Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-12-10
Real Estate Matters.


brokers. 1915 F street northwest, report the
following sales recently made by them: In the
subdivision known as Brookland. to John A.
Massie, trustee, lots 4, ands in block 80. se75:
to John o. johnson, lots IL and II. block "a.
ss25; to Mrs. Tullin c. Beckwith. lot "a. block
22, 1915; to Mrs. s. E. Dunn. lot l. block IL.
5000; to Eva NJ. Pitts, lots IL and IS, block so.
and lot 2, block 20, for ss25 lots II and II.
block 20, to Mrs. E. g. Manning. for s625; to
Georgia Z: Hershey, lot 8, block IA. and lot 16,
block %. sS25; to VIM Mayse, esq.,, lot I3. block
rs, for $500; to Col, J. W. Lewis, lot %. block
rs, and lot 20. block "a, for s450; to E, M. Har-
mon. lot Is, block &c. for $500; to Fred Ohm.
lot 3: block Is. 1915; TO Mrs. II. c. Campbell,
lot H. block %; ss75; to Mrs. G. L. Sheehan,
lot =, block 29, s225; to Security Investment
company, lots 81 and %, block 20. 5000; to
Prof. Geo. p. Merrill, lot q block 10, ease "a;
to DIR. T. z. Wilcox, q. 8. A. lots and 9. in
block 30, $50; to Henry c. Sayles. lot 81, block
70. S3,S; to Rev; Edward holloway, lot 5.
8, In square %; $3.50; to Miss NJ. Patton, lot 9,
block a. $3.50; for the Loring Land and I'm
Provement company. Dunn-Loring, Va, lot s,
s block Il, to Thomas. 7. Taylor, esq. lot 8,
SoSk sS house Na 1. Iii for Mr. R.
Mrs. Sarah A. Kennedy for $3.50; to Mr..
Mayse, esq. lot on d st. me-, in so. 723, for
S1,320; for John Fitzmorris, to Luther W. Glib
son. lot No. 129 Lanier Heights, $3.50; for the
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lots 40 and Al, in 50. 936, S1.12O; to George H.
Maurer, lots AZ and 4S. in square 936. s1.l20; to
j. W. Longley. lot As, in square 936, $3.50.
Duncanson Brothers, auctioneers, have sold
at public auction the large residence on the
west side of Vermont avenue, opposite the
Portland. belonging to George Taylor. The
purchaser was w. B. Moses, and the price paid
was sS 500. This property has frontage of
l65 feet on Vermont avenue, and q depth of
over 200 feet. 1t is improved by a handsome
hrIR Ia IL
are handsomely laid out They have also sold
two lots, 61x1O5 feet each, on 18th street. be-
tween and ID streets southeast, for IS cents
per foot, and two lots, Is feet front each. on
street, and one adjoining at the corner Of 18th
and d streets, for the same price. The pur-
chaser was the Cooperative investment COM
pany. Also q lot, 55x142 feet, on Kentucky
avenue, near street southeast, to Allen @.
Clark, for 144 cents per foot Also lot,
65xl70 feet, on c street, between Kentucky
avenue and 18th street southeast to John
Chute, for 1871 cents per foot. Also lot,
65x170 feet, on d street, near 18th street south
east, to A. Burgdorf, for 1891 cents per foot.
Also a brick house, 467 G street northwest, on
lot 15xs5 feet, to Oscar NJ. Bryant for S3, 100.
Desirable Street improvements.
The improvements on the small reservation
at the intersection Of Pennsylvania avenue,
18th and streets, are almost completed. The
high iron fence has been replaced by granite
curbing six inches high, and the grade Of the
reservation has been raised to that height, and
the space not taken up by convenient walks
through the parking has been newly sodded.
The roadway of executive avenue west of the
Treasury department has been paved with
asphalt, and will relieve 10th street of a large
amount of its travel The roadway has been
narrowed somewhat, and the sidewalks of stone
flags widened to the same extent.
THREE Hours TO PHILADELPHIA.--Aftert three
weeks of experiment the B. & 0. management
discover they could put their trains through to
Philadelphia in quicker time than ever before
attempted, so they have Topped of the fraction
and announce their Limited Express time be-
tween here and the Quaker city as three hours,
even. While this is fast time it is not made by
reckless running, but by maintaining steady
speed OF about forty-six miles per hour. The
b. o. has for years successfully operated a
much faster service than this between Wash
ington and Baltimore, and now that favorable
opportunity offers il is extending the field of
its usefulness and brings Philadelphia closer
to the capital of the Union than she has ever
been before. IT is to the competition of the B.
& o. that Washington is indebted for the i'm
provement in and enlargement of her passen-
ger trai.I service to regions north of her, and
the u. a 0. will doubtless share in the benefits
which the new conditions cannot fail to pro-
duce.
MAN OF LIFE.-LaSt
evening a colored man attempted to get on the
railroad track, at 9th street and Virginia ave-
nue., apparently for the sole purpose of being
killed by train, but was prevented by the
Waterman. He stated that he was out of work
and money, and would kill himself. He was
evidently insane.
SUrTs IN EJEcTMENT.-To-day Mr.. Eugene F.
Arnold, attorney for Thos. Marshall the next
friend of Hattie and Alice Marshall, infants,
and VIM. H., Benjamin c., and Henrietta Mar
shall instituted three actions of ejectment to
recover from Geo. G.. Cornish, Alexander T.
Augusta, and Chas Hicks all of lots IL and IS,
in square S18. The plaintiffs claim the prop
erty as the heirs of their grandfather, Benja-
min Newton, who,.i is alleged. was, at his
death, the owner. 1t is claimed that during
the minority of the plaintiffs the defendants
wrongfully took possession of this property and
have so held the same ever since. claim is
also made for the mesne profits of the land of
"a. 500 against Cornish. 50, 500 against Augusta,
and $500 against Hicks.
A CHICKEN THIEF HELD FOB THE GRAND
JURY.-William Young the negro chicken thief
who robbed the hen-house of MIR. Alex Nc
Kerrichar, near Glenwood cemetery, early Sat-
urday morning, as published in Saturdays
STAR, pleaded guilty in the Police Court this
morning to charge of HOUSEKEEPING, and
was held in $500 bail for the action of the
grand jury.