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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE. JULY 19, 1914.
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Weed of City Planning is Again
Urged by Real Estate Men,
TELL WHY IT IS HEEDED
Point to Inrvhnne of Property to
Defeat Ijnrntlitn ot Apart
ment Ilnnne by till llanir. -Ovrnrr.
The incident last week of ttn cltliens
clubbing tocether ami pnylnK $1.H0 pooh
to buy a piece' of property In onler to
keep an npartmertt house from belnff
erected In the center of a splendid resi
dence district. It In sold, emphtu-lxra again
the urgent need of a system of city plan
ning. Two lota at tho corner of Thirty
ninth and OnilKo streets were about to
bo sold to parties who expected to build
apartment houses upon them,
Tho residents who had built homes In
the neighborhood, and had done much
to keep up tho appearance of that partic
ular section of tha street, felt that an
Apartment house In thrlr midst would
sjdoII the general appearance of that res
idence section. They folt that It would
reduce Uio value of their respective
.properties.
Their only recourse was to buy the
property to save themselves. It cost
them more titan $15,000 jointly to get tho
Vacant ground.
"If It had been a livery bam that was
to be built there the case would have
been the same," sold a real estate man.
"If anyone wants to build a garage or a
livery barn, or a blackamltli shop next
door to you, what recourse havo you In
most residence sections of tho city? That
is why wo nerd city planning. on u largo
and comprehensive scale,"
lilk Building; Itcstrlctlons.
Ileal ef.ts.te men are coming more and
more to realize that the newly laid out
residence sections that sell beat and most
rapidly are those on which the bulldlns
restrictions are such that every man who
buys may know exactly what may or
may not be built in tha Immediate neigh
borhood. Such restrictions can be ma.lo
legally. They are mode In many In-
returned from the east Some remained
In Pittsburgh a few days longer. Others
went to New York. Others visited other
i points In the east. Dyron Hastings and
K. It. Henson, both of the firm of Hast
ings & Iteyden, will likely return Mon
day. HASTINGS & HAYDEN
REPORT MANY REALTY SALES
With Byron Ueed Company.
tlons would have been pressed to their
limit.
In spite of this large delegation from
Omaha, Omaha was seeking nothing.
This Is a fact of which Omaha real estate
men ara proud, that they ura ablo to go
to that convention from year to year
seeking no selfish ends for Omahu, loyal
only to tho association.
This yenr, however, members of the
delegation are returning secure In the be
lief that when Omaha finally oaks for
this convention It will get It with little
opposition. They declare there is the
warmest feeling toward Omaha In tho
whole association.
In the meantime, Omaha will entertain
the whole of the eastern delegations to
Many sales reported since July 1 by
I'afltlngs & Hcyilen show that there Is
still good ricmuml for Omaha roai estate,
considering tho past hot woather. They
report tho following sales In tho last
ten days:
Gertrude IS. Wrnsso of Tckumah, Neb.,
purchased a lor. In Qlcndalo addition for
$225.
J.atnbert Burr purchased house, No. 2863
Maple Htreot, fur $.IG0.
Ncls J. Peterson bought a tract In Ben
on Acres for $1,100.
Orma Hubboll purchased an aero In
UoiiHon Acres addition for $700.
Ludwlg Rlsplor bought a tract In Ben
sun Acres for $1,100.
George Deal purchased house, No. 2l5
Mandurson street, for $1,200.
Emma Carson bought house, No. 4510
North Forty-first avenue, for $2,CO0.
I.llUun 11, llyrnoH purchased a tract In
Benson Acres for $060.
Peter Blrblles has bought the south
west corner of Thirty-third and Califor
nia streets fur $3,000.
Willis J. and I.orettu Barber purchased
a tract In Bonson Acres for $6C0.
the association when they Kass thtmich
rtances, and It is having Its effect upm the city in 1016 on their way to the con-
(lift hotter el.. .f hliran I .. . .
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Many residence districts are now platted ! rnnKed at Pittsburgh. The Omaha bunch
nnd so restricted as not only to keep out ot u be known on tho floor of the con-
UTCa u, , W1H1I K1V, Bnll0I, taat tno delegates passing
ptores. blacksmith shops and In fact,
everything except dwelling houses.
Usually this restriction la fixed fo.- only
ft given period of years. As to whether
such reatrlctlons can be made perpetual
In tho respective deeds, them la soiro
question among real estate men. The
case Is cited, however, ot the town of
Lyons, Neb., laid out by Mr. I.yun many
years ago. In granting deeds to the vari
ous lots within the city limits he st'p'i
lated that no saloon should ever be 'per
nted on any of the ground. For monj
years this was a matter of contention.
Slany tried to establish saloons In the
city and were repeatedly driven out. Long
after the death .f tlx founder ot the
town the matter of whether such a pro
vision would hold was still being con
tested In the cout'j. It is but a c-nnpora-tlvely
few years ugo that the supreme
court of the it-Un t,t Vib'nsk.i decided
the provisions valid and that through
all time there shall lie no saloons In the
town of Lyons, Neb , In aoeirdanco wl'Ji
the provision mode by Mr. T.yan In trans
ferring the crisina' leeK
Omaha at Pittsburgh.
Omaha may draw the matting ot tha
convention of the National Association of
Real Estate exchanges within a few
years. Omaha has never asked for the
convention. It has, however, always
been well represented at Uie conventions.
At the convention that closed a few days
ago In Pittsburgh, Omaha was represented
by eighteen delegates. If every city In
the United States had been represented
through to I.ob Angnles are to stop off
and bo guests of the Omaha real' estate
men and the Omaha business men for u
day or between trains.
Mnile Their Pretencs Felt.
The Omaha crowd tagged themselves
ut Pittsburgh, so there was never any
doubt as to whom was from Omaha.
They wore arm bands and were among
the few that wore arm bands. The con
sequence was that Omaha was well ad
vertised. Frank II. Myers dipped down to Pitts
burgh for Just a day from ether business
he had in the cast. He got there Just In
time to deliver his five-minute talk about
tho merits of Omaha. The oontetwaa
on the day he got there, and he had been
chosen by Omaha real estate mon to be
the spokesman for the Nebraska metro
polls. Ho arrived In time to relieve C. P. Har
rison of a lot of embarrassment. In the
morning of the eventful day, Myers had
not appeared. The Omaha delegation
held a hasty conference and deolded that
C V. Harrison was to deliver the five
minute talk In esse Myers should not
appear. The crowd gathered In the hall
for tho speeches. Harrison watched the
door and longed for Myers to appear.
Myers had written his speech and had
drilled on It. Harrison was largely un
prepared. The speaking began. Harri
son stilt watched the door.
"At last I saw Myers" big fine figure
enter.'' Harrison says "ne eve me I
felt relieved The general was on the
The Bhelton corner at Twenty-fifth and
Dodge atreeta has been purchased by
H. Cooper. A. J, Miller was the former
owner. The Shelton flats and the Bhelton
with such delegations In proportion to Its ground, and 1 would not have to talk " family hotel ore on this corner. There
population, Pittsburgh hotel accommoda. I Many ot the delegates have not yet J are two tots
SCHOOL BOARD OFFERS
SEVERAL LOTS FOR SALE
At a meeting of the school board, held
Friday, tho secretary was authorized to
offer for salo tho pieces of property men
tioned below: t
Twentieth und Izard streets, 581 feet
by 132 feet, which has been rented to C.
V. Hull company for tho last five years.
The lease has expired.
Paclflo street, between Ninth and Tenth
streets, frontage of 132 feet by 147 feet
deep.
Frontage of 23 feet on California street,
between Klghteenth and Ninteenth
streets, 132 feet deep.
One hundred find twenty-six feet by 225
feet, corner Forty-third and Caatellar
streets. Ambler place..
The board does not feel that it should
hold property for rental purposes that
may never be used as school sites, and
the money derived from this sale prob
ably will be used for Improvements and
needed additions to other sohool buildings.
TUKEY GETS AN OPTION
TO BUY THE AUDITORIUM
Harry Tukey of A. P. Tukey A Ron
has an option on the Auditorium as &
result of a meeting ot tho board ot dlrec
tors ot the Auditorium company a few
days ago, tho day after the company had
held an election giving the dlreators
authority to sell to the first bidder mak
Ing a reasonable offer.
The Tukey option contains a proviso.
that It he gets the property he must
once more offer It to the city at a bond
election. Mr. Tukey says It It Is again
ottered to the city at a bond election It
will bo ottered at about $160,000. It then
the elty does not take It, he says he ha
men who will handle It, making use ci
th property for other than auditorium
purposes.
SHELT0N CORNER ON WEST
DODGE BOUGHT BY COOPER
The best investment in the world is Real
Estate if properly located.
Real estate is accepted as the basis of all values and the safest of
all securities in other words, the best security on the earth is
the earth itself.
If y ou have a little money laid by and wish to pur
chase a home in which to live or as an investment, in
vestigate some of the offers in the real estate columns
of the Classified Section today.
Invest your idle money safely
It is sometimes a problem to get the greatest profit from your
surplus money and yet have it safely invested,
Stocks are unreliable and are bound to fluctuate
more or less.
Good real estate is profitable and absolutely safe. It grows in vaU
ue each year if intelligently purchased .
Stop that eternal rent bill
Make a start today to own your own home. A small
cash payment and a conservative monthly amount will
enable you to buy a home and live in it rent-free.
You will not only be saving money by buying a home, but will
have an asset when it is paid for and a place which you can call
your own to live in in your old age.
Read the real estate columns
The Bee publishes today offers of property of all
classes. The best bargains and the most bargains are
always advertised in The Bee, and those published to
day are well worthy of your investigation.
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