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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 4, 1897)
t: f , "- 5: s- tfi -V, I J V - , r F VOL 12 NO C6 '- -' C ,'?' '-'r f ESTABLISHED IN 1886 1 , PRICE F1VLCINTS 1 2 -4 -i-i LINCOLN. NEB., SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 4. 181)7. -VBj222i5v"'s Entered ik the postoffice at Lincoln as second class matter. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY -DI- THE COURIER PRINTING UNO PUBLISHING CO Office 1132 N street, Up Stairs. Telephone 384. BAR AH HARRIS. DORA BACHELLER Editor Business Manager Subscription Rates In Advance. Per annum $ 2 CO Six months 1 00 Three months 50 One month 20 Single copies 05 OBSERVATIONS. u.-s One result of the test at the A street well, according to the official report is as follows: "Pumping 346, 000 gallons a day the water in the well was not lowered a perceptible f ract ion of an inch." The well in question is 18G feet deep. The wells in the neigh borhood which have gone dry are only thirty feet deep. Tapping a 180 foot vein can have had no influence upon shallower veins. The wells which the owners say have" gone dry are supplied by surface water. The subterranean stream of the A street well is fed from an unknown lake or river reser voir, but, it is fresh and icith less lime in it than that of any other city well. According to the daily reports of the Rice well the water was not lowere'd there during the pumping test of the A street well. Further more the stream of the A street well flows from the south east. The Rice street vein flows from the north east. A chemical analysis of the water of the two wells will disprove their identity. Yet the mayor refuses toallowthispurestream of living water to be connected with the city mains and instead proposes a site, at the intersection of the Bur lington and Rock Island tracks, which in relation to the city is as bad as the F street location. During the testing of the A street well the daily papers frequently expressed Mayor Graham's fears that the flow at the A street well would affect the Rice well and finally he was obliged to veto the plan to connect the A street well with the city mains, because, in case of fire the supply of water would be diminished to a dangerous degree. Xow Mayjr Graham's attention is resiiectfully called to this summarized statement of the result of the test: Daily ca Iiacity from six inch piic 304,000 gal lons, water in pipe stationary at both wells during test, depth of F street well 180 feet; vein, which supplies it flows from south east: Rice street vein from north east. These facts can be verified by any citizen who cares to investigate the reports of the test and the simultaneous reiorts of the Rice street well. If it be iwssible for the mayor to free himself from other in fluences long enough to examine these daily reports and to come to a con clusion based on the merits and ne cessities of the water question, the citizens of Lincoln will appreciate his disinterested and patriotic research. Those who aver that the Salt creek valley is the only vicinity from which to get a supply of water are not dig gers of wells, they are not chemists who can detect substances fatal to human beings in the water we drink, but they are politicians who hazard a city's health to gain the good will and ixnverful and efficient aid of a ring which has disgraced the name of the republican party in Nebraska. There are good men and true in the council who appreciate the situation and are trying to give the people fresh water in spite of the mayor's veto. To these men the people are looking for pure water and The Courier believes that in spite of many things they will finally succeed in turning the sub terranean streams of the Antelope Valley into the city mains and shut ting oft the saline and impure supply from the west. Nothing so salutary could happen to the republican party of this city and county as its utter and over whelming defeat, a defeat so dis couraging that these who have made a Hying by. working the machine will admit such agriculture impossible for years to come and leave for some place where ward iKiliticians of the contemporary Bud Lindsej type are still in demand. This would leave the party in charge of party leaders who are republicans from principle and experience, whose integrity and de votion have never been questioned and under whose leadership republi can conventions would nominate again as they have in the past, repre sentative men instead of men with criminal tendencies, as candidates for the suffrage of the people at large. Any IKirty, holding the balance of power long enough will attract unscrupulous and selfish manipulators who will sell nominations to the highest bidder and nothing but the entire loss of prestige will rid the party of their most embarrassing and discrediting company. j The jieople have taken up the audi torium scheme as though they were not just on this side of hard times. With debts iiaid, with vast cribs building for the biggest crop ever har vested in any state and with the preiKiratious for a great exposition which will bring thousands into the state to whom Nebraska has hitherto been but an untranslateable word, the Ieople are ready to take hold of any project which will build up the city. The Courier believes thai it will be most unwise, as well as unnecessary to vote bonds for this purjose. That expedient lias already put the city, not hoielessly, but discouragingly, in debt. The money an lie raised by private subscription and posterity has already been sufficiently burdened by us. Let us give the young generations a fighting chance. It will surely be a fighting chance. Comiietition and the rapidly multiplying complexities of living, will shanen the features and try the muscles of the ablest of those who are to come. It is easy to vote bonds, it is hard to pay them. "We can give the babies a chance and stand up for Lincoln at the same time. The energy of the committee which is in charge of the money getting has been tested. Mr. "W. A. Green is per sistent and untiring in the accom plishment of his designs. He can communicate his enthusiasm and faith and set other people to work" nearly as hard as himself and The Courier predicts that he will or ganize effort to such a degree that the voting of bonds will be unnecessary. While on this subject and before any plans for the auditorium have been presented it is timely to remind the directors how many large audi ence rooms have been useless because of their bad acoustics. There is one building in this country, and so faras 1 know, the only one in the world, in which the acoustics are so perfect that a pin dropped at one end into a hat, may be heard at the other end, 2T)1 feet away. Every one is familiar with the Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, which is callable of accomodat ing 10,000 people in perfect comfort and safety. It is only an immense wooden dome suported on 40 columns of sandstone which form the wall. Between them are so many doors and windows that the 10,000 people can get outside in less than five minutes. A gallery, seating aliout a third an many people as on the first floor, oc cupies three sides of the nearly square room, (it is 2TiO feet by 2."l feet and fi." feet high). It is light, the ventilation is good and speechmaking is as easy as talking. Yet it has not been imi tated. Only Mr. Bryan, of the many men who spoke in the Chicago wig wain, was clearly audible to every body, and the timbre of his voice would carry it over the mostolistiuatc and opiosing wavrs of sound. The Minneapolis and St. Louis national convention halls of most recent time, were not much better than the wig wam. The band played or patriots waved their inspired limbs, the Iieople only knew they sjioke because their lips and arms were seen to lie in motion. 3fow although the Mormons have not set an example to the rest of the world which can lie followed in all respects, they have built the only good meeting house in the world. It combines simplicity, cheapness, safe ty, comfort, with adaptability to the use it was built to serve. "Why its noble and scientific lines have not bten imitated it is not given to my ignorance to know. It is an ideal room for the members of a represen tative government to express . them selves in, yet the idea is allowed to re main in the sole possession of a theoc racy, "Would it not be well to build a taliernacle in monogamous Lincoln to democracy on the same lines as the polyandrous temple of the Mormons. The protests of numerous 'citizens against granting the street sign or "dinance, will, it is hoped, prevent such disfigurement of the streets. The occasional theatre bill boards which till up a vacant lot or cover the walls of a building half destroyed by tire, are in the present stage of poster art, pleasing bits of colorand composition. They are changed every week and are of interest to everybody. But the commodities which would Ik adver tised on the street signs would not possess the same attractions. G rasse. nor Muchet, nor even our own Brad ley can not make attractive, false teeth, the chiropodists honest but re pulsive profession nor the many use ful but ugly trades necessary to supply a jteople's wants. To place a rival's sign in front of a merchant's place of business who refuses to advertise with the street sign company, is a favorite trick of getting business. The three men who have asked the'exclusive use of the street corners for twenty years ask a franchise that city councils have granted to water, street car and gas companies in the past without re flection that they give away that which Ls in no man's power to bestow.