Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-25

duplicating it's present quarters Aat Tenth
and Douglas and DIR. Nelson II. Mercer
will put a new three-story hotel on tho
northwest corner of Tenth and Howard in
place Of the ancient frame structure Just
torn down.
No better. building for its. purpose will bs
in evidence anywhere than the duplicate
of the Brandeis block just across the street
al seventeenth and Douglas which is to bo
devoted in large part to theater uses, but
will also have stores and offices. most It
which have already been spoken for. Flank
Ing It on the alley will be the new homo
OF The Bee editorial and mechanical forces.
On the corner west OF the Nebraska Tele.
phone building John l. Kennedy is to
erect a business block, and Il seems alto.
gether probable this will be three stories
in height. instead of two. as at first
planned.
still stretching Out
Drs. Bridges and clifford and w. I.
Graham have planned a high class three.
story building TO be built on the southwest
corner of Nineteenth and Farnam, with
stores on the ground floor and bachelors
apartments above. All of the building but
the stores is already rented. There viii
be nothing more complete of its kind any
where, the owners promise.
Captain Henry z. Palmer will improve
his property on the southwest corner
of Twentieth and Farnam with an up-to-
date business structure OF two stories,
with walls calculated to carry an additional
story or more later on.
Farther west on Farnam Gould Dietz is
to erect a garage of latest approved pat
tern, and across the street Mcconnell, the
druggist, will put a similar nest for auto
mobiles.
An addition to their recently acquired
building at Fifteenth and Harvey, on the
east. will be erected by the Omaha Elks,
who plan to have a stamping ground and A
resting place that will not be surpassed
very much by anything on the continent.
northumberland Mil.
The new Nancy FIGURING mill, Rt Twenty
eighth and Gold. will be the largest in the
city for a while, at least, with a capacity
Of 1000 barrels a day. II IL considered, but
the advance guard OF the big flour factories
that will eventually be clustered here.
over about Tenth and william there is to
be a street car barn that will cover a full
half block. II will he OF reinforced con-
crete construction. and thoroughly equipped
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planes Of the newest types.
c. w. HUH company will spend a large
amount of money making a yard at
Twenty-fourth and Vinton for the storage
, OF building material and other things they
handle. At Thirtieth and Lake the Smith
Brick company will blow in a substantial
chunk Of coin in a plant for making this
brick that is more and more in demand
as lumber becomes scarcer and higher IL
the west.
Al Sixteenth and Leavenworth the PekiT
warehouse will occupy a large piece Of
ground. and will be OF modern construc
ton, to be used for general warehouse pur
poses.
OF apartment houses several are talked
Of, 10 cost many thousands Of dollars. One
the Partridge apartments at Twenty-firs
and Howard, Is assured this year. TIL,
Paxton and strehlow apartments are pos
Eibilities, but II is not unlikely their con
structlon will lay over a year at least. Mr.
Paxton IS not quite ready, It seems, snC
strehlow is busy with the Seattle exDosi
ton.