Evening Star Newspaper, October 10, 1936, Page 29

REAL DEEDS IN FAIRFAX AGAIN SET MARK Building Permits Climb $22,975 Over Last Month’s Figure. @pecial Di-patch to The Star. FAIRFAX, Va., October 10.—While the recordation of deeds and trusts in Fairfax County for the month of Sep= tember, for the fourth time this year, soared to the highest figure for any previous month in the history of the county, the volume of building per- mits climbed $22,975 over the figure for the past month. County Clerk John M. Whalen re- Jported that 449 such instruments were recorded in his office during Septem- ber, exceeding the former record of 377, established in July, by 72. Like- ‘wise the jump was 105 over the month of August, when there were 344 recordations. For the first nine months of the year, the clerk’s records reveal a total ©of 2,982 instruments admitted to rec- ord, a figure that falls just 208 below the total for the whole of 1935. That year recordations were in the aggre- gate of 3,190. The total for the first three quarters of 1935 was 2,302 recordations. The increase in land transactions this year has been steady, in that each month has shown a substantial jump over the corresponding month fn 1935. The past month, however, showed a considerable boost in me- chanic's liens, probably a flareback from extensive building operations. No exact figures were available as to the total number of mechanic’s liens, ESTATE. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., Parsonage of Lewis Memorial Church New parsonage of the Lewis Memorial Methodist Protestant Church at 320 Hamilton street, It was built by Allen Minnix and designed by Wenner & Fink, Philadelphia architects. property adjoins the corner of Kansas avenue and Hamilton street, where the new Lewis Me« morial Church is under construction. Rev. J. Albert Trader is pastor. The —Star Staff Photo. but the number sharply exceeded any former month. Commissioner of the Revenue James *U. Kincheloe listed building permits | for September in the nggregate_of $93,575, bringing the total for the nine months period over the half-million | mark, to $577,071. Permits totaled $70,600 for August. . Thirty permits, totaling $90.800, for new construction work were issued | during the month, with seven permits for improvements, totaling $2,775. One new subdivision, Madrillon Farms, between Vienna and Tyson's Home Modernization Newest Thing in Coal Stoves Can Take Place Beside Handsomest Electric Refrigerator. BY LAWRENCE CROLIUS. The average person at the men- |tion of a coal stove for the home side this unique stove and still feel | | will blanch visibly and mumble some- | no heat out in the kitchen. Cross Roads, was recorded during the | ;im0 apoy; not being interested in month, and the largest single land sale | was to the Washington Airport, aggre- ! gating more than 1,200 acres. CANNING FRUIT JUICES HELD EASY OPERATION| Boiling Should Be Avoided to| Protect Color and Flavor, Nutrition Expert Says. Of all the different kinds of food | hold-overs days. reservation that fall to the lot of 'he housewife, bottling or canning | fruit juices is probably the easiest, | says Miss Margaret McPheeters, nu- | trition specialist for the University | of Maryland extension service. The | acid contained in the fruit makes it possible to use the water-bath method | of processing, and one does not have | to use a boiling water bath, because | the processing is really pasteurizing at 185 degrees Fahrenheit. The juice | from horse and buggy This unpleasant reaction is caused by fleeting memories of the unpleasant coal stoves that used to, and still do in many places, eat large quantities of precious fuel and call | for a tremendous amount of back- breaking labor. It also means that those persons haven't seen the newest thing in coal stoves that can take its place next to the handsomest elec- tric refrigerator and other modern kitchen appliances. This stove was invented by a Swed- ish scientist who wanted to use coal as a fuel and was not content with the various inefficient stoves avail- able at that time. It is now available to the many people who live be- yond the range of gas mains and wish to do their cooking in the most economical way possible. The stove itself is a thing of beauty, having a gleaming exterior of porcelain enamel. Inside, it is a truly astonishing piece of heating equipment. There is a combustion chamber which holds should never be allowed to boil or “anout 7 pounds of coal. The air inlet will lose both its color and its flavor. | to this chamber is automatically con- <Some heating is necesary to extract | trolled by a mercury-switch thermo- | the juice from most fruits, but the stat, which maintains & constant fire | | when not being used. It is therefore | possible to have a white-hot fire in- A special added attraction on this | interesting piece of kitchen machinery | | is a hot-water tank in which is stored | 10 gallons of hot water, clean cooking | water, held just below the boiling point | at all times. | If your home happens to be one of the many still equipped with an old- | fashioned coal fired cooking stove you | | should greet with open arms the range oil burners which are now available. Instead of carrying untold numbers of scuttles full of coal to your kitchen, and worrying about keeping the well- known home fire burning, you can sit | back and enjoy almost fully auto- | matic heat at all times. Marvels of Simplicity. These little burners are really mar- vels of simplicity and can be installed in an amazingly short time. They consist of a shell within a shell ar- rangement, which is placed inside the stove where the coal fire used to Lurn | so greedily. Of1 is passed into this | | burner from a small control valve | mounted on the oufSide of the stove, {and around Washington, SALESMEN ADDED BY REALTY FIRM Increased Demand for Property Seen by A. S. Gardiner Company. In contemplation of the increased demand of prospective purchasers in | both in | homes and investment properties, A. S. Gardiner, 1510 K street, through his sales manager, Otho C. Barkley, has added four salesmen to the sales | force. They are M. H. Stokes, C. M. Johnson, Charles C. Conner and George D, See. Gardiner's office has successfully | completed the purchase of 13 of the | brick homes built by .he Gardiner Construction Co. on North Notting- ham street in Arlington County, Va. These homes are located just off the Lee Highway and only a 15-minute drive from the city. During the past week 2304 North Nottingham street, which was just re- | cently finished, was sold to Mr. and | Mrs. Allen Baker; 2261 North Not- tingham street, corner property, was| sold to Mr. and Mrs. Weldon P. Mon- son and a beautiful Cape Cod bun- galow, located in Prince George County, Md., at 604 Ashland avenue, was sold to Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. ! Bailey. | Due to its unique design the burner | requires no wick or other combustion | aiding material, the heat from the burning oil causing a vaporization pro- cess, turning the oil into a gas, which electric lighter swings into action, and very shortly the wick is burning merrily. STORES ADOPTING STANDARD GOLORS Different Types of New York Businesses Take on Char- acteristic Hues. Epecial Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, October 10.—Color and variety are being added daily to New York street vistas by cleverly painted store fronts. Much serious thought is devoted to correct color schemes these days, for the advertising as well as the artistic value of various colors is carefully weighed. The red fronts of & popular chain of grocery stores and ubiquitous 5-and-10-cent emporiums have long been useful landmarks to the shopper, but only recently have other businesses begun to recognize how much the painter can help in increasing their sales, Some colors seem to be naturally re- SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1936. lated to certain types of businesses. White fronts for candy stores with black or red lettering, for example, suggests certain festivity and purity of product to candy buyers. The florist’s shop is distinguished from more utilitarian stores by light Spring green with white lettering. Tavern-Like Fronts. Smart, but rather informal, lunch places create a contrast with their urban surroundings by using the rustic wood finish of the old-time tavern outside as well as in. The natural wood is somewhat darkened by stain and then protected by waterproof varnish. Onme such eating place in the Grand Central zone has its pine- paneled exterior realistically grained and its cut-out wooden letters painted vermilion. The discolored brick facade of a furniture store has been transformed into a business-bringing front by re- newing the red of the bricks with paint and making the trim white. This gives a Colonial background for the period furniture in the windows, Beauty Parlor Tones Soft. Beauty parlor fronts are usually delicate in hue, and white is also a favorite color for such shops. The fronts of tobacco stores have long been red, but brown, contrasted with REAL ESTATE. a lighter shade—as selected for a small shop on upper Madison avenue— gives distinction ana suggesis tne product sold. Silver, accentea by black, provides a dignified and appro- priate front for a small jewelry store which has to make itself noticed among many other shops on a West Side avenue. At present it seems to be the vogue to paint the sign above the show win- dow the same shade as the rest of the shop front—with a contrasting color for the lettering. White -signs with black lettering are effective with any store-front color, Orange with black lettering and blue with white are other attractive combinations which show distinctly. ‘The new method of financing such repainting through the painting con- tractor or dealer, and paying for it monthly out of the increased business the improvements attract is being utilized by a constantly growing num- ber of business men. Rubber Bottle Leakless. A new rubber bottle for either hot or ice packs has a simple non-leaking closure, no stopper or cap to lose. Its opening is wide enough for sizable ice cubes. THIS IS PROBABLY THE CITY’S MOST INTERESTING AND UNUSUAL HOME NOW OPEN—SEE IT! Furnished and On Displa 5801 Wilson Lane A custom-built, non-stereotyped home, individually styled with many unusual features emphasizing good design and faithful reproduction of a true Colonial residence. Eight rooms—four bed rooms, plus an additional room suit- able for dressing room, sewing room or nursery; two comglete baths, basement lavatory, basement game room, laundry and double-car garage. The paneled living room has beamed ceiling, large fireplace with fire crane, outside service woodbok and built-in book- cases. The large dining room with its beamed ceiling, wood- paneled dado, shell-backed corner cupboards and attractive glass display window, opens on a screened porch. Tavern plank floors pegged with walnut, a modern cocktail Troom as new as tomorrow, a ship’s cabin bed room with map walls, built-in bath room dressing table, square bathtub, a cir- cular bar and Colonial iron hardware make this home the kind you would like to imagine and build for yourself. The 105-foot-front lot, which is completely inclosed with a quaint rural-type fence, is edged in front with stately cedars and dogwoods. To React: Drive out Wisconsit Avemue fo the Bank of Bethesda. Bear left om old “Georgetown Road to Wilson L d ed e cks to No. 5801, i Resk son Lane and proceed seven blocks to No. 5801 UNUSUAL OFFERING AT $14,500 Y| 5555 Bradley Boulevard *11,950 The most attractive new house in this section. Its location is excel lent—in zone of increasing value, Huge lot. 6 rooms, 2 baths, first- floor lavatory, 2 other very delightful homes slightly lower in price available adjacent to this property. To reach: Out 1o Bradley Lame. turn left about one. half mile to property. s J. Wesley Buchanan, Inc. REALTOR 916 15th Street N.W. Me. 1143, Wisconsin Ave. NEAR THE CHEVY, CHASE CIRCLE 5722 NEVADA AVE. N.W. Within Easy Walking Distance of stores and school at Chevy Chase Circle, Convenient to Bus Line, 'HIS delightfully planned Cape T Cod anmnr of brick consiruce tion contains six Jovely rooms and two tile baths , ', breakfast nook off kitchen . Sscreened living porch” off living' room. Purred walls. Completely insulal - walls. Com y insulated. Auto J. Wesley Buchanan, Inc 916 15th St. N.W. i 1890 Redwood Terrace Located in exclusive Rock Creek Park Estates. One of the most unusual and charm- ing homes we have ever of- fered. One of the rooms is finished entirely in walnut, another in pine, still another Black walnut floors « It has all the appointments needed in a complete home, including maid's room and bath, recre- ation room. On a large core mer lot. It is impossible to adequately describe this !ovely home—you must see it for yourself. Best of ma- terials, perfect workmanship, Randolph L. Jennings, Builder J. Wesley Buchanan, Inc., 916 15th Street N.W. Me. 1143 Drive out 15ih Street to Kalmia Road, turn ‘left “(west) to East Beach Drive, "continue on East Beach Drive. 2 blocks to Redwood Terrace—turn right to property, heating should be done quickly, just | to the boiling point, and the pan then removed from the fire. According to Miss McPheeters, ber- ries, currants and plums make good Juice for use in fruitades and punches. They are made easily by mashing a the year around, never letting it go | out so long as a scuttle of coal a day is added through the special bottom feed container. Hot and Slow Ovens. Next to the combustion chamber are located two ovens, one being a hot burns as cleanly as ordinary gas. | If you so desire you have the oil|| tank, a small one, placed in the kitchen so that it can be filled with | 2 minimum of bother. On the other || hand, you can have a larger tank put down in the basement and a small A Close-in Suburban Estate Just Completed portion of the fruit after washing it, | one, the other a slow one. The smail then stirring over the fire until it{ fire heats up a massive barrel, so that just reaches the simmering point, | a large quantity of heat is stored at 185 degrees Fahrenheit. ( Pruit juices should not be sweet- | ened at the time of bottling if they are to be used for jelly mdking later, | all times, from the stored heat rather than from | the cooking being done the direct heat from the fire. The top of the stove has two hot ‘but sugar may be added at the rate | plates, one at such a temperature of one cup to a gallan of juice if the I Juice is to be used for drinks. The | sugar helps to retain the color and | that water can be brought to the boiling point in 10 seconds; the other plate is more moderate, so that ordi- improves the flavor of the juice but |nary cooking may be condueted in & is not necessary for When used it should be added to| the strained juice and dissolved by stirring just before the juice is re- heated for bottling. FIRST SHOWING A Beautiful Georgian Colonial Home in Alexandria’s Most Exclusive Section. Tms new home is situated on the highest point of King Street Hill, with an un- obstructed view of the Clg' of Washington, Potomac River and Valley for miles. This ice and only the finest workmanshi home is not built to a Y preservation. | simmering sort of way. The entire stove is surrounded with a covering of insulation 5 inches thick, and the hot plates on top are covered with special insulating lids . .. 4 large bedrooms, 2 baths and servant’s toilet, large li lace; beautiful dining room with built-in corner cupboard. M aundry room. Lot 60x100, attractively landscal grass sod. Expensive Du-brick construction, furred walls throughout, insulated, con- cealed radiation, circulating hot-water furnace and oil burner. Buckingham slate roof, all metal 16-0z. copper guttering, downspoutsand flashings; copj garage with overhead doors. All solid brass Yale hardware. Weatherstripped and caulked. We invite you to inspect this home and compare i it with any other $15,000 house, but our price is OPEN "~ daily and Sunday ‘til 9 P. M. JOHN F. GARRETT CO. 102 South Wash. St. *12,500 OWNERS-BUILDERS with shrubbe: electric pump placed near the stove || | burner to pull the necessary ofl up-|| | stairs. The burner works by gravity, | hence it is necessary to supply oil from a point a little higher than the burner itself. Oil stoves now in operation using wicks can be converted to fully auto= matic devices by means of a clever electric lighter, invented, no doubt, back-breaking lighting process. This little lighter consists of an electric placed around the usual wick mecha- nism. When you desire heat from | your stove you press a switch, the and materials were used. room, 14.6x24, with fire- ern de luxe kifchen with and genuine blue- r water pipes; attached TO INSPECT: Drive to Alez- andria to Masonic Memorial, right on King Street, 5 blocks to home. Ph. Alex. 2938 by some irate user who tired of the || heater element which is || fully commodious, Offered 738 15th Giant shade trees sheltering Corner of Bradley Lane & Connecticut Avenue—Opposite Chevy Chase Club This Picturesque Old Southern Colonial Amid its wooded setting and spacious lawns of approximately 2% acres — offers the unusual in simple charm. Every advantage of a country estate and yet within 20 min- utes’ drive of the White House. It is cheer- thoroughly modern and especially well planned for entertaining. — a stately old Mansion Vistas—W alks—Gardens Children’s Play House 4.Car Garage at One-Half its original sale price Inspect: Today—2 to 6 p.m. Sunday—I0 am. to 6 p.m. THOMAS J.FisHER & OMPANY INCORPORATED REAL ESTATE,LOANS AND INSURANCE St. N.W. Dlstrict 6830 delightfully appointed, | R Wesley Buchanan, Inc. | 5355 32nd St.| NW. Chevy Chase, D. C. A Few Steps From Military Road This charming new home is of- fered for the first time. It is located in that most convenient section with high elevation, close to transportation, and is of quality construction. All brick with Bangor slate roof, furred walls, copper gutters and downspouts. 6 rooms, 2 baths, finished attic, com- | pletely insulated, outomatic heat, detached garage. PRICE $11,950 REALTOR 916 15th Street N.W. Me. 1143, 607 Pickwick Lane In Rollingwood, Maryland This is one of the most charm- ing homes in this most desirable residential community, assur= ing protected environment. The lot is covered with many large shade trees, and the house must be inspected to appreciate its charm. It is of stone and brick construction with such pleasing arrangement of rooms that it makes an ideal home in which to live. It is worthy of your careful inspection and we feel sure you will be pleased with its unique detail. The price will surprise you. Built by Randolph L. Jennings Drive out Conn, ve to East St.to Summit, lejt_ on 'Summit to Pickwick Lane and property, J. Wesley Buchanan, Inc. REALTOR 916 15th Street N.W., . Met. 1143,