Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 27, 1916, Page 7

v - < el e MOVING AND STORAGE DELITY &iNi& FREE Phone Douglas 288 for complete list of vacant Louses and apart- ments. Also for storage, moving. 16tk lpd Jackson Sts. Globe Van and Storage Co. For real moving wervece «ry us. Large 3-horse padded vans. Storage, $2 month. Batiafaction guaranteed. We move you QUICKER, CHEAPER AND BAFER. Phone Tyler 230 or Douglas 4338 J.CREED rxm i ket 1207 Farnam 8t. Douglas 6245. REAL ESTATE—IMPROVED West. 25 MONTCLAIR NEW BUNGALOW. Large living room, dining room and kitchen on first floor; three bedrooms and bath on second floor; oak finish and oak floor; bullt-in bookcases and buffet: pan- eled 'walls in dining room; clothes chute; Look full basement; guaranteed furnace. at it today; open 2 to 5. SCOTT & HILL CO,, Doug. 1009. Ground Fir, McCague Bldg. 3 LINCOLN BLVD—I11-room house, trictly modern, with bot water heat Dongln lll}» $5,000 BUYS $6,000 HOME Brand new six-room stueco, 3583 Cass St. Large living room, French doors, book- case, beautiful dining room, large light kitchen. Three extra fine bedrooms in white enamel and mahogany doors. Full light basement. Choice south front lot, 44x158. Key at 3662, or during week, call Douglas 1474. WEST FARNAM DISTRICT—8-room, 1 baths, nearly new: big discount, only $5,360. See It. 323 N. 33th Ave. FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE Real Estate, Lands, Etc. WANT $30,000 to $60,000 merchandise; will exchange $16,000 to $25000 6 per cent {income property and spot cash for balance. Write for particulars. Box 431, Fullerton, Neb WE have some good homes and rental prop- erties for Neb. or la. land. Edward F. Willlams Co aha 7.’\‘.1!‘1 Rank Bldg Ranch specialist, sell or trade ranches for city property. E. Franta, 576 Brandeis Blds. GOOD lot, desirable location, will take used art payment. Webster 48, near good town, North' to trade for income up to $18,000. _Myrtle Lieser, Shenandoah, Ta. stock general for same akota, Mrs. WANTED—, & and 6-roomed houses that can be sold for $100 cash: balance $16 per month; give complete description first letter W FARNAM SMITH & CO. 1320 Faroam _Tel. Doug. 1 WE have buyers for your property INTER-STATE REALTY CO.. _ 929-30 City Nat'l Bldg Doug. 8363, WANTED—Listings of real estate In Omaha for sale. N. P. Dodge & Co., Harney St. at_15th. Telephone Doug. 839, TIST your & and 6-room houscs with us. WE SELL THEM. OSBORNE REALTY CO., Doug. 1474. FOR SAL " D. Wead, FINANCIAL Real Estate, Loans. Mortgages. T PER CENT (0 6 per cent on best clasa clty residences in_amounts 32,000 up: also farm loans. Reasonable commissions. PETERS TRUST CO., 1822 Farnam St. $3.000 MORTGAGE bearing 6 per cent semi- ann.; secured by property valued at $5,000 Talmage-Loomis Inv. Co, W. 0. W. Bldg REAL ESTATE loans, 6 per cent. Bee D. B. BUCK & CO., 912 Omaha Nat. Bank. MO DELAY, Ww. T. GRAHAM, E BLDG North. NEW BUNGALOW. A five-room, strictly modern bungalow, with bath. It is finished in oak, up-to- date, bulit-in features and lighting fix- tures; full basement, large attic. Lwocated at 3923 North 2§th St. Price, $3,160; easy terms, NORRIS & NORRIS, 400 Bee Building. _ Phone Doug. 4270. NEARLY new bungalow of 5 roo finish throughout; bullt in effects. On cai line, owner leaving city, will take any reasonable offer; come out and look this over. 4464 Bedford Ave. KOUNTZE PLACE restricted district resi- South. HANSCOM PARK. Just listed a place on Georgla Ave., one- half block south of Leavenworth on 29th St. 6 rooms, strictly modern, priced at $3,600. Can sell on easy terms or will dls- count for cash. These people are leaving the city on account of sickness and it must be sold_at once. PAYNE INVESTMENT CO., 1 D. 1781, 537 Om. Nat. Bank BI Miscellaneous. NEW FIVE-ROOM COTTAGE. Thoroughly modern; hardwood floors; corner lot, 64x128; additional ground can be had for gardening; sidewalk, sewer, water and gas; close in and a bargain at $2,350; $160 cash required. SHULER & CARY, 204 Keeline Bldg. Phone D. 5074, HOUSES WANTED, WE HAVE BUYERS FOR HOMES WORTH THE MONEY IN ALL PARTS OF THK CITY. LIST YOUR PROPERTY WITH US FO RESULTS. O'NEILL'S REAL ESTATR & INS. AGNCY., Brandeis Theater Bldg. Tyler 1034. INVESTMENTS, INSURANCE—$400 income on price, $2,600, being 3 houses, § rooms each, near high school and Creighton college. Also 6 and 6-room bungalows, $300 down, and two 3-room, $95 down. balavice monthly. CHAS. E. WILLIAMSON CO. NEW bungaiow; alwo 3-1. and gardening: your terms and price; Inv. with $409, reat, 3 _houses cost $3,600). $3,600. D. 3107, IVE rooms, new, oak finish, ful ‘deco- 1l modern, etc., $2,760; §: cash, nce monthly Colfax ¥ WELL BUILT BUNGALOW., Oak finish, up-to-date, furnace, $25; only $2,400. Bargain GEORGE G. WALLAgg 614 Keeline Bld. REAL ESTATE—Unimproved North, WAVERLY PARK. One of the choice lots In the addition; size 46x126; east front, and on the car line. Price $760.00; terms $10.00 cash and $7.50 per month. C. A. GRIMMEL, 849 Om. Nat. Bk. Bidg. Phone D. 1615 OWNER must se.l east front fot on Fonte- nelle Bivd, in Clairmont. Wil sell at sacrifice price it taken at once. Call Douglas 1728, South. ACRES SOUTH. Improved and unimproved in one to ten-acre tracts, on or near Bellevue car line. Best of school facilities. C. R. COMBS, I'hone Doug. 3916. 809 Brandels Theater. LO Fine lots to select from, $1 cash, 50c & 1, Bee. REAL ESTATE—Suburban Benson, BTART YOUR HOME IN BENSONI BUY THIS LOT $10.00 dcwn and $10.00 per month; price 200 00; size L0x138; lccated on Looust 8t, between Clark and Burnbam, not far from school and car line. Geo R Wright. Hee office. Omaha. Florence. NETHAWAY has 3, 4, 5, 30 and 135-scre impr. tracts for city properts. Flo. 238. South Side. $-ROUM residence. South Bide §1 400 450 cash balance $16 per mortk Doug 6325 REAL ESTATE—B'ness Prpty INCOME property west Farnam district. St. Louls flats less than 3 years old, newly decorated, 6 rooms each; apts. leased for one year by good tenants. Buy of owner. Save commission fee. $8,000; terms. Phone Web. 394 or 1801 Binney. REAL ESTATE WM. COLFAX, 106 Keellne Bldg _ Doug. FOR BALE. Double brick 5t. Louls flat, within fou: plocks of 16th and Harney; close in: bar. gain price. mL ESTATE — lnveshne;x;b : ka farms. OMAHA homes Fast Nel O'KEEFE REAL ESTATE CO., 1016 Omaha Nat'l. _ Phone Doug. 2718, FARM and city loans, 6-6% and 6 per cent W. H. Tnomas, Keeline Bidg. Doug.. 1648, gg " MONEY—HARRISON & MORTON 0 916 Omaha Nat'l. Bank Bidg MONEY to loan on improved farms and ranches. We also buy good farm mort- gages. Kloke Inv. Co. DON' PAY IN N PAY IN 2. 3, 4 or 5 Y SHOPEN & CO. Kk REAL ESTATE 1O THOS. L. Ml KEELINE BLDG § PER CENT and 6 per cent money. Tol & Trumbull, 448 Bee Bldg. Douglas 6707. $100 to $10,000 made promptly. F. D. Wead, Wead Bldg., 1¢th and Farnam Sts. nd_for city and MONEY farm loans. H. W. Binder, City National Bank Bldg. GARVIN BROS. aci'Baok bids. CITY and farm loans, b, 6%, 6 per cent. J. H. Dumont & Co., 416 Keeline Bldg. Financial Wanted. RESPONBIBLE parly wants salary loan of $100 for one year. In answering glve rate of interest. Box §499, Bee. Abstracts of Title. K Title, Guarantee and Abstract Co. €IT 305 's. 17th St, ground floor. Bonded by Mass. Ronding and Ins. Co. REED ABSTRACT CO. oldest abstragt of- fice in Nebraska. 206 Brandeils Theater. M. T. BREENAN, over 20 yrs. experience in Douglas Co. titlea. 324 Brandels theater. MONEY TO LOAN FURNITURE, planos, Ind. notes as security. $40—6-mo M. H. gds, total cost, $3.50. $40— Indorsed notes, total cost, $3,60. Smaller, larger am'ts, proportionate rate. PROVIDENT LOAN SOCIETY, Organized by Omaha Business Men, 433 Rose Bldg., 1 rnam. Ty. FARM AND RANCH LANDS Arkansas Lands, FREE literature and st of Arkansas farms, P. H. Thompson, Fort Smith, Ark. Colorado Lands. 320 ACRES of the very best land in eastern Colorado, unimproved, with the best soil and water, six miles from the Rock Isiand raiiroad and seven miles from good town; no rock or waste land. Price $3,000 cash. Otto Harkee, Hugo, Colorado. Iowa Lands. FINE Iowa farms, close to Omaha, all sizes, priced right. See us first. W. T. Smith Co., 914 City Nat'l Bank Bldg., Omaha. Kansas Lands. OIL and gas leases. Three thousand acres, ‘Waubansee County and 3,000 acres in Osage County, Kansas. Much develop- ment now going on in each of these coun- tles. Many wells continguous to this prop- erty will be completed in near future. Leases run five years, twelve month be- fore any rentals become due. Price im- mediate acceptance, $2 acre. R Lynch, Tulsa, Okl Missouri Lands. BMALL MISSOURI FARM—$10 cash and $5 monthly; no Interest or taxes; highly pro- ductive land; close to 3 big markets Write for photographs and full informa- tion. Munger, A-119, N. Y. Life Bulld- Kansas City, Mo, GREAT BARGAINS—§6 down, $5 monthly buys 40 acres, good fruit and poultry land, near town, southern Missourl. Price only $200. Address Box 808, Excelsior Springs, Mo. Nebraska Lands. § ACRES, well improved, two blocks to high school, Tecumseh, Neb. Stewart, 216 8. 17th St. KIMBALL COUNTY. 820 acres cholce land In good location. Will give clear doed for two first crops. T. H. CAMPBELL & SONS, Kimball, Neb. or exchange any lands you ha C. J. Canan, MoCagua Blds. __Texas Lands. EAST TEXAS. Call or write Yor my free book describ- ing good corn and alfalfa land in east Texas for $25 per acre. W. S. FRANK, 201 Neville Blk. ~ Wisconsin Lands. UPPER WISCONSIN—Best dairy and - eral crop state in the unlon. Bettlers wanted; lands for sale at low prices ox easy terms; excellent lands for stock raising. Ask for booklet 35 on Wisconsin Central Land Grant; state acres wanted. If interested in fruit lands, ask for book- let on Apple Orchards. Address Land Com. missioner Son Rallwav. Minneapolis, Minn. Wyoming Lanas. SMALL investors write for printed matter, prices and terms on Wyoming oil land lots; warranty deed to all lots. McKibbin, Agt., Box 92, Fort Morgan, Colo. 320 ACRES—Well improved, one mile small _ofter, town. Price $5,000, Terms to suit. Owner has other business. Write, Box 92, Lost tngs, Wyo , b FARM LAND WANTED WANTED—Quarter soction of good farm land within three or four miles town, CALKINS & CO.. with German Catholic church; southeast Douglas 1313. City Nationsl! Bank. Neb. pr Address J. J. Carey, _ *Decrenss. = 2 Petersburg, Neb INVESTMENT. WANTED—Farms and unimproved farm, Corner, close In, two houses, annual| fruit and stock lands. Consolidated Farm rent $720. Price, $6,600. 8. P. BOSTWICK & SON, 300_Bee Bldk. Tyler 1608. m—— — __Agency, Marbridge Bldg, New York._ AUTOMOBILES FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE Real Estate, Lands, Etc. , Neb., to trade or hardware stock. Ad- r general mds dress Y 699, Bee. HAVE two 160-acre faris and o farm. sastern Nebrasks, to trad property. ARCHER REALTY CO. ___610_Brandels Blds. _ ~ TRADES—TRADES—TRADES, Farms, Cattle, Ranches, New Apart- ments, Flats, etc. ABBOTT, 4 Patterson Block % 12 RUUM rcoming house for saly or ex- change for equity in lots or house and lot, or good car; good location. Doug- las 68956 after 6 p m. AUTO CLEARING HOUSE 2209 Farnam St Douglas 3310, 1916 Saxon Roadster, sacrifice 1916 Stearna-Knight “4." $1,250 1916 Maxwell Touring, §350 1916 Stearns-Knight $1,560. OUR REPAIR WORK WILL SATISFY YOU. TELL & BINKLEY, 2318 Harney 8t. Dovg. 1640, Who's setting the pace now: In the first ten months of 1918 THE BEE gained 47,940 Paid Ads. EXCEEDING the COMBINED GAIN of the other two Omaha paper for same reriod by more than— 20,000 PAID ADS, Good Results. Good Rates Good Service FOR SALE—Bargain, Buick roadster, C 38, 1916 model. by owner: car perfect. Cheap for cash, no trade. Wal, 3:91 10 S, 18th St | . AUTOMOBILES SIX-CYLINDER roadster, 50 H. P., 112-inch wheel base, demountable rims, with extra rim and tire, all in first-class shape; will climb almost any hill in high gear. quick sale will take $250. C. James, 8. 31st St. Harney 3849 AUTO INSURANCE Fire, Theft and Liability at lowest rates KILLY, ELLIS & THOMPSON, #13-14 City Nat Bk. Bldg. Doug. 3819, DON'T throw away old tires. We make one new tire from two old ones and save you 50 per cent. 2-in-1 Vulcanizing Co. 1516 Davenport St Omaha, Neb. Douglas 2914 WE will trade you a new Ford for your old one. INDUSTRIAL .ARAGBE CO. #hERRA SHATRAY S DOUKING L ED CARS AT REAL PRICES. W. FRANCIS AUTO CO.SL 2316-18 Farmam U C. Douglas 853. CORD tires for Fords, 30x3, $8.65; Zwiebel Bros. D. 4878. 2 .S. MOTOR CO. overmasiing. ANES: * Overhauling. 2408 Leavenworth. Used Cars. CROSSTOWN GARAGE, 315 8. 34th. ), 4442, Parts to Hup "30," Flanders 30, Apperson, Oldsmobile, 1. H. C. truck, etc. Automobiles Wanted. COUPELET body for Ford chassis. FRANK SELBY, S DOUGLASSINO BT _Auto_Livery and Garage: EXPERT auto repairing, “service car ways ready.” Omaha Garage, 2010 Hernoy St Tyler 685, GARAGE for rent. Call Webster 471 or st t. 2010 (S e S SN Automobiles for Hire. $40.00. —~ | FORD for rent. You may drive it I charge by mile. Doug. 3623. Evenings, Tyler 1836, Auto Tires and Supplies. TIRES! TIRES' TIRES. Whole sets of our new Ford tires for $26. If you bréng us ¢ old oasings, §23; § old casing. $21. VINTON TIRE €O, 1811 Vinton St. __Tyler 2624-W. —_Auto_Repairing and Paintin, STROMBERG SERVICE STATION. GEORGE W. WILLIAMS, 1608 Jackson St Carburetors my lalty. Red 4143, 3100 veward for magneto we can't repair. Colls repaired. Baysdorfer, 210 N. 18th NEB. Auto Radiator Repair Serv prices right. 218 S. 19th 8. D. 78 Motorcycles and Bicycles. HARLEY-DAVIDSON MOTORCYCLES. Bar- gains In used machines. Victor Roos, “The 2108 _Leavenworth. Virtue in the Cardinal and Porsistence Advertising. | COMPILE FIGURES ON BUILDING FIRE LOSS Owners and Managers to Gather Data to Show to Big Insurance Companies. PROMISE LESS HAZARDS Statistics on the number of fires and the amount of fire losses in of- fice buildings owned and managed by members of the National Building Owners and Managers' association and local associations throughout the country are to be compiled. This will be done by the national associa- tion, with the view to making a showing to the insurance people in re- gard to the decreased hazard in build- ings so owned and operated. Then the association will press its demands for lower insurance premiums. The local association of Building Owners and ynnagen at its last meeting voted to appropriate )§200 toward the national fund of $5,000 being raised to make this fight. The statistics gathered on this m‘biect will cover a period of ten or fifteen years. The building owners and managers claim the insurance people have never recognized them as they should in their efficiency of handling buildings so that fire hazards are decreased. The insurance men claim the asso- ciation is too new and that the strictly office building is too new an institu- tion. The owners and managers reply that the office building is nevertheless in a clags by itself and should be so considered in the matter of insurance rates. Xmas Bonuses to Be Given Employes of Burgess-Nash Co. Realizing that the month of De- cember brings extra labor and longer hours to all of its employes, and also desiring to give a real “Christmas present” to everyone who assists in the progress of the store, the Bur- gess-Nash company has announced that it has arranged again this season for the giving oFa substantial gift at the end of the year. All salespersons, old or new, will receive for the period of December 1 to 24, inclusive, in addition to their salary, one-half of one per cent of their net sales, and all other employes - | not included in the selling end of the business will be given a certain per- centage of their salary in accordance with extra duties that may be theirs at this season. In addition to the percentage of sales arrangement, special cash prizes are also offered amounting to $200, divided into twenty-five prizes rang- ing from $50 for first, and on down to $1 for the twenty-fifth price, to the salespersons who are in the same de- partment as a year ago and whose sales from December 1 to 24 show the greatest percentage of increase over the corresponding period of 1915, The above plans were in force last year and aided so much in the service of the store during the Christmas rush period that the management de- cided to repeat it again this season. Omaha Uni to Have New Honor System The honor system is to be revived at the University of Omaha, accord- ing to an announcement made last Friday by President Jenkins. The old system has not proved very suc- cessful and the organization has prac- tically died out. According to the new plan the seniors will have two representatives, and the other classes will each have one. Four will be elected at-large, making nine in all. The representa- tives will elect their own president. A new suggestion will be tried by the new organization. Instead of the council having complete control of student management, it will act as an advisory body to the university’s gov- erning committee. Next Monday in chapel Dr. Jenkins will put the proposition to the stu- dents and it is expected that by Fri- day the organization will be com- pleted. Blanket Sale—Scott's, 15th and Howard. Follow the footsteps.—Adv. THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, HAPPENINGS IN THE MAGIG GITY Boosters' Club Speaker Urges Acceptance of Light Con- tract by Voters. BIG MEETI—Nd : IS HELD “Some people may want to throw a lot of money into high priced copper or a new plant that will take a decade to build, but for my part 1 would rather wait until the war is over and buy when prices are Judge G. C. Collins, secretary of the West Side Boosters’ club and cham- pion of the five-year electric light contract, said at a big meeting of club members at the Fenton hall Friday evening. “It would reasonable,” take from five to ten — | years to stretch all the lines neces- sary to actually feed all the possible patrons in Omaha and as for buying the present plant outright when cop- per is rated twice and three times what it was before the outbreak of the war, it would be rank foolishness. The electric light people have pre- sented us a proposition where we have nothing to lose and everything to gain. My idea is to let the thing slide at least until the war is over and then buy with loss to none and ultimate good to all.” The majority of the fifty members present, all property-owners and tax- payers of the district mentioned, were enthusiastically in favor of the contract. Father Jonaitas of St. An- thony’s church, Lithuanian, spoke in favor of the contract. The vote was postponed until Tuesday evening when it was predicted that a still larger crowd would turn out. A committee of three was appoint- ed to interview President Wattles ot the Street Railway company in re gard to getting the promise of the company that the West Q street car line would be extended south on Thirty-sixth street from Q street to the county line. The main objection, according to opinions recently ren- dered by street car officials, 1s that the street ought to be sevency feet wide. It is only 60 feet wide. Louis Cohen, M. L. Martin and Joe Giles are on the committee. , Asks Stiff Penalty. A ‘“good government league,” whose object it will be to seek the enforcement of the Slocumb law in the state, was started by resolution at a meeting of West Side boosters, Friday night. The club members passed resolutions authorizing a com- mittee to make the trip to Lincoln when the state legislature convenes to implore leglislators to pass a law making the minimum penalty for bootlegging two years in the state peniten s The East Side Improvement club, which also met Friday evening, dis- cussed similar action. Foot Ball Player Hurt. Reggie Dean, popular all-round athlete at the Hawthorne school, sustained a painful injury and was carried from the field in a foot ball game between the Hawthorne team and an Omaha team composed of Central and Commercial High Ischool freshmen. Dean was injured in the last quarter. The game resulted in a victory for the uptown men by a score of 14 to 7. Anderson, left half, and Leo Robinson, linesman for the locals, also starred. The game marked the windup of the season’s games for Hawthorne, which team is the South Side champions. Magio City Gossip. A musical program of especlal Interont will accompany the preahing of Rev. C. C. Wilson at the Graece Methodist church this morning and evening. Knights and_Ladies of Security will glve a card_party Tuesday evening at the Mec- Crann hall at Twenty-fourth and O streets at 8 o'clock. Ten prizes will be given. A grand ball will be given by the drill team of Upchureh Lodge No. 2, Degree of Honor, at the Ancient Order of United Workmen Temple, Twenty-fifth and M streets, Wednesday evening, November 20. Bryan Nixon, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Nixon and famous athlete of the South High school, is visiting in Ogden, Utah. He is on his way home from the Black Hills country and s expected next Tuesday. We wish to express our heartfeit thanks to St. Bridget's school, the employes of the Cudahy Packing company, friends and neighbors for the many beautiful floral offerings and sympathy shown during the illness and death of our beloved son, Steven —Mr. and Mrs. Louls Fritz. The Bouth Side Needlecraft club enter- talned at a Thanksgiving dinner Tuesday at the home of Mrs. Know Harms. Teachers and school girls of the Highland school won prizes. They wero Mrs. Mathews, Miss Burke, Miss Jorgenson and Miss Stillmock Miss Laura Long and Miss Fdna Smith. Mesdames L. C. Banner, W. H. Beckett and C. A. Anderson also were present. Why Burgess Favors Lighting Contract Wilbur L. Burgess, head of Bur- gess-Granden company, offers this ex- planation why he is in favor of the five-year street lighting contract passed by the city council and which will be submitted to referendum vote December 5: “The other night I returned home at a rather decorous hour, whereupon I proceeded to unlock the front door with my key. The street was dark, and there I was, trying vainly to make the key release the lock which se- cured the door. After I was nearly exhausted, I struck a match and dis- covered I was trying to unlock the front door of the house next to mine. 1f the street had been properly lighted 1 would not have suffered physical and mental anguish. I am for better street lighting.” Don’t Disregard Your Cold. the danger of coughs take Dr. Al Few of us realize and colds. Don't take the risk, King's New Discovery. Guarantoed drugglsts. —Advyertisement Brothers Roam for Always Together “We haven't been apart for twen- ty-eight years,” Robert and John Young, 42 and 44 years old, respec- tively, told Desk Sergeant William Smith at the South Side station last evening as they applied for free sleep- ing berths at the j The two men were born in Fort Smith, Ark., and have traveled the world together, vis- iting almost every known country to- day, according o their own statement. Blanket Sale—Scott's, 15th and Howard. Follow the footsteps.—Adv. NOVEMBER 27, City Commissioners Tell Why They |Millionaire's Auto 1916. Favor the Electr Statement by City commissioners to the people of Omaha: In its essential nature, the referen- dum of Ordinance No. 9396, the Elec Street Lighting Contract ordi- | nance, is regarded largely in the na-) ture of an appeal from the action of the commissioners of the city, in en- acting that ordinance into law; this action to be sustained or to be over- ruled, as may seem advisable, by the electors at the coming special elec- tion to be held on the Sth day of De- | cember, 1916. It would appear, therefore, but ap- propriate and becoming of the under- signed commissioners to state briefly, ofg as concisely as consistent with a fair degree of certainty, the reasons| which influenced them in favoring | ;he enactment of said ordinance into| aw. tric No Contract Now. out a street lighting contract since July, 1914, It has been paying for its street lighting on the basis of the prices per lamp charged in the pre- existing contract. This situation has been and is unavoidable, except by!casioned another contract, because the city is without its own street lighting fix- tures and apparatus and 1s without power to sccure the same except in!to acquire the company's plant, prof- connection with the ownership, by the city, of a complete plant. The city has no power to compel a dis- criminatory rate in its favor, as a user of current. remedy available, for a number of years, at least, is a street lighting contract. There are now about 1276 so-called ordinary arc lamps, which cost the city $55.09 net per inmp. per annum. There are about 138 10-ampere flam- ing arc lamps which cost the city $62.28 net per lamp, per annum. Aside from the gas street lighting, this equipment constitutes the entire street lighting equipment of the city (except street lighting equipment on the South side ynder an existing con- tract). The city's area exceeds thir- ty-five (35) square miles and it re- quires no effort to understand that the number of lamps above is en- tirely inadequate. The ordinary arc lamp, while con- suming much more current than the proposed lamp, gives no larger vol- ume of candle-power than the type of lamp provided in the contract. %Ee ordinary arc lamp is an old type of lighting, generally regarded as anti- quated and uniformly displaced by all cities where a change in the lighting system is made. The flaming arc lamp is not as old but is likewise be- ing displaced by newer and improved types of lamp. Such displacements come about in the interest of econ- omy and in the interest of improve- ment. These arc lamps consume much current, (and this is one of the big items of expense) without delivering relatively as great a volume of light. After it 18 volume and distribu- tion of light for which the city is ex- pending its money. Needs Big Sum. To maintain annually the present number of lights, to-wit: 1417, costs the city $79,054.75. This sum is the amount now annually available for such purpose and the question con- fronting the commission has been and is whether or not more light and a wider distribution of it, especially in the out-lying sections, might be ob- tained without enlarging the expendi- ture. Until legislation is had, a larger sum will not be available. To this end, the undersigned com- missioners of the city have been work- ing since their advent into office. In- formation has been obtained from most of the many cities of the coun- try to ascertain the price which elec- tric street lighting is costing such cities, and this information has been reduced to candle power o as to fur-} in the nish a basis for comparison. It is light which the city is buying, it is light which it wants, and candle power is the unit which furnishes a depend- able test. X Under the existing system, the city is and has been paying on an average 13.8 cents per hour per candle power per annum. Under the in the pending contract, the city will pay on an average 84 cents per hour per candle power per annum. This price is one of the lowest prices paid in any of the cities of this country for street lighting, below street light- ing under municipal ownership even. Much data in the possession of the undersigned abundantly support these statements. In most of the cities as large and larger than ours, the price per candle power for street light per annum, where there is an all-night service, as is the case in this city, ranges between 20 cents and 50 cents, some reaching as high as 90 cents. No Price Complaint. So far as the undersigned have been advised, there is no complaint with the prices carried in the ordinance in question. Though invited to bid a price for which they would light the streets of this city, those claiming that it could be done more cheaply through a municipal lighting system, refused to bid, or even to submit prices for which a municipal light plant might furnish street Iig%(ing. The complaints that are constantly disturbing us are not with reference to the street lighting costs, but relate ex- clusively to the utter inadequacy of the street lighting. Every person in the city conversant at all with the strect lighting condition knows that this city is comparatively the most in- adequately lighted city of its size in the country; not altogether the cause of the type of its lighting system, but because of the want of a sufficient number of lights and a wider distribu- tion thereof. A wider distribution may be brought about only by an enlarge- men of the number of lights. The outlying sections, especially, of the city constantly, and it must be admit- ted most justly, complain that these sections are practically without light and are exposed to the double danger incident to the want of police protec- tion and the want of light. Means More Lights, The proposed contract secures at once an additional number of lights amounting to about 1,070. Each of these new type of lamps, we are con- vinced from demonstration, furnishes approximately the same number of candle power now furnished by each of the ordinary arc lamps. So that the total candle power under the pro- posed contract will be nearly double that under existing conditions. Under contemplated installation, something |; like 700 or 800 lamps will become im- mediately available for location and {in the [ | placed ] - | signs. Lamps outside the downtown | The city now is and has been with-|section are to be suspended or an- |8 i 2 Consequently, the only! 1 However, it has not been made to rices fixed | ic Light Ordinance distribution in the outlying and most needed residential sections. This will give us instead of 1,417 street lamps, 2,488 lamps, without any added expenditures. Of course, 2,488 lamps are not adequate to light the city as it should be, nor to light it as most of the cities of its in this country are lighted; but it is all that the available revenues will permit to be installed and will vastly improve the existing light conditions of the i city. ] Excellent Type. The type of lamp selected and pro- vided for by the contract in question seems very generally to be regarded as excellent, very efficient and entirely up to date. No tract has been allowed to be inserted without careful attention. The carry- ing poles are to be ornamental and i downtown districts to have thereon ornamental street chored in the most convenient man- ner and so as to yield the highest and best results, The contract protects the city against damages which might be oc- to persons in connection with either the installation of the fix- tures or their maintenance, It further provides that, should the city elect its to result from the unexpired period of the contract shall not be taken into consideration as an item of value to be allowed the company. All Is Fine. In brief, the undersigned feel that everything has been done which it is possible to do to procure the greatest amount of light possible with the money available for that purpose, and to give such light the widest possible distribution to the end that sections of the city now without light, but paying their part of the tax, may have a fair share of the street lighting. The objections urged against the roposed contract, so far as such ave come to our attention, do not relate to the prices per lamp fixed in the contract, do not relate to the number of lamps which will be avail- |~ able for wider distribution, and do not relate to the failure on the part of the city to take all required steps fully to protect the city's interest in every contingency which apparently might arise; but relate to the claim or contention that the effect of such contract might be to postpone, for a time, the possibility of certain pre. liminary desired steps and proceed- ings, having for their purpose ulti- mately either the construction or pur- chase of an electric light plant by the city. The city is ukc(‘ to forego certain definite, much desired, and tangible results offered by the con- tract in question, out of fear merely that the acceptance thereof might re- sult in a postponement of an indef- inite and undefined program now ap- parently incubating in the minds of a few. Whether this is or is not re- ward sufficient, you are to say. Won't Interfere. appear that the proposed contract would in any wise interfere with or rosgponc any legitimate program, having for its end either the acquisi- tion or the construction of a munic- ipal plant. If the existing plant is to be acquired, then the contract does not istand in the way, nor will it burden the acquisition, because it is so pro- vided plainly in the contract. If a plant is to be constructed by the city, then all dependable experience and advice unite in assuring that the pro- posed contract will have run its full course and expired by its own limita- tions (five years) before such plant would be ready for successful opera- tion and service, . The foregoing are submitted as full justification for our official course in enacun? the ordinance into law, and ull belief that honest consid- d { 4 rovigion of the con- g (Except Baturda 10¢, 36e, 60c, 7bo. Hits Rut; He Is Killed Amarilla, Tex,, Nov. 26—C. A. Wiseman, millionaire cattleman and banker, and founder of the town of Vega, Texas, was killed today when his automobile hit turned. He was 40 years old. mew? P AT a rut and over- Moving Service You’ll Like Is what you will get if we do the work. Careful men, together with most modern facili- ties make moving our way a pleasure. Don’t take chances. “Safety First” OMAHA VAN & STORAGE CO. L A Ll | é 806 So. 16th St. Phone Doug. 4163. 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