THK OMAHA SUNDAY BEK: MAY 15. 1910.
TIMELY REAL ESTATE GOSSIP 1-"'
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Getting Best Results in Home Building
done- In limits pHrk fur W.T'iO; MathlMa
Nonlln tn Jihn Colombo. l-rooni cottase
at Sixth and Pierce.
tarcity of Lots in Leading Residence
District Increases Values.
Arthur C. Classes, Architect.
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Are Contemplated for the
nr Future.
Thern i8 & scarcity of property for hhI
In the West Farnam ntreet dimrlct. Many
dftmandft are belli made of the Umtia real
state dcalera for hom In thia aertion of
the city, hut there arj but few for mile.
The neneral tendency Is for those who
Cannot get honien in the district proper to
consider property lying to th north and
South. Thla will mean a Keneral rush on
either aide of tho lrct rcsldnce dlstrli-t,
which will Increase values o- property lo
cated on the edge of the district, In the
opinion of the real t state mm of the city.
P. J. Creedon & Hon, who have been
awarded the contract for the proposed ad
dition to the Richardson Drug company's
building. Will bcRln work In the near fu
ture. The same firm Is putting a new roof
n the Puritan-Hub laundry at Twenty-
Ighth and Farnam turrets and Is complet
ing additions to the Fairmont creamery.
The erection of a new Nebraska National
Hank building may have the effect of In
creasing the Interest In property near tho
corner of Twelfth and Farnam streets.
It la expected that the contract for the
new Cudoiiy office building, which will be
built next to the old office building In
South Omaha, will bo let within the next
week or ten days. This will be an oxampla
of modern office structure and when fin
ished will be complete In all details.
Following are a number of transfer made
through the agency of Gallagher & Nelson
within the last few weeks: Seven-room
bouse. Twenty-third and A streets, to J.
W. Rogers of Elkhorn, $3,200; two six-room
F. H. iMke. who lus office. in the
l'.ia:id!s block, bus made some iii ck sates
within the last week. A woman In I'undee
called up on the tel. ph. mo ut 9 o clock In
th morning and Instructed Mr. Prakc tu
sell her propel ty. and he sold It the same
day. A Seattle woman wrote to the real
estate man to a It her property and tlit
next day after the letter was received It
had heen transferred A Chicago woman
also gave order to ell her cottnne and
It wa sold within two days. Mr. Piake
has been a resident of Omaha for twelve
years.
The roof is almost completed on the new
City National Hank biilldltg and tho woik
on the Interior is progressing rapidly. The
contractors hlnk that the big skyscraper
will bf finished at th time stipulated . In
the contract.
According to Wray of Wray Stevens,
real estate deul'rs, there Is a fair demand
for medium priced homes. In the last few
days the concern hus sold a S.V000 home In
Kountxe Place to ,1. O. Armstrong, a lot
In Hanscom park district to John Murtey
for Sl.ono. a house In Hernia park to K. E.
Wehrly for Sl.fiOO and a house on Hurt
street to P. V. Coakley for I2.7M.
The 1). V. Sholes company sold the brick
flats at 1635-37 Park avenue to Mrs. Isa
bella Ij. Ilnd last week for 10,600. This
property consists of two nine-room flats,
two stories high.
Evans Place, a new addition tu Omaha,
Is about to be opened by the l. V. Sholes
company. The addition lies Just south of
Dundee overlooking Elmwood park and the
Happy Hollow club house and golf course.
Attention Is being called to .the new addi
tion and the sale of lota will begin at once.
The northeast corner of Evans Place Is
two blocks wst of the West Farnam-Dvm-dee
car line. Every lot has been graded
and elm trees have been plantel In the
streets.
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ME foumlation. while the least
seen of any iait oP the house.
Is a very Important pait of Its
construction. If the foundation
should troe Ina.teiiuate ajto
slKe or quality of the materials
of which it is made, allowing the building
to settle, very bad effects result, which
are usually Irrepairable, except at great
expense. There are well defined rules for
figuring out the else of the foundation and
the footing under It, In proportion to the
kind of soil on which the foundation rests
and the weight of the building upon It.
Th first thing to consider when deter
mining the thickness of the walls or size
of the f( otlngs is the kind of soil on which
the footings are to be built. Bed rock Is.
of course, the very best kind of a founda
tion, but Is seldom found near enough
to the surface to be considered. Next to
this sand and gravel In Its native bed
provides the best on which to build foot
ings. In excavating care should be taken
that not more sand la removed than It
needed, making it necessary to fill In aft
erward with loose sand or gravel, for It
Is almost Impossible, even with careful
tnmplrg and soaking with water, to pack
down sand and gravel to as hard a bed
as the native bed before It was disturbed.
While footings are not always put un
der walls for residence construction, the
expense is so little that there is little rea
son for omitting them and it Is better to
include them and be on the safe side. The
footings for a frame residence need not
be over twenty-four Inches wide or thirty
inches for a two-story brick house. The
thickness of the foundation vail varies
according to the material of which it is
made and the weight upon it. When the
foundation Is on clay caro must be taken
that the foundation' walls go down below
the frost, for If the frost gets under the
footings cither during construction or after
the house is built there Is no power on
earth that will keep the clay from heav
ing the walls. For this reason It Is a good
policy, when the building on top is light
In weight, to excavate away from the
building about two feet around the house
and fill In with sand or gravel. With a
full two-story house on top of the founda
tion or a brick house this precaution Is not
necessary, the weight of the building hold
ing the walls firmly In place and prevent
ing the heaving of the clay against them
from moving the walls. Sometimes clay
Is found to be porous, containing a large
quantity of water. When this is the case
the footings should be very much wider
than under other conditions, the width
depending upon the exact conditions found.
The only way to build a foundation In
marshy places or on quicksand Is to drive
piles through It onto solid ground, make a
reinforced concrete girder across the top
of them and then start the foundation.
Footings are nearly always made of con
crete since they ran bo made cheaper of
this material than any other, and being in
one continuous line serves the purpose
better than broken pieces of stone. The
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MR. CLAUSEN'S BOOK
'The Art, Solenoe and Ssntlment
of Homebuilding'."
42 chapters, 200 Illustrations and a
thousand facts on the planning and
designing of every kind of home. It
covers a wide rHiige of subjects, In
cluding the planning of bungalows,
suburban and city homes, letting
contracts, choosing maierlals, proper
design of entrances, windows, fire
places, etc. Price, post ;ald. Sl.uo
A monthly supplement, "Practical
Homebuilding." sent grails for
twelve months following the sale of
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Address, Arthur O. Clausen, Archi
tect, 1136-37-38 Lnrnbur Exchange,
Minneapolis, Minnesota.
foundation walls are usually of concrete,
some kind of stone or brick. If of con
crete tho walls should bo solid and the
cheapest way to build It Is to pour the
material Into wooden forms. The studding
and boards used In these forms can after
ward be used In the construction of the
building. While eight Inch walls are some
times used for foundations of bungalows,
It Is advisable to make them ut least ten
Inches In thickness. For a two story house
Iwtlvu inches and for solid brick or brick
veneen d house sixteen Inches, the same
dimensions applying to brick foundations.
Stone foundations are a little more expen
sive than concrete foundations In most lo
calities. Where stone Is Immediately avail
able and gravel and sand scarce, stone
foundations under these circumstances
would cost Ics-s if the stone
"f.mcs finm the quarries In regular course,
this makes the best walls. Such a wall
can be made sixteen inches thick. If the
wall Is of rubble stone or small Irregular
broken pieces of stone tho wall should be
at least eighteen inches. In either case,
cement mortar should be ised and tho
wall plastered with cement mortar on the
outside when complete. , When foundation
walls are made of brick, they also should
be laid up in cement mortar with a good
coat of cement on the outside, and only
gpod hard brick should be used.
While the facing above the grade has
little to do with the strength f the foun
dation, it Is an Important factor In the
appearance of the house. What tho face
should be. should be determined In con
necetlon with the material used for the
balance of the house and Its colors. Ce
ment blocks are sometimes used above the
grade in Imitation of stone, although they
should never be used below the grade un
less they are filled up solid. Cement blocks
do not of course give a correct Imitation of
stone and should not be used with this In
tention. Concrete walls are sometimes
used with a facing above grade of brick
or stone veneer. The veneer being four
Inches thick, backed up with concrete to
make the proper thlckneFs of the walls.
Porch foundations should extend at least
two and better three feet below grade in
vtry cold climates In order to get below
the frost. In any event the foundation for
both main house or porch should be bolow
the black dirt. When foundations are put
on black dirt, settling is Inevitable and
should never be considered.
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OF STEEL PLASTERING LATH the
invention of which made possible the con
version of old frame houses into the ap
pearance, of stone by the process of
"overcoating" with cement mortar.
This mortar is made of a mixtuiv of
(HMiu'iit mid aud in about the propor
tions as used to make concrete sidewalks.
Frame houses so treated are warmer
in winter, with less expenditure of fuel,
and cooler in summer.
Tliey do not need painting.
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Reaching Out for Business
Every effort to attract trade helps even if k
only draws a child wuh for candy. Electric
light for windows and signs should bo given a
chance to be useful. Every merchant can now
get double electric light at no increase in cost
for electric current by using General Electric
MAZDA lamps. Made in all sues. We have
them and will be glad 19 tell you about them.
Omaha Electric Light and
Power Company
ARCHITECTS WORKING
FOR CITY BEAUTIFUL
Asppt-I of Omnha'a Hrsldeiire IHstrlrt
Indication of City's Artistic
Development.
One leading element In beautifying a city
Is the preservation of harmony between
neighboring structures. "Variety Is the
spice of life," but unless there Is considered
anil respected the relation between the
properties which adjoin, the Idea of beauty
and harmony Is lacking.
Types of architecture differ Just as do
other works of art. There is the dis
tinction, however, that the architect Is often
compelled to produce In black and white
the "Ideas' of a whole family and all the
friends thereof instead of his own. This
often accounts for the lack of achltectural
harmony between the various nearby build
ings If not In the proposed structure Itself.
11 Is therefore a matter of Interest and
savoru well for the beauty, of Omaha resi
dence districts that architects and owners
are giving thought tu this Important phase
of building.
At Mindcn, Neb., Dr. H. Hapeman Is
bulldins one of the most beautiful resi
dences in the state from plans by Architect
K. A. llenninger of Omaha. The structure
is to be built of brick which Is to be the
same even to the method of laying as was
used In the S. A. Page house north of the
Kleld club. This is an Oriental rug effect
In rough face vitrified brick anil the same
contractors who laid the l'age brick huve
been engaged to do the work at Minden.
l. C. Patterson lias begun work on a
group of five unusually . attractive resi
dences at Thirty-eighth and Oevenport
streets.
Kach house Is different from the other,
thus avoiding that "factory district" effect
which Is so often suggested where several
houses Just alike are stood In a row.
Aside from the differing architectural
lines, the exterior material will alternate
between pure white 'ough-cast stucco and
a rich Turkish tone of rough texture face
brick like that of which the new R. E.
Sunderland residence is built. The stucco
houses are designed especially for stucco
and the others are typical brick designs.
The site Is opposite the beautiful Joslyn
grounds.
Omaha landed a big contract In IJncoln
last week when W. II. Ferguson, the mil
lionaire grain man, placed his order with
Sunderland Brothers for marble and tile
work for his palatial new residence.
The same company is Installing marble
and tile In the new Morris theater at Eigh
teenth and Douglas streets. Work of this
siza hus been going to St. Paul, Milwaukee
and Chicago. Steel ceilings in the Orkln
store on .Sixteenth street and In the big
office room of Adams &. Kelly Co. huve
Just been installed by them. In addition to
these are steel ceilings erected for the Ne
braska Seed company, l'ill Howard street;
J. P. Cooke & Co.. Tenth and Farnam
streets; (Ireen s drug store at Park avenue
and Pacific street. Tile floors have been
placed in the beautiful new residence for
H. H. Fish colonial apartments and In
buildings at Central City and Red Cloud,
Neb.
The building business Is active nol only
In Omaha, but throughout the entire Mis
souri valley. New store buildings, school
houses, churches and residences are the
rule rather than the exception In nearly
every county within 100 miles of the river.
Omaha has recently become a market for
special building materials just as it has
for many years been the base of supplies
in regular materials like cement, lime,
plaster and lumber. Where formerly con
tracts for floor tile, steel ceilings, face
bricks. Interior decorations and even build
ing plans went to St. I.ouis and Chicago,
today Omaha Is as well equipped in these
lines as are the other cities, and now
Omaha ccures the business.
Millions of face brick were sold by
Omaha Jobbers last year, and this Indi
cates not only a growth in Omaha's pres
tige, but also an Increase In the use of
brick Instead of lumber in the central west.
Architects and builders often come many
miles to inspect the attractive brick (struc
tures that have been erected here within
the last few years.
Sleeping, Porch Awnings,
Swings and
Porch Furniture, Screens
AND ALL KINDS OF TENTS
Omaha Tent (Si Awning Co.
I1TH AND HARNEY, OMAHA, NF.B
ANCHOR FENCE CO.
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205-207 North 17th St.
The Time and Place to Buy Fencing 3c Per Foot and Up.
EWSST -TtilWiW'. fi I L I 14 II
ronapie screen nouses
For Town or Camping
Porch Screens, Window and
Door Screens
maha Window Screen Co. Dn,,,etc
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THE BEST PAINT MADE
THAT'S THE KIND WE SELL
Soma Sample Price to Suggtst tbs Banff of Sbarwln-WlUiama Assortmtnt.
H-pInt Family Taint IBe
b-Kallon ran Outside Paint, covers l.jOU
square feet 98.60
ft-plnt Bicycle Enamel 20o
5 Rallons Rich lied iiurn Puint
1 pint Good Varnish 3So
1 quart Inside Floor Point 4So
Light Company
Awaits Mandate
Directors Will Not Take Action on
Franchise Matter Until Order
of Court is Received. . .
Relative to the position his company will
take on the franchise matter, F.1 A. Nash,
president ot the Omaha Electric L,lt;ht and
Power company, says he has not yet had
an opportunity to meet the attorney and
the bourd of directors of the company.
"I expect wo will hold a meeting some
time Monday," said Mr. Nash, "but until
the mandate comes down frovn the United
States court of appeals, and our attorney
has had an opportunity to consider tha
question In all its phases, It Is unlikely
that we will have any proposition to make
to the city council. So much Is Involved,
and the interests of the company and the
city are ho Inextricably ln:nwoven In this
matter of a new agreement, if one is
absolutely necessary, that it would be Idle
for ine or any one else to put .forward at
this time his views of what ths ultimate
outcome should be."
The councllmen are rot talking much
about the proposed electric light franchise
or agreement. They are evidently waiting
the next move on the part of the com
pand, and, as a rule, seem disposed to con
sider the matter dispassionately when tha
time comes for action.
1 gallon good Roof Paint (1.13
1 pound Color Ground in Oil lBo
1 KiiHon Outside and Inside Paint (cover.
300 square feet I, 40 shades to clioone
from, at 91.75
1 quart Mar-Not Durable Floor Varnish,
at 85a
-ptnt Pure White Hath Tub F.naniet
at 60c
H-Pint HuKKy Paint . 3&c
Vt-plnt Can Aluminum l'aint 85c
SHERMAN & McCONNELL DRUG CO.
Corner Sixteenth and Dodge Streets.
OWL DRUG CO., Corner 16th and Harney
Champion Fence Co.
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, New Location Fifteenth and Jackson Streets
Iron and Wire Fences, Trellises for Vines, Tree Guarcb,
Hitching Posts and Window Guards
Telephone Douglaa 1930. . i Send for Catalogue.
Potatoes, Lawn Grass, Flowering Bulbs, Etc
WRITE FOR
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Why wasta time and money planting
doubtful seeds when you can buy seeds that
grow from
THE NEBRASKA SEED COMPANY
1613 Howard Street
Telephone Douglas 1281
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A Study in Art
The beauty of a brick wall depends not only upon
tie kind of brick selected, but also, to a large degree,
ypon tbe way the brick are laid. We have for years been
studying brick "effects." Have you?
Our observations have enabled us to help many build
ers secure artistic effects. May we help you?
Sunderland's Turkish, No. 110
That Is the Artistic F'ace Brick used In Mr
Sunderland's new house at 37th and Pacific Sts
Go see It. It Is considered the most artlistli
example of artistic beauty In brick work In
tbe west.
In our display room we show 150 various
kinds, colors and effects In Artistic Face
Brick. Call.
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Paints, Oils, Glass Glazing a. Specialty
Good Paints at Reasonable Price.
Telephone, Douglas
114 Houtli fourteenth humect;
The ECONOMY WINDOW SCREEN
will save: you one.half
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1317 XOBTH 84th BTKEET,
HONE WtBBTEB 3577
MANTELS AND TILE
Ireplace Grates ami Fixtures, Tile Floors for all purpose
Furnaces and all kinds of Hardware.
Milton Rogers & Sons Co.,
Fourteenth and Farnam Straata
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