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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: APRIL 13, 1913.
TIMELY REALESTATE GOSSIP
Citizens Building Cyclone Cellars
and Writing Tornado Insurance.
BACK TO A NORMAL STATUS
The rale wns made through J II Dumont
Co
Itcnltr 3Ien Are ov Able- to Olve
More Time to Private Affairs
Divide Ovrn Time with
Relief Work.
Now and then there comes before the
Ileal Estate exchange the problem of di
viding up a reward" among sevtrnl claim
. ams who have caused the arrest or
tome one who has been stealing plumbing
fixtures from houses In the Hits of a
member.
Just now thore Is occupying the atten
tion of the exchange the clnlms nt n
woravi and two policemen, Tho woman
saw a man take plumbing fixtures from
n hounc at) Sixteenth and Emmet streets
and, notifying the police, had hlrn ar
rested, She thinks the reward of JSO of
fered by tho exchange should bo liars.
The two policemen who made tho arrest
assert that the price belongs to thorn.
8omo membcro of the exchange declare
privatelythey do not want the impres
sion to get out that the organization ever
feels like crawling out of suoh a dcnl
that the prize should go to nobody, be
cause the man arrested was given such
light punishment by tho pollco magis
trate. The fellow "s-iuealort" on some
one else who was guilty of another
crime, and the police made It easy for
htm before Hi' Ju!gi.
The law :.)-; Imt 1 'iiro of
plumbing fixt:in. ). r , the
numbers uvir, In hot oti.t. , ..ngh en
forced. When Junk dealers buy plumbing
fixtures, say the realty men, they can
be absolutely asnured that It has been
stolen. They are parties to the crime
And ahould racot with punishment
Bnllil Cyoloim Cellar.
Probably ono of many, Albert IClng,
manager of Haydnn Bros.' grocery de
partment. Is building n cyclone cellar.
Ills home at 1619 PInkney street was dam
aged Just enough by the wind to romlnd
Mai rf the advantage to be had by such
nn addition to his home, so the second
week after the disaster found him busy
with a contractor planning the place of
eafcty.
Tho drawings show It will be dug as
an addition to the basement In the rear
of the house, with a door connecting It
to the basement. It will be six feet high,
five feet six inches wide, and seven feet
long, and made of reinforced conciete.
Tho door between the cellar and tho
basement Is of steel and fireproof. King
pays he will keep It open at all times.
In the celling of tho cellar, fartheet
away from the house, will bo a manhole
twenty-four Inches In dlamotor, through
which wlU be run a vent pipe. This pre
caution Is taken so tljat it tho house falls
Into the basement, as many of them did
In the Barter tornado, those In tho cy
clone cellar will not be locked in, but
will have a means of escape through the
manhole. Tho vent pipe will allow fresh
air to enter at all times, The threshold
of the door Is two steps above the base
ment floor, avoiding the possibility of tho
celler becoming filled with water in the
event that the basement Is floodod,
The celling of this collar will be Just
underneath the surfaco of the ground In
the bock yard. There will bo no mound
over It as the cellars rtof former times
were made, and tho only thing to Indicate
that it Is there will be tho manhole. Sod
will cover the rest.
Get Bnck to "Work.
John I McCague got back to his desk
Thursday for the first time slnco tho
Easter tornado. Ho has had no time for
private business and Just now, he says,
he is dividing his time botwoon himself
and tho relief of storm sufferers.
George T, Morton Is another real estate
man who has been giving his time to
relief work to the detriment of his own.
lie is still at it and his office even now
seldom sees htm.
Harry A. Tukey gradually Is getting
back to the work of his office. While at
work on various committees for the relief
of tornado victims, some of the work of
Ma office waa handled by his father.
A. P. Tukey and 0. F. Jones. Jones went
to bed sick with a cold a few days ago
and has not reported back yet. Ills work
In the storm district helped bring on the
felling,
Fred Crcigh Is another real estate agent
whose private work was handicapped by
the results of the storm. While not help
ing directly with relief work as some of
the other realty dealers have dono. he
has been kept unusually busy answering
telegrams of condolences from other
cities and real estate boards and tabulat
ing losses of victims as a part of tho
work of the Heal Estate exchange.
Storasce Center Here,
With the announcement from the
People's Ice and Cold Storage company
that its plant at Twelfth and Chicago
BttteU Is to be doubled, Omaha becomes
tho cdWstorago center of tho west
The addHJon to the building is to bn
eight storicsNhlgh and Oxl32 feet It will
cost about C5O.O0O. The plans are being
drawn now and excavation u
to bo started soon on the lot at the
northeast corner. The land was bought
several months ago from W. I Selby.
The Omaha Cold Storage company Is
now excavating at Eighth and Farnam
streets for a building also eight stories
Wgh and lSxlii feet
Add to "The Helen."
Whatever some may say to the effect
that the tornado will cause depression
In the real estate market or cause a loss
of faith. Indications are diametrically op
posite. Since the destructive wind Marlus
Borenson has decided to double the
capacity of the beautiful Helen apart
ments on Harney street near Twenty
fourth. He will put 128.000 Into a wing
which will adjoin the apartments on the
ast facing the arcade which was graded
through from Farnam street a few
months go. The wing will be four
stories high and 51x90 feet
Architect Mores.
Lloyd D. Willis, the architect, has
moved Into new quarters, leaving bis
mall offices on the second floor of the
Wead building. He now has a suite of
air rooms on the twelfth floor of the
City National Bank building which he
has equipped more fully than his former
Mace.
Edgar A- Balrd has sold to Dr. John C.
Nystrom the large seventeen-room house
with th.-ee lots at 2102 Wirt St. taking In
exchange an irrigated farm of ISO acres
near Hershey, Neb. Dr. Nystrom will
move to Omaha and occupy the house as
a home. While the record shows 11 as
She consideration it Is understood that
tho property U wort better than 123,000.
General Relief Fund
Now $224,125 and'
More is Coming In
Treasurer Itobert Cotvell of the general
relief committee reports that nearly $2J,
000 has been received by him to date for
the work of relieving the tornado suf
ferers. Following Is the list:
Previously reported $221,419 81
Through Omaha Uee 54 ,09
Through World-Herald 412 40
Through Dally Nws 300.60
Collected through retail
committee:
F. Simon , t 5.00
Philip Schairer COO
F. W. Woolworth Co 25.00
E. Mena , 7.00
11. Hoblnoon 6.00
bred lirodegaard 60.00
C. W. Ortman 10.00
D. 11. Gross 5.00
Oatu City Furniture Co... 6.00
C. T. Peterson Shoo Co... 10.00
Cackley Ilros 10. to
A. W. Bowman 25.00
Columbia Optical Co 25.03 '
Fry Shoe Co 100.00
Fllttou Optical Co 10.00
John Henrlckson 23.00
Wrlnsteln & Orecnberg... 6.00
Central Market 6.00
Globe Optical Co 25.00
Aew York ttamplu Store.. 6.00
Truux laundry 6.00
Drcxil Hotel 26.00
Mort's Clothes Shop 10.00
Sctmefcr Cut lTlce Drug
Store 16,00
Regent Shoe Co 23 00
Tom 8, Kelley 6.00
Juke Irvine, Kanras City,
by Albert Edholm
A. Lovlch ,
Cash .
Chicago Laundry Co
C. 11. Daniels, Now Yoli
by Robert Hanker
A. J. Shamberg .. i
A. Lngerowltx iav
Joe llatt I,iu
J. Rosenberg I.ui
It Coslcllo 1.00
John II. Conte... G.Q2
M. Muskowitz LM
J. Ucrkowltx 6.00
Mrs. A. a. Persele 6.00
J. HurUbcrg 1,00
I). M. Learn hff ft.GO
M. J. Currnli 5.00
Uoyrr-V.-m KUrun Lumber
ami Coal oomruny T..00
Kinersun Laundry Co 10.00
.Marguqloi' G.OO
T. M. Warlobn & Co 6.00
I. Oarutch 1.00
George Wntsh 1,00
M, Kosenstcjn .60
S. Lewis 1.00
A. Davison 1,00
Charles Stun 10.00
F. C. Noubnuer 1,00
It V. (Illicit 1.00
C. I.evln-on 1.00
J. II. Pugh 1.00
E. II. Mernflcld 1.00
Paramhutfer 2.00
llarmcl 1.00
Btryker Shoe Co 25.00
Aurons, Inc 10.00
Msrunola & Son.. 1.00
Joo K. Chung 1.0U
Thomas Bagcrt 5.00
Jay Hums linking Co 10.00
Ronton Wet Wash Laun
dry 6.00
Jewel Tea Co 6,00
Rrulley & Dorrance 5.00
Ideal Cement Stono Co.... 10.00
Omaha Mirror and Art
Glnm company 10.00
A. Wlnestrlney 60
Josrplt Slmolo 1.00
Charles Petorron 2,00
Andrew O Norby..., 6.00
Nebraska Suspender, Gar
ter and Halt 6.00
Omaha Pillow Co.... G.OO
S. A. Codings 10.00
Frank Hasmiissen ' ,5.00
Thomas Kyrkln 10.00
F. M. Davis 2.60
A. M. Pinto 2.01
D. Rlumenthnl 5.00
National Laundry 5.00
Walnut Hill Pharmacy.... 10.00
A. 1C. Knuckle 10.00
Clans Ramm 6.00
N. P. Swanson , 10.00
linker Bros, Engraving company,
iKtrccntojto salo of books
IV. KlUI hiiiuii. tiuuynuuu, til.
w
Grace church, G. R. Patterson,
treasurer
F. Harnett & Co., New York.....
D. Uaner A Co
J. D. Hill. Hells, Tenn
Northwestern Stove Repair com
pany, through Omaha Stove
Repair company
The Adams company, through
Omaha Stove Repair company.
Mrs. J. H. Brandt, through tho
Omaha Stove Repair company.
208.00
200.00
6.00
2G.00
15.00
LOO
Totals $224,125.46
Impostor Euns at
First Warning from
the Relief Workers
"Tho police nro looking for you. They
think you have been carting out a lot of
this relief stuff that you never took to
the right parties." These were the opn
Ing remarks made by Mrs. Clinton MUInr
at the Auditorium to a man named Davit
when he appeared there with three young
girls for whom he waa putting up a pltt
ful tale, and for whom he was asking
relief.
Davis arosa from the seat in which ho
had planted himself In front of the relief
desk, and glancing nervously about him
ho edged out of the door and vanished.
Although Davis helped more or less reg
ularly at relief station No. 4, Tht-ty-third
and Cuming streets while that na
tion was In operation, he was never able
to give a good account of where he had
taken the goods after he had gone ou;
with a load of foodstuffs, clothing end
bedding.
"I gave It to Jim," ho would say on re
turning to the station when he was asked
where he had put his card with the rec-
ord. When Jim was interviewed he never
hod the cards and then Davis would say;
"Well, I gavo the card to a fellow that
looked like blm, I thought It was him."
So It waa that tho relief force at that
station grew gradually suspicious of h's
services. Yet they could hardly dismiss
him on suspicion. When a man offers
his voluntary and gratuitous services In
the relief work In a great calamity It n
hard to deny him leave to toll, thought
the committee. When all stations moved
to the Auditorium tho workers thounht
they were rid of Davis. But In he cam
with a tale of woe and asked a reuuW.
tlon for a lot of goods. "The play's tho
thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience
of the klnr," thought Mrs. Clinton Miller.
She whispered confidently to him:
"You better slip out The police arc
looking for you. They think you hiv
been carting out a lot of relief stuff that
you never took to the right parties."
Whtn the man vanished from the door
of the Auditorium that was the last seen
of him.
C. H. VENNER & CO. ASKS
RETURN OF FORFEIT
C. H. Venner & Co. of New York, who
lost a suit to recover damages for al
leged misrepresentation of the valuation
of taxable property in the city, has uo'l-
fled the city treasurer that unless a JV.0H)
forfeit put up by them to cover a bond
deal and later forfeited Is not returned
by April U they will act accordingly.
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YOTED FOR DAMAN-FIRED
Sesto Testifiei He Loses His Job
with Water Board.
IS SUING BOARD FOR HIS WAGES
Says that Howell Declares All Drm
ocrata Should lie Srnt to the
I'enltenttarr Decision lu
the Case Monday
Tony Sesto. who lias brought suit
against the city of Omaha for 1X170 back
pay and overtime, testified before Justice
Claiborne that he was removed by the
Water board from a Job In the meter de
partment under the city hall and was put
to work digging- ditches because he waa
for Mayor Dahlman and the remainder
of the "On the Square" ticket before tho
Inst city election. He said It D. Howell,
water-commissioner, came Into the shop
and said every man In the Third ward
and every democrat ought to be sent to
the penitentiary.
It was alleged la the testimony that
the Water board docks Its employes who
worn by the month for every hour they
are off duty, but pars them no overtlm.
It they are called out after hours at any
nme Derora midnight.
Justice Claiborne Is to decide whether
Sesto Is entitled to K.90 pay for overtime,
for the Water board admits It owed him
S1S.80 back pay when he quit after being
put at menial labor. Sesto Is claiming
pay for forty-eight hours extra work
done by hlra last October, which he says,
the foreman told him would be paid when
the Water board got Its affairs straigh
tened up a little better. Decision was
was reserved till Monday.
FINED FOR GETTING HELP
UNDER FALSE PRETENSES
Prank Wilson, a negro living In a
shack at 2S03 Blondo street, was fined A0
and costs by Judge Foster for obtaining
rations and clothing from relief station
No. 2. Twenty-fourth and Lake streets,
under false pretenses. Wilson appeared
tt the station and wak helped by those
In charge, but on a second call for aid
he was recognised as having been there
before and was arrested. He was not. a
tornado sufferer.
RALSTON RELIEF FUND
CONTINUES TO GROW
The complete list of contributions to the
Ralston relief fund up to date totals
M35.rj. Donations continue to arrive,
and before the list Is closed tt Is expeoted
to reach the 110,000 mark. Any discre
pancies In tabulation should be reported
to Douglas 6571.
Previously acknowledged ... S.S77.S3
Home store, 31s D. so. umana..
Melcher Drug Co., 419 N. Stth St..
South Omaha
A It. Rushforth, th St, So.
Omaha
Joseph Adams, 2S4 Cass St
Mayor of Montrose, la. ..........
Dandale & McNlel, SU1 R St, So.
Omaha
Burkman-Suirges Shoe Co., 406
N. Jtth St
C N. Diets Lumber Co
Baker Bros. Engraving Co
Cole & Fry Co .,
Iten BUcult Co
James Cook, 1111 Farnam St ....
J. IL Haney & Co.. 315-17 So.
Mth st
Delia U Ferguson, treasarer of
the Social Settlement, made
1.00
7.40
S.00
6.00
S4.S0
10.00
li.00
2.00
10.00
5.00
25.00
5.00
10.00
payable direct to one of Rat-
Bton'A sufferers ,. ... k.00
Michigan Hearse and Carriage
Co., Grand Rapids, Mich 5.00
Louis Meyers, Qermantown, Neb x 00
C Chrlstlanson, 2423 N St., So.
Omaha 10,00
Dr. C. J. Warta. 923 W. O, W.
Bldg 1 no
Cltlsens of Hampton. Neb.,
through S. C. Houghton us m
Memphis Commercial associa
tion, Memphis, Mo. jo.oo
Total ," 9gj5.a
Judge Foster Starts
High Fine Campaign
Police Judge Foster has commence! a
campaign against all women who urc
brought before him charged with bolns
prostitutes. Within the last few weeks
mora arrests of this naturn have been
made than ever before In the history of
the city and drastic measures to check
the advance of this underworld army
have been decided upon by the court
Besides the old timers who are brought
before the Judge new faces are appal
sentences seem to have but little effect
sentences seem to have but little effect
As a starter in the campaign Fule
Hayes, nrrestod near the Auditorium Fri
day night received a fine of 50 and
costs, Ella Porter, J25; Ruby Miller, 40O
and costs; Bessie Elliott, YA and costs,
and Gladys Howard, a well known char
acter, S0 and costs.
New Twelve-Story
Building in Place of
the Dewey Hotel
John D. Crelghton Is preparing to build
on tho site of the burned Dewey aotel at
Thirteenth and Farnam streets. ,1
though he has not yet employed on ar
chttect, it Is rumored that a (welve-stoiy
building will occupy the lot where ihe
hotel stood. Crelghton Is sick at his
home and could give no definite nfoi
mation about the new building. Agents
closely In touch with htm say a building
of twelve stories Is being contemplated
and construction may start this summer.
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