Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-11
CORDIAL WELCOME EXTENDED
Several Hundred Implement Dealers Given
Omaha Glad Hand Greeting.
OPENING SESSION OF ANNUAL CONVENTION
omaha's Growth and importance nv II
Distributing Center for Farm
Implements Brought out
In the Addresses.

In the Addresses.
The opening session OF the Nebraska and
Iowa association OF retail implement deal
ers convened at 2;4O o'clock yesterday after
noon in Morand's hall on Harvey street. II
was attended by about $50 dealers, or about
double the number that has ever attended
the opening session OF any previous amman
convention OF this kind. 1t Is the nlnth an
nual meeting and its suspicious opening
presages twice as large a convention az
has met heretofore. But a small proper
ton of the implement men now in the city
were at the opening session, which was
marked simply by social features, the en-
rollment OF names for membership and the
appointment OF working committees.
Many OF those in attendance arrived al
early as Sunday. In the main they were
representative Of manufacturing companies,
here to spread the fame OF the respective
machines they have to offer. BY Tuesday
night the hotels we're full Of retailers ano
travelling men. The offices of many OF the
hotels are filled with threshing machines and
other gorgeously- painted implements, set up
ready for operation, and in one is also a
fine Ouggy on display.
Tie officers of the association are estab>
Iisbed in headquarters at the Murray hotel.
They are: C. O.. Shumway OF Lyons, Neb.,
president; j. Il. Skadan of Malvern, Ia,
vice president; j. A. Mclaughlin of Craig,
Neb., secretary and treasurer. The Wis
itors are guests of the local jobbing houses,
which have called in all their travelling men
10 look after the comfort and entertainment
Of the delegates and show them whatever
the city may contain for their delectation.
The travelling men have been at work on
that line since Sunday, with such satisfactory
results that at the opening session Pres
ident Shumway announced that, although 1t
had been heretofore customary to appoint a
committee on entertainment, the treatment
accorded the early arrivals had shown the
wisdom Of neglecting this year the appoint-
ment of any such committee other than the
one that was found ready-made upon their
arrival.
The Mayor welcome.
Morand's hall was full when President
Shumway raped for order and at once in
troduced Mayor Frank e. Moores, who eX>
tended a welcome in the following words:
Gentlemen of the Nebraska and Western
Iowa Retail Implement Dealers Associa-
ton: l assure you that | take great pleas
ure in extending to your association a cor
DIAL welcome to our city. We have Just
have entered upon a new year Of magnif-
cent prospects and possibilities. The last
year mas seen the arts, lne sciences ana lIe
Industries all engaged in a friendly struggle,
each endeavoring to outrun the others in
the race of progress; AS we look back to
splendid advance which has been made dur
ing the year and we believe that this is but
a faint prophecy Of what is to b at the end
of the new year, 1909.
1t is particularly fitting that your organi-
cation. Interested as II is In the manufacture
and sale of implements and machinery,
should be the first association of the year
to meet in annual conference, for the sale
of imnrONp1 machinery ALWAYS messages bet
ter and larger production. The difference
between, 1860 and 1900 is, the difference be
tween the cradle and the self-binder, the
fail and the threshing machine. 1t has been
the Improvement of machinery that has
pace in the last four decades. The cable,
railroad, telegraph and telephone have made
us commercial neighbors to those on the
other side of the globe.
congratulate you upon the good fellow
ship existing between the members of your
was designed by nature to be the country
of good fellowship. No great mountain
ranges divide our states. Even our great
rivers hardly separate communities, spanned
as they, are by massive bridges which ac-
continent, uniting the people of the central
west into one vast family. The men of the
roundings. The mutual trials and priva-
tions, joys and successes incident to the
early history of the western states are too
recent to have been so soon forgotten. il
was the broad charity, sympathy and gen
crosby of the west that produced a Lincoln.
WHO ltu AN lO"dlu lOlt anu Nildl Ivy
for all" and whose ideas Of the brother
hood of man were not limited by race. color
or previous condition of serVitude; n Grant,
whose matchless generosity and magma
nimity at AppomattoN wiped out the bitter
ness Of defeat and helped to heal the
today, gentlemen, to eXemplify this west
ern hospitality and to exchange words of
greeting and cheer with others of similar
business interests.
We are glad to see you in our city. Omaha
is rapidly becoming a great wholesaline
center for implements and machinery of ali
kinds and we shall expect to see you fire.
TO extend the glad hand to You at any
time you may come to our city, As mayor
of Omaha desire to say that the city is
yours. Make the most of IL while You are
here and If l can be of assistance to you in
any way please IN me. Gentlemen,
bid YOU welcome.
In closing the mayor assured the conven.
ton that his telephone number was the same
as last year and that if any of the dele.
gates needed him they were at liberty t.
call him up at any hour of the Cay OF
night.
Pioneer Implement Jobber.
George W. Lininger, on behalf of the Job
bling interests OF the city, seconded tn
mayors welcome, saying that he had beef
selected, doubtless, because he was the pi
oneer implement jobber of this section
From the day of his experience as the Ion,
jobber of thirty years ago he had seen tn
business at this point grow to SIS, 900, OO
a year. He had always aided in bringlns
competition to the city and had been in
strumental in securing some of It.. He saiC
that there are now ninety-eight local brancl
and iobbing houses in the city, thirty-nin,
independent and purely wholesale nipple
ment houses, three wholesale hardwar,
houses and FIVE buggy-top factories. TIL,
thirty-nine Wholesale houses represent owe,
1000 manufacturers and the business il
implements last year from Omaha was owe
SIS, 900, 900. The business here has sur1assa p,
all possible dreams OF twenty or even ff
teen years ago. Mr.. Lininger said that tn
travelling men of all the Omaha house
had been called in to take care OF the Wis
itors and he advised the latter to take dow.
the mayors number. as the travelling me-
we're extremely liable to get them int
trouble before they got away. He spok
of the interest the retailers Of Iowa an
Nebraska have in the upbuilding OF thi
iobbing center and said that new jobbiu
hAttEnn me ayEH 4YIA- go 900. II