THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JUNE 29, 1919.
STEEL FOUNDRY
GROWS RAPIDLY
IN SEVEN YEARS
Plant Organized On Small
Scale a Short Time Ago
Now Employes 250
Men.
Islanders Hope to Make
Azores Permanent Aero
Oversea Stopping Place
Citizens of San Miguel Were Not Only Great Boosters
for Success of Transatlantic Seaplane Flight, But
Figure Azores as the Logical Mid-Station of All
Oversea Flights.
The past few years have seen a
great increase in the banking,
jvholesale. livestock and grain mark
ets, and have also brought Omaha
to the front as a manufacutring cen
ter. Seven years ago practically all
the structural steel used in this ter
ritryy came from the east. Today
it is fabricated in the city of Oma
ha, and the money formerly spent
in the east is distributed here in
wages.
' Seven years ago a small plant was
tarted called the Omaha Structural
Steel Works. The business was
largely local and only a few men
were employed. So aggressive were
the men behind the plant, and so
atisfactory their product that the
plant outgrew its first quarters and
large tract of land at Forty-eighth
and Leavenworth streets was pur
chased and a modern steel fabri
cating plant installed. The business
till grew and new buildings and
machinery added every year until at
the present time two hundred and
fifty men are employed constantly
to turn out the enormous amount of
Steel handled at this point. A pay
roll of over $30,000 a month and
a business running close to $2,000,
000 a year have grown out of the
far sighted business judgment of a
few men.
Steel from Omaha is shipped to
every state west of the Missouri
riyer, and branch offices at Salt Lake
City, San Francisco, and Helena,
Mont, are required to take care of
the business in those territories.
Every year has seen a decided
growth of business and a corres
pondifis: expansion in plant facili
ties. This year is witnessing the in
vestment of over $125,000 dollars in
the installation of a new foundry
End machine shop. Steel casings
re to be made by the electric pro
cess grey Iron castings by the ordin
ary methods, and a machine shop
; squipment capable of handling the
Iprfrest work is rapidly nearing com
pletion. The company changed its name
the first of this year from the Oma
bi Structural Steel works to the
Dmaha Steel works, owing to the
"act the, business had grown from
I strictly fabricated shop to a gen
:rat steel and machine business.
English Enjoy Tea
and, Muffins During
Wait for Favorites
Chicago, June 28. Did you ever
drop into a movie palace to see
your faverite "movie vamp" or com
edian and find that as you entered
the last few feet of the film you
came to see was being run off and
that a "one-reeler" you had seen a
dozen times was being run in as a
"filler" before the big star picture
was run again?
If you did, and who has not, you
found yourself compelled to sit
through the uninteresting one-reeler
in order to see your favorite.
Not so in England. In such a
case, were you in England, you could
to to one of the two or three bal
conies of the movie palace, enjoy
a cup of tea and several of those
famous English muffins while wait-
, ing for your favorite star to show
" again.
This is but one of the many ad
vantages of the English movie over
the American movie, according to
John D. Tippett, of the Transatlan
tic Film company of Great Britain,
. the leading movie firm in turope,
now visiting movie studios in this
country.
Mr. Tippett expresses wonder at
the immensity ot American studios
"And the money they spend 1" he
said with unusual excitement.
"Enough to float a war loan."
i Tippett then let slip a little tip
for vamps."
"We have censors, that is. each
town's head constable decides on
what nfiall h shown and what not
bttt they are very liberal. The cen
sorship here seems much stricter.
"Our picture houses, though to
taling hardly more than 3,500 in all
England, are as popular as here.
We show about 90 per cent American-made
films. During the war
our cinemas, as we call the movies,
were an immense help in maintain
ing home morale. They remained
Open throughout the war showing
comedies. The people would not go
to a serious, heavy show, a drama
or a war picture. Your man Chaplin
is the favorite movie star in Eng
land." Circus Dancer Drinks
Chloroform; Loves Clown
Portsmouth, N. H. Alice Walt
ers, aged 19, of Oklahoma City, a
ballet girl attached to a circus
which played here, attempted sui
cide by drinking two ounces of
chloform while on the circus
' cover." Her act is said to be the out
- come of a love affair with one of the
' clowns attached- to the show.
, - Extra Duty for Mule.
St. Louis. Mo., June 28. This
story is "on" Col. Americus Mitch
; ell. who took command of the 188th
; Infantry after CoL E. H. Howland
was wounded. Every officer swears
to its truth.
The say that while Colonel
Mitchell was in command a Mis
souri mule kicked a slat out of his
stall. Colonel Mitchell, they say,
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tfjui i-iuai uaicu me muic, ana put
i him on five days' extra duty for
punishment
Another time Colonel Mitchell de
nied himself breakfast because he
: overslept himself one morning.
Lightning Shears Squirrel.
Greenfield, Ia.f June 28. A pet
squirrel on Prairie avenue here was
divested of its coat offur during
an electrical storm, yet it escaped
alive. The squirrel was climbing a
tret when the tree was struck by
lightning. It has been noticed by
residents, who arc placing food for
it ia its bauat
By JACK VEIOCK.
(International Newt Service Staff Corrc
pondrnt.) Ponta Delgada, Azores, June 12.
(By Mail). No stronger boosters
for the success of the United States
navy transatlantic flight could have
been found anywhere than here in
Ponta Delgada, capital of the Is
land of San Miguel.
Natives of the city, and of the is
land as well, awaited the coming of
Commander Towers and his sea
planes with eager expectancy. They
came from miles around to witness
the triumphant arrival of the planes,
which were scheduled to reach here
from Newfoundland on May 17, and
expressed the greatest disappoint
ment when it was learned that the
NC-4 was forced to land at Horta,
on the Island of Fayal, and that the
NC-1 and NC-3 had been lost at sea.
Aside from curious interests San
Miguelans looked upon the effori of
the navy planes as a harbinger of
big things for the Azores in days to
come, lheir newspapers told them
that the test flight va9 but a pre
liminary step to transatlantic travel
through the air in future years, not
forgetting to lay stress on the value
of such travel to the Azores. The
people here believe that successful
transatlantic flying will open up new
fields for them, and it was with rey
joicing that they heard of the safe
arrival of the NC-4 at Lisbon.
The Azores have two fine ports,
ISO miles apart, either of which is
admirably adapted for the establish
ment of a midatlantic station for
trahsocean planes. Ponta Delgada
claims the biggest and best harbor
n the island group: but Horta, on
the Island of Faval, also boasts a
fine harbor, though it is smaller than
the harbor here. Horta, however,
is ISO miles nearer to Newfoundland
than Ponta Delgada, and in foggy
weather would be a welcome haven
to flyers, as Commander Read and
the crew of the NC-4 will testify.
That transoceanic aerial passen
ger lines will some day be a reality
is not doubted here by the reading
and thinking class of people, and
they are eagerly looking ahead to
the day when such travel becomes
prncticahie.
i he Azores, because they do not
lie in the pathway of the great bulk
of transatlantic travel, are obscure
to some degree. During the war
they were practically cut off from
the outside world, for the tourist
steamers from England, Portugal
and other European countries ceas
ed to maintain their none too fre
quent visits to the islands. Today the
people of the Azores are looking to
ward the United States as never be
fore to put them back on the map
commercially, and they have much
to offer tourists in the way of at
tractions. The Azores comprise nine islands
San Miguel, Faval, Pico, San Jor
sre, St. Mary's, Terceira. Graciosa,
Flores and Corvo. Mount Pico,
which rises majestically at the west
ernmost end of the island which was
named for it, is the third largest
mountain rising from the sea. Its
barren and often snow-clad peak
rises to a sheer height of 7,460 feet,
and hot gas still issues from the
crevices of a little crater at its sum
mit. Pico and the Valley of Furnas,
on the island of San Miguel, are con
stant reminders that the Azores are
a monument to marine volcanic ac
tion. The Furnase is the principal attrac
tion on the island of San Miguel.
The valley in which it is located lies
some 20 miles from this city and
offers a wonderful and picturesque
panorama of chalets, parks, peaks,
and gardens. Furnas itself is a
spouting, steaming, bubbling outlet
for hot lava mud from the bowels
of the earth beneath it. There are
also several bubbling hot springs in
the crater, and the lava mud and
the water are said to possess re
markable medicinal qualities.
Near Furnas is a wonderful vol
canic lake more than a mile in
length, nestling among- lava peaks
900 feet above the sea.- It the same
vicinity are many beautiful gardens,
one of which was particularly fav
ored by former King Manuel.
Cete Cidades, or the Lake of Seven
Cities, Is another attraction here,
and Ponta Delgada itself is a pic
turesque, bustling city of more than
20,000 inhabitants, the third largest
Portugese city, being outranked only
by Lisbon and Oporto.
After Forty Years.
London. "I cannot live without
her," were the last words of Thomas
Longrig, aged 75, who hanged him
self just after the death of his wife
to whom he had been married for
40 years.
Ugly Weapons Are
Taken From Joliet
Convicts by Guards
Springfield, 111., June 28. George
Sutton, secretary to Governor Low
den, has some unique instruments
taken from prisoners at Joliet who
secretly made them in plans for es
cape. One is a huge and ugly-looking
knife, made from a file. It resem
bles any machine-made blade. The
handle is of bicycle tape. Its con
struction probably took weeks if not
months of tedious toil.
Another is a razor. This is. also
made from a file. It is perfect in
design and has an edge equivalent
to anv machine-made blade. I he
handle is light red, of a paper com
bination.
But the most remarkable of all is
a tremendously large key. It is
hand carved and of brass. The in
genuity with which it was finished
can well be 'realized when it is
learned the key end tappers are fit
ted with square screws that can be
adjusted to any length in order to
fit all cell locks.
She's Sheriff Now.
Lexington, Mo. Mrs. Minnie Tal
bott, of this city, is the first woman
sheriff elected to office in Missouri.
She is the widow of Sheriff John
Talbott, murdered May 4 by auto
mobile thieves. She was elected at
a special election by a large major-
ty- - .
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Manufacturers of
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Contain No Knots
Guaranteed For 20 Years Against Decay.
Cost Less Than Steel Tanks.
Full Line of Stock and Supply Tanks Carried at
Our Omaha Warehouse.
LOUIS N. BOISEN, Manager.
Factory, Fort Bragg, California
Warehouses at Omaha, Neb., Minneapolis, Minn.
Sales Office: Woodmen of the World Building,
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In 1868 When this house was founded the country was in the midst of
the reconstruction period following the civil war.
Today as we enter upon our fifty-first year of service to the retail mer
chants of the West-the nation faces another great epoch of reconstruction.
- In the half century since our small beginning there have been great changes.
Times are different population has increased methods of transportation and
business have changed. But the foundation of this business remains unchanging
and unchangeable.
FDC5ST IN
SERVICE
FIFTY
YEARS
In 1868 our salesmen covered only a small territory adjacent to Omaha,
then a frontier town. Today they visit half the union in their travels. From
our warehouses is shipped merchandise to the far west Alaska Hawaii, even
the Orient
And step by step with our progress has grown in importance our manufac
tured lines. Today thousands of merchants offer to their trade with confidence
in their worth goods bearing our labels;
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Sleepy Hollow" Nightwear
"Ideal" Work Overalls
"Ideal" Work Shirts, "Ideal" Mackinaw s
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of the first
ideal of "honest service" guided this house through those difficult years
st reconstruction period, when we were just gaining a foothold.
It is still our guiding light and will continue to be so long as the business
shall endure.
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