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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (April 28, 1907)
TIIE OMAIIA SUNDAY BEE: APRIL 2S. 1907. NEWS OF TOE BUSY HOME BUILDERS 1 Johnson - Rowe - Daly Co. There's a. Difference in Furnaces GOOD WEEK FOR BUILDING OLDEST LARGEST BEST A Twentieth Century Cottage Wwtber rTorbl and Outdoor Work it Hurr.ed Alonr Ererywhers. MANY SMALL CONTRACTS ARE BUNG LET CD " ) n; n s n i .1 J ' i ( And there's a greater difference In the way they're InstallcJ. The best furnace in the world will not work well If Installed by men who do not understand the T. W. C. A. HallHIn Plana Will Ila to B Rftiorrd to Com YVIthla Money Available, bat Chans Will He Bllahu 24 tfr--lzrr?tZi o V Building has been verjr active during th list week on account of the unusually propitious weather and foundation have been laid or alarted for many new minor building. The froat ha left the ground .nd afforded a clear fluid for foundation work, but contractor have boen chary of beginning work on any large building until the weather becomes more acttled. It would appear that a great building boom Is to be witnessed thin aptin In the erection of homos, which are going up In unusual numbers. The number of small toti.igr being built Is believed to bo greater this season of the year than for riie time and this active condition la par tially caused by the extreme scarcity of desirable cottages for rent. General iroa ptrous conditions have also had much to do with the Increased building of modest home and the situation at present Is the cause of much gratification among the real stale broker and other business men of the city. Razing of the old store buildings on the site of the new Young Women's Christian awsrxMatton on the triangular lot on Bt. Mary's avenue, between Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets, has nearly been com pleted by lUngwalt Broa, who were awarded the contract for removing the old and dilapidated structures. Bid have been resolved and opened for the new associa tion building, but new figure will have to be taken In order to keep within the build ing fund recently raised by popular subscrip tion. It Is understood that most of the bids received wer not within the limit of the funds on hand and trilnor changes will, therefore, be necessary. The question of the material to be used has not been defi nitely determined on account of -the differ ence In price between gray and red facing brick. It Is probable that the contract for the construction of the new association boms will be awarded within very few weeks. m mm . ..J -irt J - 1. ,.- -T f . - J.VktKLiiAlVl'liWliiiiiiiiiiiiiJil It has been decided to add an additional story to th new building- for the Crelghton Bchool of Pharmacy, which is being erected adjoining th building of the medical school at Fourteenth and Davenport streets. The extra story will make the building four In Stead of three stories In height, as was or iginally intended, and th additional space will be used for storage. Work on the pharmacy building baa been delayed on ac count of the Inability of the contractors to secure sufficient brick from the Kansas kilns, but the structure will b ready for occupancy before the fall term of school begins. William O. Parkin, 1304 Meredith avenue. la remodeling his house and putting la th latest improved plumbing. D. W. Dud geon is doing, th work. i C. II. Foster Is building six flats at Fortieth and Harney streets and a number jL "People a " uuuuinae i Design No. 138. Complete plans and specification for 115. The second edition of the 1907 "Twentieth Century Cottages" Is now ready, and although it contains a larper number of views and floor plans It will be sent to our readers for the same price, 25 cents. Address all orders and correspond ence to the Home Building depart ment, Omnha Bee, Omaha, Neb. By special arrangement with the publishers our subscriber can obtain the 1907 edition of "Twentieth Century CottaKes." a book containing a num ber of views and complete floor plans of houses costing from $1,000 to $2,500, for 25 cents. We will also furnish complete plans and specifications for any of the houses published on this page from week to week. Address all correspondence to House Builders' Department, Omaha Bee, Omaha. Neb. BED POOKi IrFJ 6tDPOOrVl I I BED ROOM I ir-fc'XI' I lO'XIl' I Johnson Plumbing and Heating Co. John Rowe & Co. W. T. Daly & Co. Sixty-three Years ot Quality Biggest plumbing ptock in Omaha. Largest force of skilled mechanics in the w est. No delay no waiting for shipments. Get our prices before closing contract. Hollis M. Johnson, John Rowe, W. T. Daly, President. Founder. Secretary. 'PHONE DOUG. 858. 1412 HOWARD ST. SECOND rt-OOPt PI-AM tiTTl The attractive little home here shown la a one-story cottage, but three good chambers, as Indicated In ths floor plans, can b finished In the econd tory If needed. The paciou porch with Its substantial columns, while adding considerable to the cost. Improves ths appearance of the house to such an extent that it is money well spent. After passing through th vestibule we enter a fin large living room, which la separated from the bright, well-lighted dining room by an arch. A double cupboard is substituted for a pantry between th kitchen and din ing room. Ths bath Kom, opening off the back hall, can b conveniently reached from either the chamber on thi floor or those on the second. A linen cupboard Is provided at ths snd of the hall under th window. Ths location of ths chimneys Pr mit stoves to be used In haatlnf the rooms If preferred. - Thi house will cost $1,860 to build, exclusive of plumbing and heating. DINING ROOM J tV-'XM-' IZXI2 hau(iiKMi aaa. aaMMtMMaaiaM LIVING ROOM I 1 fl VES"r fil riR3T FLOOR PLAN. fl39 about to build homes or othes gs should. If they Intend to ' use cement blocks, make a careful Investigation of the quality of ths blocks they use," said a builder. "It Is very easy to make cement block and therefore there are many per sons in th business, but an Inexperienced man will not make a block that will last like that manufactured by on who know all about th business. It la said that one- twentieth of the earth I good cement and gravel. The cement type of contructlon ha corns to stay, at least until something better Is discovered, for building the habitation than Is now known." Ths local ari of Bogles has decided to build a home club house at Eighteenth and Capitol avenue. Fisher A Lawrt hava been engaged to draw th plans and trans fer of ths alt was made during ths last week. Ths contract for placing ths plumbing in the new Brandeis building has been awarded to J. J. Hanlghen. It calls for the most modern system for water, sewer age and heating. Ernest Bweet ha begun the oonstruotkm of five modern dwellings at Tbirty-atxth and Harney streets at a cost of $21,800. Th first stories will be of concrete blocks and the upper part frame. Ths Interiors will be finished in hard wood. The down town streets are being torn tip by the new telephone company, which la Installing the underground conduits for the new Independent system. A ons-story addition will be added to th store of ths Singer Manufacturing com pany at Thirteenth and Harney streets. It will be of pressed brick. Work ha al ready been begun. a building at one and to pay for none until the entire amount ha been deliv ered. Thi will give the dealer an In centive toward getting the lumber on the spot wUh the greatest possible speed. John Q. Reagen & Co. are building six houses at Twenty-first and Spring streets. The Qrove-Wharton Construction com pany has ths contract. Th same company haa th contract for a house In Benson for E. H. Hansen, on for Oeorge F. Mil ler on the Hospe farm on Dodge street, one for Stull Broa on the Stull farm and three for Rouse Bros. & Co. In Benson. r Ths new M. E. Smith building are near Ing completion. The Interior painting is being done with a water paint preparation by Ward ft Harpater. The painting work In th Douglas street building Is about completed and the work In the Farnam street building Is well under way. Lumber Is reported to be still advancing. This is said to be partly due to the con gested railroad conditions. Th Brandela building la to be hand somely finished Inside as outside. John ti. Harte, who has a contract for finishing the tipper five floors, says there will b at least S0,0iX worth of marble work alone. Th use of concrete shingles In Omaha houses Is to be begun to relieve the shortage In wooden shinglrs. A number of houses huve been standing in &n unfinished condition because of the Inability of the contractor to get shingles But the con crete men are right there with the concrete article, which is said to be better than the shingle of wood. It groms harder with age and does not warp or rot. Some new houses being built by Hastings ft lleyden 111 be roofed with them. D. W. Dudgeon, the plumber, Is arranging !o ramp out at Lake Manawa for six week luring the summer. He will move his busi ness into his new building at Twenty-ninth and Farnam streeta about June L 1 Among the recent Improvements made In the Psxton hotel Is a hands.wne entrance from the main rotunda into the bar. The woodwork la of solid mahogany, the work kelng done according to special design mad by Fisher ft I-wrle Th lumber hortge oontlnued and Is blamed by the lumber men on the ear Shortage. Some contractors havs adopted plan which they believe -will relieve them from worry on the lumber question. It 1 to arrai-k to pay tor all ths lumber of Tile and marble finishing for floors and walls is coming Into greater and greater favor among builders in Omaha. This type has long been a favorite In Oermany and other European countries. It is durable. beautiful, easily kept clean and unharmed by water or dampness. Milton Roger & Bon have a number of contracts under way for this type of work. They have just completed the tile work In the telephone exchange branch building at Twenty-third and Lake streets and also a beautiful piece of work in the cigar store of O. D. Kipllnger, Sutf South Sixteenth street. They have the contract for a large amount of marble work In the new building of the Carpenter Faper company and also In the Wise Memorial hospital building. Frederick W. Clarke, bead of the firm of Frederick W. Clarke, architects, gave a stereoptlcon exhibition of the plan for th new Christian Science church List Wednesday. The plans were thoroughly ex plained to tb members of the congrega tion who were gathered to see them. How old la reinforced concrete? A note thia week from Contractor F. B. Burn ess says he la working on Carpenter's ware house at Ninth and Harney streets and ths interior 1 ot reinforced concrete, a new thing in Omaha, Reinforced con crate is comparatively a new thing In the building line all over the country, but Is it really new? The architect says it Is ancient; that he came across a bit of it in a Roman ruin, showing that th Roman knew It and used it and illustrating the fact that there la really "nothing new un dr th sun." An additional atory la to be added to the building occupied by the Omaha Rubber Shoe company at the northeast corner of Eleventh and Farnam atreets and will te occupied by the Omaha distributing office of the Goodyear Rubber company. All is quiet in the labor market and the relations between builders and labor, both j skilled and unxkhli-d. are most cordial Contractors and builders do not look for any trouble and the workmen are said to be satisfied with their wages. Oscar Keellne'a handsome new home in Council Bluffs will be equipped with two tile-floored bath rooms and a mosaic tile floored vestibule, the work being done by Milton Rogers ft Son. The same firm will put a tile floor in the Fiist National bank building In Beatrice and a larg tile fire place In the home of J. B. Hume at Midi- son, Neb. The All Saints' Episcopal church heating apparatua wi.l be installed by the Bellamy i ft Hornung company. This company will ! also put the steam heating plant in Ilia new Northwestern freight house. Several new house ar bolng built In Omaha according to the style used In (It many and some parts of Denmark and Sweden for countn villas and even fur I ritv ral.irneea. Thia la the hQUM rilAMtere with cement on the outride in place of sid ing. In place of lath or other wooden fuuudaUuti fox th ccuicut a klud of woven wire la used, which doe away with th danger of cracking the plaster, which often occurred by reason of the absorption ot moisture Into wooden lath and th conse quent swelling of the lath. A v pretty house at small exponas is the result of th use of this kind of building material. It Is lea pervious to heat and cold and moisture than wood, never need to be painted and Is said to only Improve with age. The Sachs Cigar company, 220 South Fourteenth street, la having two show win dows equipped for most brilliant Illumina tion. The work is being executed by the American Electric company. Milton Rogers &, Sons Go. 14th and Farnam Streets. Mantels and Tiling No Investment you can make will add so much cheetrfulnees and attraction to the new home as an open fire place. See our beautiful display of Inexpensive Wood Mantels Fire Place Grates Gas Logs Tile Vestibules Tile Bath Rooms Andirons and Fire Sets Bend for catalogue and prices. 1 BBiSP! Science of Heating We have made this brarcb of our business our special etudy and our work haa reached a degree of perfection not equaled, we believe, In the west. Don't make the mistake of believing that any tinner under stands the heating business. Not one tinner In twenty is a furnace man and not one furnace man In twenty Is capable of working tip to the standard of out shop. We have just received two carloads of the famous FOX FURNACES. These furnaces are fast becoming the most popular furnaces sold In Omaha. Better let us figure with you. John Hussie Hardware Co. 2407 Cuming Street "IF YOU HUY IT OF HUSSIE IT'S 1UGHT." C. B. HAVENS & COMPANY BUILDING MATERIALS OF ALL KINDS LIME CEMENT, rLASTER, CRUSHED ROCK, SAXD, BRICK AND SEWEK PIPE. Get Our Quotations Before Placing Orders Kl sew here. PKone Douglas 317 Pixton Block. 0 Douglas 1372 W .111 I IIS I ipm flXTURES SHOW-CASES ,AHU'r STAIRS GRILLS riNE HARDWOOD INTERIOR FINISH iso2'is California St., Omaha, Neb. L. C. tOWRY American Electric Company Electric Light and Power Contractors Combination and Electric Light Fixtures - . . . - . H 'Fhone Douglas 1481 a "Hi ill""!!! 'XTIBXili iii-i. iiiamsa IfU'IWii 1403 JACKSON STREET. 6 DUNHING'S SPIDER MOWERS Just the Thing for Terrace Lawns DUNNING HARDWARE COMPANY. - - 1514 Farnam Street IKS Dr. J. E. Mi-Grew la building three brick flats on Chicago street near Kig-hteenth. The furnacea are being put In by the John Hutslo Hardware company. Th aame company la Installing the furnaces In four houses being erected at Twenty eighth and Burt streets by J. K. Jensen. The Dufrene business house on Far nam street between Eighteenth and Nine teenth streets Is n earing- completion. Bel lamy A Hornung have the contract for the heating and plumbing. Milton Rogers Son completed the tiling work In the building, which consists of the floor and walls In bath and toilet rooms and In ths vestibule. Th electrlo wiring for the new Barker building at Nineteenth and Hnrney Is be ing done by th America U.ectrlc com pany. Plans and specifications have bean prs- pared for a reaidence for Prof, limll Klchter, to be erected Immediately, at cost of about I2.5UO, on a lot near Blghteenth and iAlrd streets. Plans have also been prepared for a home for Theodore Vogel, to cost about t3,(u0, which will be built near Sixteenth and Martha streets. ARTISTIC and DURABLE With New Improved Machinery ESTIMATES 1XD PRICES ON REQUEST. OMAHA CEMENT STONE AND BRICK CO. Offlos and Tarda I Seventeenth and Turning Streets. Telephone Dought 4428. F. B. BURNESS CONTRACTOR AIB BUILDER. Reinforced Concrete a Specialty. Mow Constructing Carpenter Building, Phone Douglas 6965. 9ta and Harney St. National Roofing Co. Estimates Furnished on SLATE. TILE AJTD QRATEIi BOOTS AJJD ROOTIMO MATERIALS. ... Main O tries fi 10-11 Wars Block. u ll Omaha. Co. Blnffs, Xa. aiou City, la. BRAKCAES! SCREENS AXX. Q RASES, METAL AMD WOOD, MADE TO ORDER Don't rut off your order until you need them. CXAMBEREAXBT METAL WEATHER STREP COMPART Fhone Doug. 6981. 219 N. T. Life Bldg. ' i ' ' u .' ' t S-i.,- . r. .V." . .... , v 1 . -1. ' :.v - ;. - - -! j ;.. - -vr , ll .J. .... , , - . .... .. ... OMAHA GOAL and BUILDING SUPPLY COMPANY WHOLESALE and RETAIL STAXPAnn HARD, SOFT and STEAM COAI. nitlCK. LIME, CEMENT, PLASTER, SEWER PIPE, COOPEH.OE, SAXP and STOXK. DELIVERIES PROUTLY and CAREFULLY MADE. 303-305 Q. 13th St. Douglas 889 f v y v t v y v r" Updike Lumber and Coal Co. 3 WHOLESALE AND RETAIL New Yard.. All New, Bright Stock, Good rades and Prompt Delivery Bring Us Your Bills for Estimate Office, 100 Bee BuildirtJ Yards, 45th and Dodge St. Douglas 2473 Harney 737 Wolfe-Lovett Electrical Co. Still doing business at Ibe old location 1804 Farnam Street Will remove soon to 1510 Farnam Contracting, Repairing and Supplies DougJas 1414. H. D. Frankfurt ARCHITECT TaUphon Rd 3791 Room 51, Douglas Dlock The chief officer of the International So ciety of Building Inspectors arraigns the architects of the country In an able article In a recent Usun of Bul dlnK Management. "Particularly is there apathy," aays this high authority, "In the profession regard ing firnpioof construction. When first con fronted with this apathy one is dum foumled, fur It seems inexplicable, but we are face to face with th fact that If the city otflcers do not renulre It and the owner does not speciiicully call for It there is scarce on architect out of tea who would think of even advising, let alune Insisting, upon anything beyond the old-fashioned, combustible and expensl, mode of construction wooden Joists, fram ing, etc. Thia Is a most peculiar state of affairs, but a fact nevertheless. For years our people hav mistakenly bent their energies wuterwards. We have devised wonderful aarm systems, splendid fire de partments and other expensive Inventions with whic h to fight fire, and we have paid our billions In Insurance and other alleged cures, but have failed to grasp the cardl- , wires, had reduced Iad to habitually short, nal principle that prevention Is Infinitely : conciie replies even to his comeisation. better and saner than an, attempt to cur, j "f,. .fc' an.T'Jh..uS epidemical or other dlsiasts. Including bai on the rar loots until the pitch pulled fire. Building properly and offering little the solas off the brakemun s shoes Uad, or no fuel for nre to bum la the one ..gl- : 1 v 't.Jtf ! S In n pa.slng the next telegraph atalloii he threw olt a message to the auperin- telldel.l F. M. HAMLING Artistic Tile Work Floors, Bath Rooms. Etc. 309 South I7th Street Xr.w Xleotrto Braokst D.sign Ilk the above and a thousand other artistic and useful lighting fixtures always on hand. Important to Builders Fixtures should he selected before wiling contract Is let. We carry by far tUp largest and bent stock of useful as well a ornamental fixtures lu the West. Burgess-Granden Co. Talaphoa 681. S13 South 1 5th St. cat oIutlon of thi grlevou problem." Dad Marph-s Hretllj. Old Pad Murphy, a he was affectionately known to the boys on th road, wus a ion. ductor on a trunk line, lruioriii.g large ' bis answer: tiurlmns. bupu ilght h"gs aeaa ate i heat; advise. llUKWlf, No. 7s." At the second leiegTapn onic ne nuarw shloment of live stock troin the west T'.id h t J been in the service so long thai the rules of railroading had I -., me trcunl nature to hlin. and the result of the su perintendent's fregueol orders P the traln n.en to answer with DdllUtry brevity all questions and messages, ecpociaily tiu, bjr Iccaru, U ruv Ui biudau uu ul Murubv. Condr. 78 What t tn present condition of th hogs? Ans. qk. "Bl'KHANa" IHtd grunted, shirted his quid uf tiuecut and wrote as fullows: ' BuihaiiH. Bupl. llog slill dead. "ML'KWir, Tx." Juua. Labi aiy. "The Fence That Lasts Forever" CHEAPER THAN WOOD Ornament your front yard by In stalling a beautiful Iron Pence. It will give tone to your premises Our Iron T.ac ha tyle, Beaatr, Flulsh and Durability, and la Cost w ooiu pet with th World. 100 Choice De signs, SyxuxaetTlaal and Perfect. ANCHOR FEI1CE CO. 20O-7 North 17th. OMAHA. NKU. SstabUshe4 IMS. R. L. CARTER Sheet Mete.1 Work I Oloth) Drying Cabinet Bheet Wetal rir Irroof WiMAiW Larg Btock Metal Cwlilng Ull-It-tl-SI ST. MAirS AVLM'E. KaLavkOM ujla o BJORNSON (El HASS MANUFACTURERS SHEET METAL CORNICES SKYLIGHTS. FINIALS. HI ROLLS. GUTTERS OF ALL KINDS. Metalic Ceilings, Etc. TIN, IRON AND COPPER ROOFERS. 218-20-22 North 15th St. Telephone 2373 UKAL'TIFx VOIK mk mm ELECTRICAL CONTRACTINO NOirtgaRB EDVIII C. QEIillETT & COMPANY, i Complt Oondalt System with Xleotrto Wiring Designed and Installed for Light and Fower. ELECTBIO WOBK BT TCOMTBAOT OB VXBCXBTAQa TLAK. 160t Farnam Street. LAWN WITH Olli lllON AM) W1KK t b.xti. Trelll-s and Arbor fop Tlnna, flower guard chairs, tM'tees, vast-s, tree guards, hitching puata, window guards, barn fixture and chicken fence. CHAMPION FENCE COMPANY. 617-eit South 16th Street. IeL Dffoglaa 150. Send for Catalog-. HOT WATER HEATING l-room house fMO.OO 1-room house (JC0OO I to t-room house 13O0.09 JOS. W. MOORE, Tel. Maple 60S. lit! N. 18th tS. KEYS ALL KIND8 ...GUKSMITH.. 1SS4 Tel. Doa-. t7 Vp-etalrs. C. R. HCLFiri Tents and Awnings 4 xM: OcshaTent & Annlng Co. Illksailariicr. Tel. Deag. 1st.