Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-10
REAL ESTATE GOSSIP
Interest in the Northeast
Section is Revived.
ANACOSTIA'S PROGRESS
MANY RESIDENCES IN COURSE OF
CONSTRUCTION.
Horses That Live in Flats-Suggestion
for Heating Two-Family
Apartment Houses.

Interest in Northeast Washington has
been revived by the action of the District
Commissioners last Thursday when they as
sured delegation from the Northeast
Washington Citizens Association that the
lines of communication and traffic will be
open during the coming winter between the
two sections of the city lying east and
west of the new union station site. Inc
citizens out east had become appre hensive
lest the method of conducting the construc-
ton work on the station would interfere
with the highways and byways which gave
them access to the downtown section Of
the city. But the northeast is not be iso-
lated, and the property owners of the north
east are happy
After all it is the northeast, and that sec
ton bounded by 1st street northwest, 1st
street northeast and bisected by North
Capitol street. which is largely instrument
al in maintaining the reputation or the ma
tional capital as city of homes Inc III
tie two-story, six and seven-room homes
are there, rows upon rows of them, until
they seem to form community all thelr
own. Each has its plot of ground in front
and rear, each has its individuality, Whlcn
is the greatest essential to home, ana
most of them have their attics and cellars.
comforts which are unknown to the HE OF
the f1at-dweller.
In the northwest section there are homes
PERHAPS more of them than there are in
the northeast-but the area is SO much
more extensive that the section seems
sparsely settled, while the home idea
is rudely broken up by the irregular APP
pearance of giant apartment houses. A
view to the north and east presents re-
vival of the Washington of years ago,
while to the northwest, clear to the line
of the horizon, may be seen the modern
Washington catering mostly to the more
modern idea of urban comforts.
A Dealers Suggestion.
A local dealer possessed of large schemes
and small capital, and who for this very
reason prefers to have his name withheld
from publication, is sponsor for sug-
gestion in the matter of two-family flats
which other dealers already have been
disposed to consider favorably. A great
many two-family flats have been put up
in all sections of the city within the past
year and many have found mediate ten
ants. 1t appears, however, that most all
of these flats have been constructed with
individual heating plants or furnaces, and
it devolves upon each tenant to buy his
own coal and-tend to his own fires. When
the rent for a five-room fiat is placed at
$50 per month the price is attractive, and
even $35 is cheerfully paid for these ac-
commodations, but when the head of the
house has to climb out of bed and descend
into the cellar to fire up" and then has
to pay coal bills at the end of the month,
the proposition is not so attractive. The
suggestion of this particular dealer is
the construction of two-family flats with
central heating plant. Steam or hot
water heat could be carried half way
round block If necessary; it would be
cheaper by good deal and far more con-
venient The rent could be raised to fig
ure which would more than cover this ad-
ditional improvement, and then the five
room apartment could be leased for $40 |
per month and a handsome income made !
from the investment. That is, this is the |
opinion of one dealer, and no one has been |
found to deny it.
Valuable Floor Space.
AS an example of the value of floor space |
In New York city. an interesting story has |
reached Washington describing the "lat