Evening Star Newspaper, April 5, 1930, Page 20

REAL ESTATE. PRIVATE BUILDING HAS MARKED GAINS Month’s Improvement Shown Though Quarter Year Total Lags. Private building operations in the District approvec last month showed a marked improvement in volume over February, but the quarter-year total lagged more than $3,000,000 behind the same period of 1929, when a heavy Spring construction program was launched. Projects for which permits were is- sued during March by Col. John W. Oehmann carried a total cost estimated at $3,083,040, as compared with $857,170 in February and $4,540,170 in January. ‘This brought the quarter-year total to $8.480.380. Last year’s first quarter bullding had & cost totaling $11,886,450. The Ja uary total last year was $2,558.445; February, $4,076,480; and March, $5.251,525. During the past month plans were approved for 65 private dwellings and for four apartments. Permits were is- sued as follows: BRICK. No. Permits No. Bldgs. Value Drwellings . 38 54 £602.150 Apartments .10 3 1,024.:500 Garages 6.800 63.300 Stores . ices " 500 Gus statios: 16.000 Warenouses 85.000 Dormitory 100.000 250.000 Repairs " 104,460 Dwelling: Repairs 50.000 6.850 Dwelling . Garag Bublic Repair: Garage .. Repairs .. Garages .. Dwellings arages Dairs Motors E'evator: 12 Boilers . Totals RACER READY SUNDAY v imsemangers Sl | Eaye Don May Have to Wait Longer for Beach, However. W97 43,083,040 |and 33,263 were blanks. TAXES A few prize skeletons are dragged out of their hiding places in the past of Washington (and other citles) by the National Association of Real Estate Boards to {llustrate the.point that while there is much clamor today over tax- ation, the present systems are a vast improvement over those of early days of the Republic. These skeletons are records of the tremendous lotteries which were oper- ated here as a means of providing funds for the erection of public buildings, lottery schemes said to have been or- ganized by the District Commissioners with the tacit approval of the President. “The present tax system may not please many people, but at least we do not have the special assessment by lot- tery,” the association comments in an article describing the crazy for chance drawings that swept the country in the eighteenth century, and how Congress even appioved the financing of & public canal through the sale of thousands of bits of pasteboard. Once started, the lottery system of public finance increased by leaps and bounds, but it finally brought about evils and abuses which destroyed public confidence in the method and put it officially to an end. The following findings, based on its study of history, are reported by the National Realtor Assoclation: Lottery of 1793. In 1793 the funds for the erection of the public buildings for the Capital Gity were running low and the Commission- ers of the District of Columbia organ- improvement of the Federal City.” They 00 | appointed a Samuel Blodget (author of the first American statistical work “Economia”) as supervisor of the build- ings and general agent for the lottery at a salary of £600 a year. The lottery tickets for “the improvement of the | Federal City” were $7 each, and of the 50,000 issued 16,737 represented prizes The big prize was a “superb hotel with baths, etc., to | cost $50,000,” and the cash prizes ran 75 | from $25,000 down to $10 each. The Commissioners announced that the ous approbation of the President”; and in a letter to Washington proposing & second lottery the District Commission- ers stated that the tickets for the first lottery “were taken up with avidity.” Nineteen years later, on May 6, 1812, an act of Congress, approved by Presi- dent Madison, recognized an act of the DATONA BEACH, Fla., April 5 (#).— | Maryland Legislature passed in 1795 to Kaye Donm, British racing champion, | awaiting a beach favorable for his pro-| posed assault on the world automobile speed record, announced here yesterday that alterations being made upon his powerful Silver Bullet racer would be completed Sunday. Indications were, however, that the rough beach, which has delayed his at- tempt for three weeks, would not im- prove sufficiently by Sunday for the trials. Don’s eight English mechanics have been at work two days lowering the gear ratio in the giant 24-cylinder machine in order to increase its speed. Louls Coatalen, French designer of the machine, is expected to return from New York by the time the Silver Bul- let is in condition for the trials. He left early this week to address a meet- ing of the Society of Automotive En- gineers in New York Wednesday. PLAN SCHOOL EXHIBITS Architects Would Teach Children to Appreciate Good Work. American school children will be edu- cated to an appreciation of good archi- tecture through the exhibit of models, plans and sketches to be placed in pub- lic schools throughout the country un- der auspices of the American Institute of Architects. “This idea is of national importance,” it is declared by B. F. Betts in the American Architect, of which he is edi- tor, “for it is to the youth of the coun- try that the development and mainte- x;:m:euo{ our future cities must one day | left.” —_— e Government police of Porto Rico have purchased 25 motor cycles. authorize two lotteries in the City of Washington to raise $52,500 to improve the means of communication by the construction of a canal in Maryland and the District of Columbia. Virtually re- celving Federal approval, this lottery was tremendously successful and the tickets were sold throughout the various States that then comprised the United 's_account bool NEW CORNER BRIC 5130 Kansas Ave. N.W. Facing 120-Ft. Boulevard at Three Street Intersections GIDAIRE. open fireplace; beautifully finished hardwood floors, over tongue and groove subflooring: _ Detroit - white enameled gas Pittsburg stOrage heater, ~beautiful front. side and rear lawns. BUILT-IN GARAGE. | 'Only Three Left 5122 Exhibit Home ! ven_Rooms, m-mm.\ Brick Garage Open Daily and Sunday L. T. Gravatte 92715th St. REALTOR Nat. 0753 Or Your Own Broker PHampshire Gardens New Hampshire Avenue at Emerson w“h 100% CO.0 PERATIVE Every Apartment Building is “Bought” by Tenants Rental tenants, with their rent payments, buy a building for a speculative landlord. And when they have paid for it once, they pay for it over and over again . . . BUT they never own it! Co-operative tenants, through a voluntary asso- ciation in a corporation with responsible members of their own choosing, buy a building for themselves, paying for it once, and once only . . . AND they own it forever! Why Not Own What You Buy? You can buy an apartment in HAMPSHIRE GARDENS for a much smaller monthly payment than you would make to rent one like it. 4 An apartment of four rooms and bath in this beautiful co-operative development is priced at $5,100. Termsare: $765 i There is not a comparable n cash and $47.25 a month, apartment in Washington to rent at less than $70 a month. As a co-operative own er in threc years you will expend $2,466 (including the $765) to purchase the apartment for yourself . . expenditure of $2,520 by buying for his landlord. . as compared with an the rental tenant who is In the next three years you will expend only $1,701 while the rental tenant is paying out $2,520, and the third three years will to $2,520 for the rental tenant . . . your expenditure during be only $1,117, compared an ever-increas- ing advantage as you complete the purchase of your own home, while the rental tenant goes on paying rent. Investigate Now! Eighty-five families already are co-operative owners of all but seventeen of the one hundred and two apartments in, this first group of beautiful HAMPSHIRE GARDENS. The rmainiv few soon will be sol. d. Edmund J. Flynn Director of Sales—Georgia 4619 ized a lottery to raise $350,000 “for the | scheme was drawn up “with the previ- | SEEN IMPROVEMENT OVER SYSTEM OF LOTTERY Latter Method of Raising Public Funds Formerly Sanctioned By President And Other Public Officials. now in the Library of Congress, show entries of his participation in real es- tate lotteries. In 1756 he purchased 10 tickets at £5 each, according to one of his entries, in the lottery organized for the sale of the famous estate of Col. William Byrd, comprising a large do- main on the James River. The estate was heavily involved, and writers of the times point out that if attempts had been made to sell it in the regular way it would not have brought one-half what it did in the lottery. Early Pennsylvania Plan. As early as 1735 the proprietors of Pennsylvania used the lottery as a new method of selling lands, a method, by the way, that resembles the modern “free lot” scheme, which the real estate interests have succeeded in prohibiting in many States. The early Pennsyl-| vania plan was to sell 100,000 acres by lottery at £15, 10 shillings per 100 acres, | making the sum of £15500. The sale | of 7,750 tickets at £2 ($10) each was to| have made up the amount of £15,500. The subscription never having filled up, | this lottery was never drawn, but the tickets actually sold were recognized as titles to the lands. | ‘The lotteries flourished in Philadel- | phia, then our largest city. There were many lotteries organized for' public ob- jects, and even for the construction of | churches. They were looked upon as 2| sort of voluntary tax for paving streets, | erecting wharves, public buildings, etc., | excavating canals and building bridges. In 1729 the Pennsylvania Legislature | passed an act to prohibit lotteries under | 2 penalty of a fine of £100, but this act | | only prohibited “unauthorized” lotteries, and those permitted by special legisla- tive grant continued to flourish. Benjamin Franklin, with other promi- nent citizens of Philadelphia, subscribed in 1748 to a lottery to raise £3,000' ($15.000) for the erection of a battery on the Delaware as a defense for the | city against foreign invasion. The | common council of Philadelphia took 12,000 of the 7,158 tickets. The lottery | | was successful and a battery of cannon | | was planted below the city on the | | river bank. During the same year, as a result of petitions from the city of Philadelphia, | | the State Legislature passed an act au- thorizing a State lottery to raise $42,000 | Spps s to improve the roads leading into the elt‘y. and this lottery, too, was success- But the lottes l{lhm finally became unpopular. At first laws were passed to Yro it lotteries under fines and for- eitures, then the lotteries were pro- hibited by criminal statute, and finally, in 1892, the prohibition of lotteries was a part of the constitutions of all States umegz 11, in which the lotteries were prohibited by law anyway. Farmers of Algeria generally are in- stalling llbor-snvil’e\l machinery. FOUR SENTENCED TO DIE ZAPOROJIE, U. 8. 8, R, April 6§ (®)—Four officials of the State grain trust were sentenced to Geath yesterday for selling hundreds of tons of high- grade flour to private speculators during the extremist period in the government grain collection campaign. Thirty other officials implicated in theme!mnmwnudwlmmlwlo years imprisonment. $ 1 ’000.00 in your pocket. .. ECAUSE we took this modern six- room home at 3637 13th Street N.W. in trade, we have reduced the price $1,000. 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