Evening Star Newspaper, May 27, 1933, Page 16

REAL ES HOTEL PURCHASES SPURRED BY BEER $25,000,000 Spent in 25 States and District During Past Five Weeks. Legalization of 3.2 per cent beer has been responsible for the expenditure of $25,000,000 by hotels and restaurants during the last five weeks in 25 States | and the District of Columbla, according to figures compiled by the Ahrens Pub- | lishing Co. of New York, publishers of hotel and restaurant magazines | Less than one-third of this sum. or | 7,917,000, was expended nationaliy during all of 1932 for new hotel build- | ings and modernizing existing hotels, | according to F. W. Dodge Corporation building reports. Thus far only the surface has been scraped in this gigan- tic new market for building materials and equipment, in the opinion of Ed- ward H. Ahrens, publisher, and the sur- vey indicates that at least $75.000,000 | more will be spent within the next few, months. What Statistics Show. i According to the detailed figures com- | piled over the last five weeks, in the 25 States and the Capital, the pi cts un- der way or contemplated by hote's and resaurants mnvolve $9 0. A tab- ulation of the figures rted for 1932 from this field invol new construc- tion and alterations, as compared with estimates for 1933 compiled as a result | of the Ahrens Publishing Co. survey, 8t | Estimate | T | $HR0000 L0 | 730,000 | 30000 | 11 S00:000 RO0000 50000 4.500.000 1,100,000 | 9500000 | G00:000 £30:000 3000 10.000 1.511.000 K000 30:000 10K.000 41.000 $7.154.000 The following certificates of occupancy were issued by the District building | inspector during the last week: Home Beverage Store, 1817 Adams Mill road, beverages. Terminal Pre-Cooling Co., Four-and- a-half and D sircets southwest, cold storage, beverages. Mrs. Irene Fowler, 301 H street south- west, beauty parlor. The New Quality Lunch, Inc., 1334 Fifth street northeast, restaurant. Sothoron B. Edwards, 908 First street northeast, bottling. A. H. Murphy, 2810 Pennsylvania ave- nue, antiques. ‘Woodley Flower Shop, Inc., 3516 Con- necticut avenue, flower store. Frances Miller, 456 Lamont street, grocery store. Andrews Bros., 2221 Fourteenth street, fruit and vegetables. James A. Scott, 435 N street, food. Rhody A. McCoy, 900 Four-and-a- half et southwest, wholesale bev- erages. Karl Benton Rector, 2442 Eighteenth street, beverages. Sara Sacks, grozery. Theodore Himmelberg, 234 Seventh | street northeast, beverages. Stanley H. Horner, 1111 Fourteenth street, used car sales. James Worthington, 1520 K street, storage for cars. A. Offutt, 2100 to 2110 D street, auto storage, washing. Stella Atamian, 1421 P street, pool room. Frazee Potomac Laundry, 421 H 1522 street northeaet, laundry office. Auto & Marine Machine Co., P;nm)’l\’unm avenue southeast, machine shop. Tremayne Forbes, 1350 U street, demonstrating and selling talking board. James O. Stevens, 2622 Bladensburg road northeast, ice and beverages. Charles F. Crane, 1702 F street, print- ing offi J. E. Diggle, 700 Ninth street south- west, junk shop. C. e & Co., Inc.,, 345 Cedar et metal, heating and plumb- 51 I ortheast, garage. bia Motor Sales, Inc., 50 H street, northeast, show room for new cars Donald L. Weikert, 1139 Seventeenth | Street, auto supplies. Terminal Ice and Fuel Co., nd K streets, ice, coal, beverages. Takoma Ice Corporation, 329 Vine Btreet, ice plant, beverages. E. J. Remson, rear 1115 Pburtm’mh‘ Btreet, elcctrical repairs A. M. Myers, 724 Ninth street south- | west, public garage. Food Distributing Co.. 315 L street bottling and wholesale foods. Drug ore, Inc., 1564 | Wisconsin_avenue, retail drug store. Harry Shapiro, 5506 Second street, tailor_shop. Club De Luxe, Inc, club, Mrs. Ethel Turner, 601 New Hamp- ghire avenue, light lunch. American Paint & Varnish Co., 2201 New York avenue, laboratory. & Gol New York avenue, wholesale | 2565 FPifteenth street, rear Motor Sales, Inc., ‘Third et, fish market. Co., 1107 pouitry-fish. n, Rhode Island ave- nth street, northeast, stand 1807 Water on I. Higdo 4 S H street, No. 6, Avenue Beauty Salon, ticut avenue, beauty shop. 2210 Rhode Island ave- essen Gorelenko, 2053 E street, groc- | | Robt east 1. Gaeilner, 11 G place, north- auto parking. ssauer, 440 Ninth street, | ats. attery & Electric Co., 1724 | uto supplies, repair service. Haines, 2106 to 2110 New | on, 1824 First street, | and | feet. | trict | water frontage of Georgetown or that | publi 1211 U street, | || borough, Inc., Fif- || 1101 Water | | HEN the modernizing urge comes to the homeowner, usually a start is made in| the bath room or in the| kitchen. This is quite natu- ral because so many of the houses built from 10 to 20 years ago have plumbing fixtures that were all right in | their day, but are now hopelessly out | of date. " Probably nothing in the house | has changed so much in the last few years as_plumbing. The pictures show how completely a | )| bath room may be transformed under | the direction of a skillful master | plumber. The old bath room shown in the illustration to the left was typical| of the bath room of 25 years ago. | cause the house was in a good location | well constructed the homeowner decided to modernize it. ° | He started in the bath room. The old tub, lavatory and closet were torn out and replaced with modern fixtures. A built-in tub with an overhead shower | took the place of the old tub on legs| and the old wall-hung lavatory was re- | placed with & modern pedestal lavatory. | The noisy and unsatisfactory old closet | was replaced with a quiet, siphon-jet toilet. The old bath room had a jog in the end of the room because of a small| closet used for linens and medtcmes,i The plumbing contractor suggested that the closet be taken out and the size of the bath room increased to 6 by 9 Unless one has had some personal| experience with bath room modernizing. | one is likely to have a mistaken idea as| to how much it will cost. Today with plumbing fixtures selling for 43 per cen less than during the time when the| building boom was at its height, and with labor working with pre-war ef- ficlency, any one can have a bath room modernized or an extra bath room in- stalled at a cost which is very small in comparison with the increased satis- faction, convenience, and the enhance- ment in the value of the property. o ! ' 25 YEARS AGO | Local Real Estate “What has been done along the river front in what is now known as Potomac | Park is a revelation of the possibilities in localities that appear hopelessly abandoned,” says a news item in the real estate section of The Star of May 30, 1908. “The commission that has recently reported to the Commissioners of. the District has made a study of the situ- ation in the Washington channel and | the water front south of the Eastern | Branch extending north and south | from Giesboro Point. - | “The importance of the reclamation | of the Eastern Branch flats was not overlooked. The commission also called attention to the desirability of the Dis- securing control of the entire portion of the river from Easbys Point to and above Aqueduct Bridge. | “The scope of the report also in- | cluded the Virginia side of the river | opposite the city and also Analostan { Island as desirable to come within pub- lic control in order that the entire | river frontage might be improved with | modern_and_sightly docks, and _also where it seems feasible such sections may be so planned as to be availablc for the use and the enjoyment of the ||l Select List; Follow It for Real Values in Homes From Our Many Listings We Select the Following As Better Homes and Better Values 5716 3RD ST. ) tached k home. & complete * baths. beautiful Priced for immediate sale consider small house 3RD ST. N.W. 5630 KANSAS AVE. N.W. 4 BED-ROOM HOME BEAUTIFUL LOCATION—SEE IT. 515 NICHOLSON ST. N.W. 3 2 BATHS Beautiful home. s location, Orig- { 300, now $9.500. A real value. See if All of the Above Homes Are Open for Inspection WAPLE & JAMES, In 226 14th S D! c. 47 Special Bargain In a New Home 6024 North Dakota Avenue N.W. Near 2nd & Rittenhouse § EM STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY. MAY 27. 1933. Bath Room Remodeling Shows Contrast TRANSFORMATION CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED AT COMPARATIVELY LOW COST. YARDS IMPROVED BY EASY PROJECTS Entrance Gates, Lattices and Trellises Add Much to Homes. Entrance gates, lattices, or trellises belong in almost every garden and it is & simple matter for the handy man of the house to build cne in a few hours. The home owner who is work- ing on a remodeling project will find that an attractive lettice or trellis will add immeasurably to the appearance of his_home. There are many types of arches, but perhaps the most adaptable is the en- trance arch. The one shown in the accompanying sketch is so simple that almost anyone can, build it in a few hours. The post holes should be dug 18 inches deep and placed so that the‘ posts can be spaced two feet ten inches apart on each sids,and three feet four inches apart for the width of the entrance. The rosts, six inches square by eight feet six inches, then can be set in place, plumbed, and shored to hold them rigid. The holes | can be filled with concrete, using a mixture of one part cement, three parts sand and five parts gravel or | broken stone. 'HOME RENOVIZING PLAN SPURS Gas and Electric Companies Use Models Built Into Trucks to Stimulate Drive. Spurred by the “renovize your home campaign, an extensive trend has de- veloped toward medernizing the kitchen —which is the workshop of the world's greatest occupational group. . Model kitchens are being displayed in some of America's largest department stores. Gas and electric companies have begun to feature them in their adver- tising. These kitchens have been built into trucks so people in smaller com- | munities may know what an efficient | workshop this usually neglected room may be. Large estates and companies which rent homes have begun to beautify the kitchen in order to make the whole house more attractive to the prospective tenant or buyer. In line with this awakening interest in the kitchen, the United States Bu- reau of Home Economics, at the sug- gestion of the President’s Conference | on Home Ownership and Home Con- | struction, studied the amount of time the housewife spends at the sink. Dr. Louise Stanley, head of the bureau, re- porting_the results in the Journal of Home Economics, said the photo-clec- ric eye had been used to get a record of every trip to the sink and of the total time spent there. It was found, according to her report, that, for each member of her family, the average housewife makes 18 trips a day to the sink, spending an average of one min- Bring the concrete above the ground | surface and smooth with a trowel. This treatment will prevent the posts | from rotting beneath the ground. A heavy coat of asphaltum paint is a good sybstitute. Caps Nailed to Tops. ‘The caps which are nailed to the tops | of the posts are also of six-inch square | material and extend six inches beyond the post at each end. The pieces im- mediately above are two by eight | inches, cut as shown in the illustration | and long enough to extend a foot be- |ute for each time. ‘Thus, the home- yond the caps. Pleces, one by four inches, will do for the vine supports on | the top and are spaced as shown. They should extend four inches on each side. | For the upper and lower plates in | the side lattice use two by four-inch | material and three-cights by one and one-half inch strips for both vertigal | and horizontal pleces. These strips are | maker in a family of five will average | 80 trips daily to the sink and will work there for an hour and a half. The new kitchen is bright and sparkling. The sink is undergoing the | first revolutionary change in design in half a.century As the old eyesores are | driven out new beauty comes into the | kitchen. With gay colors chasing away dull, the gas and efectric ranges of | tmproved design take their place along- side the new mechanical refrigerators. The new kitchen is more than a| | household laboratory and workshop; it |is a room that can always be proudly opened for inspection. ‘ R A Use Stainless Steel. In the furnishing of the laboratory of the Government Printing Office here | extensive use has been made of nickel- 'chromlum stainless steel. Turbines Get New Alloy. | The four main turbines of the giant French liner Normandie, now under | construction, have been bladed through- out with a complex high-nickel, high chromium steel, according to the mag: azine, Engineering. naled to a plece, three-quarters by one and one-half inches at both tap and bottom, as shown in the drawing. 1t is possible to build the lattice sep. | the sides, it can be made to serve | square and seven feet long. | top of the gate has the same radius. 1 ) Dr. Gurnie O. Brock is the purchaser of this seven-room and two-bath colonial home at 1741 Holly street, built and sold by L. E. Breuninger & Sons. | sy 20 i ot s | UNDERTAKERS BUILD ON CRAIN HIGHWAY make fast the horizontal strips first. The vertical ones can be nailed by holding a hammer or piece of iron be- | gy 5 stafr Correspondent of The Star. hind the joint. This iron will bend | yppER MARLBORO, Md., May 27. sults if the nalls are only long enough | —Construction has been started here to extend through. A neater job re- | con 8 funeral parlor, estimted to cost sults if the nails are only longh enough | i,””"%)_be;{‘gcg“‘é“ o O to_reach through the two thicknesses. | 'hY W FCERE, T FOL ¢ B O * prin- The fence can be made in the same | ¢ino) ofices at Ritchie, Md. The new design. It is best to use posts four by | ciieture will be brick with a slate | four inches, spaced not more than six | ;oof “adeorcing to the information fur- | L e e e e’ ape | Nished by the firm when it obtained should each extend over two sections of | \iS Perfuit from the county commis-| the fence to help give it rigidity. The | ™ permits were also issued during the | posts can be set in the ground in lhe‘ week to George B. Merrick of Marl- | same wpy as those used for the en- | poro for the construction of an $800 | trance. deelunx. and one to the McClue Rod Arch Can Be Used. and Gun Club ofé Marlboro, for the | A e e e construction of a $1,060 bungalow. of purposes. By placing & section of lattice in the back, similar to that in | Can You Equal This? 1707 Upshur St. N.W. (West of 16th Bt.) . Semi-detached bricl rooms, bath, h. garage, lot 200 ft. d tifully planted; screens and awnings. Just Redecorated—Now Vacant ONLY $10,500 TERMS house sold new for $14,750 Open Saturday and Sunday H. H. Carter 306 Investment Bldg. an arbor in front of the pool or backed | against a hedge. If it is built ]unzer‘ and wider it can be made an attractive place in which to eat the outdoor meal. A simple entrance is the arched gate, | which can be used in the same fence. | The posts should be about four inches '@ ‘This lows 18 inches underground and the places under Sice of the arch seven feet above the ground. The posts are spaced two feet eight inches apart, | and the radius of the under side of | the arch is one foot four inches. The arch should be constructed of | solid pleces and the gate is made of | three-quarter-inch wood of various | & widths, from three to five inches, or | all can be made of the same width. | OW PRICED WILLIAM WILLIAMS ;0 MAT HEATING HAVE YOU SEEN IT? 4,"3 | NEVER BEFORE has there been an aut fected for the average size small home! did it at a PRICE for the small home, too! illiams Oil-O-Matic brings Mr. and Mrs. finest value in fully guaranteed, dependable, high O-Matic that it has ever been their good fortune to The undeniable advantages of automatic oil heat in ington the quality Oil- encounter. your home are numero And the advantages BURNER are even MORE interesting. PRICE. .. SMALLER PAYMENTS. ..BURNS LOW-COST GRADE 4 FUEL OIL PERFECTLY...SAVES OVER COAL, WOOD, COKE, GAS...INCREASES PROPERTY VALUE...AFFORDS GREATER COMFORT, HEALTH, LEISURE, SATISFACTION . . . 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