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Ak-Sar-Ren XIV Shows Wonderful Progress
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REAT has been the reign of
King Ak-Sar-Uen XIV.
No other king in any
other year has had aa
prosperous a reign
seen as many improve
ments within his realm
much building or
homes and places of busi
ness by his subjects, as
large" an increase in ma
terial wealth as shown iu
the Blacks of gold in the
banks as has King Ak-
Sar Ben XIV, who will within a few days abdicate his
throne and turn over to King Ak-Sar-lien XV the duties
of looking after the welfare of the loyal subjects.
Prosperity In an ever increasing degree has always
been apparent in every corner of the realm of the retir
ing king and wherever the monarch or his lord high
chamberlain might chance to look they could see naught
but happy, prosperous and contented subjects; and busy,
withal.
These subjects have put In a busy twelve month In
erecting more large business buildings, magnificent
dwellings and modest homer than in any one year since
the inauguration of King Ak-Sar-Ben I, or of any year
for some time before the house of Ak-Sar-Dcn came Into
existence.
They have been busy in laying more miles of pave
ment and In building the largest sewer west of Chicago
and several other smaller sewers.
They have been busy In piling up in the banks more
money on deposit than in any other year, In bringing the
bank clearings above any former record, in swelling the
receipts of the postoflice more than any other year, In In
creasing the jobbing trade In a remarkable degree.
These subjects have been busy in raising more babies,
building more churches, endowing more schools and buy
ing more parks than during the reign of any other king.
"Busy" has been the watchword of the Omahan dur
ing 1909 and the quick lunch has prospered as never
before, as have also the manufacturers- of dyspepsia
tablets.
Building operations during the year show a more ap
preciable gain, a gain which can be more readily seen
and understood by the most lowly subject, than the pros
perity evidenced by bank clearings or wholesale trade.
But the building story Is a big story.
While many buildings, large and small, have been
completed during the reign
of the present king, most
of the larger buildings of a
public or seml-publlc na
ture are now In course of
construction. These build
ings total nearly $4,500,
000, small structures and
homes not being Included
in this figure. Among the
buildings in course of con
struction are county and
municipal, $1,050,000;
school, $418,000; hospi
tal s , $345,000, and
churches, $118,000.
The two largest build
ings to be started during
the reign of the retiring
king are the Douglas
county court house and the
City National Bank build
ing, each to cost $1,000,
000. Next in line comes
the Brandeis theater build
ing, with an expenditure
of $450,000, and tho
chapel for the Academy of
the Sacred Heart, with a
cost as great. The addition to the Crelghton Memorial St.
Joseph hospital, to cost $320,000, next has preference
according to expenditure, while the addition to the High
school, to cost $175,000; the new Omaha View and For
rest school buildings, each to cast $100,000, and the car
barns at Tenth and Pierce streets being erected by the
Omaha & Council Bluffs Street Railway company and to
cost $100,000, complete the expenditure requiring six
figures.
Other buildings of a public or seml-publlc nature now
in the course of construction, and to cost $10,00 or over,
are among the following:
W. T. Graham, hotel and store building $80,000
First Church of Christ, Scientist 70,000
John L. Kennedy, store building 65,000
Omaha Fireproof Storage Co., warehouse 65,000
Crelghton University laboratory 43,000.
Elks' building 40,000
H. Dupuy, warehouse 40,000
Bee publishing house, 30,000
Merrtam & Holmquist grain elevator 30,000
Catholic Cattydral 2 8,000
Hamilton apartment house addition 28,000
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NEW BRANDEIS THEATER AND OFFICE BUILDING (BEING ERECTED).
Ames avenue engine house 28,000
Immanuel Deaconess' hospital 2 5,000
S. D. Mercer company, hotel 2 5,000
Cornish apartment house ". 24,000
Nebraska-Iowa Grain Co, elevator 20,000
Klopp & Bartlett, store building 18,000
Sherman & McConnell, garage '. . 17,000
C. W. Partridge apartment house 17,000
Mrs. M. F. Patrick, storo building 14,000
Gould Dietz, garage 14,000
H. Krasne, store building 13,000
Mrs. Sophie Lehman, store building 11,000
First German Presbyterian church 10,000
Greek church 10,000
Imperial Imp. Co., stoiv. and office building 10,000
Nebraska Fuel Co., coal elevators 10,000
Smith Brick company kiln . . . 10,000
These larger buildings now in course of construction
total $4,385,000, but to this must be added a number of
other large structures already completed and hundreds
of dwellings, both large and small, either completed or
in course of construction.
Among the larger structures completed during the
reign of the retiring king are the following:
John Deere building $300,000
Methodist hospttal 154.00O
Bishop Clarkson hospital 150,000
Y. V. C. A. building 135,000
Loose-Wiles cracker factory io,004
International Harvester company building.... 65,ooo
People's Ice and Cold Storage Co.. factory.... 50,000
Lothrop school addition 47.0(H)
Auditorium Improvements . 40,000
Richardson Bros, apartment house . 4o,oot
Manner mills and elevators 37,000
J. S. Bacon, stores and flats 30,000
St. Philomenas church 30,000
C. W. Hull, warehouse .' 30,000
Franklin school addition 2 5,000
City Jail 25,000
Douglas county hospital buildings 20,000
Spring street street car barns
J. Treltschke, stores and Hats
Four hundred and forty residences, costing over
$2,500 and under $5,000, have been erected, or are now
In course of construction, 120 residences, costing more
than $5,000 and under $10,000, have been erected, or
are now in course of construction, and twenty resiliences,
costing over $10,000, and some as high as $20,000, have
been erected during the reign of the present king.
Contained in the above tables are large expenditures
for buildings of a public nature, including charitable
and educational buildings. Along educational lines the
people during the closing reign of the prosperity king
nave made big strides and have spent their money, not
lavishly, but still not begrudglngly.
The south wing to the High school Is well along to
ward completion, the addition calling for an expenditure
of $175,000, exclusive of interior finishing or fittings.
Then another $200,000 is being spent on the Omaha
View and Forest school buildings, while $47,000 was
spent in building an addition to the Lothrop school, mak
ing that the largest ward school building In the city, and
$25,000 was spent in building an addition to the Frank
lin school building. To these expenditures on school
buildings for the use oi the public must be added other
expenditures for prlvatt. schools. This Is headed by an
expenditure of $43,000 for a new laboratory building for
the Crelghton university.
Among expenditures for buildings of a philanthropic
nature, that for the addition to the Crelghton Memorial
St. Joseph hospital takes front rank. This addition is
to cost $320,000, exclusive of furnishings The com
pleted hospital will cover two entire blocks of ground
kind in the entire west.
Two other hospital buildings were completed during
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