan, pee Sue McCord Turner
Cooper, of 412 Sweetwood avenue,
who has lived in Omaha since last
summer. She is a member of Flag
House chapter, Daughters of the
American Revolution, by virtue of her
descent from Mark McCord and Wil
liam Donaldson, who served as cor
poral and captain in the revolutionary
war.
Most interesting of all arethe relics
of Betsy Ross, who is credited with
making the first American flag, which
Mrs. Radigan possesses. There are
black cloth shoes worn by Betsy Ross
at the marriage of Mrs. Radigan's
grandmother, Susanne McCord, to
Fred Turner January 1, 1830, in Wit
lings' Alley, Philadelphia, one of the
last affairs Betsy Ross attended be
fore her death. The bride was a
favorite grand-niece of Betsy Ross
and it is through her that the many
articles belonging to the celebrated
originator of the Stars snd Stripes
Fooling Kaiser
IsY.M. G.A.Man's
Present Pastime
Foiled by the kaiser's submarine
edict in his efforts to go via the At
lantic ocean to engage in Young
Men's Christian ! association work
among British troops in Mesopotamia,
I. R. Lilies, formerly a secretary of
the local association, Is temporarily in
Omaha on his way west to try the
Pacific ocean as a safer route to the
far east. '.' i
He reached New York on his way
to the orient just before the order of
"ruthless" sea warfare was issued by
Germany. Association officials decided
not to send him on a British boat,
and no American passenger vessels
have sailed since then. So Lines is
going back across the continent in
hopes of being able to sail from Van
couver March IS and get a safe pass
age across the Pacific.
"The word 'Pacific' meant 'peace
ful, and I hope it pant out that way,"
he says. (
Windsor School Pupils
Enjoy "Electrical Day"
This it "electrical day" at Windsor
school. - 'r ' ,
Principal Eddy noted tuch an in
terest in this science among her pupils
that ,the hit upon the idea of allow
ing the fourth and fifth grade children
to bring their electrical toys and have
them connected to -the school wires.
The result was that the manual train
ing room looked likt an Edison work
shop.
Each child gave a demonstration of
his or her apparatus. Incidentally the
children gleaned information in con
nection with the mysterious power
which is now helpin r to make the
world go around.
Large Apartment House
To Be Built in Dundee
A $30,000 apartment house is to be
built by Dr. D. T. Quigley in the
spring. Dr. Quigley recently acquired
the ground at the corner of Fiftieth
and California streets, where he will
have 'this three-story brick and terra
cotta structure erected. Architectural
Beaton's" Path
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Cigar Dept.
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' 15c Muriels Rothchild size, 10
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Mail orders receive our prompt
V, ; attention.
Beaton Drug Co.
v tStk al Faraarn Sta. .
descended to the present owner, Mrs.
Radigan, to whom they were present
ed on her twenty-first birthday.
In the collection is a carved wooden
salad fork and spoon of King Charles
IV's day, a Peggy Shippen scarf, a
piece of linen woven by Betsy her
self, a chain and locket, a silver purse,
two vanity fans, two bracelets, lace
collars and fichus and bonnet strings
and pieces of cloth from dresses worn
by Betsy Ross. Other interesting
relics of revolutionary days are in
cluded in Mrs. Radigan's collection.
Betsy Rots.
The grandmother of Susanne Mc
Cord Turner was Sarah Griscom, sis
ter of Elizabeth Griscom, the Betsy
Ross of history. That is how Mrs.
Radigan traces her descent. Before
her death, in an interview lin the
Evening Telegram, Mts. Turner said:
"I have vivid personal recollections of
her as 'Aunty Claypoole. She was
small of stature and was beautiful
even in her old age. Betsy was
married three times. Her first hus
band was a connection of Colonel
Ross of the flag committee. He was
killed in an explosion on the wharf
and so the widow continued the up
holstery shop in Arch street It was
as the widow Ross she here made the
first flag. Afterwards she married
Captain Ashburn, who, with his
brother-in-law, Captain Donaldson,
died in an English prison. Later she
married John Claypoole, the man who
broke the news of her second bereave
ment to her."
sketches are being made, but the
plans have not been completed.
There are to be twelve apartments
in the building, with an average of
six rooms to an apartment, while
some apartments will have seven and
some five rooms.
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RETAILERS ARE
R00TIMF0R SHOW
Omaha Automobile Men Get
Active Co-Operation from
Business Managers Here.
LEGION OF VISITORS DUE
Arriving at a complete realization
that the auto show brings many vis
itors and accordingly many hundreds
of dollars to the cjty, Omaha retailers
are taking steps to give the local au
tomobile men their full co-ooeration
and do everything In their power to
aid in the success of the twelfth an
nual Omaha motor car exposition at
the Auditorium February 26 to
March 3.
Secretary Metcalfe has called a
meeting of the Associated Retailers
for Tuesday, at which meeting the re
tailers will make plans to bring more
visitors to this year's auto show than
ever before. The Commercial club
also is co-operating with the auto
men.
A number of individual merchants
have conferred with Manager Powell
of the show on their own behalf and
he has received assurances from prac
tically every large business establish
ment in the city that they will have
specially decorated windows for auto
week. One large store has even gone
so far as to instruct its clerks to
"talk" auto show to out-of-town cus
tomers during the week of the expo
sition. Because of this co-operation the
auto men are receiving Manager Pow
ell anticipates the greatest number of
out-of-town visitors in history. ''.The
number of visitors," declares Powell,
"will reach far into the thousands this
year." i
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mad. or tsooln. quarur tawed oak, finished golden
or fumed, seat and back are upholatered in guaran
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part can be used as a comfortable bed with sanitary
prlncs, and a roomy eerte. wh.n iflQn m fm
cloaed, an .xtraordtnary value at JJiZH. rl
our low prlc. Ve7aS sj
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Heaven Our Home!
Adam and Eve Did
Their Stunt Here
Nebraska is the original site of the
Garden of Eden, according to Rev.
M. L. Ballou of Dalton, Neb., visit
ing friends here. He will not go so
far as to specify just which section
of the Antelope state was the habi
tat of Adam and Eve, but he is quite
convinced that if tome of the archae
logical fraternity will dig deep
enough they will find evidence with
which to corroborate his statement.
He visited Mayor Dahlman and in
the presence of that executive made
his historical claim. He feels that
the burden of proof or disproof does
not rest with him, but rather with
those that have to do with locating
ancient ruins. He made it clear that
he did not come to Omaha to locate
the Garden of Eden. He is inclined
to believe that if the garden of the
first twain should be located in Ne
braska, it will be nearer Lincoln
than Omaha. ,
Street Cars Will Experiment
With Doors at Rear Entrance
Information divulged at the hear
ing on some street railway bills at
Lincoln is to the effect that forty
new cars are being ' built for addi
tional street railway , service in
Omaha, to be put on as soon as com
pleted. The new cars are all to Te
constructed in the local car shops of
the company and to be of latest ap
proved type, and some of them, if
not all, are to be equipped with fold
ing doors at the rear entrance as
well as at the front exit, to try out
whether street cars with such doors
are desired by the patrons in Omaha.
For the completely closed car it is
argued that it is helpful in avoid
ing accident, but, on the other hand,
it adds to the work of the conduc
tors and makes the boarding of the
cars a little slower. -
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In guaranteed Spanish imita
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Chair and Book
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in high grade
imitation- Span
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site table fitted
with magazine
compar tme nt
and stationery
drawer, special
.clearance sale
'price for three
1 pieces, only
$16.25
WONDERFUL VALUES iN FINE
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Genuine bargains at our low
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at Hartmans
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OMAHA ESCAPES
FREIGHT EMBARGO
Traffic , Chief of Harriman
Roads Says Recent Edict
Will Remove Congeston.
EASTERN PORTS CHOKED
That the gentlemen's agreement en
tered into Thursday by the freight
traffic officials of thirty of the leading
railroads of the country, held in
Washington, will relieve the freight
congestion is the opinion of Ben L.
Winchell, director of traffic of th
Harriman system of roads.
Mr. Winchell was in the 'city a short
time, enroute to California. He said
that in order to clear up the enormous
quantity of freight that has accumu
lated along the Atlantic coast the
traffic officials of practically all the
roads of the country have entered into
an agreement that until yards and
terminals are clear, they will not re
ceive any freight for export
Asked if this agreement applied to
foodstuffs and munitions Mr. Winch
Si
A RECORD BREAKING SALE OF
PANTS
For Men and
Young Men
Here's a Pants Sale that
for Values breaks every
known record you will see
that for yourself! There are
hundreds upon hundreds of
Special Quality Worsteds,
remarkably hard - wearing
textures, and the neatest
kind of other durable fancy,
fabricfci every pair tailored).
without a fault Marvelous
Values
..fl98
On Salens
One Week
Only, Starting
Tomorrow.
Men's Suits and Overcoats
Tou've never seen such . desirable
styles and patterns In clothes at
this. ' money - saving '.prlc. and
they're guaranteed for ah rm
service-Hreally SI f
wonderful ' 1 '
: Men's Hall Hose
Remarkable wearproof values In
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seamless Half Hose, In all if
' solid colors, per pair
For Saturday
Monday Only
Men's
UaiaairLf
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ClsO THING COM.PACT
CORrJ4afr DOUGLAS
. mm niTir f-aamni.,.,,.,,.
by people eeekto htarh ela reidee apartments
in Omaha.
The cost of Blackitone apartnents completely fnr
nished, with eveir wrriee inc laded and no extra
expense of maj kind, le from $ 12.60 and upwards
per month.
These apartments nose In stse from one to seren
rooms each.
The Blackitone tenant enjoys all of the Innries
snd conveniences of a millionaire's home, at an
outlay which will prove surprtiincl small to those
in a position to make a companion of the values
offend.
It open umiaaboo suitable apartments cannot be
had, have yaw name placed oa aur waittn list. 'X
Appotetmanta (or pwpoio of makm tnepecttim
may be made by talepbtMSng
'THE BLACKSTONE
Harney 945.
1
ell replied that it was general and
included every commodity. ,
Mr. Winchell said he thought it
would not reach Omaha and other
Missouri river terminals, adding, "It
would if something had not been done
quickly, but under' the terms of the
agreement entered into, I believe that
the situation will be cleared up soon
and freight will be moving."
Mr. Winchell does not say whether
the submarine warfare being carried
on by Germany is going to have any
effect , upon export business. He
thinks, however, whether it does or
not, there is sufficient quantify of ex
port freight lying along the Atlantic
and gulf coast to furnish tonnage for
all the vesels that are likely , to sail
and without drawing upon stocks
held in storage. '-'
' Give your Want Ad a chance to
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cent in ten days in
many Instances. $10t
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article coon to appear 1
this papei. '
- Ask voiiT 4oetoro-
mm
Sherman ft IfeConiMU Drug Store always
carry it hi stock.
See These Pants
on Display in Our
Corner Window,
14th and Douglas.
High Grade Salts A O' coats
The best clothes valuss in America
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many beautiful designs ' f5 f" A
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