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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 18, 1907)
.. . The Omaha Sunday Bee PART II. EDITORIAL SECTIQ.l PAOE8 1 TO 10. Arfvortl la THE OMAHA DEC Best i". West VOL. XXXVII NO. 9. OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 18, 1D07. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. Knit Underwear The balance of Ladies' Summer Un derwear will be" closed out Monday. Prices will be made to move these goods. There are weeks of hot weather ahead, but the time is at hand when we must re ceive new Fall goods already on the way. All Ladies' Vesta that sold at ( 15c, Monday C All Ladies' Lace Trimmed Drawers, 35c values lC AM Ladies' Italian Silk ' Q & Vests, $4 values e.n0 Silks Silks Silks Here is the greatest opportunity for silk bar gains you've run across in an age. Goods em bracing every dependable fabric in the Silk fam ily are sacrificed to make room for new Fall Silks. 7oc colored Taffetas j . . . . v . 65c Wash Ilalmtai. black and A" fl0 , white plaids .....j J Mday a! $1.00 Mack Grenadines ( M fK 5!)c fancy Silks, all colois ) f Jfo 50c black Indian Silk I ILtW 85c colored Messalines 1 v . $1 fancy Pongees, 127 in. wide . . . . rcr Yard Popular Priced Pictures 00 handatmely framed Christy, Fisher and XJndervotid Popular pictures, iur regular $l.S , Q spscial telling price Monday1 $ clearing sale 1 f price. ..' Vi' v On ditplay Harney Street mndow all week. Pfcfure Framing. Home new arrivals of fine moulding and frame B H B B B .HH B B: B B B B B AN AUGURY OF A GREAT FALL CAMPAIGN While fall seems yet a long way off, we are already starling in on fall business. Our vast stocks of Mid-Summer Merchan dise are having their last "drive." Prices are merely fractional, bar gainsqualities and quantities are phenomenal. All Jo have the heeded room for tall goods that are arriving with every ex- fires. V r ' EI . B B B I H ST B B'B' B'B.B' Dress Goods We are somewhat overstocked with mid-summer dress fabrics and these must be disposed of for Fall displays. We bunch five superb linra at a mere fraction of actual values: 89c fancy Serges, black and white $1.25 fancy Shadow Plaids f!l)c Checked Suitings 59c striped Panamas $1 Plaids, in batiste and Panamas 8)c Shepherd check Panamas. . . I Per Yard These goods are from 38 to 45 inches wide and are erfect. Handkerchiefs These handkerchiefs are seasonable every day of the year; being made of pure linen they are eminently Veliable. Seeing the linen markets of Europe are still advancing, these prices are nothing short of being remarkable. Ladies' pure linen Handker chiefs, 8Vac values, each Men's pure linen Handker- chiefs, large size, 'JOc values. .. k$2 Men's silk and linen, colored , P Handkerchiefs, 35c values...... UC 4c a - K-B :ir n n n.B - a n -SB" m bbb n-a m j hi Sporting Goods Dep't Mens and boys base ball uniforms complete, close out prices t! ZQ while they last ILwrO Bennett's Capitol Coal . Buy Coal now, while the price is low; while you .can get double Green Trading Stamps with ;y orders; while wagon de livery can be made without having to rush them. Rush 'em. BENNETT'S CAPITOL COAL Best Soft Coal minedLump. . . $6.50 Nut : $6.25 BENNETT'S ALMO, preferred by many to Pennsylvania hard $9.50 SP ADR A, or semi-anthracite ..$8.50 "" Strictly full .weights and,, a square deal. Order' by 'phone: Store, Douglas 137; yards, Douglas 6768. LINENSand WHITE GOODS Dresser Scarfs, 17x50; hemstitched and drawn work scarfs, good values at 30c, special, each 12 Dresser Scarfs, 17x50, hemstitched and drawn work scarfs, good values at 35c, special, each. 15 Battenberg Squares, 36x36, regular 1.60 quality, special each S9 Special reductions on Dollies, Oanterpiseas, Tray Cloths, Lunch Cloths, .to. 72 inch bleached and unbleached all linen damask,. regu lar $1.00 quality, special, per yard 75 72 inch bleached and unbleached linen damask, regular 85c quality, special, per yard 69 Special redactions on all whit embroidered Swisses, Ba tistes, Malls, eto. fl.00 embroidered Swiss and Mull, special 65 f" 75c embroidered Swiss and Mull, special 49 65c and 60c embroidered Swiss and Mull, special 39 WHAT FALL WILL BRING The business of this great store has so grown that speak ing conservatively our purchas es for fall are six times greater than they were for 1906 fall. New Fall Silks, New Fall Dress Goods, New Fall Suits the first harvestings of fashion are having their first display in the store that's always first in the great West. August Binnerware Special Prices on ail Sets of English Porcelain, American Porcelain, Ger man China, Syracuse and Iroquois 112 pieces of best English porcelain, pretty AO green edge, $12 value, at...... . .0JO 100 pieces beet German China, pretty rose- J Q bud decoration .II.O Beautiful blue decoration on the best Amerl- 1A OQ can porcelain made, ?15 values for IU0 Dark blue English patterns, plain edge, good Q fl ( shape, full 100 pieces, a $15 value . v U Many other sets at equally low prices. See them this week. Pretty engraved table tumblers, have a neat floral spray engraved on the glass, regular 75c dozsn, Irt 6 for -CUC woirare Sale will begin Wednesday morning. See list of articles and prices in Tuesday's Ad. See 16th Street Window BENNETT'S BIG HARDWARE Big sale of Genuine Stransky Enamel ware, but the best ware made at less than price. Garbage Cans, all orlces up from . . . .......... .. . . .$1.15 Ana Douoie ureen Trading stamps, x - ' Gasoline Ovens at $1.98, $1.75 : and ; 81.25 . And 30,. Green Trading Stamps. IMJiZ. V- VIA fc.l L RH Ware. Not cheap regular wholesale Carpet Beaters at 25c. 16c and 12 And 20 Green Trading Stamps. Mop Sticks, 10 And 10 Green Trading Stamps. 25 Pr cIlt itawrant on-sniy --Water Cooler In department to close out. Extra good Gas Range, four large burners and 1 A AC simmerer on top and large oven, special. .... . .lv0 J Mew IFa lis For Women 152 High Grade Sample Suits, New York's latest creations at about onerhalf their real value, plain and fancy, broadcloths, serges and cheviots ' 'black, navy blue, hunter1? greens and browns. We make but two prices Monday Suits "worth up to $50. 00, Sale Price... kiwi"" Suits'worth up to $39. 50, Sale Price (P SEX WIHBOW OI8PX.AT BENNETT'S BIG GROCERY Our Goods Bought Direct Insures Fresh New Goods at Low Trices Upton's Tea, pound tin OOc And 40 Green Trading Stamps. Bennett's Capitol Coffee, lb, pkg.28c And 30 Orven Trading Stamps. Three Star Salmon, can 20c And 20 Green Trading Stamps. Wiggle Stick Bluing, six sticks. '.35c And 10 Oreen Trading" Stamps. Wonder Wax for Washing, one . pkg. . . 10c And 19 Oreen Trading Stamps. 48-lb. sack Bennett's Capitol And 40 Oreen Trading Stamps. Granulated Sugar Double Green Trading Stamps. Table Pears, In syrup, can. .... .15c And 20 Oreen Trading Stamps. Blood of Grape Juice, pt. bottle. .25c And 20 Green Trading Stamps. fnUBKIIlTTCQHWNr CMAIUXEB. MM .25c Blood of Grape Juice, qt. bottle. .50c And 40 Green Trading Stamps. "Best We Have" Succotash, can. ,15c And 10 Ureen Trading Stamps. H. J. Heinz" Vine gar, qt. bottle, 25c And 20 Ureen Trail ing Stamps. Jell-O, three pkgs. . And 10 Green Trading Stamps. Bennett's Capitol Baking Powder, l-ll). can 24c And 20 Green Trading Stumps. Bennett's Capitol Extracts, per bottle .'18c And 20 Oreen Trading Stamps. New Potatoes, per peck 20c Booth's Sweet Potates, can lOc And 10 Green Trading Stamps. .Genesee Corn, three cans 25c And 20 Green' Trading Stamps. M " MMfi .MM " ' dMWI '"" T Ml TIMELY REAL ESTATE TALK J. I. McCagie Sett Era of Investment in the West. EASTERN CAPITAL. TO TOUR IN t Realtr Aet' Mkn This Prdlcllo Atef Kpendln Foir Weeks In Kuatrrn t itle. Hoandlna; Sentl ni.mt of Investors. Ph asing to .the members of th. Omaha Real Etate exchange wer. the words of John L. McCague, when ha declared, at th. last meeting of the 1 exchange, that an era of Investment of eastern money In western securities, industries and realty Is about to dawn. His words suggested pictures of eastern oapltal pouring Into Omaha and Nebraska in a mighty stream, as it did twenty years ago. Mr. MoCague spoke not without a study of condition, nor without careful delibera tlon on what he had prepared to say. For a solid, month he had been In .the east, and In that tlm. had sounded the sentiment of Investors who live In Pittsburg, Philadel phia, Boston, New York, Hartford and many other cities, til. observations led htm to believe that the east la universal in pronouncing the west "all right." It baa been fifteen years since eaxtern I money In any large sum except in scat tering Instances, has been Invested in Omaha. The east has been developing It self In those fifteen years, says Mr, Mc Cague, but now the high tide of values has been reached there and th. money mu.t turn to th. west. If a few more people would build houses on a scale rommejisurat. with that which on. real ertate company and three cltlsens hv undertaken lately the complaint 'of a scarcity ofl dwellings In Omaha would be stopped in a year or so. IJttle more than a week- ago Hastings A Heyden took out permits for the erection of fifteen houses In Monmouth park and Kounts. Place. Now W. H. Msllory snnounces he will build ten houses In the west Iavenworth dis trict, along th. stub of the street car line, while J. P. Connolly and Robert Cross aM build twenty houses for employes of the street railway company just across Dorcas street from the stt. selected for the rjew car barns. A few more builders like thes. would help matters considerably. It Is all the style now, though th. style was originated with the greatest utility in view, to transfer one's property to a real estate holding company. Dozens of such companies hsv. been 'incorporated in Omaha tht. year and .very few days one Is organised. If th. tendency keeps on, In another year there will, be scarcely a family In th. city with more than t69.0Qfk worth of fealty, that does not Hare It In control of an Incorporated company. The arrangement save, delay In business trans actions when the owner Is out of towa. for mora than on. officer of the company may give deads or pay out money. The main Idea with which th. companies ar. f.iu.4. however, Is that the title to property may be unaffected by death. - It is now reasonably certain that the street railway 'company will build its new car barnH on the north side of Dorcas streets between Fifth and Sixth streets, on the land belonging to the heirs of I Went worth. The company secured an option on the property some time ago and announced It would build there if title could be secured at the price agreed upon, $7,000. As there wero twenty-three signatures to be secured. It was doubtful whether the deal could be made. But the Byron Reed company has had word from the eastern heirs that they are ready to sign a deed and it will be forwarded to them at once. The 'Thurston home, which stood at Twenty-fourth and Farnam streets, ha. been sold a second time and the new owner has moved it to Twenty-seventh and Call- fornla streets, where he has accoutred two lots. The house was sold ,onee to a man who wished to move it to Twenty-fifth and Marcy streets, but he found his lot too narrow for the house and so the building was sold again. Joseph Connor evidently is a believer In the future of Nebraska real estate. He has bought a section of the Marshall Field ranch In Stanton county at $S0 an acre. Mr. Connor was formerly In the elevator business In Nebraska, with offices in Omaha, but he sold -out to devote-his time to his realty Interests. J. Kendls ft Son report the sale of th. following: Lot In Brlggs Place to Joseph Allen, $500; cottage at 838 North Twenty seventh .to D. 8. FlnkelstehV $1,000; house at S51 Lafayette avenue to Thomas F. Walsl, $3,250; house at southeast corner Nineteenth and Ixard to Mrs. H. Cohen, $2,400; eight lots in Belmont Park addition to Ouy P. FleW. , "' , Much grading has been done in Omaha in the last year or two and much Is going on at present. On the north side of Cum ing, Just east of Twenty-seventh, a moun tain of dirt Is being hauled away to make room for a row of dwellings. On the north side of Leavenworth, about Twentieth street, a big bonk bas been cut down to make sightly residence ground. On Thir teenth street. Just south of the railroad tracks, Haarman Bros, have cut away the hill to make room for their new pickle factory. Down on Sixteenth street. Just at the south end of th. viaduct. T. F. Swift Co. are grading to get a .Ite for their lumber yard. And so one by on. the unsightly knobs and hills about th. city ar. disappearing. Russell ti McKltrlck announce th. sale last week of three houses at Twenty-seventh and Rees streets to Antonio Anney; also a house at Twenty-third and PI tree to Michael Tomanlo. Crelghton university got a good piece of property for $18.6u0 last week, when It bought a block of ground Just west of th. university building for, an athletlo field. The property lie. between Twenty-fifth avenue and Twenty-sixth avenue and ex tends to Burt street on th. north, though It do. net Includ. th. tier of lota facing j & iVtJSf m n nrn l, kir JLi... m:, viir Jul'. . t. npT1en ' t PROGRESS IN SAN FRANCISCO Nearly One Hundred, Million Now in New Structures. WORK OF RESURRECTION RAFLD Rain, of the Stricken City Are Stead ily Delntr Transformed Into Something Like the For mer Status. NEW HOMES ON DODGE STREET. on California street. The old athletic field Is to be used tor new buildings when they shall be needed. Just to show how trackage property has Increased In value along with the rest, one might point to the experience of E. E. Bruce & Co, Three years ago this firm bought two lots at Eighth and Douglas streets for $6,600. Two days ago the lots were sold to Henry W. Tate. lor $17,600. It was a profit of about 230 per cent. To what extent th. amount of money In volved In real estate transfers in Omaha Is Increased by the building and loan associa tions one may Judge from the remark made by on. realty man to another a few days ago. "Houses erected with building and loan money hav. been built on Dully half ot the lota I hav. sold this year." h. said. Were It not for th. fact that th. mor.ey can be easily obtained, most men would have to wait until they got more money and the real estate market would suffer. The Omaha companies have made great stride In th. last year In membership and on. company has recently reduced rates on account of th. great Increase In business, being able to do so by reason of th. fact that while there Is a greater demand for money there la also more at th. disposal of the companlea. v At the fifteenth annual meeting of the United State. League of Building and Loan associations at Chicago recently, th. secre tary reported that Its couiyanius In th. league had gained $43,784,000 In the last year. The 5,31(1 companlea represented have a membership of 1,699, 714 and assets of $173,1211,200. Hastings A Heyden report the sale of another Investment property, the Norwood, 3X2, 3324 and 3S"JS Harney street, from Mux and Louis Retchenberg to Abram Kahn, for $17,000. It Is built of pressed brick and stone snd has tile rooting on nialn building and porches and Is finished in oak and beau tifully decorated. This firm Is making a specialty of investment properties and Is selling to many out-of-town buyers. The firm has recently sold! The Potter St. Louis flats at Twenty-ninth avenue and Harney, to Daniel Hlldebrand, for $16,500; Dr. 81a baugh's St. Louis flats, 611 and 613 South Twenty-sixth street, to Byron Reed for $7,500; the Partridge flat at 516 and 617 South Twenty-sixth street, to Ellsa A. Ferguson for $7,750; the Iloman flats, at 618 and 520 North Twenty-third street, from the Insur ance Company of North America to Edward Brown, for $7,260; th. three-story flat build ing at the northwest corner of Twenty first and Burdette. from th. Provident Life and Trust company to William. C. Norrta, for $10,000; 2663 and 2666 Harney street, double! brick flat, from nonresident owner to Duff Green, for $7,000; double St. Louis flats on Woolworth near Twenty-sixth, to W. C. Norris. for $6,000. Harrison it Morton announce the follow ing aalea out of their 111 lota In Biiggs' Place: Lots Is. 23 and 23. block t, on Far nam and Forty-slath streets, for $1,600, to A. L. Havens, who expects to put a house on one of the- lots and probably use the others for business purposes later on; lots 6 and 10, block 3. on Capitol avenue near Forty-seventh street, for $650, to W. 8. Heaton, who will probably build on one of the lots to sell and build a home on the other; lot 34, block (, for $:60, to John Douglas, to add to his home property on Douglas street near Forty-fourth street; to Theodore Lleben and E. A. W. Bnell, each one-half lot lying between their homes on Farnam street, to enlarge their grounds; to the Dundee Lumber. Coal and Lime company, lot 18, block i. to enlarge their planing mill on the adjoining ground; to John Godfrey, lots 22 and 23, In block 7, who will build a good home at once, using the two lota; price, $tW these are on Doug las street near Forty-seventh; to William J. Creedon, lot S, block 7, on Dodge street, a little west of Forty-sixth street; price, $550. Mr. Creedon Is planning to build a horn, on this lot soon. Harrison A Morton hsve also sold twn lota, in the same vicinity, but Just across the street from Brlggs Place, on Forty third street near Dodge, one lot to Mrs. Margaret Clausen, for $300, and she will build a hoirje this ah; th. lot adjoining to Mrs. Kruger front Iowa, who expects to, move later and build a home on her lot. Refuse substitutes or Imitations get what you ask for. B Want Ada Ajtt Business Boosturs. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 12. -That the re building of the burned district of San Fran cisco, which has seemed slow at times even to sanguine residents, hat really been le markable Is shown by the ofllc'al figures of the State Harbor commission in regard to the building material that has reached San Francisco by sea during the year ended June 30 last. The figures sre so large that they might not be accepted If they were not official. After deducting the materials that were reshlpped from here to other places on San Francisco bay, the following are the totals: Lumber, feet 7M,W'1KM) Bricks 27.i-93.lW Gravel and crushed rock, tons 617, HiiO Cement, tons , WU17 Shingles 270.115,200 Laths Uisl.ST.O Stakes 4.3)11,775 The material received by rail fairly reprn senta the amount now on hund. What adds to the effectiveness of these figures Is that most of this material was sold at. a large Increase over the ordinary rates. Lumber sold as high as $35 a thousand and common hard brick as high as $16 a thousand. The building permits since the fire up to July 31 last show a total cost of $7S,25O,620. As most of these buildings cost from a quarter to a third more than the architect s estimates, the true value of improvements finished or under way Is fully $3.(H0.0OO. Poor Showlnsr on Nob Hill. A hasty ride In an auto through the burned district gives the visitor a poor Idt a of the enormous amount of work which is now going on. It is only when one goes on foot and along certain streets that he can get an adequate Idea of the tremendous amount and variety of work In this re building of a big city. The poorest showing In the wsy of re habilitation is made In the residence dis trict from Powell to Van Ness avenue on the streets from Geary north to Sacramento. This district Includes the fanhloiiHLile resi dence section known as Nob Hill, crowned by the wooden palaces of the railroad and bonanxa millionaires. From the lower side of Pine street down to Geary this district Is included In the fire limits. It Is a sldehlll section and it la impossible to rebuild It In brick or coWrete snd get any adequate returns from the investment. The trick building that la going on In this district Is of spart ment houses and hotels. It Is the opinion of the best expert that the fire limits mcut he relaxed In this hilly district or these streets from Geary to Pine will not be rebuilt. Bulldlas Their Own Home.. From Sacramento street to North Beach th. building has been so general that in th. catr.ut. northern end and on the slopta of Telegraph hill the land has been so well covered by modern buildings that one would never know there had been a fire. Standing on the summit of California street one can see very few vacant spaces on Tel egraph hill and at North BeacTi, and tha character of the buildings Is superior to that before the Are. This Is the Latin quarter of the town. There people Italians, Spanish, Portti guese and French are remarkably thrifty nnd very Independent of the regular labor unions. Thousands built .their houses In co-operation; others actually constructed their homes largely with their own hands before going to work and after their re turn from the day's labor. A walk through this quarter any Sunday . last winter found hundreds of men and women bually working to complete their homes. Even the children helped to bring laths and shingles, to mix mortar and plas tering. The women were aa active aa th. men and they obeyed no union scale of hours. They worked as long as it was light enough to see. , Most of these people owned th.e.lr own homes and they rebuilt out of the. .pro- , ceeds of their Insurance money. In only one small section of this district has any effort been made to Introduce the tenement buildings-that uro so great an evil In New York's Kait Side.. Growth of the Mission. ' Another district which has seen remark able rebuilding Is the mission, which ex tends south of Market street from Ninth to Twenty-sixth street. Most of th.ssj dwellers In the district south of Market street, known locally as "Tar Flat," move out Into the mission, so that the popula tion of tlm latter section has been quad rupled. The houses are mainly of wood, but they are well bulit and main avenues Ilk. Mission, Valencia and Guerrero street have been rebuilt In brick and concrete, with many fine stories and apartment houses. This district is easily reached by set---eral lines of electric cars and It promise to Improve more rapidly than any other residence section of the city. Htrenoon. Days In Chinatown. Cut the phenomenal rebuilding has been In old Chinatown and In the business dis trict north and south of Market street and east of Leavenworth. For several years before the fire ther. were prlodical discussions of the plan ol removing Chkiatown to some distant part in tha bay shore, where an oriental city might be built, which would not be a menace to the health or the morals of the white race. The folly of such talk may be seen from the fact that about one-fifth of Chinatown was owned by Chinese. Scores of big Chinese wholesale stores sre Installed In this district, and It is ex pected that by early fall the 16,000 Chines. ho migrated to Oakland and formed a colony there will return to their old quar ters here In a body. The leading Chinese dealer in curios and silks haa Just con tracted for a building In the pagoda style of architecture at the southwest corner of California and Dupont streets. In it he proposes to Install th largest and finest collection of oriental goods la tills cuua try. . At M ai 'I' A' is Dr th' ae al n- ri vc a5 nj og U a i: 4b, n. le If nd the tht 31 P on let $Vn el! Mr V i