Evening Star Newspaper, January 6, 1923, Page 16

JONCRETE SES b LFTEDINPLACE Slabs, Fashioried on Ground, | Feature of Building New [} Clubhouse. Employment for the first time in ‘Washington of a novel method of building construction, involving the Pouring of the sides of a concrete house in horizontal forms on the ground and Taising them, when hard- | ened, into vertical position, is featur- ing the rection of the new clubhouse |- for the Meridlan Hill Club at 16th and Buclid streets northwest. The sides of the bullding are thus made in their entirety on the ground. with windows, doors 'and other apertures compieted, and ‘the sections are then put together, like a child's toyhouse, and the Moors, roof and other portions constructed in the usual manner. Raised Into Position. Yesterday the builder, who in- troduced the new method to Wash- ington, Snowden Ashford, successfully raised into position the south wall of the new clubhouse, @ massive con- crete &lab, eighty-eight feet lons. twenty-five feet high and graduating in thickness from twelve to elght inches at the top. The wall. with its windows, had been previously formed by pourfng into speclal = wooden forms, built horizontally on a plat- form supported by a number of screw Jjacks, the necessary concrete mixture., The concrete was tamped into place by workmen and the whole mass was reinforced with the customary steel rods Having “set” a sufficlent length of time, the wall was raised into a verti- cal position by the jacks underneath, which were elevatod by machinery. Windows were formed by means of wooden frames Inserted at the proper: places to prevent the concrete mix- ture from entering- the inclosure. When the wall had been ralsed into place against the other-sides of the house the machinery was reversed. and the- whole wooden form was pulled away from the concrete, leav- ing the compieted wall intact. Fhe second and thira floors of the clubhouse will next be comstructed. Work on the roof, which will be of alate, aiready has started. The build- ing wus designed and promoted by George Oakley Totten, Ir. Used During War. This process of constructing con- orete houses. while new to Washing- | ton, was used by Army engineers during the. world wa: & number of instances. It is the invention of & man named Balkan. Mr. Ashford points out that the process not only facill- tates conmstruction, but resuits in a more substantial building than can! be gotten by the old method of pour- ing the concrete Into vertical forms. The corners of the walls are joined together, he explained, after the sides have been placed In position. Vertical forms are then bullt at-the corners. the reinforcing rods projecting from the ends of the walls are interlaced and the form is then filled with con- crete in the usual way Builders will no doubt watch with interest the progress of the Meridian Hill Clubhouse operation. because of the possibilities in a consfruction way that may develop. THE WEEK Epliome of Events Up to January 6, 1933. FOREIGN. Turkish troops move towsrd Mosul. Plans for a $20,000,000 Armenian na- tional home, financed with American money, broached at-Lausanne -con- | ference. British demand final repa- | rations showdown at Paris. German | payment plan completed at Berlln. | French cut demands .fifty billion marks, being new estimate by Poin- | care. 'Turks spurn peace on allied terms, move on straits. French spurn British plan on reparations. Paris parley collapses after Poincare hands | ultimatum to English, France pro- ceeds with own plan to make Berlin | pay i NATIONAL. Seven indicted in '$11.000,000 war contract frauds. Two die to save District_girl in train clash at Wood- bury, N. New Year observed throughout nation. Evidence being massed in lake mur ja. Tie-up in dry $7.000,000 worth of rum. District belle, daughter of laté Chief Justice Fuller, dies at Chicago. More troops sent to guard Bastrop. Sec- retary Fall of Interfor Department to resign March 4. Bursum pension measure vetoed by President Hard- Ambassador Harvey confers President. Many die in bridge clash at Keiso, Wash. ~Prof. Emile Coue, French exponent of auto. suggestion, lands at New York. Alexander Graham Bell dies at Wash- ington. Five die in race clash at Otter Creek, Fla. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Gas bomb Is used to arrest woman. of Associated New Year ended at White House; cabinet receive on Jan- bill passes Senate with n clause. John Hays| Hammond donates $5.000 for white | safety lines. Miss Wen returns to| parents again. Tear-gas gun acci-| dently discharged in Distri ing, causing much “weeping. lights peril life on Distri Appropriation of $1 Georgetown postal s are admitted by Board of Trade. Board of education considers matter of item for O Street Vocational Schoo] | beauty parlor course, hich ‘was re- fused by District Commissioners. Tearchers' pay bill attacked at meet- ing of Columbia Heights Citizens' As- soclation, defended by Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of schools. Distriot bill reported, carrying $22,- 624, Thirty million. dollars’ worth of new public . buildings urged by Public Bulldings Commission. District appropriations bill considered by louse. —_— FACTS CONCERNING RAID . IN U. S. ATTORNEY’S HANDS Head of Prison Development League, Whose Organization Is Under Probe, Resents Charges. By the Associated Prei LOS ANGELES, Callf., January §.— All facts concerning the raid ‘here Thursday night on the home of Charjes. Brandon Booth, president of the Prison Development League, were in the hands of the United States district attorney today. authorities were to"be asked to join in the investigation. N Booth declared that “now this. inves- tigation has been started,.I shall force it to a conclusion and see the organiza- | tion 1s completely vindicated.” He said about 32,500 had been Nfl-l Jected in the three months the league had been in existence and. that he and the financial secretary, Howard Hall, had recelved “slightly more” than oach $900 for their services. 18 sk 5 It was Intimated the post office | which w huge wall in place. LABOR LEADER’S WIDOW Offer of $500 and Expenses of Ship- ping Magon’s Body to Mexico City Turned Down. By the Associated Py , LOS ANGEL 1if., January 6.— The offer of the Mexican government 0 pay the expenses of sending the body of Richard Flores Magon, Mexi- can labor leader, to Mexico City fo burial, and to pay hix widow $500, ha: been Flores Magon, according to the Los Angeles Times. However, the body of Magon, who died last’ November in the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan., where hé was serving a sen- tence for violation of the American espionage laws, will be taken to the Mexican capital, and the start will be made from Los Angelew today, all expenses being paid by the Confed- eration of Railway Men of Mexico, it was said. The Mexican several weeks ago passed a measure providing for the transportation of the body to the Mexican tal -at the expense of the government. The body has been in a vauilt in a Los Angeles temetery until yester- day, when it was removed to an un- dertaking establishment, after Sal- vador Rodriguez, general secretary and_treasurer of the Confederation ot Rallway Men of Mexico, arrived and announced he had the “suthority and the funds,” contributed by mem- 3 s chamber of deputie: The upper photograph shows one of the molded on the ground and raised te position. The lower picture shows method used DECLINES MEXICAN AID | declined by Senora Maria B.! T T | bers of that organizatfon, to take it | to the Mexican capital. i | At Mexico City the casket wiff bel { placed in the "Alameda’ for pubtic | view. [and the insignia of the rallway men’s | fraternity will be placed on the cof- fin after it reaches the Mexican capi- | tal. Its wording has not been made public. |SEEK RELEASE OF LAST , GERMAN PRISONER IN U. S. | Naval Cadet Seized During War Is | | i Serving Lifetime | Sentence, | Br the Associated Press. | BERLIN, January 6—Nationalist deputies are reported to be planning an interpellation of the government in the relchstag shortly regarding the case of Lothar Wizke of Posen, sxid to be the last German. prisoner of-war still confined by the United | States | | Wizke was a naval cadet, serving | n the German mercantile marine when the war broke out, and was held with his ship at Valparaiso, Chile. Later he is sald to have gone to Mexico, where he was active in the German cause, finally falling into the hands of the American suthori- ties when he was “lured across th border” by an American According to the natlo was sentenced to death, commuted to life President Wilson. but this was imprisonment by He Is said to have ALMOST READY To Move Into 1410-16 Ingraham Street Apartments . of Four Rooms et ] The Proper Place for It. Mr. Knagg—I wish fou wouldn't s right here in the hotel lobby. His Wife—Jhen why dsn't you provide & home for m Exclusive Agents - THE ST. _ Situated the south end of the Connecticut Avenue . Bridge, overlooking beautiful Rock Creek villey. : with Bath an : New. builgiing.uf fiteproof construction.- equipment, with twa electric elevators, For_ Reservations See . ' : ‘MANAGER Four Very Unusual Semi-Detached Homes That Are Practically Completed They Are Worth Your- Critical Inspection—Open Sunday * ervice 1415 Eye St. ALBAN Two,. Three and Meodern dewalls of the Meridian Hill clubhouse, at 15th and Euclld street l A plate bearing an inscription |made numerous unsuccessful attempts | in jueking th > | been held In solitary confinement in | a darkened coll far two and one-half | of the last five years. Wizke's father is reported to have | the Amerloan and Ger- man authorities to obtain his son's release and return to Germany —_— The Cure. through bo frs. Maltby—You say vou cured | at husband of dropping ashes on | e floor, How did vou do it? Mrs. Roberts—I had him give up| | emoking. Four Bar ?‘hey represent t! ocalities and .are ate sale. ) NO. 1— CHEVY CHASE, D. C. Two smart, modern Nos. 3905 and 3911 These houses contain that is new and modern in fine residential design and construe- tion, and are priced less than cost to reproduce. The . section is one of the m in' Chevy Chase, the tremely large, offering in all a buying opportunity any place. 7 BEDTIME STORIES birds wefe come Robin had a food saif. No.soomer feoding an: Bully the English Sparrow | Tries to Make Trouble. nemt Hbt oies to greediness and epits, —01d Mother Neture. Of all the little people of the Old Orchard the only really selfish ones that cold winter day when Welcome Robin came up from the cedar swamp were Bully the English Sparrow and | the members of his family. They are | always selfish. Bully has one of the most selfish dispositions in the world. No matter how much he has himself, they flew to whi awa; sz(n was ‘trymng te By Therntea W. Burgess. | samm. 4 W n sneif to bl . N daid Bully. see than he called all his relntives and | dodged just In time. eré Weloome | other Eparrows shrieked at the top All his e 5 . : u_doi This food isn't for you. is ours. You can't have any of it He darted at poor Welcome Robin and struck him savagely. This was tao much for Sammy Ja a8 no love for Bully the English sparrow, anyway. Down can Sammy on that food shelf and suru at Bully with his sharp bill. B He and all t 1t | of their lungs and ruffied ap their feathers and pretended that * they were going to do dreadful things. But they ltosk great care never to-come In reach of Sammy's sharp bill All the. time Welcome Robin went on ploking up food as fast as he could. He was in to much need of that food to stop to fight. It wasn't long before Farmer Brown's Boy appeared. He had heard the racket and he promptly came out and drove those Sparrows awa: he kept watch from a short dis | come Robin and threatene: n't “belong_here in|away until Welcome Robin had eate all he could. Those Sparrows didn dare come back whila he was im sight but. at a safe distance, chatte colded and shrieked at to do a sorts of things to him If he ever cams back there again. (Copyright, 1028, Ly T. W. Burgess.) B. & 0. BUYS MORE CARS. BALTIMORE, Md., January 6.—The Baltimore and Ohio Railromd Coms pany has announced thul contracts had been placed for £,000-steel under- frame cars. These orders involve, it is understood, an expenditure of ap- proximately $4.000,000, and 1s in ad dition to the-contracts for 5,000 steel hopper and gondola cars awarded about a week ago. costing ebout 10,000,000 he cannot bear o ses others having plenty, too. Of course, living*as they did, ‘under the ‘eaves of Farmer Brown's barn, the English Sparrows were the first to discover the food put out in the Old Orchard by Farmer Brown’s Boy. In fact, they wafched him put it out. His back was hardly S I turned when Bully led the others over - to_those food shelves. When the other birds began to ar- rive Bully and his friends promptly tried to drive them away. No sooner would Tommy Tit alight on a food shelf where none of the Sparrows were éating than Bully would fly over there in a great rage and try to drive him away. It wasn't until Farmer Brown's Boy saw whal was going on and drove away Bally and his friends that the ot could eat in peace. Of cour: excited cries of the other birds when Welcome Robin ar- rived were heard by Bully, and he ent out to ses what it was Now, at that time the other “WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?" HE DEMANDED. stomach. Such a noisy crew as they were as (hey tried to drive Welcome Robin away! Perhaps {f Welcome had been less hungry théey might have succeeded, for, you know, he is not quarrelsome. As it was;, ‘he =imply pald no attention to them. This made the Sparrows very angry. They be- came very impudent. Bully actually tried to snateh the food out of Wel- come Robf! bill he de- John B. Ginechesi Stone Work promptly all about. Houses—Foundations—Porches—Chimneys—~Fences o Anything Stone Phone Columbia 10264 Il “Inspect Today” 1236 Crittenden St. N.W. A new eight-room house, completely detached, in Saul’'s Addition. Every room, including kitchen, is unusually spacious. Attractive open fireplace; large front and double rear porches. Lot 40x145. In Order That You May Fully Appreciate This Home, It is Open for Inspection, Heated and ' Lighted. Salesman on Premises. N. L. Sansbury Co., Inc. “Everything in Real Estate” 1418 Eye St. N.W. Phones Main 5903-4-5 Member Washington Real Estate Bosrd gains in New Homes Two in Chevy Chase---Two in Petworth ‘ Shrewd buyers will investigate these offerings immediately! he best in design and construction in their offered at a price that will make for immedi- NO. 2— PETWORTH Of nine built we have two unsold _ in these exceptional six-room, re- ception hall and bath brick houses, Nos. 111 and 125 Webster street ‘N. W. Sleeping porches, break- fast porches, fireplaces, hardwood floors, and every modern feature. The prices are unusually low for this splendid type house. A cash payment of $1,000, -with monthly payments, are added fea- tures. residences, Jocelyn St. everything at a figure ost desirable lots are ex- unsurpassed See -Thehz Tomorrow HOW TO GET THERE— Take Chevy Chase cars or drive out Conn. 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