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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-07
REALTY DEALERS ACTIVE
THOMAS ]. FISHER & CO. RE-
PORT GOOD OUTLOOK.
Sales in Chevy Chase and Along Con-
necticut Avenue-Diplomat
Makes Purchase.

The Office of Thomas j. Fisher & Co
reports steadily increasing activity both
In city and suburban realty. Along Con-
necticut avenue extended and in Chevy
Chase is this especially noticeable.
probably nowhere in or around the
District" said Mr.. Doyle. the manager,
"are buster scenes being enacted than at
Chevy Chase Heights, which has now
reached the stage where streets will soon
be brought to their proper grade, to con-
form to the District regulations. The
hills along the Connecticut avenue front
will soon disappear, to give place to a
four-foot terrace. This will improve not
only the property, but also the appear
ance of Connecticut avenue in general.
"A number of sales are reported in
Chevy Chase Heights. by the Fisher Com
pany, most of which are TO buyers who
are only waiting the completion of i'm
provements to begin building operations. -
Sales Reported.
Among the sales of the past few days
In Chevy Chase. d. G., reported by Thomas
J. Fisher & Co, is one to Dangertied
Parker, who purchased a fifty-foot ad-
dition to his present holdings. Another
sale in this section is one TO Mrs. Flor
ence II. Platt, who has purchased a
fifty-foot frontage on the south side OF
Oliver street
Francis r. Burgham has just bought ali
additional frontage on the south side of
Patterson street, Chevy Chase, d. c.
In section No. OF Chevy Chase sew
eral sales are noted. Tayloe Pollock
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Terror of White Faces.

From Cor, OF Lafcadio Hearn In Atlantic.
Either Stanley, or Livingstone, perhaps,
told the world that after long living in
Africa the sight of white faces produced
something like fear. (And the evil spirits
of Africa are white) Well. even after
few months alone with black faces, 1
have felt that feeling of uncomfortable
ness at the sight OF white faces Some
thing ghostly, terrible. seemed to have
come into those faces that l had never
ina gined possible before. | felt for a mo-
ment the black mans terror of the white.
At least l think l partly realized what
1t was.
You remember the Romans lost their
first battles with the north through sheer
fear. The farer, the Weirder. the more
spectral. the more terrible. Beauty there
is in the north, of its kind. But it is
surely not comparable with the wonderful
beauty of color in other races.
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Arrow Or HOUSES
A@ Aw w ST AMAcosr
GROWTH OF SETTLEMENT
ALONG EASTERN BRANCH
Possibilities of Development Seen With the Rec
1amation of the Anacostia Flats As.
sured-Another Potomac Park

The reclamation of the flats along the
Eastern branch seems now to have
reached the stage when ultimate accom-
plishment appears not such q remote pos
si5iHtv as was the case a few years ago
In fact. if may be said to be practically
assured With suot prospects the sur
roundings on each side of the bridge that
connects Anacostia with the main portion
OF the city take on another aspect. They
are mean enough now, run down at the
heel and ragged. as all such water side
SECTORS are apt to look. but the discern
lag eye can see the possibilities.
AS the trolley ears roll over the hand
some new concrete bridge that spans the
rather desolate scene of mean looking
3harves and muddy banks and frowzy
shores the outlook over Potomac Park
from the Highway bridge is recalled. and
then in place of the muddy banks and
sluggish water a trim sea wall or stone
looms up in the minds eye, with smooth
stretches of turf, shaded with trees and
adorned with shrubbery and intersected
with drives-in other words, another Po-
somac Park.
st.heYne of improvements will be more eff
ffctipe than is the case with the shores
IF the Potomac For on the south side
Of the Eastern branch the wooded slopes
come quite close to the water edge in
stead of standing back with an interval
Of bottom lands. AT this season the slope
of the hills is clothed in the fresh garb
of the springtime. and in the midst of
the foliage nestle houses, and that is Ana
costa
The main street climbs up the hills. and
from 1t pass streets east and west. some
leading To still higher elevations: and all
lined with houses standing in the midst
Of ample lawns. Very attractive Ana
costa appears IN the seasons freshness.
II is a community that has its own bust
ness places and even a five-cent theater.
and with its trolley connection with the
city In fact on the line of one of the city
railways. IL appears 10 possess all the adj
yantages of urban life. with dnany OF the
advantages of suburban
Growth of Anacostia.
more definitely the older part, has a
steady but nut rapid growth. \ large
percentage of the incoming population
fnds its way further to the south, ascend
ing the hill along the street that now
passes between the two sections of the
extensive property OF ST. Elizabeth's
Then beyond comes the new subdivision
of Congress Heights, where there are
many cottages, some standing I'm the
midst OF the grove Of trees that crown the
height. stores. post office a chemical
FIRE engine house and schoolhouse are
some OF the things which are found there.
and what proba bly, attracts the attention
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Like an English Country House.
Deer for Nova Scotia.
From the st. John Sun.

rIOm Tue o. JONI cuD
BY employing woodsmen to track the
animals on snowshoes the government
Of Nova Scotia hopes within the pres
ent month to secure twenty line New
Brunswick deer to transplant into the
peninsula for breeding purposes. Per-
mission to run down the deer has just
been granted by the New Brunswick
government. Some years ago this
same privilege was given by the old
government, but the whole lot were
not secured. Those which We're driven
over are found to have increased in
very satisfactorily.
New Brunswick sportsmen are glad
70 see the deer thinned out. even TO
this small extent, for the deer are
blamed for the practical determination
" the caribou. with which they carry
on a perpetual feud. killing some in
fights and frightening the survivors to
new haunts through their immensely
g: eater numerical strength.
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FINE RESIDENCE SOLD.
Retired Florida Banker Buys Home
ON Bancroft Place.

One of the dwellings ON Bancroft place,
lust west of Connecticut avenue, and
numbered 2113 has been sold TO Daniel j.
Amber. a retired banker of Tampa, Fla.
This is one of four residences recently
CONNECTED on this street by Harry Ward
man. the builder. and sold through the
real estate Office of Shannon Luchs.
The consideration in the transaction was
s2i 600 The house contains fourteen
rooms and three baths, and is of the colo
NAL design with Kitchen on the first
floor
All floors throughout the entire house
are OF the parquet style and the home is
heated by hot water. Mr.. Amber Will
occupy the house.
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HOME OF NOBLE PROPORTIONS
PLANNED FOR w. w. LAWRENCE
New Dwelling on Kalorama Road Will Be Six
Times as Large as Average City House
and Commands Fine View.

Progress is being made by w. p. Lips
comb & Co., contractors. in the erection
Of the residence for w. w. Lawrence,
vice president OF the National Lead Com
pany. The location is somewhat off from
any line OF travel within the city, al
though it is within a block west of the
south entrance Of the Connecticut Avenue
bridge. kalorama load, on which it faces,
has not as yet been opened beyond the
site selected by Mr.. Lawrence, and in the
immediate vicinity Of the house there is
only stretch Of commons bounded by
the fringe Of houses to the cas- which
forms the farther edge of Washington
Heights
But the possibilities of the location are
promising, for. in addition to the unusual
frontage on kalorama road, Mr. Lawrence
mas acquired Also tier OF abutting lots
on the north, so that his grounds extead
through the entire block with frontage
On belmont street as well. The later
street passes along the edge of The gorge
OF Rock creek. SO that this sltua don
commands delightful view up the valley
of Rock creek.
Ex.enoed as is the view. tn. .. opposed
structure and the grounds in which 1t Will
We placed Will have corresponding
sweep-in fact, the most ample OF any
region of what is strictly the area of The
city. The house Itself has an extent that
IS eight times greater than that of the
average city house and yet. with such a
frontage. there will be eft ample space on
Doth siues Of the house Tor lawns. some
action of the extent OF the grounds. which
are as Ia &c as an entire city square, may
De gained from the sweep or the driveway
TO the principal entrance to the house on
the north. suggesting in Its extent almost
The approach through q park
Like an English Country House.
With such a setting the architect. ]. H.
Ge Sibour, has designed a house sug-
gested by those planned by the En- slish
architects for residences on a large scale
situated in the parks which Engi.shmen
.ove to haveabout their homes. a long,
gracefully proport,oned structu.e of BRICK
with the main portion finished with
gable rising out of the sloLing roof,
banked with wings two stories in height,
and connected with the central Do. ton,
Is designed to form a part of the
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or those who are more familiar with city
surroundings than those of the country
is the fine. large lawn about the school.
with space for shrubbery and flowers and
trees, and, what is better, or, perhaps, of
equal Importance. an open-air playground,
with apparatus of all kinds where the
energy of youth may find an outlet with
out also finding their way to- the station
house.
Where Congress Heights ends and Randle
Park begins it Is not easy for the stran-
ger to determine. and perhaps it. il not
important. AT any rate. the houses con-
there among the trees, Will, gardens and
chicken runs, to say nothing Of lawns
and flowers. The plateau narrows toward
the west, and there Is quite wide stretch
the shores of the Potomac As one
stands on the edge OF the high ground,
which slopes down toward the level of
the river, he commands an extensive
view OF the country, not alone that part
at the foot Of the hill. but the broad sur
face of the river beyond and the wooded
heights Of Virginia.
At this season of the year these alluvial
lands which look rich and promising are
freshly dug UP and laid oat in beds so
that the whole stretch Of country a. view.
ed from the commanding position u the
east suggests vast garde1 with enough
space apparently to raise all the yegeta-
Dies or garden truck, as the pfofos-
sional phrase has II. that might he need
ed even in such great market as WASH
-ington.
The Steel Works.
But agriculture is not the only interest.
in spite of the fact that the farm, which
is largely devoted to raising vegeta bles
and belongs to st. Elizabeth's, is also in
this locality. Quite on the hanks of the
river and farther to the south is an i'm
pressire group of buildings with tail Chin
ney stacks and other evidences of q busy
manufacturing plant.
AS the establishment of the Firth-Ster-
ling steel works this has become a center
of much interest because 1t is visible
evidence OF the possibilities of the Dis
trict in this line Of development. AS the
maker of metal attachments and portions
OF the guns used in the navy and the
army its location here has evidently been
satisfactory. For the most part the men
employed there, and naturally the force
Is la sc one. make their homes in this
city. small boat plies between Gies-
DO o point, whore the plant is located,
and the city and conveys the Workmen
work.
1t is planned to have the trolley run out
in that direction at least somewhat nearer
than at present, as the line Stops at Ran.
die Park.
Recently a right of way has been con-
demned connecting this section with the
one on the heights, and when ROAD is
made II viii connect the various localities
more directly than is possible under the
old system. designed when the pop,lla ton
was more scattered than is the case now
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POSTMAN'S CABINET.
Has Separate Compartments for
Stamps, Postals and Enyelopes.

Now that the rural mail carrier is ex-
pected to be u sort Of walking post office
the cabinet designed for him by an H.
LIMOS man will save him great deal of
trouble This cabinet is made OF light
metal. and is divided into numerous COM
partments, enabling the postman TO carry
stamps. postals. envelopes, stamped and
unstamped: money order blanks and yari-
Gus other accessories each in a separate
pigeonhole. A hinged Id fits down over
the cabinet and keeps the contents water
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with porches on three sides. II is finised
in hardwood and heated by hot water
The lot has d frontage of forty feet on
Decatur street. by a depth of 1874 feet
to an alley. The price paid is under stood
to have been Sc, TOO
George A. Rankin OF New York has
just purchased, through the real estate
corporation of Boss & Phi lips, the resi-
dence No. 1924 Park road northwest.
Columbia Heights. 1t contains twelve
rooms and three baths, hot-water heat
and the lot is about twenty feet wide
by nearly 200 feet deep. The pr.ce paid
for the property was about 5000. The
property was sold by James T. Metcalf.
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The Barn Gallon.

From the Farm ard Home.
The old form Of milk measure--viz, the
barn galion-the use of which is now IL
legal. is still retained in the London trade.
though. SO far as the term is used in
documents. to overcome the illegality 1t
is expressed as per lot of seventeen
pints."
The barn gallon represents seventeen
pints OF milk, or two gallons and one
pint. and is a relic OF the olden days
when the dairyman thought it necessary
gallons from the farmers in order to coun-
.terbaiance the small amount lost in meas.
uring the milk out In small quantities to
his customers.
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Recent Sales of Suburban Homes.

Robert ii. Hill has purchased through
the real estate corporation of Boss &
Phelps, from Il. l.. McPhearson. his
bungalow at Drummond, Md. The lot is
about 80 by 80 feet. The price paid
for the property was about S6Oo0.
The y. l.. Sansbury Company has sold
for NJ IL. HERMAN the detached house
recently erected on lot No. AZ in square
Es9i, Sauls addition. This house is of
pebbl' dash and frame construction and
contains nine rooms, cellar and attic,
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Venice.

no you think You would like to live
- in a city where there are only a
few streets? The girls and boys Of
Venice have only occasional streets to
play on, for their city has canals, which
run right past the doors Of their houses
When the children go to school or wis.,
ing they usually ride in queer little black
boats called gondolas. Each boat glid IS
along as the man at the back pushe-
against his one oar. There is not bit
OF earth in front of some of the nous, 8.
so the people step right from the gon-
dolas or from their tiny little stea .ners
into the front doors Of many of the large
buildings.
Venice is not on the mainland Of italy
at all, but is built on group Of a hun
dred and seventeen islands. Into these
islands piles were driven to support the
houses. There are some real streets,
which have been built and paved with
asphalt, brick or stone, but the one hun
dred and fifty canals serve as streets In
for the streets, the fifteen huldre
houses, palaces. the towers and churches
were carried to Venice from the main
land Of Italy.
Five hundred years ago there were
many more people in the island city than
there are today, SO now many OF the
buildings are vacant. 1t is the only city
in the world where new houses are
never built. A circus never visits the
city, so thousands OF the people of Venice
live and die without ever seeing any of
the animals which the girls and boys
of our land love to watch. There are no
horses nor cows in Venice. because there
is no place to keep them. There are but
few trees in the city, as ground is very
scarce.
1t is as necessary for the Venetian
children to learn to swim as it is for
the children of other cities to learn to
run. Hardly is the age Of babyhood over
before the mothers Of these little Italian
children are teaching them to love the
water. At first when the children go into
the water they hold onto ropes to keep
from sinking, but they soon learn to take
care Of themselves as they splash along
through the canals. The drinking wafer
OF Venice is piped from the mainland.
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Hard to Portray.

From the Houston Chronicle.
WE'LL
why not?"
The hero has a good many mental
struggles. but that kind OF combats don't
GO we'll on the stage"
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Too Much Dragging.

From the New 1nfk Iress
When the devil was sick ard saint. 1t
Is to be hoped that he tucked his head
under the cover and went to sleep and
behaved himself. and did not rear and
cayort and sneeze around and take az.
kinds of fool dangerous drugs as our sick
Yankee devil does. \ man no takes
too much medicine is as big fool as the
man who, even though really sick, viii
not take any.
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Purchase by Atlanta Investor.

Mrs. Julia Russell af Atlanta. Ga. has
just purchased from her local agents.
Boss & Phelps Unc.). three investment
properties, aggr egating $4,000. They are
Nos. 3:6i 18th street. n ten-room new
'"'1 'treet, ten-room semi-de-
=, md The cerner property,
IA ,In street northwest.
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The Bank Of Love.
From Judge.

rom Juuge.
Deposits-Bonbons, theater tickets and
honeyed words.
Checks-Quarrels. by which you lessen
your account Of pleasure.
Personal notes-Proinises to "Iove, hon.
or. cherish and obey
Security-Children. who make It more
certain that the proniissory notes will be
paid.
demonstrating pleasures with another.
J Discount-Closihg the matrimonial ac-
count through the divorce court.
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Magnanimous.

From Pucs.
The wife Of the coal baron had just
finished reading the gruesome details of
the latest mine disaster
1T seems to me. JOHN she said an
grily. that the mines could be safe
guarded far better than they are at
present
Don't be too hard-hearted, dear"
yawned the coal baron: why. the coal
stolen by our employees hardly amounts
to anything"
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Power Of Wealth.

From Lie.
The ultimate test of the real efficiency
of rich man is TO be able to get his d.
vorce without due publicity and attend
ant scandal, except in those few cases
where they rather enjoy the new sensa-
ton Of notoricty, phase which is really
pathological.
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Cleveland Heights Lot Sold.

Frederick l.. Moore has sold through
the real estate corporation OF Boss &
Phelps the lot at the corner of 34th and
Lowell streets Cleveland Heights. tn a
local business man, who will retain it as
an investment. The price paid for the
property was about $3.50.
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Note for the Girls.

From the Atchison Globe.
Statistics show that badness and higher
education go together. In other words,
the woman with a haystack Of hair Old
her head doesn't know as much as the
woman with a coiffure of doorknob size
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Columbia Heights Dwelling Sold.

Alexander Millar has sold premises No.
1901 New Hampshire avenue to James
II. Metcalf for the sum of $3.50. through
the real estate corporation OF Boss d
Phelps. This Is one Of the row of six
Mr.. Millar recently completed.
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tight by reason OF the fact that the edges
of the lid are bent down and protect the
cracks. The lid can be padlocked shut
This whole affair does not take up much
TO have the various supplies scattered
around In different places and the stamps
tick ng together. Sorted out In the dr.
ferent shelves and pigeonholes, everything
can be seen at glance. and the p1stman
can handily carry a good supply. for the
convenience OF those along his route.
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Broad Acres.

From the New York Sun.
Knicker-How large is their subul ban
place?
Bocker-They have to have folding beds
for the flowers.
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It All Helps.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
I'VE waste too much. Yesterday you
had beef: today you ought to make a
nourishing soup from the bone
but it was canned beef
'Weli, boil the can.
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The Species.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
She's forever telling about her family
tree
Yes it's a chestnut"
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landscape and harmonic with the nat
ural setting. The treatment is, of course,
extremely simple. There is to be no
carving or an attempt to attract attention
by mere ornament.
The walls are to be built of brick OF a
light brown shade and with a rough un-
finished surface. almost as if the brick,
maker had forgotten the part of the
process in brick making when the clay
is subjected to the mold Owing to aus
surface the brick has received the name
Of tapestry brick, and the effect OF this
surface is to be enhanced by the long
narrow size of the brick. In addition the
bricks are to be laid in the FLEMISH bond
with broad sunken joints-'rodded joints
is the technical term.
The interior arrangement. like the ex-
terror, VIII be generous and spacious
There is to be wide entrance hall I'm
the center of the principal front, which
is the south of the house. On. each side
of this hall VIII be c!oakrooms. A hall
extends east and west. connecting the
parlor on the south side with the dining
room on the other. while on the north
side or this hall VIII be. the living room
with its rounded front opening out on
a tiled porch, with access to the terrace
on the brow OF the hill. overlooking the
valley of Rock creek.
A conservatory will oper. out from she
dining room, and from the parlor there
VIII be a great covered porch, really a
room and occupying the first floor. Of the
wes- wing. The staircase will be to the
east or the main entrance and on the
south side Of the house
Enlarging Business Building
In the past week a lease was placed on
record by which c. c. Calhoun and James
Sharp leased the first floor and cellar OF
the building at the northwest corner of
18th and G. streets northwest TO S. s.
kresge for ten years at an annual rental
of $4,000. The building, which is seventy
by eighty feet, is TO pe remods led and en-
larged from plans made by r. B. Pyle,
architect. 1t is to be raised to six stories
by the addition Of two stories. The up
per floors are TO be arranged for use as
offices.
An apartment house is TO be built by
Harry Wardman at the northwest corner
of 10th and NJ streets northwest, with a
frontage of 10 feet on 10Th street and 100
feet on NJ street Ii will be four stories
i'm height and will contain thirty-two
suites. Reinforced concrete is to be used
in the construction.
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in the suburban section has just been
consummated by the Office OF Thomas
j. Fisher & Co. The property involved
is one Of the new homes just completed
on the south side Of Morrison street.
Chevy Chase. d. c. The purchaser is
a member of the diplomatic corps. The
home is of colonial design, with broad
front porch and center hall. The first
floor includes a drawing room. library,
dining room. buffers pantry and kitchen.
The second floor is taken UP with sew
eral bed chambers. sewing rooms and
bath. :, feature of this floor is a large
covered sleeping porch. with a southern
outlook. This house is one Of two re-
Gently completed by John Simpson s
Sons. The price was 81 900.