Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1896-11-04

The origin and Growth of an Int
estimE Industry.


The frst c1Hi-s manufactured il this city
for sale as articles @: zs--hE-llse we're
made j. 1890 Saws tbe New York SUI.
Prior % that llz-s the collins were made 5y
The uIEe--aks-s Themselves in . back room
~ The shop or IL some convenient work
shop or they were made bv cabinet max
srz. who II those DAYS SttE1 combined the
bus ness OF Undertaking with the rrEuu.ag-
-urs and sale % furniture Frequently the
I- 1er-dEs- made a coffin. OILY when b was
called UPON for one while TIE cabinet maker
and E11---aEa-- employing more men. might
keep q taw C1E-S or La-5 . Dc finished
W when wanted uut sysrvw1sre The coffin
used vas made % the AZ ls-taEs- Who sup
q II 70. Now not one undertaken n
hundred makes his own collins, .--1s- with
u-- exception thrU-E11ul tEs country M
burial CzsLEts are factory uE-@. AID rhs
u- 5e-taksr buys o. TIE Esrutac-u-eT or The
FOR some years after the beginning o..
The Manufacture q coins here while he
trade gradually increased = grew slowly,
and t5s number Of COINS Sold vas very
small. and they were sold almost sltoEs-her.
Il not wholly TO local UE5srrEksrs- Later.
beginning about lsze. some LITTLE t-E1e vas
developed with C-t-0f-towu -c1sr--E=rs. Il
places not far away, IN this state and IN
New Jersey Occasionally Al uc5srtEker in
one q these places who wanted COIN
OF better materials than be had On hand,
or for use II Al s-srErnCy, came 20 New
York 70 buy. Even with this demand added
he trade continued small. but IL continued
20 grow slowly and II tie course O. time
the first Manufacturers and two or three
Others who engaged n the business e.
comparatively early period. and whose
names are veil known ia the trade saw
tne business which they had established
attain large proportions
L was not however. Until 1855 n which
v-s- 2 factory fa- TIE purpose vas es-Eb-
as-h.a - - X
t=-sfv= manufacture OF coins by machinery
was begun. Before that time number @.
--1-u manufacturing ests u ls1-ue-s had
Ea=r SCI up Ia TE-loCs parts o. the country
outside O. Nsw ICrE. cCt n most o, i1-l
he c9tE-s had been made very largely BY
hand The sale q their pr51uc-s had been
almost wholly local though trade lad been
=Euz-5LrE somewhat from a number o, cen
-5-rs as had been tie ease with New Eu-F
and is ueLg5b1-tuE towns After ISIS the
business developed rapidly. Is greatest de-
velu--s-r. however, has 5es1 within the
last twenty years II 1875 3 large factory
was established n New York There are
10w burial cEsE=- I'D conn manufactures
u a. parts o the country There are sixty
= more e---h-Lsh-s=uts with capital ranging
from sc 500 70 3 900 e0e each, and larger
number employing less capital Many Of
ne factories are extensive es-a oIfsE-uzul IS
ETEE-peI with the most modern machinery
ard appliances for the working Of wood and
assk--s are now made 50 widely distributed
are these factories and their agencies that
here are now comparatively Tea under
-ake-s beyond reach o. them Ezs- q The
Mississippi river -h=-s are tfE places where
- under EsT could lot get II tine Tor
funeral e manufactured sEsEet OF COIN
Various things have tended TO bring about
this great change II methods and this Re
-rE-kEols DEVELOPMENT IN tie cGSkst and CT
IN manufacturing Industry o. The country.
The wonderful Increase Il population has
had much 70 do with bringing zbol- The
change. and the cCElt-y's equally wonderful
-uCress il wealth has also been great con
rrzuutirg cause Fifty years ago nearly all
the people were buried II substantially The
81 ne manner, ana a. about the same eE-
pense There EaS only one style o. coin,
Ire olt-fa5alCLed type familiar through cen
lures, and the cabinets 1zksr OF any worker
Ii wood could make Coa.
With the great increase q the country in