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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 16, 1902)
TflE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, NOTEER 10, 1902. IS GROWTH OF JOBBING TRADE Omah Wlo'.euUri Eipjrlenoe Unpreoe-f dentod Expansion, in Btninesa. MEW CUSTOMERS AND NEW TERRITORY Tear Haw Diawlii t a Clou Has Bee a the Brat Reeora and Oatlaolt la Bright for Farther Growth. Omaha Jobbers have never seen two more prosperous months than those of Septem ber and October of this rear, and the sales of November to far, while not fulljr keep ing up the percentage of gain made by the two preceding month, are almost certain to paaa tbe record of any November since the first Jobbing house was opened in this elty. People bare been so much accustomed to seeing in the weekly market reports tbst each week passed tbe last and was ahead of the corresponding week of last rear that tbejr do not stop to realize what this means, but the jobber sod the man who watches tbe work from day to day knows that the last three years bare demonstrated the fact that Omaha Is one of the best Jobbing towns In the United States; that based upon tbe capital invested, the wholesale dealers of tbe city In tbe aggregate are probably doing more business than the job bers of any other city, and that the trade is a constantly growing one. One of the most satisfactory features of the growth of the trade has been sound and legitimate. This great increase was first noticed in 1900. ' Previous to thst time tbe houses here had been doing a fair business and some of the dealers themselves had look? J upon tbe city as one which was somewhat circumscribed In territory and which would support houses of small capital with easy trade, but one which would not warrant the prophecy of larger houses with unlim ited territory such ss have been estab lished in Chicago. St. Louis and New York. Today conservative men wba have devoted tbelr lives to the trade are saying that the wholesale business of Omaha Is to be lim ited only by the amount of capital Invested and the progresslveness and push of the men in charge of affairs. Troables la Transportation. The prime fsctor in wholesale trade ts transportation. Freight rates are most Important, and then cornea service. For many years Omaha has not bad the best rates nor the best service and that, as much as any other thing, was the reason for the rmall business tranacted. In the laat five or six years there hss been some improvement In this direction, but some things remain to be done. As an Illustra tion of thla may be cited conditions on the Rock Island and Milwaukee roads which till exist, but which are soon to be cor rected. The through business of tbeso roads between the Missouri river and Chi cago has been of more importance than the local business between Omaha and the stations in Iowa. When a carload of goods destined to polnta in Iowa would be re ceived from Omaha jobbers it would gen erally be attached to a through train and carried east to the first division point east of the destination of tbe most distant con signment. The car would then be detached from the train and sent west on a local freight carrying ahlpmenta from Chicago and other eastern polnta to towns along the route and Omaha goods would be de livered from the east along with these shlpmenta. The result of this was that points close to Omaha could receive goods from Chicago as soon as from Omaha, and the closer to the city along the lines men tioned the later did the goods arrive. This condition existed on all of the eastern roads, but the two mentioned are the only ones so far known retaining the plan. Com plaint has been msde and both roada promlae to handle the local business on east-bound trains as soon as they can make the necessary arrangements. Thla ts but an illustration of what the Omaha jobber baa had to contend with in tbe past, but in spite of It all the trade grew, but very slowly until 1900. That year tbe old est houses In the city, in all lines, were surprised at the extent 'of their business. With no increaae, at first, in the number of traveling salesmen tbe orders began to come In so large and numerous that stocks which were believed to be sufficient for the trade were depleted. Salesmen could not cover their usual territory and few. If any, 'of the houses were there which did not have to put on additional men to cover tbe aame territory. Extending tho Territory. With the Increased orders and a few changes in freight rates, dealers began to push into new places. It has been realised by aome of tbe dealers for several years that west of the Rocky mountains there was a certain class of business which might be brought to this city .and a few houses had men in the territory sell ing specialties. The business conditions of tbe mountalna were not very good pre vious to 1(99. but that year the revival came along all lines and tbe Omaha jobber profited thereby. In the dry goods lines, manufactured goods, such as shirts, over alls, skirts and similar goods, were pushed, and men who had carried these lines only before that time were put at work selling laces and similar light goods, while staple lines in some Instances were Introduced. In the grocery lines tbe few traveling men selling specialties, such aa teaa and coffees, were reinforced and the lines were extended over wider rsnge, some staples evea being introduced. Tbe heavier gooda. such as hardware and building Iron, did not profit to so grest an extent in the more distant territory, as the freight rates t Denver on these goods have always been ax strut the sale of them by Omaha bouses west of that point, but a few years ago one of the Omaha houses opened a Denver branch, which practically con trols the trsde in that territory in structural sad heavy Iron. On millinery and trimming, rates are not so Important aa service, snd the service to the west bss always been favorable to Omaha, so that the Rocky mountain country is tributary to this city. In tbe furniture lines the growth has been. If snythlng. equal to that In the grocery and dry goods trade, one house reporting an Increase of J4 per sent over the business of lsst year, taking tbe months of August. September and Oc tober as a bssls. Tbe first two months mentioned showed a hlgber Increase, the latter a much lower one, as the trade of October, 1901, was phenomenal. Other lines of trade have shown equal growth In the more distant territory. Improvement Rearer Home. It is not in the outlying territory that the moat satisfactory results have been found, although a number of Omaha houses have aaleemen and branch offices as far west as Ssn Frsnclsco, and work the coast states almost ss closely aa they do those nearer hotne, but the greatest satisfaction ts found in the states of Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, South Dakota, Wyoming and east ern Colorado, with Nebraska heading tba list. One msy travel over the broad ex panse of the slate and from the car win dow see signs of Improvement almost un equaled. The towns bear an evident air of prosperity and the farms are well kept, the people satisfied, but a trip over the state would hardly bring home to the observer the great improvement made in the last few years in such a strrlklng msnner as a visit to the wholesale dis trict of Omsba, especially to one wbo had visited it in former years. It has only been in the last three or four years that Nebraska has been undis puted Omaha territory. Previous to that time tbe retail dealers of the state bought more goods In Chicago than they did In Omaha, and Kansas City snd St. Joseph di vided trsde almost equally with this city, while goods from St. Paul were not un known to the Nebraska trade and Sioux City sold goods to an appreciable extent right at Omaha's door. A systematic cam paign was Inaugurated for the Nebraska trade. Arguments and expostulations were used. These had their effect, but the I greatest fsctor waa Improved transportation facilities and tbe Improvement In the lines of goods carried in this city. First came Inquiries, then visits, then trsde, until to day the Omaha Jobbers are supplying the Nebraska retail dealers with ths larger part of their goods. There Is still a little territory In which St. Joseph. Kansas City and Sioux City make a fight for trade, but this territory is constantly decreasing In slxe. The state has gained Inhabitants and the people are using more and better goods than they did a few yeara ago. The num ber of salesmen hss not only been In creased, but the average rales are much larger than they were. This hss hsd a great effect upon the work In the houses. Resalta of Growth. .One grocery house whose office a few years ago waa confined to one corner of the first floor baa been compelled to take from the floor Its display room and with the coming dull sason this winter ex pects to devote the entire floor to offices. Where three desks were used a few years ago there are now eight and stUl not enough to handle the business aa it should be conducted. One dry goods house has been compelled to extend lta salesrooms and devote one-half of its former room to offices. Another which started more re cently now occupies a building 66x132 feet, five stories high, with lta manufacturing plant, which has been established less than two years, and lta capacity doea not ex ceed its trsde. These are but typical inci dents of the development of the wholesale business of the city during the past three years. The year 1900 was the first record breaking year which attracted attention, and it waa looked upon as phenomenal. When the trade of laat year began no one was willing to prophesy a year equal to that then closed, but the first three months showed up better than the first three months of the preceding year and jobbers began to hope. The second three months were yet better thsn those of the former year and the last six months proved no decrease. Then it was thought thst the limit had been reached for aome time, but this year has been as much better thsn 1901 aa that year was better thsn 1900 snd It Is now considered that the changed condi tion la permanent and dealers are making their estimates upon this basis. Sew Lines of Railroad. Several reasons aaide from the present condition of trade warrant this course. Tno new lines of railroad will be In busi ness next season and will add much to the possibilities of this city ss a jobbing center. Probably the most lmportsnt of these is the completion of tbe Elkborn rail road through Boyd county, the effect of which ia now being felt. This road paases through one of the most productive sec tions of the state, but before lta construc tion most of tbe trade of that territory went to Chicago and Sioux City. The near est railroad was the Milwaukee, which touched Running Water. 8. D., on the Mis souri river. Its line ran down the east side of the river, touching at Sioux City, and giving that road the advantage of tbe long haul on the Chicago business. Goods received at the Missouri river were freighted in wagona across the country, and tbe grain and stock were delivered at the liver. Today the tendency is to de flect shipments, both of produce and mer chandise, to the Elkborn, which gives a more direct route, and that means that the trade comes to Omaha. It will require some time to break the bualneaa connection of the other towns completely, but that will be the result. The completion of the Chicago Great Western to Omsha will open a territory in northern central Iowa which may In time be of greater value than that In northern Nebraska on account of tbs larger popula tion, but it will alwsys be debatable ground. At the present time the Illinois Central gives a direct line to Fort Dodge and the Grest Western to that point will give but rf cry nz3 r ri r &rwnentr) REMICK'S ECZEMA CURE. 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Ua ca Howard 8ta. Omaha: Shennca ai McConneil Drug Ca.. 1Mb. and iMtda fcia.. OaL&An.; C A Malchex, U sL, aouln Omaha; George ft. Larta, W. Broadway, tvuucU BluiXa. a competing line, but at the present time Omaha experiences difficulty in getting into Grest Western territory esst of Fort Dodge. Goods for points along the Great Western are now shipped to Fort Dodge over tbe Illinois Central paying the local rate from Omaha to Fort Dodge and then there la added the local rate from that point to destination. The sum ot these two locals is greater than tbe through rate will be over the Great Western between Omaha and points east of Fort Dodge, and when the ahlpmenta do not have to be transferred from one line to another they can be de livered sooner, both of which are impor tant in extending trade. Penetrating Rivals' Territory. One of the greatest benefits to Omaha in remote territory will be the construction of the line from Billings, Mont., to Great Falls in the aame atate. That la a long way from Omaha, but when the line is com pleted that territory will be aa close to Omaha aa it now Is to St. Fsul, and it is probable that the rates will be tbe same. At the present time the Montana territory Is looked upon aa the especlsl field of Min neapolis and St. Paul, and other cities are at a disadvantage when they enter that part of the state at leaat, but when the new line la completed, taking Into consid eration the present ownership of the Bur lington road, there Is no reason why Omaha abould not be upon as favorable a basis in that part of the country as the two cities mentioned. In fact, it is believed that ahlpmenta from Omaha can be delivered probably aooner than shipments of ths same kind from the Minnesota cities, be cauae ot the character ot country through which the Burlington runs for a large part of tbe way. Another Important line for Omaha Is the construction of tbe line from Sslt Lake to Los Angeles. Omaha grocery Jobbers are really looking ahead to that with more Im patience than to some others which may promise more In the way ot selling goods, for with this line they will come into closer contact with tbe base ot some of their most important supplies. This road will put Omaha aa close to southern Cali fornia as It now is to San Francisco. At the present time all shipments to Omaha from the citrus belt must come by wsy ot San Francisco. When the new line is built it will open up to Omaha a large trade which now goes to Kansas City and St. Louis over the Santa Fe. There are mines to be developed in the territory through which the road runa and grazing land to be more fully occupied. The Santa Fe Is now the closest line to tbe greater part of the territory, but it is remote, and the greater part of goods tsken out or brought in hss to be handled by wagons. This wsgon freighting will psss sway with the completion of the new road and tbe live stock which formerly wss driven to Santa Fe atations and shipped to Kansas City and Chicago will to a great extent come to Omaha over the lines from Salt Lake, while Omaha Jobbers In all lines will be several daya nearer tbe consumers than the bouse which now supply the demand. This trade will ot course be divided between Omaha and Salt Lake bouses, but a few miles out ot Salt Lake the local rates will more thsn equal tbe through rate from the Missouri river and Salt Lake competition will be limited to the nearby points. At every point the Omaha Jobber pro fesses to see better times ahead than now exist, while the trade now is better than it ever has been. I EDI CATIOSAL, SOTES. I Wellington R. Burt, a wealthy resident of Saginaw, Mich., has offered SljO.uuO 10 his city for the establishment of a manual training school. Dr. Jacques Loeb of Chicago will go to the University of California and tike the new chair of physiology. President Nicholas Murray Butler of Co lumbia university will make a tour of the middle west this month, and will make sev eral speeches In the interest of American education. Oeorge Foster Peabody has endowed a permanent scholarship in the Graduate school of Harvard university for the bene fit of some graduate each year of the Uni versity of Georgia. Dr. Lorenr v.i!! have conferred upon him the degree of LL. D. by Northwestern uni versity as soon as he returns to Chicago from his tour of the country. John D. Rockefeller gave JSOO.Ono to Teachers' college in New York, dependent upon the raising of lfl0,0i0, and in le& than a week from the time the offer wus made pledges were given for nearly the whole amount. Former President Cleveland, In hia recent address at Princeton upon the occasion of the Inauguration of President Wilson, said that Princeton would continue Its conser vative course and Its four years' require ments, decplte the modern educational trend In the direction of curtailing the time required for the A. B. course. Jf this col lege Is to continue to require four years students must be allowed to enter at an early age in order that they may be grad uated at 20,. for that Is certainly late enough for entrance Into a professional school. There are few boys who are pre pared for college at the age of It, and Princeton is not likely to lower the stan dard for admission. Co-operative Trading: Remarkable Development in Great Britain. The expansion of co-operative trading in Great Britain is one of the most remark able of modern Instances ot commercial de velopment along lines created by changing social and economic conditions. The Brit ish trading societies, reports tbe New York Times, are both wholesale and retail. Tbe former are usually federations of the retail distributive societies, and buy for them In so large a way aa to secure all the advan tage to be derived from magnitude in trans actions and unquestioned credit. One ot tbe principal ot these, the English Whole sale society, was founded in 1864 with titty members and a capital of 999. It now has a membership representing more than a thousand co-operative societies, employs a capital of 3.000.000 and does a business ot 11,000.000 per annum. Tbe retail co-operative associations have a capital of 2$.000,060, and use In addition accumulations ot dividends and Interest, known as loan capital, to the amount of about 1.000.000. As a rule these socie ties have more capital than Is needed for the psrposes of their business, and one ot the chief anxieties ot their managers is to find safe and remunerative inveatments for their surplus. Such Investments now amount to something like 9.000.000. The older and richer societies are alwsys willing and even eager to Invest their surplus in tbe shares of new societies, and are now em ploying about 1.000.000 in this wsy. Of retail societies there are now about 1.500 la Great Britain, and their sales lsst year ex ceeded U value 50.000.000. Their dlvisbls net profits ia 1901 were very nearly .- 000,000. The number of tbe co-operative stores very much exceeds the number of the so cities, for the reason that many of tbe so cieties have several, and some a great many. A few days ago the Barnaley society opened Its fiftieth grocery store. Others have done as well snd grown aa large. Tbe Leeds Industrial, for example, has 48.000 members, and its annual ssles exceed J6, 000,000. The Gateshead society has 1.200 members and annually sells more than 12,000,000 In value. The Sunderland society has 12.&00 members and its sales exceed $1,500,000. That at Newcastle has lf.OGO members and a business exceeding 12,000, 000. That of Barnaley, in Yorkshire, which hss the fifty groceries, has 18,000 members and does a business ot about $3,000,000. Thst at Bolton, in Lancashire, has 24.000 members and sales ot nearly $4,000,000 an nually. Thess are representative trading societies, and it is not surprising thai their inroads upon the domain of the retailer is changing rapidly, and it would seem per manently, the character ot merchandise distribution In Great Britain. The war of competition which began in tbe north ot England, notably at St. Helens, ts spreading in all directions and threatens In many localities, and ulti mately It may be in all. tbe extinction ot the small retailer. In St. Helens, a Privets Traders' Defense association has been organlxed and a boycott declared against the co-operative stores. This wsa met by raising among the societies a de fense fund ot 100,000, of which 50,000 wss contributed by ths Wholesale society. Tbe issue is not yet determined, but whst tbe net result is likely to te is Indicated by the fact that the St. Helens Co-operative society lately expended 30,000 for additional accommodations, finding lta quarters too small for the business it is doing. This would look as if the "fight for lfs" was on the pert of the private traders, rather than on the part ot the society. Obviously co-operative trading has gained a position in Grest Britain from which it cannot be dislodged by individual competi tion. Their line of battle extends from the center of England to the sea in every direction, their reserves are formidable, they stand together shoulder to shoulder, and the retailer who refuses to take them seriously overlooks the value ot organisa tion sustained by large and mobile re sources. Mesnwblle Sir Thomas Lipton and others are showing that great successes rs still possible in retsli trsde. though not by tbe methods followed by the small trader, which are probably the only ones he can fallow. That the co-operative so ciety has not become a factor of Im portance in the commercial system of this country is probably due to the fact that the modern department store takes its place and fills Us function well enough to discourage competition initiated by con sumers (or their own benefit and protection. MISS ELEANOR GRAY, President of the "Woman's Art Association of ST. AUGUSTINE. FLORIDA. 43 King Street. St. August-ink, Fla., Feb. 5, 1902. I have not enjoyed (rood hearth for the past five years, and were it noi for Wine of Cardui I would still be a sufferer today. I was troubled with profuse menstruation, was very irrejrular and often menstruated every three weeks instead of at the proper periods. Each timo I would have severe cramps aud bearing down pains with backache unfitting nv for office work, and compelling me to lie down for several hours each day and sometimes the entire day. I used several remedies and spent hundreds of dollars trying to Set relief, but all of no avail. Furtunatel, one of your Ladies' Birthday .Imanacs came into my Lands and I become much interested, naturally hop ing thai it woula cure me as it had cured other. 1 tooUmy first dose that niffht and kept tip the treatment religiously My vitality, which had been well nigh spentby the heavy loss of blood, was gradually restored. 1 noticed a marked absence of pain at tbe next period, slso a more natural flow. kept up the treatment for four months and found to my ioy that I waa entirely well, and the functions of nature were performed naturally and easily. Wine of Cardui is certainly & grand tuoJicie and gladly do I give it entire credit for my wonderful restoration to iiaaith. J MISS GRAY took Wine of Car dui and stuck to it. That is what she means when she sari she "kept up the treatment religiously". She is rid of her ter rible suffering because she took this luilct and simple remedy, because she did not put off the treatment. She did not take it a day or a week and then stop. She took Wine of Cardui and gave its curative quaJiti-s time to build np her weak parts, regulatt her functions and cure the terrible pains in her back. And Wine of Cardui so used will never fail to benefit any case. of female trouble however serious it may be. Wine of Cardui cannot restore dead organs. but it does cure menstrual troubles, which sap the body of it strength and result in back-breaking, bearing-down pains. Wine of Cardui is a simples vegetable remedy tint has cored hundred of thousands of wo men suffering from teucorrhoea, bearing-down rains and all the com mon menstrua! disorders when they have taken it according to tbe direc tion on the bottle. If you will secure a botU of W ine of Cardui from your druggis. and take a few doses of it every day you will have the same relief Miss Gray enjoys. Never let anyone sell you a substitute for Wine of CarduL WINE of CARDUI LADIES KJrii&WVaiTSfiS: I ENTIETH CENTURY FARMER InriAn 111 I tla.s a. -i la - a. a Weekly.
