The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-03-13
Big New Plant Planned
For PintSch Compress
ing Company
Row of Eighteen Fine
Houses on Washing
ton Heights.
Rents Higher Than Ever
and the Reason
Why.

With the advent of milder weather
there IS noticeable activity in the real
estate field. especially in the matter of
building A number Of notable enter
piises are about to be begun, chief
among them being the erection Of the
new bank building for the American
Security and Trust Company. on the
site of the old Riggs Bank, at Fifteenth
Street and New York Avenue. The
plans for the building have been rear
ranged so as to conform to the regu-
lations bearing upon the building line.
and are now awaiting the approval OF
Inspector Ashford The bids submitted
scme time ago viii be passed upon at
The regular meeting Of the board of d.
rectors tomorrow.
The Pintsch Comprising Company
viii soon remove its plant from ThiT-
teen-and-a-half and Z Streets south
west 10 a lot recently purchased at Sec
ono and n Streets northeast. This lot
IS 16o feet on one street and 200 feet on
The other. and on it a building viii be
constructed 100 feet square, which will
give the company four times the ca
pacity it now has. The cost Of this i'm
urovement will be $4,000. One Of the
reasons why this change is made aside
from the fact that the company IS IN
need OF more room for the transaction
of its business, is to be found in the cir
co.ustance that the Pennsylvania COM
psny has recently discarded IT'S FORMER
lighting system and viii introduce the
Plutsch light on all its lines and trans
The new location, therefore, IS very
much more convenient, and Superintend-
cnt Charles H Kelley Is much pleased
with the change. Superintendent Reilly Is
at present engaged in laying a pipe line
from MARYLAND Avenue and Sixth Street
southwest to the Pennsylvania Rail
read yards on New Jersey Avenue The
Mans for the new building in the north
east are now under preparation by the
engineers of the company. and as soon
as they are completed construction BIDS
viii Re called for. The greatest expedi-
ton is TO be used in putting up the
building and installing the new ma
chinery, and it is hoped to have the
new plant In operation in the early fail
Whole Block Of New Houses.
Architect B. F. Meyers is preparing
plans for eighteen houses TO be built for
Louis II Meyers and Frank Woneerly
at Columbia and Ontario Streets. rum
ming through to Lanier Street These
buildings viii occupy the entire east
side OF the block on Ontario Street, and
viii constitute an important improve
rnent in that section of the city. They
will be three stories and cellar. and Will
have red pressed brick and brown stone
fronts Each house viii have front
age Of seventeen feet and a depth Of
sixty, and some Will be heated b. hot
water ana others by furnace. The
houses are 20 contain several special
features. among them one or two brick
nantes or special design. dining rooms
With panneled waiscoung six feet high
and crowned with plate rails, and the
baths are TO be deliberately tiled. The
cost OF the entire improvement viii %
$4,000. exclusive Of the ground, for
which $4,000 was paid.
Architect Meyers is preparing plan;
for an apartment house on Thirteenth
Street extended, near LydeclScr Avenue
It IS TO be three stories in height and
have frontage of twenty-five feet BY
a depth Of ninety-seven. There viii be-
two apartments on each floor Of five
ard fOur rooms. respectively. finished II
hardwood and heated ~ steam Th'
cost Of this building. exclusive O.
ground. will be SIS 600.