houses. with the largest seating capacity, to be found in any city of like population. George Bartenbach is owner and under his wide-awake management, the amusement loving people of Grand Island are enabled to witness performances by the ablest talent on the stage. No city between Omaha and Denver is visited by as many first-class attractions.
The industries of Grand Island are numerous and varied. It is known throughout America as the place which gave birth to what promises to become the greatest industry of the western half of the United States--the manufacture of beet sugar. It was a happy day for Grand Island when Henry T. Oxnard, after expending thousands of dollars in an experimental way in various sections of the United States, selected Grand Island as the point where the practicability of manufacturing beet sugar in the western hemisphere should be demonstrated. Buildings were erected and costly machinery imported at an outlay of a half million dollars and from the outset the enterprise has been successful. 
The works have now been operated two seasons, turning out about 1,000,000 pounds of granulated sugar in 1890 and 2,000,000 pounds in 1891. Three thousand acres of beets are grown and consumed by the factory each year, which besides being the most profitable crop our farmers produce, furnishing employment for many more boys and men than can be found in any community. Last season it was necessary to import laborers from the eastern part of the State.
The Grand Island Canning Company also have a splendid plant, which has been operated for several years. Forty thousand cases of corn and 12,000 cases of peas were canned during the season of 1891, and employment was given to an average of 300 people. The product of 2,500 acres of peas and corn was required by this institution.
The car shops located in Grand Island are the most extensive in the State, and were erected at a cost of $350,000. Hundreds of men are employed and no other feature adds more to the population of the city.
Besides the important industries named above, we have: foundries, cigar factories, broom factories, flour mills, brick yards. a soap factory, brewery, creamery, steam dye works, and dozens of other manufacturing institutions which add to the wealth and prosperity of the city, and furnish employment for thousands of people.
GRAND ISLAND MILL AND ELEVATOR.--This elevator is one of the most successful and admirably conducted in the State. It is new, with every modern convenience and commenced operations November 1, 1891. The elevator capacity is 19,000 bushels, and the mill runs 100 barrels per day. They make both wheat and rye flour and have a large merchant milling trade. The mill is well located, on the railroad track, and has ample platform space for loading wagons. Under first-class management, the company has established a good name for reliable and prompt methods. It is popular among the farmers of a large section and is a credit to the industry of our State. Mr. C. A. Peterson, the manager, is the right man in the right place and active in the conscientious discharge of his duties. He is a native of Germany, has been in this business all his life and lived in Nebraska thirty years.
A. H. WILHELM. Railroad and Steamship Ticket Broker, Real Estate, Loans, Insurance; 1121 South Locust Street, Opposite Postoffice.--An important personage is A. H. Wilhelm, who has been in Grand Island twenty years. He is an extensive railroad and steamship ticket broker, and is a member of the American Ticket Brokers' Association. Notary Public; dealer in real estate; loans on city and farm property a specialty; conveyancing done reliably and carefully; agent for the best fire, lightning, tornado and accident insurance com-
panies; collections in this and foreign counties promptly attended to; ocean tickets for all the principal European steamship lines; drafts and money orders on all parts of Europe; consular transactions attended to; United States passports furnished. He is a native of New York and affiliates with the A. O U. W.'s. By energy and ability in the conduct of his enterprise, as well as by courtesy and fair dealing, he has come to control a lucrative business.
OPERA HOUSE CONFECTIONERY.--Walter Appledorn. Proprietor--One of the prosperous concerns in Grand Island is the Opera House Confectionery, founded five years. Here is a fine location and ample opportunity for the accommodation and suitable display of a large and varied stock of choice confectionery, fruits candies, cakes, etc. He has excellent advantages with the trade and can frequently renew his goods. Mr. Appledorn also supplies wedding parties balls picnics and church festivals with all kinds of fine confectionery, cakes, ice cream and kindred delicacies. He is a native of Denmark and has lived in Nebraska fourteen years. He is a manufacturer of candies and Saratoga fruit flavoring, which is being thoroughly introduced as a fine drink all over the country.
H. T. JUL. FUEHRMAN, Architect. Superintendent and Practical Designer--Mr. Fuehrman has achieved an enviable reputation since he established here, seven years ago, and has carried through many contracts for the planning of public and private buildings, and is prepared to promptly furnish plans and specifications for every description of buildings. He built the sugar factory at Chino, California; Norfolk, Nebraska; and Grand Island, Nebraska. References, among many others: Nebraska Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, Buffalo County Court House, St. Mary's Catholic Church. City Hall, Grand Island, A. H. Baker residence, Grand Island, Michelson Block, Grand Island, Oxnard Beet Sugar Factory. Mr. Fuehrman is a native of Germany and is an A. O. U. W. He graduated from the Polytechnical College, Brunswick, Germany, in 1881.
HY. SCHLOTFELDT, Manufacturer of Fine Cigars, Third Street--An important branch of commercial activity, and one deserving of especial mention in our work, is Hy. Schlotfeldt's, Third Street. He has been founded eleven years and occupies premises 18x60 feet in dimensions. Three hands are employed. Mr. S. is a native of Illinois and is an A. O. U. W.. M. W. A. and a Mason. He is prominent in local trade circles, where he is numbered among the city's deservedly successful men.
DILL & HUSTON, Loan Brokers, Real Estate and Insurance.--The magnitude of the real estate interests in this city, and the incessant activity in the market, have enlisted the services of many responsible men. Dill & Huston have been established three years. They conduct a large enterprise in the purchase sale and exchange and renting of property managing estates and in negotiating loans or bonds and mortgages. Houses rented for non-residents, and taxes paid. J. E. Dill, notary public, and S. C. Huston are natives of Delaware and Ohio, the former being a K. P. They are both old citizens, and it is noteworthy how these two enterprising men have clung together since their earliest days, when they first clerked together.; after which, they were four years together in the confectionery business here, previous to the present enterprise.
GEORGE BARTENBACH, Paints, Oils, Glass, Wall Paper, Window Shades. Toys. Notions, Etc.. Opera House Block, Locust Street, Between Second and Third.--Among the merchants of Grand Island, none are worthy of more favorable mention than George Bartenbach, founded in 1880. The spacious premises occupied are 22x60. Mr. Bartenbach is a native of Germany and is an A. O. U. W. He formerly resided in New York for twelve years. He is proprietor of Bartenbach's Opera House of this city--one of the finest theatres to be found in the West. Thoroughly conscientious in all his work, his chief aim is to gratify and please his many patrons.
H. J. GAHAN, Physician and Surgeon. Dietetic and Hygienic Institute, 512 to 515 Weal First Street, Office security Bank Building.--Prominent among the important and useful institutions of the West is the above institute, which, although of a novel character, bids fair, under the able management of H. J. Gahan, the eminent physician and surgeon, to bound into public favor. Herewith we subjoin the institute's leading characteristics which will be of such interest, especially of the working of this peculiar mode of treatment in the human system, to our numerous readers:
The human body, in the course of years, is gradually built up from food taken into the stomach through means of the blood. These fouls make blood, bone, muscular tissue, and all the component parts receive nourishment through the blood and the waste material is eliminated.
Insidiously by development tastes are cultivated in the course of time for certain classes of foods over and above the normal demand of the system that will result eventually in the change of the constituent parts of the blood which will develop and flower in the body into certain diseases that in time become chronic and belonging to that food indulged in.
A microscope, with high magnifying powers, in the hands of an expert, will tell what class of foods that produce the alteration In he circulation resulting in the disease. The physician is thereby enabled by checking and correcting these abnormal desires and tastes in his patient In the course of time, with the assistance of nature, to restore the normal functions of these diseased organs by feeding food of s character diametrically opposite to that which produces the disease.
Under this mode of treatment is brought about the gradual improvement towards perfect health, and the eradication of those diseases that have withstood for years the ordinary course of medical treatment and which is declared by the general profession to be more or less incurable.
Patients coming to this institution are furnished with everything essential to their comfort at prices moderate and depending on the selection of the rooms.
The owner of this concern, Dr. Gahan, has been in active practice in Grand Island for eighteen years, and has held numerous trustworthy positions as professional man in this City and section, many of which he has lately given up, in order the more properly to preside over the institute. The doctor graduated in 1867 from the Galveston Medical College, Texas, and served through the entire war. He has been medical director of the G. A. R., Department of Platte, for four years. He formerly was surgeon here for one end one-half years of the Soldiers' Home; also was assistant surgeon of the B. & H. and U. P. Railroads here for thirteen years; was also president of the pension board here since it was established, and was formerly vice-president of the State Medical Society. Dr. Gahan is prominently identified with the Masons, I. O. O. F's, A. O. U. W.'s and Theosophical society. Thus it is seen he is one of the State's best known and active men, socially and professionally. He is a genial and generous gentleman, liberal in his ideas, a protector of the rights of, a strong promoter of the welfare of and in deep sympathy with, humanity.
