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I Baking of Toothsome Biscuits a Great Industry in
CCJAIt and splae and every
thing; nice" always have con
stituted the heart of cskee,
with flour aa the solid body,
of course. In these modern
dain the lint will have to be
lengthened to specify honey, lard, ginger,
molasses, currants, nuts, raisins, choco
late, milk, eggs and some other articles,
All of these Ingredients are lined In
larger quantities In the biscuit factories of
Omaha, and with results so pleasing- to
the people served that greatly enlarged
capacity of production has been made
necessary. Within a block of each other
are situated the two new plants of the
1-oose-Wiles company and the Hen com
pany, the first at Twelfth and Davenport
and the latter at Twelfth and Capitol.
When these firms opened In Omaha for
the making of a full lino of "biscuits," as
tbe trade term has It, they secured quar
ter In the best buildings available, but
very soon they began to plan for new and
larger buildings that would be put tip espe
cially to meet their needs. The Loose -Wiles
company has been working in its
new home for several months now, and
the Iten company will start It first ovens
before the close of the year. Mr. Iten has
been giving bis attention almost solely,
alnoe his foundations were la, to superin
tending the erection of his new plant, lie
has determined that It must be complete
In every detail, and hence his anxiety to
watch It grow aa he wants It day after
day.
Work Done by Machinery. '
In these great modern baking plants hu
man bands never touch the dough or the
finished product unless absolutely neces
sary, at the packing tables and perhaps
In transferring the mixed duugh from the
troughs to the maohlnes that roll, shape,
out and forward it to and through the
evens.
For tomorrow's baking sponge is sot this
morning and at S o'clock, while the olty
Is sleeping and dreaming, the bakers start
their work. On the mixing floor are great
oblong troughs, clean as a new whistle,
and when the sponge and flour have been
put In according to rule a trough is wheeled
under the automatio mixer. Then a lever
Is thrown, the paddle wheels of the um-
chine are lowered Into the trough and the
mixing goes on with a steadiness and a
regularity not possible to the human
tianda But careful oversight Is given the
machine while It Is doing the work and
when the dough Is "just right" the paddle
wheel contrlvanoe la raised and the trough
whisked away to the molding machines.
It requires but four minutes to mix five
barrels of dough.
These latter have hoppers In some case,
through which tbe dough Is fed to cutter,
which automatically chop out the desired
ehae and the soft biscuit drops In regular
order onto a greased pan, one of many
carried along at a regular rate of speed.
As fast as a pan Is filled a man Jerks It
off and plaoes It on a frame of the revolv
ing oven. Half a doien of these large
pans fill eaoh frame, which, then sink
down to the bottom of the oven, heated
by coke fed Into the fireboxes on the floor
Gossip and
WIIIIsum' Ileply to Ulalae.
NLY tbe other day In liairen
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county, Kan., tluit sent to both
sides in IScl more than her
quota of soldiers, there was a
reunion bf the 81 nth Kentucky
regiment of the "Orphan bri
ttle confederate army. only
gade" of
gade" of the
Confederate army. Only
twenty-four veterans wiio wore the gruv
were there, and for guests they had but
three veterans who wor the blue. Soon
there will be no more of that "thin gray
llne." and a little later there alii be no
more of that thick blue line on the other
side. They are passing fast.
H was called the 'Orphan brigade"
for two reasons, relates the Washington
l'oot. It had more commanders killed on
tho field of battle than any other brigade
of either army, and it went out, though
Its state stayed In.
And that makes pvrtlnent an anecdote
at the expense of James U. lllalne, who
never tird of telling It. John a Wil
liams, not our own present John Bharp,
however, when a captain and a boy of
Is. led the charge In Mexico at the bloody
battle, of Cerro Gordo, and his brilliant
feat turned the tide and snatched glorious
victory from the jaws of disastrous de
feat, lie henceforth ass known aa Cerro
Oordo Williams. He and lllalne war
senators In ooftgreee some thirty years
ago. One day the plumed knight came on
the floor with a chip on his shoulder, and
proceeded to make a furious bloody-shirt
speech. In which he romarkrd. "Aa for
the Junior senator from Kentucky, be was
so swift to destroy the best government
lu the world that he went out thouga
bis state stayed In." To that old Cerro
Oordo grimly retorted. "And therein I
differ from the saaator from Uelne. He
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below, Cttm reroTiit'on Is sufficient for the
tmkintf, and us eaoli triiPie of the heated
FenH wheel appears at th oven door it
Is lifted out and placed cm con '.limn '.'.y
moving elevator full of shdvrs. This ele
vator nitives flowly and b." the tit.te :1ii
pans reach the paiklng floor Hit product
Is cool enough to he hand lid by lh ulr'.s
at the packing table!).
Itollliiu (rurkrri,
In the ti.akliof of crackers the dough H
first flattened out to the tliliknem of prolj-
blr ,,alf an 1 1,0,1 T' en 14 ' t'1 throiiKh
a ret of ateil rolls which crush It "as flu.
" a Pancake.-' and a salt box et on tho
machine lets down Its contents constantly.
At the Hiime time another roll Is cutting
pinholes In the Hheet of doi.gli and cutting
It to theproper sire. As It reaches the men
at the oven they clettly slip very thin slides
under the five or six doieu f the molded
crackers and transfer them to the oven. It
Is a fast process ami a jtrat many thou
sand crackers or ether forms of biscuit are
turned out til a day.
The finished product Is not allowed to
ccumulute ur tand crpopetl to the a:r,'
but In packed while warm into air tlxht
cartons lined with a peculiar kind of paper.
These ko to other tables for wrapping" and
labeling as fast as they are filled, while
the pucker are kept supplied with new
cartons carried along on a series of moving
shelves from a little platform where half
a dozen girls are feeding cardboard and
paper to shaping machines that make a
carton In a fraction of a minute. Every-
Stories About People of Note
stayed out, though his state went In."
What Mrs. llarrliuau la llolna.
Mrs. Edward H. Harrlman has now been
In complete control of her late husband'."
estate a year, and It may therefore not be
untimely to ask how a woman, thought to
lo but slightly familiar with business con
cerns, has acquitted herslf of new and
manifold duties during that time.
She has managed a street railway ami
lighting plant and a hotel in Georgia, a
gold mine in South Oakota, an iron mine,
a dairy farm, a bank and a road hooding
company in New York, a blast furnace In
Pennsylvania, and lessor enterprises else
where; In addition to which she has at
tended counsels In Wall Hreet. directed
an army of men at Tower Hill, and per
formed the duties of a mother to her five
children.
It Is not to be supposed that the lias at
tended to these duties without the best and
ablest of assistance. Some of the lieuten
ants w ho served her late husband have
been retained in her employ, and much of
the work for which she la finally respon
sible goes forward, undoubtedly, a If It
were automatically done.
Hut the fact remains, relates the Ft. Louis
Times, that all these enterprises have
flourished Just as they diddurlng the life
time of Mr. Harrlman even the enterprise
of caring for her children, to which she
might have devoted her entire time in
former years.
Another enterprise which has sven sur
passed Its former record is that of the
Harrlman philanthropies. Ironi the re
moval of a debt of over 1 140. goo on a boys'
club In San Fianclaco to countless smaller
benefactions, this woman has been con
stantly alert and busy.
All this may be cited not so niuoh to
prove thst a woman has executive ability
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tVng tr:at ran flnne by au'omafle ms-
cliiiury U done, only the tillii ct the
cuitoiis and tin boxes und the- wrapping
and labr-linii beliv I' ft t hand wcr...
Xtiklna the Sweets.
In another part of the factcry fl 1'tiiK"
ur.d trlmnriik'i chocolate, nut top.". inarh
mallow me rrrpjied. Taking tho trays
full of cakes, girl cover them with n:arn!.
miillow or chocolate, or place nuts on top:
but there Is'alai a hank of dipping ma
chines for cer al l Ic'nds of rakes. Thee
machines rav equipped with Heel porcu
pines, the spires lelrg represented by pins.
On thee are Huclt the product to be
dlpixd and the r.-mhlm csirlra them Into
and through a trouuh I.eiUd by hot water
They come out n.Hv.d wKh whatever ma
terial la used and i.iove nlonr until cool,
when the units are pl ked .ff and packed
Into their proper receptacle. The factory
name for theic machines l 1. Inn trolleys
and in the new- iten plant tl.ere will he
haif a doxen of their. 130 feet long.
Iloth of these new buildings will stand
coirporlson with any idnillar factories In
the I 'lilted States. i:ach one is five
stories and hasumut. Cleanliness and
sanitation, light anil ventilation, are here
found at their highest development. Thu
Iten factory will be the largest of the
two. having Mx of the large ovens acalnst
three In the Iose-Wlifs phuit. It will
be called the "Snow White IV.'.tei " in
the advertising of the firm, and will de
serve the name.
Each factory Is alo eituipped with what
v. hen tlie time t omei for her to ilemc.li
Mrnte It. but to as!; the question: Is li
not hinhly probable, ill the Mfiht of what
has happened during the last year, that
It was not really Edward II. Harrlman who
amassed so large a fortune, hut. im-tead,
the firm of Ha-rhnan 'o.. the comp;;ii
hi-in tics amazingly koo.1 and clevci
woman '.'
amebic uml iir
There s a wat hn'a i osi
t 'oil.
duly in the
Htale, War and Na b .l
ton who resembles uiy
iiiK in Was'i'.ng
ciosi'ly And ei
tyirnegle. and every morning bergniul
Curtis, of the White House police force,
has something to say to the watchman
about Carnegie and Carnegie's mom y.
One morning Just before tiie pressleui
left Washington fo.' his summer vscit on.
relates the Popular Magacine, Curtis saw
the watchman goh'K on his way o his
post acioss the street and ang out:
"You blasted bondholder! Why don't
you come across with some of the money
you are hoarding up? There are plenty
of people who need It, and I am one of
them."
"Whai's that?" asked the watchman,
turning to Curtis suddenly.
It was then that Curtis, much abashed,
saw that he had been talklnp to the r.al
Carnegie.
Kdeila Forrest w srkrs la Chop.
It has been said that the King of l'"iin
Inn was a landmark, ami so It was. tipisi
eite to it was tiie first Moravian church,
another guldepost in its time. From both
of these structure strangers In the neigh
borhood were guided. We learn, says the
Philadelphia Ledger, that the shop in
which Kdwln Forrest as a buy worked wss
next to the King of Prussia. The number,
at that time, was "I, and tbe embryonlo
tragedian's employers were Baker & Hon.
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are fcrown as h"i o-en!, T-htch will
later on he n t ii i;:t--l fur the baking of
apcn-it.1 goods, uuch as fruit anil pound
cunes and other hlBh class products sv.inled
for pR'-al coca inns or pttrpoees. At
pnem this clas- oi ttoods is not i.ia.1. by
the fanorli-s In t.ie wep;. They u:e made
in the eas;. and
from England.
uivioeraiue Is imported
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Of the special kind of f.oiir used in the
mukiiiK of his nits, lai i.e i.ia:H i tit s are
used daily In the two Omaha factories,
s imelMiiT like Cm harreis every twenty
four hours. This particular grade o.'
flour Is not now made In On. aha. but the
I'pdlke and the Maney Milling companies
are giving aoine attention to the posalhil
ity of producing It here The soft variety
of wheat rctulrsl is grown only In Kan
sas. Missouri, Illinois and Indiana. The
haul wheats of Nebraska and Minnesota
will not. it lias been found, make bis
cuits II. at the puh.lc will consume and ask
lor moie.
HisM j f lour, bot h concerns pin chase
and use- lai'se Quantities of b-itler, beet
sugar. New Orleans molasses, kettle ren
dered laid, in the making of their pro
duct; and cardboard, paper, wood, tin, and
printing iniv, in their parkin; departments.
The cartons and tin bores are made In the
east i.ml brought I. ere hy the carload:
and the particular kind of lumber used
for tile boxes comes ti'om the south.
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I I re ji mi haiv Vlnterlnl.
OcttltiK down to actual iigures,
The Bakers were importers of Oerman
goods, and the elder member of the firm
radix- shook hi1 head at his young del W.
who was accustomed to pass mmc time In
I lie eonii any of a plav book than he was n
bis duties. It is related that Mr. linker.
wiio Is described us a very worthy a;id
pious n, an. remarked on" day to Forrest.
In lis own iK'Cullai' style and manm-r:
"Kdwin. my boy. th' theoretical infatua
tion will lie our ruin.'- The worthy man,
of course. Intended h.s 1-emnrka to apple to
bis apprentice's iiifatuatlon fur theatricals.
' lleimirrnt Still."
Tlie death of tie weti-knovn New York
ihmocia'. I :n i.l t lei. net t rA u'U a
little Sior.. of the cumiai--n of Ml . Thi
democratic national ounce;. Ii i was li -hl
at Chicago. Tiie money i.uesliou was a
paramount issue and ,ts cons deration
called forth much fervid oratory, logical
end otherwise--chiefly the Inter.
Mill and hryan were the chief exponents
of the two Md'-s of the rjtiestloii, reniieci
I'. ely. l elates the Kansas I'lty Journal.
They l.ail a great baMIe hefoiv the com
mittee and lit- an won. Again, on the floor
of the convention, they clpslicd, lend the
Nebrabkan was victorious again. A well
known Kansas democrat, who was a mem.
her of the committee. In commenting on
the contest later on. aald that the reason
itryati outpointed Hill In their debates was
because liryan knew both sides of tho
question and knew Hill's side better than
Hill himself.
The evening after that battle a number
of Kansans called upon Senator 11.11 at bis
hotel. Senator John Martin of Kansas In
troduced the via tors. Among tin m ves
Fred Vandt;rlf t.
"'Senator." said Van. "1 like your expres
sion. 'I am a democrat!' 1 think that it
spells hope for our party.''
"Which is your party?' asked Hill.
"The democratic party." Van replied.
HIU laid his hand on the shoulder of ii.
Kansas newspaper man and sa'd; "I am
a democrat still very still:" ,
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Loose-Wiles company Is now using 125 bar-
icis of flour a duy, wltli pounds of
lard, 5'Xi pounds of butter and twenty
pounds of yeast, liiery month the factory
requires two cat loads of sugar, one car
of molasses and U tars of Poxes. The
carton iduff also run i Into very larRe
figures tach niontn. us will he readily
undei flood when :t Is known the monthly
shipments from this one pk:iit total be
tween J&o.uno. and t.iM.iM). When the new
Hen factory Is opened, with its' six ovens,
its consumption of raw material and out
put of finished irod-.ct will largely ex
cel! the above figures.
"Pile two l.isiult fait' r'cs, when in fall
operation, will have bitwccn and l.oJO
ptople on their payml's. Many of these
are women und girls. ; (om .'c. who wo k
by the. piece; und the y make kocmI W'jgcs,
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S'leSS'WIS'SS
Selections From the Story Tellers' Pack
Judae Parker's Mor .
a I lirec cornered conversation
le'eitly. .IuiIm' Parker rejoiced
in C e fact that there are so
mar y Cierman-Americans.
"' ht-se solid and industrious
in. i. re a great boon to our
ouutr
!;:tld. "There are u lot of
theni. hut I wish there were more.
"I'll n. y lust 1 i-l i to Kurope one of my
uiighliois in tiie dining salmi l: kid n .
a. laid tiie first day nut and, e.hincing duivii
It. said to tho steward:
"'Steward, nv. wile mid I will have a
bottle of selti-.ir. a half bottle of Nler
steiiicr and a half bottle of Oppenheimer.'
"'lag pardon.- said the steward, 'that
lsn t tiie v.inc curd, sir. That's the u.
seiiki r lis! .
"My fiiei.d had imagined he was select
inii ltlilne wines." New York Telck'raph.
( hlef Justice ( base's View.
When Chief Justice Chase chose to un
bend himself he could be witty as well aa
wise. At a social gathering In his house,
when bo was secretary of war, the subject
of taxation having been mooted, a distin
guished ncvul officer present i-ald he had
paid all Ida taxes except the income tux.
"I have a little properly," said he,
"which brings me a yearly rental, but the
tax gatherers have not spotted it. 1 do not
know whether 1 ought to let tiie tiling go
mi thul way or not. What would you do
if you were in in place, Mr. Chase'.' '
There was a loei ry twinkic in the cca
of Mr. Chae as he an.-wrred: "I think It
is the duty of every man to live unspotted
a-t long as he can." Washington Post.
Not bins; to Ha Proud Of.
Planes Shunk ltrvwn, attorney fur l lie
legislative committee to coushiei' and re
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according to the figures of the firms con-
eerned, espei iully tho9 of them who are
extra fast and handy. The liakers and
machine tenders and oven men are all
hlgrh priced labor.
All Halting; on Top Floors.
For sanitary reasons, to be away
from
the dust of the street, all the ovens are
on the top floor; and from the mam
floor to the baking floor every atom of
dust or litter Is kept closely (loaned up.
"We're always cleaning," said the fore-
man In the Iose-Wlles plant, and one
could well believe him, as men with brooms
and mops are to be encountered at almost
every turn. Broken biscuits are ground
into cracker flour, for the use of res-
tauraut.s and hotels, to be usod In the
port on a revision of the corporation and
revenue laws of tho state, has been Invit
ing the written views of every one who
may have an Idea to suggest toward tbe
settlement of the difficult task.
He has received them by the thousand.
All have been given prompt attention.
Koine have appealed to the lawyer's sense
of hui. lor.
line man In the western part of the ptate
ih sired prods ens made for spending mil
lions of dollars for new roads. In m-hnowledgir-i
the man's letter Mr. lirown
advised him that It was Impossible ut
present, because to get ihe money the
state would buve to go into debi. lie re
minded the man that many l'cims hnnians
lake pride in the fact that tiie state does
not "owe a dollar."
"Neither does a tramp," w as the hi ief
answer received from t lie disgruntled cor
respondent. Philadelphia Times.
Took Thrui for I user Is.
Woodrow Wilson, former president of
Princeton, -.aid at a recent dinner In the
university town:
"When all the world Is well educated,
as ail the world will be some day, then It
will be better for everybody. Borne fuollsh
people, though, don't care to see all the
world educatisj. These people want to
shine and to shine, of course, one must
have darkness.
' Hut that Is a poor way to look at it.
Those ambitious people should lather say,
the more education, the more apprecia
tion. "There s notion;; more disagi eealde Ihan
want of appreciation, you know. A multi
millionaire returned to his native village
and erected u marble palace on a hilltop
theie One day, after the palace was com
pleted, be aald to the postmaster and the
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kitchens, and makes th Tery test kind
of "rolling" for divers and sundry palatable)
luxuries of the table.
omaha cttn take a high degree of pride)
in its two new biscuit factories. No bet
ter or more modern plants are to be found
In the world. That their product Is popu
lac with the consumer Is amply prove-
by the demand fur the goods. Increased
facilities will make It possible for Omaha-
made bUcults to be distributed In a wide
territory than at present, and the result
Ing benefit to the firms concerned will
most certainly redound to the benefit !
the city. Kven the large buildings now
occupied will soon be outgrown, beynd
any doubt, and If a proper flour can bet
brought here and ground no man can tea
limits to tbe growth of this (Teat !n
dustry.
crowd of loiterers In the general etorai
" 'Uoys, my million-dollar house up en
the hill is simply full of Tltlana.'
"The loiterers exchanged looks of sura
prise and horror, and the p oat mantes
claimed:
" 'Good gracious! Ain't there no wr
klllln' 'emT "'St. Louis Olobe-DemooraL
Onto Ills Job.
Attorney General Wlckarsham Is a great
story teller. He brought the following
tale back from the northwest and told It
at the Wlilte House.
A man there was who waa In mortal
fear of his wife, especially when he In
dulged In spirits to excess and forgot t
go home until the early hours of the
Morning. One night he drank until he be
came hilarious, and. It was In tho amaU
hours of tho morning that ha reached hi
home. He gained an entrance without
arousing his sleeping spouse.
Shoeless he climbed the stairway, opened
the door of the bedroom, entered ami
dosed It after Id in without being detected.
Just as be was about to get Into bed
his wife, half roused from her slumber,
turned and sleepily said! "Is that you,
Fldo?"
The husband, telling the rest of the
story, replied: "For ouce In my life I had
real presence of mind. I licked bar hand
Washington Herald.
A flea 1 1st oh Hope.
William lieau llowells, discussing real
ism at one of bis .Sunday afternoons In
New York, lot fall a neat epigram on
hope.
"Hope." paid the famous novelist, "Is
not. really, an angel In a diaphanous rob
of white, but only the wisp of hay held
before the Oonkev's nose to make blist
go." New York Tl"-
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