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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (April 24, 1904)
Pictures from Photos Mailo by a lice Staff Artist Evidences of Omaha's Progress i i J . . J - ;.J -TjV .,;"-' ' 7 . 't i. H it it j - I KOtTNTZR MEMORIAL LUTHERAN ClimCII AT SIXTEENTH AND HARNEY STREETS IN PROCESS OF DEMOLITION TO MAKE ROOM FOR A UUSINKSS CLOCK. FRONT VIEW OP HOAQLAND RESIDENCE BEFORE IT WAS CUT IN TWO. mm Isltors to Omaha these Bering days get many evidences of the new life the city has taken on, but none better than la afforded with a block on Sixteenth street. At Sixteenth and Harney the Kountze Me morial Lutheran church, long known as one of the show buildings of the city, is being demolished that the ground on which It stands may be devoted to business pur poses. At the next corner, the Hoagland residtr.ce, almost the last of the old home in what was once the fashionable resi dence district of the city, is being removed, not exactly piecemeal, nor yet whole, from the site that has so long known it, to one more nearly appropriate for residen tial purposes, and its present site will soon be the location of a busy hive of modern commercialism. Some might feel a touch of sentiment la regard to these changes. Indeed, it seem at first thought a pity that a fine church ehould bo removed to make room for a business house, but reflection indicates the contrary. In the stead of the structure that is now being demolished, a better one will be reared, one that Is more accessible for purposes of worship, and where the de vout can havo their moments of quiet med itation uninterrupted by the clang of pass ing traffio. The thought that the temple retreats from market Is not inconsistent with the purpose of the temple, and it is recorded that once at least business was driven from the temple, thus showing that the two should be kept separate. Yet the church must be conducted on business prin ciples, and the wisdom of the trustees de termined that the sale of the old site and the purchase of a new would be advan tageous. In the case of the Hoaglnnd property the sentimental consideration takes quite another turn. It Is the exhibition of the volution of a city's growth. One by one the homes of former neighbors have been given over to the demands for more busi ness room, until the family found Itself alone In the midst of commercial sur roundings. Commerce still pressed for the pace, and now the old home Is on Its way to a new location, where the roof tree will be neatly spliced and again spread as grandly and hospitably as it has on the downtown ground. Across the street the old Turner home will soon vanish before the wreckers' onslaught and the new build ing of the Omaha Young Men's Christian association will rise there, completing prac tically the dedication of Sixteenth street to the uses of trade. One more corner re mains, but It wfll soon follow, for the .w.. '. I fir fir m - p3- rs- J IIO AO LAND RESIDENCE AFTER IT WAS SAWED IN TWO AND SOOTH IIAIF STARTED ON ITS LONQ JOURNEY. temper of the real estate man and the retail dealer Is such Just now that vacant business property will not long be left Idle. In another way the situation holds some thing of Interest. At one time or another several notable feats of house moving have been accomplished In Omaha. During the active days of grading, something longer than a decade ago, houses on stills and trestles were common elghta about the city, and a number of brick dwellings were han dled by the movers as If they were of plas tic material. But at no time has any build ing of such dimensions as the lloagland home been turned over to the house mover, and the fact that It Is to be tranxplanted to a site nearly five miles from where It was built, on the road to which It will have to travel over hill and dale during the greater part of the summer. Increases the Interest In the feat. The building Is f large that It could not be handled as a whole; It Bat high above the street Ievi-1, and on a hillside. All these factors com bined to make the problem of Its removal one of consequence. The methods by which the solution was approached are simplicity simplified. When the necessiry calculations had been modo the contractor graded away the lot until the foundations of the home were exposed all around and no further digging could be done until th building was removed. Huge timbers were slipped under the house and the founda tions removed until the weight rested on the big sticks. Then the building was awed In half, and the south half was gently skidded down another set of the big sticks until It reached the street. Here it was lowered onto the customary roller. and, save for its size, the rest of the prob lem presented no feature beyond that of an ordinary structure. In time the north half of the building will also be skidded down to the street and will take up its road after Its mate, and before the rum mer Is over the two will have been joined together on a new foundation out In Dun dee, and the visitor to the pretty suburb will want an affidavit with the statement that the handsome residence pointed out to him once adorned one of the principal bu I ncss corners of the city of Omaha, some Ave miles away. A Bachelor's Reflections A pretty good way tb marry an heiress Is to admire the way she plays bridge whist. It takes ten times as long to listen to a sermon as the man who delivers it thinks It took to write it. From the way a woman gets on a street car you can't tell whether she Imagines she Is climbing a atepladder or trying to peep up to the top shelf of the closet. New York Press. Pointed Paragraphs Dead men pay no doctor bills. All gold doesn't get a chanco to glit ter. More men would have money to burn If they didn't burn It, Oood Indians are tranquil and tranquil Indians are dead. Any man who runs for office would rather have a walkover. Never judge the conk in the kitchen by the cook book In the library. Of course a lawyer doesn't know every thing, but he always thinks his clients think he docs. During the courtship it Is a case of sus pense with the girl and a case of expense with the youth. It probably never occurs to a school boy that he will grow up some day and know as little us his father. Only a murrled man will deliberately kiss a poor, little, helpless girl baby. A bachelor always takes some one of hul size. Chicago News.