Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 22, 1889, Page 5

S = THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, JULY 22, 1889, THE COMMERCIAL TRAVELER. Nows and Gossip of Those Who Make Omaha. ROCKY RAILROAD EXPERIENCES. Personalities, Veracious and Other- wise—Interviews Caught at the Hotels—As to Drummer's Day ~Sam and the Baby. The Drummer. For The Bee, He comes from almost everywhers, He makes a sudden sally, To pounce on merchants Unaware, In every nook and valley. He puts up at the flash hotol, And all the maidens kisses, He smokoe mine host's cigars, he--well, He no occasion misses, He dallies oft! with pokor chips, And holds up straights and flushes, He captures all the latest tips On pugilist rushos. Mg flings his samples o'er the floor, With sundry fishy storics; His tongue runs on in devious ways, In little quips and quib He talks nis victin in & dazo, The while his money dribbles, He chatters, chatters as he goes His festive way, a-drumming Howe'er his luck tide ebbs or flows He keeps the thing a-humming. His conversation's steady stream No accident can sev: For even in his nightly His gab goos on foro: dreams ver, A y Ride. Garoutte, L. W., is evidently of a humorous turn of mind, as wituess his description of a railroad wreck on the B. & M., written to the *““T'ravelers’ col- umn’’ from Ashton last week: “Haying just dismounted from En- gincer Benner’s and Fireman Down- ing’s machine, upon which we were conveyed with our grips from the ditcheéd coach, haggage and mail car, now lying about a mile up the B. & M. track from the city toward Loup City, and while my red-fiended runuing mate, Happy Cal Diamond,” the St. Joe tea wan, 18 rustling around for a boneh of matches with which to keep tab while he initintes a confident nutive in the mysteries of “draw,” I am requested to drop you a line as to the particulars. “Entering a piece of straight track of about a mile and a half through a graded bottom, at about a twenty or twenty-five mile rate, with steam shut off preparatory to dropping down to the station, myself, Dinmond, Attorney Pettis, of Lincoln, and My, Davidson, a merchant from Hazzard, who were the solo occupants of the coach, suddenly became the unwilling and amazed sub- jects of a style of transportation that in- yariably accompanies the dragging of the conch one is occupying over wheels cks of forward coaches turned crosswise of the track and interspersed now and then with thundering crashes through piles of misplaced ties and mounds of the road bed itself. The breaking of a pin at last brought us to an abrupt balt on the side of an em- bankment, at an angle of about 45, and for a few moments we of the wrecked coach experienced what afterward af- forded pleasure when deseribing to W. M. Cqrtham, of Brown & Houtz, Lin- coln and Warner, the baggageman, the kind of wild cosilion they reeled off down the tieless tracl after our sudden collapse had placed them in the inevitablo situation of tail- ender. But, in the language of {nll,\v Conductor Friel, such a ively jamboree was bound to Jet up some time, and so it did, with nothing more serious to passengers or trainmen than bruises upon legs and shins in performing the difficult feat of keeping out of the way of the con- stantly shifting seats, cushionsand bag- gage.” Will Cortham’s ‘‘bear dance” was performed amid the most danger- ous surroundings, ‘that of keeping out of the way of the bewitched 300-pound ex- press sufe. He reports having succeeded remarkably well notwithstanding tho fact that the dance was executed with- out the assistance of my own or *Char- lie Jackson” accompaniment, A resident who was present charged the blame for the wreck directly to fuulty engineering which did not pro- vide sufticient outlets for water through embankments, not having heard evi- dently of the miles of washout, on an- other branch, re less of bridges and culverts, thought heretofore sufficient to dispose of any mmount of rainfall. *In addition to an exemplifi- cation into the correctness of this criticism my suggestion is that each section be provided with® a lineman’s three wheeled machine with which a trackman should be required to inspect every rod of his territory after heavy raing, such as we have justex- pericnced. As proof that every part of a section should be inspected, here is an instance where an embankment in plain sight of the town and station was 80 wuter-sonked that it went all to ieces the moment the train struck it, eaving nothing but the rails high and dry over a 20-foot span. Mr. John Dobry reported having seen Mr. Cem- per, the TASHIL. Roctitn, hose AiFS aask very mlrl{ in the morning to inspect the six miles of his track that had here- tofore been considered the only danger- ous portion. This morning he got back just in time to see us cut o pigeon wing right in the very edge of town and on the open prarie, His eyes were almost a8 large ns the shovel he oarried. We are unanimously in favor of Joe's retention in his present position, since he is not now like a man who never had his duties, as a_section boss of ‘eight miles of road’ explained to him by traveling men.” The communication closes with a ref- erence to his arnica badges and an allit- erative promise to give in the future a full account of the “‘rainiest and most reckless ride to Kockville ever rode or recorded.” Littie Biographies, C. J. White, representing Plummer, Perry & Co,, Lincoln, groceries, may be classed among the old-time Lincoln commercial tourists. His first work on the road was done for J. L. Oshorn, the commission merchant, about cight years ago, with whom he continued two con- seoutive years. He then engaged with the company he now represents, and is arded as ove of its most successful salesmen. Mr. White was born at Petersburg, Tll., December 26, 1858, and is therefore thirty years of age. He cast his lot in Lancoln nine yoars ago, is well und favorably known ud counts his friends by ihe score. is routes embrace the towns coutigu- ous to the Capital city,on both the Bur- Mington and Missouri Pacific systems of road, and he makes his points every two weoeks, and it will thus be seen that he 48 a familiar face to his merchant ous- mors throughout southeastern Ne- ™ o 'Leo Grahaw, engaged with Raymond vos. & Co., one of Lincoln's popular wholesale grocery firms, about four yoars ago. Prlor to this he worked for Hargronves Bros., also grocers, with whom he wcontinued fof two years. Lee’s pinafore days,although uncvent- ful, gave him the necessary drill to achieve success in his chosen field, and his services were sought by the firm with which he is engaged at present. He first saw the light of day at Parkers- burgh, W. Vi and s twenty- eight years of age. He is a prime fa- vorite among the boys, loves all classes of sports, and whother on the road or on a lark his nssociates always find him ready for “‘razzle-aazzlo, eraps or high- five.” It seems that Iee, however, has an idea of home life and home comforts, notwithstanding his dritting life. About two years ngo he took unto himself a helpmate in the person of Lizzie Nolan, and they share each other’s joys and gorrows as husband and wife should. F. Connor did his initial work as a Iing man with Warder, Bushnell manufacturers of the Champion harvesting machines, Chi- oago, and continued with them for six years. Tiring of the life, however, he got tho western fever, resigned his po- sition and removed to Hot Springs, Da- ho established a stock ymosteading _and pre- 0 acres of Uncle Sam’s Connor still owns this ranch, which is located within one mile of the springs, and_ well stocked from the “‘ducats’’ he made while with the Chieago firm. Ie made this his home until the fall of '87, when he returned to his first love, engaging with the Western Manufacturing company, of this city, with which he 1s now con- nected, aoing the Elikhorn and its ranches and the Chicago, Minneapolis & St. Paul railway system and making the rounds every thirty days. Mr Connor was born in Waukon, Ia., Christmas day, 1851, and is therefore thirty-five years of age. He was mar- ried June b, 1883, at Chicago. Although connected with a ULincoln firm, Mr. Counor thinks there is no place like Hot Spriugs, where he continues,to make his home. He says that he ex- pects to reside there permanentl no other reason than that the a guarantee of health and happiness. D. B. Fuller, one of tho best, if not the best kuown traveling men doing obraska, was born at Jackson, Mich., 7,and, us he puts it, is almost y-two years ago. He represents Britton, Richardson & Co, dry goods house, of St. Joseph, Mo., and has been connected with it for about two years, Prior to this bowever, he Nebraska ter- ritory twelve for Tootle, Maul & Co., of Omaha, and visited al most every town in the state. Dan quit the last named company to engage in the real estate_business in this city, and he is said to have garnered sll the way from £5,000 to $10,000 in cold cash. But the grip proved to be too strong an attraction for him and after a season off he commenced the weary pilgrim- age for the company with which he is now engaged. Dan is groat on fakes,and there isn’ta bald head restorer on earth that he hasn’t tried. And, moreover, he has a pen- chant for poetry, und he entertains his friends by the hour reciting extracts from Ella Wheeler Wilcox, and some of the boys think of making a date for him on the stage. The Tobacco Trade, R. Busteed, a representative of Seol- ton & Co., tobacco manufacturers, De- troit, is making his first tour out in this direction, and finds Omaha important enough to remain here at least one week. Mr. Busteed is making his head- quarters at the Millard, and it was there that & BEE news-gatherer buzzed him a few moments yesterday. From him it was learned that the tobacco market is somewhat disturbed just now because of a recent decision made by the United tes supreme court. Briefly stated, the manufacture o been for several years and ave now play- ing what, among high-f fiends, is known as a ‘cinch? game with wholesalers. ~Beforo the court knocked them out they sold their goods on contract terms, and paid so much in rebates. For instance, the jobbers of this city were forced to i phise tite tobaccos under an agreement or con- tract that they would sell them at o certain price. If complied the manufacturer then returned to. each dealer 80 much on each 100 pounds, but if they cut under the scale then the rebate was ro- fused. The supreme court decided that this kind of & contract was illegal, but it failed to break up the combine. ff the jobber attempts to sell below a fig- ure ‘that the manufacturer asks him to maintain he is boycotted and driven out of the business. = *“This,” says Mr. Busteed, **has had the effect of greatly disturbing our trade and unsettling prices,” It would seom, however, that the sales are increasing instead of falling off. He claims that his firm is distributing at least 1,000,000 pounds per month. As an estimate of the demand for smoking and chewing tobacco in this country, five of the principal concerns sold over fift, year, and ut of that they Iten, is now the richest man in Michigan, and when a young chap he worked for $1 a day, Knights of the Grip Take Notice, 1t has been reported that I have sold out my interest in the popular Grand Pacific hotel, of Columbus, which is un- true. I have'disposed of aone-half un- divided interest to Charlie Miller, for a stock and daivy farm adjoining Colum- bus, with the intention of raising all our own meats, vegetables, fruits, ete. T will also keep a herd of Jersey cows, and furnish our table with pure milk, cream and butter, and by 8o deing can and will set a better table (at the old rat8, 82 per day) thap- others without the above advantages. Come and see me and be convinced. Yours, with twenty-four years' hotel experience, GEORGE LEHMAN, A Drummer's Advice to Merchants, HoLpreGe, Neb., July 21,—To the Lditor of Tug I I have been very much elated by the interviews ,with Omaha merchants relative to the carni- val week published in the columas of your great paper. Everysalesman who travels from Omaha will certainly tind much for congratulation in the spectacle of the Omaha merchants awakening from their Rip Van Winkle torpor, For the last threo or four years your paper has been eudeavoring to interest the Omaha merchauts in various enter- prises for the benefit of our city. It must, Mr, Editor, be a matter of great disappointment to Iyou to find your efforts in behal of our city so unavaling. The benefits resulting from a fair, or Merchauts’ festival week, at the best are but mo- mentary, and it is_questionable, from a monetary standpoint, whether it is a profitable investment or not. 1t has al- ways been & surprise to me why the business men of Omaha do not interest themselves in the discrimination agalnst the city by each and every rail- road which affects the business interest of the city. The Armour Packing com- pany, in a protest to the railroad com- panies, published in your paper a fow days ago, clearly show the injustice of north and south bound freight rates. Asa traveiiag man, who meets and combats these discriminations every day, T would like to know why some of 'the many eocieties organized by Omaha merchants allow the railrosd companies to diserim- inate agninst Omaha in favor of some little insignificant railroad orossing. The merchants of Omaha should realize the fact that were the railroad charges from Omaha always what they are now, the city would be unthing but a boat- landing station on the ‘‘Muddy Mis- souri,”” Our geographical position will mot save us, and despite the efforts of her army of traveling salesmen, Omaha is slowly but sursly losing her commercial importance. OMAHA DRUMMER. W. 8. Helphrey. After five months of rest and recrea- tion, the illustrious Washington Sovieski Helphrey again took to the field July 16, He was escorted to the depot by a band-and an immense pro- cession of mourners and the magnificent vestibuled train, chartered especially for the occasion, pulled out of the depot to the strains of the dead march in Saul. Mr. Helphrey was the inventor of the prosent system of doing business through the medium of com- mercial travelors. As a warrior ho will b6 long remembered us the_leader of the final charge upon the Redan and for the conspicuous part he played in the charge of the six hundred. Insport- ing matters ho also occupios o conspic ous position, being the original pat- entea of John L. Sullivan and the orig- inator of the boquet systom of bicy tournaments. His present excursion is in the interest of the great Booth oyster house, and it will be continued till the entire state is devastated. Drummers’ Day. ““Some of the gang will have to break tho shell and crawl out if anything is to be accomplished,” remarked one of a group of travelers at_the Murray yes- terday morning. “This dilly-dallying policy about the drummers’ day during merchants’ week makes mo tired. It is not the jobbers, not the citi ns, butthe drnmmers themselves who are to blame. All that is necessary 1s for some hustler to organize a dozen workers and shove the thing through. Last year we had in uniform and in the pa- Tade one of the finest bodies of men ever collected anywhere, It was the great feature of that week and one of the best advertisements Omaha ever had, We had our own fun, the town was benefittod and the expense was com- paratively small. “Wo could do infinitely better this year, but there is no_organization, and unless something is done very soon the chances aro that the thing will fall through. There are nearly 600 travel- ingmen in this town, and, with delega- tions from neighboring places, we could turn out a procession that would aston- ish the natives.” Sam and the Baby. Sam Jessoison the gentlemanly repre- sentative of B. 1llfelder & Co., New York, was in the city last week. Sam has seen a great deal of life on the road and has had some singular and humorous experiences, Some time ago, while going between Keokuk and Omaha, so say the fratornity, he was reclining in the Pullman when the con- ductor handed him a_baby, saying his wife had stepped out' but would return soon., Sam was seized with consterna- tion and disgust, but the rapid move- ments of the conductor had had the eff and the baby was safely couched on Sam’s bosom, The train soon moved and the mother appeared to find her baby missing. Search, however, re- vealed the lost one and after apologics and explanations the journey was con- tinued in poace. The boys had a good laugh, and on arriving in Omaha were treated at Sam’s expense. Anent a Mustache, Ed Hardy was in the city last week in the interest of T. Gould & Co,, Chi- cago. Ed is of the round and jolly sort and his sidesshook with laughter as he told a story anent the disappearamce of his oft caressed and carefully cultivated old gold mustache. The boys on the road, knowing of his weaknoss in this divection, had him spotted by an ambi- tious detective as one of the Cronin suspects, and he was pounced upon. Ed was finally forced to go down into his grip for his credentials before the minion of the law would release him. ¥4 has sacrificed his mustache, and the boys took drinks at his expense, joddard. “The dreariest companion, the most unmitigated bore and nuisance is the everlasting teller of smutty stories. He makes men tired. To say nothing of their demoralizing effect, there is not a hearty laugh in a tank full of these tedi- ous, nauseous, memorized ‘gags,’ Lho point of which' lies in obscenity. Gentle- men never relate, and, unless con- strained by politeness, will seldom listen to them, and they also avoid the habit of profanity, which really shocks many people.”’ Omaba's Sunday Guests. The following are among the travel- ing men who were in the city yester- day: Charles A. Drach, of St. Louis; W. F. Sharp, New York; A. J. Brown, Chicago; G. W. Grifey, Keokuk; S, 8. Rappal, Chicago; H. Hahn, Louisville; D. C. Cooley, Aurora; ¥. L. Hazelton Kansas City: 8. D. Lovy, Kansas City: Charles Griffin, Cincinnati; John Si. Paul . W, i A, Stieg- it lchrist, Lincoln, R. Mack, Chicago; L. W. G .7A. N. Webster, Chi der, Philadelphia; K. € cago; J. H. Richardson, Boston; F. C. Buttler, Newark, N. J.; H. W, Gordon, Rochester; R. M. Chillen,Cambridge, N) A. Gordon, Chicago; A. M. Huff, Chi- cago; J. W. Tommerson, St. Louis; John Mefer, St. Lows; D. O. Fas sot, Cambridge, N. Y.; New York; . J. Chicago; B, W. Josselyn, Chicago; S. N. Watson, Chicago: 5. B. Nesbitt, Chicago; A, D, Feltenstine, Buflalo; &, W. Green, St. Lows; Josoph Aulter, York; D, P. Reamer, Chi: C. '8, Cutting, Chicago; H. Schull, Chicago; W. H. er, Chicago! E.Mensden, Chicago; L. H. Lyford, Chicago; Cayt, Philadolphia; Jumes T. Laughlin aud wife, Bogton; M. F. Rittenhouse, Chi- cago; F. Wickham, Boston; J. L. Rains, Kangas Cit J. C. Came Battle Croek, Mich.; George S, ' St. Louis; F. W. Little, New York; Busteed, Now York; C. C. Gilson, troit; K. H., Kimball, Chleago} 3. Pope, -St. Louis. A. J, Lytlo, §t. Louls; Wiillam T. Maxson, Colum: bus, O.; L. H. Kellogg, Toledo; 0. A. | Cooper, New York; John Kierman, St. | Louis; ' J. 8, Hubbard, Edward ~ Hagee, Sk B. Hayward, St. Tonisy B. C. Sammons, Chicigo: F, A. Bloom, North Wyomingi . H. Wheeler, New York; H. T. Kuhltnann, Milwaukeo; F. A. Winchell, Chicago; Oharles =P, Breaslnw, Minneapolis; George F. Davenport, Moadyille, Pa.; Willfam L West, St, Paul; A, H. Rankin, Woon- sockett, R I D Firast a Plgmy«~Anon a Giant, We are too apt_to regard a small allment much as we would spme pigmy, unpleasant of aspect and prankish indoed, but incapable of serions mischief, | Wo ignore the fact that it grows prodiglously, strengthens in proportion, and begets evil progeny. A fit of indigestion, a slight bilious attack, sensa- tions of unrest and languor when tne sys- tem should have been braced by recent sleop, unaccountable nervousness, innotivity of the kidneys or bladder—what are those but *he_procursors of- obstinate and serious bodily distarbance? In either of the abovo emergencies, common senso and experience unite in_indicating Hostetter's Stomuch Bit- tera as the best preventive. Particularly should its use be prompt when the languor, yawning, ohilliness down the back, and foverishness that precedes a malarial attack, manifest thomselyes. Incipient rheumatism grows apace. Don't negiect i, So with constipation and dobility prckeibios AN THE LEANING TOWER. What Domonstrated KFrom the Top of That Structure, The strange news comes over the ocean that the world famous leaning towor of Pisa is to be disposed of at a raffle, says the rtford Times, Italy has only two more leaning towers—hoth at Bologna—and neither of them so far out of the perpendicular as Pisa’s, s famous marblo tower, with its circular front of over two hundred col- umns, and 1ts upper story overhanging the lower by a difference of thirteen feot, is a puzzle to philosophers and an- tiquarians, Whether its singular lean- ing attitude was tho result of design or of accident never has been ascer- tained, One of the many inter- esting things connected with the loaning tower is the fact that Galileo, as remarkable a mind—certain- ly as great an experimental philosopher ~asany within the ehristian era, dem- onstrated, by oxperiments conducted from the top of that structure, the error of Aristotle’s theorem, that the veloe- ity of falling bodies is proportioned to their weight. The learned but angry scientists of [taly confidently gatherod in front of the “towerto witness the crashing and silencing of the pestilent philosopher whose reasoning they had Peer unuble to confute, tut Whose audacious blunderingd was now to be exhibited and demonstrated in theshape of an_object lesson of his own foolish proposing. But the philos- opher, instend of being flattened out by the proot, confounded his learned and highly scientilic encmies. who, how- over, like 8o many of thelr illustrious successors of to-day, declined to be oon- vinced by the facts, and Galileo found it for the interest of his health to get me out of that vineyard, and he left, without standing on theorder of his go- ing. Such impudent, pestilent disturb- ors of the peace in tho world's accepted beliefs must always expect to be kicked out of good society. And the leaning tower, if it should happen to be brought by Barnum to America after thoe raffle, will bo an interesting object—provided it can be re-erected at the same angle— as sh(\wiu§ that some things can be done as well as others. - Andrew J. Grisham, of Rock, Pope county, Ill., says: “I trmed Chamber- lain’s Colic, Cholera and Diorrhoea Remedy in my family for summer com- plaint and cholera morbus and it gave the best of satis’action. It also proved good ns a vrnvcn(ivn of flux. I praise it very highly and think it is the best I ever saw for such complaints.” All of the leading druggists in Omaha sell it. POy A Ourions Accident. A curious accident, which unhappily bas since proved futal, befel M. Boutet, an artist, residing in the Avenue Vi tor Huge, on Saturday morning, says a Paris correspondent of the London Times. M. Boutet was working in his studio, when, inconvenienced by the sun, he asked his bonno to get on the roof and pass a light linen covering over the glass. As the woman was arranging this awning she slipped and, falling through the glass, alighted on the table at which her master was soaléd. Oddly enough, she sustained no injury worih mentioning, M. Bou- tot, however was not so fortunate. A piece of the broken glass struck him on the neck, severing an artery. He tried to stanch the blood, and failing, ran out of the house in the direction of a neighboring druggist’s shop, but he fell down fainting ere he reached the place, and two hours afterwards he breathe d his last. S Have You Catarrh?—There s one remedy you can try without danger of hum- bug. Send to A. G, Coleman, chemist, Kala- mazoo, Mich.,for trial pac of his catarrh curo. ' His only mode of advertising is by giv ing it away. Postage 2. Judge for your- self, Mention th —_— A Weary Waste of Widows. In England there are over 800,000 more widows than widowers. In France re are 194 widows for every 100 wid- L A Shower of Toads. At Wickford, R. 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COLTTEITTS: Bart First—flistory, Success and Advantagos of the Omahis Medical und Surgloal Institnto. art Second WRONIC DiseAsEs of the Lungs, Btomuch, Live d 3 Pl tarrh, Epilopsy, Rhoumatism, Tnhalation, Tape Worm, Eled Part Third-DerorsiTigs, Ourvature of the Spine, Club Foet, ock, Bow Legs, Haro Lip, Burgical Operations. Part Four: %8 O THY EYE AND Bk, Disoases of the Nerves, Cataract, Strablsmus or Cross Eyes, Pteryglum, Granulated Eye Lids, Taversion of the Lids, Artificial Eyes, oto, Part FUOL DA iaeh Or WOMEN. Loncorhisn. Dleotation Displicoments, Proiap 108 and Versions, Tumors, Lacerations and Gancer of the Womb. Stxth “Diseass or Mix, Private Speolal ad Noryous Discusos, Spormatorrhces (Sominal eakness), Tmpotency, scusos of Urluary Organs. ‘wricocele, Btricture, Gleet, Syphilis, and al the Geulto DISEASES OF WOME| ou otly Prival riolty, Hiip Discascs, Pural P ‘3 . A BPeCrALTY, Wr HAVE LATELY ADDED A LYingiN DEPARTMENT OMEN DURING CONFINKMENT, (SUri Only Reliable Medical Institute Making a Specialty of PRIVATE DISEASES, All Blood Diseases su ully treated. Syphilitle Polson removed from the o ‘reatment for Loss of Vital P Fatlents upavlo N ntial. Medicines or te contents or sender. O sy stem witb: scot by wall or'express socurely packed, e souaf \nterviow preferred. Oul wud consult ui o oud history of your caso. and we will so8d | {in wrapper, our BBGOK TO MEN, FREE: Upon Private, Apecial or Nerveus Discases, Lmpo- Ly, By philia, Gleok and Varicocelc, ‘with quostion lat. - Addrcss, OMAHA MEDICAL & SURCICAL INSTITUTE, 131b and Dodge Streets, Omaha, Nobe