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v 5 The Omaha Sunday Bee OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 30, 1917. Qrofe HisW of Oniak All tlie Irutti and unlrulli lliaf 3 fit lo know By A. liapter XXXIII Early Commerce, Unsatisfied with the unrivaled chievements of this monumental his ory so tar. the historian now gives is readers a glimpse of the early mer- antile establishments in Omaha, a hapter which other would-be his- nans overlook entirely. A party named Tootle opened the .st store in the village of Omaha in .ic year 1854, taking into partnership vi th him a party named Jackson, lessrs. Tootle & Jackson built a little hack at what is now Tenth and Far am streets, and put in a stock of a ouple of truckloads of goods. Ah, what a miscellaneous assort ment of the things needed by men as put on sale in this early store. R. CROH cigars, bicycles, sheet music, ice cream sodas and other things too numerous to mention. ' Empty store boxes were placed in front of the store and here the town loafers took up their places and whit tled their initials in the boxes while, no doubt, they talked politics. Some, perhaps, were for Abraham Lincoln and some against him, for "Honest Abe" had not then yet been tested in the fires of the great national crisis i which broke out in 1861, when Fort 1 Sumter was fired upon and "the blue I and the gray" marched forth to fight, I "brother against brother," in the great I conflict for the freedom of the col-1 ored race, so long held under the yoke , of involuntary servitude, for which , they were not paid, but were brought i there from Africa and other places I and sold like so many chattels, some ' ot the families being separated when their masters wanted to sell them, for I boat on it. For often, in the heat of argu ment, they would forget themselves and lift off the cover and take some crackers, especially when the pro prietors were down in the cellar, drawing molasses, or in the back room, demonstrating some phono graph records for a customer. It is pleasing to note that this busi ness developed into a large wholesale business by 1880. Quite a bit of the business was in' Indian woods which were sold to traders with the simple i red men of the plains. The first clothing store in Omaha was run by Vincent Burkley and, was started in 1856. He brought his goods from the city of Cincinnati by How Did Omaha Get Him? 'fisry SiJewafk Display Vhere were bandana handkerchiefs, calico, New Orleans molasses, crack ers, koots, shoes, phonographs and records, canned goods, suspenders, hats, caps, sugar, pocket flashlights, what did they care for the tears and cries of the black people, whom they mistreated and pursued, even in the depthsof winter, when they tried to escape, as is so vividly shqwn in Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's great work entitled "Uncle Tom's Cabin." which has been translated into every foreign tongue and has been read with mingled tears and laughter by mil lions even in far-distant lands. Yes, no doubt, many discussions took place at the pioneer store of Tootle & Jackson. At an early date Mr. Tootle found it advisable to move the cracker barrel behind the counter where the politicians could not reach was necessary the river. He had a good business right from the start. He didn't have any competition and his corduroy suits soon came to be very popular with the public. They were provided with extra deep pistol pockets. It was soon remarked in society circles that the men of the city "were getting to be so "dre'ssy." Question on Chapter XXXIII. 1. Name six articles sold by Tootle & Jackson. 2. What did the citizens talk about when seated on the stor,e boxes? 3. Why was it necessary to move the cracker barrel? 4. State briefly what was "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Get Whom? Get Chief Dunn : : By A. EDWIN LONG. How could the Ak-Sar-Ben show at the Den continue from year to year without the talent of Henry W. Dunn, chief of police? Well, it just couldn't. Still it might ; have had to get along, for circum ! stances about forty-nine years ago shaped themselves so that Henry Dunn was well on the road to the Great Beyond, via the agitated waters of a mill race at Aurora, 111. Dunn was born at Aurora. Born right in town, right square in the city where the paved streets are, which proves once for all that all greatness does not necessarily spring from the farm. Sitting on a slimy moss covered rock protruding from the agitated waters of the tail race below the mill when he was just six years old, he was dreaming of the day when he should be chief of police of Omaha, and humming over the tune of the song he would sing nearly fifty years later at Ak-Sar-Ben, when he became overbalanced and toppled into the water. Had it been two years later he would have swam out like a lankv Germany's Claims to Superiority , In Science Critically Analyzed 70WNES RANDOLPH LEIGH, Chemistry Professor Georgestown College, in Louisville Courier-Joutnal. I have heard the Germans arraigned as blatant, boorish, barbaric, yet in nearly every case the speakers suf- fixed to their invectives such expres sions as "But when it comes to brains you will have to hand it to them; they have made science." Why hand it to them? What epoch making invention or discovery is of German origin except a stamp on which js inscribed "Made in Ger many?" Their scientists have kicked tip a fair amount of spray as they gambolled in their pool, but the world has yet to hear a ny'ghty Teutonic snlash. Time and again French, Eng lish, American, Spanish and Italian ' inventors and discoverers have sent 'tidal waves around the globe. Let us now be specific. The steam engine has been called the greatest of all inventions. It broke the shackles from slaves; it mingled the marts of the world; it made neighbors" of the antipodes. Newcomen, a native of Devonshire, obtained the patent for the first par ti&Hy successful steam engine; Watt, a Scotchman, perfected it; Cuynet, Murdock and Trevithick brought for ward the locomotive, not on German soil; Stephenson, an Englishman, was the first to apply the locomotive steam engine to railways for passen ger traffic; France, England and America applied it to navigation. When all had been completed Ger many pulled the whistle cord, shouted "Hochder kaiser I" and tagged it "Made In Germany." ; - . Big Things by Big Men. The telegraph, which brings us the daily history of the world, was in dented by an American, Prof. Morse, who also suggested the Atlantic ca ble, which was subsequently laid by thatAmerican merchant-scientist, Cy rus Field, assisted in "mooring the new or1d alongside the old" by Lord ' Kelvin, the prince of physicists, a .British subject. Graham Bell, the chief inventor of the telephone, was ' born in Scotland and grew to fame in America. A young Italian, Marconi, - gave wireless telcgraphy-to the world. The house of Hohcnzollern has made great use tof these inventions in tell ing Great Britain, America and Italy in arrogant verbiage what the vater land has done for the benighted peo ples of the earth. -Cyrus McCormick, a native of West Virginia, produced the reaping ma chine, which harvests the food of the world; Meikle of England brought forth the threshing machine; thus was famine banished. Ely Whitney, of Massachusetts parentage, invented the cotton gin; Margrave, an tnglishman, made the spinning jenny; Arkwright, also English, supplied its deficiency with his famous spinning frame; the Englishman, Kay, introduced the fly shuttle in weaving; Brunei, who de vised the knitting machine, and Cart wright, inventor of the power loom, were British subjects. Thus was the world clothed. s Although Germany is militaristic and worships at the shrine of Mars, what votive offering has it made to the god of war? It was not it who contributed gunpowder, smokeless powder, percussion cap, nitroglycer ine, guncotton, dynamite, torpedo shrapnel, automatic cannon, magazine rifle, breech-loading gun, gatling gun, revolver, Maxim silencer, hammerless gun, gunboat, ironclad batteries or ship armor plate, revolving turret, submarine or airplane. Borrowed from Others. Since Germany borrowed its mili tary appliances from other nations we are not surprised that it obtained its devices of prosperity from the same source. It did not produce the first aniline dye, vulcanized rubber, liquid gases, gas engine, water gas, ther mometer, barometer, pianoforte, barbed wire, cut nails, plate glass, cir cular saw, airbrake, bicycle, automo bile, pneumatic tire, sewing machine, typewriter, calculating machine, cash register, steel writing pen, et cetera ad infinitum. The greatest thing that Germany has done is td advertise itself falsely as the light of the world. No son of Germany invented the electric light, the gas light, the aeetyleneight, the flashlight, the safety lamp, the candle dip or the friction match. America, France, England and other "untutored" nations performed these tasks. '' The Microscope. Daguerre, a Frenchman, presented us with photography. Our own Edi son brought forth the motion picture to delight and instruct the, eye and the phonograph to olease the ear. The Germans enjoy our reels and records. Galileo, who first saw the heavens with a telescope, was an Italian. The man who first saw the earth and its teeming life with a microscope were not of German origin. Yet many tele scopes and microscopes in our col leges, being marked "Made in Ger many," have, led studehts to believe that these wonderful instruments were devised by German brain. The Ger mans are mechanics, not inventors. T.. . 1 .1 J jjy use ui trie tompounu microscope Pasteur, the French biologist, as early as 1857 demonstrated a connection be tween microscopic organisms and dis ease. This was nine years before Dr. Kock, the German bacteriologist, had graduated. In this connection the im portant antiseptic surgery of Dr. Lis- ' ter of England should be receded., Edward Jenner, the discoverer oi vaccination, and Harvey, the discover er of the circulation of the blood, were Englishmen. An American taught the world the use of anaesthetics. Our dentists excel all others. Thev are employed by many crowned heads even the kaiser has his. Goosesteps the Limit. The Teutons have not shown the engineering skill of the French, who cut tne Suez canal, or of the Ameri cans, who joined the Atlantic and the facihc at Panama. The decimal or metric system-by which the Germans make their measurements is a gift from France. The method by which they make their steel is that of Sir Henry Bessemer of England. Many of the fruits and vegetables of which they eat an enormous quantity were brought forth by our own peerless Burbank. Lavoisier, father of "modern chem istry, was French; Linnaeus, founder of botany was, of Swedish origin. To Hutton ot England we are indebted for geo!og1 $o Maury of Virginia for the physiography of the sea; to Des cartes, of French parentage, for analy tical geometry; to Comte of France for sociology. Germany has not con tributed its quota toward the world's achievement ( History and studv will reveal that the world's greatest teacher, scientist, inventor, discoverer, statesman, gen- : ; : Ip ' frog, but at that tender age he hadO: not yet learned the stroke and the kick. Under he went. His wet hair showed above the white foam for the hrst time about fifty yards down stream, for the current was mad and mighty. Down he went again, and again his wet mat of hair bobbed up fifty yards farther down. Fate was always with Henry Dunn, and Fate that morning was sitting on the bank just opposite the" spot where his head showed the second time. Fate was holding a fish pole and was adjusting a worm on the barb, when Dunn s head bobbed up ana ne gurgiea lor neip. young Dunn learned that Fate was none other than Will Harrison, a bigger boy, whom he regarded as the personification of Fate ever after. So Dunn was saved, conserved for the future use of the mighty King Ak-Sar-Ben. Of course, he played a lot of shinny in Aurora after that before he be came a citizen of Omaha, and an in dispensable factor in Ak-Sar-Ben ac tivities. Today he argues 'that shinny is still a better game than golf shall ever dare to be. He had a brother in Omaha. At 17 he came to. visit him. He liked the town, and picked up a job in the Union Pacific shops, where he learned the sheet iron workers' trade. Next he was city inspector attach ed to the plumbing irfspector's office, and "bing' came a change of admin istration and he found himself a pa trolman on -the police force. Next he was a detective, then chief of detectives, then captain of police, and when Chief of Police Donahue died several years years ago, Dunn was 'pushed right into the chair of chief of police, ' For years ha has taken a rollicking part in the Ak-Sar-Ben Den show. The i initiation and show could not proceed, it seems to the crowd, withodt Dunn. What would the "Devil's hotel have been a few years ago without Dunn as the chief stoker? What would the "Isle of Hair" have been without Dunn as John Darm, the watchman of the island, the wan who drove the pesky cocoanut 'milk ped dler off by pelting him withhis own cocoanuts? p " What would the show have been this year without Dunn's famous "Clancy" song which goes daily rol licking through the subconscious brain of everyone who has heard it? , What would the show have been without that red wig, that painted mug, and the indispensable clay pipe? But the show survives, for Omaha got Dunn thirty-eight years ago, snatched from the frothing spume or the mill race, and yanked from a life spent amid the clang-claifg of the Union Pacific shops. Omaha got him, Ak-Sar-Ben got him, and today we present him here, duly mugged by the staff photogra pher, once in his Den makeup as "John Darm," and once in real hu man form.. ' Next In This Serin "How Omah G David fole." Fate dronnpH the nnlr anA cnleaJ eral, philosopher, preacher painter, nto the current. Fate yanked the lad poet, architect, novelist or singer was ashore by the hair, and when the not "made in Germany." water had been pumped out of him o3yTias a Hobiy 1 The Weekly Bumble Bee OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 30, 1917. THE BUMBLE BEE. A. StlNOER. EDITOR. Communlcitlons on any topic received, without postage or .signature. None returned. NO, APS AT ANT PRICE. ' ' UNITE. Turn Your Wolf Loose! Here's Old King Ah Bach on the Job as Boss Fun-Maker for Tired World Don't Go Too Far, Limit May Bring a Kick Back on the Funny Man. as The Bumble Bee - doea - not caret to, mix into other folks' uusineas any more than is abso lutely necessary, but to keep the record straight we suggest the ary worxers ougm 10 get ioi. J , gether. One set is using I ror whlch rnce Leon UGht, Omaha as an awful illustration . and which a number of lnqulr- Well, here we are again. Old Ak-Sar-Ben la " In town, with his merry crew, and every thing goes almost. This is the fountain ot youth Mr oik .9 Attorney Joseph B. Fradenburg, better known as "Joe," has a hobby in which he isvall wrapped up just now. Getting thin is his hobby. . . About two months ago Joe's gross tonnage was 240 pounds. He noted . the fact that his belt was in the last hole, and said to himsejf, "I'm get ting too fat" Only those four words. Then he went and saw the "doc." 'Doc,'? he said, "I want to get thin." The man of medicine said that was very easy. , "AH . ju netd to do is quite eat ing bread and butter and meat and pie and cake anc a few other things." Weaker: men would have flinched. They would have returned to their fleshpots and would have eaten even more than before. Not, so, Joe. He set his jaw and took the diet list that the doctor handed him. He v.ent home and the next morning started in. ' His breakfast consisted of one boiled eez. one small slir of toast, one cup of -black. . coffee. And his breakfast each day still consists of this. He has not flinched.. Not one crumb extra has he eautn. He is growing t'iinner every day. He has reduced his weight to 213; that is a reduction of twenty-seven pounds in a couple of months. And still go ingl Yes, sir, Joe says h'u goal is 190. He is turnin ; from a Falstaff into a "lean and hungry Cassius." At first his friends tried to tempt him away from the path of duty and the road to thinness. At lunch they would order ostenta tiously- and, while consuming their that if you must bake 'em at all." And it is being done even -so. Joe has already fallen away, as stated, to a mere shadow of 213 pounds and he is "going strong," though he reports that it isn't quite as exciting now as it was at first. ''When I first started," he says, "I quit drinking water nearly altogether and I lost two pounds a day there for a while.! But now Im sort of eettin rich viands, they would remark to down bone an" muscle and I only each other: about a quarter of a pound a day. "Um-m-m, but this sure Is some But, everv little bit taken frm what grand steak. Just look at that. Isn't v?u ve &ot ,eves you with just a little that ffreat?" Or thv wahIH mm. bit less." . ment upon the lusciousness of a lemon " And here, fat friends, is the most pie. Lemon pie is or was before he remarkable message which Joe leaves reformed Joe's special delight. He was never so happy as when he was the man behind a lemon pie. A lemon pie stood no chance of escape when Joe was around. It was bound to just naturally disappear. - After he took the oath of slimness Joe gave strict orders at his home that, no lemon pies should be allowed to roam around the pantry unprotected,. "It win oe satest, ne said, to eat em And look at himl Just look at him! up before I get home. Yes, better do with you. "After the first few days," he says, MI felt no hunger. Why, I used to be hungry all the time. Now I'm never hungry. It's iust as easv to get along without food as it is to eat , them back with him. And he does. Sergeant Frank Rose of the Oma ha police force spends much of his valuable time ridding Omaha of crooks. A-burglar call at the station seems to fill him with "pep," and he delights in every chance tp get near them. "Sarg.," as they call him, is gen erally the first one in, the emergency car to be rushed out to the assist ance of persons to be relieved of a burglar scare, and is always ready and anxious to battle with crooks, after whom he has numerous oc casions to seek. Once he has anyone of them in his clutches he will spare no risk to his life to prevent him from getting away. v The capture of many burglarj is due to the alertness and quick ac tion of Sergeant Rose, who goes after them with the purpose of bringing it. And I never felt better in my life." And so Jo rides his hobby merrily on toy.ard his goal. And besides, look how he's helping out the country's food supply 1 Hoover may hear of it and send him a nftdal He speaks thusly of his hobby of running down crooks: 'Jive me a chance at them, and they'll spend time behind bars." O, yes; Sergeant Rose has other hobbies, but "playing" with crooks delights him most of how the law is ignored in a great and wicked city, and an other Is holding the town up as a brilliant example of what prohibition will do for a grow ing community. These people ought to get together. Their team work Is poor. GAMBLING. Samson says no gambling will be permitted on the carnival grounds. We hope not. Also, we hope that none will be per mitted to present the alibt of fered by the accused In court, who answered a charge of run ning a game of chance by as serting that the other fellow had no chance. "MUNIY' The new municipal coal yard may be a real price adjuster, and It may be just a curtain raiser for next spring's cam paign. At all events. Its advent Is adventitious, U not exactly auspicious. COY.. Ed Howard couldn't be found when they wanted him to sub for the governor. Bet this doesn't happen when they start to pin another nomination on him. Ed Howe says he makes mis takes so often he is beginning to get suspicious of .himself. On the other hand, he is just get ting onto himself. That time omes to all wise men. Davy Crockett's coon set an example that might be followed by the price boosters with good effect. ; When the food dictator begins to knock down prices he may ook for at least three cheers. Shortages In the city's funds do not mean that any of the real ones lose their Jobs. Good corn buskers will take rank along with star base ball players this fall. ' Voting a town dry and keep ing It dry are quite different Job ing visitors found out at the Den you surely remember that 'year, 'don't youT It Is old, and ever new, thanks to Gus Renze, whose Invention knows no limit liut how many of you recollect the first timer I How we stood on the corner, and how the wind blew, and we watted and waited, and yawned, j and walked around, and did other things, and the cannon boomed out from the north the news that the parade had left the Den, and then we waited, and walked around and did other things some more, and finally It came along. Marvel of marvels Schurlg's Invention and Rente's genius had wrought the wonder, and Omaha had an electrically lighted parade, the first of its kind, j Yes, yes; the trolle; s would slip from the wires' and leave the floats In darkness, ar.d fuses; burned out, and the. wind blew out the gasoline torches, and a lot of other things hap pened, but the great demon stration was a fact, and an hun dred thousand people at last went off home, happy that they had seen the beginning of what Is truly the greatest show on earth. They didn't know it then, but it Is now a fact. Presidents of the United States , foreign ministers and other, great opes of the earth have since visited Omaha to look on the great spectacle. Presidents have sat with their fellow citizens at the Den to pay homage to the puissant monarch of Qulvera, and all the winds of heaven have sung his praise and greatness to the four corners of the earth. There Is but one Ak-Sar-Ben and Omaha is his headquarters. Let her go! MISCREANT. The editor of the Bumble Bee is not a Quaker, although he la a man ot peace, but he Is will ing to bet anything he ran lick the miserable miscreant who stole Judge Estelle's discharge papers. Only a man of meanest motives could stoop to such a trick. The document has no in trinsic value whatever, but Lee Estelle wouldn't have tradod It tor the whole court house. The cheap door-mat thief who stole It must have known that he could only hurt somebody's feelings by taking It, and for that reason we are safe in of fering to lick him, for he hasn't pluck enougbr toestand up to a rabbit. UPTOWN. Even the city jail Is aban doning the region of the rail road tracks and the river, and moving "uptown." Pretty soon that section ot the city will be devoted exclusively to leglti- Mtiate business, but, oh, what memories will cling to It! SATISFACTION". We wonder If the taxpayers of Montgomery county feel they got value received out of the show staged at Red Oak recently. ANOTHER. Add nuisances: The mutton head who stecs just Inside the door of anNelevator, and stands there In the way of everybody else. STARTED. Next spring's campaign is for mally opened, the grocers and butcher having decided to elect a city commission of their own. Now that the ice Is broken, the lawyers, the doc tors, the preachers, the Ice men, the teamsters, and all the rest may make similar declara tions, and the game will start. It might be well for some of these ambitious combinations to take into consideration the fact that the plain people may want to say something about who is to be selected. IN OUR TOWN. Abe Sutton is home after a restfut visit to Red Oak. Nate Denny Is said to have his eye on a Nebraska farm. Hank Dunn is going to glv the' visitors a treat this week. Ed Burke is going into the live stock business, according to latest reports. ' Millard Robinson and Ray Cole entertained company from out of town last week. Charley Orotte Is figuring on a job with the new Blank the ater when It Is done.' , Ev Buckingham is laying oft this week, and may take In the carnival a time or two. ' Bob Tate drove out to his farm in Cuming county Wednesday night, and stopped In Fremont for dinner on the way. RESULTS. Prosecutor McOuIre may not be able to convince a jury of bootlegger's guilt,, but he ran dig the stuff out of m cellar and closets and other places where It is hidden,! and that amounts to the same thing when It comes to discouraging the traffic. DUTY. j George Counland called on The Bumble Bee Tuesday and admitted he had been neglect ing his duty, having just come from his home up in Antelope cbunty,"whlch he had visited for the third time in four months since he has been on war duty. And he's a farmer, too. MISSING. Dad Weaver isn't fussing around tho carnival grounds, the first time since the thing atarted. Billy Bennett , won't be here, either, and the old timers will pay a silent tribute to "Doc" Ramacclottl and Lee Lucas. The crowds won t miss 'em, but somebody will. VICTORY. Those devoted patriots who put In with William Jennings Bryan bark in the dear old days ot John JeftroaCand Honest John Power can now shoot hatlelu 1ah. The law of supply and demand has been repealed. SPUDS. ' Potatoes are back almost to before-the-war prices, thanks to the vigorous drive made by the home gardeners, but will they stick there Is the question the hungry flat dwellers are asking. - v : ' ' SAFE. Seats for the Chicago games of the world's Berlea sold out before quitting time Tuesday. This afford a bully alibi for lot of folks we know. TOCGH. When a man gets soaked 100 for Just bringing home a quart' from Kansas Ctty, it surely look like a tough old world. QUIET. Not a word has been heard from Pa Rourke since the blow, off. ASSENT. It silence gives assent, the school board Is welcome to that two millions POEM. I With butter So cents per pound. And eggs a-go!ng higher; I With meat and bread Far out ahead And winter coming nlgher aiy gawd, money