Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-09
STEADY GROWTH OF OMAHA
Evidences Of the City's Expansion
Seen on Every Side.
DOWN TOWN THE SIGNS ARE MANY
Department stores, Hotels, JObbinE
District, E%verything shows h
Increase I'm Population and
Commercial Importance.

To him who in the love Of Omaha holds
communion with her visible forms she
speaks a varied language. To the man
who, is building a home in Omaha, an OBJ
servation Of the growth Of the city is in
| structive and assuring. Omaha is dis
tinctly a city OF opportunities and OF won
derful growth both past and future. II
proof of this is wanted It Is to be found in
the. Industries of the city. TAXI the de-
partment stores as examples of success.
Within a few years these great business
places rave erected new buildings on colos-
sal scale, have enlarged their old ones and
added many departments. The expansion
Of both retail and wholesale trade in
Omaha makes a commercial history which
would have been looked on as impossible
a quarter Of a century ago..
The growth Of hotels within very recent
years is no less a barometer of the grow
ing commercial Importance of the dot
marked Omaha on the map. No city
possesses better transportation facilities for
doing business on a large scale throughout
a large territory.
The remark Of President Roosevelt that
every person who invests in well selected
real estate in a growing section OF a
prosperous community adopts the surest
and safest method OF becoming independent,
for real estate is the basis of all wealth.
certainly applies to Omaha.
A street car ride out from the center Of
the city In almost any direction Is a de-
cided education. 1t shows in the first place
that the suburbs of this city are growing
in truly metropolitan style. There is no
city with more beautiful environs than
Omaha. Brussels itself cannot show pref
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and charmingly laid out by the hand Of
nature than Omaha.
And the busy home builders are rapidly
discovering this fact and are refusing to
shut themselves up In the heart Of the city
where they have to pay high for a bit Of
ground on which to build their house.
The number OF houses springins UP In
Dundee, the Field club district, Florence,
North Omaha and in fact in all directions
is evidence that the freedom-loving, air
breathing people Of Omaha refuse to be
cramped in the least as long as there are
green fields. fertile valleys and rolling
hills where man has not yet set his habita-
ton.
Many OF these houses are magnificent In
their conception and opuleSt In their
structure. They have the big, roomy look
and broad porches where the family can
sit and enjoy the sweeping breezes. Then
there are more modest ones that speak
of frugality, a bit of pinching, but final
success in owning a home In spite OF set
backs and adverse circumstances. There
are dozens of new houses being built In
every one of Omaha's suburbs. At 8 o'clock
one can hardly get a car to come in from
the suburbs, for they are all full of car
~penters, masons. plumbers and their breth-
rem of the building trades.
Curly maple furniture is now In vogue
with the furniture hunters. Mahogany,
walnut and oak are losing caste. This Is
the statement made by an oman furniture
dealer who sells much of the finer quail
ties of wood. He further expresses the
belief that the curly maple fad Will last
longer than any of the others lasted.
at is so much ~prettler, you see," he said.
"Of course, beauty is only relative, but 1
have heard people rave over mahogany,
over walnu and over oak. but their raw
lngs over them were not a circumstance
to their admiration for the pale beauty
Of the curly maple. There seems to be a
daintiness about it that appeals more espe-
cially to women than the sturdy, uncom-
promising strength of the more highly col
ored woods. And one thing that seems to
please the feminine mind especially is that
1t is clean, as they say.
"There never was a great amount OF IL
made and It has been initiated only to a
comparatively small extent. SO 1t Is not
very plentiful at the present time. 1t was
first made in the seventeenth century, just
preceding the use OF mahogany. The Wis
ible supply of this really very pretty and
dainty wood will be used UP within a very
short time If the present demand keeps up"
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J. C. Bixby & Son Co. were awarded
the contract for the plumbing in the Far
nam Street school. The plumbing in DR..
George e. Mllef's house Will be installed
by J. c. Bixby & Son Co.
The Johnson Rowe-Paige company, which
was ormerly the Johnson-Rowe-Daly com
pany, reports business in their line as being
exceptionally good. This firm has just
finished the new Henshaw hotel and the
Hamilton apartments and is beginning
work on the Lathrop school and the Item
Biscuit company's building and several
other new contracts.
WRESTLE TURNS OUT FATAL