tion with all other Nebraska points. The city has exclusive wholesale houses doing as large a business as any in the State. The trade extends far into Wyoming and Dakota, and includes groceries, hardware. liquors, produce, fruit, grain, lumber, harness and saddlery, oils and drugs. Sixty-six traveling salesmen make Fremont their headquarters and are on the road for Fremont houses. Examination is urged of the advantages the city offers as a jobbing and wholesale centre. There is room for men and money.

FACTORIES.

     Manufacturing interests are already strong. The growth in that direction is of a promising and healthy character. Two hundred thousand dollars have been added to the city's manufacturing capital during the past fifteen months.
     The citizens of Fremont have ever been on the alert to secure the location of new enterprises and manufacturing institutions.
     Every facility and inducement consistent with ordinary good business practice will be extended to parties desiring to engage in any line of manufacturing, be it small or great. Fremont has always given a cordial support to everything of this kind, having subscribed much in the way of stock and bonus.
     Locally speaking, the manufacturing facilities and advantages are of the best. A strong local company, the Fremont Stock Yards and Land Company, have constructed three and a half miles of railroad in the best manufacturing district of the city, affording practically an unlimited number of sites for manufacturing, jobbing and packing concerns and this company offers frontage for manufacturing plants. This belt line is closely connected with all present lines of railroad, and will be accessible to future new lines as well. The supply of water is inexhaustible for manufacturing purposes, and without objectionable properties. The local banks are strong, and have a disposition to pursue a liberal policy with manufacturers.
      Fremont has now thirty five different manufacturing concerns, whose activity is a standing demonstration of the city as a successful manufacturing center. They include a foundry, machine shops and engine works, doing an annual business of 100,000; roller flour mills, capacity 125 barrels per day; creamery, producing 500,000 pounds of butter per annum; fully equipped packing house with capacity of 1000 hogs per day; binder twine factory, with capacity of two tons of twine per day; an immense brewery, capital $200,000, with plant costing over $100,000; two large planing mills, with annual product of $100,000; carriage manufacturing company; large grain elevator works; extensive brick and paving brick works; a manufactory of butter tubs and creamery supplies, employing thirty hands; a canning factory; fence works; a large book and job printing house, and a number of smaller but flourishing industries.
     We want other establishments; there is a rich field here for them. Many of the concerns already in operation would welcome additional capital to meet the growing business.
     We want a beet sugar factory, the coming great manufacturing industry of Nebraska. It would take a thousand large factories to supply the United States with sugar.
     We want parties to engage in the packing, cold storage and general meat business.
     We want a cereal or oat meal mill.
     We welcome factories of all kinds, however small or large.
     Fremont Normal School and Business Institute has an annual enrollment of 800. Fremont is also the location of the Fremont Business College, a thoroughly efficient and prosperous institution; also of the Central Chautauqua Assembly, with fine assembly park and buildings. The city is ever on the lookout to secure educational institutions.
     Fremont is a city of elegant homes, beautiful avenues, fine grounds and shaded lawns. It is variously known as the "Forest City," "Prettiest City in the State," the "City of Homes." There are a half-dozen mansions costing from $25,000 to $40,000 each, and residences by the score costing upwards of $10,000. There are fourteen church buildings in Fremont. The Y. M. C. A. and W. C. T. U. flourish, both having valuable properties worth $8,000 each. Chautauqua circles, musical unions, young people's societies, social clubs, gymnastic societies have large memberships.
     Fremont's population is 10,000, and her growth remarkably solid and persistent. She has all the modern conveniences and advantages:
     The business streets are paved with granite.
     The city is lighted by an ample system of gas and electric lights, both are and incandescent.
     Five miles of street car line thread the more important streets of the city.
     The city has an effective system of standpipe water works, with ten miles of mains, and a very efficient fire department.
     Fremont has one of the finest opera houses in the State.
     Fremont has one of the best court houses in the State, and a fine city hall.
     There are three daily, two semi-weekly, three weekly and three monthly newspapers.
     Fremont has one of the most extensive printing houses in the State, being equipped in the most complete manner with all the largest and latest presses and devices.
     Fremont has a $65,000 government postoffice building under way, ordered by the 1890 session of Congress in recognition of the large business of the office.
     Fremont is the Nebraska division headquarters for the Sioux City & Pacific. and for the south Nebraska branches of the Fremont. Elkhorn & Missouri Valley Railroad. with roundhouses, supply yards. and a large force of dispatchers. operators, clerks and other employes located here. The monthly pay rolls in this connection exceed $10,000.
     Fremont has a clean, active, wide-awake city government.
     Fremont has two beautiful public parks, and

a wealth of fine shade trees throughout the city.
     The Fremont Business Men's Club has a fine suite of rooms fitted up in a highly comfortable manner for the enjoyment of its members and visiting sojourners.
     The city has further:
     Consolidated tank line distributing point.
     Three oil lines.
     Largest creamery in the United States.
     A $25,000 brick kiln.
     Five-story packing house, capacity 1,000 hogs per day.
     Best foundry and boiler works in the State.
     Seven ice houses, capacity 25,000 tons each Patent store shelving manufacturing company.
     One of the largest canning factories in the State.
     One carriage factory.
     One tow mill and twine factory.
     One fence factory.
     One glove factory.
     Four steam laundries.
     Two planing mills.
     Two rubber stamp factories.
     Four loan and trust companies.
     Telephone exchange.
     One first-class roller flouring mill.
     Ten miles of street railway, elegantly equipped and managed.
     Two butter tub factories--forty men.
     One of the largest breweries in the West.
     Four first-class book and job printing offices.
     Nine public school buildings.
     One Kindergarten school.
     Fifteen civic organizations.
     Waterworks with 3,000,000 gallons capacity. Ten miles of water mains.
     Gas and electric light works.
     Streets lighted with electricity.
     Free postal delivery.
     Six volunteer fire companies--largest and best equipped department in the State.
     Fire alarm system.
     The above facts are largely taken from a recent publication of the Board of Trade.

REPRESENTATIVE BUSINESS FIRMS AND MEN OF FREMONT.

     FREMONT BUSINESS COLLEGE.--Henry Clay said, "Young man, qualify yourself for business. The professions are full and the age demands it. Educate yourself for business and you will succeed now and hereafter." The course of instruction imparted at this college fully meets the advice of the great statesman. The president. T. R. Hamlin, is a native of Michigan, and has had large experience of practical business. He discards the idea that a business training can be given in any school but that of real business itself. As the best preparation for that he carries his pupils through a systematic course of study in the science of accounts, bookkeeping and penmanship, in which he exhibits remarkable specimens of what has been accomplished by his students in arithmetic, short-hand, type-writing, telegraphy, etc. Any young person graduating in this college is well prepared for taking a place in actual business life. Since the college was started, in 1889, 600 scholarships have been issued. Besides the regular business training here, they also teach Greek, Latin, French, German. music, drawing, algebra, etc. Below we give a few powerful reasons for attending this school.
     Because we have the best theory room in the State, in point of light, ventilation and general attractiveness.
     Because we have the finest series of business offices in the Northwest.
     Because we have the most elegant reception and recitation room to be found anywhere.
     Because we have the most complete and elaborate equipment of money, merchandise, railroad tickets, freight and express blanks, and all other papers that can be used to add to the perfection of the actual business course.
     Because we do not advertise goods and accommodations not in stock.
     Because all who come and investigate report that our rooms and appurtenances are in every way superior to our representations.
     Because our" Theory of Business" course is as broad and comprehensive as that of any Business College, while our actual business exchange is unapproachable.
     Because we can save you about five dollars a month in tuition and board.
     Because we will give you the business course and the common branches for the rice of one scholarship.

     FACULTY.--T. R. Hamlin, president and superintendent of theory and actual business departments; J. S. Curry, principal of shorthand department; E. F. Potter, A. B., principal of department of languages and academic branches; D. B. Carey, commercial law and English branches; W. J. Biggar, superintendent of department of telegraphy; Miss Nellie McPherson, elocution and physical culture; Eva E. Lee, instrumental music. Mr. Hamlin, the president, has had over twenty years' experience as a teacher, first at Jonesville, Mich.; then in Rochester, Minn.; then in Cedar Falls, Ia.; then in Sterling, Ill., and four years here. He has lived seven years in Fremont, He graduated in 1875, from the college at Madison, Wis. The business department is the finest in the West, of grand dimensions, beautifully lighted, and carpets of the finest Brussels manufacture. The reception room, also, is a commodious room, prettily embellished with numerous fine oil paintings, done by Prof. Hamlin's wife. Taking all things into consideration, the college affords the most powerful inducements to young men and women desirous of fitting themselves with a fine business education.

     W. H. HUNTER, County Judge--Was born in Ohio and is serving his second term as county judge. He has lived here since 1875 and formerly was for three years justice of the peace and in collecting agency. He is generally considered as one of the best judges Dodge County has ever seen and is a bulwark of our city's prosperity.

     FREMONT CARRIAGE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, John Bunt, President. Prominent among our most enterprising industrial concerns is the Fremont Carriage Company, which has been started two years. The premises occupied are 44x100 feet, and ten hands are employed. They are extensive manufacturers of line carriages, phaetons, surreys, top buggies, speeding wagons, delivery, laundry and baker wagons, of all styles to order. They also have a carriage repair department, painting, trimming and ironing. All work guaranteed first-class. Mr. Bunt is a native of Cornwall, England. He was raised in the business and has had nineteen years' experience. He has been in America twenty-two years and is an I. O. O. F. and K. P. By thorough business methods and strict attention to business he has won a large patronage, which is but a reflex of his capable and energetic management.

     DR. CHAMBERS, Veterinary Surgeon.--Among the active men to be found in Fremont is Dr. Chambers, the well-known veterinary surgeon, who has returned from his European trip, and concluded to permanently locate in Fremont. All cases of diseases incident to domestic animals intrusted to his care will have careful attention. Calls promptly attended day or night. A specialty made of horse dentistry; infirmary on F Street, north of Sixth, He has been eight years in Fremont and his success in his business has been remarkable. He is a native of England, where he thoroughly learnt his business and was formerly eminently successful at it for eight years, before locating here.

     S. C. COMAN & CO., Collections, Insurance, Real Estate and Loans; Rear Room Commercial National Bank Building.--Conspicuous among our enterprising real estate firms are S. C. Coman & Co., established November 1, 1891. From the start the business has had a rapid and substantial growth. All descriptions of city and suburban realty are bought, sold and rented, and a general collection business is done. In the insurance department they represent several standard companies, the assets of which aggregate many millions. Mr. S. C. Coman, a native New Yorker, is a K. P. and has been West twelve years. His partner, Mr. Waldo Wintersteen, was born in Ohio, and is a K. of H. They are numbered among the representative Fremont businessmen.

     W. H. MUNGER, Attorney.--One of the best known names at the Nebraska bar, and one of the solid men of Fremont, is the Hon. W. H. Munger. He is a native of New York, and read law with G. M. Barber of Cleveland, Ohio, being admitted to practice in September, 1868. In 1875 Mr. Manger represented Dodge County in the constitutional convention which framed the present constitution. He is a Mason, and is the possessor of a fine library and handsome office, Mr. Munger is generally recognized as one of the finest lawyers in the State. Of an unassuming manner, he is a man of firmness, reads a case up carefully before undertaking it, and has adopted Abraham Lincoln's rule, to charge only those he really benefits.

     PHONOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE, James S. Curry, Principal, Corner Sixth and Main Streets.--Our pen sketches of the leading business interests of Fremont and this section of Nebraska would be very incomplete without due mention of the Phonographic Institution, which, since its inception, has met with marked and most encouraging success. It is eligibly located at corner of Sixth and Main Streets, and has twenty-three pupils. Stenographers furnished. Type-writer supplies. Type-writers for sale or rent. The facilities the institute.

possesses for successfully conducting the business are of a very complete character, enabling them to offer to their constantly increasing pupilage exceptional advantages. James S. Curry, principal was born and raised on a farm in West Virginia, and has lived five years in Fremont.

     H. G. WOLCOTT, Postmaster--The progress of Nebraska, and particularly of Fremont and this section, is shown by the career of such men as the above, whose success is the reward of their own energies. H. G. Wolcott has been postmaster since September, 1889. He is a native of Ohio and has lived in the county since the spring of 1868, and was in the nursery business here for fourteen years. Thus it is that he has grown up with Fremont and helped to give it the prestige to which it has attained. He is a G. A. R. man and served in the 2nd Ohio Cavalry and 19th Ohio Infantry. He has a competent corps of four civil clerks in the office and delivers the mail by four carriers.

     MAGENAU & BRUNNER Dispensing Pharmacists--Were established in 1869, and occupy premises two storied, brick, 22 x 60 feet and the general appointment includes all the modern adjuncts of convenience and utility. An immense stock of drugs, chemicals, patent medicines, druggists' sundries, toilet articles, perfumes. etc., are carried and two experienced salesmen are employed. The prompt and accurate compounding of physicians' prescriptions and family recipes is attended to. Messrs. Magenau & Brunner are natives of Germany and Iowa; they are practical in the business and are indefatigable in their efforts to give satisfaction to all.

     MAJOR JOHN H. SHOWALTER. City Marshal.--Prominent among our useful and enterprising citizens is Major J. U. Showalter, the city marshal. He was born in Virginia and is a Mason, K. P. and a G. A. R., and has an interesting war record: Enlisted 5th of June, 1861 as a private; promoted to captaincy 6th of August, 1861, and to his majority 22d of July, 1862, and was assigned command of regiment (6th Virginia Infantry) 1st of September, 1862. He has lived eleven years in Fremont and was formerly deputy United States marshal seven years. Before he came west, the major, was city marshal at Fairmont. Virginia, and afterwards deputy sheriff of Marion County, Virginia, at commencement of the war. The major is never in anything but a good mood and the good treatment he has received from the world is but a consequence of his always having treated others honestly and rightly. He is also superintendent and manager of the celebrated Showalter Detective Bureau, the advantages of which will he seen as below: Detective work in all its various branches; correspondents throughout the United States and Canada. The Showalter Detective Bureau, Major John H. Showalter. superintendent. References: Hon. G. W. E. Dorsey, ex-member of Congress, Fremont, Nebraska: Hon. Wm. H. Munger, attorney, Fremont, Nebraska; Hon. Ellis L. Bierbower. ex-United States marshal, Omaha, Nebraska; Hon. Brad, D. Slaughter, United State marshal, Omaha, Nebraska; Hon. M. P. Kinkaid, judge of district court, O'Neill, Nebraska. Evidence in civil cases looked up and prepared, records searched missing persons traced, the origin of fires investigated, and all other business in our line satisfactorily attended to at reasonable rates. Merchants and members of the bar can at all times secure the services of reliable and experienced detectives on short notice. Special attention given railroad, express company, bank and other corporation work. The strictest secrecy maintained in relation to matters of a private nature placed in our hands, and all communications by mail or telegraph promptly attended to and treated as confidential. P. O. box, 303.

EUROPEAN HOTEL, Forman Bros., proprietors.-- Our sketches of Fremont's leading business interests would be incomplete without due record of the European Hotel. This house has recently changed hands and been refitted. It is eligibly located on Main Street, between Third and Fourth. Rate only one dollar per day and for this moderate charge and the nice accommodations to be found at the hotel, it is one of the best ant cheapest in the West. The large patronage is constantly increasing and represents desirable hotel custom. The proprietors. Forman Bros., are gentlemen thoroughly conversant with the duties of landlords and during their proprietorship the house has won an enviable reputation.

     FRED W. VAUGHAN. Law Office.--Among the hard-working professional men to be found at the Fremont bar, is Mr. Fred. W. Vaughan. This gentleman is a native of Pennsylvania and was admitted to practice in Lincoln, Nebraska in September, 1881. He is prominently identified with the Masonic Order. Mr. Vaughan prosecutes his cases with a care and assiduity, which deservedly command for him the respect of the fraternity and the confidence of the people.

     F. L. HORTON, St. Louis Meat Market.--It would be a difficult task to mention any business which is of more vital importance to the public than the meat business. Mr. F. L. Horton, the enterprising proprietor of the St. Louis Meat Market, occupies commodious premises. 22x60 feet. He employs three hands and does an elegant business in all kinds of fresh, salt and smoked meats, and as dealer in live and dressed poultry, veal, calves, etc.; game in season. Fresh fish every Friday. He was born in Iowa. He has long been prominent in local trade circles, where he is regarded as a representative and deservedly successful man.

     NESBIT & ROGERS, Dealers in Hardware and Stoves.--Three years ago the extensive hardware and stove business of Messrs. Nesbit & Rogers was established, and during this period a liberal and influential trade has been secured. They occupy premises on Main Street. 25x100 feet in extent, and brick, two stories, one of the handsome buildings of the city. They employ three hands, and are ex-