The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-10-09

1ss selrld DR. RIftsuzuri 10 contribute a
usDer TO the next report or the coll-Lilts-
sion. and IL is In this connection ma l-t1
japanese professor viii make some an
be a. feet wide, 100 feet deep, three
stories I'm height and viii be used above
the hrst floor entirely for the storage
OF -four. On the first Eoor the space
IS to be divided through the center ana
the wagons viii back up 10 a granite
curb and be loaded at night with bread
for delivery In the morning. The front
of the building viii be of hard-burned
brick. laid I'm Flemish bond with dark
headers. with galvanized iron trim
minEs at the roof. The walls VIII be
thick and substantial. and IL VIII be a
good example of warehouse work when
completed. Estimates are being taken
By the owners and bids win be opened
next week
New Brick Plants
Cook & White have recently erected
and equipped plant al chesapeake
Junction with machinery 70 turn out
50 900 bricks daily, and are now employ
Ing thirty-ive hands.
Daniel J. Ready, of this city, has re-
Gently started a plant at Beltsyille, Nd.
This plant has a capacity Of 1900 bricks
per day and gives employment 20 TWEEN
tv hands.
AT Brentwood. D. C.. the ground is be-
ing prepared for one Of the largest
plants in this vicinity that OF Thomas r.
Riley the lumber dealer, who IS about
20 add brickmaking 10 his extensive
business in building material This plant.
which will cover six acres OF ground.
win give him about 5000 bricks each
working day. and viii employ a half
hundred hands.
Large Residence.
The lot at the northeast corner Of
Eighteenth and r Streets northwest has
just been purchased by w. Duncan Nc
Kim. OF 1IorrisJown. n. J., through A
d. Addison. real estate broker. The
ground. which comprises two lots. has
a frontage on r Street OF over hfty-one
feet and a depth Of uiuety-fve feet.
The entire area comprises ,2s5 square
feet As the price paid was over so. 900
the per foot value was something over
s.. II is the purpose Of the new own
or 10 improve the property by the cree
ton OF a large residence for his own use.
While Thomas T. CAN is building a
house here for himself he has leased
through Mr. Addison the residence OF
Mrs. Barney. 1925 Rhode Island Avenue,
where ne intends 10 spend the winter.
A beginning has been made ia improv-
ing the lot which 8Ir. CAR bought az
the southwest corner Of Twentieth and
I . Streets, and IN the course OF a few
months a. large residence viii occupy
this site
Improvements in Suburbs.
Louis p. Shoemaker. vice president of
Q
said in answer 20 certain questions
( pF0pounded 10 him by a reporter Of The
/ Times:
"The time has undoubtedly come
when the needs or the new and greater
/ washington must be recognized and
1 grauded1 because the old city has been
built up ana improved. and further be-
cause the District OF Columbia is the
home OF the United States Govern
imeut. and not merely the old city OF
( washington.
What Governor Shepherd did for the
/ old city must now be done for the ter
rltOry beyond, and. indeed. for the en-
tire District That is, streets. water
mains, sewers, and light facilities must
be provided Dy the autaoritias- These
public functions must bee exercised and
the actual needs OF the community met
'.I do not mean chat an ezrravagaut
system OF public improvements should
/ De luauguraJed, but merely that the
necessities OF lhe people should be taken
/ into account
When hundreds are found living iu
homes without ana opportunity 70 OBJ
serve sanitary laws and regulations, and
when 10 is q WeII-kuOwn fact that hun
dred5 desire 10 build upon uuproductiye
and uuimpToved property il Us only too
/ apparent that the functions of the Gov
+ =Ilmeut should be exercised.
Taxpayers Not Satisfied.
when water sewers, streets. and
/ light facilities are provided where these
public advantages are actually needed
tEeu. and NOT until then, win the tax
( payers DE couteuJed and satisfied. Rapid
. transit is also an important necessity
/ OF Jle people. These quasi public cor
1 Elrau1uz should be subject 10 Govern
4 meut control. and it is. indeed a sad
+ admission for the Commissioners 10 Boz
/ Obliged 90 make that these charters
+ have been granted free and that these
+ corporations have the right 10 cucumber
. our public streets ad Iibitum and ar,
/ absolutely beyond the Commissioners
/ control
"IJ is "a fact beyond question and not
/ 10 be coatradicted that our BHghtwood
/ section. and, indeed, the TeuIeytowu
section also west OF Rock Creek. and
. PERHAPS, lu other directions beyond Ia,
. old city limits. is retarded Iu its growth
. and development because OF an in
/ adequate railway service. and because
. OF the absence OF necessary public ad.
/ vaHtzges.
This condition is affecting not oug
/ these sections, but it is lnjgriug the old
/ cllF. because the very evidence of iu.
+ crease and expansion or a city must D..
/ found. if ~ all. beyond the old rlE
/ limits ana independent OF interior ina.
/ groyement. and then, too, It may b,