Omaha daily bee., 1888-07-29

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either farming land or improved city
property. The applications are promptly
passed upon at this Office, abstracts are
here examined free Of charge to the
borrower, and the money is promptly
furnished as soon as the loans are closed
up and the mortgage placed on record,
Illus avoiding all tedious delays and un-
certainty, and giving this company ia
~cilities for filling loans which cannot be
equalled by any of its numerous compe-
titors.
The front offices on the bank floor is
the Office of j. w. Squire, investment
banker and loan broker.
Rooms 204, 205 and 206 are occupied
by w. +. Allen, general agent for the
Mutual Life Insurance company of New
York. It is the oldest active life insur-
ance company in this country and at the
same time it is the largest insurance
company in the world. 1t has received
in cash from all sources, from February,
1S43, to January, 1888, the sum of S413,-
737 1886 90, and has returned to its mem
bers, in cash, from February, 1913, to
January, 1883, 1857, 1913, 7SS. 30. It's cash
assets are over $11S, 200, 900. Mr.. Allen
has represented the Mutual Life, as its
general agent for Nebraska. Colorado,
Dakota, Wyoming and Utah for the
past ten years, and through
his energetic work the company is es-
tablishcd in the west, as it is every
where else, as the largest and best in
| surance company in the country. The
| general headquarters for the west, To-
Gated in the First National bank build
ing, are the best appointed offices in the
city and reflect much credit upon Mr..
Aliens good taste and at the same time
| add one more link to the many i'm
,,,,,a,,o,tp l., urhinh tho Nint,nl Iifa
has Il hand.
II. G.. Dun & Co., proprietors of the
mercantile agency. This is without
doubt the Oldest and largest mercantile
| agency in the world, having been estab-
lished in New York City in 1911, and at
the present time they have 12S regu-
larly established branch Offices through
out the United States, Canada. Europe
aud Australia. The Omaha Office, now
occupying spacious office rooms in this
building, was opened in II, and has in
addition to its travellers upwards of
1000 regular and special correspondents
special correspondent at every county
seat, through whom they obtain the most
important kind of information, such rs
chattle mortgages. judgments, attach
ments and all other items of record and
for which they pay Il stipulated price.
Their reference books, now containing
the names of 1,132,2S9 merchants,
traders, ETC., together with their loca-
tion and style of business engaged in
and approximate estimate of their capt.
tai and credit are issued in January,
March. July and September of each
year. They also publish pocket edi-
lions of the reference book for each
state or territory for the Use of travel
ing men, and supply their patrons with
letters of introduction to their branch
offices, thereby enabling them to get
the latest information from any of
their branch offices they may visit
Another very prominent feature of
their business is their facilities for
making collections. They no doubt
possess the most perfect system in use,
their attorneys being among the most
prominent and under bonds, thereby
w%arranting their guaranteeing the pay
ment of all moneys collected by them
upon business placed in their hands.
Their present staff, numbering twenty
three, is just double what it was q year
ago,a and necessitated by their rapid in
crease of their business and territory.
Soper, Wells & Co., dealers in rail-
road ties, telegraph poles, paving posts
and piling, occupy room 30l.
A. j. Poppleton, who has for so many
years beer with the Union Pacific rail-
way company, has severed his con-
nection with that corporation and has
resumed the general practice of law.
He now has c%ommOdious quarters in
rooms at No. 314, 315 and 316.
Room 81 is occupied by the genial
and enterprising firm of r. f. Bowen &
Co., wholesale merchandise brokers and
late successors to j.. w. Druitt g. Co.
They represent some of the largest i'm
porters and manufacturers in the United
States and conduct n wholesale grocery
and drug brokerage business.
Offutt 81 English, attorneys and coun-
sellers, with j. M. Woolworth as coun-
sci, occupy rooms 4Ol and 402.
j. T.. House, consulting and civil en-
gineer and surveyor, occupies room
403.
Congdon, Clarkson e. Hunt, the at
torneys, occupy rooms 404, 4O5, 4O6 and
407.
Messrs. Churchill & Carr, lawyers,
have a suit of Offices in rooms 40S and
400. The firm is composed of A. S.
Churchill and James w. Carr, both of
whom are we'll known, the former hav-
ing practiced law twenty and the latter
eleven years. and having for Il long
time been residents of Omaha.
Mr.. G.. B. Jacobs occupies room 410,
where he negotiates loans on chattels
or collaterals and buys and sells notes
and other commercial paper.
In rooms 4l1.412 we found the we'll
known firm, Harris Real Estate g. Loan
company, who had removed to this
building to ecur better accommodate
tions for their business. Their offices
have been we'll fitted up. They have a
n complete set Of abstracts Of title of
Omaha and Douglas county, and
are unexcelled by any other abstract
company. They also handle gilt edge
real estate and make loans on city prop
erty. Parties tr~ansacting business with
this firm will find them perfectly relia-
BILE.
III. G.. Bronze, attorney at law, occu-
pies room Alb on the fourth floor.
j. Nj. Woolworth, attorney at law, oc-
cupies offices IN the southwest corner Of
the fourth floor, number Ala.
William Loudon, dealer in grain,
owns elevators throughout the state
and has general offices at room sol.
Messrs. Green & Williams, the we'll
known real estate agents, occupy room
522, where they have very pleasant
quarters with a southern exposure.