THE BEE: OMAHA, SUNDAY, JUNE 19, 1921.
connected with the First National
bank, felt there was an opportunity
it. this line and opened a one-room
office in the Omaha National Bank
building, handling commercial paper,
insurance and investment securities.
The investing public soon, learned
the fundamentals of safe investment
and today Omaha has come to be
recognized as the bond center for the
wealthy middle states of Iowa, Ne
braska and South Dakota. The firm
of Burns, Brinker & Co. is the old
est firm of this kind in Omaha. They
do a general investment business and
Development of Bond
by reason of long stanuing are in
cluded in large eastern syndicates,
being in position to give their clients
first offerings of issues of nation
wide importance.
Because the Ajiti-Horse Thief as
sociation in Missouri now and then
catclus a horse thief and strings him
un a bill was recently introduced in
the state legislature to make the
stealing of a motor veluvle a capital
offense.
Omaha's Growth
As Retail Center
Dates From 1898
This Is the Office Force of the Cudahy Packing Company
Business in Omaha
Dates Back 20 Years
In 1894; Some of These Office Boys Are Now Executives
The development of the bond busi
ness in Omaha dates back 20 years.
In 1902 there was practically no busi
ness of this kind handled here ex
cept through local wire houses.
Samuel Burns, ir.. who had been
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'Trans-Mississippi Exposition
Gave Great Impetus Re
tailers Bamled Together
. 'in Association in 1912.
By J. W. METCALFE,
i. tkx-rctary of the AMM'liitd Krtallr.
The Trans-Mississippi exposition
marked the period when Omaha's
great growth as a retail center really
5 began. Due credit should be given
; the man who conceived the idea, for
through this exposition Omaha was
given advertising that gave it the
; boost so that it. was able to climb'
to the height it stands at today.
-' Many of the stores that were
prominent at that stage of Omaha's
growth are row out of business or
have passed to other hands. Many
sof the proprietors have removed to
other cities or' have retired from active-business
life. Nevertheless, it
was through the efforts of these first
'! "pioneer" business .tier, that our city
is what it is today.
, Largest Advertisers. ,
'Of the business houses that still
' remain from the year 1898 we find
the most extensive and largest adver
tisers of that time were Haydcn's,
located at the same place they arc
today; the Boston store, which now
is J. L. Brandeis & Sons, located ,in
the old Boston store building, north
west corner Sixteenth and Douglas j
- streets; Orchard & Wilhelm Co., !
' thfcn located at 1414-16-18 Douglas
street; Ttiompson-Belden company,
staunchly carryirg an ad on the sec
ond page of The Bee. located then on
the first floor and basement of the
" Y. M. C. A. building; the Nebraska
Clothing company, located at Fif
. teenth and Farnam streets, and Mil
1 ton Rogers & Sons, located at the
corner of Fourteenth and Farnam
streets, opposite the Paxton hotel.
" The above statements . arc borne
out bv the files of The Omaha Bee
, of 1898.
r Draw Crowds Here. .
Here we might pay tribute to the.
Knights of Ak-Sar-Bcn. This or
ganization was another great aid to
Omaha's retail business at that time,
. which, the same as it docs .today,
succeeded in drawing crowds of out-of-town
people to Omaha during
r '"their activities and in this way the
business of our reail stores was
swelled.
From 1898 on, the retailing of
Omaha continued to widen out and
grow, until in 1912 the" retailors de
tided that in order to retain a frater
nal feeling among all persons en
gaged in the retail trade they would
Organize an ' association wherein
they could advance the interests of
our retail merchants, and in that
way advance Omaha. Thi enabled
them to check to a certain extent
trade abuses, unbusiness-like me
thods and to make such rules and
regulations as would be conducive
to not only their own benefit, but to
the benefit and advancement of the
generaj public.
Initial Meeting.
"The. initial meeting of the as
sociation was held in the Rome hotel
. ' and those in attendance were:
i H. A. Thompson and C. C. Bel
'den of the Thompson-Bclden com
pany; T.(P. Redmond, representing
J. L. Brandeis & Sons; Charles K
Sherman of Sherman & McConnel!,
Joseph Hayden of Hayden Bros., A.
Hospe 'of A. Hospe & Co., J. L.
t- Orkin and M. E. Orkin of Orkin
Amc nmv Burcess-Nash company:
J. W. Stewart of Stewart, M-.llcr &
Beaton company; Maj. R. S. W-lcox
of Browning-King company, Fred
Hall of the Union Outfitting com
pany, W. G. Brandt of Orchard &
Wilhelm. Philip Swartz of the Ne
braska Clothing company, William
Koenig of Thomas-Kilpatrick .St Co
Rome Miller of the Hotel Rome and
A. S. Peck of King-Swanson com
pany. .
'The idea of those present for an
organization of this kind, formed the
nucleus of the Associated Retailers.
The reason for the success of this
organization rests with the retailers
of Omaha.
. Another forward movement of the
retailers was in May, 1918. when
t the urgent request xi retait firms
outside of the retail district who
form an organization, the object be
and not members of the Assoc ated
Retailers, the association opened the
activities of the credit bureau to
"them. .
Credit Bureau formea.
V In order to add to the efficiency
of the worl; performed through the
credit bureau the board of directors
of the Associated Retailers re
; quested the retail credit men to
. form an organization the object be-
ing to take over the management
of the credit bureau activities. This
was done in 1918 and the credit men
formed what is now known as the
I Associated Retail Credit Bureau and
Credit Men. In that year there
were about 45 firms actively par-
.. .::..:... ;M iU hnraif activities.
' Since the credit men took hold, the
number riasgrown io ciose io
The following retailers have
served the retail interests as presi
dents of the association; The first
v two years, H. A Thompson of
Thompson-Belden company, Charles
R. Sherman of Sherman-McConnell
Drue company. A.. T. Benson of
i Benson & Thorne, W. G. Brandt
o Orchara wuneim, ana tnuio,
E. Black. The present officers are
W. S. Stryker, president; George
Brandeis, vice president; E. H.
Flitton, treasurei; and J. W. Metcalf,
lecretary. -
'Bradfield Becomes Sales
Director for Yellow Cab
! Chicago, III.; Tune 18. Announce
. n:nt of the? appointment of H. C.
Brai'field of 'Detroit as director of
aales and advertising fcr the Yel
low Cab Manufacturing company of
this city is made by that company.
Mr. Bradfield,(who has been presi
dent and general manager of the
Itradfield company, Detroit, hat dis
continued his Detroit businesa and
a now with thi Yellow Cab com
tanv . t'u. VMtnur fH rnm nan v in add!-
tion to being the largest manufac
turers of taxtcaDi aiso manunciurr
Yellow Cab tiucks in the .hree-quar-tcf
nr.d one andone-euarter ton ca
pacities and a .six-cylinder, high
grade motor car the Ambassador.
The company is on a capacity sched
ule for their plant at the present
time with no unbalanced inventory
fee oaaold finished stock.
1 9 14 rl if m I) W$ f 1 cp
The above photograph was taken
of the office force of the Cudahy
Parlfintr romnanv in 1894. Some
of those in the photographs who
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were tnen cierKs anu onice Doys arg
now executives.
The company was incorporated as
the 'Armour-Cudahy company wkh a
"WeqWillie" Once
More Behind Bars
Youthful. Criminal Who Hai
Made Dozen Escapes Back
In Prison.
San Quentin Prison, Cal, June 18.
"Wee Willie" is once more behind
the bars. -
And the present question agitat
ing prison officials is whether the
IJiiusual ingenuity displayed by this
16-year-old boy in escaping from jail
will manifest itself behind. the bars
of the state penitentiary,
"Wee Willie" was brought here
from Eureka, . after being sentenced
there to an indeterminate sentence
in state prison. Judge Sevier passed
sentence sending the boy to the pen
itentiary only after Preston reform
school authorities and Mather Field
army authorities had requested that
the. boy be sent somewhere else. The
toy had escaped from the reform
school several times and was a de
serter from the army.
The youth, since he entered upon
a career of crime at the age of 13,
l as had probably the most remark
able juvenile record in police annals
in the United States. Three times he
escaped from Whittier Reform
school. Twice he escaped from the
county jail at Eureka, nearly wreck
ing the institution on one occasion
and sawing his way out on the other.
In addition, he has escaped from the
county jail at San. Luis Obispo
county.
His criminal activities include over
20 burglaries, one army desertion,
passing of worthless checks and the
theft of automobiles. .
capital stock of $750,000 August 29,
1887, to take over the small Lipton
plant at the stock yards in South
Omaha.
From this small beginning at
Omaha, and with Omaha people as
its builders it has now developed to
a concern with a capital paid up of
The Bee Owes Its Name to
Pioneer Omaha Printers
The Bee owes its name to Charles
Ef Redfield, pioneer Omaha printer.
So states his nephew, Joe B.
Redfield, prominent Omaha printer.
Joe's father, Joe Senior, and his
uncle, Charles, printed the first edi
tions of The Bee in their old plant
at the southeast corner of Twelfth
and Dodge streets, where the new
jail now stands. It was known as
"Redfield Brothers, Printers." :
First Cylinder Press Here.
Both Red'fields are now dead, but
the printing tradition of the family
is upheld by young Joe, now with
the Klopp-Bartlett company.
"My father and uncle had the first
cylinder press ever used in Omaha,"
said Redfield, jr. "H was on this
press that the first Bees were
printed."
"Darbey Richmond, a well known
darkey of those day's, furnished the
hand power. Every once in a while
the fly wheel would hop off into a
vacant lot across the street, and they
would have to stop the presses to
recover the wheel,"
i Smoke Pipes.
The two Redfields used to set the
type. They were noted for the long
pipes they smoked, as they worked.
Young Redfield said he had heard
his father and uncle tell many times
how the paper was named more than
50 years ago today;
"No parent could have been more
anxious about the name of its first
born than was Mr. Edward Rose
water, my father related.
"My uncle used to talk it over with
him. Both decided they wanted to
Gofid
Price $ 310 Lower
Buyers of the good Maxwell now
enjoy the benefit of control by the
new and powerful organization,
i The latest reduction of $150,
together with the reduction of
last fall, brings the good Maxwell
down from .i 155 to $845.
OMAHA AUTO SALES CO.
2060 Farnam St., Omaha Phone Atlantic 0627
$25,800,000 and with plants at Oma
ha, Sioux City, Kansas City. Wichita,
Los Angeles, East Chicago, Mem
phis. Toronto and rfSThere and
branch houses throughout the United
States. The company is now owned
and controlled by some 2,500 stock
holders of whom 1,200 are employes.
select a name which would mean
something when the paper rose to
power and influence.
, Name Chosen.
"It was my uncle who suggested
'The Bee' and Mr, Rosewater chose
it immediately."
Charles Redfield's daughter, Miss
Anna Redfield, employed in the
Union Pacific, still retains photo
graphs' of the original Redfield print
ing shop and the first copy of The
Bee.
The cousins repeat what their fa
thers used to relate many times the
eagerness vith which Edward Rose
water scanned the first issue of his
brain-child, The Bee.
His Life and Soul.
"You could tell just by looking at
him how much that paper meant to
him; it was his whole life and soul,"
they said.
Mr. Rosewater had very definite
ideas, too, as to how he wished his
paper to appear.
He knew as much about type as
the printers themselves, the veteran
printers would say.
Charles Redfield 'die ' 30 years ago
and Joe Redfield, sr., more than 20
years ago. Miss Jennie Redfield,
until last year principal of Castelar
school, is a sister.
Because there are several par
ticularly fast automobiles in thi
country, there is a plan among motor
interests to get up a subscription to
send American, cars and driver
abroad to enter in the French Grand
Prix automobile race this year.
ELL
The human element has been an
important factor in the company's
success, both between the company
and the employes and the company
and the public. Today there are
2,500 employes of the company in
Omaha.
Reno Institutes
Divorce Reform
Picking Your Favorite Judge
No Longer Possible in
Divorce Colony.
Reno, Nev., June 18. Picking
out your favorite judge to hear the
merits of your case has been a fa
vorite indoor sport of the divorce
co!ony here, it is said, following a
conference of Judges Moran and
Lunsford and E. H. Beemer, the
county clerk.
The conference was made neces
sary because of the alleged arbitrary
selection by certain attorneys of the
jj'dges to hear their cases. The
practice has grown to such lar?e
proportions that 'it has become dis
tasteful to the .Washoe county
judges, and has led o a revision of
the system used in assigning divorce
cases after they -were filedi
Up to the present time assign
ments to the two departments have
automatically, been made as cases
were" filed with even numbers going
ioto one department and odd num
bers into another. It is said that
some attorneys have neld back cases
of their clients for several days in
order that the next number on the
register might be favorable and the
case be set before the "favorite"
judge.
Nash Value, Which Has Become a
Standard to Judge by, is Made Possible
by Great Manufacturing Power
M 6 T O R C A K S Ml
$
300
These Figures Represent the Range of the
Recent Revision of Lincoln Selling Prices
Those who have followed the evolution
nf nr rar during the past twenty
EIGHT
BODY
TYPES
Farnam at
The immense resources of The Nash Motors Company,
its extensive equipment in plants, machinery and man
power afford many definite manufacturing advantages,
which are readily apparent in appraising the worth of
the Nash Six.
The superior value of this car originates in production.
The Nash Six has great power, a fine beauty of design
and finish and a riding comfort not usually found in
a car of its class. '
All Models carry cord tire equipment.
Nash Sales Company
T. H. McDEARMON, Manager
Wholesale Distributors.
10th and Howard Streets, OMAHA
Phone ATlantic 2916
00
$800
to
vears need not be reminded that no
LELAND-BUILT product has, ever
been permitted to retrograde nor to
deteriorate.
And those who have acquainted them
selves with the new and unmatched
rpading capabilities of the LINCOLN
car which have their source in
LELAND ideals of progressiveness, and
in LELAND principles of manufacture
now see the LINCOLN car removed
still further from the sphere of success
ful rivalry.
HANNAN-ODELL, Inc.
the Boulevard
Tel.
HaywardUNash Company
R. W. HAYWARD, Prealdant
Omaha Distributors
Farnam at 28th, OMAHA
Phone HArney 0345
Harney 0868