Evening Star Newspaper, May 29, 1937, Page 23

REA L ESTATE. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. G, SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1937. LARGE AND SMALL CITIES BUILDING Activity Prominent in Places Where Savings Funds Are Higher. The 14 largest cities, plus those which range from 10,000 to 100,000 in population, are the champion home builders this year and have incressed their percentage of the total resi- dential construction substantially over last year. The United States Building and Loan League, analyzing the trends of home building as revealed in the Bu- reau of Labor Statistics, draws parallels between the location of the bulk of savings and loan association assets in the Nation and the rising tide of home building. The cities over 500,000 and the smaller cities under 100,000 have between 54 and 55 per cent of all savings and loan resources in the country and they are putting up about 75 per cent of this year’s new homes. Approximately $1,481,000,000 of building and loan assets are in the largest cities, and another $1,726,000,~ 000 are in the smaller group of cham- plon builders. A further item in the parallel is the fact that 141 of the 644 associa- tions which have been chartered in | the last three years are in these lwo groups of cities. Other Cities Drop. Harold T. Donaldson, president of the league, calls attention to the de- crease in percentage of new home building taking place in the group of cities between 100,000 and 500,000. During the two months of 1936 theirs ‘was about 23 per cent of the total of new dwelling units erected, and this year it has dropped to 16 per cent, according to the Bureau of Labor’s first two months’ count. An equally significant drop has taken place in the percentage of the new building in towns under 10,000, but is not con- | sidered so baffling. “The lick of a tendency to ex- pend, on the part of most small towns, would make it simpler for them to supply their housing needs in a year or two of building and then to taper off in comparison with the increasing activity of population centers. This can scarcely be the explanation in the cities between 100,000 and 500,- | 000,” he claims. Rising Costs a Factor. “Opinion of the savings and loan executives in many of these cities is that rising: building costs have struck them much more heavily than they have so far affected the cities smaller than 100,000,” the league president #aid. “The still larger cities are meet- ing that emergency by increasing their percentage of apartment buildings to total residential construction, when compared with last year. For in- stance the total residential building in the first two months of this year included 37.27 per cent apartment units, as compared with 34.3 per cent Meadow Lane Home Sold Atlractwe home at 6316 Meadow lane, Chevy Chase, Md., which has been sold to an unannounced purchaser by the Edw. H. Jones & Co., Inc., for Mr. and Mrs. Emmet G. Dougherty, owners. There are 8 rooms and 2 baths in the house. —Star Staff Photo. BY DOROTHY DUCAS AND ELIZABETH GORDON. UGS are the bane of our balmy Summer nights—gnats, mos- quitoes, moths, all the tiny winged creatures of the dark, who do nothing to enhance the ro- mance of the season. Banish them from your porch with a lamp that draws them irresistibly to electrocution! The response of insects to light is called phototropism, which means that something more than curiosity lures the little bugs to their doom. Insects are incapable of resisting luminous attraction, once the rays coming from the heart of a light strike the sen- sitive regions within their small bodies. | Their muscles automatically become | active and direct them toward the light source, with the same mysterious finality of a photo-electric cell. You can take advantage of this law of nature with definite addition of charm to your porch or terrace, for the lamp which practices electracide is made of good looking bronze, with nothing gruesome looking about its electrified bars. Indeed, the lamp provides excellent light for reading or a subdued glow, whichever you prefer, while operating relentlessly to dispose of unwelcome sbeetles, worms, eel flies, midges, borers and caterpillars—to mention just a few of the families which are its enemies. The only bug it won't guarantee to kill is the house fly. For him you have | to have electri..ed screens, which are | made by the same company who | for like period of last year. “Even two-family homes which still | lag behind the parade for home build- ing, in general have taken an upward turn from 4.56 per cent of early last year's total to 6.1 per cent of this year's. Both of these increases have come in the very large cities rather than in the group between 100,000 and 500,000. The latter class of cities is &till fighting the battle of home con- struction against the increasing odds of one-family home building costs.” Donaldson also thinks that even more of the home building can be traced to metropolitan areas than these figures first indicate. So many of the suburbs of the largest cities are listed in the census as towns of 10,000 up to 60,000 and 70,000 that the building going on here would come technically within the smaller group of cities, but would actually be part of the metropolitan area building trend. Many of the newly chartered savings and loan institutions are in the subur- ban towns which previously depended | entirely upon the central city finan- | cial district for their home mortgage | money, he said. MATERIAL TEST SLATED | Architects, builders and Govern- ment housing officials have been in- vited to attend a demonstration of the usage of “Insulite” building ma- terials and to inspect a novel air- conditioning plant next Wednesday afternoon at 6903 Brookville road, Chevy Chase, Md. The demonstration will be held at the home of which M. V. Engelbach, builder, is erecting for himself in the Rollingwood section of Chevy ‘Chase. Sponsors of the demonstration are the Hudson Supply Co. and the Insulite Co. A test will be made showing the comparative strength of a wall sheathed with wood and one sheathed with a material called “Buildrite.” A wall section of each type will be constructed on a test frame. Then tons of pressure will be applied until one or both walls makes the lights. There isn't enough | current in the screen or lamp to harm | a human or domestic animal, however, | 50 you need not worry about the baby | or Fido if you install either one. You can get complete screen doors of this electrified material, too. All sorts of lamps are available with the translucent globe that projects through a catch-pan to cut short the song of the flying pests who sing in your ears, to a constant rhythm of face and arm slapping. Stand on pedestals and can be carried from' porch to as far out as the lawn as | your extension cord allows. Others hang from hooks in the celling or from supporting brackets on the wall. The lamps range in price from | $6.25 for & junior veranda model all ,‘ the way up to $50 for a 220-volt | multiple model. The screens must be | ordered to exact size, at so much a : square inch, with the cost of a trans- | —_— Priced Low To Sell Quickly 307 BRADLEY BLVD. Bethesda NEW CORNER BRICK HOME 3 large bed rooms, 2 baths. Large living and dining room, den and lavatory on first floor. Beautiful kitchen with built-in cabinets, automatic gas heat, furred walls, weather-stripped and screened. On beautiful wide boulevard. These are only a few of the many features embodied in this home. Open Daily and Sunday Drive out Wis. Ave. to Brad- ley Lane, turn west on Brad- ley Blvd. 2 blocks to home. Goss Realty Co. 1405 Eye St. N.W. NA. 1353 Bethesda Branch 6600 Wigconsin Ave. WI. 2553 are shatbered. DONT FAIL TO SEE THIS EXCEPTIONAL WEEK END VALUE . NEW ALL-BRICK FOUR-BEDROOM, TWO-BATH HOME $11,750 7207 BRADLEY BOULEVARD English Village, Md. Ohne-third-acre Lot—75x190 Feet former thrown in. To give you a rough idea, a screen 12 by 14 inches would cost $11.45, without counting cost of transformer. * ok ok % 'HERE is a saying, in the building trades, that no roof is any better than the nails which hold it together. No matter what material you choose for the top of your house, it can't glve good service if it is not firmly and permanently nailed together. Or, as one manufacturer puts it— and so aptly that we quote him: “The life of the roof hangs by a nail.” There are nails and nails,. Some have an average life in roofing service of only 7 to 10 years. You may be buying a roof which is capable of lasting 50 years, but if your nails give way before one-fifth of the roof’s life is spent, you have wasted your money. It pays to spend a little more and get the kind of nails which won't corrode when moisture touches them. Copper nails cost a few cents extra, but their makers declare they are absolutely rustproof. They are obtainable in standard sizes and in varieties such as large flat-head wire nails for slating and shingling, wire nails, regular cut cop- per nails, large flat-head cut copper foofing nails, cut copper sheathing nails, etc. They vary in length from 1 inch to 2 inches, coming 285 to the pound in the small size, 108 to the pound in the large. The slating and shingle nails come only in 1Y-inch length, 170 to a pound, and 1}2-inch length, 135 to a pound. Special copper alloys are used for nails which require additional stiffness. * ok ¥ % IT‘S a well-known psychological fact that prowlers can’t stand noise. Many have flown at the mere drop of & book or closing of a door, but when a bell rings, loudly and insistently, any self-respecting burglar goes all to pieces. Upon this sound theory rests the latest protection device we have found, a safety-bell chain lock which rings at the slightest pressure of a door against the chain. It is really a very simple gadget, inexpensive and dur- able, and just the thing for any one inclined to be timid when left alone in the house. It consists of a case-hardened steel door chain, the sort many of us have so that we can peer out and see who's calling before we open our door wide. The chain is connected with a hand-wound alarm bell, which is secyred to the door or jam. If any one manages to pick the lock, or if SAMPLE HOUSE 115 HAMILTON ST. NW Large l'xving room with wood-burning fireplace, large dining room. BATH ON FIRST FLOOR. Concrete front porch With iron rails, the last word in multiple unit kitchen cabinets, natural wood finish. Second floor has 3 lovely bedrooms, tiled bath and shower, and COMPLETELY FURNISHED KITCHEN, all ready for 2- family occupancy. Recreation room with stippled walls. Automatic heat, homes weather-stripped, screened and insulated. Ample closet space and two rear porches. Cedar closets. OPEN DAILY & SUNDAY TO REACH: Out Kansas Ave. N.W. to Gallatin St., right on Gallatin to homes. Wm. H. SAUNDERS CO., inc. 1IS519 KSt. N.W, . Di. 1015 ——— you leave the door ajar by mistake, the bell clangs merrily. ‘The manufacturers of this device say it should be set so that when you open the.door to see who is at your door the bell rings. Even if it is alarming to your friends, it will send prowlers scurrying, they declare. Sometimes burglars pose as delivery- men, handymen, telephone inspectors, but they will run when they hear bells, all the same. And your legitimate callers will take it with good grace. . The device requires no’wiring and can be applied either to metal or wooden doors.. The bell must be kept wound, clockwise, but not too tightly. The chain is said to with- stand a pressure of 1,000 pounds. With hot weather coming on, you might investigate this safety device, Many of us like to keep our doors to the hallway open in order to get proper ventilation, but are afraid of who might happen by to tamper with our door chain. With the safety bell alarm we can be cool and careful at the same time. 10-YEAR LEASE SIGNED A store at the corner of Georgia avenue and Sheridan street has been leased to the Martha Washington Candy Co. for a 10-year term, it was announced today by Shannon & Luchs, who handled the transaction. A residence in the rear of the store was purchased by the candy company. This building will be razed and the space used for parking cars of cus- tomers. Extensive alterations will be made prior to opening the store about July 1. BETTER 5520 Conn. Ave. EMMETT W. BEACH BUYS CARL HALLEY RESIDENCE Home on Patuxent River Has Farm of 50 Acres—Purchaser to Take Possession in July. Special Dispatch to Tk.e Star. PRINCE FREDERICK, Md, May 120.—A land sale of much interest here occurred this week when Emmett ‘W. Beach, of Calvert county and ‘Washington, bought the home of Carl Halley, on the Patuxent River, near Battle Creek, this county. The estate is an attractive one, consisting of an 1l-room house on & farm of 50 acres, and was first owned by the late Capt. Thomas Q. Hance and Mrs. Hance. Mrs. Hance sold it to Halley a few years past. Beach and his family expect to take possession early in July. Beach, a native of Luray, Va., has been a resident of Calvert for a number of years, living at Parker's Wharf, in a cottage development. The past Winter, with his family, he has been staying in Washington, and the day after Christmas last, his residence at Parker's Wharf was destroyed by fire. . Star Home. (Continued from First Page.) meals there without passing through the ' living room. Cabinets on Four Sides. The kitchen will prove particularly attractive to women visitors. Kitchen VALUES OPEN SATURDAY, SUNDAY AND MONDAY $8,450 414 Turner St., Chevy Chase, Md. East of Brookeville Road 6 rooms, bath, garage, paved street $10, 6807 47th St., Leland, Chevy Chase, Md. At the Corner of Elm Street 6 rooms, bath, garage, paved street; large corner lot; near schools $16, 3033 Ordway Street N.W. New center-hall colonial, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, walnut den, recreation room, automatic heat, $24, 8 Primrose St., Chevy Chase, Md. Opposite Chevy Chase Club Gentleman's suburban home, four bedrooms, two baths, two bedrooms and bath on 3rd floor, two-car garage, especially suited for entertaining. Grounds 100x140 beautifully landscaped. EDW. H. JONES & CO., Exclusive Agents 250 750 high elevation 500 Inc. Cleveland 2300 REAL ESTA TE. cabinets finished in ivory and trimmed with & small cherry-red motif are bullt in on four sides of the room. | All kitchen equipment is electric. o The master’s suite of bed room, bath and two closets, is placed above the living room. Two other bed rooms, one to serve as a guest room and the other as a child’s room, and a large main bath, complete the second-floor plan. From the child's room a door opens into the back hall leading to the maid’s quarters. The maid’s room and tiled bath are above the garage, and may also be reached by a stair- way leading from the back porch. ‘The house will be open to the public for 30 days under auspices of 'The | Star. It may be visited each day from 10 am. until 9 pm. The house may be reached by driving out Wiscon- sin avenue past the District line to | Dorset avenue at Somerset. Turn left on Dorset avenue and drive approxi= mately a half mile to Brookside drive. The house occupies the corner of | Dorset avenue and Brookside drive. Mill Wages Raised. To avoid disputes resulting from | increased living costs Japanese cot- | ton mills in China have voluntarily | raised wages of mill hands. Beautiful New Brick Bungalow 5001 Westway Circle $500 Cash Balance Like Rent € roems. bath, floored attic, -1 "construction, large lot. Bidh SHevairen Drive out Mass. Ave. to Western Cir- cle. right on Western Ave. 3 blocks and qurn left on Bavard Blud. to West- way <urcle, then left to sample house. - =1 BAKER — DI. 1311 1420 K St. N.W. JUST COMPLETED 7225 Bradley Boulevard Here is value! for ease in housekeeping. A Bradley Boulevard location, and a truly fine home—five rooms and bath—and planned The spacious living room with open fireplace, two bedrooms with a tile bath, luxury kitchen, open porch surrounded with delightful shrubbery, plus g finished attic that is equipped for TO REACH: ley Blod. Le; | Investment Bldg. a bath and two bedrooms. Built by Walker & Prescott Lane ond aboxt two hundred yards past Wilsom Open for Inspection Sunday and Daily to 9 P.M. Ost Comwecticut Ave. to Brad- ft om Bradley Blvd. to Wilson Lane to property. WOODBINE Chevy Chase, Maryland A Community of Fine Homes Certainly an opportunity exists here for the wise purchaser. Built*on last Fali’s contracts, these beautiful homes are priced $1,000 to $1,500 below today’s costs EXHIBIT HOME No. 19 East Woodbine St. 3 and 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, breakfast room, library, and complete bath on Ist floor. Bryant air conditioning. $12,500 to $13,950 THIS IS AN ELECTRIC KITCHEN HEALTH HOME OPEN DAILY AND SUNDAY Drive out Conn. Ave. to Woodbine St—a few squares beyond the Chevy Chase Clud —turn right one square to property. Owner—M. B. SWANSON— Builder E. B. Toole—Represestative "It Has Paid You to Wait! Here’s Branwill Park’s Star Home —In the Prettiest Section of Sligo Park. First Showing OF A SMALLCOUNTRY ESTATE Adjoining ' Kenwoood ITUATED on a magnificent wooded lot with over an acre of ground, this lovely new home will instantly appeal to the most fastidious home-seeker. The first floor contains very large hall, living room, dining room, butler’s pantry, kitchen, breakfast room, library, two fireplaces, many large closets,.lava- tory and dressing room. ECOND floor has two master bedrooms with private bath each—two addi- tional bedrooms with connecting bath. On this floor there are ninel closets. Also servant’s quarters and bath. The living room and dining room open on a 50-foot Flagstone terrace, commanding a wonderful scenic view. There is a two-car garage. OPEN DAILY A SURPRISE AND SUNDAY AWAITS YOU To reach: Out Wisconsin Avenue to-Bradley Boulevard, left on Bradley Boulevard to first road to the left beyond the entrance to-Kenwood (Goldboro Road), left on Goldboro Road to property Bedroom or Library and Bath on First Floor 295 Wire Avenue—$8,450 De get out to see it tomorrow—or Decoration Dey—for it's going to be snapped up quickly at this price. - White Cape Cod Bungalow, smart blue shut- ters. 3 bedrooms and 2 baths (1 bedroom and bath of first floor). Detached brick garage. Equipment will include oil or gas heat as the buyer chooses. 80 ft. wide lot. Open Sunday and Monday all day and evening. Other days 2 to 9 P.M. ‘Tune in WRC Saturday 9:30 P.M. and listen to our “Famous American Homes"—broadcast. MOSS&ei Realtor Tower Bldg. MEtro. 1776 Evenings and Sunday, SH. 4517 Recreation room, two fireplaces, oil burner with year-round hat water connection, concrete porch, furred, insulated, slate roof, byfit-in garage. Your Present Home Considered in Exchange THS 15 AN ELECTRIC KITCHEN HEALTH HOME Open Daily Until.9 P.M. Less than twenty minutes from the White House via Wisconsin Ave. to Bradley Boulevard, thence left 1.8 miles’ (Just past Wilson Lane) to the home. Handy to Town Drive out Colesville Road to Franklin Avenue, turn right to Branwill Park. 1108 16th St. NA. 2345 Ve