Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-28
REAL ESTATE GOSSIP
Some Improvements Which Are or
Will Be Soon Under Way.
LARGE MANUFACTURING PLANT
Condition OF the Market as Com
pared With Last Year.
PROMISING LOOK

The holidays are always a dull time in the
building world and the present week has
been exception to the rule. People who
are contemplating the erection of any build
| ings of note are likely to postpone conmenc-
| ing until the new year, and the result is that
few building permits Of any Importance have
been taken out this week.
1t is understood that the old Mullett prop
erty at the corner of 25th street and Penn
sylvania avenue is shortly to be improved by
the erection Of a new apartment house.
Plans have been prepared for the building,
ard permit will probably be taken out in
day or two. The new apartment house is
to be of brick, of lather simple but at the
| same time attractive construction, and is
| to be six stories in height Its ground di-
mansions will be about fifty feet front by
one hundred feet Deep and when finished
! 1t will accomm odate a Sood many families.
Thursday permit was taken out for the
erection of a row of six houses on U street,
| to cost S'3.oOO, and yesterday another per-
nit was taken out for row of six three
| 1402-12 21st street. r. Walker G Son are the
| owners. The houses are to be trimmed in
| stone. with ornamental bay windows and
| airy and commodious cellars. The cost of
| the improvement is to be about $50, 900. A
| Permit was also issued to ]. H. Lane, to put
| up couple of two-story brick dwellings,
3l4-16 S street, lexington
A New manufacturing Plant.
A new and important addition to the bus
| mess interests of Washington is shortly to
| be made by the Pintsch Comprising Com
pany. This is the company which furnishes
| compressed gas for the use of the Pullman
| cars. as well as many of the railroads of
the country. AS central point for the dis
| tribution of its product to the Southern rail-
| way and other lines that radiate from Wash
| ington, the company has decided to con-
struct plant in this city One of the rep
resentatives OF the company has been in the
| city for some time making the necessary
| arrangements, and work on the new brick
ard iron generator will be begun about New
Year day. The plant will be located at the
northeast corner of 13la and Z streets south
west. convenient to the railroad tracks
| alcnS Missouri avenue.
The building itself will not be a very ex-
penslVe one, as it is to be but one story in
| height and 5000 would about cover the
| cost but it will contain fully $4,000 worth
OF machinery. and when in operation it will
give employment to quite a considerable
number of men.
An Open Season Thus Far.
The winter SO far has been an unusually
open one, and the result has been that build
ers have been able to go ahead with their
work almost without interruption. Men In
the building trades who have had employ-
rent have missed very few days on ac-
count of inclement weather. and buildings
which were started late in the fall are either
completed or nearly so. instead of being
left over until spring. This has been a grea t
convenience in the course of building for
the uses of the District the Office of the
building inspector nov has under way a
number of buildings All of which are in a
very forward state. They include eight
school houses, an engine house, the small
pox hospital and the disirfecting plant The
al w, jfv
are practically completed, and the former
will be put into use when the schools meet
again after the Christmas holidays. No. .
eT CINE house VIII also be ready with the
opeElng of the new year
Owned by Foreign Governments.
Attention has been called to the failure
to include in the list Of foreign govern
ments ownlng legation residences in this
city, printed in this column, the govern
ments of Japan and Ccrea. The omission
was an inadvertent one, and affords an OPP
portunity of calling attention to the fact
that, including the government of Austria,
which recently purchased the Yulee house
on Connecticut avenue, there are alto
gether six of the foreign governments rep
resented at the capital which own property
in this city. The countries are England,
Germany, Mexico. Japan. Corea and Aus
tria. AS IS well known. in the early years
of the city it was proposed to set aside a
errment to be used IS sites for the resi-
dences of the legations of foreign govern
ments. 1t was found that the city authori-
ties had not the power to dispose of gov
eminent property, and so the plan was not
carried out.
Record of the Year.
The year just closing has rot been a very
eventful one in the history of the real es-
tate market of this city. There have been
faXr ntTh fYan antin bl,t
there has been substantial Improvement
not only in the tone of the market, but In
the volume of business done. Especially is
this the case when comparison is made
with the record of last year. There have
been more buildings erected than was the
case last year and a larger sum of money
was expended in improvements The in
vestcr has made his appearance again, and
altogether the prospect for the coming year
is bright and promising.
Perhaps the most salient feature of the
market has been the steadiness of values.
In spite of the fact that there has been
ractically no demand for property, and
that during the early portion of the year
sales were to a great extent impossible,
prices have remained firm and property
owners have not been forced to sell If
there was any evidence needed Of the sub
stantial foundations upon which real estate
values in this city rest, the history of the
past year and Of the preceding would fur
nish convincing proof
Some improvements.
r. j. Beall, jr., is preparing plans for re-
modelling the premises S24 9th street. 1t is
proposed to enlarge the first floor and pro-
vide new show windows besides refitting
the store room.
Jacobs Brothers are erecting three houses
on Harvard street, Columbia Heights. Buff
brick and limestone will be used in the con-
struction, and the dimensions are 1SX15
feet
In the Heat of IL Cuban Enlargement.
From Truth.
First Soldier-"Lets run away. I'm
scared half to DEATH
Second Solder--"So am l. but don't want
to die just yet.
First Soldier-'Then why won't you Join
me in running away?'
Second Solder-"Because they shoot de-
serters, and I've seen enough of this cam
paign to know there's no real danger in bat
tie
RcassurinS.
From the Indianapolis Journal
The gallery was crowded. The timbers
cracked ominously. A few timid ones half
rose. law, seddown.' shouted Bonesey
MCGinn "Dey amt no danger at ALL