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THE BEE: OMAHA. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1919. 6 Omaha Stock Market Breaks All Records; Packers Expand LIVE STOCK RUN TO OMAHA BEATS rORMER RECORD Highest Prices in History of Union Stock Yards Paid for Cattle, Sheep and Hogs. . Local live stock receipts last year were the largest in the 35 years ex istence of the Union Stock yards. Omaha ranks as the second largest live Mock center being outranked only by Chicago. Receipts in cat tle are the third largest in the ccuiu'-y, while in sheep and hogs rcce'ved here the local yards rank tcond. Total receip's for the year are head, an increase of over tiie record of 7,013.898 head I'imic in 1917. Live stock this year brought the highest prices in the history of the xc.iange. 1 he fall run ot stock (iurin the past year surpassed all previous records. I-xpand During the Year. During the last year $.150,000 has been pi-nt for improvements at the stock ards. and $250,000 has been appropriated for. this year. In addi tion 2M new cattle pens have been completed and plans drawn for 250 more tiiis year. The horse market is the only one to sho.v a decrease. This is due to the fact that the government has practically taken over the horse business. At the outbreak of the war Omaha was the largest range , horso market. ' Auto truck receipts which were uiimpcitant until November, 1917, became a large factor during the past year. By auto truck 18.498 cat tle, 15J 019 sheep, and 37,13 hogs were received. Stock yards statistics and com parisons with former years are: Receipt 1918. H. & Omaha Factory Output' in 1918 Nearly Half Billion j The factory output of Omaha in- dustries during the year of 1918 ! reached a grand total of $427,271,161 worth ot merchandise, showing an approximate increase of $100,000,000 for the twelve months, or 33 per cent. This is double the output of 1915. The output of each line of mer chandise is as follows: 1.101 isn.ooo 120, (100 4.:si,oo 24, 000 i:coo 19.i,20l 2.900.000 30.00B 40,000 705,000 4,;4.;o 11.040 :ic,500 1.700,000 1, Farlory Output, 1918 St:7,' I AdvertisiiiB Novellas i Agricultural Imiilcin.nts .... Alfalfa I'roduclN ! Art Ulaj'S ami Mirrors I Artificial J.imbs I Automobiles, Hodics, 1'urt and Accessories Hairs & Hag Factory I'roducls I Makers' Supplies Burners' Supplies I Uarrels and Tubs t lieverngesl Blue I'rints r.oll-r Compound Hoots and Soes lloxis & Crates, (Wooden und Paper) j Trend ft Il.iKery Pr0ducts .. I Hrlck and Tile Itrooms Brushes Hutrer Ilutlermilk (Powdered) Candy Cars & Rolling Stock Rebuilt Chemicals Cereals & Health FVods Church Furniture Cigars Cleaning Compounds Polishes Clothing Coffee Concrete Hloeks & Ornaments Cornice & Sheet .Metal Work Costumes Crackers and Cookle.i Drugs, Pharmaceuticals & Sundries (electricity. Light & Pnwer Electrotyplng Envelopes Fencing, Gates & Wire Work Flour & Mill Products Foundry Products Fur Garments ' Furnace Supplies Furnishing Goods & Ready- to-wear Furniture Fruit Tree Spray .h... andS . 4 . . . . Up? . .vbgkhmbhmhm Food Products 4.275 Cases l,332.00u Grocers1 'Specialities & Sund. 178,000 Cattle. Hogs. Sheep. Mules. ; January 131.6JS 3:'.0,!if.S IM4.2KC 2,160 February 134,:i90 363.6U i5,n5S 1,751 March .. 150,912 393,347 229.292 2.261 1 April ... 1 S3.1 39 379. 21S 1H4.709 65S j May ... 12.S.HBS 2S4.G:i 128,456 534 !.Tun ... 118, S!7 2S4.r.fiO 1 1d. 791 G July 135,483 2S7.C.72 193,571 3.242 August , 167, S6 225,007 400,111! 3.203 Sept'b'r . 244. S3S 1 47.405 7il9.3!5 3.734 ioelob'r . 12,495 1:13, 135 571.421 2.1S1 NVber . 201.237 239,499 208.719 1.064 D'c'mb'r 175.700 .",(',5.000 190,500 425 Total Kecelpts. 1914 926, (194 2,267.384 3,147.434 2.BGt 1915 ....1,225.000 2.639.000 3,310,000 41.600 1916 ,...1,434,304 3.1 16.820 3,170,908 27,486 . 1917 ....1,733,319 2,814.283 3,033,45(1 32,84(1 f 19U 1,996,334 3. 426. 353 3,386,118 3,198 j War Reduces the Output i of Omaha Smelting Works " War cutinto the business of the Omaha plant of the American Smelting and Refining; company. The value of its output last year to-' taled $47,258,224.11, as against $59, 997,165 for 1917. The Omaha plant Uontinues to be the largest lead re- Jihery in the world. . The following shows the output rf the Omaha nlant durillflr last i.vear, ana trie values: Gold 195.810 Oil. J 4.047,393 silver 20.111. 6C3 ozs. 19.73S.731 Lead 2H3, 164. 942 lbs. 19.737,370 'opper 11,968.892 lbs. 2.924.723 Vitriol 3,632.000 lbs. 345,040 Mlsr, metals.. 1,199,103 lbs. 464,966 Total ?47,25S,224 f Fewer Arrests Are Made Here Than the Year Before The Omaha police department during 1918 made U,878 arrests. ompared with 14.959 in 1917. I here vere nine murders, 12 suicides, 35 ttempted suicides, 459 turned over o the juvenile court and 77 lodgers liuring 1918. In 1917 there were ight murders, 25 suicides, 59 at eniDtcd suicides and 284 turned lu-er to the juvenile court and 591 lodgers. The big decrease in men who asked a night s lodging at the Station house in 1918 was due to war conditions, with plenty of work for everybody. AMVSEMEXTS Dancing Ben-Hur Dancing Club No. 158 will give a bife Dancing Party Wednesday Evening New Year's Night At their hall, 28th and Farnam All friends invited ; come and have a good time GOOD MUSIC 1 s Bmrfic tjihrast? reveals all fhe -wealth of the Orient MUSE Today to Saturday X 861.000 85,499 201.500 M.000 23,383 20.3S7.182 100.000 1.271,700 2,525.000 84.300 120,000 73,000 371,360 16.00(1 220,000 1.628.000 244.890 552.718 26,000 3,800,000 208, 00O 1,910,000 25,000 508,000 48.930 7,458,135 490,534 531.400 350,000 2.520.000 133.000 47.510 Public Library Has Record of Supplying Books to Soldiers Omaha's public libraries have made a fine record during the past year in supplying books to both civilians and soldiers. All the librar ies at the neighboring forts have been enlarged with novels, general literature and books on technical subjects purchase1 from the fund given by the American Library association. A total of 397,267 books were loan ed during the year and 9,482 new books added by purchase or gift. As a war measure, to allow tune for the rapidly increasing library war work, all but three of the deposit stations were closed. The circulation at the high school branch libraries nearly doubled during the year. During 1918 a total of 30,225 books were loaned through the high schools as opposed to 18,315 last year. In addition to the. libraries es tablished at the forts, the quarter master's department depot, Twenty second and Hickory, has had a branch library established. The Ne braska Base Hospitil Unit 49 took with it a library of 2,000 volumes. Following are the library statis tics for 1918: Total number of registered borrow ers having library cards 28,283 BoolOV borrowed from the library for home use: Malm library 217.218 Deposit stations 76,709 Classroom libraries at public and parochial schools. 26.474 South Side Branch 46.641 High school branches (3) 30,225 Total 397,267 Visitors to the reference and read ing rooms 65,523 BooUs added by purchase and gift. 9,482 Total number of books. In the library system, January . 1919 13M74 Books bound and rebound in the library bindery 8,367 PHOTO-PLAYS Hair Cioods 5,129 Harness & Saddles 515 000 Hats, Caps and Uloves .... ' 169 so Artificial 6,3;int) V'e tream . . ?PW,(''r- ' 69.200 T",?fr Nv,',lM 500,000 li ghting Fixture, 75 000 I-notyping ,. ''uf0"' 1,306.000 Machinery ,,,. Machine Shop Si-laltlea .. in 000 Metal Specialties ''Vlii- Metallic Packing Milk (Bottled & Condensed) 1 8"2 000 Mill Work, Sash & Doors 485'600 Monuments Mousaleums 302 000 .. ... .S rleshrdlu mfwy hrdl hm hm limn No!lona 3. "00 I'lflce and store fixtures 115 000 Optical goods 59 Ornamental Iron '.'. 5:l(ii)0 I'a.-kin.T house products 25S,82o797 Paint and glass 400 1100 TSIO 1 noto encraving 72.000 Picture frames and moulding.. 2tiooo Pillows r.nd bedding 3"9,490 Pipes (snicking) .' V.'.'iinO PlKt'lB v!sno Pot.-'tn rhiis so. 060 Poultry food and supplies 201.450 Printing, publishing and litho graphing 4. S3. 506 Railway signals 45.000 Ki frigcrating machinery 742,000 Road machinery 226, ooo Roach powder 5.400 Rubber stamps' and stencils... 61.608 R"KS 4.000 Sanitary dusters 4.500 Screens 25000 Scrum 6;!5.,-,00 Signs 20, son Smelter products 47,65,724 Soap and soap products 7.0SO.OOO Spices, extracts, baking pow der, etc 320.000 Starch 21.300 Stereotyping 35,638 Stock food and remedies 386, US Stone, crushed and cut 237,937 Stoves and ranges 135,000 Structural steel and iron 1,717.000 Sweeping compound 15.000 Syrups and preserves 750,000 Tanks, stacks, drums, etc 1.065.641 Tents and awnings 1,772,190 Toilet preparations 300,000 Trucks 20.000 Trunks and traveling bags.... 144.000 Vinegar, pickles ami catsup... 372,000 Waterproof products 36.000 Welding apparatus 70,000 Total, 191S.... $127,?r;i61 Total, 1917 327,721,546 Total,' 1916 268,057,715 Total. 1915 213,643,959 Total, 19,14 196.312.537 Fire Losses in Omaha Total Half Million for 11 Months 1918 The report of Fire Commissioner Zimman for the first 11 months of 1918 shows that 1,970 alarms were turned in. The total fire loss was $475,445. all covered by insurance except $31,067. The fires occurred as follows: Frame buildings, 722; other than frame buildings, 303; fires outside of buildings, 687; false alarms, 258. Fires occurring between midnight and noon were 1,239; between noon and midnight, 731. There were 476 fires in .dwellings, 79 in sheds, 45 in rooming houses, 44 in garages, 35 in apartment houses, 29 in barns, 29 in flats, 22 m grocery stores and 17 in hotels. The following causes are given for the fires: Sparks from chim neys, 212; burning grass and rubbish, 173; chimneys burning out, 148; spontaneous combustion of coal, 143; not known, 102; sparks from locomotives, 72; children and matches. 60; cigar or cigarette stubs, 65; thawing out water pipes, 15; in cendiary, 19. Fifteen people were burned fatally, seven seriously, eight severely and eight slightly in the fires. The biggest fire was that of the Elks' building, July 2, with a loss of $58,884. Three women and 39 men were rescued by firemen from burning buildings during the year. Dan Cupid Has Been Real Slacker During Year 1918 Dan Cupid has been a slacker in Omaha during 1918, according to figures of Marriage License Clerk Charles E. Furav. The total for 1918 was 2,420; for 1917, 2,916. PHOTO-PLATS J, , , PURSUANT TO OUR NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION OF PRESENTING RIGGER AND BETTER THOTOPLAYS it has been found necessary ti sl'shtly advance the price of a few scats, however the majority of the seats are available at the same old Frlce. FRONT HALF REAR HALF LOCES 1 ee 13 cents 1 Cc 1 1 c 10 cents 1 1 e Ofie 22 cents OCc lOpiu. 2e to10 1 Plus le tax 4 Plus 3e tax,, 1 Plus 1c tax PACKING HOUSE BUSINESS HAS SHOWN B GAIN Packers Spend Nearly Twice as Much for Salaries and Supplies as Last Year. Live stock slaughtering and ship p:ng at the South Side packing plants broke all records during the past year. An increase over 1917 of niiifions of dollars of business is shown and nearly twice as much was expended for salaries and sup plies than in any previous year. The Cudahy Packing companv re ports that it expended $65,000,000 for live stock in Omaha during the year. $5,000,000 for supplies and $4,500,000 for salaries. This rep resents an increase of $10,000,000 in the amount expended for live stock and an increase of more than 100 per cent on salaries. The aver age number of employes working for the company during the year was 3,450 as opposed to the 2,200 employed last year. Armour & Co. paid a total of $4. 000,000 to its 2,800 workers. Swift employes, numbering 2,136, received a total of $2,981,664 as pay. Morris & Co. .employed 1,400 persons dur ing the year, an increase of 40 per cent over 1917. New Killing Record. The number of animals slaughter ed during the year far surpassed the 1917 figure and establishes a new record. Hogs were the principal item. The greater part of the hog products were used to fill govern ment contracts. Government con tracts undertaken by the packers added an extra stress to the business and required much overtime work. Local plants had large parts in filling the largest orders for meats ever made by the government. Swift & Co. shipped the largest number of cars of meat during the year, sending 17,683 cars. Armour & Co. shipped 15.000 cars, many of which had double loads, and re ceived 5,490 cars of supplies. Mor ris & Co. loaded 6,576 refrigerator cars and sent 25,885,537 pounds of pork products to the allied armies. Improvement plans for 1919 have been completed by all the plants. Swift & Co. will build a utility build ing for employes containing the latest construction dressing rooms, toilet rooms, rest and recre ation rooms and restaurant. Dur ing the past year the Cudahy plant was enlarged by the erection of a seven-story warehouse at a cost of $25,000 and two electrically driven ice machines costing $100,000. Swift & Co. constructed a bunga low style employes' physician's of fice and a fire hall for firemen. Mor ris & Co. made the following ex penditures for improvements: New dressing room, $20,000; stock plant building, $25,000; loading docks, $40, 000; repairs, $30,000; new equipment, $45,000. Record for 1918. The four packing houses that have reported give the following figures for stock slaughtered during the past 12 months: I'attlB Hoftst Sheep Calves Cudshy 101,428 627.662 4i'.J.33H 42.075 Swift 309.930 599.425 420,12l 25.501 Armour v.. .278. uOO 605,000 S74.00U 21,000 Morris 175,471, 471.417 173,949 Ascendant Star of Nebraska Water System Is Extended Considerable During Year Construction of extensive im provements and the maintenance of its usual good financial showing are features of 1918 operations of the Metropolitan water district. During the year it completed the ice plant at Twentieth and Popple-1 ton avenue, and commenced serving , the public the latter part of August. ' This ice plant has a capacity1 of 100 tons per day. The water district is now completing the construction of a storage house which will have aj capacity of 9,000 tons. At Florence a second coal pit was constructed for the purpose of stor ing coal under water, which will en able the department to have a suf ficient supply of coal on hand to in sure against shortages and block ades. A new pumping unit of 30,000,000 gallons capacity has been purchased and is now being installed at the Florence pumping station.' This pump will practically double the supply of water available for the city. During the past year the pumpage reached the highest in the history of the plant, averaging for the 'month of August over 23,000.000 gallons per 24 hours. The water district has in service over 351 miles of cast iron water mains, with 33,000 water services. The Benson water plant has been taken over and incorporated into the Metropolitan water system, the water district having assumed bonds on the Benson plant amounting to $53,000. CQroner Handles 102 Cases During the Year The county attorney, acting as coroner, makes the following report for the year: Investigations, 75; in quests held, 27; total cases handled, 102. PHOTO-PLAYS. PHOTO-PLAYS Today! All Week At 1, 3, 7 and 8 P. M. "The Unbeliever" An Edison Super-Feature Based on the Book, "The Three Things." SHOWING UNITED STATES MA RINES IN ACTION Balcony, 15c. Orchestra, 25c. I Coming Mildred Harris in "BORROWED CLOTHES" 1 A. H. Blank lg Wc- Arc- Going To Wish You- 9mw wot Spectacle Ever Filmed wj anesr- i -mam j e& i 4 YTJ'Z' mr' 0 AfREMlrNDOUS TALE OF FAST HORSC-S, FLYING FISTS I Beautiful women, now produced with all the WORLD FOR ITS STAGE- ITS SOMETHING ENTIRELY DIFFERENT FROM THE USUAL SCREEN PRESENTATION If we may trust an ebullient correspondent of The Times, the star of Nebraska blazes high in the firmament. It has made $1,000,000,000 of war profits out of its products. It has $500,000,000 on deposit in its banks. A large part of this year's crop of wheat, corn and livestock is still on the farms. Though the figures may be a trifle spiffulous. it is still, as it were, reeking witk prosper ity. Consider some of its 'income. Before the war, 80 cents was a fair price for wheat. For the last two years it has been above $2, and under government guarantee this price will continue through out the entire crop season of 1919. And all wheat produced next year will be purchased at this price up to July 1920. Ne braska can produce 80,000,000 bushels. Corn has been selling above $1, and a part of the time this year sold almost on a parity with wheat. A corn crop of 200,000,000 bushels is common for Nebraska, and sometimes it gets up to 300,000,000. Hogs before the war sold freely at around $7.50 a hundred. Now tly are $17.50, and this price is practically guaranteed so long as the food administration, co operating with buyers for the al lies, continues in existence. The price of hay has doubled and tripled, and Nebraska produces more alfalfa than any other two states. It likewise produces more than 100,000,000 pounds of beet sugar. No wonder this amaing state has now more automobiles per capita than any other state in the union, that its fanners are large stockholders in the banks, and sometimes own them alto gether; and that in general its citizens are a'livin' high. Vet outside of its cities and municipalities the whole state of' Nebraska has only about 75 miles of paved roads. It is going to increase them. When the road season opens next spring thous ands of laborers and skilled work men are going to get busy. It is reckoned that beside the 41.0(H) troops which Nebraska sent to the war, almost as many more men have left the state to go into war work. There never was a time when Nebraska was so short of labor nor when it had so much money and was just aching to do something with it. We salute this sovereign west ern state and wish it godspeed in the work of saving the nation from the wreck and ruin that in the view of the pcssimistical minded impends upon us, now that the booms of war are over. Its condition is reassuring. And we fancy that in a broad way these conditions are not very dif ferent in the neighboring states of Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Dako ta, and, for that matter, at least 80 per cent of the union. It is certainly not very different down south with 30-cent cotton in the air. The croakers and the gloom ers should take a vacation out west. New York Tribune. Nearly 6,000 Pieces of Property Change Hands Register of Deeds Pearce reports that during 1918 his office recorded 5,958 dee'ds. Other totals reported by him in a summary of the year's work follow: Total number of in struments, 13.632; receipts of the of fice, $16,873.15; ddeed considerations, $16,293,698.21; farm mortgages and releases, 255; city mortgages filed, 3.014; amount of citv mortgages, $7,430,450.96; city releases tiled, 3422; amount of city releases, $6,-400.614.96. AMl'SEMENTS. BOYD TONICHT All Week Mats. 3 P. M. Today and Saturday ROSE MELVILLE'S BIG SUCCESS "SIS HOPKINS" Mats., 2Bc-B0c. Nitee, 5Oc-75c-$1.00 Next Sunday THE UNKISSED BRIDE" .. ORPHEUM -m Phone Douglas 494. Superior Vaudeville Matinee 2:15 Night, 8:15 Wllhur Mark snil i'nmpny; ".Msrrled rla Wlrf It'u": Daisy Ntllti; Alia Miuknta: llaniptot Ultkc: Wulierj anil Walters: Mawt Kranrola six I'artnrr; Weekly Allied Review; Orphttim Traie Weekly. Matinee. 10e. 2.V. S0r: taxes and Malli. SQc ant 7V. Niaht. lOe. 2.V. SOe. 73c and $1.00. fiS7 (3 0EB CD GKQB GSSSSISi a" I I T SHIRLEYA LEE HIT THE TRAIL FRANK FAYE THALEROS CIRCUS MADALINE TRAVERSE in "THE DANGER ZONE" OMAHA3 FUN CENTER" -Qjrltt7t Daily Mats. lB-2S-30c J5yyEvngs. 25-50-75c-l JOE HURTIG"S LAUGH FESTIVAL HI BOWERY BURLESQUERS The Show The Made Burlesque Famous FUNNY BILLY FOSTER and ECCENTRIC FRANK HARCOURT They sweep Trouble and Grouch Away with whirlwinds of Fun. Blf Beauty Chorus LADIES' DIME MATINEE WEEK DAYS Sat. Mat. aV Wk. "The Sporting Widows" DANCE New Year's Night at the DE LUXE NEW YEAR'S EVE at the HENSHAW CAFE Fun Entertainment Music Favors Ladies' Orchestra Special Supper, $2.50 Per 10 to 12 P. M. Reservations, Change or Cancellations not accepted by phone. fib NEW YEAR AT Hotel FoEtemielte A New Year's Dinner de Luxe will be served from 12:30 P M. to 8:00 P. M. at $2.50 the plate. Dajmdmig Dr. Manning has removed the ban on dancing after 6 P. M. Jan. 1st, 1919. We have, therefore, arranged to hold the usual New Year's Eve Festivities on New Year's Night, commencing at 11 P. M. Sapper will be served in Main Restaurant at $2.00 per plate. Dancing in Lobby and Ball Room Twntylli Piles rdhestra Make Reservations by phone or in person.