Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-17
MILLIONS IN SASH AND DOORS
An Omaha Industry whose output ts
shipped All over the Mid
die West.

The sash and door business Is another
in which the Omaha concerns are consist
emily holding their own with the sash and
door factories and selling companies in
other parts of the west. 1t Is probable
that in the amount Of goods of this nature
sold in a year, Kansas City, with its much
larger population, has bit the bulge on
Omaha, but, with the one exception,
Omaha has no close competitors for ths
trade of the middle west. Sashes and
doors are made and sold at both Sioux
City and Lincoln, but the industry in each
of these cities Is Insignificant as compared
with the amount of that sort of business
done in Omaha.
The territory which secures most of its
supplies of this nature from the Omaha
manufacturers and jobbers is large one.
The Omaha concerns reach out for their
business over the western half of Iowa
as well as over Nebraska. Wyoming, South
Dakota, North Dakota, northern Kansas
and northwestern Missouri
Using the term in its common accepta-
ton in Omaha, the sash and door business
ia by no means confined to the manufac-
ture and selling of sashes and doors In
addition to these articles, screen doors
porch building material, staircase material
fancy posts, and, In fact, almost every
product of the millwrights' art is manu-
featured and sold by the local sash and
door concerns.
The manufacturing end of the business
is confined locally to eight firms. These
are the Adams q Kelly company, 1906
Nicholas street; M. A, Disbrow G. Co.
1901 Nicholas street; the Weir company
the Omaha Woodworking company, Rosen.
berry Bros, the Omaha Planning Mill com
pany, A. Bloom & Co., 1901 California street
and the T. H. Werlich Fixture company
Each of these firms not only manufac,
lures sashes, doors and other similar
products. but conducts general retail
business within the city and WHOLESALERS Its
products to out-of-town dealers. Two Of
three of the largest OF these companies
keep large stock of their manufactured
products on hand, but with the greater
number of them the articles are simply
made up to fill the orders as they arr
filed.
In addition to those firms in the city
which manufacture sashes and doors. tn,
finished product Is found In the stock OF
most every lumber yard or builders supply
company in the city. These firms do little
or no manufacturing, and in most cases
puy their stocks from the local manufac.
turers. They do both a retail and whole
sale business in the product, depending OIL
whether or not they do a wholesale or re
tail business in other articles which the!
| handle.
| With the Werlich company, on Nortl
Twenty-fourth street, which Is not a leade
In the manufacture of sashes and doors
the main interest is the making of offIc
fixtures counters and the like and tn
sash and door business is only a minor par
of the whole industry.
The total sash and door business of III
city VIII aggregate between 81, 900 900 an
N'S5OOO in year These figures, it wi
be understood, include also the othe
articles which are manufactured and Jobbe
oy the so-called sash and door concerns
Dealers In the article. as we'll as manu-
facturers. are unanimous in saying tina
the increase In this line for the year wi
run higher than 5 per cent, some guessIn
the Increase at 10 per cent. This is rathe
remarkable when II is realized that las
year the sash and door business
Omaha was far and away ahead of whs
II mad been In previous years, and 1t locke
then as though that would remain the hig
water mark for some years.