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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 25, 1906)
c O iii.cilTLcas jl lianlciull ness Imtiiut tons lhat Are SfaMfng the Ciiy Great. OrRDON TV. WATTLK9. President Omaha Grain Kxchanae. MRS. AMELIA SOMKHS, President Omaha Woman's Club. Organized effort has been one of the great factors in the? development of Omaha's material interests. Some of the chief factors in the growth of the city are here enumerated. O MA HA. the Market Town," Is the slogan of tho Omaha Commercial club, an organization which is constantly on the watch for the city's interests. Kadi member feels h ought to do all he can to make Omaha a city of Joo.cno by JfilO. und the orsiinlzatlon works to that end. A yeur hro. In answer to the Importunitli s of the club, the railroads promised to place Omaha on a parity with St. Paul in the matter of merchandise rates to South Pa liota to make rates which would not "x cerd the Bum of the locals to mid from Sioux City. This promise has been partly carried out by a tariff which went Into effect August 28 of this year. The club claims to be partly responsible for securing Improved passenger train service cn the Wabash and Missouri Pacific, and a mail service on the Rock Island which puts Omaha mall Into northern Kansas and southern and southwestern Nebraska and Colorado twelve hours earlier than for merly. The club Is now working with every road running Into Omaha for the im provement of the freight service. The club won last summer before this western classification committee In Its fight against the mixed carload rating pro posed by large eastern houses on goods to this part of the country. It has brought a number of manufactur ing Htid .lobbing Industries to Omaha, and Is now about to organize a promotion cor poration to bring more here. Believing local Jobbers were taxed high enough on their stocks, the organization was largely Instru mental in preventing an advance in assess ment two or three years ago. It Is assisting the Grain exchange in its fight against the Rock Island road for mak ing grain rate discriminating against Omaha. At present a campaign la being waged for stop-over privileges for all per sons ptujstng through Omaha. The club makes three trade excursions each year, boosting Omaha by let t ting the people of the tributary territory know that thero Is on tho Missouri river a real live town, with live people In It. Omaha. Is advertised to the world on every possible chance, and Commissioner Guild says a still more strenuous policy of adver tisement Is to be pursued in future. From a small beginning Ak-Sar-Ben has grown until It has come to be welded with the interests of Omaha. From year to year the organization drafted Into the service the best of the city's business talent, i;id men from all the professions and walks of life were quick to get on the firing line and push the Hag of Ak-Sar-Ben to the I'illt The tetii ts of Ak-Sar-Ben faith have been that t no growth and prosperity of Omaha are closely Identified with the state and that even in commercialism, there is such a thing as appealing to men's sentiments through such high class entertainments us the annual parades. Many wise men from the east and west, north and south, and from places between those points, have declared that the or ganization known as the Knights of Ak-S;ir-Ren has done more for the substantial growth of Omaha than tiny other one agency. Be that as it may, It cannot be gainsaid that this enterprising organization lias performed yeoman service In the work of biinging Omaha and the state unto its own. If nothing more than the present renown of Ak-Sar-Ben itself would be cited as a criterion. It would be mote to give It unstinted praise In bringing the Antelope state and Gate City to the front In a mens, ire that would be hard to Indicate by any mere arithmetical process. Through the kindly offices of Ak-Sar-Ben the business lines of demarcation between Omaha and the state have been softened and Omuha's great trade strengthened. Ak-Sar-Ben has served as a beacon light showing the citizens of Omha and those living beyond the city that their paths tire after all not 'divergent. The annual Ak-Har-Ben fall festivities have served as large thanksgiving festal occasions for those living In the Land of Qutvera. In South Omaha was a cornfield. A few stock dealers were located there, and In the year 1RW4 thiy bought 88.603 cattle, 3.08t hogs, B,S'J3 sheep and 4R9 horses and mules. ' Thanksgiving day of WOO finds a busy city of 30,000 people, with four pack ing houses, many railroads and good mu nicipal conveniences. In 1905 the receipts nt the llvoscock market were 1,0X392 cattle. 2.15J.956 hogs, 1.970.602 sheep and 4MC2 horses and mules. That the market is still steadily and rapidly growing Is shown by an Increase over the same period of last year for the ten months ending October 31, ISiii. of IM.'.H.I cattle. lTO.Tnl hogs and lC,Sfi9 sheep. To t lie South Omaha Live Stock ex elmnse, organized In 18s. when the city boasted of but two packing houses, and when receipts had not begun to reach the e.iornious proportions they have now at tained, Ik due a great deal of credit for the advance of the Magic City. The exchange, well orgnr.lsed and well regulated as It Is, permits of shipment of live stock without the owner accompanying It. and makes pos-i sible satisfactory business transactions at long range. The Interests of the shippers .rc always protected by the rigid rules of the organization. Loose and unquestlonsble methods are practically an Impossibility, for In ct.se of an Infraction or an evasion or the rules the penalty falls swiftly and surely. With the exchange as a founda tion, the South Omaha market stands to diiy to liic entire live stock trade as a monument to business Intelligence, in tegrity and progression. The exchange has 100 members, mostly commission men, with a few trader, bank era and lacliers. They believe that Omaha, bclm r.iar the base of production, will becomo the ccrter of the packing Industry of the country. The story of the Omaha Grain exchange is told thus by President G. W. Wattle: The Omaha Grain exchange was orgnnized hi li'tll and commenced lis corporate ex istence on February 1. 1!M. wttn the pur j.'isc on the part ot Its organizers to make it the basis for the creation at Omihn of a great grain receiving, storing and shie pmif business. We have succeeded in this purpose far in vend our most sanguine expectations at tho tune. When we forced the changrs In tlie rates that were made In 1904 from Oirah.t to Chicago and Mississippi river points we bad It In mind to create the ability to reslilp from Omaha the grain pro dded in Nebraska, the ordinary disposition of which was the markets on ths Mississippi river. Ch.cago and at the Atlantic seaboard. The imntdlate result was the construction at Omaha of the following storage ele- pacltv on this market will have reached the splendid total of M4.K bushels. In the meantime the lines leading from Omaha to the gulf, noting the accuiiiuluilon here of large stocks of grain for which leri wa a i insur ing mnrket In southern and southeastern territory, and a large export demand, put Into effect such rates fi-om Omaha that our dealers were able to work lip a magnificent business In that di rection. The immediate result wtis thnt the Omaha grain firms were obliged to reach on? for new producing territory In order to obtain grain enough to fill their orders, mid, as a consequence, all of western Iowa has become tributary to the Omahn market. We have obtained material reductions In the freight rates from South Iakot nolriis nnd northeastern Nebraska points to Omaha hs against the figures which were In effect a year ago. We me now negotiating with the railroads which traverse the great grain producing elite of South Dakota, and we hope-before Jnnary 1 to be able to an nounce to the members of the exchange thoroughly satisfactory schedules from that state. The receipts of grain at Omaha during the yeur 1fo4 were H;.4.li..S5 bushel-; In lflt'o. S4.uW.SiiO bushels, for the nine months ending September 1KI, l!i, 3u. ICflno bushels. If the ssnie ratio of Increase is kept up during October. November and December, the total receipts at Omaha for the yeur lung will be not less than 45.O0u.0O0 bushels. The Inspection and weighing departments of the exchange have teen throughly re organized this1 year and It Is our aim to ultimately place them upon sn unassail able basis, so that our certificates of weight and Inspection will be as good In the cur- President P P PARKIU K3T. South Onuiha Live Exchange. Stock way property, working hand In hand before the legislature with Kdwurd Rosewater, rent markets of the world as those of any wn , tm, pnr,.r , the movement. C mnrket In the t'nlted States. .... J. , ,, . . i .,i w u fro v Heierniinod in ni.mtn from ii, e F. Harrison. Fred 1). ead and V G. I r.. railroads serving this market absolute Jus- as members of the taxation committee 01 the exchange, and Attorney J. H. Mcin tosh, engaged by the exchange, worked In person at Lincoln In support of a house tKV and fairness of freight rate adjust ment and termlnsl charges. We have every contldenee In the fact that when these two things have been accomplished, our posi tion geographically with reference to the t,m which embodied the principle of ter- great producing areas and to the consum ing markets, will make OniHlm as a receiv ing and shipping point for grain second initial taxation of railroad properties for city and village put poses. The three mcri- vaiois: Busneis. Independent Elevator l.OW.Ono Vpdlke Grain Co 6tti,i0 TiansniisBlsslppI Grain Co BOO.fiO Morrliim & Holinqulst Co., "B" V, Nebraska-Iowa Grain Co L!I,0i Crowell Lumber and Grain Co lifi.eoO M. C. Peters Mill Co ItiO.OOO Csvers-Von Dorn Elevator Co BO.Ono Droge Bros oO.ono Nebraska Hay and Grain Co 2o,ott) Add to these the elevators then in operation Omaha Elevator Co 1,500.000 Merriam & Holmquist Co., "A" 6fM).rtl J. I". Twomley, Son & Co 40.000 And the two now being erected Nye-Sehneider-Fowler Co 1,000,000 Gate City Malt Co 300.000 and on January L 1907, the storage ca- of 1902 to equalise taxes In Douglas county, a campaign especially directed against the franrhlsed corporations of the city of Omaha, and which ended !n raising the as sessed valuations of these corporations from $4,551,678 to I22.475.3ii8. This campaign added 110.000,000 to the assessed valuation of property in Douglas county, a large part of which had previously paid little or no taxes. Emboldened by the success of this move ment, ths exchange in 1908 launched out In the tight for the terminal taxatlor of rall- S. P. BOSTWICK, President Omaha Real Estate Exchange. onlv to Chicago. By the time that this is l,ers of tin; committee nlso spent much f accomplished there will necessarily be lo- tn , (n,r , ,,. ,ownfl of ,ho ,. m.,i;. 'a ted In Omaha (as there hss been in Min- , ,, . .. . .. i neapolls and Kansas City) large milling and l"K addresses and distributing clicuUts, In manufacturing Industries, which always order lo educate the people on the subject seek the points of greatest concentration of Hllrt i,i,1(.r them to Influence their repre- thelr raw material. sentatlves In the legislature to vote for the ,,.... . . .. measure. The bill fulled of passage, but The Real Estate exchange is another or- , ,,, , . ... the principle was more widely advertised gunizatlon that has always been active In .. . . , , ,, K i. r ,, . ., .. , than It had ever been, and the belief be- all movements for the upbuild ng of thev ...... . j , .. . came more ltx"d In the minds of Its. sun city. It was a strong factor in the fight , .. ,. , . . o. in . ii.u. 1. nwiuu i. ..ii.. ... ... - ... The exchange meets once a wiik lo dis- cuss matters of civic welfare In addition to the routine of the realty business, visitor in the city are invited to these meetiuas, and what they hear nnd see often makes them able disseminators of the gospel of a Greater Omaha. At present the exchange Is preparing a booklet descriptive of the city, nnd this will be distributed all over the country. All the material has been gathered and the ex change has taken up the solution of the financial question involved In Its publica tion. m The Omaha Woman's club has always been at the front In any movement for the uplift of mankind in general, for Omaha womanhood and childhood In particular, and for the Interests of Omaha as n city. U has done real work to make OinnhR a city beautiful and has been a strong Influence In arousing a healthy interest in a good looking city. Just to show how a street should bo, the club maintained a model block for a time, on which it kept tho streets and sidewalks clean with a body of white wings employed by the club. As one outgrowth of this campaign for cleanliness one sees today on the street corners large boxes Into which the citizens are supposed to throw their papers, cigar stubs and other rubbish. The club has always proteafed agaainst obscene advertising on the bill boards, and lias Bent committees to visit tlie council on this matter at various times. The orqranizitlon raised n ne;;t sum of money for the TransmlsMsslppI exposition, and during the fair brought u number of women's meetings to Omaha. It kept matrons at the station to look after all W. W. SLABAUUH. President Omaha Improvement League. J. M. G I'll. P. Commissioner Omaha Commercial Club. women ho needed care. Much Interest in the welfare of the pub lic schools has always lieen taken by the club, and In polities it has exerted an Influ ence to some extent. Judge Ben B. Llndsey was brought here two years ago to help In educating the people on the subject of Juvenile courts at the time a Juvenile court bill, which Is now a law. was pending in the legislature. This luw Is said to be the best of Its kind in tlie Culled States. The social s ience department of the dub bcRan an Investigation of the dallies, whicli led lo a campulKii on the rt of the city health department for more iinnitnry condi tions. The Women me seeing lo tlie en forcement of the child-labor law In the big stores and factories. For years t'e y fought for an anti-cigarette law. The club has nine different departments of work, eiuii of which has a distinct pur pose In un educational way. The Omaha Improvement league is ill rictly responsible for the establishment of the public playgrounds, which are at Twen tieth and Harney streets. Last summer the league brought a superintendent Tor the playgrounds from Chicago and kept him through four months' work. Next summer he will come again. The league hopes to Induce the park iKiard to grant space In each park of the city for pla grounds, and will also endeavor next year to establish neighborhood playgrounds In charge of capable boys and girls. The main purpose of the organization is to make Omaha a city beautiful. Since Its organization three years ago It has en couraged in children tho spirit of civic improvement by giving prizes for best kept lawns nnd gardens nnd flower beds. In the first year of the existence of the league loUKJ packages of flower seeds were dialiiliulcd among li e children, with the co-operation of the schools, and l.ooo chil dren competed for the prizes given. The second year 25.010 packages of flower seeds were distributed and 1.700 children competed. An exhibit of flowers and vege tables raised was made In the city hall. This year the exhibit was held on the Ak-Sar-Ben carnival grounds in connection with the exhibit of the Douglas County Agricultural society. Vegetables, corn, flowers, textile fabrics and even pies made from pumpkins and other things the chil dren raised, were shown. The removal of unused telephone poles from the business streets of the city us due to the agitation begun by the league. The orguuizatlon also wages war for tlie removal of unsightly curb signs aniL for the regulation of billboards. Tersely Told Tales Both Grim and Gay Harried Flight. lint in the 'lOs a Chelsea, celebrity B WM "Tight" Howe, always look I inar for a chance to perform deeds of valor, always boasting of his courage, and rsal'y having mors eavnu than Judgment. With "Tight" could always be found a semi-sporting element, knowing there would bs "something doing." On night In pass ing a saloon where, there, was a great deal of nolsa. "Tight" halted his admirers and said: "Boys, stay right her and I'll go In there and throw 'em all out, and one of you count 'em as they come." In hs went. In a few minutes out cam a man through th window, sash, glass and all, and one of th crowd yelled with all his might, "Ona" I Prom th gutter cam "Tight' voles, aytng: " Stop counting! Stop counting,' you' damn fool; It's me that came out." Boston Herald. Is Troableto Himself. General Sherman one had occasion to stop at a country home where a tin baain and a roller towel on the back porch sufficed for the family's ablutions. For two mornings the smull boy of the household watched In silence the visitor's efforts at making a toilet under the un favorable auspices, but when on the third day the toothbrush, nail, file, whisk broom, etc., hud been duly used and returned to their places In the traveler's grip, he could suppress his curiosity no longer, so boldly put the question: "Say, mister, air you always that much trouble to yo se'f ?" Upplncott's Magazine. Is Only Plain Cousrr Banian. Senator Beverldge was talking one after noon In Washington to a group of newly elected congressmen. "You boys," he said, "must on no account appear green. Keep cool, go slow, think before you speak; then you won't glvs yourselves away." The unripe congressmen laughed, and Senator Beverldge continued: "I should hate to hear that one of you had acted as u new southern congressman once did. "He, as soon as he reached Washington, went off to a photographer's to be photo graphed. 'I want my likeness taken,' he said. 'Cabinet?' the photographer asked. The southerner reddened and looked pleased. 'No,' he answered. 'Just a plain everyday congressman.' "-Buffalo News. It ts mi Kxtra. William C. Whitney, Jr.. who has spent a year In Indian u rrltory learning practical mining at Quapaw, described at a dinner 7 1 A new food in a new form in the most delightful form that's Toasted Ctirn Flakes. And it is the only Breakfast Food that always tastes new, no matter how long or how often you eat it The delicate flavor of Toasted Corn Flakes cannot be described. You must taste it to know it and knowing it is liking it Ask your grocer. 10 cents a package. Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Co. Cattle Crk. Mich. loir y rr U3 party in New York a Qua paw restaurant. "One evening at this restaurant," he said, "two inlnera near me got into a botanical argument about the pineapple, one claiming that It was a fruit, and the other that it was a vegetable. In the midst of their ar gument the waiter entered in his shirt sleeves and looked about to see what was the cause of the loud talking. 1 "The miners decided to let the waiter set tle their argument, and accordingly one of them suid: " 'Pete, what is a pineapple? Is it a fruit or a vegetable?' "The waiter, flicking the ash from his cigar, smiled at the two men with pity. " 'It's neither, gents,' he said: 'It's an extra.' "Boston Herald. sltovra His C'allectloa. Joint Burroughs, the famous naturalist and poet, author of that fine poem "My Own Shall Come to Me," loves to tell a story which has to do with a friend of his named Orr. On one of lis trips Mr. Burroughs hap pened to be In th town where Mr. Orr lives. Meeting him In the street, Mr. Bur roughs insisted that his friend should ac company him to the hotel for luncheon. As they were tatlng Mr. Burroughs In quired If hts friend waa not interested In any specialty. "I think," said the naturalist, "every mat ought lo have a collection of some klmL It adds rest to life." "Oh, yes," said his friend, "I have Quit a collection; I am interested In flowers. Come home with me and I'll show them 'o you." As thev approached the Orr home, six fine healthy children, playing on the lawn, ran to meet their father. "These." said Mr. Orr. with a twinkle In his eye, "form my collection of orchids. Are they not grand specimens?'" Mr. Burroughs agreed that the collec tion of Orr kids was the finest he had ever eeen. People's Magazine. lias HI Httnit. Butcher Ludwlg was continually being robbed of meat by a large black torn cot belonging to a next door neighbor. Finally his temper got the best of him. and he poisoned the rat. The cat's owner the next morning found the animal lying dead before his door. He knew st once who had dona the killing, and with a low bitter oath he took the dead cat up by th tall and went indoors. Hull h-r Ludwlg had happened' to adver tise fcr the week a mark down sale on sausage. That night his shop was throngsd with sausage buyers. Suddenly, when th crowd was thickest, tlie outraged neighbor elbowed hi way through the people and threw upon the chopping block th dead body of th hug black cat. "There you are, Mr. Ludwlg," u said. "That mk.ea thlrty-Cv. I'll bring th fifteen others when you're not so busy." Success Magazine. Will Stand the Test. 'Dr. H. W. Wiley, the chief of the bureau of chemistry of the Department of Agri culture, was arked the other day by a le porter why he did not Investigate rogue. "Rouge," the reporter said, "may be very harmful, very poisonous, sir. Don't you thlrfk that it requires investigation?" Dr. Wiley smiled. "No," he answered. "I can't ssy I do. If rouge were jKilmitiou-. unnumbered women would have died of It long ago. By the way, I'll tell you a queer thing about rouge. It Is something that I came upon one day In a pharmacy, and I think it Illustrates an odd phase of hu man nature. A young girl was buying a pot of rouge, and I heard her murmur to the clerk, 'You guarantee that this will not rub off?' 'I do." the clerk unswered. 'This, like all all our rouges. s warranted to stand the hardest kiss of investigation that any of your women friends will try on it.' " Salt Lake Tribune. ftluunluz Klaures. 'Mrs. L. Z, Letter, when she Is in Palis, spends a good deal of time in the shops of the Jewelers and dealers in untiques and objects of art. On a rather dull after noon Mrs. Lciter visited un art shop In the Rue de lu Paix. She looked at bronzes. Jewels, drawings and other tilings, and finally, pointing toward u dusky corner, she said to the polite young salesman: "How much is that Jupanese idol over there worth?" The salesman bowed and iin-wered: "About 600.000 francs, madum. It is the proprietor." San Francisco Ar gonaut. i- ObetluK I'arrnial Information W. A. Woodbury has a young friend who entered Yale this year. The boy s father has two hobbies brevity and pollteiiuts. "If you pass your mid-year's telegraph me. the word 'Yes.' If you don't pass, wlr 'No.' I'll know enough then," said th father. But he forgot his own Instruc tions, so when the son passed and tele graphed home t'Yes," the father puzzled a while and finally replied, "Yes, what?" At midnight he was called out of bed to get tills answer, "Yes, sir!" i Conscientious Doctors BAkltatUy I ssrisy hew tor us ibislmg WW r vmfi ilstratek Gusiid's Peerless Beer ts Bvrt rlrtT Is Mark srarartl SSIarlT Is Nark. KMIisI sutavrMei k Was H M lw raUtallltr, pant?, lu rarf cl mtlmw rwkaau, lu iaMaaimSlas hs " kk (so wm. 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