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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 8, 1908)
THE OMAHA SUNDAY UEK: XOVKMiWK K I'.UIK. 1 n 'A TIMELY REAL ESTATE COMP Dealen Say Expansion in Realty Cir cle Will Follow Election. "i'ionfgfBiTTTi7TnM8niorrr,i'Tftr?Tv REALTY MEN TALK TAXATION III Trr to "eesjre Chance la Relating to the Aaaemei Morlmn Held In ThU Hint. Laws of In Omaha realty circles, m with all other. buKlnews men, the national election wan tho completely overshadowing event the lat week and thin In ?plte of tli fact that the Omaha exchange had a little election of Its own, choosing offi cers for the new year. The Importance of the national election to real estate dealers cannot easily be overstated, for the tranufcr of property responds to business deprenslon or ad vance almost as quickly as the mercury tn a thermal tube does to a change In temperature. Political preferences a-ddv, all local agents will be found In agree ment 6n the statement that the end of political discussion will mark the end of the Inevitably quiet period whtoli pre ceded a national election. Many members of the local exchange will go much far ther than this and assert that the elec tion of Taft means the Inauguration of an era of building expansion and of In crease In real estate values In Omaha to which the past will furnish no parallel. Nothing Is easier than to indulge In optimistic prediction of this sort and with many men It is Wrt of tholr busi ness creed ao to do. The result Is that the public tends somewhat to discount these rose-colored visions of the future. But In the present case there are sub stantial facts on which the deduction of great real estate activity logically and Inevitably follows. In the first place, manufacturers and jobbers are planning to build that they mar increase tholr plants and output. This cannot te denied. Announcements IS of such Intention have been forthcoming and more will be heard In the course of a short time, the. publication only pend- t, Ing the completion or certain aeais.' n 6 follows . that property . must change hands to carry out these plans and there is nothing in a monetary way to Inter fere, for the. banks and investment com panies are being filled with money which ' investors are anxious to get working. Every factor Is at hand the desire and plan to build, the, moderate prices of build ing material, the money to finance new enterprises and the certainty that activity, guided by even ordinarily good Judgment, "will reap a handsome profit. In the face of these facts no doubting Thomas dare question the assertion that a period of great but healthy growth in the real es tate world la assured. ... Bales the last week have been chiefly in the residence district and there is no reason to doubt that business of this kind will continue strong. The new enterprises referred to above will have their effect largely In business sections of Omaha and along railroad terminals. Thus a healthy balance will be preserved and business section values will not , depreciate because of abnormal expansion in suburban district, a condition which has hurt Chicago prop erty for years, according to a recent edi torial in the Real Estate News. In tba same discussion the question of the burden of taxation Is raised and a complaint made that real property bears a far too large proportion of the assessments. This question, one of the broadest which real estate owners and dealers face, is certain to be the subject of a great amount of dis cussion In the future. For this reason, among many others, the decision of the Omaha exchange to Join the national ex-' change Is held to be most wise by members of the local body. It Is obvious that local . , . pewer cannot fall to be augmented by the decision, and even were this not so the enlightenment which comes from co-ordinated activity will be decidedly worth while. Sales In Forest Hill Park addition were numerous during the week, Hastings Heyden transferring twenty lots In that tract. Of these two were at the southeast corner of Tenth and 'William street, for (2,600; one at the northeast corner of the same Intersection, for $1,600, to Henry W. Dunn; one at Eighth and William, to Mrs. Augusta Hlnrtchs, for $1,125. and another In the same block, to F. Tirak, for $1,300. . There la some prospect that the next ses sion of the Nebraska legislature will see an attempt made to remedy inequalities In taxation with respect to mortgages. As all the world will admit, under the present system, Nebraska capital is placed St a disadvantage with regard to mortgages, being subject to a tax, while foreign cap ital escapes scot free. The result Is that ome Nebraska money Instead of being in vested in this state goes outside. More over, those who do pay the assessment bear an unequallsed burden. It being ad niltted that some men dodge their taxes in this respect. Iowa will eee a similar move ment at Ita assembly session, the Iowa Tax nevlslon association, of which former Mayor Pierce of Marshalltown Is president having been formed all over the state to fight for this object.' A flat rate tax per $1U0 on mortgages, applicable to all en rumbraaoos of the kind Is proposed across the Missouri. Tills has been adopted with ucoeeg In Minnesota, New Tork and other states. Tho largest apartment house tn the ooun try, perhaps In the world, will be erected In New Tork City, says the Journal of Commerce. It la said that the plans will be filed early next week with the tenement bouse department by Hiss A Weeks, the architects for the Belnord Realty company. The entire block bounded by Amsterdam avenue, Broadway, Klghty-Eixth and Elgh ty-seventb streets will be occupied by the building. Which will be SnO feet long. y feet wide and 150 feet high. It Is expected that It will be completed In a year. There I will, be ns apartments In the twelve stories of the house and each apartment will con- tain from nine to twelve rooms. ' The corn pan? formed to finance the venture con tains several prominent' New York business men. Henry R. Thompson, Henry R. Hoyt and Sherman Hoyt are said to be heavily Interested. The structure will rest .t.OOh 0i0. (A Jg? WINTER TANS They're "It." Mr. Smart Presser! All the chic stylo feature worked to the limit In the new moilels. Russia and Calf leathers. uxfrds, r.lucheis and ' High i'ut 8lioe. I'erf ura led tip and vamp. $3.60, 4 to $5. FRY SHOE CO. TIB BIOII B. 16th and Douglas Street. o COUNT THE COST TO JAPAN Aaaerlrea Fleet's Welcome Paid Very Hard Work by Farmers. for The brave show that the Japauere peo ple made in welcomiug the American fleet at Yokohama must have contained some elements o( the pathetic to close observers among the foreign residents tn Japan who know the true condition of Hie country s poverty. Perhaps they knew that, the money spent in the decoration of Tokio's streets, the casting of gold and silver me morial medals for the officers of the fleet and the, lavish entertainments In a score of towns came ultimately from the meaner Increase of fields no larger in many In stances thsn the court of an apartment , house air shaft. , In old) Japan, where hundreds of genera tions have lived on scraps of land that the tauunUla grodgingly laavt tillable, every GET THIS HAOIT There are a lot of people get ting the habit of having their clothes dry cleaned before laying them away for the sea Ron. The same ones who did it last spring are doing it again this fall there must be a good reason. Our wagons reach all' parts -of the city. Use either phone. THE PAIITQRIUM "Good Cleaners and Dyers." Only one office. . 1513 Jouea Street. ' OLD FIRM NEW GOODS NEW LOCATION Our Own Knit Goods Specialty GUARANTEED SOCKS Everywhere 25c and 35o 2 Pair for .. 25c 6 Pair for. . 75c JOS. F.BILZSONS 204 N. 16ft St. 'Phone, DOUG. 1993 jO&. iiiw FARtiAM$t. Half Price Sale Monday only we 111 sell all our Fancy and White VESTS At Just Half Price Better Get In Line Early. Albert Calm 1822 FAKXAM The Man Who' Makes Good Shirts Jewelry Sale EdraordlBaiy A Wholesale Jewelry Stock at Less Than Wholesale Prices Having recently purchased the entire stock of an eastern wholesale house at a cash outlay of $35,000.00, we now place this entire stock on sale at our two stores, commenc ing Monday, November 9th, at 8 o'clock. Every line is new and unbroken, every article is strictly modern, manufactured for this fall's trade. We grasped the opportunity; the benetit is our customers Everything goes on sale at halt or less than half price. Never before did an opportunity offer to buy STRICTLY MODERN, UP-TO-DATE ABSOLUTELY FIRST CLASS GOODS at so absurdly low prices. We have, however, bought satisfactorily, and we are determined to clean out this stock entirely and give the people of Omaha the chance to purchase their holiday goods at prices THAT WOULD STAGGER A MANUFACTURER. Look Ovor This List: . a t Q j J HE Best Values for your money is what you're after in clonics this fall. You're going to get it, too; provided you come and give us a chance to snow Diamonds Rings, solitaire and clusters, $50.00 now $25.00 Diamond and Pearl Brooches, $30.00 now $15()0 Diamond Ear Rings $63.00 now $32.50 Diamond Studs-, i.... $25.00 now $12!s0 "Diamond Lockets..... $55.00 now $27.50 All Diamonds from this Stock sold In same pro portion. ' Solid Gold Rings Opal Ring, Diamond . Center, $9.00 now $4.50 Reconstructed Ruby, Tiffany Mounting. ......... $10.75 now $5.38 Emerald and Diamond $9.00 now $4.50 Ruby and Emeralds, set with Individual Diamonds $15.00 now $7.50 Genu' Seal Rings $8.50 now $4.25 Ladies Seal Rings $4.76 now $2.38 All our Solid Gold Rings from this Stock One Half Regular Prices. Solid Gold Brooches and Scarf Pins-Goid Filled Set and plain Brooches,' solid gold $5.00 now $2.50 Set and Plain Brooches, gold filled $2.00 now $1.00 Scarf Pins, set or plain, solid gold . $3.50 now $1.75' Scarf Pins, set or plain, gold filled ....... i $1.25 now 63 Cuff Buttons Solid Gold, plain for engraving, bright or Roman finish $5.00 now $2.50 Solid Gold, fancy designs, all finishes $5.50 now $2.75 Gold Filled, plain for engraving, bright or Roman finish '. $1.75 now 88 Gold Filled, fancy engraved ....$1.50 now 75 Entire wholsesale stock of Bracelets, Shirt Waist Sets, Beauty Pins, Bead Neck Chains, Belt Buckles, Combs, Umbrellas, etc., etc., all go at 50c on the $1. Cut Glass tt-doz. Tumblers, regular, i $6.50 now. $3.25 Water Pitcher, regular $6.50' now $3.25 All Cut Glass Prices cut in two. Silver Hollow Ware , Tea Set, 6 piecs, regular $32.00 now $16.00 Bake Dish, regular $5.00 now $2.50 Entire Btock of this Silverware, halt price. Roger Bros.' Flat Ware 1847 ft-doi. Teaspoons, regular $2.00 now $1.00 ft-doz. Dessert Spoons, regular, $3.60 now $1.75 -do. Tablespoons, regular .. $4.00 now $2.00 Meat Fork, regular $1.50 now 75 Gravy Ladle, regular $1.60 now 75 Butter Knife and Sugar Shell, regular $2.26 now $1.13 Berry Spoons, regular $2.60 now $1.25 Fruit Knives, regular $2.25 now $1.13 Toilet Sets Ladies' Set, brush, comb and mirror regular $10.00 now $5.00 Gents' Military Brushes and comb regular $8.50 now $4.25 Complete line of Toilet Articles in this sale. Gold Plated Jewel Cases Sil ver Plated Jewel Boxes, gold plated ' regular $3.00 now $1.50 Jewel Box, silver plated, .regular $'2.50 now $1.25, Cuff Boxes, silver top, regular. .$3.00 now $1.50 Dresser and Shaving Mirrors, gold plated regular $4.00 now $2.00 Other articles In this stock all at half price. Clocks Gold Parlor Clocks, regular ... $4.00 now $2.00 Vtrf sr r&' Wit m you the most clever lot of styles and best qualities in men's Suits and Overcoats ever shown in any store at $15 to $35 N Hart, Schaffner & Marx made them for us and that is a , guarantee not only of all wool fabrics but most superb style and. tailoring. There's no reason you should not have the very best you'll get it every time at Copyright loo by rUrt Schiffner k Mn HMOEEIs THE RELIABLE STORE Great Special Sale Men's Suits and Overcoats Entire surplus stock of Adolph Arons & Co., Now York. Not a garment in the lot worth regularly less than $15.00 and up; to $22.50.' The season's newest styles, fabrics and colorings. All the latest kinks in pateh pockets, button flaps, fancy cuffs and the like. While they last, in two lots( at; $8.75 and $11.25 $12.50 and $15.00 Oravenette Coats, choice $6.95 Manufacturers' discount lines. Only about fifty of them left. l3e sure to see them Monday. ; It may interest yo-u to know that we do now and aluxxyt hact uuaranteed tatis- faction witk every p irehate in our clothing department, W Hie principle that hai built up and maintains our enormous clothing business, it pays us and undoubtedly will pay you. ' FOOTBALL FREE MONDAY with each Boys' Suit pur, chased in our Children's Clothing Dept. See these two specials: $5.00 Knee Pants Suits, $3.35 $4.00 Knee Pants Suits, $2.95 forget TRY HAYDEEl'S FIRST pays It would be an almost impossible task to enumerate all thy articles gomg into this sale. It is as we have said, a complete wholesale stock, every line as yet unbroken, and strictly modern in every respect. All articles marked in plain figures and a glance will convince you that we can not overstate the case. The magnitude of the stock necessitates it going on sale at both our stores. The sale will be continued until every article of this stock is sold Remember. Monday Morning, November 9, at 8 O'clock. 115 South Sixteenth Street 109 North Sixteenth Street artifice of taxed ingenuity has been em ployed to didw crops commensurate wltn (lis heavily increasing population. Hills have been levelled, mountains terraced into parallel alleyways only wide enoug.i to hold a double row of plants and rivers so carefully banked up and t. mi cry petted into docility, that they are made to share their beds with the rice planter. , 8o precious is tho arable land that le vently when the government bulll a new railroad across the muln island of Hondo hundreds of claims had to be settled for the dots of ground preempted for the erec tion of telegraph poles. One of the fertile valleys near the base of Mount Fuji when viewed from an eleva tion resemblea nothing so much as a piece of cloth figured wlr": retantular blocks of gold and green. The rice fields sre iuari about by mud dikes, each in per fect older; next to them, on slightly higher ground, are the patches of barley, peas and millet, all arranged with a precision al most mathematical. While one field Ilea fallow for a brief six months, another next to It Is tended with an Individual care al most beyond belief. Each rice plant that Is sunk In the mud of the flooded field receives almost ss much attention as the carefully numbered fowls that rooat each night on the thatch of the farmer's hut. Seed is not scattered broadcast; It la too precious for that. Instead it Is pushed into the loam of - a gfldllarz o BAILEY (H. MACH DENTISTS Best equipped Dental olf tea In tlio mtddl wC Hltnest grad Dentistry at Reasonable Prlcs Porcelain fllUaca. Just Ilk th too It. r tlilKU FLOOB PAAXOX BLOC Corner 10th and Faros. in Street. If THE OVERWHELMING PREFERENCE FOR THE MMI SHOE Good bread maim the entire weai more whole sonic. IWSIST OW XAYUrct Buster Brown BREAD IT ISTH3 BEIT For sale at all grocers. 5c U. P.-Steam Oakiag 5) LJ Jy Of our latest pattern- and designs ill convince you that what we say about our stock Is based upon solid facts. Moreover, you will find In our latest purchase compris ing the best and only the 1808 patterns of the late Rutherford & Jensen Wall Paper That vou can buy here enough paper for one room or Keveral rooms at the lowest cash outlay. Let us show you our stock let us quote you a most attractive price per roll. Our services in papering or decorating your home may be profitably employed. Workmen and work manahirj both the best this we guarantee. Will you give us a trial? &J5ji oi He m mo & 5 lis ) forcing bed by the fingers of the farmer or his wife. When the rtce plants are three or four Inchea high tiiey are trausplated to the paddy, groups of three or four plants in a hill. This la KtlHlr'S work. It means that the f miner, his wife and his daughters, naked all of tlnm ve for a cloth about the waist, must bend their backs uH day In the aleam'tis fields during May and early June wading In water and heavy mud up to their knees snd fighting leeches con stantly. Wlueu the stalks of grain and rice are above ground and flourishing comes, the farmer's dread: The torrential rains of the naiubai (phonetically transcribed!, or sum mer wet .season. In an hour the work of months may be flattened to the ground, dikes washed out and the rivers roaring over tits fields that had encroached on their dry channels. Nothing but a total loss of crops can result from this on slaught of the rain. Even with all conditions favoring, the Japanese farmer has to work like a serf to gather his harvest. The rows of grain are cut with a sickle, for no field U large enough to accommodate a cutting and thrrxhlnif machine even though so expen sive an adjunct to. farming on a, Urge scale could be afforded. When the grain la brought out of the fickl it is laid by hamlfuls on the ground in front of the farmer's house and there the head aie pulled oft and the kernels, still bearded, sre caught on a piece of mat ting by the laborious process of pulling each handful of grain through the close set; teeth of a dent a ted Iron, knife. Old women and childreu 'da this work and it -is usually the old women, who have to place 'the kernels in a wooden mortar and pound them wltU a heavy mallet until mm IU ft R0XALAC05N Acorns $23.00 and up, The Royal Acorn This warm weather will not last for ever. This is about the last call before the bitter cold weather of winter sets in. Better join the majority and pur chase a lloyal Acorn and have it set up ready for the -winter blasts. The ease with which this stove is controlled is a great saving of fuel during the warmer weather when you want to run a low fire. Xo other stove has this patented feature. Acorn stoves do not go out no matter how. . low you run them, do not fire-crack, and are the most powerful double heaters made. AVe are also factory agents for Cole's Celebrated Hot Blast Heaters and Ma jestic Charcoal Wrought Iron Kanges. . Cole's Hot Blast $10.00 and up. John Jussie Hardware Co. 'If you buy it of Hussie it's right." HssHssssSssBssOsBssBLIsssssBs 2407-09 Cuming St Among well dressed men should be convincing evidence of their merit. Universal popularity docs not result without reason, and the good opinion of competent judges should influence you to test what they pronounce perfec tion. Women's Hanan Shoea $5.00 to $0.00 Men's Hanan Shoes $5.50 to $7.00 Widths AAA to E.' Drexel Shoe Co. 1419 FABAU STREET Sole agents for Omaha. lulinfflfBlMaihJUiaiili FASHIONABLE SHOES the chaff is looaened. Then the handfuls of mixed kernels and grain are tossed In the air over a piece of matting continu ously until the wind has carried away the chaff. Each seed that the fanner gains after his long year of untiring effort seems to represent an Individual plea- for Increase made to the parent seed that was planted, for on no 'other land under heaven Is the parable of the seed that is sown so faith fully exemplified and perhaps nowhere else does the planter of the seed pray so ardently againef the Inexorable proportion of disappointment. I ajaatlr Kasprrterf. Mrs. Newly wed Fred, dear, I have done you a great Injustice. Mr. Newlywed Jn whst wsyT Mrs. Newlyed Well. I nunpected you without reason. I asked several of your friends that you go to the club with if you knew how to play poker, and every one of them thouKht a minute itnd said you didn't Chicago News. gulck Returns Through lice Want Ads. ALWAYS THE Walk-Over Shoes for service, comfort and style at popular prices. YOUR CHOICE of many new ones at the Walk -Over Shoe Store 14 South 16th St., Omaha. (Toar doors So. Beaton Drug Oo.) TD. M. TIOMriOR, Walk-Oves ataa.1