Evening Star Newspaper, December 29, 1923, Page 15

REAL AB ank By Robert Orr Author of “The Second Bullez” “Unsean Hands,” “The Trigger of Conscience,” Etc. Copyright, 1623, by Robert M. McBride & Co. When the bustle of leave-taking | In.4he patio had subsided and the | hum of their car diminished down the | rive, "Geoff took nis puper-wrapped ! Package of lunch from beneath his Jlded coat. Dipper in hand he started willow-Iringed brook | the land on the adjoining estae. ad_no desire to en- counter Sergt. Eliot of the district} attorney’s forces or to be interviewed just then by little Miss Millie. un- prepared as he was to cxplain (o Lies his misrepresentations of the brevious day, should Mys. Van W have: communicated with her. Besides, he wanted to think in veace and quiet. After th separ- | ated ‘from Detective Lyons the night! before. Dr. Hood had pestered him| Wwith questions concerning the source | of his information about the woman, | not at all ce tain he in_convincing | the shrewd medical examiner that he had ‘told all he knew. Lyons' des ription of the woman, too, had taken an unshakable hold upon his tenaci- ous mind; it concurred so exactly| with Robbins' memory of the b who had killed himself. Lawrenc Shir many women in the too, who wer tall me, with red-bro hair and merry hazel eyes, and the low, rich speaking voice was not uncommon; but it had seemed strange { in the opinion of the stonemason that both the aged, highiy-strung hroker and the blunt. matter-of-fact detoctive should alike have retained just these attributes in their im- pressions of two separate people. n in regard to Lane's possible interview with the Dawn woman on the night of the murder ad been a mere shot in the hased a course of wholly own: he Lyon for what it was wor then it ceased to be his b lane’s bluff in refusing an leen characteristic of the that, too, did not trouble thoughts. But. as he had told Ad Middleton. his own work at the C nley place would soon be finished and e would no longer have an excuse to lnger in the vicinity, while the Corners was a far cry from the scene of the crime in the solution of which he had become involved. While th authorities remained at sea as to the tdentity of the murderer. he felt loath to leave the center of their activities where he could at least be an obtrusive bystander and keep in b with Doe Hood. If he could | contriv way to prolong his duties without the dishonesty of aceepting pay for unnecessary work, a lone widow w at Tis thoughts rupted when he reache among the willows by finding other there before him; a frail, soli- tary, stoop-shouldered’ figure, who sat with thin hands clasped listlessly ahout his knees and faded eyes sta ing straight before him Geoff coughed uncomfortably. then hent forward and filled his dipped with the sparkling wuter. As he atraightened and turned to retreat, the other spoke. i “Good morning, Geoffrey. Were you going to eat vour lunch here? Don't let me disturb vou; I must go and pack my bag shortly, a “"Mornin’, Mr. Dunn ed. “If T won't bother vight here and eat. You runnin’ up to the city?” “I am leaving Sunny seeretary observed. as ing a state be of no fu lay and I must « in the Broad str before its doors He remalned ve blinking at the glare of sunlight on ihe narrow, rip- pling stream. and Geoff ventured ‘pose vou'll take a little rest afore tacklin' somethin’ new? TUI be kinder hard, gittin' in with dif- ferent folks' ways after 'sociatin' so long With Mr. Benkard.” “Something new?’ Dunn repeated aguely. “T—1 have no idea. Per- haps 1 shall take a rest—a long rest I have often d what 1 should | do when this—when my late position axpi and I felt very courageous, hut now that it has come 1 find that my plans do not seem feasible. My thoughts turn backward: I cannot look to the future.” Its the shock. mebbe” Geoff chewed ruminatively on his sand- wich. There was something in the level. unemotional tones of the scere- tary which eave him the ereeps his worn. lined face Was DAsty in the bright sunshine. “You have no intentions, them. o for always with Mr. Renkard?" T should have been at his service as long as he needed me.” The hands about his gaunt knees gripped tense- Iy for an instant, but his low voice did not change. “However, 1 be- lieved that he had other plans for the future in.which I held no place. and T supporc a man who has failed ilways dreams of coming back, at first,” anyway. But the days pass, and the years, and sometimes he ses heart. He ecither plods along on the same old treadmill or—or else zocs mad!” is tones whisper, and narrowly. He of madness; contentedl upon hi ian were you I'll thinkin’ set o Beach.” though mself. to Mrs old morr the | voie- can w ! | had dropped to a mere Geoff glanced at him had shown no signs he had plodded enough under B instructions and authority soemed more than ever improbable That he would be able to strike out for himself and start anew: et he had refused the legacy! What could e the meaning of it? “I ain't got no idee o' Wall street business, but I opine it would drive anybody crazy to watch them stocks go chasin’ up and down Itke a chipmunk on a tree! "Tain’t any wonder some o' the young fellers Tose their head ‘specially when ather folks' money is in their reach, and_git to gamblin’ ith that as well their own when the fever hits ‘am,” Geoff remarked. “I heard tell o' one the other day who lost a lot that didn’t belong to him and then| killed himself in Mr. Benkard's own rooms after confessin’ to him. Shir- fey, his name was. They say he was a fine, upstandin’ voung man. too. 111 _he got to thinkin’ he was bound | to beat the game. It happened vears | ago afore you Jined Mr. Benkard, and 1 don't s'pose you ever knowed him,” Dunn had straightened as though every nerve and muscle in his body were taut, and the vacant, introspec- tive look In his dim eves had given place to a stare of shrinking horror. | “Lawrence Shirley! Yes, I knew him. It was a hideous tragedy, hid- eous!—But where could you have! heard about it. Geoffrey? T thought! it was burfed and forgotten!” H His voice was shaking now. but | Geoff replicd in an offhand way: “Two gentlemen in the train—| strangers, they was—goin' out to| Silver Bay where T got a job waitin'} for me, was talking 'bout Mr. Benk- ! that there OVE SUSPICION | left | except Mr: ESTATE. Chipperfield. seen you again, before I Good-by." He held out his hand almost timid- ly, and Geoff, after wiping his greasy one on the newspaper, grasped it heartily. There was a look in the cyes of this shadow of a man which touched his simple, kindly heart, and the thought came to him that this was a sorry sort of lenve-taking af- ter §ewrs of faithful, if possibly mis- guided service, to a liard master. “Good-by, Mr. Dunn, and good luck. | When you git over this mebbe you'li | find your plans workin' out “fine!| Tope you'll be comin’ out this way agin some time. | Dunn shook his head. but the ghost of a smile flickered over his tired face and lingered us he turned away and started for the house. Geoff threw his last crumbs to a catbird that hovered near, and then lighted his pipe. It was & day of | departures, and no one remained now Cayley, her daughter and the servants. He wished old Henry would get well and leave his room| hefore his own work was completed; there was a question he wanted to sk him, but he could invent no ex- cuse for venturing unbidden Into the house. Sergt. Llliot seemeq to have taken himself off, but that private detective must be hanging around somewhere. What could he be up to? For the rest of the day he puttered ahout the terrace, seeing no one, but at nightfall when e returned to his own little cottagh,he found a note thrust half out @7 sight beneath a flower-pot on the steps. Ignoring for once the excitd welcome of his canine companions, he unfolded the preseription blank and read labor- fously the message scrawled In evi- dent haste on i Geoffrey, off: to my house quick as 3 met last night want ou can, Man we to see you. truly, IEVANS HOOD. So Lyons had lost no time in get- ting on the trail! Had he hit the nail on the head regarding this Zoey wo- man? _She’d make gosh-almighty fools of senators and envoys and am- bassadors, and Joseph Benkard, powerful as he had been, seemed small fry after such big fish; but her name had been connected with his by chosen few in Wall street, and old Robbins had appeared to know what Yrs, | water. | jter was still and very THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1923. [T TLE STORIES rDEDTIME . BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. Danny Watches Two Fisher- men. To do a thing that must be doue You'll always find more ways than one. —Grandpa Pellca: Danny Meadow Mouse when he had been living on the Green Meadows near the Smiling Pool had watched several fishermen. He had seen Plunger the Osprey shoot down from high up in the sky, plunge down un- der the water and come up with a fish in his claws. He had seen Rat- tles the Kingfisher dart down from a tree and snatch a minnow swimming close to the surface. He had seen Longlegs the Great Blue Heron stand at the edge of the water motionless for the longest time, and then like a flash strike down and cateh a little fish that had come within reach. But the fishing of the two fishermen he watched that day far down in the Sunny South was altogether different, and a whole lot more exciting. One of these fishermen was Grand- pa Pelican and the other was Darter the Snakebird. They were unlike as two fishermen could be in_ appear- ance aud In the way they fished. But both were splendid fishermen. Yes, siree, both were splendid fishermen. Dunny had found an old stump close to the water, and up this he had climbed that he might see better. For a long time nothing had hap- pened. Grandpa Pellcan sat on his favorite stump, appearing to be half asleep. Darter the Snakebird sat on a dead branch of a tree a short dis- tance away, but there had been noth- ing_sleepy in his uppearance. Danny had almost lost patience and had about decided that there would be no fishing that day when he chanced to look over to where Darter was sitting just in time to see him drop from his perch into the He didn’t go In head first as divers do. He seemed to just drop stralght down with his head still up. He went completely under. The wa- clear o that Danny could see down in fit. He cauglit a glimpse of the swiftly mov ing forms of a school of fish, and then close hehind them appeared Darter. My, how he did shoot through the water! Instead of having his neck stretched out at full length it was drawn back. Suddenly it sfot forward like @ flash. That sharp Lil which was like a dagger, passed right throtgh a fish. At once Darter came to the sur- face. He gave a quick toss of his head which threw the fish he had he was talking about. Geoff fed the dogs and watered the | mare whom he left where he had; tethered her that morning in the ad joining meadow. After hastily mak-j ing his tollet with the aid of a tin bucket and a comb, he snatched a cold bite and struck off across the short-cut to the village and the doc tgr's home on Main street The tter admitted him and fairly dragged him into the little parlor and office, combined, where he found De- tect Lyons pacing impatlently up and down “Look here, Peters. Idon't know ere you got your information but it was on the level as far as it went, and 1 want to ask you if you're hold- ing out anything on u: the head- quarters man began abruptly. “Doc- tor Hood says you've helped him a lot on another case or two out here but vou only did it in vour own way. Sunny Beach was a village then, but its part of New York city now, and that isa different matter. You needn’t be afraid to speak because of get-! ting ixed up in this, for yvou're not| even a special deputy and we'll keep | you out of it. but if vou're kecping back any dope that may be useful | to_us now, come across with it i “I ain’t keepin' buck nothin’ sserted with dignity. “I | dep'ty, as you say yourself, but a car- penter and mason, and | got a hull| lot more work on my hands now than, 1 kin tend to, even if 1 mind my own business, which’ I ain’t been a-doin’. There wasn't no call for me to teli | Doc Hood in the first place what the cook had said ‘bout the quarrel be- tween Lane and Benkard if 1 hadn’'t a-wanted to, but he's an old friend of mine and I didn’t take to the brow- beatin’ airs o' that feller from the District Attorney's office. I'm willin’ and glad to help, but I ain't namin' o names unless I've a-mind to! “Nobody's asking you to, Geoff,” The fat little doctor backed him into | a chair. “We just want you to tell us all you know in your own way, and | what put you on the right track.” ¥ “Well,” Geoff deposited his cap on | the floor beside him, “I heard tell | 0ld gentleman who had friends, down in that there Wall street and | kinder liked to gab 'bout what he | picked up from them. and it come to! me there was one thing mebbe in} Benkard's life nobuddy’d thought toi look into—wimmen. There ain’t no, man so wrapped up in money makin’ | and gittin’ along in- the world but | what he's liable to let himself be side- | tracked by some feemale critter or ‘nother, and when they git to Ben- kard's age without ever philanderin’ ‘round they generally fall the hardest when It comes., Look at Lane! Look at that senator and them forelgn go- ‘mint rep'sentatives you tojd us 'bout | last night yourself, mister! Now, 1! ain’t heard tell o’ Benkard ever bein’ rried or even keepin' steady com- pany ‘mongst the soclety folks, so it etood to reason If he had a-been in pve with somebuddy it'd be the kind o' lady he'd keep quiet ‘bout, and the quietér he kept the more whispers, there'd be. That's the way I figgered | it _out, anyhow.” “Go 'on, Peters,” the detective urged as he paused. - (Continued In Tomorrow's Star.) JANUARY BUYING MONTH | FOR SHREWD INVESTORS The winter months are advantage- ous months for real estate buying from an investment viewpoint, the| National Association of Real Estate Boards points out to the general in- vestment public. During the winter period demand for residences {s greatly lessened and persons wish- ing to sell often offer corresponding concessions In prices and terms. Jun- uary is, therefore, a month of invest- ment opportunity, An almost unfailing advance in real estate prices marks the arrival of £pring, men who are famillar with seasonal fluctuations in the real e tate market observe. ‘ard’s death and one thing and Tother, and they spoke of him. Reckon they was speculators them- | selyes and had knowed, the young feller; leastways, they retollected all ‘bout the business. Beems to me: one ! o' ’em seid ‘twas oh New Years day, ter year ago that Mr. Shirley killed himself, and t'other remarked it was a pity he hadn't gone to them Whose money he'd used and made a clean! breast o’it, that they'd a’helped him | out and give him a chance for a fresh start so’s he could have pald back what he'd took. Both o' 'em agreed he was a splendid young man. only foolish, and then théy switched %o argufyin’ over the market reports %0 T dldn’t pay no more attention, not Tnowin’ nothin’ ‘hout stocks 'and sach. Was the poor young feller a. friend o’ yours, Mr. Dunn?” But the erstwhile secretary had re- ined his composure, and he spoke apathetically once more. “I had few friends; I knew him as T acquainted with a score. of voting men who traded with us now and then, but he wasn't a steady customer. His death shocked me, of coupse; yet there have been many such—many such!—I must pack now and arrange for a_taxi to take me 1o the station, but T am glad to have ot Xpeind 2 FOR Seven rooms, bath, | niouth (1L L e o extra lavatory; ONE OF THESE FISHERMEN WAS GRANDPA _PELICAN AND THE R~ WAS DART THE SNAKEBIRD. speared into the air. It ‘eame down head first straight into the open of Darter. He gulped il \en started for another. turned to see what Grandpa Grandpa Pelican instant Darter down. Danny 15 can was doing. had wakened the dropped into the water. His keen eves had seen those fish. When Dan- ny looked he was fiying above them. Then he plunged into the water, with his great bill wide open. That big bag under his bill was spread wide, and into it he scooped a fish. He used it like a net. Then he in his turn tossad the fish in the air and gulped it down. There wera many fish, and for a while those two fishermen were very busy. It was exciting to watch. Danny didn’t know which one he ad- mired the most, the way in which Darter speared his fish or the way in which _Grandpe Pclisan netted his fish, They seemed equally successful. At last_the frightened fish disappear- ed, and the two fishermen returned to’ their verches to rest and digert their catches. (Copyright, 1923. by BUILDING BOOM BACK OF U. S. PROSPERITY After & study of the factors entering into the present period of business-ac- tivity, George Woodruff, vice president of the National Bank of the Republic at Chicago, decides that the buliding boom has been most largely respon- sible for the country’s present pros- perity. He cites the great number of building permits issued during the year just ending as proving his con- clustons, “Never in historr,” says Mr. Wood- ruff, “have we had such a great amount of bullding, and the stimulating effect of this construction activity has been felt in practically all manufacturing ines. £ our present bullding activity falls down. the ensuing business recession will considerably decrease our prosper- ity until we can gather ourselves to- gethér for a fresh -start, but if the building {ndustry is able to tide us over, we may find that a_settlement of Euro- pean’ soclal and political questions will make possible the sale of large amounts of foreign securities to American in- vestors, and the proceeds of the sale of these securities would- be used by Eu- rope for the purchase of American goods. “Such a development would prolong our prosperity for some time to come, because of the manufactured 8 that would be shipped to foreign shores and because of the increased purchasing power of the grain-growing sections of our country that would follow the in creased demand for agricultural prod- uwm on the part of the people across soa” W. Burgess.) PO CLEVELAND PARK $14, SEMI-DETACHED BRICK HOUSES 250 SALE large lving Dorothy Dix’s Letter Box Desperate Husband Whose Wife Has Left Him. Unhappy Mother Whose Young Daughter Has Married a Brute—The Woman Who Married a Failure. DEAR DOROTHY DIX: I am a heartbroken man because I did not realize the real value of my wife and two babies. 1 devoted too much time to business, and did not show them enough real love. 1 was cranky and disagreeable, and one night when I came home I found that my wife had taken the children and gone to her mother, and now they will not let me talk to her or see the bables. No man ever really loved his wife more than I do, and I have written her wcknowledging my fauits, and begging her forgiveness, and promising to do everything possible to make her happy if she will come buck. God knows there is no sacrifice I would not make for her, for I am a man who has been taught a bitter lesson, and I have profitted by it. 1 believe that my wife would forgive me and that she would come back to me if T could only speak with her, and tell her how repentant I am. But her family will not let me have a word with her. They will not even let her receive the letters that I write. Do you not think it is wrong for her family to try to separate us when there is a chance of our making up and being happy together? DESPERATE HUSBAND. Answer: If you have been neglectful and unkind enough to your wife to drive her to the desperate step of taking her children and going back home to her people, you can scarcely expect her family to be particularly regardful of your feelings. Still, they are doing @ very wrong and cruel thing in not giving you a chance to plead vour cause with her, and effect a reconcillation with her, If that is possible. % She knows you better than they do, and she may have faith that you have seen a great light, and are truly repentant, and that you will really turn from the error of your ways. She may even love you still, in spite of the lack of kindness and tenderness. Naturally, w n fathers and mothers see their beloved daughter mistreated by her husband, their first thought is to snatch her away from him, and take her back to the safety of the home nest. And in their rage against him who has hurt and wounded their darling they magnify her wrongs, and do and say all they can to alieniate her from him, and widen the breach between them. It i= not often that you hear of the parents trying to patch up a quarrel between their daughter and her husband. But in their partisanship the parents forget that the woman who leaves even an uncongenlal home trequently jumps out of the frying pan into the fire. For often the parents who influence her to leave her husband have no home to give her, no support to offer her, and the woman finds that the freedom from her husband has also brought freedom to support herself and her children, If fathers and mothers would counsel tieir children to patience and forbearance, many a divorce would be averted. 1f they would act as peace- makers, many an estranged husband and wife would kiss and make up. ¥or it is true that the shock of the fear of losing a wife or husband wakes up many a careless husband or wife and makes them realize of what fceless value is the love they have held so lightly As for a man not being able to get to see his wife, that argues stupldity, & lack of resource. What are lawyers for, and friends who would act as go-betweens? What's the matter with the lover's device of stolen rendezvous? Doesn't love still laugh at locksmiths? DOROTHY DIX. DEAR M DOROTHY DIX: I have a nineteen-year-old daughter who has just been married a fcw months to & man who is so jealous that he has forbidden her to visit her neighbors. He gets just as angry with her when she speaks to a girl as he does when she speaks to a man. He beats her cruelly and tells her that if she tells me he will choke her to death. My daughter is a quiet, zood girl, and never caused me a moment's uneasiness in her life. What should she do? AN UNHAPPY MOTHER. Answer: I dow't see how you could ask such a question. In this day e a woman ix 4 coward and a fool who lets any man mistreat her, and brute to whom she is married just as ana your daughter should leave this Qquickly as she can get her hat on. The idea thata wife has to en at the hands of her husband hele dure either me the old times when n wife was a sluve zud could be treat such. al cruelty is a recoghized cause for divorce all over the civilized wo nd no woman need stand for a beating unless she is of such a hound-dog disposition that she loves a brutal master. 17 more women had the backbone to resent ill treatment from men, we should have better husbands. It is the wives who demand fair play, decent treatment, consideration and civil speech who get them from their husbands, and it is the women who stand for selfishness, for being cursed and knocked about who get that. Many a man who treats his wife any old way would be on his p's and ¢'s if he knew that he would lose a good cook. and a faithful helpmeet, if he didn’t show her the proper consideration. DOROTHY DIX. T\EAR DOROTHY DIX: I am greatly troubled to know whether I did right or wrong about the way 1 treated my husband. I married a man who was never successful in business. We had a family of fine boys and girls, but T always had to work to heip support them. My husband could never make a living, not even enough to supply his own personal needs. Finally my spirit rebelled, and 1 refused to support him any longer. I made him leave the home. and told him to try his luck in another city. That has been several years ago. He is more than fifty years old now, and he is still a faflure. Did T do what a woman of spirit shielded him would have done. or should 1 have and allowed the children to help keep him, too? MOTHER. Answer: 1 don't know. The question of what we should do with these poor, helpless ones who lack energy and initiative is @ problem that troubles many women. Certainly if anything could rouse the latent manhood in a shiftless man, it Is for his wife to shut her door on him and tell him that he must either work or starve. But often the ne'er-do-well is a ne'er-do-well left out of him the qualitics that make for success. He is a weakling who can never learn to stand alone, and all that a woman can do for him fs just to pity him. and care {or him as she would for a little, helpless child. And whether it is any wife's duty to do this or not, only God knows. DOROTHY DIX. just because nature (Copyright, 1928.) Study of Electric Meter Dial Enables Test by Householder The electric meter may be approxi-ergy in 10 x 2 equals 20 watts. In mately checked by the householder four hours theee lgmps will use 4 x without the use of electrical Instru- | 250 €quals 1,000 watt hours, and this y | should cause the index of the dial ments. For this purpose it is only nec- | farthest to the right to advance one essary to note the reading of the division. As it Is not possible to read meter, then turn on a number of lamps | 2, SiPgle division accurately the lamps and mote the time in hours required to ntal or physical torture | may be allowed to run until the index has moved over several divisions. If cause the index of the dial farthest to the right to advance on division. It is necessary to use lamps which are rated in watts, as is done with most incan- descent lamps now. If the meter is a modern one it will have a dial marked “kilowatt hours,” and one division on the dial farthest to the right s a Kkilo- watt hour, which means 1,000 watt hours. Fo® example, if ten lamps each marked 25 watts are lighted at a given time, the rate of using electrical en- more lamps can be turned on or larger lamps used the time required for the test will be reduced. This is an approximate test but will settle the question of whether any large error exists in the meter. To make an accurate test requires portable watt hour meters or other electrical appa- ratus, which is suitable for use only by meter inspectors. 1t is desirable for the householder to read the meter at the time it is read by the meter man and to keep a record of the readings and the dates in order Just Off 16th Street Location, Price and Construction combine to make these New Homes the most attractive on the Market Today. Sample House, 1427 Varnum St. N.W. room, open fireplace; bright dinin % 1 space; splendid kitchen, latest fixtures: 3 1arge Ded: {f:fl«'.\.‘—“fi?;fi&'mnm {lne t oak floors; especially fine ; Instant i H lighting_fixt aneous heater; large lot; These are just a few things that are included in what we conscientiously ‘believe to be thé most charming homes in this section within $2,000 of the price. i Sample House, 3245 38th St. N.W. Open Daily and Sundays—9 A.M. to 6 P.M. 200077 Take Woodley Road bus or Wisconsin Av A ear to Wisconsin d Macomh St., walk weat to 35th and Macomb Sta.; out Woodley Road to 3Sth X Sive B y st, m-ee morth to . TR R, DESCRIPTION- 6 large, spacious rooms, tiled bath and shower, extra shower basement, attic over entire house, oak -floors throuy and builtn ice box, white emamel kitchen cabinet and many other nnusual features. Large concrete front porches, 2 sleeping porches. Deep lot wide alley. Rmhfivean?umimy % To Inspect—Take 14th Street Car to Varnum Street, or Motor Out 16th Street to Varnum ; porch, [ MORRIS CAFRITZ L 12 CG - to have the means of checking the bill rendered by the company. Many up-to- date electric light companies have on display in their public offices and will explain the method of reading: to customers who call and ask for this informatlon. Any user of electricity can usually have his watt-hour meter tested by making application at the office of the electric company. It is advisable to jake such a request elther by letter or by personal application at the offico of the company and not asking the meter reader or bill collector. Most electric light companies are much Interested in keeping their meters accurate and will usually make a test upon any meter in use by a customer upon his complaint and request, if not made too frequently. Well managed companies today make it a practice to test all their meters at regular in- tervals, and, in addition, will make spe- cial tests, when the circumstances war- rant, without charge upon request of their customers. No measuring device can be made which is absolutely accurate. The amount by which it may deviate from rict accuracy and still be considered ommercially correct” is called toler- ance. The usual tolerance for watt- hour meters is 4 per cent; that is, a meter which registers 96 to 104 per cent of the energy passed through it s considered correct. This does not mean that a meter 4 per cent in error would be left in that condition, as the practice of well managed meter depart- ments is to have their meter testers adjust meters found fast or slow until they are within 1 per cent either way. REAL ES DALY’S SALES TOTAL $139,500-FOR WEEK Properties Changing Hands Are in Various Sections of Washington. Sales aggregating $139.300 were announced by Victor R. Daly as fol- lows: Dr. Roscoe D. Pinkett sold prop- erty at 909 U street to Herbert A.| Simon. } Edmond O. Linkens sold 1702 1st street northwest to Lawrence and Annie Holmes. John B. Ginechesi and Preston R. Burch sold 1304 C street southeast to Lawrenee R. DeVille. 1 John L. and Sarah Jenkins sold 213 17th street southeast to Ella F. Gray. John B. Genechesi and Preston It Burch sold 1304 S street southeast to Sarah G. Jenkins. Georgs H. Laleger sold 1610 Ist street northwest to A. H. Cook. Mary Atkinson sold 2827 11th street northwest to Walter Standard and Mary Standard. Virginia Comfort sold 1909 17th TATE. 15 CHALFONTE APARTMENT IS SOLD FOR $115,000 Martin Hall Disposes of Property at 2116 P Street to Local Investor. The Chalfonte, 2116 P street north- | west, a four-story apartment build- ing, " containing twenty-four apart- ments, has just been sold for Martin Hall fo a local investor, for & con- sideration said to be about $115,000 The sale was negotiated by Quinter, Thomas & Co street northwest to A. H. Cook. Evelyn Tucker sold 415 M street northeast to A. H. Cook. A. H. Cook sold 2009 18th street to John Adamson. Jacob Bernstein sold 1017 Buelid street northwest to Sara W. Brown. Lizzie M. Bates sold 1721 4th street northwest to_Adelaide H. Daly. John B. Ginechesi and Preston R Burch sold 1310 C street southeast to Carrie A. Harris. Jacob A, Handy and Olive L. Hand sold 1714 13th street to Josephine Slaughter. Frank Blumer sold 1740 S street northwest to Rev. J. Francis Gregory. J. Francis Gregory =old 420 T streel northwest to Frank Blumer. Walter Standard and Mary Stand- ard sold 1733 15th street to Isatah and Jessiec Penn. We Are Now Ready With Our Newly Built Homes In the Charming Subdivison of Petworth We Invite You to Inspect Them at Once Transportation Now Equal to Any in the City Exceptionally large six-room houses. Good streets and wide paved alleys. Qur prices are right and terms reasonable. INSPECT 205 Varnum St. N.W. Open and Lighted Until 9 P.M. TO INSPECI:—Take 16th St. Bus to Grant Circle or 9th St. car marked “Soldiers’ Home” to 3rd St. N.W. D. J. Dunigan 1319 New York Ave. L Z R . room; open fireplace; dressing room and bu tion, brick and stucco; R Phone M. 4985 V17277777707 LTI LI LIPS PN PA PO IA LI . 2938 Newark St. N.-W. 1, Block West of Connecticut Ave. DESCRIPTION 8 rooms and 3 baths and servant's room; central entrance hall, between living and dining inclosed breakfast und sleeping,porches; large master bedroom with flt-in wardrobe; oak floors first and second floors; slate roof; construc- built-in garage; large porch. Lot 50x100. Price Exceptionally Low Open for Inspection Daily and Sunday—for Value This Home Cannot Be Equalled JOSEPH C. ZIRKLE 77, R T, I Phone Main 1267 e . A Beautiful New Detached Home In Cleveland Park P e T R . R TP 203 Colorado Bldg. RS 7