Evening Star Newspaper, January 26, 1929, Page 17

REAL ESTATE WASHINGTON, D. C, - WITR SUNDAY MORNTNG EDITION ’ h_R ?fififiiflg %faf' SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1929. | HOME & GARDEN | 17 Home-Owning and Building Section for Washington and Suburbs | CONSTRUCTION ‘PROFITEERING' CHARGES WILL BE PROBED Industrial Leaders, at Youngstown Con- ference, Will Seck to Learn If Home Builder Is The construction industry of the country is in revolt against charges of “profiteering” leveled now and again at it by the public. Leaders in the construction field are completing plans to place the industry on “trial” at a great gathering at Youngstown, Ohio, February 11-14 of delegates from agencies interested or related to the industry, it is announced | by the National Association of Builders Exchanges at its headquarters here. If any serious charges against any elements in the industry are found true, leaders of the industry propose to take steps to “clean their own house.” | And if charges are found not warrant- ed, then public information ought to made available so as to di: quiet accusing public gos change headquarters declares. Exploiting Repeatedly Charged. “Conspiracy within the construction industry to exploit the home builder and the home owner is the charge in an indictment repeatedly returned by | the public,” the announcement of the association states. struction industry, which when building is active, is charged with profiteering, and, after that, with all the crimes in the cate- gory—collusion in bidding. cheating on materials, agreeing on prices, brigand- age by the device of the ‘cost plus’ con- tract, etc. “But the charges never go to trial: the defendants never have their day in court. Public gossip can be re- futed only by public information. “Are the charges true? If they are, then the construction industry must clean house and reorganize on a basis that will reflect its economic justifica- tlon. If the charges are not true, then public information ought to be made available so as to discredit and quiet accusing public gossip. “Determined no longer to rest under these charges, certain elements in the construction industry, under the lead- ership of the National Association of Exploited. | Builders' Exchanges, propose to force a | hearing on them. They are insisting on | a trial that will develop the facts and a verdict based on those facts.” Purposcs Are Threefold. “The purpose of this national confer- ence in Youngstown,” according to Rob- | ert L. Reisinger, president of the Na- tional Association of Builders’ Ex- changes, “is to discover, frx, if all ele~ ments of the construction industry are willing to submit to a thorough and impartial investigation of their services and charges: second, how the investiga- tion <hall proceed and by whom it shall be made, and, third, how the results of | such an investigation best can be made public property.” Earl F. Stokes, executive secretary of the association, today stated he had received word from most of the affected national organizations that they would | have a representative at the Youngs- town conference. The following organizations been invited to participate: American Bankers’ Association, Amer- ican Construction Council, American Engineering Council, Associated Gen- eral Contractors, American Institute of Architects, American Institute of Steel have | Construction, American Paint and Var- nish Manufacturers, Contracting Plas- ters' Association, the Division of Build- ing and Housing of the United States Department of Commerce, the Hollow Building Tile Association, Tile and Mantel Contractors’ Association, United States League of Local Building and Loan Associations, United States Cham- ber of Commerce, and the following na- tional associations: Building Owners and Managers, Build- ing Trades Employers’ Association, Building Supply Dealers, Lumber Man- ufacturers, Common Brick Manufac- turers, Master Plumbers, Housing Asso- ciation. Home Modernizing Burcau, Real Estate Boards, Sheet Metal Con- tractors, Retail Credit Association, and National Association of Women's Clubs. VIRGINIA REALTORS WILL PUBLISH CODE Alexandria, Arlington and Fairfax Board to Circulate Book of Ethics. Wide publicity is to be given the realtor code of ethics, as set forth by the National Association of Real Estate Boards, and to which all members of the association must subscribe, by the Alexandria, Arlington and Fairfax Real Estate Board. At a recent meeting of the board of |* suburban realtors at the Washington Golf and Country Club, it was decided to publish a pamphlet listing the ethical standards of the national association and its members. ‘The board also plans to broadeast the meaning of the word “realtor,” which, under law, can be appligd only to a member of the national association or its affiliated boards. It was explained that many persons take for granted that a realtor is any one operating under-a real estate license. Plans for advertising Northern Vir- ginia during the ensuing year also ‘were discussed and Guy N. Church was named chairman of a committee on publicity, to co-operate with Chambers of (ifmmeru in the territory of the C. A. Keefer, executive director of the Northern Virginia Bureau, reported on activities of the bureau and outlined plans for 1929. A plan to admit sales- men to associate membership in the board was adopted. Washington & Kane of Alexandria, and C. W. Clever of Clarendon were admitted to membership. ALLISON AI;ARTMENT SOLD TO WARDMAN W. P. Cullinane Secures Seven Dwellings in Transaction Involving Trade. ‘The Allison Apartments, 4425 Four- teenth street, has been acquired by the Wardman Corporation from Wil- liam P. Cullinane, in a transaction in- volving the exchange of other property, it was announced today. The_ Allison Apartments, which con- tains 30 apartment units, and on which 8 value of $200,000 was placed in the transaction, was purchased by the Wardman company, which gave as part payment seven dwelling properties on which a value of $100,000 was placed, it is reported. r. Cullinane was represented by the oifce of C. W. Simpson in the trans- on, with Harry Wardman and fihnm&s P. Bones of the Wardman of- ce. Candy Consumption. The United States is the greatest candy manufacturing and at the same time’ the yreatest candy consuming country in the world. The consumption of candy in the United States has reached 11.84 pounds per capita, and seems to be increasing. Nevada comes first, with a per capita consumption of 17.44 pounds, while Squth Carolina is Jowest in the list with a total of only 461 pounds per person. New York leads all the States in the manufacture | of candy, having a normal production rating of $100,000,000 a year. Realty Head Plans Trips by Airplane To 633 City Groups ‘To accomplish contact with the 633 member boards of the National Association of Real Estate Boards, of which he has been elected president for 1929, Harry H. Culver of Culver City and Los Angeles, Calif., will make five airplane tours of the United Stites and Canada to visit several hundred cities. hile he is president of the assoc- iation he will “maintain his office in his airplane,” in order to carry on his work as president while on these extended tours, he has announced. Mr. Culver at his induction as presi- dent at the annual business meeting of the association at Birmingham, Ala., this week, urged realtors of the Nation to be alive to the growing in- fluence commercial aviation is hav- ing in real estate busines.. The plane, which Mr. Culver has bought especially for the association office, is a 6-passepger inclosed monoplane with 320-Horsepower en- gine. Its average speed is from 125 to 150 miles an hour. Lieut. James B. Dickson, who will be Mr, Culver'’s pilot, was fomerly an Army aviator. $80,000,000 A YEAR BID IN FEES TO ARCHITECTS Waste Is Alleged Through Neglect and Failure to Apply Sound Business Methods. Architects in the United States are, receiving fees of not less than $80,000,- 000 a year, it is estimated by Edwin Bergstrom, treasurer of the American Institute of Architects. “I have not the slightest doubt,” Mr. Bergstrom declares, “that more than 10 per cent of this sum is wasted an- nually by the architect in his own offices through neglect and failure to apply sound business methods.” Discussing the architect’s budget, he calls standardization of architecture an abomination, but urges standardization of procedure and accounting of the business and architecture as very help- ful to success. “Orderliness in design,” Mr. Berg- strom says, “is axiomatic with the architect; orderliness in his business a{:d in his time is not so fixed a virtue,” EXPANSION P.ROGRAM SET. Two New Service Stations Will Be Constructed at Once. The Crew Levick Co., subsidiary ot the Cities Service Co., which on Jan. uary 3 took over the property of the Republic Oil Co. in Washington, will start at once an expansion program with the construction of two new serv- ice stations, one at Rhode Island ave- nue and Newton street and the other at Benning road and Twenty-fourth street northeast, it is snnounced. John H. Nicholson, head of the Standard Accessories Co., has been made special representative of the Crew Levick Co. here and Gerry Mildon of Washington, construction engineer. = ol el Water Front Being Developed. BALTIMORE, January 26.—A new water-front development of 340 acres at near the mouth of the Severn River, is being financed by the Munsey Trust Co. of Washington. A New Offering Eight-Room Colonial Brick Homes With Built- Adjacent to ° Million Dollar Bridge, Rock Creek Park Exhibit Home 2637 Woodley P1. Open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. $14,950 on especially attractive terms in Garage. Electric Refrigeration Tiled baths with built-in showers Oak: floors throughout Brick wood-burning fireplace Large kitchen with brick outside pantry Big basement Annapolis Roads, on the Chesapeake, | Dr. W. N. Sparhawk Uses Rubble Stone and Brick for Age Effect. VIEW OVER VALLEY House of Center Hall De- sign in Keeping With Architectural Plan. Homes of Colonial architectural de- sign, or those having authentic Colonial influence, since the early days of the in the estcem of residents of the East- ern section of the country. English or Georgia influence. have proved popular In Washington, where cl.phasis has been placed on dignity and simplicity in the architecture of governmental buildings. trict falling into this catagory is that of Dr. William N. Sparhaw) of the United Siates Forest Service, completed in September, at 3315 Row- land place. Here is a home of “New England Co- lonial” architectural design which af- fords a vista from the rear over a wooded valley, a branch of Klingle Ford Valley, a part of the proposed extension of Rock Creek Park. Rubble Stone and Brick. ‘The house is a combination of rubble stone, of gray and iron colors, laid up in random style for the exterior of the front portion of the first story, and of reclaimed brick, also of variegated col- ors, some dark and some Jight in color, in the second story, which lend variety to the quiet appeal of the facades. Use of the reclaimed brick and the rubble stone work served to give to the exterior of the house something of the rustic effect desired, though the build- ing is but a few months old. Three dormer windows project from the front side of the roof, while at either side of the ridge of the roof rises a brick chimney. The Colonial entrance is typical in ite design and white furnishing, while white woodwork serves as the base of windows in the front wall of the first story, which have full-length blinds. Front windows in the second story also are fitted with -shutters. The garage is on the ground floor of the wing at the right of the house, the second story of which is employed as a part of the second-floor space. The garage has easy access from the street. Center Hall Design. ‘The house is of the center hall plan, in keeping with its architectural design. To the left of the hall is a living room 14 feet 3 inches wide and running the full depth of the house, 26 feet 6 inches. There is a great fireplace with Colonial wood mantel and black slate hearth and facings on the exterior wall and a door opening onto the open porch or terrace. The dining room, 14 feet 3 inches by 15 feet, is to the right front. There is a fireplace on the side wall, which adds to the homelike appeal of the room. Back of this room are the kitchen, 8 feet by 11 feet; a breakfast room and space providing for modern kitchen equipment. Back of the staircase in the center hall is a toilet and cupboard space. On the second floor are four bed- rooms. The master bedroom, at the right front, 14 feet 3 inches by 15 feet, connects with a small hall, large bath, closet of unusual size and two smaller cupboards, which are provided for in the space over the garage in a wing at the right of the building. There is a second bedroom, 11 feet by 14 feet 3 inches, at the right rear, hav- ing access into the hall and bath in the right wing. At the left of the second floor are two bedrooms, one at the front, 12 feet by 14 feet 3 inches, which has an ad- joining sewing room, and another at the rear, 9 feet 6 inches by 14 feet 3 inches. A bath is between the two rooms, with entrance into each. On the third floor are two additional bedrooms and bath, a large cedar closet and storage space. There is a double- gecked porch at the rear of the build- ing. An open stair hall runs from the first through the third story, fitted with ma- hogany rail and ivory balusters. The house is situated on a lot 75 feet by 120 teet. It was built by W. D. Sterrett from plans by W. R. Lamar. DWELLING' PLANS 0. K.'D. Jury of Architects’ Advisory Coun- cil Holds Meeting. Plans for two dwellings were ap- proved at a recent meeting of a jury of the Architects’ Advisory Council consisting of Edward E. Donn, E. B. Corning and P. C. Adams. ‘The design of the dwelling for 5411 Chevy Chase Parkway, by John W. Kearney, and having a cost of $8,500, and for a dwelling for 4428 Hunt place northeast, by Lewis W. Giles, costing $4,000, were approved. $11 First offering. bronze screens and garage. exposure. paved street. COME OUT AND INVESTIGATE! Lane), turn ea: consin 2875, Nation have held a prominent place | Houses of this style and others of One of the newer homes in the Dis- | economist | X IS SEEN FROM REAR' LIVING ROOM Simplicity and Dignity Mark Colonial Home DINING RooMm BEDROOM REALTY LOAN TOTAL REACHES $217,737,094 Sum Advanced Last Year Exceed- ed by $11,000,000 Similar Bor- rowings in 1927. Real estate mortgage loans amount- ing to $217,737,094 were advanced in 1928 by the Prudential Insurance Co. of America, this total being about $11,- 000,000 in excess of similar loans made by the company during 1927, according to a statement from the company made =llllllill‘lllllllllmilllllllIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIlII’IlIl’IIlItlllllll’mll’g 6615 ‘a Day” g A NEW IDEA Every architect, realtor, builder, present and future home owner should con- sider an Exercise Room or Health Room in each home, hotel, apartment house, of- fice building and club. T Regardless of all modern appliances used today for the general welfare of the public, no consideration is given to Health Equipment for proper and Dbeneficial exercising. An Exercise Room or Health Room will have a distinct appeal to all. Health Equipment Co. Chas. G. Graves, Mgr. Lobby 15, Investment Bldg. 15th at K St. N.W. Metro. 4269 Special display of _electric and mechanical exercising equipment ST o i il 6804 46th STREET CHEVY CHASE, MARYLAN 000 New dignified English type home in exclusive residential com- munity. Six delightful rooms, open fireplace, tiled bath with shower, Unusually large side porch with southern Lot completely sodded and attractively landscaped. ©On THERE 1S A REASON FOR THIS AMAZINGLY LOW PRICE! Drive out Wisconsin Avenue to Leland Street (just morth of Bradley st on Leland Street one block to 46th Street, or phone Wis- M. & R. B. WARREN, Realtors 11928 were $40,085.850, while those for public here today by the H. L. Rust Co., local loan correspondents of the insurance company. The totai loaned on dwellings and apartment -houses was $164,883,047. There were 23,155 dwelling loans and 1,346 on apartments, for the accommo- dation of 44,669 families. This sum ex- ceeds by nearly $6,000,000 that loaned | in 1927 for these purposes, when the | total was $159.112,896. On city properties other than those used for dwelling purposes the loans for the same purpose in 1927 were $27,115,~ 172, a gain of $12,970,678. Farm loans decreased during the year, but whether this was due to a new prosperity in the agricultural dis- tricts was not disclosed in the com- pany’s statements. The company'’s total outstanding real estate mortgage loans, including those in force as of December 31, amounted to $975,635,641.26. e True Nordic School. AUGUSTA, Ga. (#).—Sticklers for preserving the pure Anglo-Saxon strain find a spur to their ambitions in the D'Antignac Grammar School here. All of the 400 pupils bear Anglo-Saxcn names and a high pgercentage of them are of the purest Nordic type. ST e Several new railway lines are being built in the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil. ?pfi%ifiéfi?fi%fi%}&? 332223 Y 7 S Z: g = 2 4z AN 4 & 7 ing price. to UILDING statistics show that most Washingtonians prefer the comforts, conveniences, and freedom from petty cares and detail of apartment residence. But when a builder erects an apartment house and sells it (with a profit added) to an operator, who rents it and in turn sells it (again with a profit added) to an in- vestor, naturally the rentals must be fixed to pay a handsome profit on the final sell- At Tilden Gardens these two steps are eliminated, consumer, the tenant-owner. to the profit of the ultimate The § acres of land comprising Tilden Gardens were today. The g purchased at a figure which shows a sub- stantial increase in_appraised value even buildings are built by our own Construction Department, and the entire property sold by us direct to the group owners, the actual tenants, at one profit. TILDEN GARDENS Distinctive Development Connecticut Avenue at Tilden Street Phone Cleveland 6084 THIRTY HOUSES OF WEEK'S BU HEAD LIST ILDING PERMITS ISixth Presbyterian Church to Erect Stone at 5425 Sixteenth Street, to Cost $80,000. ' and Brick Edifice Construction of - 30 dwellings, a hurch building and other projects are rovided for in permits issued this week »y the building inspector, Col. John W. Jchmann, the total cost of which was ~ctimated to be $403,148. The largest item in the new list of work approved calls for the construction of 11 three-story brick dwellings, hav- ng a total-estimated cost of $33,500, at 4101 Q street, 1602-13 Fo:ty-fourth street and 4400 Greenwich parkway, in Foxhall Village. Permit was issued also for the construction of a one-story =tone and brick church building for th Sixth Presbyterian Church at 5425 Si teenth street, having a cost estimated | at_$80,000. Permits were issued as follows: Boss & Phelps, owners and builders; J. E. Cooper, architect; to erect eleven | 3-story brick dwellings, 4101 Q street, | 1602 to 1618 Forty-fourth street and 4400 Greenwich parkway (lots 218 to 208, square 1351); to cost $93,500. Boss & Phelps, owners and builders; to erect nine concrete block garages, 1618 to 1602 Forty-fourth strect (lots | 209 to 217, square 1351); to cost $2,700. | New Church Gets Permit. Sixth Presbyterian Church, owner; | | Joseph Younger, architect; J. L. Par- | | sons, builder; to erect one 1-story stone and brick church, 5425 Sixteenth street (lots 17 and 18, square 2719); to cost $80,000. | Charles D. Sager, owner and builder: | George T. Santmyers, architect; to erect | six 2-story brick dwellings, 2403 to 2413 | E street northeast (lots 2 to 7, square builders; Gordon E. MacNeil, architect; to erect one 2-story frame dwelling, 4831 Indian lane (lot 5, square 1517); to cost $22,500. Allan J. McLaughlin, owner; H. W. Peaslee, architect; A. C. Warthen Sons, builders; to erect one 2!5-story cinder block and stucco dwelling, 2510 Upton street (parcels 58-158 and 58-157, square 2239); to cost $18,000. L. E. Breuninger & Sons, owners and builders; H. L. Breuninger, architect; to erect one 2-story brick dwelling, 1341 Hemlock street (lot 26, square W-2774) ; to cost $10,000. The Smoot Sand & Gravel Corpora- tion, owner; to erect one 2-story con- crete storage bin, rear 3020 K street ot 802, square 1173); to cost $60,000. M. Ehrhardt, owner; A. B. Mullett & Co., architects; Warren Spencer, build- er; to erect two 1-story brick additions, 1726 Columbia road (lot 51, square 2565); to cost $7,500. George E. Pruett, owner and builder; G. Raymond Pruett, designer; to erect one 2l-story brick dwelling, 4514 Forty-ninth street (lots 27 and 28, square 1496); to cost $7,500. Plan Grocery Store. Sanitary Grocery Co., owners; Warren Spencer, designer and builder; to erect one 1-story brick store, 826 Upshur street (lot 50, square 3025); to cost $6.,500. W. C. & A. N. Miller, owners and builders; Gordon E. MacNeil, architect; to erect one 3-story brick and frame dwelling, 4355 Klingle street (lots 1 and 2, wunre 1625); to cost $12,248. 4522); to cost $30.000. | 'W.'c. & A. N. Millcr, owners and tion. Actual improvements $10,500,000. \Wooded villa sit Middaugh & ESTABLIS 1435 K St. N.W. [ Difect From Proclucer Tenant-Owner ! Warren Management continues the group owners of all petty care and de- tail. This explains why it is possible for you to pu_rchase a co-operative home in Tilden Gardens for a first payment and monthly payments sub- stantially less than the rental for such an apartment in a similar location and in sim- ilar surroundings. You will be pleasantly astoni: you learn the real facts about advantageous features of a co-operative apartment home in Tilden Gardens. Plan today to inspect the model home charming- ly furnished through the courtesy of W. B. Moses & Sons,and the other sizes of apartments still available. Permit us to furnish you with the actual facts and data about this remarkable new plan of home ownership. of M. and R B. Warren An Interesting Booklet Explaining Co-operative Apartments Mailed on Request _wWcCc& Miller, owners and Continue: htee: Paj Massachusetts Park The Triangle of Increasing Values —between Massachusetts and Connecticut Avenues and Woodley Road. 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