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Printing and Publicity
0MAI1A A LITERARY CENTER
Supplies Reading Matter to All the
Neighboring Territory.
HOME OF MANY BIO PLANTS
Besides Home Iarae Job Printing Es
tabllsbmai Parts of Maar
tonnlrr Papers Are Printed
tn Omaba.
Omaha s a literary center.
Now, by literary center it Is not in
tended to classify the Gate City of the
Wst with those cities to which one looks j
for graphic fiction, deep theses on the lat
est scientific achievements, long;-drawn-out
articles devoted to philosophy or sociology
or Intricate word pictures of the dramatic
or the artistic. Rather, the contributions
of Omaha's literary gonitis to the readers
within its influence ore mainly of the sort
which reach and are read by the great,
uni-.umbured army of "average" persons.
The total number of the city's publica
tions are small only little more than Jjalf
a hundred. However, what is lacking In
numbers Is made up in variety and In the
wide scope covered. There are paper for
the farmer and pnpers for the banker, for
the foreigner unable to read the F.ngllsh
language and for the church worker, for
the educator and for the enthusiast of out
doors sport. And last, but far from least,
there are the dally and weekly newspapers,
which carry to hundreds of thousands of
jeople in Omaha and for a radius of hun
dreds of miles about the latest news of the
world In the shortest possible time.
In fact, the publications of the city of
Omaha cover practically everything of In
terest to people of this section of the na
tion. Perhaps first in Importance in the
classified list would come the farm papers.
Four are published in Omaha, carrying to
the farmers each weqk the most modern
ideas along lines of scientific farming and
doing much toward the advancement of
agriculture.
Ten commercial and trade papers are
printed In Omaha, embracing all lines of
business and dealing with the most Im
proved business methods. For those of
foreign tongue there are fourteen publica
tions, and they In turn are classified, ac
cording to the varied needs of their readers
from farm topics to business news. They
are printed mainly In three different lan
guagesSwedish, Oerman and Bohemian.
Five Charrb. Papers.
For church workers in Omaha, Nebraska
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Our prices are Just. We have a scientific cost system which
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more, no less.
Our capacity Is limited and only enough work will be accepted
that we can do justice to.
JOSEPH F. ROWNY
Designer of Distinctive Letterpress Work.
Red 6008. 1834 FARNAM.
The growth of the city and surrounding
territory demands original and effective en
graving work. We have prepared to meet tab
demand by the enlargement of our plant. High
class artists and engravers are employed for
'Ef) producing the best catalogue and advertising
JS' illustrations. We want vour business.
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PRINTING COMPANY
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NEBRASKA'S MOST COMPLETE ESTABLISHMENT
Frdscifti Us Hijiest Grides at
PRINTING LITHOGRAPHING BLANK BOOKS
Catalogs Bank Supplies Loos Leaf Ledgers
BeokUta Posters Lcoe Leaf Devices
Color Work Ticket (or Taaatraa ftUa System
end the surrounding states, the religious
publics tlons number five. Sportsmen have
thejr papers to the number of three, cover
ing motoring, horse racing and the numer
ous open air activities. Two school papers,
put out by the Omaha High school and the
Crelghton university, make publlo what is
going on among the city's student body.
With a number of miscellaneous papers,
there Is little of the field left uncovered.
Omaha is well prepared to care for, not
only the city, but the entire state when it
comes to publicity. In the city, all doing a
thriving business, there are sixty-five book
and job printing establishments. Instances
where it has been necessary for an Omaha
or Nebraska author to send sway his story
for printing and binding are scarce, for the
work can be dona Just as well at home,
and It usually Is.
Omaha engravers and dealers in photo
graphic supplies are now suppliyng about
06 per cent of the goods used in Omaha and
a large percentage of those used In the
state. For Nebraska and even for portions
of the states north and west, Qmaha Is the
distributing point of photographlo goods.
Professional photogrsphers, as well as ama
teurs, send their orders to the Omaha deal
ers and only In a few Instances do users
have their supplies sent from manufac
turers or large wholesale houses in the east.
It might be appropriate to mention here
that cameras, kodaks and supplies are be
ing demanded more and more each season.
The industry is growing. Where before
photography was used mainly upon a com
mercial basis, It is coming about that It is
taken up as a means of amusement to such
an extent that It can easily be classed
among outdoor sports.
Western Newspaper Union.
To the Western Newspaper Union head
quarters In Omaha Is due much of the
credit for the city's Importance as a point
from which news matter is distributed over
the state. Hundreds of the small news
papers of Nebraska and Iowa receive dally
shipments of plate and are thereby able to
furnish their readers the news only a short
time later than the large dallies with tele
graph service.
The monster presses and stereotyping
machines of the Western Newspaper Union
are continually working turning out the
plates ready to be aet la the press as soon
as received. And this is only a small part
of the work of the Union. A person publish
ing a srqall paper, book or pamphlet, with
out the facilities for doing his own print
ing and binding, can turn his copy over to
the Union and have his publication put out
ready for circulation.
Along this same line of the commercial
life of the city should be mentioned trpe
Great Western Type foundry. Covering a
territory which Includes the states of Ne
braska, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, western
Iowa and the Black Hills county of South
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every year an Immense volume of business.
Everything necessary In a printing office
or a newspaper establishment can be
secured from the Omaha foundry. It is
distributor for all makes of printing
presses, from the small Job presses
to the huge perfecting presses for the big
newspapers. Newspapers In the territory
covered draw upon the Omaha foundry for
type, presses, engines and all accessories to
the machinery used in their offices.
It is not necessary for Omaha printers
to go outside the city fr their paper. The
Western Paper company, a wholesale con
cern, la able to fursli paper for every
publication in the city. Thus, with a supply
at their very doors, Omaha publishers have
the advantage of being able to secure ample
material if necessary at a moment's notice.
The large dailies ship in their paper from
the plants.
The city's waste paper la taken care of
to gpod advantage. The Omaha Paper
Stock company, buyers, packers and
shippers of waste paper, handles thousands
of pounds dally collecting it from over
the city and shipping it out to the large
factories in which waste paper is converted
into innumerable useful articles.
SYRUP FOR JTHE PANCAKES
Omaha Concern Manufactures Fonr
Hundred Cars Earn Year from
Different Materials.
Four hundred car loads of tc'nip bearing
twenty-one brands, which included many
different grades of molasses, sorghum,
corn cane, maple and sugar syrups and
valued at (600,000 is made in Omaha yearly
and distributed over the entire country
west of the Missouri to the coast. These
products are made by Forrell A Co. at Tenth
and Dodge streets, who, outside of the
trust, ranks fpurth in site in the United
States. The company was established In
1885 and since that time has made Omaha
a factor In the syrup Industry. Trade not
only close to the city but in the adjacent
atatqa depend upon this city for syrup be
cause of the quality which has been es
tablished and also the facilities for quick
shipment.
With the factory situated In Omaha where
the products are manufactured dally, and
warehouses located In the principal western
cities, among which are Denver, Pueblo,
Salt Lake City, Ogden, Portland, Seattle
and Spokane, shipments made at periods
to the dealers in New Tork City, St. Louis,
Chicago, Milwaukee and Louisville easily
Bhows how a great portion of the country
depends upon Omaha for Its table syrup.
Situated as Omaha Is, as one of the largest
railroad centers In the entire west, and In
the middle of the com district and midway
between the maple and cone markets, It
enables the company to ship the raw
material to its Omaha factory, produce the
syrup and deliver it to Its customers to the
best possible advantage.
Four steel cars are maintained by the
company in which the unrefined Juice from
the can is shipped to "Omaha from the
plantations In Louisiana, as is the maple
sap which Is brought from Canada, One
third of the syrup produced Is manufactured
from Nebraska corn, while the other two
thirds comprise the portions made from,
cane and maple.
The Omaha factory is the only syrup
factory In the United States which manu
factures Its own cans and packages. About
15,000 cans are made each day, the ma
jority of which Is used to contain the
factory pruducts, while a portion is dis
posed of to local concerns. This Is a large
factor to the company, for In this waylt Is
not hampered by slow shipments of pack
ages from eastern concerns.
The company was originally founded by
Dan Farrell In 1SS5, when he started a
small factory between Eleventh and Twelfth
on Douglas, which location was retained
! for three years, removing to Eighth and
Farnam, where they stayed until Increased
demand for their product made the quar
ters Inadequate and they were forced to
erect their present factory at Tenth and
Dodge streets, which has been occupied
since May. Until eight years ago the com
pany manufactured jellies and preserves,
but this department has been dropped In
order to supply the syrup demand.
Miscellaneous 300,000
Fifteen men are employed on different
territories over the country to sell Omaha
syrup an. seveniy-flve are kept busy in
the factory making it. The company Is
owned by Mrs. A. C. P. Farrell, who is
president and treasurer. Since 1898 the
company has been under the management
of E. D. Geoghegan.
PAPER BOXES ARE MADE HERE
I Omaha llaa One Concern Whleb Man
ufactures All Required for the
City and State.
Omaha has a firm which covers one field
of the city's manufacturing Interests un
assisted and which annually brings to
Omaha thousands of dollars worth of busi
nessthe Eggers-O'Flyng Paper Box com
pany. At its factory on Fifteenth and
Leavenworth, there Is manufactured every
thing from a tiny pUl box to a large hat
box; from a fancy candy box to a cigar
box.
The territory covered includes Nebraska,
Iowa, Kansas, the Dakotas and parts of
states extending to the Pacific coast. Prac
tically all Omaha's business In the psper
and cigar box line is done In Omaha. Users
of boxes are able to get anything they
want In this line without the necessity of
sending to the factories in the east and
undergoing the delay of shipping.
This Is also true of the state of Nebraska
as a whole. Rather than spend the time to
bring paper boxes from the east dealers
In the towns and cities of the state need
only to put in a long distance call to Omaha
and they can get their goods In a few
hours.
Every part of the manufacture of a box
Is done at the local factory. Half of one
floor Is covered with printing presses where
all printing and coloring Is done on the
paper that Is to be converted Into boxes.
Another floor la given over to the wood
printing.
Another floor, there are four, is used In
the manufacture of the smaller paper boxes,
thousands being turned out dally.
Division.
Tommy Pop, does the earth go round?
Tommy's Pop Yea. my son, but it
wouldn't if it was divided among all the
people who want it Philadelphia, Record.
MANY USING THE LIBRARIES
More and More Draw Oat the Books
Each Year.
SOME BIO PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Omaha Publlo Library Houses Some
Splendid Collections of Various
Kinds, In Addition to
the Books,
The present Omaha Publlo library Is a
lineal descendent of a society which was
formed by a number of Omaha people In
1871 for the purpose of establishing a cir
culating library. To this library people
were admitted upon the payment of quar
terly dues, the first meeting being held in
Depember, 1871. The nucleus of the present
library was a collection of boons which had
been turned over to the city from some
source or other and were by It given to the
society. It was only for a short time, how
ever, until the purchase of the Crosby col
lection for itWO brought 700 additional vol
umes to the library.
An act of the legislature, In 1877, which
authorized the city to maintain a public
library was followed almost immediately
by the appointment of a board of nine
members who have with their successors
since maintained control, and the taking
over by them of the collection which the
private society bad gathered up to that
time.
The publlo library had its first
home In the building owned by J. a. Willis
from which It was moved to the Labor tem
Bf at Fifteenth and Dodge streets. The
next move waa to quarters over Falconer's
store, now occupied by Thomas Kilpatrick
& Co., and fom there in 1888 another
move was made to the Paxton block.
The agitation for a permanent home now
began to take shape and the donation of
the present location as a part of the late
Byron Reed bequest made possible the erec
tion of the present beautiful permanent
home of the library which was first occu
pied in 1894. The building, which was erec
ted by the city, cost approximately
1100,000. The structure la of Renalscence
style of architecture and is designed with
the convenience of its patrons as the first
consideration.
Competent Librarian In Charge.
The library is under the general care of
a librarian who has a number of capable
assistants. The several departments are
each under the charge of a special attend
ant. These departments are: home circula
tion, cataloguing, reference room, reading
room and children's room. Another depart
ment is the bindery, which la operated in
the building, where needed repairs such as
arise from hard usage, are made to the
books.
One of the moBt interesting things in the
library, although it Is aside from the
library proper, is the Byron Reed collection
of books, manuscripts and coins. These, at
the time they came Into the possession of
the city, were estimated to be worth $E0,000
and with every year their value Increases.
Especially complete is the collection of
paper money and coins, and there are sev
eral of the autograph letters which cannot
be duplicated anywhere.
There is another collection In the library,
the work of George W. Llnlnger. This con
tains specimens of Egyptian, Babylonian
and other schools of art Mr. Llnlngor's
Intention was to collect specimens of every
age of art, but he found in the course of
collecting it, that the accumulation had
become so unwelldy as to make it impos
sible to keep It all at his home. Uo, there
fore, donated the earlier specimens, rep
resenting the art of periods previcus to the
fourteenth century to the library, keeping
the rest at his home.
, Lara-e Circulation.
Each year since its foundation, the Omaha
public library has increased in popularity,
and each year has shown a larger number
of books in circulation and a larger number
availing themselves of the privileges of the
library. The table following shows In con
densed form what the Omaha publlo li
brary did for Omaha during last year:
Total number of books 86,2)1
Books added during 1909
Horrowers 14.0W2
Home circulation 28,4;)2
Increase over 1H0S , .. Il,!r0
tcnool circulation 82.Sf78
Circulation through other ucnclnR .. I lit
Pictures circulated g.az
VUltors to reading room 41,fl3
iKltors to reference room 27.tiHo
Visitors to medical department 2,6 i8
Visitors to museum and Bvron Reed
Collection 37,630
Other Good Library.
In addition to the Omaha Public Library,
Omaha has a large number of libraries
j conneoted with the various educational In
stitutions of the city. Of these perhaps
the largest and most Important la that of
the Douglas County Bar association which
is now kept at the Crelgh'ton University
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tlon of the New York library, the Omaha
Bar association library and several other
collections of books, makes one of the
most practical working libraries in the
middle west
The Crelghton college library ranks next
In Importance. This collection which con
tains in the neighborhood of 17,000 volume
and Is housed In a room especially prepared
for It a few years ago, is designed prim
arily for reference use by the students In
the Arts department of the university.
Another excellent working library is that
of the Pretyterlan Theological Seminary
and the local medical schools as well as
the number of Scandinavian, Oerman and
Bohemian socetlea have libraries ample
for their use. The local Masonic fratern
ity has a library of some 800 volumes and
the Omaha High school la laying the
foundation for a fine one.
In South Omaba Is also found a beau
tiful and well equipped library, built In re
cent years at a coat of $jt).000. the amount
being doeated by Andrew Carnegie. This
library contains approximately 6.000 vol
umes and will avergae almost 1.000 bor
rowers per month. The place which the
library Is deatined to fill cannot be com
plejely served because sf limited resources,
but a excellent start has been made.
Llalcer Art Gallery.
Omaha's only art collection, open to the
j public,, is to Unlger Art Gallery at the
corner of Eighteenth and Davenport streets.
This gallery was founded and maintained
by George W. Linlger. In 1888 Mr. L4nlger
constructed a fireproof gallery adjoining
his home and it Is now completely filled
and contains many rare and costly works
of art. This collection contains sixty old
masters, the owner's choice of them all
being Guldo Renl's "David with Goliath's
head." There are modern paintings by
Bougereau, Mlllals and others. There are
also found water colors and etchings which
are spendid specimens of their sorts. Speci
mens of the ceramic arts of. every age
which have produced this art, specimens
of needle work from all parts of the globe,
togeither with armor, scvords, musical In
struments and thousand and one other cur
ious Instruments representing the art of
all ages and climes, are here collected to
gether. The collection of corals Is also a
famous one. The gallery la open to the
public at certain stated periods.
ENGRAVERS DO BIG BUSINESS
Industry In Omaha Holds Enviable
Place Anions Those of Coun
try's lllesest Cities.
An Important phase of Omaha's commer
cial development Is the progress which the
local engraving concerns are making. So
rapid has this development been that where
ten years ago it was necessary to send to
the larger cities of the country for many
things In the engraving line such as first
class half tones, slno etchings and color
plates, these today are easily procurable
In Omaha.
And it is not alone the mechanical side
of the business which has advanced. It
naturally falls to the lot of the engraver
to do a great deal of the art work from
which the cuts are made and in this side
of the work Omaha has also advanced rap
idly. Today pboto retouching, wash and
line drawings and designs of all sorts from
the brushes and pens of Omaha artists are
among the best In the country
There are two engraving companies in
the Omaha field, the Baker Bros. Engrav
ing company and W. R. Bramblett dt Co.
The Baker firm, which Is the oldest here,
occupies the top floor of the Barker block.
The Bramblett company is but five years
old In Omaha, having been moved here at
that time from St. Paul and Minneapolis,
where the firm had been located for nine
teen years. It Is located at 1311 Howard
street.
These two firms stand ready to design
and manufacture most any sort of a cut
that will make an Impression upon paper.
A large part of the work of the local com
panies, however, la the reproduction of
drawing and photographs of machinery
and the artists connected with the Omaha
engraving houses oft times fashion the copy
for a cut of an Intricate piece of machinery
with very meager information to work on.
Much of the local work lies, also, In the
production of cover pages, labels, menu
cards and the like, for which line of work
Omaha has an enviable reputation through
out the middle west.
The field over which the local firms work
is not a particularly large one, for there
are older houses In nearby cities which
compete with them for the work of the
section. Most of the work of Nebraska and
western Iowa goes to the local concerns
however and each year they are extending
their territory a bit. Each of the firms has
Its own process for making the cuts, which
differ considerably at some points. The
Bramblett people feature their "acid bloat"
process of engraving.
The amount of business done by the local
concerns will reach well toward the $100,000
mark for a year, the local houses reporting
an Increase of from 20 to 30 per cent in
this year's business to date.
And yet the engraving men of Omaha feel
that they are given Just a little less than
a square deal by Omaha cltlsens. They
bewail the fact that the average citizen la
these days demanding a high rate of speed
and at the same time is apt to be quite
offended if quality is not forthcoming along
with it. In many cases they allow but a
bare margin over the shortest space of
time In which the engraving could be com
pleted and when It Is understood that each
cut muht go through the hands of thirteen
or more different classes of workmen, it
will be realised that this Is often too small
a margin to allow the engraver to give
the best possible class of work.
CRAWFISH RAID CORNFIELDS
Remarkable Story, from the South
Stirs the Department of
Agriculture.
Prof. W. H. Hays, assistant secretary of
agriculture, has decided to send a special
agent of the bureau of plant Industry to
Mississippi, with instructions to do every
thing poeplble to save the cornfields there
that are being attacked by crawfish.
The department officials have been
amazed during the last few days by re
ceiving dozens of letters from farmers
along the banks of the Mississippi who
say that their cornfields ar being de
voured by swarms of ravenous crawfish.
The animals hjirrow through the ground
and attack not only the roots of the corn,
but actually climb the stalks and eat the
leaves and ears.
The section from which the complaints
come Is low and the soil Is naturally motnt.
The water ts near the surface and It Is
supposed that the crawfish are attracted
to the cornfields because of the scarcity
of food. At any rate, the complaints have
come to the department In such number
that Prof, Hays hss decided to send ona
of his specialists from the bureau of plant
Industry to Investigate and see what can
be done to save the cornfields.
One correspondent siserts that he has
fathered more than 100 barrels of crawfish.
The pests have appeared In such numbers
that most of the farmers seem powerl"ss
to combat them. Mr. Hays says that In
all probability the crawfish are more
valuable than the corn crop. He thinks
that If gathered they could be sold for a
good price to the restaurant keepers of
New Orleans and other places where craw
fish are regarded as a delicacy. Brooklyn
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Nervous Breakdown.
Mother Oh, Effle! What has happened to
your dollyT
Effle The doctor says It's nervous break
down, lis prescribed mucilage.
Lew W. Raber
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