Evening Star Newspaper, January 28, 1928, Page 17

NEW D. C. BUILDING PROJECTS i Exceeds $2.500.000—Several Large Operations Are Announc:d. BY DON S. WARREN. (lots 813 and 817 2653); 1o cos .| 350 sction enterprises in the Dis- | w0 B qo v , trict of Columbia have made 8 good land builder: to erec start for the new year despite the v al n‘\\;‘lax“ 419 Atlant buildi ities during "“Mw"w:;“““ and the con- | o ATEECAD ! SRaenoh "'""“"fd”,‘“ Wick Rosengarten Co., 8 AESe han | (0 erect o -story brick and con Al O N ans [crete stare by . 1121 _Fifth Y e | ot and square 514); t e an< | 74000 been @ s owner, des » 1-st cet to cost Inc Const sont S600 acti owiters o lor Inc. builders Tiffe erect fou to 415 Ogleth square ¢ past week A attracted ot heast 2203 Georgia to cost 3002 and builder erect Locke, ow south of the e Wardman Labor Supply Ample. le these mew projects. in addition © new Federal Government opera- now being started. will provide oyment for employes in the build- \ndustry. & survey of the labor situ- ton here shows already an excess ""\:ber of rkers who are flocking to Washington seeking attractive emp: ment in the National Capital. B It is pointed out by observers that the present supply of constructi Tkers here is greater than the exist- emand for those now here. this situation probably wil prl;\:\.il for some time In view of tt fact, sggestions are to be sent 1o other cities stating that there is no pre « peed for more members of the building s, for fear of creatir ent condition here. Local build- it is announced. are well supplied ent workers, and it 1s empha« at the great Federal bu rogT being started slowly in piece D fachion 55 _appropriations and sites beceme available | east 7,000 Construction of 22 dwellings of vari- | Penn Oil C: ©us types. 1o be located in scattered se tions of the city. isqprovided in build- ing permits issued this week by Col John W. Oehmann. building inspector. The total cost of the houses will be in| excess of $150,000. Pl also have been - on of a sto! 125.000. to be located st corner of Fourteenth garage, square John that Jarchitect { repairs, 17 | square 151) William Park. owner erect one street (lot 23, squar S. W La | worth Co.. dest repair fire ¢ architect ot 808, Ten Houses Provided. D. C. Gruver, ownur and George T. § e ten 2-story v | Huidekoper pace (lots 1052 ! square 1301); to cost $60.000 Minnie J. Richards, 0 Mullett & Co.. architects; 1 McKay. builders: to make repairs 07 D street (lot 800, square 407), 1.000. m Muskake. and builder: to erect thre 1308 V street southeast (lots are 5774), to cost $1.000 B. Huntt, own architect make b prroved. 1l new projects roved dur u l»?:pi 000. Permits were issued as fol- Corporation, . architect building for one 2-story_brick 2 and H & owner. to_cost $125,000 Bernard E. Bowles. owner and butld- to erect of 69 avenue er Tep northeast st $1.100 ories Co s, archi 1434 Otis street northeast (lot 10 cost $5.000. Fred Kogod. owner and builder: 1o Inc, make repairs, 824 Seventh street north- tects Jot 38, sguare 469); to cost $2.000 ary ocery Co., Inc., owne: architects: Warren c: 0 5,680 to make repairs, 1921 B L Lo L northeast (lot 4, square 3614) dll Co. brick P 3 strect 2 square 4003) L, = owners n 2 m B. A Ford, b n \der o ers; 1o erect one garage, 1253 Tw 13 and 1 e 50 A M builder G ma o erect teenth Conducted for The Star BY FLIZABETH STETSON AND GENEVIEVE HENDRICKS VIEVE. HENDRICKS, in the old re rare opport g Dur and 189 i eolc g th ROUSES Juye] bath. To re 4 skeleton the room sU w a room and the MAKE GOOD START FOR 1528 . Total Value of January Work to Date‘ Davis, one erect one 4449 competition which 15 occurring in those 57-18 (lots 040 s in i thie | the v The Znenin %iaf SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1928, ome HasModern Interior New England quel H | Structure Plan for | 1928 Domicile. 'TWO TERRACES ADD | UNUSUAL FEATURES t Slcup;ng Porch and Largc Living and Dining Rooms Provided. BY L. PORT TOORE, dont Home Owners' Institute, e the comfortable arly New England home is plan, No. 289-5. by H. Roy Kelle chiteet, of Los Anj presents an interesting and extreme! modern in- terfor layout. in which generous room combines with highly developed 1 to_provide livable and homelike | The exterior, in wide soft pine symmetrically pierced for win- dow and door openings, is a stud the harmonious balance of line color_that accentuates the dignity the Colozial style. This design was selected for publi- of tion from more than 350 small house ’N\ Dl 217 jJV 2 289-5 entered in an architectural com- petition this year under the prize com- | petition rules of the American Insti- | of Architects. The architects who | are: Arthur L delphia, ch hiteet, of T. Lindeberg. York City: Her Ripley, fellow I A. of Boston; wnk B. Meade, fellow A. L A. of . and Erncst John Russell, | . I A., of St. Louis. | Warm Weather Aids. | front and rear and an | are warm ortable living: the inclosed for Win- : The large living and dining rooms have eross lon and light these same qualities are extended four upper fio feeling of the ar very acces- doubled | close-to-1 home, ar 1 makes sible. Tts worth would be easil: the width the few feet | ars From Home-Owners Convrisht Institute. 10N HOME & GARDEN | 17 IREALTORS’ PRESIDENT SEES U. S. AS URBAN COMMUNITY NATION Hieatt Cites Vast Change in Conditions of Country. Due Largely to Realty Development. Bringing increased importance to the , and its trends real estate business of the country,|build a literature the United States in the past few | would open tk years has become a nation predomi- | of leaders to th mantly urban rather than rural, C. C. | fellows T {ieatt, president of the ional Asso- enulatio clation; of Real Estate Boards, which | [ceuiation has a membership of 666 realty boards 0 real estate and 24412 indiv members, de- developing clared this wee ddressing the ar I mid-Winter meeting of the as fon at Houston, Tex Before several thousand realtor: | all parts of the United S ing a local delegation hea Miller, president of the i Real Estate Board, Mr. Hicatt d | current real e: lopments problems and rev tivities of the n | Urban Communities Gain. | “We have 1921, a time in real cs | areas of the cou | tremendor become n said. in part “Our N has passed over a great The census shows it a nation predominant stead a nation communities piling our cit tacular rapidit. given peoj In real est “In the last boards have com ness of what c the most intell resources a vast bod: ace bes try have real estate n within these to deduct for oL apartm Massachusetts Park to make it accomodate two = h more and more families =5 i Adequate Electric necessary cars. wh are_buying The house would well incorporate many of the appointments which go | far to make up the charm and con- ence of the modernly equipped ng | The pian is an excellent example of | pentic cesign, with oaly those modi- | ©s which stamp it a modern prod- I way of convenient eqaip- been such houses as this » set the pattern for simple tectu design which a thousand and one Ameri- Paul Revere shouted many_shapes moonlight of Its pleas fore adequate electric Wiring is an ative need in modern h to- Improper wiring causes needless ousands of dollars’ loss by fire, multiplies the “ffort of the hou in properlv maintaining her home it causes a great deal of current A few dollars added to the contra electrical wiring will be repaid tenfold ded convenience and security.” statements come directly from W whose duty it is to pass upon application for the York ard of Fire Underwriters' approval of home wiring installations He is J. C Forsyth, supervising engincer of the electrical bureau of the board ar we found upon invest e fires were di rectly attriby ctrical souree: he said. “We found that improper maintenance of electrical apparatus and inipe ESSENTIAL IN BUILDING roful Construction Held cially Necessary in Invest- ment Structures. Espe- tion that used a preponderant num Of a total loss of $2 caused by these fires, only $15.113 repre- sents the loss caused b ments d by previous inspection to be in actory condition. It must also be embered that these fizures only rep- resent those fires directly attributable ectricity. In countless numbers o cases, improper maintenance and ex- tensions caused fires which destroved their own evidence of electrical or “The most prolific source of t dangerous fires in the home s the flex- ible cord or wire, usually of inadequate carrying capacity. so frequently used to supplement_existing outlets. The ordi- nary No. 18 wire can carry safely a current of about three amperes without heating. As an instance of how fre quently this cord is taxed bevond its capacity, we see many appliancies 1 toasters supplied with current from one of these cords. When the load is dou- bled or tripled, as it frequently is by using @ dual socket arrangement, phe tems ¢ Economy of production is insistently these fires. demanded not only in mercantile lines bu> in the production of housing as v C. C. Moore, vice president of the Amcrican Bond & Mortgage Co., sald - The economy movement has gained much impetus through the tremendous where distribution as well as pro- 1 18 a prominent factor stion of the problem is of impor . likewise more difficult, in the bullding industry than in other iines, due to the fact that there is with the owner who builds for stment a different problem of dis- tribution than that found in mercantile problem here s of renting and bu The economies to be e fected within the field of | product The ., however, certain_econo- | mics in the production of housing | which may be pointed out and which, | | 4 possible of adoption. should be of the | reatest benefit, not only to contractors, | heat generated in the wire may be suffi- but t labor as well These in turn will | cient to set its insulation afire. If the ultimately benefit the public cord breaks into flame at some point | ntractors bave found that the | Which touches Inflammable material t practice in securing contracts is to | like woodwork, we have the proper set- y only for those contfacts which ap- | Ung for u fire pear likely to be secured; to spend con | “This does not take into account the iderable mone and concentration on | current waste dissipated in the form of tng those. rather than of adopting | heat even when that nest is not suf- © of going after & large num- | ficent to start_a_fire _ %he_appliance ber of contracts which are not logical e e et 4 larde | KENWOOD SUBDIVISION DEVELOPMENT IS STARTED et of contracts, but do not bid for | Construction was started this weck on the first home to be located n the newly-laid-out Kenwood subdivision, 200-acre tract located west of Somerset south of Bradley lane and north of River road, the Kennedy-Chamberlin Development Co., the owners, #h- nounced today The house, to of Kennedy driv nue, 15 the fiest o for. the total bullding cost of which will run Lo approximately 250 000 The house will be of English archi tectural destgn — Thiy dwelling, as all others Lo be bullt i Kenwood, 1t 1s stated, will huve as an unusual feature i fist-floor bise of reinforeed conerete tstend of wooden 101t et which the g will be la lines the utmost ing mostly / interesting how from 1 of civilization the fire- been closely interwoven with progre After savagery gave ¥y Lo Inte i caves and tents sundoned for homes, the hearth- an altar wround which da ng sentiments of and allection nd home d ha be loc ane d at the corner Chamberlin nve became aners hiyve itly planned cler-giving feature they aure placing vings tooms b ron 1d bedrooms. Even podern office the fireplace with mantel rad welcome room not « T manitel y Wesley Beiahts The lncomparable Community Here your home will be set i scenery painted by nature’s own hand and preserved i its animitable artistioness by such protect lations controlling further develop ment that for all time its beauty will he pre my served and ats charming exclusiveness peipet uated You can buy with safety in The Garden Spot of Washington, I o G eventeenth Stree nd A. N, Miller 1o Main 1790 W group contracted | Wiving b Calld - | Imperative Need in Modern Homes The 1922 | name of Sandoz, using the cord of insufficient carrying sapacity is deprived of some of the cur- rent required for its proper operation while the cord itself radiates this waste energy in the form of heat. “When extensions are necessary, great care should be taken by the amateur electrician to see that the wire is of proper capacity and that it is well in- sulated from inflammable material circle. “Another matter to be considered 15 s of insurance rates Unnecessarv make rates higher, an added bur- flowe) den of expense which proper wiring 'den and proper maintenance would obviate.” States each month president of the M. Hudgins, s Albert serve, secretary CO-OPERATIVE OWNERSHIP J. Meyer of and Capt. Clifford P. Meyer, U. S. M. C, retired, manager of | the insurance department of the firm are located at 2 Dupont Sandoz Co. Incorporates. ! real estate firm Sandoz. which was established here in recently incorporated under Inc. ! Frank L. Sandcz, U concern McCoy Jones, first vice president econd vice preside Lieut. C. s nt the Cavalry More than $200.000 worth of are being sent from th rict of Germa of Frani the dr. N, retired, is Harvey Joh Ma R The offices L et $10, veme: L il Call for Literature and List of Over 300 Purchasers Middaugh & Sharnon, Inc. ESTARLISHED 1899 1435 K St. N.W. AVE half of what you spend cach month in rent, and en- joy your own apartment home in the heart of fine old Cleveland Park. You will like this attractively designed and well constructed building, where every apartment is a corner home with OPEN DALY ARK A7 YRS W i i O R A G i1 i U 3020 PORTER STREET One Square West of Connect wt deenue ! peiations two exposures! Your and environment are of the best, and yvou have a lower monthly up- Lkeep than can be found elsewhere in Washington. Garages are avail- able for those who desire them. Y our inspection and inqui cordially welcomed! 10 AN 10 9 P Lparement homes of veception hall, living voom, one or fwo bedroomy, kitchen alcove, S3Noo at Yol o N M. & R. Pioweer Kuildery of CoOperative diving and bath 87800 month to 3. WARREN Lparimenis in B akings Oftice on Premises Phone Cleveland 2