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The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-07-26
WALL DECORATION s.
The Base of a Room Should Always Re
Darkest.

The Base of Room Should Always Re
Darkest.
Home journal.
1t is an artistic rule that the base of a room
should be darkest. Where there is dado
used, it is allowable to use abeavy dark color,
never pronounced color, as such shades are
utterly out of place on the wall The middle
space of the wall should be medium shade,
the frieze should be several tints lighter and
the ceiling should be still lighter. Where two
colors are used, one for the main wall and an
other for the frieze, the colder color should be
used above Thus in a bedroom papered
with palest rose and blue, the blue should be
used for the frieze and the warm color below;
and the two may be separated by an ebony or
ivory and gold picture moulding The dado
and frieze are not often used together now,
except in houses where 1t is desirable to
"bring down" the ceiling and make the walls
appear lower. They are more often seen in
the halls or dining-rooms than anywhere else.
AS rule, it is better to choose the upholstery
Of a room in contrasting rather than in similar
colors, so as to avoid monotonous effect in
color. In drawing-room more delicacy of
color is allowable than in other rooms, and
bright colors are introduced in bric-a-brac
ornaments, in wall curtains and in other decor
atiye WaYs.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-07-26
BUILDING PERMITS.

Permits to build to the following were
issued by Inspector Entwisle for the week
ending Friday, July a.
One two-story frame dwelling, 17x4s feet,
for d. Paul Leech on lot 2, block Z; Twelfth
street extended, Trinidad, to cost 81 300.
Three two-story brick dwellings, 12x22 feet,
fore. 81. Parker on lots 16, IL and 1S, square
756, Nos S01, aOS and 3o5 Alley northeast,
to cost s., 800.
One three-story and cellar brick dwelling,
2Ox100 feet, for William Turner & Son on lot
4, square 562; No. 213 III street northwest
to cost S., 900.
One two-story brick livery stable, 20 feet
Inches by Sd feet inches. for G. NJ McClay
on lots 81 to 81, square $50; Alley, between
Third, Fourth, d and E streets northeast, to
cost $1,000.
Two two-story brick stables, 12 feet inches
by 80 feet, for d. j. Murphy on lots and z,
square 7l4; Alley, between Third, Fourth, X
and l. streets northeast, to cost ST 200.
Two two-story and cellar brick dwellings,
16x30 feet, for Henry Noll on lots and b,
square 416; Nos. 1905 and 1907 Eighth street
northwest, to cost $4,000.
One two-story brick dwelling, 1880 feet,
for j. M. d. Wilson on lot III; No. 2056
Eighth street extended, to cost $2,10
One two-story brick dwelling 2Ox32 feet,
for j. @. Yost, on Bennings Road, to cost
$1,000.
One two-story frame dwelling, 30x32 feet,
for j. NJ jolly on lot 8, block 1s,Pierce Mill
Road, "Ingleslde," to cost $4,000
One two-stoiy and cellar frame dwelling,
24x40 feet, for Chaplin Brown (agent), on lot
25, block l, Milwaukee street, "Ingleside," to
cost $500.
One two-story brick stable, 22x2s feet. for
H. Ellerbrook IN rear of No. AIS street south
west, to cost $500.
Two two-story frame dwellings, 16x42 feet,
for w. ii. Wood on lot 20, block 29, Trinidad,
Twelfth street extended, to cost 81, 300.
One two-story and basement brick Music
Hall, rs feet, 6 inches by 101 feet, for w. G.
Metzerott on lots G, d, and Il, square 321,
No. 512 Twelfth street northwest, to cost
$4,000.
One two-story frame dwelling, 20x32 feet,
for Mrs M. l.. Gouzenback on Bennings Road,
toeost 81 800.
One two story brick dwelling, IS feet 7inches
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-07-26
REAL ESTATE NOTES.

II. krack has bought of w. A. Wanslebeu
for $4, 4,50O lots 98 and "a, Chichester.
Charlotte B. Lovett has sold to j. w.
Hercus for $1,000, lot IL, block 3, Kalorama
Heights.
Caroline Haywood has bought for $40, 100 OF
j. A. Bates half interest In lots and Z,
block "A, University Park.
James Pritz has purchased for s., 400 of j.
G. Yost, subs. 20 and 80, square 912, 19x115
feet each on Ninth, betweenG G and streets
northeast.
E.. s. Kennedy has sold to d. P. Rowell for
5000 sub. 38, square 722, fronting 1s feet on
Massachusetts, avenue, between First and
Second streets northeast.
Lizzie McLain has bought of Charles l..
Jewett for $4,000 sub. 49, square Ill, front
ing 20 feet on Nineteenth street, between @
and streets northwest.
Isaac N g. Cole has sold to w. F. Cham
berlin for $4,000 part OF lot 9, square 513, 90
feet by 10S feet 81 inches on M street, between
Fourth and Fifth streets northwest
Rosanna Korts has purchased Of James
Dripps for $500 sub. F, square 277, fronting
IL feet on Thirteenth street, between N and o
streets northwest In all, 1885 feet inches.
H. NJ. Schneider has sold to John H. Du-
vail for So, 6,09975 lots and 9, square 1918, 90
feet6 inches by 146 feet 81 inches, on Fifteenth
street, between d and E streets southeast
G. Ebel has sold to Charles E. Ebel for
$4,000 the south half of Lewis land, contain
ing 43, 1874 square feet, on the east side of
Seventh street road, above the Schuetzen
Park.
John 2. Hamlin has sold to Julius G. Juene
mann for $S, 800 sub. G, square 459, 1S feet
inches by 46 feet ~ inches on the west side of
Sixth street, between G street and Louisiana
avenue northwest.
John M. Young has bought of j. s. Ed
wards ct al. for $40, ,S90.1S, lots and 5, square
794, 1875 feet 10 inches on Third street, 90 feet
on e street, and 122 feet inches on South
Carolina avenue southeast.
The property-owners on New York avenue,
between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets,
are pleased at the prospect that the parking
in the centre Of the street will be removed by
fall by order Of the District Commissioners.
B. f. Gilbert has purchased of Mary Wen
dell for 100000 part lot 16, square 456, 'front.'
ing 40 feet on f, between Sixth and Seventh
streets northwest, and has sold the same to
the Takoma Park Loan and Trust Company
for $65,000.
d. d. Thompson ct al. (trustees) have pur-
chased in trust for $6,479.35 Of F. Tweedy
subs. 80 to 33, square III, and of r. D. Bridges
for 81 ,508.80 sub. 90, of same, together
S4.7lxS2 feet on the corner of 81 and Fourth
streets northeast.
Messrs. Kennedy s. Davis, who have just
completed the erection OF four handsome
houses on the north side of Massachusetts
avenue, between First and Second streets
northeast, sold three of them during the past
week, and the same firm will commence the
erection Immediately of four additional houses
adjoining the others.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-07-26
AMERICAN ARCHITEoTURE.

A Frenohman Who Finds Much to Ad-
mire in It.
The latest issue of the american Architect
publishes translation of an article by M.
Brincourt, contributed to the Encyclopedia de
pArchitect,re ct de la Construction. In this
NJ. Brincourt says in his Introductory review
of the subject:
The architecture Of the United States is of
all the greater interest because 1t has no past
nor school behind 1t, and because, in its style,
forms, and tendencies, 1t reflects the manners
and civilization Of new people, an ingenious
and practical people, who have borrowed ideas
from every country with which they have
come In contact, interpreting, modifying, and
assimilating them according to their own
needs and tastes. Out of these conditions has
sprung curious and original art, and yet, at
the same time, copied. The American people,
although the product of old and most diverse
civilizations and imbued with respect for
traditions that often leads to slavish imita-
tion, has, nevertheless evolved out Of the
various styles 1t has encountered an archi-
lecture which, Notwithstanding its caprcious
and often jumbled character, displays a
sprightly grace In all its Irregularities, and is
logical underneath all the apparent confusion.
The architecture of the United States is Of
English origin, and has undergone somewhat
the same transformations as has that of Great
Britain. From the outset its inspirations
were drawn from the same pseudo classic
models, and though 1t has been modified in
the direction of individuality, the Anglo-Nor-
man inhuence-often combined, especially in
civil structures, with bastard Romanesque
style-is still clearly traceable.
A little of eyarythinO ia to ha N, of With IL,
this tentative architecture; it has not yet dis
covered an untrodden path, nor has it found
the new formula so universally sought after,
unless, per chance, such formula may be
worked out of the logical combination of the
fundamental principles of the different styles.
This being the case, the American architects
are on the right track. Many of their monu-
mental productions, in which classic, Roman
esque, renaissance and even Gothic elements
appear at the same time, are, comparatively
speaking, wonderfully well balanced, espec-
tally when we consider what hodge-podge
such an audacious mixture would naturally
produce. Incoherence is, of course, sometimes
encountered, but is always rendered tolerable
by certain artlessness and by genuine free
dom OF treatment. 1t is always the work of
an original or bold searcher, whose mind, un-
trammelled by classic or hackneyed ideas, ig-
norant of predetermined formulas and Of sys-
TENS, endeayors to find practical solution of
the problem in hand
In house architecture especially, American
architects clearly pay too much attention to
contour and silhouette, thus complicating their
plans Yet, notwithstanding this defect, there
is great charm about their dwellings, villas
and cottages which are less formal and far
more homelike than their English prototypes
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-07-26
Bargains In Country Property.

lovely country home for sale just outside
the corporation OF Falls Church, Va, with TO
acres of land beautifully situated so that none
of tits wasted. Two railroad stations, 12 to
Is minutes drive to either. Cottage of eight
rooms and cellar, conveniently arranged, hand
somely papered, nice grounds, with delightful
roomy and convenient, with new carriage and
wagon shed, and two other t-buiidings.
Land already In cultivation; neighborhood
pleasant and very healthy; churches OF all de-
nominations in village; public schools of high
and increased facilities in prospect; water
cannot be exeelled A genuine treasure.
At the low price OF $4 ,250. Possession at once.
DUCKETT u FORD,
6l7 f street northwest
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-07-26

by 20 feet, for F. G. Neuck on lot IL,
jamaica No. 635 Florida avenue, county,
to cost $1,000.
One one-story brick laundry for George
town Convent, 36x4S feet, in rear OF Fayette
street, Georgetown, to cost $4,000
One e.story brick and frame dwelling,
3Ox43 feet, for Il. K. Green on lot %, Green's
subdivision, Brightwood, Seventh street road,
to cost SO, 700.
Four two-story brick dwellings, 13x32 feet,
for Margaret Patch on lot 9, square 1046,
Nos. 1911, 1918, 1915, and 1917, Georgia ave-
nue. southeast, to cost $4,000.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-07-26
NABE0E0IIL &c WTIITF
REAL ESTATE, LOANS, AND INSURANCE.
IIl4FsTREET NORTHWEST
FOR SAIF

Business property, G st NV, near 18th,
lot 25xlO0 Price, 15c. per foot.
Business property, st NV, near 10Th,
lot 25x100. Price 30c. per foot
p st NV, near 10th. 3.story and base
ment brick, 0 room and bath. Price. $500
Mass ave ne, near Sd, 2story and base
ment brick, 6 rooms and bath. Price. 4,9OO
ID st NV, near I'd, story brick, rooms
and bath, lot 22x10O to alley, rented
at $35 per month. Price. $500
III st ne, near 18th, new 3-story brick, 9
rooms and all m 1, rented for S25 per
month. Price. "........................ s,soo
9th st NV, near 1, 2-story frame, rooms
=, and all IN I, lot 25xs5: Price....:...... 5000
w ct NV, near 18th, 2-story brick, 6
rooms and all mi. Price. e....... $3.50
18th st ne, near III, three 2-story bricks,6
rooms and all m l, lot 17x63, to alley.
Price $500
Q st NV, near N H ave, two 2-story
frames, rooms and all m 1, lots
22x10O each. Price, SO. so per foot.
K st, near Sd ne, 2-story brick, rooms
and bath, lot 19x10O to alley. Price. 4,5OO
4th st ne, near E, 2-story brick, rooms
and bath. Price. ................... 1000
($30O cash, $50 per month).
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-07-26
To Remove old Paint.
American Architect.

Another recipe for an application for re-
moving old paint and varnish from woodwork
is given in the Bayerische Gewer6ezeit,t,g.
Two parts of ammonia are shaken up with
one part of spirits of turpentine, forming a
permanent emulsion, which Is applied to the
paint to be removed. In few minutes the
paint will be softened SO that it can be scraped
or rubbed away. This application is said to
which had resisted the action of strong lye.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-07-26
HOUSES.

G st ne, near 10th, 2-story cottage,
rooms and stable, lot 40x100 to so
foot alley. rice.........................$ $500
ION easy terms).
N ct NV, near North Capitol st, two
2-story and basement bricks, rooms
and all m /. Price...,.................. 4,450
Sd st ne, near E, 2-story brick, 6rooms,
bath and cellar, rented for $24.S2 per
month. Price. .....-........................ $500
f st ne, bet 9th and 7th, 2-story and
basement brick, = rooms and bath, all
MI .........................'..... 1880
$500 cash, bal. $50 per month).
st NV, near Franklin Park, 3story
and basement brick, 10 rooms and all
m 1, cellar, furnace heat. Price,. $3.50
Kenyon st, Columbia Heights, bet
18th and 14th NV, 2-story cottage, 8
rooms and stable, lot 50x17O. Price. $3.50
Acker st, near 9th ne, two 2-story g.
room bricks, all m 1, cellar, southern
exposure, lots 15x64, small cash pay
ments, bal monthly. Price, each..... 5000
F st NV, near 18th, 3-story brick, 9 -
rooms and bath, all m 1. Price......... $500
H st ne, near IL, new store and dwell
ing, rooms and all m 1, rented for
$45 per month. Price. $500
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-07-26
H = TIA Bills HE'D 1897.
FOR RENT
CHARLES s. SHREVE,
1000 SEVENTH ct. NV.
1909 SEVENTH ST. NV.

1901 9th st NV, store and dwelling, IL
rooms, all m i........................,..$ 500 90
1870 9TH st NV, store and dwelling, 10
rooms, adjoining 0-street Market 75 90
635 N st NV, store and dwelling, IL
rooms, m .............................,. 40 90
2lO4 9TH st NV, store and dwelling,
rooms, m 30 90
31O0 9TH st NV, store and dwelling, z
rooms, IN 1............................... 25 90
2030 9TH at NV, store and dwelling, 4
rooms, water. ............................ 25 90
1852 N ave, store and dwelling, z
rooms, water ............................ 25 90
9l2 l. st NV, rooms, all m i............. 25 90
10l7 9TH st NV, s rooms, upper part mi 25 90
1901 Madison st, a rooms, upper part MI 25 90
6lo ct NV, rooms, upper part m l. % so
701 st NV, rooms, upper part m H.. 25 90
302 Mass ave ne,7 rooms, upper part mi. 81 90
GIG st NV, rooms, upper part m i 20 80
713 0 st NV, store-room, gas and water. 20 90
2120 9TH st NV, store, 6 rooms gas and
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 20 90
400 st NV, rooms, gas and water. 20 40
$40 LIST st Sc, rooms, store water...... 16 90
223S 18th st NV, 6 rooms. ................ Is 90
1858 Cleveland ave, 6 rooms, m i...... 13 80
202O 9TH st NV, rooms, water.......... 12 90
7OS-714 23d st NV, 5 rooms, each ........ 10 90
Stueben st, 6 rooms. Observation-Disclosures. 12 90
2, 3, 4, 5 Mccullough st, rooms each,
....................... 10 90
Sale List at Office.
New-York tribune., 1891-05-26
ONE LESS DISTURBING ELEMENT
THE STRIKE OF THE FRAMERs WILL END To-
DAY-THE LUMBER BOYCOTT


DAY-THE LUMBER BOYCOTT.
one disturbing element will disappear to-day in the
labor troubles which have caused such loss and hard
ships to both sides since the fight Of the labor unions
for workday Of eight hours began on May l. For
two days committees from the German Framers Union
and the Master Framers Association have been in ocn-
ference and by dint of few concessions made by each
side an agreement has been adopted and nearly 1000
men who have been on strike for three weeks will
turn to work. The agreement provides that the men
shall work eight hours five days in the week and seven
on Saturday but in winter the bosses have the option
Of shortening the day on account Of darkness. The
will receive 45 cents an hour, cripples and in-
competent wormen to make special arrangements with
the bosses. Foremen will receive so cents an hour.
The bosses agree to employ only union men, who in
turn will refuse TO work for any builder who does not
pay the boss, sometimes happens.
The union also agrees not to order any sympathetic
strike without the permission Of the bosses. The
bosses are to take back all the union men there are
places for and the union will take in all the non
union men, The clause in the agreement which has
caused much trouble is that demand OF the union
to inspect the contract OF the bosses This right tho
union has waived but insists upon the bosses paying
their men every Saturday while the bosses want to pay
only every two weeks This will be settled to-day.
The strike of housemiths continues without change
The iron manufacturers opened their shops yesterday
hit none of the strikers returned to work. This was
because of the activity of the pckets the manu-
facturers say and they intend to take some action
Don to suppress them. Many men are idle on ac-
count Of this strike.
At the headquarters OF the Lumber Trade Associa-
ton, No. 1s broadway, yesterday it was said that
there was no change in the lumber boycott and that
all the yards tightly closed, but its members may
be glad to learn that lumber being sent from the
ward OF william Gibson, at FOurteenth-st. and
Eleventhave on the trucks Of the North River Iron
Works and that loads Of lumber left the yards
of Eben Peek at Twenty fourthst and Eleventh ave-
IchabOd T. Williams. Mt Twenty -ffhst. and Eleventh
ave- and a few Others
THE strike of plate printers Of the American Bank
Note Company continues without change both sides
refusing TO make any concessions.
New-York tribune., 1891-05-26
4 WoMAN ACCUSED OF FORGERY.

Boston, May 25 (SpecaD.-Lemuel Nichols, stable
keeper Of Bangor, Me- called at the Office Of the East
em Banking and Trust Company In Boston on April
- to make ont check. While there he placed his
name on blank check, which he carelessly dropped
the floor, IL is said. month later there came TO
the company named check for 1855. AS it seemed
to be properly signed by Mr. Nichols the OF the
check was promptly paid to the Boylston National
Bank Of Boston. from which II had come. When, how
ever IL subsequently reached Mr. Nichols In the odi
nary course Of business he dsclamed all knowledge OF
its existence Then the signed blank check dropped
April IS came to mind and this led 10 the conclusion
that the check had been picked up by somebody aud
then filed In and used in Boston. The banking people
of Bangor asked Boston lawyer Frank e. Fitz, To
investigate the matter With the aid Of detectives 1t
was learned that the check had been presented 10 the
Boylstoh Bank by E. b. Wood, piano dealer, who in
turn had received II from one Of his customers
woman Nellie Z. Rogers. The latter was fonnd at
Crescent Beach yesterday and arrested the charge
of uttering forged check. She claims that she re-
celyed the check in part payment for bill from c. H.
Knowles whose rane, by the wny, appears on the,
back OF the check She had met Knowles several
times She said but did not know where he could be
found. The woman Is twenty-six years old.
New-York tribune., 1891-05-26
FLING MoRrGAGEs AT MIDx1eHr.

Trenton, n. j., May 25-Counsel for the Star Rub
Der Company sat up Sunday night until after mid
night and then, by special arrangement, had the
County Clerks Office opened to record mortgages ag
gregatng nearly half million of dollars against the
property Of the concern. This hasty proceeding it
Is believed was due TO the fear that other creditors
than those preferred might get receiver appointed
before the mortgages could be made Of record. Fol
lowing Is list Of the mortgages with the amounts :
10 Jonathan Steward, president Of the company $l5l
ooo 70 Thomas A. Bell, secretary, S65,O00 to Philip
r. Dunn and William J. Vanncst other officials.
soo'ooO and $470O0 respectively; to the First Ma
Ranking Company, 49, 900: 10 MahIorr Hutchinson
V' Iorushtowh, 10000; to w. c. WINS. $4,000; TO
Company, $4,000
New-York tribune., 1891-05-26
THE VEENDAM IN PORT.
SER SHAFT BROKE TWICE DURING THE
VOYAGE.
aocrpENr NUMBER TWO GAVE THE PASSENGERS
CHANCE TO WATCH THE ANTICS
an epoprrur wuIrE
OF A spoRTIvE wHAI


The Netherlands-American steamship Veendnm,
nreviously heported as disabled at sea, arrived
here Yesterday morning The veendam left Rot
herdam on May and Beulogne on May 10,
When five days out OF Boulogne her main shaft
broke. and she signalled passing steamer. the
Ia Fianare The La Flandre was an oil-tank
steamer bound for Baltimore. She towed the
yeendam for several hours until the broken
sbaft was splced, when the Yeendam went on
under her own steam
The La Flandre signalled pilot-boat No a of
the Georges Banks, and told the story, as well as
6ags could tell it, of the accident to the Veendam
and Of her towing the disabled ship. The story
brought in by the veendam yesterday is as fol-
lows
On Friday. May IS, when the Veendam was
of the Grand Banks the engines suddenly stopped
and trembling was felt all over the ship, which
gave the passengers on board warning that some
thing unusual had happened The sea was smootn
and little wind was blowing at the time IL was
found upon examination that the shaft had broken
across diagonally near the engine. That even
ing, when divine service was held in the saloon
Captain Roggeveen announced to the passengers
that there was no danger, and that repairs were
already under way aid that the ship was pro-
yisioned for six weeks.
Early the next morning rockets were seho up
from the Veendam and the signal was seen by the
tank steamer La Flandre. She came alongside
and took the veendam in tow. On Sunday the
hawser by which La Flandre was towing the
Veendam parted and both Vessels anchored for
the night in a dense fog At 3 o'clock the next
aftarnoon the Veendam was able to make head
way under her own steam and soon left La tlandre
far behind.
On Tuesday morning the shaft again broke
La Flandn, was not in sight, and on all the
waste of waters there not vessel to answer
her signals for assistance.
On Tuesday night however, the shaft was re-
paired a second Tine, and the Veendam started
again on her way for this port. On Tuesday
morning while the steamer was at anchor and the
engineers were at work upon her shaft the fog
lifted and the passengers forgot their anxiety in
watching the antics of huge whale which for an
hour disported itself about the ship.
when the veendam under her own steam, ar
rived safe in port yesterday the saloon passengers
paye the following testimonial to Captain Rog-
eeveen:
Steamer Veendam, May 25, 1891.
The undersigned nrstcabin passengers on the steamer
veepdam sailing May o, 1891, from Rotterdam foq
New-York desire to give formal and hearty expreS5-
sion for grateful sense Of the SIKH and care with which
the captain Adrian Roggeveen, with MS omcers and
fbe chief engineer, Eustachius Hermanus, JOsephus
Seyeniie with his assistants, under circumstances OF
great dHculty and danger, have by the blessing u
Divine Providence brought us safely to our desired
haven.