THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JULY 7. 1907
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' WORK ON TI1EF0URTH OF JULY
SUSY DOME BUILDERS
Builden Unable to Let Up, Eren for
Holiday.
BETTER TASTE IS NOW EVINCED
Some ArrKHrrtiral Mlitikn ef Otho
tlari A r Bel eg rorrwtf d, tt
t ti r Immense lMprotffit
of the Balldlage.
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h nrmy ef horn builders in Omaha haa
n doing full Justice to its reputation (or
bring "huay" during the laat week. The
Intense heat haa not caused any slacken
ing of the swift pace aet by the people, the
cnntractora and the workmen. Even on
the Fourth of July men were at work on
eome of the atructurea, the activity being
ao great that they could not afford to
waste even a single day from work, even
auch a day aa the Fourth.
A Twentieth Century Cottage
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A brink demand for lota contlnuea and
eome of them have brought prlcea which
establish a new record In valuea In their
respective locations. At the aoutheaat cor
ner of Thirty-eighth avenue and Farnam
atreet a lot 9fxl37 fort waa sold to J. W.
Thomas for tfi.000. lie will build a 16,000
residence on the lot. Peter Soderberg, con
tractor, bought a lot 50x196 feet, between 1
Jackaon and Leavenworth atreeta and run- '
nlng1 from Seventeenth avenue to Eight
eenth atreet, for W.975. He will erect mod
ern flata on the property, one facing on
Seventeenth avenue and one on Eighteenth
atreet
A "reformed taate" In the building of
flata tn Omaha la apparent from remodel
ing of aeveral atructurea of this kind that
have stood for yeara. One of these la
located at Podge and Twenty-fifth atreeta
and the other at Chicago and Fifteenth
atreeta. Both are rows of flata three
atortea and half basement, with the half
basement entrance from the ground level
and atepa leading to the first floor above.
These Ion rowa of unalghtly atepa and
porchea have now been torn away and
small porticos with stately pillara have
been erected at tha entrance to the half
buaement and a small balcony has taken
the place of the old-time porch on the first
floor landing. This leaves the front yard
formerly occupied by the steps, free to be
laid out with cement walks and grass plot a
and flower beds. Tha result Is decidedly
good to aae and the dwelling la greatly
Improved from the viewpoint of homely
tastlness and municipal beauty.
BJornson A- Mass have taken the con
tract for equipping the new Northwestern
freight depot with metal gutters and snout
Ing. It la a big Job, the building being
more than 00 feet long. It will be pro
vided all along both aldea of the roof with
guttering aufflclont to carry the water
away.
The "finest flat In Omaha" la about to
be built It will atand at Twenty-seventh
and Harney streets. T. J. O'Brien will
build it and It will cost $11,000, though It
will be only 47xf2 feet In size. The ordi
nary flat of thla else coata only about $7,000.
It will be built of tha finest material
throughout, with hot water heating plant.
The interior finish will be of oak. It marks
ttnrtiir In tnirlmfnt house nonstmc-
ti In OmahA and denotes a trend In the
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j puvnc last toward ine luxurious nomea
common only In the largest cities.
"Thla la tha day whea builders mm to
have gone concrete mad," aald a man who
haa built a number of hoaaes In Oman.
"Concrete haa received such adulation that
people think It haa put good eld-fashioned
brick and mortar, and even steel, out of
tha running. But there is much to be said
againat concrete. With all lta virtues, it
haa several vices which are aertoua objec
tions to Ira excellence aa a building ma
terial. . One of these la Ks gTeat clumsi
ness, unslghtllnesa and apparent wasteful
ness. A concrete girder to have the same
strength ef a steel girder has to be vastly
larger. For example, a twenty-inch ateet
I beam has tha same strength aa a concrete
girder measuring UxM Inches. Tha steel I
beam, of course, haa almost no width at all.
Another thing Is what la known as tha ulti
mate compressive strength, which ia the
case ef concrete Is only 1.000 to S.&0S pounds
to tha square Inch. That la, it takes only
that much of a weight to the square inch
to crush concrete. The ultimata compres
sive strength of trap rock la J0.000 to 14.00s
pounda; that of granite is 12,000 to X1.0O0
pounds. This fact at ones explains the
necessarily un wieldly alsa of concrete col
umns and the fact that In many atructurea
timber la preferred to concrete or vertical
construction. " '
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This picturesque home, on account of Im
posing and striking appearance, will seem
more expensive than Its alae warrants. The
outside measurements, 22x9, are compara
tively small when the number and alxe of
the rooms are considered.
Four-range rock la uaed for foundation
above grade and cement blocka for the
first atory and remainder of building Is
finished with cement plaster on wire lath.
A pleasant porch opena Into an attractive
reception hall, from which we have an open
atalrway to second floor.
The large, comfortable living room, with
lta cheery open fireplace, Is separated front
the dining room by a column arch. The
bay window, with its three large windows.
provides ample light for this room. A good
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pantry, with convenient cupboard, connects
with a fine kitchen.
The cellar stairs start from tha hall,
whioh also serves as a passage way from
the kltohea to the frost part of the house.
Four good chambers, with fine large
closets, and a well arranged bath room are
provided en second floor.
The attle will furnish ample room for
storage purposes.
Height of cellar to joists, seven feet;
HriPtsT rtooQ plan
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GUARDING THE PEARL MUSSEL
Mississippi River Induitry in Danger
of Destruction.
LUCKY rillD BY SOME HUNTERS
Scientists Take Vs the Qoeattea ef
Artificial Prorogation Pearl
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first floor, nine feet and second floor,
eight and one-half feet
Thla house will coat 13.000 to build, ex
clusive of heating or plumbing.
"Twentieth Century Cottages." a book
showing a number of views and complete
floor plana of moderate-priced homes, will
be sent postpaid to any of our readers upon
receipt of 28 cents In stamps. Addresa all
letters to the Home Building Department,
care Omaha Bee, Omaha, Neb.
One of the tasks the government has set
for Itself thla aummer Is to find out why
the pearl bearing muesela of the rivers of
the Mississippi river are disappearing and
to try to propagate them. A commission
headed by Prof. Paul Barstoh of Budllng
toa has just begun a thorough search of
the Mississippi and Us tributaries to find
out all about the mussel.
The mussel la highly regarded In that
section of the country. Not only has It
been the basis of a very profitable industry
In the way of furnishing raw material for
button making, but It has enriched a great
many who have merely taken up the hunt
in the hope of finding valuable pearls.
Mussels have been found In large quanti
ties along the upper Mississippi, but pearls
are few and far between, due possibly to
the fact that the temperature of the water
Is not ao favorable to the propagation of
the alug. the technical name for the pearl
bearing secretions. Down along the White
and Arkansas rivers hundreds of thousands
of dollars worth of pearls have been found
In the last five years. In Arkansas mora
than $1,000,000 worth of them have been
unearthed In that time.
The peaii-bearlng mussel has been found
now and then for years In the Arkansas
rlvera by fishermen who use it as a bait
for the drum and the red horse varieties
of the sucker family of Ash. Several lucky
finds of this character on the Black river
started everybody hunting.
All a Gamble.
It was all a gamble. Only now and then
a mussel with the precious stone attached
would be found, but when once discovered
It was well worth the time employed. Those
who would not wade loafed around on the
banks and bid against one another for tha
untouched shells brought In by the fisher
men. Bathing parties and picnics st which
the Interest centered in pearl fishing were
common.
Many stories are told of lucky finds. A
trio of tramps one day tried to Induoe a
ferryman to carry them across the river.
He gruffly refused, telling them to go to
work and hunt pearls for a living. They
took hla advice and In about three houra
had gathered several bushels of shells. Sit
ting down to open them, they discovered
In the fifth sTiell a pearl that aold for more
than enough to buy all the earthly posses
sions of the ferryman.
A lad playing about a boat used for pearl
fishing discovered something shiny on the
bottom. lie showed it to a man whom he
met on the street, and cheerfully accepted
119 for the pearl. The man disposed of it
to a friend for $60, who sold it later for
the mussel the last rotgree ws Induced
to make a liberal appropriation.
Fhelis by the carload are shipped to the
factories and there they are made into
blanks ami buttons. A big business In ship
ping the blanks to Oeinisny has been built
up In the laat few yeara.
The expedition la to examine Into the
habits and conditions of the mussel and to
determine what can be dona to aave this
lucrative Industry. It la Intended to visit
every bayou and tributary from Ft. I'aul
o the Arkansas. In an Interview Prof.
Bart sen says:
"The difficulties of artificial propagation
of the mussel are many. These may be
overcome, but at present we do not know
sufficient of the mussel and Its habits to be
able to form a definite opinion. It Is a
very simple thing to turn millions of eggs
Into fish, but the egg of the mussel passes
through another stage before It becomes
a mussel. After being hatched It is a para
site which attachea Itself to flsh. Now
while one mussel may produce 80.000 eggs.
but a very small number of these will be
hatched. That ia one of the things Uie
expedition will learn something about. If
artificial propagation shall not prove prac
ticable, perhaps by protecting the flsh and
the imieeels and having a closed season
during which the mussels must not be dis
turbed the desired results may be at
tained."
white, both last year. They play together,
alt together and eat together. Nothing la
aald about social equality. The schopt la a
matter of business."
The seventy-two clerks In the company
store are whites and negroes, working to
gether, neithrr insulting nor being Insulted
by one another, white girls waiting on
black men. negro glrla waiting on white
men. In the bank the aenators would find
a negro woman and a white woman, one
the teller, the other the cashier.
The president of the Toung Men's Chrle
tian association Is a negro miner, living
In a well furnished house and giving his
children a liberal education. The Toung
Men's Christian association secretary Is the
theatrical manager and amusement censor
of the town. He controls the opera hall,
with a free hand to turn down whatever
appears morally unfit. On Saturday night
If there ia no show from outside, 2,000 feet
of moving pictures are given for. the good
of all.
Buxton has lta drawbacks. No mining
camp la an Ideal place. The coal will be
exhausted some time, then Buxton will de
camp and dlaappear. There la lacking the
motive to buy and to Improve property.
But here la a community where aa yet the
raoe question la solved.
Business Is business In the store, on the
atreet and In the mines. The white woman
ia safe and sacred so la the black woman.
In thla community. overwhelmingly
NO RACE BOTHER AT BUXTON j pr"00i together, but do not intermingle
J racially. Six days in the week, fifty. two
eeka In the year, black men work In
Iowa Mining Town Where Whites
aad Blacks Work Side
kr aide.
Thoae aenators who despair of a solution
of the raca question ought to go to Bux
ton. Buxton Is a coal mining camp In
Iowa. Its population is about 6,000, 93 per
cent being black and 7 per cent white.
The negroes were brought In from the.
south originally to break a strike. They
were quick to learn the value of unionism
and now there la no more thoroughly or
ganised miners' union than the Buxton
camp.
In Buxton the aenators would receive
their mal from a negro postmaster; at the
hotel their host would be a negro. They
would find themselves In a community
where everybody works, especially father.
If father develops a tendency to loaf and
to graft on his family he will not remain
long in Buxton. Only man who work can
rent houses.
The Buxton schools have grown fron
four teachers In a four-room building In
1904 to a ten-room building and twelve
teachers today. Of the 000 pupils, only
sixty one In ten are white. The super
intendent is a colored man. The teachers
are colored and white. Of the mixing of
races In the schools. Superintendent Gil
liam says:
"There Is absolutely no friction between
the races. Of the very few esses of lights
only twice have they been colored versus
Buxton, making good money and making
as good uae of their money as white men,
In Buxton or claewhere. Buxton, like
Tuakcgee, la a bright spot New York Independent.
Tents and Awnings
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Omaha Tent & Awning Co.
lift a4 Baraty. TL eaf MS.
HOT WATER
HEATING
f-room house 1200.00
7-rooin house $21(0.00
S to f-room house ....$300.00
JOS. W. MOORE,
Tel. Web. 11843. 1642 N. 18th Bt
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There are soma very busy home builders
out on the banks of Cut-Off lake and they
have built for themselves some of the cos
leat and most comfortable homes to be
found within a day's journey. On the
grounds of the Omaha Hod and Gun club
there are now nearly twenty cottages, ha'f
of which have been erected thla year. They
are amailng revelationa of what a man
can do with a little money and a few car
penters" tools, for most ef the cottages
are -tha handiwork of their proud and self
reliant owners. They hare gone to work
to build with the Independence of the true
pioneer. A few loads of lumber, a keg or
two ef nalla, and then the long summer
evenings and Saturday afternoons. These
have been the only sequtsltea of the build
ers. It Is safe to say there are no more
comfortable homes In Omaha than are to
be found oa tha banks of the lake. Every
one Is provided with , a porch anywhere
from five to twelve feet wide and extending
around a goodly portion ef the house. In
fact, soma of the houses have more of this
fly and moequtto proof porch than encloacd
house. Inaide there ia, as a rule, one large
"living room" where all the com fort a of
home are at hand-
the northeaat corner of Thirty-eighth and
Cuming streets and Intends to erect a 15,000
home on it this summer.
M. Kellner, 1306 South Thirty-fifth street,
has Just placed an order with the American
Electric company for a complete equip
ment of colonial fixtures throughout his
entire house.
"In spite of lis faults, tin roofing la about
the beat thing on the market today," aald
Matthew BJornaon of BJornson & Haas.
"It haa the loweat insurance rate. Shin
gles, gravel, slag or composition roofings
easily Invite Are from the outside and
easily are burned through by fires from
the rnside. Tin cannot be Ignited by fire
falling on it and when a fire starts Inside
a building with a tin roof the roof cannot
be burned through. Thus It keeps tha
air out and smothers the flames. If a tin
roof Is put on well and kept painted prop
erly It will last longer than any other kind
of roof." Talking of the durability of the
tin roof, A. Naah of A. Nash A Son says
be has many tin rofs now In good state
of preaervatlon In Omaha which were put
on at the time he began buslnesa here,
thirty-seven yeara ago. In the neighbor
hood of Twenty-sixth and Hamilton Is a
tin root thirty-five year old which la to
day Just as good aa tha day it was put on
by Mr. Nash.
The sale of thirty-four lota out of fifty-
two platted in tha new Patrick addition
between Twenty-fourth and Twenty-sixth
and Lake and Miami streets shows the
trend of opinion of builders in the north
ern part of the city. These lots were sold
within two weeks after the addition had
been placed on the market. Some were
sold before the advertisements were In
serted In the newspapers, people having
read In the news columns that the lets
were to be placed on aale. Nearly all the
buyers bought with the intention of build
Ing homes or stores Immediately and some
of the excavations have already been be
The eleotrie work Is being Installed In the
handsome new residence of J. M. Cudahy
at the corner ef Thirty-eighth and Dodge
atreeta This work Is being dona by fcV
C. Bennett Co.
"Business this summer has been excep
tionally good In our line,' aays George A
Hayes, of the Nebraska Nernat company
"and we are Installing a large number of
plants in Omaha." Mr. Hayes has a letter
from the home office stating that a eon
tract for 16.0M Nernat lampe has Just been
closed with Msrshall Field Co.. Chicago.
Thia la equivalent to nearly a million candle
power lamps.
, The Cottage owned by Roy and Alvln
Bloom' and Oscar and Henry Drefold la a
11 marvel of coalneaa, beauty and comfort
The main room measures some ltxtt feet.
The high gable roof furnishes the celling.
On all aldea are wlndowa, great wide win
doma, which swing open Inward en hinges
The wide porch running along tha front
Ot the house Is entirely ni'lnaatl with
screen. in (MTt tll who, building la as
open to the atr as the space beneath tha
treea ef the netgheorng grov. and yet
there Is not a hole where even a baby
mosquito eould get hreugh. At one end of
the main room la a inVaaWe stone fireplace.
built up of the rough atone, Uka the pio
neers might have built. Thla Is uaed in
winter, when the house Is opened occa
sionally tor skating or Iceboat sailing par
tlea. Sailing, Ashing and swimming are the
pastimes ef the home builders who,. 'have
taken etepa toward the simple life at Cut
off lake.
W. A- Gordon ef the Expressmen's Deliv.
try -company la preparing to build a piodrru
liome at Twenty-fifth and Iterd streets.
Dr. A. Jonnsoa ef Beatrice, who will move
to Omaha, Is preparing to build a ft.
resMcnce at Twentieth and Wirt street a
3. B. Blanchard's residence on Popplaten
avenue baa Just been equipped with a hot
sir furnace. Cog Bros, did tha werk.
A "Perfect" furnaoe has Just been tn
stalled by Cox Bros., in ths new residence
of.C. M. Martin at Twenty-Bfth and rort
atreeta.
The work on the Mercer flats at Forty
first and Ixard atreeta has reached the
Dotnt where the furnaces are being In
stalled. All six are being furnished by A.
Burmeater.
The Union Paolflo Railway company
gradually, equipping, their algnal towera
with hot air furnace In place of stores
Cox Bros, have Just pieced a furnace In the
algnal lower at Columbus. Neb,
Attstle Effect mt Insists,
With tha flrat hot daya, the beating sun
oo window pane or doorway grows unoom
fori able, and one thlnka Instinctively
awnings. Old ones must be tsksn out
dusted and repaired, er new ones must be
ordered.
Beeldes promoting our comfort, nothing
adds aa much to the cool apvarsne ef
Charles B. Wright has bought the Wt on I house as fresh looking, harmonious, well
ut awnings, and specisl care should be
taken In their selection.
In buying, remember that durability ia
the great essential. However, one ia
tempted to Indulge in novelties, either of
coloring or patent contrivance, it la well
to adhere to the old-faahloned styles, which
have stood the teat of many seasons sun
nd rain and wind.
Economy should never be practiced in
materials. Though oostlng more In the be
ginning, it Is wiser to buy only the beat
trtped heavy duck and make It up on a
galvanised Iron frame of simple construc
tion. Aa for the mechanism the oid-tims
method 'of pulling on a string is hard to
improve upon. Spring rollers, those that
go up like window shades, and other Intrl-
aje appliances, besides being expensive.
ave an uncomfortable knack of getting
out of fix.
In colora it ia acknowledged that tana
give the beat service. Greens, though spe
daily cool looking, are uncertain, while the
many novelty strlpea In bright Venetian
reda and bluea, are very apt to run If they
do refrain from fading.
The character of the architecture ahould
alao Influence the choice of awninga. City
houaea have a more or less conventional
standard, but greater laxity Is allowed In
shading the country home. Here the fancy
yellows and reds are often uaed with good
effect, or a broad green and white strip
looks well where there are wide verandas.
A gray atone house should have blue awn
inga; a colonial, a green or yellow; for a
brownatone, the various browns and linen
color are good. Sometimes, too. tha awn
inga are solid whits, with a skirt of blue,
yellow or green.
Aa many persons object to awninga be
cause they keep out the air. they are often
made with a small hood at the top for ven
tilating. Or they are run on a rod at the
top, leaving a space narrow enough to shut
out ths sun, and at the sams time allow
a circulation of air.
In the care of awnings, continued discus
sion Is held on whether they are better up
or down when It rains. On ths whole, they
are better down, as thus the dirt runs off
that other wise might accumulate In the
folds and leave a ataln. ' In a windstorm.
nowever, they should always be up.
The average life of an awning la three
or four seasons, though they frequently
last much longer. They are often turned
after two aummera" wear, with quite free'u
ing up results. Never neglect to thoroughly
clean and brush them before they are put
away.
four timea that sum to a professional buyer,
who Is reported to have received aeveral
thousand dollars for It
A buslneaa man who waa on the verge
of bankruptcy went down to the river
to put In a few days fishing while he con
trived to think some way out of hla diffi
culties. On the first day he found threo
pearls that he disposed of for sufficient to
pay all of hla debts. .
Pearls worth $900 were found one after
noon by three young 'northern women who
had accepted an invitation trom a southern
hostess to Join them In a bathing party
with - a pearl fishing attachment The
proper dress for these functions, by the
way, was the ordinary bathing dress and
broad brimmed straw hats.
Although the Industry haa waned greatly
the laat year, there are atill numerous
camps of fishermen to be seen dotting
the river banks. The shallowa ware, of
course, first looted, and nowadays moat of
the work Is done In the deeps. For thla
purpose oyster tongs are used, and the
work Is kept up most of the year.
Matter ef Easiness Now,
Dredging for pearls is very largely a
business matter these daya. Dredges are
uaed on the deep places and on the bars the
river bottom waa ploughed up and the mu
aela brought In scows and opened. The
shells were saved and sold to the button
factories that sprang up at every town
and village. These shells more than paid
the expensea ef the work, and tha pearla
found were clear profit. Several com
fortable fortunea were built up In this
wsy.
There are hundreds of button factories
all along the upper Mississippi. Wherever
there are aaudbar and ahallow places the
work of dredging for mussels goes on.
The supply la getting shorter every year.
and to preserve the sources and propagate
m coHcmsTS blocks
We use the best Portland cement, clean, sharp sand In
correct proportions, and abundance of water. Kvery block
receiving a constant spray ror twelve uaya, wnicn insures
a firm aet. We can furnish any color. Our blocks be
come better with age. Get prlcea. See our automatlo
spray system.
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FIXTURES
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Li. C. Lowry E. J. Gillespla
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or sixteen miles; of steam pipe. 153,090 feet,
or about twenty-nine miles, and of con
dulta, 500,000 feet, or nearly ninety-five
miles.
To light such a maatodonlc hive of busl
nesa will require B.000 windows, which will
be glazed with UQ.OUO aquara feet of glaaa,
or enough to coter three city blocka It
will take 113 milca of wiring for tha electrio
lighting aervlce enough to run a wire from
Tonkers to Philadelphia. This wiring wilt
feed 30.000 lamps In 13,000 fixtures. And
6,000 doors will be necessary for the rooms
and halls.
New Sash L-eclc.
Bash locka are no novelty, but one re
cently patented seems particularly designed
to baffle burglars who devote their ener
gies to entering second-story windows. This
device is attached to the aide of the win
dow frame. By aliuttlng tha window, with
out handling the tock, it locka the upper
aa well as the lower aash automatically at
any desired point.
It is claimed for this lock that, being
fastened Willi vertical ami lateral screws.
Biggest Betiding la the World lit cannot he nrled off bv u limmv. even If
New York, within a yeur, ia to have the the sash were snlinlnad in the attemnt.
highest office building 1n tha world. It will Nor can anything be Inaerted between tha
aashes to remove the bolt from the slide.
It can only be opened frum tha. Inatda
when the window la shut, and even If the
thief breaka the gluea be will find It ex
tremely difficult. If not Impossible, to open
the window. '
C. B. HAVENS & COMPANY
BUILDING MATERIALS OF ALL KINDS
LIME, CEMENT, PLASTER, CRUSHED ROCK, SAND, BRICK AND
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your Income with the Omaha Ixmui and
Untitling Association In weekly or
monthly payments. Pome day this
fund may carry you over a rough and
rocky road. Six per cent per annum
In paid on saving accounts and reason
able rates are made on monthly pay
raent homestead loans. See us for
further Information at Sixteenth and
Dodge strets.
Omaha Loan &
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G. V. LOOMI8, G. M. Nattlnger,
President. Secretary.
J. H. Kopiotx, Agt., So. Omaha
South Omahat Office Opp. Tost Office.
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For Old or New Floors, FnrnJtnra
ad Woodwork.
Wears like Oement Pries . ever
night with Brilliant alone. Contains
no Japan or Bheilao. Write at onoe
for Free Booklet. Color Card aqd
List of Dealera.
Trial Can Free (send 10a to per
postage). Enough ror a Chair, Table
or Kitchen Cabinet.
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Orchard A WlUielm Carpet Oo,
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f f r PraOCIQ Caray's Flexiolo Cemsot lloof-
WTF mwwi w lof,. Asphalt Gravel Hoofing.
"Barrett Specification" Pitch and Gravel Roofing.
'Phone Douglas ST1 for speotat sales men is aall
Sunderland Roofing and Supply Co.
1006-8-10 DoufUar Street
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The "PERFECT" FURNACE Sold aad I allied by
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la built of beat boiler plate, rlvlted together, airtight to prevent eacapmeot of
gases, making it the most satisfactory, aanitary and economical hot air fur
nace on thi market.
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UA 914 FARNAM ST. LUA
CEMENT STONE
ARTISTIC and DURABLE
With New Improved Machinery
B8TXX&TS AJTD PaUCTU
OMAHA CEMENT STONE
AND BRICK CO.
Ofttee aad tMai
SereatoOBtb and Cuming Street.
Telephone) DeugUa 4423.
F. M, Hamlin,;
AUTISTIC TILE WORK
Floor. Bath Rooms,
Porches.
809 South 17th Street.
national Roofing Co.
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107 Worts, 17th, U, Omaha
AMERICAN FURNACE
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W. S. II E A T O N,
Basement 'VtionSJ
1101 Farnam St. Doug. 1111
have 1,000 wlndowa, thirty-nine elevatore
and twenty-nine acres of floor space. It
oould houee a city of 10,000 peraona. or half
a million persona will pass through It
dally.
It la tha Terminal building that gigantic
structure In the underground masea of
which will run the great ayatem of sub
way lines which will connect New Jersey
and uptown by means of tunnels under the
Hudson.
It will face oo Church street, towering
twanty-two atorlea In the air. with a
frontage of' two city blocka, from Fultoa
to Cortlandt atreet, and Day atreet running
straight through lta center.
The structural steel necessary weighs
Ktfa) tops. Whan completed the living and
dead weight of the building will be VO.0C0
tons, or 400,000,(100 pounds. It will take
lt.KO.0uO bricks to bulid the structure
enough to reaoh 1.000 Bailee, or front New
York to Denver If placed end to end.
The 71,000 pounds of concrete necessary
will take up L1O0.0U0 cubic feet The
amount af concrete for the floor archea
alone would pave Broadway trom tha Bat
tery to Forty-second street It will take !
4.600 tons of terra cotta (or ths ornamenLe.
tloa of ths facades of tits building. Some
Ut.ooa sauare yard of plastering will be
eeded.
of plumbing pipe there will be n,ooa feet.
Remove Sollt I'atnt from Tllea.
There Is nothing mure unsightly than
spots anJ splashes of paint left on the floor
and tiles of buldings. They not only spoil
the look of the tiler's work, but make tho
paint work look slovenly, however well It
may be dune. Most tiles will allow a wash
of caustic soda being put over them, which
will remove the paint without the pecesssity
of using an aflerwash of acid to destroy
tha effects of the potash, water only being
required. But if the tile ia likely to slain
with the potash, a wash of diluted am
monia will remove the paint sputa, which.
In turn, can be washed oft with clean
water.
Dead Black Stain for Weed.
Apply a coat of hot logwood solution; al
low It to dry, then apply a second coat;
when thia la dry apply a solution of acetate
of Iron, made by dissolving iron filings in
hot vinegar or acetic acid, which will turn
the logwood stain dead black. Let this
dry, then rub with raw Unseed oil to a dead
polish,, ,.
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Sheet Metal Work of all Kinds-
METAL CEILINGS
215-20-22 North 15th St. Telephone 2575
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Look for the Name
Ob the 81 de walk
If It'g. "Grant"
Then It's Guaranteed.
JOHN GRANT,
ill Bee Bid. 'Fhone Doug. 7:41.
Western Electrical Company' R L- 94?TER
r er k.f Metal CTnrVa
411. 413 South 10th Street
INSTALL WIRING FOR RESIDENCES
We Are Always Ready When You Are. SEE VS. Phone Doug. 546 j
A. Nast (EL Son
TIN, COPPER AND SHEET
IRON WORK
Agent for Sorf oik Farnaoee.
m Sorts 16ta at. Telephone Sed M
F. B. DURNESS
comiotoB ajts BvzLsza
' Balnforoed Concrete a Specialty.
Vow Constructing Carpenter Balldlag.
raoa Douglas S9SS. St a. aad Xaraey
XeUblleaed IMS.
Vie BLBOTaUCXTY la roar bona. We wtu plaa tt for you without charge.
We will wire tt for yon with charge. Bee as ebont It.
E. C. BENNETT & CO.
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SLBOTBXOAX. 0OWTBA0TOB8.
Id0 faraam,
Clothes Drying Cabinet
Inset Metal Tire roef Window
barge h toe Metal Celling.
I71S-Z0-Z4- ST. MWS AVENUE.
Telephone Dangles COS
H. De Frankfurt
ARCHITECT
Teleehene Red J7
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