Evening Star Newspaper, April 5, 1924, Page 15

REAL ESTATE. REAL ESTATE THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1924 . WESTERN CANADA SEEN | [BUSINESS BODIES OF U. S. ON WAY TO PROSPERITY IN BETTER HOMES MOVE {A Distinctive Design With For First Time in Four Years Business Now Is| Conyenient Floor Plan |Active Co-Operation Sought in Effort to Reach Looking Up in Dominion Provinces, 25,000,000 Americans and Assure Suc- Babson Declares. cessful Week, May 11-18. The Wee Little House of I Your Dreams | BY RO LBABSON Wostern rocover GER W, BABSON, PARK, ¥l Canada wa more and more a tourist mecca, and the 1923 travel was much greater April than ever before and helped the re- the slowest to tall trade substantially. The increas- <t “ ing popularity of the fur-farnfing in- POSL-WAr SUmD.-| gysiryis startling. The fur farms in or the first time in four years busi- strictions, problem t from the larger ho The tiny home, with its many re- is perhaps the hardest he architect has to solve. Proportions that combine well in the se to make beautiful lines The active co-operation of every chamber of commerce in the United States is sought for the better homes in America movement. . Better homes In America, now or- ganized on a permanent and purely trust that vou will apply gies in securing a demonstration for your community by volunteering to act as secretary of the committee and by co-operating with the committee wherever it may need your help. We hope, also, that you will use your in- this province incre. *d 216 per cent in Dess s now looking up in this great | the vear 1 23. rl{.ncm»r, even here i it e . | the outlook is relatively 'poor. Like A brief summary of the|gng “other prairie provinces,” Manis iR the smaller TiouRe’ SG; wishy Snall prese tuation as indicated by cur-) toba’s building activity has been | Fouses are box-like and without those TNt ptatisies i heipful in under-] mally in increasini the number of | pleasing lines that make it “a little standing this situation residential buildings and road work| g o, o programs. Reports for twelve months | differen e Slitxe uieleo SinSin e Increase of Business, of 1923 show that the valué of build- | house to clothe an unusually con- Vusiness in British Columbia is bet- | K permits in Manitoba amounted to | venient interior with a bit more tor today than at this time for some | bout §12,000,000. ot Qignificd exterior than the average. ars previous. Agricultural condi- Chicago of Canada. With proper landscaping you will tions are good; the fruit crop was| Yot when considering Manitoba it . e i fuiri mining is more active ‘and fish- | o Vet g : find this a most attractive home. ns satistactory. —There are a®10uld mot be forgotten that the| 'y '4.”y¢ styeco on frame, with number of public” buildings undcr | province contains the “Chicago of 1 Jb 18 O Staceo o 5 & GHoht Dalt construction. The construction of Canada.” I refer to the city of Win- X wharves and warehousing facilities | nipex. Business is slightly better 1y | timber construction of chestnut in- Inaanpauyer represents the Jargest| Winnipeg than it was @ veur azo and | troduced. 1t would be interesting to single building program in the prov-{should fontinue to improve quring the | o 5% ki i Ince. Building operations throughout | next twelve months, Winnipek is | lare thiy,Stucco & del e e the west have been above average|not dependent upon any ohe province. | SOLO%. YRl e, Dalf, Umber of Jith m preponderance of contracta In [t ixithe great distributiny Polnt far| aor. ans seihl sen oo e win: British Columbin, The program in- | this entire empire. As western Can. | Jow $no, PO™h supports; the win- ludee the construction of larger plers {ada prospers, so must WInnipeg| Joll iiallaed Biue oith ay Of.3 \ ake care of ship-berth require- | prosper. lland blue, . & movement of westbound grain; | is unfort in developing ill-w yeHow: he 8 ngles, cou sir the movement of westbound g unate in developing ill-will] 5o/ 0N cate green’ and' prvmes Could 1he spanning of the Sccond Narrows between the people on opposite sides | be Gelicate an interesting sense of with a traffic bridge and the building | of the border: but whether the effect | 1*041 S'¥e a0 Interesting” sense of @ dry dock at North Vancouver.|will ultimately be more beneficlal to| E3ture: 2ad Che, tretiises up each program is extensive and pre-| the United States or Canada is still & | Sonaoh Siae’ o rhe id be Painted ts w more active situation for the | question. L 8ts Dite; oc whits 1t The feans oes obacco brown. ming vear. Acting under the flexible provis f % The or fly in the ointment is th of the tariff act on the The floor plan has been simplified close to the bathroom—these are real attitude of labor. The longshoremen’s | Tariff - Commission’s inquis zree for economy. For | €conomles. There is a little porch the living and dining pithe tichen, and ihe s are one. But to avoid confusion Ry ace n:’v“‘]‘wl oo A e o Jarke pantry 18 | foe of use for the kitchen service, H." Goodwin, _vice president” of the box, and doorways to shut away the |-A£ain, it is worth considering that Chamber of 'Commerce of the United kitchen. It would be possible to con- | €Ven with the s rict economy thers States, ‘Chambers of commerce sup- vert this pantry into a little break- | 8 @ living porch. he American peo- porting the better homes demonstra- fast alcove, bui in the long run the [Ple are growing more and more to tions were more numerous in 1923 pantry would be more useful, both desir hu!duflvr living every month in than in 1922, and this appeal is made to the kitchen and to the living and | the year. You will notice, too, a to you in the hope that you will ac- dining room space. window between the bedrooms and tively co-operate in the 1924 cam- ary, when 574 dwellings at tion of $2,131,000 swere permitted The total of dwellings was the high est, with ngle exception, to be permitted in any one the history of the city, as . b1 records show. Dwelling permits in August, 1 totaled fluence whenever culled upon to keep become entirely out of the question non-commercial basis, in its cum-|the movement frea from domination palgns' in the past two years has re- by special interests he emphasis gsiamd Biibh halpittom cnxmbersiar] [ SH MOk ke o Houses or foraish: ; s ances, important though commerce in the many hundreds of these may be, but on thé Imprmi, communities where better homes | ment of the quality of tha home, For have been demonstrated. An organ- | this is essentially a civic movement ized effort. is now being made to| “1f You do this, the chairman will reach every one of the 25,000,000 | fecl encouraged in accepting and you : American familles in . the United | Will help to assure the tuccess of the States to help make their homes | demonstration. more comfortable, more beautiful, s R o, e B DING PROJECTS SET HIGH RECORD local chamber of commerce in Amer- Sperial Dispatch to The Star. ica is urged to put its shoulder to the wheel for this important work. BALTIMORE, April §.—Building operations in Baltimore during March “Better Homes in America” has been organized on a permanent basis represented a valuation of $6,233,820, compared with $3,644,520 during the as a public service organization, and has been incorporated under the laws same month last year, and setting a new high record, since the peak of of the state of Delaware. Success in Every State. war-time munition plant building here. In 1923 the better homes campalgn was successful in every state, and nearly twice as many communities as in 1922 conducted demonstrations. In each state in the Union small villages and rural communities, as well as large cities, held demonstrations. The total attendance amounted to more than 2,000,000 people. e belleve the local chamber of com-| The total contrasts with $4, merce has in this movement a unique i e highe: int portunity to elevate the whole | or APTil o plane of our home life, Herbert | Feached last year, and with $5,918,75¢ Hoover stated in a letter to Elliott | for December, 1922, An advance for last $88,220, in comparison with the pre- ceding month, when the total $3,345,600, was registered Home Construction. Home construction, representing 574 dwellings in the old ‘city and new an- nex valued at $2,185.000, equaled building of this class of construetior ated by permits issue and convenience come first. They are essentials. After these we have tried to study economy in every detail and arrangement. You will find the range back of the living room fireplace and the sink strike has hurt shipping in Van- couver, Victoria and New Westmin- #ter. The printers and compositol have caused considerable trouble, while in most trades thers i an un- der current of labor unrest which is Dot favorabie to real prosperity. Wheat Crop Good. chief product of Alberta is ident of the United States ordered an increase of 26 cents a hundred pounds in the duty on wheat flour, and a d crease of 50 pe: cent in the ad vi- lorem rate on mill feeds. New Rates on Wheat. The new rates on wheat will be 42 cents per bushel as compared with the present rate of 30 cents: the new wheat and the 1923 crop was very|rate on flour will be $1.04 per hu (tis Those who ure engaged dred pounds as compared with i mixing farming and dairying have ! cents and the rate on mill feed will | j, also done well. Building is fairly ac-{be 7% per cent ad valorem as against : coal mining is making better|15 per cent. rds and new industries are con-| The increase will become effective Iy starting up. Thes in time to be applied to the flood of jons have resulted in a Canadian wheat which descends on ening of retail trade, a strengthening | the United States about the middle of the banking situation and a better | April each year, with the opening of feeling throughout the province. Cal- | navigation on the Great Lake month of §: was The b o sive, | Porch—this could be cut down into a paign. | Those participet a Atk that Snans " of " the | French door it desired . That both industry and eammerss conveniences of the larger house have | In so small a house as this it is were benefited by the general stand been safeguarded in this small plan, | Wise to keep one general color scheme ard of citizenship. It served to unite You will notice that, small as it is, | TURNINg through the rooms. For in- men and women and the commercial | there is a large fireplace, a vestibule | Stance, make the woodwork in living |and civic forces in common purpose. which shuts the entrance door v | room .A;nl’)l..-d;:*mm:-)an:l the h‘(_(l:\ ::a‘ll! ‘ fd. BeoRtinG OF iHe nupumr" Lpbaet from the living room (xr?r privacy ey S Bive o Lersd of va«:v H ed support for the organizations gary and Edmonton are still compet- The advance in rates was sought|though small, shuts away the bed- light would be kood, gE vine le v‘x”\ | ter-homes week' for 1924, We jug for first place; but Mcdicine Hat | to aid particularly the hard wheat | rooms from 'the living and dining | Datural color. ThoD aainofince ooiar 8nd Lethbridie are good cities. It| growers of the northwest, but the ., and the bath, is still farther | NOtes in the c Sia 08 and Iuks tosult seems almost ridiculous to treat these ! resultant increase in the price of ¥, at the extreme end of the little | YOuT Nl“h""‘} R run asth haliate great provinces with only a few| spring wheat is expected to be re- | hall. A S e Rl T Words ef comment, but they are so| flected in the market quotations on| In many of the less expensive e D T O T e rocasts. | wonter wheat ralsed in the middle|houses the front door opens right into | bullder. For further information as one to hesitate in making forecasts.| western and other states, the living room, bedrooms open into | 13 41 Procuring of fhe bullyng plans Haaknicheman Slswer: costs 5 Gemts more. b5 paise oaane | nin ot vas T 300 (R | Sumpea and-self-nddressed snvolops 5 i s 42 s e to raise a bushel | living roo s gives e smalles Sxtate Ex e S Although Saskatchew S o lum: | of Wheat and $1.04 more to Droduce | Space in the house, without fireplace | to the Real Estate Editor of ;‘”" Star. evvering 5o rapidly 2 s = 1 b o z. comf. (Copyright, George Matthew Adams.) Tia and Alberta, it is coming along| 180 Pounds of flour in the Unite r proper lighting. Here comfort prrig Brotincs el rosuriionsli o8 £ood | WARN AGAINST MISUSE |PLAN COMPETENCY TEST “OF MISSION FURNITURE| FOR REALTOR MEMBERS PIOVINGE WAk DEOBOE '« ‘ana ofl | situation, entirely forgetting that thu s farther west, flour mills and Ol Ubrico ‘of ‘wheat is matel in Liveiooq! Ind building i¢ active. The best op- { JUSt what will happen no one can tell STt Jortunitics are said to be in Saska-| Western Canada i tined to be- | agricultural | Mission furniture was first used in | Passing a competency test will be a little frame church in California |required for membership in the Michi- As a reaction to some of the ornate, |gan Reéal Estate Association, accord- fantastically carved light old furni- |ing to a plan now being considered by 3 ; brince . Albert, | come the great wheat field of the|cd s to force such a. tariff policy o And R rtitord, Nork. Western hemisphere. Nothing chy|ASuinst a peaceful nelghbor. | The ture that was then commonplace, it [the association. The membership! TO BUILD SWIMMING POOL. really seemed, with its innocent sim- | A swimming pool for home pur- a e | Babsonchart of Busin in Canada r and obert, however, should | Stop such a development. A tariff g 2 ‘v“z‘ and k Kuhnrxlx P last. | on wheat may result in a source of | today shows activity at 5 per cent be- committee of the association, at the | plicity, to claim a certain beauty | instruction of its executive board, iS chasers who formed the Cleveland and was entirely suitable in its west- [now d Park Club will be constructed at Reno | Massachusetts Note the spaciousness yet compactness of this livable and atzractive plan. Alchough dll on one floor, the sleeping quarters are quite cut off from the liv- | P l ing room. | ng methods and still further re- > prices. I am very sorry to see onr interests 80 ~short-sight- tion, the standard of real estate boards for admission to their membership. The Madison, Wis. Estate Board is the first orga within the national association quire applicants for membership tc pass an entrance examination to show professional competenc: The Triangle of Increasing Values —between Connecticut Ave., Massachusetts Ave. and Woodley Road (Cathedral Ave.). Over five million feet of land sold. Over 150 homes from $15,000 to $200,800 built and under con- struction. Actual improvements and home values exceea $5,450,000.- Wooded villa sites, lots, central and side hall homes, with lots from 50 to 115 feet front. Park Office, 32d and Cathedral Ave. (Woodley Road). Illustrated book, with names of purchasers, mailed on request. Middaugh & Shannon, Inc. Established 1899 Riggs-Semmes Bldg., Dupont Circle, Potomac 2200 Member Washington Real Estate Board. The Western Pine Manufacturers' estate values have re- | income for the United States govern- | 10w normal while' business in the T o o o sy 7s fonlmsut dur Wil not e I United States is at 3 per cent above rs ago, and families are still emi- ' Wheat crop of the states any more| DOrmal. the provinee is coming along very | the sugar crop. Furthermore, such b well—slowly but surely. a tariff does two things: drawing up a tentative set of "he crops in southern Mnnimm} 1. The tariff forces the Canadian[Association wires from Portland, | ern environm |questions suitable for such a test. 4 wore v unsatisfactory this year.;farmers to fight just so much more [Oreg., that compared With the bre- |~ Wien mission furniture is used, no| Movement throughout the National|road and Highland avenue this sum- The unseasonableness of the summer | keenly for foreign ma eding week forty identical mills | attempt at daintiness should be made L i A to| mer by the Wire Concrete Foundation ! establish standards for admission to = 2 ok rrports, however, are more encourdg: | states they will send abroad, which |with no change in shipments, and an | weave and not transparent. Accom. |{he practice of real estate, now recog. | COMPADY, it was announced toda ing, and a 30 to 40 per cent p has ' will hurt correspondingly e for-fincrease of 10 per cent in production. | panying colors should be coarse. Do- |nized as entailing responsibilities to heen harvested in many places where eign markets of United S farm- | The western pine mills produced 7,- | mestic rugs are more suitable than |the community comparable to those|Wire Foundation Company that it has a total loss was reported in carly ers. 000.000 feet more than for the same|orientals, which are rather related |of professions such as that of the|completed the foundation work for, bulletins. General business conditions The tarif compels th the apartment of Charles D). Sager, of ‘western Canada to located at MAssachusetts and Wiscon- ient: adopt the very sin avenues. ’ krating to more southern climes. Yet; than a tariff on sugar would increase |Association of Real Estate Boards to ruined man; the crops. The final they are prevented from how “increased orders of 14 per cent, | Window hangings should be ef o Announcement is made also by the rmers | week last year, while orders were |with the past and have nothing in |engineer and the architect, has are 5 to 10 per cent b last year's more (3,000,000 feet less, shipments showing | common with strictly western modern |brought with it 2 movement to make latest labor- labout the same difference: | equipment. definite, by some entrance qualifica- average. The province is ng Beautifully Designed Dunigan-Built Homes Best Locations-- Columbia Park oderately Priced-Liberal Terius 14th Street Highlands NEARLY ALL SOLD On 14th St. Car Line $7,950 Real Values Predominate Here 6 Large Rooms and Bath Deep Lots—Concrete Alley Many Unusual Features Added to These Homes to Save You Time and Money Exhibit Home 7th and Ingraham Sts To Inspect Take 14th Street car 'marked “Takoma” to 7th and Kennedy Streets northwest, walk'south; or 9th Street car to Ingraham Street northwest, walk eas{. Transportation best in the ecity. $13,250 Buys a Home Where Values Are Best Inspect 5404 13th St. N.W. (13th and Jefferson Sts. N.W.) In This Charming Subdivision Around the Corner From Grant Circle | Extra Large, Six Rooms and Bath - 200 to 212 Webster St. N.W. Nearly All Sold Homes That Meet Your Every Desire 4 Fine Bedrooms—2 Up-to-Date Baths Extra Large Living and Dining Room Well Arranged Kitchen, One-Piece Sink Outside Pantry, Attic, Concrete Porch Improved Alley Lots of Wall Space, Good Height to Ceilings, Beautiful Floors - To Inspect Take 16th St. bus, marked .“Iowa Ave. and Grant Cir.cle.,” to' Webster St., or 9th St. car, marked “Soldiers’ Home,” to 3rd and Upshur, and walk north to Webster St.