TIIE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MAY 2. 1009. TIMELY REAL ESTATE GOSSIP Bales in Pong-las Comity Orer Two Million Each Month. INCREASES OVER LAST YEAR Pan dee Frprtr U In fiend nrmmid, treet Car erl and Aalomo hllra Making; taa Rabarb More Popalar. Bom-- ld" of what In actually happening In re.V eMate In Omaha may be gleaned from thr- fact that transfers are over $1.200.1 1) each month, without the many deeds which are flld "II and other valua ble considerations." It la the estimate of moat real eat ate dealer that $2.0nO.W aorth of pioperty changes handa In Doug laa county each month. Tlie transfers aa shown In the record for April were ll.ifi", 1H, or more than JWI.nno above the trans fera for the same month last year. The following la the record of real estate transfers for the first four montha of 19T9 aa crmparrO with the same montha. and all other minths of iro7 and 1!0S: Year. mi. 1. W. January 711.(12? JW.814 fcM.934 Fbrunry 71. 47 KI7.wa X!,Hi March d:-J."H0 7'i 1,304.2s;, Arm i.tx.w with i.'M.m Mnv 1.1i.3L'3 7'JS.57, June l.fon.fio l.o:t1.ll Julv l.OWt.mft -,fl.)7 August 7M.S5 77.24 Pepteriler 7M.HW i?.74 October 1,077.6X8 1.056.6S7 OZXTXTICATB Or PUBLICATION. STATE OF NEBRASKA, OFFICE OF AUDITOR OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS: Lincoln. Feh. Int. 1909. It la hereby certified, that the Union Central Life Insurance Company of Cin cinnati, In the atate of Ohio, has compiled win; Ino Insurance I,aw of tills State, ap plicable to such companies, and la therefore authorized to continue the business of IJfe Insurance In thla Suite for the current ycur ending January Slut, 1910. Summary of report filed for the year ending December 31at, 1U08: INCOME Premiums !UHI,44-'.34 All other sources.... 3.151, "W.'i'i Total $13,5S2,311.(Vt DISBURSEMENTS Paid policy holders... $4.t7.!KB.3fl All other payments... 8,4!H.5u;.27 Total S.112.50S.63 ADMITTED ASSETS W..l'ta.tO LIABILITIES Net Reserve $64,Wi5,1.16.00 Net Policy Claims. . 171.8ol.00 All llaKIIUloa IftTfUllAQQ IRK lift W v Capital stock paid tip 500,000.00 Surplus heyond Capi tal Stock and other llablliliea 1.671,K98.41 2.171.898.41 Total .... ...J fi7,833,24fi.40 Witness my hand and tbe seal of the Auditor of Public Accounts tho day and year first above written. 8II-A3 R BARTON. (Seal) C. E. PIERCE, Deputy. Auditor of Public Accounts. ASSETS MORTGAGE LOANS V,278,l(a.R8 Loans 33,579 In 33 states, secured by first mortgage on real estate worth H94.&47. 439.00, and Interest accrued thereon. POLICY-HOLDERS' OBLIGATIONS 111,693.306.19 Loans on policies payable at the borrow er' convenience, N,917,902.f; notes In set tlement of premluma, giving temporary assistance to pollcy-holdera, J2.OS7.772. 70; and Interest accrued thereon, and prem luma due. REAL ESTATE 4E6.S3. 11 Homo Office property, $404,197.94; land taken In foreclosure at 18 mortgagea In B states, $50,644.72; and rents accrued thereon. CASH ON HAND AND IN BANKS , I $480,626.72 Thla comparatively small amount Indi cates that policy-holders' money la Im mediately Invested. UNJTED STATES BONDS 125.862.50 Deposited with the Treasure!' of Virginia the only bonds of any kind owned by the Company. TOTjVL ADMITTED ASSETS... $87,933,245.40 J. M. EDMISTON & SON, General Agents, Lincoln, - Nebraska. We have open territory for one or two good agents and we solicit coiTespondence. storta-age Loans In Webraska. .S6,757,0o.05 STATE OF NEBRASKA, OFFICE OF AUDITOR OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS LINCOLN, February 1st, lixK). IT IS HEKElli CERTIFIED, That the Home Lite Insurance Company of New York, in the Ulala of New York, hus com plied with the Insurance Law of this State, applicable to such companies and is there fore authorised to continue the business of Life Insurance In this State for the current year ending January Slat, 1910. . Summary of report filed for the year end ing December 31st. 13 t. INCOME Premiums $3.Sii".im.07 All other sources J,Oo,313.66 Total $ 4,436,414 2 DISBURSEMENTS Paid policy holders.... 12.144,937.14 All other payments.... 806.S21.19 Total 1 3.951.758.83 Admitted assets 21,7u6,901.70 lvlAUlld TIK,S Net Reserve.... a $20,0ti4 452.00 Net Policy Claims.... 95.4.84.14 All other liabilities.. 311.787 62 $20,471,723.76 Capital stock paid up 1:3.000.00 Surplus beyond Capi tal Stock and other raMIItiea U1M77.94 1.2S7.177.94 Total $3,708,901 70 Wltneaa my hand and the seal of the Auditor of Public Account the day and year first above written. S1LA8 R. RARTON. (Seal) Auditor of Public Accounts. C. E. PIERCE. Deputy. Ward F. Palmer, General Agent for the tat of Nebraaka, 440 Board of Trade Bid. November 7TW.MW 81S.4) December 461, ln4 MK,'.K7 Totals 11.174.450 M26.31S N. P. podge, Jr., haa opened an office In Sioux City to sell eighty acres of land ad- Joining Mornlngsiiie, ce of the bist -.-liericf districts of fiinux Cty, and tho beaj tif ul home of Mornlngside college, of which Bishop V. S. Lewis s the president. The entile eighty acres aw III be cut Into city lots and aold on easy payments. R. M. Dott. a Sioux City attorney, will repre sent Mr. Dodge when It la Impossible for Mr. Dodge to be at Sioux City. "Farm loans are so easy to secure and the fanners are handling borrowed money to such good advantage that there is scarcely a limit to the amount of eastern money which will come to Nebraska," says Thomas Brennan, financial agent for a number of eastern Insurance companits. "President DeHord of the National of Ver mont was In Omaha thla week looking over the cHy and some of the country about It. He expressed himself as much pleased with the prosperous conditions in Nebraska and before he left for his Vermont home we closed up $000,000 In Nebraska farm loans Just to be doing something." The O'Keefe Real Estate company la pushing the Hillcreat addition and this week brought J. Scbnuettgen to Omaha from a western Iowa farm and sold hlra the corner belonging to Dr. li. R. Porter and C. H. Walrath at Thirty-eighth avenue and Caas street for $3,000. Mr. Scbnuettgen will erect a fine brick residence on the site. Deals are pending for several other lots In the same addition. Including those adjoining Dr. Porter's residence at Thirty eighth and Caas streets. The Payne Investment company starts Its excursions to Scott'a Bluffs county Tuesday. The company haa contracted to sell 30.000 acres of Irrigated lands In west ern Nebraaka within the next year and will run an excursion every Tuesday. The first party will consist of land agenta as well aa land buyers. To boost the western part of the atate the company has pub lished a handsome and attractive booklet called "America's Valley of the Nile." The photographs used were taken for the com pany by Louis Boatwlck and were taken last f nil and summer, showing the North Platte valley us It actually Is. Within a few month the lant of the clay banks In the Field club district will be cut down. Many of thorn have disappeared this spring and real estate owners and agents are making every effort to eliminate them, as they have been unsightly, while beautiful residences have been erected all about them. Harrison & Morton are among the leaders to cut down the banks. ' . The McCague Investment company will begin this week the laying of cement side walks and putting In permanent Improve ments on the lots graded at Thirty-second and Parker streets, opposite Prospect Hill cemetery. The banks have been cut down between Thirtieth and Thirty-second on Parker and the fill made between the same streets on Decatur to Franklin street. The work has been In progress several weeks and gives the company almost four blocks of desirable building lota on car lines. The Dundee Realty company has had a busy week, the Increased street car service and more automobiles Influencing the buyers to Invest In property a good ways from the business section of Omaha. The following soles were recorded by the com pany during the week, George & Co. mak ing the deals Jn each instance: Dundee Realty company to Bert D. Sher bondy, four lots on Capitol avenue, be tween Flflv-flrMt 17M 1 1 u...,nH ... - - -- J - " ' ' J m.VUIVJ D.I I. I n , Consideration, $3,000. Dundee Realty company to Arthur 3. Plttelkow. two lota on California, .between Fifty-first and Fifty-second streets. Con sideration, $1,600. Dundee Realty company to V. Warren Boyles, two corner lots on Fifty-second and Webater streets. Consideration, $1,600. Dundee Realty company to W. R. Mc Farland, two Iota on Capitol avenue, be tween Fifty-first and Flfty-aecond streets. Consideration, $1,500. Some of the deala made by George & Co. during the week are as follows: Mark T. Martin to Emma Morand. lot on Pnderwood avenue, between Fifty-first and Fifty-second streets. Consideration, $700. Redlck estate to Eva GIveen, lot In Oak Chatham addition, between Sprugue and Sahler streets. Consideration, $700. Harriet Wilcox to Mr. K. IS. Weller. house and lot on Blnney street In Kountze place, between Nineteenth and Twentieth streets. Bought by Mr. Weller for a home. Robert H. Lsnderyou to Charles A. Blomberg, six-room modern house and lot r.t 3O09 Dewey avenue. Consideration, $3,200. Wtllard Chambers to Emma Meyer, new two-story, seven-room, modern house at Twenty-fifth and Maple. Consideration, $4,000. The Coad Real Estate company to Patrick 3. Murphy, lot on California street, be tween Twenty-eighth and Thirtieth street.. Consideration, about $2,250. South front lot on Evans street, In Clark IRedlek's addition, to J. B. Good. Consid eration, $676. North front lot' on Evans street, in Clark Redlck's addition, between Twenty-f lftli and Twenty-seventh streets, to party whom name la withheld for the present. Con sideration, $i30. North front lot on Evans street, between Twenty-fifth and Twenty-seventh streets, to a Mr. Trlxel. Consideration, $650. Plenty of Time. A Norfolk farmer, riding through the Welsh mountains, came up with a moun taineer leisurely driving a herd of pigs. "Where are you driving the pigs to?" asked the Inquiring farmer. "Out to pasture 'em a bit." "What for?" "To fatten m." "Isn't It pretty slow work to fatten 'em on grass?" t'p where I come from we pen them up and fatten them on corn. It aaves a lot of time." "Ya-as. I s'pose so," drawled the moun taineer, "but. liless your heart, what'a time to a hawg?" Norfolk Advertiser. B Expressmen's Delivery Company B as a a how Locatea in new yuarters 303 North 16th Street only one-half block north of where we started business twenty-two years ago. Our new location ta ao provided that better attention can be ahown customers who In person call for Information. Storage and Moving Furniture Packing Cheap Freight Rates on Household Goods to Pacific Coast Points, Etc. Merchants' Freighting Baggage Delivery THOXES Bell: Douglas, 894. Ind.: H1341 MEWS OF THE BUSY SS01E BUILDERS i REMEMIIKR OIR NKW LOCATION 16th and Davenport Streets One niok North of I'ost Office. V. ii-V-.. u J7;v.":- " ;- V" ..J.,- t- 4 - -T,.. ;!.. . . .......... '... 5 --"-.' - -Mil . i - . ' -..i., i in Pisui i up, j h I : I i i 1 i ! ' rl : J-l r 0 I I . II -y HA1.U JL " ' It. ,, I " t " Jvt.Tiwi-a. ti Mi.i cm, CO-fiTIC-O I , m.mm ii r 12ba- -mlst r-i-oaa Building Special Homes on Special Sites Arthur O. Olaassa, ArcMtaot. When designing; a home It has become customary through habit to consider It as being for a level city lot. The grad of the lot Is seldom considered ar havlnB anything ' to do with the style or designs of the house, much less dictating whui. that style should be. Still. It Is a fact that tho grade of a lot and Its situation with reference to Its surround ings often has considerable to do with the planning and designing of It. Take, for a simple example, the mere fact that a house is on the north, south, east or west side of tho stroet this has considerable to do with the arrangement of the floor plar.s. Tho living room should, of course. In each case- face either east or south, and 'both ways If possible. This is why a houue fac ing tho north Is the hardest to plan. A house on a corner lot would, of course, be planned somewhat different than one on an Innlile lot, since It has an open view on two streets. A northwest corner lot, giv ing a south and east exposure to the house. Is, therefore, the most desirable for a city home. The size of the lot, more especially Its width, has considerable to do with the arrangement of the plan, and right here the ever-good advice might be repented, "Never place a good house on a cheap lot." Pay a little more for your lot and then wait a year longer If neces sary before building. No matter how com plete and comfortable you build your home, you w(l In time become dissatisfied with It tf tho surroundings are not In keeping with It and your neighbors uninteresting. No lot should be loss than forty-five feet wldo and fifty feet would be a better minimum. Be sure the lot Is wide enough to get the house you want on it. Tho foregoing remarks apply only to the level city lot. There Is another class of h ta found In suburban or fine residence districts, who locations have much td do with the planning of the home. They can be conveniently placed In four classes. The lot which slopes forward to the street, the lot which has a pronounced slope from one bide to the other, the lot which slopes downward from the street, and the com paratively level lot at the top of a hill, commanding a beautiful outlook over the city or surrounding country. The hardest lot to fit a house to of these four situa tions Is the lot which slopes downward from the street. Many designers often give up In despair when trying to design a home appropriate for their difficult location and consider the design as being for a level lot, merely letting tho foundations he visi ble for a greater distance In the rear than at the front. The problem Is not, however, a difficult one If the ownrr does not ex press a decided pi eference aa to what the style of the house should be, for a colonial or gambrel ronf. d house would never fit a location of this kind In a becoming mnn rer. The style most appropriate is the English domestic style, tor this style ran be more easily varied and manipulated by a ootnpeter.t designer than any other. Th English have reduced the appropriateness of a home to Its location to a fine art, and from them we. can often obtain valuable suggestions on the proper locations of homs. An Englishman's home is not alone the house It Is the house and gardens he needs no porch, for he lives In his gar den when out of doors, and both are de signed togethrr, each supplementing the other. For these reasons, an Bngllkh home becomes the other two hillsides locations mentioned, mors appropriately than any othvr style. When the lot slopes up from front to rear and the incline is not ex treme, a colonial home can be placed upon It if carefully designed. Of course In rarh I I 1 'fe-Tl 11 1 ii: ii " I j : ft, Weet jn fim j IB ' i for The Overcasts;! House is the Coming Fashion By this simple and inexpensive process an old frame house may be made to look like a new stone dwelling and last much longer. It will be more comfortable in winter with less fuel and much cooler in summer Apply Expanded Metal Lath and plaster with Cement Mortar, under directions, sent free to any address upon request. northwestern Expanded Metal Co. 84 Van Buren Street, Chicago WESTERN REPRESENTATIVES OF THE NORTHWESTERN EXPANDED METAL CO. C. W. HULL CO. THE BEE'S PLAN OFFER Through a special arrangement with Mr. Clausen The Omaha flee Is able to offer its readers the complete plans, details and specifications of the home illustrated on thla page with out change for $10. Mr. Clausen Is the author of a well Illustrated book, THE AST, BOXEirCB AHD SEHTI UiKT Or BOUI BVXL9- xxro. 44 Chapters 900 Illustrations. A beautiful and practical book con taining complete Information on the planning snd designing of every kind of home. It contains extensive articles on that popular style of home. The American Bungalow, also the Two Story Bungalow, B17NQALOW8 BL IL.T FOK TWO, Homes of Dis tinctive Character, Planning the Cot tage, the Country Home, the Farm Home, Homes for Special Daces. The Duplex House, etc. There are ex tensive illustrated articles on en trances, windows, stairways, fiie pluces. porches, kitchens, pantries, cement construction, articles on What not to do In building a home, the Let ting of Contracts, the Practical Side of Home Building, the Sentiment of Home Building, etc.. etc. Price, post paid to readers of The Ben, 11. Send all orders to Arthur C. Clausen, architect. Studio, 1013 Lumber Ex change, Minneapolis. Minn. of these Instances, a colossal home can b placed upon the lot by artificially terracing it to make a level lot of at least a portion of It, hut this method should never be adopted except where the owner's desires are Imperative or the slope la too steep to consider any other expedient. Tha finest location for a house is a com paratively level lot at the crest of a hill. There ore two things toward which the American seems to aspire more than any thing else one Is to get as high In tha air aa possible and the other to cover the ground when traveling as fast as possible. At present these tendencies cannot be con sistently related since one cannot go up the hill aa fast as on the level, but the airship may overcome this obstacle. A high hill or bluff with a level plateau at the top and some easy means of ascending la Ideal In every respect. Besides the pleasure to the eye of distant views, and the sir Is always fresh and cool. A promi nence of this description- gives one a feel ing of Independence. Surely one Is like the English lord, "master of all I survey," so far as the pleasures of sight are concerned. Without n doubt the most appropriate and beautiful home for a location of this kind is a colonial house with a two-story portico faced In the direction having the most com manding view. There is something about a two-story portico that makes it a natural rart of a home In a prominent position. When one comes In contact with a portico of tall columns, he Instinctively turns to see "what the house Is looking at." This Is quite natural for were not the columned temples of ancient Cireece and Rome all built upon hills? The house Illustrated at the head of this article is designed to meet the require ments of s hill-top home, having consider able grounds about It. It can. of course, be placed upon a level lot In any location, but will look the best If placed In a high commanding location. It is planned for a family who will go In and out by the drive way more than by the front entrance. As planned, it should face east with the driveway room on the south. This places the kitchen and family porch on the shady side of the house. By reversing the plan. It could, of course, be made to suit a west front location. The construction of the home la very simple, which means a saving In cost. It Is of pure colonial detail and while the motif of the design Is not new it is so proportioned and detailed that it bears little resemblance to many homes of similar design that erroneously pass (?) for colonial homes. It takes something more to make a colonial home beeidoa white paint and columns.. COLORING CONCRETE BLOCKS Dark Gray Appearance May Changed bjr trains; Itlnht Mixture. Be One of the serious objections to concrete blocks In the past has been their dark gray appearance. This can bo overcome by using light colored sand, or crushed stone and a white Portland cement, which will give a light gray effect. If a pure white effect is desired then white cement should be used, with white sand or crushed stone mixed with a little marble dust. It is very difficult to obtain a coarse white sand, al though there are kinds which are quite coarse. A fine white sand used alone with cement will not make a thoroughly waterproof facing. In order to make such u facing waterproof It is necessary to use a proportion of marble dust or crushed stone with sand. Care must be taken not to use too much marble dust, for if too much of this Is used, the facing will check and show unsightly cracks. For this reason marble dust should never be used alone with cement. Usually tha checks and hair cracks referred to will not show until the blocks have aged several weeks and even months, but eventually they are bound to come. The amount of marble dust to be used should not be more than 1V4 parts of mar ble dust to four parts of white sand. If the facing is too rich In cement, checks and hair cracks are as apt to appear as when marble dust alone is used with cement. Very good results can be obtained by using limestone screenings, from coarse to fine, which will pass a quarter-inch screen, but usually it is advantageous to use a little white sand with this as well. In order to produce a smooth, dense surface. Cement Age. You iseldom find a savins family paying rent. A family paying rent has no special inccntivo to save, but the family that buys a home lias a special object to save They at once realize that it is much more important to save their money and pay for their home than to waste it foolishly, and if they have borrowed money from this Asso ciation they can pay it back in easy monthly payments. It is all in the plan. Call on our Secretary. Omaha Loan & Building Assn. S. . Cor. 16th and Dodge Streets. 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Vice-President. Kit AN K BuYI. Assistant Cashier. C. McUKEW. Vice-President. H. A. WILCOX, AhsUtaut Cashier. fc.HA MILLARD. Assistant Cashier. DIKKCTOItS. J. H. MILLARD, I W. CARPENTER. K. C. BAHTON, C. H. BROWN. W. II BITIIOU. C. F McCHKW. A. J. HIMI'HON, J. 1. HAl'M, W. M. BURGKSS. WM. WALLACE, L. C. NASH. STATKMKNT OK THK OMAHA NATIONAL BANK OF OMAHA, NK.I1.. Made to the ComptroIUT of tlio Currency, April 28th. 1000. HKSOIKCKS. Ixana and Discounts $ 7,563.044.77 Overdrafts 1,927.33 U. S. Bonds, for Circulation C26.250.OO Stocks and Bonds 519,999.73 "anking House and Safety Deposit Vaults 176,000.00 U. S. Bonds for Deposits $ 578,925.00 Due from Approved KeBcrve Agents.... 1,469,717.79 Due from Other Banks " 1,984. 724. 5 Cash on Hand 1.645,802.04 Due from U. S. Treasurer 30,000.00 C. 609, 169. 41 114,486, 291. 24 LIAIULITIKS. Capital $ 1,000.000.00 Surplus Fund 200,000.00 I'ndivided Profits 251,203. 69 Circulation 699.997.60 Deposits 12.433.090.05 114,486,291.24 THIRTEENTH HTRKET. 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