Evening Star Newspaper, January 1, 1921, Page 15

AT e aeG g JOHN W. THOMPSON & CO. Incorporated- 821 15th St. N.W. Main 1477 HOUSES AT BARGAIN PRICES Price, $16,500 Price, $10,500 Sixteenth Street Newton St. Eleven rooms, 2 baths; mod- : ern three-story home: r ~m 1800 Blofik 1y papered and painted. This Three-story brick, contain- is vacant. and owner ing 10 rooms: is vacant, and s 2 quick' sale. Phone us immediate possession can be for an inspection. had. owner will accept AR $1.000 cash, and desires an offer. : Wyoming Ave., 1800 Block This desirable residence in Strictly modern, 6 rooms, re- Washington Heights can ception hall, . with all purchased on very reason modern _improvements; hot- terms. It contains 8 roe water heat, c lights. Girard St., Near 13th There is also a garage large enough for two cars. 2 baths, and is modern in every particular. Price, $13,600 ’ Price, $13,000 Price, $11,500 Columbia Heights Mt. Pleasant Harvard St. Columbia Rd. This is a very attractive _-This property is occupied by the owner, who is desirous of a quick sale, as he must leave town. It contains 9 rooms and is modern. Phone us for an inspection. home, in a desirable nei ‘hood; is modern in ev. by owner, who will give pos- session. Price, $8,000 Near Soldiers’ Home Located in a very desirable neighborhood: modern in ticular: has 6 rooms 1400 Blk. Monroe St. This property will mal some one a nice little home. It contains 6 rooms and bath, and is modern. Let us show it to you. JOHN W. THOMPSON & CO. Incorporated——— oak_| semi-detached; steel beams, etc. 821 15th St. N.W. Specially Built Home Near Lincoln Park ~ in-a neighbor- - - - hood of-homes al- o s most-all of which are occupied. by owners—one of the most comfort- able and sought- after locations in ‘Washington. The house is semi-detached dnd of well designed brick construction with Colonial front porch. It includes 6 rooms and tiled bath and has hot-water heat and electri- city, with floor plugs in each room. The condition is excellent in all respects. The side alley permits a maxi- e et 117 Thirteenth St. S.E. all rooms. = Immediate possession may be had. NOTE: This house is in a location very con- venient to the Navy Yard. Price but $8,500 This is the best offering in its vicinity, beyond a doubt. See the House Sunday SHANNON & LUCHS Realtors 713 14th St. N.W. CUTHDOEEHH T The Northumberland New Hampshire Avenue at V Street Apartments available for immediate possession under our co-operative plan | 2 to 7 rooms and bath, from $2,700 to $11,500. Reasonable terms of payment. One-third cash and balance, including all expenses and interest, less than rent. Building is fireproof and modern in every particular. Mr. Seay on premises daily 4 to 8 o’clock; Sunday, 10 to 8 o'clock. The Savoy 14th Street at Girard Several 4 and 5 room apartments ready for immediate oc- cupancy at prices unusually low—$3,900 to $5,650. Open for in- >pqtian. Splendid location for home or investment. A real home for half the cost of an individual house—let us explain our plan of purchase and operation. Our Represcatative on Premises Daily at 10 O'C Sunday at 16 O'Clock. ok Union Realty Corporation Exclusive Agent Evans Building, 1420 N. Y. Ave. Main 8415 THE EVENING STAE. SATURDAY, JAMUARY 1, 1921—PART 2. SEVEN-ROOM AND BATH HOUSE COULDP NOT HELP BUT ATTRACT situation. FORESEES ABETTER BUILDING SITUATION The present low ebb of the building | akenth e | tial | tion marks the turn of tho tide | tial exemplificalio with the closing days of the year, in the | ying unrest i | opinion of 8. W. Straus, banker, of New | portance i [ Toward wides {in this country, tho genéral| somes more generally alarming | there is increased likelihood that > final determining T | situation, and every rightful influ "herefol"!, that w ag { building 'should be exerted” he | clare: 1 Value of Home Owncrship. impetus should be given to b emplifications of thrift. urope added fact While admitting that housing shortage is no 1 have a harmful effect on the housing The law of supply and demand i t Mr. Straus points out that particular { building and home ownership. “which onstitutes one of the most substan-| tations of under- n attached to the sentiment read home ownership recognized | s the en: A New Year’s Resolution Resolve to buy only the best this ycar and start NOW by BUYING ONE OF THESE HOMES. The high quality of BREUNINGER-BUILT HOMES will more than repay you in the real sétvice and home comfort derived therefrom. If you are looking for ‘the encourage mo de- home th im- be- one -, Straus | of the outstanding features of the that the period has witnessed gress toward stabilization, and #iat, o home construction. with the coming of s onable weather suing year will be a large amount of The well defined sentiment against newest and best in design, the finest construction and finish, combined with a location that is one of the best in gether delightful room if furnished in wicker or bamboo. with gay chintz or cretonnc coverings to match, and with P! fragrance and color. On the left side of the-house are the dining room, kitchen and service porch. The kitghen is modernly equipped so that the | housewife without u maid will find he, Picturesque is the word which fitly describes this modern, up-to-date sev- en-room-and-bath cottage, for no house With such an artistic gabled roof fail to be that can. Surrounded by a !number of stately old trees and set amid a well Kept lawn, the house shown today is one that will attract attention from passers-by generally, | household dutics reduced to the mint As shown herc, it Is constructed of | MU This story is finished in Wash- frame, with drop siding to the sill| Three bedrooms, bathroom course and shingles dipped in creo-|large closets are found en the sote stain. The roof also is shingled A £ tfloor, which is finished in W and stained a harmoniou: | B ton fir. natural. ¢ bathroom One of the first impre: larger than the us 1 bathroom, and the clo: nty of growing and four con - is toring n and bed house is heated by a r furnace, and it has a full and complete basement, with laundry, furnace and electric lights. The fi story has oak floor: { has ‘birch floors of this cottase, by 24 feet p, i e $1,000 and $5,000, exclusive of plum | inis and heating. nds. ing room with its cheery fireplace. the extreme end of this room is an arched doorway through which one glimpses the, sun parlor—an alto- cozeT, CHAMBER. s cranBer 2 ||LEAP YEAR RECORD HERE. 7,085 Licenses to Wed Issued in Capital in 1920. Leap year 1920 established a new record of marriages in the, Natiox 1 Capital. Dan Cupid and his lieutenan: ol. W. A. Kroll, the license clerk, are justly proud of {he year's busine: the opening of the clerk’s offico 0 issued and the outlook ¥ to wind up the yea t day of 1919 :ouples secured lice anything like that ru day the years total for 1930 wil ape proach 4,050 licenses. Already the previous year's business has been ex- :ded by nearly 300 licens a car held the record for act here is, however, one disappoint- men® to Cupid and his assistant s they view the record of the past ye It is the fact that ninety licenses were canceled during the last twelve months. This I8 two or three times. it is said, the pumber ever returned in 4 previous ar. BALTIMORE BREAD LOWER. Three Bakeries Announce Reduced Prices Beginning Next Week. BALTIMORE, Md., January 1 (Spe- ial) —Although (ho 3-cent loaf “of bread cannot return for the present, owing chiefly, the bakers say. to the high cost of labor, substantial reduc- ions in the price of the staff of life ext weck were announced by three iBaltimore bakerics today. One bakery will make a reduction of 20 per cent, bringing its pound {loaf, which has been selling at 10 |cents, down to 8 éents, and the pound- {and-a-half loaf, now sold at 15 cents, to 12 cents. The second bakery will make prac- tically the same cut in/prices, while the third firm announces that while it will not change prices, it “will give more bread for the same money after the first of the year.” This bakery is now selling a twelve-ounce loaf for 7 cents and next week will give thirteen and one-half ounces for 7 cent Epitome of Events Up to January 1, 1921. FOREIGN. Kerensky is charged with a plot to restore the monarchy in Germany and Russia and reunite the Austro-Hunga- rian empire. Canada threatens torevise | tariff to meet that of the United States |/ if emergency tariff bill is passed. Arabs and Turks drive French back in Syria Albania is shaken by earth- Ulster raises armed police force = |to be sent against the Sinn Feiners. = |London newspapers indorse pact be- tween America, Great Britain and Japan to curb naval bullding. Italians enter Fjume and D'Annunzio sur-{ renders powers to the local communal council, leaving the city by airplane, and is expected to go to South America Germans affirm inability to disband the civil guards in Bavaria and East Prussia, according to peace treaty de- mands, and French threaten to oc- cupy the Rhur district in January in accord with the terms of the Spa con- vention. NATIONAL. Secretary Houston testifi soldier's bonus bill would government $2,300,000,000. Wallace, editor-of a Henry ( farm journal i . Hughes and Will H. General, | President Wilse brates his 64th birthday anniversary. *“Monk” Eastman, ex-Bowery 'gang Jeader and war hero, killed in N retary of State C guay on the U. S. S. Florida and is| |given a rousing greeting in Monte- video. House of Representatives feli- citates “Uncle Joe” Cannon as he breaks long service record in the| House, having served 43 years and almost 10 months. Président Wilson announces there will be no New Year's reception at the White House: The President appoints Col. George C Rickards_chief of the militia bure of the War Department. Senator Harding confers with Senator Knox, Will H. Hays and E. B. McLean on arrangements for the inauguration. Americans win the tennis champion- ship of the world and the Davis Cup when William T. Tilden and William T. Johnston triumph over the Austra- lians, Norman Brookes and Gerald Patterson, at Auckland, New Zealand, in both singles and doubles. The Cornell cross-country team loses*to the Oxford-Cambridge team' by the close score of 26-29, on a heavy course at Roehampton, near London. George B. Christian, jr., Senator Harding’s secretary, is considered sure to be mnext President's private secretary. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. President’s private yacht, U. S. S. Mayflower, is badly damaged by fire at the navy yard. District Com- missioners submit additional esti- mates amounting to $5,068,300 to the Senate subcommittes in charge of the District eppropriation bill. Public utilities commission Tejects applica- tion of the Washington Railway and Electric Company for a straight 8 cent fare and orders a reduction from 2 to 1 cent for inter-company trans- fers. Henry Lansburgh is re-elected Iliustrious Potentate of ,Almas Tem- ple. “Chimes of Normandy,” a ro- mantic comic opera, presented by th People's National Opera Sociely at the Central High School, scores a great success. Almas Temple of the c Shrine plays Santa Claus to 400 children and takes presents to many poor homes. The American Historical Association with filiated societies holds its ann ventioy here. Charles J. O') ! elected' grand master of Masong of the District. Rev. Levi M. Powers, pastor of the Church of Our Father, dies from heart trouble. Distr ralses $60.000 ‘in first few days Herbert Hoover campaign for starving _children of Europe. Richard Kingsman, prominent home opathic physician, dies. RED MEN ARE HOSTS. Sioux Tribe, No. 18, Jmproved Order of Red Men, was host Thursday evening at a Christmas entertainment, whep the families of the chieftains were recipi- ents of gifts from Santa Claus. More than 300 little guests, sons and daugh- ters of the members of the tribe, were 'culled up to the monster Christmas tree, which was adorned with presents. The commiitec in charge of the Christ- igcluded: _ Past § | Sachem Jacques Heidenheimer. Henry Gompers, Albert Gompers, Maj. Eck- alls, Harry Lewis, Heury. Greenbers and Edward S, Schmide the best. is the choice of the present time. mas entertainment 2 and_hangings | s and blooming flowers adding et in it will be found con-, s, and { Do You Appreciate a Beautiful House? Facts about Argonne Terrace, at Sixteenth and Columbia Road, that will interest the discriminating buyer who appreciates " "Or ‘for-Farther Information Ca too high interest rate for firs in the spring. the long-awaited activity ages on improved real est fiay be inaugurated, in the course of restoring normal housing condi v a very More Stabilized Conditions. A bor and transportation conditions are improving,” he asserts. “Thesc are great potential significance in of building tendencies. With | d improvement will come | dustry efforts to attract viewed with _distrust. high interest rates paid by any poration necessarily tends mnot their contin: a more stabilized market for materials | which will exert an_encouraging influ- | ence upon capital. Prior to the war in- come from improved property in many | tncalities and instances was too low, | and it is noted that a more favorable {and apparently permanent readjustment to encourage practices of profitee Conditions of this kind would, it tinued, exert a harmful influenc the building industry. 3 “While adverse tendencies manifest themselves temporarily and there.” Mr. Straus observes, general si ized, and this will become more nounced as all interests greater willingness to be fair and | of income from improved real estate in- tments is taking place. “Thus, while construction is at a low | ebb at this time, fundamental condi | tions are favorable for the resumption | fof building on a large scale. It should | be borne in mind that lasting improve ment can be brought about in the hous. ing situation only as these basic condi- | tions are favgrable. Unfair agitation a legislative restrictions tend to' divert capital from building in- nels, and thu: thrift and efliciency are more gen 1y applied.” —_— It is estimated that men can vote in the A. S. Caywood Caywood & Garrett 915 N. Y. Ave. N.W. “Formation of the Corporation of With Offices at 915 New York Avenue Northwest Washington, D. C. —For the g‘unsaction of the Real Estate, Loan and Insurance Business, which will receive the personal attention of CHARLES B. CAYWOOD AURILLA S. CAYWOOD JOHN P. GARRETT, January 1st, 1921. Come to 14th St. Highlands And Inspect Our New Homes . Sample 5505 13th N.W. . Best:: Value ; Offered Location, None Better Large Spacious Rooms Don’t Fail to See Them Take Any 14th St. Car to Kennedy St. and Walk Half Block to Houses Correctly' designed by an architect of training and experience, they have an appealing originality and charm that make them an asset to, Washington home building. Attention to important home features, such as built-in, heated garage, sun parlor, real open fireplace, has produced a house that is comfortable and conven- ient and has a cheerful home influence that has aroused the most flattering comment from those who have visited our operation. The beautiful finish and decoration in these homes is accom- plished with an artistic mastery that shows a knowledge of the fine arts and a natural appreciation of the beautiful. The location of Argonne Terrace, at 16th and Columbia Road, city. The thought and talent that has produced these homes put them in a class above everything being offered for sale at the Exhibit house heated, 1624 Argonne Place N.W. ; Open every day until 9 P.M. WILLIAM S. PHILLIPS 1409 N. Y. Ave. Ul ‘Argeiine Terrace, Col. 822 st mort- te which now is making itself felt will prove helpful factor.” he believes. the case in all other lines of in- :apital at exorbitant rates of interest must be Abnormally | | to weaken the financial structure but uation is becoming stab show in their practices, and as the spirit of harmony grows and the principles of 100,000.000 rid today. Formerly 1231 N. Y. Ave. N.W. Announce Their Consolidation in Business and the Caywood Bros. & Garrett, Inc. START NEW YEAR RIGHT Washington—you, will find it in our homes on WEBSTER ST. AT 16th N.W. (“Overlooking Rock Creek Park”) Exhibit Home—No. 1626 Webster St. Open for Inspecticn Daily Until 8:30 P.M. Brief Description: Nine rooms and 2 baths, with marble shower and built-in bathtubs; 4 bedrooms ; spacious living room; open fireplace; glass inclosed and heated sleeping porch: glass inclosed breakfast porch opening from dining room; built-in garage; clothes chute; interior decorations and finish are the best; in short, these homes contain every conceivable modern improvement. L. E. Breuninger & Sons Main 7166 706 Colorado Bldg. cor- only ring. con- e on may, here “the pro- ust eral- | Ride Out —and give these Macomb Street Homes (Cleveland Park) critical inspection Consider the at;ractive location—and how secure it is for the future. Consider the artistic effect of both the Spanish and Colonial types of Homes. Consider the wonderfully practical plans upon which they are designed. Consider the comfort and conven- ience with which they are arranged. Consider the refinet{ character of the finish. Consider the substantial and thor- ough construction detail. Nine and eleven rooms-— Three baths— Built-in garage. And then consider the remarkable price at which they can be purchased. One of our representatives is in attendance every day and evening Take Chevy Chase car to Macomb street, turning west— it’s just a step. _Harry A. Kite 1514 K Street N.W. Phone Main 4846 Still Another Owner of an Old House Has Found It a Good Business Propo- sition to Sell His House and Buy Here Wise men are selling old houses in neighborhoods that have served their purpose and buying these NEW, DIS- TINCTIVE HOMES in this GROWING SECTION. A WORD TO THE WISE IS SUFFICIENT. Further, this home is the most remarkable value seen in ‘Washington in years. It has set a standard for future building operations. Remember_this: Even though it has 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, an unfinished third floor (room for two extra rooms), library, dining room and kitchen and an extra room on main floor, one clubroom, a lot 40x160, and an exterior design by Arthur B. Heaton, the price is exactly $450 more than that of row houses. ' Naturally They Are a Success To Inspect—14th and Ingraham Sts. N.W. Take Fourteenth Street car (best service in Wash- ‘ington) to corner of Ingraham Street or drive out Six- teenth Street to Colorado Avenue Northwest, then one square to Ingraham Street, to Washington’s Nearest Re- stricted Suburb. SHANNON & LUCHS Owners and Builders