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THE CALL
PUBLISHED EVERY DAY
BY THE CALL PUBLISHING COMPANY

H. M. BUSHNELL. S. D. COX,
President. Sec. and Treas.

Office 1020 P street.
Washington office 608 Fourteenth St.

The Daily and Sunday Call
Publishes the afternoon Associate Press dispatches; the only paper in the city publishing the afternoon reports and markets. The special news features in addition are the best obtainable in local matters, in official proceedings, county and city. THE CALL is the recognized organ of Lincoln. THE SUNDAY CALL contains special features of merit with a news service and correspondence that makes it one of the brightest and best Sunday morning papers in the west.

FACTS AND FIGURES FOR 1890.
Ten churches were built.
Church membership increased 1,730.
Wholessjers sold $14,184,000 worth of goods.
Hospitals erected and improvements were $30,000.
The total business failures were less than $80,000.
The acreage of the city was increased 2,610 acres.
School attendance increased from 4,748 to 5,359.
Nine and one-half miles of water mains were laid.
Hotel buildings and improvements aggregated $410,000.
Additions in factories and shops aggregated $370,000.
Three school buildings were erected at a cost of $60,000.
Educational expenses for the city schools were $107,654.
There were $1,700,000 spent in the erection of residences.
The water department expended $39,744.32 in improvements.
More than $200,000 was spent in street railway improvements.
A half mile of business blocks were erected at a cost of $684,000.
The manufacturing industries turned out $8,096,000 worth of goods.
There were $160,000 spent for college buildings and improvements.
There were $160,000 spent for college buildings and improvements.
Three miles and 300 feet of paving was done at a cost of $177,627.90.
The sewerage system was increased 23,005 feet at an expense of $24,434.
Real estate transfers were $8,788,558, and increase of $1,785,558 over 1889.
Three colleges, whose buildings when completed will cost $520,000, wer loocated here.
One hundred and eighteen business firms, representing a capital of $2,350,000 were added to the city's commercial circles.
The grain dealers handled 25,216,600 bushels of grain exclusive of the large amount handled by the grain commission firms.
The electric street car system was universally adopted; eleven miles in active operation and work commenced on fifty-five additional miles.
The twelve diverging lines of railroad, each with passenger and freight divisions in Lincoln, added 1,000 miles to their mileage in Nebraska and spent $275,000 in improvements in Lincoln.
The B. & M., railroad shows were located here and $200,000 has already been spent in their erection. When completed they will cost $1,000,000 and furnish employment for 2,000 men.

WHERE PEOPLE WORSHIP.
The Year Added Ten New Temples and a Large Increase in Members

Lincoln is often spoken of as "a city of schools and churches." This is a title well merited and certainly one to be proud of. What better recommendation or more honorable title could any city ask for? What could be more suggestive of a city of refinement, a clean, moral, healthy, decent place to live in? A city of schools in necessarily a city of churches, for the church and the school are inseparable companions; education and christianity go hand in hand, each upbuilds and strengthens the other and without one the other could not exist. Together they are the promoters and mainstays of civilization and all that is good, true and pure is founded upon their teachings and sustained by their combined influence.

There are but few cities, and perhaps none in the west, whose population has so large a ratio of church members as Lincoln, The last year has been an especially active one in church circles. Ten church buildings have been erected at a cost of $50,000, the most of them in the suburbs and outskirts of the city, to cover the large amount of populous territory that is rapidly extending beyond the reach of the up-town churches. Lincoln now has forty-six houses of worship and fifty-one congregations. The total valuation of the church property is $625,700. The cost of the buildings range from $900 to $60,000 each, and the average is about $14,000 for the total number. The total membership is 10,476, an increase of 1,730 during the year, which is about 17 per cent, certainly a good showing for the cause of religion. There will be many new churches built this year. The Third Presbyterians have made arrangements to build early in the spring on Eleventh between Wood and South; the Grace English Lutherans, also intend to build this spring, and the St. Marks English Lutherans have purchased ground and will commence building inside of a month. [Bne?] Jeshuran Congregation have purchased two lots at D and Eleventh streets and will erect a place of worship thereone in the early spring, and seveal other congreations who are without a home of their own have signified their intention of building in the near future.

PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS.
The Year's Expenditures Aggregate $300,000.

The Water Works, Paving, Sewerage, and other Public Works Show Great Development.

A Year of Progress.

In the water department there have been vast improvements made during the past year. Not only was there more work done than in any previous year since the completion of the original water works in 1885, but as will be seen by the figures quoted below, the original water works system was doubled in one year. Further than this the work done last year on water mains, hydrants, etc., is 50 per cent of all the previous work done in that department since the establishment of the water works. Although this was a great deal of work for one year and cost the city a snug sum, it had to be done in order to keep pace with the growth of the city.

In 1885 when the original water works system was completed there were eleven miles of water mains and seventy-five hydrants. January 1, 1890, there were eighteen and one-half miles miles of mains and 168 hydrants. January 1, 1891, there were twenty-eight miles of mains and 244 hydrants, making an increase for the year of nine and one-half miles of mains and 76 hydrants.

Another splendid improvement was the test or drive wells, seven in number, sunk in the vicinity of and connected with the Rice well. These wells add greatly to the supply of water as well as assist the continuation of the force in times of fire or other emergencies.

The cost to the city for these additions and improvements druing the year was $39,744.32, divided as follows: Water mains and hydrants, $33,240.36; test wells, $2,744.67, and $3,759.29 for the tunnels, tubular wells and connections with the Rice well.

THE SEWERAGE SYSTEM.
There has also been much done in the sewerage systems, of which there are two, the storm water and the sanitary. During the year there were 2,472 lineal feet of storm water sewer put in at a cost of $7,857, and 20,533 feet of sanitary sewerage at a cost of $16,577, making a total of $24,434 expended for sewerage. There are now 36 miles of sanitary sewerage laid, thus giving the city a thorough sewerage system from Sixth to Eighteenth and from C to U streets.

PROGRESS IN PAVING.
The progress in the paving department has kept abreast of the other city improvements and during the year more than three miles of paving was done at a cost of $177,627.90. Eighty-five per cent of the paving was done with the vitrified paving brick, which is manufactured in this city and is especially adapted for paving purposes. There were 82,465 square yards of paving done of which 66,875 was done with brick and 15,590 with cedar blocks. The total number of lineal feet paved were 16,140; 13,220 of brick and 2,940 of cedar blocks or just two and one-half miles of brick paving and a half mile and 300 feet of cedar block paving, a total of three miles and 300 feet. The following are the blocks paved with brick; K, from Eleventh to Sixteenth; L, from Tenth to Sixteenth; N, from Fourteenth to Sixteenth; Tenth, from G to M; Twelfth, from J to M; Thirteenth, from J to M; Fourteenth, from H to O; Fifteenth, from K to O and Sixteenth, from Q to K, making thirty-seven blocks in all. The streets paved with cedar blocks are H, from Fourteenth to Sixteenth; T, from Ninth to Eleventh; Ninth, from T to U, and Sixteenth, from H to K, eight in all, making a sum total of forty-five blocks.

Lincoln now has fourteen miles of paved street and two miles contracted for for the ensuing year. The council has further agreed to pave Seventeenth street from L to South and the city engineer has been instructed to advertise for bids for the same. Besides this two more paving districts have recently been added and these will probably be paved during the year. These figures may not seem unusually large in comparison with those of some of the older cities, but when one takes into consideration the age of this city and the fact that four years ago there was not a square yard of paving inside the city's boundaries the work that has been done in that respect can be thoroughly appreciated.

It should also be remembered that Lincoln's streets are very broad and a mile of paving figures up a good many square yards. The broad streets and wide sidewalks are on of Lincoln's chief attractions and excites favorable comment from every visitor within her portals. Lincoln now has drives that compare favorably with those of any of the larger cities and these are being added too at the rate of several miles per year.

ADDITIONS TO THE CITY.
During the year there was also a large increase in the acreage of the city. On January 1, 1890, the city and suburbs covered 11,800 acres and in twelve months it had reached 14,410 acres, an increase of nearly 23 percent of the total acreage of the city and about 50 per cent better than the previous year. In 1889 fifty-one plats of additions and sub-divisions were filed. Last year there were seventy plats filled, an increase of nearly 40 per cent.

FIRE DEPARTMENT.
The fire department under the wise supervision of Chief Newberry, has rendered the city excellent and efficient service duing the past year and has made prompt responses to 102 calls, and the fire losses were considerably less than those of the previous years although there was much more territory to be covered by the department. The apparatus and equipments are equal to those of any city of Lincoln's age and size.

The Gaylor fire alarm telegraph system is also being put in at an expense of $11,000. With these much needed improvements the city will have as finely an equipped fire department and as watchful and efficient fire [la...es?] as can be boasted of by any city of its size in the country.

During the year a chemical engine was added to the central station at a cost of $1,500 and this, together with other engines, trucks, hose carts, hose, horses, etc. are valued at $30,000. The real estate is valued at $40,000, which makes a total valuation of $70,000. The annual expense to the city for the maintenance of the department is $24,000.

OVER $3,000,000.
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dwelling of pressed brick with pink limestone trimmings at Twenty-fifth and N at a cost of $23,000.

A. Hurlburt spent $18,000 in the constructionof his new residence at Sixteenth and G. and two-thirds of the above amount was the cost of J. W. Wfnger's new residence at Thirteenth and J.

Stone and pressed brick with cut stone trimmings was used to erect a new and cosy family residence for W. H. Tyler at Eighth and D streets and cost the owner $12,000.

There were many others built also worthy of special mention but these will suffice to demonstrate the characacter of the residences that are being rapidly added to the large number of Lincoln's beautiful homes.

Among the handsomest of residence properties erected last year is the Lyman Terrace built by C. W. Lyman on H between Eleventh and Twelfth. This building is three stories in height, handsome stone fronts with trimmings of Missouri sandstone.

THE CALL
PUBLISHED EVERY DAY
BY THE CALL PUBLISHING COMPANY

H. M. BUSHNELL. S. D. COX,
President. Sec. and Treas.

Office 1020 P street.
Washington office 608 Fourteenth St.

The Daily and Sunday Call
Publishes the afternoon Associate Press dispatches; the only paper in the city publishing the afternoon reports and markets. The special news features in addition are the best obtainable in local matters, in official proceedings, county and city. THE CALL is the recognized organ of Lincoln. THE SUNDAY CALL contains special features of merit with a news service and correspondence that makes it one of the brightest and best Sunday morning papers in the west.

FACTS AND FIGURES FOR 1890.
Ten churches were built.
Church membership increased 1,730.
Wholessjers sold $14,184,000 worth of goods.
Hospitals erected and improvements were $30,000.
The total business failures were less than $80,000.
The acreage of the city was increased 2,610 acres.
School attendance increased from 4,748 to 5,359.
Nine and one-half miles of water mains were laid.
Hotel buildings and improvements aggregated $410,000.
Additions in factories and shops aggregated $370,000.
Three school buildings were erected at a cost of $60,000.
Educational expenses for the city schools were $107,654.
There were $1,700,000 spent in the erection of residences.
The water department expended $39,744.32 in improvements.
More than $200,000 was spent in street railway improvements.
A half mile of business blocks were erected at a cost of $684,000.
The manufacturing industries turned out $8,096,000 worth of goods.
There were $160,000 spent for college buildings and improvements.
There were $160,000 spent for college buildings and improvements.
Three miles and 300 feet of paving was done at a cost of $177,627.90.
The sewerage system was increased 23,005 feet at an expense of $24,434.
Real estate transfers were $8,788,558, and increase of $1,785,558 over 1889.
Three colleges, whose buildings when completed will cost $520,000, wer loocated here.
One hundred and eighteen business firms, representing a capital of $2,350,000 were added to the city's commercial circles.
The grain dealers handled 25,216,600 bushels of grain exclusive of the large amount handled by the grain commission firms.
The electric street car system was universally adopted; eleven miles in active operation and work commenced on fifty-five additional miles.
The twelve diverging lines of railroad, each with passenger and freight divisions in Lincoln, added 1,000 miles to their mileage in Nebraska and spent $275,000 in improvements in Lincoln.
The B. & M., railroad shows were located here and $200,000 has already been spent in their erection. When completed they will cost $1,000,000 and furnish employment for 2,000 men.

WHERE PEOPLE WORSHIP.
The Year Added Ten New Temples and a Large Increase in Members

Lincoln is often spoken of as "a city of schools and churches." This is a title well merited and certainly one to be proud of. What better recommendation or more honorable title could any city ask for? What could be more suggestive of a city of refinement, a clean, moral, healthy, decent place to live in? A city of schools in necessarily a city of churches, for the church and the school are inseparable companions; education and christianity go hand in hand, each upbuilds and strengthens the other and without one the other could not exist. Together they are the promoters and mainstays of civilization and all that is good, true and pure is founded upon their teachings and sustained by their combined influence.

There are but few cities, and perhaps none in the west, whose population has so large a ratio of church members as Lincoln, The last year has been an especially active one in church circles. Ten church buildings have been erected at a cost of $50,000, the most of them in the suburbs and outskirts of the city, to cover the large amount of populous territory that is rapidly extending beyond the reach of the up-town churches. Lincoln now has forty-six houses of worship and fifty-one congregations. The total valuation of the church property is $625,700. The cost of the buildings range from $900 to $60,000 each, and the average is about $14,000 for the total number. The total membership is 10,476, an increase of 1,730 during the year, which is about 17 per cent, certainly a good showing for the cause of religion. There will be many new churches built this year. The Third Presbyterians have made arrangements to build early in the spring on Eleventh between Wood and South; the Grace English Lutherans, also intend to build this spring, and the St. Marks English Lutherans have purchased ground and will commence building inside of a month. [Bne?] Jeshuran Congregation have purchased two lots at D and Eleventh streets and will erect a place of worship thereone in the early spring, and seveal other congreations who are without a home of their own have signified their intention of building in the near future.

PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS.
The Year's Expenditures Aggregate $300,000.

The Water Works, Paving, Sewerage, and other Public Works Show Great Development.

A Year of Progress.

In the water department there have been vast improvements made during the past year. Not only was there more work done than in any previous year since the completion of the original water works in 1885, but as will be seen by the figures quoted below, the original water works system was doubled in one year. Further than this the work done last year on water mains, hydrants, etc., is 50 per cent of all the previous work done in that department since the establishment of the water works. Although this was a great deal of work for one year and cost the city a snug sum, it had to be done in order to keep pace with the growth of the city.

In 1885 when the original water works system was completed there were eleven miles of water mains and seventy-five hydrants. January 1, 1890, there were eighteen and one-half miles miles of mains and 168 hydrants. January 1, 1891, there were twenty-eight miles of mains and 244 hydrants, making an increase for the year of nine and one-half miles of mains and 76 hydrants.

Another splendid improvement was the test or drive wells, seven in number, sunk in the vicinity of and connected with the Rice well. These wells add greatly to the supply of water as well as assist the continuation of the force in times of fire or other emergencies.

The cost to the city for these additions and improvements druing the year was $39,744.32, divided as follows: Water mains and hydrants, $33,240.36; test wells, $2,744.67, and $3,759.29 for the tunnels, tubular wells and connections with the Rice well.

THE SEWERAGE SYSTEM.
There has also been much done in the sewerage systems, of which there are two, the storm water and the sanitary. During the year there were 2,472 lineal feet of storm water sewer put in at a cost of $7,857, and 20,533 feet of sanitary sewerage at a cost of $16,577, making a total of $24,434 expended for sewerage. There are now 36 miles of sanitary sewerage laid, thus giving the city a thorough sewerage system from Sixth to Eighteenth and from C to U streets.

PROGRESS IN PAVING.
The progress in the paving department has kept abreast of the other city improvements and during the year more than three miles of paving was done at a cost of $177,627.90. Eighty-five per cent of the paving was done with the vitrified paving brick, which is manufactured in this city and is especially adapted for paving purposes. There were 82,465 square yards of paving done of which 66,875 was done with brick and 15,590 with cedar blocks. The total number of lineal feet paved were 16,140; 13,220 of brick and 2,940 of cedar blocks or just two and one-half miles of brick paving and a half mile and 300 feet of cedar block paving, a total of three miles and 300 feet. The following are the blocks paved with brick; K, from Eleventh to Sixteenth; L, from Tenth to Sixteenth; N, from Fourteenth to Sixteenth; Tenth, from G to M; Twelfth, from J to M; Thirteenth, from J to M; Fourteenth, from H to O; Fifteenth, from K to O and Sixteenth, from Q to K, making thirty-seven blocks in all. The streets paved with cedar blocks are H, from Fourteenth to Sixteenth; T, from Ninth to Eleventh; Ninth, from T to U, and Sixteenth, from H to K, eight in all, making a sum total of forty-five blocks.

Lincoln now has fourteen miles of paved street and two miles contracted for for the ensuing year. The council has further agreed to pave Seventeenth street from L to South and the city engineer has been instructed to advertise for bids for the same. Besides this two more paving districts have recently been added and these will probably be paved during the year. These figures may not seem unusually large in comparison with those of some of the older cities, but when one takes into consideration the age of this city and the fact that four years ago there was not a square yard of paving inside the city's boundaries the work that has been done in that respect can be thoroughly appreciated.

It should also be remembered that Lincoln's streets are very broad and a mile of paving figures up a good many square yards. The broad streets and wide sidewalks are on of Lincoln's chief attractions and excites favorable comment from every visitor within her portals. Lincoln now has drives that compare favorably with those of any of the larger cities and these are being added too at the rate of several miles per year.

ADDITIONS TO THE CITY.
During the year there was also a large increase in the acreage of the city. On January 1, 1890, the city and suburbs covered 11,800 acres and in twelve months it had reached 14,410 acres, an increase of nearly 23 percent of the total acreage of the city and about 50 per cent better than the previous year. In 1889 fifty-one plats of additions and sub-divisions were filed. Last year there were seventy plats filled, an increase of nearly 40 per cent.

FIRE DEPARTMENT.
The fire department under the wise supervision of Chief Newberry, has rendered the city excellent and efficient service duing the past year and has made prompt responses to 102 calls, and the fire losses were considerably less than those of the previous years although there was much more territory to be covered by the department. The apparatus and equipments are equal to those of any city of Lincoln's age and size.

The Gaylor fire alarm telegraph system is also being put in at an expense of $11,000. With these much needed improvements the city will have as finely an equipped fire department and as watchful and efficient fire [la...es?] as can be boasted of by any city of its size in the country.

During the year a chemical engine was added to the central station at a cost of $1,500 and this, together with other engines, trucks, hose carts, hose, horses, etc. are valued at $30,000. The real estate is valued at $40,000, which makes a total valuation of $70,000. The annual expense to the city for the maintenance of the department is $24,000.

OVER $3,000,000.
(Continued from First Page.)

dwelling of pressed brick with pink limestone trimmings at Twenty-fifth and N at a cost of $23,000.

A. Hurlburt spent $18,000 in the constructionof his new residence at Sixteenth and G. and two-thirds of the above amount was the cost of J. W. Wfnger's new residence at Thirteenth and J.

Stone and pressed brick with cut stone trimmings was used to erect a new and cosy family residence for W. H. Tyler at Eighth and D streets and cost the owner $12,000.

There were many others built also worthy of special mention but these will suffice to demonstrate the characacter of the residences that are being rapidly added to the large number of Lincoln's beautiful homes.

Among the handsomest of residence properties erected last year is the Lyman Terrace built by C. W. Lyman on H between Eleventh and Twelfth. This building is three stories in height, handsome stone fronts with trimmings of Missouri sandstone.