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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 27, 1907)
.THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JANUARY 27, 1907. TIMELT REAL ESTATE TALK Rentals in Omaha and Ground Values Under Consideration. FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS A FOOT FRONT One Case C Ited la Whieh the Rental Cnntrart for a Trrm of Years la Bases' ea that Bam. Onmha's " Residence Section " is Fast Developing in Every Direction REPORT OF OH PAVEMENT Entrinterinc Department Che mitt and Su perintendent Offer f uereitiona. SOME PAVEMENTS NOT WORTH PATCHING Tests of Old and New Pavememte Mad by Chemist K,l recta brsnn Ist Year and tHa Preserved for Reference. Born or the local pullbacks are shouting loudly that $2.0C0 or $3,oou a front foot Is too much montr for any proierty In Omaha. A little study of rents In their relation to asking prices of property would show them that still higher values are Jus tified. The Woolworth 10-cent store has leased a part of the flrt-t floor and baa ment of the old UrandfU bulldliiK. these quarters hav ing a frontage of fifty-five feet on Six teenth street and running back 132 feet The terms of the lease are H'i00 for ten years. On a basis of ( per cent that would make the ground and one floor, to say nothing of the upper floors, worth $4,L4S a front foot. Sherman dt McConnell have agreed to pay $9,000 a year for five years for the space now occupied by the meat market at the corner of Sixteenth and Harney streets and the little store next to It on the north. In addition they will put In $5,000 repairs and alterations. This outlay of JlO.ooo a year would pay per cent on an Invest ment of nearly tl(7,n00. It Is to be noted here that the stores are narrow and run only part of the way to the alley, Fred Wead and his associates put about (10,000 In the new building at Twentieth and Farnain sLreetg, Including the cost of the site. They have leased It for Ave years on the basis of 10 per cent on their Investment, or 6 per cent on tluu.uuO. An illustration of the way in which real estate in Omaha has been advancing is given by Robinson & Wolf, the property in question In this particular case being a small double flat at Twenty-sixth and Eisklne streets. Two year ago Ed Mor rison bought the place for $l,8u0. He sold It to Mr, Kelpin for $1,8C0, and Mr. Kelpln disponed of It to Harry Friedman for $2,310. Now Harry Marowltz has bought the prop erty at $3,000 and says he has a bargain. Mr. Marowits la a man who knows, for he has made, from a start of a few hun dred dollars, fco.000 In Omaha realty la the last few years. Almost every day some probabilities and possibilities In the building Una are an nounced. Within the last week it haa be come known that tho Midland Glass and Paint company Is contemplating the erec tion of a new warehouse and that so se riously that It haa tried to secure local capital for the project. The Omaha Rubber company, which Is about to enlarge Its business to Include everything made of rubber, may be forced to erect a building, though Manager Spraguo Buys he still hopes to be able to lease a building before the present lease expires, which will be in July. Among entailer buildings just announced Is the one which Mrs. Maul will build for the Cole-McKay company on the north aide of Douglas street, between Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets. . Another contemplated improvement la the enlargement of George Warren Smith's one. story building east of the Patterson block by extending them to the rear. The Anheuser-Bush Brewing association Is con templating the erection of a three-story saloon, store and flat building at the north- MOST REMARKABLE CASE in Insurance History December 30, 1885. Nathan S. Young. Batavia, 111., took out Twtmty-Year Endowment Policy No. 312,176 for 53,000.00. December 30, 1 905, The Equitable Life ABaurance Society of the United States paid him in cash 517,1 12.00, nearly 8IX times the amount ot his policy, or, at his option, would have paid him an ANNUITY FOR LIFE amounting to 3,656.40 equivalent to the amount of, the original policy, with interest of nearly 22 per cent, thereon every year as long as he lived. ME EQUITMIE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES (PAUL MOKTON, President.) E eo "The STRONGEST in toe World." It well known promptness In the payment of losses makes It the most desirable. Its recognized financial strength behind the oontract makes it absolutely safe. H. D.'NEELY, Manager for Nebraska 402-3-4-5 Merchants National Bank . VM. IIEIMRY Georoc M. Coopfcr. II. Fay Neely General Agents, Omaha. H. n. Longhrldfje, Joe Klein, Ceaeral Agents, Uncoil, Neb. ji v- ijif ' "' " ' : r -V- Jt-.'-T'.-ti ' - ' " J ' --- - r. If i n f . v .... 1 IFi fffi'W' '. i ....v-te--"'' H," f ,g ' " 1 " 11 '- ' . - ilt '" ... ,'. t . , - . . . y r.. t t,'' Is'" ' ' '- ''" ' i- --'-iU.'iinV I .. J i . HOME OF JOHN west corner of Twenty-fourth and Leaven worth streets. Weame Bros, will build a two-story brick foundry on the nlte of their old foundry at 1409 Jackson street. Mueller A Johnson, furnace dealers, .have let the contract to Thomas Herd for a brick shop, 33x110 feet, at 1514 Cass street. The largest realty transaction of lost week was the sale of the lot and three story building at 1308-10-13 Douglas street, comprising the State hotel and the Glad stone grocery. This was bought from the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance com pany by Fred D. Wead for E. M. F. Le fiang of Lexington, a man who haa already invested about $76,000 In Omaha realty in the last eighteen months. The price was $40,000. The purchase of the Dewey hotel property by John D. Crelghton gives Mr. Crelghton and his Immediate friends a good building site. If someone should want to erect a large structure there some day. The Dewey hotel Is forty-four feet wide and Mr. Crelghton owns twenty-two feet west of it. Next west John M. Daugherty has twenty feet and then comes the McShane heirs with twenty-two feet. All this makes a piece of ground 110x132 feet. Contractors will submit bids on January 30 for the construction of the Northwestern freight depot It will be practically all of brick and Iron, and will be 71S feet In length, including an office building of two stories at the south end, fronting on Dav enport street. The contract will be let and building operations begun as soon as pos sible after bids are In. Local building con tractors are hoping to receive more con sideration from the Northwestern than they did when they bid on the building last summer. It was hard for Omaha men to get specifications, and when they did it was so late they did not have time to figure on the Job and get bids In by the day set. All bids were rejected on that occasion. The Union Paclflo eirpects to begin tearing down the old buildings on Its headquarters site about the latter part of this week. The destruction of the old buildings to 99 Building, OMAHA BROWN. Cashier aaaaaaaaaaaaaaJ T, METERS, 1614 WIRT STREET. maka room for the Cohn block on Six teenth street haa already begun. The con struction of this building, the railroad headquarters and the Northwestern depot will lend an appearance of unwonted activ ity to the district east and northeast of the federal building-,. Double brick houses pay and H. F. Curtis has begun the erection of a second one on the site of the old Beth-Eden Baptist church on Fark avenue, just south of Leavenworth street. Mr. Curtis built a similar house at the same location last summer. Two modern cottages have been begun by Payne & Bostwick at the southwest corner of Forty-second and Hamilton streets. Harry Wolf has bought a residence at the southwest corner of Twenty-fifth and Caldwell streets. Margaret Outhard and Adolph I Meyer have sold land in Spring Place reserve, amounting to one-fourth the entire block, to the .Willow Springs Brewing company, which will use it as a site for its new bottling house. In addition to this and Its original holding, the company has recently acquired a strip of about COO feet of track age, which will provide for the expansion of the brewery for many years and at the same time allow space for other industries. Slowly but surely the money Is being raised for the completion of the Auditorium. Several months ago a committee set out to raise the necessary $40,000, and It has succeeded In getting about $lS.O0O of this amount. The committee says without doubt the fund will be completed In the next few weeks that the work on the Auditorium may be done in the spring. Harry Ack'erman bought from the Som mer estate the brick and frame store build ings at the southeast corner of Tenth and Hickory streets. The Hicks Real Estate company has sold a residence lot on Farnam street, near Thirty-eighth, to T. J. O'Brien. Louise Huster has bought from the Shlmer & Chase company a house and lot at Forty-first and Farnam streets. A. I. Rhamey has bought from Julia Sherman a house and lot at the southeast corner of Twenty-seventh and Woolworth avenue. " George Quran has bought two lots at Twenty-fourth and Bancroft streets from the Byron Reed company. The same com pany has sold a lot at Thirtieth and Daven port streets to J. O. Siford, manager of the Gunning system, who will build on It a six-room modern home. The company has sold for Gertrude M. Buchols to Q. M. Wright the house and lot at 525 South Twenty-fifth avenue. Mets Bros, have derided to change the ame of Ruser nark to ConenivHn nrl This is the twenty-acre tract which the Men Bros, purchased on Center street, west of the city. Some dar the riArlc mo v be made Into an amusement resort. BIDS FOR COUNTY PAVING Proposals Opened by Board, bat Not Comparable I'tll They Are Tabalated. Tha county commissioners Saturday morning opened new bids for the paving work on West Q, Leavenworth and Fort Calhoun roads, which is to be done this year under the Inheritance tax law. The first bids were rejected, as there was only one proposal for part of the work and the bids were, considered- high. ' An accurate comparison of the bids cannot be made until they are tabulated. The proposals for the West Q and Leavenworth work are lower than the first ones submitted, but those for the Fort Calhoun road are higher. The increase In the price on tho Fort Calhoun road Is due to the fact the railroads have Increased the rate for switching cars to Florence. Formerly the charge was $5 a car. Now it Is t cents a hundred pounds. Bids were also opened on Ice and bread. The low bid on ice was 90 cents a ton for natural les, delivered to the county hos pital ice house, and $7 a ton for natural ice and (8 for artificial ice for the court house. The bids were referred to com mittees. MUNGER CHOOSES MISS CAREY Talted States Jadge Decides oa Private Secretary to Succeed Mlsa Warisf. After many days of waiting tha formal announcement haa ben made that Miss Alice Carey haa been appointed to the po sition of private secretary to United States District Judge W. H. Munger, to succeed MIm Grace Waring, resigned. Miss Carey haa been employed In law stenographio work In Omaha for twelve or thirteen years and is regarded as one of the most competent law stenographers In this section of tho country. Most of her work haa been confined to tha law offices of Brogao & Uorsroan, with which office she has been associated for many years. Miss Waring, whom Mlsa Carey succeeds, resigned her position In November, much to the surprise of ber friends, to enter tha convent of the Sisters of Mercy, where she haa entered upon the life of a novitiate. Miss Waring la not In the city at present, nor haa aha been for several weeks, having gone to Chicago with convent friends for further probationary instruction under tha law of tha order with which she baa vol untarily associated herself. U you have anyUOn to trade advartlM Be Want Ad page. HOME DIGNITY OF THE BUSINESS Eeal Estate Men Hear the Ideal of a Tiouehtful Aeent HOW PRESENT ABUSES MAY BE CURED Board of Control to Establish Bales that Will Prevent Waste of Kffort and Protect Owners' Interests. "Dignifying the Real Estate Business" Is the title of an address delivered by Eugene A. Bourntque before the Chicago Real Estate board of January 2 of this year. It has been printed In pamphlet form and sent to the secretaries of real estate exchanges in various parts of the country. Il was read before the Omaha Real Estate exchange last Wednesday, and though no discussion was precipitated. It seemed to meet with general approval. The following extracts show the tenor of the address: Hor.eKt competition helps any business. But It does nut help the real estate busi ness when members of the same board cut commlsalons. tllch business from each other and resort to practices little iess than disreputable. There should be rules governing the conduct of members, the way Jhey transact their business, regulating commissions, etc., and these should be en forced. Nothing would give such Influence as the reputation for compelling lis mem bers to do business in a certain way. I regret to say that many transacting a real estate business today in Chicago are a detriment to It, and for this rras n, if for no other, it should be the function of this board to perfect Its organization and do everything possible so as to prevent the In Jury done to property Interests by Irrespon sible persons, sometimes styled as real estate men, but whose business might be compared to what Is commonly known aa bucket-shopping. Good Men Will Join. There are capable, worthy men 'doing a real estate business here who could and would become members If they could ' see any advantage to be gained by doing' so. Make a membership in this board mean something, and the public, too will then be In a pualtlon to discriminate between te sponslble and irresponsible parties. This board should be so managed as to make It almost necessary for property owners to give their business to only those who are members of It. Hut as It is now, they can see no special Inducement to transact their business through a broker who Is a member of the board. The protection afforded a property owner doing business with one of its members. If this board had a uniform system, would be ot considerable advantage to Hll concerned. We are clamoring for Improvements and reforms in city government. Why not com mence right here and give to real estate, which is the foundation of all values, a better standing in the lino of Investment? Allow property owners, even at their own loss, to dictate their own terms In handling their property, which they can do because, as a board, we are not recognized as hav ing any uniform or systematic methods prescribed for our-members, and we suffer, too. We have been at the mercy of these people too long, and apparently with no redress, who are unwilling to do business In the right way. When we have per fected a system, the curbstone broker will not be allowed to Interfere, for no one would cure to do business with him, and members of the board, of course, would have to respect the rights of each other. Brokers Waste Their Time. You mieht search In vain for any first- class city In this country in which a man's property Is hawked about by nrteen or twenty brokers, all trying to sell It at the earliest possible moment for the lowest price which the owner can be cajoled or bullied Into accepting. Brokers thus waste their time and totally fail to give honest service to the people who employ them. Exclusive agency would also, lk-siui-s Do ing an advantage to the seller, protect the buyer from bidding against himself, as In the case where several brokers are all trying to sell him the same piece of prop erty.- The chances of selling real estate are often ruined by different brokers hav ing the same property listed for sale, wnicn creates a latitude between buyer, seller and broker which Is not advantageous to any of them. Better send ten Independent ugents to an auction sale after Instructing each to bid in the same property for you. Home iuy that owners will not give ex clusive agency of their property. Is It a wonder when brokers will take property haphazard, with the understanding that the one wno sells It gets the commission? What a the result ? The brokers immedi ately realize Unit the one who can sell It the cheapest Is the one who gets paid for it, making little difference what he gets as long as It Is a commission, and he is com pelled to represent the buyer instead of the man who employed him. This changes the relation of owner and broker to a point where the broker is really representing the buyer, but expects to be paid by the seller. Tills condition exists because brokers are not united to protect themselves and be cause owners have not been educated to understand what their teal Interests are. Kieluaive Agency Not Exclusive. The exclusive agency which this board should require lis members to demand would not prevent the sale of property through other brokers. The man with whom the property was listed should be allowed and should be encouraged to divide commissions with any other member bring ing him a customer. A law should be passed prohibiting brokers from tillering property on the nisr ket without being duly authorized In writ ing by the owner to do so. This would pre. vent brokers from conflicting with each other and permit them, representing either buyer or seller, to co-operate together, and would have a tendency of promoting good feeling among them; whereas now many are atralnlng every effort, one to take busi ness from Ihe other. Many say there are too many real estate men; but I say there Is room for many mure of a good standard If this board will regulate tho form of doing their buslnees. Compel the public and owners of property to recognise this board and Its members as an organisation who do business In a businesulike way. Give tha sgent control of tho property which he offers for sale and then he will nut be limited or hindered In- offering It for fear that someone else will tut In on lim and reap the benefit of tho efforts he has made to sell It. This board should prohibit any member from dividing a commission with anyone who is not a member ot the organisation, and certainly with anyone not In the real eatata business, simply because they hap pen to bo a Judge, a doctor or a lawyer. Mlto for Conscience Paad. Chief of Detectives Ravage received a contribution to tha police "conscience fund" by mall Saturday morning when tha purse containing li.bu which was stolen about a week, ago frvu tha office ot It. Harry A. OF J. F. MAWHINNET, SOUTH THIRTT-SEVENTH STREET. Foster was returned. Tha purse and money were returned Intact to the owner, Mrs. John J. Jtardln, who was In the dentist's chair at the time of the theft. Detectives have been hard at work on the case and It is presumed the trail got warm and the thief decided to return the spoils to save himself from arrest. BUILDINGS AND FIRE VASTE Startling; Comparisons Mado with Showing of Construction for II MM). WASHINGTON, Jan. it. Tha records and tabulations for 1906 have Just been completed and show that tha grand total expended in building during tha year throughout the country reaches $304,960, 000. Stupendous as Is that sum, it has fallen considerably below expectations. It was confidently estimated early in the year that $725,000,000 would be the ttal reached. The total shows a gain of a little over 2 per cent oh the amount of building done in 1905. However proud wa may be of our growth, the figures represent but llttln more than the value of property wa have permitted to be destroyed by fire during the same period, for our fire losses for 1906 have been In excess of 1500,000,00!) A loss that, sayg Y. W. Fitzpatrick, the executive officer of the International So ciety of Building Inspectors, has never been equalled in any country at any time and that should mark the apex of the na tion's tolly. ' Further, Mr. Fitzpatrick, acknowledgedly the highest authority on matters of construction In the country, contends that nine-tenths of these losses arc preventable. He points out that as tho majority of buildings have been built and are being built, there Is absolutely no assurance that equal If not greater Vsses will not be the order of the day In the future, that our energies seem bent In the direction of providing fire-fighting appliances and. In paying excessive rates for so-called fire Insurance, rather than In building ao that our structures cannot be destroyed by fire. It Is claimed that if but a fifth of the sum Involved In our fire losses had been expended In protect ing the steel frames of buildings with hollow flre-prooflng tile, windows with wire glass, closing off stairways and elevator wells and taking other such pre cautions against fire, all the new build ings erected during the year would have been substantially immune. As It Is scarce .005 per cent of our existing build ings are fireproof and but tV per cent of those built during the year are even mod erately Incombustible In their design. In New York, for Instance, $226,000,000 went Into new construction and of that not over $20,000,000 went Into but partially vooi huiidlngs, and that In the com mercial metropolis of the country. A matter that certainly deserves the people's most earnest attention and the Immediate application of the one necessary remedy the better building of new structures and the prompt overhauling of the old ones. PALMER REPLIES TO JOBBERS Kxplalna Why Omaha Wholesalers Are Not Supplying; National Soldiers' Homes. "I notice that soma of the Omaha Job bers are doing a little kicking because they claim to be deprived of the opportunity of bidding on supplies for the National Soldiers' Homes," said Captain Palmer, a member of the board of trustees of the National Soldiers' Homes, Friday morning. "I agree with them that Omaha should be in a position to furnish very many of the supplies to these institutions, but then they will not make a bid on these supplies. Here is a case at hund. Only recently I sent out blank proposals to nearly every Jobber In Omaha fur furnishing medical supplies and the furniture and equipment of the new home, the Battle Mountain Sani tarium, at Hot Springs, 8. .. and did not receive one response. The proposals em braced soma thirty or forty pages of speci fications, and among them a special cata logue list of an Omaha firm waa referred to by ' name, printed In the specifications. Possibly they did , not bid from the fact that the greater number of articles called for Included drugs and medical supplies for the hospital, but the more costly bulk of the articles called for was furniture, car pets and the like. "Some of the firms were afterwards asked the reason they failed to bid and candidly . admitted they had not looked through 'the specifications carefully, sup posing the whole list referred to medical supplier Some of the bids for furniture and carpetlngs received from other locali ties were too high and we have called for other proposals, and In this second call some of our Omaha firms have already submitted bids. All of the supplies for the Soldiers' Homes are bought quarterly and maybe Omaha jobbers can get chance at them yet." MRS. BAILEY GETS JUDGMENT Sec ares Fear Handrcd Dollars Dam ages from r. E. Joy for Aata Aecldeat. Mrs. Emma J. Bailey was given Judg ment for $400 In county court Saturday against Frank K. Joy for Injuries "she re ceived October t, by being struck by his automobile. The accident happened at Six teenth and Dodge streets while Mrs. Bailey waa crossing the street, Sh declared she had suffered permanent injury by reason of ber condition at the time of the miahap. She sued for PMX Agrtealtaral BUI Takes Time. WASHINGTON, Jan. Ht-The house la committee of the whole continued discus sion ot the agricultural appropriation LUl LINCOLN BIRTHPLACE FARM further Flam to Make it Rational Park Are BncoefgfuL MEMBERSHIP WAY UP IN THOUSANDS First General Expression of People of the Lore for the Great Man Who Became a Martyr. Further efforts are being exerted to make the IJncoln birthplace farm a national park, which will forever stand as a monu ment to Abraham Lincoln, the war presi dent, who had the heaviest burdens of all presidents to bear, and who died In the harness; the victim of an assassin. Me morials to other presidents stand In the form of Mount Vernon and the Washington monument to General Washington, the clossio tomb of General Grant and a score of lesser memorials to other heroes of the republic, but, although Lincoln has been dead for over forty years, nothing haa been done In the shape of a monument or a park to commemorate his memory. Mark Twain, the great American humor ist, haa written a forceful letter which has been given wide publicity, calling attention to tho neglect of the American people. In falling to pay a fitting tribute to the mem ory of Lincoln. Ills birth farm was put up at public auction In August, 1836, that the proceeds might be used to pay off back taxes. Several bidders were on hand to bid In the farm that It might be used by commercial firms for advertising pur poses; but one bidder raised them all, and, representing Robert J. Collier, a public spirited citizen, he bid In the place that It might not be desecrated. Mr. Collier quickly turned It over to an organization of public spirited men to be developed Into a Lincoln National park that would forever stand aa a monument of patriotism and peace. Ideal for Such Purpose. The farm Is Ideal for such a purpose. Consisting of 110 acres In the rolling blue- grass region of Larue county, Kentucky, it is crossed by a picturesque stream, has many shady groves and possesses the fa mous rock spring, near which It Is pro posed that the Lincoln statue shall be erected. But a afiort distance away, along the turnpike, stands the old mill where Lincoln used to go with his father, the boy seated astride a sack of corn on tho broad back of the old mare. When the park Is developed It is said that the Louis ville & Nashville railroad will establish a branch terminal near the entrance. Tha organization, acting on the wish and plan of Mr. Collier, has decided not to let some wealthy few have a hand in fitting up the park, but has called for subscriptions from the people as a whole, that It might represent them. Donations from K cents to $25 are asked, which will give the doner a membership In the association. The name of the giver will be put In the permanent catalogue, which Is to be forever kept In a place of honor In the historical building to bs erected In the park. Before November 1 over 15.000 had joined. Labor unions, fra ternal organisations, historical societies, women's clubs and organisations of all sorts have pledged themselves to spread the work during the winter and 75 per cent of the dally newspapers, recognizing the broadly democratic spirit of the movement, have promised to give the matter publicity. Officers of Association. The headquarters of the Lincoln Farm association are at 74 Broadway, New York City, and the officers are: Joseph W. Folk, president, governor of Missouri; Joseph H. Choete, ex-ambassador to England; Henry Watterson, editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal; Cardinal Gibbons, archbishop of Baltimore; Kdward M. Shepard, lawyer and author; August Belmont, director of Louisville & Nashville railroad; Horace Porter, ex-ambassador to France; William Travers Jerome, district attorney of New York county; Jenkin Lloyd Jones, director Lincoln Centre, Chi-, cago; Charles A. Towne, congressman from New York; William H. Taft. secretary of war; Lyman J. Gage, ex-secretary of the treasury; Norman Hapgood of Collier's; Ida M. Tarbell, biographer of Lincoln; Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain); Augus tus Salnt-Oaudens, sculptor; Albert Shaw, editor of Review of Reviews; Thomas Hast ings, architect; Robert J. Collies- of Col. tier's; Clarence Mackay, treasurer, presi dent Postal Telegraph and Cable company; Richard Lloyd Jones, secretary. BIG BUDGET ASKED FOR PAY Nearly Fifteen Thonsnnd Dollars In creased Salaries Songbt by Tartona Connty OrBelals. Douglas county officials and employes want their salaries Inoreased $14,804 for tha coming year, according to the requests which have been filed with the commission ers by the heads of various departments. The commissioners did not tackle the problem at their meeting Saturday, but put It over until Thursday. The schedules filed with the commission ers show the following Increases per month are asked by the various offices: County clerk $2e, county Treasurer $110, assessor $48, district clerk $'J6, surveyor $12, auiltor $4b, county judge $25, sheriff $196, register of deeds $70, hospital $110, watchman $lu This makes a total of $942 a month. A bill has been Introduced into the legislature to increase the salaries of the county com missioners themselves from fl.tuO to $2.5uO. This would be aa Increase, of $60 each a month, or $3u0 a montai for the five com missioners. The grand total would be $1,242 a month, or IHMt a yeas Chemist Lester Klrschbraun of the city engineering department hss handed En gineer Itosewater a report of the engineer ing laboratory department for 19i. The re port shows the department cost $l,fO.Tl for the year and that Inspection was exercised over K,!H1I square yards of brick pavement, I9.K74 yards of asphalt repair work and 43,230 yards of asphalt pavement. Referring to testa made of asphalt and fluxes Chemist Klrschbraun notes: "Except material from Wyoming not one of these failed to pass the city speclfloaV tlons. Inasmuch ae competition has forced some contractors to use new and cheaper asphalts of doubtful nature, the city speci fications are far too lenient as regards such new materials. With our present analytical knowledge of asphalt It Is not always pos sible to predict with positive certainty the results of the vse of a new asphalt, and the city should not allow a contractor to experiment with a new material at its ex pense, particularly not the artificial one, whatever the souroo, without complete ana lytical knowledge of tha material and an additional guaranty of not less than five years." Mr. Klrschbraun reports that during tha year he made analyses of forty of the old asphalt paved streets; the tests showing that a general deficiency of bitumen and filler existed In the old asphalt pavement. Maintains Check on Contractors. Mentioning the work of the laboratory; for the year the chemist states: "It may be stated that the laboratory waa successful In checking up any errors on tha part of asphalt contractors in their mix tures. This department waa called upon to assist and advise regarding asphalt mix tures and. It Is hoped, waa of service not only to the city, but to the contractors. The records of material tested and of as phalt streets laid are already proving to be of great value and the proper Interpreta tion of such data, together with experi ments, will no doubt continue to assist la the Improvement of the quality of this olaaa of public works." The chemist haa thla to say regarding future work of the city repair plant: "It la the idea of thla department to conduct next year's (1907) repairing by first going over the approved streets of tha business district with a large gang, and thereafter to keep a small gang continually going over these streets, repairing small holes and depressions as they begin to show. In this way It would be possible with the funds at our disposal to put and keep In condition those streets that are worthy of maintenance and at the same time to give the outlying and resldenoe streets proper attention. There can be no question but that some of the old street in the business district have outlasted their usefulness. Their concrete foundations are rotten and constantly soaked with mois ture, making further patchings under such conditions a waste ot energy and money.1 Great Deal of Old Asphalt. . This suggestion is made: "There Is a great deal of old asphalt dur ing the repair season taken from the street which is capable of becoming a source of revenue to the department. Thla material. If broken up by city prisoners Into con venient size, would make a fine macadam rock for use on the city's park and boule vard system. When rolled and handled like macadam. It should form a surfao nearly waterproof, bonded, dustlesa and ca pable of withstanding the light traffic of our parks." Mr. Klrschbraun recommends certain Im provements to the repair plant, that tha work of 1907 may be more efficient and extensive. pUStLlTTLEBoVf Should be taught that the short cut te prosperity and Independence Is the sav ings account. When considering his finan cial Interests It might be well to remem ber that this association offer Its deposi tors a safety and assurance against loe and pays on every dollar deposited with It six per cent a year compounded. Why not open an account today for the little fellow and start him on the light npad and meanwhile remember that the mort gage on your home can be easily paid off In monthly payments through this asso ciation with less annoyance and sacrifice than under any other system. Call for In formation. Omaha Loan & Building Ass'n, - S. B. Oor. 16th and Dodge Bts. W. C. Lee mix, fres. 8. U. Nattisger, See, DENTISTRY Toath Talk No. 108 Everything I do for a patient In the way ot dental work I do with a view of doing work for him and his friends In years to come. , Of course I cannot compete la prices with the unworthy or un skillful. No more can yon get a good crown for 2.60 than you can get a Delmonlco dinner for ISc. I charge nothing for exami nation. . DR. FICKES, Pntist 't'hone Doug. $7. $11 bee lildg. it 4J sVBJCmOB KaTCS OOnWAJTT, ST hTorth irth V, Oatah. Wmm
