Omaha daily bee., 1912-05-11
AFFAIRS AT SOUTH OMAHA
Armour & Co. Install Pneumatic
Tubes in Plant.
SEEK TO FACILITATE ORDERS
CIab Women Join Crusade 60 Clean
Up Magic Cfty-Burgiar Rifles
Trunk and Carries Cash
Away.

For the greater facility or getting out
orders for customers. General Manager
r. c. Howe OF Armour g. Co. Is having
throughout the big plant at the cost OF
many thousand dollars.
This is the latest departure IN mod
ernixing the plant 80 that Il now com
pares fsvorsbly with the most thoroughly
equipped and advanced institution OF It's
Kind in the country.
The pneumatic tube system Is the latest
patent introduced into big business for
the economy OF time in favor of the
dealer. At present the orders are carried
about the plant from the shipping room
to the manufacturing department or
from the executive offices to the oper-
ating departments By messenger boys.
Often when an urgent message has been
committed 10 the care of an irresponsible
boy the firm and customer both suffer
as result OF the messengers hardness
or laxtty In his duty.
The new system will do away with the
slower messenger service and also with
the hardness and mistakes consequent on
the old methods.
General Manager Howe stated yester-
day that the tube system would be COM
pletely installed by June /. Gradually
the system win b. extended throughout
the whole plant. The installation 10 not
= saving device. since the boys are main
talned at much lees cost than the price
Of the new system. The installation is
made In the interests Of the dealers IN
order to obviate all unnecessary delay
In the filllng OF orders.
Club Women Help.
Further TO assist the mayor In his cru
sade against the unsanltary conditions
that prevail In the city there will be q
meeting Of the club women and others in
terested IN the work at the city hall this
afternoon.
For the last three weeks Mayor Hector
has had several sub-inspectors working
under Sanitary Inspector Ed Burson. A
most persistent effort has been made to
have property holders and residents re-
move garbage and other unsanitary re-
fuse beyond the city limits. Reports
OF the inspectors have not been altogether
encouraging and Mayor Hector has sent
out orders that unless the work IL done
without further delay the guilty persons
will be arrested.
burglar Rifles Trunk.
An unidentified burglar got away with
$40 yesterday afternoon when he rified
the trunk Of Jake stanek at Twenty-sey-
enth and l. streets. or the sum taken siiJ
was In cash and the rest in checks from
Armour Co.
stanek made complaint Of his loss TO the
police. II II thought that the thief en-
tered the room by way of the back win
dow. The money was In trunk which
had been pried open.
Horse seeks Grrrnevy.
Undoubtedly attracted by the display
OF green things In the window Of n.
Dietz' grocery at Twenty-fifth and N
streets yesterday afternoon a horse be.
longing to Joe Belesky made repeated
efforts to climb through the showcas.
window. Both OF the front and aide
plates Of the showcase were broken and
the horse was severely cut about the
head and shoulders. Police officer Joe
Potach rescued the frightened animal
and backed him into the street
Blind Evangelist coninR.
Denied by nature the faculty Of physi-
cal sight Rev. A. j. Freeman a blind
evangelist and singer. Ia said by the men,
bers Of Swedish Baptist church to possess
a highly developed sense Of spiritual
vision. which he Will exercise for the