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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 6, 1908)
THE OMAHA SUNDAY HEK: DECEMBER 6, 1908. TIMELY REAL ESTATE GOSSIP Borne Pointeri as to Valuei in Omaha Heal Property. HAERY TDKEY GOES ON RECORD rrrrlarr of Ileal F.atatr Eirbtan Ilrtarna t atpaorlrnl Attwrri to Pertinent (Inratlon from Dallas Eirhnaitr. The Real Estate exchange of Ilallas.'Tpx., Is possessed nf a desire to learn compara tive conditions us respects real estate In the various luricp cities of the United States ami him sent a circular to other exchanges. The questions asked here have been an swered by Harry Tukey, secretary of the Omaha exchange and can be read below. The questions are such that the answers give n good Idea of the real estate situation In Omaha and are worth printing for that reason : Nu 'lie of city. Omafta. I'opufatlon WO census. I"!. 8f.fi. .nstTVutl e t'Htimutp pruHent population. Twenty-five square H0. Arr:i square nilU'S mill s. What whs the highest price p(Ud for busi iipm prr pi rty In your city (deducting value of Improvements) wlihln the Inst two yars? Two thousand dollars. Sixteenth and Doug las streets. No sales of most valuable property. Highest appraised at $:!.W0 to H.Ooo per fremt foot. located on Sixteenth end Karnam streets. Within what area Is property worth 25 per cent of this figure Two blocks to four blocks. What class of tenants occupy property within this district? Retail drug stores, banks, railway offices, department stores, saloons, hotels, jewelers, shoe stores. What Is the average worth of your whole sale proporty? Krom 11W to 4o0 per front font. What Is the average worth of your switch property within n reasonable dlstrance from the business center? About 1100 per front foot. What average net return do Investors ex pect In purchasing downtown property? Fi to 7 per cent. Whtit la your most expensive resilience property worth? One hundred dollars a front foot, although slightly higher offers have been mado for wpeclal pieces. What U good residence property worth, with all Improvements, outside of your highest priced residence property? Fifteen to $') per foot, dcendlng entirely on the location. West Farnam dint t tit command ing the best prices, with llnnscom Park district second and Kountze Place third. What are the prevailing rates on (a) first class business loans? (b) Hecond-class resl- .rience loans? () Deferred payments In the purchase of business and residence prop erty? (a) Five and a half to 6 per cent, (b) Six per cent, (c) Six per cent. How are money conditions this year ai compared with eighteen months ago, both as to the amount of money offering to lend and the rates? The rates asked for loans are about the, same as they were eighteen months ago. Bank clearings are larger than they were at that time, and there is considerably more money to loan now than there was a year ago. Loans on real estate are being made in larger numbers every day How are general real estate conditions "with you as compared with eighteen months ego? General real estute conditions are bet ter today than they were one year ago and nnout t lie same as eighteen months ago There Is a large demand for homes, and any good business property offered Is be ing taken up. Three or four large office buildings are planned, and construction will start on them In a very short time. Omahu real estate values are lower than In other cities of Its size and present lndl. cations are, that within the next year, they will gradually rise to a more equal basis with those, of other cities. ' The week Just over was quieter than the preceding, which Included announcements of four large new office and store buildings. It is not to be expected that such a show- , lng can be made every week, nor would It really bo desirable. Bales the last week, howiver, did not show badly compared with those of a year ago. O. A. Scott has begun excavation for a double residence In Kountze Place at the northeast corner of Eighteenth and Wirt streets. There will bo six rooms and re ception hall In each apartment, one apart ment fronting south on Wirt street and the other one fronting west on Eighteenth strec t. The cost of the building will be In the neighborhood of J6,500. The architecture will bo something new. A Q. Johnson has Just begun excavation for an eight-room strictly modern two story bouse In Kountae Place on Ixithrop street, between Eighteenth and Nineteenth, to rest In the neighborhood of $4,500. It will be ouk and birch finished, tile bath and vt-fctihulc, hot water heat. Mr. John son Is building this for his home. The apartment house at 17(18-10 Burt street built by H J. Jobst Is just about completed and will be ready for tenants In a few days. The apartments, of which there are eight in the building, are as modern In construc tion and finish as any in thq city. Qeorge & Co. have taken leases on some of the apartments. The "Kantstoop'' Shoulder Brace and Suspender STRONG, EFFECTIVE, SIMPLE. The only brace that braces. Positively cures the habit of stooping. Froducea thai military effect so desired. Vorden's. Girls and Boys'. all sizes , $1.00 lien's, all sixes 91.25 Sold ozAj if tbs following dealers! MYERS-DILLON DRUG CO. B. Corasr 16tn and Tarnam Streets. Bole Manufacturers and Distributers. C. BENEDICT CO.. Inc. OA.KX.A3X, CAXarO&KXA. PAT A I WS OF THE BUSY HOME BUILDERS At.. vHL.' ' ' ' W j -r t -& , Hi 111 I I I . - -4? . . t v & ,lwj - .:-- ,v: .:,. :t, Design N. 454. A very Informal home-like arrangement of rooms is one of the at Tactions of this home. t t' Jl " L I 1 nil ill ! KITCh l 6 1. tf IBt gasHsssaBi it mi "v 1 PORCH. CHAMBER 62 o DINING ROOM :: HALL. J 2. Z 0 hl i2 CHAMBER o tz O 9j IL LIVING ROOM BjBjBBSssaBla'lWH"a"lBB33sSRaB9 a O i CHAMBER. " X .Arthur c. clausen. Architect The Proposition of Dormers Guaranteed 101 rami mi Cure, by medicated vapor. The Inspirator and a year's treatment, 13.00. Honey re turned If you want it. Handlist, most ef fective, least expensive and In every way lifat treatment and cure for catarrh asthma, hay ftner and all other troubles with the air tracts. J. A. Uarrett. "18 N Y. Life. Omaha. Local agents wanted for this tlnu remedy. Kent postpaid for 13.00, money orar or registered letter. MORPHINE ard urhar dreg habits are roslttrelr eared UAB1T1NA gar bjiHdrtrio or Internal iii Siuiipl nl to snr lnnf hahltne br l.1 kiali. koirulsr price 8J On per bottle CO wur drujinnt or b mil la eUla srrapper. Mall Ortlurs FiUed lly ICAVUKN liKOS OMAHA. XER The Twentieth Century Farmer Ths rsr that Produces Rralts tot Arertlsera. Artanr O. Olsnssn, Architect. The dormer first came into use In about the fourteenth century and derives its name from the fact that, then as now. It Is usually used as a means of admitting light and air to a dormitory or bed room. Strictly defined It Is a vertical face of wall projecting from the Inclined face of the roof. It may be set back on the roof or may be a continuation of the face of the wall carried up above the cornice or eaves. The sldo walls are usually vertical and trl- ngular In form. The roof of the dormer Is usually the same pltoh as the roof on which the dormer rests, but not necessarily so. It may be gabbed, hipped, of gambrel roof construction or penthouse form. Dormers are of many different dosigns, shapes and sizes. In fact rarely does one see dormers on two houses which aro Just alike. It Is therefore not intended nor pos sible to present designs or descriptions of all the many styles. There are a few gen eral considerations that can be applied to any dormer or group of dormers, no matter what the design, and these will be dealt with in detail. Dormers are generally used to admit light and air to those parts of the attic, which have bed rooms enough to be ser viceable as bed rooms, pleasure rooms or store roms. In some forms of roof con struction they are the same purpose on the second story of the house, there being pnrrtleally no attic. This Is particularly true of the quaint looking gambrel roof houses. If the light and air they admit was all that was required of dormers, their construction woujd be an easy proposition. They also form a very Important port of the design of the house, sometimes consti tuting the whole of Its Individual charac teristics. Dormers are used singly, In groups or in connection with gables and portico pedi ments. In the later case there Is usually one dormer at each side of the gable or pediment. In this position they should not look as though crowded in, but should have plenty of room on each side. Dormers be side gables or pediment should be in good proportion to them. They are generally of a tall type ami should have miniature gttbles. They should not bo too tall, neither should they be so narrow that they present an unsubstantial appearance. They should bo wide enough to let one stand In them without experiencing a crowded feeling be cause of the ekise proximity of the walls, and the celling Inside should be high enough so that one won't have to "duck" his head while standing there. Their exact site depends somewhat upon the size of the house or tho size of the gable or pediment which they supplement. Dormers in a group are sometimes glvn considerable prominence. This is espe cially true of that type of houses Which have a !'ng slope of roof carried continu ously over the porch. This form of roof construction gives a cottage appearance to the home, does not Interfere with the vertical walls of the second story and rives a splendid opportunity for a dormer effect. Groups of dormers look well on the cottage type of house. For dormers ex tending over the porch their exact loca tion can be found as follows this tlsj per tains to most dormers: Having decided on the pitch of the roof, thj dormer should be placed Just where the window sill will he. thirty Inches Ions, ( r ler.i. If Uc.lred), from the floor Inside, and thre Inches frttn the root at front of the dormer out side. Dormers are grouped in many ways, often using three dormers In a row, and occasionally wa see. two dormers of similar design placed some distance apart and tha pace between filled In with a supplemen tary dormer made by extending the fa:s THE BEE'S PLAN OFFER Through a special arrangement with Mr. Clausen, The Omaha ilea la able to offer Its readers the complete plans, details and specifications of the home Illustrated on this page without chauge for (10. Mr. Clausen Is the author of a well Illustrated book, "Home Building Plans and Problems," con taining besides many designs tor mod ern homes and extensive articles on home building, over 180 designs lor entrances, t (replaces, picturesque groups or windows, stairways, kitchen and pantry arrangements, etc. Spe cial price to readers of The Beo, 30 cents. Send all orders to Arthur C. Clausen, architect. Htudlo, 1013 Lum ber Exchange, Minneapolis, Minn. of the dormers across, filling up the gap between, placing several windows In It and putting a penthoure roof on the mid dle part, thus making It practically all one dormer. A penthouse roof Is the same as a shed roof, one slant from front to rear Hip or gable windows In a row should al ways have the same pitch roof. When there are three Independent dormers in s row the middle one should be a trifle larger than the other two, unless they are tar apart. If it la made the same size In reality it will look smaller to the eye. Never make a roof dormer so large that It looks like a third story addition to the house. The "eyebrow" dormer Is Intended enly to obtain air ard light at some point on the roof where It Is not desired to give the dormer prominence. The "eyebrow" window should never be too high In the middle and should join the roof with a curve and not an angle at each side. A plain, hip-roofed dormer, with two win dows. Is a common but good type. A good cottage dormer, whon used singly. Is ona with a -regular bay window front with three windows In It. The front of the buy and the window In It should be wider than the sides. Owing to the slant of the roof the side window sills will bo higher up from tho floor than the front window sIlL Pilasters and even small columns are often used with good effect on dormers. Then we have the colonial dormer with half or engaged columns at the corners, a gable above and a round top window, the window projecting up Into the gable. A sml-clrcular, or segment arch gttble is sometimes used In formal colonial work. Some dormers look well with the Bides spread out In a graceful curve on each side of the bottom. When the chimney leaves the roof near the eaves a dormer is sometimes placed behind It, projecting out and containing windows on either or both sides. This Is admirable in some cottage types. Tin flashing should be carried partly up tho sides of a dormer, the same as on the side of a chimney. While the writer realises that tho proper study of dormers Is a rather complexed problem to the average homo builder, It Is desired that the reader should come to realize that the proper designing of dor mers. the same as all parts of the house, Is not accomplished in a lilt or miss mail ner, but that every part of tho houso Is designed according to recognized rules of proportion. It Is, therefore, far better and In fart a saving of cost in the end to have all such matters properly handled by one who has made the designing of homes and buildings a life study. Remarkable Gain in Building lng period In years, and It Illustrates to a higli degree the force and recuperative possibilities ns well as the enterprise nf the people of this country. The figures In detnll sre given above. A glance at the ga'n and !- columns must certainly attract and hold attention of every one who is interested In build ing eonstriiitl'in. Out of t'.ie tlilrty-seven cities It will be seen that thirty-four show gains of from S per rent to ss high as 619 per cent, while there were losses In only four cities, nnd In as many points as re mote from each other as possible. A sig nificant feature of the statement Is the recoveries In the lnre cities, Chicago lead ing In Its particular class with a gain of SM per cent; New York City. Including Manhattan and the Bronx, 135 per cent; Philadelphia, 114. and Brooklyn, 111; St. Louis, 73; Louisville, X, while the per centage of gains In the other cities Is of a highly satisfactory character. The de creases Include Memphis, 6X per cent; De troit, 26; Atlanta, 25, and Newark, N. J ltf per cent. MARKED REVIVAL OF LANGUAGE No Less Than Mnf Nraleeted Tontines Infused with cw 1,1 fe. There nre no less than nine almost for gotten tongues which since the beginning of the nintecnth century have retaken tlielr places, politically and In literature, among the languages of modern Europe. The nine are Greek, Rumanian, Bulgarian, Servian, Magyar, Czech, Finnish, Norsk and Flem ish. This list does not Include Gaelic, which Is new experiencing resuscitation In some parts of Ireland at the hands of the Gaelic league, nor Polish, which achieved a po litical and literary revival In Qalacla. The nine languages first named are now UBed by 50,000,000 of people a fact which does not suggest much likelihood of the ap proach of a universal language. At the beginning of the nineteenth century the statesmen of Europe almost without ex ception, held that the extinction of the smaller languages, which had already ceased to hold a place In courts or general liter ature, was desirable on political grounds. In Europe, French, English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Hussion, Turkish, Dutch, Danish and Swedish were the only languages recognized as Euro pean, either In an official or literary sense. The last five were almost unknown out side of their own lands, and even there they were nearly without literary use. French was the universal language of di plomacy and of the educated classes every where In conversation. In Hungary and In Poland, even before the loss of independence. Latin was tho official language nf public business and law, and German or French that of con versation for the educnted classes. Tho national tongues In both those countries had a position not unlike that of Irish In Ireland during the eighteenth century. Chicago News. Building operations throughout the coun try for the month of November are far beyond what the most hopeful could pos- tlon News, for the construction of S.5S3 buildings. Involving a total estimated cost of $44,656,217, against 6,604 buildings Bgure- To-vn - No New York, Including Manhattan and Bronx Chit-aso f Brooklyn , Ban Frunclsoo Philadelphia St. Louis. Milwaukee Detroit Cincinnati St. Paul Cleveland Kansas City Birmingham Newark, N. J 1 nver Baltimore Omaha Rochester Tacoma Atlanta Indlanapnlts New urlottns Imllas '. Louisville Columbus Paterson, N. J Cudar Rapids 8t Joseph (irand Rapids Memphis Mobile Lincoln, Neb Davenport pueblo, C lo Iivs Motms Etorkt' n. 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VO 3t,i . 71 lti7.2;W M l:ty.3v7 IS , ISO 12M.W.4 m 311. 7e4 ... . 'M 1I3.3'i 24 So. 41 272 . 40 , es.UJ 3S M.lVi 37 . 27 74. in) it 14!Vio 3: . Is Ml.; ill' li ii.; 51.' . 24 S0.4JJ :i 20.S25 i ldl , 31 C.350 21 .7' 3K . 29 24,4(2 34 33.t 2 8. 144.656.217 t.4 IJ2.615.9K2 7 Rxrlnmntory. Mah olo man has BOt de exclamatorv rheumatism." No. Martha, you mean Inflammatory rheumatism. Exclamatory means to cry out." Den he's got exclamatory rheumatism cos ho hollers mos' all de time, ma'am." Gold Silver and Sickle Registers, tf Brass Beds, Oaa Ttxtures and Table VTars. Beplatsd as Hew. All Kinds of Repairing uHAHaplatiN&CU Established 1898. 1S30 Harney Street Telephones Douglas 8530s Auto. A-853& DON'T ENDANGER THE LIVES OF YOUR WIFE AND CHILDREN by using murderous wood lath in building your home. Statistics show that over 75 per cent of deaths by fire have been due to plastering over wood lath, which furnish the most inflammable kindling to the flames of a fire. 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