Omaha daily bee., 1888-05-07

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year. Among the well. l.known Philadelphians
present were John j. Foran, J. II. Miller,
Waiter Sellers, Charles Hays, ID. l.. Cort.
wright, Frank Russell, George A. Thomp-
son, jr., A. Il. Buecker and w. II. Tumble
son, who was elected vice president of the
ASSOCIATION. The aim of the organization is
to protect the retail dealers and make the
wholesale men depend upon the trade of
their travelling men alone and not on local re-
tail trade.
The Northwest Dead.
"It is eight years that have been located
at st. Paul. said Billy, Mobiles, of e. ]. JEFF
ray & Co., the New York importers, few
days ago. "I have never seen business so
quiet in the large cities Of the northwest.
Not that there is scarcity of money, for
merchants and the banks are we'll supplied
with that useful commodity, but customers
are chary of buying. The best bills of goods
are sold now in the small towns, and people
would be surprised to see the trade that is
being done in places that have been regarded
merely as hamlets and hardly worth the
trouble to visit with trunk"
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The Ole Fashioned Tavern BELL.
Like the old oalSen bucket, the old-fash-
ioned tavern bell is becoming almost extinct.
1t is only now and then you see or hear the
iingle-iingle of the bvgones, which in the
venerable old tavernkeeper's hands made
such merry music in the early dawning or
by its ding-ding called in the star boarders
(s2 per weekly from the remote corners of the
village to the noon-t time or the evening meal,
or perchance greeted the passengers of the
incoming stage coach and by its medley an
nounced that good cheer and food for the in
ner man awaited them. True, now and then
one can be seen or heard, but now changed.
In its halcyon days the weary traveller or
constant boarder retired to his couch only
to be awakened by the rising bell, rung
at $3.50, to be followed thirty minutes later by
another ring announcing breakfast This
was meal which in those days lasted from
to z. Now the traveller, as he retires, says:
PUT me down for $3.50, z, 1880 or CALL" and
near that hour in most hotels (now called)
the porter can be heard stalking through the
bare halls, or pounding up and down the un-
carpeted stairs and playing tattoo with
noise little less than thunder) upon the
several doors, in deep base voice shouts,
"7:30" In those early days the meal was
primitive, well cooked, served with good
cup of coffee and without ostentation. and
the whole digestible. Now, too often, one is
served with illy-cooked (or not cooked at ally
food, unclean and indigestible, so that to-day
self-protection demands that the traveller be
well fortified with pepsin and other like anti
dyspeptic tonics, il he does not wish to reach
premature grave.
Omaha's Sunday Guests.
AS is customary with them commercial
travellers flocked to the city yesterday to en-
Joy the hospitality of the hotels and the vari-
Gus attractions the city has to offer:
The Millard arrivals were: William r. Orr,
Chicago, ILL.,; r. +. Dodd, st. Joe, Mo-; J. G.
Chalmers, Chicago, ILL.,; ]. M. Norton, Bos-
ton, Mass. E. c. Touslee, Chicago, ILL.,. N.
p. Winchell, Chicago, ILL.,; G. E. Moody, Chi
cago, ILL.,; E. H. Gilmore, Chicago, ILL.,;
George S. Knowles, New York; r. T. Stud
Rfss Mnn cei'Sso sh7o s Eous 6 hsY Mo St. w. RaH
Van Nortrand, Binghamton, N. Y; Ben
Hillman, Chicago. Ill; j. F. Moore, Chicago,
III; |. Atkins, Philadelphia, Pa. L. L. Hill.
Cincinnati, O.; v. p. Roberts, Kansas City,
Mo-; d; NJ. Fitzgerald, Chicago, Ill. Joseph
Kromacher, Cincinnati, O.; George B. Cobb,
Syracuse, N. Y; T., l.. Prendergrast, Bos-
ton, Mass. !; J. w. Emerson, New York; b.
G. Cunningham, New York; E. G. Barrett,
Mo-; w. H. Stead, New York; George Krug,
St. Louis, Mo-; L.. L. Munson, Detroit,
Mich; George Pringle. Grand Rapids, Mich.
II. Van ellison, Grand Rapids, Mich; A. Kos
wick, New York; W.G,Wild Baltimore Md.
Boston, Mass. M. Ober, New York; James
E. Bourke, Chicago, H.. Charles L. Bech-
told, st. Louis, Mo. ); John G. Miles, Boston,
Mass; John W. Marshall, Detroit, Mich;
p. Kllbourne, Chicago, ILL.,; George Buck
land, Boston; r. E. Marston, Boston, Mass.
D. w. Taylor, Wilmington, Del; w. p.
F,oote,. Chicago, NJ; E. H. Ullman, Gin
f. A; Warner, Philadelphia Pa. George
ouimbS, sVs1s New oorsG' Yors; D. IA a. Goodrich, %
Elmra, New York; VIII Craig. Chicago, ILL.,;
B. F. Wyman, Boston, Mass; G; p. Hovey,
S. G. Wilson, st. Louis, Mo-; w. G. Lock-
wood, New York; L. A Robinson, Chicago,
H.; H. ]. Lingg, New York; Charles Il.
Sinner, Philadelphia. Pa; c. A. Hilton,
Grand Rapids, Mich. w. F. Hypes, chieagD'
Stafford, Minneapolis, MINI. |; P. P. Murray,
Chicago, Ill; H. Gottschalk, New York;
George H. Ross, Chicago; j. F: Kan, New
York; J. W. Ludwick, Mem York; r. V.
j. E. Blythe, st. Louis, Mo.
Samples.
J. H. Bliss, representing Paxton g. Gala
CHER, was in town Friday.
The Georgia division, T. P. A, is prepar-
ing for convention on May Is, to be held in
Augusta.
There will be some radical changes made
in the st. Paul Commercial Travellers club
in the near future.
According to the opinions of travelling men
in the south, Louisville has the best hotels IN
the country for their use.
The travellers PROTECTIVE association or
the United States will hold it national con-
yenton at Minneapolis in June next.
A Louisville, KY, statican has figured
that there are 600 travelling statesmen in that
city, and they spend S45, 900 per year in rail
road fares.
w. T. Watzka, until recently with Meyer
& Schuman, of Fremont, has resigned his
place to accept position with Paxter & Gal
lagher, of this city.
Hon. Charles b. Howard, who has been
putting in fortnight or so at Kansas City,
Omaha and other cities of the same grade,
has returned to ST. Paul.
Mr.. J. H. Floyd, a travelling man repre-
sentng Kansas City house, was caught in
a railway accident q few days ago in Texas
and crushed almost to death.
The fourth annual convention of the Vir-
ginia Division Travellers Protective associa-
tion was held in Staunton on May 2 and 8. A
banquet was given after the business was
transacted.
The question of imposing city license on
drummers is being passed upon in its every
Dhase bV the various cOurts of the country