Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-23

connection with this comes also the state
ment from the university authorities that
unless they have liberal support from the
public that the option in question will not
he exercised or that some other site may be
chosen.
The people who have property that is at
ali suitable for such a purpose are naturally
interested to have their particular piece
selected, and they have not delayed in call
ing it to the attention of President Need
ham. In this way a large number of pieces
of property have been found to be avail
able for purchase and to that extent to be
on the market.
There is Still Acreage Property.
This experience only goes to show that
while the city has grown tremendously in
recent years and is destined, it is believed,
TO continue along the same course. that it
has not as yet occupied all the land within
the bounds of the District. Indeed, accord
ing to the estimate recently made by the
surveyor of the city MIR. Richards, only
about one and one-half times the area of
the land within the original limits of the
city have been laid out beyond those limits
in the form of city building lots.
There yet remains undsturbed by city
streets about two and one-half times the
original city area, so that 1t need not be
surprising that there is considerable acreage
property left within the bounds of the Dis
trict.
As to Fire Loss.
For many years the United States an
nually has been averaging a property loss
of S175, 600 600 not including such disasters
San Francisco and Baltimore. The drain
on the country's resources by this enor-
nous annual loss is beyond question an
economic factor which it should be the
duty of legislators" argues a writer, Ito
minimize. but they appear to have been
unable to clear their minds of the dogma
that the insurance corporations and not
the people bear the burden. So firmly is
this fallacy inculcated in the creed of the
body polite of some commonwealth that
their only answer to suggestions of ex-
cessive fire loss is a proposal for increased
taxation in insurance companies incomes.
The fire loss in this country and Canada
during the year 1906 based on estimates
by the Journal of Commerce. will reach
the unprecedented sum of $3.50. 100000, as
compared with a loss of $40 $500 in
1903, and So, 1854 $50 in 1904, the year of
the Baltimore and Toronto conflagrations
The country during the $50 years of its eX
istence has offered up to the Unsuitable
greed of fire an aggregate value never be-
fore equaled in the history of the world
and yet there has been practically no legis-
lation to bring about any real change in
conditions
Mr.. Breuninger's Home.
The residence which Mr.. L. E. Breunin-
ger has built for himself at the south
west corner of 18th street and Park road
is located on a site of such ar lie size
that it has the advantage of lawns about
1t, which is not common in the case of city
houses. There is also room for a stable,
which has been built. The house, which is
of brick, is colonial in it's treatment, and
is arranged in the interior as to con-
tribute to the comfort and ease of daily
living.
The experience which the owner of the
property has had in building houses for
other people has been utilized in the case
of his own home, and as a consequence
the planning illustrates the results of what
has been achieved in the way of conve-
nence for the housekeeper.
The Sale of "Skidmore"
Grant Parish, real estate broker, sold
during the past week the colonial estate
known as "'Skidmore," near Annapolis, to
Gen. W. s. Labrot, a wealthy southern
planter of Louisiana. for s14,500. The
new owner contemplates improvements
that will equal the purchase price, making
it one of the finest country gentlemen's
estates in Maryland. "Skidmore" comes
down from colonial times, and figures in
the annals of Annapolis when that place
was the capital of the country for brief
period. The location is commanding bor-
dering, il does on Whitehall bay and
extending to the Chesapeake bay. and en-
braces 1Ss acres of agricultural lands and
a shore front on salt water. The property
is but thirty minutes from Annapolis by
water, and possesses one of the most
charming scenic views overlooking Annap-
oils harbor and Chesapeake bay.
Annapolis is closely allied to Wash
ington on account of the national govern
lnent interest in the Naval Academy, and
the electric railroad now in active con-
structiou between the two cities will still
bring closer the two capital cities.