Evening Star Newspaper, September 5, 1925, Page 17

REAL ESTATE. 17 will come into the not simply be- but because they REAL 'ESTATE. BEAUTY OF GARAGE OFTEN OVERLOOKED Building, Little Thought of, May Be Made Asset t0 | homes ara sonsigorsd commets i i | they have a garage, and the owner ’ ated A | who builds wisely will eventually find ion and shipmer Any Home. | himself a profitable inves 1 would | notable gain in new bus; il {advise that it be made fireproof, es-|Pared with reports from { to the |the preceding week. ,(rml ses.were noted in all three rison with the same pe) THE EVENING INCREASES IN LUMBER SHIPMENTS ARE SHOWN Soft Wood Mills’ Production | Gained in Last Week of August, Report Indicates. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1925. WARNING SOUNDED HERE AGAINST OVERBUILDING TO HOUSE POPULATION (Continued from Thirteenth Page.) “Beginning with July, 1926, I can-|that more people not draw customers from the large | market who will buy reservolr of buyers created by the|cause they must buy war's influx of people into W esire to own a hom . ton. I can build only for th If this js done, there i3 no reason srowth of the clty—11,000 each y T building should not and must so manufactur not extraordinary, |and so conduc pine and West Coast mills at the end other. of last week amounted to 620,430,308 feet as against 633,268,320 feet for 247 mills the previous week. The 135 identical Southern pine mills in_the group showed unfilled orders of 266, 309,318 feet last week, as against 260,- 933,574 feet for the week before. For {the 114 West Coast mills the unfilled jorders were 363,120,990 feet, as against 372,334,746 feet for 112 mills a week earlier. Altogether the 367 comparably re- | porting mills had_shipments 98 per cent and orders 103 per cent of actual production. For the Southern pine mills these percentages were respec- tiveiy 107 and 115, and for the West | f Coast mills, 96 and 106. Il I Of the reporting mills, 358 (having production for' the week of 87 feet) gave actual produc- 107 per cent, shipments, 106 |per cent, and orders, 111 per cent RGE I B“ I IN(;S | thereof. i . ; servant LA oty s In ad-|ould not be seen. Thu contented, for the irden house d teminated ief view i Copyright, Many men who made millions during and immediately after the war went broke in 1921. rybody knows why. They failed to pay attention to unmistakable signs which said “Pull_up. Beginning not later than next Spring, it is doubtful if the market will ab- sorh over 4,000 housing units a year. Either builders will voluntarily return to such a is or market conditions will force them to do so. We have some shor of, but this one thought stamped indelibly in the every builder: The owner, should can rent half of hi most any time. On the other hand, he .\\Hl have plenty of room for a work- | bench, storage for garden tools, etc. should he net desire to kecp two car In building a garage the own will profit from his investment by consulting an architect, who will give valuable advice in composing a de- sign that will best suit the house and add to its charm, and, in consequence, its value. It is impossible to buy r made garages that will make a sle unit to add to the home. Few present situation that need worry any- body, provided reasonable care and ordinary common sense are exe d at once. “Boom” and “bust” begin with the same letter and have other similarities. One often follows the Z Reports received by the National Lumber Manufacturers' As | from 367 of the larger soft wood mills of the country for the week ended ated slight increase: ce to take care | should be mind of JAMESON-BUILT HOMES! 1734 to 1744 D St. S.E. 51 SOLD Priced at Less Than $7,000 Easy Terms ithin the r pecially if house. attached directly BY HENRY J. McGII Member of New York Chapt ican Institute of Architects. Amer- AS Servants’ Homes. \ | On large estates garages are com bined to advantage with clubrooms, danceroom less | homes, than | dit has lag- | “That 1s, from | they are built in the ground in front stand- |of the home, which, in this 1 a per- | usually loc: Indeed, is said that the Emperor Nero ge looked | Spent the equivalent in modern cur- served as rency of over $150,000 in providing the end of his |roses to shower on his guests and to dignified manner cover the couches and floors at a sin- by Hamilton M. Wright.) | gle banquet. CHARMING NEW HOMES FIRST TIME OFFERED Located At 2808 to 2816 12th St. N.E.- Main 371 12th and Girard—Brookland he doors facing in the oppe Near Rhode Island Ave. s s ion_of his windows. so they | 5 = DESCRIPTION: Six-room and fully-sereened rete_porches, 5 od floors, up and down stairs; built-in bathtubs; Pittsburg automatic hot-water storage heaters. this man | It cae d inWas EASTERN TLRRACE Formerly Associated with the Buick Factory Branch and Emerson and Orme always rround pas leading direct from the base- - of the barn |ment of the house to the garage. I recall an oceasion in which a garage indirectly contributed to the | »piness of a man who had looked a solution to a perplexing problem many v The front windows | house ov ked a weed-filled | » 100 feet long on the opposite of the street He bought the lot n and developed it into r garden. He then ze at the extreme oppo- | " ANNOUNCES HIS ASSOCIATION WITH WILLIAM K. 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