Omaha daily bee., 1906-01-01
HOUSES THAT MAKE A CITY

and energetic personality have made him |
many business and social friends.
Hayward Bros. shoe Company, 12Os
Howard street, Omaha.
Within ten years the magnificent business
of the Hayward Bros Shoe company has
been built up until proportions common
surate with the energy and intelligence
spent upon the enterprise have been
reached. The firm does exclusive whole
sale jobbing business in shoes of all kinds
and descriptions and sells them wherever
transportation facilities extend, east, west,
north and south of Omaha.
The business was established in 1895 by
Williams, Van Aernam & Harte and was
succeeded in 1901 by the Wiliams-Hayward
Shoe company, under the management Of
Mr. c. S. Hayward. and since then the
present organization of Hayward Bros.
Shoe company has been perfected with Mr..
f. c. Hayward of Boston as president; Mr..
c. s. Hayward of Omaha. vice president;
Mr.. J. w. Hayward of Vinton, Ia, secre-
tary, and Mr.. E. E. Hayward of Omaha,
treasurer.
Mr.. c. S. Hayward acts as general man
ager and has collected around him a staff
of men who are. like himself, energetic
experienced and extremely capable in the
shoe line. Their business has been very
successful, every year showing a decided
increase in sales, and the past year most
especially So having by October l passed
far beyond any previous years sales for
the whole year.
One of the prime factors in the success of
this firm is the feeling of good fellowship
hat is engendered and cultivated between
employers and employees. Twice a year a
banquet is rendered all the employees, in
GLIDING everybody, from the road man"
with a good fat salary down to the boy
who nails up the cases. The business is
discussed in familiar and friendly way
and all are made to feel they have a COM
mon interest in the success of thhe firm.
The rapidly growing business is pressing
the firm for suitable quarters, in spite of
the considerable floor space now occupied,
and the indications are that the house will,
soon have to make arrangements for a
larger domicile.
j. j. Deright & Company.
In the last three years j. ]. Deright
& Co. of this city has sold more
bank safes than any other house in
America during the same length of time,
the total sales amounting to $50.
One of the best evidences of the pros
perity of the west is the sale of safes
Mr.. Deright reports that from 1894 to 1885,
inclusive, his business amounted to about
| $4,000 a year. Since that time it has
grown to about $4,000 a year, proving the
truth of the assertion that people buy
safes only in prosperous times.
Mr.. Deright is the principal safe dealer
in the west, having branch houses at
| Minneapolis and Kansas City besides the
main house in Omaha, and enjoying the
| confidence of banking interests in the ter
ritory in which he does business. The
| concern carries at all times large stock
of Manganese Steel Safes, conceded to be
the only absolutely burglar proof structure
built. Mr.. Deright has been located at
! 11l9 Farnam street for the last nine years,
but has had fine new building erected for
him at 1918 Farnam street, which he now
occupies.
A. F. Smith Co., 1513-15 Harvey St.
The A. F. Smith company succeeded the
Reichenberg Smith company, wholesale
jewellers, in September, 1905.
The business was established in 1894 and
has had a most prosperous career.
They are distributors of the Walthaln,
| Elgin and Hamilton movements; keystone,
Crescent and Crown cases, carry a COM
plete line of diamonds and jewelry clocks
and cut glass, and everything connected
with the jewelry business Headquarters
for 1S47 Rogers Bros goods.
They occupy a three-story building and
carry the largest stock in the west Their
trade extends from Iowa west to Washing
ton. They have six representatives
Omaha Paint md Glass Company,
1413 Dodge Street.
The large wholesale ana retail business
OF the Omaha Paint and Glass company
was started in 1898 under the name of the
Omaha Oil and Paint company, and was
incorporated in 1900 under the present style
with a capital stock of $4,000. Mr.. Morris
We'll of Lincoln is president, Mr.. Carl Wei
is vice president, Mr.. w. H. White is
treasurer and manager. Mr.. Morris Wei
is president of the Bank of Commerce OF
Lincoln. The business has grown steadily
and now extends over a wide field, practi
cally everything in the glass, paint and
sundry line being carried.
Beebe q Runyan Furniture Co., 91S-
2O-22-24 Farnam Street.
! The wholesale furniture business of the
Beebe e. Runyan Furniture company CANT
to Omaha !ifteen years ago. f'inca thai
time Il has increased n little over eight
Der cent, which tells the story of the cat
isfactory quality of their goods and the
energy of the firm. They now have repre-
sentatives covering the greater part Of
seventeen states They regard Omaha a:
an ideal location for a jonbing house Of
their character. The firm Is CONT osed o.
Mr.. Runyan, president; MIR. ]. r. Piling
secretary, and Mr.. Walter Reebe, manager
Great Western Type Foundry, 1114
Howard STREET.
: Though a separate corporation, the Grea
: Western Type Foundry is closely allieC
with Barnhart Brothers & Spindler, tn,
: great Chicago printing house supply manu-
facturers and dealers The business her
is of large proportions, everything of neces
! sity to the printing trade, from larg
a presses down, being carried. 1t has beef
established in Omaha fifteen years and 4
under the management of Mr.. S. ]. Potte
since 1895. 1t is the only one of it's kind Il
, Omaha.
w. L., Mastcrmnn & Co., 3I3 =. 18th st
\ The exclusively tea and coffee bushes
b built up by w. L. Masterman & Co. wa
established in 1891 and it went ahead rap
1 idly from the start. A speciality is mad
. of supplying restaurants, cafes and hotel
a and a very considerable amount of thi
n trade is handled. The remainder is direc
n from the house to the best family trade
a plan that saves money and assures salts