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The Washington times., 1908-11-29
REALTY TRANSFERS.

2l4 Pennsylvania avenue southeast
Joseph J. Darlington ct al. trustees, to
Clarence +. DOnOhue, lot II. square lSS,
$500
Washington Heights-Howard Etchi-
son to Leo Simmons, lot 70, SO.
Second street. between X and V streets
northwest-W. Walter Edwards ct ux.
to Galem L. Green. part lot s. square
Gil. $40.
IngIeside-Luther A. SwartzeH to Os-
car ]. Ricketts,. lot SO. block Il; SlOO.
Mattingly Tract-Harry B. Wilson ct
al. to Florence Z. GidIey, lot 2, square
2S35: $40.
1910 Ninth street northwest-Robert A
Miller TO William Y. MahoAer,- lot 81,
square 36I; SO
Fourteenth street. between L. and NJ
streets northwest-ChaTles c, Wilson to
Fannle J. Barrett. part original lot II,
square 2I; $40.
Washington Heights-John NJ Hen
derson 10 William S Garland, lot So,
block T. so.
Thirty-seventh street extended-Jessie
. II. Wilson, trustee, to Ellie Fabre, part
lot 266, square 1900; I.S74.2S.
y street, between TWenJy-seventh and
TWenty-eighth streets northwest -
Raphael 4. Casilear ct al. 10 trustees
of Alender Memorial Baptist Church.
lots Il and A, and part lots 40 and 45,
NJ street. between Thirty fourth and
Thirty-dfth streets northwest - Ellie
FEbre to Thomas q. Homiller, part lots
50 and 81, square 1894, SO.
Greenvale-Julia p. Evans TO John
Miller. lot Is; SO.
dge-Robert H Hazard ct TX.
to Henry A. Vieth, half interest in lot
Z, square 3, $40.
Anacostia-HenFy H Bergman, trus-
tee, to James T. FarTan, lot $780, $40.
Third street, between r and + streets
nortAwsst-Edward Eberback 10 James
W Johnson, original lot y and part
lot 13, square 53l, SO. James w. john
son conveys same property TO John H.
Nolan, SIC.
Washington Heights-John H Nolan
ct uX. 10 William B. WEeatley, lots 81
10 81 block 4, $40. William B. Wheatley
ct ux. conveys same property to Harry
Wardman and Thomas Bones SO
Squares $50, 459, 46l, 465, 5S5, 2574. 2SS2 and
1O00-James T. Barbour 10 William NJ.
Laws. all interest IN part lots. square 3SZ:
lot 13, square 459; lots 60 and 81, square
461; lots a 10 i, square 6; lots Is and l9
square $50, lot 332, square 2674; lots 3
ard q. 30 to 5. Sle S1l, SI2. Sl3. S52 and
S5S. square 2SS2. and part lot q, square
10O0. $40
Ivy City-John C. Angermann Ell al,
trustees, 10 Maggie a. Howell. lots q to
q. block g. $40.
The Washington times., 1908-11-29
CHURCH BUYS HOUSE
TO USE AS CHURCH
Dwelling to Be Remodeled and
Converted Into Sanctuary for
Alexander Memorial.

The Alexander Memorial Church,
which was recently organized in West
Washington, has purchased a tract OF
land containing four lots. comprising
about half an acre IN y street between
TWenty-seventh and Twenty eighth
streets northwest.
The property includes a large, double
thTee-stOry brick residence numbered
27l5 n street The land has a frontage
Of ia feet on y street and a depth Of
10 feet. The dwelling is to be reuodeIed
and used as a church. The sale was
made through the Office Of CasiIear &
Co, of 1905 Wisconsin avenue, George
town.
Inc Rev. ". B. Carroll is pastor OF
the church, George w. Patterson is
treasurer, =. II. LOmaX, clerk, and the
trustees are Albert Z. Newman, Robert
ID. DUtfnS, Andrew Walker. Lewis
FOindeXter, George OdeTiCk, Lewis Scott,
and William LOVett.
The Washington times., 1908-11-29

mahogany finish. All desks and Off1ce
furniture are Of mahogany.
William e. WorthlngLou Will be man
ageT OF the new company as well as
the Seventh street branch, and John D.
Howard viii be assistant manager.
George p LinIus. one of the stock
holders OF the bank. viii be audiJOr OF
the new branch. Mr.. Linktus Is az
present with his father. George W. Lin
klns. IN the real estate business
History Of the Bank
The Merchants and Mechanics Saw
ings Bank was first organized SepJen-
Der ]. 1904 and began business in mod
est quarters at 7g7 G. street northwest
The capital stock at that time was $50,-
O00. Under the present management the
bank has increased its capital stock 70
100000 and moved into new and hand
some quarters al the corner Of Seventh
and G streets in November OF last year
Since that time the business of the bank
has made remarkable strides
in April, 1908. the Merchants and Me-
chanics absorbed the Traders Ma
tional Bank, at Tenth street and Penn
sylvania avenue northwest. and this is
at present the main bank In he alb
sOrpJOn OF the Traders Bank tie Capi-
tai stock was increased to S2o0,O0J and
bined Iotaled approximately 81 $1,000.
Though that Was but seven months agOs
they today total over Sl,Jo0Co0.
Officers Of Institution.
The officers Of the Merchants and
Mechanics National Bank are Eid-idge
E. Jordan. president; Michael G. Nc
Cormick, vice president; julius l. Pey-
ser, second vice PRESIDENT J. Eendali
Mechanics Savings Bank, are EldTidE6
Cain, cashier; H Owen Thompson as
sisLanI cashier William c. WOrthing-
ton, manager Sev5nthe street branchs
Irwin OWiugs, assistant manager.
The directors are: Emmett I. ADAMS,
Bert T. Amos, Henry p. Blair, r r.
Rurks, 4. =. Carpenter, Samuel d,
Cole. Charles W. Darn. r. A Doe, c.
H Fred, Anthony Gaegler William A.
Gordon. Thomas P Hickman. EIdFidga
+. Jordan, George r. Liukins, Michael
c. Mccormick, p J. Nee, owen Owen,
Julius J. PeysteT. Lester b PlaLI A ID.
Prince, =. J. Smith, ir.. Emanuel Speich.
James StrayeT, Charles J. Walker, Ben
tamin Woodruff, C. NJ. Woof, o. 3.
Zantzinger.
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WILL BUILD MORE
BRICK DWELLINGS
Harry Wardman to Erect
Five on Columbia Road
Northwest.

Harry Wardman is 70 add TO HIS num-
erOus undertakings that OF building i've
three story brick dwellings at 1861 TO
1919 Columbia road northwest, from
plans drawn by A. II. Beers. The esti-
mated total cost is S15,OJ0.
l. 4. Newton VIII have two two
story brick dwellings erected by George
p. Newton at 40 and l42 North Caro-
lima avenue southeast. The plans were
drawn by n. +. HaIler d Co. arcul-
tects. The estimated cost is $4,000
Will Build Cement Warehouse.
L. L. Breun.nger is about to erect "a
four-story brick and cement warehouse
at 1921 1 street northwest, for Crane *
Co, The plars were drawn by A. C.
Goebuilder, architect. The building will
cost about $3.50. The same builder will
erect a three-story brick and fr me
dwelling at 1850 Park road northwest,
from plans drawn by y. r. Grimm
The dwelling will cost about $500
Alexander Miller viii have three
tEree-sLory brick dwellings erected at
1885, 1888. and 1910 Kenyon street north
west, at an estimated cost of $1,000. Nh.
Miller is the architect and builder in
this undertaking.
F. T. CresH.ond, builder, will erect for
Chiswell Y. Kite ten tWo-story brick
dwellings. from SO to S37 Third street,
and from 800 to 3l5 1 street northeast.
at a cost Of about Sl5,O0t The plans
were drawn ~ A. II. Beers.
StnI another apartment house 10 be
tuilt ty Harry Wardman will be
6ricN structure of three stories. at 1E5
Clifton street northwest. The cost will
pc approximately $4,000. The plans were
drawn by A. II. Beers
The Washington times., 1908-11-29
FAMILY Is REUNITED.

CUMBERLAND, Nd, Nov. "a re-
ception was given at the home of
William NJ. WadswoTth today, making
a reunion Of Mr.. Wadsworth and his
sisters, Mrs. Charles L. Hambright, of
Cumberland, and Mrs. Minerva Bittner,
OF MeyeTsdale. Pa. th1 trio having met
for hfty-one years. The occasion was
also the thiTty-siXth anniversary OF the
marriage Of Mr.. and Mrs Hamhright
MT. Hambright IS secretary to the board
Of election supervisors for Anegany
county. A large company attended the
reception
The Washington times., 1908-11-29
BANK WILL OPEN
ANOTHER BRANCH
Attractive Building Put Up
for Merchants and
Mechanics.

A new branch bank, the West End
Branch" viii be opened by the Mer-
chants and Mechanics National Bank,
Tuesday morning. December L
The building Tor this branch is an en-
LiTely new one, constructed for the pur-
pose it IS handsomely finished in
marble and mahogany.
Promptly at s O'Clock the doors Of the
new structure win be thrown open for
business. The necessary stationery,
books, anC other accessories Of the
banking business viii be neatly placed
-JmOITC ~, and Tuesday morning, when
the Grr customer or the hrst visitor
comes In he viii discover a brand new
banking Institution with new and clean
books but old and experienced hands
ehinG the iron gratings waiting 10 De-
gin, It's promoters expect, another sue
CessfLJ banking business.
There IS much speculation as to whose
name VIII be the first 20 60 down on the
books OF the new bank, The interior Of
the bank Will be decorated with many
floral pieces for opening day, and Wis
itors have been invited by the manage
mguI
The Washington times., 1908-11-29
SMITH COMPANYS LOCATION

In The Times of yesterday was pub
Hshed a photograph of new five-story
building of which the F. II. Smith Com
pany is the agent Through an in
advertence the location Of the building
was given as the corner Of Ninth street
and New York avenue. It is at 1I06 G
street northwest. in Jise heart of a very
busy mercantile section of the city, and
near a busy corner of a busy street.
The Washington times., 1908-11-29
Three Private Residences
Being Built at u and
Nineteenth Streets.
MANY APARTMENTS
IN THIS DISTRICT
Buildings All Are of High
Class and Very At
tractive.

One Of the numerous building enter
prises that are improving the northern
section of the city, near Mt Pleasant,
is the construction Of three private resi-
dences on Ninete street, at the cor
Ter Of L street northwest Taese are
in one block, tha whole making a veyy
attractive appearance. The outside work
is nearly completed, and the interiors
viii be finished within a few weeks.
The work is be ng done for Davidson &
Davidson, by John H. Nolan, builder.
from plans DIRE wn By Wood, Dom 6,
Deming, architects. The houses are OF
brick, and are colonial in design.
Handsome Apartments.
In the same nelghborhOod. one block
east 70 Eighteenth street, corner OF
Florida avenue. two handsome apart
meut houses are being constructed by
Harry Wardman, -he builder Each Of
these i7 10 have fve stories and a
basement. the work being now . bout
half completed These apartments will
be convenient to .WO car Unca Their
sites are only a few yards from where
the Seventh street Ine turns from L
street into Eighteenth, and one block
west through u street Is Connecticut
avenue on which -Un the Mt, Pleasant
cars.
A little over a block north % Florida
avenue is the Tulane apartment house
which is numbered HJg Eighteenth
street. This was completed early in
November, and was Immediately fully
occupied, as told in The Times Of yes
terday.
Other Improvements.
Building activities are 10 be noted
elsewhere in that locality, and. ia fact,
here and there all the way along to AIt.
Pleasant.
In the latter district an apartment
house has recently been completed. and
two others. on Nj. Pleasant street. are
nearly finished. The locality is fast
becoming the apartment house section
OF The city, and all or the buildings are
OF a high quality. making the district
a most desirable residential one
The Washington times., 1908-11-29
Located in the Northwest.

The new branch bank is located on
the nor -heast corner Of Pennsylvania
avenue and Twentieth street northwest
The building is a thTee-stOry structure,
built Of v'tTOliZed brick, OF a light color,
with white limestone trimmings. The
first floor viii be used entirely for pank-
ing purposes, and the two upper floors
have been split into apartmeI,'5 }. The
lobby In the banking room is ID by 80
feet, and has a mosaic floor. It is
finished IN Tennessee marble and ma
hOgany. All base panels are OF marble,
and the upper ones Of plate glass with
The Washington times., 1908-11-29
APARTMENT SALE.

The Taggart-Thrft Company me,
reports the sale of the tWO-family
apartment house at 1IH Willard
street northwest The property has one
suite Of five rooms and one of six, with
side lights and all modern improve
ments. The sale was made TO William
HYDE, as an investment
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-12-03
ABOUT GIFT GIVING.

The question of what we shall give
for Christmas is confronting us again.
Like a bugbear it bobs up about this
time every year and keeps ninety-five
per cent of the American people on
their nerves until after the packages
are united on Christmas morning.
Solution after solution has been Of
fered in the past for the trying prob
lem, but still the gift givers go on
worrying and the gift receivers won
der what they ought to do in return,
in spite of all the solutions offered.
Out of the thousands of solutions
offered one SCENE to be best adapted
to the conditions 1t is simple and
easily administered. 1t is: DO away
with the commercial spirit" What a
relief would come If all the gift givers
and all the gift receivers In the coun-
try could get together in vast mass
meeting and vote to do away with the
Commercial Christmas" 1t wouldn't
mean doing away with Christmas CIV
ing-far from it. But it would mean
reducing Christmas giving to a per-
sonal basis. Every Christmas gift
would be measured by the personal
regard to the given rather than by the
length of his or her purse.
1t is hoped that no one will take this
to mean that no costly Christmas gifts
should be given. A necklace valued
at $4,000 may bear as much of mes
sage of love as that of hand dressed
doll that cost no more than twenty
FIVE cents, provided that the giver gives
with the proper spirit and that 1t is
received likewise. What the world
needs to get away from is the feeling
that gift giving is tax that custom
assesses and that must be paid, even
at the expense of ones personal COM
fort or the welfare of ones family.
There is no question but that Christ
mas giving has become in a large
measure commercialized. Costly gift
giving is promiscuous and in most in
stances the gifts mean nothing, if in
deed they do not contain a yelled in
vitation to come back next year with
something a little better. 1t is this
spirit among persons between whom
there exists only the bond of mere
personal regard which has steadily in
creased the commercial spirit of
Christmas giving until we fear that in
too many instances the real spirit of
the occasion is quite lost sight of.
Love should dominate our giving.
Give costly gifts if you. desire, but be
sure that love and not commercialism
prompts the gift. Receive the gifts
which come to you in the same spirit,
and not with the feeling that the donor
expects you to do a little better by
him. When all of us come back to
this spirit, then will Christmas giving
be as it should be-
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-12-03

uttered, pointing out the necessity of
entering the foreign markets, have
not lost their force.
The day of exclusion has indeed
passed, for II needs no argument to
prove that II we would sell abroad we
must buy abroad. We cannot go on
forever taking payment in gold for
our exports. We thereby limit the
purchasing power of foreign nations
to their disposable surplus of money
metal. Besides, with our own super
abundant stocks of money gold is the
the least profitable commodity we can
import. When we are willing to take
from foreigners free of duty what we
need more than we need their gold,
commodities that by processes of
manufacturing, giving employment to
American labor, will take on new
value, we shall have then entered
upon the wiser path in international
trade relations.-New York Evening
| Post
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-12-03
ANOTHER BURBANK MARVEL.

In a recent address before the stu
dents of the University of California
Luther Burbank made a comforting
report of progress in his experiments
with the new species of spineless cac-
tus. On his own place at Santa Rosa
he has demonstrated that 80 tons of
cactus fruit can be grown on one acre
of ground. This is an average of one
full wheelbarrow load to the square
yard. The fruit contains 16 per cent
of sugar and is as wholesome as an
apple. mo plant in the world pro-
duces so profusely and such nourish-
ing food as the thornless cactus"
This very large statement appears in
the reports of the address in the San
Francisco newspapers. Perhaps it is
as well to await confirmation of all
the claims put forward for the new
plant before buying up desert lands
on a speculation but unless Mr.. Bur
bank has been misquoted again and
again in this matter, his new plant is
bound to lead to sensational results
in desert farming. He finds that while
his cactus yields best under cultiva-
ton, it drives out the desert cactus
on its own ground because of deeper
roots. The only obstacle yet found
to its spread over large desert areas
is it's inability to defend itself against
the attacks of rabbits and other
desert animals. Nothing can harm
the old-fashioned cactus on account of
its guard of thorns. The new cactus
invites instead of repels attack, and
therefore must be protected against
browsing animals,-Lincoln (Neb)
State Journal.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-12-03
HON MEWoRTH.

Homework, Nov. 30.--Walter w.
Weaver and Miss Clara l.. Cameron
were married Wednesday.
John Sheehan has been dangerously
i'll the past week with pneumonia
DR.. J. H. Sanor and daughter, Mrs.
Harry Harton of Canton, were guests
of Attorney s. d. Sanor on Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Johnson return
ed home from Marietta last week.
Attorney Lodge Riddle and family,
of Lisbon, were the guests of B. F.
Roose Thursday.
Miss Zella Stoffer, who has been
very Ill the past few weeks, is re-
covering.
The new barn of Andrew Thomas Is
ready for the roof.
Hiram Heestand has bought the
Marion Stoffer farm near Beloit
Mrs. A. ]. Cameron has been very
i'll the past week.
Henry Yeagley, west of town is
some better.
Rev. ]. s. Heffner preached an able
sermon in the Brethren church Sun
day.
Samuel Herren, Sr., gave fine din
ner to all his children Thursday.
MIR. and Mrs. F. P. Sanor and Miss
Leila Mcbride, of New Chambersburg,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-12-03
FREE RAW MATERIAL.

Although the Republican party won
out this year on platform promising
reasonable profit to the protected
manufacturers, there are so many
sorts of these that there are many
conflicting and greedy interests to be
harmonized. Most manufacturers
want free raw materials, and some, in
addition to this, want the rate on
their output raised, thus getting two
bites out of every cherry, and big
ones, too.
This scheme is, of course, hotly op-
posed by those who have large in
vestments IN the production of these
so-called raw materials, like ore, tim
ber and the like, or stand to gain by
domestic activity in these lines. It is
more than queer, however, that this
country should be so blind to it's own
future as to encourage a policy which
looks to the quick depletion of our
natural resources and to conserv-
ing, through exclusion, of the re-
sources of our rivals. Yet a prohibi-
tive tariff on raw materials unde-
niably promotes this very outcome.
The men who have monopolized
these treasures of nature habitually
contribute literally to the success of
the Republican party, in order that
they may wastefully mine or other
wise exploit our common inheritance.
For all such there is economically no
tomorrow and no hereafter. They are
Shylocks, willing to slay to get their
pound of flesh, only that it may turn
to carrion on their hands. They
haven't Shylock's poor motive of re-
venge to dignity their efforts.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-12-03
WHEN TO BUILD.

Hundreds of new homes should be
built in Canton next summer. For
more than a year the local real estate
market has been quiet because of the
approach OF the national presidential
election and the business panic,
created for a purpose by Wall street
and railroad interests.
AS a result Of the years depression,
labor is cheaper than 1t has been for
years past. Building material is avail
able at price more to the liking of
the man who wants to build than
since 1893. 1t is stated that in the
open market, hardwoods are now as
cheap as hard pine was this time last
year. Flooring is cheaper than at any
former time in the past Is years, and
all conditions are propitious for build
ing. Money, also, should be obtained
at a cheaper rate of interest than it
was a year ago.
The wise man who intends building
next summer, or in the near future,
will do well to look about for a site
now, instead of waiting until the
spring rush for lots is started. He
will find the realty salesman more at
tentive, and will have more time to
make selections, and, in addition, will
probably find prices a shade lower
than they are likely to be in the
spring, when the demand is as great
as 1t likely will be.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-12-03
BREWSTER
viii Afford no Convent
ences and Railroad.
ers Worry
NOT BE A MODEL TOWN

The recent re-doubling of the
working force on the new Brewster
cutoff of the w. & L. e. railroad has
again brought to the minds of the
several thousand Wheeling railroad
ers who will be forced to move to the
new division point the burning ques-
ton that they will have to live under
most primitive and almost uncivilized
conditions, unless the company or the
townsite people will take measures to
procure some advantages in the modes
of living. The work is being rushed
to completion and as nothing has
been done as yet the railroaders will
soon find themselves face to face with
the problem.
The working force at the Columbia
yards which is only a portion of the
entire number affected are greatly
exercised over the outlook. If mat
ters are left as they are at present
these city bred railroaders earning up
ward of four dollars day who have
been accustomed to every modern con-
venience that can be offered will have
to move into the wilderness with
nothing to distinguish their mode of
living from that of an Indian. The
matter of schools is much talked Of.
Grade schools will probably spring up
but they will be of an inferior sort
compared with the city schools they
are accustomed to. The nearest high
school of any account is some 10 or
Is miles distant which will cause
large outlay of car fare and tuition
for large numbers of students now in
Mouotl1nu Nnrno1iy ond
ledo High schools.
The land itself in Brewster is not
bad for building purposes but there
will be no sanitation whatever, no
sewage, no gas, no electricity and no
water. There will be no system of
sidewalks through the muddy soil ex-
cept in front of the houses which will
for some time be few and far be-
tween. The streets laid out through
corning fields and pasture lands will
be roads. The railroad company COM
forts itself with the idea, sad but
true, that the men must go where the
work goes, but it is the general opin-
ion among Wheeling men that II
times ever get good and jobs a little
more plentiful the company will have
hard shedding running large termi-
nal like Brewster will be unless some
thing is done to alleviate living con-
ditions, for if there is any way out
Brewster is the last place in the world
a railroad man will look for job.
Most railroad men believe that
either directly or indirectly through
the town site company the railroad
company should see that the town is
built to order like other industrial
towns of this kind, especial instances
being Collinwood, Ohio, built by the
Lake Shore railroad, and the Gary,
Ind, built by the United States Steel
company for it's employees. In this
manner the town would be laid out,
sidewalks built, streets graded, water,
gas and electric lights. The lots will
then be sold at the regular price plus
the improvements which the men
would be more than willing to pay
for. The thousands of men from
Canton, Massillon, Navarro, Norwalk
and Toledo who must some time be
Brewsterites are living in hopes that
the company will take this matter in
hand for their own benefit as well as
that of the men.