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CHIMNEY AND MANTEL IN HOME OF O- B. BLACK.
TIMELY REAL ESTATE TALK
usineii it Little Slack During Week
of Ak-Sar-Ben.
WILL BE BRIGHTER SOON AFTER
ftcaltr Eiekuit Saya Popalatloa la 1
133,000 and Raachea Iatarvat-
l( Coaolaaloaa o Looal
Valaaa.
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,r.ren a a wise monarch, and
plenty hlrsnei the lands his acrpter waves
over. But for the brief period of his tri
umphal entry Into his capital city, owing
to the Interest of the people In the joyous
event, the men who deal In houses and
lands are not as busy as at other times of
year. This week they will take whatever
bulnek cfmea thlr way, but they will
not worry If It doesn't come.
They know that when the klny has passed
the people will hasten to buy homes in the
chief olty of such a puissant prince. Real
estate business Is always dull during the
festival seaaon, but It has always gained
in volume Just after.
In vacant property small sales have pre
dominated so far this fall and transfers of
1150 to $1,600 keep the clerks In the record
er's office busy. These sales have been nu
merous, though, and the agent are taking
the small commissions that coma their way
and are watting for the big ones. -.
Many aales of lota are made to persona
wno do not contemplate bi'ttdlng- !rome mi'
tjnext, spring. Some do not w'h ft
lipidlng operations with cold weather oom
tng on and others believe there Is a posal
blllty of lower prices in-building material
In the spring. The high prlcea of lumber
and other material entering Into the con
struction of houses has undoubtedly had a
deterrent effect upon home building thla
year.
After two weVa' deilfcaratlon the Omaha
Real' EntatV- exchange haa anawered the
queatlona asked by the SeaU'.s Real Eatate
association concerning Omaha. The aaao
elation wlehea the information for uae In
the publication of a booklet devoted to the
subject of realty values In tho principal
cities of the United States.
The I teal exchange decided to place the
population of Omaha at IM.000, preferring
to make it too low rather than run the risk
of making It toa high. Some of the most
Important conclusions arrived at by the ex
change are:
Best retail property Is at Sixteenth and
Farnam, worth IS.600 a front foot.
Best wholesale property la at. Ninth and
Harney, worth $375.
Beat residence property la In the Weat
Farnam dlatrict. worth $9
Beat acreage for platting Into city lot
la northweet, worth $1,000 per acre.
Highest price ever paid for property was
$.000 a foot, at Sixteenth and Douglas.
Sir Horace Plunkett of Dublin, Ireland,
will make hla regular annual visit to
Omaha aeveral weeka earlier than uaual.
arriving about October . BJr Horace hat
had in contemplation for the laat two
years a duplicate of the Chatham and a
$40,000 atructure In South Omaha, and hla
vialt this faU will decide whether or not
he is to erect them. If he does, it will
mean about $80.0C0 spent in Omaha, so hla
visit la of some Interest'
He way build a twin to the Chatham
on the lot north of the present Chatham,
at Thirteenth and Dodge streets, which
lot he now owns. The other site In mind
is ont Twenty-fourth street. In South
Omaha, where he figures on a store and
Hat building. i
Blr Horace haa been a little behind the
resident landlords In raising the' rents on
his property, but he haa now come Into
me procession. Among the buildings on
which the rentals have been Increased by
him la the Crounee block, on North Six
teenth street, between Dodge, and Capital
avenue, where an advance of IS per cent
In some cases and 40 per cent in others
has been made In the last month or two.
On considerable other property on North
Sixteenth street the advance waa made
last spring. The Masons demanded more
money for quarters In the Masonic temple
It Sixteenth and Dodge and the Halconua
ate asked more for space In its bullj
'ngs on the north half of the same block.
Rente have been marked up In other
bualness places In the same neighbor
hood. When on aeea the atreet car company
removing old tracks In various parts , of
the city he naturally asks a question as
to t)K reason , for their existence. If ha
toesa't guesa. he finds on inquiry they
srere- laid to hold the streets 'against
probable or pr.saible competitors. The
Joncpany Is now tearing up an old track
n Bt. Mary' avenue from Twenty-aacond
to Twenty-slsth atreet and also one oa
Webster atreet. west of Sixteenth.
Frank J. Burkley la a strong believer
In a bright future for Omaha and he
Uvea up to hla preaching by Investing In
realty whenever b get a bit of money
looae from aoroe other enterprise. His
purchaa of the brick block t the south.-
Hit wviuer at Fifteenth auj Jackson
streeta last week was but one of a Ion:
Hat of purchases made by him In the last
two years. A few months ago he bought
the Linton block, at Thirteenth and Mason
treet. He owns the building occupied
by the Kimball laundry, on Jarkson street,
between Fifteenth and Sixteenth. Recently
he has bought a number of lota In tue
same neighborhood.
tWhen I took a trip through the northern
part of the city the other day, I wa much
surprised to see how Collier Place and
Monmouth park have developed this sum
mer," said A. L. Reed. "Two year ago
all of Collier place and a goodly portion
of Monmouth park showed nothing more
attractive than a cornfield, while last year,
when the tract was not cultivated, there
was a dense forest fo weeds. Last spring
there was but about five houses In Collier
place. Since the first of the summer ten
new house have been erected there,
water and gas have been Introduced, side
walks laid, street graded and trees
planted. It Is now a cosy looking district.
"In Monmouth park about twenty houses
have been erected or are in course of con
struction." The two addition spoken' of by Mr.
Reed comprise eighty acres and He north
of Ame avenue and between Thirtieth
and Thirty-sixth streets.
The W. J. Dermody Investment company
will have a display at the carnival this
week of the products of Colorado lands
It I the Belt county exhibit, which won
fifty-two first prle and eighteen second
prises at the state fair at Pueblo.
Ths municipal affairs committee of the
jConunerelal-Club. is gathering information
to decide whether or not Douglas county
need a court house, and if It does, how
costly a building it needs, and whether
the additional taxes resulting will be too
heavy. The action I under the Instructions
J of the executive committee, which does
not presume to Intimate tht the county
does or does not need the court house, but
imply wlahea to inform itself on the aub
jecU - rma n th fatat 1nha nf vradlna that
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nu ueen uunv in tiuau tm yi
Sixteenth and Pilerce streeta, where T. F.
8 wirt A Co. are preparing a site for a
coal yard. About 58,000 cubic yarda of dirt
i have been moved from the alte, formerly a
high bluff. When the grading : la coin
I pleted, about October 16. It will have coat
conalderably more than the price paid for
the alte. A $4,000 warehouae will be built
In December. I
For aeveral year Loa Angelea realty men
have used oil to sprinkle the roads to and
through thstr additions, thereby laying the
dust and killing the weeds. Now Omaha
I can talk about using oil on the road. The
D. V. Bhole company Is ' sprinkling the
four miles of boulevards In Keystone Park, -I
formerly the W. A. Paxton farm, with the
refuse ptroleum product of the gas com- )
I pany. It cost $150 to sprinkle a mil of
I boulevard and one application I all that
I necessary for a year. '
It would not be surprising In these day
of prosperity if the hospitals and churches
of Omaha did not take advantage of their
opportunity to erect new building and lm- .
' prove the old ones. The churches seem to
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nave got a lime nuu u& inw iiusyuaia id
this respect, but .the hospitals are active
now.
. The Clarkaon hospital will have spent
$130,000 by the time of the fulfillment of the
contract Just let to McOowan St Jacob
berger for the erection of a new hospital
at Twenty-first and Howard street. The
It oost $3,000 and the building will cost
bout $100,000, Part of the money will be
obtained by the' sal of the present hospi
tal and site at Nineteenth and Dodge
streets, which has been placed on the
market at $12t.C00i
Directors of Bethany hospital, at Twen
tieth street and Capitol avenue, are plan
ning two new three-atory wlnga. which,
with other Improvements, will coat $6,000.
Wlae Memorial hospital la completing a
new home on Harney street and the finish
ing touches are being put on the Methodist
hospital at Thirty-sixth and Cuming
streeta
St. Joseph's hospital will erect a large
addition a soon a the contest over Count
Crelghton'a will la settled.
PAYING REGARDLESS OF COST
Such it Demand of Weit Leavenworth
Street Resident.
PARK BOARD REFERS MATTER
City Engineer Favors Delay Beeawso '
f tk High Price of Material
at Tb.1 Seasoa of the
Year,
The Board of Park Commissioner met
Monday morning and passed the pay roll.
Then It adjourned until Wednesday.
Th's is the story of what It did: but It
lack considerable of telling what It heard.
Proceedings opened Just after 10 o'clock
with the opening of hid for macadamixtng
or paving West Leavenworth street with
concrete paving. E. D. Van Court was th
only bidder, and his fgure were S7 cent
yard for macadam with a one-year
guarantee: $1.12 for macadam with a five
year guarantee, and $1.17 for concrete with
no a-uarantee at all.
City Engineer Rosewater waa present and
expressed surprise that only one bid was
tendered, as other contractor had secured
data and specifications for th work. He
aid the btda were too high, baaed on th
figures, 71 centa a yard, aecured by the
county for macadam. Mr. Van Court
denied the blda were too high and there waa
considerable argument over thla point,
which ended only when representative of
property owner on West Leavenworth
street took a hand and gave out the In
formation that they desired the treet
macadamised thla year regardless of the
price.
It was then suggested that, as a better
pavement should be laid, on the street,
the. property owner should co-operat with
th board to the extent of paying tli dif
ference lnjrlce between macadam,, which
would be guaranteed but one year, and a
brick block paving which would be prac
tically permanent
Coaasel Favors Delay.
W. J. Connell, a one of the principal
property owner on the street, waa called
Into the conference and favored th, Idea
of delay until the property owner wer
willing to co-operate, the board to tak
some method of preserving th curbing and
guttering now In place until next year and
the property owner In the meantime get
ting all underground work, such as sewers,
water and gas main Into place before the
paving Is laid.
Some of the member of the West Leaven
worth Improvement' club protested against
further delay, and one enthusiasts repre
sentative declared hla Intention of remain
ing In the room until the board should
let the contract H left however, when
the board referred the matter to the com
mittee on paving, with Inatructlona to ae
cure further Information. I
Resident of th southern part of th '
town appeared to protest against th crea
tion of a boulevard on Twenty-second
street to connect with th South Omaha
boulevard system. They wer told that th
matter wa in conference with th South
Omaha authorities, and that nothing would ,
be done at this time. I
Isaac Hascall asked that th board grade
the boulevard couth of Bancroft street a ,
soon a possible, so that trees may be set
cut In the spring. The superintendent of
parks will consider the subject
A large delegation wa present to tak
up the matter of the Northwest boulevard,
but left before th board could hear tt
NEW YORK'S BUSIEST FIREMEN
Answered 1,1x1 Alarm la a Tear,
Three Tlaae Loadea .
Record. I
Largest West of the Mis
sisslppi River
400,000 Members East
of the Rockies
The Pride of Omaha and
Nebraska
OFFICERS
Sovereign Commander
HON. JOSEPH CULLEN ROOT,
"Founder of all Woodcraft,"
Omaha, Keb.
Sovereign Adviser
W. A. FRASER Dallas, Tex.
Sovereign Banker
HON. MORRIS 8HEPPARD,
Member Congress .... Texarkana, Tex.
Sovereign Clerk
JOHN THOS. YATES Omaha. Neb.
Sovereign Escort
H. F. SIMRALL .Columbus. Mlsa.
Sovereign Watchman
B. WOOD JEWELL Manchester, la.
Sovereign Sentry
DB E. BRADSHAW, Little Rock. Ark.
Sovereign Managers
N. B. MAXET. .... .Muskogee, Ind. Ter.
C. C. FARMER .Mt. Carroll, 111.
J. E. FITZGERALD. . . .Kansas City, Mo.
L, Q. RAWSON. Cleveland, 0.
T, E. PATTERSON. .Chattanooga, Tenn.
ELISHA B. LEWIS Klnston, N. C.
ED. T. CAMPBELL. . .Port Huron, Mich.
Sovereign Physicians
IRA W. PORTER, M. D Mobile, Ala.
A. D. CLOTD, M. D.. . . . . .Salisbury, Mo.
55,500,000 Emergency
Reserve
$100 Monument at Every
Grave
Old Age Benefits for
Total Disability .
Commends Itself" -Rates Equitable, Assuring Prosperity
Join tie .Woodmen of lie Worii
GEORGE F. W00LEY, Mina,ger Organization Department
PHIL. MILLER., City Manager
WOODMEN OF THE WORLD BUILDING, OMAHA, NEE
Without A Peer In the Insurance World
Supreme Forest, Woodmen Circle
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Auxiliary of the W. O. W. ::
50.000 MEMBERS $750.000 SURPLUS
Largeit Surplui Per Membsr of Any Ord r In Existence
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$100 Monument At Every Grave
.. .. .. $100 Funeral Benefit
Dcfer not till Tomorrow to be wise." JoIn today.
IVIps. Emma O. lVlarichester
Supreme Guardian
Headquarters:
W. O. W. Bulldlna
IS tli and Howard Sts,
REGISTRATION OFFICERS LAX
0lr Half Alatr Htport 4
Folic Mar Ga far the
Other. '
Not mor than one-half of th men ap
pointed a supervisors of registration have
applied for qualification at th city hall
and aa Monday I the last day. for surh
qualMcatlon th city clerk la considering
th necessity of calllni upon ths police
tore to DriDa in dilatory supervisors to
a sense of duty and th city hall at th
Sam time. Book and necessary material
must b Issued and these are Issued as
th men qualify. A tesult there Is a
delay In th delivery of material, which
will be serious unless supervisor oome lit
rapidly Monday.
Tuesday I th second day of registration
for th election this fall. Rf titration last
year I of no avail and all iraons who d:d
hot register on th day of th primaries
must register either Tuesday or October
H, In order t be qualified la vol this
fail. " ' -
NEW YORK, Bept. S8.-A visitor to fir
headquarters In East Rlxty-eeventh street
wa prompted to Inquire how the number
of calls In a year In th busiest fir housoa
of Greater New Tcrk compared with the
number of calls for a year In the busiest
districts of London. He wa told that
there wa really no comparison possible, as
the New York firemen answered more than
twice many calls a year as. the London
firemen.
It waa found later that thla wes rather
understating- the case. Truck IS at 84 At
torney street answered more calls In the
year ISog than eny -iher o- n - r
New York. It responded to 1,122 alarms In
the year and dirt uu.y ai ......
Engine 17 at tl Ludlow atreet waa a close
second with LOO" calls during the year, or
which only XZ7 turned out to b real fire.
In other words, th men of thes two com
panies had to answer an alarm before set
ting down to breakfast, dinner or supper,
and then some.
The figure for London show an amaslng
disparity. Th Whltechapel station, situ
ated In th moat thickly populated part of
th cl'.y, responded to only !7t calls In th
year Uut, Including false alarms, an aver
age of on call a day.
Bhoredltch reported K alarm of fir for
the year and Manchester Square 364. Th
firemen at these station on an average
answered an alarm a day for two day and
on th third they rested. .
To be fair It should be said, however, that
the two New York compacle cited wer
exceptionally busy. Th average of call
ear for a New York fir company la
about Cub.
Tii wilier (ttrera I found In the case of
South Beach hose company L on Seaside
boulevard between Ocean avenue and Band
lane. South Beach. Btaten Island, which
consist of on (our wheeled ho wagon
manned by eight men. Ho 1 answered
one alarm In Uut, and It wasn't a fal on
either.
Aa Interesting point shown by th reoord
of th fir department la that th firemen
In Harlem and Th Bronx are for th moat
part kept a busy answering alarms, false
and otherwise, a their brother downtown,
excepting a few eompaniea in th heart of
the East Side. Brooklyn' firemen are not
nearly so busy ' aa those of Manhattan,
averaging only about two-thlrda a many
calls a year.
Truck at, installed only few year ago
at U-M East One Hundred and Fourteenth
street, Manhattan, tuswered last year no
leas tl.an Kg calls and did cuty at mor than
half of them.
COERCED INTGWG NAME
Saraael R. Harhawgh of Valley Seek
Head Otf Wife and
Brother.
Abscrting lil wife. Nora Harbaugh,
und her brother. Thomas Hartford or V al
te, coerced him Into signing a bill or sale,
Samuel H. Har'oaugii haa aecured 1 e
stratnlng order fium Judge Kennedy to
prevent the public auction of th property
September 30. Harbaugh and hla wife have
been living on the Henry Peterson place
one mil northwest of Valley. He says he
has accumulated sufficient personal prop
erty to stock and equip th farm. Septem
ber 1, he aver, hla wife, at th instsnc
or her brother, had him arrested on an
assault aud battery charge la Juatlo Sul
livan's court at Valley. He wa kept in
custody of th city marshal over night and
th following day, greatly distressed In
mind ' by his arrest, waa Induced to sign
th bill of ale to hi wife. He say he
wa told he would have to sign th docu
ment and get out of th state In order to
stop tli criminal proceedings against him.
Th property covered by th bl ef sal
has been advertised to b old September
JO, and It was to atop th , auction h se
cured th order from Judge Kennedy. The
case will b tried October It
MOTHER'S PRAYER ANSWERED
Unexpressed Wish of Dying Woman
li Bountifully Granted.
HEB SON LEFT US KUTD HAUD3
Taachlngr ' Story ef ' Haw Cemti
Brailey anal HI Good Wll Ca .
to Have Bright Boy !
' Their Home.
When th Union Pacific train from Loa
Angeles stopped at th Omaha Union sta
tion tli afternoon of April 18, 19Jt, a woman
wa carried from on of th ear. Th
rough hand of th trainmen nor her with
the gentleness which I universally pres
ent when grim death lay hla band upon
any human being.
The woman wa emaciated, wasted
away, scarcely strong enough to draw
breath. She wa poor. too. No trained
nurse accompanied her on Hi trip which
h wa making' from Lo Angeles to
Philadelphia, her 'home,- which ah had
hoped to reach before she died. But sev
era! women wh wer In th station quickly
aasumad th duties of nurse and th pa
tient wa mad a comfortable a poaalble.
Th woman was not aone. A little boy
with her, a lad of T year. He cried
utterly and clung to her, rerusing to be
comforted. And she, too weak to speak to
htm, let her hand rest on hi curly head
and moved her lip In a silent prayer.
Sb opened her eye at Ut find In on
Anal effort begged with eye and lip
that friend would car nor her son. Then
b died. It turned out that kind Provl
fleno had watched mor carefully than
th may have thought over that lonely
toother hastening aoroa th continent
She waa burled her in Omaha and her
Ust prayer for her little on waa anawered.
Th man who was called on officially to
do tha last eirthly service for th mother
wa a man with a big heart. He saw th
llttl orphan boy weeping beald the bier
of the only friend he knew In th world.
This man was Edwin F. Brailey, who was
coroner at that ttm.
Caroner Brailey' horn had not been
o blessed, but hi wife' heart was a
full of sympathy for th cniid as wa hi.
And so It wa that when th clod had
fallen on th coffin, whan th few stranger
had left th cemetery and th great oold
world opened In all It loneliness around
th llttl orphan, h found refuge In an
Omaha home, th horn of Mr. and Mr.
Brailey, 'whera ha ha lived and been oared
for ever sine.
"Ther art many adopted children In
Omaha homes," said 8. P. Morris, secretary
of tha Associated Charities. "I don't b
liev any city hold a 'better record for
taking Under ear of It helpless children
than Omaha." .
Mr. Brailey adopted another ohlld mora
than flv year ago. Thla was a girt,
whoa mother had died a few year before,
leaving her with four brother. Mr. '
Brailey co-operated with Mr. Morris In
having two of thes boy sent to an aunt
In Oakland, Cat, and Mr. and Mr. Brailey
adopted th gtrl for themselves.
"W wouldn't let lther or our children ;
go now.' said Mr. Brailey. "W think
as much of them a though they wer our '
own flesh and blood. They are both bright
and getting oa finely at school."
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This story and a half house Just finished and now ready to mov into at northeast
corner Tlth and Maple. Seven room, furnace, bath, permanent walka, full let tlalis.
Price, fi.tt.
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