Evening Star Newspaper, August 1, 1931, Page 16

REAL ESTATE $5,250 1443 Ridge PL S.E. ANACOSTIA You are invited to inspect this §-room and bath home of sub- brick construction, lo- Ia thly modern, fon: " near. nmo?gfl car line, Reasonable .erms to & responsible purchaser. Inspect Any Time by Calling UNION FINANCE CO. 916 Woodward Bldg. National 7936 Ooon for Ingpection Sunday, 2 to 6 P.M. $3,500 Reduction Chevy Chase, D. C. 8 Rooms, 2 Baths, All Brick, Porches, 2-Car Garage Corner Lot Geo. E. Dieffenbach Exclusive Agent Call at 5615 Nebr. Ave. National 8850, Emerson 4117 S O T Y S S NEW CORNER ‘BUILDING PASSES 2 MILLION MARK Week’s Total Is Swelled by Large Telephone Building. 2-story brick and frame dwelling, 3629 Jocelyn street; to cost $10,000. District Construction Co., inc., own- ers and buflders; OClaughton West, architect; to erect one 2-story brick :lw:lshnl, 7706 Fourteenth street; to cost ,500. Harold K. Philips, owner; J. W. 'duru. designer; Markham & Zirkle, nc., builders; to make repairs and alterations, 1628 Twenty-ninth street; to cost $9,800. A. M. Barton, owner, to remodel 3244 Thirty-eighth street; to cost $9,000. Saidie H. Huddleson, owner: C. N. Norton, designer; H. P. Huddleson & Co., builders; to erect one 2-story brick and frame dwelling, 4514 Broad Branch road; to_cost $7,000. Louis F. Peak, owner and builder; C. brick and tile dwelling, 3062 Porter street; to cost $8,500. Max Sugar, owner and builder: George T. Santmyers, architect: to erect one 2-story brick dwelling, 5524 Thirtieth place: to cost $8,000. F. W. & P. Co, Inc. owners: A 8. J. Atkinson, architect; Thomas F. Jones, { lJaundry buildings, street; to cost $8,000. Many Homes Listed. 2419 Fourteenth E. Dillon, designer: to erect one 2-story | builder; to erect two 1-story brick auto | SATURDAY /| Large .Telephone Exchange Building Planned 'BUNHDENBE SEEN OLD CAPITAL BUILDINGS ] | INSPIRATION FOR NEW | Architects Told by Waddy B. Wood Bad“ t Effects of "Trying to Be Different” When Worthy Lessons Are Near. ‘ | | | | | Designers of the new Government | Would it not be wise for all the de- | buildings for the National Capital should | signers of these new buildings coming Franklin’s Advice Seen as Only Hope For dess Taxation Judge Lacyl of Detroit Urges Government Costs Be Cut. Benjamin Franklin’s fictional char- AUGUST REAL ESTATE Buy a Home With All Conveniences BOLSTERING TRADE - $7,650 | Sample House, 1837 Bay St. S.E. Statistician Says Reviving | Seesmeq,on Promin il s & Optimism. Indicates Com- | "ing Recovery. eled w, Hardwood finors aire ker electrie dish washer Or 2 modern fireplace Plnid heai—noiseless i s Eatra Beavs tin roof. 30 a" GARAGE ll»e‘l closet $60.00 a Month Steuart Brothers, Inc. Real Estate Construction 138 12¢h St. N.E. o ! ront and rear s Pan | | | i A new “flight” for business as a re- | sult of reviving confidence in American | institutions is expected by L. Seth' Schnitman, chief statistician F. W. Dodge Corporation, wWho writes on the debt holiday stetement in General | Building Contractor. | “The debt holiday stazement by Mr. | Hoover was easily the moet outstanding | development. in June,” Ne says. “The | announcement, now more than a mere | proposal, brought with it a striking dis- | play of the power or psychological forces which underlie business senti- | ment. {J New Optimism Felt. “The suspension of debl. payments when most of Europe was financially | straitjacketed has given rise to a new ‘| optimism with which to face the tasks that lie ahead. “Obviously, whatever benefits busi- ness may derive from the execution on this emergency program are nct of the near-term variety. Time is the great healer. If the debi suspension plan has done no more than revive confidence in our institutions. banish pessimism and restore optimism to its proper status. then business will be ready to hop off on & new flight, when time has further healed some of the wounas of our own excesses. “Tae construction contracts curve will show a further loss with the July record At the same time further declines ap- pear imminent in the trend of bank HOME Fred Claeys, owner and builder; F. acter, Father Abraham, who advised =3 igner; to erect one 1757, | debits which represents the best avail Built of Brick All Way Back! CENTER-HALL PLAN 8 ROOMS—2 BATHS BUILT-IN GARAGE Nice Lot Stone Retaining Wall Streets and Alley Paved PRICE IS LOW! See It! 5600 3rd St. N.W. M. Ellyson, des 1-story brick dwelling, 2077 Fort Baker drive; to cost $7,500. | Domenico and'Salvatrice Trimarchi, owners; F. G. Wilcox, designer; Peter | Schwab, builder; to erect one 2-story | masonry dwelling, 3022 Bladensburg | road northeast; to cost $9.500. | Albert A. Strauss, owner; W. D. Tay- | lor, designer and bullder; ‘to erect two | | 1-story brick dwellings, 4038 and 4040 | Grant street northeast: to cost $6,000. | | Mrs. Emma M. Vogel, owner, to erect | one 135-story brick and frame dwelling, 3816 Twenty-fifth street northeast; to | cost, $6,000. | William B. Caton, owner and builder: the work of the architects who designed | notable structures erected in the first | learn a lesson and gain inspiration from | from all over the country, to thoroughly | foits” on" ‘the tax problem in examine and study the buildings that were done in our early history? 30 years of Washington, according to | “These buildings probably would be Waddy B. Wood, Washington architect. | the Capital, particularly the older part; These buildings were of styles not only | the old court house, the Patent Office Iauded at the time they were built into | and the old Post Office opposite (at concrete form, but which have retained | Eighth and F streets); also the restored public appreciation through all the in- (arcade on the Fifteenth street side of tervening yvears, Mr. Wood told a recent | the Treasury and the White House. In gathering of the Association of Federal | this connection it is well to remember Architects. Mr. Wood cited the United States |the White House and did it with re Capitol, the old District Court, House and | spect to the tradition of the old and the White House among examples of | Vet made it practical and modern. the early Washington architectural ex- | This is a lesson on the forgoiten path pressions worthy of study and emula- | they reopened, and is the path that we that McKim. Mead & White remodeled | quoted proverbs that should be studied | by present governmental officials and used to solve present tax situations, | according to. Judge Arthur J. Lacy. Detroft, non-realtor, who is occupled | with the movement to lighten the tax weight on real estate. Judge 1 chairman of the national property owners’ division of the National Asso- ciation of Real Estate Boards. Mem- bers of the body are individual owners of land and buildings, real estate mortgages and bonds. Pather Abraham, created by Frank- lin, walked into a small village in the ‘There a crowd { able single index of the volume of com- mercial transactions. Construction Still Dull. “Both as to construction contracts and bank debits allowance must be made for the declines in the level of prices; with this factor in mind the current position of business is considerably better than is indicated by the dollar totals ““However. according to all precedents the rise and fall of construction con- tracts precede similar movements in business. Hence. if precedent is to hold. an actual upturn in contracts is neces- | sary before general business. as re- 5516 30th Place Chevy Chase, D. C. | eighteenth century. reflected by bank debits, starts upward.” (At Corner of 3rd & Lonstellow Sts) Q1 "W "Giles, architect; to erect one HOD should follaw. was walting for t e WAPLE & JAMES Owners and Butlders 1226 14th St. N.W. North 0962 2703 Woodley Road In St. Thomas' Parish Just West of Connecticut Avenue ONE OF THE FINEST BUYS IN THE WHOLE CITY AT PRICE $13,750 SEMI-DETACHED 8 ROOMS 3 BATHS 2-CAR DETACHED GARAGE House 24 ft. Wide Southern Exposure TIOPEN SUNDAY 2 to 6 P.M. BOSS & PHELPS Realtors % : b : z 3 *| Extended Payments Your complete installa- tion of plumbing and heating should be done NOW. To encourage this, we will gladly extend your first payment on such orders to the month of September. N Always Insist on “Schafer Quality” Materials E. G. Schafer Co. 4100 Georgia Ave. Telephone ADams 0145 | Tk k4 4k kA kb S BUNGALOW— All Brick 7 Rooms—Bath and Lavatory Lot 37%x157 #t.—2-Car Brick Garase PRICED MOST REASONABLE Exeellent Location OPEN TO 9 P.M. See Jt! You \Will Like 1t! 22 MADISON ST. N.W. WAPLE & JAMES, INC. 1226 14th St- N.W. North 0962 CE R R R R L e e - I 1% e e e e e sk ke sk ke Aok ek ek I?-swry brick dwelling, 1911 Minnesota | avenue southeast: to cost $4,500. | TIda J. Dulaney, owner and builder; | A. S. J. Atkinson, architect: to erect | one 2-story brick dwelling, 2133 Branch avenue southeast; to cost $4,000. North American Cement Corporation, (owners and builders; 1-story steel concrete storage shed, | Thirtieth and Water Pront; to cost $4.000. | R. B. Behrend. owner and builder: to make repairs, 430 Ninth street; to | eost 34,000, Church Plans Addition. | Georgetown Presbyterian Church, | owners; C. A. Campbell, designer and ! to erect one 1-story brick | ! Jeweler. owner and builder; | M. G. Lepley, architect; to erect_one 2-story brick addition, 3200 Park place; to cost $2,500. | Z. 'Henkin, owner: Samuel Alpher, | builder: to erect third-story addition | and make repairs, 3553 Georgia avenue; | to_cost $2.500. L. E. Whiting, owner: L. W. Giles, 1lrchlm-r: Edward Yorke. builder; to |erect one 1-story brick addition, 12419 Ainger place southeast; to cost | $3.000. Joseph D. Coblentz, owner and build- : to erect brick addition. 1536 North Capitol street: to cost $1,50 Dorsey R. Graves, owner: J. A. Mel- | by. architect; Security Engineering Co.. builders; to ereet one 2-story Brick addition, 233 Tenth street, southeast; to_cost $1.300. " Frank P. Leetch, agent; L. W. Giles, Voicing fears of the effects of de- signers merely “trying to do something different.” Mr. Wood said, in part: “Architecture often has been referred “There is & lurking danger when looking at the beautification of our Capital City from this point of view that modernistic buildings which might to erect one | to as ‘frozen music; but this, while |0 very well in Chicago, New York or | poetic, is a vague and meaningless defi- | Detroit, would have none of the foun- | nition. Tt would seem more logical to dation and no basic reason for being call it ‘frozen history.’ as it tells a con- | here, and it would be dangerous for crete story of civilizations that are them to creep in except in very modi- past. * fied form. | We have a great problem before us that has got to be solved independent “Civilization rises and falls and archi- | of fleeting styles and independent of | tecture writes it down on tablets of individual ambition to make something | ctone for future generations to read. that will knock you in the eye today and | play a large part in either improving its Takes Location at 722- 13th Street ! we learn that we have improved on the | “We find that during all the period ton to Taubman, Inc.. for a period of interested as they were in the begin- |fice negotiations were handled. After ‘lp.x_!lv teresting as the buildings which have | will establish a branch office of its busi- | thing that had gone before; and in our | to Johnson Bros.. Inc.. of Baltimore, for | Let us read these stones in Washington ruin Washington in the future. beauty or hurting it. | first 30 years of designing buildings For Five-Year Period. | which has elapsed since they were never | five years at an undisclosed rental con- ning, and are today, there was no pe- | extensive alterations the lessee will open | arting when this work began to | Building, Rosinski also reports. has been gone before, but still very good. Later | ness there. | day we find the Post Office’ Building on | use as a branch of its radio business. Reeord of Architecture. | and see if we cannot learn a lesson that | - . . will help all of us present. who will| ¢aBMAN BUYS LEASE “We turn back the pages about 130 R years and arrive at the beginning. Do that are beautiful and still admired and | Business property at 722 Thirteenth never disliked in all these years? | street has been leased by S. J. Livings- |out of style; and while there may have | sideration, it was announced today by been times when the public was not as|Carl G. Rosinski, through whose of- | riod, even during our Victorian Age,|a retail business there September 1. | when they were disliked. This does not | Ground floor quarters at 1508 X | degenerate gradually, we find the com- | leased by the Georgia Industrial Realty pleted Treasury Department not as in- | Co. to Footers Dye Works, Inc., which we find the State, War and Navy and | Ground floor space in the business the Pension Buildings worse than any-|building at 1224 I street has been leased | old question: | enrich the present. opening of a sale of clothes and discussing the tax prob- lem. PFather Abraham with “his fine white locks” looked like a wise man to the crowd, who put to him the age- ‘What think you of the times? Won't these heavy taxes quite Tuin the country? What would you advise us to do?" \ Father Abraham said: “Friends. in- deed the taxes are very burdensome. If you would have my advice, I'll give it to you in short, for a word to the wise is enough.” “Then,” says Judge Lacy. “he coun- seled them against extravagance, waste, excessive borrowing. He urged econ- omy, thrift and industry. and advised them against buying at the sale. is rules for the personal conduct of the people of that time should be used in the conduct of the governing bodies of this time. Father Abraham wanted the people t> save enough money to pay the taxes: if present-day governments followed these rules peo- ple would have enough money to pay the taxes. “In all units of our present Gov- | rnment, from the lowest to the high- est, we have violated the truths con- tained in Poor Richard’s Almanac. We have incumbered the future to Poor Richard said that he who goes a-borrowing goes to any other period since then.!street, in the New Southern Railway | a-sorrowing, and we have been on a | borrowing and spending debauch. “The inevitable pemalty is upon us. | In our distress we repeat again and again, ‘What_think you of the times?’ ‘As_Poor Richard advised, we must stop Government extravagance. waste, excessive borrowing. We must stop the ‘building of two chimneys—the endless duplication of governmental units. | GETS SITE FOR GRILL One square north of Military Road. Open Saturday and Sunday untl 10 P.M. Wakefield Leases Picardi Location at 1414 H Street. Business property at 1414 H street. now occupied by Picardi's in the opera- tion of a restaurant. has been leased for & peried of 10 years to William Wake- field, who pians to establish there a Wakefield's Grill, beginning August. 15. it was reported today by the office of Carl G. Rosinski, which acted in the transaction. The consideration Involved in the lease was not announced. Extensive re- modeling is to be accomplished for the new, Jessee. Detached stone, brick and frame English home. Truly a wonderful value at— $13,500! WM. H. SAUNDERS CO., Inc. 1519 K St. N.W. District 1016 erchitect; Louis Kaplan, builder; to|pennsylvania avenue, with its tower, erect one 1-story brick addition, 1511 | porfomitaRR BREELES i Very bad. | H(-:"-m e $1.500. d builder; J, |Stl later we Bacon's beautiful | . O5orge Tehan, owner and builder: 7 |Lincoln Memorial, which comes nearer | S L e;éga 35 rnicty | 10 being in keeping with the Aspirations | f;: hryl ck & . 0'1"000 Thirty= | of our early architects than any modern'| - Eml' to cost 81, —— building in Washington and studied | . G. Irvin, owner and builder: 10 py 5 serious architect in very much the | erect six brick private garages, 3618 10 yay our early architects would have | 3632 Warren street; to cost $1,000. | gy djed it were they living now and had e . & similar probleg:. | Boston Man Named. ““Today, with this information before | | us, there is only one conclusion to be | Stephen W. Sleeper of Boston, Mass., | reached—that, styles that are anachro- | was appointed last week to the Execu- |nisms and exotic, trying to do some- | tive Committee of the National Asso- | thing different, have been a failure as| ciation of Real Estate Boards to fill things of beauty in Washington, and | the place formerly held by L. T. the only gain that has been made is in| Stevenson, Pittsburgh, Pa., president- the fleeting attention paid to something | elect of the asscciation. | queer that eventually becomes a horror. | - e - i The lesson that can be drawn from | o t s that if our civi ition as e | Bood as 1t was in the beginning, the Harry H. Steck, local manager of a|chances are that we will carry on with national plumbing manufacturing con- |& very beautiful Washington. 1t our cern, is the purchaser of the six-room civilization is slipping, which some of | home at 4417 Volta place, Foxall, from | the work sometimes make me think it Waverly Taylor, Inc. The dwelling is | so0, then we are going to spend not $9. | of English design with half-timbered 000.000. the cost of the old State De- | effect, and has a built-in garage. | partment, but $100,000.000, misspent. | TR AT T T ST T e W ashington’s Finest New Close-in Community of DeTAcHED Brick HOMES Close to Connecticut Ave. and Shopping Center. Close to Rock Creek Park. Closeto Your Office. 1 T T We Invite Your Application for & Real Estate Loan LOW INTEREST -RATES COMMISSIONS REASONABLE COURTEOUS SERVICE Monthly Payments If Desired ASSETS MORE THAN $40,000,000 | Prompt Actiow om Applic Investment Department ACACIA MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION . Wm. Montgomery, President N 101 Indians Av Inspect this attractive group of 8 and 8 rooms, two-bath homes.— They are soundly constructed and planned to please. Drive ont Conmecticut Ave. to Fessenden St., turn ome block east Wm. S. Phillips, Bullder PHILLIPS and CANR Investment Bldg. Realtors IT'S COOL IN COUNTRY CLUB HILLS Ine. NAtl 6400 adjoining the © WASHINGTON GOLF AND 'COUNTRY CLUB IN NEARBY VIRGINIA 300 to 400 ft. above downtown Washington and only 5 miles or 20 minutes away! Your Inspection Invited to Our Exhibit Homes . PRICED FROM $12,500 + *35,000 —or select one of our beautifully wooded home sites and we'll build and finance a home for vou. W. S. HOGE, Jr. Sales agent for BRUMBACK REALTY CO. OWNERS & DEVELOPERS 801 Shoreham Bldg. NOW-—Something New! Detached Apartment Bungalows in LYON PARK COURT “Just 3 miles from White House in nearby Virginia. And Only $5, 750 Onc"r:r;:“You Y Visit Exhibit Home 303 South Chestnut Street ‘Think of it—5 cozy rooms and bath, electric refrigeration, garage, city water, sewer, gas, electricity, hof ter heat, beautifully land- scaped lot—surely a wonderful value at this price. Designed for cultured people of moderate means. references being re- auired from purchasers, as we intend fo restrict - the personnel of home churehes and schools nearby. : ey Blvd. (o Fershing Drive and property. Phone Clar. busers_in this development, - On Lyon Park Station and stores— TO INSPECT—At 12th and Pa. Ave. take bus o o e By Clarendon, T. J. BRUMBACK e line—only 2 squares to rty. o1 o to L Park station, or drive, ousr vidoe, tnen via alitary Road or Witson Va. RUILDER AND DEVELOPER Notwithstanding the excessive heat, dozens of persons during the past week have'inspected The Exhibit Home 312 17th Place N.E. Our announcement of a new group of homes always means numerous visitors, persons who know that such an announcement means newer features, more atractiveness in the home and exclusive building ideas. These are no exception. For one thing, they have a full tile bath and also tiled private lavatory to facilitate the arrangement into a two-family house if desired. Then there are cedar closets, hardwood floors and trim, four bedrooms and a most attractive 1st floor plan. The garage if built-in. You know the neighborhood—just in back of the Eastern High School; all new houses, restricted to white and convenient to stores, schools and transportation. New low price—easy terms Robert W. Savage 717 Union Trust Bldg. or your broker Nat. 6799 Beauty Spot in Petworth—A Warren Development $8,750 to $12,250 Only Three Left floors throughout, copper screens throughout—three covered porches hesitate, but, drive out immediately SAMUEL S. SPRUCE Tower Building - ‘This operation lcads in its many advantages, particularly in having the most outstanding and up-to-date kitchen and bath—other features also harmonize in their prominence, including such features as hardweod Built-in in roof—Westinghouse ventilator in kitchen—General FElectric Clock and General Electric Refrigerator—don't garage—soparate ventilator Drive ont New Hampshire Avenve to Emerson Streef. turn leti on Emerson Street one block to the houses. National 9419 Corner Virgilia Street & Meadow Lane Just One Square West of Connecticut Avenue Between the Two Country Clubs CHEVY CHASE, MD. Lot 233 Frontage new-house condition throughout. grounds containing approxim hedge of hemlock trees. three (3) batl attic, m: room, T ory, huge sun room, wide screened , both GAS and COAL furnace, LARGE FRIGI i E ROOF. To appre Giant Oak Trees a beautiful rare ures include— reh R sit it today or tomorrow. house is vacant. Open Saturday Afternoon and Sunday, 10 A.M. until Dark 1704 Conn. Ave, Schwab and Valk Egclusive Agonts