Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-21
REAL ESTATE GOSSIP
Belief That Dame Fortune Will
Favor Georgetown.
RENEWED ACTIVITY SEEN
Aqueduct Bridge is Taking on Live
ly Appearance.
FUTURE OF THE VIRGINIA SIDE
Efforts OF Great Falls and Old Domin-
ion Railway--Proposed Steam
Road for Rosslyn.
RENEWED ACTIVITY SEEN
FUTURE OF THE VIRGINIA SIDE

Fortunes fckleness in the real estate field
as well as everywhere else is such that IL
is practically impossible to tell what the
good dame is going to do next. When this
city was young II looked for its commercial
glory and financial interests to little George
town, which was then In truth the center
OF business activity in the District of Co
lumbia. When this town began to go back
ward and big business structures were al
lowed to fall into ruins no one was found
who would predict that some day her old
glory would return to her. But today every
thing points that way. This is not saying
that Georgetown VIII ever outstrip other
sections OF Washington and be in position
TO look upon the rest of the District
suburbs" but simply that a new and vital
activity is developing in the ancient place.
Old buildings are being torn down and new
ones put up, and there is a rush and hustle
coming on the western end of NJ street that
is like the days gone by.
The center OF this activity is the vicinity
of the Aqueduct bridge, and two principal
movements enter into II. The unmistakable
forward step toward a greater and more
commercial Washington. which has been
gradually developing for a number of years
past. and has recently broken into the CIR
Gle of public notice, has naturally caused
eyes to turn toward Georgetown as a yery
likely place for factories mills and similar
establishments And recently In aid of this
spirit the opening OF the vast tracts of Vir-
ginia real estate along the upper Potomac
by the Great Falls ard Old Dominion rail-
way and the realization of the possibilities
of the Virginia side for commercial pur-
poses has come to the front. The further
natural consequence is that retail business
Is picking up along street and property
values are therefore, on the rise.
An individual who is gifted with n good
imagination and is fond OF using il re-
Gently observed that IL all that is promised
by the future for the western end of the
city materializes the Aqueduct bridge will
some day bear resemblance to the
Brooklyn bridge. great will the traffic
across II be and important will be the
two sides OF the river which IL connects.
That. OF course. would be a very distant re-
ev715lance. but still many a wise idea has
been voiced In Jest
MI. Livingston's Opinion.
Colin II. Livingston, vice president and
one or the largest stockholders In the Great
Falls and Old Dominion railroad, speaks
most encouragirgly OF the roads future
and prospects He states that orders have
already been given for all necessary ma
terial for the double tracking of a road
from Georgetown to Great Falls. The first
consignment Of rails will be delivered by
the Maryland Steel Company during the
month of August, when work will be begun
at once and rushed through to completion.
II is confidently expected that the first four
miles Of the double track will be In opera