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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 2, 1915)
i i TIIE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, SETOrBEtt 2, 1015. hmmM TOlim Growth SBuwi iA Pirirc f B 4 i I 4 F BY KARL. B. UADDI9. bnWABD MARCH, hu ben the only order obeenred In the rank of Lincoln business men during ths last year and a half. There hu been no re treat order heard, and no halt Hemodeling One of Business Blocks ordr that savored of even "Vhlle, mar.y sections of the country km.e been romplnln'ng of the condition ef business Nebraska's capital city haa been Joins; veiy well very well Indeed and the hu3lnc men here admit It, too. Iurlni? the year, of 1911 the total whole aale business amounted to more than t3S, 000 0(10. That wng a Rain of more than $3,000,000 over the prevloua yean and In the face of what has been said to have been adverse conditions. Durlna; the period Lincoln continued ita march ns one of the leaders of the country as a center for the aale and distribution of creamery products. Ita record as a. fruit center waa not ap Iroached In the Missouri valley. Ita wholesale grocery busfnea showed a mont encou ratlin; growth In the time. The automobile and accessory trade lenped ahead wonderfully In the year 1914 and thus far in 1915 and promise at the end of the present year to fulfill the prediction of Harry B. Bishnell that It would show the city to be a most Im portant center In that respect. The loca tion of one of the large.it distributing agencies here haa Increased the Interest of western automobile buyers In the city i and naturally brought up the accessory business to a marked degree. In the Jobbing of building: materials there was a little change from the pre vious year. The fact that th market remained firm In this respect la taken as a healthy indication, however, and there are none of the men engaged In this line of business who have been heard to complain- particularly of their lot. Just now they are much elated at theli business) and believe that the 131& fig ures will show up well and that the record of 1M4 will be slightly eclipsed. The steady sain ot tuu o.t.y'a wholesale, business may be seen from a p isal of the table below. In li it amounted to 24,oOl'.OUO and every year since has in creased gradually until the last year's bus.ness of 138,000,000. Here Is the record as given out In the annual review of the Lincoln Trad Re view: 1909 $24,040,000 I 1912 $2,200,000 J10 8M&.0U0 1 1!H3 36.16,M UU ifi.b.O.uOu I 1914 !te,13u.0ua The total Is arrived at by computing the business of ' some twenty-five dif ferent wholesaling lines. Tbey are given herewith, together with the amounts of business done by each during the year: Butter, eggs and poultry..... $ J.auOwtO Groceries 4,luU,u00 Automobiles and accessories.... S,vuu,uuu mreemng, narvesung machinery ' and Implements Lumber, sash, doors and planing mill products Fruits, vegetables and produce... Flour, feed and hay Faints, oils, giaaa and store fronts Coal, fuel and building material. 1.846,Ouu Silos, gas engines and power l,3uu,U0u jiaiaware. casting, conue ana metal Plumbing, water supplies, fur naces and tanks Confectionery, Ice cream and baked goods Drugs, cigars and liquor Hats, gloves, overalls, . furnish lngs and notions Brtck and munufuctured atone... Harness, leather and shoe. Seeds, plants and flowers Lightning rods and electrical - supplies Hotel, billiard supplies, paper and wall papers . Jewelry and corsets Furniture, mattresses and school supplies Brooms, whisks and vacuum cleaners Jt " ' t a.. 1 - ' t 1 I w f , - . v v m i .. t 'j - ... S 1 VJMSH.JI-lT'f 1 .- If-- . ' I I lMILJUsL '. .' I B3 GsnUr "Building 9ilZ&ni OSls. L,Lb0,000 1,800,000 J.0,0lX LtM,VU0 L7S,000 826,000 920.000 81B.00O SSO.OOO rm.ooo $40,000 eab.ono 6S6.00D 690,000 MS, 000 660,000 640,000 All other jobbing tines. Mi. 000 176,000 ' Total business. 1W4 ..$58,130,000 During the year 1914. many of the Lin coln Jobbing bouses extended their terri tory into new fields. Boms forty-five traveling salesmen were added to the long list of traveling salesmen working out from Lincoln. This city Is also head quarters for a large number of traveling men representing houses In other cities. making this a renter, for traveling men In the largest way. During the last year there were many adjustments on rates largely advan tageous to Jobbing business in Lincoln. Kfforts made to Increase rates on cer tain lines handled by Lincoln whole salers were successfully met and over come In hearings before commissions. In the matter of service, which is one of the largest assets of Lincoln Jobbers, con stant attention paid to this feature In business has made the city more than ever the wholesale ".center of quick re sponse to buyers throughout the terri tory covered by Lincoln houses. Jobbers In the city of Lincoln are able to deliver goods to the trade In four-fifths of the towns of the state from twenty-four to forty-eight hours in advance of any other competing city. The same percentage of quick service applies to the territory supplied by Lincoln Jobbers beyond the state boundary. Lincoln la the largest jobbing center for threshing machinery In the Missouri valley. There are eight of the largest manufacturing houses with headquarters for distribution centered here. In the Job bing of automobiles, Lincoln Is taking front rank In this territory and it pos sesses In the Nebraska Bulck Automobile company one of the largest houses In the entire west, they handling from Lincoln upward of $3,000,000 worth of automobiles In 1914. The year has been a growing one In the distribution on the part of many of the smaller jobbing houses in the city. The M. H. Tllton Furniture company, that has been steadily building to large busi ness, reports an Increase of $6 per cent in Its business for the year 1911 In hats, caps, gloves and notions there, has been a good Increase In volume of business. and the two houses handling these lines each report a year with a good per centage of increase over the previous year. The wholesale seed and flower business Is one of the lines of large Importance In this city. Lincoln distributes cut flowers over a territory reach'ng a half dosen states and has four of the largest green house and flower distributing plants In this entire section. The volume of business In this line Is scarcely appre ciated. In the distribution of gas engines, the Cushman Motor company is steadily Increasing Its buslnesa It has behind It a remarkable record of progress In this line, with Its engines distributed through out the United States and to many for eign countries. Manufacturing In Lincoln has kept pace with the wholesale and retail trade. The $ ... w i r,v .. M 5 . V It k. S, L'MKN1 - ' i U;-,il--i-,i:u:.'. . ; noma of a Jobbing Firm That Haa Added Importance to the Wbolesale Dualaaaa of tbe Capital City. vclume of business for 1914 exceeded $17,- 000,000, and a total of some 136 manu facturing plants contributed to this activity. Some of these are well-developed con cerns, others have begun In a humble way and are forging ahead as rapidly ns could be expected. There Is a general tone of confidence In the trade apparent In the business offices of each and every wh concern. This leads tbe Commercial club officers to believe that the future will take care of Itself abunilantly and that when the count ng is made this city will not be so very far behind any other city of the land In the holding of Its eld trade and the gaining of new trade, The probable coming of water power within the next few years will open a golden era to this city, as well as to other cities of the state. It will solve the problem of both fuel and power and will nut the manufacturing Industries in a position to compete with the big plants The milling and packing buslneases how greater development here than i,.nU fimt imagined they would. The last year's business was very satisfactory t.innin manufacturing amounted to $11,000,000 in 1910 and from that time haa climbed upwards to more than Jl7,uw,cuu. Each year tbre baa been an increase over the previous year. The record Is shown below: 1910 $11,026,0001 191$ 10,110, WO 1U U.340.0U0 1!H4 17,660.000 ma u..7so,oii Twenty different manufacturing class ifications are Included In the table of business listed last year. These Include everything from Ice cream cones to mill work and saddlery. - Butter and cream products led the list with a total of more than $4,000,000. The other range from that amount to $770,000 as the total of th monument and cut stone work busi ness. Tbe list follows! butter and cream products $ 4,100,000 Kiour feed and mill products.... l,8oO,uW Sash, ' door, wood work and mill products i i,45o,oou Printing, publishing and binding Lfc-0,000 (joniecuoner, iu viwun cones Br.ck, artificial stone and cement products Gasoline engines, motors, casting and steel ....1 ' Gas and electricity Silos, tanks and water supplies.. Lightning rods, cornice, roofing and iron work W omen's garments, tailoring and corseta Artificial Ice and refrigeration... Harness, saddlery, automobile tops and lenther work Brooms, whisks and boxes ..I.v.,... -.....v.JjaM-. .t; ,', f Yi -V " v. ." 4 J "1 THE FAMOUS i LINCOLN, NEBRASKA Headquarters for Ladies9 Fine Suits, Coats, Dresses Skirts, Waists, Millinery State Fair Visitors Welcome U180St.THE FAMOUS-1118 0 St Lincoln, Nebraska Nebraska Produces About Ninety Million Pounds of Butter Annually, and Lincoln in tba Home of the Largaat Creamsry Company In the World. paints lu- tents JM.000 S20.00U (10,000 Manufactured brtcators ... Mattresses, upholstering. and awnings I Ik are, botlllne and bottled goods Coffee, spices, extracts and pickles 180,000 Monuments, granite and out stone work 270,000 Forty-eight minor manufactur ing Unas 685,000 Total. ..$17,860,01)0 1,140,000 996,000 810.000 6U6,000 6f .0,000 660,000 650,000 4C-O.O0O 420 000 690.000 In th manufacture of butter and cream products, Lincoln and Omaha are th two largest cream cities In th country, and both are located in Nebraska, and they find In this state their first near market for raw material. Creamery In terests bava worked diligently In de veloping dairy Interests In this state. Th Fairmont Creamery company ' of Omaha, on of th oldest and In every way successful creamery plants of. the state, and th Beatrice Creamery com pany, that haa been for twenty years an Industry of Lincoln, have been the pio neers In creamery development in this state, Second perhaps In volume or business and output In th state and in Lincoln Is, the milling industry, and here again we have the raw material right at the door for grinding under the most favor able auspices. The Qooch Milling com pany, the big mill of Lincoln, has to Its credit for the last year an Increased out put of over B per cent, and a volume of buslnesa that tn the last sis months has caused the plant to run night and day without cessation. Right hundred bar re's of flour dally the average output, beside the other mill products, and this plant Is one of the big things of Lincoln In which this city takes great pride. , The development of tho sash, door and mill work Industry has for many years been prominent In Lincoln, and In the last year, neAwtthstandtng th fact that ' building was seriously curtailed on ac count of restricted financial conditions, the wood working plants, owing to the large territory reached by them, did a 1 volume of business In excess of that of the previous year. The Curtls-Towl at Pain company reach out In a half dosen different states and territories with sub stantial contracts on both publlo and private building. ' In the manufacture of confectionery J and Ice cream, Lincoln haa become a oen- ' ter and the distribution of Ice cream from I this city reaches vry section of the , surrounding territory. In lines of baked , goods, Lincoln houses are constantly ex panding and putting forth an Increased volume ot products. Postal Receipts. An unfailing barometer of a city's bus'nesa Importance Is the volume - ot business done by its postof fie. In 114 th total postal receipts were $456,381.61, or double th figure of ten year ago. 8o rapid has been its expansion that ths government has authorised ths construc tion of a $276.(00 addition to ths original structure, completed but a fen' years ago. The salary roll of ths Lin coln office. Including th railway ma i clerks whose headquarters are her totals over $328,000 yearly. Lincoln Is als. a depository for th surplus money orde funds of several hundred Nsbraska post masters; a depository ior certain surplut money of the postal savings bank and sub-agency for th distribution of postal supplies for a large territorial area. Lincoln Bank CI earl arm. 1 During 1914 Lincoln, In proportion to the'r total volume, made the largest per cent of Increase In bank clearings for 1U14 over lint of any city la the entire Sol. A. Ksensky Imported and Domestic WINES and LIQUORS Nebraska's Largest Mail Order House If it's good, we have it. 227 N. lOth, Lincoln, Neb. (Continued on Page Thlrtecm OoL One.) The Nebraska Sanitarium COLLEGE VIEW, NEBRAIKA .The system of cmratlve methode need at thle Institution la tbe development of nearly fifty years of experience and research by lare number of physicians and scientists. The Insti tution la one of more than eighty allied sanita riums employing all tbe curative methods In cluded under the term "Physiological Therapeu tics." Tbe institution la founded upon the broad principles of training tbe Individual back to health. Tbe broken-ln-health body needs a real aerv lce. Not a service that forces the body Into tem porary activity only to Buffer a relapee, but on that la regenerative and reconstructive In Ita fundamental character, and tbe effect ot which, la permanent Tbe Nebraska Sanitarium la a rest retreat, combining- many ot the advantagea ot a voca tional resort with Just eueh service, under the supervision ot competent physicians and nurses, and equipped to use every modern mean em ployed In the restoration of health. ... . Health-is the One Essential and Rest Under Proper Conditions is the Road to Health Rest reatorea tbe weakened vitality and lengthens life. It tits one's body for service. Sleep and quiet are Important agenclee In tbe upbuilding process, but we muat go further: tbe tired body needa revitalizing by special massage, electrical treatments, and Invigorating hatha scientifically given. Pure and wholesome foods, air that la full of bracing ocone, home-like aur roundlnga that add to one'a peace of mind and comfort, all theee are necessary to give com plete rest to the body and restore It to ita nor mal condition. A tired mind goea with a tired body, and so, many times, it seems harder to leave your pres ent aurroundlnga, even tor the sake ot acquir ing a physically better body and a more active mind. There is no mystery about what a little rest of this kind will do. The only mystery ilea In the fact that people will continue to be weary and suffer, forcing their bodies unnaturally and harmfully with stimulating medicines and neg lecting the opportunities that nature haa pro vided for them; for health and happlnesa are the heritage of every human being ot some more fully than others, but ot all more than they realise, if tbey will only seek It. Above all, remember that you will find here no atmosphere ot depression, but, on the con trary, a pervading spirit of buoyant happiness resulting from returning health and vigor. Wri e us for an, special information yon may desire. We want 'o he of service to you, lniitiduals suffering from aueases of a contagious character art not received The Nebraska Sanitarium, College View,Neb. Grainger Bros. sV any WHOLESALE GROCERS COFFEE ROASTERS "Grainser" "Nebia" "Fort-" City Brands Canned Goods Cereals Extracts Spices Teas "GRAINGER" "BOUQUET" "NEBIA" "PAN-AMERXAN" BRAND COFFEE C. P. BAKING POWDER J. GRAINGER COMPANY Wholesale Fruits LINCOLN - NEBRASKA JOHN IL R03EN3TOC& D. C RELLWEG JOHN H. ROSENSTOCK Wholesale Liquor Dealer DISTRIBUTER OF Fred Miller tt ji Life K-.j anl Bjttlei Beer Milwaukee, "Wi. W. J. Leo?, Falstiff Battled Beer St. Louis, Mo. G. Hiilemm Old Style Lager Bottled Beer La Cronse, Wis. 915 0 ST., LINCOLN, NEB. Family Trade Solicited Pabst Blue Ribbon The Beer of Quality Milwaukee's Best Brew . 4 t fasssBsssasssBSBBasaBsjsBBBBsesajBsssessssssssBSBssiassjSBssi You are Cordially Invited to Visit the Wholesale and Retail House of H. W. MATHEWS Cor. 9th and O Streets One Block South of Lincoln Hotel