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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JTLY 14, 1007.
TIMELY REAL ESTATE TOPICS
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SALES REPORTED ARE FOR USE
PnrrhMrni RmIh ImproTentents on
l.ota Almotl mm goon aa They Get
' Title, Which la a Healthy
Sign.
It ti a nbtlecable fact that the big ma--Jorlty
of persons w,l 6ro buying Omaha
property are acquiring It for Improvement.
Now and thru someone buya a few cheap
,,tn on the outskirts of the city for specu
lation, but ordinarily It would be a fate
bnt that any good lot Inuight Is Intended
for a home, If In the residence district,
and for a store or warehouse If In the
business district.
The speculative fever seems not to have
caught us here," says C. C. George of
(.eorge & Co.. as he made note of a num
ber of sales his til in had closed w ithin a
few days. "These sales 1 mention were
made for cash consideration, and all the
ground transferred is meant for Improve
ment. Within sixty days you w ill see
them at work on houses on every one of
these lots. In I'atrlck place, Where we
hnvc sold many Vts, 75 per cent of them
are for Immediate Improvement. This U
the proper condition of things to make a
city."
In making a study of the older building
of Omaha, one notices In the majority a
marked lack of artistic distinctiveness. It
was one of the faults of building In the
western count it a good many years ago.
A business structure should nut only tie
Useful, but should be as beautiful in Its
way as the business man's residence. These
days, luckily, much more attention Is paid
to the aesthetic side of architecture, and
the new biiildingH of Omaha are not so
rhararterless us some of the old ones.
Take the Brandels building. Tarlln, Oren
dorff A Martin warehouse, the Young
Wen's Christian association's home, the
M. E. Smith buildings, the Crane building,
the Carpenter structure each one has
something which lends character and makes
It distinctive from the rest. The proposed
home of Fairbanks, Morse & Co. will not
be an exception to this lately developed
tendency. It will be of dark blue vitri
fied brick. This, with Its very plainness,
will mark it among Us fellows In the Job
bing district.
Harry Lawrie of the firm of Fisher A
Lawrle, architects. Is Impressed by the fact
that desirable trackage properties are fast
being picked up and he notes that a large
proportion of them are going to concerns
which have headquarters outside of Omaha.
It is not that he doesn't want to see for
eign business interests establish themselves
in the city; on the contrary, he wants
them, as every good citizen does. But he
would have local capital awake to the
wituatlon. Trackage property In the whole
Bale district Is now exceedingly scarce and
la getting higher priced. Mr. Lawrle mada
ajnme remarks embodying these observa
tions after returning last week from Chi
cago, where he received Instructions from
Fairbanks, Morse & Co. regarding plans
for a new building at Ninth and Harney
streets.
8. S. Curtis Is one of the old-time real
state men who had faith that business
would leap the barrier of the court house
and city hall and extend Itself west on
Fa in a m street. Now he naturally takes
some pride In remarking that these public,
buildings are barriers no longer. In the
, last three years eleven business structures
' have been erected west of Eighteenth
street and these house no leBs than forty j
separate business concerns. !
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Ed Stoltenberg. salesman for the Byron
Reed company, thinks that not all men
have tho best of motives In going into
the realty business. Mr. Stoltenberg said
be showed a man a valuable flat building
and the man himself became a real estate
dealer la order to find out the name and
rlace of residence of tho owner. It took
him some time to do so, but he did find
out and beat Mr. Stoltenberg out of tho
commission. The commission he saved
made him good wages for the time ho
called himself a real estate dealer.
Dr. Slahaugh evidently believes that
Omaha property is good Investment. H
recently sold a row of flats at a good
advance after holding them but a short
time. Now he has bought a $6,000 lot
the southwest corner of Twenty-second
and Davenport and will bujld there a row
of flats the entire length of the lot.
I. Slbbernsen has bought from Luc.re.tta
Marshall, for Investment, a residence
property at the southeast corner of Seven
teenth and Webster streets. The price
Was $1,250.
The demolition of the old two-story
building on Thirteenth street, Jn the rear
of the Merchants National bank building,
lias begun. This is to make room for the
proposed six-story and basement addition
to the bank building.
Warren 8. Blackwell has bought from
xuary A. Cltrton a 160-acre farm three
miles north of Gretna. This is Just within
. the limits pf the county.
Alfred Emory has bought from David
Bhsrp for $5,500 a strip of ground SSxlOS
feet at the northwest corner of Twenty-
aeventh and Burt streets. Twenty-flva
. years ago this was the site of a large
Dries: yard.
"I see that the Board of Park Comnrls
loners Is discussing the subject of rest
parks tor Omaha." said a realty man the
other day. "I hope they will keep It up
until something tangible comes of it. These,
little shaded tracts of ground scattered
about a city make It much more attractive
and any city that has them is a better
place to live than If it didn't have them.
j ne more parKs there are In Omaha, the
sooner it will have a 200.000 population."
uumiee is moving right along in a build
ing way," says W. I.. S.lby, who Js one
or mat towns most enthusiastic boosters.
"From morning till night you ran hear the
pound of the hammer In .one part of the
town or another. I do not think one part
of town is getting more Improvements than
another, for you can see new lumber dot-
ling the landscape whever you go. Thera
is also more building of cement sidewalks
this summer than there has been in any
former year.
"The Happy Hollow club, which will
open the seaaon soon at the old Patrick
homestead, will be a big advertiser for
Dundee. Omaha people going to and from
the club will see what a fine place Dundee
la for suburban residence and If they don't
move out they will at least talk Dundea to
their friends who are moving into Omaha
from the state."
West Famam and the territory for a few
blocks on either aide are building up rapidly
with floe homes this summer. Among tba
most recent announcemunts U a $10,000
house which Mrs. Sophia Lehman will build
at T h hi jr -second and Famam. Bol Berg
man is planning mjx (8,000 home on Thirty-
seventh street, between Harney street and
liewny avenue. Thirty-eighth, north of
Famam, Is fast developing as a residence
street. J. Frank Carpenter has begun a
new home at the Intersection of that street
with Cass, It. H. Busch will build one at
California and Captain Lawrence has al
most completed one at Chicago str.et.
The Real Estate exchange will hold Its
annual picnic July 18, at Bellevuo. It will
be an all-day affair and all who can are
planning to get away from business in the
morning.
It Is gratifying to the real estate men.
as well as to Omaha citizens In general,
that the young manufacturing Industries
of the city are Increasing their business
and planning expansion. Every few weeks
some small manufacturing concern an
nounces that it must have larger quarters,
and the realty men get busy. The lust
to make the announcement Is the Reynolds
Rufrlgerator company, which now has a
part of the pHiup factory building at Thir
teenth and Nicholas streets. It expects
to quadruple Its output next year.
The largest transfer of the week was
that of $,00 worth of property from 8. A.
McWhorler to the First National bank,
made to, secure loans. This property in- 1
dudes three brick flats on Farnam street,
near Twenty-fifth avenue, two vacant lots
at the northwest corner of Thirty-ninth
und Chicago streets, house and lot on north
sjde of Harney street west of Park avenuo
and a farm of 100 acres eleven miles west
of Omaha.
"Down with lunch wagons and banana
carts" is the cry of the Omaha Roal Estate
exchange and the Omaha Commercial club,
botli of which are lively organizations,
trying among other things to make Omahu
a city beautiful. Of course they are not
seeking beauty as an end in Itself, since
they are primarily commercial organiza
tions, but they believe that every addi
tional bit of beauty helps attract popula
tion. No man will select a town mr his
residence where he ran stand at a street
corner and see sixteen wagons and stands
along the curb, and curb signs advertising
corn doctors, lawyers and "Pickaninny"
tobacco, say the members of the Real
Estate exchange. I'nwelconie as the truth
is, these things exist in Omaha, and the
realty men and Commercial club Intend to
see if something can't be done to suppress
the evil. The council has found an ordi
nance regulating curl) signs, and this will
soon go Into effect. The business men want
the council V follow with an ordinance on
carls and wagons.
Among the smaller sales reported last
week were these:
To Oscar P. Goodman, lot at Fiftieth and
Cass streets. In Dundee, on which he will
build a $3,500 home.
To John Hamford, lot at Fortv-eighth
and Dodge streets, for a $3,500 home.
To John Brill, a six-room modern cot
tage at Military avenue and Kiggs street,
In Benson, for (l.suo.
To Roy Culver, a six-room modern cot
tage at Military ave.nuo and Riggs street,
In Benson, for $2,K.
To Edwin Thrush, a five-room modern
cottage at Lucas and Clinton avenues, in
Benson, for $l,&no.
To Merrit V. Wlsner. three lots at Mili
tary avenue and Rlggs street, Benson for
(i60, on which he will build a $3,0no home.
REAL ESTATE MAN'S DREAM
He Has Vision of Mos. Crowded Spot
on Earth and Iluya Its Only
Vacant Lot.
About 10,000 Sodas Served in 12 Hours at tho Owl Drug Company's
Magnificent Onyx King Soda Fountain Last Thursday
jY. W. C. A. Pay Brilliant Success
"Speaking about the phenomenal value
of real estate," said the real estate man.
"I had a dream last night of a place where
land was so much more valuable that it
mauH our lanu nere seem like acrcago
property.
This place was on an Isthmus between
the two hemispheres, an arrow strip of
land that was the most crowded Rpot on
earth. There was Just one street along
through this isthmus, and all creation that
passed from one hemisphere to the other
had to pass along this thoroughfare.
"Sure, this was a place to do business,
If there ever was one, and by gracious!
there was a vacant lot on the great isthmus
thoroughfare, Just one vacant lot, with
a sign stuck up: 'For Sale, to Close an Es
tate. Inquire of So-and-So.'
"And of course, I sort of saunters Into
the office Indicated on the sign right away
and I says to the man there:
What you asking for that lot down
there at 22?' And he suvs:
'A million dollars a front foot."
' 'How much Is there of it?' I a3ked
him, and he says:
1 "Seventy feet;' and I says:
Well, I'll take It.' Just like that, because
1 knew It was a bargain: never' d been of
fered at that price in the world, I knew,
except to close an estate, and the only
wonder to me was that somebody hadn't
snapped It up before I came along.
'And so I bought the only vacant lot
on the great Isthmus thoroughfare, and
the man said he'd have the papers made
out right away and I could drop In a 8
o'clock the next morning and pay the
money and he'd hand over the deed; and
then I went out and stood on the sidewalk
and saw those wonderful multitudes of all
the peoples of the earth passing In those
amaitng processions, crowds that made
the people passing on Broadway and Fifth
avenue, New York, seem like the lines of
stragglers working their way out along
to some county fair; and then I goes down 1
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The day's receipts were given to the young women for the good of the cause.
When the magnificent s0nyx King" soda fountain at the new Owl Drug Store 16th and Harney was
formally opened June 29th nine thousand sodas were served in eight hours. That broke all existing soda
fountain, records in the U. S.; but last Thursday's business Young Women's Christian Ass'n. day eclipsed even
that wonderful record.
The young women were out in full 'force; every member in town casting aside all other duties and con
siderations in order to make this event a financial success.
The magnificent Onyx King fountain the finest west of New York richly beautiful in itself, was rendered Jj
more beautiful by the dainty touches of the debt fingers of the ardent young patronesses.
During the day a message was received from the Liquid Carbonic Company of Chicago, the builders
of the fountain reading as follows:
TELEGRAM: "Please wire weather conditions and attendance. LIQUID CARBONIC COMPANY."
To which Messrs Sherman & McConnell replied on behalf of the patroness es:
"Perfect day; hundreds of people turned away. Was not able to wait on them. OWL DRUG CO."
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raise $70.C00,iiio In, with me a good ways but she answered he had never given her
from home; for this was a cash sale, you I enough money. The result was she refused
understand, cash on delivery of the deed,
and I knew perfectly well that I'd find a
string of men waiting In the office in th
morning, any one of them ready to snap
tliis bargain if I
money
to return with him.
General Cowin contended in his argument
to the court that Mrs. Pratt had means
of her own, as shown by the fact she main-
wasn't there with the tatned an establishment at Rrookline and
and I suppose they must have bien,iivej ut tne nPP Grand. and also that she
worrying over how I was going to get tho
$T0,'iOe,00i together in that brief time.
COL. PRATT HAS HIS INNING
Makea Shoninx In Court In Response
to Ilia Wife's Demand for .
Alimony.
Colonel James H. Pratt had his Inning
Saturday morning In the hearing of the
'motion of Mrs. Pratt for temporary uli
mony, which was on before Judge Ken
'nedy. General Cowin. Colonel Pratt's at
torney, read an affidavit by Wayland
to that vacant lot at 22, my lot. and stands " - . -
voionei aim mis. I mi mi xiioniine, mans.,
June 1, In which the colonel tried to effect
there and sees 'em go by from there ,and
pats myself on the back and says to my
self: " 'Well, son, thank goodness. you've
Anally hit up on something that you're go
ing to make something on: large money."
"And I was congratulating myself like
a reconciliation. According to the affidavit
Mrs. Pratt's final answer was that she
would not return to Omaha to live with,
the colonel unless there was a definite ar
rangement as to how she was to be sup-
that, watching the people go by, when all ported, and how much of an allowance she
of a sudden It struck me that twenty-four i was to have. Colonel Pratt replied he
hours was a pretty short time for me to W'ould support her to the best of his means,
had money out at interest. He took the
ground the court had no authority to givo
her an allowance pending the trial of the
rase unless she was in need. As long as
she could pay her own expenses he de
clared Colonel Tratt ought not to be re
quired to support her as long as she r'
fused to live with him, at least until after
the merits of the case are decided.
The argument continued through a part
of Saturday afternoon.
1 .OttO llnrae at Anetion.
One thousand horses, saddlers, drivers
and draft, will he sold at auction at
rmatilla. Ore., July 2.! und 3. Matched
teams and car lots spwlalt les.
Colonel Taylor Trent & Son. auctioneers,
Kniman, Mont.
BUSY COUNTING THE MONEY
Omaha Grain Brokers Put in Days on
"Post-Mortems."
SOME WHO LANDED ALL RIGHT
Jinny Hk Winners and OdI Due Bis
Loser Anions; tlie Local Specu
lator! In the Wheat
Market.
Announcements, weddins stetionery and
calling cards, blank bonks and magazine
binding. 'Phone Dou?. 1504. A. I. Root. Inc.
I,eo Hoffmann, undertaker, new location,
lSth and Jones. Tel. Doug. 3901.
Prosperity Makes New Church of on Old
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THIRii ANJJ VINTON HTHKiiJU.
About the Omaha Grain exchange the
chief topic of conversation Is still the
flurry in wheat early In the summer. The
brokers and traders sit in groups and talk
of how much money this one or that one
snade. They speak, too, of one man having
lost $100,000, but for the most part all
Omaha, and. In fact, all Nebraska, was
on the "right side." The local men were
almost all wlnneis.
N'els Updike Is credited with having
scooped In $2u0,0o, but be is reticent, and
nobody knows. William Hynes was a. big
winner. J. H. Hamilton is still count lug
the money he made when he sold at thu
top notch. W. C. Sunderland cleaned up
between i.OfO and $100,000.
Julian Olseen, who Is Sunderland's part
ner, made 30,000. He sat In the office one
day and watched the ticker announce tlie
upward bound of wheat arid for thirty
minutes felt himself growing richer at
the rate of Sl.flfo a minute. He sold at the
right time and now sports a big automobile.
One Omaha brokerage firm distributed
$600.0110 among Its customers out In the Btalu,
another sent $:i0.0(0 out Into the country.
All the NehraskHns were on the "right"
side or once, and they took tlie money
away from the fellows In St. Iiuls and
Kansas City who were "wrong."
Growth of lira I ii Movement.
If the grain movement through Omaha
keeps up the lat half of the year as It
did the first half, the local market this year
will handle more grain by several mllllun
bushels than It handled last year. The
government report for the five months en-ling
May, which has Just been received at
the office of the Omaha (iraln exchange,
sliows that 17,940.100 bushels of grain were
received, as compared with la,10)0 burh
els for the corresponding period last year
and 12.415.uX) bushels in lfc. Shipments for
the first live months were 20.095.n00 bushels,
fit compared witli le.SaT.KI bushels for the
same period last year and 13.64.uO bushels
In 1!K.
The showing Is due to the increase In re
ceipts of wheat and oats. Wheat receipt
for the five months were 2.918,40), compared
with 1.120.700 bushels for the same time last
ear
road, returned Saturday from a tour of in
spection of the Kansas division of the
Union raciflc. They were accompanied
from Kansas City to Denver and thence
to Omaha by J. H. Frawley, district pas
senger agent of the Union Pacific at Kan
sas City.
"The wheat yield In Kansas is much bet
ter than we expected to see," said Mr.
Lincoln. "The yield is now estimated to
be about 70 per cent, which is but little
below the average. We have more bix
cars in Kansas and expect to move tlie
crop as it Is given us to handle. Tlie
farmers were threshing in many places.
We do not anticipate any trouble In mov
ing the grain of Kansas ami Nebraska, as
we are better ecpulpped than ever, having
added new ecpulpmenL continually for tho
last year."
First of Ken Crop.
The first wheat of the new crop to ar
rive at Omaha was on sale on the floor
of the Omaha drain exchange Saturday
morning. The Weeks Oraln and Live Stock
company offered for sale two cars, shipped
by Norcross Bros., of Beatrice, near which
town the wheat was grown. Both cars
graded No. 2 hard; one ear weighed sixty
two pounds to the bushel and the other
sixty-three pounds. The grain brought
fc"Vi cents a bushel, being applied by Mr.
Weekes on a sale already made With (lie
billing of the wheat came the Information
from Norcross Itros. that the field from
which the grain was taken had yielded
thirty bushels to the acre.
GCOD MUSIC AT HANSCOM PARK
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l.rnrgr (ireen and Ills Baud Will
l'la Fine I'roaruiu There
on Sunday.
Program of tleorge lireen and his band
at Hanseom park Sunday, July 14:
PART I. .
March The Rlflu KeRlment
Credo From the Twelfth Mass
Patrol-The Blue and Urey
Intermezzo-Little Kinkies
PART II.
March The A nnihllutor
Waltz Tlie First Violin
Selection (Comic opera) Wang..
Venetian Roses- A Flower Bong.
PART III
March The Pride of the United States
Marines Bennett
Sacred Fantasia In the Cathedral ...Kling
"A Southern Reverie" (Characteristic)
Bendlx
"Manli of the Teddy Bears (by re
quest) Strawn
BURLINGTON GROSS EARNINGS
Hlsaeat Year lu Hoad'a Hlalorr
Closed nltb Month of
June.
The report of the fiscal year Just closed
shows tlje Burlington to have had one of
the most prosperous years In Its history,
the gross earnings being t4. an In-
Oata leeeiota were S.443.00U. as com- crease of $10,000.0X1. For the last several
operating expenses absorb about 70 per
cent of the gross receipts. It Is said the
Burlington can easily be operated for 6)
to 6214 per cent.
HAROFF IS STILL MISSING
So Truce of Old Man Who Disap
peared In Council lllnffa
Ten Hays Aao.
B. F. Haroff or tnw Omaha fire depart
ment reports that after ten days of search
ami inquiry he has found no further trace
of his father, who disappeared on the
morning of July 3.
J. H. HarofT left Ollford, Mo., on the
evening of July 2 to spend the Fourth,
with his son In Omaha. He reached Coun
cil BlufTs In the early hours on the morn
ing of July 3. He was noticed by the
station master ut the Council Bluffs depot
of tho Wabash, but there all definite trace
Is lost. lie was a temperate man, steady
In his habits, and bo far as la known
was In sound mind.
Mr. Haroff is 72 years of age, tall, raw
boned, weighs about 175 or ISO pounds, and
walks fairly straight, although he uses a
cane as a result of being slightly affected
by rheumatism. His hair Is gray and he
Wore a full gray beard. He was dressed
In a grayish suit of clothes, with a soft
black hat.
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Oiklns, Kilo Potiglas. announce their half
price waist sale, society page.
pared with 4,K)3,200 bushels last year. Corn
receipts were a little lighter than a your
ago.
Wheat Crop Is Good.
W. D. Lincoln, car aervlce agent of the
Union Pacific, and W. It. Murray, assist
ant general passenger agent of the same
months the earnings have been running
ahead at the rate of about $1,000,000 a
month. June is phenomenal, as the earn
ings for that month show an Increase of
nearly (1.600,000. What the net earnings
will be is still riddle. Because of the
polloy of reconstruction from earning, the
CHRISTIE BROTHERS SELL OUT
Pioneer Coal' mid Heal Klte .Men of
Hdulh Oninha Transfer
Hull liens.
Christie Bros., vet. inn real estate men
and coal dealers of South Omaha, have
sold their business and property to Joseph
Oarluw of the same city. The property
consists of two lots, a coal yard and office
building In block f7. on the Union Pacifln
tracks. It has been transferred at a con
sideration of (lo.". Inquiry at the office
Saturday elicited the Information that the
new owner. Mr. Harlow, would conduct
the entire business. Including coal.
esiate and Insurance, along the lines
been conducted.
Iianiel C. Callahan, superintendent of
Prospect Hill cemetery. has bought a
twenty acre Iruit farm on the lodge
stie.t mud from ChrU Christiansen. Ha
paid $."..""i.
A. A. Crosby has sMd the new two-story
frame dwelling at llI'J Capitol avenue to
K. grid olsin for ll'i'6.
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Trto-tent Hate,
On and aftr Saturday, July IS, the Illi
nois Central Railroad company will sell
tickets to points on their line In Iowa,
Minnesota and South rak-ta at 2 cents per
mile, plus bridge fare between Omaha and
Council Bluffs.
Tickets on salo at City Ticket Office, 140a
farnam street, and Union station.
All goods Bold at TTuhermann'a Jewelry
tore guaranteed as to prices and quality.
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