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THE BEE: OMAHA. WEDNESDAY, Arnt'ST 24, 1010.
Buildinp and Construction
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William P. Deverell
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Telephone Douglas 2946. 429 Ramge Block, Omaha.
J. C. HARMS COMPANY
General Contractors
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The Bryant-McLaughlin Asphalt Paying Company
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Head Operating Office,
Merchants National Bank Building Omaha Neb.
Buffalo Paving Brick Company
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Repressed, Vitrifid, Paving and Face Blocks
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HUGH MURPHY
CONTRACTOR
PAVING AND PUBLIC WORKS
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BRIDGES (Si HO YE
Brick Contractors
Brandeis Theater Morris Theater
Omaha, Nebraska
J. J. HAMGHEN
Plumbing,
Steam
Heating...
1408 Harney St., Omaha, Neb.
CONTRACTORS ON:
Brandeis Theater Bldg.,
City National Bank Bldg.
New York Life Building.
OMAHA BUILDERS ARE BUSY
Hare Many Contraott in Omaha, at
Well at in Other Cities.
EXCHANGE IS MOST POPULAR
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Manufacturing Brick Sine. IS67.
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Nearly All the Coiilraolora of Omaha
Are Members of the Oniaha
Balldera Kichangr Plenty
vf Work for All.
Umtht builders and contractors manage
to keep busy erecting buildings In this
always fast growing community, but being
mostly ambitious, a large number of local
contractors have reached nut and secured
contracts In cities and towns all over the
west, and this In the face of the keen com
petition of the great national construction
companies of recent growth.
Loral builders owe a good deal of their
prosperity and success to the existence
of a mutual benefit association and com
pany which came Into existence seven
years ago. This Is the Omaha Builders' ex
change "which was formed for the purpose
of furnishing and regulating suitable rooms
for dally meetings In the city of Omaha;
to promote mechanical and Industrial In
terests; to Inculcate Just and equitable
principles of trade; to establish and main
tain uniformity In commercial usages of
rules and regulations; to acquire, preserve
and disseminate valuable business Informa
tion; to adjust differences and settle dis
putes between members, or between mem
bers and others, and for other purposes con
ducive to the Interests of Its members,
especially of a protective nature, and for
the upbuilding of this section of the west."
All this sounds somewhnt ambitious, if
not pretentious, but the foregoing purposes
have baen carried out by the Builders' ex
change with notable success, and It Is
doubtful If there Is an organisation of the
kind and purpose, in Omaha or out, In a
similar or different line of activity, which
has done more real good for lis members,
and always In a qujet and unostentatious
way, without beating of cymbols or blaie
of public trumpet.
Large Membership.
The building exchange Includes 100 men or
firms or companies In its ranks numbering
besides contractars and builders all the
large building material supply houses of
the city. The exchange has done notably
well In perfecting pleasant and harmonious
relations between the men who buy and the
men who sell building material. The active
conduct of the exchange has always been
as Is well within the hands of the builders
rather that the material men, but the latter
have had some representation in office or
on the board of directors.
When the exchange was formed and In
corporated In 1HOS, John H. Harte was
chosen Its first president, John Reynard
was elected vj president and J. E. Mer
rlam was treasurer. John H. Tate was the
first secretary, a position he held for three
years and was then succeeded hy C. A.
Crlgg, wbo Is still In the position. The
secretaryship Is a salaried Job, and on the
secretary devolves the routine work of the
exchange.
In 1904 and 1906 Charles J. Johnson was at
the head of the exchange. The vice presi
dency In 1904 was held by William P.
Deverell, Mr. Merrlam continuing as treas
urer that year and down to 1909, when he
became president. J. W. Dow was vice
president In WOfi.
The next year B. O. Hamilton became
president and Thomas Herd vice president.
In 1907 Mr. Herd stepped up a notch and
Andrew C. Bush become vice president.
Mr. Herd was re-elected In 1908, the vice
president being A. A. Newman. The year
following A. C. Busk was again vice presi
dent and Robert Sanderson was treasurer,
succeeding J. K. Men lam. who now held
tbe highest office of the exchange.
Present Officers.
For the current year A. C. Busk Is presi
dent, with George DybaU vice president
and Mr. Sanderson again treasurer.
On the board of directors during these
years, besides the names already mentioned
as officers, appear the following men:
Wallace H. Parrlsh. John Reynard. J.
Walter Phelps. A. J. Vierllng. Fred Ruemp
Ing, Albert Foil, Walter Peterse, A. O.
Borchman, Henry Hamann, Grant Parsons,
David M. Potter. Benjamin Melqulst. Lee
Bridges, Charles Anderson, R. L. Carter,
William Redgwlck, George Klent, William
J. Creednn, A. A. Newman and R, C.
StreMnw.
The builders and contractors who belong
to the exchange, and practlrally all In
Omaha do, have a monthly Informal meet
ing, but the big gathering of the year
comes about the first of Januaty when the
exchange stages a banquet which Is one of
the most elaborate the city knows en?h sea
season. The exchange, of course, does not
exist as a money making Institution, but
1 Its revenues sre such that there Is generally
a tidy little balance which can be appro
priated to the banquet nml this helps to
make the affair a delight to the epicure.
The rooms of the exchange are in the
Klks building on Fifteenth street between
Farnam and Harney. Any business diy In
the year a number of contractors can be
seen figuring on a Job or conferring wi.h
one another.
Three of the exchange membm have
di hleved national reputation by specialising.
These are R. O. Strehlow. who has built
exposition buildings all over the country;
O. H Wlese, who has received some of the
largest postofflre building rontnets In the
west, and Hamilton Bros., who have gone
in for gsrrlson work, barrarks, cffl-fi'e
quarters and other army bulldlr.ss.
MILLIONS IN SASH AND DOORS
An time ha Industry Whose Oatpat la
Shipped All Over the Mid
dle West.
The sash and door business Is another
In which the Omaha concerns are consist
ently holding their own with the sash and
door factories and selling companies In
other parts of the went. It Is probable
that, in the amount of gooda of this nature
sold In a year, Kansas City, with Its much
larger population, has a bit the bulge on
Omaha, but, with the one exceptlor,
Omaha has no close competitors for thi
trade of the middle west. Sashes and
doors are made and sold at both Sioux
City and Lincoln, but the Industry In each
of these cities is Insignificant as compared
with the amount of that sort of business
done in Omaha.
The territory which secures most of '.is
supplies of this nature from the Omaha
manufacturers and Jobbers Is a large one.
The Omaha concerns reach out for their
business over the western half of Iowa
as well as over Nebraska, Wyoming, South
Dakota, North Dakota, northern Kansas
and northwestern Missouri.
Using the term In Its common accepta
tion in Omaha, the sash and door business
Is by no means confined to the manufao- !
ture and selling of sashes and doors. In
addition to these articles, screen doors,
porch building material, staircase material,
fancy posts, and, in fact, almost ever;
product of the millwrights' art is manu
factured and sold by tne local sash and
door concerns.
The manufacturing end of the buslnesi,
Is confined locally to eight firms. These
are the Adams & Kelly company, 1202
Nicholas street; M. A. Dlsbrow & Co.,
1201 Nicholas street; the Weir company,
the Omaha Woodworking company, Rosen
bery Bros., the Omaha Planing Mill com
pany, A. Bloom & Co., IM2 California street, j
and the T. H. Werrlch Fixture company, i
Each of these firms not only manufac- j
tures sashes, doors and other similar
products, but conducts a general retail
business within the city and wholesales its
products to out-of-town dealers. Two or
three of the largest of these companies
keep a large stock of their manufactured
products on hand, but with the greater
number of them the articles are simply
made up to fill the orders as they are
filed.
In addition to those firms In the city
which manufacture sashes and doors, the
finished product Is found in the stock of
most every lumber yard or builder's supply
company In the city. These firms do little
or no manufacturing, and In moat cases
buy their stocks from the local manufac
turers. They do both a retail and whole
sale business In the product, depending on
whether or not they do a wholesale or re
tall business In other articles which they
handle.
With the Werrlch company, on North
Twenty-fourth street, which is not a leader
In the manufacture of sashes and doors,
the main interest is the making of office
flxtureB, counters and the like and the
sash and door business Is only a minor part
of the whole Industry.
The total sash and door business of the
city will aggregate between $1,000,000 and
II, 260,000 In a year. These figures, It will
De understood, Include also the other
articles w hich are manufactured and Jobbed
by the so-called sash and door concerns.
Dealers In the article, as well as manu
facturers, are unanimous In saying that
the Increase In this line for the year will
run higher than 6 per cent, some guessing
the Increase at 10 per cent. This Is rather
remarkable when It Is realized that last
year the sash and door business In
Omaha, was far and away ahead of what
It had been In previous years, and It looked
then as though that would remuln the high
water mark for some years.
LITHIA IN LARGE QUANTITIES
Omaha Is the Home of One of the
Moat Extensive Uthla Plants
lu the World.
Speaking of large Industries, did you
know that Omaha has one of the largest
Uthla manufactories In the world?
The Western Chemical company, which
was established In Omaha four enrs ago,
can lay claim to this pre-eminence. The
company manufactures llthla-carbonate and
some by-products such as sulphate of soda
and supplies a larse number of special
plants with the compound.
The average 'output per yeur Ih
pounds. Tho ore fiom which it Is reduced
Is shipped from the Black Hills. George
A. Joslyn is president of the company; A.
M. Pinto, secretary and treasurer.
Not In to the Specif Irotlone.
The man with the noose about his neck
faced the southern mob.
"Have you anything to say?" hoarsely
demanded the lender.
The victim coolly surveyed the crowd.
"I have always been led to believe," h.
remarked, "that an Alabama lynching la
Invariably In charge of the best cltl
sens of the place. But If these are your
best litlient; then all that I've got to say
Is that society here must be Inexcusably
punk."
Struck by the force of his reasoning, the
chagrined mob released the fellow and
slunk away. Cleveland Plain Dealer.
FISHER and LAWRIE
ARCHITECTS
PAXTON BLOCK
Omaha.
Nob.
Caldwell & Drake
Contractors Douglas County Court House
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IVou; under construction hy this firm:
Contract Price
Lebanon, Ind. Court House $246,000.00
Springfield, Mo. Woodruff Office Building 300,000.00
Springfield, Mo. McDaniel Office Building 120,000.00
Springfield, Mo. Friaco B. R. Office Building s 100,000.00
Springfield, Mo. Sansone Hotel.. 60,000.00
Tulsa, Ark. Tulsa Hotel 376,000.00
Canfield, Ohio-Hospital 112,000.00
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Now under construction, $1,200,000. Court House, Youngstown, Ohio.
Three of Omaha's Modern Fire Proof Buildings
Constructed by Our Reinforced Concrete Specialists
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Large Gathering; Expected.
The Roman Catholic Euehatlstlc ciiigresp,
which Is to bo held at Montreal tsrly In
Ueptember will be the largest fathetlng
of Its kind ever held In .rrth America.
The principal speakers will be Cardinal Gl.,
bons, ilgr. Heylsn. ArrrbUiujp briirhea of
Montreal, Archblehr.p O'Connell of Hoston.
ArchblHtiop tilnnon of St. Liuls. and
Father Vaughn of London. One of to most
Impressive services of the cong:eas wi.l
be the midnight mass for mn in tne church
of Notre lame. Another Impressive service
will be sn open air maas at the foot cf
Mount Royal. Montreal's great park
The cardinal leaate. Vincent Vannutelil,
will cairy the host In proceeslon through
four miles of streets. Bishop Seanneil of
Omaha and Bishop Kean of Cheyenne will
attend the congress.
Persistent Advertising Is lbs Road to B!g
Returns.
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