444 OCEAN TO OCEAN ON HORSEBACK, 



Hanscom Park, a fine, natural grove, beautified by art 

 for the delight of pleasure seekers. 



Conspicuous on the west is the extensive Poor 

 House Farm, containing the fine brick poor house. 



To tlie north, on a high wooded hill, solitary, apart 

 from the city, yet always within sight of its bustle 

 and rush, lies, in its solemnity. Prospect Cemetery. 



In the northern section of the city, also, we find the 

 Douglas County Fair Grounds, \.\\q Oma^ a Driving 

 Park, and Fort Omaha. 



A bridge, the erection of which cost $1,500,000, 

 spans the Missouri and connects Omaha with Council 

 Bluffs. 



I found Omaha not only fair to look upon, but also 

 interesting in many ways. It is the key to the Rocky 

 Mountains and the gold mines of California. Its 

 wholesale trade amounts to about $15,000,000 an- 

 nually and is constantly increasing. Its industries 

 include smelting, brewing, distilling, brick making, 

 machine and engine building and meat packing. The 

 trade in the latter branch being only excelled by that 

 of Chicago and Kansas City. 



Its manufactures are constantly increasing. The 

 Union Pacific Machine Shops alone employ about seven 

 hundred men. Omaha has a linseed oil mill which 

 turns out yearly millions of oil cakes and thousands 

 of gallons of oil. One of the city's distilleries is so 

 extensive that it pays the United States Government 

 a tax of $300,000 per year. 



The educational advantages of this metropolis are 

 unsurpassed by any city of its size in the West. It has 

 eleven fine ward school buildings and one high school. 

 The latter occupies the former site of the old terri- 



