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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 26, 1909)
THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: SEPTEMBER 26, 1909. r, rvuHJI tAMA EPIISKl IrjLl Wwj wrwj WmMk llfffMrl l: mm 1 II Mm New Growth of Omaha During Year Just Nearing; Its iL ill I Continued from Page Throe.) the rein of the present king. These are the Methodist Episcopal hospital on West Cuming street and the new Bishop Clarkion bonpital on West Howard. Each of thfse hospital buildings cost in the vicinity of $150,000, exclusive of Interior work. Another hospital building now lu course of construc tion Is that of the Immanuol Deaconess' association. This Is an addition of equal size with the present struc ture and will cost $25,000. The county during the year spent $20,000 In erecting now buildings In connection with the county horpjtal. The First Church of Christ, Scientist, with a super structural cost of $70,000, hcadB the list of expenditures during the year for religious institutions, while the lm manuel Baptist church, cf sting nearly as much, was fin ished since King Ak-Sar-Uen XIV began his reign. Build ing operations on the Catholic cathedral during the year have amounted to $28,000. The new churches along mailer lines are being built, the First German Presby terian and the First Greek, each to cost $10,000. Over $5,000 was spent In remodeling the Walnut Hill Meth odist church and large sums were spent In improving the German Baptist church property and the Jewish syna gogue at Twenty-fourth and Nicholas streets. The Young Women's Christian association building, erected at a cost of $125,000, was completed within the year. Expensive buildings for the Union Pacific and for the McKeen Motor Car Works were erected on the Union Pa cific shop grounds. The lnterurban car line to Seymour lake, Ralston and raplllon was completed during the year. Preliminary arrangements have been made for the erecting of the largest freight depot In the country, that of the Burlington, to cost a quarter of a million dollars. Nearly as much will be expended In building the new borne for the Woodmen of the World, preliminary steps for which have been taken. Since King Ak-Sar-Ben XIV ascended the throne the city, through its Board of Park Commissioners and by reason of a munificent gift from Mrs. Ed J. Cornish, has acquired possession of 303 acres of land surrounding Cut-Off lake and known as Levi Carter park. Work of improving thiB park has just begun, the departing king having the satisfaction of seeing the first nail driven In the construction of the $25,000 dredge being built to dredge out the lake and fill the lowlands that surround It. But while the Levi Carter park Is by far the largest and will some day probably be the finest park In the city according to the park commissioners other parks In Omaha have not been slighted during the reign of this prosperity king. Pavilions, beautiful in design and ade quate In size, have been built In the Miller and River view parks; many more animals have been added to the Zoo In Rlvervlew park, more flowers have been set out . MVJ s , J' c7fXtr . 1 UWi 5 S: :',iJi 's'-'iu1 s T-' : 1 I 7 ! I II If.' . HP' I l fl-:i i ) 9 1 lit 'IMi 1 9 r-s -'i - a i fM mf f - w ir e B& r f.t t CITY NATIONAL BANK BUILDING, OMAHA'S FIRST SKY SCRAFER. In Hanscom park and other Improvements have been made In the other breathing places of the city. The king has watched over the expenditure of close to $75,000 on the 917 acres of land embraced in the city's thirteen parks and the ten and one-half miles of boulevards. The park commissioners and the builders are not the only people the king has watched and hurried forward during his reign, but his other servants. Including the city engineer and his staff, worked wonders In their line and extended the city's paving, curbing and sewerage system. Eight and one-half miles of paving laid at a cost of $375,000. Thirteen miles of street curbing was laid ftt a cost of $47,000. Seven and one-half miles of sewers were built at a cost of $160,000. The amount of money expended on new sewers Is much more than In other years and paving and curbing work Is also In advance, though not so marked. For sewers $150,000 has actually been spent, while another $60,000 Is being used In constructing the Fort avenue sewer, one of the most important pieces of the drainage system of the city. The $150,000, in cluding that aniount expended, conse quently does not include the entire cost of the North Omaha main sewer. This North Omaha main sewer, now nearing completion and begun since King Ak-Sar-Ben XIV ascended the throne, is the largest sewer ever built in the entire west and Its 4,500 feet will cost the city and the Union Pacific Railroad company when done $165, 000. There 1h nothing west of Chicago in the way of sewers as large as this North Omaha main. At Its mouth it Is twenty-two feet wide by eleven and , a half feet high, large enough for two teams to drive abreast. These dimen sions diminish gradually farther from the outlet. While the North Omaha main sewer Is the largest single engineering feat undertaken during this reign, a much smaller undertaking, and one which cost only $5,000, is even more Impor tant and will mean more to the sub jects of the king In dollars and cents. This is the drainage ditch through what are known as the Florence bot toms. The dltcn extends from Twenty fourth street and the north city limits to the Missouri river, and by reason of it thousands of acres of valuable land which was formerly overflowed have been reclaimed. Every king who ever sat on the throne of Ak-Sar-Ben tried but failed in another big undertaking in which Ak-Sar-Ben XIV has been successful. This Is the opening of Twenty-fourth street. This king succeeded in settling all difficulties, in bringing harmony out of disorder, in getting the property owners to agree, and during the last month of his reign ho has had the satisfaction of seeing graders at work cutting down the Burt street hill which since the year one has blocked Twenty-fourth. When 1 this hill is cut down and the thousands of cubic yards of earth have been removed Twenty-fourth will be "e long est street in the king's domain, running from Florence to the Sarpy county line, a distance of over nine miles and almost the entire distance paved. Counting Thir tieth street In Florence, the entire length of the street will be twelve and one-half miles. Three viaducts have been ordered built over railway tracks during the reign of the king. One is to be over the tracks at Locust street, the viaduct to be built from Thirteenth to Fifteenth street; another Is o be over ho tracks at Dodge street, the viaduct to be built from Forty-third to Forty-sixth street, and the third is to lie over the tracks at Eighteenth street, the viaduct to be built from Leavenworth to Pierce street. He has also seen steps taken looking toward the building of a viaduct on Bancroft street. King Ak-Sar-Ben XIV has seen Omaha grow in every department, In every line of endeavor, during his short reign of twelve months. He has seen it grow to be the first in the manufacture of butter. He has seen it grow to be the second corn market in the world. He has seen It grow to be third in the nient-packing industry and third in the production, or marketing, of wheat. He has seen It grow to be the fourth grain market in the world. Postoffice receipts for 1908, three months of which were during the reign of the departing king, amounted to $846,000. This has been Increased to about $1,000,000. Bank clearings In 1908 were $602,000,000, but van sura fats been added In the nine months of the king's reign during the current calendar year. Bank deposits at the beginning of the reign amounted to $49,581,000. At the close of the reign they amount to more than $58,000,000, a gain of over $9,000,000. Bank loans show a gain during the reign of about $6,000,000, many loans showing much business. Loans at the beginning of the reign amounted to $31,248,000; at the close they amount to $35,866,000. Jobbing in 1908 amounted to $309,000,000, with a big increase for the last nine months. Real estate values have Increased to a remarkable degree, until it takeB $3,600 to buy one foot of land on a corner in the best retail business district and $2,500 to buy one foot of inside property In this district. Second best retail corners now cost $1,000 a foot and inside lots cost $500 a foot, while only five blocks from the business center $260 is required to gain possession of one foot of street frontage. Residence property has risen In value to from $30 to $100 a front foot, while fifty-foot lots on grade and near the car lines as far as from two or three miles from the city command prices ranging from $1 ."'.) to $600. End Mfe li m mm lv?AfVl mm i TO mm ill A1 fTpY i' in y I IKS, 4v ' ' m..'JI. St-'. . Facts From Ford of Vital Importance to Automobile Buyers First Fact Light as the Ford car is, 1,200 lbs., it is no lighter in proportion than a passenger engine of the accepted high est type. The 5,000 H. P. Pacific type locomotive used on the Pennsyl vania Lines West weighs 53.8 lbs. per horse power. The Model "T" weighs 53.3 lbs. per horse power. Each is designed by an engineering expert for passenger service. On the other hand, the average freight engine, as well as a large proportion of automobiles, weigh from 85 to 110 lbs. per horse power. Note the difference! Second Fact Tho the tires on the Ford are small in actual inches and so cost less to replace, they are in reality the largest tires used on any automobile. Third Fact The horse power of the Model "T" though rated as "twenty" is greater than the average "thirty.," and equal to some of the "forty" cars. Fourth Fact Lives are often at the mercy of the braking possibilities of a car. Brakes scientifically designed are pro portioned to the load they must control, the larger the load the larger the brakes. One of the heavier cars iu the New York-Seattle race had to rig up a drag to hold back on the grades. The winning Ford car didn't. Quality Facts Commodore Vanderbilt, that giant of railroad development, oncu offered a carriage builder $1,000 for each pound by which he was able to reduce the weight of a buggy. It is a mistake to consider low price as a result of light weight or that light weight is a result of low price. Low price results from know-how, from specialization, from quantity buying and producing and from system in production and sell ing. Light weight is the result of Mr. Ford's conviction that quality and design, not quantity and cast iron, are essentials of strength. Maintenance Facts Repair bills are smaller; fuel bills are lighter; tire costs aro less. A Model "T" costs less to maintain per month than a horse and buggy. A gallon of gasoline is enough for 22 to 25 miles; a set of tires lasts 8,000 to 10,000 miles or more and repair parts aro low priced and easily installed Durability Facts It is another mis take to consider a light car as being unsuitable for heavy roads. A traction engine needs a mighty smooth road, yet a traction engine is nothing more than a heavy weight automobile. Over any and all kinds of roads the Model "T" will run more miles, more days, more years than any heavier car manufactured and it is tho lightest of them all. Specification Facts A Vanadium steel, four cylinder, twenty horse power, 1,200 lb. car; Ford magneto built in as a part of engine, no brushes, contact points, moving wires or batteries; thermosyphon system of cooling; new design planetary transmission, silent, easy and long lived; combination "splash and gravity oiling system without oilers, lubricators or pip ing; three point suspension, unit construction through out and only three units to entire chassis; and inter changeable bodies. These and other up-to-date Ford features described in catalogue. Price Facts Touring car at $950.00, Tourabout at $S"0.X, Koad.ster at $900.00, include top, automatic brass wind shield, speedometer, gas lamps, generator, three oil lamps, and tubular horn. For un equipped car with oil lamps and tubular horn only, de duct $75.00. The Coupe at $1,050.00, Landalet at $1,100.00 and Town Car at $1,200.00, include three oil lamps and tubular horn. EVERY MODEL "T" FORD CAR is nn exact duplicate of the car that won the New York Seattle Unce. W,;,:,,,, -Sal tirVi) . 'iTr JtQ&frW jn& v,v. tKO- . Cf-r- -"'TPs "' Atlantic Automobile Company Votlo that tb drlrai's mt aad control r on tb Uft band aid of tha car. Tbli la tna saw and rlgfet way oonranlant for dismounting to tba alda walk. Great Reo News The 1.910 Reo is a big, powerful, handsome, -.Cylinder car, with 30 to 35 actual horse power 50 miles an hour, fast on hills, light off like a thorough bred as soon as you open the throttle and with all the get-there-and-back ability that goes with every Reo ever built. Price $1,250 (top and wind-shield extra). How it was possible to build a car of this kind for $1,250, or anything like it, is a long story, told in the Reo catalogue. AVe give you only a hint of it here. A vast amount of ;ower developed in a long stroke motor (4x -V j) with big intake and exhaust valves (one at the top, and one on the side of the cylinder) letting in and discharging a great amount of gas. Every working part of the car is thought out and developed to the last degree of perfection, and is machined down to the ultimate possible refine ment. We put the costs where they count for power and effectiveness. The water-cooling, for instance; a strong, effective pump that rapidly sends a great amount of water right straight to the point where it is most needed (the exhaust valve) before cooling the rest of the motor. Cam gears, designed to open the valves more quickly than they have ever been opened before in any car. Lubrication system which, without waste or contamination of oil, puts it where it does the most good (the main bearings of the motor, and the faco of the cam gears) and after wards sends a proper amount of oil spray to the working side of the cylinder and pistona. A clutch that positively engages and releases at the will of the operator. The whole working mechanism of the ear from stem to stern is protected from dust, with the leakage of oil made almost impossible. The saving of friction has been worked out and is exemplified in this car to an extraordinary degree. Another great power-waster is lost motion, which is avoided first by great refine ment in manufacture, and second, by making possible quick adjust ments of all parts likely to become loose the connecting rods and main bearings, for example (easily reached through a hand hole in the crunk case), the bevel gear (easily reached through the rear axle housing) and so on throughout the entire mechanism. Why only $1,2501 Thorough designing making brains take the place of metal. Economy in manufacture good, 6ound, economical factory methods. Economy in selling and advertising producing extctly the kind of car jx-ople want. COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA. ATLANTIC, IOWA. The manufacture of automobiles has passed out of the experimental htape into the field of practical business production and distribution. ill