The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-09-03
RECORDS IN REALTY
SMASHED IN AUGUST
Deed Transfers for Month
Far in Excess of Pre-
YiOuS Years.
H. K. FULTON BUYS
KOREAN LEGATION
Copyist Confronted With Task of
Reproducing Signatures in Char
acters of Oriental Language

August. 1910, smashed ali records in
realty operations for this season Of the
year
An examination Of the records Of the
number Of papers fled in the Office Of
the Recorder OF Deeds discIoses that
in no previous August has the business
done approached within 80 OF the mum
Der OF papers offered for. record during
the past month. with the exception OF
August, 1919, which is 81 papers short
OF the new record
During the last month I.Ss9 instru-
ments were placed on record as com
pared with 1,ss2 papers in August, 1912
The next nearest competitor for record
hOnors was August. $3.50, when LIS
papers were recorded
The last August has other claims to
distinction The total amount Of money
invested during the month II the pur-
chase Of real estate and loans on the
security OF District property was S5GLa--
UI9- These figures equal the record fOC
July and April and are only S2OJ0,uJl
below the TeCOTd-bTedhIug activity OF
May
The last month also saw the CLOSING
OF the sale OF the Dresden apartments,
the largest realty transaction Of the
year involving $4,000. and the trans
Ter Of 300 ether lots in the District,
an average of more than seventy-hve
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Korean Legation Sold
The most interesting sale Of the last
week Involved the purchase By Horace
X Fulton Of the former home of the
Korean legation, at 800 Thirteenth
street The consideration has not been
made public. but the necessary convey
aIaces are most interesting, as rejecting
the recent transfer OF the Hermit King
dom to the Emperor Of Japan One
deed IS signed by His Majesty. Ye
HUNG. conveying the property 10 Baron
1asUya Uchlda- the japanese ambas-
SadOr, who in turn executed a deed 10
Mr. Fulton conveying the interest Of
the japanese government acquired by
the former deed, and by the transfer
OF sovereignty
The Copyist who IS 10 make the ger
manent record in the Recorders Office
VIII have difficult task reproducing
the Signature OF The former Emperor a 6
well as the signatures of NJ koemiia.
vice minister Of the Imperial household.
ana ChO Min NelD, president Of the
household Of the former Emperor. as all
three are signed IN native characters.
As the typewriter has no such charac-
tiers, II IS expected an effort VIII be
made 70 reproduce by hand the Korean
letters as nearly as possible.
The authenticity Of the signatures is
vouched for by Ozro G Could, deputy
consul general at Seoul, who. in his GER
uhcate OF -acknosl eague1t -attErhed 10
the deed spells out In English letters
the names Of the parties executing the
paper
County Lots Lead
Two hundred and twenty-eight lots
changed owners this week in The Dis
IriCL The outlying county tracts fur
nIShed Jos and the near-uroan district
forty-nine Of this number. Within the
city limits thIrty-tive lots were trans
16TTed IN the northwest twenty three in
the northeast. seventeen in the south
east. and but four IN the southwest
The loan market showed distinct
falling of this week iu volume and a
slight increase in the interest rate Only
S255,64S--t was borrowed during the week
on the security of IL lots. AT an average
interest rate of 80 per cent
New loans used up more than half the
money with a total Of So, GlsSI De
1e.red purchase money trusts EEEreEat-
&c SSS-SS2fS. and the building associa-
tons put out s25,15A
County borrowers were In the lead
asking a total of S1|S.14gIS The north
west came next, with S57.175-2a, and the
other sections show amounts OF loans
as follows Northeast 50, 1-2-q1- south
east S-6,I50 and southwest. $500