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diff --git a/old/61787-0.txt b/old/61787-0.txt deleted file mode 100644 index cb6ac88..0000000 --- a/old/61787-0.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2972 +0,0 @@ -The Project Gutenberg EBook of Seeing Lincoln, by Anne Longman - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most -other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of -the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: Seeing Lincoln - -Author: Anne Longman - -Release Date: April 8, 2020 [EBook #61787] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SEEING LINCOLN *** - - - - -Produced by Stephen Hutcheson, Kenneth R. Black and the -Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - - - - SEEING - _Lincoln_ - - - _Presented by_ - Gold & Co. - LINCOLN, NEBR. - - - Written for The Nebraska State Journal - By Anne Longman - - - - - No. 1—O street - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -Come with us, all you who are new to the city or you who bid fair to -live and die in Lincoln without ever having seen her various faces. -We’ll teach you in—well, we don’t know how many lessons—something about -the city in which you are living. - -Maybe we should begin with the capitol, known over the world for its -beauty. But we think we’ll start with that handy starting and stopping -place, O street. Lincoln is often described as an overgrown country -town, O its Main street. But even New York has its lapses into the -primitive, and who doesn’t like, in medium doses, the simplicity and the -friendliness that spell country town. - -When Lincoln was only a handful of blocks flung down on the prairie for -hasty habitation by early salt seekers, restless young Civil war -veterans, the railroad advance guard and those with an incurable pioneer -fever, it huddled within the confines of what is now the most downtown -part of Lincoln. Along O from Eighth to Fourteenth were its beginnings. -The town spread slowly, like extremely cold molasses, into an indefinite -shape with an undulating circumference at the present time of about 20 -miles. - -So, here’s O street, looking from Tenth east. Most of Lincoln’s buses -head up O to Tenth, rolling around government square and then rolling -back to O again. You can’t get lost in Lincoln. Just keep one foot, or -at least an eye, on O and say your alphabet north and south. Or on -Thirteenth and say your numbers east and west. And then there are a few -streets on the edges with fancier names, just to make it a little -harder. - - - - - No. 2—The Lincoln Statue - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -This city is one of 25 cities or towns in the United States sharing the -name of Lincoln. Sixteen of these 25 were named for Abraham Lincoln. It -is perhaps not unduly vain to say that Lincoln, Neb., is most noted of -these Lincolns. To begin with, it is the capital of a state, and that -state is the geographical center of the North American continent. - -Among other things which have drawn attention to this city of 81,000 are -its illustrious one-time citizens. From the home base of Lincoln William -Jennings Bryan spattered the country with silver words about the silver -standard. General Pershing was one of the Atlases on whose shoulders the -weight of the first World war rested. Charles G. Dawes, a dynamic young -lawyer of Lincoln in the 80’s, eventually became a vice president. Willa -Cather, precocious university student in the 90’s, at the height of her -writing career was conceded to be this country’s most gifted woman -writer. Charles Lindbergh is claimed by Lincoln after a fashion and with -some degree of justification. It was here that he learned the art of -flying, after trundling into town unobtrusively on a day in April—April -Fool’s day in fact—1922. And there are many other notables whose names -are in some way linked with the city. - -The famous sculptor, Daniel Chester French, left behind him several -famous statues of Abraham Lincoln. One of these has stood on the capitol -grounds since its dedication, Sept. 2, 1912. As the new, and fifth, -Nebraska capitol burgeoned slowly it elbowed off the grounds every -vestige of the outgrown capitol with one exception—the Lincoln statue. -It is something difficult to outgrow. - - - - - No. 3—Old Butler Mansion - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -Lincoln was chosen as the capital of Nebraska in the summer of 1867 by -three young men, David Butler, John Gillespie and Thomas Kennard, who -had been named as a commission to do this task. They have become almost -legendary figures in the minds of Nebraskans—three men in tall silk hats -silhouetted against the prairie sky as they pounded their ponies over -the countryside in search of a capital site. - -They were very actual people, however; Butler was the state of -Nebraska’s first governor; Thomas Kennard, first secretary of state and -Gillespie first state auditor. Interestingly, the homes built by these -three men still stand, perhaps the three oldest houses in Lincoln. -Herewith is shown the one-time mansion of Governor Butler, which has -stood at Seventh and Washington for almost 75 years. At that time of -course there were no such streets. The mansion was a country home, from -which the governor drove to the capitol and back in state. - -The original house was square and high. Built of blocks of brown stone -with a cupola and a front stoop instead of a porch it was considered -very imposing. Here Governor Butler lived from about 1867 until his -impeachment in 1871. The impeachment by the legislature came about -because of Butler’s borrowing $17,000 from the school fund. Land which -he had deeded to the state was said to have more than paid in value the -amount borrowed, and great bitterness resulted from the legislature’s -action. - -“Lord” Jones, a rich Englishman, purchased the building in the early -70’s. Thirty years later the Lincoln Country club took it over and added -wings. The mansion has been used variously since as the home of the ku -klux klan, a radio broadcasting studio and a dance house. Now, hands -patiently folded, it awaits the auctioneer’s hammer. - - - - - No. 4—Kennard House - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -Like the Butler mansion, the Kennard house at 1627 H was built in the -late 60’s. Exteriorly it has been little changed and indicates fairly -well the style of the more pretentious houses of that period. - -Thomas Kennard was a colorful figure of the times. On the streets of the -raw prairie city he sported a frock coat, black velvet vest and a silk -hat, which was perhaps legitimate dress for a man of his importance. He -had helped select Lincoln as the capital of Nebraska. Later he was -railroad attorney, state senator and an appraiser of Indian lands for -the federal government. In 1890 he organized the Western Glass & Paint -company, still in existence. In 1898 he was appointed by President -McKinley receiver of public moneys at the U. S. land office in Lincoln. - -Choosing a site for the capitol was not as simple as it sounds 75 years -later. Omaha clung to the honor with grim fingers. Ashland was bitter at -not being chosen. The $50,000 bonds of the commissioners had been filed -with the chief justice, but not with the state treasurer, as the law -specified. Disgruntled Omaha people said the commissioners therefore had -no legal standing and they planned to prevent the removal of the state -papers, and in fact the capital, to Lincoln by having an injunction -issued. Gov. Butler and Mr. Kennard formulated a plan. On Sunday morning -Mr. Kennard drove to Omaha, entered the state house, took the seal of -state, wrapped it up carefully and put it under the seat of his buggy. -He arrived in Lincoln next morning after stopping in Ashland overnight. -The governor’s proclamation, ready and waiting, that morning announced -that the capital was now removed. - -Mr. Kennard lived to celebrate his 90th birthday. He was by that time a -gentle old man in quiet dress, yet about him still hovered, one felt, -the aura of the empire builder. - - - - - No. 5—Official Milestone - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -The official milestone of Lincoln, standing in front of the city hall at -10th and P, has caused considerable comment, mostly favorable, since it -was placed there in 1926. The suitability of the covered wagon idea and -the manner of execution are not questioned. This very portion of Lincoln -was alive with prairie schooners, not always drawn by oxen however, in -the first 30 years of the city’s existence—tied to the hitching posts, -relaxing in government square for the night. The editor of The Journal -often put his head out the window and counted the wagons on the square. -Then he drew it back and sat down—not to his typewriter, in those -days—and told his readers how many new settlers were coming into the -state. Sometimes they needed encouragement, when grasshoppers were thick -or dry dust piled high. - -The only critical note indicated in comment is the fact that the prairie -schooner is headed east instead of west. That seems to indicate the -back-home defeatist attitude rather than the on-to-victory pioneer -spirit. - -The city hall itself was built early in the city’s history ... 1874. For -50 years it grew dingier and dingier. Then a sandman polished it off and -it showed up as an attractive edifice made of limestone—quarried near -the Platte river. The texture of its surface contrasts pleasingly with -the smoother face of the postoffice building. - -The city hall was first Lincoln’s postoffice. Not until 1906 was the -first section of the present postoffice built. Until then the city -edifice was on the present site of the municipal building on Q street. - - - - - No. 6—Nebraska State Journal - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -Today The Journal stars itself in this column. Justifiably, we believe. -For it was 75 years ago—Sept. 7, 1867—that the first issue of the paper -was brought forth, at Nebraska City, five weeks after the capital of the -state of Nebraska was declared to be in existence. The next and all -subsequent issues came out in Lincoln. - -The present Journal building, at Ninth and P, has stood here almost 60 -years. The life story of this world has pulsed thru it ceaselessly. -Daily, feet have stormed up and down its steps, bearing humdrum news or -perhaps a local bombshell of information. Loftily above, news from the -outside has poured in over singing wires, every day occurrences of the -world or sometimes catastrophic tidings. - -On these steps stood Willa Cather, journalist of the nineties, a -dauntless young female who nevertheless gazed about her fearfully after -nightfall. For Ninth street in the nineties, and after dark, was a -dubious spot. Up these steps to write his daily column reeled Walt -Mason, for he had not yet reached Kansas and fame, and reform at the -hands of William Allen White. - -Noted people of the day sometimes came and went—sometimes a person with -a grievance and a club. For newspapers of earlier days were amazingly -flatfooted in their remarks. But come threat, come flood, come wars or -disasters, the presses turned on, into the new century and now almost -half a century past the turn. - - - - - No. 7—St. Paul Methodist Church - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -Of Lincoln’s downtown churches, St. Paul Methodist is most completely -downtown. At 12th and M, the tides of business and everyday life flow -all about it. It has weathered into its place, a hospitable building -where passersby are welcome. St. Paul has been a boon to Lincoln during -a good many years, at periods when the city was short of meeting -places—and these periods have been frequent. St. Paul’s is big, it is -very conveniently located. At the price of a crushed rib (and admission) -one has been able to hear many stirring performances—Paderewski and -other famous musicians, addresses of the great. - -The crushed rib should not, however, be charged against the Methodists. -Their serious purpose in 1867 was to organize a church in the new city. -They expected to fling their doors open principally for church comers, -and, sadly, huge entrances are not necessary to take care of the average -church congregation. - -The first church was put up in 1868—the First Methodist Episcopal church -of Lincoln. In 1883 a new structure was erected and the name changed to -St. Paul Methodist. In 1899 this building burned and two years later the -present structure was completed. Among attractive features of the church -are its two great windows on the east and south. - -Dr. Walter Aitken, who resigned in 1942, had been pastor of St. Paul -church 22 years. - - - - - No. 8—County Courthouse - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -The photographer surprised us with this attractive picture of the -Lancaster county courthouse, a testimonial to his art or to our lack of -perception. Our initial impression of the courthouse was gained from the -third story of The Journal building in the days when it still wore a -conventional round dome, on top of which was perched a sad castiron -statue of Abraham Lincoln. Once a painter clambered up and gave the -statue a coat of bright red paint. Protests poured in. It developed that -the red was only preliminary to a more suitable bronze. But eventually -dome and statue disappeared, with pleasing results. - -In its 55 years the courthouse has seen drama. The most sensational -trials held within its walls were during the tumultuous 90’s—the John -Sheedy, Irvine-Montgomery, George Washington Davis and Lillie cases. -Sheedy was Lincoln’s kingpin gambler of the 90’s, a large handsome -person who was found at his office with skull crushed. His beautiful -young wife and a Negro, Monday MacFarland, were tried and acquitted. W. -H. Irvine was tried for the fatal shooting of C. E. Montgomery, a -Lincoln banker, and exonerated. Mrs. Lillie, found guilty of killing her -husband at David City and later pardoned by Governor Mickey, here forced -the Woodman company to pay her insurance for the death of the husband -whom a jury had convicted her of killing. - -George Washington Davis, a Negro, loosened part of the Rock Island track -southeast of the penitentiary with the idea of notifying the company and -securing a job as a reward. He notified them too late. There was a train -wreck and 12 were killed. Davis was convicted. - -A later incident was the trial of iron-faced Frank Sharp, found guilty -of the brutal hammer murder of his wife. - - - - - No. 9—O Street Columns - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -Hats off! The flag...! Shade your eyes down this vista and summon your -imagination. Do you see, falling across these columns, the shadow of a -great president and hear out of the past the distant marching of feet -and the sound of muted fife and drum? - -These columns at the O street entrance of Antelope park, between 23rd -and 24th, were once a part of the old federal building in Washington. -Standing between them Abraham Lincoln once reviewed the Civil war -troops. Easterners, who live in an atmosphere crowded with reminders of -the historic great, would smile at such a thin fancy—at attempting -somehow to draw Abraham Lincoln across the Missouri river. So far as -history shows, the east bank of the Missouri is as far west as Lincoln -ever traveled. In the early years of the 60’s he was the guest of -General Dodge in Council Bluffs, invited there to help decide where the -eastern terminal of the Union Pacific should be. As we recall an early -account, Lincoln stood on the bank of the Missouri and gazed westward, -but even “on a clear day” such as we like to boast of from the Missouri -on west, he could hardly have seen the little village which later would -bear his name. - -When the treasury building was remodeled in 1907 these sandstone columns -were bought by Cotter T. Bride of Washington, a personal friend of -William Jennings Bryan. He presented them to the city of Lincoln in -1916. - -Halfway between the columns is a bronze tablet relating the origin of -the pillars. The tablet, weighing 450 pounds and made from material -saved from the battleship Maine, was presented to the city by the U. S. -W. V. - - - - - No. 10—City Library - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -Of the 2,811 libraries which Andrew Carnegie magnanimously scattered -over this globe before his death in 1919, five stand in Lincoln—a -generous proportion, surely. Perhaps we would not have shared his bounty -so fully had it not been that libraries in University Place, College -View and Havelock were secured when these sections of Lincoln were still -towns in their own right. - -Before Mrs. W. J. Bryan interceded to secure a Carnegie building for -Lincoln proper the library was as wandering as a poor sharecropper, and -burned out about as often. It ceased its nomadic life in 1900, beginning -in that year a dignified and permanent existence at Fourteenth and N. - -We have it from the librarian, Magnus Kristoffersen, that as many as -2,000 people have been known to walk up the library steps in one day—to -take out books or to linger and read. That sounds like a great many -people and it probably doesn’t happen often. Even so, the library is -doubtless one of the city’s valuable assets. The building is richly -lined with 160,000 volumes, written by the great, the near great or the -fleetingly great authors of all time. No wonder readers come often to -draw mental and spiritual sustenance therefrom. - -An attentive staff and a carefully worked system make access to books -easy at any of the library buildings. Two branches not mentioned above -are Northeast at 27th and Orchard and Bethany at 1551 No. Cotner. - -Any Lincoln resident, any child attending Lincoln schools, anyone -attending college here or anyone owning property and paying taxes to the -city will be issued a borrower’s card, good at any of the city’s -libraries. In addition to regular activities, service is given the three -principal Lincoln hospitals. A still newer feature is the bookmobile, -which makes five stops in the city. - - - - - No. 11—Normal Methodist church - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -William Jennings Bryan, who spotlighted Lincoln from the nineties on, -died in 1925, shortly after the famous Scopes trial in Tennessee. He had -gone to that state to thunder disapproval of John T. Scopes, who was -being tried for teaching evolution, contrary to Tennessee law. It is -believed that Bryan’s death was hastened by his vigorous efforts in -behalf of fundamentalism. - -It is interesting to gaze upon this modest church—Normal Methodist, 55th -and South—which Bryan attended after his removal to Fairview, and -reflect that here, doubtless, were built up the religious convictions -which accompanied him—perhaps hastened him—to his grave. Not always did -he occupy one of the old fashioned stained oak benches. Often he spoke -from the carved pulpit, his hand upon the old metal-clasped Bible, his -pontifical and mellow voice filling the little church. - -What W. J. Bryan believed he believed with great sincerity and -articulateness. First intimations of his gifts as an orator came with -the impassioned silver speech in 1896 in which he declared: “You shall -not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall -not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.” His contemporaries did not -always agree with the Great Commoner, but they could not do otherwise -than respect his sincerity. He fought for the silver standard, for -peace, for prohibition, for fundamentalism, often losing but never -giving up the fight. - -His lion’s face and mane, his broad hat, his golden voice, are gone, but -gashes of his reform ax may still be seen on the surface of the -commonwealth. - - - - - No. 12—City Mission - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -For years preceding and following the turn of the century 9th street was -definitely a street of wickedness. In fact it was dedicated to the ways -of wickedness—it and the shadowy region west, extending down to about K -street. There was a law on the books against the sort of houses that -filled the redlight district, but instead of enforcing it the police -exacted tribute. Every first Monday of the month proprietresses in silks -and plumes rustled into the city hall and majestically laid down their -gold. As the rate was, we are told, about $15 for inmates and $25 for -managers per month, they left a considerable stack on the municipal -desk. Most of it went into the public school coffers. - -This noisome neighborhood kept police busy. No mere saunter up to the -station for a list of parking offenders was the police run in those -hectic days. Often a brief telephone call—murder or/and suicide at -Rose’s or Rae’s or Kitty’s, took police and reporters hopping. The -district was finally closed by the expedient of enforcing the law. The -man undertaking this revolutionary method of procedure was Co. Atty. -Frank Tyrrell. - -One of the well known notorious houses, known as Lydia’s place, stood at -124 So. 9th st. This same building, cleansed in purpose and aspect, was -a number of years ago turned into the City Mission by interested Lincoln -churches. At the top of the house a lighted star now beckons shabby -wayfarers to a free meal and night’s lodging. Looking in at the mission -any evening one may see, not parading painted women in short skirts, -smoking cigarets—unmistakable marks of sin in the 80’s and 90’s—but -seated derelicts lending their cauliflower ears to the nightly religious -service. - - - - - No. 13—Aeronautical Institute - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -When a blond young man, silent and tall, brought his smoking motorcycle -to rest in front of E. J. Sias’s airplane and flying school at 2415 O, -on April fool’s day, 1922, he probably had no idea, and certainly -Lincoln had no idea, that what he learned at the flying school would one -day catapult him into fame. Unnoticed Charles Lindbergh traversed the -streets of Lincoln, quiet and untalkative. - -After his spectacular air voyage of May 20-21, 1927—spectacular and yet -on his part made as quietly as his entrance into Lincoln five years -before, the flying school suddenly became a mecca. Young men were -siphoned out of Australia, Scotland, China, New Guinea and dumped at the -door of the school—young men talking in divers tongues but speaking the -same language aeronautically. Since the war started men in uniform have -almost cracked the walls of the aeronautical institute. - -The name of E. J. Sias is synonymous now with the words flying school. -But 30 years ago he was the energetic young minister who plucked -Tabernacle Christian church out of a cocked hat before the startled eyes -of south Lincoln. One day, June 21, 1912, he and a group in his home -thought up a Christian church in that part of the city. Two days later -they met and planned a building and 60 men volunteered to put up a -structure between morning light and evening dark. The heat of late June -prevented quite this much of a miracle, but anyway, on June 30, nine -days after the initial meeting, the tabernacle was ready for occupancy. -Rather, it was occupied—by 800 people listening to the dedicatory -sermon. This building sufficed its congregation ten years. By that time -Mr. Sias was deep in something else—flying. - - - - - No. 14—Lincoln Postoffice - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -The postoffice is a noble building, filling half a block on P street -between Ninth and Tenth. But, mysteriously, filtered thru a -picture-taker’s lens it takes on the appearance of a toy model still -sitting on the architect’s desk. This is most deceiving. It is really a -handsome and majestic building, of Bedford stone, standing very -massively on its green lawn. - -It isn’t just a postoffice, as you learned when you were initiated into -the Income Taxpayers lodge. Also, if you want to ask how about that -money you’re going to get from Uncle Sam when 65, how about a loan for -putting up a hog house, how about keeping the black dirt on your farm -from drifting into the Missouri, how about enlisting in the army or -navy, you go to the postoffice—and also the FBI will reach out from the -postoffice and get you if you don’t watch out. If the United States -wants to try you for some federal offense, that’s where the trial will -be. Having steered clear of this court, the only case we recall offhand -is the Nye committee hearing in the Grocer Norris senatorial case. - -The first federal court was held in November 1864, in a log building on -the south side of O between Seventh and Eighth. Elmer S. Dundy was the -judge. The postoffice was run by Jacob Dawson in conjunction with a -grocery in the front end, so that office and courtroom were enlivened -with the smell of codfish, coffee and tobacco. Somewhere within the log -cabin and between the codfish and the cases at bar Mr. Dawson kept -house—it may be with the help of a Mrs. Dawson, but one can read early -histories of Lincoln from preface to index without finding mention of a -woman, so thoroly was the sex still in subjugation. - -The postoffice began taking on dignity in 1879 when it moved into its -new building on government square, now the city hall. The first section -of the present building was put up in 1906; the last, which made it the -impressive edifice it is today, only a year or two ago. - - - - - No. 15—Old Oliver theater - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -Some day when you emerge from the Varsity, 13th and P, and look up at -the weather your eyes may come to rest on “The Oliver” in old fashioned -lettering on the battlements of the ancient building, and for a moment -you may idly wonder about the playhouse’s past. It does in truth have -considerable past, reckoned in terms of famous actors who trod its -boards, of orators who thundered in debate over silver and gold -standards, suffrage for women and other problems of the past. - -The theater, first known as The Lansing, opened in 1891 with Ed Church -in charge, and with Lillian Lewis and her company gracing the stage in -“L’Article 47” with the sinister subhead “The trail of the serpent is -overall.” Yet Gen. Victor Vifquain, rhapsodizing in the opening night -souvenir booklet, said: “The Lansing will become an athaeneum where a -husband can take his wife and daughter, the brother and sister without -fear of bringing a blush upon the cheeks of those whose modesty is of -priceless value to them and to the community of which they are the -ornaments and the pride.” Anyway, it was a good old chest-expanding -sentence. - -A Journal man who has attended shows at this theater off and on for 50 -years gives us the following list of famous players he recalls having -seen at the Lansing (later Oliver): John Drew, Ethel Barrymore, Edwin -Booth, Laurence Barrett, Joe Jefferson, Emma Eames, Sol Smith Russell, -Blanche Bates, Billie Burke, George M. Cohan, Weber & Fields, Willie -Collier, Otis Skinner, Maxine Elliott, Robert Mantell, Elsie DeWolfe, -Nat Goodwin, Dustin Farnam, Minnie Maddern Fiske, Trixie Fraganza, -DeWolfe Hopper, Virginia Harned, Elsie Janis, Margaret Illington, Mary -Mannering, Julia Marlowe, E. H. Sothern, Lillian Nordica, Alice Nielsen, -Chauncey Olcott, May Robson, Eleanor Robson, Stuart Robson, Madame -Modjeska. - -Vividly connected with the history of the theater, as it is with Lincoln -itself, is the name of Frank C. Zehrung, to whom death came recently. -For almost 70 years a citizen of Lincoln, he was for perhaps half that -time manager of the Oliver. - - - - - No. 16—Dr. Harry Everett’s home - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -Before winter puts out a white hand to stay us (which we trust won’t be -soon, altho there are hints of early frost), it would be pleasant to -make a tour of Lincoln gardens. However, we wouldn’t want to flatten our -sight-seeing noses against front windows, and the gardens which can be -seen entire from the street are few. In a simpler day, we Americans put -our iron deer and dogs, petunias and hollyhocks in a big front yard and -then naively sat on our big front porches to see passersby and have -passersby see our elegant homes and lawns. Now that we have grown more -subtle and English and hide gardens in the back and put inscrutable -faces on our houses, seeing gardens on a tour isn’t so easy. But the -gardens are there and one can get pleasing glimpses. - -Imagine a Lincoln in which all the houses perched desolately on barren -lots. Not a tree, not a curving path, not a flower. Then you will indeed -appreciate those patient and imaginative garden lovers who with a few -rocks, seeds, hoes and hoses turn desert lots into oases. There are -pretty little gardens around modest houses, large beautiful gardens -around mansions, altogether making Lincoln a charming lady of gardens. - -Peer with us thru Dr. Harry Everett’s gates at 2433 Woodscrest for a -glimpse of his delightful ivory complexioned house with its maroon -awnings and blue windows, and his formal garden. Dr. Everett is an iris -specialist and is or has been president of the national iris society. - -So charming is this quiet scene, with the September sun falling in bars -across the lawn, the soldierly evergreens silently on guard, that even -the sudden appearance of five beautiful senoritas on the five balconies -would be an intrusion not to be desired. - - - - - No. 17—L. C. Chapin Home - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -Doubtless you know the delightful and intimate sound of rain which only -a staunch immediate attic roof keeps off your face. Walking into the -Chapin home at 3805 Calvert one has a similar pleasurable sensation. It -is a beautiful house, and of course actually very protective, yet one -has the feeling of being near the earth—still in the garden. This -possibly comes from walking into it levelly from broad low flagstones. -Inside one looks out thru great wide-eyed windows so flawless that he -seems not to be separated from the rock garden and its mountain stream -or the green plush lawn which falls away into the wood. - -We grew up near the woods, but “the wood” seems more suitable for this -fairy house (glorified French peasant). And the nicest thing about these -trees which circle the Chapins’ two and a half acres is that they are -original ones and came along free with Nebraska. Luckily the recent dry -years—do you remember them—did not affect the small forest, in which -hundreds of birds sing. - -Inside, as the earth slowly turns, the Chapins can watch the seasons as -on a stage, or as a great framed picture turning slowly from green to -russet and brown, from brown to white. On the sloping green outside a -silver gazing globe pictures the lawn in miniature. - -One could exclaim over many things—the garden to the north, where a -thousand gladioli grow—the balcony from which one half expects a pretty -peasant girl or a blessed damozel to lean. - - - - - No. 18—Student Union - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -What, in the words of the atrocious daily puzzle of that name, is wrong -with this picture? Very easy indeed. No angels in flat heels and -sweaters are ascending and descending the stairs. Actually, they have -begun the continuous zigzag on the Student Union steps for the season. -They may be going to or coming from a spot of lunch in the Corn Crib, a -friendly coke, bridge or pingpong, time out on the marshmallow -upholstery of the lounge, or a late afternoon hour dance. - -And cease your sighs and murmurs that when you and I were young we had -lessons to get and nobody put us up a Student Union building. For one -thing, the tots may have mastered all lessons up to and including next -Tuesday morning. For another, the building is theirs, or will be in -80,000 easy payments. At six dollars a year, 10,000 university -educations laid end to end ought to about close the Student Union books. - -Incidentally, it’s well worth two and a half cents a day to city campus -students, especially the ones who have made no entangling alliances with -fraternity or sorority, and they’re in the great majority—probably 75 -percent. Here’s a place to do almost anything you can think of—or they -can think of, which is more comprehensive. - -In the basement are offices of student publications, Awgwan, Cornhusker -and Daily Nebraskan and a ping-pong room. Office of building manager, -grill room, cafeteria, lounges and book nook are on first. On second -floor are offices of alumni association, university foundation and -University speakers bureau, ballroom, dining rooms, game room and -faculty lounge. Dining rooms and student organization rooms occupy the -third floor. Mortar Board and Innocents have fourth-floor dormer rooms. - - - - - No. 19—Memorial Stadium - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -To get the desired three by four inch view of Nebraska’s stadium a -photographer might walk around it seven times and his pursuit would -still be in vain, for it ovals away from him endlessly. One could get a -pointblank shot at it from the air, but empty seats, even people -enmasse, bundled in blankets, aren’t as attractive as arched windows, -which lend beauty to the mammoth structure. In the foreground of this -picture is the military department’s reviewing stand, which furnished -not only requisite proportions but perspective suitable to the times, -war now having put college athletics in the background with no gentle -hand. - -The stadium, which holds 30,000 without the bleachers, is a memorial to -U. of N. men who have died in the nation’s wars. The half million dollar -cost was defrayed by students, faculty, alumni and friends. Many a -tonsil shredding joust has taken place within the stadium’s great arms. -The following from the helpful typewriter of Walter Dobbins gives -details: - -“The first game played on stadium sod was with the Oklahoma Sooners, -Oct. 13, 1923, just a week before dedication of the bowl. With its -building Nebraska became a ‘big time’ football school. Games were -scheduled with top flight teams from north, south, east and west. The -largest crowd ever packed into the home field witnessed Nebraska’s 7 to -0 victory over Indiana Oct. 20, 1937. - -“Some of Nebraska’s gridiron triumphs have been recorded at the stadium, -including the amazing 14 to 7 victory over Notre Dame’s Four Horsemen in -1923; the 17 to 0 win over Rockne’s eleven in 1924 and the last of the -11 game series with the Fighting Irish. New York U.’s national title -hopes were blasted on the same field in 1926 and 1927. Greatest of all -victories, however, are later ones—the 14 to 9 defeat of Minnesota in -1937 and the 6-9 win over the Gophers in 1939.” - - - - - No. 20—University Hall - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -This decapitated building may look ready for the scrap heap, but -sentimental Nebraskans would indignantly refuse to have it scrapped, for -it is the remains of the original campus building. Once it housed the -university entire, even offering sleeping room on the two upper stories -for men students. - -First recollection invoked is of “Miss Bishop,” Bess Streeter Aldrich’s -filmed story of primitive university life, which had its premiere in -Lincoln. Another is Oscar Wilde’s visit to the university in the -eighties. There, garbed in his eccentric finery, he walked unhappy as a -strange cat, distressed by the uncouthness of Nebraska and its -university and especially by the ugly castiron stove which heated the -premises. After expressing this distress, along with his regular -lecture, Wilde, in knee breeches, buckled slippers and velvet coat, -shuddered his way back to the Arlington hotel, 841 Q, and was soon lost -to this region forever. Nobody was depressed over his disapproval and -irrepressible Journal reporters put him and the castiron stove into -facetious rhyme. - -The cornerstone for U hall was laid Sept. 23, 1869, with -ceremonies—Masonic ceremonies, in fact. An Omaha brass band led a -procession and a thousand people banqueted—which must have more than -depopulated residential Lincoln—then danced until 4 in the morning. - -Lumber for the building was shipped from Chicago to Nebraska City and -thence came slowly over the hills in wagons. Brick was burned in a kiln -on Little Salt creek. On Jan. 6, 1871, the doors swung open and in -walked ninety young men and women. Rumors that the building was unsafe -continued off and on for fifty years. Every now and then some propping -was done. Finally the two top floors and belltower were taken off, but -classes are still held on the remaining first floor. - - - - - No. 21—Don Love Memorial Library - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -The beautiful new library, now North Thirteenth’s visual shortstop, will -make 1871-1942 students brothers to the pioneer who slept, ate, cooked, -played and quarreled in one room. The new edifice has a student lounge, -auditorium, social studies reading room, general and humanities reading -room and browsing room. Those who did their lounging, their browsing, -their studying of the humanities and their date making all in one big -room under an uncompromising row of green shaded lights will feel -outmoded indeed. - -But casting envy aside, this generous gift, one of several from the late -Don Love, is a welcome addition to the campus and the city. True, it -turns its back on the city as it communes perpetually with its sisters -of The Quadrangle—teachers’ college, social sciences and Andrews -hall—but it is a slender ribbed, sightly and aristocratic back. Earlier -buildings were sardine-packed on a small campus. Later edifices, given -space on the avenue, took on social graces. To the north of the -quadrangle, Memorial mall forms the center of another group of -aristocrats—Morrill hall, Bessey hall, Memorial stadium and the -Coliseum. - -The new library is not yet completed. We had wondered if, when the day -of occupancy came, the former library would go the way of the old cannon -which once stood guard beside it. This cannon, brought to the campus -from the fortress of Havana at the end of the Spanish-American war, was -dedicated with ceremony as a memorial to Nebraska students who had -fought for Cuban freedom. The cannon had stood in Seville in the time of -Charles III of Spain. - -A few weeks ago the cannon was ignominiously trucked off for scrap, -without ceremony or apology. But the library is to remain and will now -house the university’s extension department. - - - - - No. 22—Grant Memorial Hall - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -That rugged old warrior, Grant Memorial Hall (campus, 12th and S) now -resounds to commands no more stirring than a set-up singsong to which -co-eds stretch muscles and limber joints in accordance with university -physical education requirements. It was built, however, for sterner -purposes. Once the shuffle and click of guns could be heard within its -soldierly exterior as Lt. John Pershing sang out brisk orders to his -cadets. The hall was erected in honor of Nebraska’s Civil war veterans -in 1887, when those veterans were comparatively young men. Pershing was -commandant from 1891 to 1895. The military department is now housed in -Nebraska hall, a block to the north. - -During the university’s middle years convocations were held in Grant -Memorial. The pipe organ in the west half of the second story came from -the Mississippi exposition held in Omaha in 1898. It was a gift from -alumni who purchased it for $2,500. For years Carrie Belle Raymond, for -whom one of the girls’ residence halls is named, played the organ for -convocation. Thousands of graduates recall her always smiling face as -she sat high above them, fingers hovering over the organ keys. - -In Grant Memorial also are housed the U. of N. radio studio and the -department of architecture. - - - - - No. 23—The Temple - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -With the exception of the school of music, which began as a private -institution, The Temple, at 12th and R, is the only university building -which does not stand on the campus. The reason for this seeming -ostracism of the Temple—indeed, actual ostracism at the time it was -built, is that it was a gift from John D. Rockefeller, jr. The time was -1906, when muckraking and Rockefeller reviling were at their height. -Rockefeller had been a student at Brown university when E. Benjamin -Andrews, in 1906 chancellor at Nebraska, was its president. - -The name of Rockefeller and the smell of oil were offensive to those who -had to do with accepting and placing buildings, but the gift was not -quite to be refused. The Temple was delicately dropped outside the -gates. However, the Temple has been a useful and busy edifice these 35 -years, and but for reporters with fingers always crooked hungrily over -typewriter keys old ghosts would not have been disturbed. The Y. M. C. -A. has used the Temple for headquarters and other innocent activities -have been housed therein. - -Principally, however, the building is known as the theater of the -University Players, Lincoln’s theatrical stock company, personnel of -which consists of instructors and advanced students of dramatic art. Six -plays are presented each university year. Here Fred Ballard’s “Believe -Me Xantippe” had its premiere—Mr. Ballard being a university student -some 35 years ago. His more recent “Ladies of the Jury” also appeared -here, but not the premiere. A number of the players have become known -elsewhere—Zolly Lerner, Augusta French, Jack Rank and others. The name -of Miss H. Alice Howell, for years director of The Players, is -inevitably connected with this organization. - - - - - No. 24—Art Gallery, Morrill Hall - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -Morrill hall, 14th and U, is a spot on the campus where everyone is very -welcome. In most of the campus buildings, while by no means barred, one -is likely to be run down by a horde of young things charging to a class. -As they outstrip one on the stairs he is left acutely aware of his -brittle old bones and the fact that from college days he can recall -offhand only two French verbs and one theorem. - -In this hall—named for Charles H. Morrill, Nebraskan who did a great -deal for the university—you may saunter and look, and look and saunter. -The art galleries are in the two top rooms, the museum on the two below. -Dwight Kirsch of the university art department caught this particular -slant of sun into the upper art gallery. - -Like the native Chicagoan who never heard of Hull House, we know too -little about what we have at our own doors. The Nebraska art association -has built up a fine collection of paintings. Each year it holds an -exhibit, and the fact that it buys one or more pictures every year -brings in a collection worth inspecting. The late Mr. and Mrs. F. M. -Hall of Lincoln bequeathed their collection to the university, also a -fund for further purchases. - -Among the valuable paintings by modern artists owned by the art -association are the late Grant Wood’s “Arnold Comes of Age,” one of -Thomas Hart Benton’s vigorous paintings, “Lonesome Road” and John -Steuart Curry’s “Roadmender’s Camp.” - - - - - No. 25—Morrill Hall Entrance - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -Most impressive, perhaps, of the many interesting rooms in the Morrill -museum—two lower floors of Morrill hall—is Elephant hall. In this quiet -room time yawns, and down her great throat one sees the endless vista of -the years. Here animals of all eras, usually clad only in their bones, -confront one. If you are sensitive to the ghostly whispers of the past -you might well bring a companion. To span millions of years alone in an -afternoon is too much; the winds between as the centuries whirl are too -vigorous. - -Last Saturday we gazed, alone we believed, at a beautiful pair of albino -coyotes (Wheeler county, Nebraska, 1940) with touching blue eyes; at a -Peruvian mummy (pre-Inca)—a baby with its little skull resting on moth -eaten arms; at the skeleton of a dawn horse, no higher than your knee, -dug up in Sioux county, and were kneeling intent before a reconstructed -dodo when we turned suddenly and encountered the saturnine eye of the -ever present guard. - -Rightly, the museum takes no chances. Elephant hall contains one of the -best collections of modern and fossil elephants in the world, and in -addition real or reconstructed animals of many ages. Backgrounds for -these reassembled bones of animals which sniffed the earth when it was -new were painted in delicate tints by Elizabeth Dolan. The late Gutzon -Borglum, stepping into Elephant hall in a woolly camelskin coat, stopped -in his tracks among the ancient bones and murmured paradoxically and -appreciatively, “A new world.” - -One of the activities of the museum has been research on the antiquity -of man in North America. Many discoveries have been made in Nebraska, -and one of the few existing collections of Yuma-Folsom artifacts is to -be found here. - - - - - No. 26—Carrie Belle Raymond hall - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -The pattern has changed since grandmother attended the University of -Nebraska in 1871. Today’s co-eds glide thru their four years of college -with a minimum of discomfort. Grandmother undoubtedly led a more -vigorous life, tho it cost her less (but again, money was money then). -Lincoln’s few citizens were urged to be kind to open up their homes to -farmers’ daughters bent on education. Or she could stay at “ladies -hall,” which our sleuthing has led us to believe stood at 14th and U, -for 50 cents a week if she toted in her own bedstead. Wherever she -stayed, chances are she often had to crack ice on the water pitcher -winter mornings. And crossing the pasture toward University hall in -temperate seasons she ran the risk of falling over someone’s -tethered-out cow. - -In the evening grandmother lighted her kerosene lamp in a chilly room -and sat down to her lonely studies—perhaps with her chilblained feet -asoak. She was more or less isolated, as phones were still missing from -the Lincoln scene. If it had been arranged in advance, she might meet -other young men and women for a candy pull or sleigh ride. - -Now, in Carrie Belle Raymond, Julia L. Love and Northeast halls—on No. -16th—the way of the co-ed is smooth. She may roam at large over an area -predigested as to temperature, blossoming with deep chairs, radios, -cardtables, piano, shampoo rooms, dancing halls and tennis courts. -Fifteen sororities in the region of the campus furnish approximately the -same sort of living for grandmother’s granddaughter. Others take their -living places where they find them. But even at the worst those living -places are much superior to what was the common lot in 1871. - - - - - No. 27—Old W. J. Bryan home, 1625 D - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -To old timers, the Bryan home is not the nurses’ residence at Bryan -Memorial hospital, but the house at 1625 D. It was while an occupant of -this house that fame suddenly embraced William Jennings Bryan. From it -he went to two national conventions, returning from each with the -democratic presidential nomination. On his return he addressed his -people. A sea of faces strained upward on D from 16th to 17th as the -sound of his mellifluous voice flowed out from the balcony on which he -was standing. - -Here his two younger children were born. From it, in a one horse surrey, -William Jennings Bryan, in broad black hat, with his wife and children, -sallied forth each Sunday afternoon for a drive. In the backyard the -children—Ruth, later U. S. congresswoman and minister to Denmark, -William jr. and Grace dug an elaborate cave which was the envy, and the -daytime abode, of neighbor children. - -As late as 1935—when the above picture was taken, the house was much as -it had been built originally. Now the square tower is gone the way of -the porch and balcony. The edifice is corseted tight as an armadillo in -white asbestos shale. We offer the original so that, driving past, you -may attempt to trace it in the modern version. At least it is an -interesting example of a 50 year old house rejuvenated. - -Seven years ago the department of the interior suggested the old Bryan -home as a historical American building, worthy of careful preservation. -There was some talk of making a national shrine of the home in which the -Great Commoner had experienced his greatest triumphs. But the movement -drooped, and the old dwelling is now tamely serving as a four family -apartment house. - - - - - No. 28—Cadman Home south of State Hospital - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -Standing lonely on its hill this old house, doubtless one of the oldest -in the region, is the only visible evidence of one of Lancaster county’s -early and to be noticed citizens, John F. Cadman. As time has shorn him -of earthly glory, so has it shorn the house of pretentious tower and -galleries which graced it in its original elegance as manor house of -Silver Lake farm. In those days it was embellished with laid-out garden -and tree plots, even a fountain. - -Mr. Cadman was a man of vigor and action. Coming to Lancaster in 1859, -he entered a quarter section of land on Salt creek, south of Lincoln. -His first move was to open a cut-off (from the Oregon Trail) from -Nebraska City to Fort Kearny, which he completed in time for 1861 spring -travel. This was of great benefit to farmers on the Salt and Blue. In -addition to his farming operations he established a trading post at the -point where the cut-off crossed Salt creek. The post was also a station -for the Lusbaugh line of stages between Nebraska City and Fort Kearny, -where they connected with overland stages to California. He served in -the territorial legislature, also the state legislature, first term. In -1867 he was a leading advocate for removal of the capital to Lancaster -county—only he wanted it at Yankee Hill, south of Lincoln. - -An old biography of Mr. Cadman says proudly that he never drank a glass -of liquor in his life, not indicating, we hope, that he was a rare -exception to a general rule. All in all he was a hardy and -to-be-relied-on citizen, a worthy rival of salty old Elder Young, who -founded the town of Lancaster and used his influence to get the capitol -into Lancaster’s successor, Lincoln, instead of at Yankee Hill, where -John Cadman wanted it. - - - - - No. 29—Marker on Burlington Station - - - [Illustration: THE FOUNDING OF - LINCOLN - ON JULY 29 1867 - IN SESSION AT - THE FRONTIER HOME OF - CAPT. W. T. DONOVAN - LOCATED 166 FEET NORTH - 638 FEET EAST OF THIS SPOT - THE NEBRASKA STATE - CAPITAL COMMISSION - DAVID BUTLER, GOVERNOR - JOHN J. GILLESPIE, AUDITOR - THOMAS P. KENNARD - SEC’Y. OF STATE - LOCATED LINCOLN - CAPITAL CITY OF NEBRASKA - ON THIS PRAIRIE - ERECTED BY NEBRASKA SOCIETY - SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION - JULY 29 1927] - -On a hot afternoon in July, 1867—the 29th—Commissioners Butler, Kennard -and Gillespie emerged dripping from the attic of Captain W. T. Donovan’s -house. Standing on its east side to avoid the blazing sun Butler -announced that henceforth Lincoln would be the capital of Nebraska. The -severely fashioned Donovan house stood at the northern point of a -triangle which would have included the Journal building and the -Burlington station had they been built at that time. Why the -commissioners took to the attic to vote on the site is not certain, but -possibly they did not want to be rudely interrupted by those who had -been insisting that it be located at Ashland, Seward or Yankee Hill, or -be left in Omaha. - -Captain Donovan came to Lancaster county in the mid-fifties. Captain of -the steamboat Emma, one of the boats which plied up the Missouri as far -as Plattsmouth, he was drawn to this region by the possibilities of salt -in the Salt creek valley. His son was the first white child born in the -county, his daughter the first Lincoln bride. He took the first -homestead in the county under the 1862 homestead law. He stuck to his -claim during the Indian scare of 1864 and helped protect settlers who -had the courage to remain. The tablet was erected by the Nebraska -Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. - - - - - No. 30—Marker at 14th and O - - - [Illustration: LOG CABIN - BUILT IN 1864 - THE YEAR OF THE FOUNDING OF - THE VILLAGE OF LANCASTER. - THE FOUNDATION PIER UNDER THE - COLUMN UPON WHICH THIS TABLET - IS PLACED RESTS OVER THE DUG WELL - THAT STOOD BEFORE THE DOOR OF THE CABIN. - THIS TABLET IS ERECTED UNDER THE - AUSPICES OF THE LINCOLN CHAPTER - OF THE SONS OF THE AMERICAN - REVOLUTION.] - -The name Luke Lavender seems inevitably to have been coined by some -feet-on-the-desk writer of westerns, perhaps as a brother in literature -to the outlaw Violet in MacKinley Kantor’s “Gentle Annie.” But Luke -Lavender was not invented. He was a rather important citizen of -Lancaster and Lincoln, often referred to as “Judge” and apparently also -a builder of carriages. He put up the first house in Lincoln, at what is -now the southeast corner of 14th and O—in 1864. It was a neat log cabin -with two leantos, and to the south and east stretched Mr. Lavender’s -farm. - -Try, for a moment, to erase with one giant gesture all that now means -Lincoln. Visualize a bit of lonely prairie, hummocky and irregular. A -creek ran along the M and L street region. A hill of considerable height -rose where the postoffice now stands. The silence was rarely broken. -Light-footed antelope made no sound as their feet lightly trod the -grasses and their delicate ears pricked at the sound of an occasional -interloper. The night, however, was sharply punctured at intervals by -howls of wolves and coyotes. To the west was the illusion of perpetual -snows, for Salt basin was covered with an incrustation of salt about a -quarter of an inch deep. - -Mr. Lavender was an Englishman who came here with Elder J. M. Young in -1863. Among the party were Jacob Dawson, who a little later built half a -mile to the west of Lavender, Dr. McKesson, Edwin Warnes, Thomas Hudson, -John Giles, Uncle Jonathan Ball and others. These settled elsewhere in -Lancaster county. It was Elder Young, leader of the colony, who laid out -the town of Lancaster and a little later started a female seminary at -9th and P. - - - - - No. 31—Oak Creek Park - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -This is Oak lake, in Lincoln’s newest park—1st to 14th, Y to Oak, 279 -acres. If you are unimpressed, please remember two things: First, a nice -expanse of blue water is never to be looked down the nose at, especially -in a prairie city. Second, it is a wonderful improvement on the -magnificently proportioned dumping ground which used to occupy the same -quarters, and over which roamed unfortunates peering and picking at bits -of refuse. Things have been done to Oak creek, so that its main channel -now runs thru the center of the park. Between it and Salt creek lies the -lake, which members of the Lincoln boat club rejoice in as a place to -hold races. - -The park site was once a part of the great salt flats whose glistening -white blanket drew early settlers to Lincoln. In fact, these saline -lands took a prominent part in the early history of Lancaster county—in -the courts, in politics, and elsewhere. Both Governor Butler and J. -Sterling Morton were involved. Morton had put up a log cabin on the -flats and pre-empted the basin in 1861. In 1870 Butler leased the flats. -Endless complications and lawsuits resulted. In the end Butler was -forced to pay thousands of dollars to the state. - -The salt industry, from which so much had been hoped, failed for several -reasons—importation of cheaper salt from Utah, the difficulty of forming -large areas into drying pans, and the destructive rains and overflows -which for 80 years have bedeviled the Salt creek bottoms. The last named -situation the sanitary board has been battling with renewed vigor since -the disastrous flood of May, 1942, with considerable promise of success. - -Returning to the subject of parks, Lincoln is liberally sprinkled with -them. We have 22, in assorted sizes. - - [Illustration: CITY OF - LINCOLN - _includes_ - STREET CAR AND BUS LINES - HIGHWAY ROUTES] - - - - - No. 32—Pioneers Park, West Van Dorn - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -One day in 1928 John F. Harris, a New York financier who had grown up in -Lincoln in the seventies and eighties, met a boyhood friend who still -lived here. The rusty gate of memory swung back—it had been 40 years -since Harris left Lincoln—and sharply accentuated before him stood the -past. In a rush of deep affection for all that had gone into his boyhood -he immediately resolved upon a memorial to his parents, to be located in -the city in which he had grown to manhood. The result was Lincoln’s -largest park. His boyhood friend—George Woods—picked out the 600 acre -site and Mr. Harris came to Lincoln and approved. He was urged to use -the family name for the park, but when he visited the site of his old -home at 16th and K and stood at the graves of his parents in Wyuka, he -decided on another—one which would name his parents in a broader sense -and include all these with whom they had toiled in the -wilderness—Pioneers. - -George Harris, the father, came to Lincoln in the early seventies as -land commissioner for the Burlington, and as part of his work brought -thousands of people to the state. Later one of the sons, George B. -Harris, became president of the Burlington. John F. Harris went to New -York and became a successful financier. It was Mr. Harris’ wish not to -drive nature from the rolling stretch of prairie presented to Lincoln, -only to help her turn her most hospitable face to the city. One of the -hills forms a natural amphitheater from which many programs and services -have been heard. Lakes beautify the rolling surface of the park. Herds -of buffalo and elk are a reminder of the early days. Near the east -entrance stands a buffalo in bronze, also given by Mr. Harris, and made -in Paris by the famous sculptor, George Gaudet. - - - - - No. 33—Smoke Signal, Pioneers Park - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -The east entrance of Pioneers is guarded by a bronze buffalo, symbol of -the prairie when creatures of the plains drifted over her face scarcely -aware of the existence of human beings. Their cries, their calls, were -for themselves and the seasons. Yet they were not entirely alone. In and -out of their orbit moved the Indian, as drifting as were the birds and -the beasts. One day he might spread his camp in a valley, the smoke of -his campfire lifting to the heavens. In a month, perhaps, he was beyond -the horizon. The grasses rose slowly again and possession of the earth -came back to the buffalo and the deer, the coyotes and the meadow larks. - -Then came the white man. An early Lancaster county settler, John S. -Gregory, wrote: “I reached the present site of Lincoln toward evening of -a warm day in September (1862). No one lived there, or had ever lived -there previous to that date. Herds of beautiful antelope gamboled over -its surface during the day and coyotes and wolves held possession during -the night.... About a mile west on Middle creek the smoke was rising -from a camp of Otoe Indians, and down in the bend of Oak creek, where -West Lincoln now stands, was a camp of about 100 Pawnee wigwams. I rode -over, and that night slept upon my blanket by the side of one of them.” - -The placing of “The Smoke Signal” (by Ellis Burman) in Pioneers was a -suitable gesture. Its unveiling and dedication in 1935 was a -picturesque, even dramatic, occasion. More than 100 Indians attended the -ceremony. Chiefs of four Indian tribes which had roamed Nebraska sat -their horses thruout the dedication, grouped at the top of the rugged -hill which faces the west and the setting sun. - - - - - No. 34—Zoo in Antelope Park - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -Antelope park rambles loose-jointedly from the old federal treasury -columns at 24th and O south to Sheridan boulevard. It can be and is many -things to many people. Here families spread their fried chicken for a -blue canopied feast, here the children point their toes to the sky as -they pump up swings, here the band begins to play—evening and Sunday -concerts. Here the young people dance the evening hours away, the summer -Indians brandish their tennis rackets, the flower lovers stroll and gaze -at elaborately laid out beds of flowers. - -Or, calling all ages, there is the zoological building on south 27th, -where the monkeys chatter and swing, the tigers shake their bars and -little creatures of all kinds peer out from their cages. Central in the -zoo is the scene above. Photographed thru the screen which surrounds it, -it has the dreamlike quality of a Chinese painting. Some of the birds -took to cover with the appearance of a camera. The scarlet ibis clings -morosely to a branch and an African crane, with seedy headgear, is in -picturesque tete-a-tete with another exotic bird in the foreground. The -stork, to the left, legging its way as usual on the heights, is -obliterated except for a beak and bit of curved wing. - -The peace of this scene, with its pool, its rocks and flashes of bright -color, is seldom disturbed. When the keeper circles the ledge -symmetrically with dishes of bananas and grain the birds, big and small, -float noiselessly down and begin pecking at their food in genteel -manner. - - - - - No. 35—War Memorial, Antelope Park - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -Tucked here and there thruout Antelope park’s pleasant spaces—179 -acres—are a number of statues and memorials, results of various impulses -and circumstances. We have mentioned the pillars at the O street -entrance. Roaming southward thru the park you will find others. One of -these objects is the fountain given to the city by the late D. E. -Thompson thirty or so years ago. It was placed in the center of 11th -street a few blocks south of O. As Lincoln’s herd of automobiles grew to -thundering proportions city officials realized that the fountain, very -suitable in the days when ladies nodded to each other across it from -phaetons and victorias moving on either side, must be transplanted. -After a number of accidents, some of them truly tragic, the fountain was -taken to the park. Neptune, on one side, had been permanently crippled -and the water nymph on the other was doubtless aged in spirit. - -In 1936 the Lincoln park department sponsored the putting up of a war -memorial—a marble 23-foot shaft topped by a figure in ancient -armour—spirit of war and victory. On four lower pedestals Revolutionary, -Civil war, Spanish-American and World war soldiers look out, each -leaning on his instrument of death. When Mr. Burman and the park -department planned this statue they probably had no thought that it -would be so quickly outmoded. No niche has been provided for a warrior -of the present conflict. - -Another figure in the park is The Pioneer Woman, donated by the Woman’s -club and the park board. The trees along Memory garden and Memorial -drive—north of Sheridan boulevard—were planted in memory of the Lincoln -soldiers who fell in the first World war. - - - - - No. 36—Nebraska Capitol - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -Nebraska’s capitol, designed by Bertram Goodhue, is one of the beautiful -buildings of the world. Twenty years ago, disputatious words were -circling round its budding tower—derogatory, complimentary, acrimonious, -laudatory. But the capitol rose silently thru this swarm of words and -today stands superbly in completed perfection. Controversy has died -away, and there are probably few Nebraskans who are not proud of the -capitol’s majesty and timeless beauty. - -Opening a forgotten drawer recently we came upon the dusty drawings of -Mr. Goodhue’s rivals in the capitol competition of more than twenty -years ago and found them yawn-provoking. Only the one chosen seemed -alive, rising into the sky, even on its yellowed paper background, as -tho from some inner compulsion. - -The capitol has many moods. Sometimes she wraps a dark cloak somberly -about her. The next time one turns to look, she shimmers in a cloak of -light. The capitol is beautiful in all her moments—silhouetted against -the blue, against storm or twilight, or against the limitless background -of night. - - - - - No. 37—Front Entrance, Capitol - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -The inspiration for the capitol as a whole was Bertram Goodhue’s. He -first ran an architect’s pencil around its noble contours, in a moment -of exaltation flinging its tower toward to stars. But death drew the -pencil from his hand while many markings were yet to be made. - -It is said that for no other building since the middle ages has such a -definite, complete and comprehensive symbolic scheme been worked -out—giving complete unity to the finished edifice. To Mr. Goodhue’s -immediate associates, of course, goes a great deal of the credit for the -capitol. William Younkin has been the supervising architect. Among -others who had a large part in the perfecting of the building are Lee -Lawrie, the sculptor, Hildreth Meiere, responsible for its mosaics, and -Hartley Burr Alexander, who planned the sculpture, wrote the -inscriptions and worked out the art symbolism. - -The late Dr. Alexander, native of Lincoln and professor of philosophy at -the University of Nebraska until he went to Scripps college in 1927, was -familiar to two generations of students in Lincoln. A mild retiring -person with a furiously intellectual brow, he possessed great ability in -the field of poetry and philosophy, writing perhaps twenty books on -these subjects. The inscriptions of the building read unhurriedly along -its vast corridors, beginning with the hymn of the Navajo, imprinted on -the buffalo at the north entrance: “In Beauty I walk. With Beauty before -me I walk. With Beauty behind me I walk, with Beauty above and about me -I walk.” - - - - - No. 38—Capitol Panel, Signing the Magna Carta - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -The capitol is the story, in marble, of mankind. Its physical outlines -suggest this—sprawling inarticulate humanity drawn up finally into -strength and beauty. To amplify the story in words would mean great book -piled on great book. For every mosaic, every panel and every rising -pillar holds the tale of some great struggle or advance in the life of -man. At last the story is brought down to Nebraska—its pioneers, its -buffalo, its Indians, its corn and wheat. But before Nebraska comes the -whole great panorama of mankind. The upward struggle toward a high -ethical code, toward religion, is pictured in great movements or -incidents of history. - -The western group of nine panels seen from the promenade describes the -development of law in the ancient world: Moses bringing the law to Mount -Sinai; Deborah judging Israel; judgment of Solomon; Solon giving a new -constitution to the Athenians, publishing of the law of the twelve -tables in Rome; establishment of the tribunate of the people; Plato -writing his dialog on the ideal republic; Orestes before the -Areopagites; codification of Roman law under Justinian. On the south -wall of the promenade are panels showing the magna carta, signing of the -declaration of independence and writing of the constitution. The eastern -group describes development of law in the modern and western world, -panels including codification of Anglo-Saxon law, Milton defending free -speech, signing of the Pilgrim compact, Lincoln’s emancipation -proclamation, the Kansas-Nebraska bill and admission of Nebraska as a -state. - -At the upper corners of the tower eight sculptured figures represent -spiritual leaders of civilization, including the prophet Ezekiel, -Socrates, Marcus Aurelius, St. John, St. Louis, Isaac Newton and Abraham -Lincoln. Abstract virtues, Wisdom, Justice, Power, Mercy are represented -as human figures at the north entrance. - - - - - No. 39—Foyer of State Capitol - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -Today we shall give you a few facts which include figures—the latter of -which we have hitherto dealt out very stingily. - -The lower part of the capitol is a square base, 437 feet each way, which -conceals four inner courts formally landscaped. The tower reaches into -the air 400 feet. The figure of the sower at the top is 20 feet tall and -stands on a 12-foot pedestal—a shock of corn on a sheaf of wheat. The -sower weighs about nine tons. - -The four light colored pillars in the foyer are the largest single piece -marble columns in this country. They weigh approximately sixteen tons -each. The chandelier which hangs in the center of the building, is the -largest bronze chandelier of its type in the world. Its bell part is a -single piece of pure bronze, cast in New York City. The whole chandelier -weighs 3,500 pounds. It is 112 feet from the floor to the ceiling from -which the chandelier depends. - -Gov. Samuel McKelvie broke ground for the new building April 15, 1922, -with Marshal Joffre of France as guest of honor. Dedicatory exercises -were held ten years later. The building cost $10,000,000 and is paid -for. - -Guides who tell many interesting facts about the capitol make daily -trips thru the building, at 10:30, 2:00 and 3:30, excepting that on -Sunday the 10:30 tour is omitted. - - - - - No. 40—First Presbyterian church, 17th and F. - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -In 1863 Elder Young founded the town of Lancaster—to become Lincoln four -years later—on his own 80 acre tract, which cornered Luke Lavender’s -farm at what is now 14th and O. The village was to extend from 14th to -7th and from O to Vine. As the far-sighted elder bent musingly over the -white paper which represented the future town he saw a city strong in -church life—and even predicted that it would some day be the capital of -Nebraska. Another dream was of a female seminary—either to induce -families with young ladies to come to the new town or to make prairie -damsels into suitable wives and mothers for his churchly city. Hovering -over the platted town his pencil finally came to rest at 9th and P as a -site for the seminary. - -Many of the lots into which his farm was ribboned he gave to county and -school districts. Money from the others went into the seminary. That -institution burned in 1867, but Elder Young’s dream of a city of -churches was more enduring. Between 1866 and 1870 Congregational, -Methodist, Presbyterian, Christian, Baptist and Catholic churches were -organized and built. These were forerunners of present downtown -churches. Lincoln now has about 80 places of worship. - -The First Presbyterian church was organized April 4, 1869. Its first two -buildings were supplanted in 1927 by the present beautiful structure, -one of whose distinctions is having been planned by the late Ralph Adams -Crams. Thus may it lay claim to special brotherhood with the Cathedral -of St. John the Divine and St. Thomas’ church of New York City. - - - - - No. 41—Burlington Shops at Havelock - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -On July 4, 1870, while Lincoln citizens were celebrating the nation’s -birthday in shady groves, as was their wont, there came from the -northeast a strange cavalcade. It was a string of flatcars, over which -bowers of cottonwood branches had been arranged, pulled by a chortling -little engine named The Wahoo, which name probably echoed the cries of -the tugging engine rather exactly. Under the bowers sat travelers on -improvised seats, chatting excitedly. It was the first passenger train -to pull into, or almost into, Lincoln. The Burlington and Missouri rails -had been laid to within a mile of the town and the company celebrated by -offering a free round trip from Plattsmouth to Lincoln, which was made -at the exhilarating speed of 15 or 20 miles an hour. - -Within the year George B. Harris became Burlington land commissioner and -began colonizing Nebraska on a grand scale. In 1870 Nebraska had 122,993 -inhabitants, and most of them lived in the southeastern counties near -the Burlington’s 2,500,000 acres. The success or failure of the -Burlington’s land department depended largely on price and credit -policies adopted by the company. Mr. Harris was given a free hand. -Boundlessly enthusiastic over the possibilities of the state, he went at -the job like one seating himself at a great organ. Towns sprang up -wherever his creative fingers strayed. To the west appeared quickly a -string of alphabetical stations—Crete, Dorchester, Exeter, Fairmont, -Grafton, Harvard, Inland, Juniata, Kennesaw and Lowell. The “Mayflower” -colony, “Plymouth” colony, colonies from England and the east were soon -grouped over the landscape. - -In the middle 80’s the Burlington shops were located at Havelock. Thru -the Burlington lines flows the bloodstream of that part of Lincoln. It -thrives or grows pale and listless according to the fortunes of its -railroad. The shops at this moment are employing 750 men—550 in the -mechanical department, 250 in the store. The shops build cars, repair -cars, overhaul electrical equipment used on the lines west of Lincoln -and overhaul working equipment such as steam shovels and pile drivers -for the whole Burlington system. - - - - - No. 42—Governor’s Mansion, 15th and H - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -One leap from the south entrance of the capitol (if he doesn’t mind our -accelerating his step in order to capture the attention of the audience) -and Gov. Dwight Griswold, in gray suit and fedora, plus black overcoat -the last few days, is home. Should he turn on the steps he might read -over the capitol entrance one of Dr. Alexander’s carefully considered -truths—Political society exists for the sake of noble living. - -The house in which Governor Griswold lives, successor to one populist, -five democratic and seven republican gubernatorial residents, suggests -noble living. It is generously proportioned, deep bosomed, its wide -galleries edged with delicately wrought spindles. Memories jostle each -other pleasantly in the big house, which is acclimated to sudden -changes. - -One republican governor and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Sam McKelvie, -preferred to live in their home at 140 So. 26th, where indefatigable -Mrs. McKelvie threw off lightly, the actual work of caring for 21 rooms, -with oil painting and associate editorship of a magazine as pastimes. -For the rest, since 1900—before that governors had to look for places to -live, too—each governor’s retinue has moved in and fitted itself into -its surroundings in its individual way. Mr. Griswold, for instance, hung -his grandfather’s sword—its owner fell in ’61—in the front hall and his -collection of autographed photographs in the back parlor. Mrs. Griswold -marshaled treasured family antiques into the guest room against a -background of George Washington-Mount Vernon wallpaper. - -Every governor’s wife handles with pleased fingers the beautiful silver -service with the aid of which light refreshments were once dispensed on -the battleship Nebraska. During legislative sessions especially, the -governor’s home is opened for many social gatherings. - - - - - No. 43—Nebraska Wesleyan - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -If you drive in a long slow arc from southernmost to northernmost -Lincoln, veering to the right as you drive, you will pass thru the parts -of the city which were not the result of growth of the original town but -sprang up a distance away from some special urge or circumstance. There -were five of them, like the isolated fingertip prints of a cupped hand. -As Lincoln spread the tiny towns spread also, until they finally all -met, embraced and became one. - -Driving from one to the other thru these originally diverse sections we -feel subtle changes. It may be that thoughts and processes, -personalities of those once dominating each, are in some way imprinted -on each section. Or it may be only that we happen to know local history. -To the south is College View, its nucleus Union college (Seventh Day -Adventist). Next in the arc is Bethany, originally the background of -Cotner college (Christian) and next its sister, University Place, home -of Nebraska Wesleyan (Methodist.); Havelock, a little to the north, was -born of the Burlington shops. Last in the arc is Belmont, planned as a -beautiful city 50 years ago but now fallen from that high estate. Its -woolen mills burned down, the railroad came in the wrong way. - -Above is the ivy covered main building of Wesleyan, an institution which -has stood sturdily for over 50 years, battling drouths and depressions -with one hand and serving the Lord and Methodism with the other. -Attesting the educational soundness of its program was a recent national -survey showing Wesleyan with a rank of 22 among 339 liberal arts college -in the proportion (36 percent) of its students going into graduate study -thruout the country. A greater proportion of graduates has gone from its -classrooms into theological seminaries than from any liberal arts -college in America. - - - - - No. 44—Scene of big bank robbery - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -When we downtown Lincoln lunchers gathered in groups at the board on -Sept. 17, 1930, we did not begin talking about the stock market or fall -fashions or unemployment or our neighbors or any of those things which -usually occupied our attention. - -Even before reaching for the menu or the sugar bowl everyone burst out -with one identical topic—what had happened that morning at 1144 O. We -had heard remotely about gangsters and underworld affairs, but on this -fair September morning hands from that other world actually reached out -and touched quiet respectable Lincoln. - -There were submachine guns but no killing. Three men quietly entered the -lobby of the Lincoln National bank, with a word turned employes and -customers face downward on the floor, scooped up currency, looted a -vault and were out again—into a waiting sedan and away. One of the -largest bank robberies ever to occur in America—$2,000,000 in currency -and bonds—it forced liquidation and closing of the bank. - -Gus Winkler, big time gangster and member of Al Capone’s gang, confessed -to knowledge of the stolen bonds but established an alibi so far as -active participation was concerned. Tommy O’Connor and Howard (Pop) Lee -were tried and given long term prison sentences. Jack Britt was released -after two trials. Winkler offered to return $600,000 of the securities -in return for his freedom. After much discussion and comment on the -advisability of such action Winkler won the point. Bonds valued at -$575,000 were eventually returned. (Their return, Mr. Towle reminds us, -saved five small banks in Lancaster county.) In 1933 underworld enemies -caught up with Winkler and he went down fatally wounded by machine gun -fire. - - - - - No. 45—First Plymouth church, 20th and D - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -From the First-Plymouth tower, music floats out and soars upward like -birds shaken free by the great organ inside, grazing Mark, Matthew, Luke -and John at the top of the tower with their golden wings. As one enters -the church thru the large forecourt, his pleasant sense of gracious -earthly living and worship is heightened by the presence of this -heaven-looking tower. - -First-Plymouth Congregational church, built in brick, cost half a -million dollars, was designed by H. Van Buren Magonigle and has become -widely known for its architectural freshness and beauty. A picture of it -illustrates “Religious Architecture” in Encyclopedia Britannica. - -Among individual items of interest are three stones incorporated into -the building: The Bethlehem stone from the birthplace of Christ; Pilgrim -stone, gift of Plymouth, England, sailing port of the Mayflower; Martin -Luther stone in the base of the tower, taken from the home of the -reformer. In the singing tower—traditional name of the carillon harking -back to mediaeval times when watchers aloft blew warnings of invaders or -flooding of dikes, are the bells, made by the famous carillon builders, -John Taylor and Co., of Loughborough, England. The church celebrated its -75th anniversary in 1941. Rev. Raymond A. McConnell is its pastor. - - - - - No. 46—Cotner college - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -This is Cotner college—Cotner boulevard between Aylsworth and -Colby—back, back in the early days of existence. The grass around it -appears to be unbroken prairie growth. There are no walks around the -building, not even paths. And yet this is very much a picture of Cotner -now. After 1889, when the college opened, a tide of green washed up over -the campus—a whole grove at the north and big sheltering trees -elsewhere. And so also did a tide of youth sweep into the building to -give it life. Now both tides have receded. And still, Cotner does not -represent a totally lost cause. Young people who wish to attend a -denominational college have merely been deflected to other Christian -church institutions—Drake, in Iowa, for instance, nearest Nebraska. - -A small church college is one of those anomalous places where students -in the morning gaze worshipfully upon a preacher professor and in the -evening plot to put his cow up in the belfry tower. Scattered over the -world as teachers, preachers and missionaries, Cotner students recall -happy days here, not only inspirational but full of pranks and fun. The -college was named for Samuel Cotner, who donated a large tract of land -in Bethany to the school. Closely connected with the school is the name -of W. P. Aylsworth, first chancellor and later president emeritus, -greatly loved and revered by the procession of students who passed thru -the college during his lifetime. He was killed a number of years ago, as -twilight was approaching—on Cotner boulevard, named for the college, and -near the street named for him—by a speeding driver who did not stop and -was never located. - - - - - No. 47—Union College - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -You may have heard that, in case you are absentminded on Saturday, on -Sunday morning you can get a loaf of bread or a roast in College View. -That is quite true, but such considerations reduce College View to its -lowest terms. The fact that most of College View observes its Sabbath on -Saturday is the result of a deep religious conviction which set up a -college and spread around it a sympathetic community. - -Union college (Seventh Day Adventist) has 12 buildings and many -interesting features. One of the most interesting is its work program. -More than 90 percent of its students, which usually number around 450, -pay their way, at least in part, by working on the college farm or in -its shops and buildings on the campus. - -For the first two-thirds of its lifetime—the college, like Cotner and -Wesleyan, was started in the late 80’s—the town was made up exclusively -of those of the faith. For longer than that—we are not prepared to say -definitely whether or not this is still true—much strictness was -observed in the life of the students. - -The college now has a medical cadet corps (shown in the picture), part -of a nationwide program sponsored by the Seventh Day Adventist -denomination and operating under the approval of the surgeon general of -the U. S. army. - - - - - No. 48—Pershing home, 1748 B - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -Early in the nineties, two companions might almost daily be seen on -Lincoln’s downtown streets. Written and unwritten history traces their -footsteps more minutely—into Don Cameron’s. Curious as to the sort of -fame which perpetuated the name of Don Cameron we investigated and found -that he was a restaurant keeper. The secret of his popularity and -enduring memory seems to have been that he furnished a good meal for 25 -cents. - -Among the rising young men of Lincoln who found a good 25 cent meal -important were these two companions. The shorter, darker of the two, who -resembled a bundle of scantily padded charged wires, was Charles G. -Dawes. The taller, fairer more reserved young man was John J. Pershing, -then commandant at the university. In the restaurant, where they sat at -a table with other young men who in the future would be Lincoln’s -prominent citizens, they discussed many things, Dawes with animated -forearms, Pershing more sedate but square-jawed and purposeful. - -It was not until 1905, after he was gone from Lincoln, that Pershing -married. A dozen years later his wife and three oldest children died in -a California hotel fire. It was then that he established a home in -Lincoln for his sister, Miss May Pershing, and his youngest child, -Warren. This is still known as the Pershing home, and to it General -Pershing has often returned for periods of visiting and rest. For the -most part, this last great leader of the American Expeditionary forces -of 1918 lives at Walter Reed hospital in Washington. - - - - - No. 49—Former Dawes home, 1301 H - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -From this house at 1301 H, little changed since the nineties, was -Charles G. Dawes, later to be vice president of the United States and -ambassador to Great Britain, catapulted daily by the boundless energy -which eventually shot him up to the top in national affairs. Dawes lived -in Lincoln only eight years (1887-1894), but he made a quite indelible -impression, as will a red-hot little iron which a housewife goes off and -leaves for a few minutes. - -His mobile hands reached out, in many directions. Everything he touched -seemed to thrive, his fingers being to many things what the green thumb -is said to be to gardens. His first law suit in Lincoln won a case for -some Nebraska farmers who believed they had been discriminated against -in the matter of freight rates. Thus he gained the reputation of being -an anti-monopolist—which he was not. Even in his twenties he was -organizing utilities and starting banks and building a fortune, which -eventually got up into the millions. He was a born financier and gained -a wider reputation as such on becoming President McKinley’s comptroller -of the currency. - -For relaxation he loved to sit at the piano and improvise. He put on -paper a number of piano and violin duets. The best known, “Melody in A -Major” or something of the sort, became popular and often rolled out to -meet him in great volume when he came back to Lincoln. Once—not in -Lincoln—he had the whole Thomas orchestra come to his home so he could -play along with it on the fife. - -In a letter to The Journal Mr. Dawes once said that the eight years he -lived in Lincoln he had always regarded as the most important in his -life, and some of the friendships then contracted were most valued. - - - - - No. 50—Wyuka, 36th and O - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -Wyuka is, we think, a beautiful word, and especially so for Nebraska. -Listening to the sound of it one hears not only the lonely prairie wind -but the more cheerful call of prairie birds.... And the name should -never be followed by “cemetery,” which is redundant, and, much worse, -robs it of beauty. It is an Indian word often interpreted as “place of -rest.” We like still better the more literal “place to lie down and -sleep.” At any rate, Wyuka is a beautiful, peaceful spot, especially on -a still summer day, when sun and shade lie side by side over it and -large white birds drift timelessly on its quiet lagoon. - -This is Lincoln’s oldest burial place—tho not the oldest in Lancaster -county. Pale folded hands and open Bibles on pure white stones and flat -slabs from which lettering is almost obliterated indicate certain age. -The records show that it was founded in 1869, not as a city but a state -cemetery. Many names of interest may be found on its stones, among them -early governors Nance, Poynter, Thayer, Mickey and Aldrich. The founder -of the village of Lancaster, Elder Young, was carried here when his days -were done. - -Little more than half of Wyuka’s 200 acres are laid out in lots. The -southwest corner is devoted to an artificial lake bordered with grass -and shrubs. Space to the north is for future use. Sections on the north -also have been set aside for Civil war and World war veterans. The high -iron fence surrounding the cemetery once encircled the university -campus. It proved to be a considerable hindrance to firemen when fire -broke out in the museum years ago, and in 1924 it was transferred to -Wyuka. - - - - - No. 51—State Penitentiary, 14th and Pioneers - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -Five hundred and fifty-four convicts now sit scowling in their -penitentiary cells. This statement, however, is merely to fix them in -your minds. The personnel of the old gray bastille is in reality much -more mobile and active. The men make things and do things, go to school -and have music and movies. They live as pleasantly as is possible with -whatever guilt hangs over their heads, and within their narrowed -boundaries. For some who have lived there, the view narrowed finally to -the sight of one black loop against the gray dawn—or the leaping of one -fatal spark. Seven were hanged from 1867 to 1920; eight have walked to -the electric chair—1920 to 1929, date of the last case of capital -punishment. - -In seventy-five years there have been several outbreaks, mostly minor -ones. But on March 14, 1912, there was a more spectacular performance. -During a deep snowstorm three prisoners, John Dowd, Shorty Gray and -Charles Morley, shot their way out, killing Warden Delahunty, Deputy -Warden Wagner and Usher Heilman. Thereafter for a number of days Lincoln -people were reluctant to plunge out into the neck-high snow lest -conspicuousness result in their being picked off by a convict or a -member of a posse. In the final windup of the chase an innocent farmer, -as well as two of the convicts, were killed—a total of six deaths for -the incident. The third convict, Charles Morley, surrendered. He was -released from the penitentiary about a year ago. - -A somewhat sensational escape, 1922, was that of bad man Fred Brown, who -was not only bad but quite antic in his movements. He was variously -referred to as Kangaroo or Chain-man Brown. One day he would pop up in -Omaha, then in some peaceful Lincoln spot, keeping citizens in a state -of uneasy dismay until he was finally captured in the wilds of Wyoming. -On his second attempt to break out, in 1925, he was shot down and -killed. - - - - - No. 52—Holy Trinity Episcopal, 1200 J - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -While other Lincoln churches have been stepping along with the years, -changing costumes as they went and, incidentally, taking on new building -debts, Holy Trinity has remained content with what it has—and it has -something, says the historical American building survey, which -designates it as typical of the best architecture of its period. Indeed, -it is not hard for any of us to see enduring beauty in this structure, -erected in 1888. Speaking as a temporary columnist with six and a half -inches of two-column space at our disposal, towers and turrets cause us -some difficulty. In this case, however, we are delighted to relinquish -writing space to a noble and eloquent church spire. - - - - - No. 53—Lincoln High, 21st and J - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -During its 75 years, Lincoln has worked up to an excellent school -system, with three high school buildings, three exclusively for junior -and 20 exclusively for elementary grades. It includes attractive and -ample buildings and high standards of education. There is little now to -indicate ordeals of past schoolboard heroes who kept an adequate school -roof over juvenile heads as Lincoln in its hasty growth trampled down -surrounding cornfields. - -Lincoln’s first public school was held in Elder Young’s stone seminary -where The Journal now stands—Mrs. H. W. Merrill at the blackboard with a -babe on one hip. The seminary burned in 1867 and another stone -schoolhouse started at 11th and Q, partly the product of town-held -festivals and dinners. But the board announced when school began that -funds were exhausted and it would have to levy a “rate bill of 50 cents -per month, per scholar, payable monthly.” - -Seventy years ago Lincoln schools showed not a trace of today’s pattern. -However, that year school authorities looked over their motley throng -and for the first time waved it into groups. Out went these orders in -the fall of 1872: “At the first ringing of the university bell all -scholars of the primary grade and those who will read in the first and -second readers and begin the study of mental arithmetic will meet at the -stone schoolhouse at the corner of 11th and Q. Those who will read in -the third reader ... will meet at the building on 12th street known as -the White schoolhouse. All prepared to enter schools of a higher grade -will meet at the building on O between 11th and 12th.” The stone -schoolhouse at 11th and J continued more or less as a free and easy -country institution, without all that citified grading. - -But even in 1872 the high school which was to serve students at 15th and -N for 42 years had been started, and next year it was occupied. From -that date Lincoln schools looked up and on. The present building was -placed on its 15 acre grounds, J to Randolph and 21st to 23rd, in 1915. - - - - - No. 54—Veterans Hospital, 600 So. 74th - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -This rim-of-the-prairie picture is of Veterans hospital. Here men lie -and think of war. Planes thunder over their upturned faces and they -remember the airplanes of 1918, tho a few may be occupied with planeless -thoughts of San Juan Hill, and a very few with moldy memories of the -blue and the gray. Here, perhaps, war news is taken—largely by radio—in -larger and more frequent doses than anywhere else in Lincoln. All the -patients—capacity is 251—have been thru war somewhere. Before long the -doors will swing open for a fourth generation. - -Veterans Hospital is probably the first place in Lincoln to practice the -art of blackouting—a wide precaution, for the hospital, with its 28 -subsidiary buildings, off by itself on a hill, sparkles at night like a -row of Christmas trees. - -A few veterans at the hospital are veteran patients—five or six -years—but only a few. The turnover in most cases is more of the -pancakes-on-a-hot-griddle sort. It is a general medical hospital which -does not handle long, slow cases. There are 92 veterans hospitals -sprinkled over the country. Except in special cases, each takes veterans -living nearest, so that those treated here are mostly from Nebraska or a -narrow strip around it. - -The patients are not left alone with their gloomy thoughts. Tuesday and -Saturday nights they have movies. On Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays -there is some other form of entertainment. The hospital library contains -4,000 books, and if the patient can’t come to the library, the library -comes to the patient. From now until Christmas occupants will be busy -making next spring’s American Legion poppies. - -If you, too, are puzzling over the 28 buildings, check them off as -living quarters for attendants, power plant, warehouses, electric shop, -plumbing shop, utilities buildings, garages, etc. etc. - - - - - No. 55—Yankee Hill Brick Mfg. Co. - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -To the child, grandmother and grandfather were never young—that was too -far away and long ago for him to picture in the faintest degree. So with -cities and towns as we contemplate them today. Our imaginations are -scarcely more elastic than the child’s. We see Lincoln as it is now; -Yankee Hill as it is, or almost is not, today. Seventy-five years ago -they were two little sisters, side by side, quarreling over a pile of -blocks—the first state capitol. - -The story is that when the commissioners were on a tour in search of a -capital site they were given a chicken dinner by the ladies of Yankee -Hill, followed by ice cream, “a treat which astonished them greatly, as -it was undoubtedly the first ice cream to be served in the wilds of the -salt basin.” The commissioners, nevertheless, gave the prize to Lincoln. - -And now, as in some parable of two sisters, Yankee Hill, in her barren -old age, toils daily in the making of bricks which pile up to the -magnification of the fortunate sister, Lincoln. - -The bricks works are almost sixty years old. It is an interesting fact -that as late as 20 years ago there were nearly 50 brick plants in -Nebraska. Gradually they disappeared, for one reason or another, one of -which was that the right kind of clay can’t be found just anywhere one -might throw up a factory. There are now four in the state—at Yankee -Hill, Nebraska City, Hastings and Endicott. Yankee Hill, adjoining -Pioneers park on the southeast, makes all kinds of brick, many of which -are used in Lincoln and many shipped to other places. Plant capacity is -80,000 bricks a day. - - - - - No. 56—Whitehall, 5903 Walker - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -Whitehall has romantic appeal, for a number of reasons. It was once the -home of Mrs. C. C. White, pioneer Lincoln resident and Methodist, and, -in its calico and cornbread days, one of Lincoln’s first young ladies. -When in later years one of the White daughters became the wife of an -Italian count there was a general pleased feeling of something or -other—as that east and west do sometimes meet, or that it’s just one -step from pioneer to peeress. - -Mrs. White, who had presented Wesleyan university with a college -building named for Mr. White, long deceased, later gave Whitehall to the -state as a home for children. There is sometimes romance in Whitehall -even yet. We once wrote a story about the children, picturing the one -red headed child, a good and wistful little boy. The parents of red -haired twin girls, seeing the picture, arranged to adopt him. - -It is of course dangerous to expose yourself to childish charm at -Whitehall—you might come away a parent. Forty years ago a train of New -York waifs was sent out thru Nebraska. A woman, feeling idle curiosity, -went down to see the train come into her small town. As she stood on the -platform she noticed a small boy—he is now a Lincoln man—walking forward -and looking up most earnestly at all the people around him. When he saw -this woman he took her hand and said, modestly but confidently, that he -would like her to be his mother. Altho already supplied with a child of -her own, the woman found it impossible to refuse. And, happily, he -turned out to be the best of sons and the finest of men. - - - - - No. 57—St. Mary’s Cathedral - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -Encountered by another heaven-kissing spire, so delightful to look at, -so difficult to encompass in small space, we decided to invite you -inside St. Mary’s, to contemplate the high altar and reflect on the -enduring work of that fiery first bishop of Lincoln—Bishop Bonacum. - -This advantageous position, 14th and K, was first snatched by members of -the Christian church, who built an edifice very like the one now -standing opposite the capitol. They lost it during the 90’s depression -and Bishop Bonacum took over, rebuilding once after a fire had well nigh -demolished the church. - -A cathedral is a bishop’s church and in it the first bishop’s -successors, Bishops Tihen, O’Reilly, Beckman and Kucera have presided. -Since Msgr. C. J. Riordan has become pastor the entire basement has been -finished, so that it contains two large halls. In one of them each -Sunday a second mass is celebrated at 11 o’clock, while the solemn mass -is celebrated upstairs. From the kitchen each school day noon are served -hot meals to the entire student body of the Cathedral school. - -University art classes each year visit the church to sketch its -architectural beauty. - - - - - No. 58—Northeast High, Sixty-third and Baldwin - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -Those three sister territories, University Place, Havelock and Bethany, -spread out side by side in northeast Lincoln and once quite separate -divisions of the city, were tied together as neatly by the new Northeast -high school as three handkerchiefs are secured by one knot in the -corners. Thus caught up, they are a flag of friendly challenge, not to -say defiance, to wave across to Lincoln high at 21st and J. Overnight a -feeling of solidarity sprang up at the new high school. - -There had been murmurs when the school neared completion over a year ago -that the name Northeast was undesirable—that it had a cold, damp sound -and that no one could love an institution with such an appellation, and -so why not name it for some Nebraska or national notable. Others -contended that the name was not the thing—that dear old Northeast could -entwine itself as firmly around the heart as dear old VanWyck or -Montmorency. - -The latter seem to have been right. The three lines of youngsters we see -converging on Northeast these mornings approach their new institution -smiling. Probably one could learn to love Hogwallow school if -associations and surroundings were pleasant. Speaking of appearances and -surroundings, the picture above is a very inadequate representation of -the building itself. The surroundings, naturally still a little barren, -have been improved by a cement walk, and with gravel on 63rd. - -Lincoln’s third high school is in College View. - - - - - No. 59—State Historical Society - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -Conquerors sweep thru a nation or state bent only on conquest; traders -camp on its borders intent only on immediate gains; missionaries kneel -on its soil with the welfare of souls in mind; pioneers break the sod -for the purpose of putting four walls around their families, bread in -their mouths. It falls to the historian to follow after these men of one -purpose, to gather up the fragments; to keep alive, in words at least, -the spark struck off by fleeing hoof or flintlock or ringing ax. - -Musing with half-closed eyes one can see a throng of people entering -Nebraska, spreading out over it in patterns interesting and intricate. -One can see a giant, colorful picture painted on the plains, even hear -the throng moving to simple slow strains of music—and realize how -literature, painting, music, are born of movements of people, individual -or en masse. - -There is no lack of romance in the building of Nebraska, beginning with -its Indians—ships with adventurers and settlers sailing far up the -rivers; the Mormon migration; the underground railroad (slaves were sold -on the block in southeast Nebraska in the early sixties); the fight for -the capital, the building of the railroads (which reminds us of Building -of the Union Pacific, given by the Ballet Russe in Lincoln several years -ago); Wild Bill Hickok, Doc Middleton and their brother bandits; the -struggle between homesteaders and cow men in the north and west of the -state. - -The State Historical Society, state capitol (Dr. A. E. Sheldon, -superintendent) has all this locked in drawer and file and safe—except -for interesting exhibits spread on its walls. The picture above, drawn -at Omaha for Leslie’s Sept. 26, 1860, depicts the arrival in that -pioneer village of the Jennie Brown, bound for Fort Benton, Mont. It is -one of over thirty thousand pictures filed by the librarian, Martha -Turner, pertaining to the history of the state. - - - - - No. 60—Orthopedic Hospital, 11th and South - - - [Illustration: {uncaptioned}] - -The time has come, we believe, gently to remove the guide who has been -walking ahead in these Lincoln explorations, and to let those -following—if there are those following—go on, each with his own -sightseeing. Possibilities have not been exhausted. There are, for -example, the state orthopedic hospital, with its bright-eyed little -birds, seemingly survivals of some great battering storm; the state -reformatory, once a normal college (a thousand tapped on its door for -admission 50 years ago this fall), later a military academy and now, -last chance for wayward boys and young men; the state hospital, with its -population of 1,440, widely known its treatments. - -There are old houses, patient, wise and worn; churches, each with its -own flavor, history and problems; parks we have not mentioned; hospitals -and theaters. The agricultural college, apple cheeked sister of the -university we have inadvertently neglected. - -If you are interested particularly in the historical aspects of a -community you will visit the historical society museum in the capitol. -Here time will cease for an afternoon as in spirit you move rapidly from -1842 to 1942 and back again to 1842, your fingers touching visible -evidence of periods between those dates. For Nebraska had its white -people even before 1842—its fur traders, trappers, missionaries. In -Bellevue, first Nebraska town, first territorial governor Francis Burt -took his oath of office Oct. 16, 1854—only to die two days later in the -log cabin home of Rev. William Hamilton. - -... In short, we commend all ramblers into the past to the state -historical society. It will serve as an excellent guide to early Lincoln -and Nebraska. - -And so, goodbye. - - - (THE END) - - - - - Street Directory - - -Streets running north and south are numbered from 1st to 78th eastward -and to 2nd westward commencing at 1st street, the western boundary of -the original city and continuing to the city limits. - -Streets running east and west are either alphabetical or named. -Alphabetical streets begin at the southern boundary of the original city -at A, omit I and continue northward to Y. Named streets continue south -of A and north of Y to and beyond the city limits. - -Block and house numbers begin at O street north and south end at 1st -street east and west. Streets north or south of O are designated by the -prefixes N and S respectively. Addresses West of 1st street are -designated by the prefix West, abbreviated W. For example, 534 W. -Washington. Odd numbers appear on the west and south sides of the -streets and even numbers appear on the east and north sides. - -The location of each street is indicated by showing the number of blocks -north or south of O, or east or west of 1st. The length of the street is -indicated by showing the streets at which it begins and terminates. For -example, Apple street is shown as follows: Apple—10th N of O...27th to -40th. This indicates Apple street is 10 blocks north of O and runs from -27th street east to 40th street. - - A—13th S of O Limit to Limit - Abbie—1st N of Oak 7th to 9th - Adams—29th N of O Limit to Limit - Alden Av—1st N of Van Dorn Winthrop Rd to Colonial Dr - Apple—10th N of O 27th to 40th - Arapahoe—33rd S of O 11th to 17th - Arlington—17th S of O 27th to 32nd - Avery Av—10th & V NE to 14th & W - Aylesworth Av—16th N of O 48th to 71st - B—12th S of O West 1st to 46th - Baldwin Av—25th N of O 31st to 50th & 56th to 78th - Bancroft Av—36th S of O 45th to 56th - Belmont Av—27th N of O 9th to 14th - Bluff—1st N of Benton 17th E to Milton - Bradfield Dr—28th E of 1st From South S to 27th - Burnham—39th S of O 14th to 20th - Burr—1st N of Van Dorn 14th to 17th - Burt—55th N of O 70th to 73rd - C—11th S of O 1st to 52nd - Cable—19th S of O 27th to 31st & 34th to 35th - Calhoun—56th N of O 70th to 71st - California Ct—1st S of Randolph 28th W to Victoria - Calkins—9th S of O Folsom E 4 Blocks - Calumet Ct—1st E of 27th Sewell to Stratford Av - Calvert—35th S of O Limit to Limit - Capitol Av—1st E of 20th Randolph S to E - Cedar Av—1st E of 25th Van Dorn S to High - Center—19th N of O 25th to 33rd - Charleston—11th N of O 7th to 14th - Cheyenne—32nd S of O 14th to 17th - Church—15th S of O From 1st W 1 block - Claremont—13th N of O 7th to 15th - Cleveland Av—28th N of O 34th to 65th - Clinton—15th N of O 19th to 22nd & 27th to 30th - Colby—20th N of O 48th to 70th - Colonial Dr—1st E of Winthrop Rd Alden Av N to Puritan Av - Conklin—3rd E of Burlington Av Calvert S to Park - Cooper—38th S of O 42nd to 63rd - Cotner Blvd—46th & South NE to 70th & Fremont - Court—16th N of O 12th to 17th - Cuming—50th N of O 70th to 73rd - Custer—53rd N of O 70th to 73rd - D—10th S of O 1st to 44th - Dakota—30th S of O 12th to 13th & 14th to 20th - Dawes Av—25th N of O 9th to 14th - Doane—17th N of O 32nd to 33rd - Douglas—47th N of O 70th to 73rd - Dudley—12th N of O 17th to 71st - E—9th S of O West 2nd to 56th - Eastridge Dr—1st N of Sumner 70th W to Foursome Lane - Edison—37th N of O 33rd E to Harrison - Elba—42nd N of O 7th to 14th - Eleanor—46th N of O 7th to 9th - Elm—31st E of 1st Alden Av S to Van Dorn - Emerson—21st N of O 11th to 14th - Epworth Park 1st & Calvert - Euclid Av—18th S of O 16th to 24th - Everett—15th S of O 26th to 42nd - F—8th S of O 1st to 46th - Fair—17th N of O Whittier E to 33rd - Fairdale Rd—1st S of Randolph Fall Creek Rd to Cotner Blvd - Fairfax—15th N of O 64th to 70th - Fairfield—38th N of O 1st to 20th - Fall Creek Rd—1st E of 52nd A to Randolph - Folsom—6th W of 1st F S to Calvert - Fontenelle—36th E of 1st Apple S to Vine - Foursome Lane—1st E of 63rd A S Eastridge Dr - Francis—18th N of O 48th to 73rd - Franklin—18th S of O 22nd to 58th - Fremont—36th N of O 45th to 70th - Furnas Av—29th N of O 9th to 14th - G—7th S of O West 2nd to 22nd, 40th to 44th - Garber Av—28th N of O 9th to 14th - Garfield—15th S of O 1st to 42nd - Garland—21st N of O 48th to 56th & 63rd to 74th - Georgian Ct—28th S of O 29th to 31st - Glade—22nd S of O 48th to 58th - Gladstone—33rd N of O 42nd to 70th - Grace Av—1st E of 32nd Holdrege to Potter - Grant—21st S of O 1st W to Folsom - Greenwood—30th N of O 42nd to 61st - Griffith—1st E of 32nd Fair N to St Paul - Grimsby Lane—3rd E of 17th Kings Highway to Pershing Rd - Groveland—35th N of O 1st to 22nd - Grover—4th W of 1st A North to McBride - H—6th S of O 1st to 40th - Hancock—2nd W of 1st South S to Buell - Harris—6th E of 14th Adams N 1 block - Harrison Ave—25th S of O 8th to 24th - Hartley—35th N of O 1st to 20th & 43rd to 69th - Harwood—19th S of O 16th to 24th - Hatch—22nd S of O Park Blvd E to 7th - Havelock Av—44th N of O 56th to 73rd - Hayes—12th S of O Ricketts E to Hancock - Helen—4th E of 14th Benton S to Adams - High—31st S of O 9th to 51st - Highland—45th N of O 7th to 14th - Hill—26th S of O 1st to 14th - Hillside—34th S of O 27th to 51st - Hitchcock—18th N of O 27th to Griffith - Holdrege—14th N of O 16th E to 78th - Hudson—21st S of O 12th to 14th - Huntington Av—24th N of O 30th to 74th - Idylwild Dr—From 35th & Apple NE to Holdrege - Ingalls—2nd E to Burlington Av Calvert S to Park - Irving—41st N of O 7th to 14th - J—5th S of O West 2nd to 56th - Jackson Dr—29th S of O 97th to 31st - Jeanette—25th N of O 24th to 27th - Josephine—27th N of O 14th to 20th - Judson—32nd N of O 3rd to Milton & 42nd to 70th - K—4th S of O 1st to 27th - Kearney—40th N of O 54th to 73rd - Kings Hiway—1st S of High from Pershing Rd W & NW to 18th & High - Kleckner Ct—Between Q & R 31st to 32nd - Knox—31st N of O 3rd to Milton & 44th to 70th - L—3rd S of O West 2nd to 56th - La Fayette Av—28th S of O 24th to 28th - Lake—24th S of O 11th to 44th - Lake View—1 mi W of 1st on P - La Salle—46th S of O 50th to 56th - Laura Av—Between Randolph & J 34th to 36th - Laurel—31st S of O 27th to 31st - Laurence—4th E of 14th Adams S to Josephine - Leighton Av—22nd N of O 27th to 78th - Lenox—3rd S of O 40th to 44th - Lexington Av—19th N of O 48th to 73rd - Lillian—8th E of 14th Adams S to Josephine - Lillibridge—25th S of O 52nd to 56th - Lincoln—(State Hospital) 1st E of Folsom Van Dorn S to Park - Lincoln Dr—2nd W of 70th A S to Sumner - Linden—44th S of O 50th to 56th - Locust—43rd S of O 50th to 56th - Logan—41st N of O 54th to 73rd - Lowell Av—40th S of O 46th to 56th - Lynn—8th N of O Whittier E to 25th - M—2nd S of O Burr E to 54th - Madison Av—27th N of O 33rd to 65th - Manatt—37th N of O 1st E to 20th - Manse Av—1st S of Sheridan Blvd 27th E to Van Dorn - Marion—21st S of O 14 to 16th - Marshall Av—Between 30th & 31st J to Randolph - Martin—17th N of O 48th to 56th - Maude—3rd N of Oak 7th to 9th - Mayflower Av—2nd N of Van Dorn Winthrop Rd E to Colonial Dr - Mead—3rd W of 1st South S to Buell - Mechanic—1st W of 1st B North to D - Melrose Av—2nd S of Van Dorn 31st to 37th - Memorial Dr—1st W of 33rd Sumner S Nine Blocks - Meredith—41st S of O 46th to 52nd - Merriam—1st E of 14th Adams S to Josephine - Merrill—20th N of O 27th to 33rd - Mohawk—12th S of O 32nd to 46th - Monroe—2nd S of O 20th E to 23rd - Morrill—42nd N of O 54th to 73rd - Morton—51st N of O 70th to 73rd - Mulberry—19th S of O 14th to 15th - Myrtle—24th S of O 50th to 56th - N—1st S of O Burr E to 44th - Nance Av—26th N of O 9th to 14th - Nelson—32nd N of O 3rd E to Milton - Nemaha—34th S of O 14th to 17th - New Hampshire—12th N of O 7th to 14th - Normal Blvd—From 30th & B, S E to 48th, E to 56th - North—47th N of O 14th to 27th - North Side Av—8th N of O 15th to 17th - O—Between N & P Limit to Limit - Oak—23rd N of O 7th to 14th - Orchard—11th N of O Stewart E to 71st - Otoe—28th S of O 7th to 20th - P—1st N of O West Limits E to 35th - Park Av—23rd S of O 8th to 27th - Park Blvd—7th & Peach SW to 1st & Van Dorn - Park—(State Hospital) 30th S of O Folsom to Lincoln - Pawnee—29th S of O 7th to 48th - Peach—18th S of O 6th to 15th - Pear—7th N of O 27th to 28th - Pepper Av—Between 26th & 27th Sumner to South - Perkins Blvd—26th S of O 16th to Worthington Av - Pershing Rd—20th & High thence SW to 1st N of Calvert - Pioneers Blvd—42nd S of O Limit to Limit - Platte Av—45th N of O Touzalin E to 73rd - Plum—19th S of O 7th to 15th - Plymouth Av—24th S of O Bradfield Dr E Three Blocks - Portia—1st E of 14th Benton S to Adams - Potter—15th N of O 21st to 33rd - Prescott Av—39th S of O 40th to 56th - Prospect—17th S of O 16th E to 20th - Puritan Av—25th S of O Stratford Av E to Colonial Dr - Q—2nd N of O Burlington Av E to 44th - Queen—2nd E of Burlington Av S to Small - Randolph—7th S of O 20th to 56th - Rathbone Rd—30th E of 1st from Intersection of Van Dorn and - Sheridan Blvd N to Plymouth Av - Rebecca—2nd E of 14th Benton S to Adams - Ricketts—7th W of 1st Hayes S to Wood - Ridge—30th E of 1st Plymouth Av N to South St - Roose—26th S of O 52nd to 56th - Rosalind—5th E of 14th Adams S to Josephine - Rose—17th S of O Limits E to 15th - Royal Court—1st S of Van Dorn 27th to 28th - Ryall—(State Hospital) 5th W of 1st Calvert N 3 Blocks - Ryons—21st S of O 17th to 30th - S—4th N of O ½ mi W of Burlington Av E to 36th - St Marys Av—1st W of 17th South of Lake, Calvert to Burnham - St Paul Av—26th N of O 32nd to 61st - Salem Av—1st S of Benton Milton E to 27th - Saratoga—22nd S of O 11th to 13th - Saunders Av—24th N of O 9th to 14th - Scott Av—Between 38th & 39th South S to Pawnee - Seward—39th N of O 49th to 74th - Sewell—22nd S of O 17th to 40th - Sheldon—13th N of O 22nd to 23rd - Sheridan Blvd—25th & South SE to 44th & Calvert - Sherman—32nd S of O 27th to 51st - Short—Between Whittier & 23rd W North to X - Sioux—31st S of O 14th to 17th - Smith—2nd N of Van Dorn 14th to 40th - South—20th S of O Limit to Limit - Starr—13th N of O 27th to 71st - Stillwater Av—23rd S of O 11th to 14th - Stratford Av—1st N of Sheridan Blvd 27th to Rathbone Rd - Summit Blvd—From 31st and Jackson Drive SE - Sumner—16th S of O West 2nd to 52nd - Superior Av—47th N of O 7th to 14th - T—5th N of O 1st to 36th - Taylor Av—1st E of Cotner Blvd R NE to 63rd - Theresa—27th N of O 24th to 27th - Thomas—4th W of 1st South S to Buell - Thurston—49th N of O 70th to 73rd - Touzalin—58th E of 1st - Trimble—8th W of 1st A S to Wood - U—6th N of O 1st to 33rd - Union—1st N of E 22nd to 23rd - Union Airport Rd—58th N of O 56th E to 70th - V—7th N of O 1st to 8th - Vale—43rd N of O Limit to Limit - Van Dorn—27th S of O Limit to Limit - Vine—7th N of O 12th to 70th - Virginia—22nd N of O 11th to 14th - W—8th N of O 7th to 71st - Walker Av—23rd N of O 28th to 71st - Washington—14th S of O Limits E to 42nd - Waugh—4th W of 1st Calvert N 3 Blocks - Weber—35th N of O 33rd E to Halstead - Wendover—23rd S of O Bradfield Dr E 1 Block - West Lincoln—2 mi NW of Post Office - Whittier—1st E of 22nd Vine N to X & Holdrege N to Fair - William—1st W of 33rd Sheridan N to Van Dorn - Winthrop Road—31st E of 1st Sheridan Blvd N to South St - Witham Lane—1st S of High 17th to Pershing Rd - Woodbine Av—1st E of 38th Sheridan S to Calvert - Woodland Av—52nd S of O 48th to 52nd - Woods Av—3rd S of O 33rd to 38th - Woodscrest Av—1st N of Van Dorn 22nd to Sheridan Blvd - Woodsdale Blvd—30th S of O 20th to 21st - Woodsview—29th S of O 16th to 17th - Worthington—1st E of 19th 1 block N of South S to Burnham - X—9th N of O 1st to 71st - Y—10th N of O 7th to 71st - - - - - A GREAT STORE - GROWING GREATER! - - - [Illustration: Gold & Co.] - - 1902 GOLD’S began business at 112-118 No. 10th St. - 1912 GOLD’S expanded their No. 10th St. Store. - 1919 GOLD’S moved to 1029 O St. - 1924 GOLD’S built the beautiful Gothic structure on the corner of - 11th and O St. - 1929 In the Spring, South Annex completed. In the Fall, West Addition - was completed. - 1931 3 Floors added to West addition. - 1936 Entire Store Completely Air-Conditioned. - 1938 50-Ft. more frontage on 11th St.... now Gold’s Super Food Basket. - -The story of the growth of GOLD’S reads like the well-known tradition of -a small boy with nothing in hand but ambition and the Ideal ... for from -its humble beginning to its present Greater Gold’s is the realization of -the Ideal nurtured by its founder Mr. William Gold. - - [Illustration: GOLD & CO.] - - LOCALLY OWNED · LOCALLY CONTROLLED - GOLD & CO. - WE GIVE S & H GREEN STAMPS - - - - - Transcriber’s Notes - - -—Silently corrected a few typos. - -—Retained publication information from the printed edition: this eBook - is public-domain in the country of publication. - -—In the text versions only, text in italics is delimited by - _underscores_. - -—In the HTML version only, added page numbers. - - - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Seeing Lincoln, by Anne Longman - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SEEING LINCOLN *** - -***** This file should be named 61787-0.txt or 61787-0.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/6/1/7/8/61787/ - -Produced by Stephen Hutcheson, Kenneth R. 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