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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: AUGUST 23, 101!
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.KEEPING SIEPWI1H OMAHA
i Progress Among Builders and Home
Furnishers.
NEW CONSTRUCTION FEATUBES
What 1 Offered In Several Lines of
Manofaetnrlng fur Making- (ne
, Preseat Day Home the
! Beat Haate.
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The Bee is endeavoring to
fftve builders and home fur
nishers, as well as home own
era and prospective home own
ers, every advantage th&t can
be secured through the publi
cation of news and lire features
pertaining to building construc
tion and to home furnishing.
, The Home Builders depart
; ment, of which this column is a
" part, will appreciate any assist
ance that will be given in mak
ing these columns and the
building section (which appears
on another page of this paper)
a source of great interest to all
readers. News items and
notes about various building
activities should be sent to the
Home Builders Department,
Omaha Bee, Omaha.
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BUILDER
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The Ideal Cement Stone company finds
that It Is not able , to keep up with the
demand for steam cured blocks. The
orders for this material are growing
have been growing for more than a year
and the Ideal Cement Stone company now
must enlarge Ha north facotry in order
to take care of the trade that comes to
It. The factory, which is located at Thirty-first
and Spalding streets, will be in
creased so as to double its present" ca
paclty. The local firm Is doing a tre
mendous business In Omaha and other
Nebraska towns and in Iowa.
The foundation for a twin building to
ths one now standing at Sixteenth and
Leavenworth streets, Is being laid by the
Omaha Van and Storage company. The
; present fireproof structure, 73x165 feet,
j Is one of the most modern storage houses
i ever constructed. The new building Is to
b the same sis and will adjoin the
present structure on the west. When the
new addition is completed It, with the
present building, will make one of the
largest fireproof storage houses In the
country. The work on this building Is
being done by. Omaha firms and the ma
I terlal Is being furnished by firms which
I are located here. It is an Omaha struc
j turs and the money paid for its construo
; tlon remains in Omaha.
Combination warm air and hot water
' heating is a system not as well under
stood by the masses of home builders as
it. ought to be. Builders of homos and
j house owners should not neglect to tbor
I oughly investigate this extremely merlt
i orious heating system which has of- late
I years received very favorable commends
; tlon from people whq selected this heat-
: ing system for their houses and who since
; have become enthusiastic advocates of
this really up-to-date, scientifically cor
I reet and economical heating plant.
Combination warm air and hot water
I heating plants consist of a high grade
' warm air furnace having fitted In the
combustion chamber especially con'
I struoted auxiliary water heaters which
i are connected to hot water radiators dls-
I trlbuted through various rooms, . partlo
f ularly those rooms which are difficult to
I reach with warm air pipes or risers, Ths
! warm air pipes are connected to neat slue
i wall registers In rooms which are located
j near the heater, thereby avoiding long,
j tortuous lines of cellar pipes with sharp
! angles and turns which are quite often
! el doubtful value.
All the hot gaaaes arising from ths fuel
are directed to pass over the water heat
' ers In the combustion chamber before
they ean reach the emeke-pipe and are
, utlllted for heating the water for tna
radiators,
The principal advantages ef a eambtna
! tlon heating plant are that the system
gives quick results In the early morning
heurs from the warm air portion and even
heat during ths day or night f rem the
net water portion ( the economy in eeB
sumptlen ef fuel by utilising ail the hot
:! gases to heat the water the moderate
i first east and maximum eemfertj the
"j Sarflro $vnpotting pans to provide ample
i humidity and a constant supply ef fresh,
'warm air,
Persons interested should consult the
Omaha aiteva Bepair Works' heating de
ipartment, who make a specialty of this
'.. class ef heating and whe will gladly fur-
nlBh any desired Information, testimonials
and the names ef many highly satisfied
users ef combination heaters.
Advantages of Fall . Building
y Arthur C. Class.
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Ka ana thinks ef building a heme now
i without having It wired wired properly
.' for ' telephone service. Most homes are
1 now wired by the Nebraska, Telephone
j company so that extension service may
' be had in various rooms of the' residence.
People whe have the extension telephones
urge new builders to make plans for hav
ing their houses prepared fof them.
In having plans drawn for a new home
an Important point Is to provide suitable
apace for a refrigerator of a slia to meet
ths requirements of the household. A
convenient arrangement Is to have nn
outside leelng door, by which the Ice
man can have access to ths refrigerator
from the outside through a rear Ice door,
In addition to those In the front of the
refrigerator, without bothering members
of the household, or tracking across clean
floors ef kitchen or pantry.
Too great care can not be exercised In
the selection of a refrigerator that will
be absolutely sanitary and so constructed
that It will provide a perfect circulation
of dry, cold air essential in the preserva
tion of food products and economy In Ice
consumption.
The Wlckes refrigerators, manufactured
and sold by the Brunswlck-Balke-Collen-der
company, sre among the most per
fect, both for service and appearance.
The Interior Is lined with 7-16-lnch thick
opal , glass, which Is nonabsorbant and
nonporous. The exterior Is finishes either
In solid oak, or white tile,-with- German
silver trimmings. Sizes to suit all re
quirements are carried In stock and every
refrigerator Is fully guaranteed. With
proper care ene of these refrigerators
will last a lifetime.
Hundreds of Omaha homes have been
'furnished with Wlckes refrigerators.
Prominent among the more recent pur
chasers' are the following: Arthur Mets,
Louis Mets. A. F. Smith, J. J. McMalmn,
J. Foster, Glen Wharton, I Klrschbaum,
T IS getting rather late in the I
season, so I have about de
cided to put off building until
spr'ng." This, in substance,
is a statement frequently
heard bv those in hn Kniii,
business at this timo of the venr-a Um
most favorable f all seasons In which
tO build nnrt .
large extent, that work is congested nd
expensive during the spring and sum
mer. A man will have h s foundation put In
o early In the spring that there is real
danjrer of Its bing frosted, still the biig
abso about running Into cold weather
often prevents him from putting In the
foundation during the early fall, when
all conditions are favorable, and allow
ing the contractors to finish ud th hai.
ance of the building at their leisure.
There are four good and practical rea
sons for building in the fall and winter.
First An early start means nosjessian
of the house a numhur at ..h.-j
. untaii
of those who start building In the aprtne,
which saves just that many months r?nt.
Taking one man as an example and as
suming that he Is paying $30 a month
rent and Is constructing a home, which
in the spring of the year would cost
to.000, ha would probably save about seven
montns' rent, or $210.
Second-He would save considerable on
the cost of the home. The average con
tractor, the man who keeps five or six
Jobs at one time, Is always desirous of
keeping the foremen to those 1obs em
ployed during the late fall and wintor
that he may have them in his employ
when he needs them during the scWng
and summer, and it is no uncommon
thing to see four and five men, who work
as foremen in the summer, used by their
employer as regular carpenters all on one
Job during the winter. These men have a
deeper Interest in their employer's work
than the men who come and go, can work
faster and better. This means a saving
In cost to the contractor. The same con
ditions confront' the mill men, from whom
the contractor buys his mill work, so
that the mill men turn out a Uttla better
grade of mill work at a lower t ast. The
same is true with reference to Ml build
ing material.
Last winter cement went down to less
than 90 cents a barrel In large quantities.
Iron and glass were also proportionately
below the average market, and while no
one can tell to a certainty Just what the
low mark will be each fall aH winter,
this fact is known, that prices on build
ing materials do go down, as the popular
building ii son draws to a close. The
result Is that the man with an eye to
business, who takes advantage of this Is
able to save from 8 to 8 per cent, or
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MR CLAUSEN'S BOOK
"The Art, Science aad SeaUmest
ef XambuUalnV
Thirty chapters, 300 lUustrsttoss.
It cavers a wtae range of subjects,
iaoludiug the platintsg at buaga
)ows, aatnrban and city aomas,
eostias; from 19,000 to 920,000, let
ting contracts, ehooslng materials,
J roper design ef entrance, wln
ows, fireplaoes, etc. New thirl
edition. Price, postpaid, 91.00.
Address, Arthur 0. Clausen,
Architect, 1135-37-38 iamb.r Ex
change, ItinneapoUs, Minnesota.
about $360 on the average $5,000 home.
The writer has known many Instances
where the saving has been considerably
more than this, but taking 1060 as a con
servative estimate, and adding to it the
$250 saved on rent, means that Mr. Home
builder can save or more, the actual
amount varying more or less, according
to what rent a man pays and what the
total cost of his home is expected to be.
Third He obtains better work, As al
ready mentioned, ths contractor nan have
his pick of workmen, the same being true
In all the factories where building ma
terial Is made and where only the best
and most efficient workmen are carried
through the winter. Last fall and winter
the writer had the pleasure of superin
tending the construction of a' home en
which three . mason foremen built the
foundation and did the plastering. Four
carpenter, foremen and an expert Interior
wood finisher did all of the carpenter
w ork- and one of the very best painter
fn the city did the painting and interior
finishing. He was a man who for many
years had been a foreman In the paint
shops of the Pullman Car company, and
since he wanted to keep himself em
ployed he did all the work himself with
out engaging any assistants, with the
result that the Interior wood finishing on
that home Is the envy of all home build
ers who have seen it. The mill work
was the best of its kind that the writer
had seen during the entire building 'sea
son and everything bore evidence of care
and good workmanship.
Now, this Is not an expensive home;
It was Just an average square house, 2$
feet by 23 feet, and the contract prise.
Including both heating and plumbing,
was $4,500. and included a very large
porch In the front and entry and small
porch In the rear, with a large sun room
extension from one side. Had the con
tract been let for this house In May or
June of this year, it would have eoat at
least $t0 more. The contractor frankly
stated that he was not making anything
on the Job, but had taken It to Veep his
good men employed and five himself
something to look after.
Fourth There la no delay In getting
materials or men at any time. During
the summer, It Is very aggravating to see
a crew of good men let off when you
know that It will be Impossible to get
them back sgatn and will a few days
later engage an entire new orew, all be
cause of several days' delsV In getting
certain building materials. Still this Is a
very common occurrence and frequently
occurs several times during the construc
tion of a home during the busy season.
1 he conclusion is that the. fan Is a
cheaper, better and mors practical time
of the year In which to build end has
been found by all those who have the
business foresight to take advantage of
natural conditions toward the oloae of
each year,
ARTHUR O CLWOUt . A RCtllTtCT.
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Charles Kirschfcaum, J. Zelgler, t. C.
Bradford, Dr. Sumner, George Austin,
George W. Sumner, Mrs. Ed O. Hamilton,
Charles R. Sherman and a good many
others.
A stock of these refrigerators Is carried
at the sales room of the Brumwlck-Balke-
Collender company, 409 South Tenth
street, Omaha-
, Omaha people are progressing; they
are getting away from their old habits of
waiting until the last minute to have a
thing done. Milton Rogers & Sons find
that people .who in former summers
waited until cold weather before having
their warm air. furnaces repaired are
now having the work done In August and
September, and even in June and July.
They are learning thst if they delay until
the first chilly days, when they need a
fire in the furnace, that they cannot al
ways get the work done as soon as they
would like to have it done. The repair
men are very busy with furnaces all over
the city, overhauling them and getting
them into shape. The repair department
of Milton, Rogers & Sons company has a
large staff of expert furnace repair men,
and they now are doing a large amount
of work. Orders left with them right
now will assure the work ' being done
within a few days, These men will put
any furnace In shape for the first cool
days and will make sure thai it will heat
the house properly.
The repair men declare that a furnace
should be gone over every fall, whether it
has been working right or not. These
men declare that sometimes the heating
system needs no attention, but that more
often It needs one or two repairs which
cost little, but which make a mighty
difference In the heating of the building,
not only furnishing more heat, but also
reducing the coal bills. Milton Rogers &
Sons company will be glsd to look over
your furnace if you will telephone the
store now. They have time to do the
work rapidly during the present week.
W. H. Thomas. 501 First National bank
building, is rental agent for the new
State Bank building (Oscar Kecllne budd
ing) now being erected on the northeast
corner of Harney street at Seventeenth.
This building will be opened about Oc
tober 1, The third floor will be occupied
by Sunderland Bros, company. The entire
building will be modern and the offices
will ba up-to-date In every respect. They
will be roomy with perfect ventilation and
with a great amount of light. They will
be evenly and thoroughly heated.
E. J. Davis, 1818 Farnam street, finds
the approach of tall causing an impetus
to his heavy hauling business. The trade
of Mr. Davis Is growing because the serv
ice he furnishes Is excellent.
The National Fidelity and Casualty
company will Insure complete satisfaction
to home builders In the construction of
their residences. This company bonds con
tractors and makes a specialty of guard
ing the Interests of home builders. It will
guarantee the work to be completed ac
cording to contract. ;-
. To overcome an objection frequently
raised to the ordinary type of bungalow
that the large amount of floor space con
sumed by having all the rooms on the
ground floor makes It unsuitable for an
all-'year-around . dwelling house, an
Omaha architect has designed a house
which, In addition to a large living room,
dining room and kitchen has one large
bedroom and bathroom on the ground
floor, with three bedrooms upstairs, and
attic space above. One of the advantages
of this style of home Is tnat It does not
cover such a large floor area as Is re
quired by a bungalow with seven rooms
on the ground floor, and this Is a matter
of consideration where the proposed site
entails a large expenditure.
Evidence of the quality and popularity
of Omaha brick lies In the fact that the
Hydraulic Press Brick company has Just
finished shipping over 150,000 of Its famoas
5,7) Iron spot for the beautiful new sta
tion of the Chicago. Burlington & Quincy
railroad at Galesburg. 111. It is also sup
plying this material for Chicago. Burling
ton ft Quincy depots at Seward and
Aurora, Neb., as well as Sheridan, Wyo,
The Neville block at Sixteenth and
Dodge streets Is an example of two
shades of the face .brick made in Omaha
by the Hydraulic Press Brick company,
Residences recently faced or now being
supplied with facing brfck by the
Hydraulic Press Brick company are Dr,
Colfass, Joseph. Huyderi, Albert Krug.
Sidney Swanson, Louis Nash, T. Quintan
and M. T. Barlow.
GROWTH OF ROSE FAMILY
How Nature's Meat ExqaUlte floral
eerets Have Been Devel
oped by Floriats.
Hugh Dickson of this generation hap
pened to pay a visit to the United fetates
this summer, and someone who knew ihe
remarkable Dickson history In connection
with the world's rosea happened to men
tion It. To Americans generally that was
the first intimation that roses of all sorts
hadn't Just grown and varied In the nat
ural course ef events, complicated by the
accidents bound to happen while thou
sands of florists were raising millions of
roses.
The fact that long years of breeding
and cross-breeding, all devoted to rose'
and to nothing else, alone accomplished
the many miracles of transformation
came as an emphatic surprise. But even
at that the persistence and vast outlay,
the drain upon resources, that were in
cident to the attainment of the results
were unsuspected.
These Dicksons of the ro.'es, as a group
of specialists, go back three-quarters of
a century to 1836, when Alexander Dick-
son founded what is. now Newtownards,
at Belfast, In Ireland. His son, George,
followed In his footsteps along the thornv
path of roses: and the sons of that
George Dickson Alexander, G;orge, Hugh
and Thomas, all alive and students itin
era working new with their father. .
The first of the line, Alexander Dick
son, responded to the scientific call of
cross-pollenlzatton and hybridizing from
the day when he seriously undertook his
vocation. His son kept on In ths scrupu
lous quest for Improvements. But tt w,
as late as 187 that the first of the new
hybrid perpetual roses, Including such
famous varieties as the Carl of Dufferlu,
Lady Helen Stewart and Ethel Brownlow,
Make the emigrant flow
stop here in Nebraska!
We can stand having people hate us. We
like to have them love us. What we cannot
get along with at all is indifference. It chills
enthusiasm. It leaves us cold. It wrecks .
our hopes. Finally it breaks our hearts.
The Bee has undertaken a great task. Into it
it has put its hopes, its enthusiasm, its pride, its labor. It has long seen
that Nebraska was lagging behind in tho procession; that although it
comprises within its boundries the richest soil in the world, although iti
resources are almost beyond imagination, yet because the vastness of its
resources is known only to a few, the great tide of emigration passes it
by. Its development is slow. In many places it is stagnating. It is in
peril of dry rot,
The Bee.ii issuing a call to arms. It is asking
all business interests and public spirited citizens of Omaha and Nebraska ;
to co-operate withit in its effort to inspire future, development; to start a
movement which will result in bringing fresh blood into the state mora '?
money, original minds, untired hands, unspent' ambitions. " V:,
It is a case of bringing market ;and customer
together. Every business man knows how that'is done; ! It is;done by
publicity. In the ; r 'v, v ; ; ,-. ' .
I '4
Nebraska Development Number
of
The Omaha Bee
A GREAT PUBLICITY CAMPIAGN HAS
BEEN LAUNCHED, to bring together the people who axe seeking op
portunity, and the boundless opportunities that lie waiting in our borders.
The work of preparing luch a volume is enor
mous. Already more than four months have been spent in, collecting
the material, and it is still being gathered, . -p
The range of information covers every resource 4
and industry in the state. It shows what is needed and where it is needed.
The cost of setting up a magazine is such a style
is tremendous. But it has not been sparedTPaper, type, ink, illustrations,
mechanical features, are all the best.
Shall our efforts be thrown awiy? Or shall they
be made to produce the effect for which they were intended!
This is the point where we caH upon every large
interest and every publio spirited citizen to help. We must have help in
the circulation. We ask you definitely and explicit to order in advance
enough copies to ensure the success of this task, and to send them and
give them away as widely as you can, to your mailing list, your out of
town customers, your friends and relatives.
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The volume is now going to press. When the
issue is out the plates will be destroyed; there will be no second edition.
We shall have done our part. , Will you have done yours t
Do not, we urge you, treat this with indifference.
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were secured. Since then more than 100
new varieties have been produced.
After them came the hybrid tea roses.
Including the wonderful Klllarney, the
mnxt freelv flowering and useful of an
the rose family. Among the flrt was the
Mrs. W. ' J. Grant known here as th
Belle Slebrecht-whtch flowered mors
freely, while Its deep, satiny pink ex
celled thst of the admired l& Franoe,
produced by Uullot In J867.
The key was now In hand which was
unlock scores of nature's most es-
quiilte secrete. Ther followed the mag-
irifleant Liberty rose, which has for Its
only competitor the Richmond, raised In
the United States from a Liberty seed
ling. The eplendld crimson of these roses
combined with their size In full bloom.
constitutes a real triumph 01 floriculture.
The exoulslte Klllarney rose is more
tiH.'d for Indoor forcing purposes than aU
other roses combined, and It breeds more
looms per plant than any other rose
thu far raised. One of the most im
portant features in the history of the
Klllarney rose U that within the iast
ree years It "sported" In several sec,
th
tlons of the American continent, as well
as in Great Britain. Its hues are many,
the white and almost rosy crimson being
esteemed most highly. But one firm near
Sharon Hiil, In Pennsylvania, Is now
testing the most highly colored 'sport"
yet obtained, and there Is hope that It
may provide a variety flowering more,
freely and growing more strongly than
even the Klllarney Itself.
To those who know their roses and love
them by their names,' rare delight attends
the possession of a notable hybrid tea
rose like the Harry Kirk, or a popular
Strain like the Robert Huey; or the Be
s Brown, one of the beautiful white
roses the Dicksons have developed. Ths
Margaret Dickson rose, winner of gold
medals; the Mrs. Wed Streker, which
Changes color as It grows; the Mrs. Corn
waliis West, globular and of huge else;
the Mrs. Charles Custls Harrison, a rose
of great beauty and distinct in Its type,
named for the wife of the former provost
of the University of Pennsylvania; the
Duchess of Westminster, the Duchess of
Wellington one could go on through an 1
interminable list, named for women ofj
note and representing, each In Its way,1
some special achievement in dawerlng the
world with a whole new greation of
roses. v
Yet these veteran rose growers, whj
have under cultivation yearty as many
as 25,000 experimental plants, In the hope
of creating some unusual type, put out
no more than hslf a doseq fresh varieties
annually.-Phlladelphla Worth American
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Poiatrd Paragraph's.
More often It Is the nan who gets
Justice that kicks. . ,
Ideals In America are almost as high
as the oost ef Hvlna.
JVever trust your secrptst to the mails
or the females, either.
People who build castles In the air are
never sura ef their around, -
One way to become popular Is to" let
other people Impose on you. .
Some people spend their lives In trying
to scnutre money to spend,
A man may be one In a thousand with
out Inspiring envy In the other 999.
Undertakers get few Jobs as the result .
of people's dying from broken heart.
Marriage Is the -great incident In a
woman's life; in a man's it is the great
accident. .
A woman seldom hits anything she aims
at especially if she throws herself at
man's head, Chicago News,
v.-il