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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 2, 1910)
THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEK: OCTOBER 2. 1910. COMMISSION TRAFFIC CROWS Volume of Produce Bminesi in City Enormous. CITY IS TAKIKO LEAD OF OTHERS Brokers Declare Their Hsalara Has Inereaaed One llaadrra (id Kirieea Per teal In Kle Veara On Doom o, In a nection of the city all to tliemnelvea, cotnmlmlon merchant, brnkera and Job bers are dealing in the products direct from the earth that supply a vast popula, tion and a great territory. The (.ommlHsion men do Ihouaanda upon thousands of dol lars' worth of business each year, trans port and contract for hundreds of thou sands of dollars' worth of fruits, vege tables and all sort of produce. The re sult of the commission enterprises has been a growth of It per cent In that department of Industry In Omaha during Uie last five years. It has resulted In establishing this city as the big commlKslun center for pro dues In the central west. A dosen brokers negotiate the shipment of carloads of produce from distant points to this city and for hundreds of miles past it. Several doien Jobbers distribute tons of vegetables and fruits in tills city and throughout the state and adjoining states. The work Is systematlsed. It Is smooth and friendly and immensely prosperous. Word will go out that will bring other additions to the colony of commission peo ple and the business will ever inorease. Probably the commerce largely will be the farter in putting the. population of Omaha and the population of the rural districts way up to the height of all hopes In sev eral short years. Business (irowa Naturally. Unnoticed by the general public the com mission business has been growing sheerly by the natural genius of tliose who have a part In It and by the natural opportuni ties through location and facilities that are held forth here. According to M. D. Foy, representative of the Umonelra company of Colorado, an average of from ISO to 200 cars of fruits of all kinds are to be found on the rail road tracks of this city every day. Mr. Koy declares the f -ult business, In which he is a broker, aside from all other lines of commission merchanting, has developed 160 per cent Inside of five years. There are three clearly-defined classes of dealers In frlut and produce in the city: The brokers, who deal strictly In carload lots; the commission Jobbers, who buy outright large supplies and sell to retail ers, and the batterers, who purchase direct from the growers from the public market and sell direct to the consumers. On Tenth and Ueventh street from Howard to Jackson streets, and on How aid and Jackson streets, In that section are ranged the Jobber. The public mar ket Is located at Eleventh and Jackson streets. In this district Is confined the bunlness that foots up to thousands of dol lars a day and relates to potatoes, toma toes, cabbage and pears, etc. About five years ago the City author ities decided a public market was a thing needed absolutely in the city. Up to that lime the city was being overrun by ped dler's wag'ins and barterers. Therefore a building for the market place was erected at Thirteenth and Capitol avenue. This location quickly proved to be a bad one. and the produce dealers naturally sought better quarters, or resorted to the obnoxious method of peddling. The streets were found to be too narrow for the many wagons at the public market place and re lief was absolutely needed. Then tran spired a concerted move by the commission Jobbers to get a building In the proper lo cation. They purchased the lot at Eleventh and Jackson streets, and built their own public market. The step has proven to have been a most excellent one. Ially the retail dealers and individual consumers In great throngs gather at the public market and make purchases which otherwise would be transacted through peddlers. The produce comes from farming sections throughout Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado and Kansas. Brokers Have Bis; Field. i For the commission brokers the limits of the city itself are all that restrict their operations. There are eight brokers in all, namely: J. B. Plummer, K. C. Hunter, the California Fruit Distributers company, the California Fruit Growers' association, H. D. Foy, Strait, R. J. Olfford and A. U. Chaney. It Is reported that Crawford, Alliance, Hemmlngford, Oordon, Kushville, Hay Springs and Chadron are the best potato producing centers In the middle west, sending apparently Inexhaustible quantities of the vegetables to Omaha for distribution continually. , The season for vegetable shipping lasts In its highest stage, from the middle of August to about the middle of October. Those of the brokers who specialise in fruits get their produota mostly from Colo rado, Utah, Idaho and California. Following are the commission Jobbers: Liavis & Bautlo, Schneider-Trimble com pany, Koscoe Brothers, John Anderson, Blotsky Fruit company, Charles Rosso, Zallnsky Fruit company, SchwarU & Son, F. M Williams. Weinsteln ft Adler, and the Young-Burke company. Women Labor ('mnlwIoBtn. Mrs. Ferry Starkweather has four women assistants in her work as assistant labor commissioner of Minnesota. Mrs. Starkweather Is the only woman in the country holding such an office and Mlnne sota Is the only state In the union that has a department for women and children in Its bureau of labor. This department Is a sort of clearing house for all matters pertaining to women and children In Indus try and school. At present special at tention Is being given to the home conditions. BIG POSTOFFICE RtCElPfS Revenue Rinki This City Above Much L&rgtr Onei. ARMY STATIONS ARE HERE Omaha One Day Promises to Be Lead ins; Feint fnr Aeronnetlenl Ki perlments and Army Maneu vers at the Forts. With pon toff Ice and internal revenue re ceipts totaling over $L2,000,000 a year, Omaha gets onto Uncle Sam's bonks In a most Important position. The government business here has been growing In recent ears at a rate not excelled by many cities credited with a much larger population than Omaha. Not only In these two branches, but in every line almost of governmental activ ity. Is Omaha well up toward the head. As the location of the headquarters of the army Department of the Missouri, Omah holds high place in military affairs. Here are two posts, Fort Crook and Fort Omaha, on which much money Is being expended each year, and which are steadily grow ing In Importance. A government corral Is also maintained In Omaha, and an Indian supply depot Fort Omaha will, as time passes, con tinue to develop from year to year as a central point for the practice of army seronatics, signalling, wireless teleeraphy and kindred subjeots. The school now es tablished at 'Fort Omaha for the education of experts In these lines. Is making very promising progress. It is attracting a class of young Americans who see In the new facilities of warfare Immense oppor tunities for the exercise of skill and the development of latent talent and energy. As the mastery of the air and the per fection of wireless telegraphy is being achieved, it will not hereafter be so axiom atic as It has been that "an army travels on Its stomach." Armies will travel on a growing confidence in the "signal corps and the wireless telegraph system, even If they have no big supply of grub along. Aeronautics to Hela. And with swift airships spying out routes, locating the enemies' lines, and gathering -4he definite Information commanding gen ernl needs, the heads of armies will not be handicaped In future wars as their pre decessors were in the years now almost forgotten. They will be able - to lay out thrlr lines of movement with a considerable degree of certainty. "Forewarned is fore armed." ' Fort Omaha is the greatest prospect In the land today for a future development of the particular branches of army business to which it has been devoted, and the plant Is being steadily pushed toward the point of completeness whloh will make It one of the very best of Its kind In the world. Poetofflce Increases Receipts. Uettliig back to figures, when people realise that the Omaha postoffice showed a growth of approximately U.onn.ono in the money buslnens of the year I! over l!"f. they can well take some pride In the fact Stamp sales fur the ls.t year Increased almost $100, 00 over the previous year, and stamp sales are considered a real ba rometer of the growth of business In a city. A gnin of 11 per cent In twelve months Indirates a live place. Following Is a detailed showing of the Omaha post office transactions for 1!W!, with a com parative table of the previous year: Money Order Baslness. l'JOR Number. Amount. Money drders lsued.,...l4.Jll ll.O:) :rw 11 Money orders paid 373.7M4 3.502, MS 22 Remittances 35.5M) 6.1tl.X23 18 Total handled $.i.r,29,170.5I -liX Number. Amount. Money orders Issued 6.iS $l.uo7.9.tS 31 Money orders paid liM.OTii 3.471.8.70 Remittances 31,4i2 4.17H.3. .IS Total handled $s.fi&.'i.fW7.19 Increase of business over 1)08. tJ73.2Ki.3i. STAMP SALES. 1!XH JS0MS1.37 19CM 900.414.40 .3M.17 . 17,4:11 .3X0.814 Increase 11 per cent t 91,931.03 REGISTRY BUSINESS. Letters and paroles registered. 80,000 83,977 Letters and parcels delivered (city) 128.2SO IM.'.IO Registered pouches received... 18.170 18,M6 Registers received in same-... Pouches dlspHtclied Packages received in same... MAIL, MATTER ORIGINATING IUSPATTHED FROM THIS OFFICE. Number of pieces distributed and forwarded bv clerks In mailing division during the year ! 88.4J9.4S2 special delivery stamps amxea Letters and parrels Redistribution Pouohes and sacks received from R. P. O. s con tents of which were redistributed by clerks In mailing division 54,536 Transit Pouches and sacks passing through this office handled by clerks In mailing dlvlnlon Delayed Mall Matter Pouches de layed In transit and contents re distributed by clerks In mailing division 407. 21 17.912 831. Mb AND 41,03 W.184 accentuate better than words the growth of business In !Htmater Thomas' depart ment Recently there has been added the itreot railway service, wrth five cars con tinually running out and Into the central postoffice. covering twenty-one suhetations and every section of the city , from early morning until late at night. This service makes a long step towsrd a perfect service, and is taken by the knowing ones to mean cms) Ida.ljn of the Sou h Om.th.i. Florence aiui Unison offices in the Omaha building within a very brief time. When this oc curs, an it must under the scheme of econo mising thut is now being developed at Washington, the Omaha office will move a good many tcps up the line In Import ance and In Income, and will be serving territory of very large dimensions better, probably, than the four offices serve the same teiTltory at the present time. Internal lteenuee Increase. An Increase of practically a quarter mil lion dollars was made In the internal re venue business of the Nebraska district In I900, compared with 1908, as shown by the following table. lrmg V.HW Lists $ 6.473.00 4 170.74 Peer Stamps UW.fUiHM r5U.7SO.75 Spirit stamps 1,9W. 6.19.00 1.76S,M7.44 cigar and cigaret Htamps Mi,i.0O Tobacco stamps R.X.UO'i Special Mx stamps 90,374.00 Process hutter stamps. 1"3 no Mixed flour stamps.... Jtsoo Documenary and Im printed stamps .50 HTi.fi 19. 73 4.83.26 8i.479 f.6 17079 18.00 .50 1,861 Grand total .' 88,678,106 Clerks and. Carriers. Number of clerks, carriers and substi- tutes employed in the postoffice in 1908 2i Number of clerks, carriers and substi tutes emnloted - In ' the Dostoffice in 190 9 Increase 13 Number of railway mall clerks pal at Omaha postoffice In 1909 220 S'umber of railway mail clerks paid at Omaha postoffice in 1906 234 Increase 14 Number of rural letter carriers paid at Omaha postoffice In 1908 970 Number of rural letter carriers paid at Omaha postoffice In 1909 1,036 Increase 06 Millions of Pieces Handled. Note the many millions of pieces of mail matter handled at the Omaha postoffloe In a year, also the Increase In clerks In very department. These details serve to Totals 12,567. 973X0 I2,3tt,S80.87 For the present year the Increase In re ceipts will be very much greater, because the corporation tax is bringing in a good many thousands of dollars. Department of Jnattce. In the activities of the Department of Justice the city of Omaha also takes quite a prominent part. The expense of adminis tering Justice through the federal courts with headquarters here Is close to J50.000 a year, although In 1909 the figure was some what less than In WIS. This was because of the decreased number of Jury trials of first Importance, In this connection it is Interesting to note that convictions are the rule In a great majority of the cases tried In the federal courts, whose Juries are drawn almost en tirely from the farming community. Dur ing 1909 the convictions numbered thirty four, as against five acquittals in district court criminal cases. In the civil cases tried during the year In dlstrlot court the govern ment got Judgment In sixteen and four were dismissed. Sixty-five civil and 1T0 criminal cases were still pending In this oourt on January 1 last. In the United States circuit court there were 163 cases disposed of in which the Urllted States was not Interested as a liti gant. There are still pending 296 civil cases of this character. Judgment for the plaintiff In circuit court cases aggregated $396,210.29 In 1909, and for the defendant but $660. In the bankruptcy court 131 eases have been closed, with 129 cases still pending. The total liabilities of the cases closed - T( f - T 1, ? : III U fih 7R ...':, ' X V., .. : .. y . . 4 . . :: . ... ...... . ' .. t i -.s ' ft- Gl'S RENZK'S 1 D1C A OF A JOY RIDE. was S1,225.6,F)9.73: assets, (241,768 87; dividends declared. $191,788.15. Marshal's' Of flee Important. The United States marshal's office is a very Important part of the machinery of the government, and Its continued activity is hardly Indicated by the figures of re ceipts' and expenses. Marshal Warner and his staff are always on the go, and the differing elements of the cases they handle run the whole gamut of offenses against the federal law. The effectiveness of the marshal and his stuff is conceded on all hands, and in many difficult cases they have proved, their skill and mettle most signally. Following are the figures of of fice business for 19091 Fees earned I 4,392.33 Amount collected and paid to clerks 1,?.76.97 Expended during the year 1909: Salaries, fees and expenses 2,827 91 Fees of Jurors 11.W.220 Fees of witnesses 16,753.32 Support of prisoners .... Puy of bailiff MtscellaueoiiH expense's Suluries and expenses Slates attorneys Total of United 2.01.05 2.7S2.18 2 717.M 690, 7 .$46,256.22 Vof (ilrl In rulplt. Miss Agnes Nestor, secretary of the Glove Makers' union, young and pretty, whq is spending the best years of her life In the great battle for the uplift of the working girl, occupied the pulpit of Rev. Jeiikln Lloyd Jones In Chicago, recently, and preached a strong workaday sermon on "The Condition of Women Workers." She won the congre gation at the outset of the sermon and held them rept In deep attention for more than half an hour as she unfolded to them .the side of life experienced by the young girls and women who wreck their health and itoo often their lives In factories In attempting to earn enough by piecework to 1ujr their dally bread. , ; I . . . i .. rrTr" ' i ' ' - - ' li-.iubm t . ; , i ' m . ' ' ' " ' ' ' ' " . . f I ( i! ' N Smeaton & Browne Commission Merchants and Cash Bayers of Butter, Eggs, Poultry u. Veal Write Us for Quotations. Address 414-416 South 11th Street, Omaha, Nebraska. Itoference: Omaha National Bank. The Oldest Commistion House in Omaha a Established 36 years JR. Bingham & Son Wholesale Fruits A. U. Chaney Company Brokers and Wholesale Jobbers Omah, Neb, A. U. Chaney Co. D Motata, la. I. S. Hunter Omaha. Nab. .. and Produce eeee 1013 Howard St. Omaha, 'Neb. J. B. PLUMMER 1007 Howard Street POTATOE Our Specialty We Ship from Maine to California This space bt'longs to . COPELAND - FLYNN COMPANY, WE PAY CASH FOR Butter, Eggs and Poultry OUR PRICES AND SERVICE ARE RIGHT Mr. Merchant: If you are not shipping your produce to us start now. If we are not quoting you send us your name. WATCH US Wii. Ninsfactttrirs of PROCESS BUTTER Address 1203 Howard Street Try our D. T. Brand Wholesale Buttering Perry & Company Wholesale Denier aad Cash Barer ef Batter, Ei, Ponltry, Etc W. O. PERRY 411 B. lltlt U Xsv. 18t. Befennoei Her. Vatt. Bask. WHOLESALE FRUITS and VEGETABLES Our Specialty. , ; , Oranges, Lemons, Apples, Strawberries, Watermelons, .. , i Deciduous Fruits, Figs, Nuts. Georf Gifford J. T. Morey GEORGE GIFFORD COMPANY Car Lot Brokers Fruits and Produce 1021 Howard Street Omaha, Neb. Foral & Kuncl "Telephone 1131. Produce ' Commision Merchants Caab Buyers Butter and Eggs. Butter, Eggs, Poultry and Veal Our Specialty. Reference!: Address: U. S. Nat' Bank; 410 8. 11th Ht., Mercantile Agencies. Omaha SNYDER - TRIMBLE CO. 1102-1104-1106 Howard St. OMAHA, NEB, R. L. Young, Pres. and Treas. Thomas F. Burke, Sec'y YOUNG-BURKE CO. Incorporated i ; Wholesale Fruits and Produce Nuts, Dates, Figs, Etc, We Solicit Your Business and Guarantee Satisfaction . . . ' J , . . . , .; .. I I ' - t Tel. Douglas 2834 1008 Howard St., Omaha, Neb. Joseph Polack Wholesale Produce Commission Merchant Established 1891 . Cash Buyer of Butter, Eggs. Poultry and Produce Address 507-509 So. 13th Street Omaha, Neb. Davis Bauidlo Iterelvers of Fresh Vegetables and Fruits Daily in carload lots Adtlrena: 1207 HOWAKI) KTKKfcT, OMAHA. XK11. MARSH & MARSH i (INCORPORATED) Wholesale Dealers BUTTER, EGGS and POULTRY 417 South Eleventh Street OMAHA, NEBRASKA . . M. Cheny, 1'res.; J. W. Slr-'l, V. Ires. and Tr'!.; M. J. HcINtii, Kec. Cheney, Street k Iteffern Go. IXCOKPOKATKU Wholesale Poultry, Eggs and Buffer 'Phone, Douglas 6U03. Iteferenre: I'. H. Natlonnl Bank. Our SptoUltyi Livi Poultr; In Car Lots laos Howard St, :: :: :: :: Onialia, Xeb.