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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (July 19, 1903)
THE ILLUSTRATED UEE. hiij 10, vxa. MRS. J. I BRANDEIS AND HER GUESTS AT A iL13ASANT PICNICL "HORSELESS" TRAIN THAT HAULED THE INVADING OMAHA JOBBERS AROUND COIN, la. Carpenter's Letter (Costlnued from Pace Twely.) Siey nre cmservatlv and prefer to put air money Into tha Imperial eavlnga aiilii or government bond. They nave t present about $4UO,0OO,0OO so Invested, and Without they can make 20, SO or 40 per cent par annum outside they will not subscribe. Tney are afraid of new Institutions, and no American need expect to come here and tart an enterprise based on Russian cap ital. He must furnish enough to make tha business pay, and ha then may be able to all his stock. J visited the Moscow Stock exchange the Other day. There were about COO brokers Present, but the crowd looked more like one of farmers than of bankers and brokers. Tha most of the men wore caps and long Overcoats. Many of them were merchants, few were Chinese, one was a Persian and several were Armenians. The trading waa low and there was mora gossiping than Belling. , The stock companies here are operated With foreign capital. The French have in vested most, next the Belgians, then tha Oermans, and then the English. The Amur- leans are far In the rear. The French and Belgians ore operutlng chiefly in southern Russia, the Oermans more In Poland and the territory opposite the German frontier. While the English have their money pretty Well scattered. The total number of stock oompanlps Is 1,784, and the share capital Is little more than $1,000,000,000. The companies cover ail branches of In dustry. Twenty-eight of them have Iron tnlnea of about $30,000,000 and among these I the first foreign Joint stock company of tha empire. This was organlxod by an English man named Youth with a capital of $1,600, 000 to operate coal and iron mines In tha south. It has had an enormous success and It now employs 10.000 workmen. There are nine companies Intereartnd In gold mines with capital of $35,000 000, forty-two In petroleum wells with a capital Of about $0,000,000 and thirty m coal mines With a capital of about $35,000,000. The largest Industry la cotton, embrac ing cleaning, spinning snd weaving mills. Jt Is operated by 138 companies, with a cap ital of more than $100,000,000. There are plxty-elght woolen conpnntea, rwenty-flve linen companies, twenty-nine brewing com panies and 178 sugar refineries. The most pf these companies are doing well and many of them pay very large dividends. FRANK a CARPENTER. Bunch of Aphorisms After all, tha powers of Europe may be only powwowera. Tha leetnan should be brought to see tha error of his weighs. "A woman doesn't realise tha battle of. life," says tha Cynical Bachelor, "until sha gets huaband." Philadelphia Record. . s 1 v.. - 5 " .-. .'A J i X JUVENILE GIRLS' BAND OF IIAMI1 URG. Ia., THAT WELCOMED THE OMAIIA VlSITOIiai (r - r MISS EDITH M'CLARY OF NOR FOLK, Neb.-yUEKN - KLOFRON IN FIREMEN'S TOURNAMENT. HOWARD 8. BAKER OF BIOUX CITY. PRESIDENT IOWA PHAR MACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION. JOHN E. CHALMERS. NEW DIREC TOR OF ATHLETICS AT STATH UNIVERSITY OF IOWA.
