Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-21

Residents Of Fashionable District
Band Against Corner Stores.
WOULD sHUN NEW CONCERNS
Lacks Name, but Has
Grim Purpose of BoycOttinE Any
store that Dares Move In
the Prescribed District.

A bas lie corner grocery! Also the corner
meat market and the shop or store for
whatever purpose.
Next Friday evening another meeting
will be held by residents Of a district
bounded by Thirty-first and Forueth
streets and Dodge and Jones These resi-
dents are banding themselves together for
the purpose OF preventing stores and shops
getting into the district indicated. An as
ISOLATION has been formed with John r.
Webster as president; A. b. Mcconnell.
treasurer and N. NJ. Howard. secretary.
The association lacks a name yet and
this may be hard to devise. But there
Il nothing lacking IN definlteness OF pur-
pose,
The men who live on West Farnam hill
are not going TO see one small store after
another creep into the district and turn
residential district into a business one, or
into hybrid affair-not If they can help it.
mo patronage" is the battle cry and
slogan OF members Of the association and
it is believed that this will be an effective
warning, one that will be thought over
several more times than twice by any man
contemplating building store in such
building.
Definite pledges not to patronize grocery
come into the district will be signed by
members Of the association. Resolutions to
this effect are now being drawn up and
will be presented at the Friday night meet
ing
II is generally held that this method OF
keeping out the stories will be altogether
effective. Who would wish to start up q
store in the district indicated, II he knew
that no one within a radius OF nine blocks
either way would patronze2
II is argued that convenience might
~ break down the resolution Of some weaker
y sisters who found themselves in urgent
? need out OF loin or a pound Of butter,
Even So reply the leaders of the associa-
ton no one will wish TO start business or
such slender prospects as emergency pur-
chases Of the kind named,
II is declared that the association will
have between 400 and 500 members. The
next meeting will be held was the frs
one at the residence Of A. b. Mcconnell
S4il FaEk.m street.
The tIo grocery stores and the druE
store which are already in the distric
on FarnRm street will be exempt because
they have been on the job for some time.
Omaha agents suffer little from the ir
responsible competition of those who arr
known as curb stone brokers' and who's
operations are confined to Fleeing the un
wary and attempting to secure commits
slons on transactions originated by legiu
mate dealers"
In other cities grave has the evil be
come that many prosecutions have beef
Initiated by exchanges. This has beer
notably the case recently in Louisville III
Colorado" says the National Real Estat
Dealer, "a movement Is on foot to secur
from the next legislature a law providing
for the licensing and bonding of dealers
with a view Of protecting the good nam
Of the state and preventing homeseeker
from the east being buncoed by fake lane
schemes
The licensing system appears to be thu
most effective way Of dealing with thes'
so-called brokers, since few of them ar
willing or able to comply with the require
Sments OF a strictly enforced licensing law.
The last was dull week for most agen
cies. Too many people out OF town, AM
general dog-day disinclinetion to start any
thing serious is ascribed as the cause. Bet
teF results from now on are generally ex
Y peeted.