Evening Star Newspaper, January 5, 1924, Page 16

TIMORE HOUSING HORTAGE NEAR END 000 Dwellings Built in 1923 and 6,000 More Planned for 1924. Special Dispateh to The Star. BALTIMORE. January 5.—This city is now catching up with the housing shortage. In the last year there were 4.000 dwellings built, tnostly of the block type. and in the coming year about 6.000 more are projected. Figures recently compiled by the local . buflding inspector's office show that more than 50 per cent of con- struction in 1823 in Baltimore was for homes, The average cost per one-family house in Baltimore in 1923 was $4,208, while the average estimated cost for the same type of home in 1921 was $3.967. The increase has been caused, officials say, by the high cost of build- ing materials, which have been on the vise during the last two vears, and the increasing climb of wages of skilled labor. GALLI-CURCI TRIUMPHS, SINGS FINAL IN CHICAGO Closes Seven Years With Opera Company, Scoring Greatest Success of Whole Career. By the Associated Pr 3 CHICAGO, January b.—Responding to curtain calls by the dozens, Mme. Amelita Galli-Cur coloratura So- prano of the Chicago Clvic Opera Company, last night made her final appearance And scored her greatest artistic triumph with the company. The opera star, who announced sev- eral weeks ago that she would never sing again with the Chicago Company after the company officfals had in- sisted that she make her debut in “Lakme,"” “when she preferred “Di- norah.” - made her final appearance Jast night {n “Romeo and ,Jullet. Mme. Galli-Curel was visibly moved Ly the trémendous ovation and dur- ing the performance issued a state- ment to the Chicago public. In this statement she said that the reception zccorded her by opera- goers was in great contrast to that accorded. by the opera management, which she declared had never been back stage or spoken to her during her Chicago engagement. Mme. Galli- Curci, whe.closed seven years asso- ciation with Chicago opera when the curtain went down, and who was said to be the greatest box office attrac- tion the company ever had, has made plans for European engagement next fall —_——————— GRAIN FREIGHT RATE CUT OPPOSED AT HEARING Witnesses Befcre I. C. C. in At- lanta Say Reduction Would Hurt Southern Farmer. By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, January 5—Taking of testimony by the Interstate Com- merce Commission hearing represent- atives of southeastern carriers and farmers on the question of the advis- ability of lowering grain rates from the west, was expected to be com- pleted here today. The hearing be- gan last Thursday. Most of the withesses appearing be- fore the commission opposed the pro- posed reduction in rates, contending that the lowering of the rates would tend to discourage the diversifica- tion of crops and in other ways work & hardship upon the southern farmer. The Alabama farm bureau will ask the Interstate Commerce Commission to grant grain rate reductions in the south if a reduction in the western Tate is made in order to preserve the present relationship between the two mections, M. M. Caskie, head of the transportation division of the bureau, apnounced last night. —_— S. M. VAUCLAIN REFUSES PART IN BOK PEACE PLAN By the Assoc PHILADELPHIA, January Vauclain, president of the Baldwin Locomotive Worls, declined the invitation of Mayor Moore to | n of the committee of the Bok peace award, in a letter made public last night. Thanking the mayor for his offer, Mr. Vauclain declared that his busi- ness “is to make locomotives, not to run side show watisfled to let peopls who are elected 10 jobs run the government, and pressed himself as opposed to practice of outsiders trying to government officials how to run country. PHOTOGRAPH SERVICE. A real cstate photographic service is maintained by the Atlantic City Tteal Estate Board, a report to the National Association of Real Estate THoards states. The service enables realtors to use photographs in ad- vertising at the minimum of expense and trouble. 5. -—Same 2266 CATHEDRAL AVE. Just East of Comn. Ave. Facing Rock Creek Park “Unusually attractive home, with side lot. An unexcelled location, where homes are rarely available. Six bedrooms, 1ight and com- fortable, with 2 baths. Also a maid’s room and bath. Entire ;xouso screened. Garage on rear ot. This home is priced consid- erably under cost of reproduc- tion. ~ Terms are most reason- able. Your Realtor or MIDDAUGH & SHANNON Tncorporat Main €935 Established 1899 1225-1227 Conn. Ave. Substantial Improvements . ALL OCCUPIED SHORT LEASES 40 Ft. Frontage $85,000 Thomas J. Fisher 738 15th St. N.W. .Of Various Enamel paint and varnish colors are two distinct preparations The former is produced by grinding a pigment in an enamel varnish, which may be further reduced with varnish and a small quantity of turpentine. The enamel may be white, or be tinted with color. A varnish color consists of varnish colored with a pigment, or color, but no body is given it as with enamel paint, the purpose being merely to produce a colored var- nish. Enamel painting is usually done on a soft white wood, which gives a better finish than other woods, though with care a good finish may be secured on woods as unpromising as cypress. To make a first-class job on white wood the foundation has to be made. with several well smoothed coats of flat ‘White paint metimes as many as a dozen coats will be But this {s exceptional, though for even an ordinarily good job there should be several coats given before applying the enamel paint. Special Enamels Made. White enamel paint must not con- tain oll, which will color yellow in a brief time. Either pale copal or da- mar varnish may be used. There is an enamel white made expressly for refrigerators, for interior parts, and this does not turn yellow. It is made from hardened damar gum and is 2 very hard, lustrous enamel. Factory-made enamel paint usually needs to be thinned some before using {to cause it to flow well and level-up smooth. Use turpentine for this pur- pose, though this liquid has the un- desirable effect of slightly flatting the finish when a luster is_desired, but may be rendered less so by using a little benzine with it. Add benzine very slowly and stir well. Marine enamel, as its name indi- cates, is made to withstand water, and s, therefore, useful for coating | Philadelphia | For applied. | __A. T. Seymour, assistant attorney general, has just moved Into this recently completed home, at 3ist street and | Woodland drive. It is sald to be almost a replica of his home at Columbus, Ohid: Methods of A pplyiflg Enamels Kinds Outlined with enamel such articles as bath- tubs, sinks, water pails and every- {ing or piace sublect to moistufe. Neither hot nor cold water affects it, and when it has been baked on it will withstand submersion in salt or fresh water for months without becoming+soft or otherwise affected. Satin Finieh Provided. There s a “satin-finish" enamel that dries to a satinlike surface which resembles polished {vory, and in time becomes as hard as Ivory. It may be used on either interior or ex- terior surfaces. But for general ex- terfor work, such as stone fronts, camp furniture, etc., the regular ex- terior enamel does. The enameling with paint of any surtace, wood, stone, brick, plaster, wall board, etc.,, demands, first of all, a solid, smooth surface. After that it matters little what the material is that the coating is applied to, though it should be observed that the character of the material is to be considered. For example, a material as flexible as wall board, which in many cases is simply thick paper, will demand a paint that is itself flexible or elas- tic, fit to yleld to any alteration in the texture of the ground, be it con- || traction or expansion. So llkewise with thin metal surfaces of all sort But enamel paint is an elastic liquid ||}l when dry, sufficient for most coat- ings, and when not so a liftle cam- || phor gum will help it, or use Venice turpentnie. For exterior work the enamel paint should be a quick drier and to contract and expand with the changes of temperature or weather without cracking. But exterior e amels are made to dry a little slows than interfor enamels, because a lit- tle ofl has to be added to the former || in the manufacture, in order to give th;{m the desired elagticity. ere Inspect at Once Jameson-| Homes ‘When you inspect the many features in these homes at 1010 to 1016 C St. S.E. SAMPLE HOUSE 1014 C st S.E. ~you are convinced you have seen nothing to compare with these at the price asked. Only two squares from beau- tiful Lincoln Park. Six large rooms, tile bath, hot-water heat, electric lights, cement front porch, kitchen porch, large sleeping porch, beantiful fiving room and din- ing room, kitchen with one- piece sink, built-in ice box and many other extra features, Built.| In Garages Sold on Easy Terms Thos. A. Jameson Co. =y 906 New York Avenue If You Believe in the United States—You Believe in, Washington! : Business Properties Sale "17th Street Near K Street 0,000. Only $2,50 32,600 first trust for three in second trust payable $125 per month, . . Eye Street Near 17th Another property in First Commercial Zone. Splendid location physician or dentist. Lot 20 feet wide with substantial briok improvements. Can be readily remodeled. Price low for imme- On Connecticut' Avenue e sale, South of Dupont Circle. 55-ft. fron ‘with fm susceptible to alterations. Values are "fi?y en! cm'l.:“tfi: new store bulldings street. 4 maker at $30 per square foot belng eregted In same block. Money In Second Commercial Zone An unusual opportunity to secure ground in residential section suitable busin for garage, service station, laundry, warehouse or other purpose permitted in the second Commercial Zone. A e purchase at $2 per square foot. . R sive a| hard surface, vet be elastic enough || is where the manufacturer || has trouble in making the tight enamel, || REALTOBS DIVIDE WORK. Divisional orgapization within mem- ber boards of the National Assoclation of Real Estate Boards continues to ex- tend. The Detroit real estate’ board has adopted a divielonal plan. with | the brokers' diviston as the first to| function. The Boston real estate ex- | change has a division organigation. one that will be elastic without being oily, for in this case the finlsh would be too soft, while If the enamel I not thus made clastic there is danger of its cracking In enameling the rule is to have each coat a little harder than the ceeding coat, whils the coat upon which the enamel is to go should not be porous but hard. If enamel does not flow out easily add a tablespoonful of coal oll to tha galion of paint. Or thin out with bensine. This will not injure the 1 while It tends to the avoid- Camphorated turpen- y be made by dlesolving two ounces of gum camphor in a gallon itine, | SEISMOGRAPH RECORD ' or%nu“‘smess SOUGHT Setting up the. us for selsmographio record of what is §o ing on month by month in the bysi- n condition of the United States as-reflected in-the buying and ul'll.n‘ of ‘Teal estate.is the purposs of an n this week the lovasuiaption hepun "of Real Hatate lishment of ;.':{’ pol:‘t“:r for. business activity as 2, red. for and by real eatate activity *(is the first purpose of the {nvi tiom. To'get this quantitative inde: the ‘aseocintion 1y esking the 0o-op eration of county recorders In 100 representative citl ecords of the number of real es tate transfers and conveyances each month as shown by the official records will .be e: ned over & pe- ‘ears -extending back ta 1910 of thess numbers will accurate & base as can found from which to measure the degreo of fluctuation above or below the normal of ‘the business activity of any period oF: Auy Year as in_real estate movement. The investigation will help to give real estate and all large branches o American bustness affected” by it .or affecting it a solld factual ‘ground- work for estimating business trends, officers of the assocfation point out. Data on numbers of transfers and convevances made will be correlated with bullding statistics and other available information to get at as ful information. as possible of market conditions and indications in each pe- riod surveyed by the association. BALTIMORE BUILDING A dige tablish. DAY, JANUARY SAYS HUGHES FEARS . 70 RECOGNIZE SOVIET Stekloft- Deolares He Has Found Real Reason for “Haughty” Refusal. DUE TO CLAIMS OF U. 8. Insists Secretary Realises h:bfiiw to Back Them. By the Associated Prese, MOBCOW, January 5, —Commenting on- published extracts from the sen- atoriel report on Russia’s debt to America, M. Stekloff, editor of Iaves- tia, writes in yesterday's issu “Becretary Hughes' haughty refusal of M. Tehitcherin's offer to negotiate on a mutusl basis now is explained, as behind his melodramatic pose Mr. Hughes hides his hopelessness to make out & case against Russia’s counter-claim. Mr. Hughes intends to demand payments from the Rus. sian people for value which Russia has not received from America but which the American rulers’ wast squandered of thelr own free Russia’s accou M. Stekloff further A PERMITS SHOW GAIN Total for 1923 Was $46,988,000, Increase of $2,788,340 Over 1922. Special Dispateh to The St ‘ BALTIMORE, January Permits issued in 1923.by the building inspec- tor's office totaled 346,988,000, an in- crease of over $2,788.340 over 1922, when the total was $44,199.660. Home construction was the outatanding fea- ture of bullding last year. The December report of the bulld- ing fnspector shows a totel valuation of $3,629,160, compared with $3.329,- 540 for November, and with $6,919,780 for the month of December, 192; BOYS ADMIT GEM THEFTS. $1,000 Jewels Recovered—30 to 40 Homes Robbed. RUTHERFORD, N. J.. Jan Diamond rings and jeweliry vi more than $1,000 have been recovered by police as a result of the arrest of James Bright, fifteen, and his brother, Edward, eleven. The bovs told police they had robbed between thirty ond forty heuses during the past month. Both were carrying pistols when ar- rested. i Expecting to be “shot and killed" ooner or later, the elder boy carried identification card, so ‘that hir ody might be sent home, he said. FARRAGUT Open and Lighted Until 8:30 P.M. TERMS REASONABLE N. L. SANSBURY CO., Inc. “Everything in Real Estate” 1418 Eye Street N.W. Members of Washington Real Estate Board > = i ST. AT 9th | QUALITY HOMES Beautifully Finished and Priced Right | | | >R < o ‘, | No. 4915 9th Street N.W. | Six large bright rooms and tiled bath; hot- | water heat, electric light; hardwood floors; con- crete front porch and large breakfast porch. Daily and Sunday Phones Main 5903-4 Six farge and spacieus roéms. First floor containy recep- tion hall, living room, dining room with French doors leading out on back porch. Kitchen equipped with white enameled cabinet, one-piece porcelain sink and drainboard and outside pantry; service porch, Second floor: Three large bedrooms, each with large closets; extra with buijlt-in- fixtures. linen closet in hall; tiled bath Master bedroom,~11x19 feet.. Double rear porches are 10 feet wide and extend full length of house. To taspect: Take any Ninth strect car to Georgla avenue and Decatur street; 'llmhl.fi:‘ east to property—or phome fled the United States that it did not | recognize Prof. Bakhmeeff and warn- ed American banks that all on his checks were illegal, The editor continues: “Secretary Hughes yments goes further b L b ¥ ‘ REAL ESTATE. than any of the ultra-reactionary ‘European governments. These ary willing to annul the war dehts and do not even dare to demand that Russia pompensate them for the costs of their fntervention and their support of the White Guards, while Mr. Hug] wishes us to compensate America for the cost of its support of' Kolchak and the others. “Sooner or later Mr. Hughes will have to agree to negotiate on a mu- tual basis, and will seriously have to take into consideration our coun- ter claims for America’s intervening in our internal affairs. Just completely redecorated. Immediate I Phone for condition. on reasonable terms. |! 1430 K St. N.W. TWINS KILLED BY AUTO.. I e T § Ten-Yedr-0ld Boys {n Cart 'fh Driver Turns OnJ. A MOUNT HOLLY, N. J, Jas) 2 —Run over by an automobile, mnm and Edward Swain, ten-year-old twin wons of Charles Swalin, wers killed yesterday. The boys were in a play wagon that was being pushed by & companion. DY | Mrs. Harry Turner, driver of t automobile, “said the wagon: w pushed directly ih her path as she turned to pass another automobile: 'Two Exceptional Homes | Priced Low 1327 21st Street N.W., $16,000 Price reduced for quick sale. Attractive nine-room and two- bath house, containing all modern improvements, with garage. Possession Inspection 3201 18th Street N.W., $24,000 Beautiful ten-room and two-bath corner house; all outside rooms. Hardwood floors throughout; garage, etc. In excellent Must be seen to be appreciated. Can be purchased . One of the most attractive and substantial houses in this exclusive section WARDMAN ain 4190 3243 and 3245 38th St. N.W. . CLEVELAND PARK $14,250 Where else in this beautiful stction can you buy a semi-detached brick home at such a price? Exteriors with real individuality. Surrounded by fine homes. Close to car line and Woodley Road bus. Paved street. Large Hving room—open fireplace. Adhflllfl'}‘ofllwnhvalm Three bedrooms—and enclesed porch. Bath and extra lavatory on second floor. Bullt-in refrigerator. Instantancous water heater. Finest obtainable Decoratlons that harmonize. . lumbing fixtures. - Just a few -of the things that make” thebe réal homPs. You will concede their value now. An inspection will allow you to appreciate, their charm. Open To Inspect: Take W Road bus or Wisconsin Ave. walk we:'?:y.‘stll and Macomb Sts.; or drive out Woodley Road to 38th St., thence north 46 Macomb St. WM. S. PHILLIPS inspect take 14th Street car Sh:;orflsmtarb the city, Daily and REALTOR—BUILDER Sunday—9°A.M: to 6 P:M. 2 car to Wisconsin Ave..and Macomb St., 15th St. at K N.W. On 14th Street Car Line Our Terms Will Interest You Kitchen furnished with complete sink, enamel’ top nl?le, white enamel ice box and large cabinet. Exhibit House, 643 Ingraham Street N.W. Open and Lighted Until 9 P.M. marked Takoma \Park to 7th and Kennedy Ingrabam S treet, walk east. Transportation best in ,i3]9 New York Ave. Phone Main 1267 -.