Omaha daily bee., 1896-05-10
MANY REASONS FOR MOVING
Come Wish to Escape Paying Rent and
Others Take to tie Suburbs,
BUILDING PROSPECTS FOR THE SEiSON
Permits ISSUED This Year Exceed
Those of Inst for Every Month
Except Mnrch-Othcr Struc-
lures In Sight.

lures In sight.
The exact date Of the origin Of the custom
r. unknown, but it is a fact that for many
years the early part Of May has been looked
upon by all classes Of American citizens as
favorable time for moving. OF course there
are people who move at other seasons OF
the year, and some, acting in accordance
with the old adage 'it is cheaper to move
than 1t Is to pay rent" move more frequently
than once year.
Omaha is not different from other Amer
lean cities and during the last week the
big furniture vans that have come to be
necessity to every family who would bt
moved in the approved fin-de-siecle fashion
have been seen about town more frequently
than for many months past. Then there
have been movings that came to the tenants
not as a matter of choice. SO it would be
mistake to presume that wherever one saw
a lot Of furniture outside house or pile
of books outside an office that the tenant
had notified the agent of a desire to move
for the reverse might have been the case.
There seems to be difference of opinion
among men whose business places them in
position to know just what moving is going
on throughout the city as to the extent OF
IL this spring. One prominent real estate
man ventured the opinion that there was
twice as much moving as there was during
the corresponding period last year. Another
thought that there was but little, IL any,
more this year than there was twelve
months ago. The men who have charge oil
the moving vans, drays and express wagons,
as a rule, thought that there had been
slight increase, not such an increase, how
ever, as to seriously embarrass any of them
because Of their inability to handle the trade.
MOVING VANS BUSY.
man connected with the company that
operates the large vans that do most of the
moving nowadays said: "Yes, business has
been pretty brisk with us during the last
few days. 1t commences the latter part OF
a month and continues until after the first
week of the new month has passed Spring
and fall, the two periods of the year de-
voted to house-cleaning, are best for the
moving business OF course, don't suppose
anybody moves to escape cleaning their old
house; it just happens that way. We have
had our vans and ten to half dozen wagons
in constant use during the last fortnight
and we have been compelled to hlre extra
horses. Ordinarily we have horses enough
and wagons to spare. Yes, business was good
a year ago too, and | don't know as there Il
any more trade this year"
The movement at this time Of the year
Is principally from flats to cottages. When
the warm spring weather comes along people
want to get out from the central portion ot
the city, the Dulll-up DuSLIcSs ludl Itl' pHN
whore houses arc not crowded so closely to-
gether and where the children have room
to romp and play The moving that has
been done during the last fortnight has been
outward and usually from flats to cottages
About month later the movement to the
suburbs will begin. ,,lmber of Omaha
families have summer residences in the sur
rounding country, and the van peop,e always
count on moving these families out in the
spring Grd back to the city in the fall for
considerable source CT revenue
There are q number of people who would
like tc move but find 1t rather incciTenient
to do SO Just at this time They have been
a little careless, perhaps, in allowing their
rent first to become overdue and then to
accumulate month by month When spring
comes they conclude that they would like
TO be in the procession aud have their goods
roll around in big van, too. They consult
an agent for another property, agree to take
it. but just before they take possession are
informed that they must first pay up their
back rent due where they have been living.
This Is one of the effective workings of the
new blacklist system recently adopted by the
Real Estate exchange. Perhaps the den-
qucnt tenant is requested to move, and the''
the worry and anxiety of finding srnther
house without first paying up the back rent
become a matter of torture.
INDICATIONS MORE FAVORABLE.
"The favorable indications which /
prophesied in January for a much better year
in our building interests seem about to be
realized the turning point has been reached
and | think from now on we can look for
better times" said w. S, Wedge, secretary
of the Builders and Traders exchange.
Somehow, and | never could see why,
spring has never been a good time for the
building contractors of Omaha. Most people
in this city who contemplate building prefer
to put off letting their contracts until late in
the fall, taking all the chances of early
winter; but spring this year has been an
exception to the general rule, and has
started out better than for several years
"The first four months Of this year show
marked improvement over last year, with
Just the month of March excepted; in that
month OF last year. we started the Creighton
theater, at a cost of over 100000. This
amount we could not overcome In March, but
outside of that permit, we have gained on
each month and have more than doubled on
last years April permits.
"There are several large buildings in con-
- temptation which will most likely be com
pleted during the summer months.
among the most prominent contracts now
let and approaching completion are the fol-
lowing: The Dayidge flats, corner Eigh-
teenth and Farnam streets, $4,000; Omaha
& Grant Smelling works, So 900; the Francis
can Fathers have decided to build mon
asery and church, the monastery to be S5X4S,
three-story, of brick and stone and church
10 be 1856. II is proposed to build a three
story monastery at an outlay of $4,000 The
church will not be completed this summer,
but will cost some $50 0O0
"McCord. Brady & Co., one Of our most
cnterprising wholesale grocery firms, are
putting in an improved coffee roasting ma
chine, at a cost of nearly $4,000. Booth
Packing company s adding a third story to
its large brick building, also adding a
cold storage plant costing over $1,000. w.
ii. Green is building $1,000 residence, and
n. B. Ralrdon a $4,000 residence. There
are over fifty dwellings being built costing
from 81, 900 to S5, 600 each. This, together with
numerous repairs going on shows a marked
increase over last years permits and we
trust is only the beginning of better times"