Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-09-03

Cushmsn Motor works. AZ o6
- Neheis sss.s..sssss.s......s. 200
g. A. Lord. residence. .............. 40 M.
1Nu, Soss, residence. 12Og
Mark Woods. residence. ......... "a O0
=. A Tucker, residence. ............ f2Oy
w g. Eullager. residence 1900
w. ~. Chaplin, residence. ......,....... 10 90
II. r. Sides, residence ....... 9O O0
Grant Il. Burman. residence. ...... 1000
In addition to the fine new high school
building, which alone without its equip.
nent or furniture, win cost when com.
pleted in the neighborhood OF s35OOOO. and
the new grade schools which will run the
amount up TO $4,000 more, Lincoln has
spent considerable I'm improving It's munic-
ipaiity.
The city spent for paving more than In
any previous year about eight miles being
laid in 1918. Much OF this has been
asphalt. though a great deal Of brick
paving was put in, notably that on the
street running TO the fair grounds The
cost OF paving for last year Is given by
the city as 800, 1883. This isaabout one
third more than was spent In the previous
year Lincoln closed the year 1918 with
about fifty-Eix miles OF paving.
The total amount OF sanitary sewers IN
the city is about Seventy-five miles. with
about eighteen miles OF storm sewers in
addition. Very little was spent in the
building Of sewers last year, a little over
$4,000 being spent in laying storm sewers
and about 1900 for sanitary sewers
There are many places Of business in
Lincoln which have grown from small
beginning and have reached that proper
ton where the outside world know little
Of the amount OF business done and how
Iii
large results not only TO the business OF
itself but to the general amount OF trade
brought TO the city
Probably an industry which will count
for much in the future and TO the hard
work and indomitable energy Of It's
owners Is due the present success is the
Lincoln Packing company There every-
body works About forty men are en-
pioyed in an industry in which the kill
ing OF hogs and cattle and the prepar-
ing Of the output for the table is made
In such a way that large and rapidly
increasing business has been the result
There are no Idle men around tho pack
Ing house Wheh the president Of the
company comes down in the morning,
no sheds his streets clothes, slips on a
pair OF overalls and dives into tho work.
The vice-president does the same, and
even the cashier. who ia supposed 20
handle the money finds time TO don the
toys Of labor and pitches in where he
Is needed most. With such condition
existing II Is no wonder that the business
has proven a success.
The Lincoln Paper Box company Il an
other concern which has been built up
because the proprietors were not afraid
TO get into the work and get Il out on
time. Tho product OF this factory goes
20 nearly every state In this section OF
the country and It's output IL increasing.
S. A. sanderson. the former well known
shoe dealer, recently retired from bust.
ness. but II seems not from activity He
has formed a company which manufac-
lures dyes so that any piece of dreas
goods can be matched 20 correspond with
any piece OF goods wanted II does not
matter how much IL wanted OF how lit
tie is wanted. the Sanderson company
can make a piece OF goods which will
exactly match anything desired.
Fifteen years ago VelemAr Timitch
came To Lincoln He could not talk
word English. He had been a candy
maker In the old country and for time
he worked at that trade here A few
years ago he became interested in the
Ice cream cone proposition. He studied
the matter and soon invented machine
for making cones. He established a
factory and today the cones of the
Timltch factory ere used throughout the
middle west
The Fisher Manufacturing company IL
another institution which manufactures
something which IL bound to bring IL
into prominenoe. II invented ana makes
the Rim Grip" subcasing for automo.
bile tires which IL claimed double the life
Of tire and at q very small cost In
comparison 20 what the second tire would
cost.
The ]. w. Iseman company which
manufactures any kind OF jewelry. Is a
small business which has grown rapidly
until II covers large territory. Orders
for this company come In daily from A
territory embracing all parts OF tho
country.
A business that In the past few years
has reached mammoth proportions "a that
Of the Kimball Brothers marble works
The company Is fortunate in that r. I.
Kimball. the younger member of the firm
Is an expert designer OF monuments and
$3.50 - ~ AAA'NoN Az Country are
the result OF his genius. The work OF
AIR. Kimbau has drawn the attention OF
some OF the most wealthy men OF the
country and his work is a monument OF
itself to the capabilities OF the junior
member
Another firm which II building up a
ateadily increasing business Is the Kos
meyer Electric company. In connection
with the Cushman motor works the Kos
meyer people have invented a system OF
electric lighting for farm residenoes and
With the use OF the CushmAn motor
many Of the substantial farmers OF this
ttate and Of adjoining states are enjoy
ing the privilege OF an electric system
on the farm which lights ali buildisxH
such a success has this become that the
firm h rushed TO I'M orders.
Nebraska IL not . timber country. VET
Lincoln has a wooden box factor which
under the name OF the lincoln Box
Factory Is dSng a big business. The
firm makes all kinds OF boxes crates and
other things In the line OF boxes and a
enc Of the new factories which has pros.
poets which are bound 10 make IL a
winner.
r"'a more business that is rapidly com.