Omaha daily bee., 1891-09-27

OF them wrapped In papers ready for ship
ment.
Perhaps the most interesting department
In this factory is that in which woven wire
bed springs are made.
The wire passes through n small machine
which gives IL the coil and shoots IL along a
table. When the desired length Is OBJ
tanned the operator CLIPS the wire and
slips the end into the coil already finished
and the machine shoots 1T down the length
OF the table, weaving tho two together. Thus
coil after coil is added until the wlte fabric is
OF the width desired for the bed. These strips
are four times the length Of a bed, so that
each fabric suffices for that numbor of beds,
One girl weaves in n day as high as thirty
six of these strips. This factory runs four
OF these machines.
Another machine stretches the woven wire
over the frame which is bolted together.
1t sometimes happens that people is moving
their furniture take out the bolts holding the
frame and the wire held ut a tension con.
tracts and the springs have to be returned to
the factory to be put together again.
The chair factory employs OIL an average
100 people, many of them boys aud girls, and
pays out in wages yearly S35, 900.
Rests for the Weary.
At Thirteenth and Nicholas streets the
Omaha Mattress company has a factory for
the manufacture Of mattresses, feather pIl.
lows and comforters. Employment is given
to fourteen people with a weekly pay roll Of
S-uV. the meJnOu OF manufacture III nj.
establishment of this kind is too simple TO
require any description as it consists only in
cutting up the goods, sewing tho pieces to-
gether on machines and filing the ticks.
Billow Il Doup at Fourteenth and Daven-
port streets arc.naking mattresses, bedding,
woven wire mattresses, cots, spring beds,
etc. At this place nineteen people find en-
ploymcnt and are paid weekly $3.50. In this
factory they have several machines for
weaving wire springs and steam pickers for
shreding the wool, excelsior, etc, used in
filling the mattresses. Blllow & Doup came
here last January from Wichita, Kan.
The wages paid to the skilled operators In
all these factories are large, but the average
is brought down by the number Of boys and
girls employed.
The Omaha Upholstering company is an
other institution valuable to the city as 1T
gives twenty people steady employment with
a pay roll OF $3.50 per week. They commenced
business last January and brought with them
10 the city eleven men and their families.
They make all kinds of upholstered parlor
furniture and are turning out suites costing
all the way from S25 up to $3.50. TIL frames
for this furniture are made in the east,
furniture frame making being a business by
itself, bat Omaha is large enough to have
such q factory and homo patronage will
bring one here.
EN-. Hulse company is an institution with
a factory at Thirteenth and Nicholas streets
engaged in the manufacture of bed
lounges. Mr.. Hulse came here from
Chicago and by d~evoting his entire
time to the study of the bed lounge has made
great improvements in it's construction. The
Omaha bed lounge is an article that cannot
be equaled IN any city in the United States.
This factory employees sixty people and last
year distributed 100000 in wages.
Beebe ~ Runyan company arc manufact-
urers of mattresses and chamber suites and
employ twenty-four people, with a yearly
pay roll of SIG, 920.