Evening Star Newspaper, August 15, 1931, Page 21

REAL SPEED CURB ENDED ON ELEVATOR CARS New Safety Code Will Allow Two to Run in One Shaft, Association Reveals. Elimination of all speed limits for Ppassenger elevators is one of the fea- tures of the new national safety code for elevators, announced this week from New York by the American Standards Association. Approval of the coce by the associa- tion followed nearly four years of re- search on elevator safety devices at the United States Bureau of Standards and extensive investigation by a technical committee composed of 38 representa- #ives of srchitectural, engineering, gov- ernmental and other organizations. Cables and Buffers Tested. In the tests the cables of the sus- nded elevators were severed with rches, allowing them to plunge down- ward in their shafts Motion picture apparatus fixed under the elevators and clicking off pictures ai the rate of 3,600 per minute revealed the precise oper- ation and trustworthiness of the safety devices. Loaded elevators also were dropped onto the buffers at the bottom of the shafts, and especially designed appara- tus measured the forces involved dur- ing the fraction of ¢ second before the plunge was completely stopped. research led to the redesigning of al- most all elevator buffers. Two in One Shaft Allowed. Por the first time the national ele- vator code permits the operation of more than one elevator in a single shaft, thus removing one of the obsta- cles: to the erection of skyscrapers—the excessive, space required for elevators. The coda provides “rigid nlm" to eliminate any ibility of col be- tween two tors n_the same shaft. The code also provides for two-story tars, which Consisi of two separate cages, one above the other, to serve two floors simultaneously from the same shaft. These will not be “one-man cars,” however, an operator for each cf the two cages bel code. Safety devices will prevent the two-story car from moving until the safety gates of both cages are closad. ‘The code insists upon fireproof ele- vator shaft inclosures and fireproof housing for elevator machinery so that elevator evacuation of a fire-swept skyscraper will be possible. BUILDING SHIFTS WITH POPULATION Yower Birth Rate and Immigra- tion Ratio Affects Industry in Cities. ‘Weed for the building industry to gear its stride to & new tempo of population changes is pointed out by L. Seth Schnitman, chief statistician, F. W. Dodge tion, in the Architectura Record. only is the population of ottt prewiog Jarger 1 1 aiao grov- cenf g larger, also grow- ing older, according to Mr. Schnitman. Lowered birth rates and immigration ratios are decreasing the childhood age zum- and increasing the proportion adults. “For the 13 largest cities (over 500, 000 _inhabitants) our population under 5 years of age showed a decline be- tween 1920 and 1930 of 23 per cent,” u:gmthm@y S8 is age group in 1 per cent of the total tion of the 13 cities, while by 1 this group had declined in im- ce to only 7.7 per cent of the in- tants of these same cities.” ‘The centers included in this study are New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, Los Angeles, Cleveland, St. Louls, Baltimore, Boston, Pittsburgh, Ban Francisco, Milwaukee and Buffalo. Since 27 per cent of all new one and two family houses built in the United States in the last decade were con- structed in these 13 centers, builders of all a t and hotel Gone In the United States in the period 1921-1930. “8o as these largest cities are eoncerned, our architects and city plan. ners, our builders and contractors are face to face with the problem of pro- viding a newer housing mode patterned to fit the changing status of our aging metropolitan dwellers,” the writer con- Houses Taken Under Foreclosure to Be Sacrificed duced prices and on easy terms the following houses— 2120 North Capitol Street 3831 Garfield Street N.W. and 4618 Hunt Avenue, Chevy Chase Gardens The above houses are modern in every way and in excellent condition. FEDERAL SECURITY & MORTGAGE COMPANY 1522 K Street N.W. for a Real Estate Loan LOW INTEREST RATES COMMISSIONS REASONABLE COURTEOUS SERVICE Monthiy Payments If Desired ASSETS MORE is | him, gave up her people and went with fag required by the| ESTATE. : Pirst, Juanita Basara, & stowaway brought to Divitt's house. A cigarette girl—then social wedge into the homes of Orleans elite.- There with the marquesa, Divitt's eriminal partner, she had been the o, past, iscious only of the O fiied, et o Now, with Divitt and his in, to. srrested, the pariors raided and the How mi is _her true self— voluntarily a prisoner i n 140 n charze of mur- "Rirk. Deside her, hears JUANITA’S STORY. ‘The guard, who had paced up and down before Juanita’s cell, was ! now. As he went by he glanced in af Juanita, seated on her bed with Kirk beside her. For a moment she was silent, then, the guard out of hearing, she spoke again, “I told you of my mother . . . how she died a year ago. She was killed. Not outright, but little by little, day by day. She had married Jose de Banos eight years after my father His wealth has made him known, his great plantations . . . | “When he was courting my mother he was so gallant, so kind. . . My mother was of the Basaras in Mexico City. De Banos they hated as an | enemy. It was an old quarrel and my | mother begged them to forget and lay | it by. “Her brothers warned her that if she | married him they would renounce her and never see her sgain. I think she loved him. I only know she married him to Vera Cruz. She took only me and old Pedro. Pedro had been with her since her marriage to my father. “Pedro and I watched her die. | “She had been frail slways. Great eyes and heavy hair, and such = little body; like a child's—like Nelly's . Not strong enough to fight and no one to turn’to. . | “That was why I fdught for her. Often in the night I heard her crying and when I would go to comfort her she would say, ‘What have I brought you to, Juan! (That was her name for me) ‘What will you do when.I am gone?” she would say. And I would | answer, ‘Pedro will take care of me, | ‘Mamita. | “Pedro had taken care of us ‘both | ‘before. Once when Mamita was stricken with the fever Pedro nursed her. And when the bandits came he stood guard at our door, and the he was shot, he kept them at bay, and | they went away. He came near dying | of his wound. | “But ‘she answered, ‘I have robbed | you of your people. You wil have | nowhere to go. They hate us now.’ Hatred is a deadly thing with -us, Kirk. I know. I felt it for de Banos. “His mistresses came openly to the house. I remember a banquet he gave to one of them . . . I remember the noises of their orgy as the night went “T remember the dress of gold tissue “I remember my mother. % id to me, ‘Some day I shall “1 said, ‘Hush, Pedro’ But I had to myself many times, “She peace at last. I sald to | de_Banos, ‘You have killed her.’ THE RITZ 1631 Euclid St. N.W. One-halt Square Off 16th St. $57.50 bigh up, and view o(pthe beautiful embassies and homes of upper 16th st. This apartment and view has no equal in Washington. Also 2 and 3 rooms, kitchen and bath available for Sept. and Oc- tober 1st. ‘The best location in town. See Manager. Ceolumbia 10204. | First Offering - | ‘I will kill him.’ ‘No, Pedro,’ I said, and | house was so still. THE EVENING MOON of DELIGHT arel. Bell Houslon “He hated me for that. He nf" me | risoner in his great house. He feared ‘would say abroad what I had said to him. But others knew already. “He knew that X hated him, but he did not know that Pedro hated him, too. Old Pedro, part Indian, who would have died for me, and who said again, knew that I myself would do the thing. “Pedro sl decent food to me in my prison where Estrella, who had been de 03’ mistress and who was still his housekeeper, watched me night and day. Pedro was too clever, even for | her. He slipped the key to_me also, bidding me be careful when I used it. “Estrella had taken my clothes. But once I had come home from a dance and slept in this tower room, not to | disturb my mother. The dress I had | worn hung there still—the cloak, the slippers were there. “It was dark. Par below I heard de Banos' and Estrella’s laughter. Estrella was certainly nowhere near my door . . . I heard the elink of glasses and more laughter. Once a door banged. Then came silence that lasted a long time. T wrapped my cloak about me and nt down the stair. The door of de Banos' room stood open. De Banos lay on the rug, face down. The lights were ‘burning. “I thought, ‘He is drunk. Tomorrow he will be violent. But I shall be gone. “Then I saw something shining—just below his shoulder. I went closer—the De Banos Was s0 still. . . . It was the hilt of a dagger—a little jeweled dagger—shining. “T knew that I had done it. Nothing could have told me that I had not done it. Too often I had done it in my dreams. Too often I had feared that I would do it before I thought. Tod often I had prayed God not to let me do it. “I ran down the stair. knowing that any minute Estrella might come and catch me—Estrella who loved him and who knew my hate. I ran fast. The streets were empty. 1 met no one. I . There was a boat | | Juanita paused. Kirk's arm drew her closer. But he did not stop her. She ‘must tell him all. She would be easier then. “At sea—when T was calmer—I knew. | It was not I, but Pedro—Pedro, whose | hate was even greater than mine. For my sake he had done this—I was able to think. Me they would not kill, even if they found me. Women do not suffer death for murder in Mexico. But ne. They would think, since | I.had fled, that I had done it. | “I reached New Orleans, ~—here—" “I know,” said Xirk. “I have talked ‘with Divitt,” he added. “While I waited to see you. He is here.” “Then you know. I gave him the first name 1 thought of that night. Basara—my mother’s name. It is also mine. One night my uncle came to Divitt's—my mother’s eldest brother, the one who most bitterly opposed her | I thought he had come to You had brought him, and I thought you, 00— ! “I remember that night” said Kirk. ' § We Take Pleasure in announcing that Mr. Samuel A. Young formerly an associate with the office of Wm. K. Hartung & Co. Is Now Connected With the Sales Dept. of Our Organization BOSS & PHELPS (Realtors) 1417 K St NAtional 9300 and her!{ p % Something New in Moderate Priced Home Construction 5514 Fourth St. N.W. Fourth and Longfellow Sts—Take 14th St. Cars Six Rooms—Tiled B Master Bed Room With Tiled Lavatory—Breakfa Alcove—Frigidaire Screened Sleeping a: Breakfast Porches—Garage Open Daily See Them Has concrete front porch, b slate mansard roof, attractive green shutters to front windows, beautifully finished hardwood sink, linoleum on floor, Sanitas walls, best automatic storage gas water heater, beautifully finished hard- wood floors, handsome brass lumbing and heating equipme: 'OMES ARE SUPER. 927 15th Street N.W. C. H. SMALL, Builder '8 Suburban Envirenment—I12 Minutes from Downtown 14th ST. N.E. at MICHIGAN AVE. and VARNUM ST. °* 8\ EXHIBIT HOME, PUBLIC APPRECIATION has resulted in the immediate sale of an entire row of these beautiful before they are completed. THE REASON 1S APPARENT It is humanly impossible to build a home more beautiful than these: to plan a home 50 com| o meet every desire of a wife, or to satisfy the vanity criminating husband and still be below the price you expected to pay. HOME—SEMI-DETACHED—SIX closed Two baths, show Paved street, etc. OR TO ANY OFFERED AT THE PRICE. L. T. Gravatte Realtor Price 8,950 — Convenient Terms ath st nd and Sunday at Once!! rick columns, iron balustrades, floors; kitchen with one-piece uality gas range, electric fiztures and the best nt obtainable. IN ALL, THESE National 0753 4421 14th ST. N.E. homes and two cf this new group ete a5 » dis- ROOMS—Porches open or in- Sanitas-covered kitchen and baths. hardwood floors and trim. Large D. URDAY. AU 1631, REAL ‘ESTATE. Her eyes widened. * Hpedro 1s . safe. I have a paper here, | an old paper.” Kirk took it from his | pocket. ‘It was not Pedro who killed “Not Pedro? Could it Estrella? Do they know?” 5 ad know. Did you ever hear of a dancer named Lolita Guyez?” She nodded quickly. “It was to her gc ve'd‘:e the banquet—while my mother e Lolita came that night,” said Kirk. -fih;e:'wnl: Jum with Esirella, It i T that Gal ' R it e “Conchita,” Juanita whispered, spread- ing the paper out. “It must have been this that Divitt saw. And he told b Kirk broke in. “Conchita said that | Molly tried o tell you, that she pointed | to where the paper was hidden—where the white shawl was. After you had gone Conchita found the paper.” o Molly—Molly,” said Juanita softly. ‘Molly would have told me.” The guard had been gone a long | He_came back now with the warden. They opened the cell door. The warden spoke to Kirk. | “‘We've heard,” he said. “It was like | you said, sir. ‘But we to wait for | our answer. Sunshine. Wet streets drying in the early light. The old market abloom | with cabbages and tomatoes and | strange, bright fruits. The moist, river- sweet air. | Here and there about the old place | the brown-skinned marchandes were busy with their trays of cakes and pralines, The car went over the' cobbles towar Upper St. Charles. . “Tired?” asked Kirk. “Not t00 tired to fly away, were you?” She smiled, not looking up—rested, | strangely rested, now. “Fold your wings,” sald Kirk. (THE END.) “You know? He Losses in grain ‘pecull;lon ha financially embarrassed many firms Harbin, Manchuria, o4 5508 to 5522 Kansas Ave. 8,950 (Excepting ing seventeen Conta Seven Large Rooms, Two-tone Showers, Electric Refrigeration, Auto- matic Storage Heaters, Built-in Garages. Convenient to Fourte FLOYD E. DAVIS COMPANY REALTORS 733 12th Street Convenient to Fort Slocum Park, contain- acres ARTILLERY BEGINS TWO-WEEK CAMP Five-Day Trip From Washington to Cascade, Md., Without Mishap. Special Dispatch to The Star. 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