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Omaha Broker Pays $35 for
Highest Priced Footwear
' Is Cheapest in Long
Run, Sayslan Who
Makes Zhem.
By JOHN H. KEARNES.
''Whcr- wears the "highest-priced
pair of shoes in Omaha?"
This question was put to C. J.
Schmidt the oldest disciple of St.
Crispin in Omaha and who since.
187 has been making shoes for
many of Omaha's fashionables.
"That's a queer question, in fact
a paradoxical one," replied' Mr.
' Schmidt. "Professionally I would'
answer it is the man who wears the
cheapest pair of shoes. But I be
lieve I know what you mean.
"Here's a pair of shos," said he,
after going to a showcase and tak- '
ing out all exquisitely fashioned pair
, of shoes, which he held up for in
spection, "that I consider the filies.
pair of shoes in OmaHl and which,
first cost, may be rcgaraed as the
highest-priced pair of shoes in, the
city to be worn by a man with' a
normal foot. - i
"This pair of shoes, which was
made fojr W L. Brooks, a broker
with offices (in the Securities build
. ing, will cost him $35. At first blush
' it may seem that Mr. Brooks is ex
travagant and that his shoes are the
same kind of a. fad that would find
expression in other men in the shape -of
expensive jewelry or extremes in
clothing. If you examine this pair
of shoes you will find that thei(e is
absolutely no fault in the workman
ship, in the shape or in th? material.
Here is a pair of shoes that will tit
his foot a normal-one and repre
sentative of the foot form of 80 pea
ctnt-of the men of Qinaha, as easily
as the finest pair of gloves 'will fit
a hand.
Easy on Hip Feet,
"Mr. Brooks will find1 this shoe so
easy on his feetithat lie will not .be
conscious of the fact that he ig-wear-ing
foot covering. He has (eather
in the shoes that will outwear five
ordinary pairs' of ready-made shoes;
and he has an individuality of style
and finish that he could not get from
a pair that he would take from the
largest stock of shoes in the citv.
"Now Mr. Brooks is paying $33
for his pair of handmade shoes at
a time when the prices of footwear
are regarded as the highest in his
tory. Yet'Gottleib Brocker. one of
Omaha's pioneer citizen, has been
paying a price relatively as great
for the past three decides.' Thirty
years ago he began TiaVing his. shoes
piade in my shopv the cost of his
ffWH pair being $15. Now he is
paying $35 per pair and he does not
believe that profiteering has any
part in the cost. "Just tcTshow yon
how things have changedWhen I
was nearly fb years of ageI be
came an 'apprentice shoemaker in
the province of Holstein, Germany.
I had to learn the trade from the
ground up and at a time when a
revolutionary condition "was existing
in the trade.
"When I became of age I came to
America' Omaha was my destina
tion when A embarked fromhe old
country and J landed in the city in
1872. I had sufficient funds to start
in business for myself and my first
shop was in the heart of the busi
ness district, at Twelfth and Dodge
streets. ,'
About Early Omaha.
"Omaha at thdj time vas one of
the-tfvest cities in the country and
it had a real cosmopolitan popula
tion. Men of the finest culture and
of the most refined tastes hobnobbed
with persons whb were drawn from
all parts of the earth, and some 'of
whom were very primitive in trjeir
tastes, pleasures and desires. '
"At that time the 'ready made
boots and shoes were rude affairs.
Leather, in even the best of foot
wear, was very crudely finished, ac
cording to present standards of tan
ning, and the1-McKay sewing ma
chine, which,' more than anything
vUt, revolutionized shoe manufac
turing, wasjust' coming into lise.
Up4p that time aw of us shoemakers
did most of our work by hand and
we had to serve hard apprentice
ships, .the period being for seven
years, and during thattinie we had
to lcarifto prepare the insoles and
the outsole, depending almost en
tirely on the eye for the proportions.
'We were taught to prepare pegs
and to drive them, for the pegged
shoe was then the most common
type. ' We had to have exceptional
skill hi channeling the i'nsots and the
outsole by hand, and also in round
ing the sole, sewing the welt and
stitching the outsole. y
Church-Squeaking'' Shoe. (
- "Boots and shoes at - that time
were stiff and hard. They possessed
the squeak which,' at church, or at
any Qther place where noise made
the author conspicuous.' possessed
HEAVY
Hoisting
E. J. DAVIS
1212 Farnam. Tel. D. 353
JAMES'BLACK
MASONRY & CONTRACTING CO.
- Constructionists and Engineer x
Estimates Furnished, and Work ,t
x ' Dona o Fixed Fee Basis .
OFFICE BUILDINGS -APARTMENT HOUSES
HOTELS , STORES v
V And All Kinds of Industrial Buildings
-Offices N
Nw Ywk Boitoa Detroit Chieaga
St. Louis Omaha Kansas City Seattle"
.,"'": Phones-Harney i63 and Tyler 1122 j-
Shoe?, But Quality
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an advertising value or created em
barrassment. After the -shoes had
gotten damp "because 6T rain or
snow, it was the task of the small
boy of the family to greas'e the
boots or shoes with tallownd when
the wearers came home from the
"lodge" at night, he frequently lost
his balance and dignity, and exposed
himself to the suspicions of his good
wife when he failed to get the right
fulcrum with;, his "boot-jack."
i "Omahashad its dandies 'in those
days men ho loved to appear ITi
public irreproachably 'dressed It
was a -time when, there was individ
uality in every dotai ol garment.
Across the street from my shop
lived Champion S. Chase; then
mayor of Omaha. He always dress
ed the part of mayor of a western
city of no mean fame." He wore a
Prince Albert coat, dress trousers
that fitted him skin-tight, the Stet
son hat of the period, and fashion-
'able boots.' It was his habit to sit
m .a conspicuous place in his of
fice, hour after hour, when routine
business dicTnot interfere and write,
with florid curlicues of the) pea his
name 'Salmon S. Chase.' He used
reams vr& reams of paper in this"'
fascinating exercise and his pen
manship jiis like copperplate. He
was the father1 of Clement Chase.'
' Connoisseurs of Boots.
"Among my customers in those
days were Count John D. Creigli
ton.and his brother Edward, then in
the height of theiractivitjes, wealth
and influence. They were both con
noisseurs, when it came Nto boots.
They ordered the boots of the pe
riod mad-ior them out of th finest
leather obtainable and paid $15 per
pajr for what I .would now call a
real 'creation.' Both of these gen
tlemen had fine formed feet and
they saw to it that their extrtks
were fashionably clothed.
"One of the most fastidious, men
of the period, and a man who was
inopainately proud of his feet, was
TJm Allen. 'the paramour pf Anna
Wilson. . He was one o the leading
gamblers of the city, at a time when
gamblers had a certain social posi
tion and vogue. He possessed a
very slender foot, with a high in-'
step an (Tin order to get the best foot
clothing obtainable at the time he
used to pay as high as $12 and $14
for his boots.
"Judge Woolworth was . another
man wh took great pride in his
boots, ye did not care so much for
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Henry Johannszen
Glass & Paint Company
GLAZING
Phone Douglas 349
114 Soy 14th St., Omaha, Neb.
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MODERN
FIXTURES
Gas and Electric
Home Labor-Saving
Devices of All Kinds.
GRANDEN
ELECTRIC CO.
1511 Howard Street
Omaha
One Pair of -Tailor-Made.'
Is Good Investment, He,
style as he did for comfort and his
style of bobt was without variation
all through the years oh his life.
'"John A. 5 McShane, "John T.
Ke-rns, Edward Maurer and several
other men of their generation were
the moulds of fashion in their day.
They were young, progressive nd
full of -life, and they not only
dressed well sartorially, but they,
Glover & Spin "'Total
' $48,500 Sales in One Week
.Sales of si; houses apd one lot,
totaling $48,500, are reported by
Glover & Spam for last week. They
are: .'. V ' . V
S497 North Forty-eeventlr dvenue. Tr.
tUalae Truesdale. to U. A. Slarh. "8,600.
2432 Tompleton, Charles . Thompson to
Howard Gibson, 15,500.
Lot 'In Wontclalr addition. A. C. .Les
said to Godfrey Seaberg, $2,000.
2128 Wirt street. J. Martin Cannon I to
Jean G. FerrH, 15,000.
Ill South. Thirty-fifth avenue to N. H.
Grrnberg, flO.eOO.
4314 Decatur atreet. XV. G. Spain to
Glitert 8. Brown. J8.000. ,
3027 South Nineteenth street. Kathleen
Anderson to Ernest Weuthrlch, 4,500.
Many on Waiting List for
Lots in Subdivision Saje
Omaha officials of N. P. Dodge & Co.,
Omaha realtors, who conducted a subdi
vision sale of -460 lots In Augusta, Me ,
last week, have been advised that there
was a waiting list of more than 100 per
sons wanting to buy lots In rase any of
the first purchasers failed to close their
deals.
The Dodgs company also sold an addl
tlon of 350 lots in Bangor, Me., last year.
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You may lighten the
burdens of laundry
day with a
SIMPLEX
EUctric - ,
Ironing Machine
These machines will be demonstrated by factory
expertla our downstairs department . '-.
MONDAY
TUESDAY
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-4-the fine work they do and the time, they save will
be a revelation all who attend T
Sixteenth and
Says
Dealer Who Came Here
Many Years Ago Tells 1
Of Progress of .
- . Industry. ' .
also were very particular about their
footwear. .
"A quarter of a century ago
Charles Woolworth, son of the
judge, startled the elite cf the city
writhe exquisiteness an J costliness
of his footwear. .He had a flair for
designing of shoes and when I made
his foot covering at $30 per pair;
there was more , advertising than
profit in it for me. Those were the
days when men made a hit for some
idiosyncrasy of dress. ,
"But, coming back to the present,
there -is no profiteering in a pair of
shoes even at $35, qt a pair of boots
at $50 or $60. Of course, I am
speaking from a handmade kind.-
"But with all this cry of high
prices of shoes the man who takes
the time, to figure out relative val
ues, will find he is spending no riiore
today iif shoes at the prices they
are selling! than he did a decade or
two ago at the prices then prevail
'ingt Leather is finer, more durable,
more pliable and there is real art m
the fashioning of shoes. , I JHtve'no
quarrel with jhe factory-made shoe
of today and if the people of Omaha
Only knew it they have the finest
shoe service in tbx world. In fact,
a better grade and quality of shoe
is sold in this city than'in any place
of Omaha's class jn the world.
"Take it from me, the disciple of
St. Crispin makers of hand-built
shoes'are like the season in the sere
and yellow lelf. There are only a
lew of us today men who can make
a complete shoe to fit any foot. We
are becoming as scarce as civil war
veterans and almost as extinct as,
the dodo, The reason for it is that
our tr'ade is giving way to modern
efficiency."
"And there are revolutionary con
ditions all the time. Labor is go
ing higher, and material is going
higher. Irish linen thread that used
to cost $1.50 per pound, now sells
at $4.50. Silk thread costs from
$1.90 to $2. '
Seven Real Estate Sales
By Stuht Co. Total $91,500
Seven real' estate sales, totaling
$91,500, were reported for the last
two days by the C. B. Stuht com
pany. The sales are: ' i
House at 6905 Case, to Dr. Godfrey Binde
wald. $1ti,750. . ,
Plats at 118-20 North Thirtieth street,
to Otto Nilsson. SI 4.000.
Flats at 119-21 North Thirtieth street,
to Nathan Somberg. 117.600.
C fl Q ,1 Cuming strrst, to F. E. ltollard.
(through Crelgh Sons & ,Co.) $9,260.
6107 Nicholas.to Benjamin Posty, $14,
000. . '
4S5S Harney, to I,. C. Reeves; W.00O.
4912 Undewood avenue, to M. C. Loach,
$10,500. '
3110 Myrtye avenue, to C. F. Macken
biock, 9.600. ,
Jewett Addition Bought
By Slater Co. Last Week
Slater company last week bought the
Jewstt addition between Fifteenth and
Flftytfirst streets and Maple and Corby.
This addition Is just east of the Coun
try club and was owned by an out-of-town
capitalist represented by Harrison
& Morton. -
The addition will he Improved by Slater
company and placed on the market. Sev
eral new houses will be erected.
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earn now
Simple
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Howard Street
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Ot Swiss type of architecture is
this cottage .of unusual style and .
charming appearane A wide porch y
opens into the largtp living room
with an open fireplace. Either of
brick or stone as desidered, and a
latticed staircase. There is direct,
communications with the' dining
room, containing a bay window and
a very well arranged kitchen. The
fecond , story contains four, bed
. rooms, each rooiru with a large
floset. and bathroom Clyde Smith
Adams, Architect.
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What Do Your Know
, About Building?
1. Double floors are not strictly
necessary, but their advantages more
than make upfbr their cost. They
aid in keeping the basement dirt,
'" KciiuiK into me nouse: i lev
helo to keeD the rooms varm and
thcjrsupport the Tloors of the rooms.
In laying double floors the under
floor-always is of cheaper wood
than the upper, and is laid diagon
ally - '
.5. Oak should be used for floors
of living room, dining room, front
hall, Second floor hall and bed
rooms. Yellow, pine for rear hall,
kitchen and pantry, since these are
nearly always covered with lin
oleum. For third, floor yelow pine
may also be used: for closet floocs
oither oak or yellow pine. If the
bathroom is nok-'tileu it should have
oak floor. ' --v ,.
3, Stone and hard brick. 'well laid,
undoubtedly are besr for the outsideifor heating the garage. Many own
SterE. ' I r crpt .llnntr Mthfr hv. ticincr rr,rt
itfpC
4. Brick. heavy"ti)e and concrete
are best for porch floors; if the
cwner "prefers wood, cypress is the
best -
S One of the first considerations
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JfJSTriX 7. . - r uTtiT s 1 11 ST" 1 : : r it t&V
Everyone now thinks of an enclosedcar
for-cool nights and the coming winter.
But the objection to enclosed bodies on
light cars has been their restricted per
formance. ,
Thessex has ample' power to offset the
adcfitioiial body weigiy. -
Economical in Operation -and
Maintenance s -
It is a compact, conlmodious car, with h
range of performance that answers "every
need. Owners have used their Essexv3edans
for long tours. They, know no limits to its
service. It answers every requirement of
comfort and beauty and it is economical as
everyone expects a light car to be.
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about a house, for convenience,
should be an outside entrance to the
basement.. Some money may be
saved if this is combined with an
entrance to the kitchen hall. The
outside basement entrance is haildy
for the laundress; for delivery -of
goods requiring basement stQrag"
aiuj for the removal of ashes.
6. If it is desired to utilize the en-i
tire basement and have it clean as
possible, it will be well to dig a large
pit just outside the house foundations
for use as a coal bin and connected
with the basement .by a tight door
opening as near the furnace asj pos
sible. This pit may be covered with
a large stone with a capped opening
to admit coal x
7. Thewo-car garage costs so lit
tle additional that it is jlell to build
it instead of one for a single car. If
not used for a second automobile, the
extra space is convenient for work
room or storage" and adds much to
the salability of the property.
8. FrOm the standpoint of selling
the property and the convenience of
possible visitor with a -car. provide
able electric heaters ajr a large per
centage of alcohol -in the radiator,
but many -want their automobileto
stand in the heat overnight' Heat
may be provided by extension' f a
Fall ty&ys Suggest
The Essex Sedan
EconomicalEasily Handled, Beautiful
and Comfortable
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gasline from the house, or by in
stallation of one of manjr-kerosene
or coal heaters now on the market.
9. Unless finances absolutely for
bid,' the medium-cost houses should
have two bathrooms for con-vehiences
of members of the family and guests.
If a servant, is kept, it is advisable
to have a separate servants' bath. If
two or three complete bathrooms
can not be installed at once, it is well
to have them "roughed in" for pos
sible fn'ture completion. If there is
only one bathroom, one or two lava
tories should be provided -in bed.
rooms, or other convenient places on
the sleeping room floor and one for
the servants' room." A first floor
toilet and lavatory, ard a toilet in
the basement will be found quite
convenient.
19 Money expended' for the serv
ices of a good architect, is money
well spent. Not to have an architect
is the very opposite of economy.
Many architects will make plans and
let the owner do his supervising of
the work, which " is somewhat
cheaper, .while others will not take
anythlng'but the whole job. v But do
not let a mere contractor plan your
home. If an architect's servicesre
tor costly, get" plarfs from any'one
oft the good concerns which adver
tise plans for sale. A good way is
to draft a rough floor plan and send
-Compare its Price
Gasoline, oil and tires are small items of
expense in the operation of the Essex. But
the greatest saving1 is due to its reliability.
Repair and, adjustment costs,are negligible.
Much of the satisfaction in motoring '
comes from the appearance of the car. It
expresses oe's taste and individuality as
much as one's clothes or the-house in which
one lives. x
The Sedan is in every sense a family
car of all seasons.
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And its price is more than attractive fn
comparison with other Sedan types, regard-
less of the more important question of per- .
foi-mance .end durability.
MOST IMPORTANT
1920 CROPS' TO
EXCEED DEMAND
Complete Reversal of Diurnal
-Forebodings fiave Occurred
In Last Two Months. N
Chicago, Sept. 11. The inmnl
crop report. of the Continental and I
Commercial National bank, which isy
compiled by hundreds of cofespond
ents throughout the American .farm-
ing region, says that production ol
important crops "will exceed that of
last season with the 'exception of
wheat," and that the agg'rtgate pro
duction will be in excess of dome$- "
tic demands.
"There has in the last two month
been a complete reversal of the dis
mal forebodings that attended the
planting under climatic restrictions."
The report continues: "Ideal con
ditions have turned the prospect of
a partial failure into Ikt prospect of
bountiful harvests and promise of
better returns in the crops that come
to harvest later in the season."
The report says the country can
spae 220,000,000 bushels of wheat,
or the same as exported the past
season. Proper distribution of the
big wheat crop is greatly aided by
resumption of dealing in wheat for
future delivery on the Chicago Board
of Trade, after three years of a gov
ernment fix id price. The law of
supply and demand, the dominating
influence in the world open market,
has a stabilizing effect on prices.
Comparisons of leading crwps for
two jears, the figures of last year
being the official returns are given
as follows: ' n
U:n (est.) bu. 11 bu?
Corn 3. 0a5. 4:7,000 1,I7.460,0SS '.
OhIS 1.433,007,000 1,548, S10.O0
Winter Wheat.. 65S.701.O0O 731, M6, 000
Spring Wheat... 275.H5S.ooo 20.J,0Oi) '
All Wheat It:i4, 747. n(io n.s7,wi"i
Barley lS.41i,onO 15,7H,000
Rye .,
Potatoes ...
Hay. tons...
Cotton, bales
lhe renort sav
yield per acre is larger than for
some years.
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it to one thesoconcerns and get
prices on working it up for you, or
have the concern scntfyou the near
est plan to the one you want that it
has in stock. In this latter case ycyi
can work it over or have your coa-
tractor change wall lineS ,
This Week's Questions.
1. .Should much furniture be built
in? -
2. What is the best kind of paint?
3. Shall a sleeping porch be built
and where?
4. What are the best "windows for
sleeping porch and sunroom?
5. Should bathroom and kitoiien
be painted or papered and why?
6. How can provision be made for
dry beds in sleeping porch?
7. In what season does paint
wear .most rapidly?
, 8. ''What is lhe best priming coat
to"iise?
9. When is best ..time to paint
house already built? One being
b,uilt. - .
10. How many coats of paint
should a house have?
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. ... 13.289,000 11.030.00S1
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