Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-05-18
The Payment of Taxes by the Owners
Of Property.
GROUND used FOR CEMETERY PURPOSES
About Recent Prices and the Pro-
gress in Building.
SOME IMPROV EMENT

During the present month the owners Ct
property pay their tribute to the District
revenues in the shape of taxes on the as
sessed value Of the property. Owing to the
revision of the taxes which was made DUR
ing the past winter. in accordance with q
law of Congress, the semi-annual payment
which was due last November was not coll
lected, and IL was provided that the entire
assessment for the year should be paid
this month. Usually the burden is some-
what eased, and the amount for the entire
year is divided into two parts. one to be
paid in May and the other in November.
This arrangement is much more convenient
to the average taxpayer than the annual
payment would be, but there was no OBJ
lection to the change for this year because
of the opportunity it was supposed to give
to the new board of assessors to revise the
assessment, which was looked upon as in
equitable. This expectation has not been
realized to the extent that was anticipated,
and SO during the present month property
holders are in some cases paying larger
amount in taxes than they did last year on
the same property, while others are pay
ing somewhat less.
There is always more or less said at the
time when taxes on realty are due about
the great drain on the cash in circulation,
and in bank, which the payment of such
large sum causes. However, while tho
the treasury. large sums are being ex-
pended for public improvements and the
expenses Of the District government, so
that to some extent the stream of cash
flowing into the treasury Is balanced by
the stream which has an outward flow,
and finds its way into general circulation.
1t is estimated that the revenue from realty
texation this year will be something over
two millions 1t will probably be a smaller
amount than was obtained from the same
source last year. still the difference is not
sufficient to cause any anxiety that the
revenues of the District will be inadequate
for its needs.
Cemeteries I'm the City.
1t is announced that no more intermenta
will be made in Graceland cemetery, which
is tract of some thirty acres lying al
the head Of Maryland avenue just beyond
the old bounds of the city. The abandon
rlent of this ground for cemetery purposes
calls to mind the changes which have
taken place in and about the city during
the past few years. With the exception OF
the Congressional cemetery there is now
within the territory originally laid out as
the city. comprising over seven thousand
acres Of land, no ground which is devoted
to burial purposes. Oak Hill cemetery In
Georgetown is still in use, but with this ex-
ception all the existing cemeteries are
some distance from the old limits of the
city. 1t is within the memory of citizens
who are by no means old when there were
Such has been the growth of population
that it has been found impossible to main
tain these last resting places of the dead.
and SO they have given way to the needs
of the living, and the ground has been
covered with rows of houses and places of
business. Recently a subdivision has been
made of the ground known as st. Patricks
cemetery. which, however, had not been in
use for years.
A Favorable Market.
oP he
sales show that there is a demand for
property. and that the prices have not
suffered materially during the recent de-
preston. The activity in building which
has been displayed during the present sea-
son is looked upon as a favorable sign.
The extent of the building operations is re-
garded as a gauge of the city's prosperity,
and while this is true in only>a limited
sense, still the market is favorably affected
when good deal of building is going on.
The Building Record.
The unsettled state of the weather has
had a bad effect upon prospective builders.
and during the week ending yesterday but
twelve permits for new dwellings were is
sued by the building inspector. The aggre-
gate cost of these is estimated at $3.50.
divided among the several sections OF ths
city as follows: Northwest, four permits,
81, $50; southwest, one permit, 81 600; north
east, one permit, 81, 500; southeast, one per-
mit SiOO, and county, nEe permits, SlZ,UoVs
Some New buildings.
H. D. Nichols has had plans prepared
for an apartment house to be erected on
street between LIST street and Delaware
avenue northeast. He proposes to build to
the height of eight stories, with front
of brownstone and red brick. The 'front.'
age will be forty-iive feet and the depth
l31. A steel frame construction will be
used, with iron staircases and marble tiled
floors.
Plans for block of five dwellings to be
built by Atkinson & Sherwood on Whitney
avenue near 18th street have been prepared
by F. G. Atkinson, architect. They will
be two stories in height, with basement.
161a by 81 feet. with fronts Of light stone
and buff brick
avenue three-story and attic brick
dwelling. The house will have a frontage
of fifteen feet by depth Of ninety feet.
N. T. Haller is the architect.
A residence is to erected on 18th street
near Iowa circle from plans prepared by
A. Goenner. architect 1t is to be three
stories in height. with cellar, 34xi6 feet,
and front of brown stone and brick
pared by n. I. Haller. architect, for a resi-
dence to be erected at GA e street north
east 1t is to be three stories in height,
with basement, 2ox50 feet. and the front
will be built of brown stone and press
brick.
Two English basement houses are to be
erected on kentucky avenue between a
and streets southeast and on 18th street
from plans prepared by H. A. Campbell.
architect. They are to be three stories in
height, 1Sx30 feet, with fronts of light
stone and press brick
Plans for a dwelling to be erected on
Wyoming avenue near Columbia road have
been prepared by Mullet & Co., architects.
1t is to be three stories in height with
basement, 22x50 feet, and the front VIII be
built of brown stone and brick.
Eugene w. Johnson will build q residence
on II street between Goth and 2lst streets
northwest from plans prepared by r. ].
Beall, jr., architect. 1t is to be three sto-
ries in height. 22X65 feet. and the front viii
be built of light stone and brick
The same architect has prepared plans
for remodeling the building 500 9th street
northwest, for Stephen Gatti. The altera-
ton will result in three-story building,
the first floor to be arranged for business
purposes and the upper stories for Eats.
'There Are Tricks"
From Puck.
visitor-"Are all these ladies waiting for
changer"
Merchant Princeton. dear. no! They
are connected with the house. They stimu-
late trade by struggling with customer