Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-17
NAIL CRANE FACTORY HERE
Plant to Manufacture Government
Approved Product Coming.
BROTHER OF INVENTOR IN DEAL
Great Western Novelty Company In
corpOrated for Thousand
DOIIars win Establish It
self in This City.

Mail cranes which promise TO become the
universal crane OF the United states Post
office department viii be manufactured in
Omaha, the government having arranged
to give the crane q six months tnai fol-
lowing a series of tests and experiments
covering more than two years.
The Great Western Novelty company has
been Incorporated for 100000 to mauufae-
ture these cranes and secured offices In Sol
New York Life building, pending the Sc
curing of a site or buying Of q building
suitable for the factory. The ncorporators
are Charles Zeaman and T. u. Lacey of
Sioux City and Otto Schnoor Of Council
Bluffs. }
Mr.. Schnoor is a brother of the inventor
Of the crane, which catches and delivers
the mail pouches. according 10 the govern
ment inspectors, better than any other
crane made. As soon as 1t became appar-
ent that the government would adopt this
crane Mr.. Schnoor assured the Commercial
club of Omaha that the cranes would be
made in Omaha and a company would be
organized which would be prepared to un-
derbid all concerns which might desire to
furnish the crane to the Postoffice depart
ment and pay his brother a royalty for
the use of the device.
HSScAuihb = LIS bibSlhciies ~ NApOA
ton has been completed and besides the
mail pouch crane Mr.. Lacey and Mr.. Zea-
man bring to It the right to manufacture
a railway freight car door. a pipe coupling
joint. a cattle and hog killing device and
a corn planter gauge.
Mr.. Lacey is in the live stock commits
sion business at Sioux City and Mr.. Zea-
man a capitalist and business man Of that
city.
SIEe of Working FoEce.
When open for business the factory will
employ from fifty to seventy persons on
the start, as two contracts have been closed
with railroad companies to use the doors
to be made in Omaha" The company
agrees to furnish some OF these doors for
delivery before the next crop moving
period, which win be in early August.
The mail pouch crane has been tested on
the Northwestern line from Sioux CITY to
Missouri Valley. the government sending
three experts from the Postoffice depart
ment and tho Northwestern company a
number OF superintendents and officials to
make the test. This was done on two
different occasions, the Northwestern COM
pany furnishing a special train of mail
cars, run under the direction of Superin-
tendent 8. II. Brown Of the Sioux City d.
SlO ~ rum was ph.-@@ W oA w
used on the Kansas City limited. which
leaves Omaha at Q o'clock each night. and
it is capable of running seventy five miles
per hour At this speed the crane caught
and delivered sacks of sand weighing y n ,
ten to seventy pounds. The average .NI
weighed forty pounds and the train was run
at speeds from twenty to seVenty-eiSht
miles per hour. The experiments have been
going on at intervals for over q year aud
the Postoffice department now announces
that 1t IL willing and wants the cranes
installed on specified lines OF railroad TO
a an operating test OF six months.
Mr.. Schnoor said the company would
probably have the first cranes manufac-
tured at once, in order to get them in
operation. He said that ByO0O Of the
capital was subscribed by the ineorpor-
ators and only $4,000 would be sold.