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niE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: AUGUST 2. 1903.
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BUILDING CROWS IN JULY
Fast Month Shows Large Gain Over
That of Lost Year.
ONE-THUD PES CENT MORE
mrlT "Is Haadrel Thnasaaa' Dollars
Worth of roimrrtlo lnvlrr4
la Haadred and Fartr
Tkrt Ftrulli.
V;-.o building record for the month of
July. ISO,. Ihowi an Incrrass ot 3J pr cnt
o rr the record lor ths ime month last
ytmr. One hundred and forty-three permit,
aggregating I57IS.O40 were Issued during
the month, a again 142 permits, aggregat
ing 431T during July. 1907. The increase
for the month was tlU.Uu.
,' The record for the first seven months of
the year shows a slight decline over the
same period of last year. During the first
seven months of this year 875 permlta wre
Issued for buildings to cost t2.314.460. while
during the first seven months of 1907, 914
permits were issued for buildings to cost
K.409.7C.
The Deere Plow company took out the
two largest permlta. both of them for ware
houses at Ninth and Howard streets, to
tost SISO.OflO each. These two permlta are
also the largeat issued tola year.
Asgsat Begins Bis.
The first day of August starts off with
gi)t permits aggregating I35.W. .Eleven
nf then, permlta were Issued to Hastings it
Heyrien for buildings to cost In excess of
JXWO. The building record for the first
day of the month is as follows:
Hastings A Heydcn. 113 Ike street,
frame dwelling, 12,000; Hastings A Heyden,
Lake street, frame dwelling, J2.000;
Hastings & Heyden, ITX Iake street, frame
duelling. J J, OX), Hastings Heyden, 316
Xerdlth avenue, frame dwelling, 2.o60;
frame dwelling. 4.W; Hastings' &
Hoyden. 5i9 South insUer.Ui street,
brick dwelling, 10.000; Hastings Ac Hey,
den. Twenty-third and Fort street,
frame dwelling. $3,000; Hastings A Heyden,
North Twenty-third street, frame
dwelling. 12.000; Hastings A Heyden, 38110
North Twenty-third street, frame dwelling,
j:.";0; Hastings & Heyden, 3011 Moredlth
4 venue, frame dwelling $2. W0; Hastings &
Heyden, Twenty-fifth and Fort streets,
frame dwelling, $2,000; McCague Investment
(.omnaiw 649-51 flout h Twenty-sixth avenue,
Mparts to brick flats, tl.000; F. C. Tsylor.
Twenty-sixth avenue and Spragtie street,
lnm dwelling, 11,260; George Belf, Twen
tieth and Boulevard streets, frame dwelling,
4.500.
firm and he Is rlean. But If the tippler
take hla glass In the open sunlight. If the
reveler Isughs hla gay laugh In (tie glum
faces of his twtghbnra, and If a rownded
bit of ankle ihmn "twtxt the attoe and
rettlrwial, thee flings rtre unholy In New
England. It would em aa tf lust of the
eyes were the Hew Rnglsnder's bellng
sin, so remorseless Is he in hie dftermlnft
tlon to keep temptation from his visual
path.
There Is coming In he need of a "mjhllr
liberty league" In theae United State.
When mm and women have no personal
privilege that some meddlesome crs.nl;
cannot Interfere with It l time to rail s
halt. There Is nothing shameful In a bstfi
tng suit on the bearh. The only on tragi
against derenry ttted was that of
arresting the persons who wore them.
Washington Tost.
TIMELY REAL ESTATE TALK
Kenewfd .Utility in the Eat Good
Sijrn for the West.
Our Letter Bcs
MM OF THE -BUSY HORflE BUTUMS
LOCAL BUSINESS IS SATISFACTORY
ONE OF AMERICA'S HEROES
Captain eatt I seil Ills Own Body
"top Leak In Crowded
Ferryboat.
W. 0. W. NOT IN THE FIGHT
M Ithdrasral of Madera Weedmea
from Fraternal Conarress rarely
Local Matter.
As far as officials of the Woodman of the
World know at present that order will not
withdrawn from the National Fraternal
Congress, from which the Modern Woodman
of America has Just withdrawn, alleging
aa a reason that the congress proponed to
secure laws In the various states making
fraternal Insurance ratea uniform and much
higher.
John Thomas Tales, head clerk of the
t'.'oodman of the World, said:
"The trouble of the Modern Woodmen
with the National Fraternal Congress Is a
fiRht between the order and congress and
does not concern other orders In the least.
Personally. I would not like to mix In the
affair In any way. Reference to the pro
ceedings of the national congress at Buffalo
In August. 1907. would tell the story of why
the Modern Woodmen has given notice of
it Intending of withdrawing from the na
tional congress.
'"We don't know of any conspiracy on the
part of the congress t secure laws In the
Yi1ni: .-nates which would maka fraternal
Inmiranir- rate almost aa high aa old line
rate .i.
"ThiK much. I am quite sure of: The
Woodmeij of the IVoild Is not going to
"withdraw from the National Fraternal Con
gress simply because the r.atlonal organisa
tion wi:l not allow ua to run the business
n 1 im-idt'ntally dicta'.e to other Insurance
co-iil-iiii'.c-a or fraternal orders."
Mr. Vates referred all other Inquiries to i
B:verlgn Commander Joseph C. Root ot
the Woodmen of the World, but Mr. Root
had Just retutr-ed from the east and cov
ered up with work, could not give the mat
ter any time. Mr. Yates Insisted that the
proceedings of the congress would tell the
story of the trounle Lwtweun the fraternal
congress and the Modern Woodmen.
One morning in January, when the Ice In
the Hudson river ran unusually heavy, a
Hoboken ferry boat slowly crunrhed Its
wav through the floating floes, until the
j thickness of the pack choked Its paddles
in mioriver. it was an early morning trip
and the decks were rrowdd with laboring
men end the driveways were choked with
teams; the women and ghlldren standing In-
Bid the cabins were a solid mass up to the
swinging doors. While It was gathering
strength for a further effort, an ocean tug
sheered to avoid It. veered a point, and
crashed Into Its side, cutting It below the
water line In a great V-shsned gssh. A
moment more, and the disabled boat ca
reened from the shook and fell over on fie
beam, helpless. Into the V-shaped gash
the water poured a torrent. It seemed but
a question of minutes before K would lung"e
headlong below the loe.
Within 200 yards of both boats, and free
of the heaviest Ice. steamed the wrecking
tug Reliance of the Off Shore Wrecking
company, and on its deck forward stood
Captain Scott. When the ocean tug re
versed Ita engines after the collision and
backed clear of the shattered wheelhouse
of the ferry boat he sprang forward, stooped
down, ran his eye along the water line.
noted In a flash every shattered plank
climbed Into the pilot house of his owr
boat, and before the astonished pilot could
catch his breath pushed the nose of the
Reliance along the rail of the ferry boat
and dropped upon the latter's deck like a
cat.
With a thr t to throw overboard any
man who stirred, he dropped Into the en
gine room, met the engineer half way up
the ladder, compelled him. to return, drag
ged the mattresses from the creWa bunks
stripped off blankets, snatched up clothes,
overal s. cotton waste and rag of carpet
cramming them Into the great rent left by
the tug's cutwater. .
It was useless. I.lttle by little the water
gained, bursting out first below, then on
one s'de. only to be calked out again, and
only to rush In once more.
Captain Scott stood a moment aa If un-
decided, ran his eye searehlngly over the
engire room, saw that for hta needs It was
empty, then deliberately tore down the top
wall of calking he had so carefully built
up, and. before the engineer could protest
forced his own body Into the gap, with
his arm outside, level with the drifting Ic
An hour later, the disabled ferry boat
with every soul on board, was towed Into
the Hoboken slip.
When they lifted the raptatn from the
wreck, he was unconscious and barely
alive. The water had frozen his blood,
and the floating Ice had torn the flesh from
h's proturdlng arm from shoulder to wrist
When the color began to creep back to hi
rherks, he opened hla eyes and ssld to
the doctor who waa wind ng the bandages
"Win any of them babies hurt?"
A month passed before he regained hi
strength and another we ok before the arm
had healed so tiiat ha could get his coat on.
Then he wont back to the Reliance. F.
Hopklnson Smith In Everybody's M&gaxine
ales ill Ha lid lag All r.nrnirn
Dealers aad gpeealatore Arc Ma Il
ia a; Stoaey la Fae-tory
ttee.
From one side of the country to tha other.
real estate conditions have shown sugni
mprovemeota during the month of July,
hlle In the middle weat they have never
been more heahhy. Reports received by
Omaha real estate dealers from New Big
land and the North Atlantic states, where
arg'e amounts of money have been with-
awn from eastern Investments and placed
the west. Indicate that at last there
a renewal of building operations and
during July there was a fair amount of buy.
ng. More men have been at work In New
England during July than durlnK ar.y
month since last November, though the
triPi are receiving smaller wages than
before. This recovery back east may and
ay not check the money which has been
coming to western cities for investment.
instead of staying In eastern real estate,
bonds or saving banks.
According to S. P. Bostwlck. who hut
recently returned from an extended trip
east, the money will continue to come west
A number of dealers have had orders from
llents In the east to buy for Investment
In Omaha during July and sometntng iiko
1150.000 waa Invested during the last two
weeka of the month. There Is practically
no difference in conditions In Omaha and
other Nebraska cities, except that mort
gage mor.ey Is lower In Omaha and bustnssa
property Is more in demand, especially
rackage vacancies.
JULY GREAT FOR THE STORK
PURITAN PRUDERY GONE MAD
Sample lnatan-ea af Shocked Minds
Ascribing Kvll to lauueeat
" . Actions.
New England Is a land of tenacious habit
Its conservatism is as set aa its scrabbly
foil, as stanch aa Plymouth Rock. Not
Lenturies, nor generations, nor Judicial do
crees can remove from New England's
,hl.iod the Iron and aloes of Its forefathers.
,The Puritan lives there today as he did In
Qovurjur Winlnr.ip day. Ills outlook on
life Is still as bl.ie as his moral code. In
other days he burned witches at Salem
ind hanged ncr "tits; in these days he
throws Into jail the summer girl who sits
n his beach in a bathing suit and won't
"in near the water. The following news
paper dispatch from a Maine resort tells
Its story;
Six Baltimore society girls were arrested
here today ard charged with "indecent ex
posure." .because they Insisted on lying on
;he beach In their bathing suits.
of
Makes Rl Gain la Births and Hi
Fewer Deaths Than Any
Other Hoatk,
vital statistics of Omaha show more
births and fewer deaths for the month of
July just past than any other month In,
the year. During the month there were
23! births and only 115 deaths, as compared
with an equal number of deaths for the
same month last year and 301 births for
July, 1907. One pair of white, one pair of
Japanese and one pair ot negro twins were
born during the month. The record
births shows 1U) boys and 103 girls.
The first day of August starts In wit
twice as many births as deaths, the fol
lowing bring the record:
Births H. H. Roberts, 1116 North Twen
ty-third. girl; John Thirtle, Twenty-eighth
and Fort Omaha avenue, boy; Sam M
Anllffe, 28 Hamilton, girl; Arthur )
Chamberlain, 263ti Seward, boy; Vaclav
Fapka. 406 Walnut, girl; Albert M. Con
ner. 171f Charles, boy; Robert Rogerson, f4
Bancroft, girl.
Deaths Mrs. Mary Fleler. Fifteenth an
Bancroft, 3; Turch M. Northcutt. 2127 Fa
nam, U; I'earl McQulggan, lhO Ohio.
days; William Cook, 3612 Burdette, 4 days.
Charles T. Knspp of Lincoln, In writing
of conditions In that city, says: "Increasing
activity due to gradual restoration of con
fldence. Many business properties being
erected, but few sales. New, private houses
being constructed In large numbers and
selling well; quite a few older houses va
cant. Sales of apartment houses "restricted
and vacancies few. Suburbs growing very
fast Farm lands salable, average prloe In
Lancaster county being $80 per acre. Mort
gage money abundant at 5 to 6 per cent
for businesa property; SH to 6 per cent for
Ariartment houses: C to 64 per cent for
private houses; 6 per cent for farm lands,
In Omaha the Interest during the Isst
week In July centered In the proposed or
ganxatlon of a new state bank and the
erection of a building. Bankers are quite
generally agreed that there Is a field for
such an Institution in Omaha aad that It
will be a auccess and win friends from the
atart. Two real estate dealers are nego
timing with the organisers for sites. It Is
known that George & Co. have offered the
cornor at Sixteenth ana rtarney streets.
What J. H. Duraont Bon are offering
the organisers of the new Institution Mr.
Dumont refuses to disclose. But whether
the new Institution tskes the Sixteenth and
Harney atreet corner or a site offered by
J. H. Dumont & 8on, it Is understood that
there will be a big sale and a vacant cor
ner the home of a new building.
With a number of factories coming to
Omaha, there has been activity In business
property and much more to come.. As a re
suit there Is some speculation. Good money
haa been made within the last five years by
careful buyers ot property in the buslm
district, notably Oould Diets and David
Cole, who have bought and sold severs
pieces of property. John R. Webster en
tered the field during the week by buying
two lots near the new factory of th
Loose-Wiles Cracker and Confectionery
company, while Harrison & Morion bough
two lots at Twentieth and Harney streets
for a client, whose name Is not disclosed
purely for speculation. The Itussan-Jewls
congregation got an opportunity to sell th
Ksite bought some time ago for a church a
Twenty-first and Chicago streets and
waa sold for about 110,000 to three different
buyers, who will build homes. The congre
gatlon has worshiped In a small synagogue
on Capitol avenue between Twelfth and
Thirteenth street. The congregation made
a fair profit on the Chicago street property
and will likely buy another site within
short time.
fentrlbutlc ns on ttmelv topics Invited.
Wr te lejibir on one md t t the pnper
enlv, wlih name and address appended.
I n isel contributions will not le re
timed, loiters exceeding 2M words will
be subject to beln ut down at the
discretion of the editor. Publication ef
Viewe of correspondents does not com
mit The Be to their endorsement
OMAHA CROWS RIGQT ALONG
Other Cities Do Obeisance to the Gate
. City.
awe Old Qag,
Two belligerent appearing men faced each
other.
" You're a liar."
"You're a yellow pup."
"Fight!" all risked a small boy.
Then a crowd of curious began to gather
In front of the Oram building In upper Mar
ket atreet.
"If you're looking for trouble I guess I
ran give It to you." biased the "liar" be
tween his teeth.
"You can place a bet that I Intend to see
things to a finish. ' replied the "pup," strik
ing a fighting pose.
Lome around the corner where a cop
Tw dava ago the local W omen s Christian won t bother ua. than, said the first, and.
temperance union officials posted warn- war thus declared
ngs along (lie o u-h that they would cause
,lho arrest of ani ors, man or woman, aeen
uut of the water In bathing suits, unless
'they wore bath rubes also.
Mere drapery again. It la strange what
I luld the idea of di apery has upon the
New Kngland mind. WIUi eaaentlala, with
.he Inner or hidden aignlf icance of things.
It has rarely concerned Itself. There Is no
sood nor evil In Its catalogue If i hand tricks.
onlv it be veiled. All Is evil torlan ton.
which Is unveiled. The deacon takea hla
dram In the kitchen pantry and it Is for
given hlin. Tho charaoter of a buffoon
may lurk behind a visage of gloom and all
a well. Ia-1 but a robe conceal the leper's
the duo hastened around
to an empty lot behind the ponlofftce, while
a crowd of bloodthirsty men and boys
dogged at their heels.
Arrived, the "liar" mounted a wooden
filalform newly built, while the "pup" dow
nto a dry gooda box and extraeted there
fnnn a bulging suitcase.
"While the 'doctor' gets out the packages
of our magical herbs, guaranteed to cure
cancer, bunions, an asm aiseases. etc., i
will entertain you with some sleight of
announced the "liar In sten-
MAN DROWNS AT CUT-OFF LAKE
Harry Totenhaapt Gora Down In High
f Several Workmen, Calllaa;
for Help.
w Ithln sight of several workmen who
were dismantling the pavilion at Courtlan
Beach, Harry Totenhaupt, 499 North
Twenty-fifth street, a clerk In the South
Omaha postoffice. was drowned In Cut-Off
lake a few yards east of the pavilion
Hbout 9:30 Saturday morning.
Totenhaupt had secured a duck boat, of
which he was part owner, from Lraon's
on the weat side of the lake early In the
morning. He -paddled across to Courtland
Bench and waa noticed by several of the
workmen when he was swimming directly
opposite file old pavllioa. After bathing he
paddled the boat eastward. He was seen
to stand up in the boat, which suddenly
skidded out from under him. llu started to
swim toward the shore when he became
entangled with the dangerous weeds and
then cried for help.
W. T. Shepherd and two other workmen
Immediately secured a biiat and went to th
rescue, but Totenhaupt had gone down for
the last time. The body was recovered
within a few minutes and Police Surgeon
Benjamin and Dr. C. O. Moore were
called, but despite their vigorous efforts
at resuscitation. Totenhaupt showed no
signs of life after being pulled out of the
water.
Coroner Brewer took charge of the body
and will hold an inquest.
Totenhaupt. .who would have become of
ag; In November, leaves a widowed mother,
a brother and two sisters
Tne crowd then realised that It had been
gulled. A few on the outskirts slunk away,
but the majority remained to fall victims
o he wiles of the wily med'csl fakers and
their cures 11 at "II per package, ai d a pair
of cuff buttons, warranted solid gold,
thrown Jo." San Francisco Call.
Do you tell your good becauM of their eju&lity, or bocauM
they are cheap? If you depend on the quality, no matter how
sincere your auertion of quality may be, tha lack of it in
your printed matter will weaken your claim.
A. L lUet. tae
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ABOLISH OATH. SAYS JUDGE
Traditional Fora 1'aed la Peart, Sears
Saya, Naprrlndares Crime
f Perjarr.
''AbollHh the oath In the oourts." savs
Judge W. Q. Sears of the Douglas county
district bench.
"In the ordinary administration of jtn
t!oe In th courts the crime of perjury Is
much more common than is supposed."
said the judge, "and the number of prose
cutions for fslse testimony. Is In no way a
fair indication of the commonality cf per
jury. I am In favor of abolishing the oath
In the courts. Its reference to the divinity,
coupled with the too common weakness of
wllnessca, reduces it to sacrilege. I know
of no one who haa testified to the truth
because of the solemnity of hla oath In my
experience on the bench. It Is often said
that the divorce courts are schools tor
perjury. As a statement It is untrue In
Its full force. They are no more so than
any olker courts, civil cr criminal."
Wrlajht Replies to Wmdkirr.
OMAHA. July Sl.-To the Kdltor of the
Bee: During; the long litigation with the
Omaha Water company I have consistently
refrained from trying the matter In the
press. The recent statement In the public
press, over tbe name of Theodore C. Wood
bury aa president, .inasmuch as It charges
t the Water board of the city has not
been willing to meet the water company
relative to the Improvement of the system
pending tha litigation. Is so characterist
ically misleading and far from the truth
that a word of explanation appears neces
sary.
It Is true that heretofore communications
have been received by the Water board
from Mr. Wooilhurry. These communica
tions, however, were published In the press
of the city before opportunity for conaidera-
lon by the Water board, and bore such un-
nlstakable evidences upon their face of
being merely advertising matter that they
were not answered by letter. However,
soon afler the communications to which
Mr. Woodbury refers, which were pub
lished as paid advertisements In the press,
I personally told Mr. Woodbury If he had
any business proposition to submit to. or
desired to discuss with, the Water board
that they were all business men and would
meet with him at any time, either in the
day or ewnlng, and that I would get the
members of the board together on that or
any succeeding day, to discuss the proposl
Hons suggested in his letters. Mr. Wood
bury did not meet with the board. His
present communlcatioA Is the first since
that conversation.
Reasonable space would not permit a re
view of the litigation between the city and
the water company. It la true that the
rlty has refused to pay the hydrant rentals
clue) since December 31, 1904. It Is true that
during the six months preceding that the
company had Installed certain hydrants, but
It had Installed only about half that wen;
ordered. Part of the hydrants that were
Installed were by mandate from the dis
trict court, and the manager of the water
company, Mr. E. M. Fairfield, had stated
to the mayor of the city that the company
would. not Install more hydrants. Judge
W. H. Munger, upon the trial of the case
hejd that as a matter of lnw the action of
the company was such as to defeat its
right to recover the full contract price for
hydrant service. This decision waa re
versed with the statement of the court of
appeals that there was no evidence that
the water company had had a reasonable
time to Install these hydrants. The posi
tion bf the wster company then was that
the company was not required to comply
with Its part of the contract, but that,
nevertheless, the city must pay the full
price. Tha water board felt If the contract
was not good so far as the water company
was concerned, that the company ought
not to require the city to pay the full price,
Tha water board has at all times been, and
Is now, ready to pay for the reasonable
value of the service which the water Com
psny nas rendered to the city. The price
for' the hydrant rental was fixed in the
contract twenty-five .years ago, as said! by
the engineer who made the report for Ihe
water works system, as an annuity to the
company. The rates fixed for hydrant
service were excessively high for a city of
the site of Omaha at the present time, and
the water board feels that If the water com
pany la to inalst upon the pound of flesh
j, e., the excessive hydrant rental rates. It
should be required to comply with Its part
of the contract, and that when It announces
to the city that It does not propose to com
ply with Its contract the city ought no
longer to pay more than the reasonabl
value of the service rendered.
On the recent trial,- for roasons which
appear to the counsel for the city to bo
erroneous. Hon. T. C. Munger, Judge of
the circuit court, dilded that rhe water
company waa not required to construct
additional mains and hydrants pending the
appraisal. The recent announcement by
the court was the first time any such post
tlon has been taken by any court In the
pending litigation. During this long lit!
gatlon the Water hoard has many times
sought to get 'he necessary extension
and Improvements of the system ftom the
water company by negotlationa with the
company, but the water company has re
fused to make any such extensions except
upon such terms aa would amount to
waiver of the defenses of the city to th
hydfant rental suits and to the suit for
specific performance. The Water board
of the city has, realized fully the necessity
oi improvements or tne present system
even to the extent of securing tho most
competent engineers to go over the system
to determine what should be done to re
lleve the situation, but it does not feel tha
the situation is such that it ought to sub
mlt to the outrageous estimate of value
put upon this plant by two engineers in
order to secure this relief. That the val
uation placed upon this plant by two en
gineers Is grossly excessive, and was ar
rived at by methods that are intolerable,
need scarcely be stated to Inhabitanta of
this city. If any corroboration of this
fact were necessary It la fully sustained
by a statement which Theodore Q. Wocd
bury made to me on January S, 19 8, in
which be Stated that the suit to c. mp l
tha city to purchase the water works would
have been commenced and Insisted u, on
even It the valuation bad been only ',26j,
OUO. It la not proper for me to criticise the
opinion of the circuit court of appeals.
We have exercised the right which Is dpen
to litigants, vis: to take that decision to
the supreme court of the t'nited S'ates.
I'nless the supreme court of the United
Siates shall decide otherwise, I shall con
t;nue to believe that the opinion of Judge
W. H. Munger to the effect that the ap
praisement was arrived at by unfair a. id
Improper mtthods and therefore illegal and
void Is the only one which tan be sus
tained in a court of equity.
In cloning let me stale, both to the public
and to the Omaha Water company, what
the water company already knows, that
the Water board of the illy is ready aird
willing at any time to consider and act
upon any bu&lners proposition looking to
the improvement of the service ur the
minimising of the dangers from the pres
ent condition of the water works supp.y
ing this city C. C. WHlUUi-.
JULY BUILD ING FIGURES GREAT
crease Over 1WOT cn as soews
How Steady Is the Progress ot
the Basy Home Builders
f Omaha.
The Coming: of the Cemented House
It will be remembered that Joseph In the
scrtntursl story dreamed a dream which
he relates thus: "Behold, we were binding
sheaves in the field and. lo. my sheaf
srose and also stood upright and behold,
your sheaves s'tood round about and made
obeisance to my sheaf."
That Is the position of Omaha today and
It is no dream either. The other cities of
he t'nited States are bowing down and
doing obesanee lo her because In the after
math of a panic (according to reports from
the east and other parts of the country)
and upon the eve of a presidential cam
paign Omaha Is going right on growing and
Omaha's home bulldera are going right on
sawing wood figuratively and building
homes literally. It Is not necesssry to do
such a silly and useless thing as to "list
to the song of the nightingale" as the poet
advises. Just list to the song of the build
ing Inspector's report for the month of
July, 1908. This Is the burden of his song:
July, 1908, (576.040 worth of new build
Ings. i
July, 1907, J433.T90 worth of new build
Ings.
This shows an Increase of $143.30 In July
of this year aver July of last year, or Just
33 per cent. '
This is the reason why the other cities
are bowing down and doing obeisance to
Omaha.
An Omaha business man is having plans
drawn for a "Spanish home." The house
Is rather severe and regular in Its tines.
The outside Is to be finished with plaster
nearly white, which will be offset some
what by wrought Iron balconies st the three
upper windows and a roof of red tile. Ex
tending across the front of the house on
the first fleor will be an open porch eight
feet wide, with a handsome balustrade. The
front door Is massive In construction, with
the lintel elaborately decorated. The In
terlor woodwork is to be finished In white
enamel throughout. There are to be nine
rooms In the house drawing room, dining
room, den, kitchen and pantry on the first
floor, and four bedrooms and bath on the
second floor.
The cement market remains firm In this
section of the country, and while there are
no heavy ordera the demand Is quite heavy
and In comparslon with the orders on other
classes of building material, cetr.ent Is
more than holding Its own. The demand
compares favorable with that of other
years. While the railroads and city are
not using cement In ss large quantities as
former years, there is a steady demand
from other sources, which brings up the
totals. The prices are low, hut firm, re
maining at about li e", wholesale.
" " " "
"Terra cotta is a good thing with which
to build houses on terra firma," said a
local carpenter.V who Is given to epigram
matlcal speech. "There are very few homes
in this part of the country, however, that
are built of tile or terra cotta. Man seems
to fancy that he must have some solid
substance with which to build the walls
of a solid hojse. As a matter of fact the
hollow tile wall Is quite as strong, less ex
pensive and h-es pervious to heat or cold
than a house of any other material.
Throughout the country people are coming
to realize this and many of the latest
houses which follow the Ktiropean villa
style are being construccd of terra cotta.
The outside Is then finished in cement or
stucco and can be half timbered for archi
tectural effect."
"I'm Just crazy to have a loggia," ex
claimed a charming young matron, who
Uvea In South Omaha and whose husband
Is about to build a new home. The young
woman was not quite crazy about loggias,
but merely expressed her enthusiasm about
outdoor sleerlng apartments In feminine,
twentieth century hyperbole. It Is a fact
that the outdoor sleeping room is, coming
to be as ne essary an adjunct of the modern
home as the bath room. The present, ac
cording to the Indications of the architect's
records, !s a fresh air age, and people are
losing their fear of that ancient bugaboo,
"night air." They are coming to realize
that night air Is quite as healthful as day
air, and that the advantage of breathing
pure air during that third of life, when
cne lies asleep, Is a very great thing, and
greatly to be reckoned w!th In maintaining
the general health. Besides being conducive
to health the loggia or open-on-at-lcaal-three-s'dej
sleeping loom Is a very comfor
table place to spend a midsummer's night
where the most can be made of what breeze
and cool hps may be lying around tooae.
Therefore the loggia la coming to lie a com
mon figure In the plans for modern homes
In Omaha.
Fashions In architecture, like women's
garments rhsnge. but happily not with the
same frequency. Old settlers will recall
the observatory style of dwelling In which
aristocracy indulged In early days, lter
we borrowed from France the Mansard
roof, which the French knew how to build
and we did not. Then followed the so
called "Queen Ann" mitli Its many gabled
pretensions and cardboard thinness ot construction.
There Is now coming with a brond and 1s-
reslsltble sweep the cemented house, which
promisee a revolution In the appearance of
the wrst. It will find the prairie states
wood and make them stone. The plastered,
or what Is frequently styled the "half
limbered" house orlginsted In the days of
the Tudors In N England, and many ex
amples remain after three centuries of ex
posure substantially as good as whrn put
up.
It was first adopted In this country by
the wealthy New F.nglanileis for their
country residences and srsshore .cottages,
as the plastic material lent Itself ad
mirably to every feature of architectural
expression and harmonized well will foliage
effects.
It then Jumped to the great lakes and Is
now so well established at Chicago and
other lake ports that In th fashionable
suburbs hardly anything else Is considered.
The general use of cement moans much
to the wind swept plains of the weat, be
cause an existing unsightly and uncom
fortable frame house can quickly and In
expensively be covered, and thereby made
warmer In winter and cooler In summer and
at the same time hnve the substantial ap
pearance of a handsome sione finish.
Cement when applied Is an artificial
stone, but superior In ev.'ry desirable
quality lo any sione of nature. It la fire
proof, wltid-pioof and decay -proof, and
gets harder every year. It Is held rellsbly
In place by metal lath, which is preserved
from rust by rnilxslmnt In the mortar.
Wood lath expand and con. met according
to atmospheric conditions which breaks
the key and therefore prohibitive of their
use.
Industrially the Impeding changes mean
much to our western communities by fur
nishing employment to a vst number of
carpenters, plasterer and cement workers,
and will also gle an enormous Impetus t
the local development of cement manufac
lure, for which the best kind of raw ma
tnrial Is in abundant supply.
uEifoa
Frame toe
Stoiis Etas
'..a
The process h simple and comparatively inexpensive.
After some preliminary carpenter work attach Kno
Burn Steel Lath to the siding on which a coat of mortar
gauged with cement is spread. Then finish with cement
and sand, either smooth, pebble dash or rough. It may be
painted or left natural. In the latter event vines may be
permanently trained, as the plastic material is indestruct-
ible by decay or fire. N
The House Will De Warmer In Winter
and Cooler In Summer
At an inomatmmnt, tbe savins; in fuel and repair will equal from
10 to 20 annually on the cost of tbe reconstruction.
Aa th ttttl lath U depended upon to hold thm mortar, insi'af upon
th tmatl diamond mtih lath SHOWN FULL SIZE in abova cut.
The result will be one of the fashionable cement houses, thousands
of which are being built in all sections. ,
The work should be done under the advice and superintendence of
your architect, and by a good local plasterer.
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small copper balls. The curtain has (he
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Is from a bottle of champaa"ne costing
about SV anil the whole curtain rrpreseuK
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