Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-03
LOT OF A REAL MODERN JOB
secretary OF the Commercial Club
Has His share of
TrouhIa

commercial club commissioner or SEQ
retary Is from the nature Of his Office a
target for all the cranks in the Country.
All the fellows with an idea" from lev
Labrador to sunny Florida. unfold to him
the story OF their marvellous inventions. or
tell him the details of their plans for the
commercial development of city or state
ana since he is the man who is supposed
70 Keep lookout for such benefits he IN
burdened with the duty Of answering many
letter prompted by the hallucinat lions of
vivid maginations
Commissioner Guild has his share Of thess
communications. just as his predecessor. T..
J. McVann. had his. One Of the recent
ones was from a Rochester inventor who
wanted to establish in Omaha plant for
manufacturing railroad ties from corn.
stalks. He said:
90 S3 s1,., that produce corn at the rats
~ ~ hIty ousheis per acre will produce fof
the same amount OF stalks about Ia Tsl.
ion, ions Of alcohol Sugar. cane ana some OF
produces alcohol. When using 's sunto Ss
Stalks the oil can be pressed from the
seyeS fr IN TINS wa way by.products can Dc
creaslng the profits. Straw from wheat
p 0apS; Sa.s etc; may be used for fire
BOARD takes fine polish and can be use1
tor parts OF furniture and pressed int
Any Of the materials may be used for mil
construction or other buildings. '''''
We have not actually laid ties for an,
railroad, but we have pressed out sampled
that VIII hold spike the same as oak
,nst rs II requires as much force to ex'
In with hammer. The material will not
Sn .eS !, when exposed to the weather, moi
forge several times, and also In a frebos
n sas,s oa boiler with 2 forced draught. for
tS he bes aed b ssuS not ds6sty 4
and placed In marsh as a conduit for
electric ELECTRIC wires we have tested It VITA
1t. and have not injured IT,
One day last week Mr.. Guild received
letter addressed to 'Anybo in Omaha
which the postmaster supposed meant the
commissioner of the Commercial club. /,
was from Miss Josie McMinn Of North
Dakota, and she wanted to know where
she could get a position at housework
She was referred to the employment
agencies. y
A man named c. H. Merry is most Der.
sistent In his efforts to attract the atten-
ton OF the Commercial club. He writes
signed articles in the New Orleans papers
and send them as clippings to Mr.. Guild.
The following is Van extract from one OF
these newspaper articles;
Here Is a plan that will relieve the pres
ent congestion and prevent a recurrence
New Orleans 70 ST. Paul ls 400 miles. A
strip Of land 100 miles wide, with the Mis-
one city to the other, viii contain 10000
section ssSh INT into sEh farms e IS ssh
and healthfui employment to sO,ooO,oc S"' Of
Of this strip fireproof. concrete freight
and cold storage warehouse will be built,
IF 6e SsPScs e ssnd Ale s
tons OF land. This warehouse VIII be
four stories high, and win stand out in
ships and steamboats, to lie alongside 1t
low water. From this warehouse con-
distance Of fty niles He WHICH o viii s:
the limit OF the i0D sections OF land.
Again. one mile from the river. two lateral
which will be ten miles long This VIII
bring forty sections Of land In touch with
repeated every two miles until the end
OF the hfty-miIe trunk line Is reached.
The 5000 eighty,aSrs farms h., wil all be
eminent should advance the money 10 pay
thirty acres on each OF these eighty
farms in the cotton belt were planted IN
ana the snf ysd win w Be- bss
dsstry-ons s hat hat has never been drss%l
s sIEs fRs4s vii HP Be 20 eRss ss sC @
S antrs ST. Paul The daily supply Of swes;
: milk will be 100000 cans. A total Of ssh
10000 in one year. Will the world buy q
Danish typhoid and tuberculosis from our
? midst Under the present system Of care
. less handling and the method OF adultera.
milk Is impregnated with typhoid and
! tubereulops germs u Il not certain tbai
milk viii stand shiPplns TO ~ Rev Sus a9es
/. about sending Il to New Orleans. Vast a.
, the quantity IL that have brought int
: be produced along the navisable rivers O
: the valley under similar conditions:
J. When this Tactical deluge fairly begins
: King Cotton will need 10 tighten up hi
y belt and pull down his vest. There VII
E be piping times at court in the day ths.
y favor OF Queen Cow. Then, patriotic PEG
Die will be circulating petitions 20 hav'
4 Inc name of the city changed from New
h Orleans TO Milkport II is the unsxpeets'
!, thai ,aualix haDDena.