THE BEE: OMAHA, ! THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1920.
MA NUFACTURING
DOUBLED SINCE
1915 INOM AHA
Last Year's Industry Shows
Increase of 8 Per Cent Over
1918 Automobile Ac
cessories Tripled.
Omaha's manufacturing during
1919 showed an increase of 8 per
cent over .1918, and the most iner
esting feature of statistics wh'ch
have been prepared by the publicity
bureau of the Chamber of Com
nierce is that this city's total manu
facturing output has doubled since
1915.
The manufacture of automobiles,
tires and accessories last year was
iicarly three times that of the previ
ous year. The output of butter was
doubled in two years and the output
of flour last year showed an increase
of nearly 100 per cent over 1918.
The estimated factory output last
year 'was $463,103,095, as against
427.271,161 for 1918.
An itemired list of factory output
follows:
Alfalf product! ,T9,!80
Art nr.d mlrroin S9.010
.Automobiles, tires and acceso'a JO, 523, 653
r.K S, 900,000
J:ai-i!s erij tubs 860,000
Htddln sso.ooo
JievernK!- C03.022
MontB uiul fius 2,020,000
Jioxo.; 1,030,000
jrr-nd l,9ff,S40
T-rck 126,000
Jirnoms C6.000
Hutter S2.fi55.210
( anclv J.M2.I50
fnn nnJ rolling utorV: 2,750.000
Climitcals ami drugs f,41,500
fii-nr 407.050
Coffee. tns find "pices 5.713. 000
Ooiu'reto products 503,647
Trucker f.307,n2."
llltctrlcit". llslit ami power.... 2.000.0W)
flleetrtc fixtures 125,(10
Jlnvelupes DSO.IiiO
flour nnd nil! products 14.4?1,".'3
Fur rsrmeuts i;97,27
Furn'turrt . ::1'!!!('
rcaer 1.471.050
Harness and saddles... 4S,50O
Hata, caps snd gloves SI1S'!I'2
House dresses und aprons l.UCft.nno
jP8 C10.6S4
1 .. (ra m ........ S04.794
Jron and brass "S-SIS
Jewelry . 1 :?!?!
Marnronl 1.675,000
Millinery 200,000
Mill work 960,600
Monuments rd stone products 533,939
Optical goods 1,000,000
Packing and soap products.... 195.960,675
J obbing Increase Shows Big
Growth In Omaha In 1919
The following table shows the 10 leading
increase for three years:
1919.
Automobiles and trucks $51,098,820
Groceries . 41,426,449
Oils 27,667,098
Commission and produce 25,087,763
Auto tires and accessories 20,607,500
Agricultural implements 20,144,850
Dry goods 19,298,000
Lumber 18,892,211
Coal 14,222,074
Plumbing and heating supplies. 9,063,500
lines of jobbing and the
1918.
$37,103,277
30,578,325
22,080,000
17,369,835
16,794,918
19,081,988
15,103,000
13,980,235
13,514,999
5,460,000
1917.
$39,814,157
26,899,633
16,062,000
11,527,518
7,713,873
14,283,152
12,426,000
17,301,534
12,362,513
5,354,476
BIGGEST YEAR
IN HISTORY FOR
NEW BUILDINGS
Total Investment In Omaha
for 1919 Almost 250 Per
Cent More Than Previous
Year.
The total investment in new
buildings during 1919, as recorded
by the city building department, was
almost 250 per cent more than 1918
and was the largest year in the his
tory of Omaha.
The following tabte shows the to
tals for the last 10 years and also
the distribution of the 1919 building
operations:'
1919 J9.05S. 647 1914 14. 610.45!
1918 3,709,554 1913 4,110,73:1
1H17
1916
1915
737.047 1913
7,226,107 19H
6,386.005 1910
1.046.761
B,426,i63
0,250, 9S8
Distribution of 1919 operations:
1'alnt and glass
J'hoto pnftrpvit.fr
Printing and publishing
Jtoady-to-wear
Ttuhbcr stamps and stencils.
(Serum . .s
Hhect metal works
Shirts
Mgns
Kmoltlng
8tock foods
Structural steel
flyrups and preserve 1,150,000
646,000
188,655
6.?26,875
500,000
76,781
968.325
1.246,110
2,383.314
266,885
41,660,642
909,053
1,186.000
1,021.930
150,000
J65.000
68,300
l.tnt.tOO
6.SS6.145
ear. Amount.
1918 $213,643,059
1916 268,057,715
1917 827.721.64
1911 427,271,101
1S1J - 463,103,096
Tents and awnings.
Trunks
Vinegar
Welding
M'ork clothing
Miscellaneous
Totals tor last five years:
Rob Destroyer's Safe.
San Diego, Cal., Dec. 31. The
police were notified that the safe
of the destroyer Upshur, now in
port here, had been robbed of $3,000
Permits Cost
Dwelling 9S9 f 3.5SC.6S5
Stores, office buildings and
hotels
Warehouses and factor
ies
Churches
Apartments
Hospitals
fchools
Theaters anil clubs
Miscellaneous 476
Additions and reialra... 377
10
TO
4
6
1
2
413,000
2.434,620
187,000
841,000
250,000
62,000
32.000
206,597
1,029.915
Totals 1,959 $9,022,647
Fire Loss In Omaha In
1919, Exclusive of the
Court House, $2 15,073
Chief Charles Salter of the fire de
partment, in his report for 1919,
which has been completed to De
cember 1, shows the total loss for
II months, $215,073, exclusive of the
court house fire, which he does not
consider as a "fire," in the usual ac
ceptation of the term. He made a
special report, which includes the
court house and shows a total loss
of $754,073 for the entire city.
The total fire loss in 1918 was
$501,767 and in 1917 the loss was
$1,191,147.
The report shows the following
BIG DEMAND FOR
REAL ESTATE IN
COUNTYjN 1919
Number of Deeds Recorded
And Total Valuation Doubles
In Year Some Rec
ords Burned.
OMAHA JOBBERS
SAW 43 PER CENT
BOOM IN 191S
Last Year's Increase Was
Largest Ever Recorded In
History of City Three
Reasons Given.
An enormous activity in Omaha
and Douglas county real estate is
shown in the annual report of the
office of Harry Pearce, register of
deeds.
Some of the reports for the pres
ent year cannot be made at present
because many of the records were
destroyed by the fire of Septem
ber 28.
The number of deeds recorded in
1919 was more than twice as great
as the number in 1918, and the value
of the property so transferred was
considerably more than twice as
large in 1919 as in 1918.
n 1918 there were 5,958 deeds re
corded in the office, transfering
property worth $16,293,698. ;
In 1919 there were 11,034 deeds
recorded for property valued at $36,
876,527. The total 'number of instruments
recorded in the office in 1918 was
13,652, while the total number in
1919 was 25,610.
The receipts of the office in 1918
were $16,908.90. In 1919 the re
ceipts of the office were $32,714.80.
information: Total value of build
ings and contents in jeopardy, $35,
000.000; 1,326 alarms as against
1,971 for same period of 1918; 16
persons burned, of whom two died;
12 persons rescued by firemen.
The passing of the horse and cow
from metropolitan life is reflected in
the report which shows only one
head of stock killed by fire last
year.
Ignition of matches by adults,
children and mice caused 91 fires.
Fifty-nine alarms were caused by
burning automobiles. Ten fires were
caused by failure of housewives to
turn the current off when they left
electric irons on inflammable materials.
Omaha's jobbing business last
year was 43 per cent more than 1918
and the increase has been 100 per
cent since 1915.
Last year's increase wa the
largest ever recorded in ths history
of the city, due to three principal
causes, according to the publicity
bureau of the Chamber of Com
merce: Advance in cost of merchan
dise, the normal expansion of Oma
la's trade territory anv' the in
creased consumption because of the
agricultural prosperity of the inland
west.
The volume of business last year
was $353,462,457, as compared with
$260,836,940 in 1918
The following totals sh"w in
creases since 1915: .
1915 1177.251. 765
1916 189.769.493
1917 236.1S7.06T
1918 S6O.I36.940
1919 251,462,457
Itemized jobbing h"st folic ws:
Agricultural Implements $20,144,850
Automobiles end trucks 51,09S,S!0
Automobile tires nnd accessories 20.607.500
Baker's supplies G9O.O00
Beverages 169,275
loots and hoes..i. 4,000,000
Brick and tils ...J f..4:i.5i3
lluildiriff material 3.64S.1O0
Cnmly i"20,655
Cement 703.000
Cigars and tobacco 2.S53.562
Toal , ... 14.222.074
Commission and produce 25,087,763
Corclasa 1,375,000
Crackers 745.8
Creamery supplies 668,000
Dental supplies , 855.000
Drugs 4.04 9.000
Dry goods 19.298,000
Klectrical supplies 7, 310. 000
engines i.ooo.oo
Farm lighting plants 1,562,870
Feed and hay 1,453.000
K'.sh and oysters 1,855,304
Flour (other than grocers) S, 455. 742
Purnaces 1.20s, 46
Furniture 2.175,000
Groceries 41,426.449
Hardware 6,950,000
Harness and saddles 600.000
Hats, caps and gloves 625,000
Jewelery 1.615.3S
Junk and paper stock 1,860,000
Laundry supplies ' 290,000
Leather and sho findings 630,000
Lumber U. 892. 211
Macaroni 3,762,000
Machinery supplies 3,362.600
Magazines, books and r.ews 3,220.885
Millinery , 1,190,000
Mill worK 903.100
Office supplies 1.306.03
Oils 27,667.098
Paints and glass 4,497,711
Paper and stationery 7,335,177
Photo supplies 27 5.000
Phonographs 925,000
rlanos and organs 734.698
Plumbing and heating supplies 9,063.500
Printers supplies 200,000
Roofing S49.000
Seeds 1.482,671
Mifet metal 238.500
Stoneware 1,388.600
Surgical supplies 600,000
Tractors T.470,750
Wall Paper 690.000
Woodenwar 415,000
Miscellaneous 9,312,938
Manufacturing Shows Big
Growth In Omaha In 1919
. The following is a list of the 10 leading manufacturing lines in
Omaha and their growth for the last three years:
1917.
$199,118,000
59,997,165
11,011,925
6.177,834
4,656,857
2 504,954
3,500,000
3,525,000
2,340,000
6,217,319
1919. 1918.
Packing house products... $293,960,675 $296,506,787
Smelting 41,560,642 46,685,724
Butter 22,655,210 20,387,182
Autos, tires, accessories 20,523,533 7,195,200
Printing and publishing 6,826,875 4,458,506
Crackers 5,307,325 3,800,000
Alfalfa products 4,796,230 4,281,000
Bags 3,900,000 2,900,000
Cars and rolling stock 2,750,000 2,525,000
Flour 14,421,252 7,458,135
M-SAIffl ENDS
BiOOEST YEAR
i ITS HISTORY
Membership Record Broken
During 1919 $1,000,000
Exposition Company
Launched.
Juvenile Court Put in a
Busy Year During 1919
During 1919 the juvenile court
dealt with CS2 children in court, and
1,152, a total of 2,030, according to
the annual report of Chief Probation
Officer Vosburg.
The officers of the court made
7,183 visits, including visits to homes
where mothers' pensions are paid.
The police turned ever 409 chil
dren to the court.
Last year in only 21 cities o
the country, more than 7,000 auto
mobiles, valued at more than S2S,
000,000, were stolen. About 5,000 of
these automobiles, valued at about
$5,000,000, never were recovered.
The Knights of ' Ak-Sar-Ren
stand between two year?, pointing
one hand with pride to the old and
extending an optimistic hand to the
new.
The membership last vear reached
I 3.840, whic was a record breaker for
' this organization. Fifteen initiation
! shows were given at the Den mi
,j Xorth Twentieth street, where 15.
! 00t) men were entertained, the visit
ing quests representing every state
of the union.
The bi'x feature of the year for
Ak-S.ir-lU-n was the launching of
the Ak-Sar-Hen Exposition com
pany and the sale of $1,000,000
worth of stock by popular subscrip
tion bv the livest bunch of stock
salesmen that ever walked in shoe
leather. Work lias been started at
the exposition grounds on West
Center -Meet and next fall the cur
tain will le raised at this meat play
ground of the west.
Last fall's Ak-Sar-Ren street car
nival was the last time this feature
will he held in connection with the
fall festiMties, as the exposition
grounds will furnish more varied
and interesting programs fur Oma
ha's visit oi s
The Kir-i ts of Ak-Sar-Ben will
begin early next spring to make a
drive for ti.dOO members in 19J0.
Memberships mav now be recorded
at $10 each.
Cabbage Patch Whisky Cache
William,, i;, W. Va., Dec. 51
Revenue officers with keen nose? re
cently unearthed a rather "wet'' cab
bage patch "up the hollow from lint
torii creek." l'.csides the cabbage.
there were f.y.ir 10-gallon kegs, one
5-ga!lon keg, two 5-gallon oil rrm
and several pint jars filled v;th
iquor.
$7,000,000 Court House.
New York, Dec. 31. The board
of estimates appropriated $7,000,
UUU lor the construction ot a new
court house, which is to be of
hexagonal design. The building will
be situated on the court house site
back of the municipal building.
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HERE'S TO YOU, 1920! I
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MUCH of prosperity and success has come to Omaha during the year 1919. It
has grown tremendously, steadily, forging ahead among cities renowned as
great centers of industry.
But much as 1919 has brought to us, the mercantile institutions of Omaha are not
looking backward. Rather, their faces are turned forward toward the realiza
tion of big plans for the future.
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(Our Nw Garment Factory Now Undtr Construction at 10th and Douflai)
'Among other institutions, this house has many plans for expansion and growth.
I A bigger business, a greater service even closer co-operation, if possible, with our
i I customers than we have ever yet attained these are some of the things we plan. :
I I Our new buildings will be a tangible sign of the spirit of progress with which we i
1 1 enter the New Year. It is our earnest wish that we may measure up fully to the :
ll ideal of development which we have set up for the year 1920. I
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THE SKINNER COMPANY
The Mid-West's Greatest Independent Manufacturers ,of Food Product
This great independent company
s owned by some 5,000 stockholders,
including many of the west's great
est live stock producers.
The great strength and success
ful record of the- Skinner interests
at Omaha which heretofore have
been more or less hampered by be
ing required to operate as three
separate corporations, known as the
.Skinner racking Company, the
Skinner Manufacturing Company,
and the Skinner Baking Company,
are now consolidated into one big
ndependent company known as
the Skinner Company.
While all stockholders, officers
and employes of the three com
panies have been co-operating and
working together for all the com
panies, however, because of the fact
that the sale of the products of each
of the companies has been more or
ess dependent upon each of the
other companies, there is no ques
tion but that this consolidation is
for the benefit of the general pub
ic as well as for the best interests
of each of the stockholders of each
company.
This consolidation means only
one national sales organization for
all of these products that go to the
wholesale grocery trade.
The overhead operating expense
of the business of the three com
panies is materially reduced by this
consolidation.
As the Skinner interes's have al
ways followed regular lines in dis
tributing their i products, and have
supported, in every possible way,
the wholesale grocery trade, instead
of selling direct, and making an ef
fort to put the wholesale grocers
out of business. The Skinner Com
pany is not affected by the recent
dissolution of the big packer froir
tida lines.
The Skinner Company will con
tinue in the future as it has in the
past, to make every effort possible
to distribute all its products it is
possible for it to distribute, through
its present national sales force cov
ering the wholesale grocery trade.
The Skinner Company, through
its co-operation with wholesale
grocers, continue to offer, as it has
in the past, a real weapon to the
wholesale grocery, to keep the big
packers out of the wholesale
grocery business, and there is little
doubt but that the rapid growth of
the Skinner interests was a big fac
tor in helping the wholesale grocers
in their present fight against the
big packers from engaging in the
wholesale grocery business. .
This consolidation goes back to
the old adage that "In Union There
Is Strength," and it makes a com
pact whole of what has heretofore
been scattered interests.
The present officers of the com
pany are as follows: R, C. Howe,
Vice-President and General Man
ager. Lloyd M. Skinner, President.
Robert Gilmore, Vice-President.
Paul F Skinner, Chairman of
Board. D. C. Robertson. Secretary
and Treasurer. During all of their
business experience, the Skinner
Brothers, have never taken a step
that has been so greatly to the bene
fit of their stockholders as has this
consolidation.
1919 Year's Business Excellent
Outlook for 1920 Even More
Promising.
The Skinner Company is now
in a very strong financial con
dition. Practically all departments
are turning down business because
of the need of greater manufactur
ing facilities. However, the Pro
duce Department will shortly move
into th modern, cxteniiv produce
plant of the company at Twelfth
and Douglas streets, which will en
able this department to multiply its
business many times in 1920. Both
the Baking Department and the
Macaroni Department are negotiat
ing for other plants which they re
quire at once in order to extend
their business, and further additions
will be made to present plants as
soon as building operations are
completed on the Produce Building.
Policy of Conservative Expansion.
The food products business is a
business of great detail. Success is
built on continuous personal atten
tion and management. The Skin
ner Company policy, in the
future as in the past, will be one of
conservative expansion, and while
it is its idea to continue to expand I
only as forced to do so by increased
demand tor their products, at the
same time it will 'spare no effort so
far as it lies in its power to make
the Skinner Company a very
growing factor in the produc
tion of food products for this na
tion and at the same time assuring
a safe and profitable return for the
capital invested.
Production and Distribution at
Lowest Cost.
The present consolidation of the
Skinner interests gives the Skin
ner Company a substantial ad
vantage over my competitors, and
makes the business even more as
sured than it would be otherwise.
The entire products of the Skin
rer Company are marketed un
der the nationally known trade
mark, "Skinner's." ' The factories
are all modern, equipped with
are ail operated by experienced
the latest machinery, operating with
tha.ttfiatest efficiency.. The plants
cv who are expert la their
1
lines, and all plants are under th
personal supervision of the presi'
dent and chairman of the board,)
wiio have piloted these companieij
to their present successful and en
viable position in the commercial
world. I
Outlook for the Future.
Each year they have been in bus
ness the factories under their con
trol have doubled and trebled their
output, and the sales have increased
with a rapidity that has surprised
the business world. Expansion,
while aggrcsive, has been character
ized by certain conservatism that
has won the respect of the most
conservative business men and
bankers of this country.
The business of the Skinner in
terests has been little aifected by
the storms and stress of varying
conditions. The present consolida
tion evolves no radical change in
policy or management. The ever
increasing demand from Europe for
food products, coupled with . the
continually increasing demand for
a quality product at home is posi
tive assurance that the investor who
is back of Skinner's products will
make even larger profits in the fu
ture than in the past.
Skinner's food products are quali
ty goods. The Skinners have al
wajs been leaders in any industry
in which they were interested, and
it is such companies as theirs that
will greatly benefit from the pros
perity and greatly increasing de
mand for quality goods that is as
sured in this country for many years
to come.
The Skinner Company now ex
pects to open is big Independent
Packing Plant'in a few weeks. This
plant will be under the personal
management f R. C. Howe, Vict-
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