Omaha daily bee., 1889-04-01
PLENTY OF WORK AHEAD.
Hundreds of Thousands OF Dollars
For New Buildings.
ELEGANT RESIDENCES PLANNED.
A Partial List Of the Structures to
to &c Erected I'm or Near
Omaha During the
Season.
Buildings In Prospect.


The number OF new buildings to be
erected in Omaha during the present
season, thus opening up employment to
labor, is growing larger daily.
Among those proposed are some very
costly and elegant edifices. BY no
means among the least OF these will be
the new Pickering Memorial Methodist
church, for which the plans have just
been completed. Brief mention OF the
ifce has already ,een made but Satur-
day u reroi te.' was enabled to secu
from Messrs. Mendelssohn, Fisher g.
Lowrie, the architects, a more extended
description of the church THAI has yet
been given.
In style OF architecture it will be
Spanish Romanesque. The ma
terial used for the walls will
be brown stone and dark cherry
red Roman brick, with trimmings OF
ornamental terra Gotta. The auditorium
will be arranged after the fashion of
high grade opera houses, with sloping
floors and balcony. Thef seating ca
pacity will be 1,100 persons. In the
basement will be rooms for the Sunday
school, the vestry and the like. The
total cost OF the church will be $75, ,000
Another elegant building to be erected
is large dwelling-to be the largest in
the city, in fact, in the western portion
OF the county. at u cost Of 100000. The
material for the outer walls will be
stone and the style Of architecture will
be pure Romanesque. There will be
thirty rooms in the house, including a
reception hall thirty feet square. 1t
will be finished in rare woods and the
front interior stairway will be of stone.
The architects refuse to make the pro-
jectors name known.
Curtis g. Turner will have built on
Sixteenth street, south Of Leavenworth,
brick block containing three stories,
and twelve flats. The cost to be
5000.
A. c. Powell has had plans prepared
for pressed brick and brown store
block TO be built on the corner of Six
teenth and Jones, at a cost of $20,00O.
Kirsit, Brown & Son will build large
brick warehouse on Howard street, be-
tween Eleventh and Twelfth streets.
d. H. Bowman will also erect a ware
house on the same street of the same
material and same dimensions.
A brown stone and pressed brick resi-
dence in French Norman style of archi-
lecture, will be erected on West Far
nam street at cost Of $4,000. The
grounds will include nine lots.
Mayor Broatch will build plctur-
esQue brick and frame residence on the
corner Of Dodge street and Twenty
, eighth avenue.
l.. Il. Wolfe and j.. l.. Kennedy will
bulld handsome residences to cost in
the neighborhood of $40, 900 each.
A stone and frame residence in the
shape of Maltese cross will be erected
on Walnut hill by man from the Bluffs
at a cost of $50, 900. The first floor of
the dwelling will be taken up by the
picture gallery, 3Ox40 feet, the dining
hall, 80 feet square, the drawingroom
and parlor of the same dimensions, and
q large library. The second floor win
be divided into sleeping chambers, clos
cts and the like. There will be four
bath rooms.
A block of stores and flats will be
erected on the corner of Twentieth and
VintOn stree is by S. Mortensen.
G. r. Taylor will build three-story
block on Saunders street, and j. II.
Condor will expend S13 900 on two new
brick houses to be erected on the corner
of Twentieth and Chicago.
DIR. G. Miller will build new resi-
dence at Seymour park. The dwelling
will be n very elegant one OF grey stone,
: the interior being elegantly finished in
rare woods. The vestibule hall will be
twenty-two feet square, panelled in Ma
hogany, and the dining room will be
the same. The cost of the building will
be 10000.
Max Meyer will build brick and
stone block on the corner Of Eleventh
and Farnam streets at a cost OF $25, 900.
o. E. Coombs will have built three
very picturesque cottages, most adm r
ably arranged, on Virginia avenue near
Leavenworth.
Nathan Shelton will erect three frame
houses on California street.
A syndicate from st. Louis will build
a warehouse 1872 feet square and abso-
lutely fireproof some place within the
bounds of Sixteenth and Twelfth streets
and Farnam and Jackson. The building
will be pressed brick and will be used
for the storage OF dry goods and drugs.
The cost OF this improvement will be
e250, 900.
A store building will be erected by O
gentleman from st. Joseph on North
Sixteenth street, at a cost of $4,000.
A block of twelve houses will be built
for j. II. Culver, on North Nineteenth
street, the cost To be $4,000. Mr.. Gull
Yer recently came to Omaha from the
east.
]. H. Manly will erect six dwellings
on North Eighteenth street at cost Of
$4,000.
In addition to these will be the addi'
ations to and alterations OF the Mer
chants hotel, which will cost $45, 900 and
double the capacity Of the house.
Opinions are very much divided as te
the merits OF the Australian ballot sys'
tenn, as tested by members of the Omaha
Typographical union, at their election
of officers on Wednesday. This has
been shown by interviews with large
number Of members OF the union. The
chief argument in favor of the method
is that there is an entire freedom from
the confusion and noise that are usually
features Of election events. This Ii
met by the argument that voting under
the system requires 50 much time tina
1t would be imperative at genera
election. The system requires that tho
names OF all candidates be placed upor
one ballot, leaving 1t for the voters Z
select the candidates for whom he vii
cast his vote. In the case of a genera
election the average vote would be re
Quired to wade through list OF names
that he could not possibly work pro
porly In the limited time allowed u
each vote. The system, while favorable
for elections in a society where the
number of voters are limited, would I'm
doubtedly prove imperative at a.genera
election. The result of the election o
the Typographical union Is as follows
President, j. II. Lewis; vice president