Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 23, 1891, Page 12

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, SUNDAJY, TALKS 0N OMAHA FACTORIES. Business Mon all Interested in the Bubject of Home Patronage. WHAT SOME OF THEM HAVE TO SAY, The Box Factories—Number of Men 1oy and Wages Paid— What They Make and Who Are Their Patrons. One weok ago Tne Brr published what | weas promised to be the first of a series of ar- ticles on Omaha's mavufacturing interests and the advantages of home patronage, Tun Ber took the stand that Omaha is already deriving great beaefits from the local fac- tories and that if they were patronized as they ought to be their capacity would soon be doubled and other manufacturers, sceing their prosperity, would move to Omana. It is surprising the amount of talk that has been created among business men by tho | publication of these articles, and if any doubt existed before in the mind of the writer as to the necessity of calling: the attention of the people to the subject, it has entirely disap- peared After spending considerable time among the manufacturers during the past six days listenng to their com- monts on the subject, I find that this “lack of home patronage” is a erime far more prevalent in Omahia than many peo- | ple dream of and that it almost amounts to & boycoty in some cnses. I talked with a man- | ufiicturer who was formerly a salesman for a factory located in another ity and who sold | 80 many goods liere that he decided to locato | a factory of his own in Omuha, He put up anico plant and as he_could lay down the same goods from his Omaha bouse and at the same price as from the castern house he expeeted J1d all bis old trade and get many new customers, but he found that many old customers went back on him as soon as it was known that he had located in Omaha, and that new customers came slowly. Ho is on the pomnt now of clostug down tho factory and nioving to some other ci I talked with many manufacturers who named some of the most prominent houses in Omaha that would not even give them a hearing but alwoys dismissed their rop- rescutatives with “we buy all those goods in the enst” or “‘you can’t make those oods as cheaply as wo buy them” or “our customers don’i want Omaha goods.” Somo houses which feel pretty big tell the small manufacturers “you couldn’t make enough £00ds to knepaus going even it wo did give you orde This is the kind of facturers got from men, The manufacturers themselves are not all true to Omaba. | learned of one large es- tablishment whose sales in Omata of a cer- tain product run into thousunds of dollars every month, that buys supplics in_tho oast that other Omaha factories would furnish at the same money. While talking with a large retailer on the subject he mentionod having received letter from this very establishment askiug his patronage for o certain articlo which they hud just commerced to make. The retailer remirked that “what is sauco for the goose is sauce for the gander” and if this factory wanted his patronage thoy ought to give their patronage to other Omana firms us far as possible. I mignt fill sevoral columns with iustances of the same kind, but this will serve to givo au iden of the obstacles witn which local manufacturers have to contend. Every one will admit that manufactoaies are a groat benefit toa city and that they ought to be patronized but an ussertion so easily made and so readily admitted does not leave any lasting 1mpression aud the first person to give his assent to it may be the first to go on with his business forgetful of the existeuce of tho factories and of his duty to them and to the city. In order that some- thing practical may result from this discus- sion it is proposed to call attention to the factories in detail, show what they are doing for the city, and what support thoy arejre- ceiving and in this way interest the public, and if possivie, induce business men to trans- fer their patronage from the east to their own city. Durine the past weelk I visited the box factorich the existence of which fow people outside of trade circles are even aware of, and yet these factories employ ninetv-two people, about one-third of them boys and young women and the balunce men, some of them with large families, They pay out in wages $30,750 per year, Some of this money goes into real estato and 10 pay for the homes of the toilers, but a great proportion finds its way into the hands of the sellors of food and clothing, Among this little army of workers I did notseon single unhappy face; they all ap- peared contented, healthy and’ prosperous, and a few bundred more people just like them would be a valuable additiou to the city, Tsnw three girls—sistors ~working in one place whio, their father being dead, are supporting tho family and paying for taeir home. 'Their employer seemed very proud of them’ and remarked that factories are the ouly institutions that are ina position to take the labor of such people and give them In return_comfortable Roties and s pood live ng. W encouragement manu- many Omaba business 0 much for the people who labor; as to ) the facto thewselves there ave five of them. The Omaha box factory, located in East Omaba, and the Consolidated box and manufacturing company at Twenty-sixth and Walnut streets ~ manufacturo pack- ing boxes: the City box factory at Fourteenth and Davenport streets, makes cigar and packing boxes; Omaha Paper Box factory, 1817-1319 Douglas street, paper boxes, aud I, R, Heft, 1503 Jackson street, cigar boxes. PACKING BOXES, Few men thero are who huve never made a box at sowe period in the cou of their lives. [t may bave been when they woro boys, and the coveted box intended to hold a pet rabbit or a job lot of toys, or it may have boen after they had reached ' their majority and were proud in the possession of a gentle- man’s workshop in tho rear of their city rosi- denco. Whatever the age and condition in life, the tools and method were about the _same, several boards, a square, saw, hammor “and several nails; usual results, one lop-sided box, several patohes of cutici missing and one or two fingers more or less damaged from obtruding thewselves between the descend- ing hammer and the side of the box. The Owaba box factories employ an im- proved method n which the squarc, handsaw ud hammer bave o place. Entering on the ground floor of one of the packing box factories the visitor is struck with tho similarity of the place to a planing mill, aud in fact that1s what it really is. Men are shoving the rough boards, just as thoy came from the mill, into machines which dress down and smooth tho surface on both sides. Others are running boards over a cireular saw that slits them into any thickness derived. When this is doune the lumber is passed up to the second floor, and there the actusl box-making com- uences. Before going any farther it will ve well to glance iuto the engine room. Here will be noted ove of the secrets of the manufacturers art, tho saving of the waste material. No coal is used under the boilers, but shav- ings, bits of boards, ete., are wado to takeits place. ‘The waste water from tho exhaust pipe and the rain from the roof is saved in a cistern, to be used in filling tho boilers, this doing swny some of tho expense of eily water. ‘I'ho sawdust is all coliected and sold for packing. But to the secoud floor—here there 18 a wil- dernoss of machivery, and the whir of the revolving wheels, the clatter of tlying boards and tho ehurning of the nailing machives aro & combination of sounds that makes the musio of tho factory A thousand boxes aro to be made all of one size and style. The block on & table in the center uf which is & swiftly ruvning saw, Is 50 pluced that when a board i3 moved along by it and thus over the saw tho piece cut off will be the right length for the #ide of the box. Another table is sot 10 suw Ak euds aud other tables wiil slit the boards moking them the right width, If itis de- sired thut the boxes be lettered, us in the case of cracker boxes, ete., the s1dos are run through a pristing pi Hoys pile the pleves by the side of the nail- lug wachines aud & man picking up s side and end plece and placing them together at right angles, touches alover with his foot, the ma- chine gives u Jolt and six naoils are ariven | work, | couservative estimate that home. As quick as thought be claps on an- ihor end piece, & jolt and it is nulled. The whole operation takes less than a minute and the box is tossed on to the next machine which nails on the bottom. Another step down the line and it_comes to the fimshing mnchine which knocks uff the rough edges and the work is completo. There aro also other machines for the finer for dovetailing, grooving, sandpaper- ing, otc. Whilo T was at the factories they were at work on boxes for the Garnean cracker com- pany, cases for Swift & Co.,the South Omaha packirs, and ogg cases for Kirschbraum & bitter and e sbippers. hese and & number of other large houses, ¢ factories, pickle works, soap , ete., both jobber: and maniifacturers, give all thelr worlk to th Omaha factories, bt there ara a greac many | who do not. On’ all sides it was given as o there were pack- g boxes enough used in Omaha to keep 200 | men employed steadily if the orders were all, | placed here, | As.it is, the most of the boxes and packiug | cases used nere are made in Wisconsin, Michigan or some other lumber produ siate and are shipped here “knocked down' and the consumer does his own nailing. Parties using these boxes figuro that the nailing does not cost anythiog, us it is done by their regular employe they might otherwise be idle; nor do they figure in auy storage or cartags In this w t appear tnat the boxes cost them less than those made in Omaha, Mr. Kirsenran in explaining this phase of | the question said, “I figure that I am paying the Omab Afories a_fraction of a cent moro for egg cases than they would cost mo in Mich but even then I am the gainer. By patronizing Owaha factories 1 keep my oney at bome and thus contribute jnst so much” toward making money more plenty here nd business and collections better. Every manIenable a factory to employ makes just one more family to consumie but- ter and cges, Every busioss man can nf- ford to patronize home industries from seli- 1sh interests ulone even if he tukes no pride in the growth and prosperity of the city.” CIGAR BOXES de in about the same way as packing boxes but it is light work and uc- cordingly a good many young women and boys are employed in this brauch of the in- qustry. In addition to muking the boxes there is a good deal of hand labor in pasting the labels, covering the corners, ete, It may be of interest to the unnitiated to kuow that in cigar boxes as in many other lin there s the genuitie and the imitation, Boxes for bigh grado cigars ave made of codur wood from Massachussetts, New York aud Cuba. Cheap cigars are put'in boxes mado of bass wood colored to resemble ur. A new box which gives promise of selling well is of polar veneered on the outside with geuuine codur. Cigar box makers have an uphill road be- them, The manufacture of s in aha for some years has been o declining industry and it is estimated that ouly about Lialf as many cigar makers are now emploved iu the city 4s there wero when tho city's population was rated at only 60,000, You ask ause for this and cvery cigar maker nswor *'a lack of howe ‘patronage’’ and vot some cigar mukers are practising the very thing that is kiling their business, buy- ing their boxes in the e Omaba mauufacturers have reduced pric 50 that hoxes can beobtained in Omaha at the same prices asked in Milwaukoo thus saving the freight for the cigar maker and they are pushing the trade out into the larger towns of the state, whero they have some very good customers. PAPEIL BOXES. The making of boxes of this kind isa matter of haud work almost etirely, and women and boys are the workoers. Asa paper box is rather bulisy to ship, the Omuba manufacturer receives a_ fair patronage from such sources as the shirt factories, notion houses, coffee houses, cracker factories and candy munufacturers. Occasionally, how- ever, the agent of somo outside factory thinks e sees a chance to work in his goods and cuts prices and sells a carload or two. Box-making 1s only in its infancy in Omaha, but it could soon be transformed iuto a full- grown giaut if every business man would consider himself personally responsible for its sucepss. In St. Louis they have twenty two box factories, and whiie I am not famil- iar with the history of the business theve, 1 will venturo the assertion that a St. Louis business man would send out his goods wrappod iu a piece browa paper before he would go to Chicago for a packing-box. DAVENPORT. '3 boxes arc m What Business Men Say. The advantages of patrouizing home indus- try are so many and so vital, that it sheuld require but a glance from the sagacious busi- uess man to fuily realize them. Sull in Omaha, it seems, they fall far short of the mark,ana io interviewing manufacturers ana jobbers they invariably point to Kansos City, St. Paul, Minneapolis aud Sioux City as places enjoying luvgely the benefit, of a local interchange of trade and traffic. Tus Bee adopts this mode in attempting to educate householders and buyers and consumers gon- erally of tho big advantuges attained by standing by bome industries. ‘W. V. Morse, maunufacturer of boots and shoes in speaking on this head said: Our £o0ds are Just as good and in many instances better than those sold to tho western trade by castern manufactures, but local retailers seem to labor under a prejudice againsy any- thing made at_home and are prono to s abroad for their wares even at a di tage in price and freightage. Al thiug ing equal it is truly the duty, I should think, of local fobbers and retailers to stick- by locol mauufacturers. That is the way to build up a city for 1t redound to the bemefit of all y interosted, This condition of things cxists in mauy of the western cities to a mu larger extent thau it does in Omaba. Kansas City, Sioux City, St. Paul _and Minncapolis are all largely loyal to their home con consequently profit lurgely over Ouwah France as a_ country, owever, furnishes tno best example. The people there trade among themselves and are cousequently rich aud prosperous. The retailers should alwag: mako it a \mm to see the manufacturd here, aud all things belng equal, 1 repeat, give them the benefit of thejr patronage. That is my doctrine. I bave all my boxes made bere, notwithstanding the fuct that I could get them & triffe cheaper olsewhere. There is but one shoe manufactory in this section, but 1f there was u balf dozen they would not be able to supply one eighth of ths tributary territory. 'he people of Nebraska consume ubout 5,000,000 worth of shoes annually, yet less than 200,000 are sold here. Yet Nebraska raises more of the raw ma- terial than any state in the union. Still the people cowpiain about hard times, at the sumo time send all of this stufl east, giving the custern manufacturer and his lavorers the chance to sell their goods at a nice profit, whicl in turn thoy loan to western farm- ers at o bpaying rate of interest. Another thing that militates against our local trade is the fact that many part hold express franks, which privilege induces them to send abroad for almost overything, even to the daily honsehold necessities. Charles B, Sutphon of the Sutphen cur- riage bouse, said that the better class of buy- ers in Owalia do not patronize Omaha dealers as they should, but send oft to New York and Boston undsr the impression that their purchases there give them some additional tone, and rest assured that they pay well for it. ' Even our southern Nebraska | wade is largely cut n on from Kansas City and St. Joe, and mno far- ther distant from this city than Nebraska City und Auburn, Mr. Sutphen hardly knew whiit to suggest, only he recognized Tie Bre's endeavor to educate householders and citizous generally of the advantages attained by patronizing home industries s a most commendable one. He said that in many in- stances wealthy people bLere had sent east for their fancy vehicles, only to buy exactly the same make of goods handled by bim, the ouly difference belug that they enjoyed the priviiege of puying rom $100 to $15 more for tho samo vehicle than they could have purchased here, Mr. Aulubaugh of the Aulavaugh fue company, said: *‘One of the greatest obsta- | cles we meet with is the disposition of the citizons to send east for tho botter class of £00ds of all kinds and descriptions under th delusion that thev were getting a fulle worth for thelr mouey, which 15 a grave wistake, for the fuot is that our prices are lower \han th se of eithe: ow York, Hos- tou, Philadelptia or Chi Oue reason ‘this is that the wesk ople bave not yet uegun 0 realize that there hus been such an enormous advanco in furs of all kinds, and there seems to bea | deep-rooted prejudice against anything made | at Lowe. Lu St. Paul \bings are differcut, at u | alsndvantage, and that is to run the | ers of tneir own ci hes | lonst 80 far _as our business is concerned, for | I know up there it must be a rare induco- ment indeed that can influence the citiz go outside for their goods. Hore the j soom to be determined to go away Omaha for artivies which we can dis right here. They pay bigeer and the resuit 18 u great ment to the local manufacturors. side buyers, too, labor under another big risk of & nice Atting garment, or one deficient in many ways, still thay must accept and_wear them, because they ¢ame from Now York or Bos: ton, All sensible people should be loyal onough to their own intercsts and those of their neighbors, to mve the deal- an opportunity to pro- goods they have set their rts on, with porfect fits, the best mater- ial, best make and at lower igzures thau they can geb them in the Inrger cities, Toat would bo ono of the ways to make a metro- politan city out of Omaha, J. Beckman, manutacturer of cigars said : 1.do not havo anytiing like tho local trade I should have or am entitied to. The principal causo of this is the natural projudice against home goods. Dealers do ot seem to have the proper confidence in local manufacturers, and will give their orders to smailer towns enst of here, where thoy haven't the sao facilities for turning out superior goods that wo have. [ have manufactured cigars here for sixteen years or more and can oring any number of customers who will testify to the good quality of my goods, They buy exactly tho mo grade of goods outside the city that thoy do he vy i stance pay a bigger prics, oven as high as or 210 on the thousana more. Tukemy goods and put New York on the boxes, and pla them in a case along with the genaine articio from New York, and the jobuer or consumer orany ouo else cannot distinguish the dife ence—that is, the cigars being of the samo grade, Ta fact, my chances are good for being selected as the favorite, ns mine would bo made of fresher wmaterial. Then too, the dealers wonid have the advan- tage of having them made to their own likig as to weight, shape und other particulars that enter’ into the manufacture of cizars. In buying my goods thoy do away with the bother und writing their orders and freightage, which is cssentinlly a big thing in favor of the manu- facturer. ople from duce the very W. Colo of the Consolidated coffee company said: We haven very nice home but nothing what it should be. Con- sumers are prone to use goods from the east, but they aro_not as good as oursin many r . Toere is a vrejudice oxist- nst home goous that s difi- understand, s wo | v compefe with any one in price or quality, In fact we can give a bet- ter hich grado of coffeo than any of the out- side houses, and this wo invariably do in order to fally ovarcome the preju- dice exi Coffces depreciate in value very much after roasting, at least 10 per cent a month. Coffees roasted east cannot bedelivered here for fully a mnonth after this process has been undergone, whilo wo ean furnish i 3 coming into us in the morning is roasted shippad that day. Bennett does not buy a pound of coffee outside of tho city, and he probably enjoys the biggest coffee trade in Omaba. A more liberal home patronage would of course enable us to enlarge our business, and thus evorybody would receive their proportion of the benefits, G. H. Yates of the German yeast company suid: Our home patronage is the very poor- cst we have, and yet we manufactiro the nan veast exclusively and there is no better in the world. Our factory on the Beit line a story brick, s single purpose, nost meag g to ty trade is the he reason is probably that the grocerymen do not push our zoods. leave samples at almost every household in the city every three months, and have yet tohear of the first complaiut, dut thero have been instances where parties preferring our yeast reported to us that they were unablo to et it of their loc yman. Theso grocers mainly bandle veast made in the east and mever take icto consideration that our climate is better adapted for the manufacture of pure yeast than that of unv other in the country.” We are right in the great corn belt, and Omaha should be the ucipal yeast center in the country, Our yeast is undoubtedly a superior arti The price of the different makes same o the consumer, still the. benefit would be incaleulablo by handiing the home made article, when you consider that it is as good, if not better than any other. This w give local manufacturers an _ opportunit increase their capacity and contribute just 50 much more toward buildiug up the city, aud thus benefit measurably all kinas of trade. 'z BUE's enterprise in agltating this matter must be thoroughly appreciated vy the general trade, P EDUCATIONAL. “Thron cock will £70,000. The vast extent of tho wori dono at Chau- aqua is shown by the circumstance that the class of 91 at that “institution” numbers be- tween 30, nd ‘N)‘UJU, North America was founded in 1331~ tho Collazo of St. Tidotonso, in the City of Mexico. The next oldest . Laval collegeZ Quebec. In the past twelve years tho number of stu- dents in Chicago theological seminary (Con- ercgational) has inereased from forty to 167+ aud the faculty from six to fourtecn. The California state uni I pretty easy cireumst a recent mecting tho rezents decided £135,000 on interast securad by mortg; In the 331 cities and towns of M setts 248 now have freo public libravie tho state has lately provided aid for thie 103 small towns aud villages which have no li- bravies. The Cincinnati Techn wirls 10 take all 1ts courses, even to engincer- g and cavpenter work. This sumumer two Kentucky girls, Lucy Mary Riggs and Julia Bedinger, received diplomas. Now York World: A new course of in- steuction in “the study of woman” 15 to be introduced into the University of Kunsas. This will necessitato a_revision, so far as the IKansas student is concerned, of Pope's noted pinion that “the prover study of mankind 5 man.' Bishop Hurst, as chancellor of the Ameri- can university at Washgton, nas issved an appeal to the Methodist churches and to all other friends of Chiristian_education, to con- tribute a fund of $10,000,000 for buildiugs and ondowments of professorships. A site which Cost#100,000 hus already been secured and paid for. Suys the Burlington, Vt., Free Press: coguizing the fact that dairying is the leading industry in Vermont, the trustees of the University of Veruont and State Ajgri- cultural collego have made arrangements cor condueting, the commg winter,a dairy sohool. "he session of the school will last for four weeks and will be devoted to the subject of butter-making. The first dental college in tho United States was established in 1540 at Baltimore, and cven as late s 1860 there were but thres oth- ors in the country, two in Philudelphia and one in Cinciunati, Thero are now about twenty-six of theso schools in the United States and in several of thestates a collogiato course 18 compulsory to one iutending to prac- tico deutistry s o profession, The three collezes at Spokane, Wash,, have consolidated to form a university, with a present fund, in land, of ubout §30,000 and immediate expectations of about §150,000 more. There will be an_academic, a legal, a wedical and a theological department. Rey. R. E. Bisbeo of Cambridge, Mass., will be president of theuniversity, ‘The dedanship of the law school has been oftered to Kdwund P. Dole, ot the Seattle, receutly of the New Hampshire bar. In the library of the Moravian school for boys at Nazareth, In., which was founded in 1 , and whose sessions siece were inter- rupted for a brief period by the revolution, is a serics of quaint old volumes containing the compositions, graduating colloquies and es- says, together with sketches in pencil mado by scholars whoso hands bocame dust half a contury ago. Tho main building of the school ou the acadewmic green is the stone Pomeran- ian *castle’ erectod by Count Zinzendorf in what was thoo the wilderness of Pennsylva- niu, and which attracted many curious visi- tors in the last century. . a compromise reached in the Han- ase Harvard college is to receive r3ity seems to be nces, (nanciall L school permits Lines from Lowell. arth's noblest thing a woman perfected.” "Tis heaven alone that is given away, "Tis only God may be had for the askiug.” “Two meanings bave our lightest fantasies, Oue of the flesh and of the spirit one,” AUGUST 23, 01-SIXTEEN PAGES GRAND ARMY DEPARTMENT, Reunions and Gamp Fires in Progress in All | Directions, R, MEMOR'AL HALL. THE G. Thirticth Anniversary of the Battle o Wilson's Creek and th General Lyon—Hu Blockade of the Potomao. A District Reunion, At a meoting of the veterans of the Grand Army of the Repubiic at Greenwood, Neb., August 6, 1501, whilo the reunion was in ses- sion, which lasted from August3to 8, o dis- trict reunion association was organized rade J. B. Ferguson, of Faragut post No. 25 Lancoln, was chosen prosident, and P, Galley, of Missouri Ridge post No. 149, Greonwood, secretary. ComradoC. B. Cack- uey was made | uartermaster and K. C. Cole- man, commissary It was decidea to hold & meeting of the ox- ccutive board on Monday, September 1801, of which the commanders of the fous'posts in the district will receive notice, The district as at present organized con- ists of the counties of Lancastes Cass, unders and Sarpy. ar- The Twenty-Second Wisconsin A circulur from “Tho Veteran Association of the Twonty-second Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry” that the placo of meot- has been changed from Beloit to Lake a, and the date is September 23, Comrade D, S, Allen is appointed local soc- retary to assist Seerotary Northrop in muk- mg the necessary arrangements. All com- munications with reference to accommoda- tions here should ve addressed to him at this place. T'he opera nouse is engaged for the ocea- on. Cots will be placed in the upper rooms for vbe uccommodation of “the boys" who way prefer to camp out. The evening of 1 2d wili be devoted to short talks and music; a programme to be furnishod by the commit tee, General Lucius Fairchild will be there and deliver th address before the so- ciety on W v evening. There will bo A business me of the association at 9 o'clock Thursday moruing, the after which a free excnrsion on tho | 1 giv Yo an opportunity of secing all the camps, parks, and beautiful residences surrounding the take, stopping at Kaye's pari for ding ing G " he Silyer Bncimpment Says the Boston Post: The Grand Army men of Boston who went to Detroit to at- tend the national encampment are not sing- ing the praises of that city for the manner in | which they wore entertained, nor for the way in which the people turned out to sce the parade. Cawp Shoridan was a very fair kind of a place but it is uot what the boys ot in Boston: and there was not so much of that hearty spirit of welcome and hospitality, it some of the old veterans who were there can be relied upan to give a fair deseription., The men high in the ranks of the Grand Army of tho Republic who went to the hotels complaiu of the way rates were ad- vanced upou the:t, when it was agreed that they should not be. It was expected that three or four people would be put into one room, but it was not supposed that each per- son would be charged more than the regular price of the rcom, as they were. This state of things provailed at all the hotels. Oue noticeablo thinx was the avsonce of en- thustasm along the hue of march of the big parade and the comparatively small number of people that viewed 1t. In decorations, however, Detroit excelled Bostou, and th display was the finest ever witnessed by the veterans. The camps also wero cxcellent and the arrangements first class, as were also the excursions, especially that of the Loyal Legion. The G. A. R. Memorizl Hall. Chairman J. M. Clokey of the local commit- tee arrived at his home in Decatur, IlL, from Detroit, whore he and ex-Governor Oglesby, a member of the national committee, made a gallant fight. fov the National Mewmorial Hall association, Grand Army of the Republic at Decatur, Ill, which was unanimously in- dorsed by vote of the encampment. Much of interest in reference to the hall was not tele- graphed from Detroit during the session of the cncampment. Mr. Clokey says: “The revort presented by General Oglesby was adopted without change or amendment. It provides for a national advisory board em- bracing the commander-in-chief and each department commander, which board shall meet annually. The hall association wili be required to mike annugl reports to the board. The commander-in-chiof shall also appoint four members ol the national board of trus- tees, and when the plans for the hail are p parca they shall be submitted to the national advisory board for approval.” The associa- ton and local comhittee are greatly clated over the full and unqualificd recognition of the enterpriso by the Letroit encampment, aud they will pow go ubead more energel ically than ever in soliciting contributions for the ball fund. The Batite of Wilson's Creel. Justthipty vears ago August [0th tho bat- tle of Wilson's Creek, Mo., was fought and General Nathauicl Lyon gave up his life for the cuuse of froedom, Tho battlo was oneof the most disastrous of the serios of bloody en- counters which took pluce in the state of Mis- souri during the summer of 1561, and its ve- sult had a signal effect on the condition of the affuivs of the west. Missouri was divided within berself throughout the whole war, and blood was shed and powder burnéd within ber borders long after the doath of the confederacy ana the proclamation of emanciration, Brother fought brothor and father slow son, and the fertile “plains and rugged mountains wero the scones of many dark crimes which were excus>d 1n tho cou- fusion that prevailed on thegroundjof patriot- ism. Wilson's creek is a little stroam flowing through Greene county, Mo., nearly 20) miles in a southwasterly direction from St. Lows. AtSpringtieid, on this creok, sev- cral battles occurred during the war, but the only one which has found piaca in his- v is that of August 10, 1361, when General Lyon fell. Lyon was a Connecticut man, born at Ashford in that state, July 14, 1819, He was 4 cadet ut West Poiut with Grant, aud like him served with' distinction in the Mexican war. He also took aetive part in suppressing he Seminole [udian outbreak in Florida just after his graduation from West Poiot. ~ At the timo of tue gola excitemeat ho wus ied 1 California, later in Oregon, and in 1854 10 Kunsas, In'1861 he took command of tho United States volunteers in Missouri, und was commissioned a brigadier general, ‘T'he Secessionist forces in Missouri at the time wers led by the governor of the state, Clawborn £, Juckson who, early in June, 1561, established & cAtp on the outskirts of St. Louis, garnsoned ‘it with tho revel state militia, and prepared to seize the United States arseual at ,St. Louls where Lyon was in eharge. Lyon had but two companies of volunteers to defend the place, but the confederates for cowme reason delayed the attack, Lyon, how- ever, divined their purpose, and joiued by o regiment of Union adnerents from the city, 1o sallied out and captured tho wholo rebol force, meeting with no opposition whatever. Jackson then got together a smull army at Booneville, about forty miles north of Jeffer- son City, ou the spot wnere Daniel Boone haa long before plauted a sott Lyon found nim hore aud completely routed his forces on June Word then reached the federal troops that another band of coufoderates was gathered at Dry Springs, near Springtield, and Lyons hastened south to meet them. Tue robels, under General McCulloch, were warned of nis approach and warmly, but they were ignominiously de- feated wnd forced to fall back along Wilson's creek toward the town of Springlleld ou August 2. Rebel re-enfores Price, then arrived ents, led by Colonel Com- | 3, | prepared to greot him | ! tho confederates thus assembled so greatly | faltered. to ald McCulloch's and | | tuno outnumbered tho men of Lyon's command that it seemed hopeless for him to attempt to hold any part of southwestern Missouri. But the region is one of the richest of the state, and Lyon resolved not to give it un without a fight, He haa been so successful huretofors, every movemeut of his had boen attended with such overwhelming vietory, that ho became more courageous than pru- dent and attacked (he rebels on Wilson's creek August 1v, The day was fair and at med to run in his favor. But fickle for- turned suddenly and the _fight became desperate. Tiwice was Lyons wounded as he headed his men and cheered them Tho wounds wero painful and weakened him perceptibly, but his indomitavle spirit kevt him up and supported him. A colotol leading his regi- ment as it charged by Lyon was shot and fell at his feet. For an instant the soldiers But Lyoa sprang into_the place of the dead officer, and with u word rallied the troops and the ‘advance was resumed. Next moment, however, just us fortune seemed tosmilo’ upon him’ again, a bullet crashed into bis breast, and ho feli, dyiny instantly. Disorder followed in the utiion ranks, and the confederates seeing their opportumty fol- lowed up their advantago and easily won the day, driving the federal tecops from the field ina panic. Tho loss on both sides was not teavy, but the result of tho defeat was to deprive the union of control in_the larger part of the state of Missouri during the r waindor of the war, and to providoe a cover under which countless gangs of outlaws, guerillas and desperadoos ravaged the newly settled country and terrorized the inoffensive ploneers No oo ever thiks of Wilson's creek with- ont recalling Liyon, 1ts horo, and it is fitting that tomorrow no true _Amorican should fail to honor by remembrance the by soldior and good man who gave his lifc for his country at Wilson's creck thirty years ago. the start the tide The Potomac Blockade. Rear Admiral I, A. Roe furuishes the fol- lowing account of a thrilling inciden®, of the war: During the summer and fall of 1561 the confederatos had effected the complote bloc ade of the city of Washington and the Poto- mac river, Not an ounce of provisions or munitious of war could get into Washington except by railway from Baitimore and unde: going t hipment at that place The Potomac river was closed and the rebel bat- teries coula be passed by ouly a few small crafts at night. The sloop-of-war Pensacola had been fitting for sea ui the Washington navy yara for nearly a year past aad in the month of No- vember her officers pronounced her ready. “T'ho rebel batterios swoept the channel of the river through a distance of nine miles, and this was the gauntlet tho ship was to ran if she was to join Farragut's fieet below Or- is, where she was ordered to rendezvous. Tue confederate oflicers of this long ne of batteries on the right bauk of the Potomac had possession of phe coast survey charts and they wore thus enabled to train their guus accurately on the mid-chaunel of the Tiver, uot very wide at this place. The ele- vating screws of the guns were made secure after the aim had been carefully udjusted, and nothing was left for the ganner to do but to wateh until the ship should come in tho line of firo and pull his lock string. Nine miles of betterivs scomed to make the destruction of the ship a pretty sure thing. Ou a starlit November night, just us the moon was sinking in the west, the ship, which had been lying at anchor off Alexai- dria, got under way and headed down the river toward the batteries and to try the for- tue of Jotn Walters, 3 yard pilot whio remained loyal to the govern- ment, stood by the con to steer the ship through her dangerous course. Two navy yard tugs were sccured aloug the off-shore Side of the ship to help the ship's own en- gines and to be reudy to assist in the eveut of tieir being disabled. Itis impossibic to describe or to under- stand now the intense interest excited by this attempt to break through the rebel blockade of the fedcral capital, not only in Washington, but throughout the coufitry, and_ especially in the confederacy. -That night, therefore, but few people in Washing- ton went to their beds to sleep, as they lis- tened to the booming of tne great guns on the banks of the Potomac. President Liuncoln, Mr. Seward, the secretary of war, and in- deed nearly or quiteall the membcrs of the cabiuet, embarked in a steamer at the navy yard and followed in the wako ot the Pensi- Cola down the river, until sho arrived off Shipping Point, whi tgun was fired from the revel batteries. There they stopped their engine and peered through the night at the receding hull of the ship, amid the flasbes nud booms of guns. Never, perhaps, in the history of our navy had so much und s0 intense an interest been centered upon a ship of war! Orders from thenavy department had been issued to the captam of the Pensacola that no reply should be given to the rebel batteri It 'was the mission of thau ship to pass through the fire of the enemy as swiftly and as safely as possible. Thiuk of being under the fire of an enemy’s guus for one hour or louger and forbidden to five back! The grand old pilot, Walters, understood his business, The throttles of the encives were opened wiae; the tugs were only to keep speed with the ship, and to give ueither sight nor sonud 10 the cnemy; and, by a fine, shrewd trick avship and piloting' the Pensacola was near to the very edge of tho chaunel nearest the vatteries, on the right bauk of the river, and overy ‘shot passed just over ‘the smoiestack,” and plunged in'the mid- channel water not tho length of the ship from the bull. Thero were times when the Pensacola's keel had not an inch of water under it aud a lump of saud or . big ston Lying there wonld have insured the ground- i of the ship under the rebel batteries and her certain destruction. [t was bold scamen- ship for night work, but it saved the shi At carly daylight’ the Pensacola received the last shot from the enemy off Aquia cro which fell short and spent itself in the wi but it was the last shot received by hier with: out a ficree reply. L'he batteries were passed and the ship was safe. But, though no shot was fired from the ship, what a victory this was for the union cause! The confederate governwment at Rich- moud, in its ignorance aud wrath, blamed the men aud ofticers of the batteries and aceused them of culpable neglect ot duty. The vest men i its service were dismissed, degraded, court-martialed and the guuner: (h\‘lil)ulml to the four guarters of the confede honored. Nothing could bave been calculated to demoralize the rebel ar this carly period of the war. The battel erocted ‘ot great expense and iabor, were abandoned ana the blockade of the Potomuc utterly broken. ‘The foderal capital was ouce mare freo and the pathway to the ocean was clear, Ou the morning after the passage of the ship, o lady of Alexandria, told me ho was ' on the streets of that city, andon the sidewnlk met a group of colored boys inaui mated discussion over the great event Turough the night they had heard the dis- tant thunder of the rebel guns. Armed with a broken broomstick, she heard oue thew say: *Doan yer sce! Thar's the r guns, and thars” the river, and thar's whar she's got to go!" and he brought his stick down ou_what he supposed was the chanuel of the Potomac viver. L that the seaman’s wit and courago sayea the ship, aud on April 24, 1562, she led the udvance column of Farragut’s fleet in tho tremendous battles of Forts Jackson and St. Philip and the Chalmette below New Oricaus. During that night of one of the greatest naval on- gagemonts known to history the Pensacola led the “forlorn hope” of thut magnificent couflict Captain Henry W. Morris of New York, one of the *old-time navy captains,” com- manacd the Pensacola, aud Licutenant I, A, Roe, also of New York, and the writer of this paper, was the executive officer. During the adminstration of President Avthur the heroio pilot, Waters, applied at the navy department for u position at th navy yard s lab chman. Ho wa very poor, he said, and was growing old, but the secretary could find no place for’ this wan and he was loft to fight out the battle of life alone. But I am glid to record of him that, in an hour of the direst need of the na. tion, he was tho one “faitbful among ihe faithless found.” Parents Read This. July and_August are anxious montns for wothers who earefully watch over their little oues. Hot days and frequent changes of temperature are liable to produce cholera mornus. How satisfactory it should ba for parents to kuow that Hallor's Pain | is both a pleasant and offective remedy all summor complaints. It soothes and leves all pain and griping and always effocts a complete cure, lea better v at FOR DYSPEPTICS ONLY. Laura would not live alwa 1 care not to stay.” Melancholy, isn't it? But say, did you over that pathological which is always threatening to put an end to your temporal existence but never quite does it? You have. Woll, then, you know what a aismal abode this world is, and the sentiment of the poot will find o sympathetic responsy in your uncom- fortable soul. Still, I wouldn't be in going, for it’s only with dyspepsia, wrostle monster, a hurry about *One day at a time!,That's all it can be; No faster thau that in the hardost fate. And days have thoir limits——" and nights too. Isn’t that comforting? Existence is anything but a poem to you, we know, yet thero are thousands of stomachs just as balky as yours, from which unhealthy fact you ought to be wle to squeeze an additional grain of consolation. You are getting a pretty comprehen- sive iden of eternai puaishment, to bo sure, if the disease has got a real good grip, of orthodoxieal ranting ivinee you that eternit has worso in for your and no amount can anything goem of a soul. mptoms of all theills in the cata- ue of diseases manifest themselves in riling succession. For a time have cancer of the stomach; vou are sure of it. The very thought of such a torrible disease is enough to turn the 150,000 hairs of your head white, but you meditate upon the state of your affairs nevertheless, Day dnd night the morbid growth slowly oats its way to your vitals, You die, robe your self” for the narrow house which nobody covets, pronounce a eulogy over yourself and bury the remains, t aftor a little you resurrect your poor old body und discover you haven't acancer at all: it's a tumor instead, Stiil a tumor is just asbad us @ canc and then eomes another scason of dole- ful meditation and funeral preparvation, Meanwhile the tumor grows and grows till it gets pretty nearly up to your ears and you expect to be called hence at any time, But after awhile the old tumor collap- ses of its own accord and before you have a chance to change your garmeonts of mourning and lnok like other folks, something whispers in your ear that your heart isn’t doing very good wo k. it is too much in a hurry, ‘and you im- mediately discover that it has been flopping “around in an uncomiortablo store vou times turns and thon i3 when you that this world is not your home, You ,ml!\\yu have an appetite not vory woell trained and are prone to taste ything sot bafore you. Supposo you stop and consider the possible con stituents of the food you roll'ns n swoot morsel under your tongue. I'ry it o I'm sure your lot will seom and the desire for many thingd will be killed stone dead, Keop away from church fairs, pers und all gorging entertainments ot thatsort. God never intended that you should make that kind of a martyr of yourself for the Christian caus Don’t attempt to make your aches and paing 0 subject of conversation among vour friends. They ave sure to play the hypoerite every time. Don’t vent your spito on the family cat or dog. The cat can't help it and the dog don’t know what ails you Don’t spond any more timo the undertaker’s show windows ¢ ing funeral procossions, side of the stroet. Don’t find fault with your neighbor boenuse his stomach s good-natured enough to stow away green turtle soup, spring lamb and mint sauce, boile: -l po- tatoes, stewed tomatoes, brain i sealloped squash, jellied tongue, cf I\u ken salad, mince pie, Vienna tarts, Knglish plum pudding. Roman punch and coffoo all at one ~nln\;:. and never grumblo. His stomach is made on the same plan yours and sooner or later will show fight, Don’t im: feol g in watch- Take the other gine that life isa failure be- cause you ean’t enjoy such a pabular pot-pourri. It is an expensive pleasure and a hoggish one as inally, don’t worr y more abou dying. “*Death loves a shining mark, but that has no reference to you. Dyspeptics nover die. The Latest ¢ dr Why is Haller's Sarsaparilla_and Burdock like the most popular soap of tho day Because they both cleanse the leave it voth soft and velvery. v Superstitions, son or other the averago is 50 brimful of suporsti- can hardly got down to woight. Jack Crittenden, the well known Pennsylvavia colored jockoy, liv- ing at Gloucester, would rather lose every race for a year than to see asnake or a bullfrog. The stable boys discov- ered this the othor day and one oMhem pluced a dead snake in Jack’s bunk. I'he poor little fellow, when he touched the clammy reptile, grew ashy in his pallor, flew out of the stable into the night, and 1o inducement strong enough has been found for his return. ~ He firmly believes that the dead snake was an evil om and that he is hoodooed. Y -iul'dn\' somebody slyly placed a dead frog, in pocket,” Tho jockey firmly I that the frog jumped into .. and died. To ‘prevent u reeur- nd he cut away every one in and Jock or somo r colored jockey tion that he Jack's lieves pocket renc of hu manner for a long time and yvou wonder why you never the ught of it befor You are certain now that about to beat its lust beat and you institute immediate prepa- ralions for a sudden demise. You read all sorts of treatises on that bothersome little organ which promises n specdy ending of your earthly career, until vour brain is so muddiéd you can't tell an auricle from w ventricleora tricuspid valve from an aorta. Still your own poor old “‘wheel at the cistern® keeps up its irregular revolu- tions and manages to pass enough blood avound to keep yon from investigating the mysteries of eternity. By and by it gets over its giddiness and you siowly crawl away from the ley of the shadow of detth only to find that your lungs ave very much affected and consumption is your inevitablo fate. You read 1l the advertised con- sumption cur avidity and your case is doscribed to i dot by the selhiem- ing empiric who has set his trap for such as you. You probably take thirty or forty botu of this vile com- pound at $L50 a bottle, which you might have prepared yourself for about one-thirticth of that amount and fod it to your hogs with quite as satis- fuctory results, You get no botters symptoms woltiply less than a month buried again: And 50 you go on kilting yourself with all the shocking diseases to which man is the unfortunate heir until somobody tells you that you have dyspepsia. Then by gradual and intelligent degrees you solve the riddle of your miserable exist- on You have lear things worth finding ornor general of the conspicuous character in your drewms, You know why he leaves his devilish dominions every night to trip the light fantastic all over your diaphragm, ow that you hiwve discovered what is ally the matter you apologize to your tomach and promise better treatment in the future. If you dout youought to do so. Recognize and respeet its rights. Just think of the enormous anount of work it does every duy, leave alone the oxtras you have probably insisted upon. Suppose it had been on duty for half o century; then 79,000 pounds of broad has been prepared aceording to nature’s laws, as nearly us you would purnul, and sent it is your consumption alarmingly and in you are dead and ed now, among other out, why the gov- inferno is such a onits wiy rejoicing to various parts of your ungrateful anatomy; | 16,000 pounds of meat, Auun]nmmi«u! vegetubles, cggs, fish, and—mer 7,000,000 gallons of water! Who blames a stomach for striking it is asked to do more thun that? And that isn’t all. You attempt to float every mouthful of food in a sen of tea, coffee, choclate or somothing worse. Down your helpless wsophagus it goes to the jaded stomach und battle al once beging between the foreign and domestic juicos. Don't do that = any always means trouble; will ~ get there without any such assistance, and don’t be afraid you won't get enough water into your system with- out such wholesale draughts at me timo. 3 An 800-foot luke ought to satisfy any ordinary mortal, and if you live out | man’s allotted timo and canh by miracu- | lous means gather up the little drops of water that huve refreshed your body, you might plant such a lake in some \lruuglll stricken region, 4 When the fraction of your original thirty-two tecth, if it isn’t too small.und u quart of suliva a day, you ought Lo be able and willing to lighten the labor of your stomach considerably, but some ‘people don’t scem to kuow what saliva is, Chew o ala Gladste that much grinding. move; it The fooa | thirty-two times, save your stomach If you know of any way to get the ex- act length, breadih and thickness of said stomach and ut the same time ro- tain your hold on this life, set about the job ut once. If you find it 10 bo small—not the job bul the stomach—you can eat ment, eges, fine lour and fruits with | unpunity; but if that musculo-membra- | nous canoldal sae happens to be of the ample variety then you can send down hard boiled oggs, cold baked beans, cu- cumbers, cabbage, raw turnips or any- thing of that sort and possibly never gov uny nokoowledgment of their ro- ceipt. Tho stomach 1s long-suffering and Lind but like the proverbial worw some- | ings. Tons of Sw The treasury deparvment ostimates that 500,000,000 pounds of sugar will be produced in the United States this year and that $10,000,000 will be required to pay the bounty. Ninety-three per ceny of the yield is from sugar cane, 5 per cent from the beet, about 14 from the the maple and the rest from sorghum. The beet, which seeins to have had no- body to speak for it in the last congross, produces more than threo times ns much as the maple, which Sonator Edmunds so0 strenuously advocated. Are you nervous and irritablet A glass of Cook’s Tuperial wine banishes that fooling. s tho pure grape jtice naturally fermeated, MOORE'S TREE OF LIFE For troubling pains in small of use Moove’s Tree of Lifo, For Catarrh use Moore's Treo of Life. For Constipation use Tree of fafo. The ereat life romody—The Tree of M of Lifa, Jatat and all b pay to XiiTar whon you can Trounf Lifo. tho Groat Lify ito DOCTOR :-: McGREW A poditiva eura for Kidnoy 1disoasos Doas it 1by uslng Moora's oiv! DI SIROIALIST, Sixteen Years Kxporionco in the Treatmont of all forms_of PRIVATE DISEASES. Skio DI Lidive from j!uthHW ment Drivn Ofti-e, n0s ind Ko Dixentos i MoGrew's suecess i {Dix hivs never boan equi lars pitks. Troatmont by correspondeco. 14 and Farnia Sts, Omaha, Neb, rance on either stroet CONSUMPTION. Thave a positive romody for the above disease; by it s of cazos of tho worst kind aud of Iy standing have boon en:od, Tndood m) strog i3 my f inits offoacy, that Twill sond TWO ROTTLES FLEE,% 8 VALUABLI TREATISE on this dissase to any suf. furor who will send 1no thoir Exphess and .0, address X. A, Slocum, M. 81 Poarl Hit. NV LeDuc's P riodieal Pills T0 WEAK MEN ; gariy decay, wasting wealn s 1ost i fenh tull partioula plendid jan who 13 nervous Brof, . ¢ K0 W LER, Moodus, Conp OMAHA & o LV ODD. HIEUS, 4 Now ¥ Life Bld'k. Omahn, Nob. TELE GRAPHY. suftoring from o eieots o stnful errod