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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: AUGUST 11, 1912.
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TIMELY REAL ESTATE GOSSIP
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Alterations Being Made in Connect
: ing Murray to Pazton Hotel.
SEEKING ULBOa TEMPLE SITE
Special Organisatloa Holds Option
ea Several Choice Lot and Prob
ably Will Decide o One Sooa '
for the BnildlBC. -
! Probably within a, few day the an
, nounceraent of the location tor the new
Labor Temple will be made. It is said
i several options on lots la choice locations
'about the city bar been secured and a
! provisional organisation of Omaha labor
! men Is now trying to decide on the best
place. . "
The new building- will be three stories
Jin height and 100 or 160 feet square.
, The officers who will have chair of
i finding the sit snd the construction of
1 the building are W. A. Cbrisman, secre-jtary-treasurer
of Nebraska Federation of
! Labor, president; 3. W. Light of the
; barbers, vice president; David Coots of
th stonemasons, secretary; C I Shamp,
general secretary of the stationary fire
men, : treasurer.
The new building will be mad entirely
'modern throughout Arrangements are
,now being made to pay for It by the
! laboring men In Installments through a
i period of yeara A plan will be devised
' whereby the money may be raised for the
' annual installments.
Carpenters and Interior decorators are
now working In the old Murray hotel to
jmake It a part of the Paxton and the
'largest hostelry in the city.
; The office and 'lobby already have be
gun to loee their Identity and tak on
jthet of storerooms, --ere will be six
'stores In th first floor of th Murray
building, one of which already has been
.leased to the Jetter Brewing company
'for a bar.
The first floor will- not be connected
.'with th hotel. Th upper floors will
;be Joined by bridge promenades over th
'alley connecting each floor of the old
J Murray with th floors of the Paxton.
jThe contract for this work baa Just been
awarded.
j The kitchen and dining room of th
(Murray have been closed since the prop
Isrty went to Ralph and Richard Kitchen.
New furniture for the old Murray has
.been ordered and probably will be ready
jby th time th bridges connecting the
itwo buildings have been put in place.
Horn building continues to increase
I through th summer. During the week 4
Igreat many lots were bought by persons
I who intend to build homes. "
Dundee grows in popularity every day
'and many home builders are seeking sites
about the various parks and on the
'boulevards. , y,r
8. 3. Welsh, th wholesale coal dealer,
'a few days ago -ought a lot In Virginia
Place, south of Hanscom park on th
I boulevard, on which he will start the
ferectlon of a home. Th lot is 59x127 feet
and cost him $1,600. The purchase, was
Imade from E. C. Sutton through the
Glover Realty syndicate,
Peter A, Forsell also will build a home
ion th North Nineteenth street boulevard
'south of Burdett street He bought the
Mlot Friday,
j Miss Ella A. Kent paid IS50 for a lot
at Thirty-fifth avenue and Leavenworth
street, where she will build a home,
Herbert S. Moores will move to Dundee.
He recently purchased a lot from B. 3,
Gillespie for S1.0S0 at Fifty-first street
and Capitol avanue, where he win build.
jThe sale was mad through the Olovr
'Realty syndicate.
Charles E. "Williamson received word
(this week of the death of Judge Fire
atone, on of the large eastern owners of
Omaha property and a pioneer citizen of
Ohio. Judge Firestone was a notable law.
jyer and banker of his state. "v
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lOmaha, principally In the north part of
Pmaha. He was owner of the Firestone
'subdivision and the Charlesew Heights
tand was represented In Omaha for many
years by the Charles E. Williamson com
., jpany. ' i ,
Judge Firestone was an officer In the
icivll war and was one of the 40,000 who
went to Mexico under Phil Bherldan after
(the war.
The Commercial Club Journal a week
ago made the same complaint against the
custom of withholding the actual con
sideration in realty sales from the records
las was voiced in The Bee April 28.
. Omaha could receive some excellent ad-
' vertUlng If property owners and property
buyers did not Inilst upon keeping secret
the amount of money involved in the
, alea of lots and houses. Each one, how
ever, seems to have some excuse for it
although most are nonsensically trivial.
Probably some day Omaha or Nebraska
(win follow In the footstep of other cities
fend states and make publicity imperative.
' She ' Harried Him.
! Mrs. Pankhurst. th suffragette, sur
prised some of ber friends a short while
ago when she related this little Incident:
"A lady had sued a railroad tor $40,
K0 damages and secured a verdict, and
was paid the. full amount subject to her
order. Her attorney didn't get a penny."
"Why, that seems incredulous," one of
the party said. "Hod did It happen?"
"She found a way to outwit him." '
; "What did she do?"
' "Sh married th lawyer."-Judge. '
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What Constitutes a Home?
Sy Arthur C. Classen.
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8K ten men eaoh to define
what in his opinion constitutes
a home and you will receive
ten ready answers. Still each
will vary to such a consider
able extent that .lt Is almost
Impossible . to . strike - an average that
would com anywhere near satisfying all
ten of them. ,
To a young man home is a cozy little
oottage surrounded by shrubbery and
flowers with but few rooms, most of th
modern conveniences, but everything sug
gestive of the simple, sentimental home
life. . " V
To an-older man it 1 a home containing
attractions for children, such as a play
room or nursery, eomablmes a gym
nasium, a little study room on the second
floor and sometimes a breakfast room.
To (he man of means with grown sons
and daughters having social ambitions
it is a home with all arrangements ,for
entertainment on an elaborate scale with
many rooms for guests, a ball room,
music room, drawing room and all of the
things which go with a strenuous social
life.
marble palace built with little regard
for the home-Ilk atmosphere, elegant In
all its details representing an enormous
expenditure of money and when com
pleted merely proof that this man could
afford to build something beyond the
means of his wealthy rivals.
To the fifth man it means a home in
the mission style.
To the sixth, man it means a home in
the . colonial style.
To th seventh a home In the English
domestloe style.
To th eighth a hillside home modeled
after th 8 wist chalet
To the ninth a plain two-story, square
frame house and to the tenth a bungalow.
A true definition of a home from th
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American standpoint must therefore be
wair Htwta ntt rtna.n 1 in ltd arrYI1r0.
To titn another man it Is an immensoy
About the nearest that we can come' to
It is to say that a home is a habitation
containing a sufficient number and kind
of rooms to meet the practical require
ments with such special features as will
ieet the artlstio longings of f each
family, and whether it be cottage or
palace depends upon, the age, wealth,
size of family, environment, taste and
nodal requirements of each individual
who Is building a home. ,
The reason for the great variety of gtyles
evident In both our domestic and com
mercial architecture la easily explained.
Israel Zangwell, the great French-Jewish
playwright in his beautiful play by that
name, calls our attention to the fact that
America Is the "Melting Pot" of all the
races of the world, which are becoming
amalgamated into the great future
American race. These different races
naturally bring with them impressions
of boyhood homes and when they make
their fortunes in the new world, home to
them is the style of the mother land and
In that style they build. In this way1 we
have examples of every style of archi
tecture, after which the younger genera
tions pattern their homes according to
fancy or inherited taste 'and since the
average well built home or building will
outlive several generations It will prob
ably take longer to amalgamate the
great number of styles into a great
American domestic style than it is tak
ing to form the American race.
Climate always shows its influence In
the planning of homes. For example, in
the gulf states the kitchen and servant
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Zt covers a wide rang of subjects,
Including th planning of bunga
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costing from $2,000 to $30,000, let
ting contracts, choosing materials,
proper design of entrance, win
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Address, Arthur C. Clausen,
Architect, 1136-37-38 lumber Ex
change, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
quarters are sometimes from the main
living apartments. In the northern states
and throughout Canada this would be
impractical. In the southwestern states
selsmatlc disturbances teach that the one
story home Is the most practical, hence
the picturesque California bungalow. But
in New Tork City where property is
valuable", a lot sometimes costing several
times the cost of the house built upon
It. they i build homes looking more like
buildings three and sometimes four
stories, in height not including the base
ment and sometimes the sub-basement
built beneath the surface with a roof
garden on top cliff dwellers we call them
In the west,, ,
The modern tendency is toward more
simple homes with fewer " rooms, better
building materials and surrounded - by
more spacious ground.
When a home is so large or so elabor
ate that Its upkeep becomes a burden,
the true home spirit is lost. While the
average architect - is always willing to
plan palatial homes and seldom discour
ages their erection, owing to the enrich
ment of his pocketbook, from this source,
when building his own home it is a
noticeable fact that it is always built
along simple lines and that full partner
ship Is made with nature in enhancing
by God's handiwork the beauty wrought
by man. ' ' i
A simple home in good taste is beyond
criticism; regardless of its size, and never
goes out of style. ..
Interstate Veterans'
Reunion Off for Year
The first annual reunion of the . Inter
state Veteran association has been called
off for this year for several reasons,
chief among which 1s the Inability of Gen
eral Grenville M. Dodge to attend, "owing
to his having been ordered to Hot Springs
for his health. v 1 V ; ;
The association was formed and com
prised" of .civil war. veterans of the states
of Iowa and Nebraska. : The time pet
for the reunion was August 13, but Mr.
Wallace of the Council Bluffs Commer
cial club has been out of town and could
not get out the notices. ' The date for
the reunion was then changed until Au
gust 26, and the camping ground chosen
was Lake Manawa. The camp was to
be named Grenville M. Dodge and the
general promised to be present. But the
street carnival at Council Bluffs neces
sitated the calling off of the reunion until
the first week in' September, but as
Manawa closes the last of August.the un
dertaking was abandoned until next year.
Building Loans
Money to loan to build homes,
to improve property or to pay
existing loans. Borrowers may
pay from 10 to 20 per cent on
loans on interest dates. Inter
est ceases on amounts when
paid. Loans closed promptly.
Your business solicited.
W. H. Thomas
501 First National Bank Bldg.
The Rewanee Gar
bag e Bu rner is the key to
clean, healthy homes: If every residence,
in every flat arid apartment building in this
city had one of these garbage burners in it
the percentage of disease and misery would be decreased
more than half. ; Rats and mice and disease vermin would
be driven from the residential sections to spots where they can
do no harm.; The percentage of infant mortality would be
reduced wonderfullythe percentage of tuberculosis would
be cut in two the atmosphere would be as pure as is pos
sible in a great city and the health authorities would have
mighty little work to do.
The Kewanee Garbage Burner isn 7
a great higy unwieldy affair. It is a compact steel
chamber of medium size and it will fit comfortably in the
i smallest basement. It not only burns the garbage, meat scraps and
debris but all this matter is turned into fuel and heats the water in
the hot-water tank. This reduces your fuel cost from 30 to 40 per
cent. It burns fresh garbage while it is wet burns it without a
Particle of odor.:. And the burner will outlast your building. ' It is
economy and health and cleanliness. Why should any man hesitate
to put it in? .; " . r ' . ..
Tns cost is not great. Writ (or the garbage burner pamphlet.
It gives information and illustrations, zt will open your eyes as j
to the possibilities of a city that has been la th grip of garbagw
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It insures satisfactory completion of
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BOHEMIAN FREE THROUGHT
SOCIETIES TO MEET HERE
The first annual convention of the
Bohemian Free, Thought societies of the
United States which was called some
months ago tor September 15 will be held
In Omaha. This i , convention ! will
be held under the auspices of
the Omaha society, the "Svobodna
Obec," and Indications are there
will be representatives ' here from every
part of the United States in which there
are Bohemian settlements. Several topics
of much Interest wilt be discussed at this
convention and steps will be taken to
pave the way for a working alliance
with Free Thought societies of other
nationalities In the United States that
the organisations may Inroease the ef
fect of their protests1 by concerted and
united actions,
A Bachelor's Reflections.
A widow knows from experience not to
do It again, so she wants to.
All the money a man could make in a
gold mine he could lose in a family.
The best thing tor a man to do with a
girl he wants to marry is to let her.
The reason some girls never learn to
flirt la they can do it beat without learn
Ing.' A man's good opinion of himself Is en
dorsed by evel'body except the rest of
the world.'
Politics nowadays doesn't make any
more strange bedfellows than it does
divorces.
: Politics nowadays doesn't make any
ter of whether the object of it Is more
important than he is.
If a man could try to get to heaven
the way he can into a public office, the
devil's business wouldn't pay at all.
HOME BUILDERS SHARES
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because Home Builders funds are all secured by deeds or mortgages
on homes built by us for toomee only THE BAFE3T SECURITY IN
THE WORLD. , .
. THIS MEANS
1st No loans are mads to speculators or on old buildings.
. : id No loans are made to thos compelled to borrow be
t cause of adversity, who may be unable to make the
monthly payments.
Sd No loans made on owner's) valuation or other's ap
praisement We know the Tain of every security and
1 ' ' know the exact amount invested by the owner because ,
wo put up the dwelling.
Borne Builders manager has mads a specialty of this class of secur.
i ties for twelve years without the loss of a dollar of Interest or
principal.
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KlOMS! BUILDERS guarantees 7 semi-annual dividends on Pre
ferred Shares, and also a pro rata share of the contractor's profit we
receive on every dwelling we build.
1HE NEW WAY
Our booklet, The New Way, explains fully Homo Builders plan
and how to secure a honvs on easy monthly payments, built to suit
you on any lot yon select It is free for the asking.
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Only two weeks more and it will be the first of September and with it comes the thought of
moving. However, there is no need for worry about moving if you will but take a few minutes
and let us explain how really simple it is by our method. Every new" contrivance that
lessens the moving burden ' ; is used by us. Our , prices are right Our service the best.
MOVING
Our large, spacious, padded vans
make it possible for us to moveHyour
furniture and household goods without
marring or defacing them in any way.
We have vans especially designed tor
moving pianos and hoists to raise them
to any floor height, thereby eliminating
any possible chance of their being
scratched by being carried np circular
staircases.
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SHIPPING
We will be glad to assist
you in the routing of your
shipment of furniture to
any point in the - United
States.
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PACKING
We have had 20 years' ex
perience in the packing busine ss
and employ only the best ex
perienced packers. We furnish
all packing material at a reason
able price. Although we have
the most modern facilities, our
prices are low. We offer you the
benefit of our experience.