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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: FEBRUARY 27, lDlti.
BIG MEN WHO DID
HOT SEETHE SAME
Difference in Opinion Between
Stickney and Burt as to the
Oman Grain Exchange.
Annual Output of States Whose Grain Comes to
Omaha on Its Way to the World Consumers
An Mn of the treat amount of grain ria1 in thla part of lha world, and therefore of Omaha's etretoata advantage
a a rrrat primary grain market, la curd by the following labia, taken from tha flgurra gathered by tha I'nlted State
lprtmnt of Agriculture for tha y.ar 19H:
AMOUNT OF GRAIN (BUS1IBL.8) OROWN IN THE PRINCIPAL OUAIN J'RODfClNO STATES IN 1914.
FAIBJ3XSS BASIS OF STRENGTH
Tire railroad prfnlflMita had much to
4o with the founding of tha Omaha Grain
cxrhanra.
One of them really originated lha Idea.
The other ald "don't" and "ran't."
Tha firm waa A. R. ftlrkney. at that
time prealoent of tha Chicago, Oreat
Writern railroad, which had Juxt built
Ua Una Into Omaha.
Bafora this Una came in tha railroad
tiad rated on grain ao arranged that,
though Omaha waa the heart of tha grain
producing aactlon of the country, tha aur
plua grain production could not be
handled In thla city.
Mr. PtlcJcney had met the aame condi
tion In Kanaaa City, which grew out of
a dealre of the originating rallroada to
gat the long haul on the grain. After
many year of warfare and atrlfe, Mr.
CUrkney ucceeded In working out a plan
fcjr which the through rate on grain were
made equal to tha turn of the local rata
In and the proportionate rata out.
When the Great Weatern waa flniahad
Into Omaha he applied the aame baala
at Omaha and thereby atarted a tremen
doua rate war on grain, which reaulted
In corn being carried from Omaha to the
MlaalMlppI river for I centa a hundred.
He ho wed the Omaha grain men that
they might build up a greet a grain
market aa that at Kanaaa City or Mlnne
apolla If they took advantage of the con
dition produced by hia action, and he suc
ceeded In Interesting with him In hla
campaign all the buelneaa Interval of
Omaha.
Mr. Btlckney la now an Invalid and 1
living In St. Paul, Minn., and one of tha
pleading features of the opening of tha
fine new building iat been the writing
lo Mr. ftlrkney of many lettera of ap
preciation by members of the exchange.
Bart'a Bad Jadgmpit.
The railroad prealdent who an Id "don't"
waa President Hurt of the Vnlon Pa
cific' "A grain exchange at 'Omaha Isn't
needed and len't wanted. Tou can't form
one and conduct It successfully," he said
to Cordon W. Wattle.
"I'm eorry to differ with jrou. air." Mr.
Wattles replied. "But I do on all points
of your proposition. A grain market la
needed here. It Is wanted, and It can
be formed and conducted successfully."
The history of the exchange leaves no
doubt aa to which of the two men waa
right
"If the Omaha Grain exchange will
continue to walk straight along tha path
It has been following since It haa been
organised, continued and greater success
must inevitably attenl Ita progress," Mr.
Wattlaa said on the day of opening the
new building. "Today It haa a reputa
tton for an honeat Inspection department
that la second te none In the entire coun
try. When the Omaha Grain exchange
aaya a car of wheat is No. 1 northern.
there la no question about It In the en
tire country.
RrBsjiatloa Is Itlajh.
"Our reputation la equally high for fair
deaJlng and our standing with banks and
bankers la one that any orgaoJaailon
may well envy.
"I believe the gran exchange la the
greatest thing that has com to Omaha,
It haa added millions upon million of
dollars to the price of wheat to Nebraska
farmers. Some people do not realise this.
but It la a mere question of maOvnru&tlcs
and can be readily flg-urad oat,
"The exchange had a hard Mm of ft
at first, There we strong opposition.
The old system of eorner and effort of
some dealer to get the better cf other
worked to the detriment ef the exohanga
and of business. That system had to be
dlsoardad and It ha been. There la no
doubt that this exchange will be one ef
the two most Important In the country,
States.
Illlnnl
Minnesota
Iowa
Miaaourl
Kanaaa
Nebraska
South Dakota.
North Dakota.
Total
fnlted Mates
Wheat.
4-.Ti.'i
16.iW.I1
177.2fi.")
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Comparative statement of receipts and shipment of grain by year at Omaha.
RHTEI PTS ( f IVSM I-.U-i)
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Wheat ,"!.
Corn 1N.3..n
Oats 13,RM,it
Rye 1 m
Harley MR.SO
iy
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Total
34 04.0.)
67H 7I.
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174.Hni,ia
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. 571.427 "
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1,074,001
Total....
Grain.
.4;,&07.00
1T07.
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V'.m 41 .Wii 4,r-4 lo't 45.2S1,X
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61,6W,K ,.74,700 CO.SSI.dOO 6?.5fV,
1910
M'i'.oon
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1911.
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Totals.
.4 110,500
i.01.500 X4.667.OnO tt,ta.VtO S3, W. 100 42.480.3110 00.0. MX) 67.234. Srt) 49.223.00)
GEORGE A. ROBERTS
MADE HISJN OMAHA
He Learned Hit Bniinesi on the
Farm and Turned Knowledge
- Into Regular Money.
SHORT STORY OP HIS SUCCESS
THOUSANDS OF LIBRARY
BOOKS ARE DESTROYED
(Correspondence of the Associated Press.)
BKRLJ.V, Feb. 10. To supplant In some
measure the thousands of book In east
Prussia, that were destroyed by the Rus
sians, the Ooetha aaaoeiaUoa of Berlin
1 In the near future to send a number
of "people's libraries" to tbe province.
Other Ooethe association throughout
Germany are working along the aame
llnea. and Herr Krupp von Bohlen und
Halbach. of Easen has given t.ono mark
to am the purchase of literature fur
t-ast Prussia.
Eejaallty.
"No eiirh thhig aa stuck-upplihneaa
about her." says the loyal eervttor. d-
irnning nis mistress asainst the crl'l
cim of tne a'-qiialnlance who la In
elhtnc ssalnat class dUurlmlnatlon and
the attjliKlA or the wealthy toward the
working element.
"Well, but d n't she order you around
'tre she . Itut. Lrdl Phs bawla
ne out luat th aams as what she does
her husband. 8he don't make no differ
ence Miwfta me an' him, even. Judge.
One of the very Interesting men on
the Omaha Grain exchange la George A.
Roberts, Interesting because of what he
Is, what he waa and what he haa accomplished.
He la the head of the George A. Rob
erts Grain company and Is. In fact, the
whole company.
Twenty-five years ago George Robert
was working In a grain elevator out In
Nuckolls county for the handsome sum
of $1 a month and hla board.
In the few month since the European
war started Oeorge Roberta ha mad
profits of about 400.000.
And he still keeps hi head level. He
Is putting most of hi great profits away
In gilt edged farm mortgage and some
first class dlvldond-psylng stocks. He
has enough of 'em to fill a trunk.
Parents Mere Ploaeera.
Mr. Roberts' parents came to Ne
braaka from Illinois In 171, driving over
land In a covered wagon. They camped
one night where the Lincoln poatofflce
now stands and then went on west.
where they took up land In Saline oounty.
There he waa born on the farm forty
two years ago and lived on the farm
till he waa a boy of 17, going to the dis
trict school where he got hla total of
book education.
Then he took the position or "Job" In
the elevator and he ha never deserted
the grain business from that day to thla.
although he haa been engaged In It In
different capacities.
He traveled for a Kansaa City grain
house for five years, following up the
grata harvest from south aa far
Oklahoma City to within thirty mile of
Bb Paul, buying grain for hi bouse,
How n Bea Bnalneea.
This gave him a very valuable asset
la the way of acquaintance with men
all over this section of the weatern
country. " i
He started business and became
member of the Omaha Grain exchange
eight year ago and ha been sucoflBa-
ful right along.
He was a "bull" on grain at the prloes
It was selling for about the time the
war opened. Wheat waa far below fl
then, on August 1, 1814, and he bought
great quantities. He would sometimes
sit down to the telephone In his office
and buy 60.000 or 76,000 bushels of
wheat tn an hour or two.
And the Price Wnl
Before he had finished hi buying, the
grain had sometime advanced a couple
of cent. Wheat rose I cent a bushel
on one memorable day. It Increased In
value several centa while It was being
transported from the country towns
where he bought It te tha Omaha, mar
ket. And go hi fortune piled tip tn el
moat magto manner.
He bought oat too, cash oata for
sixty daya delivery and used to make
10 or IS cent a bushel on that.
Mr. Robert 1 a university graduate
the university ef Hard Knocks. Now
he haa aarrtvd.M He ha luat com
pleted one of the handsomest homes I
Dundee where he lives with his wife
and daughter who are his greatest In
tereat outside of 'grain.
Ked le rtrest.
The Atlanta olub haa owoctdttlonalty
released Milton Reed, the shortstop se
cured from the Philadelphia National
league club a year ago.
United States Leads World in
Matter of Grinding Up Wheat
Omaha Market Draws Grain from
Over an Ever- Widening Territory
The territory from which the Omaha
market draws Its grain supplla is one
that la continually widening. It haa In
creased in slxe very vsstly since the be
ginning of the Omaha Grain exchange.
Tills has been due to hustling on the
part of the exchange. Not for a minute
hsa It "losfed on the Job."
In the early daya Omaha worked under
a greatly handicap because railroad rate
on grain were grossly discriminatory
against this market.
It wm only from the local territory that
Omaha could ret grain while such
markets a Kansaa City and Minneapolis
drew from the greater territory because
of favorable rates on grain.
Hut the battle that ha been carried on
persistently against these unjust grain
rates has resulted In victory after victory
for the Omaha Grain exohanga
At the present time the grain I flowing
to the Omaha market from practically
all Nebraska, part of Kanaaa, eastern
part of 'Wtyomtng, two-third of South
Dakota, southeastern Minnesota and the
weet half of Iowa.
One of the remarkable victories In the
court was that In which Omaha waa
given a rata that brings thousand of
carloads of grain to the Omaha market
now from Mont&na, even a far away a
Three Forks and Helena.
Grain ha com to this market from
even as far east a forty-five mile this
side of Chicago and shipments come from
Wichita In the extreme southern part of
Kaoaaa.
And this broadening process Is going
on oonstantly. The unjust rate are being
done away with and Omaha 1 coming
more and more Into It own.
F.aally First.
Teacher was Impressing upon the c'a
the Importance of accurate observation.
To Illustrate dhe said, "Now each of vo'i
look around this room and tell me what
la the moat interesting object to you ami
why."
Tommy Jones vtm the first to raise hla
hand.
"Yes. Thomas, what Is the moat interest
ing object you hsve observed V
"Your desk, please, Mlta."
"Why?"
"Hilly Baker put a snake In It." New
York Times.
Multigraphed J
Duplicating
Company !
837 Grain Exchange Bldg.
673 Brandeis Bldg.
Douglas 1370
OMAHA, NEBRASKA
WE FURNISHED ALL THE
The mill of the United State outrank
U other and many of the biggest are
right here In the west.
The milling development since the In
troduction of the purifier and the rolls
aa been such that American flour now
oompctes successfully In all foreign coun
tries from which It Is not barred by
prohibitory tralffs.
The number of mill In the United
State today I about tn.OM. They employ
a capital of about t2Ja.Ono,000 and grind up
more than 600,000,000 bushel of wheat an
nul y.
Minneapolis Is the largest flour-produc
ing city In all the world, with a dally
capacity of about 90.000 barrels. The
largest cities of the middle west are also
noted producers of flour, Omaha having
milling capacity of more than 3.0UU
barrels a day.
In these modern day the grist miller
of a few decade ago la rapidly disap
pearing, though In many localities In thla
country the old practice 1 still followed
out
Under this system the product goe
through the hand of only two persons
between production and consumption. The
wheat la carried by the farmer who
raises It to tho miller who grind It and
the flour la carried back again by the
farmer to be made Into bread and eaten.
Under the new dispensation the prog
ress of wheat from produoer to en a-
umer I complex from farmer to village
eievator, thence to tha bigger elevator
In primary grain markets, thence to still
other markets, finally to the Wg mllla,
men tne riour Into the hands of broker
who sell It to Jobbers, who In turn sell
It to retailers, who sell It to the farmers
and all othors who need it and have the
money to buy.
In connection with the oontroverav an
the subject of rates It is Interesting to
note how rate on grain have decreased
Inoe the early day of railroad. Tn IMS.
me average tail rate on a bushel of wheat
irom cnioaajo to New Tork was hli
eentailn iMf It had dropped to II cent
ana toaay l muoh lower.
The rail and water rates en a bushel
of wheat from Chicago to New Tork fell
even more. The rate in lata waa 22 cents.
In 1SS7 It waa lesa than I centa and
today has decreased still further.
Apple Munching
Takes Place of
Lunch on 'Change
We might write a tender little ballad i
on the Omaha Grain exchange men and
their ways and model the said tender
little ballad on that popular favorite i
about "When It's Apple Blossom Time
In Nor-man-dle."
Our lilting melody on the Omaha Oraln
exchange must run like this:
When it's apple munching time on the
O. G. K.
I want to be
In the scenery, etc.
Apple munching time on the Omaha
Grain exchange is from 13 o'clock noon
onward.
At 12 o'clock tho big, red, rosy apples
begin to appear from their hiding places
in men's pockets and from secret caches
In the hue of lower desk drawers and
the noise of the luscious fruit cracking
and crunching between teeth Is heard
In the exchange.
President J. B. Hwearingen lead the
apple munchers and the healthful habit
run down through the whole personnel
practically. They all like apples. These
men are busy, especially around noon,
whloh is the hour wihich our forefathers
set for tbe consuming of a heavy meal.
At the Oraln exchange It receive scant
attention a a regular eating hour.
The vial tor In the gallery see the busy
men In the pit below suddenly become a
group of apple eater. Business keeps
on Just aa usual, for a man can cell 10.000
bushel of wheat Just as well with his
month full of apple as when hi mouth
1 full of nothing or full of tobacoo or
omethlng.
Omaha
for the
Grain Exchange
U WU&SONS CO.
SLY 13
r sa La.II
U U
Real Plastering
That'g what yon tent when wo do tho work.
FOR TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS
we havo been mora than atlsrjrlnc builders with our guperior U
terlng. We have dona work on the blggeat and beet bulldlngg In
Omafc., and tbe contracts were given us because of an efficiency
In this line,
t
We Did All the Plastering on the
New Hotel Castle
We feel proud of this contract and consider It demonstrates)
our ability to do rood work and please.
Below Is a list of other Important Omaha building we plastered:
Rt. Joewph , lloeilti. King TWter, Hotel Loyal, First Christ
. ;..Um,Pr!K',lm1' IUd- " Pontenclle, HMwhaw
"U",,, B,.,M M C. A. Building. Anierl-
can Theater. Hotel Castle, Wise Memorial HonptUI, IWrd Building,
Omaha NailonnJ Bank, German Lutheran Church The Keellnd
Atiertmenta.
ANDERSON BROS.
Omaha, Neb.
1515 HARNEY
Also for the Woodmen Building, the Fontenelle Hotel, the Rose Building,
World-Herald Building, Blackstone and Castle Hotels.
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MBSBER!
Plumbing and
Heating Company
617 South 14th Street Omaha, Nebraska
Ail Glass for This
Building
NEW ORLEANS
and the MARDI GRAS
The Ideal Way to Be Them Under
the Auspices of the
ILLINOIS CENTRAL
Third Annual Mid-Winter Vacation Party to the
Southern Metropolis will leave Omaha FYiday, March
3d, and Chicago Saturday, March 4th, 1916.
Includes several days' visit in New Orleans and visit
to the Vicksburg National Military Park on the return.
The cost is moderate and includes all expenses from
Chicago except meals in New Orleans. '
Bend for a beautifully Illustrated Booklet entitled
"New Orleans for the Tourist", and also Mardi Gras
literature.
For ticlreta, eleping car reservations and further in
formation address the undersigned.
S. NORTH, District Passenger Agent.
407 South 16th Street, Omaha. Phone Douglas 264.
the
NATIONAL
oofing Co.
Incorporated)
Roofing Contractors
R
Established in 1878
Gravel Roofing on This Building
Furnished by National Roofing Co.
OMAHA, Neb
Branch, Sioux City, la.
MIDLAND GLASS
AND
PAINT COMPANY
11th and Howard Sts., Omaha
Largest Exclusive Glass and Paint
House in the West