Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-16
REAL ESTATE GOSSIP
Relation of Substantial Building to
an Income From Property.
REVISION OF BUILDING REGULATIONS
Rapid Transit and Cheap Fares 70,
Street Railroads.
SOME IMP.ROV NTS

| building regulations is about completed
| and that in short time the District Com
| missioners will be able to issue them in
pamphlet form, as was done with the old
regulations. The principal features of the
new regulations are pretty we'll known to
the public through the publications in The
| Star, and while, of course there are differ
ences Of opinion as to the ACCESSIBILITY Of
| certain changes or the retention of certain
sections. 1t is thought that on the whole
| the new regulations will be a decided i'm
provement those that have been in
| force.
| one feature of the new code of rules
which will no doubt be appreciated by the
| builders is the insertion of tables giving
| the carrying weights of timbers, so that
| all that will be required is to state in the
| specifications of new buildings the charac-
ter OF tmbers to be used, designating them
| by number, and there will be no necessity
| or making any calculation as to their car
rylng weight. In this way the issue of per-
| mits will be much simplfied and the work
of the building inspector and his assistants
| Will be ma terially reduced.
| More Desirable Houses.
1t is believed that the tendency of the re-
| Vised building rules will be to encourage
substantial construction, and also to pre-
| vent the use of defective apparatus for
respects,
probably, there is greater waste of money
than In any other department of bI:lding.
IL is false economy, in order to effect a
| small saving, that both of these important
! details in house building are skimped. and
| as result in a few years the house be-
comes out of repair and it is found to be
difficult to keep 1t occupied.
The complaint is frequently heard that
people leave old houses in order to go into
new ones, and while there is certain at
tractveness in the mere freshness and
cleanness of a new house. still IL is not
likely that great majority of people
would go through the discomfort of a
household moving unless they We're fleeing
from premature old age and possible dis
ease in house that has been put up in a
shoddy, cheap-John manner. 1t is said by
men who have had large experience in rent
ing houses that ii is seldom well-built,
well-equipped house stands empty, and in
this view of 1t honest building is paying
investment
Street Railroads and Property Values
1t is possible that a new kind of street
| railroad motive power will be in operation
in this city, as it is stated that the officials
of the lexington and Belt railroads are
about to make experiments with COM
pressed air as motive power. In the event
that this pro, es to be practical success
the cars thus equipped will be run on The
line from Brookland to 18th and G Streets
and it is expected, of course, that the same
operated by this corporation.
This is no doubt welcome news to prop
erty holders, for the relation between rapid
street railroad transit ard. real estate val
ues is well understood. No doubt also the
company appreciates the intimate conncc-
ton that exists between rapid transit ard
increased receipts, that the change will
be a good thing all around.
When reduced fares are combined with
the adoption of quickened schedule the
effects on the companys receipts some
inc 1prl.o AL &C.
the case of the Rock Creek railroad Since
this road became a part of the Washington
and Georgetown and one fare has been
charged over the combined lines to the
District bounds, the receipts of rhe Rock
creek section, it is said, are a great deal
more than they were for the corresponding
period of last year. This increase has
taken place in spite of the fact that the
Rock Creek road, under the new arrange
ment, gave up the fare one way and prac-
| tically carries passengers over its road for
one fare. when previously it had received
two fares.
The Building Record.
The building record for the week ending
yesterday shows that twenty-one permits
were issued at an estimated cost of S51.7J0.
divided among the several sections of the
city as follows: Northwest, ten permits,
costing s34 800: southeast, FIVE So, $50; SOUTH
west. one permit, 500: county, three, $500,
and the northeast two permits for $4,000.
Some improvements.
Plans have been drawn by A. Goenner,
architect, for nine two-story brick houses to
be erected by NJ. p. Caldwell on Hickman
street southeast.
Two two-story brick dwellings, Io6 and
ios 18th street southeast are TO he erected
by S Carr. They will each be 16 by - feet.
Jacob Jones is to erect thirteen brick
houses, Nos. $500 to 2324 University place,
from plans prepared by f. A. Hurlebaus.
fnrf.. in I1tsr
with fronts of pressed brick and Indiana
stone and each will be is by 81 feet.
Richard j. Marshall will erect a two-story
house on North Capitol street between o
and streets from plans prepared by NJ.
Hunter Jones. architect. The front will be
of stone to the first floor stills, and the re-
mainder of pressed brick The dimensions
will be - by 40 feet.
A two-story house is to be erected on D
street between Sd and 18th streets southeast
by T. S. Hutchinson.
Plans are being prepared by r. ]. Beall,
jr, for six two-story houses to be erected
on 18th street between U and V streets
northwest. They will each he IL by &c feet.
Plans have been prepared by William Har-
per, architect, for the erection of a row Of
four brick dwellings at Nos. 80 to 45 Harri-
sen street southeast for James A. Beall
trustee. The builders will be Mason & Har-
per. The buildings Will have a frontage of
eighteen feet each, by depth of thirty-sev-
Ell feet each. The fronts of the buildings will
be of select red brick.
Palmer u FoNler, architects, nave pre-
pared plans for the erection of a three-story
brick and stone residence for Alfred II. Cfo-
well, which will be erected at No. 1929 10Th
street northwest The building will have a
mansard roof and frontage of twenty-five
feet by a depth of thirty-four feet. Ii will
have a bay window, and the front will be
press brick and brown stone.
F. S. Hutchinson has awarded the contract
for building a two-story and basement brick
DIV cling to J. w. Talbert, and when the
building is completed 1t will be known as 3D.
D street southeast. The building will front
eyenteen feet on d street and have depth
of thirty-one feet.
d. b. Gotwalls has had the plans prepared
for the erection of a row of nine brick dwell
iBgs a, Nos. 3S2S to :SSii 18th street north
west, by r. J. Beall, jr. The front will be of
press brick, and sixteen feet eight inches
wide by depth of thirty mine feet.
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