Omaha daily bee., 1908-04-16
BOOSTERS SEE REAL OMAHA
Commercial Club Members Take First
Stay-at-HOme Excursion.
LOCAL FACTORY ARRANGEs THEM
VI. II. smith a Co. shirt and Overall
Concern and U. 5. supply Company
warehouse Arouse Admiration
of Business Men.


one at a time more than 100 members OF
the Commercial club Of Omaha dropped
this verdict as the party walked over the
seven acres in the warehouse and factory
of M. r. Smith & Co., and through the
long aisles in the warehouse of the United
States Supply company yesterday after
noon.
II was the first local trade excursion"
started under the banner of the new en-
tertainment committee, which is Know
Omaha First"
For some time 1t has been the opinion
of the officers and committeeman OF the
Commercial club that every business man
of Omaha would be a good advertisement
for the city either while entertaining Gus
toners and friends in the city or while
travelling in the east ana west II he could
Just be filled full of facts and pictures
OF Omaha Industrial life. e. A. Hinrichs
chairman of the committee having the ex-
cursions in charge, has been of the opinion
that Omaha business men are not doing
enough boasting about the city and that
the strange deficiency was due to the fact
that in the days OF stiff competition It was
necessary to have vast amount of in
formation to be successful boaster, espe-
ciallY against some prize winners who
travel out of Kansas City and Chicago.
But Mr.. Hinrichs. Commissioner Guild,
President Yetter and Chairman Martin OF
the executive committee declared after the
first local excursion that the problem had
been solved and after three doses Omahans
will be able to boast and boost-then make
good on all statements
Excursion Leaves on Time.
The "trafn" which ran over the side
IL tl, Il.
pulled out of the Board of Trade building
on schedule time, 1880 p. m. Tuesday, as
advertised on the billboards. The follow
ing were the crew in charger E. A. Hin
richs, pilot; II. X. Burket, engineer on
the first division; w. r. Wood second
division; Albert Calm, f. w. Judson and
Il. E. Brando, conductors, with E. T. Hey
den as rear brakeman.
The first stop was at the front door
of M. E. Smith & Co.'S. The crowd"
which greeted the excursionists at the big
wholesale house consisted of Arthur c.
Smith, head of the company, and Joe"
Kelly, the official lecturer for NJ E.
Smith & Co, who explained the anatomy of
all machinery and made hundreds of in
Productions.
business office to the freight elevators,
where the guests were hoisted to the
eighth floor, where the working clothes
are stored Everything on the double
floor 1S2x132, was maze in Omaha ex-
cept some coats '1ined with Russian
WOOL" as Lecturer Kelly explained
Down the iron stairways to other floors
the entire party was conducted by Mr..
Smith to the factories, wnere the guests
were shown where their shirts come from.
There 1t was demonstrated that the mod
ern factory has never improved on
mothers method of cutting out garments
with buzz-saw" as ninety and 100
shirts were ripped" out at once.
In the big work rooms the air was so
much better that 1t was noticed by the
guests. 1t seemed to taste better than
anything within seventy-five miles of
south Omaha and was being washed as
big fan distributed IT equally among the
girls working at sewing machines, but
ton-hole workers and variety of other
machines which worked like bicycle
pumps, but made shirts.
Young Women at Machines.
Almost every machine was operated by
young woman, all of them dressed neatly
ana comparing more than favoraby with
any equal number of young women in
Omaha whether clerks, stenographers or
waiteresses. They were all busy under the
care of Mrs. Doebeck, who has perfected
an organization of faithful garment
workers, which match any similar organi-
cation in the world.
What does me good is to see the girls
want to work." said Mr.. Smith, "a few
months ago it was hard to get girls, but
when we put an advertisement In the
papers now for girls, we get the appr-
cations. l hate to see a time when girls
m x2ynn fg -Ka-
country has nervous prosperity. Things are
normal now when a girl who wants work
can get 1t and an employer who wants to
hire capable young woman can secure
her at good wages"
One of the most difficult machines in the
big factory to handle was "cuff maker
and it was being operated by a young
colored woman whose trained fingers
demonstrated that they were fitted for the
work at hand
Through the long dining rooms, covered
with white the party passed to the check
ing and shipping rooms in the basement.
Here were two novelties which members
Of the party will tell about for some time
to come. The first was a scheme to keep
the stenographers work from becoming
monotonous. The young women were seated
on stands, which were run on tracks along
the checking tables. One minute a girl
would be at the east end OF the room writ
ing bill for a shipment of women's hose
and few minutes later she would be at
the extreme west end billing out some
red calico for the Winnebago Indians.
Another scheme was TO preserve the
voices of several young boys and train
them for the vested choiTs. Instead OF
calling the numbers and towns they
chanted them in light breezy way, not at
all disagreeable. The singing youngsters
also make IT much easier on the nerves
of the stenographers, who must copy the
bills and more than one business man
threatened TO hire chorister as soon as he
could secure the proper kind of a choir
drum-msjor.
What impressed the business man most
on the long trip through the warehouse and
factory, was the "modernness." From the
overall store rooms to the engine rooms,
everything was done in such a manner that
even tho gendus-strtcken in the party OF
visitors could not suggest improvements,
but many admitted they would return to
their own places OF business ana do things
better.
Both perisnabIe and imperishable souven-