Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 2, 1915, Page 17

"I 1.2 (Continued from FPage Six.) { levy for six years of a tax that will pro- vide a bullding fund of over $2,000,000, Seven colleges make up the University of Nebraska, and their work requires the | use of seventeen bullding on the city campus and ten upon the state farm | grounds. These colleges are: The grad- uate college, the college of arts and sci- onces, the teachers' college, which in cludes a mode| high school; the college of engineering, the college of law, the | college of medicine, which Includes the | sohool of pharmacy, and the college of | agriculture, which Includes a school of | agrioulture., Over 4,000 students are en- rolled, and a staff of 261 men and women, a number which does not include fellows, scholars and assistants, form the corps of instructors. The liberal financial treatment gtven | has made possible a development that | #ives Nebraska high rank among the | great state universities of the nation and | attracts to it students from almost every | state and many from abroad. The big building fund now made available will be utilized to {increase its technical | strength as well as to give solidity and beauty to its physical structure. In this development the agricultural college will share equally, since it is the fountain- head of inspiration for the propaganda | of sclentific farming and the experiment | station for all ideas in farming. From | all branches of the university go out ex- | perts who keep the people engaged 1n| farming, in the Industries and In business n close touch with what is being done at the institution and thus weave a unity | of interest that not only makes for added wealth to the state, but links them to TLincoln with bonds of steel. Many-Sided City. The iraportance of Lincoln as a political center has been another factor in the upbullding of the city. The state capitol occupies four square blocks of ground Just outside the business district and just inside the best residence section. In the departments of the state housed thersin hundreds of assistants and workers are employed, and these, usuaily picked from strategic political points out in the state, nearly always remain after their officlal life is quenched. The state falr is located at Lincoln. So also is the state peni- tentiary, one of the three state insane asylums and the orthopedic hospital, as well as several minor state institutions. Nine splendidly equipped libraries cater to the needs of the people of Lincoln and | of the suburbs. The university library, with 105000 volumes, is the largest, and the state, two city libraries, the state his- torical and the Wesleyan, Cotner and Unlon college libraries, make up the grand total of over 300,000 books. | The religious needs of the city are met | by fifty-seven churches, in which are represented the leading denominations, housed in edifices that are nearly all equipped for community work and in charge of pastors who are leaders in thelr sects. The city is the seat of the bishop- ric that includes all of the Catholle churches south of the Platte river in Nebraska. Two strong adjuncts in the religlous welfare work of the city are | found in the Young Men's Christian asso- clation with its $150,00 plant, and the Young Women's Christian assoclation, with one costing about half that much, both of which have done splendid work among the young men and women of the city. Eighteen Rallro: The five trunk railways entering Lin- coln have eighteen diverging lines, which bring this city into direct communication with a trade territory of vast extent and «reat wealth. The prime reason one city s preferred above another, other things being equal, when goods are purchased is its superior distributing facilities. Lin- coln is mearer to 774 of the 914 rallroad stations in Nebraska than any other com- mercial center and in most instances this means twenty-four hours difference in favor of Lincoln in getting out an order of goods. This fact, coupled witn the in- gistence of its jobbers upon fair treat- ment and nondiscriminative rates from transportation companies, has enabled Lincoln to more than double its Jobbing ¢ trade in the last ten years. | The jobbing houses in Lincoln num- ber 116, and every line save wholesale dry goods is represented. There is not one of the wholesale houses which, if conducted on business. principles, is not growing. Railroad connections and rates bring within the trade territory of Lin- coln most of Nebraska and large sec- tions of South Dakota, Montana, Wyom- ing, Colorado and Kansas, the richest, most fertile and productive lands in the world. Their owners form a buying pub- lic with a buying power unequalled in any similar ction of country. The farmers of Nebraska alone have prop- erty greater In value than that owned by all the farmers in New England and New Jersey, and in per capita wealth stand second only to the farmers of Jowa. The wholesale business of the city in 1914 totalled $38,130,000, The largest wholesale fruit houses west of the Mississippi river are in Lincoln, which is the fruit distributing center for the western territory. More groceries are distributed from Lincoln than from any city of its size In the country. The greatest business of any city in the nation In the shipment of live poultry is done by Lincoln. It stands high as a distributor of horses for farm and draft work and manufactures and sells more silos than any other city in the Missouri valley. In the distribution of threshing machinery, automobiles and seeds of all kinds it has high rank. Growth in Manufactures. Manufacturing in Lincoln has kept steady pace with the development of wholesale and retail trade. The volume of business in 1914 exceeded $17,850,000, There are 13 menufacturing plants in the city. Some of these are well de- veloped concerns; others have begun in a humble way and are making rapid strides. With the certain coming of cheap power through the development of water power on the larger streams of the state, this branch of Lincoln com- merce will enter upon a golden era. In milling and packing It is rapidly de- veloping, and in other branches excel- lent progress is reported. The largest creamery plant in the world, the largest paint manufacturing plant west of the Mississippi river, the largest corset fao- tory west of Chicago, the largest manu- factory for copper cable lightning reds in the United States, the largest factory for the production of gasoline engines west of the Missourt, all are to be found | in Lincoln. Lincoln is also an excellent l grain market. | The executive offices of two of the largest and most prosperous fraternal in- surance societies in the world are located | 4t Lincoln. Home insurance tamnhl! with millions of assets and covering every eld of lndemnity are thriving in Lincoln, I |leyan university | are matntained and there which is exceeded by but one city in the 'flhlh‘nmb‘rofflnmmmil volume of their business. | Lincoln, too, is proud of its suburbs, which contribute their share to its com. merclal, educational and industrial great- | ness. Havelock has a population of 400, and is the center of the locomotive in- dustry of the Burlington system. Uni- versity Place, the seat of Nebraska Wes- has 880 population. Bethany, where Cotner uriiversity is lo- cated, has 1,20 population. College View, the home of Union college, has 2,00 pop- ulation. At Burnham the largest stock feeding yards on the Burlington system #0 18 one of the largest brick manufacturing plants | in the state. At Lakeview the Burlington has located the largest and costliest | gravity freight yards and roundhouses on ita lines. 1In the city proper the Missouri Paclfic, the Chicago & Northwestern, the Unfon Pacific and the Rock Island rail- | roads have terminals, including round- | houses, making Lincoln also the center of | rallroad industry n this section. These send out eighty passenger trains from | Lincoln daily. The banking power of the clty is pro- portioned to its importance commer- clally. Twelve strong banks meet these needs. Four of these are national banks, | three state and two are savings institu- tions. The remaining three are trust companies doing a banking business. Equally strong building and loan asso- clations and investment companies care for local needs, while ten financlally | ®lid companies control a farm loan busi- | ness amounting yearly into the millions, The city boasts also of all the other | appurtenances of metropolitan existence, Ten theaters, specializing In the various forms of the drama, afford entertainment for thousands. Fifty-two newspapers and periodicals are published here, with a gregate circulations that place Lincoln, based upon its second class postage pay- ments, among the first half dozen pub- | lication centers of the country. Three of these newspapers are dallies, alert and well-edited, while among the weeklles the leaders in circulation are Bryan's Com- moner and the Frefe Presse (German). Eighteen hotels, five of them ranking ' high In equipment and service, house the traveling public. These help also to take care of the numerous conventions, state and national, that are attracted to Lin- coln by ita central location and its easo of access from all points of the campass. Postal Recelpts, An unfailing barometer of a city’s busi- | ness importance s the volume of busi- mfi;‘:f;:':m:‘y"w::' 0:"&:")1}:“":5 | ness done by its postoffice. In 1914 the sippl river, | total postal receipts were $466,381.58, or Koot San b double the figure of ten years ago. So rapid has been its expansion that the manufacturing and distributing || government has authorized the construc- plant for copper cable lightning || ion of a $275,000 addition to the original fods in the United Bt | structure, completed but a few years ago. Lincoln manuactures more sflos || The salary roll of the Lincoln office, in- than any other city in the Missourl || gluding the railway mall clerks whose valley. | headquarters are here, totals over $325,000 Lincoln has the largest | vearly. Lincoln is also a depository for manufactory west of the { the surplus money order funds of several #ippi river, hundred Nebraska postmasters; a de- Lincoln manufactures more gaso- || pository for certain surplus money of the line engines than any other city || postal savings bank and a subagency for west of the Missourl river, and no || the distribution of postal supplies for a engine is distributed to every point large territorial ares. in the entire world to such an ex- Raflvond Revenues. The total revenue of the five rallway systems that serve Lincoln, from freight and passenger receints in 1914, was $,- 692,007, divided as follows: Frelght forwarded, cars, 10 | 323,519; revenue, $1,024,27. STRONGS LINCOLN As a Manufacturing Center Nearly $18,000,000 worth of goods formed the output of Lincoln man- ufactories in 1914, Lincoln is one of the two largest butter-making cities in the coun- try, and has the largest creamery in the world. Lincoln is a leader In the manu- facturing of candies and ice cream. largest paint- corset Missls- tent as the Lincoln-made engines. The manufacturing record for the last five years: 1910, $11,025,000; 1911, $11,340,000; 1912, $13,780,000; 1913, $15,~ 110,000; 1914, $17,860,000, “GROWS WITH NEBRASKA™ AN EXCLUSIVE MEN’S AND BOYS' STORE Department Stores in the Stat evements and Aspirations Freight recelved, cars, },47; tons, 7%, 180; revenue, $1,663,681. Total in and out shipments, o tons, 1,119,649; revenue, §2,677,990. Ticket sales, $1,014,161. Lincoln's lLmportance as a passenge: traffic center is established by the fact that is 1s now permanently in the list of cities where ticket sales exceed 1,000,000 A Year. Lincoln Bank Clearings. During 1914 Lincoln, in proportion to their total volume, made the largest per cent of increase in bank clearings for | 1914 over 1918 of any city in the entire | west. Lincoln banks in 1913 made an | | increase of 10,181,484 over the record of | clearings in 1912, It is with more than | , 47,008; 1910, ‘rhis Building, When Completed, Will Give Lincoln One of the Greatest and Shows How the Business Men of the Community Are Keeping Up with the City's Steady Growth. ordinary interest, this remarkable record of growth was practically maintained, and, notwith- standing the adverse conditions of the year that have decreased bank clearings in the entire United States over 18 per cent compared with the record in the en- tire country in 1018, yet the Lincoln record goes on with practically the same In- crease that was made the year previous. It is an index of the steadiness of Lin- coln business and an index of the slight way In which unusual conditions have disturbed this city, There were no addi- tional banks in Lincoln im 1914 to increase clearings, the same number of banks bo- ing in business at the close of 1914 that there were at the close of 113, The fol- theretore, that in 1914 | .uvl‘|hl Is the record of clearings for the | banks of Lincoln by momths for the years | 1912, 1813 and 19« January pruary | Maren April | May June July August September October | November December | Totalm... 389,241,204 §39,422,708 $110,141,063 | Galn in Lincoln Bank Clearings 1914 over 8. Bullding in Lincoln. In apite of the forbidding conditions na. tionally and the short crops of 1913 in the state, Lincoln has been able, in ite resi- dence bullding, to maintain the same pace | as in former years. During withstanding an ordinance allows buflders $10,718,085 | 81,608,210 represented in the bullding permits issued. Nearly $%00,00 of this was Invested in homes. The ten-vear record of building is as follows 1005 $1.781.208 1910 $1,519,260 1805 1,801,873 1911 o L8R | 1907 479 1912 1768500 | 1 1908 1178 1 2,00 '?Iu- outleok for yoars 330/ 1918 170,660 | w1914 1,508,517 | 1915 Ia brighter than in | Rusiness bullding projects, post- | poned from last vear, taken with publie ‘imhm\'nnwmn authorized, will swoll the | total beyond any previous year. Con | tracts already made or authorized, total | | | nearly 3,000,000 a Muntelpaiity, Five commissioners, elected without re | 88rd to their politics, aince election bal | lots carry no party designations, have | charge of the clty of Lincoln. C. W. Bryan fa the mayor and Superintendent of public affairs and substitutes for the | other commiasioners In their absence. | One result of clty ownership of the street lighting system has been the in- stallation of cluster lights along tho main thoroughfares that, in connection with the large amount of store front lighting done by merchants because of phenome- nally cheap current, make Lincoln one of the best lighted oities in the country. The total assessed valuation of the city, based on a one-fifth valuation, is $10,416,« §73, The bonded Indebtedness Is but §060,000, and the total is being gradually reduced by yearly payments. The oity owns property estimated to be worth $2,200,000, exclusive of $1,000000 of school bulidings; running expenses of the mu. nicipality are about $376,000 a year. The vitalizing factor in the life of Lin- coln is the Commercial club. Occupying its own club house, a magnificent strue. ture costing $160,000, it s the center of The New MILLER @ PAINE Store Nine Floors The magnificent, modern store structure referred to on an- other page of this issue, is rapidly nearing completion. We are determined to make this the best store in Nebraska. Every department will be expanded and stocks greatly increased in the new building, Quality merchandise and service to our patrons will have first consideration. We will occupy a portion of the new building by FAIR 1914, not- | | to underestimate the cost of structures, | ] nearly every activity manifested by the city and the clearing house for all its movements. With a membership of 1,458, made up of the most prominent, active and alert citizens, it is equipped to ger behind every movement for the better- ment of the ecity, whether it be commer- clally, industrially, educationally or | purely civie. It reaches out after new en- | terprises; 1t promotes dramatic and mu- 9 | gical festivals; it raises funds for various | nctivities; it protects merchants from | fake advertisers and passes upon chari- | ties endorsements; it gets behind and boosts lagging Institutions: it promotes undertakings of varfous sorts that hold within them some good or some advan- tage for the city; it finances conventiona, it runs the city auditorium; it promotes resenrch work in municipal problems. Al this it does In adition to its purely bust- It employs a rate expert | who studies all transportation rate and | mervice problems and who furnishes the | ammunition for its legal contests to pre- | vent discrimination and to insure a fair | field for its jobbers and manufacturers. Fow clubs have a record of successful chievement as brilllant as has the Lin- coln Commercial club, | | ness functions. { As a Commercial Center In 1914 the volume of business done by Lincoln wholesalers ex- {| ceedea sssomam. Lincoln rauka high in a dosen large lines. It is one of the largest centers in the United States for creamery products, It 1a the greatest frult market in | the Missourt valley. | It is the largest jobbing cemier for threshing machines in the Mis- souri valley, It s wmong the leaders in the weat in the jobbing of automobiles. It handles in a wholesale way over 34,000,000 worth of grooeries, and has two of the largest grocery Jobbing houses in the west. It distributes a large amount of cut flowers among hall a dosen states. It handiea every line of goods jobbed to the trade except dry woods. The record of wholesale business years follows: | 1910, $26,486,000; 1911, $27,670,000; 1912, 432,200,000, 1013, $36,106,000; 1914, $38,- 130,000, in Lincoln We're Proud To Clothes Bearing Say That We Sell This Trade-Mark We'd be pleased to have you visit our store when you're in Lincoln. It’s referred to as “The Bright Spot.”” Come and see why ! Our Rest Room, Free Check Stand, Information Bureau, Etc., is at the Service of Sta te Fair Visitors ARMSTRONGS LINCOLN Il Over Three and a Half Acres of Floor Space Up-to-Date Equipment Throughout WEEK. This will be devoted to our extensive showing of Fall | and Winter apparel. We expect to make this one of the largest and best appointed garment sections in the west. It will com- pare favorably with those in the largest cities. Our entire new basement will be devoted to the lower priced lines of merchandise, all departments being repre. sented. This will be a store complete in itself, where the economically inclined may purchase dependable goods at a de- cided saving. We are better prepared than ever to serve you in your Fall purchases. The smartest Fall Hats, latest Furs, newest Silks, Dress Goods, Trimmings, Laces, Ribbons, Shoes, Hosiery, Lea- tier Goods, Jewelry, Art Goods, Books and Pictures, depend- able Gloves, Underwear, Linens, Carpets, Trunks and Bags, as well as Toilet Goods, Men’s Furnishings, Handkerchiefs, House- Lold Goods, China, Cut Glass, Etc, Our Tea Roomn Service includes Breakfast, Luncheon and Afternoon Tea, Visitors to the FAIR are requested to avail themselves of the conveniences of the store and to feel free to look through, while in the city. Parcels and Hand Baggage Checked Free, MILLER & PAINE 13th and O Sts., Lincoln, Neb.