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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JUNE 8, 1917,
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SHODLD NOT HINDER
BUILDING TRADES
E. E. Sunderland Says There
Should Be No Letup in Ordi
nary Trend of Busi-ness.
Up-to-the-Minute Duplex Apartment
Nation-Wide Co-Operation for
i Securing More Labor on Farms
NEW GARAGE COSTS
HDNDREDTHODSAND
0. H. Strauser Has Contract
for Structure to Be Located
at Sixteenth and Leavenworth,
ran iffot
"A persistent propaganda seems to
be well on foot to discourage normal
business operations and it may be of
enemy origin for the purpose of caus
ing business paralysis, throwing many
out of employment and creating seri
ous civil unrest," said Ralph E. Sun-
. derland of the Sunderland Bros, com-
piny
"One of our most important basic
activities the building industry is
threatened by mistaken and perhaps
misquoted 'advice' supposed to come
from Washington.
"The suggestion is made that 'un
necessary buildinc and road construe
tion' should cease in order that men
and transportation facilities may be
released for the handling of govern'
ment necessities.
Must Protect Business.
"Everyone recognizes that in war
time the transportation of all com
modities necessary for successful con
duct of the war must take precedence
over all else, but the fact remains that
regular commerce and business
should not be unnecessarily interfered
with and, if at all, with some degree
of intelligent distribution of the bur
den among all lines of business.
"The business of nroducintr and
marketing building materials such as
cement, brick, lime, sand, stone, lum
ber, ate, is basic and sustaining. If
this prosperity is imperiled hundreds
of thousands of workmen directly em
ployed and those engaged in affected
building trades must suffer.
Should Push Road Building. '
"Now more than ever before road
building should be pushed to the limit
and there is no reason for abandoning
the construction of school houses,
churches, business buildings and resi
dences. '.
"It is an economic mistake to sound
undue alarms in the realm of con
structive and necessary business oper
ations which even in normal timei are"
all too sensitive to the ill effects of
disturbing rumors and suggestions.
"There is money enough and there
are men enough to do our successful
part in this war and there is no need
tor curtailment of the ordinary and
necessary processes, of .the building
business.
"It is exceedingly important to per
mit and encourage every man in
America to maintain at least his nor
mal earning capacity." ,
.Realty Concern Retains
Its General Contract
Contractors who had expected to
fet to bid for the job of building the
100.000 apartment house for the
Selma Realty company at 5102 Capitol
avenue, were disappointed, The work
is to be done by day labor, the owners
retaining the general contract them
selves. Reinforced concrete, brick,
and stone is the construction. The
building is to be three stories high.
Plans Completed Soon
For New Church Building
George J. Sprague is completing
plans for the new church building of
the St. Andrew Episcopal church at
Forty-second and Hamilton streets.
Bids will soon be asked on -this job.
The building will cost approximately
$15,000. It is to be 60 by 110 feet in
dimensions. Charles G. Trimble is
chairman of the building committee.
Swift & Company to Erect
$2,000 Office Building
A $2,000 office building is to be con
structed by Swift and company at
Twenty-sixth and 0 streets, South
Side. The owners will do this by day
labor. The building is to be 20 by 57
feet Brick and stone is the material
to be used. The foundation is com
pleted. Seven Thousand Garage
For North Sixteenth
Edward Cackley is building a $7,000
garage, 2622-24 North Sixteenth
street Silas P. Woolf has the general
contract. The building is 44 by 132
and if to be one story high. Bids on
heating, plumbing and electric wir
ing .will now be taken.
Fine Garage Is Being
Built Now in Dundee
C. D. Sturtevant is building an
$8,000 garage at 103 North Fifty-third
street The foundation is in. Two
stories and basement are contemplat
ed. John F. Peterson has the gen
eral contract.
Excavation Starts for
Two-Story Apartment
A. Theodore is building an $18,000
apartment house at 1815-17 Maple
street The building is 40 by 60 and
contemplates two stories and base
ment Richard Everett drew the
plans. Excavation work-is in prog-
."Jew Two-Story Garage to Be
Put Up on Lincoln Highway
Bids are being taken for a two
story garage at 2205 Farnam street
for H. Pelton. The building is to be
103 by 171 feet.
Italian Commission is ,
Invited to Visit Omaha
Omaha wants the Italian war com
mission in America to visit the Ne
braska metropolis during its tour of
the country. Through the secretary
of the Italian embassy at Washing
ton the Commercial club has invited
the commission
Bee Want-Ads Produce Results.
fiV PbMt Pl.fcN
This plan shows a duplex apart
ment built by Home Builders, Inc.,
on a number of fifty-foot lots. ."
The arrangement is different in
many ways than the, ordinary double
apartment. Each apartment has a
front porch and separate front and
rear entrances.
The living rooms and dinings rooms
are finished in oak, with a colonade
opening between. There is an open
stairway off the living room and a
built-in sideboard in each dining
room. Each kitchen is equipped with
a sink, gas stove, clothes chute and
a Powell kitchen cabinet, which is
built into the wall. The kitchen and
entry are finished in yellow pine.
On the second floor there are two
large bedrooms, a sleeping porch and
a bathroom, which are finished in
white enamel. '
Home Builders, Inc., or James T.
Allan, architect, Brandeis Theater
building.
REAL ESTATE MEN
SEEK INFORMATION
Want to Know of the Plans and
Policies That Are
j Operation in This
. City.
in
The Omaha Real Estate board has
been the center of inquiry from a
number of the leading boards of the
country, as to policies and plans of
operation. Organizations of real
estate men throughout the country
pursue two general lines of activity.
First, as to those matters affecting
the development and improvement of
tne community, and, second, as to
those matters affecting the ethics and
conduct of the real estate business.
The Omaha board until its recent
reorganization, under the old name
and organization of the Omaha
Real Estate exchange, gave consid
erable attention to the first tine of
activity and did much toward the de
velopment and advancement of the
city, county and state. Its leading
members and leading committees
concerned themselves as to matters
of taxes, public improvements and the
advancement ot public interests.
While the constitution directly for
bade political affiliations, some of the
members thought that the activities of
the old exchange came dangerously
near being political.
To ReaKEsUte Only.
Under the present organization and
control the board devotes itself al
most exclusively to interests that
pertain to the real estate business and
only occasionally takes up concerns
that are public.
The Denver real estate board , in a
communication to " the local board
asks for advice and help, stating that
for the last twenty-nine vears it has
given so much attention to public af
fairs, no other organization of Den
ver having taken a more prominent
part in promoting matters of public
improvement, that it has .neglected
its own affairs. It has been asking
nelp from the boards ot the coun
try and in a recent communication
savs that it has received from the
Omaha organization the most valu
able ideas received from any of the
seventy-five of eighty different boards
with which it has been corresponding.
The Minneapolis board through its
committee on taxation and public ex
penditures has been after the tax sit
uation. So far the investigation of
this committee, which is being made
country-wide, shows that the "tend
ency of city authorities is to impose a
continual increase in the percentage
of taxes upon tangible real estate and
a constantly decreasing percentage on
intangible personal property, leading
to over-valuation of real estate for tax
purposes and may result in future dis
aster to real estate interests in any
city that permits it.
Sends Out Data Sheet
The Minneapolis board has sent out
a "data sheet" asking from other
boards the valuation of real estate
and other particulars. It also fur
nishes a valuation compendium of
opinions of leading authorities on
"Principles of City Land Values,"
"Principles and Problems of Real Es
tate Valuations" and similar topics.
These will all be presented at the
next meeting of the Omaha real es
tate board and will no doubt be re
ferred to a committee for considera
tion and future report. ' This may
bring the Omaha board back to some
thing of the old policy of public
duty, particularly when it is linked
up with real estate welfare.
The Salt Lake City board is in cor
respondence with the Omaha board
with reference to a school bond elec
tion that is pending. The following
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American Ambulance Service in
France a Record of High Honor
In connection with the films to be
shown at Boyd s theater on June 9,
there will doubtless be an increase of
the already marked interest in those
books ! of war letters, I 'Friends of
France and "Ambulance No. 10."
These letters, written bv the college
boys of the ' American Ambulance
Service in France to friends at home.
have a wonderful grip; they are so
real, so simple, and so full of the hu
man kindness and the splendid, un
quenchable spirit (hat makes the work
of these fearless young fellows a
marvel and an inspiration.
"Ambulance No. 10," a collection of
the letters of one young ambulance
man, is especially well written, with
a wistful vein of sentiment running
through the stern, often harrowing
record of his daily experiences, and
bringing before one's actual eyes the
terrors and the triumphs of that vol
untary service. A particularly direct
approval by President Lowell of Har
vard college is a good comment on
these quite remarkable and thrilling
letters: "Any one who cares to know
whether our young volunteers in Ihe
ambulance corps are doing, their de
votion and courage,-the risks they
run, the suffering and the lives they
save, should read this book. It has im
pressed me more than anything else
from the front that I have seen.
Every one who reads it will want to
help support the corps, and those who
feel so may be assured that there is
no better means of aiding French
wounded soldiers than the American
Ambulance Field Service." If their
paragraph from the letter indicates
the issue there:
"The realtors' board is opposed to
any increased tax levy, but 6n account
of certain conditions has so far gone
on record as favoring a bond issue
for a certain amount for the Board of
Education at this time."
Two File Petitions to
Sever Matrimonial Bonds
R. C. Holly is suing Gladys Holly
for divorce in district court on
grounds of alleged desertion. They
were married ai Limestone, N, Y.,
April 29, 1901.
Eva Lillian Hanson, suing Fred C.
Hanson for divorce in district court."
aneges nonsupport. iney were mar
ried in St Louis, Mo., September 21,
1912.
Omaha Uni Seniors Give
Their Farewell Party
The seniors of the University of
Omaha gave the last party of the year
in Jos'yn hall last Friday evening. The
whole affair was very novel. It was
a patriotic military party. The hall
was decorated with flowers and flags
all in American color combinations.
The student guests were sent through
five forts, Snelling, Riley, Omaha,
Sheridan and Santiago. At each fort
different games were played.
Patriotic Chimes to Heal
Forth Registration Day
Just as a reminder of registration
day, patriotic cliimes, calculated to stir
the breasts of all loyal men, will peal
forth from Trinity cathedral.
ine chimes will ring the patriotic
message Sundav afternoon from 4
to 5 o'clock and on Tuesday, regis
tration day, 10 o'clock in the momma
and 2 in the afternoon.
Professor John Bower will nlav
the chimes.
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could be any Question of their enor
mous success on this great errand of
mercy, it would be answered by the
fact that the commonest request of
French wounded is to be turned over
to "the Americans'" care. More de
cisive yet, their hospital service has
been officially announced to be the
most efficient ever operated on a
battlefield" this judgment not only
from the allies, but from Germans
who have also received its ministra
tions. "Friends of France" is a more com
prehensive book, containing letters
from different men, with addenda of
portraits, many illustrations, "honora
ble mentions" from the French gov
ernment, etc. Both the books are in
tensely absorbing and must rouse a
lively desire in readers to share some
how in the merciful work they record.
This mav h rinn in anm Aetrree
by patronizing the exhibit of Alms of
the ambulance service m f ranee,
which will shortly be here. These
films were taken under supervision of
the French government and given by
it as a mark of gratitude to the serv
ice. By request of the management,
thev will be shown here under the
auspices af the Colonial Dames of Ne
braska. 1 hey have met witn great
success on their tour, and will with
out doubt give a most exciting and
faithful realization of scenes and con
ditions in the war zone, and of the
part that our brave young Americans
are taking in aid of the allies for
whom they have such warm sympa
thy. George Roeder, a young Harvard
man, who was lately driver of "Ameri
can Sanitary Section No. 2," Seventy-
third division, and whose name fig
ures frequently in the war letters, is
accomDanvinn and explaining the
films, which will add much to the in
terest of the occasion. Mr. Roeder re
ceived "honorable mention" from the
French government and has been con
spicuously faithful in the service from
the very first days of mobilization.
Shippers of Perishable Goods
Should Use Great Care in Packing
Washington, June 2. Shippers at
this time should exercise unusual care
in packing and loading their perish
able products. They should grade
their products carefully with refer
ence to the degree of their maturity
and select a nearby market for the
riper products and a distant market
for the products that will hold up the
necessary time in transit to reach the
distant market Weather reports
should be utilized in a study of the
weather conditions that are prevail
ing in the different large markets, to
the end that foodstuffs that normally
are consumed in large quantities in
warm weather may not be sent to
markets where cool or cold weather
is prevailing.
There should be a fuller recogni
tion of the joint responsibility of the
shipper with the carrier for the safe'
carriage of food productn to destina
tion, the specialists of the Depart
ment of Agriculture point out. Ship
pers should co-operate closely with
carriers by giving ample instructions
with reference to refrigeration and
ventilation, to the end that food
products may be properly conserved
in transit and reach channels of con
sumption. Railroad agents could
render useful service if they were in
structed in some of the most funda
mental things connected with the
Washington, June 2. Under the
government plan for the organization
of farm labor, the details of which
were announced by the United States
Department of Agriculture today,
provision is made for nation-wide co
operation in the solution ot the farm
help problem. The work of organiza
tion already has been started in about
forty states, and it is expected that
eventually every community, in the
United States will be reached. It is
believed that the resultant utilization
of emergency labor will begin to have
an appreciable effect on the farm labor
situation before the season has tar
advanced. Meanwhile, the immediate
and acute problem of supplying labor
for the harvests.'now beginning in the
southwest, is being handled, so far
as the United States governments
services are concerned, through the
existing employment service of the
United States Department of Labor,
which will continue to handle such
problems of mass mobilisation under
the new' plan as it has .in the past.
The plan is based on close co
operation on the part of the United
States Department of Agriculture and
the United States Department of La
bor with state committees on na
tional defense charged with labor
matters, with the state agricultural
colleges, with the county agents, and
with county and local or township la
bor committees or representatives to
be established in every locality. The
Department of Agriculture will rep
resent the federal authorities in de
termining farm labor needs and in as
sisting in organizing all available
farm labor in the rural districts. The
United States Department of Labor
will devote its attention to organizing
labor in urban communities and in
dustrial regions, and will co-operate
with the farm labor forces where nec
essary by obtaining extra labor from
the populous centers.
The plan provides for strictly local
New Publicity Stamp
To Advertise Omaha
Publicity stamps as a medium of
publicity, one of the latest boosting
schemes now used in all the large
city, are being circulated by the rep-
resentative business and professional
men of Omaha. This plan of adver
tising has come to be recognized as
an effective instrument of civic
publicity. The plan is to place public-
ty
siamps on - inc reverse biuc
of all envelopes mailed from Omaha.
Ten Thousand of Police
Of England Join the Army
(Correspondence of The Aisoctated Freee.) ,
London. April 30. Ten thousand
members of the police in England
and Wales have joined the army and
navy, ihis has reduced the actual
strength of the force to 28,802, many
of whom will soon be taken into the
army. Special constables have, to a
large extent, made up for the reduced
number of regular police, 121,908 hav
ing volunteered for police duty. This
large number includes constables for
special occasions such as Zeppelin
raids, coast bombardments and other
emergencies. i
Durango Railroad in
Mexico Opened for Traffic
(Correipondenee oC The Auoclmted PreH.)
Mexico City, May 30. The new
railroad between Durango and Canitas
will be opened for traffic early in May.
This road will cut off a long distance
in traffic between Mexico City and
Durango which formerly was routed
via Torreon. The road runs throueh
a rich mining region and will shorten
the distance from the Durango mines
to the Aguas Lahentes smelter of the
American Smelting and Refining com
pany which is expected to resume op
erations after a long period of idleness
within the next few weeks.
proper care of perishable shipments
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uuruig me pcruu oi loaaing carioaa
shipments at country stations.
Shippers too frequently through
carelessness and a lack of knowledge
of the proper methods of protecting
perishable shipments leave wagon
loads of them exposed to the hot sun
for hours at a time instead of loading
them promptly into a refrigerator car
and keeping the doors of the car
closed between loads. The carrier's
representative or local agents usually
take notice of such condition only for
the purpose of recording the circum
stances tor consideration in connec
tion with damage claims that may be
filed. The fact frequently is over
looked that the carrier may render
definite assistance in the conservation
of foodstuffs by co-operating with the
shippers and giving them all the in
formation which it has as to the
proper methods that .should be used.
Shippers should invariably notify
consignees as soon as shipments are
forwarded from point of origin.
Where the distance to market is short
the notification should be given by
wire, so that the consignees may be
in a position to take more prompt
delivery of shipments on arrival and
thus eliminate deterioration that so
frequently takes place by the holding
of shipments long periods of time
after arrival at the market.
handling of all labor problems that
can he adjusted locally. The funda
mental unit of the organization is the
"communitv man," who, with the as
sistance of such committees as he may
appoint,, canvasses his own neighbor
hood, finds out wlu' farmers need
help, and what men are available for
supplying the local need, and affects
such adjustments as can be made
locally. If, after all local adjustments
have been made, there remains either
a deficit or a surplus of labor, he re
ports to the "county man," whose
business it is to effect adjustments
between the several communities in
his county. The county man, in turn,
reports any deficit or surplus to the
"state man," who canvasses the situa
tion for the state as a whole and re
ports to the Department of Agricul
ture, which, in close co-operation with
the Department of Labor, is charged
with the distribution of mobile labor
for the country as a whole.
Thus each unit in the system acts
as a clearing house for its own terri
tory, reporting to the units higher
up only when it needs help or has
help to offer. The plan provides that
supplemental reports shall be sub
mitted by each community man
whenever changes in the local labor
situation make desirable further ad
justments that can not be met with
the material at hand, or when a sur
plus of labor develops which he can
not use. : '
A great many retired farmers, of
whom there are 700,000 in the country,
may be available for emergency serv
ice under this plan of farm labor
mobilization. The plans contemplate
also the drawing of emergency labot
from the cities under the immediate
direction of the Department of Labor,
the effective utilization of college stu
dents and school boys, and, if neces
sary, the assignment of volunteer wo
men and uirls to rural tasks con
nected particularly with the feeding
and caring for harvest hands or other
extra labor, or with farm canning or
drying of surplus perishable products.
In other words, the plan contemplates
supplying assistance not merely for
field operations, but to farm women
during their season of heaviest do
mestic duties.
OPPORTUNITY
You Can Secure Shares In
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Until Those On Hand Are Exhausted
Thev will always pay you 7 dividends. They
will not be affected by the new shares which will
soon be issued at the rate of 6 interest.
HOME BUILDERS' SHARES
have all mortgage security and not $1.00 of bond
ed indebtedness. Assets over Half Million Dollars.
Dividends payable July and January 1.
A part of your business solicited by mail or
in person. , . t .'
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We can use at this time
two or three good men
have exceptional oppor
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Reliable Paints and Varnishes at Reasonable Prices
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CYCLONE SANITARY LAWN FENCE
is the highest grade fence on the mar
ket; heavier, stronger and closer spaced
than nay other; complete, erected on
wood posts, the per lineal foot and up.
We carry a full line of wife and iron
fences and gstes, trellises for roues and
vines, flower bed borders, fences, stays
Steel pouts for field fencing.
Also we make flag poles.
Come In and see our line and get our
low prices
Send for Cnttovue.
ANCHOR FENCE CO.,
107 North 17th St.
Phone Red 814.
O. H. Strauser has the general con
tract to construct the $100,000 garage
for J. F.. Fitzgerald at, the southeast
corner of Sixteenth and Leavenworth
streets. The building is to be but one
story high above the level of Six
teenth street, but there is to be a full
basement and a sub-basement. The
lay of the ground is well suited to
such a construction. Little excava
tion was necessary since the garage is
being built on the brink of the em
bankment on the east side of,the Six
teenth street viaduct at the north end.
This handsome new garage will add
much to the appearance of this corner
in the business section of the city.
Ever since Omaha has become a reat
city, this corner has been one of the
eyesores. It has been occupied by
old shacks or by delapidated sign
boards. '
Large quantities of sand. - brick,
crushed rock and other building ma
terial have been accumulating there
for some weeks preparatory to push
ing the work when once begun. The
cement footings are now being poured.
Work to Start at Once
On Belt Line Elevation
During the next week active work
looking to the elevation of the tracks
of the Missouri Pacific Belt line will
begin. The engineers who will have
charge of the construction have es
tablished an office at the Dodge street
crossing and are here with blue print!
and the working details.
Contractors who will do the grad
ing incident to the elevation of the
tracks have established their camp
south of Cuming street and have up
an acre or more of tents for the
housing of the horses that will be
used in doing the work.
.North and south of Dodge streets
great stacks of piles are being un
loaded and sharpened, preparatory to
being driven for the trestle that will
carry the track while the grade ii
being constructed.
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