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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 31, 1910)
4 TI1E BEE: OMAIIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1910. nil. Printing and Publicity """ ' ' " ' ''1 rV ,.... . . ' . ' 'i r,..u--.:tol:-y'y ......... IV i J. - mM r" I ALL DOWN TOWN HAS NEWSURFACE 6 tree U in Buiineis Section Are Re paved m Part of the Improve ment Campaign. ALL ABE BRICK AND ASPHALT Central Part of City Oeti Some Spe cial Treatment CREOSOTE BLOCK IS COMING IN Agitation for New Material on One Busy Thoroughfare. O00D ROADS TO THE COUNTRY Man? Paved IUhwar R Oat from City Into the Farming District and Help Oat the Lo cal Trad. Ton ml lei of new paving la the atupendoua contract Omaha l seeing carried out on Ita streeta throughout the bualneaa section and beyond It at the preeent time. The wide- month owlnc to the failure of the eupply of brick from Ullnole, the contractor! ear their work will be completed by the end of the year. Other great contract are ex pected for the emulng years. It 1 com monly known that all the district of the metropolis are seeing an agitation among property owner for paved treet, which I likely to be followed in due time by many petition for the work. The big contract which Is now under way was brought about directly by a reeent act of the legislature which gave the council power to let lump paving contracts for work within a radius of 4.600 feet of the city hall without submitting the question to the property owner. Before that much delay wa caused and comlderable ragged ness In the letting of contracts experienced through the necessity of getting up a peti tion with a majority of property owner signed upon them before the contracts could be let. When the general downtown eontraot came up before the council several other dlstrlots took the opportunity of put ting their petitions Into action and th result wa a single order upon the paving men for ten miles of new surfaced streets. Under normal conditions the paving con cerns keep their men at work nine months of the year, the contracts being dropped only during those months In midwinter when the paving work would be Impossible, More Next Year. It Is generally expected In paving circles that the contracts for city paving next year wilt reach nearly 300.000 square yards In extent. The allowing of next year's Inter ectlon fund of 1100,000 will give a great tlmulua to the work. This appropriation spread work and facility with which It ' wa. entirely drawn from th preeent year's In pavinx. by reason of the ever Increas ing trafflo carried on. There are no re strictions upon the routes to be taken by heavy traffic, as are laid down In some cities. Thus the residence streets, se far as rules are concerned, must needs be dur ably constructed th downtown one, though as a matter of fact the business locations are suoh as to eliminate, naturally, any great degTee of otherwise acattered heavy haul. The hill of Omaha alio are a great cause for good paving oontracta. With mediocre surface the hill of all the principal streets would be praoOcally Impossible to heavy trafflo. Materials are easily accessible for the local needs. The brlok come almost en tirely from Oaleaburg, 111., while the as phalt la obtained In blocks from several factories In the east In such quantities as to suffice contractors here for long per iod of time. OMAIIA HONORS ITS DEAD No Place Hai Better Facilities, for Caring; for the Departed. CENTER OF MONUMENT INDUSTRY Woodmen of the World Give Orders (or 4,000 mlonoment Last Yesur Ine tvnciru la Omaha. being done at times when the material I at hand mark the alse and effectiveness of Omaha's paving industry. Ten miles of new paving la a eontraot far greater than the city ha ever let before for that aort of work. It mean th paving of 290,169 square yarda of ground. It means an expenditure of approximately $685,000. Several hundred men are employed In the labor of laying the new paving over Omaha streets. Several asphalt plant are work, Besides the main street and thorough fares to be paved, a number of alley are to receive paving operation next year. Th alley will be paved with stone block. There will be about 1,000 spuare yard of the atone block paving in alley accom plished thi year. From the property owner standpoint, popular favor has been given by a wide margin to brick blocks as material for city giving full time to the outputtlng of that unJer wgy now MphaU wUy kind of material for just a portion of the local work. The output of brick blocks, which is the kind of material which Is most used here by far, is riot fast enough, by reason of recent labor troubles, for the Omaha contractor, Prick are coming In better than they were some time ago. There are three large contracting con cern In the paving business here and sev eral outside flrma oooaalonally dipping Into the great demand of the city. Omaha's soil, of the nature that brings the Nebraska agricultural productions to a bumper vol ume, conspires to give paving contractors lot of work. It la of the kind which doe not sustain trafflo where It form natural, unpaved road. Therefore moat of the street In end leading to the city of neces sity must be paved. This make Omaha a thriving place for contractor In th light of th faot that Denver and certain other cltle are "blessed or cursed with a hard soli that makes almost perfect roadways without more than superficial shaping off and surfacing. In th local Industry about $160,000 1 In vested. Though 200 men Is the average number employed, that mark Is passed and doubled under the present situation of abnormal activity, Brlok Were Scarce. The present big municipal paving under taking was launched In March of this. year, and though it dragged for th first few behind It competitor to an extent that make It insignificant a a street material. The paving was apportioned for the two kinds of material with the following fig ures: 202,389 spuare yards of brick blook, (7,780 square feet of asphalt. Wood block do not figure at all In the nr sent operations, though a movement was on foot for awhile to have Sixteenth street paved with that material. The oost of paving with the popular brick block averages about $3.10 per square yard. The other materials do not vary In cost far from that figure Experienced Contractor. Th present contractors have been In bust nasa. her for th moat part dating from twenty years ago, though several 'change and trade between them have marked the history of th Industry. Th principal eon. tractor entered the field on a strong basis twenty years ago, and after a few years old out to th National Construction com pany. Later he re-entered the nld on a vastly Increased financial basis and ha remained In th Industry while the outside corporation has almost entirely dropped out of It. It has been found that present day paving methods with the use of any of the various materials, by reason of the great Improve ment, Insures absolutely level streets and a durable ones as possibly can be devised. Omaha demand the best there Is to be had GIFTS WORTH GIVING Exclusive Foreign Novelties. Leather, Bragg, Porcelain and Copper. Brass Desk Seta, Vases, Brlo-a-Bfac, Candlesticks, Tea Sets, etc Tbera Is a ton of elegance and superiority about our foreign foods that Is sur to please the mast fastidious. Matthews Book and Paper Shop 122 Sooth 15th Street WHOLESALE LUMBER CENTER Oinaha Rank Fourth a IHstrlbntlnsr Point (or Lnmber to West era Point. With approximately $10,000,000 invested in the lumber business and with an annual distribution of between $5,000,000 and $, 000,000 worth of lumber, Omaha holds a leading place among the lumber distributing cities of the world. It 1 generally conceded that thl city ha th greatest lumber distribut ing railroad yards In the country. The local Industry gives it attention ex clusively to the distribution of lumber. Into this city I hlpped th flnUhed prod uct of the forest In Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Wisconsin, Michigan and the northern coast state. There are five large wholesale lumber concern In Omaha carrying on in at tributing work. A score of retail conoern supply the local needs, and the whole ter ritory of the country I supplied by tne Omaha concern In general. The estab lishments maintain elaborate offices In the business section of the city and large lumber yards at the switching points. Each railroad has found It profitabls to estab lish special shipping yard of leage area for the lumber shipping- business. Prob ably nowhere In the world Is the system of assembling different sorts of lumber In special car and distributing th supply from a central part carried on to such an extent as In Omaha. Wood of every sort, Including yellow pine, fir, western pine, oedar and redwood Is to be had from the yards of Omaha. Th particular advantage offered by tne city's Industry Is that of supplying retail dealer who cannot afford to lay in a large supply of lumber for future need them- ft.lVM. Lumber may be obtained from the mill direct, but the small dealer find It con siderably 'mor convenient to buy In smalt quantities as their needs arise from the wholesalers. Omaha Is the only city on the Missouri river that through Its wholesale lumber concerns, maintains an unlimited supply of lumber for all demands. The smaller towns connot hasard the expense of unloading a wholesale stock of the commodity on their ground and reload It to suit the de mand that reaches them. In this respect Omaha transcends even St Joseph, and Kansas City, which me tropolises make more of a pretense at lum ber greatness than this city does. Omaha, from all sources of Information, ranks easily fourth in respect to th lum ber Industry of th country. The order of the cltle In relation to their importance lumber concern are St Louis, Kansas City, Chicago and Omaha. Omaha loses considerable of Its deserved prestige In lumber reports when compared with other cities from the fact that what Is known as "office business" la carried on to an enormous extent In other cities, whereas the real business of handling lum ber 1 done In this city. The sale ar not only made In Omaha, but the lumber Is obtained at this point and actually shipped out to purchaser. Th hipment reoelve handling at thl point to the extent that they are unloaded from the cars, assembled systematically and reloaded for their ulti mate destinations. The growth of the city and surrounding uSY" x ii j j- i i l j .m.i vt' territory uenuuioa ufjumu tuiu cuouuvo cu- , graving work. We have prepared to meet this demand by the enlargement of our plant nigh class artists and engravers are employed for producing the best oatalogue and advertising illustrations. We want your business. m BAKER BROTHERS ENGRAVING COMPANY (igh l?L?y XS1S Beware kreet, Omaha, Veerasks, Vk? The. Printing Company lOt. u. EsrttT Nebraska's Most I'lodern Progressive Establishment You'll Like Oar Service BUILDING OPERATIONS GOOD Omaha Stead Tw'eatT-Seveata ta tae Mat of Cltle of te Country, and Still Grow. Omaha's building operations In 1909 made a good showing and th indication ar for a considerable Increase this year. Omaha stands twenjr-seventh among the large cities In the amount of building done In 1909, according to government statistics, recently issued by the Interior department Salt I.ke City is twenty-fifth. Cincinnati twenty-sixth, Indianapolis twenty-eighth and Jersey City twenty-ninth. Kansas City stands well up la the Ur.e, being fourteenth, two places ahead of Minneapolis. Bt. Joseph Is away down, being sixty-eighth, and Toledo (about the same else as Omaha) Is seventy-fifth. South Omaha has just enough to get lnt the list, ranking a th 13Cth, and Council Bluff Is th 116th. Omaha stands well up In th percentage of Increase In building for 1909. The aver age of the 13T cities I 3i.M per cent, but In Omaha it la M.93 per cent ARTIFICIAL LIMBS MADE HERE Three Firm Do BlaT Baslaess la Isb-stitetlaa- Limbs Taken by Mlsfor tan or Mishap. It Isn't a possession of which you hear people boasting muoa vaudeville humorists and the funny paper artist have used the subject too often as a jest but It is a pos session of vast Importance when It beoomes necessary to find a substitute for the on nature gave you, th artificial limb. Omaha ha three firm which give their attention to the manufacture of these substitutes made necessary by mishap or misfortune Like the other local Industrie they sup ply a larg territory. Uberty I represented by a female, but th suffragette I firmly convinced that th facta are all to the contrary. flame men are loved for the enemies they have made, but mor are loved for the dol lar they have BOUeuted. Chicago New. Fourteen undertakers, nine monument builders, twenty flurutis and one casket company are taking care of Omaha's dead. Th grim oavaicade of departing soul is ushered to th various resting place In the cemeteries with the ceremony and skill that attend an advancing and im proving bualneas. Respite ths faot that the burying busi ness is fairly prosperous for those directly engaged in it and those who have an at tendant share In 1U phases, oonditions ar reported marked by notable Increase In the oost of supplies and labor. For In stance, it now costs generally more to em balm a body than the undertaker la paid for that task. Yet, by reason of the faot that th public ha become educated Into luxury even relating to burial and more of thoa acocaaory services and fixture of th death room are required, undertaker find 11 eminently satisfactory from a business standpoint. I Several local undertakers have not hesi tated to say that the single phase of em balming Is non-lucrative. It la explained that the stat law fUea th price for em balming a body at ttt, whereas a th un dertaker la sometimes put to an expense of $M t or th work. He makes up for hi los through supplying the accessories to th funeral and th services. As a matter of fact, the embalming In cident of the undertaking buslnees Is but x small one. Local members of th trade ay that Omaha patron now use more biiK canopies and gorgeous furnishing for their dead than ever before has been the oase. Twenty years ago canopies were used prevalently, but they wer discarded to a great extent in the cceedlng year unui reornuy. Now nothing la too good tor patron of the undertakers. If It were a matter which could be taste fully mentioned In the category of Omaha's development, it might be said that this olty ranks among the foremost in the coun try for th sumptuousnes of Ita burial and th expertnee of ita funeral directors. r i . . .... viuaiiB, on in oiner nana, rank as having th smallest percentage of death annually of any city In the country of Its popuiauon. Tne rate la eight deaths to every 1,000 of population every year. monuments come In for a large and growing portion of funeral expense. Nowa day nearly everyone who dies gets a memorial In the form of a monument. Omaha has become a headquarters of the country for monuments. The Woodmen, of the World organization makes thl city the abiding place of lu main office and through that channel about 4,000 monu ment are ordered every year. It la a law of the order that a monument costing not less than flOO shall be erected to the memory of every deceased member. All such deaths in the rank of the Woodmen. all over th world, cause order for th prescribed memorial to go through the loial office. R. B. MoICelvy', who ha direct oharg or all th Woodmen monuments, has re ported a' number of the shaft erected In foreign land during th last year. While no monuments are purchased by the fraternal organisation from flrma In this city outside of wtat 1 directly re quired for local deaths, th influence of the organisation Is great by reason of th large demand It makes for shafts from all dealer in general. From the rlne monument producing establishments In the city it Is learned that en aggregate business reaching- the volume of $175,000 annually Is done In Omaha, The prices of the monuments range from $2B up to 110,000 and U. tendenoy ha steadily been toward the mor elaborate and ooetly kind. Th Individual firm turn out an average of 400 'orders a year. The time required on Individual orders ranges from twelve hours to twelve months. Omaha, like all other cities of the middle west. Is compelled to send hundreds of mile for Its monument material. There I absolutely no stone produced in the stat and material for the moat part must be gotten from Vermont, Minnesota or the extreme southern states. Barre granite, from Vermont, Is in use moat prevalently. Foreign labor Is en ployed almost ex clusively In the department of monument carving of the local establishments. It Is declared the workmen from Germany, France and Italy are by far the most skilled as stonecuttera There are a num ber of the most expert stonecutters In the country employed In the Omaha concerns. Though there are sixty-five monument es tablishments throughout the state of Ne braska, Omaha fills by far the most con tracts. This city Is looked upon a the most satisfactory producing point In the state, by reason of its large volume of business and the better facilities enjoyed by con cerns here than those In other cities. The local establishments keep In stock a large supply of shafts of every description, and ar in readiness to deliver one completely finished In half th time required by the mailer concern of the state. Price have gone up In this industry In the same proportion as Increases have vla Ited the other Induatrie during- th paat five year, but because of th fact that a reduction In freight rate probably will be brought about In th near future, the monument dealers are hopeful of being able to reduce their schedules. Skilled labor Is a considerable expense to the dealers also, but increasing system In the direction of their work Is now giving increased value to the employers, Omaha monument builder are prepared on any ocoaalon to deliver a monument carved completely by the chlael of one man. No matter bow ruahed the concern may be. It has become a rule never to let two men work on one monument, as each carver ha hi own atyj of carving apd gives his work a distlnet individuality, which would act toward making th fin ished Job better. In delivering their poduct local concerns are under the expense of many long haula at pointa In the country a considerable distance from railroads. Tat, consumera continue to show favor to Omaha dealers rather than smaller one In the town near them. Flower for all occasion is th motto of twenty enterprising florist establishments In th city. Fifteen of these concern main tain their own greenhouses and pxoduc vaat quantities of roses, carnations, violets, palms and every other variety of flowers. The dealers declare their business Is In creasing by great leaps and bounds and that unlike other Industries, It does not have to be exploited nor promoted. Ne braekans are becoming great lovers of flowers and sticklers for the fragrant bulbs at their ceremonial occasions. Though the dealer ar able to produce almost entirely the upply of Towers they need, frequent order are sent from Omaha for shipments of orchids and lilies from the Bermuda Islands and Japan. These are almost the only varieties of flowers that must b obtained from a foreign source. It Is said the demand xor oronias exoeed th supply. Local florist have com Into not throughout th state for the alse and splen dor of their display of flower. It Is explained that by reason of the great volume of business don by Omaha flower merchants, the latter ar enabled to keep a permanent supply of all the floral varieties on hand. This has become so generally known that each and every one of the greenhouse establishment In th city 1 doing a large business with patrons In Uttl town In the far corners of the state. - ENGINEERS OF HIGH RANK Omaha Has CoasaltlaaT Engineers Who Are Called All Over for special Work. Omaha consulting engineers, although perhaps they are few In number compared with other cities of similar else In the United States, find that they ar called upon to work, out engineering matters for practically the entire state of Nebraska. When the towns and cities of Nebraska decide upon th erection of any structure requiring the services of a consulting en gineer they do not need to send to th great cities in the east for their men; they are to be found right here in Omaha. The work of the consulting engineer 1 becoming mor and mor Important every wear. A clvlllxaTIoa advances, as the growing Industry of the country, end par ticularly that of Nebraska and this part of the middle west. Increases, the demands become greater for more publto works, mor huge building, mor difficult great engineering task. With all thl growth th work of th consulting engineer be oomes mor complex and he must be a man of both brain and brawn to meet and over come the problem which come before him, And, with all these thing In view, Omaha's engineers ar holding their own and are keeping abreast of the times. When a municipality votes to construct a new water works system, build a drain. age or sanitary sewerage system In which reliable advice and technical skllT is needed Omaha furnishes the consulting engineers. with the possible exception of a contract being let directly to some construction com. pany which maintain Its own engineers, When a large power plant needs remodel ling or enlarging It Is Omaha which pro- duo the consulting engineer. When a consulting engineer Is called to a city to inspect a plant he determines whether or not it can be practically re- ouut wun a larger capacity, or whether an -entirely new system is necessary. Ths sngiueer looks over the ground, submits his report, and If chosen as consulting an glnor for the project he become respon sible for th work which is don in accord ance with the report he ha made. At other time when merely technical advice I needed he act a a counsel in th same oapadty as would an attorney or physi cian. Thl I frequently done in th In stances when soma public work I being planned or oonstruoted and the opinion of a prominent engineer Is deemed advisable The Omaha directory shows that this city has three consulting engineers, A. C Koenlg, O. JT. B. Collin and A. C. Arend. Mr. Koenlg Is known over th stat as one of the most prominent engineers In the west. He Is chief engineer for the Ne braska Power company, and In his private work makes a specialty of designing water and sewerage systems. He Is thoroughly familiar with Nebraska conditions and. is one of the best authorities procurable on Nebraska rivers, of which he has made a special study. Recently Mr. Koenlg was honored by hav ing his preliminary report accepted for the proponed 16,000,000 power plant at Colum bus, Neb., which It Is planned will supply a great part of Nebraska consumers with electricity. This report waa aubmltted after fifteen other engineer, th mot prominent In th United State and Europe, had pre pared elmllar reporta. Following th ac ceptance of Mr. Koenlg report he wa procured by th backer, who ar Swiss bankers, as consulting engineer, and he Is bow working In that capacity, If con structed, this will be the greatest engineer ing feat which has been accomplished In Nebraska since the building of the rail roads, and In the end will bear no less importance In the business future of the state. In spite of the fact that Omaha Is In strictly an agricultural state, the engineering talent found here la in the first rank. Omaha engineera have built the city and are build ing th state DrlaJtlaar Water at Meals. If the Rockefeller Institute haa done nothing else in Ita history, Its report that drinking water at meals Is healthful would be sufficient to emblematise It In the mind of many persons. From tline Immemorial the mass of physicians have told prop! not to drink water while eating; to take plenty of It at other times, but never while the gastric Juices ar at work. It will be remembered by some of th older generation that fifty year ago water waa seldom if ever tlven patienta suffering with fever. Titer wa a lot of fixed rule which seem to have gained authority, but which were based on nothing but fallacious notions. In these days of research every dictum is being Investigated and a lot of almost sacrosanct Ideas have sons down before the iooneoleet. Boston HesaUa, Lew W. Raber THE PRINTER .'U7.r J -f-.! tin Dee Dulldlng, Entrance on Court GOOD PRINTING Reasonable Prices. No Delays. PHONE DOUG. 1018 GREAT WESTERN TYPE FOUNDRY ELECTROTYPES AND NICKELTYPES SAVE YOUR TYPE AND ENGRAVINGS 1114-1115 HOWARD STREET OMAHA, NEBRASKA SEND FOR OUR 200-PAOI OUT OATALOQUS YESTERN NEWSPAPER UNION 6X0 So, 1Mb Street, Omasa. 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