Evening Star Newspaper, August 10, 1935, Page 21

REA L ESTATE. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, RENTAL PROPERTY Excavators Uncover Old Tiber Creek Culvert ABTRESS T0TELL HERE HELD AMPLE No Shortage Indicated by Legislative Committee Under R. S. Lusk. (Continued From First Page.) and December, together with their permit value. The total is consider- ably over double the number com- Pleted during the first half of the year. Numberof Permit Month, al August ___ September October November -----3010 § X places for people to live will have a material effect on vacan- cies in the Fall. Apartment vacancies rose from around 220 in January to| over 1,100 by August. During this period, barely a thousand new-housing units were finished and ready for occupancy. When upward of 8,000 more houses and apartments come on the market during the Fall there will be no question of any housing short- age, much less a housing emergency. No Summer Slump. “Usually building construction slows down around June and July. This does not seem to be the case this year. During May, June and July, over 1,700 housing units got under way in metropolitan Washington; during the first four months of the year, the total was less than 1,700 units, somewhat less than for the three following | months. “Of real significance is the large amount of construction in Maryland and Virginia. Of the 3,421 units started in 1935, 1543 of them—of which only 254 were apartments— were built or are being erected outside of the District of Columbia. For some years metropolitan Washington has been growing faster than the city in proportion to its size and this unusual amount of construction is an indica- tion of the continuance of this trend to the suburban areas. “Allowing for some slackening of the pace, 5000 houses and apartments | will get under way this year in Wash- ington and its environs. About 65 per | cent will probably be houses; the bal- | ance multi-family dwellings. Conserv- } atively this will provide living quarters | for 21,000 people.” Air Conditi oning Air Conditioning Only Application of Old Principles. BY LAWRENCE TUCKER. Air conditioning, as we now know it, is merely the application of numer- ous old and established principles of | heating, cooling, filtering, humlduy-f ing, dehumidifying and circulation. | Strangely enough there have been | practically no radical developments | made since these principles were first | applied to the control of weather in | industry. The old methods were merely modified and simplified, result- | ing in modern year-around comfort air | conditioning. At the present time, however, much ! attention is being directed toward the development of distinctly new and different ways of manufacturing climate. ‘The greatest objection to air con- ditioning for the medium and low priced home is the almost exhorbitant cost. However, to devise new and cheaper methods of supplying auto- matic Winter heat only is no doubt the most important question now being considered. It will obviously be of in- terest to a greater number of people than the all-year-around problem. Covered Coal Studied. Coal interests are working on the | idea of wrapping coal in aluminum | foil so that it may be more easily | handled, and burn moré efficiently. ‘The idea being that the metal cover- ing will fuse the surface of the coal | and cause a more gradual release of heat energy. ! An English concern has granted patent rights to an organization in this country for the manufacture of | electric-oil heating systems. A rela- tively small tank of heavy oil is located in the basement and heat from electric immersion heaters is stored in it. The heat in this oil is then transferred to & regular steam or hot-water heating system which functions in the ordinary manner. By using oil as a storage medium it is possible to make use of *“off-peak” low cost power rates which | ere available in some parts of the country. The heat which is available at all times in both air and water, regard- less of its temperature, is being ex- tracted and utilized by a system called reversed cycle refrigeration. In this system a refrigeration machine of the same type used to cool a struc- ture is connected so that instead of pumping heat out of the interior air into a hotter exterior atmosphere, the heat in cold air or water is pumped into the area to be heated. In other words, the same machinery used to heat a house can be used to cool it by merely reversing its cycle of opera- tion. Oil Burner Prices Down. The manufacturers of oil burners have brought their prices down so that almost every one can now enjoy automatic heat. Arrangements are now being made that enable the owner of an oil-burning heating plant to obtain domestic hot water the year around, using the same boiler and burner both Winter and Summer, Developments are being made in tooling and drying machines for air conditioning which are totally unlike anything now being used. Engineers are turning to chemicals such as lith- fum and calcium chloride for their drying properties. For Sale bv Owner NEW MODEL BRICK HOME $8,250 Open Daily and Sunday To imspect, drive over Key Bridge: Clarendon, turn .h‘l't on North Highland St. to 2nd St. and home at 131 North Highland St. In preparing for the new building of the Acacia Mutual Life Insurance Co., at First street, Loulsiana and Indiana avenues, the huge culvert built over the waters of ancient Tiber Creek, long used as a canal, was exposed. It is shown in the photo. When the Union Station Plaza was built it was necessary to put tons of dirt over the historic culvert in order to raise the level of the land. The first culvert was abandoned in 1900 and a second built between 1900 and 1903. Eastern Standard Time. WOL 1,310k (Copyright, 1935) WMAL 630k | WISV 1460k AFTERNOON PROGRAMS Farm and’flu?n‘eif-lour ¥ Music: Saturday, August 10. WRC 950k Rex Battle's Ensemble Saturday Musicale ’pnoi's Orch. Little Symphony |Margie Nicholson Wash.-Boston Game | Dance Rhythms Week End Revue String Ensemble Down by Herman's | ! [ Week End Revue N. B. C. Music Guild Radio Gang Music Magic Zeeman's Orchestra o 3 Salon Music Today's Winners Musical Adventures Wash.-Boston Game String Ensemble = = 0 Carol Deis The Emperors Our Barn o sl |Rep. Greenway olr Arlz: Teddy Hill's Orch. Wash.-Boston Game |Maurice Gunsky Sunday School Lesson |Frank Dailey’s Orch. |News Flashes ‘Temple of Song [Elsie Thompson Tea Dansant e | Tito Guizar 3 ST Tea Time | Tito Guizar Bavarian Orchestra Evening Rhythms |Evening Star Flashes Leafer's Orch. |Joe Reichman's Orch. > i EVENING PROGRAMS, Sports Parade Labor News Revie 'The Master Builder Dinner Music Evening Album |Arch McDonald Operatic Gems |san Francisco Orch. Operatic Gems San Francisco Orch. Novelty Strings |Blue Room Echoes |Austin Wylie's Orch. 5:00 Sundown Revue |One-Time Opportunities| 5:15 Madriguera’s Orch. “ - 5:30 |Chasin’ the Blues 5:45 |Merry Macs P.M. 6:00 |Scores—Music 6:15 Two Favorites 6:30 |Jamboree 6:45 | Sport Parade 7:00 The Hit Parade Nordica Orchestra News—Music Today in Sports Reg. Newton, songs Red Gresh's Orch. " Dinner Dance Music Eddie Miller |News Spotlight Carnival of Music Charles Benci's Orch. Goldman Band |Country High Jinks \California Melodies {world Songs Charles Neale, pianist Revista Roqu; National Barn Dance 9:00 Al Jolson CE L 9:30 |Dorsey Brothers' Orch. RS 10:00 |Jolly Coburn’s Orch. 10:15 | - 2 10:30 | Club Habana Orch. 10:45 | i i National Barn Dance |Canadian Fiesta |Carefree Carnival Jan Garber's Orch. Eddie Bonelli’s Orch. {News Bulletins Edwin Rogers Ray Noble’s Orch. |News Reports |{Abe Lyman's Orch. Claude Hopkins’ Orch. |Hunt’s Orchestra Frank Jules' Orch. Sports Flashes Slm!‘x.ber I-sour : : |Del Orch. e _|Signom Sign O [Good Night 2:00 MAJOR FEATURES AND PROGRAM NOTES. Alice Brady, famed star of stagelections include * Parad from and screen, will be the guest star Meyerbeer's opera “L’'Africaine,” and during Al Jolson's program on WRC Cardilla’s “Core Ngrato.” Astaire’s rhythmic feet to the air. at 8:30. She will have the leading| pred Astaire, dancing and singing | ——— —— role ":i‘ m“"é;’;‘;&“&‘"qflndfl' star of many theatrical and motion son’s drama, “ e Queen.” | v 3 3 picture productions, will take part in Excerpts from Wagner’s “Tann- Bargam and a Blg hauser,” “Die Walkure,” “Parsifal”| = Money Maker and “Die Meistersinger,” will be fea- z - tured by Goldman's Band on WMAL 1863 California St. N.W. at 7:30. | Open 6 to 6 P.M. Sydner Rayner, American-born 1921 16th St. S.E. 1st floor—4 rooms, tenor of the Opera Comique of Paris, | Anacostia. D. C. e E:th and large porch will contribute to the program fea- | 1 nd floor rooms, turing Howard Barlow’s Symphony | 6 R°°m’l,.“dh2 Enclosed bath and large porch Orchestra on WJSV at 8. His se- | O 3rd floor—bC: oo . th and large porc! 1-car garage Entire house arranged for sub- | ONLY 86,950 T b i RENOV[ZE * o s your lmmai Conveniently located just off Good Renovizing Eishty-six Years housekeeping or room renting. New= = House condition. Open—Representative on Premises 1108 K N.W. J. DALLAS GRADY Dignify your home. 11:00 Eddie Duchin's Orch. AL1S L = a . 11.30 [Paul Pendarvis’ Orch. 11:45 e 12:00 |Sign Off Lotus Orchestra In the Barn Loft HOME and INVESTMENT flats. Entrance-ball type. Large rooms. Latest style insulated range with heat Entire house copper screened. Nice yard to alley. Open Saturday and Sunday afternoon. UNION FINANCE COMPANY 916 Woodward Blds. Nat. 7936 1104 Vermont Ave. DISTRICT 6557 | Phone Dist. 9179 or Dist. 2279 Phone “Eberly's” LAST WEEK Many Came, Saw and Liked ST.CLEMENT SHORES NOW IT'S "YOUR TURN to havea... Real Week End . 'NO TRAFFIC JAM ON'T take our word that St. Clement Shores offers you MORE ADVANTAGES. See for yourself and have a great day doing it. Even getting here is a pleasure. Beautiful country and ABSOiUTELY NO TRAFFIC JAMS EITHER GOING OR RETURNING. You'll find this: Bathing for everybody, old, {gnng, little children; fine fishing; crabbing, ating. Improved roads to property and a real icipal water system; running water, bath and toilet facilities available for every cottage. DEPRESSION PRICES STILL PREVAIL. Choice building sites range from $50 to $350. Well-built cottages as low as $1,000. Terms, a few dollars a month. SPECIAL FOR SUNDAY—Tomorrow, Sun- day, we’ll put on a real, home-cooked shore din- ner. Soft crabs, fresh fish, salad, homemade pie, etc. Price only 60c. Be here to enjoy it. Or bring your own picnic lunch. We’ll provide everything else. KEEP THIS Until You See Us Sign and bring the coupon below. To get here: Go out Pa. Ave. to 25th St. S.E., right to Good Hope Hill and right by Md. road No. 5 to Waldorf, where left on route 5 to sisn 115 miles this si Leonardtown, then right to the sh F PR e e IFREE I houses, picnic ta- bles and parking lot is ex- ' tended to: Dancing every Saturday night in main pavilion. Be sure to see St. Clement Shores. LOUIS P. SHOEMAKER 1719 K §t. N.W. Natl. 1166 the “Hit Parade” on WRC at 7. Two || microphones will be used to bring || STORYFORRAD Peggy Hopkins Joyce Will Relate Early Phases of Her Career. EGGY HOPKINS JOYCE s scheduled to appear before an N. B. C. microphone Tuesday— but not to talk about her many marriages. ‘The glamorous blond actress will be a guest artist on the “N. T. G. and His Girls,” program, and she will tell today's girls how she got her own start. One of today's chorus girls who will appear on the same program is Ruth Robertson, now studying for a Ph. D. at Columbia University. Her specialty is psychology and her attempts to fathom the mind of “N. T. G.” will be & part of the show. * % X % JUNE MEREDITH, leading lady of N. B. C.’s “First Nighter” dramatic series, will return to the microphone Friday after a two-week vacation in Michigan. At that time she will appear in a condensed version of “All Aboard for the Moon.” 1 * % k X A DESCRIPTION and summary of “<* the Wightman Cup matches at Forest Hills Priday and Saturday will be broadcast by Columbia. Ted Husing will be at the microphone. In these matches, Great Britain's leading women players will be pitted against the best net stars in the United ~ | States, e THE Glee Club of the Central Union Mission has left the air for a six- week vacation. Under the direction of John 8. Bennett, superintendent, they have been a feature of the Satur- | day night programs heard over WOL | for 208 weeks, broadcasting from the mission chapel. The club numbers 36 men and is made up of the men who live at the Central Union Mission. They will return to the air the last week in September. APARTMENT HOUSE SOLD 20-Unit Structure on 14th Street Changes Owners. The Franklin Apartment House, 1915 Fourteenth street, assessed at $117,500, has been sold to an un- announced investor through the realty office of Robert W. Savage. Containing 20 units, the building is one of the largest colored apartment houses i the city. AUGUST 10, 1935. SCHOOL LEASES HOME 26-Room Residence Was Once Nicaraguan Legation. A 26-room residence at 2401 Fif- teenth street, once the Nicaraguan Legation, has been I to Mrs. Dorothy N. Christian the new home for the Nelson School for Boys, now located at 1630 Van Buren street. Owned by the estate of Mrs. Mary Henderson, well-known for her pen- chant for building embassies and legations, the structure was leased through the agency of C. S. Ellis. It contains & state dining room and ball room. The school will move into its new quarters September 1. REAL ESTATE GAINS HELD MOVING HIGHER Insurance Firms Are Holding Repossessed Properties Ex- pecting Upswing. BALTIMORE, August 10.—That real estate is on the upturn and will continue to increase is proven by the fact that local insurance companies | and financial institutions are holding on to repossessed properties, accord- | ing to Philip C. Pitt, secretary of | the Real Estate Board of Baltimore, He said: “The number of genuine real estate bargains coming into the market have been decreasing for some time, and many believe that in the near future such bargains will be mighty scarce. | “Evidence of this is seen in the fact that professional real estate dealers | and investors, who were being offered | more bargains than they could in-| | spect a year or so ago, are turning | in increasing numbers to the ‘prop- | erty wanted’ column of the news- papers as a means of contacting those who are anxious to sell at prices which the dealer believes will assure him a future profit. “Further evidence of the upward | trend is seen in a statement by a Baltimore realty firm that it has | been instructed by one of its clients, a local savings bank, to increase the sale price 20 per cent on a list of 23 | houses. The new prices range from £7,000 to $15,000.” | GRANT CIRCLE and ST. GABRIEL’S CHURCH Only 100 ft. east of the circle. 20 fi tapestry brick of six rooms. | recreation room. New gas heating | unit. deep lot, 2-car garage. {§ 414 VARNUM ST. N.w. Open Saturday and Sunday ¢ Restricted. REAL ESTATE Unusual Bargain! English All-Brick Home $7,950 in Cool, Beautiful Country Club Grove, Va. A delightfully different English lyD.—l‘l-MuL detached he e Slate roof. spacious floor plan, modern cabinet kitchen, wood« furred walls, ., bul garage, scores of other' conveniences, copper screening. Large wooded lot—fine shade trees, beautifully landscaped and terraced. 3817 N. Chesterbrook Rd. (Open and Lighted Til 9 P.M.) To Reach Courtry Club Grove—drive along picturesque Canal Rd., crossing Chain Bridge and straioht ahead up “in town” community Glebe Rd., to Chesterbrook Rd.—turn 3 —but minutes’ drive from downtown Washington. See It at Once—Also Inspect Our Ezhibit Home— 3817 Upland St.— Furnished by Hutchison’s, Virginia Gardens Development Corporation Owners, Builders—Walnut $850-W; W. S. Hoge, Jr., Agt. HURRY — INVESTIGATE — ACT EALE BEACH ON THE CHESAPEAKE BAY. 30 MILES FROM THE CAPITOL IS ONLY 6 WEEKS OLD YET IT IS MORE THAN HALF SOLD A NUMBER OF HOMES ARE UNDER CONSTRUCTION Many are planned for the near future 130 FAMILIES CAN'T BE WRONG IN THEIR CHOOSING THIS BEAUTIFUL BAY FRONT AT THESE UNHEARD OF BARGAIN PRICES BAY FRONT § WATER FRONT tors 7 199 fors 99 $Il;LAN£21éOTS$gl;‘H BEASH Pgl‘-’lLEGES Terms—10% Down—Payments as Low as 50c Weekly This is Washington’s nearest and newest bay-front. located just north of Herring Bay's famous fishing grounds. Don't lose this op- portunity of getting in on the ground floor. The title is warranted. Your deed is free. Don't wait any longer. See Deale Beach Today. Representafives on property today and daily. Washington Representative Walter M. Bauman, No. 1 Thomas Circle N. W. NA. 6229 THE HOLLOWAY CO. 204 W. SARATOGA ST., BALTIMORE. MD. Fischer & Company, 907 15th St. or Col. 7260-J. surance in Buy 1512 K Street “Life’s Worth Living With Reasonable Cash Payment. $50 per Month Will Pay all Interest, Principal, Taxes and In- NEW—ALL-BRICK—SEMI-DETACHED SIX-ROOM—TWO-BATH HOUSES 42 Built—39 Sold $7,150 and 7,350 Recreation Room and Garage, Electric Refrigerator, Ideal Kitchen, Furred Walls and Weather-stripped. 524 Quintana Place N.W. Open Daily—9 to 9 HARRY WARDMAN, Inc. ing One of Our DI. 3880 in @ Wardman Home” LOOK FOR THAT 1 W ¢ 4,0/7 MODER GAS LIANL THE HOME NSURES | & Washingten Gas Light Co. @ Geergetown Gas Light Con a 109 West Bradley Lane Chevy Chase, Md. New brick center-hall plan residence, over- looking the beautiful grounds of the Chevy Chase Club, reduced to $19,500. Living room with communicating sun room, pine-paneled den, dining room, butler's pantry, excellent kitchen with pantry, first floor toilet and lavatory, four attractive well- lighted bedrooms, two fully tiled baths—shower with plate glass door, cedar closets, storage cabinets, celotexed third floor. Delightful pine-paneled recreation room, mai room and bath, oil burner, two-car garage. Swimming pool with concrete terrace adjoining. INSPECT THIS FINE PROPERTY TODAY EDW. H. JONES & CO., Inc. 5520 Conn. Ave. Clev. 2300. The Economical, Convenient Way to Borrow Money ACACIA REAL ESTATE LOANS NO COMMISSIONS or OTHER CHARGES except title expense and small appraisal fee A Definite Monthly Payment A Definite Payment Date A Definite Time of Maturity ACACIA offers three plans: One, at the rate of $6.15 monthly per $1,000, paid up in 25 years; another at $6.90 monthly per $1,000, paid up in 19 years and 11 months; and a third at $8 monthly per $1,000 paid up in 1515 years. For example: On a $4,000 loan you pay $24.60; or $27.60; or $32 per month, ac- cording to the plan decided upon. You also have the special privilege of making larger payments or paying off your loan com- pletely at any time. Under these money-saving plans you pay back a little of the loan each month, and interest only on the outstanding principal, so that after a time the loan is all paid and you do not owe a cent. Be sure to ask Acacia about this feature. Acacia loans are available to owners of satisfactorily located properties in Washington and nearby Maryland and Virginia. The $6.15 per $1,000 plan is available only on new properties or properties recently completed. Call at Mortgage Loan Department ACACIA MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE CO. Assets More Than $56,000,000 1437 K Street N.W. Washington, D. C,