Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-06
REAL ESTATE GOSSIP
Changes in Large Residence
Property.
PHASES OF THE MARKET
Plan for Securing Light in Dining
Rooms.
THE BUILDINGS IN PROGRESS
Favorable Weather for Outside Work
and Advantage Taken to Push
Operations Forward.
THE BUILDINGS IN PROGRESS

house of colonial design from the office
| of F. b. Pyle, architect, is being built by
MI. Herbert M. Wilson. 1t will occupy
| only portion of his grounds at the north
| east corner of 9th and Bancroft streets,
Kalorama Heights, as that section is known,
which is divided by Massachusetts avenue
and lies west of Florida avenue. He has
a lot there which is one hundred feet square
| and the improvement now going on will
| cover twenty-five feet at the corner The
| balance of the ground will be improved
and adorned as a garden. Mr. Wilson will
| occupy this house as his residence in the
early spring.
| To the east Of this site and at the north
| east corner of Massachusetts avenue and
Decatur street Mrs Jenness Miller has be-
| gun the erection of an apartment house
1t will occupy the triangular point at the
1uncture of the two streets, with q 'front.'
age of sixty-eight feet on Decatur street
and thirty feet on Massachusetts avenue
with depth of about one hundred feet.
The new building will be four or five
stories In height and will be designed as to
IT'S interior arrangements as such buildings
are IN Paris. and will have rooms for the
concierge or janitor, on the first floor.
Prosperity of the City.
| The public work that is going on here is
| SO extensive that it is hard to realize its
| influence upon the market. These increased
accommodations for the government which
the growth of the public business has made
necessary, are one of the contributing
sources of the prosperity of the city. 1t fol-
| lows as a matter of course, looking at the
subject in its broad aspects that the gov
eminent and its activities here to nut II
commercially, are the main industry of the
city.
In the same sense it can be said that the
steel plants of Pittsburg are it's main in.
dustres, and so of other places which
| have large interests, which not only furnish
direct employment and wages but also a
means of livelihood to hundreds of people
who are engaged in supplying the daily
needs of the employees of these concerns
so In an entirely legitimate sense the gov
eminent and the acticities of the govern
inent can be looked upon a source of the
business interests of the city.
AS the Country Grows.
One reason why these interests have
grown and developed during the past few
years IS that there has been steady
growth of the government in all of its de-
paftments in order to keep pace with the
expansion OF the country. The Spanish
American war resulted in a large incraase
III the governmental agencies. More clerks
were needed in this city, not only in the
War and Navy Departments but in the
other departments. as the enlarged scope
of the government led to additions ali
around. 1t can be depended upon as
steady source of municipal prosperity and
TINS same process will go on as the coun-
try continues to develop.
Another means of adding 10 the resources
or the city is undoubtedly its growing at
IacuVeness as q place of residence so
lhat Washington is coming more and more
10 De a place where the wealthy come for
part OF the year at least That class
brings money here and it spends il here
and in this way the current disbursements
are enlarged and money is put in circuIa-
ness.
Modern, Up-to-Date Place.
To meet the change in the conditions
which the steady growth in the population
mas brought, due in the main to the two
causes which have been mentioned the
commercial resources of the CITY have
been expanded so that in the way of
retail stores and in banking facilities
In the building interests and in transpor-
tatIon utilities of all kinds, both by water
and land, steam and electricity this CITY
can now compare with any place in the
world. In other words, Washington is a
modern, up-tQ-date place with all the adj
Vantages which are to be found at large
centers, and, in addition, the special attrac-
tions which are only to be found a the no.
litical ard social capital of the country.
1t is not surprising. then. that the popu-
iation is increasing, and that the people
coming here are of class which might be
described as the leisure class. To a large
extent, of course, the yare people of wealth
who secure large establishments here and
live in an elaborate fashion, and thus add
to the business of the many who furnish
the supplies. There is another element in
this influx of population that must not be
overlooked and that is the large proportion
and numerically the largest proportion
who are not people of much means bu.
who for one reason or another have retired
from active business and have selected this
city as the place to locate their homes.
The Home Owners.
When man of this description comes to
the city his arrival is not heralded in the
| newspapers. and when he buys home, as
he generally does, that fact is not worth
more than paragraph, If it is that, and
yet the class to which he belongs is a very
important part of the population, for the
reason that its members are substantial
people, who are adding to the numbers
of home owners in this city
1t has not been possible in the past to
describe Washington a city of homes
for the reason that owing to the conditions
of change which applied to the civil service
in all Its branches good part of those
who came here to live could not lock upon
this CITY as their permanent abiding place.
More Permanent Character.
To a considerable extent a change has
taken place in this regard, and now those
who come arrange to stay here, so that
the population. instead of having the fiuc-
tuating character of some years ago, has
become more established. While it has not
lost the shifting characteristic entirely
and is still more changeable than is de-
sirabie, still the change in this particular
is what is giving the stability to the real
estate market and Is infusing so much
vigor into all branches of the industries of
the city
Light for Dining Rooms.
A building enterprise is going on in the
section known as Bloomingdae, where Mid
daugh &c Shannon are erecting twenty two
story houses on Adams street just west
of 1st street northwest. Some of the houses
will be at the southeast corner and others