Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-06
TIMELY REAL ESTATE GOSSIP
Completion of Brandsis Thester
Greatest Event of the Week.
WARM WEATHER STARTS THINGS
Contractors Getting Busy for Spring
BuiIainR-New Building An
nounced for sixteenth and
Harney streets.
WARM WEATHER STARTS THINGS

The pretty race FOR the completion OF
the Brandes theater was ended in FAVOR
OF the builders Thursday evening just as
the whistle blew for o'clock The work
men were Just as pleased as the owners
and as they left the completed Job they
swarmed around superintendent Weston
representative Of the Thompson -Starrett
company. contractors, and pinned a huge
rosette with a streamer on his lapel
Il was strenuous race and for time
three weeks ago It looked like a losing
game, so much so that a meeting was
called OF the owners, the lessees, the con-
tractors and the architects to decide II
the opening should not be postponed Emil
Brandies was present and said there was
20 be no question about it, but that the
theater had TO be done on time He said
that this firm had so announced and ad-
vertlsed and that they always lived up
70 their advertisements.
The race down the home stretch was
started and II was a strenuous chase
Builders OF Omaha we're shown how
building might be hustled along when the
occasion demanded. Three shifts Of men
were put on the Job, each shift working
eight hours so that there was a complete
force Of workmen present all the time.
The warm weather of the last few days
has started a large amount of building
around the city. While it. has been a little
too muddy to begin new excavation jobs,
there has been large amount Of activity
on all sides and contractors are preparing
for their spring work
Real estate men are interested In the lee
ture which CLIFTON Rogers Woodruff viii
deliver Wednesday noon at joint meeting
of the Real Estate exchange and the Com
mercial club He will speak on the "Clty
Beautiful" a subject in which all are in
teTested. Tuesday evening he will speak
on the same subject before the Woman's
club at the First Congregational church.
The announcement that the Kennedy es-
tate will build a sx-story building for a
large retail establishment on the southeast
corner of Sixteenth and Jackson Streets
was read with pleasure by the business
men of South Sixteenth street There is
a continual strife to force business in sew
eral directions from the heart Of the city
When the Bennett company built at Six
teenth and Harvey streets It was pio-
neer in that section. The block south is
now completely filled and the 800 block
IS one of the best known in Omaha be-
cause of the boosting efforts of the bust
ness houses in that block
The indication of the way property
values are increasing in Omaha was given
last week when T. F. Stroud was forced
to pay $4,000 for a ten-acre tract on Com
mercial avenue. which he might have
bought three years ago for $500. Two
years ago he could have become the owner
OF the property by paying $780, Now that
he absolutely needs the property to make
room for his increasing business he is COM
PEELED to pay three times as much as three
years ago. Mr.. Stroud has nearly doubled
his working force in one year. Last year
at this time he employed at his plant
sixty men and now he has 1O1 on the pay
roll.
Dundee residents are still wrestling with
the paving problem They are trying tc
decide upon a suitable pavement for the
streets of Dundee, we'll as on Dodge
street, along the south side of Dundee
This is now paved with the macadan
which the county put down almost a
score of years ago. It needs repaving
The committee in charge Of finding
suitable material has about completed it'
report Paving has been authorized or
large number OF the streets.
The first move toward paving for thu
year 1910 was made last week by tn,
Omaha & Council Bluffs Street Railway
company. This on Cunning street
which is to be repaved from Sixteenth t
Twenty-fifth street The paving has beer
ordered for some time and last year tn,
paving contractor placed his brick along
the way, but no start was made. Tn,
street railway company has now started
to pave between the tracks.
Hastings & Heyden have completed lay
ing out the Whitted farm, three miles
north Of Florence. and It will be put OF
the market as as spring opens up
Eighty acres Of this farm will be sole
out this spring. The Whitted farm liel
along the macadam road running nortl
from Florence. great deal Of it has fint
oak and walnut timber Most of It., M