Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 6, 1910, Page 38

.4 THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MARCH 6, 1910. TIMELY REAL ESTATE COSSIP Completion of Brandeis Theater Greatest Event of the Week. WARM WEATHER STARTS THINGS Contractors r-olil;'l-ll for Spi Bullding——New Building mnounced for Sixteenth and L mey Streets. Ane the completion of was ended in favor The pretty race for the Brandeis theater of the builders Thursday evening just as the whistle blew for b o'clock. The work men were just as pleased as the owners and as they left the completed job they awarmed around Superintendent Weston, representative of the Thompson-Starrett eompany, contractors, and pinned a huge rosette with a streamer on his lapel It was a strenuous race and for a time three weeks ago It looked like a losing game, so much so that a meeting was ealled of the owners, the lessees, the con- tractors and the architects to decide if the opening should not be postponed. Emil Brandles was present and sald there was to be no question about it, but that the theater had to be done on time, He sald that this firm had so announced and ad- vertised and that they always lived up to thelr advertisements. The race down the home stretch was sarted and It was a strenuous chase. Bullders of Omaha were shown how a bullding might be hustled along when the occasion demandéd. Three shifts of men were put on the job, each shift working elght hours, 5o that there was a complete force of workmen present all the time. warm weather of the last few days has started a large amount of building around the clty. While it has been a little too muddy to begin new excavation jobs, there has been a large amount of activity | on all sides and contractors are preparing for their spring work The Real estato men are interested In the lec- ture which Clirton Rogers Woodruff will deliver Wednesday noon at a joint meeting of the Real Estate exchange and the Com- mercial club. He will speak on the “City Beautiful,” a subject In which all are in- terested. Tuesday evening he will speak on the same subject before the Woman' club at the First Congregational church. The announcement that the Kennedy es- tate will bulld a six-story bullding for a large retall establishment on the southeast corner of Sixteenth and Jackson streets, was read with pleasure by the business men of South Sixteenth street. There i3 a continual strife to force business in sev- eral dircctions from the heart of the city. When the Bennett company bulit at Six- teenth and Harney streets It was a plo- neer in that section. The block south is now completely filled and the 500" block is one of the best known in Omaha be- cause of the boosting efforts of the busi- ness houses in that block. The indication of the way property values are Increasing In Omaha was given last week when T. F. Stroud was forced to pay $15,000 for a ten-acre tract on Com- mercial avenue, which he might have bought three years ago for $5,00. Two years ago he could have become the owner of the property by paying $7,60. Now that he absolutely needs the property to make room for his increasing business he is com- pelied to pay three times as much as three Years ago. Mr, Stroud has nearly doubled bis working force In one year. Last year at this time he employed at his plant #ixty men and now he has 101 on the pay- roll, Dundee residents are still wrestling with the paving problem. They are trying to decide upon a suitable pavement for the streets of Dundee, as well as on Dodge street, along the south side of Dundee. This is now paved with the macadam which the county put down almost a score of years ago. It needs repaving. The commitiee in charge of finding a suitable magerial has about completed its report. Paving has been authorized on @ large number of the streets. The first move toward paving for the year 1910 was made last week by the Omaha & Councll Bluffs Street Rallway company. This was on Cuming street, which is to be repaved from Sixteenth to Twenty-fitth street. The paving has been ordered for some time and last year the paving contractor placed his brick along the way, but no start was made. The street rallway company has now started to pave between the tracks. Hastings & Heyden have completed lay- ing out the Whitted farm, three miles north of Florence, and it will be put on the market as soon as spring opens up. Bighty acres of thls farm will be sold out this spring. The Whitted farm lies along the macadam road running north rom Florence. A great deal of it has fine oak and walnut timber. Most of it, no The Well Dressed Economical Man Who Wants Good FOOTWEAR To the man who is par- ticular and yet economical in his footwear, we have a spe- cial message. Hundreds of Omaha men bear testimony to the fact that we sell the " $3.50 Men’s Shoes NEWS OF THE BUSY HOME BUILDERS ~ KITCHEN, 19x18%10" CravmRR 3axie L_._n,ln;_....__._...,__. SARTHVR C CLAVSEN DESIGN NO 554, ARCHITECT INNEAPOLIS, MINN HE trouble 'with most homes built now-a-days is that they are uninteresting. Practically all of a woman's life and the best part of a man's life s 2 spent in the home, and the way in which the home is designed and planned and what it contains, has a great in- fluence on all who live in it, but especially on the lives and character of the younger genepation. It is natural for a boy to crave variety, excitement and something which will constantly keep him busy and interested, and the reason they wander away from home before they are out of their teens, in search of the pleasures which they feel, as youths they have a right to enjoy, 13 because thelr homes are uninter- esting. A very interesting home came to the notice of the writer some years ago. This home was bulit with due regard to all who were to occupy It, providing some- thing which would contribute to the pleasure and enjoyment of life to each member of the family. Since the family consisted of the man and wife, two daugh- ters and three boys, it can be readily seen that to make this home Interesting for so many was not an easy problem. It con- tained a library well stocked with books, that was patronized by all members of the family, but more particularly by the man of the house. It contained a well equipped, very large, sewing room, with all kinds of cupboards, drawers, wardrobes, etc., for the accommodation of the feminine part of the household. Reallzing that soclal affairs always follow the wake of young ladies a very large living room was pro- vided and the third story was appropriately decorated' and furnished as a small ball- room In the basement, in the space which usualy goes to waste in the average house was provided clear across one end of the room s gymnasium, a bowling alley and in an foom adjoining a billiard table. On the second floor was also a room which the Getting Best Results in Home Building Arthur C. Clausen, Architect. MR. CLAUSEN’S BOOK Sclence and Sentiment of Homebuilding.” 42 chapters, 200 fllustrations and a thousand facts on the planning and designing of every kind of home. It covers a wide range of subjects, In- cluding the planning of bungalows, suburban and city homes, letting contracts, choosing materials, proper design of entrances, windows, fire- places, etc. Price, post paid, $1.00 A monthly supplement, “Practical Homebuilding,” ~sent ‘gratis for twelve months following the sale of the book. Address, Arthur O, Clausen, Archi- tect, 1136-37-38 Lumber Exchange, Minheapolis, Minnesota. boys called the ‘club room,” but which was merely a den, decorated with the hunting trophies and various hobbies of the boys. It is not surprising in a home of this kind, that the father was one of the boys and the mother one of the girls. They took a lively interest in their chil- dren's affairs, and each one of these young men has become a successtul business man and one of the young ladles has married a prominent jurist. - In part of the gym- nasium = small swimming tank, not large enough to swim in, but large enough to flownder in and over this a shower. The house 1s also very well ventilated, both by natural and artificlal ventilation. Of course, all of these attractions cannot be provided for in a very small home. The point being emphasized is that a home, no matter what its size, should contain some- thing of speclal interest to every member of the family. Any home has room enough in the basement or the attic for a billlard table, if the man of the house or his son enjoys this pastime, and any home fifty feet in length can be provided with a | bowling alley. Every home should be pro~ vided with a sewing room of some sort, which can be made a combination sewing room, linen closet and boudoir. Next to making the home interesting lns{ side, it should be made interesting withv out. The Englishman's porch is his gar- den and this sometimes contalns several acres. In this country, we have gotten {into the habit of bullding a covered porch on one side of the house, and confining all our outdoor pleasures to it. Little varlety can be obtained, however, in the outdoor pleasures on a front porch. There lies close to nearly every clty large tracts of land used for farming purposes, within walking distances of street cars, which can be pur- chased by the acre, for less than one would pay for a city lot, and which would be | ideal locations for interesting homes. The | American idea of doing everything in the shortest time and with the least incon- venence, has been carried to undue ex- treme, with the result that as a mild re- actien, People are coming to build thelr thelr homes out away from the smoke and dust of the city and the clang of the street cars. This is more noticeable in the con- servative east than in the dashing west. A home located beside a lake offers many attractions for all members of the house- hold, such as boating, swimming, sailing and in the closed season, ice boating and skating. A large lawn always adds to the source of pleasure of the household. Merely to sit on the velvety grass under the shade of a tree is a pleasure which can only be realized by experience. 1If the premises are of sufficient size, & tennls and croquet court can be provided. All these things have been mentloned with no reference to the design of a home. To be pleasing and give one the fullest enjoyment of the pleas. ures of sight, a home must not only be in- teresting in its arrangement and accommo- dations, but attractive in its design. To possess something which 1s beautitul is al- ways a pleasure, Omaha Mail Clerk Injured in Wreck Paul Cramer of Omaha Hurt on De- railed Rock Island Train— Bluffs Man May Die. SMITH CBENTER, Kan, March 5.—~While running thirty-five miles an hour, the Chi- | cago, Rock Island and Pacific passenger | train west-bound from Chi 0 to Denver, was deralled two miles east of here early today and five coaches were burned. The passengers all escaped serfous Injury Three mail clerks, Henry Pink of Council Bluffs, Ia.; Willlam East, Beile- | ville, 11, and Paul Cramer of Omaha were injured. A broken rall is supposed to have caused the accident. The locomotive leaped the ditch alongside the track and stopped thirty feet away, right side up. The engineer and fireman remained In the cab and were only s!lghtly brulsed. The mail car, baggage and express car, | a steel chair car and one Pullman and the dining car were deralled. The deralled cars took fire destroyed with thelr contents. Only shell of the steel coach remains. There was no time to save the malls or express, but the passengers, mall clerks and traln crew were taken from their cars before the flames reached them. Mall Clerk Pink probably will dle. and were the Paul Cramer, according to the city dirce- tory, lives at %15 Jackson street. 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The room will be partitioned and arranged to sult the needs of the tenant. water and janitor service furnished by the Apply to R. W. Baker, Supt., Bee Business Office. Available April First. Make your. sélections from the C“WALK-OVERS'’ at ‘the WALK-OVER SHOE STORE 314 SOUTHE 15THE STREET. ED 8. TRO) N, Walk-Over Man. £ L m Agenoy. Lawn Fence fifi!"i it i ‘We are prepared to put up any kind of Iron Fence made. See us for plans, de- signs, ete. Anchor Fence Co. 205-207 North 17th Street, Omaha, Neb. Flub Laundry building on Farnam street doubt, will be sold to gardeners in five or ten-acre tracts An addition is to be bullt to the Puritan- and Twenty-seventh, the cost of which is to be about $10,000. A paint factory for Omaha is planned by the new Ploneer Glass and Paint company. an organization of local men who have bought the business and good will of the Kennard Glass and Paint company. The officers of the new company are W. L. Yetter, president; Lee W. Kennard, vic president; G. C. Cunningham, treasurer, and Kd Smith secretary. The business which was sold is quite extensive, having been bulit up by Mr. Kennurd during the forty vears he has lived in Omaha. Mr, Kennard will retire entirely from the busi ness. COUNTY BOARD STANDS PAT of Sum Demanded The Board\of County Commissioners and the directors of the Elkhorn drainage dis- in the city. For style, wear, and general appearance, our $3.50 Men's Shoe s a world beater. We have them in several styles and leathers, and in addition, bave a staft of expert fitters to assist you. Drexel Shoe Co. 1419 Farnam St. trict met together and locked horns over the amount the couuty shall be assessed to pay for dralnage. The district thinks the county ought to pay on 12,000 units at $1 per unit. The commissioners say that 'the county owns only one-fiftleth, or 3,000 units, of the total acreage Included and should be assessed only -$3,000. Each side stuck to ite guns for a long time and finally the commissioners passed a resolution that come what may they will pay no more than $,00. The matter bids fair 10 get into the courts. When you want what you want when you want it, say so through The Bee Want Ad columna. NAROONED PASSENCER HERE| First Train to Penetrate Western Snowslides Reaches Omaha, FOUR DAYS IN THE MOUNTAINS Avalanches Held Portland Special in | the W es Waiting for Uncer- tain Supplies of Provisions —Detouring Traffic. Harrowing tales of destruction of prop- erty and loss of life in the snowslides of Washington and Idaho were told at Union station Saturday afternoon by passengers on the Portland special, the first train to reach’ Omaha from the coast sincé Mon- day. The first section of the marooned train reached the city at 1 o'clock, bringing pas- eugers from Seattle and Portland. There | were no Omaha people on the train who boarded the train west of Ogden. The Port-| land sleeper, however, was In charge of | Conductor C. E. Berry Twenty-fifth street. “It is possible thers may be some Omaha | people on later sections,” said the conduc- tor. “Another train is behind us about five | hours, bringing many passengers who were held up west of Ogden.” George S. Clark of Chicago was one of the passengers in the Portland sleeper He left Portland Sunday morning and should have been in Omaha Tuesday aft- ernoon. The train has been delayed just tour days. “Our train was held up for nearly three of 136 North| days between Nampa and Mountaln Home, Idaho," said Mr. Clark. *Beyond the in- convenlences expected from the delay there | that.” | toured to the coast by way of Portland. greatest trouble, of course, was on the Great Northern line near Wellington, Wash., where an entire train was buried under an avalanche and over 100 persons Killed. “At Glenns Ferry we were held up again by snowslides. Not until we reached Og- den, however, did we hear the fate of the Great Northern train, which left Portiand the same time as ours.” “We were obliged to remain in the cars during the three days near Mountain Home. At first it seemed as though we | were doomed to starvation, but the rail- | road company managed to forward sup- | pltes from Nampa, and we were well cared | for in the dining car. “W. J. Woleben of Portland, other Pullman conductor on the train, | left the train at Omaha. ““There were no Omaha people on the first section,” he sald. “However, there are several sections on this train, the Los Angeles Limited and the Overland Limited following us. There may be Omahans on was an- He Until the Southern Pacific lines are put in shape the Union Pacific tralns for San Francisco and Los Angeles will be de- FALL ON SIDEWALK FATAL Willlam H. Bone Who Fractures Dies at Russell in Le Ho: —_— Willlam H. Russell, 3 years of age, died at Immanuel hospital Friday night. Mr. Russell fell on a slippery sidewalk recently and fractured a bone in one of his legs. Complications set in that caused his death. He leaves a wife and two children, living at 1613 Corby street. The body will be taken to Oakland, Ia., for interment. Persistent Advertising Is the road to Big was no suffering aboard the cars. The Returns. “A Woman's Pride” T TR It Is a Woman's Pride and ambition to keep pace with the latest fashion in her dress, and we have made it a study to suit milady in all kinds of Foot Wear and devise new and pleasing shapes and pat- terns in order to make the shoe a thing of beauty and a finished work of art, and gsend forth a creation in leather that is the embodi- ment of the highest human skill in shoemaking, which is our delight and pleasure to sho wyou. 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