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T InH la 4 Inn f (ha trrrtttrth
I of a business in Omaha about
which little has been said la
cited In the expense account
of the Humane Horse Collar com
pany. This company eighteen months
ago bought a gallon of black
ing, used to blacken the edges of the
leather which goes into Humane col
lars. The little black gallon bucket
is still In the paint room of the com
pany, but beside it are two barrels, for
that Is the way the company is buying
blacking now. From a dozen or so
collars a day eighteen months ago the
capacity of the company has increased
to 600, a day, and there are no collars
stacked up in the shipping room wait
ing to be sent out. They are shipped
out just as rapidly as they are manu
factured. While the company man
ager "says the growth of the business
liao been phenomenal in the past, the
future looks even brighter, with the
end of the growth never in sight.
The "Humane Horse Collar" is for
'ho use of 'humane" horse owners.
t is the invention ot J. D. Whipple
il: -J It represents fifteen years of hard
work and deep and constant study.
!t !s nothing like today the collar Mr.
Whipple invented fifteen years ago.
Krom the crude half-baked article he
flrtt tried on his own horse he has de
veloped a collar, used and recom
mended by some of the big horse own
ers of the country. The Humane col
lar is the outgrowth of a study on the
part of its inventor of the breast har
ness. It works on that principle. Its
inventor had the shoulder blade of the
horse in mind when he worked on his
patent. Ho figured that the upper
part of the shoulder bone of the horse
Is covered with very little flesh, as is
also the lower part, and he wanted a
collar which would so fit the horse
that the weight would be against that
part of the shoulder blade covered
with the greater flesh. The collar
fastens over the neck of the horse, but
there is no weight pulling on the neck.
The collar is as different from the old
time collar as day Is from night. Two
pieces of leather made to fit around
the fleshy part of the horse's shoulders
fastened together below the shoulders
with an adjustable iron tube into
Omaha Real Estate
ASSINQ through a panic which
made mortgage money Impos
sible for a period of 6ver ninety
days, releasing more city and
farm mortgages than during
the first three months of 1907,
Ln.ir.K out an equal number of building per
.iilts. but not allowing values of city prop
erty to depreciate a dollar or making a sale
for less than was asked for the same prop
city a year ago, Is the remarkable record
: adc by the real estate dealers of Omaha.
lng to the Impossibility of securing mort
. .e money during November and Decem
u r of 1907 and Januury of 1906, the real es
tate transfers in Douglas county hav been
ib0C.(0J less during the first three months
of the year than during the same months
hist year. That the transfers were less
because of the small amount of money
which could be secured with which to buy
. property is shown In "the report of the
amount of mortgages filed on city prop
erty. During January, February and March
K 1'nT $S43.877 in city mortgages were filed.
Dr.r ng the first three months of the pres
ent year the mortgages amounted to but
."j0,Uuu. or ;a3,2 less than last yeur.
Not only in the west, but in the east. It
has become the regular and proper thing
fur a business man buying property to pay
, hut a part of tho price In money and rut a
mortgage on the property for the balance,
, raying the low rates ot Interest and using
the capital the same as borrowed to make
, many times the amount paid on the mort
gage. Large as well small buyers se
cure property by the mortgage method.
. One of the recent city property ules, ag
gregating tA),000, to a man with plenty of
money and capital, was made with Js.oon
cash and tlia return ot a $12,009 mortgage
at b per cent.
When the panic was felt In the west last
fall It caught the savings and loan bum
clations with large amounts contracted
which they had agreed to furnish builders.
It made the directors cautious snd they all
ordered that no new loans should be made
until those contracted were completed. No
Omaha real estate dealer pretended to
know what the east would be able to do
when New York suddenly announced a
panic and they preferred to play the safe
side in everything.
Insurance companies of the east natur
ally refused to make western loans and It
was Impossible for mortgage money to b
secured from that source. Bo the dealers
of Omaha waited, maintaining prices and
tents In such a way as to encourage a
speedy resumption of normal Investments
In Omaha city property.
And at the end of three months the good
business Judgment of the real estate deal
ers of Omaha has been vindicated. With
the beginning of April mortgage money U
easy and during the three months past
thousands of dollars have been Invested In
Omaha city property by outsider and the
people at borne because they saw there was
,no possibility of a decrease In values.
: From tho beginning of the financial
flurry the real estate situation In Omaha
has been the wonder of the eastern finan
cial press and the financial agents of the
Insurance companies loaning money on
Omaha city property and the farms of Ne
braska. Thirty days after the panic was
declared on by the banker of the east,
the following was the condition reported
Jn real estate circles, according to the
UcaacUl AtjUx Papers at th tuns;
fp
which is fitted a short rod. Then the
straps which go over the neck and
that Is all there is to it. The tugs are
fastened onto the wide leather of the
collars at the shoulders just like they
are fastened onto the old-style collar.
This makes the Humane Horse Collar
fit for use on any set of harness. The
collar is made to fit the horse or mule
regardless of the size of the neck and
shoulders. This Is accomplished by
the adjustlble fastener, which has a
range sufficient to 'draw the collar' up
to fit a pony or enlarge it to fit a draft
horse. Large sizes are made for extra
large horses.
J. D. Whipple, the Inventor of the
Humane collar, spent the greater por
tion of his life traveling over the coun
try in a wagon, and he has studied the
horse until he knows every crook and
turn of the animal, nad the idea from
which the Humane collar was devel
oped came to him as ho drove over the
country.
"I was always a user and a believer
In the breast harness," said Mr. Whip
ple, "and It was from a constant study
of that principle which led to the in
vention of the Humane collar. As I
drove over the country I saw so many
horses and mules with sore shoulders
that I devoted years to studying up a
collar which would prevent this.
. "There was no doubt in my mind
that the country was ready for a new
horse collar. You see we have been
using the same kind of collar that was
New Kngland cities: 'Those engaged In
manufacture are beginning to feel the reac
tion In business. Smaller cities remote from
financial disturbances show less stagnation.
New York nnd P"nnsylvanla cities, in
cluding New York and Philadelphia: Reajty
market abnormally quiet. General finan
cial conditions responsible for Inactivity,
falling values and high mortgage money
rates.
Indiana, Ohio and Illinois cities: Mort
gage money scarce and unfortunately high.
Oood crops ut high prices are doing much
to continue business activity. Realty con
ditions are about the same In some cities
and more unfavorable In others.
Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri and
Colorado: These states are Aivoretl with
excellent realty conditions. Farmers are
prosperous and farm lands are readily
sold. The country districts seem to have
outgrown the cities and the latter are en
Joying the activity in real estate incident
to much needed enlargement.
Pacific coast cities: Still adversely In
fluenced by the Ban Francisco earthquake
and unfavorable reports from the east,
hut the crop are good and the farmers
are the most prosperous class.
Just thirty days later, or sixty days after
tho national bank of the country re
stricted currency payments and extended
the check system. New York financial
papers sought to give the whole country
the ' same, discolored conditl in which ex
isted down cast and one of the most promi
nent said: "Throughout the United States
the real estate world !a beginning to feel
the money stringency. There has been a
marked decrease in the number of building
operations and sales; extreme difficulty
In borrowing money, abnormally Inch In
terest rates and commissions with falling
values."
t'ompiling a careful report from the
financial news in raiiers from all nurta of
! the Untied States, The Bee said the week
after the December bunk statement was
.'tilled:
New England states: Little activity, many
vacancies in the cities and rents are col
lected with difficulty. Smaller cities are
leollng the money s'ringency In real estate
circles almost as keenly as larger cities.
New York and Pennsylvania: Scarcity of
money is exerting a depressing Influence
and many tenement houses are vacant
with a tendency to lower values.
Indiana. Ohio and Illinois: Building con
tinues on a moderate scale. Mortgage
money Is scarce and rates are hlyh.
Iowa, Nebraska. Minnesota and the Da
kota: Duluth, Minneapolis. Cedar Rapids,
Council Bluffs, Omaha, Lincoln and Fargo
report improved conditions, rather la-tler
than a month ao and numerous sales of
farm lauds. Mortgage money is scarce,
but the rates the same as during the year.
Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado: im
proved condition, except In Colorado, where
about the same situation as a month ago
exiats.
Pacific catst cities: Stationary condi
tions, especially In Portland, Seattle and
Spokane. San Francisco is enjoying an
improvement.
When the year opened the most careful
reports showed that the west and south
were standing up and real estate activity
continued, with a slight failing off In the
number of sale because of the impossi
bility of securing mortgage money, but
helped some by those who withdrew
mwiey from banks and Invested in city
property or farm lands. The real estate
condition in New England, the north At
lantic stales and along the Ohio river
wer reported to be at a standstill, a re
duction In sales, decreasing values, high
commission and Interest rates.
Rut reports January 1 lit the papers
which prepared reviews of the year'
business and during the first luree weeks
pf the year showed that building was still
under way in the cities ut the west, nota
brought over- from England when the
country was discovered. It has been
beautified and looks better, but the
principle is JuBt the same. The old
time collar had not proven satisfac
tory, so I knew that if I could Invent
and manufacture a collar which would
save the shoulders of the horses the
public would buy it."
. Mr. Whipple is one of the few in
ventors who have lived to reap the re
ward of their toil and labor, being
financially able to secure his own pat
ent without having to sacrifice his in
vention to do so. In discussing inven
tions he said:
"It is seldom an Inventor gets any
pecuniary reward out of his work.
When he goes to the men with money
to float his invention they put three
propositions to him: 'Has the inven
tion got merit? Does the public want
it? What Is the cost and what is
thgre in it?
Mr. Whipple met the first proposi
tion easily by making about a hundred
collars and trying them on horses with
such results there was never any more
doubt of the merit of his invention.
The other two propositions were not
so material to a man of Mr. Whipple's
determination, because he had the
money to start with and he knew the
demand for the collar would come with
knowledge of its satisfactory work.
The first few Humane collars were
crude affairs and changes have been
made only after experiments and ex
perience has Justified them.
Men See
bly Mineapolis and St, Pu- ', Omaha and
Des Moines. In Kaunas City there was
little or nothing doing, while cities- of
Colorado, Wyoming and on to the Pacific
coats began to feel the severity of tight
money.
During the last ' week in January the
eastern Insurance companies, which had
ceaseti to make loan in the west some
ninety days before, announced that their
financial agents In the west would re
sume loaning money on improved city
and farm property February 1 and that
the rate of interest would be about the
same, or possibly half of I per cent
higher. The companies hod made some
heavy loans In Omaha during 1907 at 4,
4V and 6 per cent. They announced that
they wanted more, but would make no
loans for 4 per cent for several months
at least. One insurance company which
owned 100 pieces of Omaha property three
year ago sold the last holding, a business
House Without a Chimney the Latest
HOUSE without a chimney!
V I A -house with plenty of artl-
I ficlal, light and heat, yet with-
vuv uii ui inc. iu cuai, no
ashes, no soot, no dangercuis
gases.
Such is he Ideal twentieth century
home which Mr. F. M. Slnsabaugh has
Just completed for his comfort at Car
rollton, 111. While this wonderful residence
Is one of the first of It kind in the world,
it Is, perhaps, a good example of what
the average American home will be in a
few years from now. when both wood
and coal . have become too expensive for
common use. Wood is now too scarce and
high In price for common building ma
terial, and the time Is already here when,
for economy's sake, architects and con
tractors are figuring to construct all build
ings of steel and concrete. As tho supply
of coal diminishes the cost la advancing,
so that everything possible Is being done
to husband the supply and see that none
of the stored heat Is wasted, electricity,
generated by water power, Is even now
taking the place of coal as a source of
power,' and the time is surely coming when
It will rank first as a source or heat.
Mr. Slnsabaugh's motel twentieth cen
tury home is 34x30 feet, two stories high,
with attic and basement, and has eight
rooms on the two main floors. While
Edison's Idea of a concrete house to he
poured In one big mold was not carried
out, yet the principal building material
was concrete. The foundation and walls
are of concrete blocks. Th concrete was
mixed on the spot and molded into the
building blocks required. There was
no waste of building material. The floors
are of wood and the Interior Is finished 'in
plaster and oak. Such a house requires
Verv little wood Th. .Il. nf o
ture Is if the' plain, substantial mission
type. This Idea is carried throughout the
Interior a well. The building la fronted
I by a large porch, 8x33 feet. Thl con
j Crete and Wood-finished house cost less
than $3aV0.
j The interior Is roomy and comfortable.
On the left of the entrance hall 1 the
i parlor, and on the right the library; back
The perfection of the collar was not
more difficult than was the making of
the machinery by which the various
parts of the collar are manufactured.
These machines were made by Mr.
Whipple, himself, or most of them
were. In the manufacture of the col
lar it is necessary to bend a tube, not
unlike a gas pipe. To bend gas pipe
without squeezing it together the
usual or old way has been to fill the
pipe with sand. The Humane Horse
Collar company has a machine which
makes this unnecessary and It was the
invention of Mr. Whipple. The pipe
is bent by three small wheels which
are "-worked with a long lever. An
other machine which had to be manu
factured for the use of the Humane
Horse Collar company is a machine by
which the iron rod is braised into the
tube at the bottom of the collar. The
end of the tube Is closed with the ma
chine. The riveting machine is so
rapid a woodpecker is slow compared
with it.
Every particle of the collar is manu
factured here in Omaha in the plant
of the Humane Horse Collar company,
even to the buckles. These buckles
are turned out at the rate ot 20,000 a
day. Mr. Whipple when he first
opened up his factory bought his
buckles in the east, but with a little
figuring he soon discovered he could
manufacture the buckles himself,
make better buckles at less expense
and so the Humane Horse Collar com
pany began to make its own buckles.
Only Busy
lot at Sixteenth and Leavenworth streets,
for $16,000, which iovered the mortgage
and Interest. The company announced
that It would bo its policy In the future to
Jake western securities, mortgages on
farms and city property In preference to
the bonds offered In the east, which were
of a "decidedly uncertain value."
Another company which has $10,000,000
loaned on Nebraska farm lands said:
"Our Interest rates will necessarily be
5V4 per cent Instead of the D per cent
which we have been receiving, but we
want the busines and our tendency will
be to Invest In high-class western mort
gages." Simultaneously with the announcement
of the Insurance companies the savings
and loan associations of Omaha gave
notice that they would consider applica
tions for "loans, while almost a score of
Omaha real estate dealers announced that
they hud arranged with "private parties"
of the latter Is located the dining room,
connected by a pantry to the kitchen. The
house is Illuminated with electric lights.
The chandeliers and lighting fixtures are
of hardwood and stained glass, producing
a very beautiful effeot.
Perhaps the most novel feature about
this wonderful residence Is the fact that
It la heated by steam from a central sta
tion. There Is no noisy,' dusty furnace
in the basement demanding daily atten
tion and tender care all the long winter
months. Instead, the steam which usually
goes to waste about small electric light
plants Is carried to the house by unnder-ground-
pipes. This Itcani pipe enters the
house In the basement and is carried to
the rooms Just the same as the steam
from an ordinary furnace. The rooms are
heated with steam radiators. Of course,
some special arrangement had to bo sup
plied to furnish hot water for the bath
room. Near the celling In the bathroom
is located a water tank which Is kept con
stantly hot by a number of small pipes
through which a continual flow of hot
steam Is maintained. This tank supplies
hot water for the huth and to the wash
bowls located In two of the Upstairs bed
rooms. Of course, the house Is also wired
for electric heat In case anything should
happen to the steamheating system.
When It is remembered that there are
no fires about this modern dwelling the
visitor begin to wonder how the meals
are cooked. No steel range Is visible in
the neat and roomy kitchen. No sooty
gas stove glares black and threatening
from the side walls. The principal article
of furniture seems to be an oak sideboard
or something that looks as though It might
te a sideboard. This "sideboard" Is noth
ing more or less than one of the new
electric stoves. The back of the wooden
cabinet is a small switchboard, and all the
utensils arranged on the stove are con
nected to this switchboard with suitable
wire and plugs. A turn of a switch and
the eleclrlo teakettle Is singing over In
visible heat. With th same ease the fry
ing pan, cereal cooker, griddle, broiler,
vegetable cookers, etc., are made ready to
do their share of the work of preparing a
To make a Humane horse collar sixty
eight different and distinct operations
are necessary from the start to the
finish of the product, and in the ma
chine shops there are just that many
different dies and machines with
which to do these operations. Prac
tically all of these dies were made by
Mr. Whipple and all of them under his
direction.
"The greatest study after I had
worked out the collar," Bald Mr. Whip
ple, "was to figure out and make the
various dies and machines necessary
to do the work. The first collars we
made we riveted by hand. Of course
that process was too slow, bo we got a
machine to drive the rivets. .Every
piece of leather had to be Just so; the
size had to be exact, so when the col
lar was finally made to suit we had to
make the dies for the leather. The
hoop iron had to be cut Just so or the
pieces would not Join with the others,
so we had to make dies for cutting
this iron. To figure out this machin
ery and to make it was hard work,
but it was impossible to get someone
elsa to do it, for no matter how you
explain your Ideas to another, you
cannot get made Just the piece of ma
chinery you want."
Mr. Whlplpe is naturally well
pleased with the success he has made
of the Humane Horse collar and the
company which Is now associated with
him is certainly pleased, because Mr.
Whipple is now taking a six months'
rest to recuperate from his mental
Days Ahead for the
to place considerable amounts on city
property.
Usually the midwinter season cause a
dullness In the realty market, but about
February 15 renewed activity was ap
parent In Omaha, while by March 1 tho
business had been restored to about Its
normal condition and some deals were
made which promise large building opera
tions during the coming summer.
In 'other cities the condition remained
quiet and the reports of financial paper
at the end of the first week In March
said
New England cities: Conditions are
the same as during January and Febru
ary. A small number of sales of business
and residence property . have been re
ported. New York and Pennsylvania cities: All
classes of real estate continue unsalable
at the prices of a year ago. Rentals have
fallen off and tenement districts are suf
fering as a result of the increase in the
number of unemployed.
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois cities: There
meal. Beside the cabinet sits the electric
oven, wherein the heat Is so economised
and concentrated that the choicest roast
can he prepared In less time than 'It usu
ally takes to start a alow coal fire. The
other electrical kitchen devices, including
the electric flatiron, are used In the same
clean, simple and economical manner. There
is no sweltering heat lit the kitchen, no
soot, no ashes, no dirt, no hot fires for
Ironing day, no lugging of heavy scuttles
of coal from the basement.
In fact, so easily and conveniently are
the meals cooked that the coffee, tea and
toast are prepared right on the dining room
table. The electric coffee percolator, at
the turn of a switch, prepare the coffee
wliile the cereal la being eaten, and the
toast is ready when the coffee la. The
cost of cooking the meals by electricity In
this home Is estimated at less than $3.30
a month for a family of five persons.
Ry utilizing the waste steart from the
electric light plant tile cost of hating the
house In cold weather Is reduced to a
minimum. Besides. It saves caring for a
dirty furnace and handling coal and ashec.
The room that a furnace and coal bin
ordinarily take up carl bo used for other
purposes. With special meter rates for
electric heating the cost of cooking the
various mods Is no more than as though
coal or gas ws used and the cleanliness,
convenience and healthfulness of electricity
is worth morj than money can buy.
The greatest inventor and genius In the
world has predicted that the house of the"
near future will be .made enitrely of con
crete, cast In a mold. Scientist have pre
dicted that tln home of the future will
have no chimney or flue. These Idea are
all Incorporated In Mr. Sinsabaugh'a twen
tieth crnlury home. St. Uouls Globe-Democrat.
1
Mr Hero at lluprtona.
At the con flag rut Ion that destroyed a
part of John Temple woodshed the other
evening, It was generally remarked that
Sam Stockbridge did all that could have
been expected of any man. lie rescued a
waslt tub and fell off the roof, and would
havs done more If the conflagration had
not be m syunlsd out. Hopetown (Pa.)
Banner.
and physical labors of so many years.
He is one of the men who believes that
nothing is impossible when a man
sets his head to it.
"Mentality can do anything," he
said. "The idea comes to one like a
revelation and then man can, if he de
votes himself to the idea, work it out
to perfection. Before the Human
Horse collar was placed on the market
probably a thousand different models
were made, each a little more perfect
than the rest. It is Just constant
study that does the business."
The idea of the Humane llorse col
lar came to Mr. Whipple when he lived
at Agency Ford down in Missouri, near
St. Joseph. That was back in 1893.
For two years the man worked almost
constantly on his idea and then for
eight years he neglected to do any
thing with It. "Had I kept busy dur
ing that eight years," he said, with a
smile, "I would have been a million
aire now." Mr. Whipple moved
finally to Tekamah, Neb., and there
under the inspiration of the good Ne
braska ozone his Idea again took pos
session of him and after various trials
and tribulations he secured a patent
and placed his goods on the market.
He began in a modest way b'y curing
up a number of sore shoulders around
Tekamah. He turned out a dozen or
so collars a year just enoush to at
tract local attention. Then the de
mand began to increase and he real
ized the time had come to go forth
into a broader field. He came to
Omaha eighteen months ago and again
beginning in a very modest way, tie
turned out his goods. The owner of a
large number of heavy draft horses
had one horse whose shoulder was
sore. Mr. Whipple saw the animal
and suggested the use of the Humane
Horse collar. The man doubted the
Is a fair demand for all classes of business
and residence property at slightly reduced
prices, few new buildings are being erected
and rental are slightly lower.
Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, the Dakota
and Colorado, (from Van Nordun's Maga
ilnp, a New York financial authority):
"Business Is not very active on account of
the w id winter season, but not greatly de
pressed because ot general conditions.
There Is money for all local needs. The
farmers are prosperous and are buying
property. Extremely cold weather has pre
vented selling and renting property.. This
section 1 in better condition to maintain
price and rent and renew activity In
real estate than almost any other section
of the United States."
The report of the register of deeds of
Douglas county bear out the reports of the
condition of the realty business In Omaha.
The amount of the transfers for It be two
year compare as follow:
190A 1907
January $37.tic4 $7n,(
February 637,663 . 701.847
March 307,475
The city mortgages filed ahow (he Im
possibility of securing money on city prop
erty during the first two months of the
year, the comparison of the records for
the two years following:
19lR 1f07.
January $:'l').tw) $:i.W7
February ,. 214, Hwi i'S7..".'
March (to 15) 156,205 (to la) V.'.I.'t)
Totals $590,595 $S43.877
Decrease In amount of city mortgages
filed, tl"o3,2SS.
But that the people, of Douglas county
have not been pressed for money - with
which to meet obligation and take up the
mortgages on home and buslm-d houses,
1 shown by the releases of city mortgages
for the first two and a half months of the
veer: ,
19"S 1W7.
January $i74.ic $257. 5?7
February 408, 2!K 2!2,6
March (to lo) 99,796 (to 13) 1!rJ,7!"i
Total $780.0M $G72,4!'!
Increased amount of city mortgages re
leased from January 1. lanS, to March 15,
Its, over same period last year. $107.69:1.
With such a record in the real estate
business of Omaha during a financial punie,
the dealers look forward to a year during
which more Investors will place money in
city property; more people buy homes and
more new tracts opened, than during any
twelve month since 1V1SS, when the Omaha
record was made.
8ome of tho trats opened since or dur
ing the panic are selling rapidly, extension
of trolley lines and automobile making it
possible for home builders to go out from
the city.
Th opening of the Kountze Third addi
tion by Hastings A Ileyden during the
panic was one of the notable incidents.
Some hundred lot on the south side were
thrown on th market and sold In three
days.
D. V. Bhole ha opened the tract on the
weat side of Hanscoin park, and sold many
lot before the street car line extended
along Thirty-second street.
CUorg A Co. openej the "Flracros," a
new addition west of Dundee, and alread
there are $60,000 worth of new homes in
th course of construction, the property bs
Ing divided Into acreage tract.
Harrison Morton opened a tract be
tween Sixteenth and Twentieth street,
north of Fort street, and have sold a large
number of the acreage tracts.
Th Crelghtoa "paalure" nar Clifton
claims of the Inventor, tut final
bought a collar. In a very short tin
the horse was cured and ho never lot
a day from work. Every horso th
man owns now wears a Humane coll
whether on dress parade of pulling
big wagon through the streets.
Many of the fashionably dress
women of the city will be surprised
learn that the heels of their shoes a
made from scraps of leather from tf
making of a Humane collar. Sue
however, Is a fact. Carload after en
load of scraps of leather is Bent ea
from this factory every yeaf to tf
manufacturers of shoes, ' both met
and women's. Some of these sera
are large enough for a sole, but t
greater portion ot them go into-tlj
heels of the shoes. The scraps are tl
result of the necessity for the plec
that go Into the collar being of an c
act size. The leather is first cut
the rough and is then cut out by tl
dies made, especially for the purpost
The Humane HorBe Collar compail
occupies a largo two-story brick built
lng, with basement, at 1925 . Sou
Thirteenth street, and all the space
the immense building is used by tit
company. Growing as It Is. the ma
agers and workmen employed at ta
factory expect it to be the busiest pla
in Omaha before very long and t
number of employes will be constant
increased. The company so far h;
not invited the public to Inspect if
plant, because it has been gettlij
ready for a largo trade. The bulldlil
haB been and is undergoing repal
and alterations that will make it c
peclally fitted for this kind of woi
A large offico nicely fitted up is to
opened on the first floor, on which al
will be the storage room, the shlppii
room and the room where the varlof
pieces of the collar will be put tl
gether.
'"We are now ready for the publl
to Inspect the plant," said Mr. Whi
pie, "and we will take pride In shbi
ing the people around. We have n
encouraged visitors heretofore becau
we were just getting the prellmina
work done, but now we are , n
ashamed to show them the Inside
the Humane Horse collar."
Gate Citv
Hill and Institute Flace, in the northw
part of the city, are to be opened and i
vlded Into acreage tracts.
Florence property, sold both In acrea
tract and city lots, has had an unusual!
good demand during the first three mont
of the year.
A doten new homes are Iri the course
construction in Sulphur Spring addltlu
north of Locust and east of Sherman av
nue, in the north part of the city.
But while the new addition have s
traded a large number of buyers, the o
desirable residence lots on upper Farnaij
Harney. California, Burt, Webster ai
Davenport streets have been selling ai
have been bringing price which are f
highest ever securd for unlmprovd Oma
'city lots.
When John McShane bought the Thorn
Kllpatrick lot on upper Howard stre
and paid $90 per front foot for 132 fe
the highest price ever paid for Omaha ci
lot was paid. A number of other sale
$60, $65, $75 and $K0 per front foot have be.
recorded and good busines men and Judg
of real estate have declared every sale
be a good Investment for the money. ,
With all the small , lot changing- ham
and going from dealer and large owne
to home builder, the outlook Is - for
repetition of last year In home tmlldlof
One thousand new home will be erected i
Omaha during 1908. This will make plac
for 2,600 more people to live.
This is the estimate made by 8crotai
C. A. Grlgg of the Omaha Builders' i
orange, real estate dealer who are bull1
lng homes to sell, loan and saving assocl,
lions which are furnishing the money frf
many of the residences, and exclusive
ths possibility that many new home wl
bo erected ill Seymour park a the resu
of the locution there of car shops an
other Industries.
During 19)7 1,064 new residence wi
erected. They cost $2,554,525.
The hoiues built In Omaha during tl
coming year will not cost aa much pro!
ably $2,oao,0uo as they will be neat cottage
and homes, St. Louis flats, each contain
Ing two homes, and numerous small apara
ment houses, containing from two to ai
apartments. But there are several large
apartment houses planned. Some of therf
will count twelve to twenty home In eac
building.
Right hundred ahd forly-even of th
homes built during 1907 were separate dwe'
lings. Probably 7a0 will bo cottage an
small residences this year.
The building inspector's office catlmat.
that $7.3of) will be spent on the averag
each working day from the opening of th
season, April 1, until cold weather for th
building of homes alone.
Secretary Grlgg of the Builders' exchani;
sa'd:
"So far the plans submitted to the exJ
clianfB for large building have n
amounted to much. But from all IndloiJ
Hons the number of home erected will r
fully aa large as last year. Architects an
buhy on small plans and some of them o
plans for larger houses. The hofne bulh!
Ing will doubtless continue with the san
activity. Contractor have been enable
to keep their gang of worker well t
gether because of the open winter, Willi
tnahled them to work almost every da
alnee November 1. I do not kJMV Vt tsuui
uapc-nsion In building."