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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (March 10, 1918)
CHE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MARCH 10, 191b. March 0- to m 4od. Fire "He Nzver Took Cover" Is War Record of Colonel Grant of Omaha Supply Depot Started as. Captain of Light Artillerv. But Later Was Transferred to Quarter master's Department. "He never took cover." Thus did Major j. F. Bell characterize Lieu tenant Colorul Frank A. Grant, quar termaster in charge of the Omaha supply depof, in a report ipade when Colonel Grant was a captain of the Utah volunteer light artillery, in serv ice in the Philippine 'islands. He was appointed captain of Bat tery B, Utah light artillery May 9, 1898, and served during the war with Spain and the Philippine insurrection. During thesi campaigns he was men tioned in official dispatches 32 times for distinguished conduct, according to the report of NMajor General H. W. Lawton. He was given command of the con verted gunboat Laguna de Bay and proved of great aid to the infantry sections in clearing the Pasig river of insurrectos.' His command led the advance up the river to the lake and frequently routed the enemy from en trenched portions. x , At the battle of Binondo Cemetery his courage and ability as a leader was highly praised tyy Major J. F. Bell, an eyewitness. Under heavy insurgent infantry fire less than 800 yards away he led his battery be tween, burning buildings in the ad vance. They -were forced to pull their cannon by hand through deep mud in order to capture thev coveted position. In his official dispatch of the battle Major Bell said: . "I attribute much of its success to the fearless nerve and determination of Captain Grant himseff. He was always calm and cool, fired deliber ately after good aim and furnished an example for his men which could not have been tetter. He never took cover but constantly exposed himself to fire in the transaction of his duty." He was breveted major, June 29, 1898, and mustered out of service Au gust 16, 1899. After a little more than a year of civilian life the call of the army again led him to ente military service and he was appointed captain P i i - L 5$ ! Mentioned in1 Official Dis patches 32, Times During ' Campaign Against Philip pine Insurrectos. promoted to the full rank of colonel. Fort Omar.a, Fort Crook, the Na tional Army cantonment at Camp Funston and several other army camps are row being supplied from the Omaha depot under his administration. Nicholas Lets Contract For 100,000-Gallon Tank The L. V. Nicholas Oil 'company has let the contract for the ctection of a 100,000 gallon tank to be located on property recently purchased at Twenty-fourth and Hickory streets. This property contains nine acres and is said to be one of the last large close in tracts available for manufactur ing purposes. Construction work will be started immediately on the new tank. Other material contracted for includes 100 copper, steel and wooden tanks and a huge boiler. Rapid progress is being made on the plans for the new refinery. Con struction'of the combined office and garage building is to be started as soon as the weather conditions per mit. The new refinery la to have an ultimate capacity of 1,000 barrels. day,.and is being erected as the result bf the Continued demand for Nich olas products. The company is said to already have a market for the en tire output of the refinery as rapidly as it it built. Another filling station is to be erected immediately at Seventeenth and Davenport streets. It is to He a duplicate of the station operated by the company at Twelfth and Har ney streets. Mrs. Amy Pomeroy has been deco rated with the order of the British Empire in recognition of the valuable assistance she gave her husband in perfecting a bullet which it is asserted, has largely ended the zeppelin menace. in the quartermaster department Feb ruary 2, 1901, He entered active serv ice, accepting the commission of cap tain, April 15, 1901. He was highly recommended for appointment by of ficers under whose command he had served. He is hjghly qualified for the duties imposed upun him in the quartermas ter department, his record shows. For several years before entering the army he was a steamboat captain on the Great 'Lakis and his knowledge of shipping conditions has proven ex tremely useful. ' ,Since entering the quartermaster corps he has served in the Philippines and at several posts in the United States. March 3, 1911, he was promoted to the rank of major. He Was again promoter May IS, 1917, to the ank of lieutenant colonel. His efficient ad ministration cf the Qmaha depot and his extensive knowledge of shipping conditions with which his department has to contend leads his many friends to feel confi dent that he will soon be MANY HOMES BUILT DURING MST MONTH Records Show That Bulk of Construction Work for Feb ruary Was Residences , and Small Houses. Many more buildings were built or started in Omaha in February, 1918, than in February a year ago, but the sum total of the values of the build ings is far less. This shows the tend ency in Omaha at this time toward building homes, small apartment houses and other structures instead of the big business blocks. A year ago the city was full of big building projects. Thus in Feb ruary, 1917, a total of only 52 build ing permits were taken out, but their value was J$936,92S. ( During the Feb ruary just past' 411 permits were is sued, but the total value was only $163,000. The same tendency is noticed in a great many of the other large cities. , Cost Increased. With the vast government construc tion activities omitted from the tabu lation of building permits issued in the principal cities of the country and with present work running strongly toward war necessities, the showing made by the cities becomes necessa rily unfavorable. The statistics of building permits issued now present only a partial view of the current work, whereas a year ago they repre sented an overwhelming percentage of And the volume of government it work is building Still increasing, operations that Ordinary is, private building have shrunk to less than half the normal amount, when the in creased cost of construction is taken into consideration. In estimated cost it is something more than 50 per cent. It is quite evident that the current amount of normal construction is con siderably less than the actual require ments. Households are "doubling up" all over the land; business structures are not kept strictly up in repairs. The construction of needed buildings of all kinds is being deferred to more propitious times. But the crowding of necessary work makes a very fair showing, all things considered. " In 110 principal cities ofthe United States the.building permits issued. in February, as officially reported to the American Contractor, Chicago, total $29,074,332, as against $52,739,254 for February last year, a decrease of 44 per cent. Of these cities 32 show an increase over the corresponding pe riod a year ago. In most instances this increase is due to the issuance of permits last month fqr one or more unusually large structures. Thus in Baltimore the gain of 114 per cnt is accounted for by the issuance of a permit for an addition to the Bartlett Hayward company munition plant at a cost of $277,500 and a $283,443 per mit issued to the Consolidated Power company. Harrisburg obtains its neat gain through a permit for a $170,500 school building. Sioux City's splen did increase comes from a permit for a $400,000 department store building. Youngstown owes its big increase to a $600,000 permit taken out by the Home Savings and Loan company. 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