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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 16, 1907)
i THE OMAIU RUNT) AT IVEE: JUNT5 16, 1007. TIMELY REAL ESTATE TALK Examples of Fine New Homes That Are a Feature of Omaha's Growth TEST FOR KOUNTZE ESTATE Suit Filed to Determine Whether it Escapes Inheritance Tax. Lait Week Another Period of Quies cence in Local Market WAS A USirUl BREATHING SFELL APFRAISES ASKED OF THE COURT County Want to Be gore Before l.et tlaar Balk of Millionaire's For tune Oct Away I n taaed. TTklle Tranartlon Are fiot Nimfi. on. Vast Amoaat of Work te I'nshrd on ' Kamber of Kew BoUdta;. l ii , . Last week wan another period of ulesenc In the local real estate market, that is. of comparative qulesence. Sev eral observations were made by local deal erg whlrh are worth recording In regard to the situation. One was that the few days of quiet only allowed dealer and contractor to catch up with the big busi ness transacted prior to laat week. 'It la Just a breathing spell." said one mfcn. And others agreed with him. An other observation was that what la this year considered a quiet week would have been considered a very active week a few years ago. Omaha dealers have become used to phenomenal weeks of business dur ing the marvelous period of growth through which the city has been going re cently. Kach week has been more won derful than the one before and therefore a fair week Is considered extremely dull. Of course the weather was obtuse. Only one or two balmy days appeared In the week, and It Is a well known axiom or the real estate business that people will rot go out to look at property, much less buy It when the sky Is overcast. Old Sol la decidedly the ally of the real estate tnen and of the home buildera. people are Just like these bugs that eome out In spring on the sunny side of wall." said a man. "When the weather Is cloudy and the wind la blowing , they don't aeem to reollao that tomorrow the run may be shining and all the world be tirlght. It generally takes two or three days of pleasant weather to relieve them of the feeling which the clouds have set tled upon them and to bring them Into the mood to buy." Th week has seen the pushing of work en all the buildings now In course, of erec tion. The weather has In no way delayed th contractors and builders and they are catching up with tha architects, who have been far In advance for monthe. The foun dations of tha big Cohn building on North Sixteenth atreet have been built nearly lerel with the ground. No building permit has been taken but yet for tnia atructure. but It win probably be applied for during thl week. Tha Toung Men's Christian Association building waa completed and opened during the week. Work was begun on the new Independent Telephone build ing. The contract for the latter waa let en the percentage basis, and an odd fea ture of It la. according to local contrac- tore, that no bids were asKea ior. in contract went to the Capital City Brick and Pipe company and calls for the com pletion of the two and a half-story fire proof atructure within ninety days from date. The contractors were at work on the building tha tame day tha contract was signed. Mora and mora buildings are being erected on tha percentage plan In Omaha. This plan la most popular wtlh both buildera and contractor!. Neither aide runs any risk. By the terma of the eon tract tha capitalist may buy the material for the structure if ha want to. He merely agrees to pay tha contractor a cer tain percentage of the cost of the struc ture for hla service. The contractor merely appear In the market as an ax pert employer of labor and an expert executor of plana drawn by an architect Vnder tha old system where the contractor agree to build for a certain um a car tel nbulldlng. It la more or less of a gamble whether he can do It or not. He may bid too low and then be loae money or ha may bid too high and then the capl taln building, It la more or less of a system. It Is claimed, neither aide run the least risk, the contractor make a fair profit and' the capitalist get everything he pay for. The building record for 1907 Is, up to the present, far and away In advance of the building for the same period laat year. Par ticularly la thle true with regard to cot tage and the modest Swelling of the great substantial middle class. In 1906 709 dwellings were erected In Omaha. In 1907 there will be more than 1.100 erected If the present rate keep up making due al lowance for the fact that the spring and eummer are the time of greatest activity In building. The largest property deal of the week was the sale by Dumont ft Son for R. S. Hall of a lot at Thirty-eighth and Cali fornia street to R. B. Buach of the firm of. Crane ft Co., for $8,600. Mr. Buach will make arrangement to bulld'a home there. The property la 190x188 feet and wa bought by Mr. Hall a few yeara ago for the pur pose of building a home. He decided later to, buy the John H. Evans place on Far nam street and therefore did not build. Mr. Busch recently aold hi home In Kounti place. Tha Influx of new resldenta of meat te make their homes In Omaha continues to be felt and Indicated on the real estate barometer. .The expansion of Omaha' enterprlsea and the reaching out of It commercial arm la moat surely felt In the great acarclty of houses In the city despite the great number of new dwelling and fat that hare been erected In tha last few yeara. The Thomas Brennan company aold to Mr. Clark, a newcomer to the city, the former- home of Henry Bolln. ex-clty treasure, at Nineteenth and Wirt street. The consideration waa 17.600. T.iat there 1 a large part of the bu ti neas district of Omaha down on the river bank below the Burlington tracks and south of Leaven worth- street 1 not gen erally known to Omaha people. Paint and brick factorlea are flourishing there and two new enterprise are building at tha present time. These are tha Standard Dis tilling company and the Haskln Bros, ft Co. The lat,er' are erecting a two-atqry brfck building at Second and Hickory treeta. The expansion of the wholesale district haa been decidedly along tha banks of the river. Why Is this thus? Observant mei aay It point to the time which surely must come whan big eteamera will ply up and down the river and will carry cargoes to and from the wholesale houses. It will then be of advantage to be located on the river bank. The expanalon of the whale! district In late year haa been both south and north of It former center on Harney, Howard. Jackson and Jonea street and It x lias moved decidedly nearer tbe river. Patrick addition. lying between Twenty- fourth and Twenty-elxth and between Lake aad Miami streets, ha been opened dur ing; the last week by George ft Co. Among those who bought lot with the Intention of building immediately are William Gen tleman, who will build a grocery store) A. C Kulp, who will build a store for hi cigar and new business, and Maud Mogge, wno win erect a residence on a lot facing Lake street. An Indication of tbe crowded condition tgA.-y- ,--:-CIf V; sir- 1 amm HOME OF M. C. of Omaha' retail business district Is shown In the skirmish made last week in search of a building In which a retail ladles' ready-to-wear garment store could be es tablished. The Commercial club read a communication from M. A. Alexander of Detroit on ' Wednesday stating he was ready to open a store here and could use one, two or three large floors In the heart of the business district. Efforts to find a suitable location for the house have failed so fnr. There are several luilldnga In process of erection, the completion of which will relieve the congested condition in the retail part of the. city. These, how ever, will not be ready for occupancy be fore fall. Among the week'a sales by Shlmer & Chase are these: William F. Murphy of the I'pdlke Grain company to W. W. Mc Brlde of McCoy & Co., eight-room modern frame dwelling at Forty-first and Farnam streets, (5,70; Anna Phillip to C. E. Swan, modern cottage at 1733 South Twenty eighth atreet, $2,200. Fred G. Eckstrom of Denver has sold the seven-room modern house at 3039 Marsy trcet to George Victor of C. B. Liver & Co. for V3.4O0. A contract for considerable of the flooring In the Cudahy Packing company fine new plant at South Omaha has Just been com pleted by F. B. Burncss; also the addition to the Hasklns soap work. The Carpen ter Paper company's new building Is nearly completed, work being begun on the eighth and last floor during the last week. Taxei In Omaha are said to be exceed ingly low compared with other cities of similar size, and even smaller. A visitor from Sioux City recently pointed but that while' a business property In Omaha rent ing for $18,000 would pay taxes of consid erably less than $3,000 per annum, a similar property In Sioux City would have more than $8,600 to pay each year. Similar con dition are known to exist In other cities of thl country, and, of course. In foreign countries the taxes are very much In excess of what they are here. Therefore, Omaha can claim a low taxes a any city on the face of the globe. A Lincoln real estate man called on an Omaha brother last week and pointed out that the real estate transfer In the Capital City were more than the transfer In Omaha. And then, the Omaha man pro ceeded to tell the Lincoln man why wa thl. 'Here In Omaha." be said, "aoma of the dealers are getting Into the habit of giv ing the nominal consideration, while In Lincoln the provincial custom still pre vail of giving the actual value In the deed. Thu In Omaha, we make a transfer for '$1 and other valuable consideration.' Of course, If you take 41 a the value of a tranafer which may be $50,000 or more, Lincoln' transfers would beat ours. Papllllon'a might do the same If we all followed the practice as they do In eastern When George ',.--' t.! r ff v " - . v f' V'-' h v ' .VI v . ; . ; ... ' . 1 m7mmmnm .lmmmmmmmm, mm.,, ' i i ii iii i uin ii i ii i i i i in ,u .. bi II - 'mm HODGIN, 4117 LAFATETTB AVENUE. cities of nearly always giving only the nominal consideration In a transfer of property." Hastings ft Heyden last week sold the two modern flats at the northeast corner of Twenty-ninth and Harney streets for W. K. Potter to Daniel M. Hlldebrand for $18,500. These flats are considered a splen did Investment proposition. They also sold the six three-story brick house at the northwest corner of Twenty-first and Bur dette streM for $10,000 for W. B. Melkle, agent to William C. Norrls. ' These flats are to be entively remodelled and made Into thoroughly modern, nicely finished apartment. They also aold the large tract of vacant ground at the northwest corner of Twenty fifth and Franklin streets to Dr. Paul H. Ellis, who will Improve It by an expendi ture of over $16,000. PIECE OF NO MAN'S LAND LEFT Little Strip of Unidentified Real Es tate Let Loose by Re cent Deal. An announcement Is made at the city hall that at the recent meeting of the council H. B. Palmer ft Son were sold a strip of land they did not want and the city has dis posed of a mall tract It can illy spare. . The sale came In connection with the proposed construction of a building at Twentieth and Farnam atreet. A careful survey show there are eight feet of land abutting on Twentieth street at that point for which no one hold title. Four feet of the land 1 Inside the fence at the north west corner and the other four feet la under the sidewalk which run along the fence.' It la now alleged the resolution by which the land was sold specifies the four feet: under the sidewalk, while the other fotrr feet, that which connect with the property of Captain Palmer I still "no man' land" so far a the record show. The matter wa called to the attention of the councilman who introduced - the resolution, but he would not be convinced of the error In the resolution. The fact waa not mentioned to other and It was allowed to go through. The mayor signed the resolution, although hi attention wa called to the error. Considering the re lations between the chief executive and the majority of the council It 1 thought he may have winked the. other eye when attaching his name, but the resolution is now a law and a new one will be required to get matter In proper fhape, according to the statement of those who have In vestigated. SEIZED FISHING SCHOONER Canadian Ornlaer Take American Vessel Near Halifax, Inside Tbree-lflle Limit. . HALIFAX. N. 8., June 15. The govern ment -cruiser Canada today seized the American fishing schooner Fannie E. Prea cott on the charge of fishing Inside the three-mtle limit. The Canada 1 towing the Prescott to Halifax. The Prescott I owned In Boston. W. Lininger Was Laid to Rest - itlGHTS TEMPUt RECE1V8 THE CORTEOii . AT THB BlVli OF THE GKAVS. in POINTS OF CniLD LABOR LAW Summary of New Statnte by Deputy State Commissioner. OF INTEREST JUST AT THIS TIME Provision Whipped Into Form for Employer, Km ploy e and Guar dian Who Are Anxious to Know Them. Monday morning, marking the beginning of the first business week after the close of the schools for the year, will no doubt find a large demand on the part of children and their parents for permits for the child to work during the months of vacation: For the benefit of all persons interested, either a employer or guardians of chil dren, the following summary of the child labor law has been prepared by the deputy labor commissioner: 1. Places where employment la prohibited: No child under 14 years of use shall be permitted to work In any theater, concert nail, or place of amusement, or any place where Intoxicating liquors are sold, or In any mercantile institution, store, office, hotel, laundry, manufacturing establish ment, bowling alley, passenger or freight elevator, factory or workshop, or as a mes senger or driver therefor. 2. Employment during school hours: It Is unlawful to employ any child under 14 yearn of age during the hours when the public schools are In session: 3. Certificate must be kept on file: Chil dren between 14 and 18 years of age may be employed In the places named above In No. 1, providing the employer keeps on Ale and accessible to the commissioner of labor, or hi deputies, the truant offlcera, and numbers of the State Hoard of In spection, a certificate from the uperlnten dent of schools giving the age of the child and ahowlng that he or she has fin ished the eighth grade of the public schools or It equivalent, or as a regular attendant of a night school. 4. Employment dangerous to health or morals: No child under 18 years of age shall be employed In any work which is dangerous to life or limb, or In which It health may be Injured or Its morals de praved. Penalty of $50 or Imprisonment not exceeding ten days for parents or guardians who permit children under their care to engage in any employment tn vioia tton of thl section. 6. List of children employed: Every employer of child labor must keep two complete lists of ml such children em ployed, one on file and one conspicuously posted near the principal entrance of the nuiiaing wherein the children are em ployed. 8. Certificate must be surrendered : Upon the termination of the employment of a child so registered, and whose certificate 1 bo filed, such certificate shall be forth with transmitted by the employer to the city or county superintendent of schools who shall surrender same to the child named therein upon demand. 7. Limitation of hours to be employed and notice thereof: No child under 18 years of age shall be employed or com pelled to work more than forty-eight hours a week, nor more than eight hours a day, nor before 6 o'clock a. m., nor after 8 o'clock p. m. Employers must post in a conspicuous place In all rooms where chil dren are employed, a printed notice stating the hour required of them each day of the week and the time allowed for each meal. 8. Certificate required by law: Three certificate are provided for in this law, '" 1 ' V" . - ""T" - ' , f-.-; V i - -o - ' ft - .1 mm mm j t . . IrT w I! - r P ;- - - - - mi iMie7iiimf":?Wfc-4H If HOME OF O. F. EPBNETER, B02 XORTH via: "School Attendance Certificate," Form M-No. 1; "F.venlng School Attendance Cer tificate," Form M-No. 3, and "Age and Schooling Certificate," Form M-No. ii, otherwise referred to In the law as the "Employment Certificate." In case a child Is an applicant for an employment certifi cate permitting him or her to work, and has finished the eighth grade of the public school, lie or she should fill out tnd file certificate Form M-No. 1, with the superin tendent of schools, who will then issue certificate Form M-No. 2. In case, how ever, that the child has not finished the eighth grade of the public schools, but Is regularly attending an evening school, he or she should fill out and file certificate Form M-Np. 3 with the superintendent of schools, who will then lssiw t lie employ ment certificate, providing Instruction is given . In the evening school at least twenty weeks each year and three even ings each week and two hours each even ing. . Weekly certificate required of child at tending night school: When a child secures an employment certificate hecaue of at tendance at an evening school, lie or she must furnish to his or her employer a weekly certificate showing continued regu lar attendance each week while said school Is In session. Penalty: Whoever employs a child In violation of thl section shall be fined not more than $50 for each offense. A parent or custodian who permits em ployment of a child under his control tn violation of till section shall be fined not more than $20. 10. Py whom employment certificates must be approved: An employment certifi cate shall be approved only by the super intendent of schools or by a person spe cifically authorized by him, or where there Is no superintendent of schools, by a per son authorized by the school district offi cer. 11. Evidence of child's age must be pro duced: Where a child apparently under 16 years of age is employed and no cer tificate for said child Is on file the com missioner of labor, the truant officer, or a member of the Board of Inspection may demand that the employer furnish, within ten days, evidence that said child Is over 18 years of age, or shall cease to employ such child. Failure to so do will be prima facie evidence that said child is being em ployed In violation of the child labor law and the employer shall be prosecuted therefor. 12. Penalties: (a) Whoever employ a child In violation of aectlon 8 of the act hall be fined not more than $50 for each offense; and any parent or custodian per mitting a child to be employed in viola tion of said section shall be fined not more than $20. (b) Whoever employ a child under 18 years of age, and whoever, hav ing under hi control a child under such age, permits such child to be employed In violation of section 1, 2, 10 or 12 of the act shall for each offense be fined not more than $50; and whoever continues to violate the provisions of the foregoing sec tions, after being notified by a truant offi cer, a deputy commissioner of labor, or a member of the Board of Inspection, shall be fined from $5 to $20 for each day of vio lation, (c) Any employer retaining em ployment certificates In violation of section 2 of the act shall be fined $10. (d) Every person authorized or required to sign any Patrick A new Sub-Division at the northwest corner of 24th and Lake Sts. Most of the lots are cov jred with fine, large trees; 25th street from-Lake to Miami and Ohio street from 24th to the west line of the Sub-Division will bo graded. ' "Lots from $300.00 up, terms M cash, balance at 6. Cut this plat out and look over the property today and pick out the lots yon want, then see us George . Cop Agents 1601 Farnam Street sr. j i 773 2 J ft I 771 I X t 4 A MIAMI TV at b r OHtO 4 (1 3X 9 I 1 ...... . -rT -J: 3 n FORTIETH STREET. certificate or statement prescribed by sec tions 4 or 6 of the act, who knowingly certifies or makes oath to any material false statement therein, or who violate either of said sections shall be fined not to exceed $00. (e Any person obstructing officers authorized by the act to enforce It, or who shall fall or refuse to produce all certlilcates or lists when called for, shall be fined not to exceed $50: or Impris oned not to exceed thirty days. (f) Any person violating section 13 of the act shall be fined not to exceed $Ti0 or Imprisoned not exceeding ten days. 13. To whom violations must be reported: All violations of the act must be reported to the commissioner of labor and the county attorney. 14. Superintendent of schools must end lists: The superintendent of school or the school directors of any village, town or county, shall transmit between the 1st and loth of each month to the office of the state commissioner of labor a list of the name of the children to whom cer tificates have been Issued. 15. Certificates, blank forms, etc., fur nished by: All certificates, blank forma, copies of the law, etc.. will be furnished by the commissioner of labor, Capitol building, Lincoln, Neb. COMPLAINT OUT FOR DE WITT Warrant Issued t'hsrglsg Hotel Clerk with Taking; Money of Employer. Complaint was filed In police court Satur day and a warrant Issued In the case of William H. De Witt, former clerk of the Bachelors' hotel. Twentieth and Farnam streets, the complaint being signed by At torney William M. Glller. It waa cited In the Instrument that De Witt had taken a sum amounting to $83.90 belonging to Mary H. Counant, and the warrant waa placed tn the hand of the police for service. Nothing further haa been heard from De Witt, though the police have auoceeded on getting on hi trail. BIG DAM LETS WATERS LOOSE Alarm Felt In Colorado for Resldenta Alonar Cache La Pondre River. FORT COLLINS. Colo., June U.-Qreat alarm 1 felt here over a report from up the river that the big dam at Chamber' lake, which ha been holding back 70,000, 000 cubic feet of water, ha gone out and a wall of water five feet high 1 now rush ing down the Cache la Poudre river. It Is believed that all people living In the lowland and on the river bank have es caped, but it I feared that many fisher men have been caught In the flood. TIT" 77 0 K 4 . a 3 I 9 K ? im it .-' - " lit..'... . - " fl ttlMS. Fl jj 1 S j m 1 1 1 p?3 . ' S n 13 1 I H II x t . pi - ' ? s 40 - - To teat the otiefction whether or not the greater part of ihe Herman KounUe estate shall escape taxation under the Nebraska Inheritance tax law Deputy County Attorney Elllck Saturday morn ing filed an application with County Judge Leslie for the appointment of an appraiser to appraise the stock and bonds in cluded In the Instrument of trust from Herman Kountze to A. F. Kountse. Thl Instrument conveyed the bulk of the per sonal property and Indirectly the real estate to A. F. Kountae In trust to be administered by him Tor the benefit of Herman Kountze during hi life. At hi death under the term of the Instru ment the trust property waa to be divided Into seven parts, equal shares going t- the widow and the six children. The face value of the stock and bond thu transferred 1 about $2,000,000. The real estate belonging to Mr. Kountze 1 Indirectly represented In theee stock and bond a It waa transferred to the Texas Land company and the United State Real Estate and Trust company. Answer ia F"IIetf. Isaac Congdon, representing Charte TTA Kountse, filed an answer to the application of Mr. Elllck, denying fhe property I sub ject to taxation In Nebraaka. He says when the trust Instrument was signed Au gust 15, 1904, all of the property represented by It waa transferred from Nebraska to New York. After Mr. Kountze death he say the property was appraised under the New Tork Inheritance tax law and as sessed there. He contend It la not sub ject to taxation In Nebraska, being outside the state. An attempt will be made to have a speedy hearing In order to de termine the question. The property listed In the Instrument of trsut referred to I: 6,600 shares stock, par $100, Texas Land company. t,:24 share stock. United Real Estate and Trust company. 1,600 share stock, par $100, Northern Coal and Coke company. 90 first mortgage S per cent bond of $1,000 each In Northern Coal and Cok company. 60-800 of 800 first mortgage 5 per cent bonds, $1,000 each. 1.Z.8 share stock, par' $100, Ohio A Big Sandy Coal company. 1.043 shares stock, par $100, The Ken tucky Coal company. TWO BETRAYALS OF TRUST W. H. Holme Bound Over and W. B. Joaee Arrested for Alleged Emheaalement. William H. Holme, the Omaha attorney who waa arrested at Ogden and brought back to thl city to stand trial on a charge of embezzlement from a client, wa arraigned In police court Saturday morn ing. Holme waived examination and wa bound over to the district court, bond be ing set at $3,000. Another instance of alleged betrayal of trust cam to light Saturday morning when officer of Wells, Fargo aV Co. aworel nut m. MfnnUInt .r.ln.l n'M.HH 771 Taii.i a former emp'oye, charging him with the embezzlement of $138,63 and a warrant wa Served on Jones by Officer Hell. Jonea cam to Omaha from the De Molne of fice of the express company and rose to tha position of cashier of the OmaWa branch, but a few week ago resigned and went with the Waterloo Creamery com pany in a similar capacity. The embezzle ment waa committed In April, according to the complaint. Jones 1 married and live at 628 South Twenty-fourth avenue. I .I i, torJ. rm : J 4- S Ill 5 W P .3 3 sr. I V '' ST i r 1 "4