| 59MANUFACTURING.
A City of Whirling Wheels and Busy Workmen.
Complete List and Summary of Lincoln's Industries-A Solid Foundation for Wealth.
Room for More.
The maufacturing interests of Lincoln are also quite extensive when one takes into consideration the age of the city, though as in the wholesale business, there is a great deal of room for vast improvemrnt. Not only are there plenty of desirable locations and an abundance of room in a commercial way for factories additional to those already established here, but especially are there choice openings for new enterprises of many sorts which would find a ready and profitable sale for their products.
Owing to the manner in which Lincoln is laid out and the evenness of the ground from the center to the most remote extremity, choice sits for the locations of factories of any kind or dimensions can be cheaply and readily secured, besides all worthy industrial enterprises seeking a location at this place will not only receive encouragement and support, but will be given immediate and substantial aid from citizens. Many new enterprises have taken advantage of this fact during the past year and many more will do so in the near future. As is sown in other places in this issue the facilities for shipping goods from Lincoln are far ahead of those afforded her rival cites and the fact that nearly all goods shipped into the state must pass through Lincoln to reach their destination will of itself demonstrate to the most callous observer Lincoln's superiority as a shipping point. Besides purchasers will not pass right through Lincoln to cities beyond when they can procure the goods they want right here. There are many manufacturing interests that could be established here and that would only depend upon their own exertions as to the amount of business they should do.
Those who are fortunate and foresighted enough to take advantage of these facts and appear early on the field and establish a trade in this rich, growing and rapidly developing country will have the gratification of seeing their business enlarge accordingly. Among the many factories for which there are especially good openings here and that could find ready sale for their produce are: Woolen mills, oatmeal mills, barbed wire factories, linseed oil mill and beet sugar works. Any or all of these and many others could be established here on splendid locations with but little cost, as cheaply maintained as in any western city and with pecuniary results that could not be excelled anywhere.
The following is a list of the manufacturing institutions already established here and the business they did during the past year:
ARTIFICIAL STONE.
Pomeroy Coal Co., 1201 O street.
BLANK BOOKS AND BINDING.
Hyde, Hoge & Hyde, 121 N. Ninth.
Lincoln Newspaper Union, 209 S. Tenth.
Pace, Williams & North, 820-22 O Street.
State Journal, Ninth and P.
BOILERS, ENGINES AND MACHINERY.
Roberts, J., 207 S. Ninth.
Smith, R. L., 247 S. Ninth street.
Trumbell, L., S. A street
BOTTLING WORKS.
Capital City Bottling Works, 1712 P street
Lincoln Bottling Works, 315 O St.
BRICK AND TILE.
Dunton, M. B., South Lincoln.
Hogan, Mrs. Mary, S. F street.
Holmes, L. K., west O street.
Lanham, John, South Lincoln.
Lincoln Brick & Tile Co., West Lincoln.
Stevens, S. Ninth street.
Stockwell. J. E., South Lincoln.
Vitrified Paving and Pressed Brick Co., Sixth and L streets.
BROOMS.
Berger, W. H., 923 Q street.
CANDIES AND CONFECTIONERY.
Folsom, T. P., 1307 O street.
Lasch Bros., Tenth and N streets.
CARRIAGE AND BUGGY TOPS
Lincoln Carriage Top Co., Twelfth and Vance Ave.
CIGARS AND TOBACCO.
Captial City Cigar Factory, Ninth and L streets.
Goldstein, Chas; 826 O street.
Gotthelf & Kahn, 2217 O street.
Witzel, Chas., 320 S. Twenty-first street.
Wohlenberg, P. J., 128 S. Eleventh street.
Wolf, J. R., 128 North Tenth.
COOPERAGE.
Osborn, A. M., 338 N. Seventh St.
Western M'f'g Co., South Lincoln.
CORNICE AND ORNAMENTAL WORKS.
Collier, R. J., 1426 O street.
Nebraska Cornice and ornamental Works, Eight and Q streets.
Weidermann & Janesch, 212 South Ninth street.
CRACKERS.
Jones, Douglas & Co., Eight and Q streets.
ELECTRICAL WORKS.
Lincoln Electrical Manufacturing Works, Twenty-first and Y streets
Lincoln Electrical Supply company.
FLOUR AND MILL STUFFS.
Crabb, B. & Son, (Crabb's Mill), South Lincoln.
Kendall & Smith, (Capital and Woodlawn Mills), Eighth and P streets.
FOUNDRIES.
Hedges' Lincoln Iron Works, Seventh and M streets.
Nebraska Iron Works, A and Folsom Ave.
GRANITE, MARBLE AND STONE CUTTING.
Etker, W. A., 116 S. Thirteenth St.
Forburger Speidel & Co., Eighth and M streets.
Kimball Bros., 1135 M street.
Sheehy, F. H., 1021-23 O street.
State Granite & Marble Co., 1521 O street.
Tyler, W. H., Seventh and L streets.
HARNESS AND SADDLERY
Harpham Bros., 833-35 O street.
Harpham, Henry, 122 S. Twelfth St.
Lincoln Saddlery Co., 736-38 O St.
Seifert, Chas., 133 S. Ninth street.
Wittman, H. & Co., 140-42 N. Tenth street.
Woodworth & McFall. 1235 O street.
MANTELS.
Nebraska Mantel & Cabinet Works.
1226-28 M street.
MATTRESSES.
The Western Mattress Co., 641-43 L street.
PACKING AND PROVISIONS.
Lincoln Packing & Provision Co., West Lincoln.
The Cudahy Packing Co., Seventh and L streets.
PAINTS AND COLORS.
Globe White Lead & Color Co., 305-7 O streets.
Lincoln Paint & Color Co., 811-13-15 O street.
PAPER BOXES.
Lincoln Paper Box Factory, 133 N. Twelfth street.
PAPER.
Lincoln Paper Mills, 736-38 O street.
PATENT MEDICINES.
Eureka Rheumatic Remedy Co., 1033 N street.
Railroad Pain & Remedy Co., 1429 O street, S. A. Pratt.
PATTERNS AND MODELS.
Crandall's Patern & Model Works,
121 S. Ninth street.
PLANING MILLS.
Capital City Planing Mill, N, between Eighth and Ninth streets.
Lincoln Planing Mill, M, between Seventh and Eighth streets.
Nebraska Planing Mill, Twenty-first and Y streets.
POTTERY.
Lincoln Pottery Co. First and H St.
SHIRTS AND UNDERCLOTHING
Capital City Shirt Factory, Tenth and O streets.
Lincoln Shirt Factory, 1008-10-12 O street.
SOAP.
Carr's Soap Works, West Lincoln.
STOVES, RANGES AND FURNACES.
Hall's Stove & Range Co., West O street.
Lincoln Stove & Furnace Co., A street and Folsome avenue.
SUSPENDERS AND BRACES.
Eagle Brace Co., 120 N. Fourteenth street.
TALLOW AND LARD.
Oberne, Geo. & Co., West Lincoln.
TRUNKS AND VALISES.
Lincoln Trunk Factory, 1133 O and 809 P streets.
VINEGAR, CIDER AND PICKLES.
Ariens & Ecker, 116 S. Thirteenth street.
Lincoln Cider & Vinegar Works, 931 Pine street.
Wilson Vinegar Works, West Lincoln.
WAGONS, BUGGIES AND CARRIAGES.
Camp Bros., Tenth M streets.
Camp, D. W. & Son, Sixteenth and O streets.
Roman, C. J., 127 to 135 S. Fifteenth street.
BUSINESS. Business per year. Capital invested. Persons Employed.
Packing and provisions...........$3,300,000 $230,000 [1?0]
Brick and tile..............................550,000 425,000 10
Flax seed mills............................500,000 75,000 [?]5
Harness and saddlery..................400,000 165,000 100
Blank books and binding.............400,000 125,000 95
Agricultural Implements.............380,000 1[?]5,000 225
Flour and mill stuffs...................360,000 130,0000 60
Candies and confectionery...........310,000 15,000 25
Stoves, ranges and furnaces.........200,000 150,000 100
Paints and Colors........................170,000 55,000 36
Ganite, marble and stone
coating..................................167,000 68,000 85
Planing mills...............................150,000 78,000 120
Crackers.....................................150,000 75,000 85
Electric Works.............................150,000 25,000 20
Boilers, engines, and
machinery............................150,000 60,000 26
Cigars and tobacco......................120,000 15,000 24
Pottery........................................100,000 25,000 25
Foundaries...................................85,000 90,000 70
Wagons, buggies and carriages......85,000 55,000 53
Carriage and buggy tops...............75,000 90,000 60
Artificial stone.............................60,000 3,000 14
Paper...........................................60,000 60,000 16
Mattresses...................................50,000 10,000 25
Suspenders and Braces.................50,000 20,000 20
Cornace and ornamental works....50,000 2,000 21
Shirts and underclothing..............35,000 7,000 25
Tallow and lard............................30,000 5,000 4
Food............................................30,000 20,000 10
Vinegar, cider and pickles.............25,000 10,000 11
Truncks and valices......................25,000 7,000 8
Mantels.......................................25,000 5,000 10
Patent medicines.........................25,000 14,000 22
Bottling works..............................20,000 12,000 13
Brooms........................................15,000 4,000 17
Paper boxes..................................15,000 16,000 40
Patterns and models......................10,000 5,000 3
Cooperage.....................................5,000 2,000 7
Total............................................$3,126,000 $4,281,000 2079
Lincoln Beats Chicago.
Lincoln stands 51st among the cities of the United States. In percentage of increase she stands third at 326.76 per cent. Omaha is first 357.19 per cent and Los Angeles second at 349.82 per cent. Chicago at the age of Lincoln had about 300,000 people, while Lincoln has 55,000. In 1830 Chicago had 70 people; in 1850 she had 29,963. Up to date Lincoln has beaten Chicago's record badly.
Beside the Platte.
For the CALL.
Across the hills the sunset rays
Shine purple through the autumn haze;
The cattle hasten one by one.
Well knowing that the day is done;
They troop down thirsty to the brink
And of the limpid waters drink-
And as they drink
We stand and chat
In idleness
Beside the Platte.
With rippling sound the water low
Reflects the amber sunset's glow.
While touched with mellow autumn light
The hills stand forth in sunshine bright;
The golden rod and sumach red
Bend low beneath the cattle's tread-
With happy hearts
We stand and chat
In idleness
Beside the Platte.
The sun is set-Its splendor gone;
The shadows deepen; day is done.
The cattle long have drinked their fill
And strayed back slowly o'er the hill.
Yet still we watch the closing day
Drop into twilight still and grey;
While hand in hand
We stand and chat
In idleness
Beside the Platte.
STREET RAILWAYS.
Electricity Furnishes Rapid Transit Everywhere.
The Over-Worked Driver and the Long Suffering Mule Fade Into Memories.
Modern Motors.
For several years the subject of electric street railways to take the place of horse and mule transportation, has been agitated, and this agitation has within the past few months culminated in results that are extremely gratifying to the patrons of the street car service as well as all citizens interested in the welfare of the capital city. Several railway corporations took active steps in this direction several months since, a number of electric cars and many miles of service is already in use and work is being pushed as rapidly as possible and it will be but a few months before Lincoln will enjoy a complete and handsomely equipped electric railway system, and the horses and mules who have patiently, and slowly, furnished the motive power for the transportation of citizens to and fro, will succumb to their electric rival and seek new fields of usefulness.
THE LINCOLN CITY
Electric road was the first to inaugurate the movement under the management of G. A. Bush and Geo E. Bigelow, who own the controlling interest in the road. They put in an electric plant with a substantial power house at Twelfth street and Vance avenue just south of the Buggy Top company's new building, and built about four miles of track extending from Thirteenth and O streets to North Lincoln, and about the middle of October commenced running regularly with a twenty-minute service each way. Their patronage has been good from the start and the line has been extended two miles further. Their immediate success convinced them that electric cars are what Lincolnites demand and steps were at once taken to further their system and arrangements are now complete for the consolidation of the Lincoln City Electric line with the Capital Heights line, a horse railway extending from Twelfth and O to Randolph
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COFFMAN BROS., BROWN BROS., OYLER & COCHRAN, A. D. KITCHEN-Erected 1890.
and Fortieth streets. A now track is now being built over this route with an E street branch, and handsome cars are being placed thereon as fast as the ex-extension of the road permits. This road will be pushed to completion as rapidly as possble and it will be but a very short time before this five and one-half miles of road will furnish its patrons a ten minute service in as handsome cars as can be found in the land. This company will then have about twelve-miles of road in active operation. The management has already spent over $125,000 in the construction and equipment of this road and when their line is fully completed at least a quarter of a million will have been spent.
THE LINCOLN STREET RAILWAY.
Company which operates 17 miles of road in some of the very best territory in the city, could not afford to be behind in the adoption of the electric system and has perfected all arrangements for furnishing the city with an electric system that will be second to none in the country. They commenced operations by purchasing the Standard Street Railway of of Brown Bros. This road is popularly known as the Wesleyan University line and is over six miles in length. They will also extend lines to Bethany Heights and Union college and by the first of September expect to have forty miles of road fully equipped and in active running order. Work is to be commenced at once on this line and thirty miles of the road will be in operation by the first of May.
The power house at Eighth and K streets is nearly completed. It is 90 by 150 feet and will with the machinery in place, cost about $100,000. It will be equipped with 3,000 horse power steel safety boilers, four 125 horse power automatic compound engines and four 125 horse power generators and the machinery will be so arranged that the power can he doubled if necessary. The first order will be for thirty-five motors and fifty trailers, and that order will be supplemented in a short time. The motors will have a capacity of from thirty to forty horse power and can easily carry four loaded trailers if desired. The cars will be of the very best make and will be finished with polished hard wood and nicely upholstered. The storage house for the cars will occupy a vuarter of a block and will have a machine shop in conjunction where all necessary repairing can be done without the usual tedious delay and it will be so equipped that entire new cars can be built from the ground up. The first estimated cost of the new undertaking was half a million, but if all is done as now intended these figures will be greatly enlarged.
A new and progressive feature of this line will be the establishment of four special trains to be run on all occastions where additional transportation will prove of benefit to their patrons. Each of these trains will consist of a forty horse power motor car and two open 26-foot cars with a seating capacity of 300. These trains will be used on all special occasions, such as ball games, fairs, Fourth of July, circus days, etc., and will be run entirely independent of the regular cars, which will run as usual. These trains will so accommodate the public as to avoid the usual jam on the regular cars. At the breaking-up of a ball game or anything of a similar nature the four trains will be in waiting and with their seating and standing room capactiy any ordinary sized crowd can be accompdated all at one time without regard to the regular cars or a moment's wait.
The company expect to have 500 men at work by the first of April and as soon as the track is completed they will employ 200 regularly.
THE RAPID TRANSIT
The Rapid Transit line is owned by John Fitzgerald and while its future has not as yet been made public, it is not probable that with Mr. Fitzgerald's enterprising spirit he will long remain behind the others in the adoption of the electric system.
There are nine miles of the Rapid Transit road in operation, five and one-fourth operated by steam motors and three and three-fourths miles are traversed by the ordinary horse and mule outfits. The steam motors run from Twelfth and Q streets to West Lincoln with a terminus opposite the packing houses. Lincoln Brick and Tile Works, and in close proximity to Carr's soap works. Wilson vinegar works and other West Lincoln industries. The horse car line runs from Fourteenth and U to Twelfth street and thence south on Twelfth to South street. As near as can be learned it is Mr. Fitzgerald's intention to put in an electric plant and furnish a 20-minute or half-hour service to West Lincoln instead of the one hour and ten minutes service now afforded his patrons and a regular city service on the other portions of his road which will also be extended, though in what direction is not yet known.
FINANCIAL
A Solid and Conservative City which Panics do not Reach.
The financial exhibit of the banks of Lincoln from their last reports make a very satisfactory showing. In this connection it must be remembered that in a city like Lincoln where every foot of realty advances upwards of 15 per cent in value per year and where business and residence property proves such paying investments, that money is not deposited, but invested. People of every class invest their money in preference to depositing it. The accumulations and profits from business in a city of the character of Lincoln are at once invested in increasing business, in reaching out for new and wider fields or else it is invested in improvements of property or in peroperties anticipating a rise in values.
The financial figures of Lincoln banks at last report are in totals on capital stock and deposits as follows:
Capital stock of banks.........$1,553,754
Money on deposit...............$3,104,892
In the item of capital stock the undivided profits and surplus on hand at the time of the report are added to the capital stock paid in as part of the working capital. In the line of deposits they include individual and time deposits. The low capitalization of the banks in Lincoln show the opportunity for increase that exists here and the field that will certainly be occupied. Two of the leading banks have arrangements completed for increasing their capital stocks to a million dollars each, but the capitalization of banks in the city will remain therein doing a larger business with its banks than the same amount of capital commands in any other city in the west.
FOR THE SICK.
Where the Sick and Injured Are Cared For.
St. Elizabeth Hospital. Founded by the Catholics- Tabitha Home by the German Church.
Worthy Institutions.
During the fall of 1889 the Catholics of this city decided to establish a hospital and after looking over the desirable locations decided to purchase the Buckstaff residence at Twelth and South streets providing a satisfactory agreement could be made on the price. The property which comprised a fine large house and several acres of choice ground, was appraised at $20,000 which amount would have been paid for if it had not Mr. Buckstaff generously offered to contribute his share towards so worthy an enterprise and his deed to the property was transfered to the board of trustees for $17,000.
The house, which is two stories of brick and frame, was immediately fixed over and at an expense of about $500, was converted into a comfortable and well appointed hospital capable of accomodating sixteen patients. It was opened to the public during the latter part of October of that year and has been so well patronized that the directors have found it necessary to enlarge the building in order to furnish adequate accomodations for the increasing patronage. Accordingly a two story brick addition, 44x66 feet, will be added to the west side of the present building early in the spring. This addition will cost $10,000 and will contain comfortable apartments for forty patients. The old building will then be sused as the home for the sisters, kitchen, dining room, reception room, medical department, &c., leaving the new portion to be entirely devoted to the patients. There will be two wards each for men and women and the balance will be private rooms for patients who desire them. | 59MANUFACTURING.
A City of Whirling Wheels and Busy Workmen.
Complete List and Summary of Lincoln's Industries-A Solid Foundation for Wealth.
Room for More.
The maufacturing interests of Lincoln are also quite extensive when one takes into consideration the age of the city, though as in the wholesale business, there is a great deal of room for vast improvemrnt. Not only are there plenty of desirable locations and an abundance of room in a commercial way for factories additional to those already established here, but especially are there choice openings for new enterprises of many sorts which would find a ready and profitable sale for their products.
Owing to the manner in which Lincoln is laid out and the evenness of the ground from the center to the most remote extremity, choice sits for the locations of factories of any kind or dimensions can be cheaply and readily secured, besides all worthy industrial enterprises seeking a location at this place will not only receive encouragement and support, but will be given immediate and substantial aid from citizens. Many new enterprises have taken advantage of this fact during the past year and many more will do so in the near future. As is sown in other places in this issue the facilities for shipping goods from Lincoln are far ahead of those afforded her rival cites and the fact that nearly all goods shipped into the state must pass through Lincoln to reach their destination will of itself demonstrate to the most callous observer Lincoln's superiority as a shipping point. Besides purchasers will not pass right through Lincoln to cities beyond when they can procure the goods they want right here. There are many manufacturing interests that could be established here and that would only depend upon their own exertions as to the amount of business they should do.
Those who are fortunate and foresighted enough to take advantage of these facts and appear early on the field and establish a trade in this rich, growing and rapidly developing country will have the gratification of seeing their business enlarge accordingly. Among the many factories for which there are especially good openings here and that could find ready sale for their produce are: Woolen mills, oatmeal mills, barbed wire factories, linseed oil mill and beet sugar works. Any or all of these and many others could be established here on splendid locations with but little cost, as cheaply maintained as in any western city and with pecuniary results that could not be excelled anywhere.
The following is a list of the manufacturing institutions already established here and the business they did during the past year:
ARTIFICIAL STONE.
Pomeroy Coal Co., 1201 O street.
BLANK BOOKS AND BINDING.
Hyde, Hoge & Hyde, 121 N. Ninth.
Lincoln Newspaper Union, 209 S. Tenth.
Pace, Williams & North, 820-22 O Street.
State Journal, Ninth and P.
BOILERS, ENGINES AND MACHINERY.
Roberts, J., 207 S. Ninth.
Smith, R. L., 247 S. Ninth street.
Trumbell, L., S. A street
BOTTLING WORKS.
Capital City Bottling Works, 1712 P street
Lincoln Bottling Works, 315 O St.
BRICK AND TILE.
Dunton, M. B., South Lincoln.
Hogan, Mrs. Mary, S. F street.
Holmes, L. K., west O street.
Lanham, John, South Lincoln.
Lincoln Brick & Tile Co., West Lincoln.
Stevens, S. Ninth street.
Stockwell. J. E., South Lincoln.
Vitrified Paving and Pressed Brick Co., Sixth and L streets.
BROOMS.
Berger, W. H., 923 Q street.
CANDIES AND CONFECTIONERY.
Folsom, T. P., 1307 O street.
Lasch Bros., Tenth and N streets.
CARRIAGE AND BUGGY TOPS
Lincoln Carriage Top Co., Twelfth and Vance Ave.
CIGARS AND TOBACCO.
Captial City Cigar Factory, Ninth and L streets.
Goldstein, Chas; 826 O street.
Gotthelf & Kahn, 2217 O street.
Witzel, Chas., 320 S. Twenty-first street.
Wohlenberg, P. J., 128 S. Eleventh street.
Wolf, J. R., 128 North Tenth.
COOPERAGE.
Osborn, A. M., 338 N. Seventh St.
Western M'f'g Co., South Lincoln.
CORNICE AND ORNAMENTAL WORKS.
Collier, R. J., 1426 O street.
Nebraska Cornice and ornamental Works, Eight and Q streets.
Weidermann & Janesch, 212 South Ninth street.
CRACKERS.
Jones, Douglas & Co., Eight and Q streets.
ELECTRICAL WORKS.
Lincoln Electrical Manufacturing Works, Twenty-first and Y streets
Lincoln Electrical Supply company.
FLOUR AND MILL STUFFS.
Crabb, B. & Son, (Crabb's Mill), South Lincoln.
Kendall & Smith, (Capital and Woodlawn Mills), Eighth and P streets.
FOUNDRIES.
Hedges' Lincoln Iron Works, Seventh and M streets.
Nebraska Iron Works, A and Folsom Ave.
GRANITE, MARBLE AND STONE CUTTING.
Etker, W. A., 116 S. Thirteenth St.
Forburger Speidel & Co., Eighth and M streets.
Kimball Bros., 1135 M street.
Sheehy, F. H., 1021-23 O street.
State Granite & Marble Co., 1521 O street.
Tyler, W. H., Seventh and L streets.
HARNESS AND SADDLERY
Harpham Bros., 833-35 O street.
Harpham, Henry, 122 S. Twelfth St.
Lincoln Saddlery Co., 736-38 O St.
Seifert, Chas., 133 S. Ninth street.
Wittman, H. & Co., 140-42 N. Tenth street.
Woodworth & McFall. 1235 O street.
MANTELS.
Nebraska Mantel & Cabinet Works.
1226-28 M street.
MATTRESSES.
The Western Mattress Co., 641-43 L street.
PACKING AND PROVISIONS.
Lincoln Packing & Provision Co., West Lincoln.
The Cudahy Packing Co., Seventh and L streets.
PAINTS AND COLORS.
Globe White Lead & Color Co., 305-7 O streets.
Lincoln Paint & Color Co., 811-13-15 O street.
PAPER BOXES.
Lincoln Paper Box Factory, 133 N. Twelfth street.
PAPER.
Lincoln Paper Mills, 736-38 O street.
PATENT MEDICINES.
Eureka Rheumatic Remedy Co., 1033 N street.
Railroad Pain & Remedy Co., 1429 O street, S. A. Pratt.
PATTERNS AND MODELS.
Crandall's Patern & Model Works,
121 S. Ninth street.
PLANING MILLS.
Capital City Planing Mill, N, between Eighth and Ninth streets.
Lincoln Planing Mill, M, between Seventh and Eighth streets.
Nebraska Planing Mill, Twenty-first and Y streets.
POTTERY.
Lincoln Pottery Co. First and H St.
SHIRTS AND UNDERCLOTHING
Capital City Shirt Factory, Tenth and O streets.
Lincoln Shirt Factory, 1008-10-12 O street.
SOAP.
Carr's Soap Works, West Lincoln.
STOVES, RANGES AND FURNACES.
Hall's Stove & Range Co., West O street.
Lincoln Stove & Furnace Co., A street and Folsome avenue.
SUSPENDERS AND BRACES.
Eagle Brace Co., 120 N. Fourteenth street.
TALLOW AND LARD.
Oberne, Geo. & Co., West Lincoln.
TRUNKS AND VALISES.
Lincoln Trunk Factory, 1133 O and 809 P streets.
VINEGAR, CIDER AND PICKLES.
Ariens & Ecker, 116 S. Thirteenth street.
Lincoln Cider & Vinegar Works, 931 Pine street.
Wilson Vinegar Works, West Lincoln.
WAGONS, BUGGIES AND CARRIAGES.
Camp Bros., Tenth M streets.
Camp, D. W. & Son, Sixteenth and O streets.
Roman, C. J., 127 to 135 S. Fifteenth street.
BUSINESS. Business per year. Capital invested. Persons Employed.
Packing and provisions...........$3,300,000 $230,000 [1?0]
Brick and tile..............................550,000 425,000 10
Flax seed mills............................500,000 75,000 [?]5
Harness and saddlery..................400,000 165,000 100
Blank books and binding.............400,000 125,000 95
Agricultural Implements.............380,000 1[?]5,000 225
Flour and mill stuffs...................360,000 130,0000 60
Candies and confectionery...........310,000 15,000 25
Stoves, ranges and furnaces.........200,000 150,000 100
Paints and Colors........................170,000 55,000 36
Ganite, marble and stone
coating..................................167,000 68,000 85
Planing mills...............................150,000 78,000 120
Crackers.....................................150,000 75,000 85
Electric Works.............................150,000 25,000 20
Boilers, engines, and
machinery............................150,000 60,000 26
Cigars and tobacco......................120,000 15,000 24
Pottery........................................100,000 25,000 25
Foundaries...................................85,000 90,000 70
Wagons, buggies and carriages......85,000 55,000 53
Carriage and buggy tops...............75,000 90,000 60
Artificial stone.............................60,000 3,000 14
Paper...........................................60,000 60,000 16
Mattresses...................................50,000 10,000 25
Suspenders and Braces.................50,000 20,000 20
Cornace and ornamental works....50,000 2,000 21
Shirts and underclothing..............35,000 7,000 25
Tallow and lard............................30,000 5,000 4
Food............................................30,000 20,000 10
Vinegar, cider and pickles.............25,000 10,000 11
Truncks and valices......................25,000 7,000 8
Mantels.......................................25,000 5,000 10
Patent medicines.........................25,000 14,000 22
Bottling works..............................20,000 12,000 13
Brooms........................................15,000 4,000 17
Paper boxes..................................15,000 16,000 40
Patterns and models......................10,000 5,000 3
Cooperage.....................................5,000 2,000 7
Total............................................$3,126,000 $4,281,000 2079
Lincoln Beats Chicago.
Lincoln stands 51st among the cities of the United States. In percentage of increase she stands third at 326.76 per cent. Omaha is first 357.19 per cent and Los Angeles second at 349.82 per cent. Chicago at the age of Lincoln had about 300,000 people, while Lincoln has 55,000. In 1830 Chicago had 70 people; in 1850 she had 29,963. Up to date Lincoln has beaten Chicago's record badly.
Beside the Platte.
For the CALL.
Across the hills the sunset rays
Shine purple through the autumn haze;
The cattle hasten one by one.
Well knowing that the day is done;
They troop down thirsty to the brink
And of the limpid waters drink-
And as they drink
We stand and chat
In idleness
Beside the Platte.
With rippling sound the water low
Reflects the amber sunset's glow.
While touched with mellow autumn light
The hills stand forth in sunshine bright;
The golden rod and sumach red
Bend low beneath the cattle's tread-
With happy hearts
We stand and chat
In idleness
Beside the Platte.
The sun is set-Its splendor gone;
The shadows deepen; day is done.
The cattle long have drinked their fill
And strayed back slowly o'er the hill.
Yet still we watch the closing day
Drop into twilight still and grey;
While hand in hand
We stand and chat
In idleness
Beside the Platte.
STREET RAILWAYS.
Electricity Furnishes Rapid Transit Everywhere.
The Over-Worked Driver and the Long Suffering Mule Fade Into Memories.
Modern Motors.
For several years the subject of electric street railways to take the place of horse and mule transportation, has been agitated, and this agitation has within the past few months culminated in results that are extremely gratifying to the patrons of the street car service as well as all citizens interested in the welfare of the capital city. Several railway corporations took active steps in this direction several months since, a number of electric cars and many miles of service is already in use and work is being pushed as rapidly as possible and it will be but a few months before Lincoln will enjoy a complete and handsomely equipped electric railway system, and the horses and mules who have patiently, and slowly, furnished the motive power for the transportation of citizens to and fro, will succumb to their electric rival and seek new fields of usefulness.
THE LINCOLN CITY
Electric road was the first to inaugurate the movement under the management of G. A. Bush and Geo E. Bigelow, who own the controlling interest in the road. They put in an electric plant with a substantial power house at Twelfth street and Vance avenue just south of the Buggy Top company's new building, and built about four miles of track extending from Thirteenth and O streets to North Lincoln, and about the middle of October commenced running regularly with a twenty-minute service each way. Their patronage has been good from the start and the line has been extended two miles further. Their immediate success convinced them that electric cars are what Lincolnites demand and steps were at once taken to further their system and arrangements are now complete for the consolidation of the Lincoln City Electric line with the Capital Heights line, a horse railway extending from Twelfth and O to Randolph
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COFFMAN BROS., BROWN BROS., OYLER & COCHRAN, A. D. KITCHEN-Erected 1890.
and Fortieth streets. A now track is now being built over this route with an E street branch, and handsome cars are being placed thereon as fast as the ex-extension of the road permits. This road will be pushed to completion as rapidly as possble and it will be but a very short time before this five and one-half miles of road will furnish its patrons a ten minute service in as handsome cars as can be found in the land. This company will then have about twelve-miles of road in active operation. The management has already spent over $125,000 in the construction and equipment of this road and when their line is fully completed at least a quarter of a million will have been spent.
THE LINCOLN STREET RAILWAY.
Company which operates 17 miles of road in some of the very best territory in the city, could not afford to be behind in the adoption of the electric system and has perfected all arrangements for furnishing the city with an electric system that will be second to none in the country. They commenced operations by purchasing the Standard Street Railway of of Brown Bros. This road is popularly known as the Wesleyan University line and is over six miles in length. They will also extend lines to Bethany Heights and Union college and by the first of September expect to have forty miles of road fully equipped and in active running order. Work is to be commenced at once on this line and thirty miles of the road will be in operation by the first of May.
The power house at Eighth and K streets is nearly completed. It is 90 by 150 feet and will with the machinery in place, cost about $100,000. It will be equipped with 3,000 horse power steel safety boilers, four 125 horse power automatic compound engines and four 125 horse power generators and the machinery will be so arranged that the power can he doubled if necessary. The first order will be for thirty-five motors and fifty trailers, and that order will be supplemented in a short time. The motors will have a capacity of from thirty to forty horse power and can easily carry four loaded trailers if desired. The cars will be of the very best make and will be finished with polished hard wood and nicely upholstered. The storage house for the cars will occupy a vuarter of a block and will have a machine shop in conjunction where all necessary repairing can be done without the usual tedious delay and it will be so equipped that entire new cars can be built from the ground up. The first estimated cost of the new undertaking was half a million, but if all is done as now intended these figures will be greatly enlarged.
A new and progressive feature of this line will be the establishment of four special trains to be run on all occastions where additional transportation will prove of benefit to their patrons. Each of these trains will consist of a forty horse power motor car and two open 26-foot cars with a seating capacity of 300. These trains will be used on all special occasions, such as ball games, fairs, Fourth of July, circus days, etc., and will be run entirely independent of the regular cars, which will run as usual. These trains will so accommodate the public as to avoid the usual jam on the regular cars. At the breaking-up of a ball game or anything of a similar nature the four trains will be in waiting and with their seating and standing room capactiy any ordinary sized crowd can be accompdated all at one time without regard to the regular cars or a moment's wait.
The company expect to have 500 men at work by the first of April and as soon as the track is completed they will employ 200 regularly.
THE RAPID TRANSIT
The Rapid Transit line is owned by John Fitzgerald and while its future has not as yet been made public, it is not probable that with Mr. Fitzgerald's enterprising spirit he will long remain behind the others in the adoption of the electric system.
There are nine miles of the Rapid Transit road in operation, five and one-fourth operated by steam motors and three and three-fourths miles are traversed by the ordinary horse and mule outfits. The steam motors run from Twelfth and Q streets to West Lincoln with a terminus opposite the packing houses. Lincoln Brick and Tile Works, and in close proximity to Carr's soap works. Wilson vinegar works and other West Lincoln industries. The horse car line runs from Fourteenth and U to Twelfth street and thence south on Twelfth to South street. As near as can be learned it is Mr. Fitzgerald's intention to put in an electric plant and furnish a 20-minute or half-hour service to West Lincoln instead of the one hour and ten minutes service now afforded his patrons and a regular city service on the other portions of his road which will also be extended, though in what direction is not yet known.
FINANCIAL
A Solid and Conservative City which Panics do not Reach.
The financial exhibit of the banks of Lincoln from their last reports make a very satisfactory showing. In this connection it must be remembered that in a city like Lincoln where every foot of realty advances upwards of 15 per cent in value per year and where business and residence property proves such paying investments, that money is not deposited, but invested. People of every class invest their money in preference to depositing it. The accumulations and profits from business in a city of the character of Lincoln are at once invested in increasing business, in reaching out for new and wider fields or else it is invested in improvements of property or in peroperties anticipating a rise in values.
The financial figures of Lincoln banks at last report are in totals on capital stock and deposits as follows:
Capital stock of banks.........$1,553,754
Money on deposit...............$3,104,892
In the item of capital stock the undivided profits and surplus on hand at the time of the report are added to the capital stock paid in as part of the working capital. In the line of deposits they include individual and time deposits. The low capitalization of the banks in Lincoln show the opportunity for increase that exists here and the field that will certainly be occupied. Two of the leading banks have arrangements completed for increasing their capital stocks to a million dollars each, but the capitalization of banks in the city will remain therein doing a larger business with its banks than the same amount of capital commands in any other city in the west.
FOR THE SICK.
Where the Sick and Injured Are Cared For.
St. Elizabeth Hospital. Founded by the Catholics- Tabitha Home by the German Church.
Worthy Institutions.
During the fall of 1889 the Catholics of this city decided to establish a hospital and after looking over the desirable locations decided to purchase the Buckstaff residence at Twelth and South streets providing a satisfactory agreement could be made on the price. The property which comprised a fine large house and several acres of choice ground, was appraised at $20,000 which amount would have been paid for if it had not Mr. Buckstaff generously offered to contribute his share towards so worthy an enterprise and his deed to the property was transfered to the board of trustees for $17,000.
The house, which is two stories of brick and frame, was immediately fixed over and at an expense of about $500, was converted into a comfortable and well appointed hospital capable of accomodating sixteen patients. It was opened to the public during the latter part of October of that year and has been so well patronized that the directors have found it necessary to enlarge the building in order to furnish adequate accomodations for the increasing patronage. Accordingly a two story brick addition, 44x66 feet, will be added to the west side of the present building early in the spring. This addition will cost $10,000 and will contain comfortable apartments for forty patients. The old building will then be sused as the home for the sisters, kitchen, dining room, reception room, medical department, &c., leaving the new portion to be entirely devoted to the patients. There will be two wards each for men and women and the balance will be private rooms for patients who desire them. |
