170LF TELLS WHY
IE INVESTS IN
Or.lAIIA PROPERTY
. ". 3. .r,'.
Biggest Buyer of Real Estate
- Explains to Realtors the
Faith That Is Within
, ' Him. - .
Harry A. Wolf who, this year,
his been by far the largest pur
chaser of real estate in Omaha, last
week told realtors of this city why
he has invested more than $1,600,000
in realty in Omaha since January 1.
Mr. Wolf said he is not invest
ing in teal estate as A matter of
guesswork. That, he believes he has
not been taking any chances, ; but
making good, sound investments.
. He said: -i"l
began by .studying conditions
immediately after the armistice was
signed," he said, "and after, a care
ful survey of world conditions, I de
cided that the proper time to buy
property was at once, because I be
lieved that prices would be lower
now than in the future,
i Prices Not Cheaper.
"I did not believe as some did,
that pricei of building material and
of labor, would go down. I could
see absolutely no cause for believ
ing that buildings erected after-the
war would not cost more than those
built before the war.
"Consequently, I figured that if I
6vi buy property with buildings
rtt'ed at pre-war costs, I would
have something that could not be
duplicated for the price I paid. Such
a situation of course would mean
increase in value and increase in in
come. "
' rs T Big Part It Labor..
'The reason I believed building
costs would not go down again is
that nearly all the cost of a building
is labor. About 40 per cent of the
final cost of building is labor. The
cost of the other 60 per cent, which
is material, is largely labor. Near
ly all the cost of lumber and other
material is in the last analysis, la
bor ' used in producing and trans
porting. ;
"Labor, during the war, learned
what it is worth, and what it "can
get.- Labor is not going , to take
less.
' , Full Dinner Pall.
"We used to talk of a 'full dinner
pail' just as if the laborer was like
an animal needed enough, to , eat
Then we got to talking about a tiv-.
ing wage) trying to mak! labor, be
lieve all it was entitled to was
enough- to live on. .
r ' "Labor has learned that it can get
more than barely enough to live on.
It should have 'more. It will get
more." 1 '-, '
Mr. Wolf , nad this to say about
why he does not confine his pur
chases to any one street or locality
in Omaha.
,. "I do not believe Omaha is like a
paralyzed man, with blood running
only through one arm. Omaha -is
not going to grow up one particu
lar street. " All the streets will grow.
There: is no partial paralysis here.".
4 . I. I I I III. '
Paying for Estimates to - -Lower
Cost, of Building
The average builder1 doing 'com
petitive work Vill estimate on ten
jobs in order to secure one, says
building Ace. Each one of these
estimates will cost on the average
at least $75. Thus an outlay of at
least $750 must be made before a
contract-is secured, $675 of which
js waste pure and simple. '
This $675 goes into the builder's
overhead. It is charged up against
the one job in 10 secured,, adding
just that much to the cost. ;
Many an architect's expenses also
goes into, useless overhead. In a
recent- competition, 75 ? architects
submitted plans for an " expensive
structure. Each' set' of. plans pre
pared on the chance of securing
-this job averaged $1,000. Wasted,
$74,000. And the ' owners paid for
this in the form of architect's over
head.'. ; ,.. " s
That condition is deplorable. If
v owners who desired competitive
plans or 'a choice of estimates, paid
tor just as many as desired, then
less waste effort would be required
and' overhead would ' be lowered.
That means an appreciable reduc
tion in costs.,. ." .' - V ' .
Of course when a builder goes
after a job. having no competition,
it is good business for him to give
an estimate of cost. The .owner
naturally desires to know the cost
of the work before proceeding. If it
is too high the builder does not se
cure the job, but neither does any
body else, ; . v ,
. Too often, however, in localities
where .many contractors are willing
to bid, 10 or 12 will be asked to sub
mit estimates free. All bids may
be rejected. .. At best -only one will
win out; the others will have had
their trouble for nothing. .
That is not fair, but unfortunately
the trade has educated the public to
expect 'this sort of indiscriminate
service. ".
Now that costs have advanced so
considerably; it is time that such
wholesale free estimates on com
petitive business be eliminated. Let
owners pay for-just those estimates
required; they will find their costs
lower. V,
wounded i$ ' Action. ,1
Allan Tukey and-WC O.'-Larson,
two of 'the three returned soldiers
in the. office of A. P., Tukey & Son,
were wounded ,in ac,tjon.. .Both men
were in hospitals several weeks be
fore being discharged. '
Scenes at Beautiful Lake Manawa Park
f9
IS
Manawa Park, on the shores of
beautiful Lake Manawa. iiist a brief
ride from Manawa, was never morel
delightful than it is today. The now
BEAUTIFUL SUBURBAN HOME
' ' v,.
This attractive house has simple
but picturesque lines. A porte
cochere could be built out from the
end of the piazza and would be very
striking looking.
The first floor contains an attrac
tive hall with handsome staircase, a
pretty living room with box panel
ling for ceiling and a corner fire
place. Arched opening into dining
room through sliding doors may be
substituted if preferred. There is a
fine pantry,, excellent kitchen well
litted, and with direct communica
tion to dining room through pan
try, c Laundry is in the rear, open
ing on to back porch. All rooms
are well lighted.
Un the second - floor there are
three bed rooms, a front hall, linen
room and , bath. Good closets
throughout. Clyde Smith Adams,
Architect. . '
CONSTRUCTION
WORK ACTIVE IN
ALL PARTS SOON
Builders, Realize No Re
duction ' Is in r Sights;
, and , They Must
. Get Busy. r,
With, regard to the 'building sit
uation, S. W, Straus of S." W. Straus
& Co., says: - . '
"Indications , are that by mid
s mmer we shall witness the actual
beginning of a long and active
period of construction work in all
parts of the country; . ) -
Not only - have building opera
tions" greatly: increased in the last
30 days, but there has been noted
a pronounced increase among in
quirers for. capital to be used in
construction lines of all kinds and
for industrial expansion. These in
quiries are - of such a nature and
represent so many varied interests
as to indicate , a strong undertone
of national optimism with regard
to immediate prospects -and a; rapid
approach toward general ; stabiliza
tion. vH.V:- r : '.i
"Reports from the principal busi
ness centers of vthe country show
that the resumption . . of ; : bnilding
operations on an extensive scale has
begun and; there is reason to; be
lieve that the present month may be
tb .sbesf June iii.thf history of the
country in poinj of uilding contracts
let, unless labor disturbances or some
other unfavorable circumstance pre
vents. ' - . -..... .-1
May Go Higher.
, "The imoroved conditions in the
sjtail&Kl tesstff!. kM Used uitt
r .v. w 1
Vk
ers are in bloom, and hordes of
birdes make their home at the lake.
Picnic parties in greater numbers
than ever before are daily visitors
First Floor
largely on the realization by all- In
terests that construction prices, in
stead" of receding, will go higher.
It has become generally recog
nized that labor costs in this coun
try are more likely to advance than
to be modified, and this, in the- final
analyses, is the deciding factor for
thereason that about 40 per cent
of the cost of a building is for
labor employed in erection work and
35 per cent is for labor in the manu
facture of materials. ' Labor em
ployed , in construction work ad
vanced 28 per cent during the
period of 1914-1818 while the cost
of living went up 65 per cent, and
in : New York it advanced 73 per
ent It may be assumed, therefore,
that i construction costs will go
higher than present levels with the
added pressure of ensuing abnormal
demands. -,
' Material Cost Low. :
"It must T)e remembered that the
cost ,of commodities entering into
building construction are low at the
present time compared with the cost
of all other commodities and, with
general prices , continually working
toward higher levels, it is futile for
any building interests to expect
more favorable terms at a biter
date.
"'While construction activities are
now gaining rapidly with every in
dication of reaching unprecedented
proportions as the summer ad
vances, there is, no likelihood that
anything approaching normal hous
ing conditions will be attained. The
situation has been growing steadily
worse for two. years. Tere is a
building deficit amounting to more
than $1,000,000,000 which includes
LOOOjOOO homes. , Neither the
physical equipment of builders nor
the supply of,? unskilled labor is
sufficient to make it possible to
reach a condition of . normality be
fore the expiration of a number of
years, v However, present activities
will tend to stabilize general 'con
ditions and prevent much suffering
in the large, cities during the com
itM winter.
" JLUNW1 "VOUCH-" I" '-' -
- lilt" A fe-k- - ' " Ko'lW
"F L'ifffljk I ry y 1 ,1 ' '
S H Iry I is1!-' fflii tprcBi
' I PORCH J J - LfJ 1
at the park. A band concert, bath
ing, dancing, and the many other
popular attractions, are pn the pro
gram fqr today. '
Second Floor
Real Estate Transfers J '
Continue to Break Records
Last week was one of the biggest
weeks in realty this year in Omaha.
The average number of deeds filed
per day, forty-eight and five-sixths,
was the largest average of any week
this year. . - . .----i- "
The amount was $846,178,? with
two exceptions the largest amount
of any week during the year, s In
1918, for the corresponding week; the
amount was $264,966, and the num
ber of deeds filed, 125.
Selling Houses Built s :
for East Omaha Laborers
The East Omaha Land company
twenty years . ago f built sixteen
houses in East Omaha to rent to
employes of industries in that part
of the city.. " - . .. W'Vv, :
These houses are now being sold
by the Byron Reed company. vThey
have been repaired. Twelve of them
have already -been sold. The other
four will be disposed of in a few
days. i '
Three Houses in Same Day ;
on Same Street Are.Sold
Three houses in one block, on the
same side of the street, sold to three
different persons in half a day, was
the job accomplished last Saturday
afternoon by William Chuda," sales
man fqr the" Amos Grant Co. AH
three houses were in the 5.000 block
on Pinkey street. Mr. ChudV
made one trip with each purchaser.
the buyers were E. K schuchert,
Albert Lawson, and E. L. Seaton. , .
Buys on West Dodge, y
The O'Keefe Real Estate com
pany has sold to Chester J. Deger
man 20 acres oL- land on West
Dodge street belonging to Mary. F.
Yore for $9,000. Mr. Degerman
bought 10 acres adjoining the Yore
lprofierty , for $500 an sere,
Rainbow Division Fills Up Gaps and
Does Big Job at St. Mihiel Which Both,
Qermans and Foch Considered Impossible
Within Month After Great Battle On Banks of the Ourcq River, Rainbow Division
Is Thrown Into Drive Below Verdun and Given Hard Task of Fighting Ger
mans and Knee-Deep Mud of "Sunny" France Smashed Through and Took
16s,000 Prisoners. , . ,
Tk lut newllii ltallmt of Hit Hlitory et Hi lUlnbaw Dlvltloa. by Rtymonil 8. Tempklm,
htt th dlvlsls mloytni t wall nrmd rwt la tlw Bourmont lrliln area, attar Ita waak at Hit hardaat
klnf of fithtint ea tha Ourea rlvar.
Bal. had aa atlaa haaai tha aaaa batera. tha Rainbow wma ta hava bat IIMIa rait. Aftar fllllaa
ap tha aaaa la Ita ranka aa tt-ay wara maay ordart oama aiavlai It toward St. MLhlal for tha araat
drlva Impanaiat than. Thla lartallmaat tallt at tha part It flayad la that drlva a fart worthy of tha
aivuien i aatt traamoat. - -
Tha aaxt Inatallmant, which aarrlaa tha dllloa lata tha araatait and last battla af tha war, will
aaatar la Tha Baa aaxt Friday. r -
By RAYMOND S. TOMPKINS,
(Caayrlaht, I9IS. by Raynoad 8. Tanaklaa.)
(All Rlihta Ratarvad.)
VII INSTALLMENT.
Thefe were gaps in the ranks of the Rainbow now big
gaps. Behind it along Europe's battle line, from Lorraine to
the River Vesle, stretched a long trail, marked here by
wooden crosses, marked there by muddy mounds. It had.
been in France nine months and it was an American division
of veterans. V - , -
They' took it out of the reeking country between the
Ourcq and the Vesle on August 12 and marched it back to
the La-Fertesous-Jouarre area. There it rested a couple of
days.''
There were chateaux in La-Fertesous-Jouarre,
and brpad roads shad
ed with mighty trees; the weather
wai warm and the air sweet and
sparkling like old wine. And if
you had luck you got a hot bath
and a hair cut; and if you were an
officer with ' an automobile, you
could steal into Paris and grab off
a couple of fancy meals and 6ee the
places where the bright lights used
to be. t ; .
But La-Ferte-sous-Jouarre with
Paris in touring distance ' was too
good to last. On August 17 the
division was :. loaded into cars
marked "Hommes 40, Chevaux 8,"
and rolled off to the Bourmont area.
It was booked for a period of "in
tensive training." ,
Bourmont was on the road be
tween Langres and Neufchateau,
where the people were friendly and
the food pretty plentiful. You could
buy extras for the mess, like creamy
old caembert and well, especially
creamy old caembert at moder
ate prices. ' It was a beautiful coun
try, too hilly and green, and for
dignity of proportions, prodigality
of distribution and richness of scent,
its manure heaps were the finest the
Rainbow division had seen.'
Officers Shifted About. .
Here, beyond the sound of guns
far the first time since February, the
Rainbow reveled in the nearest
thing to a rest that it had during
the whole of its career in France.
All it had to do was study every
brancn of open warfare, with special
emphasis on the attacking of machine-gun
. nests by advancing in
fantry accompanied by machine
guns and light artillery. On the
Oureq, it had rehearsed this thing
for six days with more or less as
sistance toward the achievement of
proficiency by the half of the flow
er of the German army. But here
it got a polish, an expertness that
proved valuable later on.
The division stayed in Bourmont
until August 30. Immediately after
the battle of the Ourcq, while it was
still in reserve important changes
had taken place in staff and in the
line. - - ' - -
Col. Douglass Mac Arthur the
chief of staff, had been made a. brigadier-general
and put in command
ofs the 84th Infantry trigade, com
prising the Alabama and Iowa in
fantry regiments, and th6 Georgia
machine-gun battalion. Lieut.-CoJ.
William N. Hughes had been pro
moted from the position of G-3, or
divisional chief of operations, to
chief of staff. Major Grayson M.
P. Murphy became G-3. Capt. Rob
ert J. Gill, commander of the Trench
Mortar battery from Maryland, was
promoted to the grade of major and
became G-l, or assistant chief of
staff, succeeding Cob J. W. Bea
cham. Maj. Stanley M. Rumbough.
adjutant- of ,the 84th brigade, and
Capt. Walter G. Wolf, assistant to
G-3, changed places. a ;
Gap in Ranks Filled, v :
Replacements, "those freshly arriv
ed, untried soldiers at whose advent
the veteran survivors of hard battles
look askance, and without whom no
division could continue its career as
a division, came to the Rainbow in
great numbers. The gaps in the
ranks were filled.' Lost and battle
scarred -equipment was replaced by
new, up-to-date fightings material.
The Rainbow division, in a sort of
new Camp, Mills, having found its
fighting spirit in the field, now was
being made over getting its second
wind, so to speak. . ?
For( great things were in the air.
Other divisions besides the Rainbow
were coming into, this Bourmont
area most of them veterans also
for intensive training, replacements
and new equipment. It was the
gathering of the . First American
army. The helter-skelter group of
American divisions likely to be
thrown jnto the line anywhere was
a thing of the past. On the soil
of France a real army bad been
born to . the United , States. The
Rainbow division was a part of it
Greater still, this army was about
to start, on its own initiative and re
sponsibility, without help or counsel
from the armies of the other allies,
an offensive against the German
line. The Rainbow division was to
be in ft.'
It was a strange fact, but it is
actually a fact, that the French civil
ians; told the American soldiers
about this I offensive before they,
heard it from their own command
ers. They even professed to know
accurately where the thrust was to
be made." They said it would be"
made at St Mihiel and they were
right. v
The first American army was go
ing to try to repeat in the old Lor
raine salieot; wjiat had just faap-
ened in the Soissons-Rheims sali
ent That ugly nose of the German
army had been mashed flat, and now
the same thing was to be done to
this one. -.v-. - - .
It is not entirely correct to say
that this First American army, com
manded by Gen. John J. Pershing,
was to begin work with no help or
counsel whatever from the other al
lies. Aside from the constant pres
ence at headquarters of divisions,
brigades, regiment? and even battal
ions, of officers of the French mis
sion, and aside from' the fact that
most of this basic knowledge upon
which it was expanding had been
derived from the French and Brit
ish, there was a little of both help
and counsel now.
Foch Counseled Haste.
The cbunsel came from Marshal
Foch. , He told General Pershing
that unless the attack on St. Mihiel
was made during the first week in
September it could not be made at
all on account of the heavy fall of
rains in that . section of France,
which started at the beginning of
the second week in the month. So
the attack was set for September 7.
But as the time drew near not
everything was ready. It was a
gigantic business,, this first attack,
and the first American army was
functioning for the first time. For
the first time its staff the thinking
machine that plane" moves and bat
tles down to the last detail was
working "on its own.". The Ameri
can fighting soldiers ' had proved
themselves; there was little doubt
about what they would do. but until
now the soldiers who had done their
thinking for them had been French.
So St Mihiel was not to be a test
of the plain, everyday fighting ability
cjf the Americans, but of their gen
eralship their staff work. And it
was a tremendous test) Fear that
it would have disastrous results had
moved Marshal Foch to discourage
General Pershing in the undertaking
before he uttered his counsel about
the weather.
- Rain Came Before Attack.
-Transportation difficulties arose.
The movement of nearly 600,000 men
to tne region around Toul tied up
the means of moving up enough am
munition and supplies for the big
drive. The first American army
could not afford to make its initial
effort with a shortage of ammuni
tiontr supplies. Complete success
in the outcome was absolutely
necessary. t And so as it developed
that September 7 would find the
army unready to attack, the push
was postponed to September 12, rain
or no rain.
As a weather prophet Marshal
Foch made good- But as a judge of
the American army's disposition to
recognize obstacles he failed. :
The Rainbow division had started
forward on August 30. Moving al
ways at night and resting during the
day in inconspicuous place (for the
att&ck was to be a surprise) it
marched 120 kilometers to the Foret
de la Reine. There it went into
camp in shelter tents. ; It became a
division of mud dwellers, lying quiet
ly in the sticky-black muck all day
and wallowing about in it through
the night, for by daylight no move
ment of men or transportation was
permitted. "
Rain fell steadily and the roads
became horrors. Though the down
pour and the absolute blackness the
Texansof the 117th supply train and
the Kansas men of the 117th ammu
nition train struggled forward inches
at a time with the deep mud suck;-,
ing their trucks back and the pitch
dark roads seeming to fall awaybe
neath them. Nearly always about
25 per cent of all the Rainbow's
transportation was stanea impotent-
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ly in the mud and wrecking crews
were at work day and night It
began to look as though Marshal
Foch had known something when
he said it couldn't be done. But the,
long boys from the Texas and Kan
sas prairies didn't know it couldn't
be done, so they went ahead and did
it. v--
The boche thought it couldn't be
done; they didn't dream it was be
ing done. It is likely that after the
reverses in the Marne salient the
German high command decided to
withdraw from the St Mihiel salient
and take up a position along the
Hindenburg line under the guns of
Mctz. But they, were in no hurry
about it; here were the fall rains
and who ever heard of fighting after
the fall rains started? Certainly not
Marshal Foch.
Yanks' Attack a Surprise!
And while they thought these
things the First American army
landed on them with both muddy
feet
The bombardment started at 1
o'clock on the morning of Septein
ber 12. It was not the greatest pre"
liminary bombardment of the war;
compared to the deafening roars of
the Champagne battle,"' it sounded
weak. But it did the work. There
were some French corps and the
army artillery with the American
batteries,-end together in four hpurs
they tore great holes in the trench,
wire and machine-gun defenses the
Germans had perfected in the sali
ent during four years. -f .
At S o'clock, in a pouring rain and
through a thick mist, the infantry
started. - .
The Rainbow division, as part of
the Fourth corps under Maj.-Geri.
Joseph T. Dickman, jumped off
along the southern boundary of the
salient east of Mont See; its sector
extended from Beaumont northeast
to Flirey, and included Seicheprey,
where the Germans ,had sprung a
surprise attack on the 26th division
earlier in the year, inflicting heavy
losses, and capturing nearly 200
prisoners. That was the nearest ap
proach to a defeat the American ex
peditionary forces sustained
throughout the war.
The "Fighting Farmers",
The Rainbow was the center divi
sion of the Fourth corps, with the
89th on its right and the First on
its left. On the right of the 89th
was the First corps, under Maj
Gen. Hunter Liggett, comprising the
Second, Fifth, 19th and 82d divisions
in that order from left to right.
On the western boundary of the
salient the Fifth corps, under Maj.
Gen. George H. Cameron, jumped
off. In includes the Fourth and 26th
American divisions and a - French
division. '
. At the point of the salient were
more French'1" troops who were
simply to hold fast and mop up as
the Americans, pressing in from the
sides, closed the jaws of the pincers
and squeezed the boche either in or
out. ..: " ' ' .
In the same smooth-working bat
tle formation which which it plow
ed through the Germans in every
battle Ohio, New York, Alabama,
Nebraska, Iowa, from left to riRht,
facing the enemy the four infan
try regiments of the Rainbow divi
sion started through the St. Mihiel
salient. In front of every platoon
were the California and South Caro
lina engineers with wire cutters and
bengalore torpedoes, to cut or blow
out any wire entanglements that re
mained in the path of the infantry.
For completeness of equipment in
attacking material the First Amer
ican army went at the job of reduc
ing the St. Mihiel salient is as per-
feet condition, probably, as any i
force of soldiers that ever went pver
the top. There were tanks, trench
and American; there was railroad
heavy artillery, trench mortars and
gas and flame throwers. For the
first time, and the last, in its brief
bfJt busy life, the Rainbow division
saw the allies in complete mastery
of the air. The French Independent
air force and some British bombing
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squadrons had been put under Gen
eral Pershing's command, and these,
with our own aviators, drove the
boche airnftn out of the sky.
The drive moved ahead like clock
work. . The old Seicheprey battle
field was taken by the Ohio infan
try regiment without any trouble,
On the right, the Iowa doughboys
encountered some resistance in the
woods northwest of Flirey. There
were moments ' of stiff fighting for
the heights ! in the vicinity of St.'
Bassant but to the men who had
beaten the German machine gun
ners on the Ourcq the defenders of
the St. Mihiel salient were easy-vic-tims.
, '
The Germans were taken almost
completely by surprise. What resist
ance they put up was half-hearted.
Their wire fields were old and rusty.
Their answering artillery bombard
ment, during the actual pushing op
eration at least was a joke.
Rainbow's Path Difficult
The path of the Rainbow through
the salient was probably the most
difficult in the whole First army.
A road zigzagged up through its
sector with six villages on it and
as .
villages, onenng protection to ma
chine gunners, are notably hard to
take. But after St Bassant Essey
fell and then Pannes, snd there the
Rainbow dug itself into muddy fox
holes and held on for the night
Before them , lay the vijlages of
Beney and St Benoit
It was at Essey that the Rainbow
men saw the French civilians they
had liberated the first French civil
ians to be freed from German mili
tary domination by an allied victory.
There were few wild demonstra
tions little hailing of the deliveries
with flowers and flags. In the dis
mal rain and mud the dejected old
villagers silently watched the Amer
icans coming through; . they were
broken-spirited , old r peoplfi few
cheers left in them. Forceal sub
mission to brutality for four long
years had numbed them so that they
were unresponsive ' to one of the
most thrillingly significant happen
ings in history. ,. ,
In Pannes there were big German
military - storehouses with queer
stores in them. The Rainbow ttn,
hunting around for souvenirs, cmej
forth from these places, rainsoakeJ
nd disreputable-looking soldters,
carrying brand new, shiny pztent
leather boots and wearing high suk
hats atop their old tin helmets. The
place was full of patent leather
boots, silk hats and umbrellas. It
was in Pannes, too, that they got
a v billiard table and a phonograph,
both unharmed despite the allied
bombardment. . .
Next day the attack was resumed
and the line pushed through Beney
and St. Benoit to a point jus't south
of Haumont. The Rainbow division
had advanced 19 kilometers, a longer
distance than any other division in
the First American army, and had
shared in the reduction of the en
tire St Mihiel salient, liberating 240
square kilometers of French terri
tory and capturing 16,000 prisoners
and 443 pieces of artillery.
"But what was more -important t
the tired, war-weary world, the First
American army, acting independent-
carry on a major offensive not only
with success, but with a smoothness
and a smashing directness that no
one would have believed possible-at
that stage of its development The
Germans had been swept from the
salient as quickly and as neatly as
though a broom had swished them
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