| Show I i Impressions egressions ImpJe ipps of f Omaha I It J 1 R B s t tt 1 r I To ro The Salt Sail 1 f Omaha pet Oct Oct 16 The pranks that memory plays plays on after aCtor life ir are many mal y and nd often ludicrous In early r life ute w vc V 0 c never realize that in a majority of cases the of mothers cake was merely the delusion of a no young and vigorous digestive apparatus The Thc op optic optic optic tic lenses len es of early life Ute must cast cas larger images on the brain than they do in after life Only on that hypothesis can the present shrunken en size of the Mis 1115 Missouri Missouri river be reconciled with memories of its former greatness Often I have been asked regarding regaining the relative sib of the te Colorado river and have replied d About half as large as the river riv riveras ras as m retained the image rea lit the statement was w was wide i e c oi of L the truth It is now dollars to dough doughnuts ugh nuts that the Colorado is pouring paining ling r a t larger volume of water into the Gulf ulf oi o of California rather into the Salton sink than does the Missouri into the Mis Mississippi Mississippi Mississippi But while the Missouri shrinks Oma Omaha Omaha Omaha ha grows grows The tops of the ancient hills hill s se have been removed and cast into th the e f hollows thus giving gir to the city a grace graceful graceful graceful II ful undulating topography The extent ex extent extent tent of the excavations is often marked by Houses hous s perched p r hed on great great blocKs of hard compact clay with vertical sides sides rising risi g ten te ten to t twenty feet about the streets Barbed Barb d wire fences around the houses and wooden stairs leading down downto I to the sidewalks add to the grotesque appearance of these tenements tene tenements tenemEnts ments In many instances nature as if ashamed of the disfigurement wrought by b man is trying to hide her naked nakedness nakedness ness by a profuse growth of slender I shrubbery that bends over oyer the clay walls and grows downward downard to the ground thus relieving the brick and mortar landscape cape with objects at once unique and picturesque The central centra part of the city is well built with fine business blocks and others bordering on the really magnificent magnificent cent are in course of construction The central portion is also well paved seemingly seem seemingly seemingly at the expense of other portions of the city where ruts and holes in inthe inthe the pavement form the rule Ul e rather than the exception tion In all aU respects re pets Salt Lake Lake with its or population is a much finer city than Omaha with its And it is an entirely entire safe prediction pr diction that in the years ears to come Salt Lake will her eastern ea t rn sis sister sister is ister ter on the bank of the Missouri and with no desire to reflect on the latter One meets strong German faces here at every turn They seem to have cap captured captured captured the larger portion of oJ the business of the city The stranger within the gates g tes of Omaha can sleep in the Krug hotel eat his sauerkraut in the Krug restaurant drink Krug beer bee in the Krug saloon and gin hi e in the Krug theatre The structural l iron works of Omaha would wo be e a ia credit to a city several ev times larger And many other othet important important important tant industries make of Omaha a 1 very ve hive of industry with the tha attendant noise and other disagreeable adjuncts n J F GIBBS |
