Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-08
OUT NORTHEAST WAY.
Great Increase in Growth of the
Suburbs.
THE ASSESSED VALUATION
Endeavor to Secure Extension of
Rhode Island Avenue.
RAPIDITY OF DEVELOPMENT
Impetus Expected Upon Completion
of Improvements-Big Trunk
Sewer Projected.

sewer PROJECTED.
Real estate men. residents and property
owners in Northeast Suburban Washington
who have been heard on many occasions re-
Gently, both in conversation and in public
speeches, have declared their firm belief
that the extreme northeastern section of
the District is that which Is showing and
will continue to show the greatest proper
tionate growth in population, in number of
new houses and In assessed valuation.
Northeast Suburban Washington of course.
includes all that great tract of land north of
Florida avenue and east of the line of
North Capitol street, though the greatest
development has been made, 1t is said, in
side the wide triangle formed by the lines
of the Washington branch and the Metro
politan branch of the Baltimore and Ohi,s
railroad Within that area comprehensive
street improvement and sewage systems are
in contemplation, and within the past year
particularly scores of investors have Joined
hands with those who were first on the
ground in the exploitation of what they are
conf1dent Will be the coming section of the
national capital.
10 aid the investors and their agents
there have come forward a constantly in
creasing army of the city-bred all of them
get back to the soil. Northeast Suburban
washington reJoices in its general high and
healthy surroundings. replete with fine views
andy within easy reach by both trolley and
steam cars, of the downtown section and
Its promoters have made no little CAPITAL of
the fact that even its most distant settle
ments are no further from the centers of
city activity than Georgetown I4th
street extended and other outlying portions
of the northwest.
There was a hearing before the board of
Dlstrict commissioners few days ago in
which the Northeast Suburban Citizens As
ISOLATION and representatives of nearly all
of the subdivisions in that section united
IN petitioning the Commissioners to recon-
mend to Congress the allowance of an an
preparation of $4,000 in addition 10 that
of $1,000 originally included in the local
government estimates for the fiscal year
beginning July L next, for the future OPEN
ing ana improvement of Rhode Island ave-
nue.. This thoroughfare 1t was at that time
stated VIII be the main artery of travel
INTO the far northeast, and will form d.
rect outlet for several subdivisions which
nave peen little developed because of the
dlfflcultieS attendant upon conveying butId-
ing materials to sites for houses and after
ward Tor the residents to get to and from
their places of employment With the origi-
nal $1,000 appropriation, If secured, the Dis
erlct engineering department had planned
to open and grade Rhode Island avenue as
iar as the money available will allow
Whlch, It was thought, would be to about
2Oth street, thus affording outlet and direct
communication to the city for several inn
portant subdivisions. The additional SI0fOO
II secured, will suffice to carry the wide
ana important thoroughfare probably as far
as South Dakota avenue, whence it will he
but short step to eventually carry 1t to
and across the District line
Real estate men and all others interested
a 70 hoo
unit In contending for their right to a
wide and direct connection with the CITY
proper, declaring not only that the growing
community deserved It, when If is con-
sidered that the northwest has several di-
rect roads to the District line motably the
Canal road, the Conduit road the Tenley-
town road, 18th street and now 18th street
extended), but that there should be some
better route to Bladensburg and other near
by points In Maryland. The arguments
along this line have been particularly in
sistent since the lower end of the Brent
wood road was appropriated in connection
with the union station work and that thor
orghfare closed.
Big Trunk Sewer.
Besides the near prospect of the acqusi-
ton of some such important thoroughfare
as Rhode Island avenue, the development
of the northeast suburban section during
the past year has been in great measure
encouraged by the knowledge that the local
government has been earnestly advocating
before both the last Congress and the pres
ent session the allowance of an appropria-
ton for the construction of a great trunk
sewer This artery for the waste Of the
community, it is proposed, shall start some
where along e street northeast, connecting
there with the great boundary sewer and
winding It's way for 81 distance of nearly
four miles into South Brookland. The Com
mlsisoners are urging before the pres ant
Congress an appropriation of $40, coo to be-
gin the work of building the new sawe:,
which, IT is estima ted, will be ABOUT q, 900
feet in length when completed. and will
at that time have cost S342, 900 Purchasers
of property in the northeast have been en-
couraged by virtue of the active campaign
now being carried on for this great sewer,
that they will have added to city light and
water (conveniences which most of the sub
urbs now possess this other necessity of
modern life in the vicinity of a metropolis.
The rapidity of the development of the
nese as RP Wheh p
being laid out. Four large sections were
placed on the market In the form of record
ed lots and blocks within the past year,
and 1t has been predicted that the time Is
not far distant when the whole of the sec
ton bounded by North Capitol street, Flor
ida avenue and the District line will be on
the market in suburban building sites. The
past year has been a record-breaker as far
as new building throughout the section IS
concerned, and the inspectors In the local
building department, who are daily on the
Judge declare their belief that the ensuing
building season will far surpass anything
yet witnessed in Northeast Suburban Wash
tngton.
Increase in Values.
All the time property values in the differ
ent suburbs are increasing, and one largely
interested real estate man declared to
Star reporter few days ago that the
closest approximation he could make would
be that the assessed valuation in many sec
lions had tripled within as many years.
This, he said, is due largely to >the extern
sive building operations, and the houses. OF
course, are all much more valuable than
the land, and also to the actual apprecia-
ton of values of the different tracts. The
invariable rule of supply and demand gov
erns the real estate market as irrevocably
as 1t does any product in any other mar
ket, and II has been authoritatively stated
that the real estate transfers during the
past year in northeast suburban Washing
ton were fully so per cent greater than dur
ing the previous twelve months or during
any similar period in the history of that
portion OF the capital. The last triennial