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Evening star., 1909-08-21
SEVERAL SALES REPORTED.
Local Realty Man Indicates Activ.
;tv of Summer Season.

That the demand for moderate-priced
homes that can be sold on reasonable
terms has been little affected by the sum-
mer weather is vouched for by Hugh A
Thrift real estate dealer and builder,
with Offices in the Union Trust building.
The following sales are reported by him:
Twelve acres in Alexandria county, Va,
to the Conservative Realty Company for
subdivision purposes.
Two quarter-acre lots in haywood, near
Cherrydale to II. c. Bickel.
A six-room bungalow, with large veran-
das and a lot containing 12C00 square feet
of ground, to A. K. Hall.
Lot No. 19, haywood, to H. G. Wagg,
and lot No. So. haywood, to Charles E.
Palmer, to be improved in the spring with
six-room houses.
Three lots in Harrison street, Dominion
Heighths, to Z. w. Comley for building
site.
To John r. Hohenstein, large seven
room and reception hall, slate-roof dwell
ing on the corner of Lambden and Wash
ington terraces, Colonial Heights, Va.
A forty-foot lot overlooking the Potomac
river improved by new seven-roon
house, with large porches. to Andrew
Koerner, to be occupied as his home.
To W. o. Pickett, large bay-window
dwelling, with corner lot fronting on the
Ballston road, adjoining Colonial Heights.
Three lots, each having a frontage of
fifty feet on Wisconsin avenue, in Fair
view Heights. to r. Miller.
Evening star., 1909-08-21
TRANSFERS IN CHEVY CHASE.
Suburb in Northwest Attracts
Many Purchasers.

Thomas j. Fisher & Co, Inc,
has sold for John Simpson Sons, build
ers. the last of the four houses recent
ly completed by them in Chevy Chase To
G. c. Minnigerode for $4,000. Mr.. Mimi
gerode expects to take possession OF the
house within the next few days. IL
stands on lot fifty feet front by 12iis
and is two-story. attic and cellar con
tanning ten rooms and bath. Mr. Simp-
son is negotiating for additional ground
on which to build two or three more
houses.
Other sales by the same firm in the
Chevy Chase section include the follow
ing:
To Mr.. c. E. Waters, fifty feet front
age on the south side of Oliver street
for $1,000.
To E. Grimes Dyer, fifty feet on the
south side of Oliver street. near Con-
necticut avenue. adjoining the residence
of Capt Conard. $500.
To Mrs. NJ. r. Robertson, additional
frontage on the north side OF kirk
street. in section ,.
To Preston Gibson, 100 feet frontageon
the north side of Rosemary street, iii
section 4. for S4,25O.
To Samuel S. Paschal, about 5000
square feet adjoining his residence at the
northwest corner of LenoX street and
Laurel parkway for $4,000.
To William Benson, fifty feet frontage
Evening star., 1909-08-21
Z LANDMARKS GIVE WAY
TO MODERN BUILDINGS
Improvement in Business Section of Capital Causes
Demolition of Many Old Structures.
Values on Increase.

that Ii is probably best known as ths
bureau of education building.
AS well as the ''oldest employe' OF that
bureau was able to recall, the building
was constructed i'm the last sixties by
Mr.. Wright. an inspector in the Indian
office. portion of the geological sur
vey was located there for a short time.
as were also branches of the patent and
pension offices. The bureau of education.
which was established I'm 1857. moved Into
the Sth and G. streets building in 1872
and there IL remained until a few weeks
ago. when the entire establishment was
removed TO newly fitted quarters in the
general land Office building. The arcDi-
tect's plans for the alterations 10 the
bureau of education building contemplate
an expenditure aggregating $1,000.
Storage Warehouse Still Standing.
One of the most interesting OF the oldec
buildings in the heart of the city. and
one which undoubtedly will give way to
substantial improvement In the not
very distant future, is the old storags
warehouse at the corner of 10th and "
streets northwest. Veteran citizens of tLs
District were sought In an effort to trace
the history of this structure to its be-
ginning. but the best that several of the
oldest Inhabitants were able to say was
that they had been told by yet older men
in the years gone by that the storage
warehouse had been standing as early as
1904. In that era IL must have been one
of the most important business structures
in the city. and even now the skill of tho
builders of a century ago is well typiiied
in its firm walls and unshaken floors.
which apparently are strong enough 10
withstand the ravages of time for fully
another century. During its long life
time this structure sheltered almost every
form of business activity in the capital.
In IL there have been conducted both pub
lie and private schools, grocery and gen
eral stores, a printing office and news
paper establishment, and in or immedi-
ately after civil war time il housed a
suffers store. Its upper floors were used
by Masonic and other lodges, and one
of the larger rooms for a time was a
public hall, where dances and all sorts
of functions were held. About the year
1880 the medical department of the
Georgetown University was installed
there and embryo physicians continued
to imbibe learning in its halls fer fully
seventeen years, or until the college was
forced to seek other quarters because
the building was SO badly damaged by
fire as to be untenable. Again at the end
of the war the medical department re-
turned to the same location. and re-
NAMED another fifteen or more years.
Approximately forty years ago William
Walters, son of John Walters, one of the
pioneer furniture manufacturers of the
District purchased the building. and in
ii he established the first antique furni-
ture shop In this part of the country.
Mr.. Walters is in the same business at
the same stand at the present time.
Evening star., 1909-08-21
MAY BUILD LARGE STORE
BALTIMORE MERCHANT Sc
CURES 7TH STREET PROPERTY.
Albert A. Brager Leases Federal
Building, With Privilege
of Purchase.

Albert 4. Bragsy a well known depart
ment store proprietor in Baltimore, has
acquired under a long-term lease, with
an option to purchase at a figure under
stood to have been in the neighborhood of
S160,0J0 the valuable business property
known as the Federal building at the in
tersection of 7th and streets northwest.
fronting about 100 feet on 7th street. This
is one of the most valuable corners in the
business section of Washington
Projecting far out into street beyond
the line of the government buildings op-
posite. the property purchased by Mr..
Brager can be seen for several blocks
down street. thus making the corner
Especially valuable for show window space
and advertising. The property immediately
adjoins the Alhambra Theater and the
large department store of Hecht & Co.,
7th street. and the Casino Theater, which
is now in course of construction on +
street. With several lines of cars. both
on F. street and 7th street, it is of
the busiest corners in the city. Seventh
street has become center for the de-
partment store business, many of the
large establishments being either located
on this street or in the immediate vicinity.
The deal, which is one of the largest
transacted in local business property for
some time, was negotiated by the real es-
tate office of Edwin Turnbull, representing
Mr.. Bragar, and by Story & Cobb, repre-
senting the owners of the property. The
legal details in connection with the trans
action were looked after for Mr.. Brager
by Louis n. Frank of Baltimore and by
Berry & Minor of this city.
The property is at present under lease
to a number of tenants and is a very de-
sirahe purchase from an investment
standpoint, but Mr. Brager has stated that
be ipl,t FOL nSta Iich Ia
partment- t-store in Washington, as he be-
lieves the field a good one. II such a
store as Mr.. Brager proposes is built on
this site, it will be a substantial monu-
ment to the enterprise of an aggressive,
live and successful Baltimore merchant
who, although still a comparatively young
man, has achieved a big success in the
department store field. ~
Evening star., 1909-08-21
Historic Farm Changes Hands.

Incident to the sale this week of the
historic Pyles farm, situated on the River
road, Montgomery county, Nd, about one
mile above Cabin John Bridge, Charles
Reid Riley. the new owner. announced his
purpose to demolish the old farmhouse,
the tenant houses and other rambling out
buildings and in their stead to-erect- mod
ern structures The estate of William H.
Pyles, who was the last of the family to
hold title to the eentury-old homestead,
was represented in the sale by Attorney
Robert B. Peter of Rockville, while VIII
iige, Gibbs & Daniel, real estate brokers,
acted for Mr.. Riley. The farm contains
eighty-nine acres of ground. twenty-four
acres of which are woodland. About ST.
600 was paid for the farm and an almost
equal amount will be expended making
necessary improvements.
Evening star., 1909-08-21
WILL PURCHASE CHURCH SITE
CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS TO
MAKE PAYMENT FOR GROUND.
Secure Three Lots in Washington
Heights-To Build $780,
600 Edifice.

After weeks of planning to that end.
and after satisfactorily completing all
preliminary negotiations, the building
committee of the First Church of Christ,
Scientist this week arranged to conclude
the purchase of the three large lots at
the intersection of Euclid street and
Champlain avenue northwest, which will
be used as the site for the proposed
new edifice for the housing of Christian
Scientists in Washington. Payment for
the ground will be made later this
month, when title to the property will be
placed in the church. Active building
operations will not be hurried. and it is
expected the better part of another year
will pass before the new structure is
ready for dedication
The members of the First Church
hold services at the present time in the
Evening star., 1909-08-21
REAL ESTATE BROKERS
ARE IN OPTIMISTIC MOOD
Excellent Record in Business of Past Summer and
Promise of Fall Trade Is Most
Encouraging.

believing that it is the best that can be
procured
AFTER looking over the business done
by the office in the past few months i be-
lieye that our firm has disposed OF prop
erty to the value of more than million
dollars, and that during no summer sea-
son in our experience in the real estate
business in the city of Washington has
there been so many sales nor so many ac-
tual inquiries for real estate for homes,
'speculations and investments. The build
ing interests have never been more active
and the real estate brokers have sold
nearly all of the houses and rented nearly
all of the apartments that have been
placed on the market. There is practically
no vacant property in Washington today.
These facts furnish evidence that wash
ington is growing steadly-we might say
Evening star., 1909-08-21

for the alterations were prepared by
Ward Brown and w. P. CressoD, archl-
tects and their execution will involve
the expenditure of at least 100000.
The property includes about twenty six
acres of land, and landscape artists have
been commissioned to bring the grounds
into conformity TO the style of the house.
Entrances TO the park have been arranged
at the east and the west ends of the
property. The residence, which surmounts
an eminence and commands a view over
the surrounding country and the city, will
be modelled after the Italian type OF
architecture, with external finish of ce-
ment. 1t will have a red tile roof and
French easement windows. A terrace
will extend around the conservatory on
the south side of the house, and the
terrace will be increased in width oppo-
site the dining room SO that al fresco
dinners may be given when the weather
permits.
Evening star., 1909-08-21

few weeks ago when the excavation was
made for the modern steel-frame struc-
ture which is now in course OF construc-
ton on the site.
Passing of Bureau of Education
Within the past fortnight the old office
building at the northeast corner of Sth
and G streets NORTHWEST figured in a
transaction which was preliminary to it's
reconstruction along modern lines. The
structure was sold through the real es-
tate offices of Tyler & Rutherford, and
although the purchasers name was not
disclosed, it is understood plans had been
matured prior to the sale to completely
remodel the old building so that it may
suffice to meet the growing demand for
office room I'm that section of the city
The original structure was occupied for
SO many years by the bureau of educa-
,tion of the Department Of the Interior
Evening star., 1909-08-21

Local real estate brokers are practically
a unit in declaring that the business of
The past summer was far superior to
other summers in recent municipal his
tory, and all of them also agree that the
prospect for. live market in the autumn
and winter Is most encouraging. State
ments have been printed with increasing
frequency that new building has never
been conducted on a greater scale in the
CAPITAL. oity than during the past spring
and summer months. Many millions of
dollars have been invested in both. resi-
dence and business property. Apartment
houses and flats have gone. up in great
number. And it is but natural that a
Evening star., 1909-08-21
Sales by willett & Reinecke Co.

The Willett & Reinecke Real Estate
Corporation. 1909 II street northwest,
has made the following sales:
For Mr.. Charles Aufenthie to Mrs.
Josephine Lucius of Mobile, Ala, the
two-story-and-cellar brick residence at
1906 V street northwest.
For Mrs. Ella Hanor to William Barry.
the dwelling at 1913 Columbia street
northwest.
:. For Mrs Julia NJ. Frost to Mrs Lila p.
Wallace; the house No. 1908 Potomac ave-
nue. southeast.
To Mrs. Maie Hewitt Williams, lot on
west side of 10Th street. south or Florida
avenue, adjoining the house of Howard
P. Reeside. Mrs. Williams, who is the
mother-in-law of Joseph Letter. is now
having plans prepared by Richard Beall.
architect. for spacious residence of the
colonial type. and expects to occupy her
new home the latter part of December or
early in January
Evening star., 1909-08-21
TO HAVE HANDSOME HOME.
Senator Nixon Renodeling Cathe
dral Avenue Residence.

As result of elaborate alterations and
improvements to sthe residence recently
purchased by Senator. Nixon at Woodley
road and Cathedral avenue. the Nevada
solon will have one Of the most artistic
suburban homes in the entire legislative
circle next winter. The work is now in
progress and the contractors expect to
have both house and grounds ready when
Congress reassenrbles in December Plans
Evening star., 1909-08-21
operated to cause delay in taking over the
buildings.
improvements Postponed at ogram's

I. &. Ugram, proprietor OF Ogram
drug store holds lease which has yet
nine years to run on the wilkins property,
at the corner of 18th street and Pennsyl
vania avenue, and when the hotel project
was first broached he had plans com
pleted to spend several thousands of
dollars on improvements.
Ever since the sale by the Metropoli-
tan Hotel Company of the old hostelry
bearing that name at the corner of Sixth
street and Pennsylvania avenue north
west it has been expected the company
would come forward with a statement of
it's future plans. At the present time it
is understood the Metropolitan Hotel Com
pany has almost completed securing op-
tions upon desirable tract in or near the
center of the business section. and when
this hotel is built it will rank with the
best in the city.
Evening star., 1909-08-21

edifice at the corner of 18th and r
streets, but that building has long been
inadequate to the growing congregation.
When the new church is built the old
structure will be sold, and, as it oc
cupies large plat of valuable ground,
it is anticipated considerable sum to-
ward the building fund will be realized.
Just how much will be expended in the
construction OF the edifice on Wash
ington Heights has not been determined,
though it may safely be said the total.
exclusive of the cost of furniture and
of the purchase price of the ground. will
he in excess of S1D0NB1
Evening star., 1909-08-21
Money Subscribed Quickly.

The movement for a new building was
actively started in the First Church
early I'm the present spring. and when
the site at the Euclid street and Cham
plain avenue corner had been approved
by the church trustees and by the ma
jority OF the congregation, subscriptions
We're invited, and in a very short time
the entire amount necessary, excepting
few hundred dollars, was subscribed
and paid in. special collection for the
building fund was made last Sunday. and
the balance needed was given at that
time. The congregation will pay a total
of about $40, 900 for the ground for the
church, and the site secured is one of
the few remaining unimproved plats
along that. portion of the brow of the
hill in Washington Heights.
The three lots secured front for about
$50 feet on Euclid street, directly OPP
posite small public reservation at the
junction of Euclid street and Columbia
road The property has depth of ap-
proximately $50 feet to public alley.
Evening star., 1909-08-21
REcrNrr rREEroNM

on Sheridan street, in section 3, for
$1.20O.
To A b. Adams. two lots at the cor
ner of 37th and Oliver streets for $3.50.
To Frank C. Daniels 1863 feet front al
the corner of Morrison and 3Tth streets
for $3,0G9.
To r. p Covert, chief clerk Post Of
flee Department, fifty feet frontage on
the south side of Mckinley street for
$500.
To DR.. James r. Mitchell 100 feet
Srontage on north side of Bradley lane.
In section 4, for $1,000.
To James w. Harris, 100 feet frontage
on Meadow lane. in section 4. for about
$1,000.
Evening star., 1909-08-21
.RUMORS RIFE OF HOTEL DEALS
MR.. LEWIS PROJECT ONLY ONE
DEFINITELY ANNOUNCED.
Transaction at 18th Street and Penn
sylvania Avenue Not
Consummated.

Consderab BILE interest has been aroused
in the local realty world during the past
week or two by the number of stories
concerning the proposed construction of
different new hotels in and near the
downtown section Undoubtedly many of
the tales and rumors have a very consid
erable portion of fact as their founda-
tons but real estate operators and in
vestors generally are awaiting more or
less anxiously for tangible announce
ments of the consummation of negotia-
tions for the purchase of property desir-
ed for the sites of the hostelries.
One such open declaration was made
just at the close of last week when il
was stated that H. a. Lewis, formerly
proprietor of the Everett Hotel, III street
between 18th and 18th streets northwest.
had completed plans for the construction
of new and much larger hotel around
the point of the triangle formed by the
intersection of 18th and III streets and
Pennsylvania avenue northwest. 1t is
understood Mr.. Lewis has either acquired
title or satisfactory options to all of the
property he needs for his new house,
which will have a frontage of about sixty
feet on Pennsylvania avenue; seventy
five feet on ii street and about forty feet
across the blunt end of the triangle on
the 18TH street side.
Will Cost 100000.
The hotel will contain 125 rooms and 20
private baths, and will cost approximately
$500, 900. The work of demolshing the
buildings which now occupy the site and
the construction of the new structure
probably will be started in the very near
future. Before he took charge of the
Everett Hotel, Mr.. Lewis was proprietor
of the Logan Hotel, Iowa circle, and ne
has had a long experience as practlcai
hotel man.
Less definite than this announcement,
but none the less ihsistent, have been a
series of stories relating to the proposed
acquisition of all the property at the
point of the triangle formed by the juno
ton of 18th and E streets and Pennsyl-
vania avenue northwest, and the con-
struction thereon Of a public house TO cost
not less than S1.OOOO00. This would in
clude the johnson Hotel, which occupies
the corner of 18th and E streets and runs
to a considerable depth on E street; the
Campbell restaurant, in the center OF the
13th street block, aTG Ograms drug
and souvenir store, on the 18th street and
PENNSYLVANIA avenue corner. as well as
several store properties farther east on
PENNSYLVANIA avenue. 1t has been openly
stated that the projectors of this enter
prise hold options upon all of the proper
ty involved, but because the identity OF
the hackers has not been revealed, 1t has
been impossible to ascertain whether a
hitch in the negotiations has occurred or
whether reasons of business expediency
Evening star., 1909-08-21

Would you advise me to buy this?'
asked the shopper.
Madam" replied the conscientious
clerk. wearily, Il really would not. 1t
has gone out of style since you began
looking at it."-Philadelphia Ledger. =,
Arizona republican., 1909-09-03
NEW MEXICAN TAXATION.

New Mexican newspapers are en- gagged in a comparison of the system of taxation in that territory with the Arizona system. Those papers "ag'in the government point to the eloquent fact that the New Mexican rate is 14H mills on the dollar while the Arizona rate is mills.
 This is admitted by the proponents of the government, who claim that the disadvantage of New Mexico as to the, rate is only apparent, since the valuation of property for taxa tion there is much lower than the Arizona valuation, so much lower as to more than offset the rate.
 But here the proponents find them selves in the realm of conjecture and get wild. The Albuquerque Journal asserts that in Arizona property is returned at it's full valuation, while in New Mexico it is returned at about Is per cent Of its value. As a re- suit, while Arizona's valuation is in the neighborhood of S9OOOO,OOO, that of New Mexico is only $6O, ,OOO, OOO Governor Curry himself, evidently us- ing the Journals base, estimates the real value of all classes of property in New Mexico is $35O,OOO,OOO, and the claim is put forth that New Mexico is four times as rich as Ari- zona.
 This is a conclusion which no one familiar with both territories would accept. Nor would an expert familiar with the natural and developed re- sources of New Mexico and Arizona know where to look in the former for an excess of wealth over the wealth of Arizona.
Arizona republican., 1909-09-03
THE INFoRMALITY OF IT.

The great performance of Dr. Cook in first arriving at the north pole is marred by a single circumstance, the informal, unofficial, not to say, sneak ing way, in which he went about it.
 There was lacking the customary blowing of, trumpets, the weeks and months of ostentatious and costly out fitting, the widely and frequently the bulletins from along the way to the last northern base and then, the dramatic announcement of the dash"
 The dash" by the way, has come to be a necessary element in a polar hunt, yet it appears to have been omitted entirely by the unconven- tional Dr. Cook, who, when he got ready, went after the pole and got it
 So the pole has been discovered at a fearful cost, the breaking of time honored traditions. Do we want the pole on those terms? Would it not be better to restore 1t to its former solitude and at the same time restore to polar discovery the glamor of which this interloper, Dr. Cook, has robbed it?
 We should consider the pole not found until it has been officially To- cated by Captain Peary or, still bet ter, by Walter Wellman. Leaving the matter to MT. Wellman. the pleasing mystery of the pole will be left a heritage to our children, our chill drens children and the remote prog eny of the latter
 Dr. Cook, by his unheard of inno- vation in pole hunting, has robbed posterity of many a pleasing thrill
Arizona republican., 1909-09-03

One of the arguments against the New York law which went into ef- feet September first. fixing a maxi mum penalty of fifty years in the penitentiary. is that the severity of the punishment will initiate against the strict enforcement of the law. While it is true that apparently ex- cessively severe penalties frequently have that effect, we do not think it will have it in the case of kid naper. Circumstantial evidence does not figure largely in the trial of a kidnaper. At the end of the trial the jury is morally certain that he is guilty if he is guilty, and no right minded jury would feel any com junction against giving him all the law allows.