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the closer personal Interests of the men, aside from
their business relationship. In this connection, some
figures will not be amiss. They are fraternal, beney
lent and mutual : they belong to the members. Unity,
charity, temperance are their cornerstones, and they
hare grown In prosperous measure OA this foundation.
Something of th Travelers' Societies
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sLDStERa felt and acted like yoansters at
the hanQuet glren to Omaha traveling
men Friday night at the Auditorium.
Neither age nor activity seem to have
joyous nature of the business booster.
The men who so strongly help
Omaha's reputation for fair dealing and
la every hamlet and at every crossroads
less than In the urban centers, had one
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to make
prepress,
tore, no
grand festive gathering devoted exclusively to their
kind. And such a kind! Clean, clever, well dressed, of
goodly presence and ot a most excellent temper, the
thousand or more travelers for Omaha houses who
participated took every atom of pleasure that keen
wit and quick mentality could possibly extract from
such an occasion.
Greeting to friends, warm nelghborlinesa to new
acquaintances, story, reminiscence, spiritual com
manlon of congenial souls, ruled the hour. Good
humor was the keynote, business co-operation and
commercial ethics the subject of the talks. Men
seasoned by long years of frontier engagements re
newed their sanguine youth in mixing with the boys
who have now taken their old routes la easier circum
stance; and the exuberant recruits iu the great army
f commerce gained new inspiration from this close
rubbing of elbows with the veterans who biased the
way and made the paths that have led to remarkable
success.
Good Cheer Wanna Hearts.
"Nothing like getting ycur feet under the table
wlLh him if you want to get nit to a man," says L
P.'Utterback, prssIUent of lie Nebraska divUion of tie
Travelers' TroUctlve association, and out of experi
ence be has gained wisdom. His ttoujht Is but typical
of the sentiment that was abroad at the big banquet.
No faUe note s heard at an stage, for these be
level headed, warm hearted, straight dealing men.
They know human nature to the core, yet never feel
they know It all. To see and leara. to absorb pros
pects snd make note of possibilities. Is as much their
business as to kell gooJj; and tbey are ever looking
to the wider horizon. Ttcy accepted the compliment
embodied In tho banquet in the unt royal spirit In
which It was tendered and the result was fully com
pensatory of the hosjltat'a effort.
As the hosts of t'aa evcnlns stand for the biggest
and best In Omaha's commercial life aye, for the
solidity of the whole structure of Nebraska success
to the guests who broke bresd with the Commercial
club represent the field forces that execute plans and
get results against every sort of competition. For
Nebraai:e and the bordering states offer a rich field
to the producer and the wholesaler, and every man of
the field force who pce from a local house has his
work cut out for klm. S.ngly and together they have
" proved their fitness for the Job; snd a gathering such
as that of Friday evening cannot fail to key every
f man ap to a higher pitch cf efficiency.
And as the Commercial club stands for the b oil-
committed to the work ot abolishing local, state and
county licenses exacted from commercial travelers.
As It Is organized in thirty-three states. It will be
realized that the pulling p'ower exercised in these
matters Is something to be reckoned with.
Recently the Nebraska division has taken up
seriously the good roads movement and the question
of regulation of public utilities, A special commit'
tse was created, with Arthur C. Cbase as chairman,
air. Chase Is not only a leading travels hut is also
an enthuslastlo motorist, and so knows whit good
roads mean.
In an address delivered at the last annual ban
quet of the C&lted Commercial Tavelers L. W. Wake
ley, the wall-known railroad man, bad this to say,
touching the Interwoven interests ot the common car
rlers and the commercial travelers:
"Relatione between us are found wherever there
excellent service rendered In the early day. of U. e- to a mile of railroad ; la the east, where traasporta-.u-
v H'rt who was secre- tlon and trade conditions are more settled, our prob-
" . "v. " ! .;r', InVnf Post A. and M. lems have been fairly solved, and each hae recognised JT1-
Wulpi now Elding a h gh Taried position a. com- the need of the other; a. w. advance toward the west, VVVK-ttEXZL CO,
tol 1 ner for the casket and table manufacturers of let us stop where we are at the Missouri river .nd
the8country. with headquarters In Chicago. give some thought to that ; region extending to the their politicians to secure . monopoly of this new
. The present officers of Post A are: Albert D. Continental divide in which yon are building up the trad, over rival markets, where the railroads are trV-
t Tm T. Hoaan. vice president; fortunes of youf firms. ing to adjust these conflicting int.rt.
-r. n.... nf trm.,t rmm.M.i Ti. ii .v..,' - '.onr-t.i-T-treasureri directors, Hugo "The west Is new; by that I mean so much of It dividend and a surolus to keen thir nro.,t.
the senior of the two. Organised In Columbus, O.. in Melchoir. chairman; George E. Begefow, N. Stanley Is mowing In population, tillage, wealth and railway decay. It Is natural that conditions are restless and
March, llll. it has grown Into a membership of ferown, Walter W. Watt. Harvey J. Weeth, M. N. mileage that every year gives a new aspect to its trade unsettled. When we reflect on the relations between
almost 10.000. It has twenty-six grand councils and Woodward. possibllltiss. and adds to the ahlfUng eommercial us, we enter a field of complex features. Our relation.
102 subordinate council The grand oouneil of Ne- This organisation pays a good deal of attention sltuat,on the disturbing element of competition from up to date are really Immature; we have been to-
braska has now a membership of 1,10? members, and to legislative matters affecting the Interests of trav- rival localities. In such a growing country, where gether out west but a few years, after alL Where
Omaha council haa 274 members. In Nebraska are .iln men and the business world generally, nauro.u " ir a grip on mere are no railroads there are no traveling men.
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uiw re no relations, and there are among ns here
a number who can remember such a condition In the
west; with but thirty miles of railroad In 65 between
the Missouri river and the divide, the traveling man
appeared, and, true to tradition, started things going."
Will Keep Things Humming
And the travelers insist that things are still go
ing and will continue to go. "There la no livelier
class of men working for the west, or for any other
part of the country," said Secretary Hopper. "We are
always glad to co-operate in the endeavor to make
things right where they appear to be wrong; and the
utterances of a man like Mr. Wakeley are sure to have
a most excellent effect."
The travelers felt they were entitled to take
some measure of self-congratulation when Mr. Wake
ley said In the same address:
"In those grand tables representing the wealth ef
this nation, we have seen the figures representing
Nebraska's wealth and products go from nothing to
billions. We have lived through the disasters of hot
winds, grasshoppers, bad finance and ignorant farm
ing methods. We have seen the waves of immigra
tion roll back upon incoming tides, and send abroad
their lamentations against this disconsolate land. We
have seen the west at times actually stopped in the
momentum of its advance, and hang In the balance)
through long and disastrous years, but wo had to
stay with it.
"We both know this country; we have more than
once nearly starved together In it. We have built our
w a bigo uut saw. n 1 1 v ecus, vw at.w ' ViAUB aiic " - - vi- A H. W a. . .
r,a. , u ten council.. th nin outnid. Omaha hin locate t , rood roads, hotel lews, all en- this new wealth, where man outwits, man. capital
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gage the interest ot special commiuees. " "
Lincoln, Beatrice, Hastings, Norfolk, Grand Island,
Fremont, Holdrege, Chadron and Columbua.
Fifteen men were on the charter list ot Omaha
council, No. US, formed In January, 1S9S: W. L. Mo
Gee, E. E. Drew, O. E. Foater, R. H. Grotte, B. J.
Joseph, U. G. Beals, James P. Brown, L. L. Boyd, R.
M. Downey, E. L. Miller, J. O. Dubolse, H. O. Fred
ericks, W. O. Butts, C. W. Hlnxle, C. C. Patrick. Of the
charter members and first officers II. O. Fredericks
has been with hla present house, Paxton ft Gallagher
company, for twenty-five years; C. W. Hiniie, present
grand counsellor of Nebraska, who has held every
office of Omaha council and in another year will
have held every office in the grand council ot N
"Something in the World Besides Business"
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HERE'S the best letter 1 ever receieu, you iuu ut uooe more ousi-
that I remember, " said one or tne mosi , you uavo aono oHuamg. ana so nave we. we
prominent and' prosperous of the have both done a whole lot of things, and I believe
younger wholesalers of Omaha. "It la we have bullded and negotiated within the honest
so different from the ordinary letter a limitations of the law; and I also believe that we have
man gets, even irom an Intimate friend, both made some profit out of it all. We have had
that Its contents have given my mind a another year's experience; we are a little older, but
elmoet. I have shown It to a tew lntl- still, by gosh, we're in the ring a little riper, but
new birth
v v.. v w..n-. mate friends, and it has impressed them In the same carrying no spota ot mold.
The letter was written on the stationery of a Sioux ceptlon of poor Dias. the whole world seems at peace,
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twenty-nine years; the first secretary-treasurer of
Omaha council, C. C. Patrick, has held every office In
Omaha council, is a member of the grand council of
Nebraska and has been with the McCord-Brady com
pany for over thirty years; W. L. McGee has been with
btj present house. United States Supply company, for
thirteen years; R. M. Downey, first page of Omaha
council, haa been with the Paxton A Gallagher com
pany for oter twenty years.
C. J. Miles 1 the only past supreme counselor
from the grand Jurisdiction of Nebraska. He has held
all the offices In Hastings council. In the grand coun
cil of Nebraska and In the supreme council.
The United Commercial Travelers Is the only
secret fraternal traveling men's organization In the
world. The present officers of Omaha council are:
James T. Hogan, senior counselor; J. H. Slnkular,
Junior counselor; J. F. Griffin, past counselor; E. H.
Button, secretary-treasurer; E. G. Harwood, conduc
tor; W. W. Watt, page; W. A. Skalfe, sentinel; execu
tive committee, R. F. Bacon, F. F. Osborn, F. F. Col
vln. J. G. Robertson.
The United Commercial Travelers organisation
has paid indemnity and death claims In the last eleven
months of 1331,931; and since Its organization has
paid out from the Indemnity fund $3,03, S99. From
the widows and orphans' fund tt has paid out $124,
015. and baa now in the Indemnity reserve fund $395,-1ST.
T. P. A. of Wida Influence
Tne Travelers Protective association was o
lzed in June ISaO, and in May last had a member
of 40.S61. Indemnities were paid for death an
abilities to the amount of $276,477 for the year end
lng My 1. 1910.
Omaha Post A was organised in April, 1898. with
about fifty members, and that year entertained the
national convention. The delegates were the guests
of the txpoaiticn management ea the opening day,
and have always insisted that, being opened with
such a bunch of boosters present. It could no help
being the great success It was. Z. T. Lindsey waa the
City business house, and was as follows:
"The yearly Qhrtstnias clock of time is about to
reel off another record of all kinds of things, good,
bad and Indifferent The season has been a busy one
Base Trade
prosperous and happy. What a great record! And
you and I, descendants of a once terribly oppressed
race, reduced from the king row of kings to the hill
side peasantry; denied even the heritage of a coun
try; brothers to the wandering Jew Snd ourselves
in the rank and file of a posterity transplanted, rein
carnated, unquestionably acknowledged an integral
part, understanding and speaking the language of a
world's citizenship the parallel of which haa never
been recorded in the annals of history. That's what
you and I are twentieth century Americans, and,
notwithstanding all this great bundle ot happiness
which we can Justly call our own. It is funny to real
ize and still it's true that we are not wholly with
out some little concern and an anxious yearning for lines over hundreds of mii. r . a .
tlsm. Try 4's. B width. I know I can swim in them, the welfare of the ones that are gone, that endured where our earhest revenue cam. from th
While the clerk waa getting them on she said:
"I used to have such a beautiful foot, not small,
but such a good shape. I never had a small foot, but
I wore 2 4 size for years, until I walked so much and
grew heavier."
"Tour foot Is a peculiar shape; the Instep la so
high that la why you require a large size," said the
clerk, who had no fear of Ananias before his eyes.
"I've heard," she said, "that the Venus dee Me
deechy wears No. S, and she la a model ot true proportion."
She walked into a shoe store and said to the polite
clerk:
"You may snow me a pair of walking boots. No. 4.
I used to wear 3'a, but I go In for solid comfort now."
"Stranze." she murmured, "it must be rheuma-
the reverse of what you and I enjoy, played their man following quickly to stock up his only customer
part and went their way. the section boss' family, with a full line of mother-
"It waa in those old fellows that the spirit ot de- hubbards and blue Jeans.. In short, if there are aay
termination was engendered; determination to shed two individuals out weat whom boyhood acquaintance
the yoke of oppression; and that spirit of determina- ship should bind together with ties of sympathetic re-
tion has grown It has been handed down the line to gard. It is the Nebraska traveling man and the Ne-
you and I. In fact, the royal yoke of Europe has In- braska railroad. Besides a fellowship built up through
flicted a treatment generally which has driven the the years that marked the poverty of the west there
oppressed to this great land ot ours, hence the great should be between us a mutual support In these day.
progress which we Americana give demonstration of of Its prosperity.
before the world In general. "Now. when we speak of relations, let me add a
mm aieum roi or oia civiuzauona, every eoun- reference to the most Important relatione of all your
""J. iu " cier. giuwius reu m mo uca iry ea earcu makes lis couinouuou, ana out Ot It all own and Wben you bid farewell to vour famllv
rgan- as he pulled and tugged to get them on. He had we have a new man. a new country, new oDortunitiea. so roamin over th wt n .n n.j.
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sn.p never heard of "dee Medeechy." but he waa ud to a new ldeaa. all coverned bv tha Stars m.nA String, dav and thmmrh h. ...
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too large. You'll find the 4's Just right"
He was only goae a moment but In that time he
had erased 5 E from the Inside of a pair of shos and
substituted 4 B.
"There, I thought It was strange," she said, when
they were on and paid far; "why, those are Just as
I living la middle age In the midst of it alL Great,
eh! And just two eights before Xmas time.
"This is a little bit long; but 'pehaw, there is
something else in the world besides business. I am
glad to be knowing you I am pleased over your suc
cess I prize the good name you have I wlah von
recognizable condition
to those for whom you have undergone these hard
ahlps of separation, that you will give fair considera
tion to the organizations that, with all their resources
and intelligence, have guarded every foot of your
movement by rail."
The travelers are nrettr unanlmn.n i k. .
easy as my old ones. I believe I could Juat as well and your wife and ail In whom you are Interested, nltlon of the fact that the railroad and eommarri I
have 3's, after alL" a Merry Xmas and A Happy New Year." organizations are the strong arm. of the b Jin-I
And the TOUnK-man-WithOut-a-fonafinca wnt Tha Ipffr la flute. A n.m Y.ar ft ..4 i i. .i . v j . i. - . '
,e directs, so the two organixa- first .tat. president, and the present membership ai- back to hla duties with the air of on. well satisfled needles, to add that both the writer and h.7 : nTa. lTnXtUl "
tlon. la which th. traveling mea are banded stand ia, way. bear, tribute t ai good work; likewise U the wltn hlmseI,f.-Loai Sua, a,, descendants of the Irish king 'w'vUal that loir ubet""l exy neces.,,