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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 15, 1915)
8-C Tim OMAHA SUNDAY I.EE: AUGUST 15, -I BOARD' POSTAGES" TIIEJTAX LEVY Complication Appears in the Form of an Additional Lery for the Viliape of Dundee. WOULD PAT MORE THAN SHARE Discovery of an alleged 41-mIIl zcesa taz levy certified for Dundee by the city council earned the Board of County Commissioners to delay making the first lery for consoli dated Omaha until next Wednesday, and to request city attorneys to ap pear at a meeting to be bold Tuesday morning. As result of the delay which members of the board thought advisable, lest legal entanglements might later result, county official end employes failed to receive their semi-monthly pay warrant. Dour las oounty remaining In a stats of finan cial embarrassment until It becomes pos sible to draw against the incoming taxes. Te laerease Daadee Tax. County Clerk Dewey and other oounty officials belters that the levies certified by the city would require Dundee to pro Tide more than Its share of taxes to pay expenses of annexed suburbs during the Interval between June 1 and Janu ary 1. According to the city's plan, as certi fied to the board an Item for payment of expenses of South Side during the In terval Is spread over all of Greater Omaha, but a 43mill levy for Dundee's expenses during the same period Is charged to that village alone. Thus, ac cording to county officials. Dundee would be required to assist In paying South, Side's share as well as to provide ths iS-mill levy for Its own expenses. The latter item should also be spread ever all Omaha, In the opinion of county offi cials. Te Decide at Ueetla. The oounty chieftains agree, however, that the tax question Is an extremely complicated one and they say they are willing to be convinced that the city's plan Is correct when the meeting Is held Tuesday. County Assessor Counsnian has certified the following totals as ths valuations on which taxes for various funds will be levied: County, $4S,W4.4: school dlntrict. $42, ,; city, t44.0&.tt. The terminal railroad taxation law la responsible for the larger valuation for city purposes as compared with that for school purposes. MRS. C0L0CK AWAKES TO FIND BURGLAR IN HOUSE Mrs. 1U Color, VM Blondo street, awakened early Friday morning and throwing out her arm, her hand came In contact with the form of a man standing by her bed. Che screamed and aroused her husband, who arose in time to see the party run from the house. The burglar had gained entrance through a pantry window and had taken $S that a pantry drawer contained. The same man Is believed to have visited the home of J. J. Herold, $6 Blondo street, where BO cents was taken. A pile of silverware on the dining room table was left by the thief, who evidently became frightened at some noise In the house. OMAM BUILDERS ALL BUSY Residences, Apartment and Bui nen Honsei Being Erected in All Fart of the City. ARCHITECTS WORK ON FLA S3 While many citle are complaining cf a tight condition of bimlnce, r of slow ness In the real eaMte market and In bulldln aotlvltle the hammer, trowel, steam shovel, triphammer nnd ilvrtlng machines are ntlll creating a ronfunlnn of Industrial n.,lv In Omah.i. Here are a few of the actlvltle as In. dlcated from the buxs of ths architect's office 'and gleaned from the records of the contractors. C. W. Xwitster. 44T rarknr street. Is "upervlnlnff the erection of a two-story. xM r(l1rncr, to ct r.,W, and to be built si Yhlrty-flrst n Jackson for E. a Redlok. Flans for ths city hall at Benson are ready for figures. The building will be two story and basement, 64 a, snd will cost $30,W. The building will csll for supplies for fire department. Jail, reet room, toilet, feed room and heating plant. Plana are out for a two-story, seven- room modern frame residence to be built for Morse Rassmussen at Thirty-second and Burt streets. Owners will take bids. 12.500. Contract Is let for erection of a $4,000 bungalow to be built at Fourteenth and William streets for Dr. Charles Nemle to T. W. Bailors, 211 Jtouth Twjnty-elghth street. An sll modern, seven-room residence Is to be built for W. R. Unman In the West 1'ernnm distrlot. Owner now taking bide, 14,000. The contract for the erection of C. I. lluhbell's residence, to be erected in Dundee, hss been awarded to Alex O. Oustavson. Contract for sun room and sleeping porch alterations to the reHlJenoe of J. 1L Sherry at 1070 South Twenty-fifth av enue Is let to Jonas print. niar Soath Omaha Dalldlnsr. Plans for a two-story and baaemtfht store building; 40xt. to cost $5,000. at Twenty-sixth and Q for Abe Zulus, 113 North Iwenty-slxth street. South Klde, are drawn. A two-story brick and stone residence Is te be built In Evanston addition for Dr. Kerneat Kelloy, at a coxt of $(1,000. Woodmen of World t'latb Home. Omaha-Seymour camp. Woodman f the World, will erect a fft.ooo .-UH house and lodge building this fall at 2127 Douglas street, liana are now being drawn for three stories, 50x1":. rtrst sketches for a moving picture theater to be built at Sixteenth and Lo cust street are being prepared. The Omaha Plructural Steel works has been awarded the contract .'or the steel work In the Catholic church now being erected at sixteenth and Centsr streets. C, II. Smarted Ron have been awarded the contract for the llolmqiilst residence at Thirty-sixth end Lafayette avenue and for the remodeling of a building at 618 $20 South Sixteenth street for George aV Co. Plans are out for story and half and basement, Mx28, to cot M.Ono. Residence to be biUt at Thirty-fifth and P-ifli streets for Scott & Hill. Plsns are being prepared for a one and one-halt story, t6xM bungalow, to cost 13,500. to be built in Mlnne Lusa addition for Charles W, Martin company,, . Plan will be out Wednesday for Leigh 'Apartments Now Under Construction --- JLl- 11. . i "The Leigh" apart menu are being erected for Mr. Famuel Mort at Twenty fifth avenue and Douglas street at a cost of $.,"". The bn1 1 ding will be completed about October L There are twelve apart ments of four rooms each snd one baee ment apartment. Each apartment has "In-a-Door Wall Bed." and modern ar rangement throughout. II. D. Frankfort Is the SJXhlect and superintendent seven-room, all modern residence to be built by W. 11. Homan. Owner will take bids. $,t00. Preliminary sketches for a six-room modern one-etory residence to be built for Frank Eliu at Tenth and Bancroft streets, to cost $3,500, are being prepared. Tenants Seeking Apartment Houses Although apartment houses are becom ing more numerous In Omaha, there Is still a good demand for them. Nowhere is this better shown than by the fact that the. several apartment houses built by Hastings AY Ileyden this summer are already rented to the last apartment. Not only that, but some of the apart ment houses this company Is Just start ing to build already have moat of the apartment rented. The custom of renting apartments from plana. Instead of walling until the build ing Is completed, Is quite general this summer, and is taken by real estate men to indicate that the demand for apart ment of a good class Is constantly grow ing, especially for the winter months. BUILDING CONTRACTORS TO PERFECT ORGANIZATION Building for July and Seven Months The building operations of the country, as revealed by the permits sued In the larger cities, stlli ahow a moderate recslon. as compared with the corre sponding period tf 1911 There is foe the month of July a gain both la the totals and the percentage, as compared with Juno, the shrinkage last month as com pared with July, 1914, being 11 per cent, while the comparative loss for June was $$ per cent. The outlook Is more favorable than a month ago. The labor troubles la ths building trade at Chicago have been overcome. The Industrial activities of the country at large are gradually creeping upward and the agri cultural prospects are glowing. The story of the railway earnings has opened a chapter that promises a happier ending than the returns of that nature for some months past Another circumstance favorable to the purely statistical view point Is that the comparisons for the remaining months of the year will be with that period of 1914 that was the more depressed and decided gains may therefore reasonably be anticipated. The official reports of building permits Issued In seventy-one cities during July, as received by the American Contractor, Chicago, total $68,164,001, as com pared with to4,740 for June and with $70,36$.60 for July, last year. Nearly one-third of the cities, or twenty-three, ahow tains, the more notable of these Including Lincoln, Neb., with a 3 per sent gain to Its credit; South Bend, XA per cent; Bvansvllle, Ind., $11 per cent; Akron, O., 1SS per cent; Topeka, W$ per cent; Troy, 141 per cent; Scranton, $ per cent; New Haven, SS per cent; St Joseph, 77 per cent and Buffalo, U per cent For the first seven months of the year the total building permits Issued In sixty-six cities reach a total of $X2,SSJ,01S, as compared with $443,430,770 for the corresponding period of 1911 In detail the figures are as follows: Akron ..$ Albany Atlanta Unit i more fiirmlnghani .... 3vmon .......... Huftaio t'edar Kaptds Chattanooga ... f'tik-ago Oiiclnuatl ..... Cleveland I'olumbus ...... Ih1Ih , I'eyton I'rnver ;ra itulnaa .... I stroll T-uluih net Orange.... 1 vniviu ..... J-oft Wayne..., Karrtsburg ..... liartiurd ........ J'IU1A1V11 ... Kttlirn City.... I.lncoifl J.ntle Hock .... 1a Anne.w.. 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Wal Invton . 'i!k.-T!rr , VorceKt-r IJ.7M IK S'l MX I("H 4 MS t O il S " .f.1.7wt l $.E- 4M f.Kf-X ..? If I.4'.4i 1 nn I'jn $Ml 4K1 1J l.in m T1 ??4 4M :r 4 54 !! S" , l.S--.46 'tss.wi .n.iM 7,4M(.Mi0 l,tM,UW i7.:-j.4a J.7W.210 4.7;i5,0-'8 .ia4,2i ' l,M,M4i l,l;Jl.J 3U.27 1.840 l.mi.jhi I. au.i i-3.1SS !." 4) ll,J4) k.l.Xi.lM 8,01 3 ) .7..4 II. 'S.)!3 I.U63.4KI I 44.', MS .7L",711 li.rcw.ii'm Ml S.2U.072 1. ' ! .ri.!i.ij IS.lTf.lwl K.l?J.S7 14.4.i:r; l.M.DKS '."is 1.07s, 4t7 II ni.yis 6 01 !.Wi.t.1 .' '-J 1 (Kim 73.74 .J 4' -Jt t. ' T'A S.f.3 Ml 1.111 81$ 7:J.44 $ f'l W7 l.J IWi mh m "7."I st r 1 '4 M m 4 '4 '7 i l.oM.rrs 14 14 U 36 4 IS 70 hi IS is 40 Ths building eontrantors of Omaha have taken the preliminary step toward or ganising a state association of contract ors for mutual benefit At a meeting of the Omaha contractors at the Hotel Rome Thursday It was decided to call the state meeting within a week or ten days. The following were elected members of a membership committee to bustle for a state meeting: U. V. Mohren. Omahs; W. 8. Wedne, J. C. Morrlyt Thew I.uhr. F. FV Hen- tie. P. J. Kins:. Alexander Munroe, Hugh McCAilloiigh, tteorse K. Hlrkell, John W. Ktolnhart. Nebraaka City: Andrew Hart, Clark Bhelley, W. C. Nollman, U I Mo ll vaine D. W. Line, E. .A. LAWrenson, Ursnt Paraons. Three Cloudbursts in Three Days Wash Out the Same Track ?For three days In succession. Wednes day. Thursday and Friday, a portion of the Burlington's Ulack Hills line has been hit by a cloudburst In the vicinity of Mayo, between Edgmont and Deadwood. Mayo la located at the foot of a canon coming down out of the mountains. At the town the canon Is narrow and dee?, opening a little below Into a wide and fertile valley. Wednesday a heavy storm gathered up In the mountains to the west Moving cast, and Just above Mayo, the bottom of the cloud was torn out as it passed over the mountains. As a result. Inside of sn hour there wa a j rainfall of more than alx Inches. The ! water rushed down tne canon and strtk-j In (j -the Burlington grade, tore out 300 , feet, carrying along the ties and rails. I Thursday afternoon about $ o'clock and ! at about the same hour as on Wednesday j when the storm struck the town, another cloudburst came along, destroying the grade that had been rebuilt and aga'u carrying away the track. All Thursday night and Friday morning laboiers were busy rebuilding the grade and getting the track back in place, when' Friday afternoon there was another cloudburst up the canon and the water coming down In a solid wall more than four feet deep again washed out the track. The work of rebuilding has been resumed, but It will be late Sunday before the line. In lhat event there is not another cloudburst In the same place, will be opened for traffic. Eomanceof Elaine (Continued from Pago Seven.) his hands. I slid down the rock, letting myself go. Literally, his present of mind hsd In vsnlea what was really a life chain, a human rope. . On came the . canoe, Elaine in It as white as death, crying out and trying to stop ot guide It as, nearer and nearer through the smooth, worn walls of the chaem. It whirled to the falla. With a grip of steel the naturalist held to the tree, which swayed and - bent while also he held me, as If la a vice, head down. On came Elaine directly at us. She stood up and balanced herself a dangeroua feat in a canoe at any time. but doubly so In those dsrk, swirling. treacherous waters. i 'Pteady!" I encouraged. "Grab my arms!" as tne canoe reached us she gave a little jump and seised my forearms. Her hands slipped, but I grasped her own arm, and we held each other. The momentum of her body waa great For an instant I thought we were all going over. But the naturalist held his grip and slowly began to pull himself and us up the slippery rock. A second later the canoe crashed over the falls In a cloud of spray and pounding water. As we reached the bank above the rook I almost lifted Elaine and set her down. trembling and gasping for breath. Before either of us knew It the queer old fellow hsd plunged Into the bushes and was gone without another word. "Walter," she cried, "call him back. I must tell him how much I owe hint my lifer But he had disappeared, absolutely. We shouted after him. It was of no use. Well, what do you think of thatT" cried Elaine. "He saved my life then didn't wait even to be thanked." Who waa tie 7 We looked at each other a moment But neither of us spoke what waa In our hearts. (To be continued.) Apartments, flata, houses and cottages can bo rented quickly and cheaply -by a Bee "For Rent." CUTS COAL COST 25 to 50 The vrsxrr Wanm A I r Heater re duce coal coat 25 to 60 per cent: rad iates I'leerw Pure. 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