Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 13, 1891, Page 12

NATIVE TIN MANUFACTURE. Millions of Dollars Tnvested in it in This Country. THE SUCCESS ATTENDING THE WORK. English Prophecy That Within Three Years the Welsh Tin Men Must Abandon America as a Market. (Written for The Be:.] PART 11 The following able article is from the pen of Mr. W. H. Alexander of this city. Itis a clear and conscientions exposition of the status of tin manufacture in this country. It contains information whicti has not yet been generally disseminated in the west, informa- tion which belies tho statements of those illiberals whose blindness or projudice does not enable them to perceive that the manu facture of tin in this country, like soveral other industries which were once controlle abroad, is destined to attain enormous pro portions within a few years, It is cortainly to b hoped that the mines now_ being opened in South Dakota, Cali- fornia and elsewhere, will be found h enough to supply all the tin that may be ro- quired in the manufacture of tin plates in the Usited States, even though the industry should be developed beyond the expectations of its most sanguine advocates, A nation is truly independent in so far tho essentials for sstisfying the cemands its domestic economy are present and av able, hence it should be_ the desire of every citizen to cncourage legitimate effort to bring to light and into use al) its natural re- sources, As I stated in theclosing paragraph of my first article upon this topic, however, it is not necessary in order to develop the tin'plate io- dustry bere, that the tin should bo Mined in the United States, By far tho greater part of the plates used in the world are made in England, and it is generally supvosed that the tin used in_their manufacture is taken from the Cornwall mines, The supposition is not correct. From the official mineral statistics of the United Kinedom of Great Britain and_ Treland, com- piled in 1560 for the two previous years, I quote as follows e quantity of tin ore mined in 0 amounted to ThSA ton alned, against yielding 9,241 . and tin, in 0,00 tons of 40 tons of as of I Great om these statistics, one, that while the produc tion of native tin in England scems to o de creasing, importations have correspondin incrensed; the other, that more than three- quarters of all the tin used in_Great Britain comes from other countrics. If English plate manufacturers caf import this metal from Australia, Malacea, and other far away lands into South Wales and Monmouthshire, and there us it profitably for themselves, it would m to be equally practicable to import the into our own country and spread it upon American platos. Inaced this has been the method of proced- ure, beretofore, when attempts have been made by American manufacturers to set their mills in motion, and the failure to permanent- 1y establish the industry, so far as I can learn, was not because of any difficulty In The Way of Getting Tin but because of a competition in the price of finished plates, which fo manufacturers declared should be annibilative to American makers. A very gratifying evidence of faith in thelr ability ko tin' plates, profitably, in the United States, whether tin ore abounds or not, 15 shown in the uctivity of iron, steel and tiware manufacturers, in that direction. In February lust, a convention was held in Chicago, by western packers of canned roods, and, during the session Mr. O. W. Norton, of Norton brothers, the most prominent tin ¢an manufacturers in this country, delivered a carefully prepared address in which he said: ““The topic assigned to me, is the present and future influence upon the canned goods industry of American munufacture of tin plate. 1tis gencrally conceded that there would be no such_manufacture without the encouragement ufforded by a duty levied on imported plates, for the purpose of eiving American manufucturers an advantage over foreign competitors. The field has been open toany one to vndertake such manufucture for several years, and & duty of one cent per pound has been levied for” the purpose of encouraging our people to engage in the busi- ness, Very few ventured to try it under such conditions, and their attémpts wero s00n abandoned. No reason for the failure can bo assfgned except that the businss was unprofituble. The difference in wagos re- quired by American and English workmen, and the fact that the latter had the advan: tage of wany years’ experience made it im- possible to get the busincss established here on a paying basis with an advantage of oy one cent per pound, Prior to 1873 what little plate-glass was used in this country was im- ported, Inthat year the first plate-glass millin' this country was startea by Mr. DePauw, at New Albany, Tud. The busi ness bad'all to be learncd, 'and Mr. DePaliw sunk £1,000,000 before he sucéeeded in get- ting the'business upon a paying basis. Othor concerns met the sanie fate, but they perse- vered. New capital was put in, new machin- ery devised, and success came. ‘The fivst plate glass made at New Albany sold for 2,50 per square fool. ~ You can buy bettor glass in Chicago Now for 75 Cents Per Foot Fifteon years ugo ouly 5 per centof plate glass used in this country 1 Today everybody uses it in stores and resideuces, and it'is uil American manufacture. * * Phe manufa ture of stecl rails was commenced in the United States in 1569, The duty was §25 e tonand the price per ton #55.30. (Last woek’s quotations in Pittsburg were $30 per ton, or only $2* more than the duty ulone, twentytwo years ago, and this price is less than they cau be protitably mode for in Kng- land, nence the present tariff of £12 per ton is mercly a safeguard, and would not affect the prices materially wore it removed.—W. H Al *n Itisueedless to mention further examples of the development of American manufactures. The same story could peuted with regard to scores of article Buggest themselves to you as 1 speuk. {5 not tin plate among the number! * It will not be far from correct to. say that in 1890 we imported 6,600,000 boxes of U plate Bt un average cost of § per box, or £33,000,000 for the year's supply. ¢ * * The country is {ncreasing yearly in population and wealth. The canning ‘of food increasest much more rapidly. If the policy that has prevailed the last twenty-five years were to continue, be- tween uow and the year A, D. 1900 tho pes lo of the United States would pay for plute ought from tho English moro than §400,000,- 000, 1f, instead of this, the encourneement given to the manufacture of plates by our owu people is coutinued, by the year We Shall be Exporti g Plates to Englund,and tho greater part of this $400,- 000,000 will have beon distributed among our own oitizens. * * = The home mauufacy ture of tin plates means the creation of an absolutely new business, amounting to willions of dollars annually. ' You wiil seeto- morrow at Maywood a steel furnace aud roll- ing mill erected since your last visit for this tin plato busivess, Muywood is not a large city, and but for this tin plate making, would have bad no rolling will. Follow with my for a momeut, tho effcct of this new enterprise ou people who huve no di rect fnterest in tin plato or in tarift discus sion. Thore was a new piece of work he even for the common laborers, which thoy would not have found but for this rolling mill, in digging and wheeling out the dirt for the axcavation, A builder whom we had never scen or hieard of before received a con tract amounting to several thousund doliars for wason work, ‘There were orders for ma terial given to brickmakors, stone quarr men, dealers fii lume and sand. A machine house received an order for heavy ougine and boilers, a Pittsburg fivm a contract for u steel furnace; another for an roof; au Obio firm an order for & large cloctric crine, dynamo, cogines, ete. Here is, say $100,000 ol absolutely now business scattered about the country among people who do not deal in tin plate, which tney would not have had it we had continued buying all our plates in Englandg” * * * Our firm paid 1500 about & million dollars for tin plate, Lvery Dox of it camo from England axid our monoy was seat thero to pay forit. * * Suppose ghat $1,000,000 to be expended, wmong workingwen here. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, SATURDAY. JU 91—-T W ELVE PAGES the scores of Multipky this one small mili by purts of others that are to sprlng tp in other the country. Transfer from England to the United States the Bustness of making the #400,000,000 worthof in plates which this country wil! requiv® i the next ten yea and ask yourseives what the effect will' be. I have quoted at loflef from Mr. Norton's address, because he has brou t out very ef- fectively and from an actual experience som of the strongest arguments in favor of this new industry. It will be remembered that when most of tho industrial enterprises which have become so prosperous and prom- inent in this county were started, tho de- mand for their respective pfoductions was comparatively light, The presence articles thenselves in increasing qu and at prices constantly being lessened, has | I created o desire to use, hus fornished the means for developing taste and convenience, and has made it _possible for the masses to secure in abundance many things which were luxuries onl for the well- to do, a quarter of a century ago. Never be- fore in the world's history has there ¢ Opened Such a Magnificent Field for industrial occupancy, as is now spread out before those who have already begun, or who may yet commence the manufacture of tin platesin the United States, Accordirs to statistics from the customs department 318,108 tons of plates were received here fr England in 1800, According to the estimato made in the London ‘fimes of Ayril 23, there are nearly nearly 500 plate works in Sonth Wales and Monmouthshire, whoso total out- put last year was was 418,725 tous. This ormous quantity represeots t seven- elights of the entire tinplate product of the world, und three-quarters of it all was dis- posed of in_the United States. 1t will be scen, therefore, that there cannot possibly be any danger of pushing the industry too rap- idly, for were every tangible and intangible sciicme for manufacture which bas been started during the past six months, either on paperor in fact, immediately put into effect, they would not beable to supply one-quarter of the demand. The New York Eveaing Post, Metal Worker denominates the “prince ot Americun scoffers,” makes light of the at- tempt to manufacture plates at all, in tho United States. Let us see what has been done. In answer to my epquiry, Hon. James O. Churchill, surveyor of customs at St. Louis, Mo., wr follows: “Referring to your lttér of the 2d inst. * = * [ take pleasure in enclosing a letter from the St. Louis Stamping Co. * ~ ¥ Alsoa printed inter- view with Hon. F. G, Niedringhaus, presi- | dent of the company, in relation to tho mat- ters about which you make inquiry.’” Horo 15 the lotten: Sr. Louis, Mo., May 9.—Dear Sir: Reply- ing to your favor of the 7th inst, we beg leave to state that ‘we are now manufactur- ing about ty Boxes of Tin Plate Per Day. which we are using in our regular lines of tinwire. We have anew tm-plate mill of 500 boxes daily capaci construc- tion, and expcet to havs iness in July, when we will be in posit supply the trade. * * * In regard to tin miues would say, that while they are not productive enougi'te supply the market at present, we have no doubt but that they will be able to do so, as there seems to be plenty of tin in the countr; ST, Lovts Staweixa Co.” Messrs, Somners Bros., of Brooklyn, N. Y., who manufacture an’ immense line of decorated tinware, wrote me under date of May 21, as follo “We are now building our manufactory, the Sworton tin-plate works, and are well under way with same, 'Fo predict the exact dato when we will baye the works completed and started is impossible, but we hope, about September 1.~ We are putting in what is known as a four-mill plaut, with capacity of from 2,000 to 2,300 boxes per week of fin- 1shed tin-plate. We are very busy building and setting machinery. (Estimated cost, £300,000,) SomEis Bros.” Mr. C. R. Britton, sceretary of the Britton rolling mill company, Cievland,O., and acting- scretary of the Tiuned Plate Mauufacturers association of the United States, in one of his recent courteous replies to my queries, said: | I “Iam in receipt of a letter today irom Mr. Brock, chicf of the bureau of statistics, Washington, to send you information con: cerning the progress of the tin-plato ind o try. Please find inclosed, ete. * * * So far thero ave four works, turning out about one thousand boxes per day, in actual opera- tion, and cight more 1 course of coustric- tion, and I am in receipt of letters in the past few days stating that a numver of large works are contemplated, and by fall or win- tor the tin-plate produced, T think, will make very creditable showin Orton Bros. of Maywood, I1l., who oper- ate the most extensive tin_can manufactory in the country, turning out about three hun- dred thousand 'cans per day, . Began Tinning Plates Early last fall, with o capacity of 230 boxes per week. Since then, according to a letter from fon. John Hitt, ddputy collector of customs, Shicago, they hive put in facilities for rolling their own stecl plates, and are now setting up & new automatic device for tiuning, whicl will enable them to greatly increase their output. In addition to data already given, T will quote Lriefly from an article in the Metal Worker concerning prospective plants, “Phe Britton rolling mill company at Cleveland, O., composed of practical rolling- mill people. hiave just comploted 4 new plant for the munufacture of steel plates and sheets, and are adding facilities for the man- ufacture of tin plate. * * * Thoy have their machinery ordered, much of it hus Leen cowpleted, and they expectto be run- ning their tin piate rolls in_July or August. They will manufacture for the open market. “I'he Welsh-American tin plate company, Philadelphia, has been organized for the munufucture'of tin und terae plates. [For inforwation, I will state that terne plites are used mostly for roofing, and are coated with a mixture of tin and lead—chiefly lead— which gives them a dull appearance, hence the French word ‘terne,’ to distinguish from the bright plates used for tinware. W, H. A. “This company has a_capital of $1,000,000 an its president is J. L. McDonald ‘of the Me Cullough iron company, well known ev where as among tho most extensive makers of galvanized iron. F. R. Phillips, formerly of Wales, is chuirman of the board of direct- ors. Ho'is an expert in tin-making. Itis the purpose of this company to ercet ¥ Complete Mills, with a product of 2,000 boxes a week now, and ultimately to build tweaty mills, with a capacity of 500,000 boxes per anni “P'he Lewis steel sheet and tin-plate com- pany of Joliet, Il incorporated last winter with an'nuthorized capital of half a million dollars. A site for the plant has been secured and ground broken for the founda- tions. 'he N. & G. Taylor Co, Philadelphia, began the manufacture experimentally, some time g0, and ure turning out about 200 boxes per week, of tinplate. Plans and specitica- tlons are mow completed for six muls, and the company is considering the purchase of propurty sullicient fox the purpose.'! Other organizations are in existonce wi plans formed for commencing the manufac ture of tin-plates, but in the absence of pos| tive information’ concerning them I prefer not to call them up #s witnesses at present. Having presented a ravher formidable basis for belief that their is something being done in the way of developing the tm-plate in- dustry in the United States by individuals and by siugle corporations independently, let mo further encourage tho multitude of patriotic readers who are hopeful that this grent industrial blessing may be firmly set- tled upon us by giving information conc ing a miove general and wide-reaching move- ment whicli is well under way. On April 20, last, & meeting of tin-plate manufacturers was hield, at the Fifth Ave nuo hotel, New York' Twelve establish- ments wero ropresented. It was decided to form A temporary organization called the Tiunod-Plate Manufucturers' association, for the purpose of prowoting the manufacture of plates in the United Stutes. J. W. Britton, of the Cleveland rolling mills company, was clected president. A committee to consider the watter of permu- nent ovganization was appointed, made up us follows: B. M. Somors of Somers Brothers, Brooklvn, N. ¥.; Alfred Marshall of Mar' shall Brothers & ‘Co,, Phiadelphia, Pa.; G.1. Niedringhaus, St. Louis stamp works; W. C. Cronemoyer, chairmau United States | iron und tiu plate company, limitod-~Prest dent Britton and Secretary C. K. Britton, members ex-oflicio, This preluninary work baving been forwed the meoting adjourned, with the derstanding that the president should t another for permancut organization May Hme which the e it h At the was call Pittsburgh, pose and 1he Magnitude of the Enterprise. mey be more clearly undassiood L will wive ppointed time the second meeting 1o order in the Hotel Auderson, That their caruestness of pur- tho names of corporations, firms ropresented by delopitesy land, O. Ind. Joliet Pa, Demmler, P dale, Pa. delphia, Pa, onsourg, | tzation, adopted after considerable disc is in this form, “Tinned ers’ Through the courtesy furnished from give the plan tion: turers of tin and terne pla ma ties, as well as that are secure its permanc lishment in the United State of tt tend to make th tion this branch of the business, and, ¢ ber of works are in course of erection todo manu make an effort to furnish the proper quality and quantity of material desired. lieved that in this manner the manufacture of tin creased, and that the A mer will soon make an impr mense importutions.’” which have opposed and scoffed at every move made in the direction of tin plate man- ufacturo here are using their influence still to discourage the enterprise in order to say “ told you so,” zations tions for one of the that has even been starced in Amer vapers of that class in Great Britain, puts our dog-in-the-manger journals to shume by taking a more creditable and correct view ot American genius and enterprise. many difficulties to contend with no doubt, but they have ccomplistied to) much already n such as tin-piate making. in prophe clined to forecast that w from made in sequence to this_impres the Welsh manufacture endeavoring to open up new m come to me si manufacture of tin-plate in the United States articles for day. Lincoln Monday. i ou m Plattsmouth last week, ista, the city last week enroute to Toledo, O. meucement ut Bellovue college - Wedne day from father, and M during the week. Mi her home at Ony. gave “Tuesday evening danein success by all attendix city Bellevue collego Weduesday. were Miss Hertha Wise, Nettio Morg Hollaway, @) "day for Marretta, O. left Wednesday latives in Illinois, ing the mectix Shiriue of the United States. Vi, are guests of their Allen, and wi rived in the city and will probabl at Now London, Ia., snd are established in 20th, - of St ovening, aud ure visiting Lewis, (40 South Twentieth street. will lewve Lincolu on the 22ad for an all sums companie The Britton Rolling Mill company, Cleve- Anderson Tin Plate compang; Anderson, Beéllaire Nail company, Bejlaipe, Ohio. Somers Bros., Brookiyn, N {' Lowis Steel Sheetund I Platgicompany, 1. Falcon Tion and Nuil compahy, Niles, O, McCullongh Iron company, Philadelphia, Arethusa Iron Works, New Chtle, PL Flemiug & Hamilton, Pittsburgh, P United States Iron and Tin Plate'company, Marshall Bros. & Company,” Phladelphia, o ScottdaleIron and Steel company, Scott wenberger & Co., Pittsburg, Pa. n company, Canul Dover, O, ph Carnes & Son, Massilon, O. 1sh American tin plate company, Phila- Pigua roliing mill company, Piqua, O. W. DoWees Wood & Co,, Pittsburg. P. H. Laufman & Co., Apollo Pa. Standard iron company. Bridgeport, O, Jennings Bros. & Co., Pittsburg. Cunonsburg 1ron and steel company, Can- St. Louis stamping compang: St Louls, M, Norton Brothers, Chicago, Kirkpatrick & Co., Pittsburg., Pittsburg clectro plating compang, Apollo, Pa, ‘The ofticial name of the permancnt, organ- w01, Plate Mauuractur- ation of the United States.’! of Mr. Britton, I am with a copy of the constitution which I quote at sufiicient length to aud purpose of the organiza- Assoc “To have unity of uction by the manufa s, 80 that the v meet and speedily overcome. the difticul- Utilize the Advantages to be had in its manufacture, and t and profitable estab- 1o managers state that *‘as a greater part prospective tin plate works do not in- own plate bars, the atten- the steel manufacturers s called to a num- of ining of the sheets only, it is hoped that the cturers of iron and stec! sheets will It is be- and_terne plates will bo greatly in- can made article ssion upon the im- While several of our American journals should it_fail, such organi- as the one cited are laying the founda- Most Promising Industries r'he Londou Iron Monger, one of the ablest Here is an tract from a recent number: “The American manufacturers will have metallurgy to be daunted by a proces Wodo not indulg but if we did_we should be in- ithin three years now a great many tin-plates will be the United States. ‘As a natural 10n we would advise to lose no timen rket: the mass of information which has o I bogan to investigate the From am now convinced that this Eoglish proph- ey will be proven correct. 1t has been my purpose in writing these BEE to place before its read- s in tangible form sufficient reliuble data concerning the new industry to*enabie them to determine for themselves whether or not the problem is likely to be_favorably solved. In quoting names aud have been careful to locate all im- portant figure uals, s that corroborative testimony can be gotten if desired. not alluded to directly in these articles, be- cause they were given to me in contidence, are successfully wrought out; ] may have & word to add later on. from others I have given full establishments and individ- If two or three schemcs Wirtiam Hi ALEXANDER. - SUBUKBAN GOSSIP, Plattsmouth. f. W. Henry of Omaha was in town Mon- y. Dr. John Block was in Omaba lust Tues- Mike Ryan was a- visitor at Hastings last week, Ed Seiver came down from Cedar Creek Monday, * T. 0. Moon t week. County Commissiouer Todd was in Lincoln of Greenwood was in our city Wednesday. Mrs. J. G. Chase returned from Lincoln Wednesday. Mrs. H. C. Richey left last week for a visit in Lincoln. Miss Mattie Smith visited in Lincoln dur- ng the weel. W. H. Cushing and wife were Omaha vis- itors last week. Major J. W. Pearman was down from Omaha Tuesday. E. E. Bonnel of Lincoln came down from D. O. Hewitt and family are again resi- dents in our city. Mrs, Lew Meyers of Cedar Creek was in city last weel. Silas Patterson of South Beud was a vis- itor in our city Monday. Mrs, Steven Smith raturned Wodnesday to her homeat Bolckow, Mo. Mrs. R R. Livington of Cedar Creek was M. B. Murphy returned from her visit el last week, Mrs. Charles McEnter and daughter, Mor- © Lincoln visitors Monday. ). Sparks of Lincoln pus: 0. through Rev. Dr. Baird was an attendant at com- luy. Jucob Kepple received a telegram Wednes- lowa announcing the death of his Mis. C. 8. Johnson, Murs. J. M.sRoberts, “red Lathan were Omabia visitors Miss Emma Berry, who has been visting . Sam Batlauce,’ doparted Mouday for The ladies of the Roman Catholic church an ice cream and strawberry social which was “folloied by It was considered: a pronounced A large party of young people from this attended” commencement exereises at Among them Mae Patterson, iose McCauley, Dord Oliver, Maggie Oliver, Ballance, Ida Boeck, Lizzie Millor, wa Dodge, Frankie Stilos and Mrs, Clol 1 and Messrs, Sam Fatterson, Harvey Will Kuffuer, J. Perrine, Fred und ‘aud C. S, Snerman, Lincoln, Fred Yougblut and daughter left Wednes- Dr, Houtz aud his grandson, Houtz Gillilan, morning to' visit with re- Jumes Tyler is in Niagara Falls attend- of the Nobles of the Mystie Mr. and Mys, J. H. Allen of Hinesburg, son, Hon. John C. at Twelfth and K streets. Hunter of Savanna, il has ar- spend the or, in East Mrs. H, ¢ mmer with her son, W. L. Hun incolu, Mr. and Mrs, . urned from a visit of a m Miltonberger hav th with re- | J friends ooms at the Bond. Mvrs. Carrie Rice and Mr Louis arrived in the olty Mrs. Anna P. Pratt Wednesday M. M. De Mrs. M. E. Roberts and daughter Laura mer tour through Europe and expect to sail | successful s from New Yovk for Pavis on tho 27th. Next Tuesday the Tueslay By will depart for the annual outing to enjoy the pleasures aud endure _the inevitable annoy- ances of two weeks of camp life on the banks of the Blue at Crete. The Alumui school gave s banguet and reception to tho graduating class of the high school i Lindell hotel on Tuesday evening and a right merry time was enjoyed, Mi: school, very agreeably Wednesday homo, apprc their lubor, ‘The members of A. Sigma Chi fraternity of tho state university, were very agroeably entortained last Wednes: | ¢ duy evening at the home of Mr. John C. Bonnell, and card playiog. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Conavay were at home to ® large company of friends Thursday evening, the occasion bewng the celebration of the tenth anniversary of their day. sooial features the company dispo ing a number of appropriate presents to per potuate memories of the event. T properly ¢ the Alumni € gave a banquet Wedsiesduy Windsor hotel to which_ fr their ladies were iuvited. were opened at 9 o’clock aud a reception and ball was given party to the number of seventy-five sat down merry was the mott, and strivily until & late hour, O last Saturday evening Mr. and Mrs. § J. Tuttle, ussisted'by their daughters Daisy 1 Helen, gave apleasant pa ber of tuefr friends. cipal prizes. and Mesdames, Tiabotts, Sawyer, Wrighty Plitt, W, Henton, Lewis, Watking, I Tuttle, Mrs. Itica a Misses Beuwn. Tho Tuesday Evening club whiled ay delightful and instructive ay ns guosts of Miss Gertio Luws a stroet. THE SENSATION OF THE DAY The following telegram will explain itself: THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY. Mhiis Company TRANSMI Erors con Le guarded ag In transmbssion or delivery of ny after the messuee is il With the company 1 G ansiission Pliis van unrepeat’ ] noss i an i 18 dolivied by eaquist of the sonder, un lor the con itions namad abo THOS. T. ECKBERT, Gencral Manave - NUMBIR |8 b Ai 3641 A RECEIVED 3 O Cor olazice :“ el }é/r{//(/@_ OM%/?E(/ _Q”/'tv/r,;r/mm/_n/%/’ S and DELTVERS messgos only on eonditions lmiting [ts Hability, which have been assonted to by the sonder of the following messs nat only 1 1 L OSSO DIOK L0t Send g SUtTon fOr comoiFson. and thes Con iy w1 ngt i TSIt 1ot for rrronsor deleys peated me ind the amount of tolls paid thoredn, nor in 4ny cass Whors Uhe eluiin 1s 108 presontod in writing withi sity days NORVIN GREEN, President. KEC'D BY at212 South I3th Street.Omaha, Neb. b M.Standard Timi 8 Lt 60’ coeds e : - '(/z/(;f& 5 ]l' s s ey A 4///:7/(5 S e Some small manufacturers in New York make a specialty of making the very As we offered to buy all they had at 60 cents on the dollar The bulk of the suits are worth from $20 to $30. They comprise some of the finest plain and | fancy worsteds, as well as cassimeres, and 75 per cent of them are imported goods. They are now on our counters, and we will throw the store wide open and give you YOUR CHOICE OF ANY $| ;}l-f, ' ' SUIT 1n the House for THIS MEANS CLOTHING FOR HALF WHAT IT IS WORTH. In order to give all classes a show, we'll throw all goods worth less than that price into a rand Final Choice of the Rest of Our Suit Stock at Making ‘two prices for any suit in the entire house, namely: 55, we will sell at $3; worth Now don't torget the choicest neglige shirts in the world, worth %3 we will sell for $1.50, and a world beater at $1. As ever and forever yours, ELLMAN, 18th & Farnam Kennedy and 0. attended the Ha weck, “Joseph's Bondag fully produced by tt Now York, assistea by local talent, ut the opera house Tuesduy” evening, will bo ¢ peated by request this evening. Dr. T, Burchued, a popular physician of this city, was given a surpriso party by his wifo last Friday evening 1n honovof his thicty-fifth birthday. A number of his gen tiemen friends speut a dolighttul oveuing at A. G. Wannor spent this week in Liucoln} | his residence aud prosented bim an elogant M. A, Frauk revurned from a visitin Omaha | embossed leatber chair. last Saturday. ; Ex-Congrossman George Laws of Hastings e ik has been in the city this week. oo, Dy \Villert oy gon Jawmes Sewell of Buftalo, N. Y., is fa the | Mps, Poter Cameron started city looking after his interosts hers, on Tubsday worgo Holt will attend the commencement | — Mrs. Walter Webber of Wagno is visiting Gxeroises at Brownell hall, Omaha, Tuesday. | with friends in Tekamah. "D, . Sullivan and family loft Tucsday for | Mrs. Thomas Conkiing of Valentino is vis a two mouth's visit at their old home in Ken- [ iting at Mr. Warean Conlilings. tucky, Mrs, C. D, Gibson of South Omaha s vis < g other, Mrs. F. M. Florence, Mrs. Kate Bell uing with bor mother, Mrs. I, M. Florence. Omaha aro visiting E. Mrs, J. R Suthorluud wont 1o Bulleuc this city. this week to attend cowINCHCIENt CXOrCises Mrs, F. M. Wilson arrived in the city last | 44BgHgvue collogo. Her husband had preceded” her, | ment. has gone to W ooste oy will reside here, IRSDR Rl Kaile W N io0e Eh W. 5. Hill represented Prof. C. F. Beek has tendered bis of Veterans, this city, at tion a Wof the 6va Lhis week s 1ot be wifo aud baby of Weoping ) v, tfter i absonce of twenty in this city with the years, Hon. J. P. Latta und wife left f 3. Loyda, and family thelr old liowo at l‘m-qflu. la., where they Robert Muzzy aud Will Sherrard took their | Will renew old time friendsiips ; doparture for St. Joseph, Mo., Tnursduy, | K. L. Adams has returnod from Decorah where they join a theatrical orchestrs uud | 1., und is now engaged in involcing hi band, of drugs, which bus been purchased District court is in session here thisfweek. | A. D. Nesbituud Mr. K. C. Houston The docket is uuusually small und there are Walan few cuses of interest. Judge Broady pre- Phe wife of Hon. G, W. E. D. sids ing her sister, Mrs, H. H. Dorsoy Mrs. D. W. Sowles and sc Hal, with Mrs Miss Huttie Davis started this week for praskn City, is E. E. Mottz and daughter, Lucilo, returaed | extended visit ' Obio an i op of BrauEntia ST Wednesday from a visit with relatives in St Miss Lois Hill hus re A 4 ALD A ata Joseph. after finishing lier 1 aus 1o thelr encampmon| Mr. and Mrs. Clark Shelly gave a parlor Miss Edith Hopp It C\\ musicale Tuesday evening, which was heart- | the city has g of ily eajoyed by those participating. Elegant ted citizents, hus accepted a refreshiments were served. Ells irug Louse in Atehis Mr. aud Mrs, O, C. Zinn left yesterday for school ft for his new work St ouis, where they go to visit relatives [ spend his vacatior jon is receiving s large number for a few weeks, after which they will make Mps. R, D. Bush ana daughter of ( (uly m all parts of the styte con- an extended tour of the east. aro visiting Mrs. Bush's sister, Mrs, J wndiphone, the fustrument by W. A. Heimburger, C. Milian, E. U he i3 aguin uble ' hear sllera Wik Luss O LWO yeurs A Bush, sud other friduds iu the city Steveus, Mrs, Stanley, B, F, Morrill, Miss | W. K. Alexauder; tho genial station agent son and was devoted to o dis cussion _of Tennyson. The company colu- prised Missos Walsh, Auna Barr, Lona Loomis, Grace Grifith, Alice Covdery, Hattie Hooper, Gertie Lutws, Kittie Cow- dery, Maude Smith, Theo Laws, Mrs, Cowdery. Mr. and Mrs. Cobbroth, Messrs, Frank Zehrung, W. E, . ¥, Ladd, G. W, Gerwig, S. T. St. John, J. T, Dorgan, W. Morton Smith and C. L. Mullen, Faulk of ( 1 Island this of the Union Pacific road at this place, will leave Monday for & three months' tour in Bus rop Miss Myrtos Amlong, o former belle of Vahoo, is married to C. F. Young of Los 5, Cal., where they will make their future tiomo. Rev, 8. R. Bellvill one of Nebraska's delegates to the Pres un genoral asser bly ut Detroit, has just returned after au #b< senco of four weels, The city schools closed w ment at the 4 house Phere was no graduuting Oowing to an exteusion in the cours Dav d City. Mus, Fred Scott departod last Monday for a fow weoks' visit with friends at St. Paul, Neb, Dr., I tered week Mrs. A. L Hughes left Inst Tuesday for a two months’ visit with her mother at Zaues- ville, O, Mrs. Rising of Rising City has boen visit~ ing her sister, Mrs. William Reinhardt, for the past weok, 5. H. Steele and day Duluthi, Minu., this w sister of Mr, Steelo Hub Peppor is autiolpating a _trip to Colo- rado this summer for the benefit of his scho .. Ho will start in a few doys, | Lou Teuyke was sotting up the cigars very hberaily list Thursday on tho arrival £ 4 tine pair of twin boys at his house. It is whispored around tho streets vory tly that Mr. Lomon, editor of the Page s Bauner, will take unto bimselt & wife in the very near future, ning club ntata so suceoss M. Chadwick of ssociation of the Lincoln high at the e 1 th an entortain C. F. Reavis was in Lincoln last week, Thursday night, class this yoar of study, Alice Russell, principal of the T street entertained her ussociate teachers evening at her 8 Q street, in recoguition of the of & deserved season of rest from to Port Huron, B. ¢ for California E. chapter of the W, Howitt of Bellwood was regise ot at the Perius Tuesday of this and Mrs, 2345 IR street, with danciug hel of wife of daughter Bell and and B edding After an evening of unusually pleasant od, leay- shter are visitlng at with Mrs. Taylor, uuer depart 0., to take u two | . ; | oven! post No. 128, Sons resigna.- | lebrate its first the state conven. apter Sigma Chi meoting of fraternity ng ot the men and ol parlors b upoit ity The ho! lasting until 10 when the m drink Wik and be followed ant banguet. Eat, £e it ubur Roynol buried oy mour hits to spend the iser of Mrs Aubur Mi tai 1 old st 3116 10 th sumuel len resident of Wik noun- num- prin. ty to o Hign five iwas th pastime. Two silver ons were the Tho followlii were present: Messrs, Hull, Holyoke, A B. Sawyer, itin, Clark, Doolittle, 1, Hale, Baird, Mes. daughter Bertha, the Misses Erd acd Alico 1is Woek school u Lunsing, € Auburn's oldest weeks, rth Wilson, who has L at Greencastle, Tnd at home the Moore, oveniag last Tues- 1 H | 1 was tho closing reception of & " best class of clothing that is made in this country. We quote one of them who had «, carried over more than they wanted, and with them it was cither sell cheap or pack away for next secaaon. spot cash, they said take it.