Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-02-10
old CONCERN CELEBRATES
Carpenter Paper Company Passes
Quarter Century Mark.
HAS BEEN HERE SINCE 1887
From q Very Small Beginning, q
Large and Prosperous business
f. Evolved by Local Paper
Concern.

The Carpenter Paper company, one OF
Ornaha's leading jobbers, Is celebrating
its twenty-flfth anniversary this month,
having started in business here in Feb
ruary, 1857. From a very small beginning
the company has evolved q large and
prosperous business, and is now con-
sidered the largest paper house in the
middle west. The new fire proof build
ing at Ninth and Harvey streets. which
the Carpenter company now occupies and
which Is said TO be one Of the finest in
the west. is a striking contrast to the
modest quarters which 1t first occupied
and illustrative Of the splendid progress
II has made
The year 1887 was a favorable year for
a small mercantile concern TO locate In
Omaha with q view to establishing a
permanent business In n rapidly growing
community II was in February. twenty
i've years ago. that the Carpenter
brothers gave up their positions IN Chi
cago in the same line Of business and
brought what capital they could muster
to Omaha and opened a small paper ware
house at liza Douglas street. In the old
Goodman building. II was an especially
opportune time for locating paper ware
house In Omaha, as the lire was not
over-represented here at that time, and
the consumers of printing paper in Iowa
and Nebraska were nearly all sending
their orders TO eastern markets. The only
handlers of wrapping paper were w. T.
Seaman and the Wholesale dealers In
other merchandise Thus the reception
accorded to this young concern from the
tributing factors to the success OF the
concern was the fact that they we're the
pioneers in Omaha In the paper business
and were enabled to mako the most
favorable connections possible with the
best paper manufacturers In the United
States.
Another fact which has aided this con-
Germ materially has been their policy Of
developing their younger men into posi-
tons OF responsibility. Their men at the
head Of nearly all departments are men
who have begun ct the bottom and come
up through the house. who are In touch
with the methods and policies Of the con-
Germ and able TO carry than out to the
letter.
One peculiar feature Of the paper bust
ness is the fact that the volume Of sales
are not exceedingly large since the
amount sold each customer Is frequently
very small, but q favorable feature 10
that the salesman for q Wholesale paper
concern can 90 into q town Of q few
thousand people and he finds consumers
Of paper In nearly every store. Hence
small customers.
Another feature peculiar to the BUSH
ness Is that paper Ii o very heavy COM
modify. and freights are 50 much more
favorable In car loads than less than car
loads. that II has made the distribution
Of paper economical from large number
% shipping centers. enabling Omaha to
sesve not as In former years seven or
eight states. but has compelled this COM
psny to establish Distributing branches
In Des Moines, Kansas City. Denver. Salt
Lake City. lincoln and Butte City In
order to compete successfully with local
houses in these competing territories
Thus the Carpenter Paper company
brands are as well known in Oklahoma
and Montana In Colorado. Utah and
Idaho as they are In Nebraska
Speaking OF brands. this company has
brought out q great many special brands
IN writing and printing paper which have
become exceedingly popular to consumers
IN all these territories. II goes without
saying that these brands must be par
excellence in order to maintain their
standing against competing lines. This
company has appreciated greatly the con-
rdence that has been shown to them
and their goods by the buyers Of paper
throughout the west. II Is said that the
entire stock Of printing and wrapping
paper carried by this company. In point
OF selection and variety. ranks among
the very best In the country.
In celebration Of Its twenty-fifth annI-
versary the Carpenter Paper company
distributed gold among Its employees this
week and otherwise celebrated the o.
casion.