Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-28

tees, which include the rank and Ale Of some
| of Washington's ablest business men, the
home makers and land-deaIers began 10 look
| about them and to consider the possibilities
| in the event of the success of the new en-
| terprise.
Views of a Dealer.
Il should not have had much faith in the
new association" said one prominent agent
to the writer, but for the fact that the
newspapers have given 1t such able sup
port. There are men of splendid business
ability Identified with the enterprise but
they would have been as helpless as the
babes in the woods without the newspapers
AS matters now, stand l believe this aSSo-
citation is going to do more to promote the
business interests of the capital than any
factor that has contributed in that respect
in many years"
And the consensus of opinion among the
real estate men generally is that the great
publicity given the association will event
uaIly make it Of the greatest possible bene-
fit to this capital. Washington is not only
one of the most beautiful cities in the
world they say but 1t is one of the most
advantageously situated and planned from
the residential viewpoint. 1t has grown and
expanded after q fashion and vogue that
is practically unprecedented, and it stands
today as the most ptcturesquely beautiful
and attractive city in the world In many
respects. No city has the same perfection
of hygienic and sanitary laws and equip
ment and possessions, and no city has any
thing like the same attractions OF natural
environment All that and more, too, rela-
lively every Washingtonian knows. But the
efforts of the new association which has
to do with the very logic of the capital s
material advance and progress mas TO DO
with its business interests.
From a residential standpoint Washington
is practically matchless In this or any other
country. AS seat of government there is
little left to be desired. But the real es-
tate men are far from content in other re-
spects, and just now they are centering
their most ardent hopes accompanied by
no little faith in the present movement.
That Washington must have no business
interests: no jobbing houses and no facto-
ries of any description is regarded as an
exploded bugaboo even by the most con-
sentative citizens, the real estate agents
confidently assert, and if the city is to have
its just deserts it must have a just per
centage of the same commercial and in
dustrial interests that have made other
great capitals of the world.
Prevention of Smoke Nuisance.
THE sooner we get the Idea out of the
minds of property owners that Washington
will be~a second Pittsburg or Cincinnati
because we have some manufacturing in
terests the better 1t will be-" said one agent.
1--WE need not have any smoke nuisance or
! dirt of any description. 1t is comparatively
simple to get motive power from central
plants. Let the street railways furnish 1t
from their POWER houses. 1t will be to the
interest of these companies to furnish 1t
as reasonably as they possibly can, for no
| individual or company will profit more than
| they by every addition to the population.
| Then there need be no smoke nuisance.
/ The factory of today in your modern city
| is very different from the old-fashioned
| structure
Some of the Washington people who are
crying down and trying to keep out all
manufacturing interests here ought to take
a little run up through New England and
go through some of the smaller manufac-
| turing towns that dot almost every state
| in that section.
They would, am sure he very favorabiy
| impressed. In point of cleanliness and desir-
| ability. they will compare favorably with
| any city in the country. No, that old Idea
| that a city must necessarily be unclean and
! unhealthy because ii has manufacturing in
/ terests is a trifie ancient, to say the least.
! Modern methods. modern buildings and
/ modern electrical machinery have abolished
/ all these ideas, and there is no reason why
/ we should not have manufacturing inter-
! est here that would mean much added rev.
| enue to the city, and which would do much
to make our progress, in my opinion, more
| to advance it's natural welfare than the es-
| tablshment of comparative additions to the
| government departments"
Paris as an Example.
| 1t Is pointed out that Paris would not be
| the city it is but for it's great shops and its
| manufacturing interests, and that no one
complains OF the dirt In the Partisan strong
hold Most of the articles of wearing ap-