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THE OMAHA W'DAY EEE: AUGUST 12. 1917.
REAL ESTATE MEN
EXPECT BUSY FALL
Demand for Western Farm
Lands Is Good and Inclina
tion to Buy Is on the
Increase.
Tr.e real estate market in Omaha
has been quiet during August, as is
usual'v the case at this season of the
jar. This is also the condition over
the country. Here plans are being
laid for a busy fall and a number of
new buildings of importance are con
templated. The splendid crop pros
pects again turn the attention of in
vestors to farm lands and more pros
pects are in view for purchases of
cheap lands, particularly in western
Nebraska and eastern Colorado than
for the last five or six years. Ample
rains in the west, good crops and the
fact that the pioneers are making
money and living happily and com
fortably while they are doing it. is a
call to other heads of families to
gather up their boys and go west,
where they can have more room.
Within a week a prominent realtor
of Omaha, while out in Douglas
county, met a number of such cases,
of which one that he quotes is a fair
sample. This farmer on 160 acres,
with splendid improvements, comfor
table and well fixed in every way, ex
pressed a willingness to sell his place
for around $200 an acre and go to
western Nebraska, where he could
jet at least a section, or possibly two,
tnd give his four boys ample to do
ind so keep them at home. The
mall men of the state have also the
tame thing in mind.
Doty Leaves for Long
Trip Over Western States
L. E. Doty, head of the firm of L.
E. Doty, Inc., leaves today for two
weeks' automobile trip through west
ern Nebraska and Colorado. This is
to be a vacation trip and Mr. Doty
will drive a Veiie Biltwel Six, one
of the car which he sells.
Mr. Doty expects to drive to Estes
Park.
TWO BEE EMPLOYES GO TO
JOIN CANADIAN REGIMENT
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BERT ROGERSON
Two Bee employes, Bert Roger
son, 23, and Elford Lawrenson, the
same age, left Saturday evening for
Winnipeg to join a Canadian regiment
for service at the front. Both arc
English lads, r.ephews of Fred Roger
son, also employed by the Bee.
"Of course I hate to see them go,
but it is their diiiv tn trrvr fhir mim.
try. I only wish I were younger that
I too might give my services," said
the elder Rogerson.
three ot his n-puews were killed in
the early days cf the war and two
more nephews, Eric and Allen Roger
son, brothers of Bert, have been in ac
live service since the outbreak. The
cutter sent photographs of themselves
taken in the trenches, which The Bee
printed last summer.
Old feaguer Mow.
Recent record indlcit that National
leagur art poor ha talr In compari
son with the work on th patha of thalr
American leagu brethren.
PLAN BUILDINGS
ON OLDPLATEAU
Old Besidence Section Fast
Giving Way to the Encroach
ments of the Business
District.
The northeast and the northwest
corners of Eighteenth and Davenport
streets are to have buildings anywhere
from two to six stories high, and the
corner of Eighteenth and Capitol ave
nue is also to see some development.
The Home Builders company has
long-term leases on this ground and
Porter & Shotwell are negotiating
some deals for the erection of build
ings there soon.
At Eighteenth and Dodge streets, it
is hinted, a big building is also in
prospect, since tne promoters feel rea
sonably sure that the grading of
Dodge street is row soon to be ac
complished. The movement toward the plateau,
long given over to residences and the
comfortable homes of the moderate
home owner which skirts the old
Capitol hill, wheie for many years
dwelt the aristocracy of the city, is
becoming more clearly defined each
month and the buildings noted fixed
the movement more certainly.
Even Cuming street has felt the
pulsations of the movement. The
south side of tint historic old thor
oughfare between Twenty-fifth and
Twenty-sixth, which has not for a
good many years been very produc
tive, lias recently been bought up bv
a leading real estate company, al
though the purpose is being kept very
secret. No one has ever yet given
any good reason why Cuming street
should not vie with Leavenworth and
other streets in prosperity and growth.
Wyoming Man Assistant
Secretary of Interior
Washington, Aug. 10. Seldon G.
Hopkins of Cheyenne, Wyo., was
nominated today by President Wil
son to be, assistant secretary of the
interior, succeeding the late Bo
Sweeney.
OMAHA'S BUILDING
RECORD IS FINE
Shows an Increased Program
for July, Whereas Average
for the Country Shows
a Loss.
Omaha started a 12 per cent larger
building program in July, 1917, than
in July, 1916, despite the fact that the
average of 116 cities for that month
shows a loss of 49 per cent over the
previous July.
In Omaha 102 building permits
were taken out in July, 1917, totaling
a valuation of $656,2o0.
Kansas- City fell behind its 1916
July record in building by 6 per cent.
Lincoln tell behind by 55 per cent,
Sioux City fell behind by 9 per cent.
St. Louis fell behind by 12 per cent.
Manhattan Behind.
The average slump of 49 per cent
in the 116 cities is said by the Amer
ican Contractor to be due largely to
the situation in Manhattan, New
York City, which totals for July this
year only $1,894,095, against $49,205,
220 for July last year. The total of
Manhattan for July, 1915, was $4,845,
303. The zoning law of New York
City went into effect a little more
than a year ago. It imposed severe
restrictions upon the construction of
large office buildings.
To evade the conditions of the law,
building permits were sought and
obtained just before the law became
effective for a large number of spec
ulative enterprises, which have never
materialized and many of which had
a very slight chance of ever material
izing. Placing the Manhattan totals
at those of two years r.go. which mav
be regarded as normal, the loss of 49
per cent in the July statements
shrinks to only about 1 per cent,
which is quite another story, though
it does not entirely eliminate the
loss. However, it woul! be a better
statement than that for June, -which
showed a loss of 36 per cent, and bet
ter thanthat for May, which recorded
a loss of 34 per cent. Compared with
May and Jne, the July figures may
be accepted as distinctly favorable.
MOTOR CARS '
New Fame For
a Fine Name
A CERTAIN exclusiveness has always attached to the Stearns. The
name has stood for fine things for most careful manufac
turing. It has, been forced by its own goodness into a larger and wider market.
Stearns owners hold it to be foremost among America's few fine cars.
Each year has witnessed a wider acknowledgment of its very marked
merit. '
For six years Stearns has built Knight engines into the Stearns chassis.
The two are blended, now, into one harmonious unit.
The Knight principle is made perfect by Stearns practice.
The net result is a Stearns Four and a Stearns Eight of rare and re
markable qualities.
The silent Knight has never had such a setting as the Stearns chassis.
No chassis has ever been blessed with such a quiet and competent
motor.
From this time forward the Stearns will compel a much larger fol
lowing among those who seek a thoroughly fine motor car.
$1585
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fiv.pin(r
Tourlnf Car (or Stvtn, $1726; Clever
leaf Roadtter, $1SS3; Coup, fllSO;
Ltmouolno, $3000 Landiultt, 13100;
Lendaulet Brougham, $3200,
Stearns Eight
Touring Car for Stven, $2375; Clover
loaf Roadttor, $2375; Coup. $3071;
Ceup.Landauit, $3075) Limousine,
J3885; Landaulot, $3788 1 LandauUt
Brougham, $3785.
THE F. B. STEARNS COMPANY, CLEVELAND, OHIO
Mclntyre-Hayward Motor Company
2427 Farnam Street
Distributors Nebraska and Western Iowa
OMAHA, NEB.
Phone Douglas 2406
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Rental Situation Problem
For Owners of Buildings
Realtors are discussing the rental
situation as influenced by the present
changed and unusual conditions. A
leading rental agent of St Paul voices
the sentiment of landlords in that city
when he told a reporter that tenants
will not be asked for an increase of
rent unless they insist on too many
improvements and decorations.
"Where a house or flat is occupied
and the tenant remains, it is not like
ly that any higher rent will be de
manded." He stated that there is, as
in most cities, a great demand for
flats and apartments.
On the other hand, rental agents
have met with the greatly increased
cost of all materials necessary for
decorating and repairing and in the
case of flats the cost of heat is a most
serious question, and the conclusion
is logical that rents ought to be in
creased as we!J as every other factor
in the high cost of living.
One of the practical conferences in
the recent convention of real estate
boards in Milwaukee was that on
leases and rentals, in which interest
ing points were brought out as fol
lows: In Ohio all building leases have
been cancelled on account of the coal
conditions and leases are made for
five months in summer and seven
winter months. In Iowa rents have
been increased $5 a mom!1.. Kansas
City has successfully experimented
with the problem of securing prompt
payment of rents by adding $5 to
the amount of the rent agreed upon
and if payment is made on or before
the fifth of the month, a rebate of $5
is allowed. A delegate from that city
stated that in, case of a three-year
lease four months' rent was charged
in advance and, therefore, the last
four months of the lease came free.
In this way the landlords are sure of
their money.
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good on early ieaon prediction. Tba
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top-notch variety, but the dope baa gone
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We want you to compare: its per
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That's considerably lessand see if
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Also the Willys Six stands out as one
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It would be hard to design a more
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SALESROOMS
2047-49 Farnam St.
Phone Douglas 3292
WHOLESALE DEPARTMENT
20th and Harney Streets
Phone Douglas 3290