Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-16
Realty Transactions for the
Week just Closed.
Lack of Back Yards-Safety From Elk.
pensive Fires for Office Buildings
Notes of General Moment.

Third, / by. good shutters in those win
dows.
In the absence of shutters, automat tic
sprinklers. supplemented by heroic efforts
with hose streams on the inside, may some
times save the day, with great expense for
water damage, but where exposures are bad
a good shutter on a proper window should
be the first care of architect and owner
business Property Transactions.
1t does not often happen that the negotia-
lions for such large pieces of property are
In progress about the same time as seems
TO have been the case during the past week.
In one day 1t began to be noised about the
street that deal had been closed for the
sale OF the Glover building. and also for a
valuable piece of property on F street. The
negotiations for the exchange of the War
der building had been for some time under
way. No doubt there had been considera-
ton given to the two other deals sometime
before the fact became generally known,
but as long as the news did not leak out
the general market was not Influenced.
There has been good deal of interest in
property in the business section of the city
and owners have had a good many in
quiries. 1t is also claimed sby brokers that
real offers have been made in several in
stances for property which have been re-
fused. The prices mentioned in this lat
ter connection. however, do not always
agree with what is understood to be the
earning capacity of the property and SO
there is scepticism as to some of the figures
mentioned. 1t is believed that when values
are given which reach thirty and forty dol
lars per square foot even in the case of
well-located business property, a high level
mas been reached from any point of view.
Transactions in Realty.
N. L. Sansbury, real estate broker re-
ports very active business this spring,
with an unusual request for homes and in
vestment properties. He quotes the follow
ing among his recent sales:
For L. E. Breuninger. the Royal apart
nent house, corner 18th and Princeton
streets, for $4,000 to Mr.. Peter J. Nee
For Fred Gheen in connection with the
+. T. Rawlings Company, 2013 H street
northwest. to Charles Dietz for IS. 500.
For Mrs; May A. Mari. in connection
with the F.. T. Rawlings Company, 1858
Princeton street northwest, for $3.50.
For Mrs. Eliza Bell, 1908 10Th street north
west to John P. Buckley, for $500
For L. E. Breuninger, 414 Warner street
northwest. to Miss Mabel Crissey, for the
sum of 81 OOO
For Mrs. Johanna Hewett, 1910 sth street
northwest, for $500.
For Mrs. Margaret Fox, in connection
with Charles Shields, 121 9th street north
east, to Miss A G.. Motter, for So, 900
For Peter ]. Nee, all of lots 1. 2. 3. block A.
Dobbins addition. corner LIST and V streets
northwest, containing about 1900 square
feet of ground for S15 200, to a builder who
Will build fourteen houses on it.
MI Sansbury has the following sales
pending, on which deposits are placed, but
not yet closed:
One for $4,000: one for $1,000; one for
$4,000: one for 1890; for $1,000; one
for $500, and another for $1,000.
=,-. Another Apartment House. v-
j. F. Mccormick and N. G. Watts are to
begin the erection of a five-story apartment
house on the east side of 18th street be-
tween NJ and n northwest at on aarI,- data
Mr.. N. T. Halter is the architect. The build
ing Will have a very handsome front and
contain twenty-five apartments and two sets
of office rooms in the cellar. There will also
be Il gentemen'S smoking room The flats
will contain two, three, four. five and six
rooms and bath, and have an electric eleva-
tor. Each apartment will be supplied with
a private telephone. The bath rooms are to
be tiled and public Railways to be trimmed
in Tennessee marble. The fiat will have
frontage of fifty-two feet, with a space on
each side for light and will cost $4,000.
Big House to Be Built.
a residence of unusual dimensions is to
be erected in this city. The location chosen
is on the south side of Massachusetts ave-
nue. between 22d street and Sheridan Cir
Gle. The ground has frontage on the
avenue of eightyfour feet and runs back
to q street. The excavation for the build
ing has been made and, according to the
plans prepared the house will occupy the
entire frontage and extend back over 100
feet. There will be a driveway through
the first story of the house, which will give
access to the grounds in the rear, which
will be laid out as a garden.
The owner of the property is Mr. Charles
Hinkle of Cincinnati. All the details of the
finish of the house, as well as the ma
terials that will be used both for the eX-
terror and interior, will be of the best char
acter, and the house when completed will
rank with the most expensive as well as
the largest in this city.
Mr.. Eno's Residence.
Preparations have been begun for the
erection of a large residence for Mr. John
c. Emo, formerly a resident of New York
city The new house is to be on the north
side of n street. just east of 18th street.
and will adjoin the house at the corner
of 18th and n streets, which is leased by
Mr.. Emo and where he has been living for
some time past Next year he will have
for neighbor Senator Depew, who has
leased the residence which Mr. Emo will
vacate at the close of the present season.
The vacant ground which has been pur-
chased by Mr.. Emo has a frontage of
sixty feet. but only the. eastern fifty feet
will be occupied by the new building leav-
ing ten feet between it and the open space
to the east of the adjoining house.