Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 25, 1909, Page 40

OMAHA SUNDAY BE APRIL o5 For young men—the patterns and. styles say it mogg than ‘,kt'he\ ~label teeity Clothes aren’t. liké any._others— aftersyou £7ozw them you won't lke any others. A bogk of spring fashions worth lots more than the asking sent for a request, shop in évery town. Sold at the best Kuh, Nathan & Eischer Co. The Secret of Saving Saving money is a pleasure if you have a specific object to save for. That is the secret of of sacrifice. saving without a feeling If you borrow money from this Association to build or buy a home, you have a definite object in view. You are not only paying for your home and enjoying its epmforts and pleasures while you do so, but you will assist you in striving for other Our plan is practical. are forming a habit that things. Omaha Loan & Building Assn. S. E. Cor. 16th and Dodge Streets. G..M. Nattinger, Secy. and Treas. W. R, Adair, Ass't. Sec'y. Assets, $2,500,000.00. Reserve, $60,000.00. NEWS OF THE BUSY HOME BUILDERS The power of the future There is no longer any necessity for inconvenience and repairs due to frozen tanks'and pipes. No matter how cold it may be, you can have a constant supply of power 24 hours every day with motors connected to our power lines, No charge for engineering advice. Let us help you. Omaha Electric Light & Power Co. Y. M. 0. A. BUILDING Contract Department, Both Phones. Bad BLOOD “‘Before I began using Cascarets I had a'bad complexion, pimples on my face, and my food was not digested asit should have face. ‘warved. That ‘ceriainly ts fair and Prool in the world that tny treatment a / I'I.' \\ (ROOT wint ! %, it are just as advertised; I two boxes of them," Clarence R. Oriffin, Sheridan, Ind. been. Now I am entirely well, and the pimples have all disappeared from my I can truthfully ng.thn Cascarets ve taken only r Sicken, Weaken or Gripe. ever sold {n bulk. The genu- ped C C C. Guarasiesd to woney back w ADVERTISE IN THE OMAHA BEE BEST IN THE WEST Extravagance is not necessary to good printing. The best work depends upon the good taste and capability of your printer A. L Root, Incorporated, 12101212 Howard Strest Now 1s the time to spray your fruit! We have thew, barrel and thand sprayer. Also French Bordeaux Mixture ready for immediate . use,.and the Hammond Slug Shot for your rose and currant bushes. " THE NEBRASKA ity Bfleoroom 1613 Howard St. SEED CO. Tel. Doug, 1261 “One need not necessarily be rich to give grace and charm to his habitation,” says Charles Wagner in the Simple Life. That is true. In fact, there is more grace, charm and homelike comfort to be found in mod- est homes, properly planned and designed, than fs possible in the palaces of the rich. Why? Because the true home spirlt, the sentiment that pervades a cottage home properly bullt is lost in the soclal scram- ble to outdo a nelghbor or rival million- alre. But—are you going to build right? Are you golng to Invest your several thou- sands in a home which will be lasting joy to you and your family? Are you going to be assured at the start of the greatest possible comfort in the most conveniently arranged and artistically designed home obtainable for the amount you desire to invest? Or, are you going to try and save on one of the least expensive, but the most important items in the construction of the house—the services of an architect; and accept as a substituté one'of the most expensive items you cotild put into a house —a carpenter's plans? If this is your bent of mind, banish the thought. It will prove an expensive un- dertaking, to say the least, and—get right. “Carpenters’ mistakes are always more ex- pensive than architects' plans.” The best contractors fully realize this fact and In- varlably ask prospective customers to ob- tain a good set of architects' plans, that they may glve them the lowest price on the work and properly execute it. Now and then some man trles to bufld hix house without plans. Have you no- ticed the usual result? Have you noticed in what an irregular manner the work pro- ceeds? Have you noticed how many mis- takes are made and how much work Is torn down and done over, all because of a lack of proper plans for guldance and @ systematic arrangement of detafls? Have you noticed how long It takes the foreman to lay out the work and how slow the workmen were to comprehend his orders? Have you ever stopped to consider what the time so spent at the prevalllng wage scale was costing the owner? Also have you noticed that the second time a man builds he almost without excaption obtains complete plans? Would you try to have a plece of machinery made without com- plete drawings of all its working parts No. Then why try to erect that most complicated structure, a modern house, which involves not only Important struc- | tural problems, but has an artistic ele I ment to consider as well, without em | plete wrking plans? Properly drawn plans | will save on the cost gf the house, fore- stall the needless carée and worry over detalls and accomplish the building of a home that is strong and pleasing to look upon, in a systematic, labor saving man- ner. Furthermore, completely drawn plans will enable the owner to take competitive bids on the work, thereby saving on the cost, and let his contract on a business- like basls, knowing at the start just what h: will get in the finished structure A contractor in visiting me expressed this ‘uy.\uhm He was having trouble with his | client over his own plans. “If all pros- home bullders could only be made alize the Importance of having good plans to bulld from there would be less unwarranted suspicion cast upon pains- taking contractors, less complaint about \Hu- ‘everlasting extra: and more beautiful and salcable hohes. I know It to be a fact that every first class contractor in | this city has built his own home from) IN CHICAG our secretary & supply of the latest and most put in masonry. Prices low. Room. duriug the past weelk, dreds of beautiful Brick Residences and arranged for See the Brick in our Display QE=21 - DL/ ~ooz-brsiAtT TR TTASTHD Know That You Are Right When Building Arthur O. Clausen, Architect. THE BEE’S PLAN OFFER D I Through a special arrangement with Mr. Clausen The Omaha Bee is able to ‘offer its readers the complete plans, details and specifications of the home flustrated on this page with- out change for $10. Mr. Clausen Is the author of a well fllustrated book, THE ART, SCIENCE AND SENTI- MENT OF HOME BUILD- ING. prosruci \ 46 Chapters—a00 Illustrations. —_— A beautiful and practical book con- taining camplete fnformation on the planning and designing of every kind of home. It contains extensive articles on that popular style of hom: American Bungalow, also t Story Bungalow, <BUNG BUILT FOR TWO; Homes of Dis- tinctfve Character, Planning the Cot- tage, the Country Home, Homes for Duplex House, e tensive lllustrated articles on _en- trances, windows, stalrways, fire- places, porches, kitchens, pantries, cement construction, articles on what not to do in building a home, the Let- ting of Contracts, the Practical Side of Home Bullding, the Sentiment of Home Buflding, ete.. ete. Price, post paid to readers of The Bee, $1. a all orders to Arthur (C. Claus architect. Studlo, 1013 Lumber Ex- change, Minneapolls, Minn. al Places, here are architect's plans.” In selecting your archi- tect be sure you find eombined in him a rare degree of artistic talent with a thorough knowledge and grasp of practical detals, The first and most important part of the house to is the floor plans. No house can be skill- fully and correctly planned without carry- ing in the mind a mental picture of the finished house while planning, but plans, the arrangement of the rooms, their size and convenience, their relation to each other and to the external surroundings of the house are items which should always be considered paramount. Strange to say the planning of a house is the hardest part of the drawing of it. When the plan is satisfactorily arranged, the design will in nearly every case be at least acceptable There are but few really skiliful house planners among architeets, and yet this is the part of the work that tife averag house buflder thinks he can handle satis- factorily himself. Some of the most fam- ous architects In ‘America, men names and works are known to every quar- ter of the country, men who are recognized authorities on.all subjects of artistic or structural design sometimes fail utterly when it comes to planning a simple tage. The principal reason for this is not Incompetence, but lack of enthusiasm Without sympathetic and enthusiastic operation with a man and his family who is planning & home no architect can suc- ceed as a designer of houses. The reason for this lack of enthusiasm on the part of some architects is principally th tion. As long as an architect ke the little mon: whose cot- renumera- in mind he gets for planning a home as comp: with the commission he ives on larger work for the same amount of time and labor he cannot put the heart and enthusiasm into his work Have you seen the Doy This Beautiful Building is built of our No. 110 Oriental nia? Face k. Can furnish same q too. Eee Brick. ) inspected hun- attractive Face Brick ever sider when preparing to build | the | Svnde ONDERLAND o‘:'lfi]‘lflARNEYS’[{- that is necessary to properly plan and de- sign a home. That architect who finds a jby and holds a pride in properly designing a home for a man to whom the bullding of a home is an effort as well as a pleasure is invariably successful as a planner of homes. In other words, there is something | besides skill and experience required in the planning and buflding of a home. That something is—sentiment. Young architect— take this for vour motto, print Is on o card and placg it above your drawing table: | “It is my ambition to fill America with beautiful Fomes" and entirely forget that other motto, too often drilled Into student | [ architects by short sighted employers—"get | {1t out and get your money." Now, mind you, I do not mean that the unskilled, unemployed or student architect is the most apt to set out the proper de- sign because of more time on his hands to devote to the work. Select the wsy ar- chitect, select the skilled archi but select the right one. A preacher of ma- tional fame once asked all the men in his congregation who were tep busy to tuke care of the affairs of a certain committee, to stand. From among those who stood he selected three and placed them on the | committee. Hls explanation of this was that “one may get sick and another leave town, but we'll get the work done.” It Is the busy people who do things and do things right. If skill is all that Is re- quired to plan a home then a modern flat building ought to be a paradise of homes. But have you ever heard a man gonsole himself as he climbed the last fiffnt to the fourth story with the fact that he was { nearer heaven than the man whose cot- tage chimney he could look into? 1 think not, and yet one of the greatest achieve- ments of ent day architects Is a mod- ern flat. “A complete home,” as one man expresses it, “In a space hardly wide enough for & dog to wag his tail.” The writer can go him one better. He has been told that some people have to go out doors | when they want to smile because they live ina flat. They are to be pitied whose cir- cumstances require them to live as modern cliff dwellers in one of those human ke nels called a flat. They are probably the most complete homes known but are ut- | terly devold of all the fine sentiments that g0 to make up the true home. | The easlest, most satisfactory, cheapest | and only practical way of building a home | is first to have a complet | drawn and specifications covering all parts | of the work in an accurate and technical | | manner not onlv enabling you to take com- | petitive bids from several bullders and | thereby greatly reducing the cost of the house, but also dssuring you from the start | the possession of a strong, warm and beau- tiful home, set of plans The building of & home is too important a matter to place in the hands of the most | honest builder without knowing just what he is going to give you. In the bullding of a home, not only are there important structural problems to work out but there 1s an artistic element to consider as well It lished as a fact that an accurately drawn complete set of plans and detatls will save their cost in an actual saving of the foreman's time on the job while laying out the work, to say nothing | the satisfactory results obtained through the systematic arrangement of detalls. It you can afford to bulld at all you can af- ford to bulld right has been = o —— le Residence at 38th and Califor- uality and kind in lighter shadés, land for Artistic Face It Prevents Cracking and Falling of Plaster on Walls and Ceiling. Adopted by the U. S. Govern- ment and used everywhere in {all good buildings. Write for circular. NORTHWESTERN EXPANDED METAL CO. 84 Van Buren Street, CHICAGO % ool | ¢ '. WESTERN REPRESENTATIVE C. W. HULL CO. BUILDING MATERIALS 1503 Farnam Street. Omaha, N Tried and Time Tested A durable light weight roofing for fiat or steep surface on Store Buildings, Ware- houses, Factories, Barns, Sheds, Farm Buildings, ete. Applied with a liberal guarantee by a responsible concern. Sunderiand Roofing and Supply Co. 1006-8-10 Douglas Street Phones: Doug. 871; A 1225 20% Discount Sale 20% EVERY DAY UNTIL MAY IST ON Lighting Fixtures Homebullders should immediately take ad- vantage of this big speclal offer of a 20% discount on all purchases made before May 1. It's a big opportunity—make your selection, compare our price with that charged else- where and then we will chop off just 20%. You don’t have to take the fixtures as soon as they are bought. We will keep them here for you until you are ready to have them hung. Just buy before May 1st and save 20%. An iron-clad guarantee as to workmanship and material goes with everything we sell and you may have your money back it not satisfied. 5‘ Omaha Lighting Fixture Co. 417 Seuth 15th Street, Omaha We have recently added to our already large list the Agencies of some of the finest Press Face and Enameled Brick in the country. Our show room has been moved to the ground floor where it will be more convienient for inspection by Architects, Contractors, intending Builders and others. We are now better equipped than any firm West of Chicago in this line, and our facilities for furnishing these brick are unexcelled. We feel, therefore, no hesitancy in soliciting a gener- ous share of your brick business, and invite an early inspection. C. B. HAVENS & CO. 1805 Farnam Street. Omaha. Both Phones. 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