THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1916.
JWOVING AND STORAGE
FIDELITY SS7 FREE
Phone DouUs 211 tor complete
Itat of vacant bouaaa and apart
tuenta. Alio (or Horace, moving.
KtL and Jackaoo flta.
Globe Van and Storage Co.
For rtal moving aarvica try ua. Large
I-horse padded vans. 8 to rage, 11 month.
Satlafaction guaranteed. We move you
QUICKER, CH SAFER AND SAFER.
PImmm Tyler 210 or Douglas 413.
ire:
packing end stores.
Dowlas 6846.
HOT Farnam St.
REAL ESTATE IMPROVED
Weit.
MONTCLAIR
NEW BUNGALOW.
La rife living room, dining room and
kitchen on first floor; three bedroom and
bath on second floor; oak flnleh and oak
floor; built-in bookcases and buffet; pan
alod walls In dining room; clothes chute:
full basement; guaranteed furnace, Look
at It today; open I to a.
SCOTT & HILL CO.,
Doug. 1001. Ground Fir. McC&gue Bldg.
IiTi Lincoln blvd n-roon bouteT
strict I modern, with bor water best
Dougtas 1111
$5,000 BUYS $6,000 HOME
Brand new alx-room stucco, 16S8 Cass
Bt. Large living room, French doors, book
case, beautiful dining room, large light
kitchen. Three eitra fine bedrooms In
white enamel and mahogany doors. Full
light basement. Choice south front lot,
44x158. Key at J66S, or during week, call
Douglas 1474.
WEST FARNAM DISTRICT 8 -room, I
baths, nearly new; big discount, only
15.160. See It IIS N. lltb Ave.
North.
NEW BUNGALOW.
A five-room, strictly modern bungalow,
wttb bath. It la finished In oak, up-to-date,
bulit-In features and lighting fix
tures; full basement, large attlo. Located
at 8911 North 2tb St Price, 11,10; easy
terms.
NORRIS & NORRIS,
400 Bee Building. Phone Doug. TI.
NEARLY new bungalow of 6 rooms, oak
finish throughout; built In effects. On car
line, owner leaving city, will take any
reasonable offer; come out and look this
over. 4464 Bedford Ave.
KOUNTZE PLACE restricted district resi
dence for sate. A. V. Kntest, SS16 N. llth.
South.
HANSCOM PARK.
Just listed a place on Georgia Ave,, one
half block south of Leavenworth on 29th
St. rooms, strictly modern, priced at
11,600. Can sell on easy terms or will dis
count for cash. These people are leaving
the city on account of sickness and It
must be sold at once.
PAYNE INVESTMENT CO.,
517 On. Nut. Bank Bids. D. 1781.
Miscellaneous.
NEW FIVE-ROOM COTTAGE.
Thoroughly modern; hardwood floors;
corner lot, 64x128; additional ground can
be had (or gardening; sidewalk, sewsr,
water and saa; close In and a bargain at
82,350; $150 caah required.
SHULER & CARY,
2tt Keellne Bldg. Phone D. 5074.
HOUSBS WANTED.
Wl HAVE BTJTHR8 FOR BOMBS
WORTH THE MONET IN ALL PABTS
OF THR CITT. LIST TODB PROPERTY
WITH US FO RESULTS.
O'NEILL'S REAL ESTATE INS. AONCT.
Brandela Theater Bldg. Tyler 1084.
INVESTMENTS. INSURANCE 8400 Income
on price, $2,600, being I houses, rooms
each, near high school and Cralghton
college. Also 6 and 6-room bungmiowa,
$800 down, and two I-room, $85 down,
balance monthly.
CHA8. K. WTLLIAMBOn CO
NEW bungalow; also 8-1. and gardening;
your term and prlco; lnv. with $409, root,
s bouses cost s.e"l. ii,eoo. u. iin.
FIVE! rooms, new. oak finish, folly
rated, all modern, etc., $8,760; Hit omen,
balance monthly Colfax 1881
WELL BUILT BUNGALOW.
Oak finish, up-to-date, furnace, ratal,
$26; only $2,400. Bargain.
OKORQE Q. WALLACE, 614 goeHno Bid.
REAL ESTATE Unimproved
North.
WAVERLY PARK.
One of the c holes lots m the addition;
etge 46x126; east front, and on tne ear line.
Price $760.00; terms 110.00 cash and 17.50
per month.
C. A. GRTMMEL,
849 Om. Nat Bk. Bldg. Phono O. 1011.
OWNER must ssj oast front lot on fonts
nelle Bird., In Clalrmont W1U seU at
serines prlco tt taken at mm Oall
Douglsa Mil.
South.
ACRES SOUTH.
Improved and unimproved hi one to
ten-acre traots, on or near Bellsrno oar
Una Best of school faculties.
C. R. COMBS,
I'bone Doug. 2818. 809 Brandsls Theater.
Miscellaneous.
60-FT. LOT, $102.
Fine lots to select from, $1 cash. 60s
week. Bo X 8181, Bee.
REAL ESTATE Suburban
Benson.
START VOUK HOME IN BENSON 1
BUT TliS LOT
110.00 dewn snd 110.00 per month; pries
1100 00; sis. 9x130; kcatsd on Loaust
St., between Clark and Burn bam, not far
from school and oar line. Oa. K Wright
ofn: Omaha.
Florence.
NF.TH A WAY has 1, 4. I, 10 and 115-aor
impr. tracts for city property. Flo. 110.
South Side.
O-KOUM resldenoe. South Bid ft loft: 60
ceeb ha,i. 116 per mot th Doug 0110
REAL ESTATE B'nes. Pr'pty
INCOME property west Farnam district.
St. Louis flats lees than 3 years old, newly
decorated, 0 rooms each; apts. leased for
one year by good tenants. Buy of owner.
Save commission fee. 11,000; terms. Phone
Wrb. 394 or 1801 Blnney.
HEAL BSt AT ft.
WM. COLFAX.
76 Keellne Bldg Dong. II7I.
REAL ESTATE Investments
FOR BALK.
Double brick St. Louts flat within tour
blocks of ltb and Harney; close in; bar
gain prtes,
TALK INS A CO.,
Douglsa lilt. Cl!r National Ban a.
Decrease.
INVESTMENT.
Corner, close in, two houses, annua
rent 8720. Pries, 16,600.
S. P. BOSTWICK SON,
MO Bee Bids. Tyler 1608.
FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE
Real Estate, Lands, Etc
605 acres. Brown county land. Neb., to trade
for general mdse. or hardware stock. Ad
drew Y 699, Bee.
HAVE two 100-acre fsrna and one lo-acre
farm, eastern Nebraska, to trade for city
pron-rty.
ARCHER REALTY CO-
610 Brandels Bldg.
TRADES TRADES TRADES.
Farms, Cattle, Ranches, New Apart -menu,
Flats, etc. ABBOTT, 4 Patterson
niork
A rtoOjf rooming house for salt) or ex
change for equity in tots or house and lot,
or good car; good location. Call Ioug
las 6s- after 0 p- m.
FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE
Real Estate, Lands, Etc
WANT 130,000 to 160,000 stock general
merchandise ; will exchange for same
000 to $36,000 0 per cent income
property and spot cah for balance.
Write for particulars. Box 481, Fuller ton,
Neb,
WE have some good homes and rental prop
ertles for Neb. or la. land. Bdward F.
Williams Co.. Omaha Nat' I Bank Bldg
Ranch specialist. Mil or trade ranches for
city property. E. Kranta, m ma:?ae.ajH. OS
GOOD lot, desirable location, will take used
Ford aa part payment. Wi-beter 4141.
320 ACRES, near good town, North Dakota,
to trade for income up tp 118,000. Mrs.
Myrtle Lieeer Shenandoah, la.
REAL ESTATE WANTED
WANTED 4, 5 and 6 -roomed houeea that
can be sold for !lo0 cash; balance 111
per month; give complete description first
letter
W FARNAM SMITH & CO.,
1110 Faroam. Tel. Doug. 1014.
WE have buyers for your property
INTER-STATE REALTY CO..
111-10 City Nat l Bldg. Doug. 1101.
WANTED Listings of real estate In Omaha
for sale. N, P. Dodge A Co., Harney St.,
at 15th. Telephone Doug, 111
LIST your 6 and 6-room homos with us.
WE SELL TH KM. OSBORNE REALTY
CO, Doug. 1474.
FOR SALE. Seo F. D. Wead. 310 S. llth St.
FINANCIAL
Real Estate, Loans. Mortgages.
ft PER CENT to 0 per cent on best class city
residences in amounts $2,000 up: also
farm loans. Reasonable commissions.
PETERS TRUST CO., 1823 Farnam St
fiTooO MdRfnAOEbearlng fi por cent seml
ann.; secured by property valued at JH.000.
Ta Image-Loomln lnv, Co., W, O. W. Bldg,
REAL
ESTATE loans. 0 per
cent
1). K, BUCK CO.,
Oil Omaha Nat. Bank.
NO DELAY,
r. T. GRAHAM.
BEE BLDG.
OMAHA homes East Nebraska farms.
O'KEEFE REAL ESTATE CO.,
1011 Omaha Nafl. Phono Doug. 1711.
FARM and city loans, 6-5 and S per cent
W. II. Thomas, Kuellne Bldg. Doug,. 141.
7q1 MONEY HARRISON & MORTON
00 tie Omaha Nat l. Bank Bldg.
MONEY to loan on Improvtad farms and
ranches. We also buy good farm mort
gages. Kloke lnv. Co.. Omaha.
DON'T PAY IN INSTALLMENTS.
PAY IN 2. 3. 4 or t YEARS. BEST PLAN.
SHOPEN & CO.. KKEL1NB BLDO.
REAL" ESTATHLOANS WANTED.
THOS. L. McGARRY.
KEELINE BLDG. TEL. RED 4144.
5PEll CENTand 8 per cent money. To! end
at Trumbull, 441 Bee mag, uougias eei.
100 to 110,000 made promptly. F. D. Ws4,
Wead Bldg.. ism ana f ariutm pis.
MONEY on hand for city and
farm loans. H. W. Binder. City
National Bank Bldg.
GARVIN BROS. n.,.,.
CITY and farm loans. 6, 1H. 6 per cent
J. H. Dumont & Co.. 416 Keeilne Bldg.
Financial Wanted.
RESPONSIBLE party wants ealary loan
of 1100 for one year. In answering give
rate of Interest. Box 8490, Bee.
Abstracts of Title.
I Title, Guarantee and Abstract Co
XVcII toe 8. 17th St., ground floor.
Bonded by Mass. Bonding and Ins. Co.
REED ABSTRACT CO.. oldest abstract of
flee in Nebraska. 200 Brandels Theater.
M. T. BRBENAN, ovsr 20 yrs. experience In
Douglas Co. title. 114 Brandels theater.
MONEY TO LOAN
FTCNTTURB, pianos, Ind. notes as security,
40 e-mo H. H. gds., total cost, 11.60.
40 " Indorsed notes, total cost $M0.
Smaller, larger am'ts, proportionate rata.
PROVIDENT LOAN SOCIETY,
Organised by Omaha Business Men,
411 Rose Bldg., lfllh and Farnam. TT- a0l.
FARM AND RANCH LANDS
Arkansas Lands.
FREE literature and list of Arkansas farms.
P. H. Thompson, Fort Smith, Ark.
Colorado Lands.
320 ACRES of the very best land In
Colorado, unimproved, with the best soil
and water, six miles from the Rock
Island railroad and sevan miles from good
town; no rock or waste land. Price $3,000
cash. Otto Harkee, Hugo, Colorado.
Iowa Lands.
PINES Iowa farms, close to Omaha, all sites,
priced right. See us first, W. T. Smith
Co- 814 City Nafl Bank Bldg.. Omaha.
Kansas Lands.
OIL and gas leases. Three thousand acres,
Wanbansee County and 3,000 acres la
Osage County, Kansas. Much develop
ment now going on In each of these coun
ties. Many wells continguous to this prop
erty will be completed in near future.
Leases run five years, twelve month be
fore any rentals beoome due. Price Im
mediate acceptance, 12 acre. R. B.
Lynch, Tulsa, OkL
Missouri Lands.
SMALL MISSOURI FARM 110 cash and $1
monthly; no interest or taxes; highly pro
ductive land ; close to 1 big markets.
Write for photographs and full informa
tion. Monger, A-111. N. Y. Life Build
Kansas City, Mo.
GREAT B AUG A INS & down, $5 monthly
buys 40 acres, good fruit and poultry
land, near town, southern Missouri. Price
only 200. Address Box 808, Excelsior
Springs, Mo.
Nebraska Lands.
6 ACRES, well improved, two blocks to
high school, Tecumseb, Neb. Stewart 211
a i7th st
KIMBALL COUNTY.
820 acres choice land In good location.
Will give clear doed for two first crops.
T. H. CAMPBELL fc SONS,
Kimball. Neb.
CAN seU or exchange any lands you have to
offer. C J. Canan, MoCague Bldg.
Texas Lands.
EAST TEXAS.
Call or write for my free book describ
ing good corn and alfalfa land In east
Texas for $26 per acre.
W. S. FRANK,
101 Neville Blk.
Wisconsin Lands.
UPPER WISCONSIN Best dairy and gen
eral crop state In the union. Settlers
wanted; lands for sale at low prices ox
easy terms; excellent lands for stock
raising. Ask for booklet tb on Wisconsin
Central Land Grant; state acres wanted.
If interested In fruit lands, ask for book
let on Apple Orchards. Address Land Com
missioner Soi Rallwav. Minneapolis, Minn.
Wyoming Lancis.
SMALL investors write for printed matter,
prices and terms on Wyoming oil land
lots; warranty deed to all lots. McKlbbin,
Agt., Box 92, Fort Morgan. Colo.
320 ACRES Well Improved, one mile small
town. Price 15,000. Terms to suit. Owner
has other business. Write, Box 02, Lost
Springs. Wyo.
FARM LAND WANTED
WANTED Quarter section of good farm
land within three or four miles town,
with German Catholic church; southeast
Neb. preferred. Address J. J. Carey,
Petersburg, Neb
WANTED FamiM and unimproved farm,
fruit and stock lands. Consolidated Farm
Agency. Marbridge Bldg . New York.
AUTOMOBILES
AUTO CLEARING HOUSE
2201 Farnam St. Douglas 1310.
1910 Saxon Roadster, tacrine.
1918 Stearns-Knight "4." 11.260.
1910 Maxwell Touring. 1.160.
1916 Steams-Knight "1," 11.5B0.
OUR REPAIR WORK WILL SATISFY YOU.
TELL st BINKLEY.
1111 Harney St. Doug. 1040.
Who's setting the pate now?
In the first ten months of 1910
THE BEE gained 47.940 Paid Ads,
EXCEEDING the COMBINED GAIN of
the other two Omaha paper for same
period by more than
20,000 PAID ADS.
Good Results. Good Rates. Good Service.
FOR HAT.E Bargain, Bulrk roadster. C 38.
1916 model, by owner; e-.r perfect Cheap
for cueti, no tn.de. Wal. 3T.91.
AUTOMOBILES
SIX -CYLINDER roadster. 50 11. P., 112-lnrh
whel base, demountable rims, with extra
rim and tire, all in Omt-claaji shape; will
climb almost any hill in hitch gear. For
quick sale will take $2S0. C. James, 719
a list St. Harney 1141.
AUTO INSURANCE
Fire, Theft and Liability at lowest ratea
KILLY, BLL1S A THOMPSON,
fis-ll aty Nat. Bk. Bids;. Ixus. ma.
DON'T throw awajp eld tlrea We make on.
new tire from two old ones and save you
,0 per cent 8-ln-l Vulcanising Co., 161,
Uavenport 81, Omaha. Neb. Douglas 8,14.
WB "will trsds you a new rord tor your
eld one.
INDUSTRIAL uARAOB CO.
Ifth aad Harney. Douglas 88,1
USED CARS AT REAL PRICES.
C W. FRANCIS AUTO CO.,
Douglas 858. 8116-18 Iranian! St
CORD Urea for Fords. 101. 88.85: SOiSU,
811.86. Zwlebel Bros. D. 5878. 8618 Tar
si
On fi lUnTAR ri"i Repairing.
Overhauling.
J4M Learenworth.
t?RORTOWV "(lARAO',!. 116
Deed Care.
14th.
4448. Parts to Hot) "80." Flanders -80."
Appersen, Oldsmeblle. I. H. C truck, etc
Automobiles Wanted.
COUPKLET body for Ford chassis. 840.00.
FRANK 8BLBT.
DOUGLAS 1610.
AmoJUvejrtndwageii.
EXPERT auto repairing, "servlc. car el
ways reedy." Omaha Oarage, 8010 Barnoy
Bl Tyler 556.
QARAGK for rent. Call Webster 471 or at
8010 Blnney St
Automobiles (or Hire.
FORD for rent Tou may drive It 1 charge
by mile. Doug. 8011. Evenings. Tyler isit.
Auto Tires and Supplies.
TIRES! TIRES! TIRES.
Whole sets of our new Ford tires for
816. If you brsng us 4 old oaslngs, 128; 8
old oaslng, 111.
VINTON TIRE CO..
1811 Vinton St. Tyler 16S4-W.
Auto Repairing and Painting.
STROMBERO SKRVldK STATION.
OBOROB W. WILLIAMS, 1606 Jaokson St
Carburetors my specialty. Red 4148.
8100 reward for magneto we can't repair.
Coll. repaired. Bayedorfpr. 210 N. 18th.
NEB. Auto Radiator Repair Service, and
prices right 218 8. jjth St D. 71M.
Motorcycles and Bicycles.
i7ART.KT.DAVIDflON HOTORCTCLES.
gains In used machines. Victor Roos. "The
Motorcycle elan, zius Leavsnworto.
PerslHtenoe
Advertising.
Is the Cardinal Virtue In
COMPILE FIGURES ON
BUILDING FIRE LOSS
Ownen and Managers to
Gather Data to Show to Big
Insurance Companies.
PROMISE LESS HAZARDS
Statistics on the number of fires
and the amount of fire losses in of
fice buildings owned and managed by
members of the National Building
Uwners and Managers association
and local associations throughout the
country are to be compiled. This
will be done by the national associa
tion, with the view to making a
showing to the insurance people in re
gard to the decreased hazard in build
ings so owned and operated. Then
the association will press its demands
for lower insurance premiums.
The local association of Building
Owners and Managers at its last
meeting voted to appropriate $200
toward the national fund of $5,000
being raised to make this fight The
statistics gathered on this subject will
cover a period of ten or fifteen years.
The building owners and managers
claim the insurance people have never
recognized tnem as they should in
their efficiency of handling buildings
so that fire hazards are decreased.
The insurance men claim the asso
ciation is too new and that the strictly
office building is too new an institu
tion. The owners and managers reply
that the office building is nevertheless
in a class by itself and should be so
considered in the matter of insurance
rates.
Xmas Bonuses to Be
Given Employes of
. Burgess-Nash Co.
Realizing that the month of De
cember brings extra labor and longer
hours to all of its employes, and also
desiring to give a real Christmas
present" to everyone who assists in
the progress of the store, the Burgess-Nash
company has announced
that it has arranged again this season
for the giving of a substantial gift at
the end ot the year.
All salespersons, old or new, will
receive for the period of December 1
to 24, inclusive, in addition to their
salary, one-half of one per cent of
their net sales, and all other employes
not included in the selling end of the
business will be given a certain per
centage of their salary in accordance
with extra duties that may be theirs
at this season.
In addition to the percentage of
sales arrangement, special cash prizes
are also offered amounting to $200,
divided into twenty-five prizes rang
ing from $50 for first, and on down
to $1 for the twenty-fifth price, to the
salespersons who are in the same de
partment as a year ago and whose
sales from December 1 to 24 show the
greatest percentage of increase over
the corresponding period of 1915.
The above olans were in force last
year and aided so much in the service
of the store during the Christmas
rush period that the management de
cided to repeat it again this season.
Omaha Uni to Have
New Honor System
The honor system is to be revived
at the University of Omaha, accord
ing to an announcement made last
Friday bv President Jenkins. The
old svstem has not proved very suc
cessful and the organization has prac
tically died out.
According to the new plan the
seniors will have two representatives,
and the other classes will each have
one. Four will be elected at-large,
making nine in all. The representa
tives will elect their own president. A
new suggestion will be tried by the
new organization. Instead of the
council having complete control of
student management, it will act as an
dvisory body to the universitys gov
erning committee.
Next Monday in chapel Dr. Jenkins
will put the proposition to the stu
dents and it is expected that by Fri
day the organization will be com
pleted.
Blanket Sale Scott's. 15th and
Howard. Follow the footsteps. Adv.
HAPPENINGS IN
THEJAGIC CITY
Boosters' Club Speaker Urges
Acceptance of Light Con
tract by Voters.
BIG MEETING IS HELD
"Some people may want to throw a
lot of money into high priced copper
or a new plant that will take a decade
to build, but for my part I would
rather wait until the war is over and
buy when prices arc reasonable,"
Judge G. C. Collins, secretary of the
West Side Boosters' club and chain
pion of the rive-year electric light
contract, said at a big meeting of club
members at the Fcnton hall Friday
evening.
"It would take from five to ten
years to stretch all the lines neces
sary to actually feed all the possible
patrons in Omaha and as for buying
the present plant outrieht when cop
per is rated twice and three times
what it was before the outbreak of
the war, it would be rank foolishness
The electric light people have pre
sented us a proposition where we
have nothing to lose and everytning
to gain. My idea is to let the thing
slide at least until the war is over
and then buy with loss to none and
ultimate good to all.
The majority of the fifty members
oresent. all property-owners and tax
payers of the district mentioned,
were enthusiastically in favor of the
contract, rather lonaitas ot at. An
thony's church, Lithuanian, spoke in
favor of the contract. The vote was
postponed until Tuesday evening
when it was predicted tnat a sun
larger crowd would turn out.
A committee of three was appoint
ed to interview President Watties ot
the Street Railway company m re
gard to getting the promise of the
company that the West Q street car
line would be extended south on
Thirty-sixth street from Q street to
the county line, i ne main oojecuon
aecordinff to opinions recently ren
dered by street car officials, is that
the street ought to be seven ly feet
wide. It is only 60 feet wide. Louis
Cohen, M. L. Martin and Joe Giles
ire on the committee.
. Asks Stiff Penalty.
A "good government league,"
whose object it will be to seek the
enforcement of the Slocumb law in
the state, was started by resolution
at a meetintt of West aide Doosters,
Friday night. The club members
passed resolutions authorizing a com
mittee to make the trip to Lincoln
when the state legislature convenes
to implore leglistators to pass a law
making the minimum penalty for
bootlegging two years in the state
penitenttary.
The East Side Improvement club,
which also met Friday evening, dis
cussed similar action.
Foot Ball Player Hurt.
Reggie Dean, popular all-round
athlete at the Hawthorne school,
sustained a painful injury and was
carried from the field in a foot ball
o-me between the Hawthorne team
and an Omaha team composed of
Central and Commercial High school
freshmen. Dean was injured in the
last ouarter. The game resulted in
a victory for the uptown men by a
score ot 14 to . Anderson, leu nan,
and Leo Robinson, linesman for the
locals, also starred. The game marked
the windup of the season's games for
Hawthorne, which team is the aoutn
Side champions.
Mngte City OoMrip.
A musical program of especial Interest will
accompany the preahlng of Rev. C. C.
Wilson at the Grace Methodist church this
morning and evening.
Knlgbts and Ladles of Security will give
a card party Tuesday evening at the Mc
Crann hall at Twenty-fourth and O streets
at 8 o'clock. Ten prises will be given.
A grand ball will be given by the drill
team of Unchurch Lodge No. 1, Degree of
Honor, at the Ancient Order of United
Workmen Temple, Twenty-fifth and M
streets, Wednesday evening, November 20.
Bryan Nixon, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. A.
Nixon and famous athlete of the South
High school, Is visiting In Ogden. Utah.
He Is on his way home from the Black Hills
country and Is expected next Tuesday.
Ws wish to express our heartfelt thanks
to St Bridget's school, the employes of the
Cudany Packing company, friends and
neighbors for the many beautiful floral
offerings and sympathy shown during the
illness and death of our beloved son. Steven.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Frits.
The South Side Nsedlecraft club enter
tained at a Thanksgiving dinner Tuesday st
the home of Mrs. Know Harms. Teachers
and school girls of the Highland school
won prises. They wero Mrs. Mathews. Miss
Burke, Miss Jorgenson snd Miss Stlllmork.
Miss Laura Long and Miss Edna Smith.
Mesdamee L. C. Banner, W. H. Beckett and
C A. Anderson also were present.
Why Burgess Favors
Lighting Contract
Wilbur L. Burgess, head of Bur-
gess-Granden company, offers this ex
planation why he is in favor ot the
five-year street lighting contract
passed by the city council and which
will be submitted to referendum vote
December 5:
"The other night I returned home
at a rather decorous hour, whereupon
I proceeded to unlock the front door
with mv key. The street was dark,
and there I was, trying vainly to make
the key release the lock which se
cured the door. After I was nearly
exhausted, I struck a match and dis
covered I was trying to unlock the
front door of the house next to mine.
If the street had been properly lighted
I would not have suffered physical
and mental anguish. I am for better
street lighting."
Don't Disregard Your Cold.
Few of us realise the danger of coughs
and colds. Don't take the rlek, take Dr.
King's New Discovery. Ouarantoed. All
druggists. Advertisement.
Brothers Roam for
Always Together
"We haven't been apart for twen
ty-eight years," Robert and John
Young, 42 and 44 years old, respec
tively, told Desk Sergeant William
Smith at the South Side station last
evening as they applied for free sleep
ing berths at the jail. The two men
were born in Fort Smith, Ark., and
have traveled the world together, vis
itine almost every known country to
day, according -to their own statement.
Blanket Sale Scott's. 15th and
Howard. Follow the footsteps. Adv.
City Commissioners Tell Why They
Favor the Electric Light Ordinance
Statement by City commissioners
lo the people of Omaha:
In its essential nature, the referen
dum of Ordinance No. 9396, the Elec
tric Street Lighting Contract ordi
nance, is regarded largely in the na
ture of an appeal from the action of
the commissioners of the city, in en
acting that ordinance into law; this
action to be sustained or to be over
ruled, as may seem advisable, by the
electors at the coming special elec
tion to be held on the 5th day of De
cember, llo.
It would appear, therefore, but ap
propriate and becoming of the under
signed commissioners to state briefly,
or, as concisely as consistent with a
fair degree of certainty, the reasons
which influenced them in favoring
the enactment of said ordinance into
law.
No Contract Now.
The city now is and has been with
out a street lighting contract since
July, 1914. It has been paying for its
street lighting on the basis of the
prices per lamp charged in the pre
existing contract. This situation has
been and is unavoidable, except by
another contract, because the city is
without its own street lighting fix
tures and apparatus and is without
power to secure the same except in
connection with the ownership, by
the city, of a complete plant. The
city has no power to compel a dis
criminatory rate in its favor, as a user
of current. Consequently, the only
remedy available, for a number of
years, at least, is a street lighting
contract.
There are now about 1276 so-called
ordinary arc lamps, which cost the
city $55.09 net per lamp, per annum.
There are about 138 10-ampere flam
ing arc lamps which cost the city
$62.28 net per lamp, per annum.
Aside from the gas street lighting,
this equipment constitutes the entire
street lighting equipment of the city
(except street lighting equipment on
the South side under an existing con
tract). The city's area exceeds thirty-five
(35) square miles and it re
quires no effort to understand that
the number of lamps above is en
tirely inadequate.
The ordinary arc lamp, while con
suming much more current than the
proposed lamp, gives no larger vol
ume of candle-power than the type
of lamp provided in the contract The
ordinary arc lamp is an old type of
lighting, generally regarded as anti
quated and uniformly displaced by all
cities where a change in the lighting
system is made. The flaming arc
lamp is not as old but if likewise be
ing displaced by newer and improved
types of lamp. Such displacements
come about in the interest of econ
omy and in the interest of improve
ment. These arc lamps consume much
current, (and this is one of the big
items of expense) without delivering
relatively as great a volume of light.
After all, it is volume and distribu
tion of light for which the city is ex
pending its money.
Needs Big Sum.
To maintain annually the present
number of lights, to-wit: 141, costs
the city $79,054.75. This sum is the
amount now annually available for
such purpose and the question con
fronting the commission has been and
is whether or not more light and a
wider distribution of it, especially in
the out-lying sections, might be ob
tained without enlarging the expendi
ture. Until legislation is had, a larger
sum will not be available.
To this end, the undersigned com
missioners of the city have been work
ing since their advent into office. In
formation has been obtained from
most of the many cities of the coun
try to ascertain the price which elec
tric street lighting is costing such
cities, and this information has been
reduced to candle power so as to fur
nish a basis for comparison. It is
light which the city is buying, it is
light which it wants, and candle power
is the unit which furnishes a depend
able test.
Under the existing system, the city
is and has been paying on an average
13.8 cents per hour per candle power
per annum. Under the prices fixed
in the pending contract, tne city win
pay on an average 8)4 cents per hour
per candle power per annum. This
price is one of the lowest prices paid
in any of the cities of this country
for street lighting below street light
ing under municipal ownership even.
Much data in the possession of the
undersigned abundantly support these
statements. In most of the cities as
large and larger than ours, the price
per candle power for street light per
annum, where there is an all-night
service, as is the case in this city,
ranges between 20 cents and 50 cents,
some reaching as high as 90 cents.
No Price Complaint.
So far as the undersigned have been
advised, there is no complaint with
the prices carried in the ordinance in
question. Though invited to bid a
price for which they would light the
streets of this city, those claiming that
it could be done more cheaply through
a municipal lighting system, refused to
bid, or even to submit prices for which
a municipal light plant might furnish
street lighting.
The complaints that are constantly
disturbing us are not with reference to
the street lighting costs, but relate ex
clusively to the utter inadequacy of
the street lighting. Every person in
the city conversant at all with the
street lighting condition knows that
this city is comparatively the most in
adequately lighted city of its size in
the country, not altogether the cause
of the type of its lighting system, but
because of the want of a sufficient
number of lights and a wider distribu
tion thereof. A wider distribution may
be brought about only by an enlarge
men of the number of lights. The
outlying sections, especially, of the
city constantly, and it must be admit
ted most justly, complain that these
sections arc practically without light
and are exposed to the double danger
incident to the want of police protec
tion and the want of light.
Means More Lights.
The proposed contract secures at
once an additional number of lights
amounting to about 1,070. Each of
these new type of lamps, we are con
vinced from demonstration, furnishes
approximately the same number of
candle power now furnished by each
of the ordinary arc lamps. So that
the total candle power under tne pro
posed contract will be nearly double
that under existing conditions. Under
contemplated installation, something
like 700 or 800 lamps will become im
mediately available for location and
distribution in the outlying and most
needed residential sections.
This will give us instead of 1,417
street lamps, 2,488 lamps, without any
added expenditures. Of course, 2,488
lamps are not adequate to light the
city as it should be, nor to light it as
most of the cities of its size in this
country are lighted; but it is all that
the available revenues will permit to
be installed and will vastly improve
the existing light conditions of the
city.
Excellent Type.
The type of lamp selected and pro
vided for by the contract in question
seems very generally to be regarded
as excellent, very efficient and entirety
up to date. No provision of the con
tract has been allowed to be inserted
without careful attention. The carry
ing poles are to be ornamental and
in the downtown districts to have
placed thereon ornamental street
signs. Lamps outside the downtown
section are to he suspended or an
chored in the most convenient man
ner and so as to yield the highest and
best results.
The contract protects the city
asainst damages which minht be oc-
1 casioncd to persons in connection
with either the installation of the fix
tures or their maintenance. It further
provides that, should the city elect
to acquire the company's plant, prof
its to result from the unexpired
period of the contract shall not be
taken into consideration as an item
of value to be allowed the company.
All Is Fine.
In brief, the undersigned feel that
everything has been done which it is
possible to do to procure the greatest
amount of light possible with the
money available for that purpose, and
to give such light the widest possible
distribution to the end that sections of
the city now without light, but paying
their part of the tax, may have a fair
share of the street linhtiiii.
The objections urged against the
proposed contract, so far as such,
have come to our attention, do not
relate to the prices per lamp fixed
in the contract, do not relate to the
number of lamps which will be avail
able for wider distribution, and do
not relate to the failure on the part
of the city to take all required steps
fully to protect the city's interest in
every contingency which apparently
might arise; but relate to the claim
or contention that the effect of such
contract might be to postpone, for i
time, the possibility of certain pre
liminary desired steps and proceed
ings, having for their purpose ulti
mately either the construction or pur
chase of an electric light plant by the
city. The city is asked to forego
certain definite, much desired, and
tangible results offered by the con
tract in question, out of fear merely
that the acceptance thereof might re
sult in a postponement of an indef
inite and undefined program .now ap
parently incuoating in the minds of
a few. Whether this is or is not re
ward sufficient, you are to say.
Won't Interfere.
However, it has not been made to
appear that the proposed contract
would in any wise interfere with or
postpone any legitimate program,
having for its end either the acquisi
tion or the construction of a munic
ipal plant. If the existing plant is to be
acquired, then the contract does not
stand in the way, nor will it burden
the acquisition, because it is so pro
vided plainly in the contract. If a
plant is to be constructed by the city,
then all dependable experience and
advice unite in assuring that the pro
posed contract will have run ita full
course and expired by its own limita
tions (five years) before such plant
would be ready for successful opera
tion and service.
The foregoing are submitted as full
justification for our official course in
enacting the ordinance into law, and
in the full belief that honest consid
eration of the best interests of the
city would neither approve nor justify
any other course of action on our
part. Respectfully submitted,
JAMES C. DAHLMAN,
W. S. JARDINE,
C. H. WITHNELL,
GEORGE PARKS,
A. C. KUGEL.
J. B. HUMMEL
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