Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-20
OWNED By J.MLrER LAT1nEK
LARGE APARTMENT HOUSES
BUILDING AND PROJECTED
First One in North Capitol Street Section Now in
Course of Erecton-New Residences
in 10th Street.

each day from Office to home and home to
Office.
| A Years Large Business.
| Speaking to a reporter of The Star to-
day of the work of his Office as compared
with other fiscal years, Recorder of Deeds
| john G. Dancy stated that unless de-
cided slump occurs between now and the
| close Of the year the fiscal year ending
June so next will be the largest in the
history of the Office, both. he added, as
TO the number of papers filed for record
/ and as TO the receipts OF the Office.
| Previous to the present one the fiscal
year ended June 80, 1906, was the largest
as 10 the number of papers other than
incorporation instruments filed for record,
when 2l.4SI such papers were recorded.
| Up to March of that year IL .6ss instru-
| Inents exclusive OF incorporation papers
were filed for record while from July l.
| 1908. TO March /. 1860, 1905 papers eX-
elusive of Incorporation instruments had
| been filed for record-an increase for the
present fiscal year over that of 1906 of
367 instruments.
An Increase in Receipts.
The fiscal year ended June 80 1907. was
the largest as respects receipts in the
history of the recorders Office, when the
receipts amounted OF $4,000 80. The un-
4
/ fiscal year was $9.7Hs4, the largest un-
expended balance ever before Or since
turned into the Treasury by the record
er's Office. These unexpended balances
| of the office on being turned into the
! Treasury are then placed 10 the credit
/ of the District Of Columbia, and thereby
| form one of it's sources of revenue
| Up to March / Of the fiscal year ended
| June ~. 1907. the receipts Of the re-
corder's Office amounted to SIS 264 40,
| while up to March I of the present fiscal
| an increase for this year over that of 1907
! OF $l,3O'.9O. 1t Is estimated that during
/ The remaining four months of the present
| fiscal year the receipts will amount to at
least $4,000. which would make this year
| over n thousand dollars larger than any
previous year. and would send the unex-
, pended balance over $4,000
Rejecting General Improvement.
The increase in the receipts of the Of
| flee this year. said Recorder Dancy, lis
nothing less than remarkable when 1t is
| remembered that during the first four
| months OF this fiscal year a campaign for
the presidency was in progress. Yet, dur
| ing July. August, September and October
OF the present fiscal year 6,o9O papers, ex-
elusive of Incorporation instruments were
| filed for record, as against 6.7s5 during
/ the first four months OF the fiscal year Of
| 1908. an increase Of 1874 papers for the
present year.
| Il looked on that increase last summer
and fall as showing that the panicky
financial feeling was over, and that about
every one here at least was supremely
confident that the gentleman inaugurated
q few days ago would be elected Pres
ident. and that the whole country was
about TO enter upon a long period of
great OrOsperity II is said that I'm the
work of the recorder OF deeds Office Is
the true local financial condition, and on
several occasions during the last campaign
l used the figures I'm this Office to illus
! but also as indicative of that which I
! felt prevailed elsewhere in the country
An Exchange Of Property.
/ \ transaction recorded during the week
was the exchange OF large piece of I'M
| improved property for an apartment
house. The former was owned by s. w.
Woodward and the latter by Davidson &
Davidson. The apartment house was the
Northampton at 1905 w street while the
ground comprised tho whole OF the north
portion of the square bounded by Kalo-
| rama avenue, goth street and the street
that extends north from the entrance to
! the new Connecticut Avenue bridge. Just
at present, owing to the closing Of the old
Woodley road, which passed over Rock
| the north is not complete and consider