Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, January 01, 1905, NEWS SECTION, Page 5, Image 5
TITE OMAITA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY. JANUARY 1. 1005. rACTS AND FIGURES THAT SHOW OMAHA'S PROGRESS AND PROSPERITY EOR THE YEAR 1904 (Continue from Page On.) 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.