Evening Star Newspaper, June 14, 1930, Page 19

THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1930. REAL ESTATE. B—3 _ 0 held the night shift hours of our wom- hour is obtained when the total | —increase the size of the vessel and the fonly from a sociological viewpoint, but Two Receive Commissions. | BETTER BU|U]|NG April Activities HARWOMEN SAID [ s T e T e e o o vy |0 B S ERrRssar il | Twe Beceie € L ln Real Estate Mr. Schille, who was assisted in his | where employes become exhausted and |part of it,” said Mr. Schille. “Increase |y, ‘onera lfi: e Wmm’:fl“:{m"'{;r the Army have been issued by the War preparation of his report by information |that the slngln shift is more economical | the time allowed a worker for a fl!mln | supplied by scores of building owners |than the double shift. job, ‘the job immediately expands to | CCaTiNS: Department to William R, Lane, 2431 7 | and managers in all parts of the Na- He also finds that humans have a flll the time. In the case of work, how- E street northwest, this city, as a (73"1 O‘ er Mar(h‘ tion, discovered {hat women can clean | trait of making the job fit the length |ever, the process is not reversible, un- fmfly 4,000 American automobiles | ond lieutenant of Engineers | more space in an office building per of time alloted. “This to me is analag- [lefl you hire a new worker, were imported into Denmark in the flnn.hmu D. De Marr, Berwyn, Hd. hour than men ran; that more work ous to the case of air in a closed vessel *The problem is important to us not ' three months of this yea second lleutenant in the Signal REAL ESTATE. | | An increase of 2.7 points in the | New Homes Sold Here During | Last Three Months Show Increase. (Continued From First Page.) | | about 700, or almost 500 less than at the beginnine of this year. “Based on the estimates of the Census Bureau that Washington was increasing in population at the rate of 11,000 to 12,000 per annum, the Oper- ative Builders' Association had esti- mated in its report furnished banks in March that the consumption of hous- ing units was at the rate of, roundly 4,000 units annually. The recent cen- sus, however. gives Washington a popu- *lation of 485.000, an increase of 48,000 in the past 10 vears, or at the rate of 4.800 per annum instead of 11.000 to 12,000. This necessitates a revision of the estimated ability to absorb new housing units, which is really nearer 2000, or one-half the formerly ac- cepted estimate. “Fortunately, only half as many houses were started in the first quarter this year as in the corresponding pe- riod a year ago, and it is interesting to note that the percentage of detached houses started has increased from 35 per cent to 54 per cent. whereas the number of row houses started has de- creased from 51 per cent to 31 per- cent. It is also interesting to note that twice as many houses in the $5000 elass and under were sold during the first quarter of this year than were started and the increased volume of sales for the first quarter referred to above was almost entirely in houses of this price classification. New Contracts Value Drop. “The value of new private construc- tion contracts let in the District of Columbia for the first four months this year amounted to, roundly. $23.- 000,000, as compared with $49,000,000 for the corresponding period of last year. Residential buildings amounted to $10.200,000, as compared with $1 400,000 for the corresponding period the previous vear; non - residential building amounted to $12,266.000, as compared with $31,755,000 & vear ago. “Detailed figures of building opera- tions in the District of Columbia, clas- sified by types of buildings, character of construction and location, for the calendar year 1929 are contained in the very comprehensive report made by the Operative Builders' Association in March, & copy of which was sent to the officers and directors of all banks in the District of Columbia. To afford comparisons with the figures submitted | in previous years. a summary of houses completed, houses started, houses sold and houses on hand, comparing the first quarter of the current year with the past year, follows: index for real estate market activity for April over the figure for March is reported by the National Ass tion of Real Estate Boards following the compilation of its regular monthly index figure on real estate activity. The figure indicating real estate arket activity for April is 73, the association finds, The index is based upon official re- ports of the total number of deeds Tecorded in 63 typical cities through- out the country. Real estate activ- ity for the year 1926 is taken as the base year in computing the monthly figure. WORKMEN'S HONOR SYSTEM SPREADING Architects’ Cnmmntee Sees World Interest in Awarding Prizes for Outstanding Deeds. The movement to honor workers in the buflding industry is gaining world recognition, according to the annual re- port of the committee on industrial relations of the American Institute of Architects, From New York City the honor sys- tem in craftsmanship has spread to all s of the United States and to Great Britain, Germany and Canada, it is de- clared the committee, of which Wil- liam Orr Ludlow, vice president of the New York Building Congress, is chair- man Eventually, it is predicted, every civil- ized country will adopt the system, which, the committee reported, has now been taken up by the following 14 chap- ters of the institute: New Jersey, In- dianapolis. Chicago, Northern ~ Cali- fornia, Washington State, Scranton- Wilkes-Barre, West Texas, Central Il- linois, Tennessee, Washington, D. C., South Texas, Connecticut and Geor; Efforts were being made to extend the practice to all of the institute’s 70 chapters “Medals, citations and honor awards from time immemorial have been given to those who have earned public rec- ognition for unusually meritorious deeds, but it is onlv recently that work- men, doing their daily tasks, have been honored because of outstanding ‘work,” Mr. Ludlow said. “In New York City over 1,700 me- chanics in the building trades have been awarded recently gold buttons and certificates by the New York Building Congress for especially commendable craftsmanship.” Island to Get Railway. PORT ALEXANDROVSK, Saskahlin Island (#).—The Soviet government has decided to begin construction of a rail- way on this island this Summer. The | main line will run north and south from Houses completed Houses started Houses sold Houses on hand Houses completed Houses started Houses sold 85 2. Houses on hand. 1302912 8261952 “The record of foreclosures shows that 61 apartmgnt buildings were fore- closed in 1929." as compared with 48 in 1928 and 24 during the first three months of 193 Two forests are being nlamed in Pal- estine in honor of the late King Peter of Jugoslavia, and of President Masaryk of Czechoslovakia, by the Jews of those countries, the first named to consist of ia.o,‘.o trees and the Masarvk Woods of 0.000 this port. Eight- Hour nght Shnfl Allows but Four Hours Sleep, Reported Somewhere in America there is a |drab and unromantic army of 100,000 | women, battalions of whom each night |invade the gigantic office buildings of American cities, scrub, scour, sweep and clean while the rest of the world sleeps. In the morning they are gone and the only trace is that they, like busy gnomes, have carried away all of the dirt, waste paper and refuse left by a busy workaday world This silent army was described at the twenty-third annual convention of the National Association of Building Own- ers and Managers by A. G. Schille of Seattle, who discussed the army not only in the light of its economic con- siderations, but as a sociological prob- lem as we! “When these women report to a building for work 2t night they have, in most cases, already put in a day’s work in their homes,” said Mr. Schille. “The energy they have left to sell us is a smali percentage of the total they would be capable of delivering were they start- ing out fresh in the morning after a good night's rest “Married women who work at night obtain about four and one-half hours sleep in the day time, according to the findings of the New Yori State factory investigating committee. 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