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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 30, 1902)
How Coal is Handled in a Modern Yard rSNE of the most important nnd rx I vj I ,rnslvP Improvements In Omaha's ivruiiiii I I (ill lllit 'II fIS flllllllK llll season Is the building nnd oc rtipaney of Sunderland Urol hers' new wholesale and retail coal anil building material yards on South Twentieth street, views of which are presented above. The (Id Curler While Lead Works prop erty, an area of three and one-half aeres. was quietly purchased a year and n half ati'i. but not until this season was the building of the equipment undertaken. In the public estimation a coal yard usually consists of tumble-down shid adjacent to a railroad track and enclosed by a board fence. The Sunderland?, In the belief that Omah i has a meat future in. J knowing that the finest of facilities wouid attract a large Increase of patronage, di termlned to build a modern, up-to-date coal yard equipment which would not only handle their large present business, but also the growth In volume for years to come. There Is a cement warehouse with ,1 capacity of fifty carloads, a soft coal shed of twelve bins with a totil capacity of 3,000 tons, a modern oftlce and two new ten-ton wagon scales Inspected and sealed by the city scale Inspector, a half mile of railroad trackage and a like amount of driveways. These are not deserving of se ial niilicn. f. r they might be found 4,500 tons, or 1V carloads, for the entire In any ordinary coal yard. building. The coal is wheeled Into these The special feature of the Sunderland pockets from cars set on a high track !n yard Is the gravity loading storage build- the rear of the building. This track Is ing which automatically discharges and thirty feet higher than the level of the screens the coil put into It and loads it, roadway In front of the building, where clean and pure, Into wagons ready for de- wagons are loaded. Coal, like water, runs livery. This building Is 40xSkt on the down hill, and this is the principle em ground and rises above the roadway to ployed In the construction and operation the height of a four-story building. It Is of these pockets. The coal slides down divided Into eighteen separate pockets, each the slanting floor to the lowest point, where having a capacity of 1!50 tons, or a total of It is released by a valve, and runs over a Circus Man's Campaign for Congress AR MORE successful than Tom. L. Johnson in a circus campaign, was A. II. Jackson cf Fremont, tVjJ Sandusky county, whose election mmJ a ,w. .. . v, r v. I .. an i iiiii rnainaii iiuiii I iiu 'I1IVJ Thirteenth district over James A. Norton (dem.) of Tiffin, was the culmination of one of the most remarkable contests In re cent political history. It required Just such a man as Jackson nnd Just surh a campaign as he conducted to do the trick, reports the Cincinnati En quirer. Incidentally, it must be said tint women played no small part in the cam paign. Jackson employs a couple of thous and young women In his factories In differ ent cities in the district, and they were enthusiastic supporters of his candidacy. That they influenced the voters there can be little doubt. Few people believed that Jackson could be elected. James A. Norton was running for the fourth time. He had made a good rec ord in congress, and, although in the mi nority, had accomplished much for San dusky. In Erie county he stood especially, high, having done much for the chamber of commerce, both In securing harbor ap propriatlons and the preliminary steps for a new government building. Norton had mixed in local contests in different counties and had thus aroused op position In Sandusky and Seneca counties. The fight for the nomination at the conven tion. In which W. E. Scofleld of Marlon was defeated, led to a rupture In that county. Two years ago Norton was elected by over 6.0H0 plurality, but this was to be cut down in a way little dreamed of. The outlook for a republican victory In the district was not very bright early in the fall when the leaders commenced cast ing about for a candidate. Little interest was then manifested. The name of Jack son, an underwear manufacturer of Fre mont, had been suggested ami the Fremont people, with lo;al pride, boomed his can didacy. Jackson was a busy man and did not want the nomination, so stating. Dut no one else cared for it and the convention went through the form of nominating him. So little interest was taken in the matter that Erie county republicans held no cau cus to select delegates and forty men were named by the committee to act as dele pates. Of the furty only one went to the convention. That was the beginning of the campaign. People did not know Jackson as well as 4 , I f 4.,. - . i , - r - ... . m ''7..'" they do now. Older people remembered having seen him on the street corners years ago selling suspendeTS, and some people remembered his circus. The old Instincts seemed to come back to the Fre mont man. Jackson determined to make a fight for the office and upon unique lines. He had plenty of money, and he was willing to spend It. He purchased a large tallyho, with a capacity for twenty men, and four bay horses were engaged. With a band and a corps of speakers the underwear mer chant started out to tour the district. With a blare of trumpets the tallyho would dash Into town, parade the streets while the band played, and then, as the crowd col lected, the speeches were delivered. Jack son wore a cylinder hat, to which he con stantly referred. He told the people of his early struggles In life, of the fortune which he had amassed, the factories he had built, the girls he employed, and he promised government buildings and harbor Improve ments that would make Norton turn green with envy. While Jackson vaa thus engaged some of his friends took up his cause, and they started out with the Idea that the man was sure to win. It seemed preposterous to most people, but gradually the Idea gained ground. Jackson and his son-in-law and a few friends bet thousands of dollars rn th" result, securing odds, of course. Finally they offered even money. The result shows that Jackson and his friends will have woq enough In bets to more than pay tho ex penses of the campaign. Meantime Norton was kept busy explain ing some previous speeches, his connection with the Baltimore & Ohio Railway com pany as tax agent, his attitude toward Tom Johnson, etc., while local fights took up some more of his time. The revolt was growing, and Jackson was taken up enthu siastically. So it was that when the vote was counted It was found that Norton had lost his own county, together with four others, and the two that stoed by him had the pluralities cut In half. Jackson swept his own county and Invaded the Norton home. He had gained his election. Jackson's career is an interesting one. He was born In 1847 in Delaware county, New York. Ills family moved to Steuben county when he was but 7 years old, later on moving to Coming. The family of boys had but little training In the country schools. Young Jackson was apprenticed .'i.VV:-. X V . . . ... . , : i f yTVr 1 : .... ' VT..W- rTt Sundarland Dro'a Co. Gravity Coal Pockets THE NEW I J I O pw.lt 4.000 Tons METHOD Al'TO.MATIC COAL SCREEN ING DEVICE IN OPER ATION. fixed screen into the wagons. The teamster controls the flow of the coal by means of a lever and the law of gravitation, together with the automatic screening device at tached to the pockets, carries the coal, cleaned of all dust and dirt, into the wagons. Sundi rland llrothers are the only l irg" dealers In Omaha operating their own teams. In conformity with their policy of doing In the best manner whatever they undertake, they have purchased an entire outfit of heavy draught horses, big yello.v wagons ami several platform spring wagons of the latest and most convenient pattern. These wagons can turn around In a very small space, thus getting into and out of many places where the ordinary style of coal wagon would be useless. The new three-story stable ulso consti tutes a special feature of this yard. Wagons are kept on the first floor, horses on the second floor, with space for many carloads of hay and grain on the third floor. The stable Is built for the accom modation of fifty horses and Is as com- as a carpenter, and like Garfield, drove canal mules. At the age of 19 Jackson decided to go west. He had saved un (0, but while asleep In Kansas City he was robbed of this. He went to work to recuperate his "fortune," and finally en gaged on a small Brale In peddling. Later ho bought a horse and wagon and took up the selling of suspenders, making a great success. Ho also became an auc tioneer, being known as tho "Auctioneer King," and in 1872 located In Fremont. When ho had accumulated about $2.",ooo he decided to engage In the circus business, tut bad weather and other conditions ruined this, and he lost every rent he had. He again took up peddling, having a gor geous wagon built for this purpose, and finally got possession of a stock of dry goods. He was forced to make an assign ment In this, and while left Btranded he hit upon a new idea, that of making bustles of wire. He soon had 300 people employed In this, and then tho bustle fad died out. Jackson was left with a big stock of goods on hand, together with machines, and he finally went Into the business of manu facturing underwear. In this he has been so successful that he now owns fine brick factory buildings In Fremont, Sandusky, Tiffin and Clyde, employing a couple of thousand people. He has Just built In Fremont a $:,0.0(i0 fraternity home, where his employes are boarded at actual cost. Smithsonian Institution (Continued from Third Page.) undeveloped age, with paltry, half-formed feathers, and no wings at all. The child pities the apteryx; he looks so timid and sorry and tho card tells us he la often killed by dogs because ho cannot fly. He Is so different from his fine neighbor, tho laughing Jackass, whose expression Is al ways humorous, and who seems always about to make merry with the whole queer lot." With all these matters of Interest to make us feel proud of our leading scientific institution, however, there is unfortu nately another side to the shield. Few realize how seriously and how often its work Is handicapped by lack of money. The condition is must obvious In the crowdel rooms of the museum itself and the In adequate accommodations which the Na tional park provides for many of the ani mals In the oo. The National Museum in! Coal Screened Ji Ayloontiollr j 1 ; ,, 1 " I ' , fortiible and convenient as could be de vised. Sunderland brothers' business was started In 1SX.1 under the name Omaha Coal, Coke and I.ime compiny ami for many years this company has done a very large whole sale and retail business. Its operations ex of the whole I'nited Stales, for example, has an average of but seven-ten! hs of one cubic fi.ot for the display of each sp limen, whilo the American Museum of Natural History in New York City 1km something over sixteen cubic feet. The New York museum has, in other words. 38, 000, nod cubic feet of space In which to exhibit 2,300,000 specimens; the National Museum In Washington has 3,fi(!0,0(0 cubic feet In which to display 4.!!M.fi72 specimens. The appropriations for the National Mu seum have increased S'i much more slowly, Mr. Lnngley also points out, that In tho collection of specimens the sum of $1,000, considered in 18!i6 hardly adequate to care for 5,130 specimens, did like duty In Mill for 20,025. The number of specimens has Increased five times, while the amount of money appropriated has not even doubled. Perhaps the reason Is that to many congressmen a muaciim is still pri marily a place to which school children may be taken by their teachers en halt holidays for mere amusement, or because the very position of the museum as a na tional institution may naturally have put It somewhat out of the financial running In an age when scientific Institutions are so often the object of private benevolence. In like manner, too, one reads in the re port the lack of American dollars Is affect ing the National Zoological park, especially in handicapping it In its primary object of preserving types of all our native animals. Tho criticism Is often made that the Na tional park has been treated by congress rather as a District of Columbia affair than as a matter of national scope and Import ance, and tho actual purpose for which it was founded has been so thoroughly neg lected that those most Interested In tho preservation of native American wild ani mals have seen several become extinct al most before their ees. Many others of the larger of these animals, Indeed, have already practically disappeared, and It seems likely that all opportunity of pre-r-"rvlng the few examples that remain will soon have passed away. In the park Itself, Mr. Ingley says, the elephant house, a small wooden shed that needs no descrlp tiin In thousands who have seen It, Is re ported in need of repairs to keep It from falling to pieces. New bird and reptile houses are needed, to say nothing of a cage for eagle. The birds chosen as the emblem of the nation mope In a rickety pen, with out room for flight, and constantly In dan ger of injuring their feet by pounding down upon their perches. And the only prnd available for tho seals and sea lions Is so muddy that captivity cannot even be vc33 W32SiuEgGCT u i i in hiti mi in ii Mki.iMiiif . K.nii -i n n ! ii n run mim M mmm n tending far into the great west. A few months ago the name was changed to Sunderland Uros. Company, the olllci rs nnd owners being the brothers, James A., Lester T. and Ilalph K. Sunderland. Two years ago they erected a wholesale shipping warehouse of heavy brick construction at Klghth anil Podge streets, having railroad trackage for fifteen cars. llesldes the benefits to the coniMiunity of supporting forty-nine employes' fam ilies, as they do, nnd the large amount of money distributed for merchandise and supplies, It means much to Omaha to possess such facilities In any line of busi ness. The enterprise and energy of such concern as Sunderland Hros. Company should attract the patronage of every busi ness man and every wage earner. The Sunderland llrothers believe in Omaha and prove their faith by their Investments. They are known to lie Interested In a large wholesale glass and paint business on Harney street and they have recently pur chased the Davis & Cowglll Iron works at Fifteenth and Jackson streets. Another concern which Is controlled by the Sunder land llrothers Is the Sunderland -Crumble Company at 12i'S Fnrnani street, dealers, Jobbers and contractors In rooting, belting, hose, machinery, engines, pullles, shafting, pipe covering, etc. Their stock of these goods Is probably the most complete west of Chicago. The main office has been nt the south east corner of Sixteenth nnd Douglas streets since 1S0O. The Hee takes pride In the success of thes young business men. alleviated by a swim without Injury to their eyes. Specimens have come In faster than the growth of appropriations neces sary to provide room for them, nnd what will be done about It still remains for the consideration of future congresses. Even the Smithsonian Itself as an or ganization, to complete this hard fact side of an otherwise gratifying picture, is more thon a little handicapped by lock of money. Its treasury has apparently been taken for granted by the world's capitalists. The dis advantage Is hardly so evident when one thinks only of the work accomplished and all the things that ore now going forward; but It Is pointed out thnt the very extent of the field covered by Its latest publication Is good earnest of the enormous further exten sion, both direct and Indirect, thnt would follow were the funds of the Institution In creased to keep pace with the spread of scientific curiosity, for which It Is so very largely responsible, not only through such a superb publication as tho present, report, but In a thousnnd other ways hardly touched on even here. Chained the Figure Ex-I'reldent Cleveland altered the figure a little when he spoke of the democracy sitting down between two chairs. The old analogue was the donkey that starved to death between two bales of hay. In each pound package of Lion Goffeo from now until Christmas will be found a free game, amusing and instructive 50 different kinds. Oct Lion Coffee and a Free Game at Your Grocers.
