Omaha daily bee., 1892-06-20
WORKING FOR THE STATE
What the Nebraska Development Company
Has Done and Will Do.
PUTTING HER BEFORE ALL THE WORLD
Great Preparations Being Made to Estab-
lish supplementary Exhibit In the
Nebraska Building at the worlds
Fair-Pians In Detail.

A year or more ago number of the pub
lie spirited men of this city and state
arrived at the conclusion that the legislative
appropriation for the Nebraska exhibit at
the Worlds Columbian exposition was not
sufficient to properly advertise the great re-
sources Of the state and give the people Of
tho world a full and correct idea of the many
advantages possessed by this commonwealth.
Tho matter was talked both publicly
and privately by d. ]. O'Donohoe and
others. No definite action was taken for
some months, but on April % ID. J. O'pono-
hue, William Hayden, w. G. Shriver, G..
Jamison aud j. Hayden associated them
selves together for the purpose of forming
and becoming Incorporated under the laws
of the state. rhe meeting was fruitful
one, and before adjournment the Nebraska
Development company had been born, with
capital OF $4,000, divided into shares of So
each. The articles were duly filed for
record and the charter issued authorizing the
corporation 20 continue in business until the
first Tuesday after the first Monday IN
January, 1904.
Object and Officers.
The objects which this company proposes
to accomplish are best explained by section 3
of the articles of Incorporation, which reads
as follows:
"The general nature of the business to be
transacted by said corporation shall be the
exhibition and presentation at the Worlds
Columbian exposition in Chicago, and the
advertising thereat for the benefit of tho
state OF Nebraska of the products Thereof and
the different uses and purposes to which said
products may be put, and the different ar
ticles OF fuel, utility, ETC., which can or may
be made, produced and manufactured from
said products
AT ubsequent meeting D. j. O'Donohoe
OF Omaha was elected president; G. Jamison
of Lincoln, vice president; William Hayden
Of Omaha, treasurer; w. G.. Shriver of
Omaha, secretary and j. Hayden of Dodge,
Nep., director. Immediately after this Pres
ident O'Donohoe opened up u correspondence
to ascertain whether or not it would be pos
sible to secure space in the Nebraska build
ing. On June l, President O'Donohoe re-
ceived the following from George II. Davis,
director general:
and means committee of the Worlds Co
lumbar exposition the correspondence
relating TO your application for permission
to distribute gratis various articles made
from corn and other products of your state
to visitors at tho Nebraska state building in
the Worlds Columbian exposition. There
will probably be no objections to the gratu-
itous distribution of the samples of these
preparations, ani any arrangements you
may conclude with the committee on ways
and means with reference thereto will be
satisfactory to me-"
What 1t May Do.
A few days later Sam A. Crawford of the
committee on tho ways ard means wrote
President O'Donohoo as follows:
THE director general has informed you
that yon are at liberty to give away such
articles as you desire under rules TO oe pre-
Scrihed nv this cOmmitlee. The rulhS which
will be prescribed will provide that the
samples to be given away shall be distributed
only from the place where your exhibit is
made, and will be such as will not interfere
with any concession upon the grounds for
which the grantee is paying the exposition
an income.h
The matter was fully explained and laid
before the Nebraska commissioners, who at
once took the advertising scheme under con-
sideratlon and that it received favorable con-
sideration is apparent from the expressions
in the following letter from Commissioner
General Garneau, jr., of Nebraska:
"Tho space allotted to you in the Nebraska
state building is about 25x60 feet on the first
floor, located opposite the offices in the state
building. This space is to be used TO show
the uses the products of the soil of Nebraska
corporation submitted to the Nebraska
Columbian commission, and such other ad-
vertisements OF the resources of the state of
Nebraska as may be permitted by me-"
SO much for the history Of the Nebraska
Development company. AS soon as the com
pany had secured its space it filed its indem-
nifty bond in the sum Of sl0, 900 and signed by
Hayden Bros, w. A. Paxton, the Cady Lum-
ber company. A. p. Hopkins w. g.
Shriver. the Murphy -Wasey company,
the Omaha Tiuware Manufacturing
company, Rector Wilhelmy company, The
BEE Publishing company. the World Herald
Publishing company and the w. A. Page
Soap company. This bond has been ap-
proved ard now the officers and directors of
the company are preparing to place Neb-
raska in the front ranks at the Worlds
Columbian exposition.
President O'Donohoe's Plans.
The plan of advertising Nebraska is best
explained by the following Interview whic h