Omaha daily bee., 1916-11-26
Building Omaha's Skyline
Big Problems Involved
How Efficiency Is Achieved

through set stages OF Development
Time was when Mark Twain yer!
truthfully called the national capita
"city Of magnificent distances" WIT
wouldn't II the city Of Washington ha(
flashed across his mental vision som,
forty years ago, when cattle usurpet
the muddy streets and howell sat a
the right hand of palaual residence
New York once was limited to nal
mile Of lowly buildings below CITY
Hall mark, and youths and maiaeni
strolled picturesque Maiden Lane
within a stones throw Of predatory
Wall street Of today.
Omaha is beating the time" OF Older
sisters among the important cities Of
the United States. She is acquiring
a sky line, a ruggedly outlined GALAXY
of many storied structures which,
dotted here and there, are challenge
to supercllious visitors from the
"effcte east" and q matter OF pride 70
The local booster.
To the stranger who comes TO
Omaha nowadays, to tho Omaha
which is the buckle Of the corn belt
and a progressive Of progressivism, It
may we'll be that the thought shall
come. IF this be Omaha, who be L.
Times change, stranger, and things 90
on apace. Swift elevators and not
shanks mare are incident to daily hfe
this year Of 1915. You are as likely
10 find the lawyer, the business man.
ur that old acquaintance ensconced
upon the sixteenth floor Of q big MOD
srn building. a. to find an autocrat
IN helmet and brass buttons regulat-
ins traffic at . busy corner adjacent
thereto. u.
Omaha n there IN the march OF
progrsss, Tho aeroplane which ne
rotistss the air lanes Of the Gate CITY
had BEST fly high. else the luckiess
blot viii come to grief on the tuttins
pile Of some big business building OF
soaring hotel. Yet. given . safe aerin
landing no would not fare 30 DAD:
for Omaha u kind and. II proud and
4 bit chesty, no ono can say that We
ere not hospttable
Suppoes an aviator breesed into
Omaha Of q dark fossy night and
knocked q few bricks from OH the
coping Of Omaha's latest hosiery, inc
nlaakstons, rising eight stories IN the
air It Thirty-sixth and Farnam1 IL
would be ~welooms to our city and
now what arp No going to do. For
when you have Z sly limo and some
enc does you the honor to encounter
r. why not be agreeable? From .
nercsnary viewpoint 1t would DO good
Advertising, to say nothing Of proven
bal kindness Of heart
And In this latest addition to
omahas sly tins one may find sur
eease from most Of the ills and trials
Of modern life. Servants cease to
trouble and cookery to vex. Nowhere
n the whole United States IL life more
pleasant Stephen Phillips wrote OF
the River Leths, where to drink OF
charmed waters was to forget all
earthly troubles. Well, at the Black
stons one may forget all the troubles
that are not worth while. And there
IA a distinction and difference.
The Bankers Realty Investment
comnany sent the Blackstone Family
Hotel skyward and In the finished pue
ia enitornized what the modern builder
of city's sky line can 40. Tn
boasts every comfort ana
known to modern Duao-
Ing science. It Is physically and
nsvchologicaIly without a superior IN
the hotel buildings Of the country. inc
huge white Plaza which is at once tne
social mecca and mentor of the family
hotels of the country, and situated on
Central Park, New York, has notmhs
more to offer in actual comfort tnan
tbe blackstone. True, 1t Ii little
taller. a little moro expensive and mas
the fame of maturity and bresen SELF
conceit, but its silken draped and pc
,eweled habitues know no moro lux
nry or comfort
Rut more Important than the per
rect facilities the Blackstone AFFORDS
Omaha, more Significant
han that servants answer beck ana
,all moro to be desired than the beau
las of a wonderful ballroom and ..
aelectable cuisine. Is the fact tnat
here, in Omaha, is the organisation
which can and will put up the citys
coming ~Woolworths," Singers and
No need to go
abroad for the colossal sky line which
Omaha Is creating by leaps and
bounds.
Once the mails 10 Chicago and New
York carried requests for figures on ,
,teel and stress, ON foundations and
,deuuate planning, on engineering
,roblems and furnishings. Now, In
'tsad. such problems can DO an
,vered IN Omaha. The buildings which
INVOLVE such inquiry can be erected by ,
ocal enterprise. The material to be ,
ned. most Of It, can be had in Omaha.
Md a. the city fulfiIls It's promise 1t
vtIl be moro and more a local bust
less, IN entirety. when the new sky l.,
Icrspsr has birth In the Gate City.
And for that matter q large terri
ury is coming to depend on Omaha
or its big buildings. Missouri. Iowa.
Kansas and outlying Nebraska are in
Inc. Kansas City, be It noted. comes t
O Omaha for q new building to cost
million dollars, and many other '
titles look to the same source for /
,ther structures Of varying i'm r
'ortanoe- &c
When Horace Greeley said. go q
vest, young man, 30 west" he fore {
aw q virile country where selfsuf- \
lcient men might find reward for ef- /,
ort. In famous building at Twenty
econd and Broadway. New York.
here is a big building company which r
as fathered many a skyscraper. In
Pittsburg, San Francis I.
o and other cities the thew and sinew