| Show A REBEL BLAST HELPED OMAHA how many macy readers know that it is largely due to the nolay noisy insult of an unreconstructed rebel that omaha was chosen as the terminus nuB of the union pacific railroad and has in consequence bee bebej able to leap tar ahead ot of all its ito competitors in the mid con whether or not the story in ie true in all its ita details it la is very certain that while there are many people in st joseph who revere the memory of lighting jeff thompson there are a great many others who do not as they bei believe lieve he be did their city irreparable harm rm the latter recall that ai in 1873 gen grant went to st joseph with a congressional committee to cou consider sider that city ali aa a site for the terminus ot the union pacific it was unquestionably the most inK site sit I 1 in the missouri valley vailey and president grant was impressed impress ea accordingly surrounded d by a vast concourse of people the president stood on the rear plat platform fortu rt if a train and began an address to the populace when jeff thompson and halt half a dozen oom comrades tades suddenly began blowing clarion blasts on enormous flab horus horis time the president essayed to peak th gh horns horne would toot finally in great disgust general grant reon reen re on en bis bile oar and ordered the train to proceed to omaha it not long afterward that omaha ws selected as the site of the union pacific terminus and in consequence it has become a great city of the west it would be interesting in this same connection to know just what it was that caused both the union pacific and central pacific roads to leave salt bait aake city forty miles to the south of weir their main line when every consideration of busi business both freight and passenger besides directness of route and ease ot of engineering demanded that this should hould be the point of junction it certainly was not through any lack in iii cordiality of welcome on the part of salt lakes lake a people |
