Evening Star Newspaper, September 11, 1926, Page 15

REAL ESTATE. D.C. BUILDING GAIN "> 2= WRNY Seried. | Radio station WRNY, atop the Hotel Roosevelt, in New York, an Exceeded Only by Albany in August Report of 256 | Leading Cities. ‘Washington during August showed | the second greatest building gain over & stmilar period a yvear ago in a list of 2§ of the larger cities whose build Ing permits have been tabulated and compared by the S. W. Straus Co. The National Capital's gain was alightly more than $3,000,000, while that of the leading city, Albany, was | about $3,100.000. The figures com’ pared were the totals arrived at by adding the valuations of the various projects for which permits were is. sued. Only 15 Show Gains. Only 15 of the 25 leading cities showed building gains. They were, in eddition to the two mentioned, Chi. cago. Baltimore. Cleveland, Pitts- hurgh, San Francisco, Milwaukee, Jdarsey City, White Plains, Seattle, New Haven. Jacksonville, Oklahoma City and Providence Auguet building permit reports re- | ceived from 443 cities showed a de cline of 8 per cent from August, 1925 and a 3 per'cent gain from July this vear. 1In viaw of the fact that the Tuly building reports throughout the country showed a loss of 11 per cent. he August figures appear to indicate that bullding generally I& not slowing down at a rate which is likely to have an appreciable effect upon the build- ing industry as a whole. The volume of building, in faci. is being main tained on A plane which should pro- vide ample work for all of the avail able skilled mechanics in the bullding traden, ths Straus companv states. | The total for the 443 cities in \ugust was $367,149,292, compared wwith $40. 41 in August, 1925, and $355.828,203 in July this year. 20 Per Cent Loss in New York. A loss of 20 per cent in New York City was due entirely to a slowing down in Manhattan borough. which was 53 per cent behind August, 1925 Chicago's August gain was about $3. 000,000 and the city had a gain of nearly $9,000,000 over July this year. Detroft's August loss was only about £1.000,000. Philadelphia had a neg- ligible loss from August, but a de cline of about $3.000,000 from July this vear. Jacksonville led the 25 leading building cities of the South, with a gain of more than S0 per cent over August last vear. but the State of Florida showed a loss of 57 per cent KENTUCKY REALTOR DIES. Thomas Bohannan Was on Vaca- tion Trip With Party in Canada. | Thomas Bohannan of Louisville ast president of the Louisville Real state Board and for many years a national committeeman for the Na- tional Association of Real Estate | Boards. died Monday evening, August 30, at Hartley Bay, Ontario. according (] to word received here this week, Mr. Bohannan, with a number of other members of the Loulsville Real Estate Board, had been spending a | vacation at their Summer camp, Camp Kaintuck, in the wilds of Can- | h. was caused by 2 SECTION 2 NOW OPEN continuing nounces a novel feature beginning Friday evening. Septembder 17, and | thereatter every ~other metropolis. His experiences provide & Largest and Most Complete Six-Room Homes ip Petworth at This Price! Inspect Them Tonight or Sunday. Open Until 9 P.M. 7th & Emerson Sts. N.W. 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