The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 24, 1919, Page 19

Kirkland, Across Lake Washington, Is Haven for Many Seattle Families SG SE: EER Ss ee Se ae x ° A * ) 3,000 People Now Live Across the Lake in Kirkland | Top Picture Shows the Ferryboat Lincoln, Which Plies Between Seattle and Kirkland. Bottem Picture Shows a Kirkland Poultry Ranch, Kirkland, just across Lake Wash. | which Is the co: ting link with’ Se) an ite, and raising one’s own S amgton, has become the h of tle. During Hu &@ Farrar t Many Seattle families escaping from | ts town alte, b w Kirkland is enjoying the the landlord and general hig w were quickly pur-| greatest real estate activity it has Gost of living during the past two chased, mainly by Se workers. | €xperienced in years. Its advantages Steadily increasing rents. While there are some rented| have been discovered by the home Moupled with a scarcity of houses! pouses in Kirkland. tt is ense eecking public, and each week re and apartments, and steadily mount:|, homeowning community cords @ respectable lint of homes pur $nE prices of food have the te Rurke @ Farrar ¢ he chased and garden ote bought by to drive many people out of t rion fac od Sade Who wi tana beatin, the 0 | thickly settled and hi homes. mmur tivity extends from the water Bions of the city into whe subu ers, net They sel back to the outlying tracts of acre Wwhere property values and rents are oasy terme age for the small farmer who car Tow and lots are big enough to raise make a food living raising vegeta © Yegetables and chickens for the fam blew, fruit and chickens for the Seat fiy use. ~ tle market, because he can reach Stiviktand, more than any other ten.5 y have built ® Market in an hour's time at a min burb of Seattle, has benefited by omes 4 to make | imum expense, Over paved roads this movement, because of superior several hundred families prosperous ating bri¢ ated by | transportation facilities to the com : reial and industrial districts of Se métic. and the fact that large garden tracts within walking distance of the _ eounty ferry dock can be bought e there for less than the price of a i small city lot. People can live in ) Kirkland, work in Seattle, and still have plenty of time in the daylight ) hours of sbring and summer to cul tivate large gardens and fruit trees and raise chickens on the garden fracts into which the town site is di- Wided, saving many dollars in the ‘Cost of food in the course of a year ‘There are 2,000 peopie in Kirkland, @eattered over a town site of 2,000 eres. Altho the smallest size of gar i ‘ ome can buy as much ground as one Pleases, there is room for many more people in easy reach of the ferry, den tract io one-quarter acre, and/ and happy Altho the large garden: tracts on which Kirkland homes are built jit all the advantages of country Kirkland has the modern city con conlences—clty water, light and tele phone. Two jitney linex serve its people, connecting with the county ferry Lincoln. That powerful “boat makes frequent trips from 6:45 a. m. to midnight, making the Seattle run in 20 minutes on a five-cent fare for Kirkland residents, and the Madison st. elec lands Kirkland passen- ters at Second and Madison in 26 ad ditional minutes. So Kirkland js tn quick touch with the heart of Seat tle, and the additional fare in more than offeet by the lower taxes which the Kirkland home owner pays, to say nothing of the large saving made lin growing one's own. vegetables for $2,600 Home in Spare Hours 7 Andrew Nelson works on the Se f attle waterfront as a longshoreman He itves in Kirkland. ‘Two years ago Nelson had ome. Today he owns three acres of land with the nice home shown fn the picture. no . In addition to his Nelson clears wages as long $140 cow, shoreman, month from his chickens tables, fruit and pigs, after the Nel have consumed they per vege all sons can * eat Nelson is one of many who have made good and become independent at Kirkland. In the spring of 1917 he bought 3 acres from Burke & Farrar, Inc., for $1,500, paying $300 down. Burke & Warrar helped him buy lumber terms to build his home, costing $950. forth every day, enough on went back and to but ‘ Nelson hig work in Seattle . BURKE & F! A (Offices at Kirkland Ferry Landing | Seattle Man and Wife Pay - arate MAKES G00D GARDEN TRACT time he cleared in hie spare the place. The Nelsons planted a garden. Next they built chicken ,houses, They started with 100 baby chicks, which were Mrs. Nelson's especial charge. In September they began to lay In a year the flock had grown to 300, ‘This spring the sons bought 500 more chicks. The cow, bought in the first year, is a constant source of food and treventie. In addition Nelson raises Home of Andrew Nelson at Kirkland. Note the Spuds in the Foreground, a littter of pigs each year, keeping for his own rest He is Kirkland, permitted | two | the limits of use and selling outside the where cows and | |pigs are Nelson's land, house, chicken house and other improvements have cost hita about $2,600. They are worth abou $200 per month to him In revenue, food and saving of rent He is independent of landlords afta getting ahead in Let the world. | us help you, as we helped Nelson, on a tract from one-third acre up. We sell them cheap on | terms, within easy walking distance of the ferry ARRAR, INC, Suite 203 New York Block city | the ferr ain. Gen. Bullard Back With Four Medals THE SEATTLE STAR—SATURDAY, MAY 24, 19}9. | nY 2 ETON Secretary Publ Committes, Seatile Real Estate Association, Seattlc real extate has back, + No longer is the aging resi dence a bumlen on the hands of its own Some one is will ing t© pay a good price for it as a home to live In. Neo longer is the vacant build ing tot }oapised porsession to waste (axes and regrets upon It is again an asset, sought after by many who realize that the man who does not own # home of his own in these days must pay the price and move often. Real cullarly ot depression or eral business come wtate values in cities are pe aponalve to the influence prosperity in gen Real estate modity to feel the effect of nd. industrial depres sion and the last to recover from de: preswed values on the return of prom rity Bo, while Seattle has been | Prosperous beyond it# dreams during |the past two years, the stimulating ef fect of prosperity upon real es is just now being Demand has the available felt practically supply of bulidings of all sorts, Rullding con absorbed homes and | struction has increased in volume, in japite of prosperity prices, and with | building comes the demand for va cant real estate; for bullding sites |for homes, stores, warehouses and industrial purposes, a healay and |inaistent demand which ta rapidly }absorbing (he vacant surplus real es jtate in Beattie | © Substantial Development Prices have started on the way to | rec wery of the old levels of a decade when « ulators Himcounted [age the future de’ jopment of Seattle Values of all Seattle real evtate, from downtown business blocks to the outlying building lots, are due for a rine, The vacant lots are being | for use for building pur \y the substantial develop. i ity, which establishes de values at in why come back eturning from the front ing camps are not the *« who have outgrown their ox and need a larger outfit of the war, Seattle is in ex etly the same cor om an the fat jer or sailor, The demand labor in the shipyards and other war industries brought a reanéd ir ai population to thin during the past two years, At th same time that we were speed ing up in the shipyards and enwential war’ industries, the Indu try of buildin anguished | While effort was made to furnish homes for our ra increase in pop is the! [build @ home of his own. done today for very ttle more ac tual cash outlay than was required 1 years The this Hes in the very low price cant building lot The butiding reason “0 of va whether located | Well toward the center of the city or n the outlying districts, is the one commodity which has shown « large lot brinkage in money value instead of » large increase in price during re cent years, When everything else you buy has been prie and hae tr jeent up, the building mained stationary even during the period of war inflation, It ean be bought today on an average for 60 per cent ef the price that it com manded in the market of ten to thir teon years ago. The purchasing pow jer of money today i# just about haif what it was in 1907 to 1910, #o that guaged by the purchasing power of | money bullding lots in Seattle and its suburbs today can be bought for |about 26 per cent of the price they | commanded in the old days Makes Large Saving na that every purch 4 large saving when he buys 4 Vacant lot for building purporés, a saving which goes far toward mak ing up the difference in building couty between 1 makes it possible for him to ¢ & home in this way for not a great deal more than it would have in the old days, The man his own lot and builds can home for little, if any nm the upgrade tn eased from 50 per lot has re comt him who buy acquire a more than hix outlay of rent would amount to, a® that very many are realizing this fact is shown by the brisk demand for vacant lots and the mounting number of permits for #mall houses iswued by the municipal building department Another healthy sign in the de mand for building lot# today in the quest for lots jarge enough for good vised gardens. The war garden taught the average person a lesson whichis holding over in peace times, While it was a matter of patriotiam to grow your own vegetables in war times, it is a matter of gogd business now, A garden space has become one of the require age pureha Buliding Up Lowlands f the armistice found ha to two years ng program, not The signing Seattle from 18 m: ben in its bul a in homes, bu in business and industrial structures. The past six month by n & great revival, the most noticeable feature of which tw butlding bp of the vacant lots to watd the center of the elty. “An is of hills, ahe first the hilltops and the pmmani far-reach The growth of the city a elt ing views Real Estate “Comes Back” NEW YORK, May %4.-dUnited| Preas.)—Lieutenant General Robert | I tullard, second army corps com. mander, arrived today on the Kaiser. | In Auguste Victoria OVerseas, he won the distinguished service cross, the order of Leopold, the croix de guerre with two palms and was made & commander in the legion of bonor Fifty Doyle at base ding Mixes Jane V head nurse ‘The transporte Panaman and San ta Elena docked this morning on lthe Panaman were the #9th aero squadron incomplete; 415th telegraph battalion, incomplete;'114th base how pital; 42nd ambulance company, RUPTURED? 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Singleton [Jumped from hill to hill leaving | | today and ten years | } |was available to do the building ne@| much unoccupted territory between. | Jensary to house them, and as a re |wult Seattle t has naturally out | grown ite clotlies. They fit too tight for proper protection of the “body politic more room homes are an immediate necessity. Made New Home Builders | | There has been much complaint |from prosperous workers of today, |who naturally |modations in keeping with their earnings, about the rent charged for jeven the inferior living quarters in the elty of Seattle, The shortage in jhouses and apartments is responsi |ble for the increased rents, and for ja time the people of Seattle were lforced to take anything they get at the price offered. That con- |dition still obtains to a large extent thruout the city, but it hag had the effect of making many people stop to consider why they should not be: come home builders and own their }own homes, instead of paying rents |to landlords for the remainder of their lives, For the past three months there [has been a marked revival in the buying of building lots, expecially in the outlying districts directly con nected with the industrial centers by jatreet car, and a strong revival in the building of small homes, It is a | natural and healthy movement on | the part of 7 of small cash cap | ital who are escaping the heavy out ay for rent and the inconvenience nd expense of hitving to move from time to time ‘by the purchase of a small home or of @ building lot on which to erect their own house. This | movement means the rapid up-build ing of many suburban sections of the elty which have languished with | little development for years past Needs Little Cash Outlay. ‘There is every reason why this movement should continue and grow in volume, While houses already con- structed are selling at a premium in Seattle, and the purchaser pays not only the full price for the house, but a good valuation fpr the lot as well, |and needs a respectable amount of cash in order to buy at all, it is still within the reach of any wage-earner to buy @ suitable building lot and and desire living accom and more | could | The | 1918 “More Homes” and the cam algn tivity present of | in| | building has done much to fill up the | | Vacant spaces, pecially in the un oooupied hollows of our city | homes, mostly, have been built, with small stores and garages and other business structures where they wer warranted. This filling up of the cant spaces continues, and if the present rate is maintained, it will |not be many years before Seattle, in its central districts, will Eastern cities, with the exception that the larger building lots will jleave more space, more lawn and \shrubbery between buildings. Not only has Seattle's population outgrown its housing facilit but in commercial and industrial ines | Seattle has had the same experience | All lines of industry and“trade have lexpanded, ang nearly all lines need more room. ‘For weeks past there has been an insistent demand for more warehouses to take » of the products of our manufacturers, a de: mand which has been only partly filled by the warehouse projects un- dertaken and now under way. Seat | tle still needs more storage space to | house her products, a demand which offers a profitable field for | ment. | ort of Store Space In store buildings, Seattle is short of her requirements, with the result that a demand in excess of the supply has been followed recently by a sharp increase in rents tn the busi |ness center, This increase has not been caused by landlords charging all the traffic will bear; it has been | the result of bidding for locations by outsiders who wished to get loca- tions on our main business streets, and who readily outbid the occu: pants in order to secure them. Con- struction of a hundred additional stores in our downtown section might relieve this situation, and yet be profitable to the owners. Vacant land is exceedingly low priced in Seattle today, while build- jings of any description sell for all they are worth, and carry a good value for the land upon which they are built along with them, Ii other Small | present | much the same solidly built aspect of | invest: | far) Liberty Bonds Bought and Sold at Market Rates The Seattle town, 913 2nd Ay. Present Movement in Seattle Realty Is © _ Not Speculative; Based on Solid Ground have to act quick PAGEANT LADY TO BE CLOTHED HEREAFTER) (Special to The go buy Boldt’s French Pas- | mun MINUTES ON THE CAR 12 MINUTES BY AUTO FROM SECOND AVENUE tar by PAGE 19 ture gave her it. Vor many ye which memortalized a titled lady rode the town to redeem a tax ing Tom from beh tain or any the gave Cover nt to fully me clothe It can be| words, the land on which a building, prices of ten years ago. In fact, a| m™persommter Lady Godiva in @ tee in erected commands a much higher | stiffening up of prices of exception. | ¥!¥4l of the pageant along with the price by virtue of its improvement | ally well located lots is already peace cele than the vacant lot. Realtors see in| ginning, and the increase in valt » ante is a this condition a certainty that the | likely to be rapid. In their judg || When you think of advertising j market prices of vacant lots will| ment, the opportunity te buy vacant think of The Star, soon begin to increase, grith a prow | lots for 60 to 60 per cent of the | %&———— ——— pect of regaining or passing the | prices of 1907 will not be open very long, and the man who wishes to take advantage of the opportunity to wave the inc 4 cont of build ane ing in the purchase of his lot will Central Location SAFE. DEPOSIT BOXES All sizes, B4 to Per Years. $30 v LONDON, May 24.—Lad j Leastwise, not in the garb that na-| it e rust 0. jecond at Columbia No stairs to climb McGILVRA PARK Seattle’s Close-In Addition—At Madison Park There are two kinds of real estate investments -- CERTAINTIES and GAMBLES. When many promises for the Fa invest in some visionary venture, with uture but of few realities, you are playing a game of chance.- When you invest in a visible thing, where your eyes, and not your imaginative powers, dictate your judgment, then ~ are you playing SAFE. Fix this DIFFERENCE FIRMLY IN YOUR MIND. Invest where trans) alre ste nae ~a i rtation facilities exist—not coming. ly bullt—not going to be. Be fair with yourself. PLAY SAFE. Types of pretty new homes at McGilvra Park. Invest where homes are ower — Such homes as these can be purchased reasew- ably and on very easy payments. Why McGilvra Park? — McGilvra Park is the ONLY avail- able close-in addition. McGilvra Park ‘ig only 20 minutes from Second Avenue on the car; 12 minutes by automobile. McGilvra Park has the best car serv- ice in the city, with cars running at five-minute intervals a greater portion of the day. McGilvra Park has already attracted -scores of purchasers. McGilvra Park already has 4 many at- tractive homes. McGilvra Park overlooks Lake Wash- LOW PRICE some had don’t wai ington, the Cascades, and grand old Mount Rainier. McGilvra Park surrounds beautiful Madison Park and adjoins Seattle’s*far- famed boulevard system. McGilvra Park has city water, city light and all city facilities. McGilvra Park offers lots at REA- SONABLE PRICES; lots you can af- ford. McGilvra Park lots can be purehased on easy terms, or you can buy a com- pleted home the same way. McGilvra Park is SELLING FAST— $80,000 in sales within the last few weeks. View lots, with 40 to 50 feet frontage, on paved or graded streets, can be OW at $800 to $1,000 a lot. McGILVRA ARE BOUND TO ADVANCE IN PRICE. 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