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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: AUGUST 22, 1920.
SIMON -BROTHERS
HAVE LARGE FOOD
STOCKS ON HAND
Nw Warehouse Equipped
With All Modern Contriv
ances for Handling the
Enormous Food Supply.
If Omaha should &er be cut off
from the rest of the country, as
were some of the French and Bel
gian cities during the war, the pop
ulation would not begin to suffer
from hunger for many weeks-even
months. A visit to the immense
, wholesale warehouse of Simon Bros,
company at Eleventh and Dodge
streets, would reassure anyone on
that point.
Six floors and the basement are
piled high with canned goods of all
description, boxes of dried fruits,
bags of beans, sacks of coffee and
numerous articles of nonperishablc
food.
There are 300 carloads full of
canffed goods alone. This multiplies
out to the remarkable figure of
8.640,000 cans. Altogether the ware
house contains about 325 cars of
goods in sacks, bawls, boxes, bot
tles and cans. This stock is valued
at $1,500,000.
Sell. to Large Territory.'
Only a small part of this is con
sumed in Omaha. Twenty traveling
salesmen, representing the firm, are
selling goods in Nebraska, Iowa and
South Dakota. Their routes are in
dicated on big maps stuck full of
colored tacks, like those on which,
in other days, the progress of the
allied battle line was marked. By
this system the office can always de
termine exactly where each salesman
is on a given day.
Seven Years in Business.
Simon Bros, company is one of
the great commercial enterprises
which aid so much in keeping
Omaha in the front rank as a dis
tributing center, fiye million dol
lars worth of grocers' supplies Are
handled thrrfugh their jobbing house
each year.
Although the big warehouse is one
Simon Bros.' New Wholesale Building
v , .'mTSflf lien iRtvv.
of the city's new buildings, the firm
has bcn in the grocery .. jobbing
business for seven years. They
formerly were engaged in the re
tail grocery business in Council
Bluffs. Their start as jobbers came
through the purchase of the 4ock of
the Raapke Grocery Co., in 1913.
This business grew so thatm two
years they moved into new quarters
at 1119 Howard street.
Two months ago their new fire
proof warehouse was completed at
a cost of $325,000. Now they are
established in the most modern
grocery warehouse in Nebraska,
having a-floor space of 135,000 fee
I Brothers Supervise Work.
Four brothers work together for
-the success of this enterprise Louis
Simon is president, Edward is vice
president, Jake, manager, and Max,
superintendent. Every detail of the
work carried on by the 60 einpjoyes
is under their personal supervision.
One of the interesting features of
the building is a lecture room, with
blackboards and tables, looking
much like a school.
"Here." said Edward Simon, "iS-
where out salesmen learn new points
about their business. Whenever we
take on a new line of goods, -hethcr
it be soap, coffee or any other food
stuff, it is necessary for every man
selling it to have full information
about the particular article. We call
in special agents of Ae manufac
turers and have them tell the whole
force about their product. Then
our men cah go out and meet the
retailers, armed with the facts."
Modern Shipping Floor. i
The shipping floor, is the busiest
part fof, the warehouse. Six freight
cars can be loaded or unloaded at
the dock each day At this time of
the year Jhe moveme'nt of goods to
the country merchants begins to
get very heavy. Truck loads of food
supplies are shot down in the big
elevators trom the storage tIoor$
and sent out along' the railroad
tracks that extend along one sidfcj
of the building to the waiting cars. 1
Cleanliness is strictly enforced
about the whole building. The walls
r.re all in white, 'and the floor? are
kept as clean as a good housevSfe's
kitchen. Sanitary bins of galvan
ized iron' are used to protect the
spices and similar products from
dust and air.
Refrigerating Rooms Important
Six large refrigerating rooms ply
an important part in the warehouse.'
Here the cornnieal and breakfast
foods jire kept cool and sweet. Soon
supplies of dates and other Christ
mas goods will begin to accumulate.
These will all be kept in perfe'et con
dition by the refrigerating apparatus.
In a great built-in humidor are
3,0,000 cigars nd an immense
number of cigarets. These articles
keep moving in and out in 'constant
procession as the salesmen turn in
their orders.
The trade territory of the Simon
Brothers company is soon to be ex
tended tp include Wyoming. Its
importing business also will be en
larged with the restoration of nor
mal conditions abroad. ,
Prince of Wales Dances x
With Ten Pretty Girls
Perth,West Australia, Aug. 21.-
When a deputation of soldiers wel
comed the prince of Wales here the
president smi'ingly said that the
vis1: to Australia was due to the
"digger" mi France having taught
the prince the national game played
with two coins. The prince, amused
at this reierei'.ce to "two up," ac
cused the president of ragging him.
"! have not ncen long enough vet
in Perth," he said,' "to get my own
back,"
The state ball was the first public
dance that th prince has attended
in Australia. He danced with 19
pretty girls in succession: '
Syrup Factory' Will
Be Established Here
By Simon Brothers
Louis Simon,' president Yf the
Simon' Brp'thers company, says
that he intends to establish a syrup
factory here in a few months. The
company now puts up its own spices
and extracts, to insure their purity.
"Within a few years we expect to
expand our syrup factory, into a
general business of putting up pre
serves and jellibs," said Mr. Simon.
"We will thus furnish a new market
for Nebraska fruit. A candy factory
and a coffee roasting department will
be operated in conjunction with
this," he said.
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We Make a Specialty of White Coating
Ware Houses and Garages
, DOUGLAS 562
Most of the tea that is raised in
Burma is pickled and eatery as a
condiment.
SIMON BROS.
Plumbing
Steamfitting
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We take this op
portunity to com
pliment Simon
Bros, on their rapid
rise in the whole
sale grocery game
and we wish them
success in their
new home.
The plumbing and
steamfitting in Si
mon Bros, new
home was installed
by Grunwald.
B. GRUNWALD
4
1110 Farnam St.
Douglas 1811.
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y 115 So. 19th St
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dille quality. This assures you that they are RIGHT. JVe
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General Offices Grand Rapids, Mich.
SIMON BROTHERS CO,
Distributors
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