THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: FEBRUARY 3, 1907.
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Handsome Homes in Which Omaha People Are Spending Happy Lives
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FROM NOW ON LAW WILL BE APPLIED
Action of Jadse Tronp and City.
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Building activity, which baa been lacking
In the northeast put of the city (or a few
years, will be noticeable In that section
this spring. It haa already begun. Last
Friday the McCague Investment company
began the removal of the old structures on
the site where Herman Cohn will begin the
erection of a large building In March. This
Is on Sixteenth street. On the site of the
Union Pacific headquarters building, at
Fifteenth and Dodge streets, wrecking will
begin March 1 and the contract will call for
Its completion May 1. Construction will be
gin at once after that. Bids for the con
struction of the Northwestern's freight de
pot on Davenport street are now in the
'hands of the architect at Chicago and the
contract Is likely to be let any day.
All the city's biggest building operations
for this year, so far as scheduled, are to
be In the northeast section. The Cohn
building and the Northwestern depot will
be completed this summer, but the Cnlon
Paoiflo headquarters will be a structure
of such giant proportions that It may not
be completed by the end of the year.
The end of the first month of the year
shows an Increase of $7 per cent In building
operations over last year and a slight de
crease In real estate transferal Seventy
eight permits were Issued In January, rep
resenting $170,775 In buildings, as against
forty-five permits fci the corresponding
month last year, representing $124,500. The
only large permit was for the new Temple
Israel, to cost 150,000. Permits for January
of 19 amounted to but 127,690.
Transfers of realty for last month
amounted to 1711,622, compared with 1723.271
for the same month last year and (112,606
In 1906. Some large sales which are now
being closed promise to make a large total
for February.
Real estate men and builders agree that
1907 will surpass In point of residence con
struction the previous year, when 700 dwell
ings were erected. Acting on this belief,
those who were foremost In house building
last year are planning- wider operations
for this spring and summer.
The Byron Reed company Is preparing
plans for ten houses, which will range In
value from $3,000 to $4,000. and later In the
season may decide on that many more.
They will be scattered abeut the city, but
several are to be en Dewey avenue. This
company built a number of sightly houses
last summer on Harney street, between
Thirty-third and Thirty-fifth, and' all of
them were sold before they were completed.
Plans have been completed for two fine
residences. Mrs. Cleary will build one cost
, Ing (25,000 at Thirty-seventh street and
Dewey avenue, and Joseph M. Cudahy will
build one at Thirty-eighth avenue and
Dodge street, to cost $20,000 to J 25,000. The
contract la about to be let for the Cleary
residence and bids will be Invited In a few
days on the Cudahy house.
Hastings ft Heyden are planning to build
fifty houses this year. They will cost $1,500
to $4,000. Contracts have already been let
for six. three of the best being In Kountse
Place. This firm has operated extensively
lit the same line for two or three years and
readily , recognizes the signs which point
to a demand for houses. -It has easily
sold all the houses It has built and expects
to have no trouble In disposing of all It
The President's Open Letter
Much hag been printed about the life Insurance business daring
the past year. Let me call your attention at this time to a few things
regarding The Equitable Life Assurance Society.
It is as solvent as the Bank of England.
Every contract with it will be carried out to the letter.
Every asset claimed by the Society has been found by Independ
ent expert accountants, and re-appraised In value on a conservative
basis.
Loans have been verified, liabilities have been measured, bad
accounts have been charged off or marked doubtful.
The income of the Society from investments and savings has
been increased over $1,200,000 per annum. A still further Increase
can be relied upon. This will, in time, result In larger profits to
policy holders, even if not reflected in this year's dividends.
The Society has complied with the new laws of the State ot
York with exact preclseness. These laws provide every safe
guard that a wise legislature could devise to protect policy holders.
They restrict the Investments of life insurance companies. They
provide that expenses shall be kept within proper limits and control
the cost of new business. They prevent rebating aad political and
other blackmail. They prevent many questionable things that In
surance companies have done heretofore.
Hereafter every policy issued by this Society will bear the hall
mark of the State of New York.
The new management Is committed to the Interests of the policy
holder!. It understands thoroughly that the best advertisement it
can have is a satisfied constituency. The effort of the present ad
ministration will be to make this Society the best life Insurance
company in the world.
Life Insurance in the Equitable Is the best asset you can have.
It will grow better with time. If you have no Insurance, or if you
can afford to increase the Insurance you already have, you are doing
your family an Injustice if you do not take It. Nothing can take
its place.
We want new policy holders. We want new agents, both men
and women, but none except energetic, able and truthful men and
women need apply. For such there is a splendid opportunity.
A life Insurance policy runs longer and means more' to the
average man than any other contract he ever makes. Therefore the
necessity for great care In selecting a company In which to Insure or
a company to represent. Safety and strength are paramount to
everything else. We Intend to keep the Equitable the safest and
strongest In the world.
Address. The Equitable Life Assurance Society, 110 Broadway
New York, for full information as to Insurance or an agency
D. D. NEELY, Manager lor Nebraska
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tVU. HENRY BROWN, Cashier
George RL Cooper,
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Central Ajf nts, Omaha
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Joe Klein,
Central Agts Lin coin. Neb.
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can build this season. The firm also be-)
Ueves in double brick houses and will build
two at Eighteenth and Jackson streets.
Elmer J. Neville says he expects to erect
a three or four-story building on vacant
property at the northwest corner of Seven
teenth and Capitol avenue. It was an
nounced some time ago that Judge Neville
would pull down some old buildings on Six
teenth street, near the poetofflce, and erect
another structure.
Another week has gone by and another
sale of farm property west of the city has
been announced. Leonard Everett bought
160 acres of the Woolworth estate, five and
one-half miles southwest of the postofflce,
at 177 an acre. Forty acres of the Wool
worth estate went some time ago to Henry
Rohlff and Oscar Pickard, at (125 an acre.
The completion of the Union Paelflo
tracks to the Jetter brewery furnishes a lot
of new trackage for South Omaha. Good
sites for new Industries are afforded just
east of the brewery. Trackage Is not quite
so scarce as 4t is In Omaha, but still It Is
not very plenty.
Emll Gall has bought from Anthony Wil
kinson the McOrew brick dwelling on Web
ster street, between Nineteenth and
Twentieth streets, raying 115,000. Dr. Mc
Orew built these dwellings a year ago and
sold them a month or two ago to Mr. Wil
kinson for $14,000.
Undoubtedly the wholesale district will
continue Its extension northward In the
Ninth street section. . The latest Indication
of this tendency is the announcement that
Hayden Bros, contemplate the erection of
a wholesale- warehouse on their property
at the southeast corner bf Tenth and Dodge
streets, where they have had a storage
warehouse for years, by buying a portion
of the lot south of their present holdings,
the Haydens would have access to tracks
which come up the alley from Ninth street.
Their site Is a block north of the present
northern limit of the wholesale district.
Most people don't stop to consider that
there Is an Industrial center on Pierce and
Hickory streets near the river. They
haven't been down In that neighborhood
and perhaps don't even know the neighbor
hood has brick and paint factor! ea, brew-
President.
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erles and distilleries. Just at present the
Standard Distilling company Is erecting a
large warehouse at Fourth and Pierce
streets and the foundation Is completed.
The building will be eight stories In height.
It will be J22 feet long', sixty feet wide at
one end and fifty at the other.
The opening of suburban property con
tinues. The McCague Investment companjr
has secured a. part of Clontarf, which Is
on Thirteenth street between Omaha and
South Omaha, and will cut It Into seventy
nine lots to place on the market. Reed
Bros, have placed on the market forty
acres south of the east end of Dundee, on
Famam, Douglas, Dodge, Forty-eighth,
Forty-ninth and Fiftieth streets. This is
outside the limits of both Dundee and
Omaha,
Hastings A. Heyden report the following
sales :
Michael J. Sullivan, lot at southwest
cprner Twenty-second and Browne, for a
home; Leopold Kolovratek, house and lot
at 2662 Sahler street, for a home; Alfred
Willetts, lot on Saratoga and Twenty
fourth, to be Improved; Nina My rick, lot
In Military addition, to be improved; D.
C. Kelster, lot on Camden avenue, close
to Twenty-sixth street, to be Improved;
George C. Johnson, houBe and lot at 1703
South Twenty-eighth street, for Invest
ment; R. A. Swartout, lot at soitheast
corner Twenty-seqpnd and Browne, to he
Improved; John Y. Hooper, lot block
t, Creighton Heights, to be improved;
John Campbell, lot 8, Ames' addition to
Hillsdale; Emll Scholl, lot on Fort street,
beteween Twenty-fifth and Twenty
seventh, tp be Improved for rental pur
poses; Lena Strand, lot on Twenty-second
and Pratt, to be Improved for a home.
Hastings & Heyden report the following
recent sales In Kountze Place, all of
which will erect residences this spring:
Helen L. Schofleld, lot on Spencer
street. Just east of Twenty-fourth street,
fpr $1,000; William Songster, lot on Bln
ney street, between Twenty-first and
Twenty-second street, for $1,050; Kath
erlne C. Wonder, lot 'on Lothrop street,
between Twenty-first and Twenty-second
streets, for $800; 8. Hawver, agent, lot in
Wirt street, between Twentieth and
Twenty-first. $1.16; Breda C. EdlunC, lot
on Emmet street, between Nineteenth and
Twentieth streets, $900.
OUR GREATEST EXTRAVAGANCE
lamnit Waste sy Fir Callr Artea
ttoa to Heeessity far Improved
Coaatraetleau
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2v-Jn the current
issue of the Open Ceurt appears an article
by F. W. Fitz pa trick that certainly Is an
eye-opener and gives feod for thought to
thinking men. Mr. Fltspatrlck is the execu
tive officer of the International Society of
Building Inspectors, a well known consult
ing architect, who has probably done more
than any ether man In the country in the
interests of firs prevention and sane build
ing. He calls attention to the fact that In
all the country there are 11.IO0.000 buildings,
valued at $l260,000,eoo. That of all that
rait number there are only a few, over
4,000 in which any attempt has been made
at fire-proofing, even In the structural
parts, buildings whose steel frames ' are
protected with hollow tile or some of the
less effective substitute concrete protec
tions,' and but twenty in which the decora
tions as well as the structure are fire
proof, and but one building in the whole
country, the Underwriters' laboratory In
Chicago, which is absolutely fire-proof in
construction and design and cannot be ap
preciably damaged by any conflagration.
He goes on to show that as a result we
have offered up over $1,000,000,009 worth of
property, sacrificed to the god of Are, in
six years! tune, besides six or seven thou
sand human lives per year. Plus' that, we
pay out nearly $300,000,000 a year for fire
departments and water protection, and
again we have paid $1,610,836,242 In Insurance
premiums during the last ten years. In
return for all this waste we get an average
of only $&,000,000 of our own money back
from the insurance companies in paid
losses. Our average year's fire loss Is over
$200,000,000, while in 130C, just closed, that
loss reached $0,000,000, including Ban Fran
cisco. But even in so-called "normal" yari
we average three theaters, three public
halls, twelve churches, ten schools, two
hospitals, two asylums, two colleges, six
apartment houses, three department stores,
two jails, twenty-six hotels, 1W flat build
ings and 1,600 homes burned every week.
Figures that ought to make us firmly re
solve to, from now on at least, build as
well as we know how.
DOG BITE PROVING FATAL
Hydropbebia Taktag the Ufa (
WtUlasa Heeae, l'atchaaa
at the Bsselter.
William Reese, 4106 South Twelfth street,
night watchman of the local plant of the
American Refining and Smelting company,
who lies seriously ill at Clarkson hospital,
the victim of hydrophobia, was reported to
be resting easier Saturday, but the at
tending physicians say his death Is feared
within the next twenty-four hours. It is
possible he may survive longer, which Is
frequently the case with patients afflicted
with this disease, as the critical stage has
not yet been reached.
Reese had several convulsions Friday
night, but not of the severity or number
of those Thursday night. He is still In a
semi-comatose condition and cannot recog
nise any one.
The case is being watched with great In
terest by the medical fraternity of Omaha,
bnt the death of the unfortunate man Is
believed to be certain.
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HOME
RIVALRY IN CITY GARDENS
Work that Makes Cleveland Homes
Frettier and Brings Beturas.
MUNICIPAL BEAUTY DOCTOR AT WORK
School Children Encouraged to Grow
Flowers and Vea-etablea la
Vacant Lots Tbelr Pa
rents Also Interested.
There Is only one city In the country
which has a curator of school gardens.
That Is Cleveland, and the curator Is Miss
Louise Klein Miller, a former New Yorker.
Miss Miller was in attendance at the re
cent meeting of the American Assoclntion
for the Advancement of Science, of which
she was made a fellow last year In recogni
tion of her social and educational work.
The Cleveland school gardens, which
have been in existence only a year or two,
are declared to have already had a very
great effect on Cleveland children, first by
giving them a healthful, useful and agree
able occcupation for the long weeks of the
summer vacation, when so many of them
run wild In the streets; secondly, by bring
ing school In touch with their lives at a
new and practical point. Garden work and
attendance at the gardening lectures are
entirely voluntary, and the children ave
rage two hours work apiece a week In
term time, given after school hours, while
the attendance at the lectures Is always
good. At the end of the gardening season
each fall a little certificate Is given each
child who has cared for his bed satisfac
torily through the season.
Work Hone Scientifically.
At the Rosedale school there Is a propa
gating center, with hotbeds, cold frames
and potting house. Here cuttings are pre
pared for the gardens scattered over the
city later In the season, and here, during
the last summer, an economical botanical
garden was started. It Is intended to g-ow
In this garden all the food, fiber and drug
plans which the climate will permit. In
this plan the supervisor of geography is
much Interested, and the work will be
made to correlate with the study of
geography.
In different parts of the city are various
vacant lots, the nre of which has been
given te the children by their ewners. All
around the borders these lots are t anked
with flowers, while the central space la
filled with Individual varying beds, from
6x1 S to BxS feet In dimensions.
The children who wish to do so take these
beds at the beginning of the season and
keep them ss long as they care for them
properly. They raise vegetables, which
they take home for family consumption.
They care co-operatively for the flower
border.
There are flower shows with prises In
the fait te which the children bring the
flowers grown at home as well as those
In the school gardens. But this season
there will be monthly flower shows from
May to October, and In February and
March for winter bulbs, so that the flow
ers of each month may be displayed.
Prtees are also given fer the best vegeta
ble beds.
The school gardening work Is connected
with the home gardening of Cleveland.
The school gardens were really secured by
the Cleveland Home Garden association.
Organised by Private Effort.
E. W. Haynea, president of some woollen
mills in Cleveland, organized this associa
tion some years ago and has been Its
president ever since. They began by offer
ing prixes for home gardens, establishing
flower shows with prizes for fiowera and
selling seeds to the school children at 1
cent a package.
Cleveland has In Its poorer quarters great
numbers of small one-family houses. In
which worklngmen live instead of In tene
ment houses. The policy of the associa
tion in the last few years has had the
effect of cleaning up yards, front and back,
and ridding them of all refuse to make
room for gardens.
Many of these little houses are bowers
of beauty In summer and families who do
not go to this extent are ashamed to db
nothing when neighboring grounds are
blossoming so brightly. As a reoult there
is scarcely one such house In Cleveland
which has not at least a vine trained over
Its porch. Its gay bed of nasturtiums or
some other spot of greenery or brisbtness.
This has been very noticeable In Polish
and Bohemian neighborhoods and others
which In some cities are apt to be uncared
for. last fall a hardy chrysanthemum
show was held In a distinctly Polish quar
ter, where geese meandered through trip
streets. There was scarcely a yard In the
quarter which did not contain hardy chrys
anthemums. Seed Sales Pay Expenses.
The Home Garden association pays all
Its expenses out of the sale of Its 1-cent
packages of seed, and last summer It pre
sented the school board with $500 for school
garden work. Some 450,000 packages of
seed were sold last year and a carload of
bulbs imported direct from Holland. The
association has now twelve branches and
8.000 members, among whom a dosen differ
ent nationalities are represented.
The mothers of the children often attend
Mine Miller's stereopticon lectures at the
school houses. Summer before last the
made a 14-cent garden in the back yard
of her own home. She took one of each
variety of the 1-cent packages sold the
children. , ,
Then, laying out the garden in a square,
with a circle in the center, she filled the
square with vegetables In such a way
that the contrast of pale green lettuce
leavea, crimson veined beet leaves and so
on was very attractive. The center was a
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ers. When all was at its glory she pho
tographed It and had a colored stereopticon
slide made, which showed as the 16-cent
garden in her lectures.
Although she said nothing about copy
ing this garden, It was taken as a model by
many the following summer, and hereafter
there will be competitive drawing of de
signs for gardens of specified size,' shape
and expense.
The Interest aroused by this work amorg
many residents is unusual. One man "of
fered as a prize last summer hardy plants
enough to make a hardy garden. Anothpr
presented 6,000 bulbs for distribution two
years ago snd 100,000 last season.
Mr. Howatt, superintendent of the Rocke
feller place. Forest Hill, sent 1,500 plants
to the propagating center, gave a talk on
practical gardening to the children and
offered a prize for the best written report
of his address. It is hoped In time to have
hothouses, scientific study of soils and to
correlate the garden work more and more
with other branches ot school work.
Despite the fact that seeds are sold to
the school children at cost, the local seed
stores of Cleveland have sold more seeds
each year since the movement began.
Y. M. C. A. FOR COLORED MEN
Proposition Is Agitated by Religions
Workers and May Be Brought
to Practice.
A branch Toung Men's Christian associa
tion for colored men is a project being re
volved in the minds of certain religious
workers In Omaha Just now. The Young
Men's Christian association has not, so far
as known, taken up the matter, but may
be asked to consider Its advisability.
As explained by one man who is agitat
ing the proposition the Idea Is to establish
quarters wholly separate from Hhe present
establishment, where colored men may find
comfort and edification during leisure hours
when they otherwise might be less profit
ably engaged. Rent a room in soma con
venient downtown location, he says, and
equip It with furniture, books, magazines
and other means of entertainment and let
it be for the exclusive use of the colored
men. He proposes, of course, to organize
these colored men Into a body which may
be Indirectly unaler authority of the Toung
Men's Christian association proper, but may
have one of Its own number one or as
many more as expedient to direct things.
As the membership Increases he would in
crease the scope and quarters of the or
ganization. "I believe," says this man, who fer the
time being desires his name withheld, "that
this proposition is entirely feasible. At
present the colored men who desire the
best associations are without such advan
tages as a Toung Men's Christian associa
tion would offer. There are a great many
young or single colored men In Omaha
who are holding good positions and have
high ideals and purposes and would be
glad to take hold of this sort of enter
prise. I was talking to one the other day,
whe told me he would be glad to put la
$36 as a starter for such a movement and
would contribute liberally from time to
time as occasion arose. And, he said, ha
knew of others who would aa willingly co
operate. This seems to me a practical way
of helping our colored friends, and I am
going to see If It can't be auahed through
to a successful end."
WORK ON jmSH EXHIBIT
Dnblln Is Harrying to Get Groan d
Ready for Exposition
This Toar.
DUBLIN, Feb. 1 (Speclal.)-To tha crude
musla of hundreds of hamme the hand
some buildings wherein wi'.l be held the
Irish International exhlblt'en of 1807 are
rising like magic from the ground.
Spread over fifty-two acres of land,
within a mile and a half of the center
of Dublin 600 Irish women are busy trans
forming mounds Into lakes and hollows
Into grass plateaus. Stretches of mud
are becoming broad gravelled walks or
beds of rich soil ready to welcome and
nourish the flowers of summer.
Upon barren stretches of meadow land
there are arising massive looking struc
tures whose roots will cover the products
of the world s Industry.
"We are well ahead of time," Mr. James
Shanks, the chief executive officer, re
marked one day this week. "We have
seventeen more weeks yet before we open
and we feel satisfied with our progress.
The exhibition will be opened during the
first week of May and will remain open
for the public for six months to be ex
act, 150 days. During that time wa esti
mate we shall have from 80,000 to 60.000
vial tors dally and an average of 4.0 for
every twenty-four hours, or a total of
(.OOO.OOO during the ISO days."
The question now being asked is. Can
Dublin meet the demands of these t.OOO.QOOT
The large Dublin hotels are fuTiy booked
for June and July, notably the Shelburne,
which has accommodations for 800. Under
tha circumstances it can readily be seen
that Americans and other foreigners who
have not even booked their passage across
h, ocean may And soma difficulty in get
ting accommodated. In fact persons con
templating visiting Dublin next summer
will do well to commence to make Inquir
ies right away, alnca accommodations tour
or five months from now are likely to be
at a decided premium.
Raffrasre Hill for Sweden.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Feb. .-The bill
promised In the speech from the throne
at the opening of Parliament providing for
the introduction of universal suffrage and
a proportional electoral system for elec
tions to the second chamber was introduced
In Parliament today. The members of the
upper house will continue to bo chosen as
at present, but the term of service will be
reduced, from ulna to six yeara.-
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LOCAL CASH BUILDS OMAHA
Home Honey Invested in Bui'dinei Dunne
tbe List Two Year.
ONLY A SMALL AMOUNT OF 0UTSISE HELP
Capital from Abroad la Very Sllmly
Represented in the Bin Piles that
Have Been Added to City's
Straetnres.
Omaha buildings for the last two years
have been built with Omaha capital. Many
years ago a considerable portion of the
building operations were undertaken by
capital from the distance. Such conditions
are of the past.
The proportion of buildings erected by
foreign capital In 19"6 was 16 per cent. In
105 the proportion was 14H per cent. Total
building operations in 19U6 were J4,Z73,OjO,
of which $0S7,00O was outside capital; In 1906
total operations were $(,387,464, of which
$16,000 was outside capital. These figures
take cognizance only of permits Issued in
the two years, and presume that all dwell
ing houses were built with Omaha money.
and undoubtedly only a ridiculously small
number of them were not.
Mrs. E. W. Nash and Count John A.
Creighton have been the biggest builders
recently. Mrs. Nash Is erecting two large
eight-story warehouses for M. K. Smith &
Co., and Count Creighton built last year a
warehouse for the John Deere Plow com
pany and a fine home for the Byrne &
Hammer company. Most of the smaller
concerns, and some of tbe larger, are erect
ing their own homes. In the olden days
Vtlllam A. Paxton built the Paxton 4
Gallagher warehouse, the Paxton hotel,
the Ware block and the Paxton block.
Peter Iler has several large structures In
the wholesale district, but he has built
none in recent years.
Details of Local Investment.
Of the larger fruits ot .local capital, tbe
records of the building inspector's office
mention permits for these as having been
Issued In 1906:
Catherine B. Nash, for M. B. Smith
& Co., two warehouses, each $190,000
Carpenter Paper company 126.000
Rome hotel 1U0.U00
First Christian church 46,000
Wise Memorial hospital 60,0Ti0
Omaha Methodist hospital S1.000
All Saints' church 66,000
Mets Bros., bottling house 36.0U0
Paint and Brick works. Second and
Hickory 86,000
Fairmont Creamery company 60,000
Nebraska Telephone company, ware
house (0,000
F. D. Wead 25.000
Wead it Baldrige 23,000
Mrs. Elizabeth Dufrene 44.000
Conservative Savings and Loan asso
ciation 80.000
Frank B. Kennard 25.000
J. M. Daugherty, residence 80,000
In VM may be mentioned these permits
for local money:
Toung Men's Christian association... $200,000
John A. Creighton, building for the
Byrne ft Hammer company 200,000
Webster ft Sunderland 157,0ue
J. L. Brandels ft Sons 65o."H0
Hayden Bros 60.000
Wright ft Welhelmy company 80,ouO
John A. Creighton, building for ths
Jehn Deere Plow company 66,000
S. . Mercer 67.000
Allen Br:., annex 60,000
Edward Riley 20.000
R, C. Btrehlow, apartment house 60.0H0
Merriam ft Holmquist, elevator 4n.ono
Rohrbough building 39.000
Burwood theater 20rt
Dormitory at Creighton college 25,000
Street car company a shops at Twenty-sixth
and Lake 88,0n0
Adams ft Kelly 4O.U00
A. C. Drelbus, warehouse and factory
for Drelbus Candy company .,.. 80,000
Cudahy Packing company's Omaha
branch Jn.flf)
Omaha Casket company..' 22.000
Foreign Capital Figures.
Of the Instances of foreign capital In
vested in Omaha In 1906 and 1906, the most
prominent are the following:
Omaha Daily News. $3O.P00; t'nion Pacific,
for shops and warehouses. $4tf,0u0; Crane
company, $75,060; J. B. Pierce, building for
the American Radiator company, $42,00;
Val Blatx Brewing company, J.fiOO; Dr. A.
B. Wright of la Angel, $22. (no; the In
dependent Elevator company, IHi.wiO; Crow
ell Lumber ft Grain company, elevator, $40,
(fl; Nye-Schnelder-Fowler company, eleva
tor. IIcO.OijO; H. H. and A. B. Emmons,
building for M. Spiesberger ft Bon company,
!'. Ij; W. H. Burnham, building for the
Tutted States Supply company, $T0,0n0; Pur
lin, Orendorff ft Martin, 1124. w; United
States government, improvements at Fort
Omaha, $366,000.
Tha permit for the Hoagland block at
Sixteenth and Howard streets, costing $250,
GuO of local money, was Issued In UOi.
MTAGUES HAVE FIRST HOLD
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Investment Company Una Signed Con
trast to Clear Slto for
Cnlon PaclSo.
It Is quite probable the McCague Invest
ment company will clear the site of the
Union Pacific headquartera. The McCagues
have signed a contract and deposited a
cash bond, though the railroad company
still holds the contract In Its possession and
will withhold Its signature until February
Hi. Several contractors have been asked to
return bids February 10 and of course oaa
of these may be able to gst the work away
from ths McCaguea The removal of
buildings from the site will be begun March
1 and is to be completed by May L
Tha McCague Investment company has
the contract for the clearing of Herman
Conn's property on North Sixteenth street
and began the work Friday.
Ran on ew Jersey ttaak.
NEW YORK. Feb. t-The run on the
Mechanics' Trust company at Bayonne, N.
J., which was started yesterday by a false
rumor regarding the lns'itutlons' solveri&y,
continued today. There were none.ef u,
scenes which marked the early stages of
the run. Where hundreds stood In line
yesterday there were only seventy-five on
hand today. Officials of the company an
nounced that more than $1,000,000 had bono
awaluAf Ui ileaaiua ot Uia wepoaitwra.
The action of Judge Troup and City
Prosecutor Daniel Friday of dismissing
twenty-five cases appealed from polloa
court and forfeiting the bonds In thirty
five more calls attention to what Is de
clared by those familiar with It to be an
abuse of long standing. It has become tha
custom to allow all cases appealed from
police court to die a natural death and this
custom has become so firmly fixed that it
Is generally recognized that one way to
ket-p from paving a fine In police court la
to appeal to the district court.
The twenty-five cases dismissed had been
on the docket more than three terms and
consequently had become outlawed. Many
of the other cases would have outlawed
Saturday, as Friday was the last day ot
the October term of court. In most of tha
cases no information had been filed.
Until the county commissioners required
filing fees to be paid in advance It waa
eaey for a person fined In police court to
avoid the payment of both fine and costs.
He could file an appeal without paying tha
filing fees and in the course of three or
four terms the case would be dismissed
with costs unpaid. Judge Troup Friday or
dered a clearing of the docket of all these
dead cases, snd from now on persons under
bond will be required to appear in court
on time or forfeit the bond. Suit will bo
begun In all of the thirty-five cases lit
which bonds were forfeited to collect oa
them.
Ths dismissal of the cases also disclose
a class of professional bondsmen, one ot
whom. Secretary Chase Green, Is said to
have signed bonds to the amount of about
$30,000. He Is not possessed of this amount
of property, but as th bonds are small
waa able to qualify In each Individual case.
Third ward saloonmen also are on a num
ber of bonds.
Most of these bonds are for $100 each,
while a few are for larger sums.
MAYOR WILL BE AT NEXT ONE
DaaUnan t'nable to Attend Boxing;
Hatch Friday, bnt Will Se
Coming Contest.
"I waa sorry I could not get down to tha
boxing contest last evening, but a mora
pressing engagement kept me away," re
marked Mayor Dahlman Saturday morning.
"I really Intended to get down to see, as I
said yesterday, for myself whether thero
is prize fighting in Omaha. Seeing, you
know, Is believing, and while I am satisfied
no prise fighting is going on, yet I think
I should make a little investigation for
myself. I'll be down to the next one."
The crowd at the Oshoft hall ringside
Friday evening waa all agog over the re
port that tbe mayor would drop In any,
minute.
During the Wallace-Blaezak event tha
patrons ot the "manly art" looked toward
the door as one man every time Wallace
boxed Blaezak harshly or Blaezak slammed
Wallace against he ropes. What would
tha mayor think If ho saw one ot tha prin
cipals punching the other "In tha slats,
"landing on his kidneys," "drawing tha
crimson from tbe nose of hlsantagonlst,"
or "putting out one of his lights T" were
tha questions they asked themselves.
Mayor Dahlman, however, believes tha
Civic Federation is making a misuse of tha
English language in referring to the al
leged fistic carnivals being held at Osthoff
hail as "prize fights."
Fasersl of Ed Culbertson.
Tha funeral of Ed Culbertson, aged SS.
who died Thursday afternoon after an Ill
ness of only a few days from pneumonia,
was held at 8 p. m. Saturday from the un
dertaking parlors of Bralley ft Dorranoe.
Rev. John Williams, rector of St. Barnabas
Episcopal church, had charge of tbe serv
ices and performed the Impressive burial
ritual of the church. The body waa taken
to Troy, O., for interment, which Is the old
home at the family ef Mr. Culbertson. Mr.
Culbertaen was a foreman in the employ
of tbe contractor building the elevator for
the Ne-Schnelder-Fowler company and
was formerly a well known contractor of
Fremont. Ha was unmarried.
'PAINLESS" DENTISTRY
TOOTX TAXK JTO. 107.
There is no magic in "painless"
dentistry. It Is science, common
sense and uncommon care that re
move all that ia dreadable from
the operation.
If you need fillings or crowns do
not hesitate through fear of dis
comfort. I have practically elimi
nated all the old-time pain and
annoyance of dental operations.
I charge nothing whatever for
examination.
DR. FiCKES,
Dentist
'Phono Doug. 617. 131 Bee lildg.
WLittleBoy'
Should be taught that the short cut t
prosperity and Independence Is the sav
ings account. Whan considering his finan
cial interests It might ba well to remem
ber that this association offers its deposi
tors a safety and assurance against losa
and pays on every dollar deposited with.
It six per cent a year compounded. Why
not open an account today for ths little
fellow and start him on tha right noad
and meanwhile remember that the mort
gage on your home can bo 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. K. Cor. lttk and Xkxlg Bts.
W. 6. Laasris, fret, G. M. Nattlnger, Scc'y
uav at d.ai-x, t
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