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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-03
SALES ON NINTH STREET.
Business Property Active Along
Downtown Thoroughfares.

Stone G. Fairfax. real estate corpora
ton. reports the recent sale for Joseph
Strasbureer of the three buildings Nos.
423-4o5 and 4c7 9Th street northwest.
These properties have a total frontage OF
over ffty-two feet, with depth of one
hundred feet. The buildings have q
heighth Of three stories. with cellars under
each. The purchaser will retain the prop
erty as an investment, il being valued at
1900 in this transaction.
There Is a strong demand for property
in that block, and the opening or several
places OF amusement i'm the vicinity has
greatly increased the travel, both day and
night, along 9Th street.
The Adams Express Company and the
United States Express Company have
leased offices in the same block, having
removed from Pennsylvania avenue.
Another sale of considerable Importance
in the same immediate section. was the
sale of the property at the northwest
corner Of 9th and streets. The inn
provements were erected many years ago
and We're not considered valuable In this
transaction. The property has a 'front.'
age OF twenty feet on 9th street, with
ninety-one feet on Z street, containing
S}3 square feet. The sum realized was
$4,000. or at the rate of $3.50 per square
foot. The purchaser, Mrs. Marie Kloczew-
ski. has occupied the property for many
years, conducting an extensive drug BUSH
ness.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-03

Is extending its mains SO as to embrace in
one comprehensive network of pipes prac-
ttcally all of the territory beyond Rock
creek, Tar outside Of it's original sphere
In the city of Georgetown OF former times
in the West Washington of the present
day.
Preliminary work looking to the en-
trance into the new field was begun with
in the present year by the laying Of a
new twelve-inch main from the plant at
Goth and N streets northwest to Tenley-
town. opposite the Mclean residence.
Friendship. From that point the new
lines. which are just now going into serv-
Ice. have been placed under ground. One
branch extends down Woodley Lane road
to Connecticut avenue. and down both
sides of that thoroughfare to the triangle
at the ends Of the Connecticut avenue and
Calvert street bridges. and along 2}d
street, at the west end of the Calvert
street bridge. where new row OF houses
Is now in course of construction. Another
section reaches Connecticut avenue via
Cathedral avenue. and 1t enters the popu-
lous suburb of Cleveland Park
From Tenieytown another line OF pipe
Is being laid straight out Wisconsin ave
nue. to and across the District line into
Maryland. where 1t will operate under the
charter granted by the Maryland legisla-
ture to the Georgetown Gas Light Com
pany of Montgomery county. This line
will serve the suburbs of Tenleytown
Somerset Heights. Friendship Heights
and DrummOnd. the pipe-layers being at
work within the limits Of Drummond this
week. Another branch from Drummond
through Bradley lane. will reach Con-
necticut avenue near Chevy Chase Circle,
to lay service mains in the streets in
Chevy Chase. Md. and in the raridly de-
veloping settlements Of Chevy Chase, D.
e., and Connecticut Avenue Terrace.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-03
LANDLORD WAS TOO CLEVER
Required Tenant to Do PAINTING
But Neglected Color Scheme.

The troubles of the landlord and thu
matching of wits between landlords and
tenants have furnished legitimate food
for the jokesmith since time began, but
something entirely new was discovered
the other day in this much-cultivated
field. A writer for Lippincotts Magazine
made the find, and II is thus deliciously
related:
When recently leasing house in a
fashionable suburb of Philadelphia the
lessee failed to examine closely the terms
of the lease. After a time his landlord
called and reminded him that he was
bound to do all the outside painting at
certain intervals. The tenant protested
in vain. so he engaged painters and or
dered them to paint the whole front Of
the house. red. white and blue-in stripes.
When It was finished the neighborhood
rose up in arms, and the landlord was
frantic. The tenant politely explained
that there was nothing in the lease about
the color so he intended to finish the job
by painting the back OF the house green
with large yellow spots. The landlord saw
that he had met his match, and within a
few days the tenant had a new lease, In
which the landlord undertook to do all
the outside painting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-03
MR., FULLER'S ANALYSIS
OF THE NEW EQUIPMENT

In a brief interview published In the
same magazine. in connection with the
description of the cars Mr.. H. w. Fuller,
general manager Of the Washington Rail-
way and Electric Company. thus described
the nature Of the country and the operat-
ing conditions the new equipment is ex-
pected to provide for:
''The line operating northwest from
Washington to the Montgomery county
-Rockville-fourteen miles. serves a
territory that has been selected by many
prominent men Of the city for their sub
urban homes. To the man OF business.
whose work requires more or less constant
attention during the summer months, as
we'll as to the man of leisure, this region
some hundreds Of feet above the city.
The contour Is rolling and. viewed from
the cars. the constantly changing pan
Drama Of open fields valleys and wood
land makes the ride a pleasant one.
mo pleasure resorts or parks are oper-
ated along this line. and the company
directs all of its efforts to the main
tenance of a speedy. comfortable service
,, for the benefit of its patrons residing in
the adjacent territory.
upon which others Of the new cars will be
used. has its city terminus at 18th and G
streets: runs through the heart of the
business section. and through district
northeast or the city Tor nineteen miles.
1t serves the towns of Langdon Hyatts-
willie, Riverdale, Berwyn. Beltsville and
Laurel. Low rents and a cool. healthy
climate combine the essentials making
this section particularly attractive to the
wage-earner and the Ofiiceholder. The
traffic is heavy over this line and during
the morning and evening rush hours the
Roadway Is shortened close as five
minutes. There are no resorts to induce
pleasure riding. the company directing
N
Great Falls line. AS on the Rockville line,
every effort is made to develop and. i'm
prove the section by providing f1rst-class
service to and from the city"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-03

Many conditions. besides the mere out
ward evidences offered by new buildings
springing up, serve to indicate the devel-
opment of a city, and probably nothing
Is safer guide to the trend Of municipal
betterment than the extensions and i'm
provements in the service OF the public
utilities-gas mains. supply cables carry
ing electric current for lighting and for
power. and street car lines It goes with
out saying that shrewd, far-sighted men
are at the head Of the corporations which
furnish the two principal public utilities
transportation and illumination-to the
citizens Of most large cities and the i'm
mediate environs-men who by every at
tribute Of training and close observation
are best fitted to forecast the direction
of the growth Of their municipality. and
to meet and not infrequently even to
anticipate the needs of the people.
AS this proposition is in the abstract.
so 1t is In fact in Washington. The city
and its suburbs have shared in the bene-
fits accruing from be,terments In nearly
all lines of transportation, from the con-
centration of terminals OF all steam rail-
roads leading into the capital into one
great station to the extensions Of track
age and actual Improvement of rolling
stock of the electric railways calculated
to keep the service abreast OF the needs
of the public.
The most recent improvement in this
latter respect has been the addition OF a
number of passenger cars OF the latest
design to the lines of the Washington
Railway and Electric Company running
into Maryland. This improvement was pre-
ceded in turn by the completion of the
Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis
Railway, connecting the three cities
named; the opening of the Old Dominion
railway. affording easy means of access
to rich country along the shores of the
Potomac river as far west as Great Falls:
the extension of the tracks of the Wash
inKton, Arlington and Falls Church rail-
way, SO that that line placed it's city term
inal in the heart of the downtown bust
ness district, and the great improvement
in trackage and cars and service of the
Washington, Alexandra and Mt Vernon
railroad.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-03
ARor| 2r.NEN SToRE5Ar ERv, SzREE 4w0
Eo4zaA At1EN1zE MoR ZztxLE.5E

parapet Because the rains are very
disastrous to these walls. they are often
strengthened with a layer OF tiles on
the outside. The difficulty with this
construction is that the inner mud part
gives way and collapses when it gets
wet, leaving only the thin outer tile
part standing This usually results in
throwing the entire weight OF the
heavy roof on the light tile construction
and the whole house collapses. Many OF
these fiat-roofed mud houses are de-
stroyed during every rain, and when
ever the rivers overflow the valleys
practically every house is ruined. There
are no building laws or police regula-
lions in China tending to better the
class of houses now constructed and
thus making living in them more safe
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-03
NEW USE OF CONCRETE.
Pa. r. r. Experimenting With Sub
stitute for Wooden Telegraph Poles.

Concrete is entering into constantly
widening field as substitute for wood,
and the ingenuity of man promises &c
meet more than half way the fast ad-
vancing problem OF the age incident to
the scarcity and cost of wood. Concrete
in house-building is no longer novelty.
Concrete for piling in place of the long
timbers, each of them the complete trunk
of 4 single tree. has proved not only an
available, but a superior substitute
But the newest use for concrete seems
To have been made by the Pennsylvania
railroad. which has begun the installation
of concrete telegraph poles along It's right
of way. The assertion is made that they
will no. be so liable To destruction by
storms. and will last longer than the
wooden poles. The road has chosen
long stretch of exposed track between
Pittsburg and Chicago for the expert
ments which will be carried on through
out the winter II found satisfactory the
entire system will have the new concrets
pole.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-03
GAS MAIN EXTENSIONS
OF EQUAL IMPORTANCE

Equally as important to the city and to
the surrounding country. and equally in
dicative of the faith OF the corporation
heads in the future of all of the country
to the northwest. both in the District Of
Columbia and In Maryland. is the great
Improvement undertaken by the George
town Gas Light Company. This company
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-03
Where Ambidexterity Is Frequent.

HiOIL 4NeW .1uICS-DeLIOCTUI
The idea Of ambidexterity, so popular
little while ago. Is going out even faster
than 1t came In.
thine given to the left hand" said a
school teacher, 'is time taken from the
right. In making the left hand more
skillful you make the right less so. An
ambidextrous nation would produce no
Raphaels, no Michael Angeles, no La
liQues.
"They used to say that Japan was am
bidextrous, but that is not true. There
is no more ambdexterity among the Japa-
neSe than among US.
do you know the only place where am
bidexterity is frequent? In lunatic asy-
lums. Idiots are nearly always ambi-
dextrous."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-03
WOODlESS AGE IS COMING
WE'LL ALL BE I'm CEMENT" IN
THE SWEET BYE AND BYE.
No Coal Bills, Either, in 1899.
Builder in Illinois Shows How
It Can Be Done.

From the Technical World.
A house of cement: a house without
chimney; house with plenty Of artiti-
cial light and heat and yet without a bit
of fire; a house without coal. without
ashes. without dangerous gases-such is
to be the house of tomorrow.
This Is. indeed. an ideal house, and it
is not impossible to have. for with little
trouble one has just been completed at
Carrollton. Ill. While this home is won
derful. the average American home will
in a few years from now be like it.
Wood is fast becoming too scarce and
too high in price to be used as common
building material. and the time is already
here when. fer economys sake archi-
tects and contractors are figuring to
construct all buildings of steel and con-
crete. AS the supply of coal diminishes
the cost is advancing SO that everything
possible is being done to husband the sup
ply and see that none of the precious
stored heat Is wasted. Electricity. gen.
Grated by water power. is even now TAX
ing the place of coal as a source of
power, and the time is not far distant
when it will rank first as a source OF
heat.
Description Of Model House.
This model twentieth century home at
Carrollton is "a by 30 feet, two stories
high, with attic and basement, and has
eight rooms on the two main floors
While Edison's idea of concrete house
to be poured into one big mold was not
carried out in its construction, yet the
principal building material was of con-
crete The foundation and walls are of
concrete blocks These blocks were
nodded right on the ground as they were
required. SO there was no waste OF ma
teriai' The floors are of hardwood and
the interior is finished in plaster and oak.
Sucn house requires but little wood in
It's construction. The style of architec-
.ule - oi plain substantial mission type.
rms Idea being carried out throuptou, ~ a
interior The house is fronted with a
large porch. and the whole construction
OF. rather. the entire cost was less than
$500 ' 'ioi'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-03
New Store and Apartments.

A notable Improvement in the SOUTH
east section is the store and apartment
building erected by Guy NJ. Nicely at the
corner of 1lth and c streets, after plans
by c. Z. Webb, architect. The apart
ments. five In number. are models OF con-
venience. The store is one of the larg-
est in this section and is well adapted
to the owners business.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-03
Just al Good.
From Puck.

From PUCK.
Pa. femme 60 to the show an see IN.
whirlin' dervish.''
Hush. Harold. Papa will take Won
downtown tonight and you can see all the
political spellbinders and hoppers that you
want to-"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-03

1t matters little what II is that you
want-whetheY a situation or a servant
want" ad in The Star will reach the
person VINO can NIL your need.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-03
DESCRIPTION OF THE
TECHNICAL FEATURES

In their technical features the cars were
very well described in BrilIs Magazine,
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-02-13
TEA FROM THE FLOWERS.
Naturally Sweet Tea of Western China
Value of Tea Dust.

Tea, not from the leaves, but from the
flowers alone of the plant, is rarely en-
cOuntered i'll commerce. The petals
stamens, ETC., are sun dried, and the re-
sulting tea is of a rich, deep brown hue
of peculiarly delicate odor, and gives a
pale amber colOred infusion rather more
astringent in taste than that from the
average fair grade leaf. The taste for it
is an acquired one, and even if this
ca could be made commercially possible,
it is doubtful if it would ever become
popular
The American tea trade could advan-
tageously take a suggestion from the
brick tea of the far east. In our country
the tea dust, some of which is of good
quality, is not properly utilized. In Eu-
rope it is q regular article of trade, and
it is advertised and sold as tea dust In
America it is sold to thousands of cheap
restaurants, who make from it the mix
ture of fannie acid, sugar and boiled
milk which they sell as tea" If as in
the Orient, this dust were compressed
into bricks, good tea could be made
from it. and the piNfiuct would find
ready market through the multitude of
uses for which it is adapted. A begin
ming in this direction has been made by
the Pinehurst tea estate in South Caro-
lima, and in Europe similar advances
have been inaugurated.
The virgin tea (biepjcki-chD, so called
from it's use at Chinese weddings, is the
sun dried leaf intact. tied up with three
strands of colored silk. After infusion,
these fagotlike little bundles are picked
in vinegar and used as salad. This tea
is sold in especially handsome silk COW
cred and glass topped boxes. The rarest
of all teas, and one that has never
been known to reach this country, is a
naturally sweet tea, produced in west
ern China on very limited scale. It's
culture is centuries old, and the secret
has been jealousy guarded from genera
ton to generation. The saccharinity is
probably due to grating and years OF
patient study and care, such as only the
small Chinese tea farmer is capable of
bestowing. Scientific American.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-02-13
How They Hunt Bears in India.

The beaters arrived at camp the fol-
lowing morning. They began to come in
twos and threes, then in fives and SKIES,
and finally in dozens, so that by the
time breakfast was over, the entire male
population Of some three villages were
grouped about my tent. With the help
of the shikaris, fifty of these were Sc
lected and each given a slip of paper
bearing my signature, for when they
came for their wages at the end of the
day, 1 did not wish the friends and rela-
tives of the beaters as we'll as the beat
ers themselves turning up for payment.
The din these fifty souls succeed in
making as they move in long line up
the base and two sides of a wooded
nullah shrieking, bowling, cat-calling,
setting off fire crackers and beating tum-
tums, is enough to drive any self-respect-
ing bear out of his seven senses. An
army of battle-shouting dervishes could
hardly create a greater amount of up
roar, nor is it at all surprising that the
bear should find a pressing engagement
elsewhere at the earliest possible moment
after finding his nullah thus rudely in
vaded. If he turns down the nullah, he
encounters the invading army; if he tries
to escape by the sides, he is met and
driven back by heaters already posted.
Therefore he does the most natural thing
in the world by fleeing up the center of
the nullah, directly away from the on
coming din. The underground probably
prevents the sportsman's seeing the bear
or the bear seeing him until they actually
meet.-From "Black Bear Honking in
the Valley of Kashmir," by J. j. Grew
in The Outing Magazine.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-02-13
FINE FURNITURE VENEERED.
How Oak Is Discrimination Cherry and
Hard Wood from Sycamore.

''ThCro is q great deal of sO-caled oak
furniture sold nowadays" said Eugene
j. Hicks. "A large part of this furni-
ture is veneered. This is particularly
true of parlor and ornamental furniture.
Coarse and common furniture may be
made of solid oak, but fine furniture is
almost invariably veneered.
'"This is because a much finer finish
can be got from quartered oak veneer
than from the solid wood. The grain
comes out better, and it takes a higher
polish. Where strength and durability
are required, the solid wood is used,
but for surfaces veneering is preferable.
Indianapolis is the largest veneer manu-
featuring center in the world. The
sycamore used to be regarded as a COM
paratively worthless tree, but it works
up well III veneering, and finds many
uses in the manufacture of furniture.
1t can be stained in imitation of cherry
and other hard woods.
There are two kinds of veneering-
sawed and sliced-but it takes an ex-
pert to tell the difference The process
of manufacture is simple and interesting.
The logs, delivered at the factory in the
rough, about ID feet i'll length. are first
cooked in hot water watts to make them
safe and workable.
''It does not matter how green they
are. After being thoroughly cooked they
are placed on machines designed for the
purpose, and either sliced by a powerful
knife the length of the log or cut by a
circular saw into slabs about one-twen-
tieth of an inch thick. These slabs are
the full length of the log, and when
first cut are so pliable that they can be
bent double without breaking. The uni
form thickness or thinness of the slabs
is preserved by the action of the ma,
chinery, and does not vary so much as
hairs breath in the entire length of the
slab.
after the slabs are sliced or sawed
they are seasoned by steaming. This
requires only about twenty-four hours,
and then they are ready for the market
Some of the huge oak logs that come
to the factory show by the rings in them
that the trees were from $50 to 400
years old washington Herald
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-02-13
Canaries Steamship Pets.

Few and far between are the steam
ships entering the port of Boston that
cannot boast of a canary. No matter
how battered and rusty the craft may be
one is pretty sure to find the canary
somewhere in the rooms of the officers
or crew. Its cage, as a rule, is Won
derful creation of brass wire and lace,
and the canary himself usually is a
singer whose trill and whistle are of the
best.
The little songsters appear to enjoy
life on the ocean. Seldom are they i'll
convenienced by the motion of the vessel
and the more the cage swings from its
hook the more they MARBLE Sailors will
tell you a. canary is a mascot. Be that
as it may the canaries are great pets.
Frequently one may see sailor on the
waterfront Juggling his bird and cage to
some new berth.-BOSton Herald.
Consul Albert Halstead reports
from Birmingham that several English
buttonmaking concerns have formed
combination with capital stock of ST.
216OOO. The purpose is to reduce the
keen competition and effect manufacture
ing economies.
In Paris dogs are treated as well
as human beings are. They wear au-
tomobile togs when they go motoring,
they have a hospital, and they even
have a good sized cemetery, with monu-
ments and headstones and inscriptions
and mOrtuary wreaths.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-02-13
NIAGARA AND ZAMBESI.
Latter More Stupendous, but Former s
Proportions More Striking.

GA question which travellers often ask
each other in various parts of the world
is: What is really the greatest natural
wonder ON earth?' 1t is easy to answer
now, says the Travel Magazine, since the
stupendous falls of the Zambesi river
have been discovered.
David Livingstone called the main
fall the most wonderful sight | had
visited in Africa And when one inn
AGNES the spectacle of one of the worlds
mightiest rivers, two miles wide, falling
sheer 42O feet it is not hard to agree
with one Of the greatest travellers and
missionaries that ever lived.
'Our own Niagara is only half a mile
wide and 15S feet high, so that it figures
as a mere cascade in comparison"
This is all very well, but Niagara still
leads in the impressiveness of it's pro-
portions. The Zambesi falls are two
miles wide, four times the width of Nj
agara. In order to preserve the relative
proportions of the latter the African
falls should therefore be four times it's
height, or 632 feet.
It's real height of APO feet is less than
three times that of Niagara. This
changes it's relative proportions decided
ly and not in way to increase its inn
DresSiyeneSS.