The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-10-21
FEW HOUSES TO RENT.
Extensive Purchase Of Lots BY
HOme-Seekers.
BUILDING THEIR OWN HOMES
ksai kstase transactions Samher M~re
1han Ever Bsfer~-H@avy Axxrs-
gxte-Th< New Bricks

EeA estate transfers from January I
is-u. 10 date are sli 81. 7sI3.
There were no ssoserortAy features In the
MARKET during the xe<k. Purchases we're
many, and consisted almost entirely OF
residence and outside property. Bnslding
OF dwellings, instead OF decreasing Is xin-
Ter approaches, u carried forward on
more extensive scale than ever. Ssvccrs-
ers are pouring I'm every lay by the score.
are purchasing lots ard building houses
now, many OF them because they cannot
rent houses for the winter. A fouss 10
reat II q rarity. One lady had desirable
cottage on Yesier avenue xhieh became va
cant one day recently. and sne inserted an
advertisement in the Posr- fsrEIIsssKscKE
TO the effect that q good tenant could Sc
cure comfortable house AZ q reasonable
rent Before noon that day the lady had
fifty appiicantions for the dwelling. and
then her doorbeil. unable TO stand the terri
bic strain. broke down and the lady. very
tired from running 10 and from the door in
answer 10 the calls, turned the key and re-
fused To respond 10 the loud raps that came
from multitude of anxious applicants
during the entire afternoon.
new arrival from Michigan after hunt
ing fo- sossse time for 3 suitable place TO
put his family. gave up ia Despair and
leased lotion Neslsr avenue, near Twelfth,
and started 10 build house lust as soon
Is he got the frame work up and the floor
laid. he moved his family inside. and all
are happily installed within while the
father ineioses the house around them
Many people in the outskirts of town are
putting up temporary structures that will
afford them hahitat:on during the winter.
These are more or less slightly and comfort
able; but when spring opens newer and
better houses viii ne built and the make
shifts transformed into wooisheds or kiscts-
ers 10 The permanent residences Eight
tenfhs OF the dwellings being erected now
are intended to be permanent, and they
are. almost without exception, neat. COM
modious and tasty.
The no-house-t0-rcnt feature Of life in
Seattle has been benefit rather than a
detrimeu, 10 the town IL has been in
strumental in forcing home-seekers with q
little money to build and thus TO become
from the beginning fixed residents OF the
city. Ii Is safe to say that one-fearth OF
the Incoming population has built on this
account sooner than intended while the
per cent. that Is deferred from remaining
here on account Of inability to secure
homes is fractional and not appreciate
Indeed, it may be seriously doubted If any
desirable residents have been lost for this
reason.
While mentioning the great demand for
houses, il would not do TO overlook the
measures taken by builders To satisfy it.
There is more building of houses to rent in
Seattle just now than at any time in its his
tory. Many new terraces and dwellings
have been erected in the nearer parts of
the city, and cottages have been and are
being built by the hundred everywhere.
In the business district eighty business
blocks OF brick and stone are newly fin
ished or actually in course of erection.
They range from two stories TO seven.
Ground hiss been cleared and preparations
made to build many more, and announce
ments are made of an intention TO build
still more: so that the whole number will
shortly be at ieas. ono hundred and sixty.
But eighty. detailed descriptions of which
were published in the PogT-IsTEILIG EScER
of Thursday have assumed tangible for
and are present realities. In the consiruc-
ton OF these building the product of forty
two brick yarks about Seattle has been
used, representing an aggregate that is es-
timated at 3i1,0D,00 brick--igures so
enormous as To be almost meaningless.
These brickvards are now largely shut
down, but most builders have contracte
for material for delivery when needed, and
work on almost every one of the eighty
bricks, with many new ones will be pushed
forward with undated yigor during the
winter. With the spring will doubtless
come an era OF activity unparalleled in the
history of cities OF the size OF Seattle
Real estate transfers Tor the past week