Evening Star Newspaper, October 30, 1926, Page 24

REAL APARTMENT HOME OWNINGIDEA S 0LD Cliff Dwellers Followed Plan and U. S. Has Had It for Last Forty Years. By ROBERT BATES WARREN National Ci , Co- a BiViston, " Nations Revapasion” i ment al Estate Boards. The idea of “own your own apart- ment home" {s as old as the anclent cliff dwellers. In the United States the plan has been growing by leaps and bounds with the development of corporation law, its origin in this country dating back some 40 years War conditfons brought about the | first co-operative apartment in Wash- ington. Under the Salisbury law and Ball rent act an occupant of an apartment could not be dispossessed by an owner unless that owner re- quired the property for his own per- sonal use. The signing of the armis- tice found thousands of people living in rooming houses and paying high rent for cramped quarters, who were desirous of procuring apartments in various bufldings if possession of those apartments could be obtained. With this situation obtaining, it was concelved that if a building then filled with monthly rental tenants were of- ESTATE. THE EVENING DOWNTOWN WATER PRESSURE CITED AS GRAVE FIRE HAZARD Trade Group Reports Present System Puts Millions in Property in Extreme Danger—Urges New Plan. Millfons of dollars’ worth of Gov-|than half the number have exposed ernment and private property are in-| windows wholly or partially pro- adequately protected from fire be- | tected.” cause of lack of proper pressure in| In urging a high-pressure system the downtown fire mains, says the an- | for the Natlonal Capital the commit- nual report of the committee on in-|tee reported as follows: surance and fire protection of the The Board of Trade, through its Washington Board of Trade. various committees, for 25 years has In quoting from a recent surve been advocating the installation of a the fire hazards of Washington by high-pressure water supply system in tonal Board of Fire Underwriters |the business area of the city as a pro- the report states, “In the congested |tection against fire. The present Com- district the potential hazard is high, | missioners are the first to answer this with 71 per cent of the construction of |appeal by making any active effort joisted brick and largely weak from a |before Congress to bring about this fire-prevention standpoint. The bal- |much needed safeguard to the lives which is of fireproof construc-|and property of our citizens, and at s not a good safeguard, as less |the session of Congress just past ob- - — = 'tained an appropriation to bear the expense of a committee to make a three high-speed elevators, a roof gar-|report an the matter to Congress this den, malds’ rooms, a tailor shop, cen-|coming session. S tral lobby of magnificent proportions,| The committee appointed is as fol- landscaped gardens, hotel service, etc. | lows: George §. Watson, chief engil- - s neer of the Fire Department; Danie Others Enter Field. E. Garges, secretary of the Board of With the practical success of this|Commissioners; George N. Thompson, new form of apartment so clearly | secretary of the bullding code com. demonstrated, other prominent Wash-|mittee of the Department of Com- ington builders took up co-operative|merce; Charles H. Peters, jr., assist. apartment construction and entered [ant engineer, office of pubiic buildings STAR, WASHINGTOX, and fire protection called on Wilfred Kurth, president of the Natlonal Board of Fire Underwriters, in New York and called his attention to the fact that since the last survey of Washington was made the city had nearly doubled in population, which naturally largely increased the con- sumption of water for domestic pur- poses and curtailed the available sup- ply for fighting fires, with the result that a new survey was made by them this Spring and that report is now available for the high-pressure com. mittee, and from which the following is taken: “Pressure taken during the flow D. C. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1926. tests Indicated that pressures were | pounds per square inch, and available | putting in sprinklers and depend upon | “In the congested value district the practically the same as during the in- |supply for engines was only 10,‘22 spectlon in 1916. Upon the completton | Eallons per minute, when & SAOWE Be] quanticy of water avallable in the |: of work now under construction pres-| ireets northwest was even lower, | Congested sures will be about seven pounds|showing 36 pounds pressure and a higher in the gravity service.” The |flow of 8,100 gallons, as against 18, downtown business section of the city, | 000 required. The report contains repeated warn- |sures are only fair” and that “ade- pressure system is sought, is supplied |ings regarding inadequate pressure |quate quantities of water for fire pro- by the gravity system above referred |and insufficlent water, as follows: “In |tection are not obtainable in con- | to, and all the hope they can hold out |the congested value district pressures for which the protection of a high- REAL ESTATE. . value district is insufli- | the construciton and is largely w vention cient. In the summary at the end of the report it Is again noted that ‘pres- for improvements under way is a |are only fair, and are not sufficlent to |at the end, comes the significant |is Slght- small increase in pressure of 7 pounds. | serve sprinkier equipments effectively | statement in regard to the thing that Tests taken at Fourteenth and G |in buildings of moderate height.” |all % streets northwest showed that pres- |This is cold comfort for those who |namely, the conflagration, like Balti-!P sure with hydrants open was only 37 have spent large sums of money in more, Chicago and San Francisco. communities dread the most, On Account of the Rain Last Week We Were Forced to Postpone This OPENING!! them for protection in case of fire. | potential hazard is high,” and in the “Fire flow tests ‘indicate that the |[body of the report gives the reason 2s follows: “Seventy-one per cent o from a fire-pre standpoint. which Is of fireproof construction. not a_ good safeguard, as I | half the number have expo: dows wholly or partially gested value district.”” And then, right | Their efficiency as local five 1: The values involved slon are: property, $48% 800 (Continued on Page Twenty United State fered for sale on the co-operative own- ership plan, the purchasers of the in- dividual sultes would then become owners and, as such, would be entitled under the then existing laws to de mand personal possession of their re- this growing field. and public ‘parks of the National Harry Wardman erected a group | Capital, and David M. Lea. of five modern buildings at First Committee at Work. and M streets northwest, following - e e S Ui This committee is actively at work these shortly with the Clydesdale, on |, (1S Comumittee Is actively at work i i Adams Mill road. Morris Cafritz |; 5 spective apartments. =3 = > - and your committee on insurance and constructed the Porter, at Connectl- | g SO0 SORM e on ‘nsurance and Many Occupants Bought. cut avenue and Perter street, sell- | e Protection de ey o The firm of Allan E. Walker offered | ing the building in record time. Mr. | Bions *5 ShRre ‘K,‘;:i'}',’:‘uf:,.‘,',‘fl;“g’}‘n“;‘é’r several of the bulldings they owned|Cafritz is now mm_ple'.mx an im- Commissioner Col. J. Franklin Bell, for gale on this co-operative plan. It|mense new co-operative structure on|yunder whose jurisdiction the project was found fn numerous cases that the [upper Fourteenth street, known as | will fall, 4nd who was Jargely ineee. occupants themselves purchased the| Hilltop Manor. E. M. Dawson 18 |mental in getting the matter through partments they had been renting, |offering for sale a new building | Congress. realizing that (1) if they did not they |arected by Harry Bralove at the junc- In order to aid the committee on would necessarily be ousted, and (2) [ tlon of Adams Mill road and Ontario | high pressure in its work the chair- It was unq tionably more economic | place. man of your committee on insurance for them to be buying than renting. plice T T T P i S o commitas on insurancs The popularity of this innovation | L2222 277727 72202 2 e L 077 T2, Wi immediate and widespread. Build- 3 Ings sold t in a few weeks; some- Jameson-Built Homes «ffect complete sale to those desiring 2501 to 2829 5th N.E. 18 Sold—Only 3 Left Priced Under $7,000 wecupancy. 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Among the first bufldings to be com- pletely sold on the co-operative own- ership plan were the Kendrick, the Northumberland, Cavanaugh Courts, the Lambert, the Stafford, the Adel- phia, the Avondale, Copley Courts, the Netherlands, Dumbarton Courts und Rutland Courts, New Buildings Offered The conversion of older structures to co-operative ownership having been proven successful, the construction of new buildings for sale as co-operative apartment homes swas pioneered by the firm of M. & R. B. Warren. They first erected the building at 1705 Lanfer place, which was almost en- S rely sold out in 18 da tures; built-in refrigerator; This was quickly followed by a 2 extra large front and double oup of six buildings in Cleveland = ¥ rear porches; laundry tubs; ark, at 3018-3028 Porter street. Some large rear vard to wide alley. innovations were incorporated in e e e that is com- these rtments, including land. 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