Evening Star Newspaper, January 28, 1928, Page 19

REAL ESTATE. THE EVENING STAR, TWASTIINGTON, D. €, SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1928. REAL ES TATE. 17 -CEORGETOWN ADDS. mmmwwmm{ New Structure, Soon to Open,’ Will Provide 100 Addi- tional Beds. Completion of the new five-story ad-| on to the Georgetown University Hospital, providing for 100 additional hospital beds, marks the first step taken by the university authorities looking to the establishment of an enlarged medi- cal center adjoining the campus grounds in Georgetown. This new brick building: erected at a cost in_excess 50.000, fronts on Thirty-fifth street and Prospect avenue and makes the Georgetown institution one of the largest hospitals in Washing- ton. Arrangeme! are being made for its formal opening at an early date. The building makes provision for the adm:nistrative offices of the entire in- stitution and additional quarters ar clinics for the Geo Medie School A board of experts made study of the largest and finest hospitals in the United States and applied the best features of this ¥ in the new unit here. Has New Style Equipment. The Georgetown authorities have de- parted Irom the customary whiteness o interior hospital furnishings and have equipped the building in a manner that gives to the s and private rooms a touch of “home" atmosphere. Espect designed furr own as the *Georgetown_suf is s the rooms. nstead of the u: § ling even tables, is of mal 1 white. pplied for all | a d URGES .S, TASKS | BFGIVN JBLESS Secretary Work Suggests Federal Projects Be Pushed During Depressions. Special Dispatch to The Star. BADEN, Ind., January 28 nsorship of & means to ef- Federal economics and to forestall ds of unemployment was advanced by Secretary Work in a letter presented at the ninth annual meeting of the As- sociated C Contractors of Amer- ica, hold al session here today. | dressed T Washmgton, D. C.. geners | the Contractors’ Association, supports legislation now before Congress which | proposes consolidation of architectural. | nd_engineering activities | onal Government now sat- | tered among 28 Federal agencics. Urges Centralization. | ralization of these activities | be most advantageous, as it able the Federal Government | ge share of its construction | ds of approaching business which would serve as a stabilizing influence and at the same time would permit the Government to execute its work at a lower cost and to nt to large numbers of Id otherwise be unem- men plove Work declared. would e STUDIO LIVING ROOM IN OLD ENGLISH DESIGN S0 - R R T R g | More than 3.000.000 workmen will re- ceive employment this vear in the con- struction industry, leading builders from s of the country agreed yester- healthy employ condition is o4 it was OLD COLONIAL HOME HERE HAS FEATURE | delightful sense of which | times. lold Welsh dressers. With its shelves |an old candle chandelier such as mighg | | filled with gleaming pewter. it assumes | have hung from a baronial hall in olden | antiquity dds much to the beauty of the apart- ; The room has a minimum of furni- | Elsewhere in the dining room and | ure in it. There is notaing useless Amendment of State consti REAL ESTATE LEADER SEES UNITED STATES AS URBAN COUNTRY __(Continued from Eighteenth Page.) erty for taxatlon, separation of the sources of State and local tax revenue, and State taxation of intangible per- sonalty, together, we believe wedge toward tax equalization. “Realtors of the ate of Washing have this year won submission of & con stitutional amendment for tax cl turn an allowance for this futuse liabil- | cation.” Kansas and Virginis ity. | have such provision. 1il “The McFadden banking act enables | arc asking for it national anks for the first time to i ? make five-year loans on bosh urban and Befters Appraisals: Seen, farm real estate. Some $1.181.000.000 | “Four long strides toward better ap- is expected thus to be made available praisals were made, as follows for real estate investment. “1. As tandard appraisa ificate has Uniform Morigage Act. drafted for central business prop- “A uniform State mortgage act was The standard formy Lists every adopted by the national conference of | fact and factor necded for the making commissioners on uniform State laws | Of @ Proper judgment of valuation y and indorsed by the American Bar Asso- A special appraisal division ha ciation. Uniform State laws will en- | been created in which e able investment capital piled up in one | ed in givir State to be drawn upon for real estate investment in other States. “The United States Supreme Court in a case argued befor t by the National ate Boards sus- al estate license are e systems. tutions to permit classification of prop il | ods or sharing in the experience of 55 15 invited to becol . A brief course in real praisal methods has been d arranged so that it may bé A tate ap- tained the California act. The decision is a notable victory for the principle of license legislation in | a real estate board class, or 5o that that it specifically upheld the provision, | dividuals may take course now found in the laws of a number of | er the na ciation’ States, making one act sufficient to The U of bring a broker under license require- ment. Twenty-two States and one Canadian province now have such la “Our newly anized States council | is now considering pivotal points upon which State real estate groups may best concentrate in a concerted national ad- vance toward modernization and equal- ization of our antiquated State tax | in real estat “4. Twenty ds have been added to the list of the ing official appraisal con than 360 boards of t have appraisal co "To protect t venal testimony sal agains d a moué: bll, sociation has dr which would empower the judge of the trial court to appoint a committee to nony on real eswate Public Safeguarded. “In order to safeguard the general public and the whole real estate busi- ne unsound practices in the 1 mortgage bonds, unknov o ago, are d at the rate of approximately 00.000.000 per year, the association 5 made definite and comprehensive ‘ndations to all houses issuing G endations d consti- mortgage iich, "N years m of co subdi Amazing Low Price and Terms m IN REMODELED ROOM | around the hearth in the living room are | there, but since everything is entirely | |gleaming pieces of pewter and copper |in keeping with the design of the room and brass, all mellow with age. Electric [and of the building, and since there | fixtures of wrought iron above the man- |is everything there that one would wish | telpiece and on the balcony walls have | for comfort, the effect is very pleasing. | il been treated so as to look quite as old | Stepping into 1t with memories of more | as the wrought iron railings and the | frivolous and more dainty living rooms pewter and copper. Suspended from the [one cannot help appreciating this | long cabin is another | sturdier type of architecture and decora- gned in copy of ‘tion, and wish to see it more often. color, Besides 40 large private rooms with a separate bath and six I wards, the new building provides 1 quarters for the Sisters of St. Fr: who care for the institution, occupying the whole of the fifth floor. There are 18 private rooms on that floor with 9 Tooms on the four floor is equipped ed. upon the contractors’ firm ex: tions that construction operations 1 a lively pace, rivaling the ing activities of 1927 definite_demand _for modern | conveniences in homes, office buildings. | may sit before a roaring fire when the ndustrial structures and transportation | weather without is cold. tems is the principal factor indi-| = At the further end of the dining room, coting a large volume of future €on- | easily seen from the living room, a cab- | ceiling by a struction work.” Gen. Marshall de-|jnet has been built in to simulate the 'wrought iron piece, de __(Continued from Eighteenth Page.) kitchen, dining room tion hall for the ho . with a Toof garden on the south end of the building. New Chapel Provided. On the fifth floor is a chapel of Gothic style, with a seating capacity for about 200 worshipers. The first floor of the hospital building is en over to administrative offices off the main lobby, physicians’ staff ToOmS, waiting rooms and with clinics for the medical school in the basement. Each floor has its special diet kitchen. | There are 10 private rooms for| patients with separate baths. and two| wards on second, third and fourth floors. ‘The present capacity of Georgetown | Hospital will be enlarged by these new | Zacilities to approximately 400 beds and | the equipment will give advantages for | the students of the medical school and | nurses of the Georgetown University | Hospital Training School. Other Space Released. ! Another matter of utmost importance 1o the hospital is the needed space - | Jeased by the new quarters supplied for the staff of sisters. This will afford more spaces for the nurses in training and other rooms for beds in the older building. The institution was established in 1897 with only 50 beds. In the opening | year it had 273 house cases, 491 emergency cases and 633 dispensary cases. This number had increased 1926 to 3880 house cases, 1.0 emergency cases and 7.652 dispensary cases. Nearly half of all the patients were- cared for free of charge. —— | WILL VIEW DRY QUERIES. Neely to Address Senate on Borah's o Prohibition Questionnaires. | Senator Neely, Democrat, West Vir- | ginia, intends to address the Senatc Monday on the prohibition question- paire which Senator Borah, Republi- can, Idaho, is sending to Republican red in submitting a formal report cited the constant increa Nation's population and the from farms to citeis as places of abode as also influencing the volume of con- | ction. To Destroy Old Structures. | Tottering structures in the older sec- || tions of many large cities will be de-| stroyed to make way for widened traffic | lanes and new bulidings during the || coming vear, it was predicted. i “The marked stability of construction costs during 1927 also will have the effect of inviting large investments in new structures during the year,” Gen. Marshall continued. Huge wastes were charged to the| presence of “fly-by-night” contractors | in the industry by a report bearing the | name of J. Charles Wilson, Pittsburgh, | chairman of the special committee. | Defaulted contracts, delayed operations | and poor workmanship were cited - as | effects of awards of contracts by the wholesale to incompetent and inexperi- enced builders. H Responsibility for this condition was | ||/ placed largely upon the “loose credit || m” under which irresponsible | bidders are able to secure equipment, material and surety bonds. WEST BADEN. 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