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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1902)
-U v September "M. 1!MI-J. Tin: illistkati:i A Home Fraternity. I ' KooT, Wl h UK ION COMMA N UKU WHIHIMKN 11K TI1K WoKI.lt. V M I ' li I! 10 I with t lie places of interest to vis itors in Omaha in the aIroaeliint,r fall festivi ties the Woodmen of the World building and headquarters, located at Fifteenth and I Howard Streets, ranks hiyh; for few there are who are not identified with, or interested in this (.rand Fraternity i claiming our city as its home. I JVrhiips few of our citizens stop to consider the vast volume of business emanating daily from the Woodmen of the World building, a cut of which appears on this pane. The founder of Wotidcraft needs no introduction to the business interests : of ( Imaha, but we are pleased to pre 1 sent him here as the father of the ! home in which he has nurtured and reared from infancy to a sturdy, healthy maturity this Order of Per fected Woodcraft. .1. ('. Hoot, Sover eign Commander of the Woodmen of the World, is a man among men A man whose personal charities are many: a sympathetic nature peculiarly atune to his life work which is fraught with such good to humanity. Eleven years ago in one room in the north-west corner of the second Moor .of what was then known as the Sheely Y.fctck the Woodmen of the World was launched upon the fraternal sea with sails set for stormy winds, but manned by an able captain with a Carpenter's Letter (Tout hilled from Twelfth fane.) Ing the American wood often arrives a shade under this size, and the man who orders it has to pay the duty. The result is he stops at one order. There is also a good demand for our oak boards and planks, provided they r.re sawed to the right thickness, but at present the Aus trian wood Is crowding the American wood out because it is better seasoned and more carefully prepared. I am surprised at (he amount of Amer ican machinery I see about the docks. The warehouses are full of it and the streets outside are blocked by it. In addition to farm implements there are packages of carpet sweepers, meat grinders and ice cream freezers. There are also large Im portations of electrical machinery, and within the east few years the Westing house company has established a factory at Havre to supply the French market. It is a large building, on the edge of the city, where a number of bright young Am ri cana superintend the Frenchmen who d the rough work. The company has a French name, being entitled the "Socicte Industriclle d'Klectricitc. Precedes Wen' -Inghouse." Its capital is 10,(ino nmi francs. it about $2,finn.ono. During my ride about the wharves with Consul Thackara I asked him to give me some points for American shippers. He replied that the market is not properly un derstoc d by more than fifty of our leading American firms. "These firms," said Mr. Thackara, "have thoroughly studied the subject. They have their own agents on the ground, and have systen atlzed their busings after the French methods. They pack their goods as the French want them and are willing to ac cept the usual terms of credit. The French have been accustomed to receiving such terms from the English and Hermans, and if Americans will not give the same term. they refuse to deal with them. The aver age American wants his money in advance, or on receipt of the goods, but this will n v do in the majority of Instances here. Many of our shippers are sending cata logues of machinery ami other American products printed In English," continued Mr Thackara. "Such catalogues go into the waste basket, for the average customer cannot read them. They should be pritced in French, and all measures should be in the French metric system and prices prefer ably in French money. "Some of our houses are (sending trave' ers into Fiance. Thin is very well if th man understands the French language; If not, be had better be kept at home atnl a French agent employed. An agent should faithful steward and a staunch crew, who have by unwearying effort brought her out into the open sea where she caliu'y rides the waves in majestic pride with her sister fraternit ies. With this phenomenal growth of three hundred thousand members in a period of eleven years, the directing brain and llrm hand of Sovereign Clerk .lohn T. Yiites. whose genial face is a familiar one to our citizens, and the vast membership of this Order have been always on the alert, with what Mieecsscan be realized only by those ac quainted with the details of conduct not be expected to cover any more terri tory here than he would be required to cover in the I'nited States, and, when for eign agent 4 are employed, representatives from the home offices should visit them at least once a year. I don't think our ship pers appreciate the pessibilit i.'S of the French market. These people spend a vast deal of money every year for foreign goods, and the bulk of their imports are from other parts of Europe. American goods are popular, and especially American machinery and American tools. I hope that there will be a great incri ase 'a our trade with France with the increase in our shipping and that we will now regularly see American ships in this harb: r. At present we get quantities of American goods, but they all rome in v. ssels under foreign flags. I have been in office here fT five years and I have seen only three American flags flying from American steam ers during that time." In closing this letter I will say a word about Cherbourg, the French port where the American line, the North German L'oyd, the Hamburg-American and others rf the big ocean steamers stop on their way to New York. It la not an Important com mercial point, being little more than a port of call for passengers. It Is a mili tary and naval station, and will always be such. Havre Is the chief business port, and It will continue to b our gateway to France. FRANK O. CARPENTER. Few Minutes' Writin' Here is a story by the Philadelphia Times about thf republican candidate for gov ernor of Pennsylvania, Samuel V. Penny packer. One of his first "Jobs" as a prac ticing lawyer and attorney was the draw ing up of a deed covering some land In which an up-the-state farmer wag con cern d. When the work was finished the farmer was given a bill for $2, and ob jected to it as exorbitant, out of all propor tion to the service rendered a "few min utes' writin' that's all." as the farmer ex pressed It. ".My dear sir," said the lawyer, "to team h' w to draw up that deed 1 studied two years in the Orovemont seminary, at a cost if IJOO; I then studied four years In th.- West Philadelphia Institute, which cost JJ.'O a vear more; and the" 1 went to the law sihxil cf the I'nlversity of Pennsyl Vitnla fi r a year, and that cost an addi t dial $".'!". So. you see, the education n-Tdcil to do this cost me $l.7n, although y u think t- too much to charge." The farmer looked Lawyer Pennypacker over from head to foot for a moment, ami then exclaimed: "Well by gum! Wh it a darned fool yr mu3t have bin afore they begun on you!" ing so vast an enterprise. Sovereign Clerk Yates' clerical force has grown to some seventy odd and only with a capable mind to evolve methods and plans could so harmonious a grind of business as exists in his accounting, auditing and corresponding depart ments be at mplished. The volume of correspondence and mail sent out daily by the Woodmen of t he World gives a larger consump tion of postage than any other insti t ut ion in t he city of )maha. Some concept ion of the increase of work incident to this rapid growth J.ijlijlJjL- WOOllMKN OK TIIK VVOKI.K Iiril.lUNO, OMAHA, N s- V-.'.'..-A (The ab v is from a pleilogiapii taken ingtim Typewrit the largest deliv ers to the. Typewriting cry of typi'writers ever mado I AI L I work for board, b v a copy fi r (iugg is what y coursi' of stil ly MIM-Is n.w .pen. New. lasses every M lay. WO UK FOR HOARD -Every student is guarant 1 a id oe to NEW SHORTHAND HOOK -Pn.f. Mosher's new book on Im, r.,v. d (;ic,g Is now cut. Every (iregg writer ought to several new pi in. ipl. s add legibility and Increased speed. Pure Gregg is Illegible nd Urn cumbersome-Improved Ml .vaut. Sent to any address for $l.nn. Ill SINESS DEPARTMENT llest ...,.,1 ,i ,' .. is complete amM.ur facilities unsurpass.d. TELEGRAPHY We tench Ibrougii. NEW i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 t coursi . ......-.., iiiusi raicu ami senr iree lo any aiplress. SHORTHAND AND TYPEWRITING' to be bai. S. ml for particulars. Address. HO 1 1 K lit )t (J 1 1 HUOS., Omaha, Neb. Monarch and Elk Rotary Washers .M iJe in Omaha. Sold through Omaha jobbers . Cooley & Kennedy, (icucral Sales Agents, ;U2So. 2th St.. Omaha, Nh may be better grasped with the knowl edge that now tlw Sheely Hloek is owned by this fraternity, which r l it i res tli entire second and third tloors and part of the four! h to aco m niodatc t he large clerical force neces sary for the routine work. The second lloor isoceiipied by t he working force of Sovereign Clerk Yates and his private olliccs. The third lloor by Sovereign Commander Koot, his secretary and assistants and the Organization De part uient, also the olliccs of Sovereign Physicians A. 1. Cloyd and Ira W. Porter and that of the editorial de- K II. V ; F i : r y ilN4e 17 lis .. Z h. .J -' Hit,- Uf'i . lAWflVLTv - i f twenty-i Iglil A. I). T. li.i sscnn r In ys. as Department of too Omaha ri:muerei;il 'iiii..i... at ono time in Nebraska. The photo waslakeii by Iyincaster. ) E. J. DAVIS All kinds of Heavy Hoisting and Hauling Safes a Specialty. U 16 Farnam Street. lollN T. VAII S. SOV Kltli'oN ll.KKK MooHMKN OF TIIK Wolil II. partmeiit, from which emanates the Sum-thin 'isitm the olliclal organ of the Order, sent monthly to each member, giving the exact tlnancial and social condition of the Order to late, on the fourth lloor are the olliccs of the Finance ' Mtimit t ce and Monument Department with Sover eign P.. Wood .lewell at its head. Members and other visit ing )maha will be well repaid and gain knowl edge of the working of the Order v a visit to headquarters, where they will be warmly welcomed by those in charge. The Woodmen of the World has many features original with its founder. Among them the erection of a beautiful monument at the grave of a deceased member, bearing the inscription "I Mi in Tacet, 'lam.it 1 1 ho' silent he claims) a last ing t ributc to the memory of a brother: a total disability benellt at seventy years of ae and many others, but above all :i rapidly growing reserve fund, now aggregating over one million dollars, insuring a limited number of assess ments. An Order whose principles give protection alike to the living member and the families of those who have been taken away. Omaha and her citizens should be proud indeed to own within its bounds this nucleus, which, in an ever-widening circle, proclaims itself a power. i L-1. tliey were deliv ring t w nl v-i liMit l,.,., tTii. . .. i i .. .. Ibis subj.cl ami can give positions when -The most Rosenbery Bros. & Miller, Mutiuf:ictiircr cif Mill Work !;,i,,,V,il;;,"1i,(,),1" Lumber Hardwood Office Fixtures li Sn-c iiilty 1501-3-5-7 Marcy Street 1 I -r- -, W illi Hall ti,tf,. and !... k fo. Tel. 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