Evening Star Newspaper, January 24, 1931, Page 17

Nt Do, B 1Y, JANUARY 24, fect even the construction of the indi- | Dr. vidual rooms. especially REAL ESTATE. 1931, REAL ESTATE. THE EVENING STAR. B3 lhardt contends. Under mod-|of children of equal learning ability ern techniques a teacher accomplishes | than with a small number differing BUSINESS CYLE | PLANS ARE MADE ' Investment Safeguarding and Equitable Taxes Sought by Realtors. (Continued Prom First Pa_ .) rties, or old properties needing to remodeled to meet present-day com- Ppetition, the benefit of experienced management advice, the association set up an entirely new type of business service, a consultation service bureau for distressed properties and for prop- erties needing rehabilitation. ~ The bureau will go int> the whole situation, including the financing situation and the rental situation, in regard to any building as to which it is consulted and give detailed and specific recommen- dations as to how it can be put into a position to produce its maximum in- | | come return. A proposed plan for the certification of qualified appraisers was formally | brought before the association at the | initiation of its appraisal division. De- tails of the proposed plan as worked out by a special committee appointed by the divisicn six months ago will at once be brought before the member boards of the association for study in | order that the division's committee may have the benefit of any sugges- tions that may be made. The commit- tee has been instructed, by action of the Executive Committee of the divi- sion, to report upon the proposal again | at the coming annual convention of the association, to be held in Baltimore in June. Separate Organization Provided. The plan as tentatively drafted by the committee, of which Philip W. Kniskern of New York is chairman, les for a separate organization to formed for the purpose of certifying qualified appraisers, provides for grada- tions according to experience and quali- fications and would give the certifying organization, to consist of agpraisers of experience, qualifications and character, disciplinary control over 1its membership. ‘The plan provides both for qualifica- tions for certification and for qualifica- tions for passing from cne classifica- tion to another of higher grade. A plan for a new national service bureau for aiding the individual realtor to get the best results from his own firm advertising was announced in de- tail. The bureau has been set up in the association's held%ulmra office in Chi- cago, and within 30 days will send out to member boards of the association details as to the assistance which will' be made available. el NAMED ON COMMITTEE Nine Will Make Nominations for National Association. Members of the Nominating Commit- fee of the National Asscciation of Real Estate Boards for the coming year were elected at. the annual business meeting Just closed. The committee will re- port at the coming annual convention of the association, to be held in Balti- more in June, a complete list of officers nominated for the year 1932. ‘The committee consists of nine mem- bers, three elected by the board of directors, three by the advisory board past presidents and three by the delegate body of the association. They Roy R. Cappe, Pittsburgh, Pa.; P. Nixon, Chicago; Dudley D. ‘Watson, Brentwood, Calif.; Stephen W. Bleeper, Boston; John J. Wagner, Cedar Rapids, Towa; Harry E. Gilbert, Balti- more; Leonard P. Reaume, Detroit; Harry G. Zander, Chicago, and N. J. Upham, St. Petersburg, Fla. ‘West Virginia Man Purchases Resi- dence on A Street. E. M. De Haven of Martinsburg, W. | Va, has purchased the nine-room dwelling at 622 A street northeast, it is reported by the office of L. T. Gravatte, ‘which handled the transaction. Mrs. Blanche Vance, who disposed of her property in the Mall triangle, has rchased the corner brick house at 83 street from Sophie H. Ray, L. T. Gravatte announces. Mary Saks has; purchased the dwelling at 608 North | Carolina avenue southeast from Burr | 6. Williams. The 10-room house at | 317 East Capitol street has been pur- | €chased by Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Whillhite | from D. E. Hammer DWELLING PURCHASED Catherine Ragan has purchased the @welling at 725 Quackenbos street, built | by J. J. James, it is announced by the | office of Waple & James, Inc., which handled the transaction. The same firm reports that Henry O. Ashford has purchased 723 Quackenbos street; Agnes Powell, 719 Quackenbos; Ellen T. Powell, 721 Quackenbos; Jo- | seph Nebel, 729 Quackenbos, and Walter | Wilson, 731 Quackenbos. { — | All-British Exhibition Planned The British Empire Trade Exhibition, | Buenos Aires, which the Prince of | Wales will open on March 14, is the first all-British exhibition ever held in | & foreign country. It will be held in | the grounds of the Argentine Rural | Bociety, which have an ecxtent of ap- proximately 25 acres. | XS ] | Buy a Home i | With All Conveniences $7,650 SAMPLE HOUSE 1825 Bay St. S.E. Between 15th. 19th, B & C Sts. S.E. Near Eastern High School Open For Inspection 6 P.M. 9 P.M. Daily And All Day Sundays Spemstd el Front ‘and rear porches Bath—colored tile and shower Built-in tub Built-in wall safe Mirror door Baullt-in telephone closet Built-in folding ironing board Cedar-lined closet TERMS—$500 Cash $60 a Month (Includes Interest on Both Trusts) Steuart “cBrothers Real Estate Construction 138 12th St. N.E. R R R R R N R R e thtathithhtatethtatattii b oadesataid NEW COLONIAL RESIDENCE . C. CONTRACTORS T . Home of J. Harold McDaowell at 3933 Legation street, recently purchased from Alfred T. Newbold, builder. HOME OWNERSHIP 'BALTIMORE EXPECTS NOT ONLY FOR RICH Real Estate Boards’ Contest Re- veals That All Classes Pos- sess Property. Home ownrrership, even in these times, is not reserved for the rich or even for the near rich, cording to the stories submitted in the “How I Got My Home" | contest being conducted by the National Association of Real Estate Boards. ‘The bulk of these documents come‘ from people engaged in trades and oc- | cupations not usually associated with home owning, and how they have done it on tiny incomes surprised even the contest judges who are reviewing the letters. Required to list their occupations and salaries and to be home owners actually living in their own domiciles at present, some of the people who have “made the grade,” selected as to occupation from 63 letters picked at random, follow: Ten widows (left without income), 6 locomotive engineers, 6 school teach- ers, 6 day laborers, 5 letter carriers, 5 dentists, 2 policemen, 2 pipe fitters, 2 | tool makers, 2 machinists, 1 bench mechanic, 1 office clerk, 1 gardener, 1 cotton picker, 1 ex-slave, 1 pattern m: 3 trained nurses, 1 baker, 1 'pe operator, 1 department store clerk, 1 stenographer, 1 switchman, 1| automobile salesman, 1 brakeman an 1 accountant. Contestants were required to give complete details of the home-owning transaction, including description of how financing was handled. The con- | that industrial REVIVAL IN BUILDING Public as Well as Private Con- struction in 1931 Likely to Reach Large Figure. Soecial Dispatch to The Star. . BALTIMORE, January 24 —Municipal improvements aggregating many mil- lions are on Baltimore's program for 1931. In addition, there is expectation and private building operations will be revived during the coming year. Important on the list of municipal projects is the $6,000,000 undertaking which involves construction of an east- west, viaduct and the extension of How- | ard street, the latter to give the city an | additional North-So uth artery. Another will be the erection of the $2,000,000 Pratt Library Building. The public school building program will be carried on steadily. Allotments for all of the current $10,000,000 have been made, |and something like half of this amount has been expended. There are also in prospect two school buildings for handicapped children. To erect these buildings a loan of $1,500,- 000 was recently ratified by the voters of the city For its water supply the city has under way the Prettyboy project on the upper Gunpowder. The bulk of the work in constructing the dam is ex- pected to be done during 1931. All told, the Prettyboy project will involve the expenditure of about $3,000,000, it is! estimated. Silk exported from Japan in a recent month was valued at more than $20,- 00. test closes Pebruary 1 and winners will | (oo be announced on February 15. PRICES RECEDING Wholesale Cost of Building Mate- | rial Shows December Decline. Wholesale prices of building materials and household furnishings showed further recessions in December, accord- ing to information compiled and pub- | ied by the Bureau of Labor Statis- tics. Department of Labor. ‘Wholesale prices of lumber, brick, cement, paint materials and certain other building materials declined. There | were slight declines in the wholesale | prices of furniture and larger declines in furnishings, the bureau reports. Sales of Homes Announced. | Harry G. Yiengst has bought the| home &t 1402 Ridge place southeast, Waple & James, Inc., announce. John Mullenax has taken the house at 1713 | C street northeast and Frank W. Dick- | erson has purchased the residence at 311 Seventeenth street northeast. These homes were acquired from Hugh A. Thrift, builder An ldea YOU CAN BUY THIS HOME FOR $8,950 A real opportunity to get 8 good home at a low price. 4819 Illinois Ave. High point of Petworth; overlooking Sherman Circle; near St. Gabriel's Church, schools, stores, etc. Close to Ga. ave. car line and busses pass the door. 6 large rooms and pantry: built-in bath; screens and weather strips; cement block garage; paved street and alley. Vacant and open Sunday— day and_evening—for inspec- . tion. The buyer gets a real bargain. R. M. HOOKER Tower Bldg. Met. 2663. | Home 6119 Western Avenue Chevy Ch A new brick and tile home and 2-car garage. spouts, copper screens, metal onvenient to street car, bus, ¢ Equipped with copper gutters and ase, D. C. with breakfast nook, large attic down- weatherstrips and Kelvinator. hurches and schools. Three Blocks East of Chevy Chase Circle and Two Blocks From Ble ssed Sacrament School Open Sunday J. Henry 3221 Conn. Ave. Buy With Dunigan B linoleum and “Sanitas,” 3 large street and alley. Tower Building Six large rooms, hardwood trim, bath with shower, detached garage. kitchen and pantry covered with Connor Clev. 4859 Confidence uilt Homes 20 Feet Wide Exhibit Home 5526 Fourth Street N.W. 4th and Longfellow Sts. Corner Home 8 Rooms 2 Baths Reasonable Prices and Terms selected oak floors throughout, tiled screened porches, Prigidaire. _One block from 14th Street car line—convenient to stores and schools. Paved OPEN FOR YOUR INSPECTION D. J. DUNIGAN, Inc. National 1265 | [ | G0 T0 CONVENTION Two Local Delegates Will Address Meeting at San | Francisco. Eight members of the national staff | of the Associated General Contractors of America, accompanied by Dr. Elwood Mead, commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation, and O. R. McGuire, | counsel to the controller general, left | Washington this week to attend the | twelfth annual convention of the con: tractors’ organization January 26-30 at San Francisco. Dr. Mead and Mr. McGuire are scheduled to address the convention, which also is to hear Gov. James Rolf, jr., of California, Fred B. Balzer of Nevada and Julius Meyer of Oregon. Several hundred contractors are to ai tend the sessions, and Brig. Gen. Charles H. Danforth, assistant chief of the Army Air Corps, is to fly to the West Coast for the occasion. The Washington delegation, headed by Edward J. Harding, managing direc- tor of the association, and Mrs. Hard- ing, includes H. E. Foreman, engineer; W. R. Richards, safety director; Harry J. Kirk, assistant engineer; Ralph D. Winstead, editor of the association’s official publication; Edward J. Brosnan, assistant treasurer; William Ogden, | manager of the association's affiliated | manufacturers bureau, and S. M. Wil- | DIFFERENGES SEEN IN FUTURE SCHOOL % Poor Planning and Waste of Money Claimed in Pres- ent Structures. School buildings of the future must be built quite differently from those of the past, and, above all, it must be recognized that there never will be such a thing as a standard type of building, according to Dr. N. L. Engelhardt, pro- fessor of education at Teachers' College, Columbia University, has completed a survey of the problems of school build- ing. Huge waste of money prevails under the present system, caused by the plan- ning of school buildings in terms of tra- dition rather than modern educational needs, Dr. Engelhardt reports. Too many smail buildings where one large school would be more efficient, halls, and short-sighted building pro-! gflmn roll up a waste that runs into e millions, according to the survey. Radio Effects Cited. As an illustration of the need for flexibility in the building of schools, Dr. | Engelhardt cites the possible effecs of the radio and talking pictures, which ] It criticizes the superfluous school buildings that far better results with a large group | widely in ability, it is pointed out. have been erected in m: commun- any itles. Practically every district which two, three or four buildings would be served far better educationally by one or two structures scientifically lo- cated, he asserts. Faulty Planning Revealed. made in Baltimore illus- ity planning of schools and reveals a condition typical of most large cities, according to the study. In Bal- timore, at the time of the survey, it was found that no school building pro- gram had been developed, that build- ings had been located without careful analysis of population growth and needs, that sites had been chosen Without re- gard to future availability and the de- sirability of the environment, that there was a multiplicity of small buildings with overlapping areas. Larger buildings are advisable for financial reasons in most communities, the survey shows. Except at prohibi- tive cost it is impossible to maintain the same degree of instructional effi- clency in small schools as in large ones, —eeee T Unusual Low Price —for such a home in such a location—new, never occu- pied. 1816 Irving St. Completely furnished by W. B. Moses & Sons An ideal location—overlook- ing Rock Creek Park; just off the Mt. Pleasant traffic—8 rooms, 3 bed rooms and dress- $13.500 3726 Kanawha St., Chevy Chase, D. C. Within one square and just t of Conn. Ave. 1s located this most attractive new home. ITS PROXIMITY TO CONN. AVE., STORES AND SCHOOL SHOULD APPEAL VERY STRONGLY TO THE HOME BUYER. 6 spacious rooms and 2 tiled baths. Garage. Copper gutters and downspouts. Variegated slate roof. Lot has liams, president of the Bureau of Con- | tract Information | Among matters to be taken up at the convention are those for prequalification of prospective bidders on public con- struction work, acceleration of con- struction as an unemployment and business depression _relief measure, curbing of prison and day labor in construction, and establishment of | sound merchandising, credit and bid- | ding and awarding systems so that the industry in the future may be more | effectively used as a business balance wheel. will call for larger assembly rooms in buildings and which will ultimately af- CALIFORNIA BUNGALOWS Zurich Largest Swiss City. 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