Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 9, 1909, Page 40

TIMELY REAL ESTATE COSSIP| Hundred Thousand Dollars Worth of Property Changes Hands Weekly. AVERAGE MADE IN SMALL SALES New Adaitions Stimulate Buying a Bullding Until 1009 Promises to Break Record for Transfers and Building. Bales of real estate have coniinued throughout the week—active, though mot booming, averaging about §75,000 to $100 per day, #0 far as a record can show the considerations. This is at the fate of 8,600,000 to $4,000,000 per annum, which 18 considered good séliing In cities much larger than O ha. The deals made rep- resent a large n ber, t lary dea No one owning a bullding or vacant property worth over $50,00 appears to be dissatistied With the investment and It is hard for denlers to get property now and then which they t for other cilents and the expanding business district The Payne Investment company started its first excursion to western Nebraska this week, where the company expects to sell 0,00 acres of land before January 1, 190. Returning Saturday, President George Payne wired the office, “Forty-seven Joined our party, sold 1500 acres for 000, This Is on the acre, the price Mr. Payne T Cudahy of the Tri-state Land com pected to get for the land when t tract was signed to open and sell the tracts. Payne & Bostwick opened Baltimore Park addition the last week and scld all but three lots out of a number at South Sixtegnthi and Frederick streets. The ad ditlon proved an exceptionally attractive proposition, lots selling for from $i25 to The tract is three blocks south of South Sixteenth and Vinton streets and will be the scene of buflding activities shortly, as three buyers will bulld at once. Something of the actlvity of Dundee may be judged by the showing made by prop- erty owners this week, when they wanted gas In the blocks between iftieth and Pifty-second streets, on Capitol avnue. A year ago or less there was not a “shanty" on the two blocks. When the owners of the lots asked for gas connections they were enabled to guarantee that twenty. four residences would be using gas from mains lald to the lots by winter. Five of the houses are already erected, five are in the course of construction, while building permits have been taken out for the four- teen other homes to be erected on -Capitol avenue. They wili cost from $3,000 to $6,000. The lots have been sold largely by George & Co. Charles M. Garvey has bought the south- east corner of Thirty-elghth avenue and Cass strects for 33,000, the sale being made by the O'Keefe Real Estate agency. Mr QGarvey is heving plans made for an $5,000 residence which will be started at once. The lot Is one of the cholce corners in O'Keefe's Hillerest addition, which was bought from Dr. E. R. Porter and C. H. Walrath, who platted the addition. V. H. Nichols, A. S. Peck, Dr. Harrlett Lindt and George F. Abbott have bought homes at Iifty-first and Dodge streets where the Payne Investment company has invested $10,000 in the last five months de- veloping the property. The company will new ercct a residence of sardstone quarried at Loulsville, Neb., which will show a number of new ideas in home bullding. ot Alnsworth to Phillp Mensinger of Ains- worth for $6,%0, a cottage in Council Bluffs to Je Lindale of West Point for $3,600, cighty acres of land in Dundy county to e Dean-Andrews company Omaha, | elghteen acres of land on the outskifts of suncil Bluffs to Frank Hekrdle of 1015 Homer street, Omaba, and a 18-acre farm In ders county to B. Lowe of Lincoln for $12,80. With the completion of the enlargement of the club house of “the Omaha Fleld club, preparatory to the opening in May, permanency of these improvements has been noted. This reealls that the club has a lease on tho county property with something like twenty years yet to run, and thus is made. apparent the logic of making these additions and Improvements of such good quality. Looking away into the future as far as the expiration of the field club lease above referred to, It s not difficult to jmagine this beautiful tract filled with handsome residences with wind- ing drives following the contour of the hills. Already on the east, bullt up in four years, 1s & splendid section of fine homes known as the Field club district. Immedi- ately on the north of the club grounds two magnificent residences have recently been completed of striking designs, which indel- Ibly marks that portion as a district for desirable homes with the added advantage of being adjacent to and adjolning the West Farnam district. This all means much to the county property and has changed the situation entirely from one of doubt as to its future disposition to one ot certainty. There will doubtless be a continuation of the same or better class of residences when the time comes for the selling of this property for the benefit of a1l the poople of Douglas county. But who would wish to have the club lease terminate sooner? Centainly none, as long as the grounds are kept in their present splendid condition. WASTED ENERGY HITCHED UP American Inventive Gonlus Extracts Power from Cow's Switch« ing Tail John Dooly of Jacksonville, N. J., has hit upon a plan that will hereafter make “switchtall” cows bring a premium, tead of, as belng unmarket Dooly 18 the owner of a brindle cow that he has been compelled for years to milk himself. His hired men after the first trial of milking the cow refused to remain lon- ger in Dooly’s employ if compelled to put up With the lashing of old brindle's tail. Dooly has tried for elght years to get rid of the cow, but her fame has spread over Essex and Morrls countles, and a pur- chaser for her could not be found. She can snap her tail just like & whip, and the result is that Dooly's face has not been minus several pleces of sticking plaster for vears. Dooly sald: “T have been thinking for some time of using the old brindle's tafl- power to some good effect and at last hit upon a plan, which I have now put into effect with such good results that if any of the farmers around have any “switch- tall” cows they want to dispose of they will find a buyer at the Dooly farm. “I cut a hole through the side of the woodshep,” continued Dooly, “just opposite the circular saw, which we turn by hand © cut up wood In stove lengths, and through the holeT put a beam, which I balanced just ltke the walking beam of a forryboat on the North river. On the ine side end I fastened a stick leading down to the wheel that turns the saw. On the out- side 1 fastened a rope. I tried the thing and it worked fine. Driving @ stake Into the ground near by, I tled the old brindle to it and, fastening her tail to the beam rope, sat down to milk. I called Pat Dugan, the farm helper, and told him to feed wood to the saw. He thought at first [ was crazy, but I ordered him to do as told OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MAY 9, 1909 NEWS OF THE BUSY HOME BUILDERS LiviNG ROooM 12X 146 c DR 516 1 A1 2802, CHAMBERR 2=z DESIGM e 521 SLel |ARTHOR: € G ok OB/ ARC ee FEAT A Pase: e DIAMIAG - ReSA. ey LIVIAG 2 eemm. 12n18 cPorTICO" CRET EXPANDED RETAL STEEL PLASTERING LATH is the fire-proof substitute for the inflammable wood lath. It Prevenis 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 * WESTERN REPRESENTATIVES OF THE NORTHWESTERN EXPANDED METAL CO. C. W. HULL CO. for every home is the Hoover Electric Suction Sweeper You have seen the Hoover Electric Buction Sweeper advertised in the maga- zines, but you have probably never seen it demonstrated. If not, visit Burge: s-Granden - Co's. Exhibit in Booths 1-and 2 at the' Electrical Show, or our representative will call at your home and give a free demonstra- tion at your request. The Hoover sweeps b.y power and cleans by suction. Building the Duplex House Arthur O. Clausen, Architeck. For the first time the Byron Reed com- | “The next minute the old brindle gave addition and sell the | her tall a switch to swipe me across the pany ‘will open an addition an ¢ . x ; B Seanilas o paktial " payemAnt | (A8 ax usual, but she couldn't. The rbpe ots on T‘-l‘: \|:“:‘" A e the” Peit held and she could only switch her tall so l;“ _;m O iret strect, the Boulevard | T Then she tried in the other direction, line and Thirty-first strect, the BOUEWET| with the same rosult. By this time old and South Omaha line, and will be KnoWD | bringie got pretty mad and she jerked as “Summit" addition. Here the company | that tajl of hers back and forth as quick has over four blocks of vacant lots Which | as Jightning, and, s. that' waiking Neam will bo sold $10 down and § per month | kept going at such a rate that you would | gener designed for s th front The highest price lots 1s under $400 BRve NOBEHE the, aifcrilet’waw Wik DAlEL 0T JAeIEned Zor & 'weat or notih fron s The duplex house Is onc of the most popu- | - e - iy ven by a ten horsepower engine. irhe duplex house la one of the most bopu- || plans, details and- specitications ot Suburban property continues popular and | “It just took fifteen minutes to milk old |ing Jine today. T g sl ("4,‘”," £ i DEma LOLeR e o Lulh BN Jiih- the further out it 1s the more In demand, | brindle and, In that time she cut up two | (o bulla than the average two-story house || tHe UthOF of @ well Hlustrated book, | |™e"t !¢ *eldom saustacto from the experiences of the Payno Iuvest- | cords of wood Into stove lengths. No, sir, I | ana Sy g | . Sidd yield twice Zach floor is || THE ART, SCIENCE AN. i ment company, which has sold all but six | wouldnt' take 3500 for that old brindle cow | commonly known s :‘I\;‘\;::x.‘x kn‘:uh‘mn.rm, MENT OF ‘oc,:! -l St COAL GONE IN FIFTY YEARS? of ninety lots in Keystone Park, and thirty | 0w," concluded Dooly.—New York World. |the arrangement is almost identically that | ING. Wt new residences have now been erected. The —— it At el rog s i vl — | Bat Electricity, Generatea with original tract consistcd of 52 acres, and A Bachelor's Reflections. could be used for planning a bungalow If 46 Chapters—200 Illustrations. AIAINE . B8, Wil Keeh this was divided Into acreage tracts of | A man would rather go to jail than to a |one should so desire. One can easily sec b Us Warnt, from two to ten acres. It is west of Ben. |Tecention If he could get out ‘as quick that to bulld two five or six-room bunga- A beautiful and practical book con- P A man's idea of being a devil of a fel- | 1ows on separate jots would o b taining complete information on the “Pittsburg coal will not last longer than 4 low is to bow to some one he knows who [ O™ ° P QR WORIE Dolh PURGN planning und designing of every kind fitty years, allowing, of course, for the is in an automobile with an actress. erable more than to plan one flat over the || of home. It contains extensive articies bable increased consumpti sald Di The George P. Bemis Real Estate com-| What a woman can never understand s | other in the same house, requiring but one on that popular style of home, The - Lgidiaioud e, v RREI., G S pany 18 making a specialty of handling cut- | how other = women can say the mean |lot, one foundation, one roof and one sewer (| & erican. Bungalow, “also the ‘Two. ]| C. White, state geclogist of West Vir-| of-town property, whether it be a farm in | (iNKs about her that she says about|anq water connection into the street. The BUILT FORHWO, HonoalOWS || sinta. @ South Dakota or a hotel n Wyoming, and | "N )y fduplex flat overcomes the serious obje:- || tinetive Character, Planning the Cot- “Persons who don't know may make | this line of business is being developed to | two ways of acting at breakfast the next |tion to the average flat build'ng, wh tage, the Country Home, the Farm | |lht of the fears of geologlsts, but we | a considerable extent by the agency In|morning. Ome is to be very cross, so no- |the fact that the rooms are necessaril B, ”;’;""{,':J‘”J?“?,‘{'.f‘““'\ The ||know how much coal there ts in the coun- | aha. During the week Mr. Bemis |body will date say anything about it: the |arranged In a long row, most of the roo tonsive ilustrated articis on en- by 884, whee Jt- g Thoalnd.. 18, ety the monstrated that the line was eastly | JUSTOS 10 bE SQrY B ,“"‘,5‘,“",‘“‘“‘;,;’1 few | having windows on but one side from which trances, windows, stal present rate of consumption were kept up, | handled when he sold the Osborne hotel | Yor . ¥ | Al places, ‘porches, kitchens, | the Pennsylvania coal flelds would be| York Press. they must depend entirely for light and 4 lair. The gement of a duplex flat || ot t6 do in bhuiid | sxbaustéd in 1P ye4ia. 3o West Virgiole faake it possible 1o Lave every conysn-| 'Umk of Contsa Praciical Sids || We have enoush coal to last for 100 years, | Jence ana advantage of a private home with of Home Bulld » Seatiment of || perhaps a nttle longer. We shall have to | windows on all sides giving light and air || Faid o rerdins o by Bon b Pittsburg, 1 presume, after the and an outlook from all directions. The || all orders to Arthrr ¢ lav sylvania coal gives out. | | butiding of a duplex house, because of the framitmi, St X~ “There Is no necd of alarm for the fu-, fact that it is In nearly every case strictly changs, Minneapolls, Minn ., however. When we have no coal a business investment, | is often neg ected ting purposes, electricity probably | fn many of its most important detalls, the | will take the place of the present fuel. | first being that the owner or real estate |for both flats. If the owner lives in one of | They are making steel in Pittsburg now firm, as the occaslon may be. sometimes | the flats, one heating plant for the entire | by the use of electric furnaces. True these | considers It unnecegsary to obtain the serv- | heating will do, although provisions shouid | furnaces arc not very large, but they have fces of & competent architect, and it is | be made for the easy installation of an ad- demonstrited the practicabl ity of electrcity | a noticeable fact that the homes so con- ditional plant, should he ever desire to dis- | for heating purposes on a large scale. But | structed do not rent near as well as those | Pose of the bullding, for where both fla they also have to use coal for generating M which have been carefully planned and as | are rented out, it is necessary to have in- |the electricity, and here, then, Is another | carefully bullt at no greater expense. | dividual heating plants. Separate coal bins | problem. This will be overcome by water Many people look upon & duplex house as | and separate cellars should also be pro- | power no doubt—by the rise and fall of the the opportunity of bullding a home for the!r | Vided. tides or by the waterfall of streams. | | own use, occupying one of the flats them The entrance to & duplex flat bullding Is “The olg reliroads have begun elecu’l!y-‘ selves and letting the rent from the other | Sometimes Intended to accommodate both | Ing thelr roa and it will be a matter pay the Interest, taxes‘and monthly pay- | fiats and Is sometimes separate ¢ ten years, I believe, when all the ments on the money borrowed to bufld it | baving wrate en‘rances has Its adva allroads in the country will be running It properly bullt they are always ready y are telltale, since ome of the ectyic power: The Pennsylvania is sellers and, unfortunately for the buldiig s o duplex over an ordinary | s line from Philadelphia, and o |many real estate firms put up Quplex t ie that it has the appearance | the 1 York Central is installing the houses to sell instead of to rent them-|of & private home and the more this \rd-rall system from New York City to selves. The writer knows of two square | pearance fs kept and the less the Yonkers. It is only another step to the blocks of duplex houses which were put|nature of the bullding is emphasized the |heating of houses by electricity. That s up with this end in view that are possib'y | better prospective terants Ike it surely coming."'—Washington Herald, not worth but little more than half of the | theke but one entranc price asked for them. The only reason that | vestl from which the priva | poorer material was not put into them is [ branch off. /hile & fireplace Is not at W the fact that they could get nothing poorer. | #-lutely ne , adds an ! Even the paint and varnish used to tem- | feature to th om und It picks up all kinds of dirt, large or small. £ Costs 1 cent an hour to run-and is so simple a child can operate it. Burgess-Gr—anden Company Wholesale and Retail Gas and Electric Fixtures Exclusive Agents in Omaha for Hoover Sweepers 1511 Howard Street. The floor plans accompanying this article | show two different Arrangements for a | duplex house with practically the same ex terlor, the principal difference being that | the plans are for different locations, one belng for an east or south front and th quent street car service than it would N | under reversed conditions. The most prac- THE BEE'S PLAN OFFER tical front for a bullding of this kind is s | | {16 1W0-8tOTy poTtico, since it makes pos- sible a covered porch for the second story Thrr:lmlh -nw;"!m srrangsEIt With flat. While some buildings do not provide r. Clausen The Omaha Bee is able woroh for ehoosd flag . Beet diai mmadery. the ShEulcl & porch for the second floor, requiring ta tenant on that floor to share the porch be- low with the other temant, this arrange- Roofing Tried and Time Tested A durable light weight roofing for fiat or steep surface on Store Buildings, Ware- houses, Factories, Barns, Sheds, Farm Buildings, etc. Applied with a liberal guarantee by a responsible concern. Sunderiand Roofing and Supply Co. 1006-8:10 Douglas Street Phones: Doug. 871; A 1225 a home, the I Is made by the Goodrich Co. All seamless tube. Every foot warranted. Triton, Torrent, Cascade, Whirlpool and Artesian are all big sellers. will point with pleasure to the “Old Home" where they spent their childhocd. They can not do this if their childhood recollections are filled with moving days and different houses, as is the case with the family that rents. Dispeptic Philosophy. Will they know what the word “Home" means, its ot gl eyt RS advantages and the joy and pleasure in striving for and us when we wouldn't accept his attaining it? This home maybe theirs and yours if you take ad- ventage of our easy monthly payment plan. No mare moving. You live in your home while you pey for it Our Secretary will explain our plan. Omaha Loan & Building Assn. S, E. Cor. 16th and Dodge Streets. Geo. W. Loomis, Pres. G. M. Nattiuger, Secy. and Treas, W. R. Adalr, Ass't. Sec'y. Assets, $2,500,000.00. makes aid ventilator a z y 4 here may Goodrich Hose has no competitor, either in price or quality. 8 In kisses, but about Brorze, Pearl art Black Wire Cioth ~ Jas. Morton & Som Co. [l ifaie ciiiniatines in putting up the poor ailding p 9 but expensive detalls, Two things ant of & bartender. 1s incomprehensible. One would nk that | must rot be ov ked. Cne is plenty of | It 18 useless for & man to dream of a | they could easiiy realise that this way of oard spa t ftchen and pantry L‘;,“& v+ gy !': i to0 provd to doing business does not pay in the lons | end plenty of & 00 0loosts: - THAPS! "Tue sian Wio B Alwars.iosking for ‘a lnu. and note the fact that their most suc- | should also be stairway from the | bet seems to overlook the elevator bo cesstul competitors arc the men who bulld | basement to the scoond flo It spare | Who will always take him uj ———————————————————————————————— | (e best homes and bulldings, for there are | roc are tc tinished off fn the attie | Chance shepes our destines, which m autify Your Lawns With Our Wire and iron Fences and Gates | ¢ ‘v with business forcsight en 10 | for the use of servants, the statrway should | Ra°RaVe such mighty poor shapes ” | see the p of building up a poor repu- [be so | & tHeh 1 Wil 50 10 tho thisd | " Den't” trust 100, uah to Lhcanrances Trellises for Vimes, Tree Guards, |tation by bullding and selling improperly | fioor also. Most dup'ex flats are of about | The bleached blonde may have a lght head Lawn_ Vases, 3 r constructed homes and bulldings. | the same size. The dlfference In the rent, | and at the same time a heavy heart Experience has proven that a five or six- | which varies from 33 to 36 aplece fc An overtrained man 15 a d bit | 1 390 to 35 aplece for the | Footary 1002 & Fakewa—el1 S 10 21 | room flat of any kind will bring as much | flats, is due to the difference in location, | |6 48 overtrained dog. = Bometimes =t Clothes Posts, Chicken Fence. pora r up the poor material s of Hardware and Tools. 1511-1513 Dodge St. Reserve, $60,000.00, best hunting dog won't work for a scent. | The fellow who boasts that he n rent as one of seven or elght rooms. Peo- | plan, design, finish and convenlence of the | | tle who live In flats seldom have large | arrangement of the rooms. The location of | takes water should be careful t Send for Catalogus families, since the real estate regulations | the building s a very important faetor. nd himself between the devil and the ) , | require that they all be adults or nearly [ A bullding of this nature will rent for|6¢P sea Bee wan iy should be provided. One laundry will d A‘ n with pleasapt surroundings and fre S¥yers atford 1o take She greaiess obauces l New York Times. s Boost Your Business