Evening Star Newspaper, June 19, 1926, Page 15

REAL ESTATE CAPITAL HAS EXCEPTIONAL © FACILITIES FOR CONVENTIONS Unusual Sightseeing Trips, Numerous Hotels and Ideal Location Cited As Some of City’s Assets. ' BY C. E. LA VIGNE. Fxecutive Director of the Washington | Convention Bureau. | Tt s said of Americans that they | are the greatest travelers of the world. | “See America First” is a familiar slogan, and there should be added | “‘See Your Own Capital First.” It is the ambition of every citizen to sup- plement every other form of education with that of journeys into new neigh harhoods, far and near The convention svstem has hecome a dynamic factor in this movement. Especially during the last 15 vears has convention and tourist traffic de veloped into a hooming. important in expenditures of | | dustry, controlling fitteen millipn or more Americans an nually, on business intent and pleas. ure bent, involving a total volume of commerce and trade designated hy the billion dollar sign. You can’t keep | folks home. This flow of new money | into convention centers is as ceaseless | and constant as that of the historic | Potomac River, expanding on its trip into Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic | Ocean. The value of properly han- dled conventions to any city is indis- | putable. They pay big dividends at | once, in cash, a select circulation from | a special channel outside the regular | and usual assets depended upon for | prosperity and growth in a given place. | Offer Promotion Means, They represent the halance of trade and, in addition, afford the most effec- tive, direct, and rapid method of pro- moting a city. Every one profits. No | matter where convention dollars are first rung up in the ill, they eventu- | ally spread over the entire city | The convention route affords real opportunities to “sell” the city and its wares, to advertise and display its at tractions and virtues as no other sys- tem does. It is the cinema in which visitors see screened all of the activ- | ities of the city which go to create more husiness and greater love for the hest place in the world. The visitor is the most immediate potential prospect for permanent residence—he is the unit upon which to build an increase of population. There are some people, of course, and some cities that do not understand just what this means. They seem to think that convention delegates walk right In, turn around, and walk right out again. Fifty Cities in Field. At least 50 outstanding progressive clties of the United States recognize the industry at its full value. They seek and care for visitors through ery legitimate form of publicity, in- vitation = and entertainment. Hun- dreds of thousands of pieces of liter ature describing their convention fa- cilities are sent out by cities constant- Iy and hundreds of thousands of dele- gates are the reward. | An international association of con- | vention hureaus, with a high standard and code of convention-getting ethics, itself holds an annual convention. Systematic, persistent, high-powered machinery operates in these 50 citles in the business of getting conventions. Financial budgets for operating this machinery vary. from $18000 in | smaller communities up to $157,000 and more in oth This annual financing is g measured today on the basis of ment and not contribution. T eral fact is that dividend returns have heen exceeding large. The steadily in creasing list of citias entering into the competitive market for conventions is proof on the profit side thereof. Washingio n umed place on May 1, 1925. | Forces which come to touch the life of | Washington, which is the heart of our | Nation, touch concurrently its outer- most bounds. at significance | of our Natio al is the impor tance over lif t exercises in the Natlon, especially those lives that have had first-hand opporiunity to analyze the personality and the soul of it, and to discover for themselves its charms, its dignity, its solid worth its City Is National Center. Already the nerve center of our body politic, it is rapidly tending to hecome also the national spiritua! powerhouse, the citadel of finest things in art, science, education and law. With a President of the I'nited ates and his shed des always here and the diplomatic repre entatives of all for n nations, we are concededly in the literary and rocial affa the countr: Washington is destined to grow and 10 hecome not on one of the Natfon's largest cities, as is one of the world's loveliest or need hoom tactic: stantial development and that is the pr growth. With all of practical advantages actu side of the city of Washington, is| thers anything that need he done to | make it America's convention center? | Yes, there is a real responsibility in | this matter resting upon the citizenry of the National Captial which may | take form according to their attitude | as to whether o not they desire the | profitable busi to be secured | through proper effort in the conven. | tion world. | Convention visitors are daily select- | ing for their mesting places those | cities whose representatives are on the | alért in the fleld of invitation, service and action. \Washington has the heautiful, the artistic, the refined and everything that goes to make a good ity. Its convention facilities compare | favorably with all cities of jts size, and with most of the large cities as well. It seems an accurate statement that Washington today has more hotel rooma than any other city in the coun try excepting New York, Chicago and Atlantie City. Meets Big Demands. At the close of a great convention in Washington only recently it was tated by the business manager that he was satisfied that no other city in the country could have met the de. mand any better. There was provided here for that event first-class room reservations, single, double and suites to accommodate more than twelve thousand persons: at least 60 toriums and assembly halls for hour-to-hour assemblies, seating 10 persons up to 6,000 per each: at least 55 banquets, dinners, hreakfasts, and luncheons were han- died at the same time. * Despite these extensive provisions, the facilities of Washington were not wholly exhausted. This brief detail denotes perhaps sufficiently our po sition and resources 1o meet require- ments of great gatherings. In ad- dftion to enumerated facilities, Wash- fngton has attraciions unsurpassed, a refinement_of ent niont and edu. catfon in this direction that cannot he touched upon now. 1 was requested recently to submit briet data to be in- corporated in a letter inviting the members of a national organization to attend their coming convention in Washington. The following was handed to the official of that organi- zaton: - 1. Pilgrimage to Mount Vernon, the tomb' of George Washington, includ- ing a delightful drive 19 miles through Virginia along the stately banks of the , Potomac Rives, stopping at historic Goandde Lbuses wl A dis; is und erable kind hese marvelous ¥ on the | of | Building. New N v the hill WASHINGTON, D. C, LANDSCAPE PLAN OF THE VIRGINIA MODEL HOUS he Zoening STAP s o o o where Washington worshinped and vserved as vestryman 2. Tour to Arlington Cemetery, and Arlington House, the latter once the residence of Gen. Robert E. Lee, from the wide portico of which is a view of Washington City never to be forgotten. In Arling: ton Cemetery one has opportunity to pause with reverence at the tomb of the Unknown Hero of the World War, to view the white marble amphithea ter and through the hallowed acres stroll and drive in silent communion with the memory of many great Amer- icans. National | Many Tours Possible. 3. Sightseeing tours of the National Capital, visiting the most impressive dbuilding on earth, covering 153,000 square feet of ground, the Capitol | Building, including the halls of the o anodfl] e =) " Liacs 27—, A United States Senate, the House nv; Representatives, National Statuary | Hall, and the United States Supreme Court; the Library of Congress, di rectly opposite the Capitol, a ac- | ture having one of the most imposing | AGTIVE IN TULSA buildings for sightseeing, and in addi tion theretd, the Washington Monu- ment, tallest \\_ork of masonry in the Washington Men Did Much at Convention to Ad- vertise Home City. world, the patriarch of obelisks. Then, | in the same setting, the memorial to | Abraham Lincoln, the beautiful ap- | roach, reflecting pool and great fountain—conceded to be all-in-all the finest monument ever erected to the memory of a man. Corcoran Gallery Art, Continental Memorial Hall, | National Red Cross, Freer Gallery of Art, the charming Pan-American | tional Museum are | clustered in review, and the nese cherry blossoms of early April bring | thousands on their own account, The Scottish Rite Temple and the United States Chamber of Commerce Building | attract attention, among other inter.| The esting examples of beautiful architec- | Rea! ure. 4. The Mall, a woodland dotted with | some of the most outstanding build ings and attractions of Washington, skirts famous Pennsylvania avenue with Rontanie Gardens, conserva members of the Washington Association of Real Estate Boards in Tulsa by special played a conspicuous part in the meet- ing, which is considered the largest tories containing large collections of | annual gathering of business men in | been studied with a view to the best | of the entrance wal rare and_ beautiful plants from il |{he' country. parts of the world—a great garden | ation left here June Dt O e S old-a great garden | “The local delegation left here Jun trict. Here are the flower gardens of | }h!e r;\firlcunumri r;‘epanmem, heaut!- | ul beds around the main buildings, | 2 . old and new. Here s the mammoth | oo spe oo o iy e building housing the Bureau of Tn. | gub ¢ graving and Printing, where all the | paper money, Government bonds, reve. nue and postage stamps And many state documents, are p 5. Rock Creek Par 2 acres of natural forest, virtually within A | stone’s throw of the business center, with many miles of driveway through hills and vales and over artistic bridges—aquickly the visitor finds him self transported from the panorama of the city to nature's most charming | hinterland. Many Beautiful Drives, 6. A motor ride through National | Soldiers’ Home, on a hill three miles north ‘of the Capitol—300 acres of woodland and intensive farm stretches ribboned with encircling miniature lak «d imposing build ings. tennis and golf links. Here are meas where g e the finest herds of Holstein cattle in America. The home houses more | than 1,600 men who have served for 20 vears in the United States Army. as of the National Capital from of Soldiers’ Home and of | the Capitol dome by day and by night. | nnot e duplicated elsewhere. 7. The White House, the Weather Observatory. the Bureau, the Naval Army Medical Museum, Fort Myer the Government Printing Office. inci dentally the largest printery in the 1: the Great Falls of the Potomac Zoological Park. the bridle paths that lead a horseman into sightful places only a few minutes’ distance from the business office. the clubs and golf courses. city and country; the motor Ing to the mountains and nearby bat tleflelds over perfect pikes—-there is no end to the diversity of alluring at- | tractions offered by Washington to suit the taste and inclination of all Grouns of the smaller size mestings, numbering 1p to two or three thou sand are planned for and handied through the numerous hotels, a charm of setfing for each event in the many places, aceording to requirements. For the large gatherings the splendid Audi. torfum meets all demands, accommo dating sessions seating six theusand | persons. and in addition exhibit space | approximately forty thousand square | feat of floor space. real estate conditions. John A. Petty | vice president of Shannon & Luchs association. James P. Schick, tary of the Washington Real Estate Board, addressed the secretaries’ di vision at a dinner tendered officials of the various organizations and the sec- retarfes’ banquet. Schick Gives Talk. At the secretarfes’ banquet Mr. Schick made a comprehensive outline of the meaning and the effect of the recent decision of the United States Supreme Court in regard to the case of Buckley vs. Corrigan, which in volved the sale of restricted residen tial property to a colored person This explanation by Mr. Schick of particular interest to the national association, because the members of the local hoard, of which Mr. Schick is secretary, are closer than any other organization to the developments and proceedings in the case. The consen- fine roads of the Supreme Court was the most far-reaching affecting the real estate condition of the entire country in many years. Among the Washingtonians elected to serve in officfal capacity on the va- rious divisions of the national asso- ciation were H. L. Rust, jr., elected to the governmental body of the members assocfation, and Robert Bates War ren, who was elected chalrman of the co-operative apartment section of the national association. The local realtors lost no_opportu- nity in advertising the National Capi- !1al to the city of Tulsa and the 5,000 delegates from all over tha country. The local realtors took with them sev. leral airplane views of Washington, which were displayved in prominent parts of Tulsa and which adequately showed the development of the park system and public buildings of the Natjonal ital. These views at- tracted many hundreds of interested real estate men. These pictures were 5 feet by 6 feet in size. Woodland Drive Sites Massachusetts Park —are becoming steadily more limited. Washingtonians of long standing are continually amazed at the splendid growth in this fine residential community, which includes all that remains of The Triangle of Increasing Values —between Connecticut, Massachusetts and Cathedral avenues. Wooded and rolling sites for individually designed homes are now available, As the firm under whose management this restricted area has been successfully developed into one of the city's fine sections, we are singu- larly prepared to furnish accurate information. Park Office: 32d street and Cathedral avenue. Middaugh & Shannon, Inc. ESTABLISHED 1899 Riggs-Semmes Bldg., Dupont Circle, Potomac 2200 Roofs are Reliable —when they are Rose Roofs HE time to repair a roof is when it shows the first sign of deterioration. The longer you wait, the more serious the trouble and the more elaborate the repairs. If you want to put an end to all roof worries—Rose-ify it. When we put it in con- dition you can put it out of mind—for Rose Roofs are famous for their dependability. The best it always the cheapest, you know—and that applies to Rose Roofs. The cost budgeted for your con- venience. sus of opinion was that this deciston | of the loan division of the | taces almost south to catch the morn- |ing sun ate Roard who returned from ' | the annual convention of the National | most complete, In the development of aq thefr fruit is not tempting in a and spent practically an entire | the week in the conferences and delihera- | prove of interest to every small house marked by a bank covered with evony- tions at_the gatherings which repre- | gwner who has a similar problem and former executive secretary of the | velopment | Washington Real Estate Board, ad-| house in Lee Heights, Va., designed ! dressed the brokers' division, one of | by Ward Brown. architect, for Ruby | the important sections of the national | Lee Minar, builder. executive secre- | | |met in tying such | the street, | teo much was | OLD VIRGINIA GARDEN STYLE l CARRIED OUT AT MODEL HOME Lee Heights Demonstration House Will Have Yard| Bound by White Picket Fence, Backing Tasteful Shrubbery. BY ROSE GREE Landscape Architeet Readers of The Evening Star who have been following The Star's cam: paign for better homes, will be inter- ested, now that the houses are al- thefr grounds. The fact has heen train, on Monday, | FecOgnized that better homes mean {mot only better houses, but better | grounds as well, and each plot has of will use of the land. grounds of The treatment these houses And as the lots are typical of hun | out the country and are practically the | qreds of lots in Washington and its laboratory of the country's | vicinity, the plot plans and a discrip tion of each may be helpful. The plan fllustrated shows the de of the grounds of the The small white frame house is reminiscent of the old Virginia farmhouse type, and it is imperative that this character should be recognized in the grounds. A white picket fence, either painted or whitewashed, fruit trees and a grape arbor, these are features which will make the house feel at home. But a nice problem is met at the out a development to the modern subdivision of which it is a part. It is a street of open lawns, and a white picket fence close to the sidewalk would he unpleasant v abrupt, breaking the vista down and impressing little upon the nelghbors the owner's desire for seclusion and pri- vacy. A compromise is reached by leaving an open public lawn to con form with the rest of the street, screening off with hedge and fence and planting, private living areas at each side of the house. The picket fence, inclosing a private lawn and tylng house and garage together is most effective in the composition. Trees to Be Planted. The public Jawn serves as a setting for the house and an approach to it. | As there are no existing trees, elms may be transplanted to frame the view of the house from the street and to cast desired shade. As the house in dining room &nd porch, some shade will he grateful in Sum mer and the elm tree is particularly desirable because its high branches do not exclude Winter sunshine or Summer breezes. As other shade trees are needed, trees of denser, A ~May Be Purchased on Rent-Like—~— lower, foliage, further away from the house, and as space on the private |lawn is at a premium, apple trees {are also planted close o the street, | with the hope that out of five trees {the boys of the neighborhood will |leave enough fruit for the family Quince trees are also planted in front | the. finer and pears fruits are se raw state, but peaches, plums clhuded. A low planting of ground junipers | marks inconspicuously the beginning | . which, as it ap- | | proaches ' the house, mounts three steps to a narrow grass terrace by the { front door. The front of the terrace is mus, an evergreen vine which makes a much more interesting ground cover for banks than grass, and by a pair of English vews, fanking the steps and making a dignifled setting for the | front door. 1If a good pair of yews is | selected, and if the lilacs, in which the | bank ends at each*side. are plants of | some size, the planting against the house itself will be subsidiary, teria by the front-door, a clematis or | climbing roses on the porch and a low | shrub or two by the corner of the house. Fence Accentuates Shrubbery. From the grass terrace steps lead | down to an inclosed lawn, where flow- ering shrubs are more effective be cause of the white picket fence over which they lean. Because of the screen made by fence and shrubs this lawn may serve as an outdoor living | area. The service vard is neatly tuck | ed away behind the garage and kitch en, where clothes lines may he hung | without offense, and a service en- | trance is provided back of the garage | The service yard Is cut off from the space on which the north windows of the living room face by a high lattice, which is coverad with grape vines, and it is further screened by the fact that it is lower. The grape lattice is at the top of the little bank with steps | leading down through it. The lower level of private lawn and of service yard makes possible a per- fect lighting of the cellar with win- | dows above grade, But the window in | the furnace room must have an area, |as it comes within the space com- | manded by the living room windows, where the ground is higher. The slight sacrifice of light in the furnace room is more than justified by the im- proved view from the living room. ' As these are the only windows in the liv ing room their outjook is important. Each window looks down a grass path. The space may be used as seed beds to start flowers, or may he treat- ed as a little open lawn, with early {James P. Schick Preparing | Fan | win REALTY EDUCATION PLANS BEING MADE for Course at Y. M. | undoubtedly 15 HOME & GARDEN DISTRICT IS EXPERIENCING ENORMOUS BUILDING BOOM Projected Government and Private Work Promises to Put Washington Near Hea;l of Nation in Building Construction. 7 With the tremendous bullding | $5.260,285, of which $936385 was fo boom that is now taking place ir the | 'epairs/ The Northwest section ah- private construction . industry here | *2rhed; $3.264.810 of the total amount And the projected work to be started |east fumning. eocond. with & total af this vear for the Federal Government | $442 860. A total of 636 new pro under the terms of the Federal build M.,,f started and 31 buildings ings bill, the National Capital will | yazefy 5 be the hub of the na e following table indicates tional construction Industry for |tvpe and cost of construction in some time to come. | Distriet in May Last month Washington stood | B seventh among the leading cities of Trpe. the country in point of building con struction, exclusive of any F contracts. Passing over the $: 000 authorized for expenditure on huildings to house United States Gov- |f; ernment activities, private contracts ;g o e let for the erection of residential and.; o commercial structures in the Districif| = far surpass anything in the comy | b munity's history. Tl were, the thel Number. BRICK Value wellings | Repairs | ¢Apartments s staitons Office Buildings Numerous. Apartment house and office buildég constructions, together with stores gnd hotels, have heen remarkahle. Hagddly a block In the downtown husipiess section and other populous cejters of Washington is lacking in evigience ‘nl some building enterprise. pa ad dition to this there are many projects of considerable size to be startwd this vear that have not vet buay:n an | | nounced. Real estate / STOX CONCRETE. Dwellings . Repairs 4 | Apartments . fiarages Store men, buildars and financlers report that with the rapid disposition of honds in tfie great financial centers, almost af: fast as they are issued, the inves'fng public is placing large sums of ={rplus cap ital in real estate and ssonstruction projects. The Natlonal Aapital, be cause of its stable marjet and the permanency of its pon-industrial Dwellings Repairs . Garages ores 400, 10 000 i arages | Sheds ... 26.960 300 C. A. School. Preparations are heing made b: James P. Schick, executive secretary of the Washington Real Estate Board, for the regular educational program | each | real | carried! out weekly The usial which 1s and Winter. estate course will he given at the Y. M. C. A. school. This course last vear attracted a considerable number of the interested public as well as members of the real estate profession. A series of forum lectures by ex perts in various phases of real estate and civic development is also being arranged for the members of the hoard. These will be held at arrangements made last vear. An addition to the regular educational features of the local real estate board is now belng considered. This will he an entirely new type of course and involve the establishment of a school for appraisals. This school will be open to the general public for | the teaching of expert appraisal meth- ods. While no definite place has been arranged where this course will be held, negotiations are being carried on to obtain tHe Y. M. C. A. School. | Spring bulbs among the grass. The grass terrace in front of the house is continued on the west side, where it overlooks the flower garden This west grass terrace will serve as an overflow from the porch, and will he found a comfortable living room on days when the wmrmth of the sun is grateful. If it is desired as a Summer shelter from the sun, a tree may be planted on the terrace for shade. From hoth porch and terrace the flower gar- den, up two steps, is spread out, with only a low bank, covered with sprawl- ing roses, dividing it from the terrace. The sides and back of the garden are heltered by a privet hedge, against which the flowers are twice as effec tive. against the hedge and the center of the garden is left in open lawn. ter- minating in an arbor of grapes, which makes a delightful Summer house. It a vegetable garden is desired’by the purchaser of the house he may leave the garden path which the porch commands, bordering it on each side with flowers, like a fong, narrow gar den, and using the rest of the area as a vegetable garden. PLACE to live and enjoy living—a green lawn—shrub- bery—shade trees—a detached home of distinctiveness— a charming -interior that radiates happiness—comp letely appointed—and best of all, the finest location in town. Art Bungalows Terms as Lot 500 CASH AT MANOR PARK % ON 14th ST. CAR LINE To Inspect Sunday—Drive out Georgia Ave. to Ritten- house St.—east on Rittenhouse St. to Fourth St., sowh on Fourth one block to Quacken- bos, or take Fourteenth St. car marked “Takoma”—get off at Third and Quackenbos, walk one-half block west. o1 TERRELL AND 1206 18th St. v as And Easy Monthly Payments AT CHILLUM CASTLE HEIGHTS To Inspect—Drive out New Hampshire Avenue to Blair Road, north on Blair Road one block to homes. 3 squares from 4th Street car line. LITTLE, INC Main 3285 Evening Phones: Adams 3215-W—Adams 2503-] the | Wardman Park Hotel similar to the | The flowers are kept in beds | population, its rapidly increasing | use as a distribution pmint for large {concerns shipping to #ne North and | 1o the South, It attralctiveness as a esidentlal center. and/ its nse as the seat of the United #States Govern ment, is proving an attractive invest ment field. / Dwellings Repairs . 263,910 30,360 2000 11,050 310 { | | Motors Liberal Sunpli of Capital. ; Elevators 207,400 29,365 Insurance congpanies, financial - { honses, private i?'\ssvm‘s and other $6.260,2 moneved interest:f all over the coun- try are sending ‘/n liheral supplies of capital to be inv psted in local real es- : - BIRMINGHAM, ALA., WINS e hite last momth was not as zrest | CONTEST AT CONVENTION in volume as April, when more than | £8,000,000 woath of new bulldings | Tre atartod f the e o aineR| Birmingham, Al.; of 20 cittes i | several millicj dollars ahead of the | the United States, was most attrae: ‘ref;\rd m::‘ldmg_ enr{otll "'.r W iy | tively pertrayed as a home town, rom the point of view of the vari- | . ; 3 ous bullding trades Washington has | “cP the representatives of 20 real been . vepy desirable location and | °State boards competed in the five: minute home town spech contest cone will becomfe even more so when the great Fegeral bulding program is| ducted at the annual convention of started. The District Government the National Association of Real has also 'supplied ample work in its Estate Boards just concluded at recent :Areet widenings and other | Tulsa, Okla. operatiuns in cénnection with the im- | = Robert Bell of Birmingham. repre- provement of the National Capital senting the Birmingham hoard, de- The jarchitects in general report | livered the five-minute speech that | constdprable activity in their offices won the.award. Baltimore, Md., rep- resented by Harry Gilbert, wak and feverything points to a ver | prosperous future for the construction | given mecond place, and the Little Rack, ‘Ark., real estate hoard with J industry in Washington. Comatruction in May amounted ‘tn | K. Rntherford as orator, won third. 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