TIIE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MAItCII 13, 1910.
TIMELY REAL ESTATE C0SS1P
RMS . OF TIE BUSY IMS MUMS
Lawn Fence B
Prominent Out-of-Town Speakers
Preach to Beautify the City.
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CIVIC PMLE IS GENERAL SUBJECT
Cllatoa Roirn W ee re If mn4 fharle
HiKorl Reblasea, 4et City
H r formers. Tall Maw a
Makt Tom Heaetlfel.
The cltlrens of Omaha had It ltnprsel
upon thr.lr mlnd litst week that It wi
proper lo beautify the city and that to
alt ws next to a crime. Two man of na
tional prominence cama to Omaha and lec
tured on tha 'City Beautiful" and on tha
ubject of "Civic Pride." That their work
will bear fruit now aeerni evident.
Clinton Roser Woodruff apoka twlce
Tueaday night before tha Worain'i club
and Wednesday noon before a Joint meet
ing of the Commercial club and the Krai
Estate exchange. He Impressed upon his
hearer the necessity of providing for the
future In the way of large parka, beautiful
drive-ways and sufficient playgrounds.
Charles Mulford Robinson, who plans
citioa and makes them over to conform to
modern fashions, spent Thursday In Omsha
and met with about twenty-five leading
cltlaens, who are Interested In the question
of improving the looks of Omaha. His vlilt
resulted in the appointment of ft committer
with Mr. Robinson to formulate
I some plan toward which Omaha mlfcht fol
i low In the future. This committee consists
nt v.. P. Rprrvman. president of the park
board; F. D. Wead. president of the Real
Estate exchange; Frank I Haller' of the
Commercial club. City Engineer Craig, City
Comptroller Lobeck and Councllmen Hum
mel and Sheldon.
Apartment house will soon be springing
tin mi fa I I KiAmm In Omaha giving promise
lti mika miliit a building boom for Omaha
this spring. Among th new house which
re planned Is one of six complete apart
ments which C. P. Traver will build t
Twenty-ninth avenue and Mason treet.
to coat $20,000. M. Sorenson will build a
large apartment house at Twenty-seventh
and Harney treets to cost about 20,00.
Thla have twelve aDartmants. The
l Putnam company will build eight St. Louis
) flats at Twentieth and Howard streets at
a coat of about $20,000. Several are near
( Ing completion which have been built dur
; lng tha winter month and aeveral other
! are being planned.
Plans for the new Unlcn Pacific head
, quarters show that the foundation will be
: made of sufficient strength to carry al
; most any kind of a building. The plan call
for ninety-eight cassona which will be aunk
to a depth of flfty-ix feet to bed rock.
Fred Hamilton, cashier of the Merchant
National bank, ha completed plan for
. beautiful home he will build at Thlrty-sev-jenth
and Jackson atreet. The house will
I be of brick and terra cotta and will cost
'118.000.'
I Garvin Rros.. have platted the Forry
farm of VX acre and named It Garven
f hurst. The old farm 1 divided Into . five
'and ten-acre garden and fruit tract. It
Is two mile west of Florence, just south
of Brlggs station and adjoining the Hazel
Dell nursery. A level concrete road passes
the farm making paved road all the way
to Omaha.
Charles and Jack Beaton are having
plana drawn for a large and nifty apart
ment house on Farnam atreet near Thirty -second,
Just east of the residence of C. A.
Hull. ' It will be high class with seventy
two feet frontage on Famam street and
will have apartment for six famine with
Ix rooms to an apartment The building
will have two basements. In one of which
will be servant rooms for each of the
: apartments. On th south will be sun
room. Uoyd D. Willi I architect of the
' building, which will cost about 12S.000.
The aame architect 1 preparing plan for
. an apartment house to be built by A. L,
: Meyer, adjoining the Potter on the' east.
It will have apartment for six famlllea.
Ed Johnstone will build an eight family
apartment at Thirty-first and Mason
i streets, the building to cost about 130,000.
Mr. Willis I also preparing plan for the
; Maryland, an apartment house to be built
j on Park avenue near Poppleton avenue.
I and another apartment house to be built
at Thirtieth and Poppleton.
j Heating tc Heyden have let the contract
j for grading and leveling Catalpa Place
addition, located between ZSth avenue and
Thirtieth, Maple, Corby and Miami street.
Over 6,000 cublo yards of dirt will be moved
to put the addition In first class condition.
Grading ha already begun on Corby
street, at least 10,000 square feet of cement
sidewalk will be put down a aoon a the
grading 1 completed. Five new house have
already been started in the addition. The
demand for the purchase of lots In the ad-
ditlon has been beyond expectation. A
H petition for the paving of Thirtieth street
from Lake to Bristol will be handed Into
the elty clerk this week, a large majority
having already signed.
Did the Watchman
Shoot Wrong Man?
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Ijohn Storey of Union Paoifio Sendi
Bullet Into Leg; of William
! Wright
"Halt.
cried John Storey, "Halt or I'll
, fire!"
1 William Wright did not halt. Wherefore
, he I confined to St. Joseph's hlapltal with
a bullet ho! In the calf of hi right leg
while Mr. Storey Is under arrest.
The affair happened out at Valley. Wright
Is a stockman and Storey a special officer
of the Union Pacific.
There are the usual two sides to th
episode. It seems to be well established
. that Wright had a load of hogs In a car
In the yards and was going to inspect them
every few minutes. It is also well estab
lished that robberies of cars between here
and Fremont have been uumerous and tha
road offlcera have been trying to be un
usually vigilant In detecting the thieve.
"They are shooting at random every
night," camplalna Attorney Sullivan of
Valley, who cam la to help prosecute
tTtorey,
Ball -will be arranged for the railroad
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Tta nest neiiaiaga,
Th "Brochure Serious of Archlteoural
Illustration." January, tM. reported a
the result of a voting contest of archl
tect the following ten buildings In the
order of preference In which the names
are here given: (1) National Capitol,
Washington; (I) publlo Llbray, Boatoo
(I) Trinity church. Bo ton; (4) Congrea
atonal Library, Washington; (6) Columbia
University Library, New Tork; () Trinity
church. New Tork; (7) Madison Square
Garden, New Tork: (S) St. Patrick' Ca
thedral. New Tork; () Biltmor House,
'BUtmore, N. C.j 110) City Hall. New TorV.
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Getting Best Results in Home
The Duplex Hoaae,
HE reason duplex houses are con
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tinually growing In favor 1 be
cause they are at onoe an In
vestment and a home, and a
very popular style of home at
that, the plan of every duplex
being precisely that of a bungalow, for
all the "room are arranged on one floor
with window on all four sides, differing
In this respect from the flats In a flat
building. Since It would not prove a good
investment if It were not an attractive
home. It should be considered from the
home standpoint first
The room being arranged all on one
floor reduce th labor of house keeping
to a minimum, this style of house 1 very
popular - among young couples. A young
wife being used to an untrammeled life
naturally prefers a home which will give
her the least responsibility and spare her
the most time for social affairs. They are
also popular with people in their declining
year, who, having tired of the trial, trib
ulation, trouble and triumph of life,
desire to close their live a they began
them, on the simplest plan possible.
The duplex house Is, however, not the
proper place for small children. It- Is as
necessary to the health of young people
to romp and play aa It 1 for them to ob
tain fresh air and sunshine. People can
always stand the noise their own children
make, but Invariably object to that made
by their neighbors. For thla reason small
children living In duplex houses or flat
buildings sre placed under natural restric
tion, which means that they will takeSto
the streets" and neighboring yards for their
romp and ptay.
A Investments, duplex houses are popu-
FIFTEEN MILES NEW PAYING
Extensive Stretch of Streets and Al
leys to Be Paved This Season.
MUCH WORK WAS CARRIED OYER
Lesson f Experieace Heeded by City
Aatkorttle and verythlaa; Is
Now Ib Readlsieaa for m Hash
Wkis Preet I Oat.
Dunn the nrtMnt working Mninn Pltv
Engineer Craig expect that at least fif
teen miles of new pavement will be laid.
This will include about $400,000 worth of
work carried over from last year. Close to
$1.00S, 00 worth of new paving Is now con
tracted and as much a posslbl will be
rushed to completion.
Approximately six miles of tha new Dev.
lng will be placed In the downtown district,
on streets and in alleys. The other nine
miles will be laid In tha residence districts
all over the city. Petitions are now being
circulated to have the kinds of material
designated by tbe property, holders In the
several districts.
Last year th paving contractors got a
late start and were hindered a good deal
by bad weather and the slownesa of the
treet car company In laying new track.
Thi was especially true on Cuming street,
and to a lesser degree on Fifteenth and
Sixteenth streets.
Active operations have already been
started on Cuming. The curbing ha been
reset on a large pert of tbe street, with a
view to going ahead with th paving Just
aa soon aa the frost ha left th ground.
On many other streets paving bricks are
being piled and sand and broken stone
being placed preparatory to mixing and
putting down the concrete base. Scores of
carload of paving material are arriving
In Omaha every day.
Precautions were taken thla year to have
all paving district advertised In good time,
e that all the low bidder on th various
kind cf paving are selected and the peti
tion are out on a large number of street.
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Arthur C. Clausen, Architect.
MR. CLAUSEN'S BOOK
'The Art, Bolence and Sentiment
of Homebuilding."
43 chapters, 200 Illustration and a
thousand' facts on the planning and
designing of every kind of home. It
covers a wide range of subjects, In-,
eluding the planning of bungalows,
suburban and city homes, letting
contracts, ohooslng materials, proper
design of entrances, windows, fire
places, etc. Price, post pld, 11.00
A monthly supplement, "Practical
Homebuilding," sent rratls for
twelve months following the sale of
the book.
Address, Arthur O. Clausen, Archi
tect, 1136-37-38 lumber Exohange,
' Minneapolis, Minnesota.
lar to both real estate men and home
builders. Many people build duplex houses
Intending to occupy one of the flats them
selves and renting the other one. When
this Is done, one heating plant la all that
Is necessary. The owner can then charge
up the' other tenant for the heat In the
rent When the owner does not occupy the
building It Is then best to Install two heat
ing plants, dividing the basement Into two
separate parts with separate fuel bins,
laundries, etc., not contemplating any
trouble, but to avoid It. .
The more like a private home a duplex
can be designed, the more popular It be
comes. For this reason, It Is best to have
but one outside front entrance opening
Into a spacious vestibule with one door
leading off for the first floor tenant and
The new specifications are also a good
deal more stringent than formerly, espe
cially on the matter of holding contract
ors to the time limit for finishing the
work. Both city offtlcal and contractor
are hopelful of more favorable weather
than prevailed last year.
OMAHA SOCIETIES PLANNING
HONOR FOR GENERAL MORTON
OecasloB of Hla Retirement 'from the
Army to Be Slarnallsed by
. Local Friend.
The formal retirement of Brigadier Gen
eral Charles Morton, United State army,
on March 18, will be made the occasion of
a number of friendly demonstrations, be
tween 12 m. and 2 p. m. next Friday, by
many of the civic, military and patriotic
societies of Omaha. These organizations
will make informal calls at army head
quarters fo pay their respect to General
Morton.
Among the organisations that are taking
the initiative In the matter are the Com
mercial club, the Elks, Loyal Legion,
Grand Army of the Republic, Order of
Eagle and Ak-Sar-Ben. ,
General Morton enjoys the distinction
of 'being one of the three general orflcera
now on active duty with the United States
army who saw service during the civil
war. The two others are Brigadier General
Earl D. Thomas, commanding the peport
ment of Colorado, who will reture January
1 1911. and Brigadier General Charles L.
Hodge, commanding the Department of
the Dakota, who will retire March 13, ltfll.
HOLDUP MEN STILL AT WORK
Footpad Kes 1 Their Operations,
Those Semetlseea They Doa't
Get Mtfk.
Th festive hold-up man goe along right
merrily.
Grant Major, residing at 1211 Howard
street, wa held up Friday night In front
of hi horn at 11:10 o'clock by two young
men and robed of S centa
i Juet a he wa about to turn Into his
own home Majors wa approached by two
young men who ordered him to throw up
hi bands. He complied and they went
through his clothes. He wa not over
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Building
one for the second floor tenant. When the
space will allow, it. Is a splendid thing to
have a little reception - hall with a coat
closet just off of this vtstlbul on the first
floor for the second floor tenant, with an
open stairway leading up to the second
floor. This arrangement" 1 much more
attractive than the usuaLplan of boxing
In the stairway between two, closed parti
tions, giving one the impression on their
way up to the second '.floor flat of a
cramped condition. Economy of space Is,
of course, always advisable In the planning
of any kind of home or building, but this
principle should never be applied In a
manner that will suggest that lack of funds
was responsible for an Insufficient amount
of space being used for any room or fea
ture in the house.
- When both flats are rented, duplex houses
located in a desirable neighborhood near a
car line will bring in an annual clear re
turn of from 9 to IS per cent on the amount
Invested on the house and lot, the exact
return on the Investment depending on
how good a manager the Investor is, when
planning, building and renting hla building.
Duplex house bring In from $70 to $300 per
month for each building, according to size
and location, this Including the rent for
both flats. . While they cost a little more
than ordinary two-story houses of the same
size owing to the Increased amount of
plumbing and separate heating plants, 'the
fact should be noted that" two complete
homes are obtained on one lot with one
foundation and under one roof, dividing
the cost of these Item between them. A
duplex house 1 the happy combination of
most of the advantage of a private home
and a flat, which accounts for it present
and Increasing popularity.
burdened with money and the robera got
away with only 25 cents.. Ha reported th
hold-up to the police station, but no trace
of the highwaymen could be found. Ha
described the men as about 20 year of age
and a wearing dark clothe and dark soft
hat. This description fits those given of
the hold-up men who have been Infesting
the city for the last two weeks.
Persistent Advertising is the road to Big
Return.
CATCH GIRLS WHO RAN
AWAY FROM REFORMATORY
De Moines Sleuth Take 22 of 23
Who Escaped from Mitchell.
Title School.
DES MOINES, la., March 12. Des Moines
police during last night captured twenty
two of the twenty-five girls who escaped
early In the evening from the Iowa Indus
trial school at MiH'hellvllle. The girls were
dressed in the school uniform and were
easily found by the officers. Many of them
claim that they walked from Mltchellvllle
to Des Moines, a distance of sixteen miles.
Phono WM. .J. BOEKHOFF. Retail Dealer
Omaha's -Favorite Qottlcd
For Home Oonsu-nrr.
Saute phone numbers Douglas 119; Independent, A-2119
deliver and same prices guaranteed.
Office, Mo. 803 South Seventh Street.
Greater Omaha and
the City Beautiful
will both become realttlAfl a soon a it 1 gen
erally understood that the old frame houses
may be converted Into the appearance and dur
ability of stone by the application of cement
mortar on
Expanded LMa Steel Lath
attached to the weather boarding.
The process is inexpensive, and makes the
house warmer In winter and cooler in summer,
fire resistent and decay proof.
The cemented house is the strictly up to
date form of construction, and when the old
house is covered it cannot be distinguished from
the new.
Property so treated will rent better and
sell better.
Write for full particulars fre by mail.
KCRTHWESTERN EXPANDED METAL CO.
132 S. Clark St., Chicago.
The Sherwin Williams Company announces to the
trade the appointment of The Barker Brothers Paint
Company as wholesale and retail agents for the city
of Omaha and vicinity.
We bespeak for these gentlemen the same splendid
business which you have given us in the past, and assure
you that you will find them ever ready to supply your
demands. Having a central location, they will be in
position to fill all orders promptly and in addition to
the Sherwin Williams Line of paints, varnishes and oils,
they will carry a complete line of glass, wallpaper and
painters' supplies.
Artistic picture framing done at reasonable prices.
Phone your orders Douglas 4750 A-38'21.
BERN ICE (Arkansas Anthracite)
Have you tried it? Just the kind for spring. Keeps the bouse com
fortable, at tbe same time holds the fire.
HUDSON (Indian Head) Our Loader
Clean as Rock Springs, cheap as Illinois. Good for range, heater or
furnace. This is tbe coal you are looking for.v Call Harney 737; Inde
pendent A-1738.
Tho Updike Lumber & Coal Co.
FORTY-FIFTH AND DODGE STREETS.
Screen Your Home
We do screening1 of all kinds window,
door and porch screens; portable screen houses
for lawns and camping.
The only exclusive screen house in the
country. Inventors of the steel socket corner
screen.
OMAHA WI11D0U SCREEN CO.,
' 624 North 16th Street.
"We hitched oar
wagon to a star.
We brought forth
there yon are"
THC BCCR YOU LIKE
Consumers' Distributer
John Nittler
8224 So. 24th Street,
Bong. 1889, Bed 3933,
Ind. A-1490.
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Phone Douglas 4692.-
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It will b well worth th journey
for any man to com to see our
Spring- Shoes.
We've the best of Shoe the sort
of shoes that have made our shoe
business o successful.
Moderate priced shoe at
$3.00, $3.50 or $4.00
Bho luxury at
$5.00 or $6.00
We are showing-
The Best Shoes Made
W buy our Men' Shoe from mak
er who have reputation for mak
ing the best of Men' Shoes.
The man who ha bought shoes
'her will be sure to come' again.
The man who ha never bought
shoes here can learn something about
hoe. If he will step In "Just for a
look."
FRY SHOE CO.
THE SHOEKS
16th and Douglas StreeU.
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
At th top of th Oxsrks. ha en hu.V
dred thousand visitor annually. Delight
ful winter resort. iure water, mountain
air and beautiful scenery. Visitor with
Kldcfy. Kheumatlsm, Stomach and Nerv
ous trouble cured. For booklet, writ
SECRETARY CCXUERCML CLUB
THE TWENTY CENTURY FARMER
Ua Dolta m Year
We are prepared to put
up any kind of Iron Fenco
made. See us for plans, de
signs, etc.
Anchor Fence Go.
205-207 North 17th Street,
Omaha., Neb.
Rooms Wall Papered
For $1.00 a Boom
Thst Is we will make your eld wall
paper look like new for as low as II.
LIT V CLBABJ
your water and oil color painting.
X.ST V CXBAV
our marble and atone work, look
ust like new when we do the work.
V have the latest and best Taenia
Air Cleaners on th market, which
will clean the most Delicate
Kara. Carpet, Bedding, Draperies,
Upholstered Thing and Io Car
tain. Give us your contract for painting
Iron Works of all kinds.
ALL OTm WOU IS OTJAmAJTTKD
Call np Douglas 7149
C. Ellington,
omen, sia xro. istk it.
IIY PRICES LOWER
THAN THE REST
Before you give your contract out
for wall paper and painting do not
fail to see my stock and price. You
will lose money If you don't. I have
the larrest stock of wall paper In
Omaha and my prices are the lowest.
Sam Newman
109 South 14th Street.
'Phones, Doug. 4S ; Ind., A-4818.
Estimate Cheerfully Furnlehed Free
Call al Up.
A man who gets bis feet Into a
pair of Hanan Shoes will fell good
enougnt about It to tell all bis
friends. That's why Hanan Shoes
are a universal favorite.
We have Hanan Shoes in all Tbe
new shapes and in all leathers
for both men and women.
Prices Range for Women From
$5.00to$6.0O
Prices rane for Men from
35.50 to 57.00
Drexel Shoe Co.
OMAHA SELLINU AGENTS
1419 Famam St.
bak kui m us nu arwPiBiia am
Spring Campaign
el read successful and many pair sold
"WALKOVER"
BTY1.1I, FIT AHD BEBTIOB
OXFORDS
S3. 50 -nd $4.00
Tou will appreciate the Individuality
of these new lasts and will by yours
At The
WALK-OVER SHOE STORE
1 SJOtTTW ISTK .TKliaiT.
an a. isounoir, wia-or at an.
aetuetoa Agency.
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