Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-31
TIMELY REAL ESTATE GOSSIP
Invasion Of Farnam Street by Garages
Alarms Some Dealers.
ODD SALE OF SEPARATE TRACTS
A. p. Turkey & Son VIII Dispose Of
Twenty-Five Lots by sealed BID
Plnn-CIub 90 Urge Beau
tifu1 Lawns.

Will the turning over OF Farnam street
between Eighteenth and Twenty-fourth to
automobiles garages and salesrOomB hasten
or retard the sure advance Of the business
district westward on that street7
The announcement within the last few
weeks that four or five new automobile
sales houses will shortly be built in this
district has caused real estate men to
ask this question seriously. II the filling
OF sites by small buildings devoted to
the automobile business will tend to keep
out larger business houses then It Is a
serious factor in the upbuilding OF that
part OF the business district. Most of the
real estate men are optimistic and one Of
this class summed up his conclusions about
this way:
The automobile business does not require
nrge houses, but it does demand that they
be near the main business district and on
a street much used by autoists. Hence
Farnam street, just west of the retail dis
trict is ideal for them. But the time will
come soon when the property on which
they are now being located will become too
valuable to contain one, or two-story
buildings The retail district will push
westward and inevitably the garages will
have to move on. They are merely the
transient pioneers to be replaced by busi-
ness houses Of a more permanent nature.
They Will in the meantime enable the
owners Of lots in that district to realize
an income from their property and will
serve to flil. the expanse between Nine
teenth and Twenty-fourth with buildings"
Omaha is to have a unique sale of odd
tracts this week. 1t Will be something of
an innovation here and If It is successful
It may became popular among real estate
men. A. z. Turkey & Son will put on the
market for the National Land company,
twenty-nine tracts scattered all over
Omaha, South Omaha and Council Bluffs,
\ though most Of them are in Omaha 1t
was at first the intention to auction them,
but the great distances between them made
this impossible II was then decided to
receive sealed bids for them and knock
them off one by one to the highest bidder.
Bids win be received up to November 10
and will be opened then. The approximate
value of the lots is $4,000.
The tracts represent property taken up
on mortgages during the hard times,
mainly. and the sales will be what a mer-
chant would call a clearing sale
A suggestion has come to The Bee that
Omaha ought to have a club devoted to the
Identification of lawns. Much has been
said and written about beautiful houses,
but little about the lawns that surround
the houses. Man lives eight months In
the year out-of-doors, hence the Importance
of having artistic surroundings.
why not lend more thought to having
an out-of-doors living ROOM" says the
communication "It is marvellous what car
be done for our everlasting delight by the
artistic arrangement of trees and shrubs
and large, open, velvety grass plots. This
calls for the helping hand of the landscape
gardener. be the place ever SO small foI
but few of us are capable Of getting the
proper setting OF trees and shrubs as to
their relative height, time of bloom and
harmonization of color. The slope of the
ground also should be taken advantage OF
and this is not easy for one who is not al
expert"
This calls attention 10 the fact tina
Omaha, in proportion to its wealth ant
natural beauty, has not as many beauti
full lawns as II should have. There arr
some notable exceptions TO this rule, how
ever. The homes Of c. f.. Henderson, L
A.. Cudahy, George A. Josslyn, G. N. Dietz
l.. l.. Kountze, John w. Towle and DR.. J
]. McMullen are beautifully done. Their
is nothing lnharmohlous, no hodge podg
Of colors, nothing TO offend the eye.
Several people who are building ar
having the grounds prepared with an ey
to harmony. Among these are Mrs. q. L
stone, Thirty-eishth and Pacific street:
whose plan includes a rustic bridge and a
Alpine house; Gould Dietz, Thirty-eight
and Cass; II. e. Sunderland. Thirty-sevent
and Pacific; c. 2 Gould. Thirty-sixth an
Mason.
A new pot Of acre lots in Florenc
Heights addition is planned by Il. ]
Heyden OF Hastings g. Heyden, who ha
just closed a deal with the Florence Ian
company for seven acres, which will b
graded. Another seven-acre tract adjoIr
ing this piece on the north will also /
graded and divided into acre tracts. TIL
property lies just east OF the Calhou
road, which Is macadamised, and IL con
mRnds one of the finest views In II
county. overlooking as 1t does the city