TITE OMAITA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY. JANUARY 1. 1005.
rACTS AND FIGURES THAT SHOW OMAHA'S PROGRESS AND PROSPERITY EOR THE YEAR 1904
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broaden their clientage. During the year
the less Important lines which go to make
tip a complete stock have been undergo-
In a natural broadening and completing
which make Omaha more and more a
market. Another Influence, has been the
Very great Increase In proportion of In
dian supplies purchased here.
During the year no lirnt rate houses have
Rone out of business, and only two or three
nmall houses have disappeared or removed
to other points. Several Important busi
nesses, on the other hand, have come to
Omaha. As was the case last year and for
1902, the growth of the wholesale Interest
adversely affected by the scarcity of
good buildings. Several additions to the
available warehouse and office room In the
wholesale district have not changed the
situation. Several firms have been talking
during both l:i3 arid 1904 of coming to
Omaha. But them Is no satisfactory build
ing to ba had. Some of the local firms are
like small boys. In woollen undergarments
washed with 'boiling water. During the
year property owners and business men
have not loen able to get together on the
rental proposition for long-term leases, but
It Is predicted Jobbing and manufacturing
buildings will be put up during 1905.
(ironlb of the drain Business.
The grain business leads In per cent of In
crease. The Omaha Grain exchange, while
Incorporated during 1903, began operations
In February of 1904. The hnndllng of grain
"here before that time was very small. Dur
ing the nine months ending November 1
7,779.500 bushels of grain were sold on the
exchange floor. During 1!6 It Is predicted
at more than probable a total of 18.000,000
will be reached, and for 1906. If good crops
prevail, between 40.000,000 and S0.000.0cl0 are
expected to come to Omaha for distribu
tion. During the nine months of the last
yeur Omaha Inspected l,960,0"0 bushels of
grain. Of the grain sold on the floor l,4to,000
liushels was wheat. 5,317,000 was corn, 916.500
oats, 43,000 rye and 8,000 barley. Thla busi
ness and that to come results only from a
long contest over rates and a complete re
adjustment. The local rate from Omaha to
Chicago hna been reduced from 21 cent per
100 to 17 cents and the proportional rate
from 21 cents per W0 to 12 cents. The local
rate on corn has been moved down from IS
cents per luo to 16 cents and the propor
tional from 18 cents to 11 cents. Local rates
In Omaha territory were reduced from 298
stations and through rates from 735 at na
tions. During the year the Nebraska-Iowa
"Elevator company built a laige elevator at
Gibson and the Independent Elevator com
pany has done the necessary grading and
has the plana for a l.OOO.OOO-bushel elevntor
to bo built this spring on the grain ter
minal's track. This track, under tho direc
tion of President Stlckney of the Great
Western, has been graded to receive eleva
tors, mills, etc. Several grain firms have,
been Incorporated here and some eastern
and southern houses have opened offices.
Dry Goods and Groceries.
The dry goods houeea have had a splendid
year. They figure about a 15 per cent In
crease in value of buslnen. They ran on
very light stocks early because of the Sully
cotton operations, but the bottom dropped
out of that in late February. Manufac
tured cotton did not drop proportionately.
Country dealers did not buy more largely
thun they could help during the high prices,
ao lately there has been a very big business
and more of the same Is promise! for next
year, while the trade Is stocking up. The
newer house In this field has added sales
men and gono Into new territory. The fact
Omaha has at least two complete dry goods
houses Is becoming more thoroughly known'
all the time and brings new bus in res at the
expense of Chicago. '
Tho grocery jobbers lead In the amount
of business, the year's total being placed
at about $19,000,000. There has been an
enormous sugar business because of the
exceptional fruit and berry crop In Omaha
territory. By the same token, the canned
fruit trade has fallen off and Is expected
to be really poor next year. Home canned
goods are being consumed. The market
has been demoralized by the sugar rate
war, which helped the retailer and hurt
the Jobber, who had paid higher freight
for his stock. Coffee has been a feature.
Much more of It than formerly has bten
roasted and packed here. It Is high now
and going up because during the depressed
conditions of the Ian. few years plantations
wero allowed to run down and now the
production Is decreased. Omaha grocery
Jobbers have done an unheard of amount
of successful bidding for Indian' supply
contracts. They have entered this field
more largely than other lines except the
meat men. The local supply depot during
the last year Increased its volume of busi
ness all supplied by local houses from
J100.000 to $150.0(10. The freight handled was
2,317,597 pounds. This depot, by reason of
superior location. Is gaining business at the
expense of the depots at St. Toula, Chi
cago and New York. A new firm this year
Is the W. A. Buck company. The firm of
Meyer & Itaapke was reincorporated, ow
ing to the death of the senior partner, as
llanpke Kat. The Omaha Bakers' Sup
ply company also entered the Huts. The
Baker-Vwater company was established, an
agency for a Chicago firm.
Implements, Machinery, Hardware.
Agricultural implement nnd machinery
jobbers and manufacturers did a good bust
less. The exceptional corn crop brought
the sale of a very large number of wagons
and other Implement necessary In har
vesting. Prosperity also sold buggies. The
per cent In increase, however, was not
very large. A valuable accession was the !
Rock Island Plow company, which cornea
over from Council bluffs. The T. Q.
Northwall company will rhange Its loca
tion. The Nebraska-Iowa Steel Tank com
oanv began the manufacture of metal
stock tanks. The Aultman-Taylor com- '
pany will, and the Martin-Anderson com
pany has, gone out of business.
Boots, shoes and rubber good are cred
ited with. In round numbers, $8,000,(0).
There Is little If any Increase over law.
The unseasonable fall weuther has been
unfavorable to the sale of heavy leather
goods aud much heavy rubber has been
carried over because of the dry conditions
since midsummer. The Hichurdson Shoe
Manufacturing company moved In from
Iowa and Is very valuable, making Omaha
a shoe manufacturing market.
Hardware jobbers have made an in
crease of fromtt to tt per cent. The un
equalled crops and prosperity In the Ne
braska towns and the northwest has
brought a very heavy demand for build
ing hardware and supplies. Barbed wire
has been a feature and wire, nails, sheets
and other trust productions are going up
fast, having begun Just after the election.
Oils, paints and glass have also boomed
for the same reasons. The manufacture of
art gluss has Increased t per cent.
Paper and wooden wure have a total
business of about $5,7O0,Ou0. The trade was
without particular feature.
Furniture and carpets amount, accord
ing to estimate, to t4.075.Oux Orchard 4
Wllhtlm have outgrown their quarters and
are building on Blxtoenth street.
Wholesale lumbering Increased in value
something like 12 per cent. Hie C. N.
IMtlts company bought ground for a new
yard at Sixth aud Leavenworth. I. F.
Swart hout Co. la a new brokerage
representing Pacific coast lumber. The
Sunderland, Crombls company, building
supplies, has besa reincorporated as lh
Sunderland Roofing and Supply company.
George Edgerly Joins the firm.
Affected by the War.
Camphor and brushes have been the
feature nf the drug and drug supply busi
ness. The Richardson Drug company sudd
camphor all over the United States when
tho supply was cut oft and the price
raised by the Japanese war. War also
raised the prl-e of brushes. Thee things
principally Increased the value of the
Omaha Jobbing trade.
Liquor and cigsr Jobbers did a business
of about t3.n0t,i'O). Prosperity was the prin
cipal feature of the year's business.
Fruit, vegetable and produce Jobbers did
not Increase their city trade, but did very
largely Increase country orders. The mild
open character of the fall and eacly winter
made It possible for them to ship perishable
goods to points not usually reached. It
afso helped In making the receipts of north
ern and western potatoes and othiT produce
easy.
Omaha, produced In the year 9.ono 0"0
pounds of butter. It Is said to be the Urg
est butter producing city In the world. The
Hygela company has reincorporated as the
Harding Creamery company and has fin
Ished and occupied a fine creamery building
at Eighth and Harney streets. The Water
loo Creamery company has opened a depot
on Harney street near Seventeenth.
Coal Jobbers are now dealing with an ad
vance In rate of 14 a ton. This came late
in the year. The mild season has been a
great detriment to volume of business. They
do not figure an advance of any conse
quence-
Harness and leather goods are credited
with a business of about $2,000,000. There
was no feature of the business.
One Indnstry (hat Iias.
Flour, feed and mill prod u eta did not
make the advance expected to follow the
grain market. Mills are hinted at, but so
far have not been realized. T. C. Brunner,
formerly agent for the West Point Milling
company, has entered the field as flour
broker and Jobber.
Wall paper and decorations sold to the
amount of $8iXj,000. Better goods were, de
manded by the country dealers.
Crockery and queens are made a largs
advance in value of business. A new house
established In 1903 has doubled Its force of
salesmen and Is entering new territory.
Confectionery Jobbers and manufacturers
cluim to have done a splendid business.
The Copp-Woodard company wag reorga
nized as the Omaha Candy company. The
Great Western Bottling, Ice Cream and
Supply company entered business in a
somewhat allied branch of Industry. Both
local and western trade has Increased.
Clothing manufactured amounted to $1,
400,000. The business was featureless. The
Cameron Skirt company suspended busi
ness. Bags and similar products were turned
out to the total value of about $1,400,000.
Brewing and distilling totaled In round
numbers $12,700,000. Tinware men figure the
business value at a little more than $1,000,
000, and the cracker production was close
round $trl0.000.
The Omaha School Supply company
changed hands, W. J. Hammlll coming
from Kenosha, Wis.
A new Ice factory Is being built near
Sixth and Leavenworth streets by a com
pany composed of John Doe, C. C. Hungate
and others, who bought out the Talbot Ice
company.
During the year a considerable number
of firms have been Incorporated, which
shows good business, as the Incorporations
were made to take In new capital and In
crease the production. Some firms have
also changed location. This has been true
to a larger extent among the retailers. One
of the schemes for future growth which
continues to be talked Is a power canal for
cheap manufacturing. The Omaha, Lincoln
& Beatrice Interurban line Is expected to
do a great deal In developing the county
and other electric lines would be popular.
BANK CLEARINGS FOR J 904
Total Transactions of Association
Fall Just Below Fonr Hun
dred Million Mark.
Omaha bank clearings for 1904 show the
smallest per cent of Increase in several
years. The advance has been In the neigh
borhood each year of about 10 per cent, but
this time It is Aess than half that amount.
The advunce In figures Is $0,104,291.47, as
against $32,293,771.37 for 1903 and $32,468,086.86
for It 2. A comparison of the clearings for
1903 and 1904 follows:
1903. 190.
$ 32,9.;d,O00.43 $ 31. 'il, 028.92
27,925, 700.6i 30,215,048.75
35.445,54:1.26
33.869,710.00
32,507,139 08
115,6X0.571.43
83,363,371.73
2s.S64.205.7O
81.527.44ii.94
36.502,729.74
31.St2.232.5S
33.16378.39
Including the United States government
warehouse, $7VVi; Hygela Creamery com
pany's building. $i.(0; F. L. Ames ware
house, $55,000; Nebraska-Mollne Plow com
pany's warehouse, $13.fnn, and the $15,000
building of the Omaha. Distilled Water, Ice
and Storage company.
Two large modern apartment house are
being erected, one at Twenty-ninth avenue
and Leavenworth streets by John C. Bar-
nard, costing $50,on0, nnd the other at
I Twenty-fourth and Farnam streets, by R.
. P. and E. O. Hamilton, costing $25,000.
I For educational purposes the Creighton
! Law school building, $30,0(0, was started;
j the Monmouth Park public school, $42.ooo;
j Beaia' public school, $20,000. and Boyle'
! Business college at Eighteenth and Harney
! streets, costing $30. (KO, nnd the convert and
academy of the Dominican slters, $11,000,
were built.
Among various other large buildings
erected were the Methodist hospital build
ings, costing $30,000; brick addition to the
Home of the Good Shcptird. $30,000; addition
to Immanuel hospital, $10,000; Great West
ern freight depot, $11,000; Nebraska-Iowa
grain elevator, $10,000; street railway brick
car barn, $J.0u0.
Nearly 600 dwellings were built, of which
the brick and stone residence and born for
A. D. Brandels, at Thirty-eighth and Dewey
avenue, casting $50,000, was the largest,
others coating $10,000 or over, were as fol
lows: T. J. Mahoney, at Thirty-seventh
and Farnam streets; Dr. R. S. Angiin, at
Thirty-ninth and Dodge streets; estate of
A. L. Melds, at Thirty-third and Mason
streets; William Aycrlgg, at Thirty-third
and Farnam streets: Victor Rosowater, at
Thirty-fifth and Farnam streets; Dr.
John P. Lord, at Thirty-fifth and Farnam
streets; Mrs. C. C. Belden. at Thirty-fifth
and Hawthorne streets; Mrs. P. Grossman,
at Thirty-sixth and Dodge; Tolf Hensen, at
Thirty-fourth and Hawthorne avenue.
A detailed statement of the number of
permits and amounts for which they were
Issued Is here-wlth tabulated:
1904. No. Amount.
January 2x $ 83.581
February 18 94.(95
March 89 159. 7S5
April 05
May 75
June 79
July 68 185.775
August 90 3-3,105
September 88 4"2 170
October 60 28.9.'0
November 64 74.735
December 35 '75.000
proximate from $10,0oo.noo to $12.000. 000. But to trees, buildings under construction,
a relatively small proportion of these lm- etc.. In this vicinity.
portatlons are cleared through the Omaha The lovely autumn weather and the re
customs office. Every imported item of tarded winter will be remembered by all.
goods that comes to Omaha can be as Jom Novrmber n , timber IS. In
readlly cleared here In Omaha as at my ' ,.,,.. , . ..... .
of the seaport customs houses and a big clu" '' PTi' of thlrtjr-flv days, no
saving would thereby be effected to the PU'ltatlon occurred that was appreola
Importers, not only In time, but In money. : bl or efficient to measure. The first
and the Importance of Omaha much en-j tol,ch ot w inter was delayed till December
hanced as a port of entry.
12. snd that was not at all severe. This
Total government revenues for the fiscal cold spell was followed by n period of
year ending June SO, 19u4, were $0M.2H,373. unusually mild and unseasonable weather.
Of this amount the receipts from customs To offset the previous uneventful weather
were $201,274..VI and from Internal revenue 0f the year, the disturbance culminating
l232.9o4.lls. Take from the total receipts ,n tne bIUl;trd ,hat Tflf n 0mnn3- dur.
-.Sci, re"nu" "d "ET".' itU,re, f,f 'ns December M and 27 was surely sum-
$l3.82.62l, a balance of t540.fi31.i49 Is left, , . . , , ,
and of this enormous sum the customs 'en' to PVPn u the mte..rologlcal record
service has collected nearly one-half. The, for ,be lesr
cost of collecting customs revenue, as A laole "f"11 tne normal ana monthly
shown by the recent report of Secretary of "'ean temperatures and the normal and
the Treasury Shaw, Is $0,033 per dollar for
the wholo country
GROWTH AT THE POSTOFFICE
Increase In Bnslneas and Importae.ee
Indicates the City's Ei
panslon.
total monthly
herewith:
precipitation Is furnished
January ..
February .
March ....
April
May
June
July
August ...
September
October ...
November
-Trm;orature-Ncrntal.
Mean.
19
25
36
51
62
72
76
74
65
53
S7
27
2
20
3S
46
62
tW
71
66
-rrech.ltatlon-
Normal. Total.
Id
2
0.S9
0. 79
1 50
8.13
4 37
5.67
4.7.1
.1 34
2.H
J.47
1. '
1.01
0.62
0.10
1.32
$20
4.06
$.11
3 15
4 45
J (
l.W
o pi
0.57
The Omaha postoffice Is a fair Indicator
of the prosperity and growth of the city.
The following tables, showing the growth December
of the registry division 1904, sgalnst 1903
shows a handsome gain, 30,256 more pack
ages being handled In 1904 than, In 1903.
Money order business amounted to $6,423,-
366 94, against $fi,120,4SS.63. a gain of $307,87S,U Ttal Valnatlon Will lie Nearly Two
ior jsji. stamps som amountea to s.hu.uib.ii,
For twenty-nine dais.
U A. WELSH, Local Forecaster.
ON CITY ASSESSMENT ROLL
against $510,003.92, a gain of $47,074.22.
Total number of employes In the post
office In 1903 was 96; present number, 108.
Total number of carriers In 1903 was 87;
Millions Oreater
iJist Tear,
Than
Tax' Commissioner Fleming has not yet
present number, 95, making a total Increase i completed computations of the city assess
of 20 permanent employes. Total number of merit roll for 19i-o as left by the Board of
sub carriers, 12; total number of special Review, but he estimates that the total
delivery messengers, 9; making tho tol;J amount will be about $102,000,000, or from
official force (Including clerks, carriers and tl.poo.oon to $2,000,000 greater than the as
suhs), 224. Added to this number there Is sessment roll for ir'4. Despite the fact
on the Omaha office pay rolls 825 rural car.
rlers, against 600 carriers In 1903, and 155
railway postal clerks, making a total force
of 1.2(4 employes at the present time on
the Omaha postoffice pay roll. The avcr-
wWiio age pay roll per month for the above
247.K75 nnmed employes Is $82,000.
The story of tho great establishment is
told In detail In the following tables:
Totnls 795
Estimated.
$2,0118,295
REAL ESTATE RECORD GOOD
General Tone of City's Condition In
dicated by the Busi
ness Done.
The last year was a good one In real
estate. It was an exceptional year In
building and the mortgage and transfer
records are pleasing. They show pros
perity and progress. In city mortgages
2.070 mortgages were filed against 1,877 for
1903 and 1,916 released, against 1,858 for
last year. The amount of city mortgages
filed In round number exceeds 1903 by
$iX'0,000, but the amount released Is some
what greater. The courts cancelled by de
cree $306,610 ll addition. In the country
mortgagee the total filed was nine more
than In 1T03 and the release eight less. Tha
amount of new mortgages In 1903 exceeded
the cancellations In round number by $60,
000, while this year the cancelled mort
gages lead by almost an equal amount.
The real estate transfers exceed 1903 In
eight months, the total excess being $374,-
639.
' Real Estate Transfers.
January $553,565 luly H19.845
February 797,2'M August 376 2,.
March 935.9'JO September ... 462.6e9
prll 707.332 October 514.413
May 637.536 November .... 970.517
June 675,158 December .... 828,201
that about $2,OM,000 worth of Improvements
have been made to real estate, reductions
on land values, particularly In the south
part of the city, has brought the net In
crease In real estnte assessments to not
more than $."00,OPO. During the year the
tax commissioner personally Inspected nnd
reassessed nil of the lots lying south of
Iavenworth street, thus completing tho
REGISTRY EASINESS.
1901.
2X.19
53.219
12.3 i
170.520
11.476
letters and parcels registered
letters and parcels delivered
Registered pouches received
Packages received In same
Registered pouches dispatched
packages cuspatcneo; in same ji.'..i:io
Registers handled In transit 252.515
Total number registered articles hmdled 430,4X3
LOCAL STATISTICS.
Window deliveries registered letters nnd parcels at main
olllce 30,(C2
Window deliveries at stations 80
Carrier deliveries of registered letters and parcels at main
office 21.816
Carrier deliveries of registered mall at stations 2,552
Registered by curriers on routes 910
1902. 1903. 1904.
32.9T.5 42.337 41.668
75.412 65.310 H6.491
12.S.-.5 13.o21 13.537
Si '2. 697 2n,(rj8 207.07:1
12.311 11,062 11,263
2SS.3I3 241.393 242.278
SiM 3i'3.9'.i6 822.493
482,039 406,785 497,041
S2.S96 30.320 31.00
992 1.690 1,630
22 952 28 773 29.012
2,'751 4.8ii0 8.799
878 S0 1,062
MONEY ORDER BI SINESS 1904.
51.295 money orders Issued $ 405,129 04
284.511 money orders paid 2.4L'('.,624 78
20,929 remittances received 3.630,713 12
Total $0,428,306 94
Sale of stamped envelopes, postal
card etc $498,958 CO
Amount collected on second-class
matter 65.994 23
Amount collected on box rent 2,125 25
Total $567,078 14
WHAT THE PARK BOARD SPENT
Much Work Done of the Boulevard
System Daring; the Last
Yenr.
Total $7,878,717
As between the city and tho county the
apportionment of mortgage filed and re
leased is shown by the following table:
t
City Mortgages.
Fliea.
Month. No. Amount.
January 117 $ 2n6,53a
February 161 195.0S5
Marcn i3
85.291.269.51
33.222.164.93
32.i0o,275. 78
34.614,474.90
2.1,548,250.12
29.711, S1S.36
33,095,444.91
36,440,690.31
34.324. M2.K1
sy.iHjo.ow.oo
January .
February
March ...
Apnl
May
June
July
August ..
Si pienib?r
October ..
Novtmber
December
Totals 1392.880,1 20 88 $398 9-5,212 35
With the totals for the last nineteen
years at hand, it will be seen that not
since 1'.'6 have the clearings reached as
high a figure as this year. A tabulation is
appended, but In the years 187 to 1S93 the
clearing season extended from October 1 to
September 30. In 18i3 the schedule was ur
ranged' to run with the calendar year, so
the two quotations for that year are, first,
up to October 1, and, second, the months
of October. Novemner and December.
From 194 oil the calendar year Is included
In each total:
1087
lf'88
lb9 ,
190
1SIII
iS92
:i
1'93
1894
IMiS
$274,441.0S9.101fc9S 420, 282, 668.56
3J2,i)i4.ijj.ii ll(7 243.3vs,7:.'.5r
4o2,5"0.332.im HX 319.501.628 61
490,124,913 34 1x49 2;.4.!2.3ilJ.30
4l2,2.)7.790.7e 9"0 315,l;;5,l:i0.il
64r.,n7K.8M.u2 I'.IOI 82;i,(H3, 6.91
632.s3J.746.Sti Ati 361, ill, 775.77
120,2"4.i72.i)t. !i3 392.Sio.92ii S8
43, 472,161 tj 1MU4 39,9S5,212.36
31,286.477.74
OMAHA BUILPING LAST YEAR
Increase of Uua loan loo I'er Cent
Over 1IM; and Heaviest In
Twelve Years.
Building operations In Omaha for the
year show un Increase over any of the pre
ceding twelve years, 800 permits having
been lesued by the city for an estimated
expenditure of $2,060,000, according to Rich
ard Grotte, chief clerk of the department.
The gain over 1903 is nearly loO per cent.
Although there was a general Increase In
building In every large city, Omaha stands
at or close to the top In percentage of ad
vance over the preceding twelve months.
The buildings erected are generally of bet
ter quality and more substantial and mod
ern than heretofore built, the residences
averaging about. $3,000 each.
Twenty-five store and office buildings
were built or started during the year.
Among them are the Hoagland business
block at Sixteenth and Howard streets, to
cobt $.00,000; the Neville store and office
building, costing $30.0u0; A. I. Root, printing
house, t-0.ouo; John Rowe, store building,
tlO.OU) and Wltuschek Bros, store and fiat
building, tlO.OoS.
Of the six churches bultt or begun during
the year the Kountse Memorial church at
Twenty-sixth and Farnam streets, ousting
$71,0110, Is tbe largeat. The imposing new
First Baptist church was built under a
$15000 permit.
Nine facturte and warehouses were built.
April
May
June
July
August ....
September
October ...
November
December
212
210
214
1914
166
168
146
106
130
ai7.7(6
239,245
300,705
238.440
221,685
247,925
227,715
107.400
198,215
201,450
Released.
No. Amount.
138 $ 220,700
K.8
188
174
173
188
184
155
142
146
114
148
The park board has been doing much
work thla year on the boulevards and parks
and the item of expenditure for Weft Cen
tral boulevard is the largest. The state
ment of expenditures for the year and Its
apportionment among the various parks
! follows:
Hanscom park $ 6,097.31
Rivervlew 1099.21
Blmwood 1.820.29
Miller 1,3X7.97
Kotintze
Curtlss Turner 665.72
Fontenelle 800.19
Ttemls 690.53
132.975 Jefferson Square nnd Cupltol avenue. 319.0)
500.310 Florence Boulevard 5. iM.u
192,540 South Central Boulevard 1.705.08
Si.SS West Central Boulevard 16.874. 7.
m, sou. iw
careful Investigation Into real estate values
all over town. On the personal assessment
roll about $1,(100,000 was lost by the suc
cess of the foreign life and fire Insurance
companies in their suits to prevent tho
city from assessing upon the gross pre
miums. This loss was made up In part
by a fiOO.OlO Increase In the assessment of
the electric light company and $100,000 for
the street railway. Other advances were
the result of higher Individual persona! as
sessments against men and corporations,
many returning a greater valuation, volun
tarily, than ever before. Tho banks sus
tained a 10 per cent Increase over the
previous assessment. Of the whole assess
ment roll about $72,000,000 is for real estate
and $30,000,000 for personal property.
BUSY YEAR FOR THE FIREMEN
Four Hundred nnd Seventy-Eight
Alarms with Hemarkably
Sniall Loss.
tures of the year's work In the police de
partment Is the number of convictions se
cured In police court on cases where the
prisoners were remanded to the county
Jail. The records show a decrease In viola
tions of the city ordinances, the figures for
IW having been quite an Increase over the
year b. fore.
Comparative figures for 19 and 1904 ar
appended:
Accidents reported
Arrests made
Buildings secured
Burglars frustrated
Belles taken to morgue
Destitute cared for
Fire alarms given
Fires attended
Insane cared for
Lodgers accommodated
Lost children taken to parents.
Meals furnished
Number of patrol calls
Miles traversed by patrol
wagon
Number of ambulance caJIs...
Miles traversed by ambulance.
Nuisances and dead aiilmals
reported
Prisoners taken to county Jail.
Packages stolen and recovered.
Runaway horses stopped
Sick an1 injured taken home..
Sick and Injured taken to hos
pital Sick and Injured taken lo sta
tion and cared for
Stray teams rared for
Siriy borsee taken up
Suicides reported
Sulfides attempted
Shooting affrays
Stabbing affrays
Stolen property reported..
Stolen property recovered
190(1. ISM
199 175
t.692 8.311
113 104
4 i
61 35
88 68
12
l'l 117
49 it
1.732 2.50
6 43
32 874 32.L7k1
4.099 4.J59
(,551 6.211
64 49
290 194
SSI 402
711 915
418 020
6 t
76 55
94 96
102 I'M
61 91
45 54
18 18
12 12
9 6
11 7
the collections for the corresponding ckven
months of 1H"3 In adjoining column:
Lists (sundry assess-
19M. 190.1
mentsl $ S.-'Al $ 3
Beer stamps M iOJ 202 6:'6
Spirit stamps 1.6:9.779 t.o, 8.637
Cigar stamps 7i' 3.M 67.' 1.1
Tobacco stamps 6.171 4,;
Special tax stamps 86.767 79.2 9
Renovated butter stamps.. S.'M 13..VH
Mixed (lmir stamps 7 17
Documentary stamps 2S Ts"
1 laying card stamps
Totsls $2119.803 $:.509.'V
It should be remembered that the De
cember collections are not Included In
these totals. They were $2:9.071 for l; 1
and will probably reach $19'.0tW for 194.
1904 MORTALITY STATISTICS
General Health nf City tiood, with
More Hlrths nnd Heaths
Then In 1903,
General good health marked the year 19
In Omaha. While children's diseases were
sfmewhat prevalent, they did not at any
time assume the proportions of epidemics.
The number of birth exceeded that of 1903,
but the number of deaths was greater nls v.
Diphtheria, which has been prvalont
throughout th west, vlalttd Omaha, but
to no very great extent, the culture tubs
system In use by tho health deimrtnietit
finding 105 out of 178 suspected cases to te
iiot diphtheria, leaving only seventy-throe
postlve rani. Assuming two children In a
family, this meant a gain of 735 weeks In
school. Besides this, the annoyance nnd
cxjH-nse of from four to six works of quar
antine was avi bled In 106 cases. There were
eleven deaths from diphtheria. Of thirty
three canv of smallpox twelve wore trnord
to origination outside the city. There were
The following renorts of Coiintv Treas- aJI "r "cariet rover, or live less thiitt
urer Robert O. Fink and of County Clerk j ,Mfl- Several nnalyn s of the water supplr
John C. Drexel will show how much the J have shown It to bo healthful, theso test
county revenues have been augmented this ; being made at the direction of the cltjr
year as the result of the scavenger and I council
.$17,040 $19,271
. lZ,tki 11. .SHU
COUNTY FUNDS FOR THE YEAR
Showing of Flnnnres Made by the Re
ports of Trensnrer and
Clerk.
other measures. Collections and disburse
ments for 19"3 and HM compare IhU'";
Receipts.
1903. Iftol.
Tax collections $715.172 10$ 762 948.71
Miscellaneous coiloet'ns l8J.::e4.i:i 413.9Si.:
Following ure the mortality statistics I jr
months:
BIRTHS.
Mules. Females. Total.
January ...
February ..
March
May
June
July .
Total $M8.476.53 $1,166,930.73 , April M
Disbursement a.
19u3. 19iM
Paid state treasurer. . .$128,023.67 $ 103,753.91
County warrants paid... 4U'i2.1.Zl 437.7S1.35
Paid citv of Omaha.... 4s.3e8..jl 184,62s. 49
Paid city of So. Omaha 10.194 41 24,7(2.16
Paid school districts.... 131.767. 16 100.887. 7
Redemptions, etc U4.i9-'.s
October ...
November
Iecember
Totals $732,917.26 $1, 086.196.66
Statements showing valuation, levy and
tax ure as follows:
Assessed Valuations.
I Banks Total
Year. I and 1'er
IRall'ds.l sonal.
'otnl I
Iteal )
tate.
Tot
Real
Es
Total
SO 75 151
81 07 17-
96 89 1S1
64 61 111
84 61 14.1
96 72 108
88 M 174
95 70 171
72 64 126
94 SI 15
69 58 127
60 r.1 134
977 848 1,823
January
February
March ..
April ...
May
DEATHS.
Males. Females. Totals.
1904
19U3
1902
19i!l
19.10
1899
1S!'8
1S97
1S96
IJM
1M4
1S93
1S93
;$2,100.37 $9,478.408$19.38l.221 '$28,862,629
1.4116.6751 6.972.N4UI 18.163.278
1.474,841 6.750,012 1S.143,328
1.297.375t 4.5il,327 17.8ijO.4Hil
July
August
25,t 02,791 September
I5,6i,ll October ...
22,381, 92 November .
Bunks ..
State ....
Total
Personal
Ijuiub ..
Lots
Total
1.298.0Z..I 4.453,243 17,262,730
1.236,211 4.3N2.6"3i 17,243.61l 21.626,214
1,250,045 3.946.4S6 17,077.007 21,023, S2
1.224.67h 8.9V..470 1T.UR.6WI 21.070.973
1.239,6871 8,76,Dt 17,013.111, 21.6.i9.70i
1,840,6481 4.1161,131: ls,44l.4!'9 22,602.63)
1.4.14,604 4. 417,901 20.2S3.2o9 24,7' 1.14)
1,471.774 4.5S7.797 20.887.5151 2f-. 475. 332
1.732,538, 4.781.6j7 20,965,6S4 26,737,0H j 1!)04
1 19H3
Valuation 11KV4. I 1hi2
1 803 700 ! 1 901
30 39 7.1
,40 42 88
62 47 HA
51 54 l'"J
57 84 91
40 .19
59 44 1 3
05 45 110
4.1 S5 78
43 35 78
39 51 90
45 40 91
590 511 1.101
Below Is the eompnratlve mortality record
for ten years:
BIRTHS.
Males. Femnle. Totnls.
,. 97
. 9.
, . 804
,. 8S5
1.203:iS8 ; 900
I WW 11111
I 2.006.946 ! m 841
1 7.377,402 ,
r. 91 j juj 16 9n4
6.214,494
14,109,727
$28,828,629
Levies,
Year.
-Mills-
State, f County.
Consolidated.
Aside from tho material Improvements
made in Omaha's fire department during
the last year, there were no unusual fea-
789.90 ! tures to mark the year. In fact, the total
loos to buildings and contents was In
marked contrast to the year before, owing
to the fact that there were no really seri
ous fires during the year, although the
total number of fires outnumbered by four
teen those of the year before. The fire
"si 5 Southeast Boulevard
190,105 Thirtieth street 27 00 ;ougf.g at Eleventh and Jackson streets
fls-:;. Twenty-seventh and Jones streets.
-"-r ' in aauiuou 10 un? uuovc ps' ' "
221,' 465 i general supplies come from two funds, the
Totals
Total amount released
Total amount filed
181,085 park and the road fund. Receipts of the
.1070 '$15 wT6 isBiss'i f.un.TTr:,.Trj7v34'-
DIVORCES
.$2,906,570
. 2,721,005
Release over filings $ 244,506
Farm Mortgages.
Filed. -Released. -
Month.
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
No. Am'nt. No. Am'nt.
4 $ 3.800 7 t 88.K50
21 53.870 14 20,900
30 70.800 35 68.946
6 14.125 12 47,0
11 15.675 1 2 19,100
11 17.3(16 12 29.200
12 30,350 6 6.7(0
11 14.06 3 6.18D
8 1 4.200 4 3
10 14.090 7 16.775
13 15.0U0 T 8.175
6 14,840 13 18. SHI
$334,865
$314.81
, 279,300
September
October ..
November
December
Totals 142 $279,300 131
Total amount released
Total amount filed
Release over filings $ 55,505
Sheriff's deeds given under foreclosure
sales during the' eleven months up to De
cember 1 (no returns having yet been made
for December) were as follows, in number
and amount:
Month. No
Jai.u.ny ..
February .
March ....
April
May
June
July
Aucust ...
Sept mbor
October
6
23
16
15
13
16
7
6
8
18
Amount.
$111,650
66,615
47, i00
51,976
IS On!
20.125
20,160
MARRIAGES AND
Cupid and the toons Alike Fall
Behind the Figures Set
for IVOiU
There were fifty-live less petitions for di
vorce filed during the year 1901 than In the
preceding year. The figures are 415 and
360 for 1903 and 1904, respectivelyi Divorca
petitions are filed most numerously during
tho spring months, after a hard winter has
Iried the souls of men and women. March
leads all the other months, having ulmost
twice the number of divorce seekers that
May has, for instance.
June and October are easily the most
popular months for marriages, while March
witnesses the least number of weddings.
The total number of marriage licenses is
sued during the last year fell below the
total for 1903, the figures being 1,411 for
1903 and 1,365 for 19(4. Marriage licenses
Issued by months:
1904
19"3
1902
1901
lidO
1S99
M97
1S96
1895
1S94
H93
1892
4 1-2
6
4 1-2
7 3-8
7 1-2
8 2-8
T 6-8
7 6-8
7 2-8
6 7-8
6 3-8
6 2-8
15 8-10
16 -10
16
17 2-10
17 2 l't
16 9-10
16 7-10
14
16 7-10
15
15
16 7-10
' 1195
1894
1904
19(13
lWi
1901
I 1900
1899
1S98
SIM
81 9
703
824
852
910
7S0
949
9r,5
9:H
910
971
898
DEATHS.
Males. Females. Totals.
1.826
1.7.14
1.027
1.7 fl
1.812
1.72,1
1.0'!5
1.91 It
l.ivr)
590
61 8
677
630
663
044
610
626
4S2
675
21 8-10
22 8-10 !lS97
19 1-2 , ixw
94 S3. in I i.i.e
24 7-1(1 ! K,j4 035
ea id iv 1
24 45-100 i
21 5-8
23 Hi-100
21 7-8
21 3-8
22 95-100
511
439
6"2
455
445
643
417
435
417
645
514
l.lill
945
1.079
ll
l.liet
1.1S7
117
900
:
1.122
1.14S
Tax.
Year County
, Jar jury .
February
! March ...
85Julv 99
...I'll August 9i
66 September
Ill October ...
90 November
1S6 leeember
.120
.101
.121
.1U2
November 1
HOUSE RECEIPTS
CUSTOM
Bnstnesa for loot Shows m Slight
, Falling- Off from that
of 1003.
The customs receipts at Omaha prior to
November 1 hardly came up to those of
the corresponding period of the preceding
year. After the election Importations took
a sudden Impetus, bringing th general
collections for the year up to about the
average. As the fiscal ytar does not close
until June 30. It Is difficult ts make an
estimate of the exact receipts for the
period ending with the close of this cal
endar year. The tea receipts are largely
direct from China and Japan, and, as (lie
crop was about two months late during the
year 1904 and with the additional fact of
the prevalence of the Japanese-Russian
war, the greater customs rtceipts for the
year have been since June So.
There have been some Imports of cigars
from Havana during the padt few months,
the firm direct Imports from there for
some years, and there is a tendency of
the cigar merchants to Increase their Im
portations direct to Omaha, Instead of
through the bonded warehouses of New
York and Philadelphia. The existence of
a spacious bonded warehouse In Omaha
affords facilities for direct Importations
from foreign ports without the customary
delay Incident to their being imported
through the eastern seaport warehouses.
The value of foreign goods of all char
acters received In Omaha annually will ap-
WEATHER RECORD FOR YEAR
General Summary Shows No Marked
Departures from Normal
Conditions.
A general summary of the weather con
ditions during the year 1904. taken from
the records of the United' States Weather
bureau office at Omaha, proves the year
to have been a rather uneventful one,
viewed from a meteorological standpoint.
There was no wide departure In the tem
perature conditions during any month of
the year, and the mean temperature for
the year was 60 degrees, being exactly the
same as the annual mean temperature for
this vicinity. The lowest temperature re
corded was 17 degrees below sero on Janu
ary 25, and the highest 93 degrees above
sero on August 14. The summer was cool
and (he-e were but seven days on which
the temperature recorded above 90 degrees.
A remarkable change In temperuture oc
curred March I and t; a fall of 88 de
grees was recorded, being the greatest fall
In the same number of hours recorded nt
Omaha during the past thirty-four years.
This dro;i In temperature was made more
Impressive from the fact that It was
ushered in by a gale of forty-six miles per
hour from the northwest. A local wind
squall, accompanying a thunderstorm, did
some damage at Krug park on the after
noon of June 29. Another brief wind squall,
accompanying a thunderstorm, early in the
morning of July U, did considerable dam-
begun In 1903, were completed last year.
The apparatus was strengthened to the
extent of one metropolitan fire engine, the
"Frenk R. Moores," one elghty-flve-foot
hook and ladder truck, one city hook nnd
ladder truck, five hose wagons and 6,000
feet of hose. The new equipment Is of a
high grade and added materially to the flre
flghting strength of the department.
There were 119 officers nnd men In the
department at the close of the year, as
against 117 the same time a year ago.
Nineteen firemen were Injured on duty dur
ing the year, but none were fatally In
jured. There was one natural death In the
department, that being Cnptaln Henderson J
of hose company No. 11. Nine citizens ',
were Bllghtly burned, nine severely burned j
and five fatally burned at fires during tho
year. All the horses fatally burned were
In tho Dlllrance burn, where twrnty-nlno
horses wore killed on the morning of
January 25.
The total of 43.1 alarms were sent In ns
follows: Telephoned, 205; fire alarm boxes,
48; still alarms, 31; special duty calls, 71;
no alarms, 10; second alarms, 4. In the
summary of the days of the week on
which the alarms were sent TVedrnsday
heads the list with 78. Of the morning
hours 11 o'clock was the hour for the
greateKt number of alnrms, while the
largest number of alarms occurring during
the second part of the day happened at
6 p. m. More fires occurred In December
than In any other one month.
The largest fire of the year was on De
cember 5 Pt the factory of L. O. Doup,
1307-9 Nicholas street. The exact figures
have not yet been rendered, but Mr. Doup
has estimated the loss as not far from
$.T.,oe0. which would make this considerably
above any other fire of the year. The
next fire of Importance was on August 13
at the Omaha Bedding company's plant,
Just across the street from the Doup es
tablishment. The loss at the bedding fac
tory was $10,597.
The following tabulation Includes all but
the L. G. Doup fire:
Number of alarms 435
Value of buildings $2.W 811
Vulue of contents 2.270 648
I Tux.
1904 ...$456,029.55
19 ... 430.126.9J
19 2 ... 494.6X1.05
1IM1 ... 550.082 64
1900 ... 537,125.66
1899 ... 64.1,899.30
IK! ... 486.109.66
1897 ... 616.185.31
1S96 ... 468.391.13
1895 ... 638.938.00
1S91 ... 540.337.45
18H3 . . . 614.533.99
1892 ... 590,667.27
State
Tax.
Miscel
laneous Tuxes.
Total
Tax.
LAST YEAR AT THE LIBRARY
Institution Shows Steady Growth In
Substance aud Popular
I sefulness.
Figures supplied by Miss Tobltt, the
librarian, show that during 1904 tho public
library continued to add to Its equipment
' 1 at about the same ratio It advanced during
$173,175.79 $12O.748.$749,954.0O previous years. The $10,000 bequest of the
i'vu 71 S'J?-1'1 r7?,3i4 7J lata Frank Murphy was the greatest event
626 243 41 yeur. Aiienuance ana issue records
0.M,4.6i show the popularity and usefulness of the
613,168.37 library Is growing with pleasing rapidity.
fS'c.k These are tho statlstlcsi
12.543.591 64 667.28
10,646.331 67.628,'M
lO.072.2Oi
9,685 41
9.6 4.61
9.365 Ii6i
69.196 87
69.842.50
60.850.S0
5 6. 610.2
6.1,435. 531 638,191.72 Total number of volumes accessioned
12,056.26! 60,3b6.39 611,80.05
10,262.08
IO.81 12.90,
10,606.50
43.732 08
44816.19
48,095.24
694,331.61
599,342 08
6jO,029.01
to date... 80.221
Total numlKT of volumes withdrawn
to date 15,197
Total number of volumes now in the
$5,263 31
$:8.218
49,185
Total value
Loss on buildings
Iaiss on contents
Total loss
Total amount of Insurance
Insurance over loss
I.oss to Insurance $ 70.281
Loss over Insurance (not Insured)., 7,122
$77,403
$3,124,281
3,064,003
YEAR'S (W0RK0F THp POLICE
Criminals and Infortunates Less Ka.
ineroos Thau llurlna tbe
Year IUO.1.
A survey of the police records for the
last year does not reveal any striking con
trast to that of the year beore. The total
number of arrests were somewhat less,
while the patrol calls were proportion
ately smaller in number. One of the fea-
Deeemberv 1903 .
January, 19"4 ..
February, 1904 .
March. 1904 ....
April, 1904
May, 19K4
June, 1!'4
July, 1904
August, 1904 ...
September, 1904
October, 1904 ...
November, 1904
Collections.
Taxes.
....$ 77.203.60
... 23.068.80
... 21.091.30
... 86.307.09
... 1S8.789.92
... 128. wa. 04
... 20.315.35
... 30,(58. 22
.;. 26.672.92
... 18.299.38
... 19.630.43
... 109.423.90
library
Number of volumes added In 1904.
Number of cards issued In 1901
Number of cards now in use
Books Issued for homo use
Books Issued for reference
Visitors to the reference room....
Visitors to the readiuir room
Visitors to the Byron Reed room.
. 66.024
.. 4.018
.. 4,091
.. 12.S41
..190.(r.t2
.. 11.610
.. 22.7A9
.. 4d.2l
7.6m
Visitors to the museum W,U0
Totals
OUTPUT OF OMAHA SMELTERY
Oter Three Millions a Month Added to
tbe World's Wealth at
This Plant.
Miscel
laneous. $ 60.477.45
11.679.88
13.336.53
14.8S3.36
8.249.91
4.490.18 I
U'Imm MCNEY SPENT BY THE ARMY
30. 9.13. 17
30 0629 s"rl-r Two M " Kspended la
72.843!o7 i Maintaining the Department
of the Mlaaonrl.
The total amount nf money on hand anl
received for tho Department of the, Mis
souri, C S. A., during the calendar year
up to December 28, 1904, at the office ot
thh chief quartermaster waa $1,875,102.(0.
During the same period $1,606,333.40 was
expended.
These expenditures do not Include those
mado by the constructing quarti rmastei s
at the various military posts of the de-
1,948.76 $113,981.98
Over t30,000,000 In real value was added to
1110 worm s supply or precious and useful , partments, these being paid through the
metals by the Omnha plant of the American ' office of tho quartermaster general at
Smelting and Refining compuny during 1901. Wushlngton. The figures herewith given
But this does not indicate the exact value Include the payment for supplies of all
to commerce and Industry of the output, kinds, the expenses of running the flepart
For Instance, $14,100,000 Is the actual value ' ment, transportation, purchase of clothing,
of tho silver product, but the coin vulue , horses and general equipment,
would be $18.1S!),uu. The total footing of j Aside from the quartermaster's depurt
tho products of the plant ts exactly $w - I mcnt the "Jm of upr-roxlmately $350,000
015,000, while the lotal for 1903 was only 1 l'M out durlnB tU 'ettr now ci("'n
$33,809,901. There has thus been a substantial . for commissary supplies through the office
Increase In the output of each de, Jfment i of, a,p,al" "j ,at ker" "urth"'" cora
of the local plant, which can best be shown j m""",ry f 'ub
ry,wVe BUILDING FEATURES
tlO,l!si,r $10 86(',(00 ' Bom'B ImP"" Improvements Made
i162 auI Kl'JO.Oiiu I at I'ncle Sam's Headquarters
,8i,(i73 10,0O6.(Kt
90.622 6.(0.000 I ' During the Year.
',' m j The Omaha postoffice building, which
$-(3, 809, 961 $36,015,ouO ranks about sixth In magnitude and cost of
the federal buildings In the t'nited Statew,
MILLIONS FOR GOVERNMENT ' ha been brouht lo cn-plelon during the
J K-tX I i S lt, ILL aV IUI04 UUDI U a fl,oiU,WV.
Oold
Silver
Lead
Copper
Blue vltrol..
Total
Internal Revenue Collections for the
Year Fall Off Fonr Huudred
Thousand Dollars.
The receipts of taxes at the Omaha office
of the United States Internal revenue col
lector for l4 will show a decrease of
about $4ou,0j0 as compared with the previ
ous yeur. This falling off is In the sal
of tax-paid spirit stamps, the other de
partment showing for the must part a
slight increase. lKcembir collections are
not included In the totals, but It may be
suld that they footed up, through Decem
ber 24, about $165,000, as against $2ou,ouo
for the corresponding daysof 1903. The
details of the collections for the eleven
months ending November 30, 1904. (omitting
fraotions of a dollars) are as follows, with
number of Important Improvements have
boon made In and about the building,
largely Increasing Its efficiency and con
venience for the purposes Intended. These
improvoments include the repainting and re
decorating of the east wing, at a cost of
$7,000, this work having been done by
Messrs. Rutherford & Jensen of Omaha.
The slate roof ovor the main work room
of the postoffice bus been removed and re
placed with glavs, at a cost of t0.7. A
new cement sidewalk bus replaced tho
former luwn timt nurrmiuui-d the building,
costing $1,700. Additional radiation has
cost about l,W and other miscellaneous
Improvements $1,000, making a tola! of
$17,4(0 exponded In Improvements during
the year.
Additional Statistical Review on Page U.