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Very Choice Homes.
$4,000 to $4,000.

S5,15o-West of Nth, nine rooms
steam heat.
u 'oo-HandsOme brown stone cor
ner residence. west of 18th
street; two bay windows.
S4'vo-Six-rOOm brick dwelling
and brick stable, west of
A,50o-Eight-room brick dwelling.
on 18th street: lot 1S.6x92
-, 100-1Sth street. ten rooms tiled
bath. steam heat.
$G,oVo-19th street near r: three
story, nine-rOom, brick
dwelling.
S3,S00-20th street near X; ten
rooms, lot 2Ox14G.
s3,230-20th street. near H: ten
rooms; 22x104.
SG,2Jo-2oth and H streets; ten
rooms, three baths; hot
water heat: lot 2Ox1O5.
70 'o1-Near Dist and F streets; bay
window brick, eight rooms,
tiled bath.
$7,5oo-Near 18th and p streets; ten
rooms, tiled bath; 2OxlOO.
sf'''V-Brick dwelling and brick
stable. west of 18th street
- dO0-iJth street. near @; s rooms:
furance heat.
S5,50)-No. 1927 18th street: nine
rooms, cellar, furnace, two
stairways; lot 19x90.
$5,2In-15th. near r street: eight
rooms, bath and cellar.
I,IJ'113th street. between s and
I: eight rooms, bath and
cellar.
S5,150-l3th street between T and
L: nine rooms. cellar and
furnace.
$J,6J0-13th street, near @; three
story, nine rooms.
s5,T0-A corner dwelling on 18th
street, and brick stable.
$5,259-12th street. near NJ; eight
rooms and cellar: lot fgx9o.
$J,C0G-12 rooms; lot 25x11O; 18th
street NV
s4,15o-Near 10th and o streets;
two-story. cellar. four rooms
on a floor: lot 2Ox1OO
s., 2Jo-Two-story brick; i rooms on
each floor, modern bath, por-
celain tub; large brick stable;
lot 22x13O.
s., 1o0-10th street near x; nine
rooms and bath.
$G,0G0-1Oth near NJ streets: 10
rooms and stable
F4,JN'-'lH near > nine rooms ana
bath.
S4,J00-9th near p street; s rooms:
lot 21%94; stable.
s. ,JoO-9th street near p; 10 rooms;
lot 20Xl20.
Sj,SG0-9th street between S and T,
Schneider block ten rooms.
s., JO0-A thrGe-stOry, nine-room
brick on Westminster street
SJ.JOO-9th street near l.; ten
rooms; 21X99.
81 .S0o-sth street near NJ; S-room
brick
s4,jG0-SJh street; o rooms; lot
20x94.
$5.GjC-eth street near P: nine
rooms; lot 1S.6x94.
So 5G0-Sth street near p; rooms.
$J.0OO-Gth street near II; s rooms
and bath.
81, 750-6th near O; seven rooms;
lot 21xo4.
s., f50-6th between Q and r streets:
rooms and cellar; lot TX
10J.
$5.@50-Gth street near o; ten rooms;
lot 1S.9X12o.
81 I00-Nearly now, nine-rOOm brick
on 9TH street.
$6,0U0-No Ago Florida avenue: 10
rooms, stone ana brlck dwell
ing; cost originally 50 .0Go.
81. 0U0-Corner on 9Th street; s
rooms; lot 20x100
s., 5O0-Nine-rOom brick; lot 40X9J
lettcred street northwest
s.. O00-Eigh t-room brick dwelling
and large brick stable; num-
bered street northwest.
Sc, o00-Nearly new corner; fronting
Mass NJ IN
S"roVV '-IooiI "t4iiiIS' b4Su DdlHI
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-20

MT. PLEASANT-SQ SQUARE OF
10TH AND HOWARD ANEN +.
An attractive age-artistic de
sign; large rooms: cellar: furnace
heat; good size lot with side lot
Win trade for lot or house Price
$500: want speculative deal. VIII
assume trust and pay $i,00 10 S2.uo
cash.
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Apartments for Exchange.

MASS AVE. CORNER Swell
section. Rents $1,000. Price Sl5o.-
Hn. Just the sort OF investment
you're looking for.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-20
Residence Property
for Exchange.

LOCATED IN GREATER WASH
INGTON SECTION-A handsome
home representing an old style Of
architecture Convenient Ia cars
IL spacious rooms. porches, original
forest treeS-walnut, oak and cherry.
Lot 1900 square feet. VIII trade
FOR smaller property. Price, $4,000.
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Washington Heights Property
for EXCHANGE.

On Baltimore Street-10 houses at
bargain figures. From 10 to u
rooms; well finished and substan-
TALLY built.
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70 NtttttS &c tStt e 'Hst C &c Il 'S Il q
Moore & Hill, Inc.
Special Opportunity.

Offered SO low to close an es-
tate-heirs have decided to sell
for $S,00o-We would submit an
offer of $500. A property with
a future-just off 14th st. and
south of Thomas Circle; loca-
ton that will soon be an entire
business section; size of lot, ok
100; alley; a 3-story brick house
and 2-story brick stable; would
rent to pay as an investment
pending the enhancement in
value.
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The Best in tbe Market for the Price
$4,000 to S0,75O.


S9oo0-S St, between l,th q . IS{e'
II rooms, NO ia liS'
HOT WATER HEAT, 2oX 100
$9,JNu-R St. between 2oth d 2lst,'
il rooms, good condition.
$9.J00-S st, near 18Th, 10 rooms,
We b \ / HIS, STEAM
HEAT.
.2Jo-MASS. ave- near l4th, IL
rooms, very cheap.
$S,IJ0-Nearly new, 10th, near o.
house alone cost more to
build, 1 rooms, deep lot, about
2lX11O.
$3.50 O 81. near 2}th; ~ rooms,
lot 2OXSJ.
$6,500-West of 10th; south OF K;
10 rooms: reception hall; lot
l9.GX95.
6,SoD-P st, near ooh; 10 rooms;
lot 21NlOn.
81 30 L st, bet 2Jth and 2lst; 10
rooms; 2tXNo.
$e,1oO-P St. be-. nth and 18TH; 10
rooms; lSX1oo.
Ss,IoO-Froniing on Mass. ave, west
of 10Th: j. rooms; TWO
BATHS, HOT WATER
HEAT.
s. oOO-Q st, ives, of l4th; IL rooms,
10, 2ix1c0.
$500 @. west OF l4th; u rooms;
SNw3-Q 81, near 10Th; 9 rooms;
lot 2-NlCo.
92Ih~Q ST, west OF 2oth; 10 rooms;
lot 2lN1b.
5000 Corner on r st; 10 rooms;
STEAM HEAT.
SG,JD-A lo-room house and brick
stable on r s..
S6Joo-Tcn rooms; brick stable;
house heated with HOT
WATER; X. / ave
SG,50O-Near and Conn ave ; 10
rooms. HOT WA1E FIX HEAT.
SS,juO-R St, near IAN; II rooms;
lot 2tNlDO
$SoNO-A nice house on the north
side of Riggs place, bet. lfth
and 18th.
S6.5o0-A corner on S St, west OF
9th; press brick front;
rooms: cellar.
SGJto-S ST, near loth; 10 rooms.
HOT-WATER HEAT; 2oxlo0.
SG,y0G-S St. near nth; . rooms
good condition.
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Stone & Fairfax, 8O4=8O6=8O8 F St.
Ready=Reference List of the Best
Property Propositions i'm WASH
imgtom Today.

OF making up this partial list of the properties offered
for sale this we have aimed to anticipate every
" possible callo every demand for location and
price Every property the list will bear the closest
investigation and will prove itself value OF unusual attrac
tvenes Go right through this list Of home and investment
propertes-ind the price YOU wish pay and the location
prefer. and You'll get a BARGAIN worth while
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-20

OF MASS. Washington
select section. An elegant stone
residence. Large lot 20 alley An
unusually cheap property al Si0.udo
and viii be exchanged for small
houses or good lots.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-20

NEAR 14TH AND l. SITS =
story fireproof building. Rents SIP
HH. Price. Sl25.wJn. Make an Offer.
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&c stte q g a q 20
Moore & Hill, Inc.
III l4th ST.
HOMES AT ANY PRICE

NcI911 HENEVER the question of Real
4 Il HI Estate comes up you consult your
NIzA\A1 own best interests when you COM
suit us. I'm fact you're liable to
miss just the opportunity you are seeking if
you fail to consult us. There are numbers of
properties For Sale OUR lists that rank as
the most important values inn Washington.
Take these below Illustrations:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-20

ON 18th STREET N.W.-The
new business street of the city.
On one corner is a $200,co building
other $lOn,N9 building-on the
other a fine old property. Offered
at 50 square foot. Other corner
sold for nearly double. Lot 1ooxl3o.
See us about this extraordinary In
VeStment.
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Downtown Residence.
WEST OF 9TH ST, SOUTH OF
o. Bet. two car lines. 10 rooms.
brick stable; lot 21Nl0o; alley SGo1
was loaned on it first trust and
SI5nO second; $T,f1o was refused at
auction; viii trade at sS.en II rents
for so Want lots 10 build upon In
any fair section.
Get our Residence exchange list.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-20
WANT
WORK?

Read the Wanted HEN as
in The Star Snd apply immc-
d!ately Cor the best place that
you think you can fiji.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-20

G STREET NEAR liTH-A Mil
lion Dollar property, SO ft.XSo #;
only $50 square foot. Want Apart
ment CT Houses.
The Washington times., 1905-05-07
WASHINGTON, D. c., April 26, 1905.

To the of Washington Times
to Washington young man.
of the
developing what abilities had and rendering
good Today
restrictions and little politics of OF the depart
anywhere else In the
of life decided failure
the of transformation clearly and hon
change of but all
other
the Of today could read story they
against entering the service where
diyidua
that hope find
paper understanding
he nclosed slip.
WHEEL
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I5t Ud1Ed WITH ILc( GlA
RscztSdToHer G1dA Nou TT
Znt6r- Rec e7Vca from thsa
czVzZSsxp &c Con- mzJzonA
RaZZI9 Of 81

torney General, and clerk who felt as
though he had been hustled into office
with scaut ceremony. But I was not
discoura ged in spite Of all my confusion
and Disappointment. I was as ready to
do good work as ever l had been to try
case at home-and that comparison
means a good deal The circumstances
of my installation might be ever so dis
heartening but they could not affect
my work.
So / waited with impatient ears to
hear the chief of my room explain what
was TO do. He was noticeably kind,
although otherwise unprepossessing. and
l was confident his explanation would
enable me to dive into my law books SO
quickly and deep that I would forget my
heart sickness. But the instruction wait
ed on many things.
First, I was told about my luncheon.
The office allowance was half an hour.
| If that time was not enough I could
i eat what I choose then and have the
tom in all the departments. This to me
who either went TO my home and ate a
country dinner in the middle of the day
or went without, and did not spend on
food obtained away from home SO in a
year.
Second. the chief told me of the regu-
| lar departmental allowances for sick
ness and vacation. If I could not use
the thirty days sick-leave, he explained
with an easy-going smile, 1 could al
least be sure the Government did moi
get any of my annual leave.
The Washington times., 1905-05-07
Celebrated the News.

NJ mother was so happy when she
heard the news that she could not say
anything. She patted me on the shoui-
ders a little q recall 1t all clearly, even
today), then stopped down TO pick up
her darning, and then put the yarn and
stockings down on the hall table and
ran upstairs. AT dinner she told me she
had never beer so proud. not even when
my father joined the church.
Before supper she made me go over
to Mr. Bells house and tell Mrs. Bell
and Annie. On the way back I met the
editor of the Compiler. and told him.
After that everybody knew.
We had great time after supper that
night My brother ''came over from
Independence with his wife, the Bells
dropped in" Joe Willoughby and his
| sisters stopped by on their way to
the card club, and the editor, Jim Reed
came TO ask me how / liked the notice
| he had written. We were all plain folks,
as ! can see now. But we were all
sound folks, too: and the twenty years
have elapsed since have not made me
| think any less Of that roomfuI than ]
| did that night. when my appointment
| had Just come.
Everybody there understood that
was only going to be a clerk. The no.
tice of my appointment specified that
and gave my salary as s1,o00 a year Ir
| the country and small towns people tall
OF such details freely. I had even giver
them all my letter Of appointment t.
read. Still, as Joe Willoughby pointed
out, I was to be law clerk, and $40
! a year was a great deal more of a sal
tary than was usually paid beginners
| My father spent half an hour lookint
! through the data from the Civil servic,
| Commission to verify this. When h,
put the papers down on the table. h,
was as proud of my appointment as hi
wife.
We began two or three games of ana
e-e>s Minnie WillauohIev .s.s.
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The First Boarding House.

A Young fellow of about my own age
stopped long enough in his rather leis-
t,reIv walk TO direct me to the house
where he himself lived. 1t was In a
side street, high building of five
stories. All the blinds were drawn to
the street. and as | found out Il mo-
uent later, it was disagreeably quiet
and dark within. The proprietress, a
fat woman in a black dress, minus half
the necessary buttons. took me in. She
likewise pumped out OF me in about
five minutes everything she cared to
know AS / wanted to strike out for
the departnnent without losing n mo-
ment. | did not go to my room-any
rooro in that house would have done for
me-and | did not ask the rate for
hoard Afterward I found out that the
latter was $50 a month. and 1t nearly
took my breath away At home / could
have lived at the hotel for less.
Through several streets. across a
park. up a flight OF high steps, l strobe
with sprnging step. The chill of nv
first impressions of Washington was
thawed by the near beginning of nv
work In a minute more. however, II
came on again; for Il man sitting in
differently at the door. with his feet on
The Washington times., 1905-05-07
The Lordly Watchman.

Down came the feet one at time.
Out went a hand. Before / knew it. L
was presenting my credentials, not TO
the chief clerk of the department, but
to the watchman,
That's all right, son. said he, in
diligently. Now I know who you aire
and how much you're gettin'
1 hid my confusion by swinging
down the hall in the direction indicated
by his cane as fast as / could go and
/ not run The passageway seemed 70 me
I TO be the solidest hail I had ever seen
marble squares in the floor. walls
painted with flower borders, and a cell
| ing arched over as they meant to do
at the courthouse at home, but did not
| after the county went Republican on
| q platform of lower taxes.
! AT the chief clerks office a colOred
man called my name loud enough for
the whole office TO hear. quiet man
sitting behind a fat desk thereupon
looked up and fixed his eye on me for
| fully two minutes. Then he said sim
ply this:
"Weu?'
was too frightened to answer with
my tongue, so ! held out my letter and
| tried to fill IN the interval with smile
| Two young women at desks near the
chief clerk smiled. too, and then L felt
better.
The chief clerk took less time TO ex-
anime my letter than he had already
| taken to look me over. Before 1 could
really make sure that his two assist
ants We're not laughing at me. he ha6
shaken hands with me. handed ms
over to the co1ored man, and sent me
out of his room with my head so mucf
In a whfrl l could hardly feel my fee
touch the floor The one phrase
caught was; ITO the office OF the As
sistant Attorney General"
It was not going to be so hard. aftel
all, to get into the Governments Law
department.
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Warned Against "Ten Per Centers." !"

Third, l was told where to get sta
tfcnery and pencils, warned against car
rving any question of law or practice
over the head of our bureau chief. ad-
yised not to lend money to certain OF
nv superiors, and cautioned with much
kindness but little delicacy against bor-
rowing money from certain of my asso-
ciates.
The work came last of all. While the
chief was talking 10 me of 10 per
centers" and their wiles a messenger
nIaced on my desk a bundle Of papers,
all typewriter, foot high. This
said nv instructor, with his hand on thu
Pile, will keep you busy for while.
| II is all easy enough. All thC law in
| VOWED is contained in this pamphlet.
/ You don't need another bit of infor-
nation. Read the law through and ap-
/ ply it to these cases, thea dictate let
ter 10 one of these Two stcnosrapi1ers.
| stating your decision. and then-tuke up
another case.
In what court do we try these
| Cases?" l asked.
Try these cases? We don't try any
cases. We decide them If these is any
court work to be done on appeals or
anything of that sort. some one of the
attorneys n the department III Justice
attends 70 it, All We have u IN is to
apply the little law there is in this
with q condescending tap OF his finger
on the pamphlet-'and decide And very
dull work 1t Is. too But it's better
than practicing law in the country.
That was TO be my work The work
had been planning for and preparing
for and praying for during whole
year. 1 was to read the law set forth
in about twenty pages of printed mat
ter, measure IL off against these cases
and then repeat the operation on .hC
next batch. Real legal tasks were a.
kept for the Department Of Justice.
The Washington times., 1905-05-07
Warned by Opponent.

either she told our neighbors or some
enc else in the family did. for the whole
,n,,7 soon knew l was trying 10 get a
,,osition in Washington by passing an
1s>an1inat ton. The men Joked me about
!. whenever I showed myself on the
ao,,are One Of them. Joe Wiiloughby.
-tas opposing counsel in an ejectment
"a, and when 1 beat him in it he came
over TO me and began:
when you go!n' 70 WashinRt H.
Phil?' .a
Then. changing his tone suddenly and
cooking around into my face. he said;
..you'r fool. youngster, TO give
-, vour prospects here in this county
sar any Office Ia the whole blamed
r.cyernment that goes by Examination.
That was q good sample OF the com
-,a,, [ heard from everybody. except
-. few of the osners were serious.
Eyen the girls took it UP. They used to
80, at the house ven I was at my
afece and ask the hired girl If l had
..heard vet until my mother cried about
n The minister. Mr.. Bell. came over
one day 70 tell my father that he ought
M, let this talk go on. as It tended to
roat,e me ashamed of an ambition tha,
.yervone else in the town seemed to
lack My father ended The whole bust
,esg by the simple country expedient OF
asking people not 10 tease me about It.
There was sannafhine mora than tis4
The Washington times., 1905-05-07
The Phantoms of Hope.

Visitors came to see him incessantiy-
officers of fraternal bodies, politicians
of every stamp, particularly the lowest.
many women. dignitaries of his church.
and collectors by the score. There
were times when the buzz of their talk
prevented all work. Everybody was
promised everything.
The second in authority was the
chiefs opposite. He was tall. ex-
trenely neat, taciturn, thin-lipped.
difficult to approach. and hard to conn
nit. His infrequent personal obserya-
tfons revealed only two outside inter-
ests-his home and his church: and the
effect of his character in those two
ffre-proving institutions was manifest
- two re-elections as mayor of the lit-
tle suburban village in which he lived
and continued election by the district
conference of his church as delegate to
national conferences.
was in the office two days before he
found il necessary TO speak TO me.
Then it was 10 say quietly tthat he
knew a young fellow OF my name and
about my age In his old home town in
New Hampshire. But, however little
he talked, the longer we worked to-
gether the more my respect for him
increased. If the chief was a lawyer
BY courtesy. his assistant was law
yer by virtue of a general legal knowi-
edge as extended and accurate as any
I have ever encountered.
Two of us ranked next. The other
was an Irishman. about thirty years old,
suave. fluent, even tempered. and a fine
Continued ON Page Four. This Section
The Washington times., 1905-05-07

7 appointment came. away back
II ID in the SOS, after I had given
IIS NJ, hone. Yet I was nowhere
- near so much surprised as my
family They had looked on the whole
proiect of competitive examinations for
posts in the Governments service al
Washington'-tha was my father $
phrase-as the dreamiest sort or
dream.
only my mother thought well OF the
new Civil Service system and expected
me TO get an appointment by means OF
IL She and l had talked the Whole
thing over so often tnat she had prop
ahIy lust absorbed my hopes and con-
varted them into expectations. We had
agreed that I should be so ready Tor
the examination that when I walked into
the postoffice building / should be bet
ter prepared than anyone else in town
Go studied with her and recited to
her and a month later. when / re-
ceived from the Office of the Civil serV-
Ice Commission a general rating Of 81
was not half SO happy over 1t as thar
litt1e woman who had no idea what the
c,overnment service was like and had
never been farther away from lndiaha
than Cincinnati.
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III

The preliminaries to the beginning OF
nv work doused my spirits with ice
water My view of entering the admin
istratiVe machine of the United States
was that of an event dignified and
formal The view of the District OF Co
lrmbia seemed to be that the admins
tration OF an important and solemn
oath. the perfunctory presentation Of
The initiate to the head OF his depart
ment, and the gauche escort OF the new
administrator TO his desk were embar-
rn ssinss details to be slid over with af-
fectad indifference.
It was a clerk. therefore. and not a
candidate who came to the vacant desk
iii the office of the assistant to the At
The Washington times., 1905-05-07

was a clerk, sure enough-a clerk. ard
nothing more.
I doubt if my spirit has ever been
tried SO severely as i WAS that day IN
the fall twenty years ago. I doubt, tos,
if il has ever proven SO strong. Yer all
that, dismay could not make a machine
of me- [ went 81 that pile OF typewrft-
ten statements as though they were
briefs fled with the Supreme Court, ana
4 eanted TO read everyE line. The law
was easy enough TO understand. as the
chief had said. It consisted simply If
three statutes. clear as day. The poor
est. duIlest law student back hont
could have interpreted them and ap-
piled them TO these cases at the second
reading.
In the two or three days that followed
l formed fairly accurate impressions of
nv room mates I have since learned
that their subjects were, in the main.
fair examples of the Governments
clerical force in Washington. Later
years have lifted the personnel OF the
| service higher, especially by introduc-
| ing into it hundreds of capable. char
acterfuI, wel1-bred young women. to
whom no other work is so well fitted.
and who have no prospects to lose by
| entering upon it. Yet the half-dozen
who sat with me in that single room.
back in the middle S0's. are after all
| still representative and typical.
! The chief was a man of fifty or fifty
FIVE years. short and half-fat, over
| hearty in manner, with puffy eyeIids
and cigar stained mustacl1e; unkempt.
profane. hard drinker. a gambler.
kind TO everyone, a lawyer by courtesy
only He owed his position as chief,
ba said many times, to two speeches he
| had delivered in the last campaign and
the friendship OF a Middle States Dem
! 0crat.