Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-13
REAL ESTATE GOSSIP
Improvement in a Business
Section Of this City.
POPULATION EXPANDS
NEW DWELLINGS AND APART
MENT HOUSES.
Unusual Activity in Building During
the Past Month-Condition
for Outdoor Work.
POPULATION EXPANDS

A business improvement which involves
an enlargement of an establishment as
well as the erection of a new building Is
to be carried out by Hecht & Co., who nave
acquired by purchase the property adJoln-
ing their stores 613 and 515 It'll street Ii
is the intention to remove the old building
adjoining on the north. known as OF Hn
street and erect upon this site hano-
some and modern store building, winch VIII
be used in connection with the present
building, and will add greatly to the hrrn
facilities. The plans for this new struc-
ture are being made by F. B. Pyle, archi-
tect. The front will be OF an attractise
design, while the interior Will nave All Inc
facilities of modern-type structure.
Accounting for Prosperity.
A comment that is now commonly heard,
especially from real estate men and others
who observe the material development of
the city, is in regard to the evident growth
of the nations capital One reason why
this phase of the city's progress seems TO
he attracting more attention just now Is
owing to the demand for living accoInmo7
dations and the rapid and very complete
Way in which they have been taken during
the past fall. It is remarked that, IN spite
of the extensive additions to the nullipe. VI
APARTMENT houses during the past Two
wears and the increase In the dwellings,
there are very few empty houses II is
noteworthy fact that the apartment houses
are full to TO so into the new ones
AS a rule, this condition Is accounted
for in one way. and that Is the incr ease a.
the population. In other olrectlohs,
Thought this same influence can be oetect-
ed For example, 1t Is said retail business
in all its various lines has materially ex-
handed which has led not only 10 an III,
crease in the size OF business pracG En tpe
business sections Of the city, In the opinion
of a good many observers, the crowos on
the street are larger than ever peLors'
which is another evidence tnat the resi-
dents here are more numerous.
Views of Large Builder.
Another theory which Is based on the
facility with which apartment mousse ac
Communications have been ABSORBED Is mel"
nv Mr.. T. F. Schneider, who has built more
of these structures than has any o'hef one
man in this city He began some years ago
nth the Cairo and has been going on
ever since. and is still building After COM
nlatine the Sherman apartment house, at
the northeast corner Of 18th and l. streets,
he is finishing up another such bulldlng at
the southeast corner OF the same sree,s;
This new structure he is going TO can
Ethel apartment, the name peing CHOSEN
because it is that of one OF MS cniIoreh.
In E1aSl6T SlICuliAoSoAASS-''
IT is Mr.. Schneiders belief that while
certain proportion of the demand for such
living quarters can be accounted Tor on the
ground Of the increase In the population OF
the city, perhaps the larger number OF peo-
pie who go into apartment houses are those
who have formerly been satisfied with
hoartline. either in regular boarding houses
ar living in houses with one or more fami-
lies The general prosperity, he thinks,
which the country is now en5oyins Is NAM NAM
fasted In an expansion in the style or living
on the mart Of good many persons. Then,
again. he is Of the opinion that the facili-
ties offered by the apartment house. being
GREATER than that Of the average house,
With at the same time lessening OF house.
hold cares has attracted a good many 10
this way of living.
Whatever the explanation is, the iact re-
mains that during the past two years about
2OO buildings of this character nave peen
erected in this city. ranging In size from
two-story structures, containing Two apart
ments. to the eight-s,ory polioiIs ;.h ~ th;a
sixty or more apartments. Along Win TINS
activity has gone a noticeable degree OF
house building, so that the living accommo-
5ations have been materially increased dur
ing the same period.
Realty Transactions.
Stone & Fairfax, real estate brokers, nave
made the following sales:
For Alexander Miller, for $4,000, four
new two-story houses, NOS. 81. so, % anu
40 Quincy street northeast; for Ann T.
Hineley, the two-story house Ell l4tn
street. for 81 500: for M. L. Johnston, house
1887 ioti street for $3.50.
A sale Of some importancs las been mace
nv this firm of three houses. 1885. 1887 and
1870 I, street, opposite the Hotel IeweJ,
for SEQ 600. The purchase Is made for in
yestment purposes.
Much Building in Progress.
The extent of the current building opera
lions in the District has frequently been
referred to. The showing made is strik-
ing one For example, the record of the
amount of money spent in building during
the past month as compared with the cor
responding month of last year gives an in
crease of nearly 100000. Weather condi-
tons have been such that 1t Is possible to
continue work. and in fact, there has been
no actual stoppage of any account. not
even In brick laying. 1t Is not expected
the figures of the amount to be spent un-
der the building permits that are being is
sued this month will at all equal that OF